statements about his technique. With the
fully tabulated bibliography and a complete idea of emphasizing these same qualities, the pic-
index. On the other hand, introductory chapters tures chosen for full-page reproduction are all of
dealing with the physical and chemical nature of the allegorical type, and each is accompanied by
porcelain, the materials used in its composition, a brief selection in verse or imaginative prose.
the processes of mixing, fashioning, and firing, The reproductions, consisting of platinum prints
together with brief chapters on varieties of glaz mounted on rough grey paper and a number of
ing and methods of color decoration, make it pos half-tones, are very satisfactory. Indeed the
sible for the veriest tyro, if he is possessed of a luxurious character of the book makes its defec-
reasonable amount of perseverance, to get both tive plan all the more evident. It is to be
pleasure and profit out of Mr. Dillon's admirable deplored that Watts's portrait work has been
work. Besides popularizing the treatise, these relegated to so insignificant a place in the vol-
introductory chapters furnish a basis for a more ume; the introduction accords it a cursory men-
definite and technical treatment of the whole tion, and five half-tones in the text of the intro-
subject than would be possible without them, and duction are all the illustration it receives. The
prevent any tendency towards the vague general- plan of accompanying the allegorical pictures by
izations of aesthetic criticism. For the rest, Mr. literary extracts is likely to mislead, particularly
Dillon has chosen, as a field hitherto unexploited since the selection is not carefully made. Some-
by an authoritative English work, Chinese and times the passage chosen adds nothing to the
European porcelain, with especial reference to obvious meaning of the pictures; in at least one
the nature of the paste, the glaze, and the deco or two cases it is not of sufficient poetical value
ration of the various wares, and above all to to warrant its use in any such connection. Again,
any points that throw light on the historical con it is certainly a mistake to quote Browning's
tinuity of the eastern and western products. Eurydice to Orpheus,' with an incorrect title, as
Little attention has been bestowed upon marks, a a commentary upon Watts's 'Orpheus and Eury-
branch of the subject which Mr. Dillon believes dice.' It will be remembered that Browning
has already received exaggerated attention from departed from the traditional details of the
collectors, to the neglect of more vital matters. myth, giving it a new interpretation of which
A small collection of marks, however, is repro there is no suggestion in Watts's painting. Thus,
duced from various catalogues. About half the while the book is a beautiful art volume and will
book is devoted to the porcelain of China, treated be of value for its pictures to students of Watts
historically and descriptively. The spreading of and modern painting, it is by no means the schol-
the art to neighboring countries, the importatiouarly and well proportioned volume that might
of oriental wares into Europe, and the imitation easily have been provided within the same limits.
which naturally resulted, are then briefly dis Among the most attractive of the more sub-
cussed. Next German, French, and English por stantial holiday issues is Sainte-Beuve's ‘Por-
celains are described in detail, and a final chap traits of the Seventeenth Century,' selected and
ter sums up the present condition of the art. translated from the French by Miss Katherine P.
No sort of justice can be done here to the orig Wormeley. The essays have been chosen from
inality of subject matter, or to the profound and the 'Causeries du Lundi,' the ‘Portraits de
at the same time clear and easy style of the Femmes,' and the ‘Portraits Littéraires.' They
book. It remains only to speak of the very beau have been slightly condensed by the omission of
tiful illustrations, which are the
for passages regarding long-forgotten editions, or
mentioning the volume at all in this connection. discussions about style, which could not be made
There are forty-nine plates in all, including clear in English; and in cases where two or more
reproductions both in color and photogravure, so essays about the same person appeared in the
that equal justice is done to the coloring and to different series, they are combined, to avoid
the outlines and intricate patterns of the por repetition. Miss Wormeley's reputation as
celain. The specimens reproduced are all notable, translator is already well established, so that
being for the most part from the collections in it is not necessary to dwell upon the fact that
the British and Victoria and Albert Museums, or her rendering of the essays is graceful, supple,
from sueh splendid private collections as those and finished. The work is issued in two octavo
of Mr. Pierpont Morgan and Mr. David Currie. volumes, handsomely bound in buckram, and
The collection of 'Pictures by George Frederick illustrated with about thirty half-tone portraits.
Watts’ (Fox, Duffield & Co.) is essentially what As a principle of selection, to guide a choice
the title indicates, a book of pictures, with a among the forty and more volumes of Sainte-
brief introduction by Julia Ellsworth Ford and Beuve's critical output, none
suitable
Thomas W. Lamont, who are also responsible for could have been devised than the seventeenth
the selection and arrangement of the illustra century-the golden age of France. Volume one
tions. The introduction contains
short contains fifteen studies of the men and women
biography of the painter, and an appreciation of who adorned the court of Louis Le Grand;
his art. This essay, which is necessarily superfi volume two opens with a history of the French
cial, is unfortunately also vague.
It lays par-
Academy and completes the seventeenth century
ticular stress upon the symbolic and imaginative picture with a dozen critiques of the literary
quality of Watts's art, without accurately defin men and women of the epoch. Either volume
ing the type of symbolism referred to, and upon may be procured separately if desired. Together,
his theory of the intellectual function of painting they form a representative collection of the best
and its close relation to poetry without any off that Sainte-Beuve achieved – which means the
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con-
very best critical work of the nineteenth century. of their accompanying prologues, epilogues, and
Brilliant, keen, the product of profound learning links to make the underlying structure of the
and minute research, they are nevertheless popu poem clear. Mr. Walter Appleton Clark has
lar and delightfully spontaneous in style. It is embellished the text with six colored illustra-
pleasant to be able to own a significant group of tions, one of which has been vignetted into the
his essays in an edition so well-made and so cover. The designs are bold and quaint, and the
scholarly as this one. (Putnam.)
coloring rich and beautiful enough to suggest
With the publication of 'New France and New the mellow tints of an illuminated missal. Fine
England' Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. com paper and excellent typography combine with
plete their sumptuously illustrated edition of suitable illustration to produce a luxurious piece
John Fiske's histories of the American Colonies of book-making, worthy of Mr. Mackaye's
from the settlement of Virginia to the adoption scholarly purpose, and likely to attract readers
of the constitution. This ninth and last volume of fastidious taste. (Fox, Duffield & Co.)
of the set is beautifully printed from new plates Friends of "Uncle Remus'-and who is not a
and bound uniformly with the others in polished friend of the delightful old story-teller?— will
red buckram. Great pains have been taken in get welcome the rhymed version of 'The Tar Baby,'
ting together the illustrative material. Nothing now offered in a handsome holiday volume
has been admitted for the sake of mere embel (Appleton), containing also twenty-five other
lishment, but the historical societies, libraries, rhymes of Uncle Remus, all but one of which tell
and private collections, both in this country and entirely new stories. Cover, end papers, page
in Europe, have been drawn upon for borders and headings show 'Brer Fox,' 'Brer
temporary material in the shape of historical pic- Rabbit,' and the rest of the brotherhood in min-
tures, portraits, original manuscripts, maps, iature pen-and-ink sketches of unusual clever-
autographs, title pages, and other documents. ness, the work of Messrs. Kemble and Frost,
Many of these have never before been reproduced, Uncle Remus's official illustrators, who have also
and none have been utilized unless their source provided a generous number of full-page draw-
and authenticity could be established beyond ings in tint and color, reflecting perfectly the
doubt. The new volume contains more than two delicious humor of the text. About two-thirds
hundred plates and a number of fine photogravure of the rhymes are animal tales; the rest are
portraits, all of the greatest interest to stu plantation melodies and revival hymns. The
dents of the period. Each plate is carefully author's note explains that the rhymed version
described, and the present location of the origi of the Tar Baby is probably a good deal nearer
nal is indicated, in the list of illustrations. It to the genuine form than the prose story, which
is comparatively seldom that an historian is able is the reason for re-telling it here. Mr. Harris
to complete a cycle of work so significant and also forestalls objection to the monotonous
comprehensive as Mr. Fiske's, and we cannot be rhythm of Uncle Remus's verse by calling atten-
sufficiently grateful that he was permitted to tion to its primitive character. Whether one pre-
round out his labors with this last volume, which, fers Uncle Remus in prose or in verse, he will
it will be remembered, he had barely completed want to have this book for its pictorial features,
at the time of his death. This tasteful and if on no other account.
eminently scholarly illustrated edition is a fitting Another sheaf of Mr. Charles Dana Gibson's
and imposing tribute to his memory.
cartoons has been gathered into the usual holi-
The barrier of obsolete speech, real day folio, corresponding in size, shape, and bind-
assumed but in either case equally effective, is ing with the rest of the regular collections of
the apology offered by Mr. Percy Mackaye for Mr. Gibson's drawings. The new book is named
rendering 'The Canterbury Tales' into modern ‘Every Day People,' and appears with the
prose. The idea of modernization is of course imprint of the Messrs. Scribner. We should
but all previous versions have been hardly characterize any of Mr. Gibson's people
metrical, whereas Mr. Mackaye feels that prose, as strictly of the “every day' sort, but there is
following as closely as possible the wording and certainly more realism, as well as more variety
construction of Chaucer, is more likely to pro of type and situation, here than in the earlier
mote interest in the original than verse, which drawings. The lovely Gibson girl peeps out from
inevitably tends to direct attention to a modern an occasional corner, and there are two or three
poet. Upon this theory he has made his prose real Gibson men and one Gibson Cupid; but the
version, carefully avoiding archaisms that are rest of the people are the familiar and very
not easily intelligible, occasionally condensing a un-ideal types of the street, the club, and the ball-
passage to satisfy propriety or relieve prolixity,
We cannot expect Mr. Gibson to ring
but in the main exactly paraphrasing the text. changes indefinitely upon the sentimental-satiric
It cannot be expected that such a version will theme with which he began his career. As his
retain the full flavor of the original, but the line of work broadens, he is getting better con-
fourteenth century spirt is there, and the prose trol of it, and there is more humor and better
is, besides, easy, graceful, and rhythmical. As drawing in this book than in the last two or
a representative selection from the Tales,' Mr. three that the artist has given us.
Mackaye has chosen the Prologue, the Knight's A book about 'The Mountains' (McClure, Phil-
Tale, the Prioress's Tale, the Nun's Priest's Tale, lips & Co.) is the logical successor of "The For-
the Physician's Tale, and those of the Pardoner, est,' in which Mr. Stewart Edward White proved
the Wife of Bath, the Clerk, the Squire, the himself too agreeable a camp-mate to be let off
Franklin, and the Canon Yeoman, with enough at the end of one trip. Like the other book, this
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is the story of a real expedition, and we are volumes, printed on thin but strong paper, simply
assured that it is all strictly true except as bound in blue cloth with gold lettering, and
regards the Tenderfoot, who is a composite truth neatly boxed. The Macaulay set has frontis-
the apot
osis of many tenderfeet? whom Mr. pieces in photogravure, besides eight or nine
White has known. One key to the charm of half-tones in each volume, picturing persons or
Mr. White's outdoor books is the practical and places mentioned in the text. Many of these are
very lively directions about taking the trail with reproduced from choice old prints or engravings,
which he begins them. Having found out what and should be of real interest to a student of the
to carry, how to choose your horses, how to pre essays. In the edition of Poe five volumes are
pare yourself for the trip by the mastery of filled with his stories, and the remaining one
such practical details as pack-hitches and swim contains the poems and the significant and inter-
ming at your horse's tail, you are as keen for esting series of essays upon The Poet's Art.'
the long trail as were Mr. White and the two The illustrations are by Mr. F. S. Coburn, who
friends who went with him on this journey across has accomplished his difficult task with a fair
the Coast Ranges of California. Then there is a degree of success, choosing situations sufficiently
freshness and zest about the descriptions, a gruesome and mysterious to be characteristic,
judicious admixture of character-study and and yet keeping, with possibly one or two excep-
adventure, and a pleasant humor, which will tions, well within the bounds of good taste. The
recommend this book to many people who do not absence of photogravure frontispieces in this set
care much for the modern nature literature. We is compensated for by more elaborate head-bands
are not told that Mr. Fernand Lungren, who has and tail-pieces, and a greater number of illus-
drawn pictures of the mountain trip, was one trations to the volume. The small size and
of the three in Mr. White's party, but we are attractive features of these editions will make
sure that he must have been. At any rate he them desirable holiday gifts.
gets Mr. White's point of view exactly, and The story of 'Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac'
seizes upon the dramatic moments and the char is Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton's contribution to
acteristic scenes for his pictures, which are a the year's holiday literature (Scribner). As he
real addition to the annals of the trip.
takes pains to state distinctly in the foreword
Prof. Felix E. Schelling's unique volume of that his story is not intended to be pure
Elizabethan sketches entitled The Queen's science, but is rather an historical novel of Bear
Progress' is described by its author as made up life, its aim being to convey the truth, but the
of 'some of the lighter matters that have floated truth about an unusual and composite animal,
on a stream of reading and study which has we do not see how it can result in any prolonga-
already carried, let it be hoped, a somewhat tion of the recent controversy about the genuine-
weightier freight.' The essays need no such ness of Mr. Seton's writings. The story of
apology. The easy fashion in which they deal ‘Monarch' is longer than most of his narratives,
with some of the more trivial aspects of Eliza so that it fills out an attractive little volume,
bethan life presupposes a close study of its more which has of course been illustrated and decor-
essential features; and their graceful style light- | ated by its author. The marginal drawings are
ens, but does not conceal, their erudition. The not so clever as some of his earlier work, but
title essay re-tells the familiar story of Eliza the full-page pictures of the cub "Jack' are
beth's visit to Kenilworth as it is to be found irresistibly humorous, and the story of his evo-
in the quaint letter of Laneham, 'a dapper little lution from an affectionate and mischievous lit-
clerk of the council chamber,' writing ostensibly tle household pet into the mysterious and ruth-
for ‘hiz friend, a citizen and merchaunt of Lon less sheepkiller of Tallac is as thrilling and
don,' but really for the book-sellers. Ben Jon pathetic as anything Mr. Seton has given us.
son's walking trip to Scotland, the mad career Messrs. Adam and Charles Black's notable
of Thomas Stucley, 'Gentleman-adventurer,' a series of books illustrated in color is augmented
violent attack of theatro-mania that swept this year by a volume descriptive of Westminster
through the Oxford colleges in 1608, Robert Abbey. The pictures are by Mr. John Fulley-
Greene's libel of Shakespeare in 'A Groats love, who has already painted Oxford and the
worth of Wit,' and the romantic friendship of Holy Land for the same series; and the accom-
Sir Philip Sidney and Fulke Greville, are some panying text is by Mrs. A. Murray Smith, who
of the other themes. All are handled with the writes entertainingly of the foundation of the
same sure touch, and bear evidence to a thorough Abbey, its evolution from a royal chapel to a
understanding of the diverse interests which national burial-ground, and the progressive steps
went to make up the rapid, pulsing life of the of its building and re-building. Finally she con-
time. The book is issued by Messrs. Houghton, ducts her readers through an exhaustive tour of
Mifflin & Co. in a dignified, well-made edition, the interior. Whether used as a guide-book to
with six fine photogravure portraits. Fastidious the Abbey, or by stay-at-home readers as a source
holiday buyers will appreciate its unusual charm of information, the account should prove inter-
of style and a corresponding distinction in esting and valuable. Mr. Fulleylove's twenty-
mechanical make-up.
one pictures show the Abbey outside and in,
Very pretty library editions of Lord Macau including probably every favorite and important
lay's Essays, and the Tales and Poems of Edgar view except the cloisters, and a number of inter-
Allan Poe, are published in uniform style and esting details such as the coronation chair,
binding, with illustrations, by Messrs. G. P. Chaucer's tomb, and the early brasses and pic-
Putnam's Sons. Each set is in six handy-size turesque tombs in St. Edmund's Abbey. The


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plates are artistic and daintily colored, but it is Mr. Bacon has a way of investing local history
a question whether the choice of Westminster with a meaning and a charm which the mere
Abbey as a subject for colortype illustrations explorer of dry-as-dust records entirely misses.
was a wise one. Certainly to most readers these For one thing, his point of view is broader; it
pictures will seem to strike the wrong note, lay embraces an interest in both the authentic his-
ing emphasis on color-and a very individual tory and the picturesque legends of a district,
color-scheme at that,-instead of upon structure, and also in its intrinsic beauty as landscape.
which is surely the memorable feature of any Then his work is done slowly and pleasantly, and
Gothic cathedral not pre-eminently distinguished consequently is accurate and weighty, without
for its windows.
being labored. Finally he never loses sight of
The aristocratic pussy of the bench-show has the human interest which, in the last analysis,
had her book, written for her by Miss Helen is the redeeming feature of antiquarian studies.
Winslow. Miss Agnes Repplier has given us Mr. Bacon was attracted to the Narragansett
the epic of the cat race, and a subtle interpreta-country because of the important part played
tion of its genius, in "The Fireside Sphinx.' by its settlers 'in the development of American
There is left the common fireside pussy, and Miss ideas and ideals,' as well as by its singularly
Sara Trueblood has now made a book about her. romantic legends and the matchless beauty of set-
It is called 'Cats by the Way,'--that is, the cats ting which the bay affords. Readers who know
you meet in morning strolls, alley cats and tramp and love the region will enjoy cruising with Mr.
cats that prowl by night, the cats that live at Bacon among the islands, and rambling about the
your friends' houses or by your own hearth-stone, historic old towns with their musical Indian
the good old-fashioned every-day cat that wins names and prim Quaker traditions. Fifty pic-
your love and sometimes your pity, and loves tures from sketches by the author and many
you in return. Little histories of a score or more others from photographs, together with a hand-
of such cats make up Miss Trueblood's volume; some binding, give the book a holiday air.
and all the incidents, the author assures us, are Mr. Walter Taylor Field's work on Rome,
true to life. Miss Trueblood is a versatile issued in two daintily proportioned volumes,
genius, and the little pictures of the cats and prettily bound and copiously illustrated, may be
cat families, scattered through the book, are also called a literary guide-book to the wonders of
the work of her hand. “Cats by the Way' is the Eternal City. It is a chatty, informal
unpretentiously bound, as befits its humble sub account of a dozen rambles, suitable to be under-
ject, with two intelligent-looking pussies staring taken in as many days, and so planned as to
at is from the front cover. (Lippincott.)
give the visitor a sight of the monuments,
Dog-lovers also have their book this year, and churches, and galleries most worthy of his atten-
a very charming one it is. Maurice Maeterlinck's tion. Several maps, carefully marked with
study of 'Our Friend the Dog' (Dodd, Mead & routes and objects of interest, make the journey-
Co.) is as delightful in its way, though not so ings easier of accomplishment, whether they are
unusual, as "The Life of the Bee' by the same taken in reality or in imagination. For Mr.
anthor. The particular dog that furnishes the Field explains that in venturing to add his con-
occasion for the essay is a small bull-pup named tribution to the vast literature that clusters
Pelléas, who died when he was barely six months about Rome, he has meant to steer a middle
old. 'Pelléas had a great, bulging, powerful fore course between the barrenness of the guide-book
head, like that of Socrates or Verlaine; and, and the discursiveness of the essay, and so make
under a little black nose, blunt as a churlish a book that will be useful to the traveller in his
assent, a pair of large hanging and symmetrical sight-seeing and to the travel-lover who wishes to
chops, which made his head a sort of massive, visit Rome from the vantage-ground of his own
obstinate, pensive and three-cornered menace. hearth-stone. We are sure that both classes of
According to M. Maeterlinck's interpretation, the readers will enjoy these volumes, whose small
dog is the only animal that really loves us. The size and full illustration make them especially
horse is 'uncertain and craven’; the cow and the desirable as gifts. The set forms the latest title
'ox docile because for centuries they have not in the Messrs. Page's Travel-Lover's Library.'
had a thought of their own'; the cat'curses us in After having obtained a bird's eye view of
her mysterious heart'; the rest tolerate Rome from the work just mentioned, it will be
dominion through fear or love of ease. But the pleasant to turn, for a more intimate study of
dog is, and has always been, the friend of man; the city and its people, to Mrs. Maud Howe
he worships him as a god and serves him as a Elliott's delightful volume of reminiscences,
slave. Just when the discussion of this thesis entitled “Roma Beata' (Little, Brown & Co.).
is growing a little too mystical, Pelléas brings The book had its beginning in a series of letters
it back to earth with a wag of his friendly tail. which Mrs. Elliott wrote to her sister, Mrs.
Mr. Paul Meylan has drawn him delightfully, Laura Richards. From these and other letters
and another artist has decorated the cover and and diaries, records of several summers spent
pages very effectively, making the memoir of
in Rome and its environs, she has made a vol-
Pelléas altogether one of the most pleasing of ume which preserves the epistolary form and
the year's holiday productions.
feeling, sparkles with humor, and runs over with
A significant contribution to the history of unique and entertaining experiences such
the great water-ways of America is Mr. Edgar could not possibly fall to the lot of the ordinary
Mayhew Bacon's 'Narragansett Bay: Its His tourist. A few chapter titles will serve better
toric and Romantic Associations' (Putnam). than anything else to indicate the character of
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a
the book: 'A Visit to Queen Margaret,' 'A tation,' and Burne-Jones's 'Nativity' leads him
Presentation to Leo the Thirteenth,' “Roman to speak of “The Humanity of the Divine.' This
Codgers and Solitaries,' 'Black Magic and sort of interpretation appeals to many readers
White,' 'Strawberries of Nemi.' A dozen illus who do not care for art criticism nor for
trations, from Mr. Elliott's drawings and from unvarnished sermonizing. For such personsThe
photographs, add a decorative touch to this Messages of the Masters' in its new dress will
tempting volume.
wake a suitable and inexpensive gift.
“The Poet's Corner' is the apt title of a port A certain sameness of motive runs through all
folio of amusing cartoons in which Mr. Max Beer Miss Onoto Watanna's stories, and “The Love of
bohn has hit off with his usual audacity the Azalea' (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is no exception to
peculiarities of a number of celebrities ranging this rule. There is always a piquant little
from Omar Khayyam to Mr. William Watson. Japanese girl -- this time a sort of Cinderella
Mr. W. B. Yeats presenting Mr. George Moore to minus god-mother-who speaks delicious
the Queen of the Fairies, Robert Browning taking 'pigin? English and outrages convention by
tea with the members of the Browning Society marrying a “foreign devil'-in this case a young
(who are of course too high-minded to trouble American missionary. He is obliged to go to
with tea), Dante Gabriel Rossetti disporting him America, leaving her behind him, whereupon her
self in his back garden among his pets and his cruel step-mother and a rich and wicked lover
Pre-raphaelitish friends, Samuel Taylor Coleridge conspire to starve and trick her into submission
*Table-talking,' William Shakespeare enforcing to their desires. After a good deal of tragedy,
secrecy with one hand and holding the other the missionary comes to his wife's rescue, and
behind him to receive a manuscript from Lord all ends happily at last. The little story is
Bacon, and Rudyard Kipling taking a bloomin' prettily told, and prettily illustrated by a Japan-
day aht, on the blasted 'eath, along with Bri ese artist, Gazo Foudji, who has made six full-
tannia 'is gurl,' are some of the best of 'Max's' page illustrations in color, and a dainty series
witty and absolutely irreverent portraits. There of marginal decorations, which are printed in
are twenty in all, printed in colors and bound violet to match the be-flowered cover.
in a board folio. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
In his volume entitled 'Old Love Stories
It is somewhat disconcerting, even in these Retold' (Baker & Taylor Co.) Mr. Richard Le
days of profuse illustration, to come upon a Gallienne has managed to make a very readable
pictorial edition of Philip Gilbert Hamerton's book out of materials either hackneyed or other-
The Intellectual Life.' The method adopted wise unpromising. He does not assume that all
in Messrs. Little, Brown & Co.'s new reprint is the phases of love which he describes are ideal,
very simple: from the cursory literary allusions but only that they are all typical, each standing
in which Hamerton's text abounds, nine have for a multitude of less famous, but no less
been chosen, apparently at random, and a pic genuine, experiences. The prettiest story in the
ture of the locality or person referred to has book is that of Dante and Beatrice, the most
been inserted at the proper page in the text. appealing that of Heine and Mathilde—the fat,
This results in half-tone portraits of Byron, stupid, merry-hearted wife, whom the unhappy
Napoleon, Da Vinci, Keats, Shelley, Scott, and poet came as near to loving as his bitter heart
Wordsworth, and views of Fonthill Abbey and would let him love any one. Of the eight stories,
Blea Tarn. We wonder a little at the lack of six are already familiar to readers of The Cos-
variety in the editor's choice, and would sug mopolitan.' They gain additional attractiveness
gest that without altering the position of the from their new setting, with tinted illustrations
pictures he might substitute George Sand for and the inevitable page border,-in this case suit-
Scott, Fielding for Byron, and Kepler for Words able, graceful, and unobtrusive. The binding is
worth, thus avoiding a misleading emphasis upon of grey boards, with leather back.
nineteenth century poets, and securing at least The Castle Comedy,' by Mr. Thompson
equal relevancy to the text. It should be added Buchanan, is a pretty little romance of the time
that the new edition is well printed on paper of Napoleon, with an exciting plot made up of
of good quality, handsomely bound in red and love and sword-play in equal parts. The scene is
gold, and contains an excellent frontispiece por laid in England, but some of the characters are
trait of the author in photgravure.
French, and others pretend to be. The hero is a
"The Messages of the Masters,' Dr. Amory nobleman disguised as a dancing master, who
Bradford's volume of appreciations of ten of the resembles Monsieur Beaucaire in quick wit, gal-
world's greatest paintings, has proved popular lant address, and dare-devil recklessness. Four
enough to justify Messrs. Crowell & Co. in issu pleasing colored illustrations and appropriate
ing it in a cheaper edition. This is printed from page decorations by Miss Elizabeth Shippen
the same plates used in the earlier edition, but Green, together with a delicate violet cover, con-
half-tones have been substituted for photo tribute to make this a very tempting holiday
gravures of the paintings discussed, and the book volume of the lighter sort. (Harper.)
is neatly bound in boards with linen back. Dr. ‘Love Finds a Way,' one of the late Paul
Bradford's method is to speak briefly of the Leicester Ford's short stories, has been made into
æsthetic value of each painting, and then dwell a delectable holiday volume by Messrs. Dodd,
upon its spiritual meaning. For instance, in writ-Mead & Co. Mr. Harrison Fisher's drawings and
ing of Turner's 'Old Temeraire' his theme is Miss Margaret Armstrong's floral borders and
*The Message and Ministry of the Sky.' The cover design are the decorative features. The
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covers
enough to make us wish that its author were still
writing, or that his mantle had fallen upon some-
body else. Mr. Fisher is very successful at
depicting the sentimental ‘man and girl' situa-
tion, and his work here is as dainty and care-
fully finished as usual. Miss Armstrong's
designs are always remarkable for their grace-
fulness and beauty of coloring, so that altogether
this is as pretty a book as any gift-hunter need
desire.
Another book to which a cover designed by
Miss Margaret Armstrong adds a touch of dis-
tinction is ‘Li'l' Gal' (Dodd, Mead & Co.), a col-
lection of Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar's negro
lyrics, the title being taken from the first poem.
Miss Armstrong has also designed page borders,
and Mr. Leigh Richmond Miner of the Hampton
Institute Camera Club has taken the photographs,
which form a rich and suitable illustrative set-
ting for the verses. This is not the first time that
Mr. Dunbar and members of the Hampton Insti-
tute Camera Club have co-operated in book-mak-
ing, but their latest venture is more than ever
deserving of praise for its harmonious, tasteful,
and spirited transcription of negro life.
The volume entitled “Japan in Pictures'
ures)
(Warne) is aptly described by Mr. Douglas
Sladen, author of the text and collector of the
photographs, as being a sort of lantern-lecture'
between covers. The pictures, of which there are
about seventy-five, are grouped according to six
topics: water-life, crops and flowers, landscape,
temples, streets and street life, manners and
customs; and each group is preceded by a com-
pact and business-like introduction. By wasting
no time on generalities, Mr. Sladen manages to
compress a vast amount of miscellaneous and
very entertaining information into his ‘lecture,'
and the pictures serve to fix it in the reader's
mind. The album is just the thing with which
to temper one's ignorance and correct one's
misconceptions about the enterprising little
island kingdom that is occupying so much of the
world's attention at present.
The Christmas shopper has come to depend
upon finding something of Mr. Hamilton w.
Mabie's ready for him each year in sumptuous
holiday dress. This season Messrs. Dodd, Mead
& Co. reissue an old and favorite volume,
'Nature and Culture,' with tinted photogravures
made from a series of very artistic photographs
by Mr. Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. These pictures
show scenes in the woods and fields, by the sea-
shore or the road-side, each illustrating some
brief and vivid passage of natural description
taken from the essays.
The volume is further
decorated by head and tail pieces somewhat
symbolic in character. The cover design is too
heavy for the best effect, and, we think, very
inartistically colored.
Among the many 'miniature' volumes which
make such popular holiday gifts, none are
daintier or more attractive than the Thumb
Nail Series' (Century Co.). Three new volumes
are now added,-Shakespeare's 'As You Like
It' and 'Romeo and Juliet,' and Washington Irv-
ing's account of 'An Old English Christmas'
taken from The Sketch Book.' As usual, the
leather
are embossed with symbolic
designs done by Mrs. Blanche McManus Mans-
field, and the author's portrait serves as a
frontispiece for each volume. “An Old English
Christmas,' with its story of quaint Yule-Tide
customs, and the peacock pie and boar's head
trimmed with holly on the cover, is sure to be
a favorite with Christmas buyers.
Another deservedly popular series of bibelots
is the ‘Ariel' library of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's
Sons, which has grown to include nearly one hun-
dred well assorted classics. These tiny booklets
are clearly printed on deckel-edge paper, with
photogravure frontispieces (generally portraits),
and are bound in flexible red morocco, with rib-
bon markers. The fourteen additional volumes
of this year offer plenty of variety to the intend-
ing purchaser. 'Castle Rackrent and Other Irish
Tales' by Maria Edgeworth and John and
Michael Banim appears with an introductory
study of Irish fiction and short biographical
notices by Mr. W. B. Yeats. The Counter-
blaste to Tobacco' of James I. is printed with
the original preface by its royal author and a
postscriptum account of the practical measures
which he took to enforce his anti-tobacco cru-
sade. Mr. George Saintsbury furnishes a bio-
graphical note for Swift's Gulliver's Voyage
to Lilliput,' and this volume is embellished with
a number of illustrations, in addition to the cus-
tomary frontispiece. Among the other volumes
are Washington Irving's 'Old Christmas,' Robert
Browning's companion poems 'Christmas Eve'
and ‘Easter Day,' and Fouqué's ‘Undine.'
The trouble with Mr. Edwin F. Webster's
book of 'Strenuous Animals' (Stokes) is that
it is too strenuous. Mr. Webster's fables are so
e out in een from the hos beasts sachrremarkablea devia
tions from the order of nature that no amount
of realism in the atmosphere of the stories will
make them go down. The bear who fed
another bear with nitro-glycerine and then blew
him up, the bee who got drunk on whisky and
water and afterwards became a teetotaler, the
bull-dog who emulated the swiftness of the grey-
hound by wearing balloons, and the eagle who
hunted its prey with field glasses, may amuse
some readers; but the humor is too exaggerated
to gain a wide public. Good nonsense needs a
much lighter touch. The best story in the book
is the one about a jumping frog, as wonderful
in his way as his famous prototype endeared to
us by Mark Twain. Mr. E. W. Kemble and
'Bob' Addams have illustrated the stories.
Upland Pastures,' a series of nature essays
by Miss Adeline Knapp, has been issued in a
limited autograph edition by Messrs. Paul Elder
& Co. The volume is bound in cloth and leather
of a light green shade, and printed from type on
Ruisdael hand-made paper. Mr. William Keith's
painting of 'Upland Pastures,' reproduced in
photogravure, is the frontispiece; and rubricated
running-heads and initials set in simple borders
constitute its only other ornamentation. The
result is a harmonious and elegant piece of book-
making. Miss Knapp's essays are informal jot-
tings of things heard and seen, or thought, in
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the reflective rather than to the dramatic type Palmyra; Smollett's translation of "Gil Blas,'
of nature essays, they aim to arouse an interest with illustrations taken from the French text;
in the smaller aspects of the outdoor world, par Charles Lever's 'Harry Lorrequer' with repro-
ticularly in the wonderful economy of plant life. ductions of the drawings by 'Phiz' which
They read pleasantly and easily, with a sugges appeared in the first edition; and Bulwer-Lyt-
tion of Mr. Hamilton Mabie's method and point ton's ‘Rienzi.' The present day flood of fiction
of view.
is resulting in a neglect of many stories better
The Old Masters and their Pictures,' a com worth while than some of the best selling books
prehensive art manual for beginners by Miss of the week or month. An attractive series of
Sarah Tytler, is issued by Messrs. Little, Brown reprints, like those of the 'Luxembourg' series,
& Co. in a new illustrated edition, with twenty that helps to turn the tide and sends us back
good half-tone plates reproducing twenty of the to make or renew acquaintance with old favorites,
famous paintings referred to in the text. There is of real service to the cause of good literature.
is no question that illustration helps to make a It was a happy thought of the A. Wessels Co.
book of this sort attractive and illuminating, and to publish the 'Maximes' of La Rochefoucauld
Miss Tytler's work is good enough to deserve in an edition with French and English versions
whatever assistance pictorial embellishment can on opposite pages. It is entirely a matter of
lend it. The popular character of the book, its taste whether one enjoys the hard, worldly wis-
ornamental binding, and the pictures, bring it dom of the “Maximes,'—though Sainte-Beuve
into the category of holiday publications.
has said that there are moments in life when
“A Journey in Search of Christmas' (Harper) everybody gloats them. But however
is the inviting title of a holiday volume by Mr. strongly one may dissent from their cynical esti-
Owen Wister. Of course it is Lin McLean who mates of humanity, one cannot but admire their
takes the journey, first to Cheyenne and finally lively precision and courteous, measured sim-
to Denver, where he succeeds in running down plicity of expression.
plicity of expression. They ought to be re-read
Christmas in lavish western fashion. The story occasionally, if only as an antidote for exaggera-
is more or less made to order, but has a good tion; and for that purpose the present reprint is
deal of vitality about it for all that. Mr. Fred very suitable. Print and paper are good, the
eric Remington has drawn three pictures of binding is pretty and durable, the end-papers
Lin, making him look very much like all the appropriately decorated with thistles. The Eng-
rest of Mr. Remington's cow-boys, and has also lish version of the maxims follows the French
made tinted page decorations which furnish an closely, and preserves its cautious suavity very
interesting running comment on the text. The well.
cover is very gaudy,-perhaps out of deference to "A good cheer book is the best year book,'-so
Lin's taste; but accepted as symbolic of the old runs the motto with which the preface to Miss M.
west, it need not interfere with the reader's Allette Ayer's volume of 'Daily Cheer' begins;
enjoyment of a good story.
and we shall not be inclined to question the
It is eight years since Mrs. Ruth McEnery truth of the couplet. This particular 'Good
Stuart wrote 'Sonny, a Christmas Guest,' and Cheer' book is made up very much in the usual
fourteen editions have been printed during the way, with a page of well-chosen extracts for each
interval; but the demand for that charming bit of day in the year.
The selections are all bright
fiction is not yet exhausted. The reason for its and cheerful, but there is plenty of variety in
lasting popularity is not far to seek; 'Sonny' is length, subject matter, style, and authorship.
full of real humor, delicate, but irresistible; you The quotations on a page range in number from
laugh because you cannot help it, and no matter one to ten, but in every case a single thought
how many times you have read the story, its runs through each day's reading and unifies it.
freshness and sweetness still make their appeal. The pages of briefer quotations are particularly
The latest edition of the book, published by the interesting, because of the novelty of finding
Century Co., is illustrated by Miss Fanny Y. such diverse authors as Shakespeare, Mrs. Mar-
Cory, just the right person to understand Sonny garet Sangster, Robert Browning, 'Mrs. Wiggs,'
and to depict him and his family in an original and William Cullen Bryant in symposium upon
and entertaining way. There are fourteen illus the same subject. The chaste binding and taste-
trations, besides a decorated initial for each chap ful arrangement of the book will add materially
ter.
to its value for the holiday purchaser. (Lee &
Messrs. Crowell & Co.'s 'Luxembourg Library' Shepard.)
is intended to furnish reprints of classic novels, Friends of Dr. Theodore Cuyler are legion,
which shall be durable and attractive and yet not and they will all welcome the appearance of
too expensive to be within reach of a moder Our Christmas Tides' (Baker & Taylor Co.),
ately filled purse. This purpose it fulfils very selected and in part written by him. The bind-
acceptably. The clothbindings are simply | ing shows an elaborate design in green and gold,
and prettily ornamented, the typography clear, and the book is handsomely printed on toned
the paper of fair quality, and the illustrations in laid paper, with appropriate marginal decora-
several cases of unusual interest and merit. The tions and end papers. Several photographs,
five volumes lately issued in this pleasing and including a frontispiece portrait of Dr. Cuyler
inexpensive dress are Jane Austen's Pride and taken in 1903, serve as illustrations. The selec-
Prejudice,' with seventeen clever drawings in pen tions include both verse and prose, harking back
and ink; William Ware's "Zenobia,' with the to old favorites like 'It Came upon the Midnight
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BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
theme as Christmas customs in many lands,
reminiscences of a day in modern Bethlehem, and
suggestions about true Christmas giving. In
The numerous volumes of the current season
short, the booklet is an unusually pleasing
especially addressed to children exhibit in the main
very much the same tendencies and standards as we
example of a familiar type, for which there seems
have noted in former years. There is not as much
to be a perennial demand.
of war and turmoil as there was a few years ago,
*Christmas Eve on Lonesome' (Scribner) is the and the gigantic struggle in Asia is almost unre-
title story in a new volume by Mr. John Fox, Jr. flected here-possibly because so little is really
Mr. Fox has kept closely within his chosen field,
known of the details. Books which make an
- the lawless and primitive life of the Kentucky appeal limited to boys and girls within certain
mountaineer; and the feud is naturally the
narrow age limits seem to be on the increase.
Books of adventure show no diminution in number,
pivotal point of most of the stories. However,
whether the adventure be connected with authentic
the situations and types of character are
history or not; but there is a marked falling off in
varied that there is no monotony about the book. the number of stories dealing with historical epi.
The feud, as Mr. Fox portrays it, has its pos sodes not distinctly modern. There seems to be
sibilities of humor as well as of pathos and bitter a decrease, also, in the way of older books of
tragedy, and the strange nature of the moun ascertained worth; and at the other extreme of
taineer has its kindlier and more generous side;
the literary scale there is a similar diminution
so the stories are cheerful reading. Of the five as regards picture books with jingles showing an
in the book, one besides the first has a Christmas
original turn of thought. On the whole, it is
theme, and the gay scarlet cover and eight illus-
probably safe to say that the most encouraging
feature in the children's books of the present sea-
trations in color emphasize the holiday flavor.
son is the increasing depth of thought and serious.
Mr. Will Carleton's ever popular Over the Hill of purpose displayed-though this is
to the Poor-House,' and its companion piece impression rather than a statement susceptible of
Over the Hill from the Poor-House,' have een definite proof. Noticeable, also, is a steadily grow-
detached from the other ‘Farm Ballads' and ing skill in the handling of material, whether
made into a handsome Christmas book (Harper),
historical or human. But marked ability or strik-
with tinted illustrations and page decorations
ing originality is not much in evidence.
by Mr. W. E. Mears, and an interesting preface
By all odds the most striking child's
old favorites
book of the season is the new edition
by the author. In this preface Mr. Carleton
in new forms.
of Eugene Field's 'Poems of Child-
expresses becoming wonder over the interest
hood' (Scribner), with illustrations in color by
that these two simple poems have aroused, and Mr. Maxfield Parrish. There is a delicacy of senti-
then gives an unaffected little history of the good ment and touch about these delightful illustrations
he knows they have done and of the convincing that not only interprets the text, but gives it a
proofs he has had that the critics who sneered at refinement it did not possess before.
The poems
the unreality of his work were quite in the wrong.
included in the volume are chosen from a wider
range than heretofore, and on every account the
'Business' is the terse and somewhat anom-
book is one to cherish. – Mr. T. H. Robinson has
alous title of a small collection of slangy, cynical, performed a similar service for Charles Kingsley's
and more or less witty epigrams, intended to * The Heroes' (Dutton), although his illustrations,
embody the sordid philosophy of the modern bus in color and black-and-white, lack the marked dis-
iness world in a form that will make it seem tinction of Mr. Parrish's work. But the edition
less sordid, at least for the moment. Mr. L. de is none the less a worthy treatment of a worthy
V. Matthewman is responsible for the aphorisms,
book. - A pleasant revival of the forgotten work
and Mr. Tom Fleming for the pictures. "The
of a forgotten author, certain to meet with
sureness of a sure thing is for the other man’;
approval, is the new edition of Frances Browne's
'Granny's Wonderful Chair' (McClure, Phillips &
‘Do something if you must: do somebody if you
Co.). Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett knew and
can'; 'Incessant work tells-on the worker'; loved the book as a child, but later on it passed
"Opportunity knocks once at every man's door, from her, and only recently did she chance upon
but generally makes sure that he is not at home'; a copy:
It had meant so much to her that she
"Whether the bull or the bear wins, it is a cold has felt impelled to set forth the fact in a really
day for the lamb';-these will serve as samples delicious preface to the present reprint which she
of the quality of Mr. Matthewman's epigrams,
calls “The Lost Fairy Book,' a better bit of writ-
which gain considerably in point from Mr. Flem-
ing, possibly, than anything else in the volume.
There is, almost inevitably one might say, a new
ing's accompanying drawings. (Lippincott.)
edition this season of Lewis Carroll's Alice's
‘Petals of Love for Thee' (Dodge Publishing Adventures in Wonderland' (Stokes), for which
Co.) is the title of a booklet of lyrics by Edith Mr. M. L. Kirk has prepared twelve full-page
Hall Orthwein. It is lavishly decorated with pictures in color. Sir John Tenniel's original
floral designs printed in glaring colors, and hav illustrations are also included, and Mr. Kirk has
ing, except in one or two cases, very little con-
retained the spirit of these in his own drawings.
nection with the text. The poems are very faulty
Consequently the volume has a seemly congruity
and reverence for tradition not to be found in
in technique, and are disfigured by unfortunate
other editions of the classic.- Two more of Louisa
mannerisms. Altogether the volume belongs to a
M. Alcott's books are republished, with admirable
type of 'Holiday book' which is fast being super pictures by Miss Harriet Roosevelt Richards, in
seded by finer workmanship and more literary Messrs. Little, Brown & Co.'s new edition of that
value.
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Hill' and 'Rose in Bloom' are the titles of this
year's additions, and in all respects the volumes
are fully up to the high standard set by their
predecessors. -- 'Fairy Tales by Dumas' (Stokes)
is the prosaic title chosen for the volume con-
taining Mr. Harry A. Spurr's translation of the
Aramis story, When Pierrot Was Young,' and
*The Countess Bertha's Honey Feast.' Mr. Harry
Roundtree's illustrations show a fine appreciation
of the significance of the stories, and the book
makes one wish that the delicious imagination
of Dumas might have expressed itself more fre-
quently in works of the kind. — Paul de Musset 's
Mr. Wind and Madam Rain,' as translated years
ago by Miss Emily Makepeace and illustrated by
Charles Bennett, is now reproduced in handsome
form by the Messrs. Putnam. The fanciful supersti-
tions of the Breton peasantry and an interpolated
puppet show will be recalled as making up the
groundwork of this delightful tale. – What is
often characterized as the Italian 'Alice in Won-
derland' has been rendered into English by Mr.
Walter Samuel Cramp from the original of Carlo
Collodi, under the title of 'The Adventures of
Pinocchio' (Ginn). The titular hero is a wooden
marionette, and Mr. Charles Copeland has pictured
him in complete accordance with the spirit of the
text. — “Red Cap Tales, Stolen from the Treasure
Chest of the Wizard of the North, Which Theft
is Humbly Acknowledged by S. R. Crockett' is
the wording on the title page of an attractive
book (Macmillan), with illustrations in color by
Mr. Simon Harmon Vedder. Mr. Crockett has
taken a number of stories dealing with gnomes
and fairies from five of the Waverley novels, sim-
plified them somewhat by rewriting with a juvenile
audience in view, and left his readers to obtain
the effect of the new grouping. - In a manner
somewhat analogous,
Mr.
Frederic Lawrence
Knowles has produced "The Story of Little Paul'
and "The Story of Little Peter' (Estes), as new
volumes in the 'Famous Children of Literature'
series. Dickens's 'Dombey and Son’ provides the
material for the former book, and Captain Mar-
‘ryat’s ‘Peter Simple' for the latter.
Both are
examples of what might be called predigested
literature. — A new version of the old story of the
Argonauts has been made by Prof. D. 0. S. Lowell,
of the Roxbury Latin School, and published under
the title of 'Jason's Quest' (Lee & Shepard), with
illustrations by Mr. C. W. Reed. The book is
deserving of praise in every respect.
Of books dealing with American his-
Tales of our
tory there are many this year, the
own country.
first in point of time being Mr. Heze-
kiah Butterworth's 'Little Metacomet' (Crowell).
This account of the son of Philip, last of the Wani-
panoags, is for quite small children. Exiled by
the English after his father's death at Mount
Hope, the short history of the little prince is told
in its relations to a family of white children which
he befriended.- Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith takes up
a well known episode in the French and Indian
War of two centuries ago in "The Boy Captive of
Old Deerfield' (Little, Brown & Co.). Her story is
written with painstaking intention to teach the
comfortable children of to-day something of the
sufferings of their predecessors. — The southern
colonies come in for somewhat belated treatment
in two books by Miss Annie M. Barnes: 'A Lass
of Dorchester,' in which the scene is laid in the
Carolinas in 1702, and 'The Laurel Token: A
Story of the Yamassee Uprising,' dealing with the
plantation at Goose Creek in 1714. There is wide
field for the investigator here, and Miss Barnes has
made good use of her manifest opportunities.
Both books are published by Messrs. Lee & Shep-
ard.— The fourth volume of Mr. Edward Strate-
meyer's 'Colonial Series' is called 'On the Trail
of Pontiac; or,The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio' (Lee
& Shepard), and brings the history down to the
last French and Indian war in the eighteenth cen-
tury. Characters from previous books in the series
reappear here, and the treatment of the Indian
tribes is more humane than the settlers themselves
were accustomed to accord them.- Revolutionary
times in their inception find mention episodically
in Miss Helen M. Cleveland's 'Stories of Brave Old
Times: Some Pen Pictures of Scenes Which Took
Place Previous to, or Connected with, the Ameri-
can Revolution' (Lee & Shepard). The short stories
are picturesque and full of the turmoil of the times,
leaving a curious sense of the inadequacy of the
struggle to maintain the liberties so painfully
acquired. Photographs of the localities mentioned
and numerous pen drawings illustrate the book.-
Mr. James Otis, one of the best of American writ-
ers on such topics, presents a graphic picture of
New York just after the declaration of indepen-
dence in Dorothy's Spy' (Crowell). A small
patriot and a British spy lend interest to the story,
and Mr. Clyde 0. DeLand's illustrations are bet-
ter than the average.- Mr. Everett T. Tomlinson
makes one of Washington's couriers the prota-
gonist in 'The Rider of the Black Horse'
(Houghton), involves a charming girl in the hero's
fortunes, sets a villainous 'Cowboy' against them
both after they have jointly tricked him, and makes
of it all a very good story indeed, one of the best
he has ever written.— Of the same year, 1777, with
the scene in Vermont rather than New York, is
Mr. James Otis's 'The Minute Boys of the Green
Mountains' (Estes). Two boys of sixteen and an
old hunter of the Leatherstocking type work
together for independence in an entirely whole-
hearted manner.- From the battle-field of Hohen-
linden to the consummation of the Louisiana Pur.
chase is the period covered by Mr. William C.
Sprague's "The Boy Courier of Napoleon' (Lee &
Shepard). There is plenty of excitement in the
book, which closes with the boy's restoration to the
arms of his father in the new world.— Miss Amanda
M. Douglas 's 'A Little Girl in Old Chicago,'
(Dodd, Mead & Co.), opens in the year 1812, though
the story is carried down past the time of the Col.
umbian Exposition. It is an interesting story of
wonderful development and accomplishment.- Mr.
Thomas J. L. McManus, whose younger days were
passed near Harper's Ferry, was one of those who
were actually in the mountain schoolhouse at the
time of its capture. He has written, in “The Boy
and the Outlaw' (Grafton Press), an impressive
account of John Brown's raid and the weeks imme-
diately thereafter. The book is illustrated in color.
- The very opening of the Civil War, while the
Confederates were attempting to capture President
Lincoln and his cabinet, is the period of Mr. Wil.
liam O. Stoddard's ‘Long Bridge Boys' (Lothrop),
and the youthful hero is made to save the govern-
ment by a clever bit of detective work. The
Three Prisoners’ (Barnes) by Mr. W. H. Shelton,
is also a Civil War story, covering a longer perioci
of time than the book just named, and detailing the
engrossing particulars of one of the narrowest of
escapes.- ‘Daniel Webster for Young Americans'
(Little, Brown & Co.) is the title of a volume
edited, with an introduction and notes, by Prof.
Charles F. Richardson. A succinct biography sym-
pathetically prepared, a collection of Webster's
greatest speeches, and Edwin P. Whipple's essay
on Webster as a Master of English Style' make
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scene
portraits and other pictures.— "The American
Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt' (Lee & Shep-
ard) depends for its interest rather upon the spec-
tacular than the significant episodes in the career
of the President of the United States. It is writ-
ten by Mr. Edward Stratemeyer, and is illus-
trated.
Iceland in the eleventh century is
Stories of
the
of Mr. Allen French's
the old world.
*The Story of Rolf and the Viking's
Bow' (Little, Brown & Co.), and the spirit of the
Sagas is alive in the work. The period is the
one of transition between the old religion and the
new Christianity, and elements of both appear
through the narrative. The pictures, by Mr.
Bernard J. Rosenmeyer, are drawn with spirit and
historical fidelity.- The Crusaders: A Story of the
War for the Holy Sepulchre' (Macmillan) is a
well considered work by the Rev. A. J. Church,
with illustrations in color by Mr. George Morrow.
The tale is told in episodes, so to speak, the accent
being laid on the more important crusades and
upon the significant incidents in each. — Mr. Paul
Creswick describes a single one of these gigantic
movements for the Christianization of the Holy
Land in his book called With Richard the Fear.
less: A Tale of the Red Crusade' (Dutton). Both
the text and colored illustrations by Mr. H. Crocket
provide a vivid picture of the heroic side of the
third crusade. - It is a baby princess, Henrietta of
England, with whom the interests of the heroine of
'Elinor Arden, Royalist' (Century Co.) become
finally identified. The whole story, as told by Mrs.
Mary Constance Du Bois, is interesting and even
exciting.- Four volumes of 'Life Stories for
Young People' (McClurg) have been translated
from the German by Mr. George P. Upton, form-
ing the nucleus for a series of books of scholarly
value addressed directly to young_folk.
Of the
volumes now ready, ‘Ludwig von Beethoven' and
Mozart's Youth' are by Franz Hoffman, The
Maid of Orleans' by Friedrich Henning, and “Wil-
liam Tell' by Ferdinand Schmidt. With the excep-
tion of the book about Mozart, which carries the
account only through his fifteenth year, the biog.
raphies are complete, though the emphasis is
placed as much as possible on the making of the
adult in the child. Rare old pictures are repro-
duced for the illustrations in each case.- Full
attention has been paid to historical accuracy by
Mr. Herbert Strang in 'The Light Brigade in
Spain; or, The Last Fight of Sir John Moore'
(Putnam), as the preface by Lieutenant-Colonel
Willoughby Verner bears witness. It is a book of
the Henty sort, with a boyish hero, and is full of
vigor and action.— The latest volume in the series
of Famous Battles of the 19th Century' (Wessels)
carries the narrative from 1815 to 1860. The
Alamo, Buena Vista, and Chapultepec are of con-
cern to Americans; the other battles described are
mainly European. The accounts are from various
well-known hands, and the entire work is under
the editorship of Mr. Charles Welsh.
Stories of adventure based only inci-
Adventure in
dentally upon historical events are
many lands.
never devoid in the nature of things
of a certain sort of sensationalism, though there is
a great difference in both the quality and quantity
of the sensations involved as well as of veritable
fact. The Blue Dragon: A Story of Recent
Adventures in China' (Harper), by Mr. Kirk Mun-
roe, is a combination of sensational romantic inci-
dent with historical or biographical incident, cul-
minating in the relief of the beleaguered legations
in Peking during the Boxer uprising. It is note-
worthy for its sympathy with the yellow race,
although quite devoid of prejudice in favor of the
Chinese.— Of another sort is Mr. E. P. Weaver's
The Search' (Barnes), in which a courageous
English boy travels from London to western New
York and Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century to
effect a gallant rescue described at the close of
the narrative. It presents a romantic picture of
the time and locality, yet is uncomplicated by his-
torical characters.— In Search of the Okapi: A
Story of Adventure in Central Africa' (McClurg)
discloses the condition of affairs in the Congo
State, besides presenting an account of the fauna
and flora of the Congo forests, and the customs of
native negroes. It is a story of the wanderings of
a naturalist and his two youthful companions, one
of these latter a seeker after his father, long a
captive to a native tribe. - Almost purely imagi-
native is Mr. Howard R. Garis's 'Isle of Black
Fire' (Lippincott), in which a shipload of men
and boys set out to bring home a great piece of
rich radium ore from one of the islands of the sea.
- A story of more sentimental interest is Miss
Mary Bourchier Safford's 'The Wandering Twins:
A Story of Labrador' (McClurg). In this almost
unknown corner of the world a boy and girl are set
down to seek their father. A thrilling rescue from
the perils of the frozen North ends the tale.-
Labrador is also the scene of Mr. George E.
Walsh's "The Mysterious Beacon Light: The
Adventures of Four Boys in Labrador' (Little,
Brown & Co.). The boys find a wreck with a val-
uable cargo, have difficulties with icebergs, and
are otherwise fully occupied during their absence
from a comfortable home. - David Chester's Motto,
“Honour Bright”: A Boy's Adventures at School
and Sea' (Warne) is by Mr. H. Escott-Inman, and
possesses a variety of interests arising from the
circumstance of an honest lad's falling under sus-.
picion of criminal transactions.— Jack in the Rock-
ies; or, A Boy's Adventures with a Pack Train'
(Stokes), by Mr. George B. Grinnell, is a straight-
forward account of the wonders of the Yellow-
stone National Park, of Indians, and of hunting
of various sorts, written by one who knows froin
extended experience exactly what he is talking
about. - Though in a part of the country very near
settled civilization, the boys in ‘The Island Camp;
or, The Young Hunters of Lakeport' (Barnes)
hunt bears and wolves, and find much adventure of
other sorts. The book is by Captain Ralph Bone-
hill (Mr. Edward Stratemeyer).
The fighting of sailors rather than
Tales of
soldiers, and the deeds of those that
go down into the sea in ships, occupy
the attention of various authors. The list of books
in this field may well be headed by Dr. Edward
Everett Hale's 'Stories of Discovery as Told by
Discoverers' and 'Stories of Adventure as Told by
Adventurers' (Little, Brown & Co.), now reprinted
in attractive form after several decades of useful-
ness.- Of the same sort, but with the attention
given to marauding rather than to the uses of
peace, is Miss Jessie Peabody Frothingham's 'Sea-
Wolves of Seven Shores' (Scribner). From the
Mediterranean to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the
Barbary States to North America, is the range of
this most interesting and exciting book. The last
of the Henty books, ‘By Conduct and Courage: A
Story of Nelson's Days' (Scribner), will be laid
down with a feeling of real regret that so notable
a figure in the development of children's stories
should hereafter be silent. The book is as good as
most of its predecessors, although both its brevity
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complete as far as it goes, it was intended to go reliant, and at the end wins a place in the world.
further.- Nelson reappears in the concluding chap - It would be hard to imagine a boy who begins
ters of ‘His Majesty's Sloop Diamond Rock' life at a greater disadvantage than the small hero
(Houghton), by Mr. H. S. Huntington, an unusu of Mr. William Wallace Cooke's 'Wilby's Dan'
ally good story. The scene is laid upon a rocky (Dodd), for he has a miser for a grandfather, a
islet near Martinique, which the British seized dur criminal for a father, and a poor-house charge for a
ing the Napoleonic struggles of 1802-3, and armed, sister. But he manages to get ahead, once he finds
manned, and commissioned as a sloop-of-war. It kindly treatment. There is an account of the
was at last surrendered after a desperate defense breaking-up of the reign of terror in San Francisco
against an overwhelming force; but the boy-hero in The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California
is permitted to escape as the bearer of despatches | Life in the Fifties (Lee & Shepard) which is well
to Nelson regarding the coming of Villaneuve's worth reading, as Colonel Samuel Adams Drake
fleet.— The international interest now growing so tells it. Two Boston lads who were not satisfied
common is very evident in Mr. F. H. Costello's with remaining at home are the heroes.— Two lads
“Nelson's Yankee Boy: The Adventures of a in the Pennsylvania mountains stumble upon an
Plucky Young New Englander at Trafalgar and Indian treasure mound in Mr. Henry Edward
Elsewhere, and Later in the War of 1812' (Holt). Rood's 'In Camp at Bear Pond' (Harper). In addi-
The hero is impressed into the British service as a tion to this great event, there is full record of the
mere lad, and after doing faithful duty there he usual fun boys have when they are in the open.--
ends his naval career on the privateer 'Decatur' 'Larry the Wanderer; or, The Rise of a Nobody'
after its gallant capture of the Dominica.' The (Lee & Shepard) depends for its climax upon the
thrilling pictures are by Mr. W. H. Dunton, and familiar device of restoration to a long-lost family
the book is altogether an exciting one.- - With the of means and respectability, but in this case not
interest divided between a whaler, a trading vessel, until the boy had been able to show of what goou
and that heroic warship, the ‘Essex,' Mr. Cyrus stuff he was made. It is written by Mr. Edwarı
Townsend Brady's 'A Midshipman in the Pacific' Stratemeyer. — Miss Helen Dawes Brown, in 'A
(Scribner) is a volume teeming with action, some Book of Little Boys' (Houghton), has depicter:
of it savoring of exaggeration. A midshipman is fourteen episodes of life as the small boy lives it.
impressed unwillingly into the service of a British All are good, and one, ‘The Luck of Havin' Broth-
whaling vessel. Shipwrecked in mid-ocean, he and ers,' is notable.— A story the sadness of which is
a companion are rescued by the ship sent by Astor relieved by its happy conclusion is Miss Etheldred
to the mouth of the Columbia. At the end of the B. Barry's What Paul Did' (Estes). A crippled
voyage the lad is captured by Indians, but con child, son to a widowed father, develops great
trives to escape in time to join Porter, and is with talent as a draughtsman. Just when everything
the latter when the 'Essex' is conquered after its has grown darkest, the sky brightens and the worlu
valiant defence.- Mrs. Mary J. Safford has trans becomes gay again. It is a pretty little tale, full
lated and adapted 'Prince Henry's Sailor Boy' of humanity and encouragement.
(Holt) from the German of Otto von Bruneck.
If there is anything that has not been
The book sets forth the life and adventures of a For girls
especially.
youthful protégé of an imperial personage, who
thought of by the Misses Lina and
Adelia B. Beard for their Indoor and
eventually wins his way to a commission after
Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls'
doing gallant service in the African Hinterland. It
(Scribner) it cannot be named here. Everything
is a well written and interesting story.
that can keep minds active and alert, and hands
Perhaps the most interesting of the anu bodies busy and healthy, in the way of play
For boys
especially.
season's stories for boys is told by and interesting work is included, with illustrations
the popular Japanese author, Gensai to make the explicit directions still more compre-
Murai, and his book, translated by Tasao Yoshida, hensible.— Without touching on the side of profit-
is named “Kibun Daizin; or, From Shark-Boy to yielding occupations, and with more stress laid upon
Merchant Prince' (Century Co.). The story is a the social side of life, Mrs. Burton Kingsland's
true one, dating back to the seventeenth century, "The Book of Indoor and Outdoor Games, with
and showing that at that time there was a stronger Suggestions for Entertainments' (Doubleday) will
resemblance between Japanese ideas of success and prove a real treasure for those lacking in inven-
those current in America to-day than is generally tion, and will bring delight to many a dull or
supposed. But the hero is animated by the pre rainy day.-- In ‘Nathalie's Sister: The Last of the
cepts of a worthy religion to an extent not common McAlister Records' (Little, Brown & Co.), we bid
in the Occident, and his reputation is good in more farewell to the charming family that Miss Anna
than the commercial sense. - It can hardly be said Chapin Ray has permitted us to number among our
that anything in the way of invention is improb acquaintance. It is Peggy Arterburn who finds
able at this time, so that Mr. Alvah Milton Kerr's delineation here, and she develops into a fine young
"Two Young Inventors: The Story of the Flying woman, after exhibiting some asperities. The excel-
Boat' (Lee & Shepard) avoids to a considerable lent illustrations are by Mrs. Alice Barber Ste-
extent the criticism of improbability. A cyclone phens.- A young girl, with a mother failing in
and a forest fire are incidents in the tale, which health and a father none too successful in business,
ends in the production of a boat suitable for either has won a scholarship at Wellesley. Duty leads her
air or water.- A wholesome account of the life to give up her dearest ambition, and she goes
led by a New York lad while in the country for instead to the College of Life,' where she learns
his health is contained in "The White Crystals' the secret of noble womanhood from Professors
(Little, Brown & Co.), the title being derived from Poverty and Cheerfulness. This is the theme of
the discovery of salt on the farm where the lad is Miss Evelyn Raymond's 'An Honor Girl' (Lee &
staying with his uncle and cousin.-Jack Ten Shepard.).— A delightful book for girls is Mrs.
field's Star: A Story for Boys and Some Girls' Ellen Douglas Deland's 'Josephine' (Harper), in
(Lee & Shepard) is by Miss Martha James, and which two orphaned sisters, the elder sixteen, come
deals with the problem of an orphaned lad who from the northwestern corner of the United States
is left penniless by his father's death and has to to the home of their widowed uncle near Boston,
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How the elder girl wins her way to esteem is
charmingly told, with a little secondary romance
for good measure.- Good nature, the ability to
take reasonable care of one's self, sympathy for
others, mental alertness, and a number of other
charming things that characterize American girls
at their best, appear in Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney's
admirable collection of tales woven together into
a collective whole, entitled 'Biddy's Episodes'
(Houghton). - How a young girl of good family,
comfortable means, glowing health, and more than
ordinary beauty of mind and body occupies her
time at home after the school days are over is told
by Miss Amy Brooks in 'Randy's Good Times' (Lee
& Shepard). - Character development through mar-
riage and illness is the theme of Miss Amanda M.
Douglas's 'Honor Sherburne' (Dodd), the elev-
enth volume of a noteworthy series. The heroine is
married at the opening of the story, settles in
Washington with her husband, overcomes a serious
paralytic attack, and in the end brings about a
wedding for a dear girl.- Six clever girls, a maiden
aunt, and a widowed father, go to make up the
family depicted in the pages of Miss Miriam
Michelson's "The Madigans' (Century Co.). The
scene is laid in Butte, Montana, and in spite of
surroundings felt to be exotic by those living far-
ther East, there is enough of human nature in the
book to make its interest universal.- Restoration
to a wealthy and devoted mother is the point upon
which Miss Faith Bickford's story of 'Gloria'
(Estes) turns. The child is of Portuguese birth,
and has been brought up among her compatriots in
a fishing village on Cape Cod. - Miss Carolyn Wells
shows even more humor than usual in her treat-
ment of the small girl who is the protagonist in
*The Staying Guest' (Century Co.). The supposed
niece of two exceedingly prim maiden ladies comes
to live with them, against their wish at first, but
with entire willingness at the end. The situations
are delicious.—Irma and Nap: A Story for
Younger Girls' (Little, Brown & Co.) is by Miss
Helen Leah Reed, with pictures by Miss Clara E.
Atwood. Irma is a little girl, Nap a little dog, and
the two work out their small salvations with a large
family about them, Irma's girl friends playing no
inconsiderable part in the narrative.- Pansy'
(Mrs. G. R. Alden) takes the small heroine of
*Doris Farrand's Vocation' (Lothrop) through the
critical portion of her life after her father dies,
and brings her out worthy of the scriptural motto
he had chosen for her: 'Walk worthy of the voca-
tion wherewith ye are called.'. Something of the
same sort of motive appears in Miss Cally Ryland's
“The Taming of Betty' (Lee & Shepard), but in this
case Betty is a high-spirited Virginia girl who needs
a lot of taming. She comes into her own at last
through much adversity, after an unusual experience
in boarding-school. — The well-known heroine of a
previous work by Mrs. Clara Louise Burnham
reappears in 'Jewel's Story Book' (Houghton), by
the same author. The new book is a collection of
tales, in the nature of Christian Science tracts,
strung along a slender thread of entertaining nar-
rative.- The triumph of girlish human nature over
conventional obstacles is well portrayed by
Miss Mary F. Leonard in 'It Ali Came
True' (Crowell). A rich little girl becomes
acquainted with some poorer neighbors during
her parents' absence from home, her uncle
being the medium of acquaintance.- A story of
spiritual and mystical significance, of true literary
value but with a secondary appeal to children, is
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's 'In the Closed
Room' (McClure, Phillips & Co.). The daughter
of the caretakers in a temporarily deserted man-
sion in New York plays with the spirit of the little
daughter of the house in the room in which she
died. It is a story not to be forgotten when read.
The pictures and decorations, by Miss Jessie Will-
cox Smith, deserve high praise.
The lack of dramatic instinct among
For boys and
northern races in comparison with the
girls alike.
Latins has kept English-speaking
children from the delights depicted so successfully
by Miss Georgiana Goddard King in her ‘Comedies
and Legends for Marionettes: A Theatre for Boys
and Girls' (Macmillan). With the pictures pro-
vided by Miss Anna R. Giles it is possible for any
child to construct a stage and make the characters
which take part in the clever plays.— A charming
book that tells of the uses of adversity as reflected
in the lives of small boys and girls has been writ-
ten by Miss Marion Ames Taggart in "The Little
Gray House' (McClure, Phillips & Co.), published
with beautiful pictures by Miss Ethel Franklin
Betts.-Two brothers and two sisters, the 'frolic-
some four' of one of last year's stories, appear
once more in Miss Edith L. Gilbert's 'The Making
of Meenie' (Lee & Shepard). These four, with
an older visitor from Canada, bring up the little
heroine, a waif, in the manner that any little girl
should go.— Another story of apartment life in a
great city is told by Miss Nina Rhoades in The
Children on the Top Floor' (Lee & Shepard). The
little heroine is the means of bringing her widowed
mother into pleasant contact with the world out-
side, herself making the acquaintance of a little
crippled boy who has much influence on her.-
Pleasanter boys and girls could hardly be found
than those that Mrs. Laura E. Richards tell us of
in The Merryweathers' (Estes). The family and
its friends spend a happy summer out of doors, and
there is a romantic ending for good measure.- A
striking collection of stories and pictures of the
Chinese little ones in San Francisco has been made
by Mrs. Jessie Juliet Knox in her volume entitled
'Little Almond Blossoms' (Little, Brown & Co.).
The book will serve the most useful of purposes in
acquainting American children with their Chinese
fellows, and so divest them of prejudice as they
grow older.- Mrs. Margaret Sidney has taken up
the 'Five Little Peppers and Their Friends' (Loth-
rop) this year. Her concern is rather more with the
small friends than with the ever-delightful Pep-
pers themselves.- A grateful collection of little
stories has been made by Miss Rosalind Richards
in The Nursery Fire' (Little, Brown & Co.), illus-
trated by Miss Clara E. Atwood. It contains tales
admirably adapted to the intelligence of the small
fry still in the nursery.-Miss Gertrude Smith bids
fair to repeat her successes of previous years in the
pretty book of pretty stories, 'Little Precious'
(Harper). Those who know the 'Roggie and Reg.
gie' and other stories from this facile pen will
need to ask nothing further about the new volume.
The amiable and humorously inclined goat with
which Mrs. Frances Trego Montgomery's readers
are already familiar appears in the second gener-
ation in 'Billy Whiskers, Jr.' (Saalfield). The ani-
mal is still in the West, among cowboys and
Indians, and is busier than any of them. - 'Puss
in the Corner' (Estes) is one of the little rebus
books Miss Edith Frances Foster has made so
popular, the story being told in part by pictures,
to eke out the vocabularies of those for whom it
is written.-The response made by Mr. Jacob A.
Riis to
of a little Kansas girl
for the context, the query itself
for the title, of 'Is There Santa
the query
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more
more
Claus?' (Macmillan). If anybody takes a negative
point of view, he will be ashamed of his scepticism
when he finishes reading this little book. - Miss
Charlotte M. Vaile, in 'The Truth about Santa
Claus' (Crowell), clothes the old history of Saint
Nicholas in words that have a modern meaning
and which add new beauty to the Christmas festi-
val.- Dr. George Hodges has taken a number of
little episodes from the life of the Saviour and
retold them in his admirable book called When
the King Came' (Houghton), the result constitut-
ing a praiseworthy history of that marvellous life.
- Similar in kind is Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster's
• That Sweet, Sweet Story of Old: A Life of Christ
for the Young' (Revell). It is longer and more
detailed than the book of Dean Hodges, but it
rings true throughout.
Nature and
Books dealing with animals and with
nature increase in number year by
animal stories.
year, and grow
and
ingenious in their utilization of natural things. In
River-Land' (Harper), Mr. Robert W. Chambers
brings together literary quality, a working knowl-
edge of the living things in and about an Ameri-
can river, and marked powers of imagination and
poetic feeling, producing a work that should last
through more than one season. The pictures in
color, by Miss Elizabeth Shippen Green, are unus:1-
ally attractive.- In The Well in the Wood'
(Bobbs-Merrill Co.) Mr. Bert Leston Taylor util-
izes a pretty fancy and a knowledge at first hand
of the woods of Michigan to build around a little
girl as alluring and natural a fairy story as could
be wished, the creatures of the forest taking a
prominent part.- Animals in captivity enter into
similarly intimate relations with a little girl and
a crippled boy in the well illustrated and otherwise
handsome book called "Two in a Zoo' (Bobbs-Mer.
rill Co.), the joint product of Messrs. Curtis Dun-
ham and Oliver Herford.— It is to the ocean that
Mrs. Arthur Sherburne Hardy goes for the material
in 'Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes' (Ginn), and she
makes a skillful and interesting disposition of it,
suited to expanding intelligences.- Well grounded
in knowledge evidently derived largely from per-
sonal observation, Mr. Clarence Hawkes produces
a volume that can be depended upon in his Stories
of the Good Greenwood' (Crowell). It contains
much real woodcraft, and is uniformly sympa-
thetic and humane.—'Sportsman Joe' (Macmillan)
is by Mr. Edwyn Sandys and is filled with the lore
of shooting and fishing, detailing the performances
of a young New York boy of means who goes out
into the mountains with an old friend of his fath-
er's and learns the habits of animals, fish, and game
birds. — Miss Effie Bignell is concerned first with
a number of red squirrels, whom she views more
tenderly than do most naturalists, and subsequently
with the five grey squirrels which figure in the title
of her book, 'A Quintette of Greycoats' (Baker &
Taylor Co.). It is an entertaining family.— There
is nothing else quite so notable as the story of the
hen Eml’y in Miss Clara Dillingham Pierson's
“ Tales of a Poultry Farm' (Dutton), but all the
tales are interesting, and one comes away from the
book with a better opinion of the intelligence of
the domestic fowl.–Stories in prose and verse by
Miss Alice Calhoun Rhines and fine illustrations in
color by Mr. Louis Rhead go to make up the quarto
volume entitled 'Pets' (Stokes). It is a book for
any small child with a natural fondness for ani-
mals, telling pleasant little anecdotes of domestic
birds and beasts.- Flowers and the care of thein
are the subjects of Mary's Garden and How It
Grew' (Century Co.), the really practical informa-
tion it contains being conveyed through the asso-
ciation of a little girl and a neighboring Swiss who
made his living by horticulture.- 'Johnny Crow's
Garden' (Warne) is a little boy's book written and
illustrated by Mr. L. Leslie Brooke. It deals with
a lot of cheerful things in and about the garden
patch, and there are attractive pictures in color
to give it zest.-Animals manifest the character-
istics of human creatures in ‘Jim Crow's Language
Lessons' (Crowell). Very small people will enjoy
the stories, which are chiefly concerned with the
veritable doings of house pets. — In 'Lady Spider'
(Estes) Miss Harriet A. Cheever describes how a
pretty romance that took place in a king's palace
appeared to the observer in her web above, the
spinner of the web being also the spinner of the
yarn. - Another book by Miss Cheever, “The Rock
Frog' (Estes), tells in an autobiographic way the
history of a frog that grew too fat to escape from
the crack in a rock into which he was wedged,
what he saw while imprisoned, and what happened
after a storm released him.
Fairy tales and stories of the 'Ara-
Tales of
bian Nights' order are not often
Wonderland
attempted by modern imaginations,
but collections of the old legends are perennialiy
popular. Mr. Andrew Lang has not yet exhausted
the supply of these last, although he has to go to
countries more and more remote for every new
year's gleanings. For the material in his latest
volume, The Brown Fairy Book' (Longmans), he
has searched the folk lore of the red Indians, the
black Australians, the African Kafirs, and the
natives of Brazil and New Caledonia. Besides
these, there are some tales of moment from the
French and Persian, some of them being specially
translated for this work. The beautiful illustra-
tions in color are the work of Mr. Henry Ford.
- It is chiefly from the Algonkins and Ojibways
that Mr. Howard Angus Kennedy obtains the mate-
rial his ‘New World Fairy Book' (Dutton). Many
of the tales are familiar to well-read American
children, and all deserve to be. Mr. H. R. Millar
has supplied some fine pictures.— E. Nesbit (Mrs.
Hubert Bland) writes a most amusing story in
The Phenix and the Carpet' (Macmillan). The
fabled bird of antiquity hatches himself from his
egg in a nursery grate, and discovers that the car-
pet on the floor has the power of granting three
wishes each day to those who know it.- Mrs. Abbie
Farwell Brown tells four fairy stories of her own
invention in "The Flower Princess' (Houghton).
The tale of Fleurette and Joyeuse will be a delight
to children. - It is not with entire success that Mr.
Walter Burges Smith carries on Lewis Carroll's
idea in his ‘Looking for Alice' (Lothrop). Per-
haps the most original thing about the book is the
motto on the cover, Write makes mite.'- Of the
· Alice in Wonderland' sort are the seven tales Miss
Grace E. Ward has told in the pretty little book
named 'In the Miz' (Little, Brown & Co.) There
is something of the inconsecutiveness of dream-
land in the narrative, and the pictures by Miss
Clara E. Atwood add to the illusion.- 'Babes iu
Toyland’ (Fox, Duffield & Co.) is a pretty book
made by Mr. Glen McDonough and Miss Anna Alice
Chapin from the popular musical comedy of the
The delightful pictures in color are
the work of Miss Ethel F. Betts.- Messrs. Paul
West and William Wallace Denslow are the authors,
and Mr. Denslow the illustrator, of 'The Pearl and
the Pumpkin' (Dillingham). The scene shifts from
a country village through various parts of the
world, with fairies and other supernatural beings
always in attendance. The pictures are in Mr.
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tom, the rhinoscerostrich, and the scallopossum.
• There is nothing original about the book,' Mr. Cox
rightly observes, except the rhymes and the pic-
tures.'— In his happiest manner Mr. Palmer, Cox
tells in both rhymes and picture the story of The
Brownies in the Philippines' (Century Co.). The
Brownies visit all the islands, and have their usual
good time on all occasions.- Miss Virginia Gerson
has devised an interesting family of parents and
children with bodies shaped like the conventional
heart, and she tells of their numerous adventures
through colored pictures and humorous text in
The Happy Heart Family' (Fox, Duffield & Co.).
The book will amuse any little person fortunate
enough to possess it.— The Golliwog in Holland'
(Longmans), with verses by Miss Bertha Upton
and pictures in color by Miss Florence K. Upton,
marks the annual appearance of that fascinating
individual and his friends, so well known to the
present generation of children. All of the char.
acters show in the new book their undiminished
vitality and capacity for getting into mischief.
NOTES.
Denslow's best manner.— The Marvellous Land of
Oz' (Reilly & Britton) is a continuation of the
popular Wizard of Oz,' with several of the same
characters and three new ones of much cleverness.
The book is of real merit, and Mr. John R. Neill
has done well with the illustrations.— Both text and
pictures of Fantasma Land' (Bobbs-Merrill Co.)
are the work of Mr. Charles Raymond Macauley.
The story is sincerely and commendably fantastic,
using the ordinary affairs of earth with entire
incongruity.
A work so original and yet so simple
Pictures, songs, that all must wonder why it has not
and jingles.
been done before is Miss Olga Mor-
gan's 'As They Were and as They Should Have
Been' (Stokes). Two pictures in color appear in
contrast on every page; one shows a little boy and
girl behaving as their elders would have them, the
other the manner in which nature compels them to
behave. The drawings are exceedingly clever.-
That standard annual "The Chatterbox' (Estes)
appears in its bound volume for the year now
passing, containing its usual entertaining fund of
pictures, stories, and rhymes.- Commander Robert
E. Peary and his little daughter, the 'Snowbaby,'
combine to produce the book called 'Snowland
Folk: The Eskimos, the Bears, the Dogs, the Musk
Oxen, and Other Dwellers in the Frozen Nortn'
(Stokes). It is a collection of reproduced photo-
graphs, with a little narrative telling of life in the
realm of perpetual frost, the whole being both
interesting and instructive.- Marked originality
is to be found in the pictures which are the chief
feature of Mr. Augustus L. Jansson's ‘Hobby Hoss
Fair' (Caldwell). The drawings are in color, and
exhibit a combination of curves and straight lines
that is nothing less than impressive. Jingles
accompany the pictures.- Life in the South is told
in pictures and rhymes, both the work of Mrs.
Clara Andrews Williams, in “Mammy's Li'l' Chil.
luns' (Stokes). The book is altogether laughable
and shrewd. - A country where all the animals in
the menagerie are made of sweets has been discov-
ered by Miss Olive Aye, who tells about it in
Santa Claus's Wonderful Candy Circus' (Laird
& Lee), the jingles being accompanied by pictures
in color by Nr. A. T. Williamson. Originality like
this is both welcome and uncommon.- Nothing
more graceful and delicate has been published this
year than “When Little Boys Sing' (McClurg),
the joint product of John and Rue Carpenter (Mr.
and Mrs. John A. Carpenter). Rhymes of real
feeling and real fun, interpretative pictures admir-
ably worked out by one of the beautiful modern
color processes, and charming little melodies for
the rhymes, go to make up a combination most
unusual and very much to be commended.— The
old nursery rhymes that everybody knows and
loves are given a new use by Mr. Willard Bonté in
“The Mother Goose Puzzle Book' (Dutton). It is
a book made up of pictures wherein may be discov-
ered some famous person or animal referred to in
the accompanying jingles.- Mr. William Wallace
Denslow has this season produced, in his own inim-
itable manner, six thin nursery books, printed in
colors. The titles are as follows: Denslow's
Barn-Yard Circus,' 'Simple Simon,' 'Three Little
Kittens,' 'Mother Goose A B C Book,' 'Animal
Fair,' and 'Scare Crow and Tin Man' (Dilling-
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reminiscent and historical account of his own event-
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existing, whether or not we make any appre something like a surfeit of libraries of universal
ciable addition to its amount. If we may liken literature, and more than a surfeit of special
the bondage of the modern literary hack to his anthological compilations. Of these enter-
publisher with that of the chosen tribe of old prises, large and small, much more of good
to their Egyptian taskmasters, we cannot than is actually possible might be said were
fairly claim for him that he is forced to make they honestly carried out, with an eye single
his bricks without straw; on the contrary, he to their ideal purpose, whatever it might be.
is provided in abundance with straw of the That they are not so executed becomes only too
toughest quality, which a very common sort of evident upon examination. They are books
clay will cement into the most serviceable of made to sell, and they illustrate all the com-
bricks.
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Changing the metaphor for a moment, we genuine lover of literature they are anathema,
are reminded of the way in which the temples because they permit the sublime to jostle with
and palaces, the aqueducts and amphitheatres, the vulgar, the worthy with the meretricious,
of the ancient world served for the decadent and the pure gold of the artist with the brum-
following centuries as storehouses of building magem of the charlatan. What must be the
material already quarried and shaped for use. judgment of a man with any standards at all
However much we may regret this destruction upon a collection of oratory which includes
of monuments by the barbarian successors of both Demosthenes and Mr. Albert Beveridge, a
the ancients who erected them, and deplore the collection of essays which includes both Bacon
return to baser uses of the marble blocks which and Mr. Edward Bok, a collection of poetry
once embodied the noblest ideals of a vanished which includes both Virgil and Mr. James
civilization, we must agree that something is to Whitcomb Riley, a collection of music which
be said for the utilitarian aspect of the vandal includes both Bach and Mr. Reginald
ism.
The men responsible for it had much DeKoven? Yet with such strange bedfellows
need of the walls and dwellings which they are the great made acquainted through the
built with these fragments of old glory, and no craft of the callous modern compiler and the
need at all of the structures which they so commercial publisher at whose behest he plies
ruthlessly destroyed. Something like this his conscienceless calling.
apology may be made for our modern builders If the aim of these incongruous juxtaposi-
of books out of the hewn blocks of the classics, tions were simply historical, which it is not,
but the two cases, parallel for figurative pur- they might be justified as startling object-les-
poses, become divergent in the light of fact, for sons in the decline of modern literary taste. To
it is happily true that we may construct any
the mental vision of proper adjustment the
number of modern books from material offered popular writers of the day provide horrible
by the ancient monuments of literature, and examples in the contrast offered by their tinsel
still preserve these monuments intact for the trappings to the sterling
trappings to the sterling ornaments of the
joy of those who cherish them.
approved artists. But no such instructive pur-
A certain detachment of spirit, and a certain pose is to be detected in the heterogeneous com-
degree of freedom from the pressure of modern pilations to which our attention is so insistently
life, are the conditions precedent to the full called by advertisements and circular appeals
enjoyment of the great masterpieces of litera and the persuasions of smooth-tongued agents.
turę. Happy is the man who can at all times These devices of publicity are deliberately
command this freedom and this detachment; employed to beguile unwary persons into the
measurably happy is also the man who knows purchase of sets of books which confuse the
even at intervals this 'blessed mood' of spiritual sense of literary values, and encourage the far
emancipation from perplexity and care. But too prevalent delusion that frothy and vapid
there are many men who would almost never writers, who happen for the moment to enjoy
come into contact with the noblest literature the favor of an indiscriminating public, have
were it accessible only upon such terms, and some standing in the literary areopagus. Thus
for these the humble service of the compiler the influence of these anthological collections is
or the anthologist is not to be despised. He, at vicious in so far as it sets the worthless upon
least, points out the path to the heights, and the level of the excellent, and it is still further
the glimpse of their distant splendor, caught vicious in the encouragement which it gives to
for the moment, may lighten not a little the the reading of snippets as a substitute for the
burden of the day, and remain an inspiration reading of complete works. Books of this
to keep the soul alive in the most sluggish and description are incitements to a sham and
suffocating atmosphere.
superficial culture; about the only thing that
Nevertheless, in spite of its obvious useful may be urged in their behalf is that they bring
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ken of readers who might otherwise go through wards and found in them an essential Calvin-
life without coming into any contact at all with ism. In his view Shakespeare at his greatest
the masters.
was mad, - or, at least, only saved from mad-
But however serious the exceptions that may ness by his artistic instinct. This madness was
be taken to the multiplication of libraries of partially caused by his relations with women,
literature and collections of elegant extracts, his conviction of their trivialty and baseness,
the work of producing them will go merrily and partially by his contemplation of the whole
on, for the plain reason that they meet an exist problem of evil in the universe. Certainly
ing demand. It is a demand fostered by the Shakespeare's attitude towards this problem is
hurry and the nervous tension and the wasted different from that of the other three world-
energies of the age in which we live. We have poets who may claim equality with him. In
a large reading public that battons on the moor Homer the problem is put aside. Things are
because the mountain pasture seems too dif as they are: the gods have appointed them; the
ficult of access, that prefers the gossip of house gods themselves are subject to Fate; it is not
maids and stable-boys to the converse of kings worth while to make a fuss; let us fight and
and queens because it would feel uncomfortable enjoy and put off death, the only irretrievable
in the presence of royalty. We are confronted ill, as long as possible. In Dante the world is but
by a condition, not a theory, and we must make a welter of gloom, a shadow flung upward from
the best of it. And if we choose to construct the fires of hell. But Faith can find a path
our intellectual habitations from the bricks of through those shadows and these fires. Man-
the anthologists, there is some slight consola kind may be saved by faith. Goethe is the real
tion in the fact that these bricks are not wholly Protestant poet. Evil is everywhere, and no
made of common clay, that they are not with one can keep his feet from it. But man may
out some wholesome admixture of strengthening be saved by Works. Dig a canal or make two
fibre.
blades of grass grow where one grew before and
all will be forgiven. Shakespeare has neither
THREE BOOKS ON SHAKESPEARE.
the acquiescence of Homer, the faith of Dante,
nor the utilitarian tolerance of Goethe. He
Whether or not Mr. Barrett Wendell's book struggles fearfully to find a footing in the abyss
on Shakespeare has achieved the reputation it of the world. Sometimes he is a Pyrrhonist,
deserves, I cannot say. At any rate it has now and says that nothing is either good or bad but
half completed its nonage; it is through with thinking makes it so. Sometimes, as Mr. Wen-
the perils of teething and infantile diseases; it dell suggests, he is plunged in Calvinism. This
has reached the time when it naturally begins world is bad and there is a worse hereafter.
to put on the graces and vivacities of youth; For nearly all, inevitable damnation awaits.
intelligent people can take an interest in it. The best we can hope is oblivion, —'what the
The work is remarkable in two respects. First, sleeping rocks dream of.' But at other times I
for its criticism, which, barring Lowell's great think he rises to an older and more primeval
essay and the brilliant dashes of Richard Grant creed, — the philosophy of Zoroaster. Good and
White into this field, is the best Shakespearian Evil, equal gods, contend in the world and
interpretation we have had in our country; and, throughout the infinite; and the strife is eter-
second, for its biographical theories, which are nal.
singularly anticipative of those held by the There is one opinion of Mr. Wendell's con-
great Danish critic, Georg Brandes. Mr. Wen- cerning the tragedies with which I particularly
dell's book indeed might almost stand as a pre agree. It is that ' Macbeth' is Shakespeare's
liminary study for Brandes's work. To a cer most perfect, his profoundest piece. It has not
tain extent, ever since the chronology of Shakes the personal appeal of 'Hamleť; it has not the
peare's plays has been tolerably settled, these all-culminating power of 'King Lear.' But in
theories have been in the air. The great breaks, its artistry,-- its pictorial beauty and grandeur,
almost amounting to a solution of continuity its absolute keeping, its clash of character, the
between the happiness of the work of Shakes swiftness and crash of events, it is unequalled.
peare's youthful prime, the black pessimism By reason of its concentration and reserve, it
and blank despair of his tremendous tragic is Shakespeare's one drama in the manner of
epoch, and the renewed peace, though ruffled the Greeks. And the scene of the Knocking at
with the swell of the preceding storm, of his the Gate and the Porter's speech — a scene
final period, are too apparent not to have led which, marvellous to say, Coleridge thought
many students to seek an explanation for such interpolated and offered to prove none of Shake-
changes in the facts of Shakespeare's own life. speare's — stands, with the scene of the mur-
Mr. Wendell is at his best in his treatment of der of Agamemnon, at the head of all tragic
Shakespeare's tragedies. One might say that he situations in literature. More than this, 'Mac-
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In it he strides across the borders of the visible magician of the North should have beaten his
world and seats himself on the ebon throne of Mediterranean rivals out of their own field of
Night. He summons the Parcæ to his side, grace and beauty and delight explains the secret
and sends them in new forms to entangle the preference which many of us feel for his com-
wills and perplex the acts of man. Dreams and edies over his greater tragic work. We have the
omens, too, he sends to shake mortal assurance. same feeling for them that Goethe had for Italy.
The piece is a miracle of art. Othello,' I Shakespeare's comedies are indeed the Italy of
think, is on an altogether lower plane.
literature,
a sunny world wherein all our
Almost in proportion as Mr. Wendell has longings may be satisfied.
succeeded in his interpretation of Shakespeare's Mr. Wendell considers that Shakespeare's last
tragic work, he has failed, or so it seems to plays, “Pericles,"_"Cymbeline,' “The Winter's
me, in his criticism of the comedies of the poet's Tale,' and 'The Tempest,' show an exhaustion,
golden years. Some distrust of romance, some as though the great creator's force was spent,
suspicion of joy, some fear of passion, seem his vein worked out. He supports this thesis
inherent in all the New England writers. The with much ingenuity, but it seems rather fanci-
glacial epoch still lingers on the banks of the ful. When we consider the freshness of the
Charles The Puritans have an appreciation pastoral scenes in The Winter's Tale,' the
of all that is serious and great, but they have vitality of Imogen, Shakespeare's most perfect
nearly as fierce a hatred of pleasure as the woman, when we think that in one play, “The
Friends. An old Quaker acquaintance of mine Tempest,” he put his most spiritual phantasy,
once confided to me that he had had, all his life, Ariel, and his most prodigious piece of absolute
an unconquerable desire to write poetry, but creation, Caliban, a pure anticipated cognition
that his religion frowned upon this as a sinful of our modern ideas of the primitive man, we
indulgence, and for a long time he had can hardly grant any failing or falling off.
refrained. At last he came to the conclusion Change of mood, change of direction, there was,
that the pains and penalties of metrical coin but no declination in genius. And this leads
position would be a fair off-set for its pleasures, us to the poignant thought that perhaps the
and he gave way to his passion. Soon, however, latest and greatest of Shakespeare's works may
he acquired such facility in verse that there have perished. The indifference if not hostility
was no longer any penance in writing it, and of the people by whom he was surrounded in
he felt that he must stop. It occurred to him, Stratford, his early and unexpected death, the
then, that sonnets were a very difficult form burning of New Place and his house and
of poetry, and he decided to write nothing but theatre in London, may have conspired to rob
sonnets. The fatal fluency came to him again, the world of the captain jewels in his carcanet.
and his conscience compelled him to another There was possibly an interval of five years
remove. From that time forth he wrote only between the date of Shakespeare's last known
sonnets in acrostic. This story is not quite play and the time of his death. It is impossible
apropos to Mr. Wendell, but it illustrates the that his mind and pen should have been idle
antagonism which many minds feel towards art during all this period. You might as well
which is purely pleasurable. And Shakespeare's put the kettle on the fire and tell it not to boil,
comedies are a palace of pleasure, — a domain as forbid me to work,' said Scott, a much older
of pure joy such as exists nowhere else in liter and far more broken man than Shakespeare.
ature. The supreme master of clouds and Well, we shall never know, and our loss is only
storms, the wielder of lightning and thunder, a conjectural one.
builds up in them a sky of pure sunshine over The Prince of Conjecture in regard to Shake-
an earth of dappled shade. Matthew Arnold speare is Georg Brandes. His book seems to
somewhere contrasts the turbid grandeur of the me the most magnificent monument reared to
poets of the North with the clear outlines and Shakespeare since the glimpses and fragments
pure colors of the Southern sons of song. The of Coleridge's criticism were given to the world.
distinction is hardly a happy one. There is He starts with the frank avowal of belief that
plenty of turbid grandeur, if you choose to the biography of Shakespeare can be deduced
call it so, in Aeschylus and Pindar, and there from the works. It is hardly to be questioned
are nowhere - not the Nausicaa of Homer or that the moods and emotions of a writer can to
the Syracusan women of Theocritus — figures some extent be arrived at from his writings.
outlined so clearly, colored so richly, so full That the outward events of a man's life are
of naïve charm and studied enchantment, as the
mirrored in his books is a more doubtful con-
young girls of Shakespeare's comedies. The clusion. It might take us too far. A future
ladies of the Decameron, the heroines of Ariosto historian might be forced to believe that Victor
and Tasso, are limp and pale and spiritless Hugo had served in the galleys or that Dickens
beside the gracious guests of Arden's glade or had been imprisoned in the Marshalsea. Imag-
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ness.
immense show out of a small data of experience. tute — whom? Horatio! Horatio was a per-
It requires only a slight obstruction to make fectly respectable person, who probably rose to
an oyster secrete a pearl. Yet experience and be captain of the guard or commander of a
obstruction there must be or you do not get the Danish fishing fleet, but who, it is safe to say,
results. Goethe said that all his works were a would never have been heard of except for his
long confession of his life. And in Shake connection with his great friend. There are
speare's case the changes of mood as his work three orders of minds in the world, — the active,
progressed are beyond parallel in any other the contemplative, and the creative. The men
: poet. The heights of happiness to which they of action rush about like cheese-mites: they
rise, the depths of despair to which they plunge, make a great bustle, but a large half of what
the final recoil to a middle state of tolerance they do is not worth doing. Bismarck, a typical
and resignation, make it all but certain that man of action, confessed before his death that
in a measure they reflect their author's experi- he thought he had done more harm than good
ence of life. Most authors are set to one tune; in the world. The contemplative men really
they are optimists or pessimists from the start, possess the world, but they possess it mainly
- idealists or realists. But Shakespeare starts for their own delight, and they are of little
with an optimism which sees a soul of goodness practical use, save as passive examples of good-
in things evil, and then wraps himself in such
The creative minds model and remake
a mantle of gloom that Schopenhauer and Leo-mankind'; in a hundred different ways they
pardi seem like gaudy garmented jesters beside impress the world, and their signatures are
him. For a time he paints only ideal pictures stamped deeper and endure longer than those
of love and truth, and then he turns to such of the men of action or affairs. To me it
descriptions of the brothels and the stews as seems that the mind of Hamlet was distinctly
Zola has hardly equalled. This revulsion of of the creative cast. Poet, philosopher, critic,
feeling in Shakespeare, this toppling of his reformer, he only needed time to blaze out a
mind almost over into madness, Brandes attrib prodigy. Every one around him felt his power,
utes to three causes: his disappointment about though his modesty disguised or distrusted it..
women, his knowledge of the rottenness of the The eternal thing in Shakespeare's play is thati
court and society about him, and the defeat of it is the biography of a young genius. His
his ambition by unequal rivals. Brandes thinks hesitation in taking his revenge was mainly due
that there must have come to Shakespeare at to his inexperience and his too great nobility.
this period of his career a mighty feeling of A huffing captain in one of Dumas's novels
self-confidence, the egotism of a supreme master; utters a sentence which is the key to Hamlet's
that he haughtily compared himself with the original irresolution. The bully is talking to
men outstripping him in popular acclaim in a young gentleman who draws back from a
his own art, and with the other intellects of certain enterprise because his conscience would
the time, — and he knew he was their master. be compromised therein, and he tells him, "The
All this sounds reasonable and probable enough. man who cannot lie, cannot act.' Hamlet is
Georg Brandes's conception is not authenti so constituted that a lie is almost death to him,
cated history, but better than any other it satis and when he sees the necessity of fighting the
fies our sense of what Shakespeare the man world with its own weapons he is awkward and
must have been.
stumbling in the extreme. But he becomes
Brandes accepts Hamlet as Shakespeare's stronger in worldliness as he goes on, and he
personal representative among his congress of
ends in a whirlwind of revenge.
creations, and devotes much space to the Danish To turn from Georg Brandes to Mr. Sidney
Prince. He makes Hamlet out the most Lee is to descend from art to business. It is
accomplished figure in literature, and rather like leaving a theatre where 'Parsifal' has been
combats the idea that he was weak and performed and going out into the garish, brawl-
undecided. He quotes, indeed, the opinion ing street. It is like riding one moment through
of another critic who claims that Hamlet the air with Phaëthon in his fiery chariot, and
was a magnificent man of action who did the next bumping along the ground or being
all he ought to have done. Really it is ducked in the cold waters of the sea.
something like the case of Saladin's scimetar, compendium of the known facts about Shake-
which could not do the work of Richard's speare and his surroundings the book is admir-
sword, but which, nevertheless, was a wonderful able; learning, industry, and talent make it a
weapon. It has always seemed to me a great work not to be superseded. As a study of a
absurdity that we should grumble at Hamlet great poet it is, to speak frankly, deplorable..
because he did not kill his Uncle before break Mr. Lee treats Shakespeare much as though
fast after his interview with the Ghost. Even the poet had been a manufacturer of woolen
so great a critic as Lowell wishes to displace yarns in Lancashire or a breeder of prize sheep
Hamlet as the hero of his own story and substi on the Cotswolds. Among a good many recent
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COMMUNICATION.
English critics there is a tendency towards
prosaic views of literary idols, a disposition to
take them down a peg. This attitude is very
apparent in the work of Sir Leslie Stephen. It
is apparent in a good deal of Mr. Morley's
criticism. It was largely the stock in trade of
the brilliant Bagehot. And to a certain extent
it is justifiable and necessary. At a time when
the literature of the nineteenth century was
largely becoming, in Freeman's phrase, 'chatter
about Harriet,' such a reaction was a healthy
sign. But it has probably gone far enough, and
ought never to have been applied to Shake-
speare. Mr. Lee's biography is largely on the
lines of Bagehot's clever but quite Philistine
essay on Shakespeare. It was well enough to
prove that the poet was a good man of business,
but it was hardly worth while to give the
impression that he was nothing else. Mr. Lee
strips Shakespeare of all the glamor that legend
or conjecture have raised around him. He
reduces him personally to the least dimensions.
Even in utterly unimportant matters he insists
on the lowest terms. For instance, Brandes,
following Knight, makes the young Shakespeare
ride up to London and there sell his horse. Mr.
Lee says he walked. How does he know? If,
as tradition holds, his first employment in Lon-
don had to do with horses, Brandes' story is
more likely to be right.
One of the most acute and erudite chapters
in Mr. Lee's study has to do with the sonnets.
His deduction that they are 'mainly or largely
imaginative and impersonal is unconvincing.
It is much the same question as to whether
Shakespeare put his experience into the plays;
and the judgment must be the same, – that of
course he did.
The events in both cases may
be imaginary, but the mood is real. Mr. Lee
also decides that the 'Mr. W. H.' of Thomas
Thorpe's dedication was only the collector of
the sonnets, not the inspirer. Why the pub-
lisher should have wished the mere gatherer-up
of manuscript poems the 'immortality promised
by our ever-living poet’ is unexplained. In all
the discussions of the sonnets I cannot recall
that any critic has ever noted their immense
disparity in literary merit. There are, I should
say, about fifty-five of them of great excellence,
many of which are supreme stars in our sonnet
literature. The remaining hundred or so are
not above the level of the mass of Elizabethan
sonneteering. Such a disproportion of bad to
good exists in no other admitted work of Shake-
speare, and I am inclined to think that whoever
gathered the sonnets together swept in a number
written by other hands. This very thing hap-
pened in more than one publication given forth
under Shakespeare's name, and why not in the
case of the sonnets ?
CHARLES LEONARD MOORE.
LIONEL JOHNSON: A PROPOSED MEMORIAL.
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
‘One felt for him something of the tenderness
with which Charles Lamb was regarded by his
friends.' Thus wrote Mrs. Katharine Tynan
Hinkson, of our lost and chivalric poet, Lionel
Johnson. And again, 'He was to the last Saint
Lionel, with the qualities that made us think
of him by that name • A shadowy gentle
presence that was of us, yet not of us.'
Whoever will possess himself of Lionel John-
son's two choice volumes, 'Poems' (1895) and
'Ireland, with Other Poems' (1897), will come
into friendship with a poet whose work is marked
by singular beauty and elevation.
The mar.
moreal dignity of the Roman muse, the yearn-
ing wild Celtic melody,- these were his in equal
measure.
Magnificence and grace,
Excellent courtesy;
A brightness in the face,
Airs of high memory:
Whence came all these to such as he?'
Whether he sang of dear Ireland's haunting
sorrows, or of Ireland's holy memories, he pic-
tured her ever as a land of visions, of enchant-
ment and old voices, a land fulfilled of the glory
of things eternal. Lovely melancholy broods
over all his more solemn song,—and every song
of his to Ireland the beloved is of a rich solem-
nity.
• Tears for the dear and dead! For thee, All hail!
Unconquered Inisfall!
Tears for the lost; thou livest, o divine!'
Were I to set down here a just measure of
Johnson's poetry in honor of his two collegiate
homes, I should far overpass the limits allowed
me. Let a stanza or two from his 'Oxford,' then,
suffice:
* That is the Oxford, strong to charm us yet:
Eternal in her beauty and her past.
What, though her soul be vexed ? She can forget
Cares of an hour; only the great things last.
Only the gracious air, only the charm,
And ancient might of true humanities :
These, nor assault of man, nor time, can harm;
Not these, nor Oxford with her memories.
Think of her so! the wonderful, the fair,
The immemorial, and the ever young:
The city, sweet with our forefathers' care ;
The city, where the Muses all have sung.'
Lionel Johnson's early death, in 1902, took
from us a poet of strangely rich promise. The
pathos of his unfulfilled renown will surely lin-
ger around his memory 'like odors of old roses.'
In the cloisters of his old School at Winchester
the little band of his friends hope to place a
tablet of brass and dark marble, in Lionel John-
son's memory. Miss Louise Imogen Guiney has
asked me to receive subscriptions from Ameri-
can admirers. If any desire to aid, they may
kindly send contributions to Mrs. Henry Hink-
son, 9 Longfield Road, Ealing, London, W.; or
they may send to me, and I shall promptly
acknowledge and forward as received.
JOHN RUSSELL HAYES.
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was
and at last ‘My darling Charles.' Through a
The New Books.
similar ascending scale of warmth do the letter-
endings rapidly pass,— Very truly yours,
Yours affectionately,' and so on, up to 'Ever
MORE RUSKIN LETTERS.*
your lovingest J. R. So little of the typical
Not even ‘Præterita' or 'Fors' brings the Briton's armor of shy reserve did. Ruskin wear.
reader into so intimate contact with Ruskin as Our first quotation shall be from the editor's
do his letters to Professor Charles Eliot Nor-description of a small dinner party at Den-
ton, which now, edited and annotated by Mr. mark Hill, the Ruskin homestead.
Norton, and enriched with illustrations and 'Another topic of the after-dinner talk was Emer..
facsimiles, are published in two handsome son's “English Traits,” which was then a new
volumes. As the editor says in his preface,
book. All praised it. “How did he come to find
“No other series of his letters extended
out so much about us?” said the elder Mr. Ruskin,
"especially as regards matters on which we
unbroken over so long a term of years, or was keep quiet and are reserved among ourselves."
likely to possess so much autobiographical That the voice of the generation to
interest - comparatively little, indeed, as a
which Mr. Ruskin belonged. His son, speak-
record of events, but much as a record of moods
ing for himself and for his generation, would
hardly have used the like terms. One of the great:
and mental conditions. As a picture of char changes in England during the nineteenth century
acter the letters as a whole were unique.' Selec was the breaking down of many of the old-style
tion and excision have of course been necessary;
walls within which the shy Englishman was wont
to entrench himself, and no English writer ever
but the series as published extends, with no
opened himself and his life to the public with more
wide gaps, from the beginning of this long and complete and indiscreet reserve than Ruskin. His
close friendship in 1855 down to 1887, when
father would have been horrified could he in the
Ruskin's failing health brought his letter-writ-
days of which I am writing have foreseen the
revelations of “Fors?' and." Præterita.". They do,
ing practically to an end. Beginning where indeed, form a contrast which is both humorous and
Præterita ' leaves off, the letters form a sort of pathetic to the close reserves of Denmark Hill, and
sequel to that unique autobiography.
to the strict Anglican conventions, at their best B0
To those not already pretty familiar with pleasant and so worthy of respect, in aceordance to
which life was there conducted.' **
Ruskin's peculiarities these letters must bring
some disillusion, along with delight at their
A few letters from the elder. Ruskin are
marvellous display of varied and brilliant included in the collection, and they have an
attainments. The only child of fondly devoted old-fashioned courtesy and formality about
parents, and a child of genius at the same time, them that not only make them pleasant read-
Ruskin was reared and educated in such a way
ing, but that place them in the sharpest con-
as to foster those qualities of impulsiveness
trast with the son's unchecked outpourings.
and unrestraint and emphatic self-assertion The stately and awe-inspiring mother also
which are so manifest in his writings. Together comes to view now and then, and the wonder
with a few instances of admirable reticence, we grows that such a son was 'ever born of such
have in his letters many less praiseworthy parents:
yieldings to whim and impulse and the annoy A letter of Ruskin's written in December,
ance of the moment. Yet if it be desirable to 1856, is amusingly illustrative of his fondness
know the truth and the whole truth about a for page-long sentences. It is also amusing in
famous man, to have in very fact the real Rus other respects. Note the 'candour and refleca
kin before us, perhaps this prodigality of self tive charity' with which he speaks of Rome,
revealment is not to be regretted, especially his one early visit to which had been at a time
since by no means the least conspicuous trait of ill health.
disclosed is the beautiful craving for human Reasoning with myself in the severest way, and
love and sympathy which it seemed his destiny checking whatever malice against the things I have
never to be able to satisfy. Remarkable indeed
injured, or envy of you, there may be in the feel-
ings with which I now think of Rome, these appear
is the quickness of cordial welcome with which
to me incontrovertible and accurate conclusions,
Ruskin at thirty-eight opened his heart to the that the streets are damp and mouldy where they
young American stranger, nine years his junior, are not burning; that the modern architecture is
in that autumn of 1855 when Mr. Norton
fit only to put on a Twelfth cake in sugar (e. g.
the churches at the Quattro Fontane); that the old
sought him out. In a surprisingly brief space architecture consists chiefly of heaps of tufo and
the formal “My dear Sir' of the Englishman's bricks; that the Tiber is muddy; that the fountains
'first letter gave place to ‘Dear Norton,' while are fantastic; that the Castle of St. Angelo is too
this in turn changed with better acquaintance
round; that the Capitol is too square; that St.
Peter's is too big; that all the other churches are
to My dear Charles,' 'My dearest Charles, too little; that the Jews' quarter is uncomfortable;
that the English quarter is unpicturesque; that
* LETTERS OF JOHN RUSKIN TO CHARLES ELIOT NOR-
Illustrated. Boston: Houghton,
Michael Angelo's Moses is a monster; that his Last
Judgment is a mistake; that Raphael's Transfigura.
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tion is a failure; that Apollo Belvidere is a public
nuisance; that the bills are high; the malaria
strong; the dissipation shameful; the bad company
numerous; the Sirocco depressing; the Tramontana
chilling; the Levante parching; the Ponente pelt-
ing; the ground unsafe; the politics perilous. I do
think, that in all candour and reflective charity, I
may ansert this much.'
That Ruskin would persist, despite his physi-
cian's warnings, in burning his candle at both
ends and at several intermediate points, is well
known. Here is a passage depicting his rest-
less industry:
'I am tormented by what I cannot get said, nor
done. I want to get all the Titians, Tintorets, Paul
Veroneses, Turners, and Sir Joshuas in the world
into one great fire proof Gothic gallery of marble
and serpentine. I want to get them all perfectly
engraved. I want to go and draw all the subjects
of Turner's 19,000 sketches in Switzerland and
Italy, elaborated by myself. I want to get every
body a dinner who hasn't got one. want to
macadamize some new roads to Heaven with broken
fools'-heads. I want to hang up some knaves out
of the way, not that I've any dislike to them, but
I think it would be wholesome for them, and for
other people, and that they would make good crow's
meat. I want to play all day long and arrange my
cabinet of minerals with new white wool. I want
somebody to amuse me when I'm tired. I want
Turner's pictures not to fade.
Farther, I
want to make the Italians industrious, the Ameri-
cans quiet, the Swiss romantic, the Roman Catholics
rational, and the English Parliament honest and I
can't do anything and don't understand what I was
born for. I get melancholy-overeat myself, over-
sleep myself --get pains in the back-don't know
what to do in any wise.'
Surely few good men have ever been so
relentlessly pursued by the demon of unrest. It
is probable that his disappointments in love,
which are frankly referred to in his letters, had
much to do with his urgent need of occupation.
Interesting in this connection is the following
paragraph :
"As for things that have influenced me, I believe
hard work, love of justice and of beauty, good
nature and great vanity, have done all of me that
was worth doing. I've had my heart broken, ages
ago, when I was a boy-then mended, cracked,
beaten in, kicked about old corridors, and finally, I
think, flattened fairly out. I've picked up what
education I've got in an irregular way—and it's
very little. I suppose that on the whole as little
has been got into me and out of me as under any
circumstances was probable; it is true, had my
father made me his clerk I might have been in a
fair way of becoming a respectable Political Econo-
mist in the manner of Ricardo or Mill-but grant-
ing liberty and power of travelling, and working as
I chose, I suppose everything I've chosen to have
been about as wrong as wrong could be.'
As characteristic of the multiplicity of his
interests and affinities, and as illustrating the
perpetual youthfulness of genius, may be men-
tioned his announcement, at fifty, that he is
taking music lessons. 'I am learning,' he says,
how to play musical scales quite rightly, and
have a real Music-master twice a week, and
practice always half an hour a day. This is
from a letter enumerating ten different things
he is busy with, one of them being the writing
of a course of lectures to be delivered at Oxford.
The absorbing interest he took in political
economy, in the hope of bringing to pass better
things in his own and in other countries,
claimed more and more of his time and
strength, and incidentally moved him to cry
out in a sort of Carlylean rage at those whom
he conceived to be inculcating error in this
department.
‘But when I accuse Mill of being the root of all
immediate evil among us in England, I am in earn-
est—the man being looked up to as “the greatest
thinker" when he is in truth an utterly shallow
and wretched segment of a human creature, incapa-
ble of understanding Anything in the ultimate con.
ditions of it, and countenancing with unhappy for-
tune, whatever is fatallest in the popular error of
English mind. I want you to look a little at the
really great statements of Economical principle
made by the true Men of all time; and you will
gradually feel what deadly cast skin of the car-
of
every error they abhorred, modern
“Economists" have patched up their hide with.'
Referring to the talk raised by his deliverances
on this subject, he declares that he does not
care two straws what people think of him after
he is dead, but that he does care very much
what is said of him while alive; and he begs
his correspondent to do all in his power to allay
the continual provocation he receives from the
universal assumption that he knows nothing
about political economy and is a fool for open-
ing his mouth on the subject. A letter written
soon after the Carlyle-Emerson correspondence
appeared has the following:
'It has been a great mortification and disappoint-
ment to me not to see S. again; but the world's
made up of morts and disses, and it's no use always
saying “Ay de mi!” like Carlyle. I'm really
ashamed of him in those letters to Emerson. My
own diaries are indeed full of mewing and moan.
ing, all to myself, but I think my letters to friends
have more a tendency to crowing, or, at least, on
the whole, try to be pleasant.'
Thus incorrectly do we picture to ourselves the
impression we make on others. But with all
Ruskin's indulgence in a sort of lovable petu-
lance, he now and then, perhaps to humor a
mere whim, is noticeably reticent. One likes
his saying nothing at all about his appointment
to the Oxford professorship, and nothing about
his election as Lord Rector of St. Andrews, in
letters that might well have dealt with little
else.
Ruskin's admiration for Lowell is enthusias-
tic but not uncritical. Referring to Lowell's
essay on Dante, he calls it very good; 'but,'
he adds, the entire school of you moderns
judge hopelessly out, of these older ones, because
you never admit the possibility of their know-
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all-knowing attitude, the heavens are veiled. told us, in ‘Præterita' or elsewhere, that he
Lowell speaks of Dante as if Dante were a for met Darwin at Dr. Buckland's in his (Rus-
ward schoolboy, and Lowell his master. Strong kin's) undergraduate days at Oxford. 'He and
as was Ruskin's liking for some of Mr. Nor got on together and talked all the evening'
ton's American friends, he could not, during is his record of the meeting.
our Civil War, which horrified and sickened As volume two draws to a close we note with
him, find much that was good in things or per sadness the coming on of Ruskin's infirmities,
.sons American. His utter lack of sympathy bodily and mental. The editor has probably
with either the union cause or the anti-slavery spared us still further pain by large omissions
cause, was remarkable, but of course not pecu from the latter part of the correspondence, and
liar to him among Englishmen.
by publishing no scrap of it whatever for the
Another literary criticism is worth quoting. last dozen years of Ruskin's life. Taken all
Ruskin says of Dickens's death, that the liter together, as Mr. Norton says of the entire
ary loss is infinite,' but very frankly adds, series of letters, they form a tragic record
'Dickens was a pure modernist - a leader of the of the perplexities of a great and generous soul,
steam-whistle party par excellence — and he had no the troubles of a tender heart, the spendthrift
understanding of any power of antiquity except a use and at last the failure of exceptional
sort of jackdaw sentiment for cathedral towers. He
knew nothing of the nobler power of superstition
powers. Such genius, such high aim, such
- was essentially a stage manager, and used every. ardent yet often ill-directed effort, and such
thing for effect on the pit. His Christmas meant great yet broken achievement, such splendors
mistletoe and pudding — neither resurrection from
dead, nor rising of new stars, nor teaching of wise
sinking into such glooms,- it is a sorrowful
men, nor shepherds. His hero is essentially the
story!
PERCY F. BICKNELL:
iron-master; in spite of “Hard times," he has
advanced by his influence every principle that
makes them harder — the love of excitement, in all
classes, and the fury of business competition, and
the distrust both of nobility and clergy which, wide
ITALIAN COUNTRY HOUSES.*
enough and fatal enough, and too justly founded,
needed no apostle to the mob, but a grave teacher On first acquaintance the Italian villa does
of priests and nobles themselves, for whom Dickens
had essentially no word.'
not, as a rule, appeal to the taste of the Amer-
ican. He is disappointed to find the house
These two men were of widely dissimilar built
ир. close to the highway instead of being
genius. It is my stern desire,' declares Rus-
approached by wide pathways and drives; in
kin, “ to get at the pure fact and nothing less the garden, he misses the large flower-beds and
or more, which gives me whatever power I have; expanses of green lawn to which he has been
it is Dickens's delight in grotesque exaggera accustomed, he resents the primness and for-
tion which has made him, I think, nearly use mality of outline, the pebbly walks, the arti-
less in the present day.'
ficial cut of trees and hedges, the absenee of
From 1868 to 1873 Mr. Norton sojourned in everything wild, the presence of arrangement
Europe with his family, some months of the everywhere. But, before very long, becoming
time in England and near Ruskin. Frequent accustomed to the Italian climate and to Italian
letters and much personal intercourse make ways of living, he begins to realize that both
this a fruitful period for Mr. Norton's volumes. house and garden have a rationale of their own,
Several letters from Ruskin to Mrs. Norton that there is a logic behind all their forms and
form one of the pleasant accompaniments of features, and that what at first had seemed
this visit. Among noteworthy events is a meet senseless is really the product of high art com-
ing between Darwin and Ruskin at the Norton's bining, as all sound art must, logic and beauty
temporary home in Kent.
into a harmonious whole.
*The contrast between them was complete, and The logic of the American garden is to fur-
each in his own way was unique and delightful. nish an agreeable outlook from the house win-
Ruskin's gracious courtesy was matched by Dar-
win's charming and genial simplicity. Ruskin was
dows or the street; the logic of the Italian gar-
full of questions which interested the elder natur den is that it is a place to live in, — as a matter
alist by the keenness of observation and the variety of fact it is lived in more than the house for
of scientific attainment which they indicated, and months at a time. Therefore, the grounds are
their animated talk afforded striking illustration of
the many sympathies that underlay the divergence
as carefully and conveniently planned as the
of their points of view, and of their methods of house, with broad paths where two or more can
thought. The next morning Darwin rode over on walki abreast leading from one division to
horseback to say a pleasant word about Ruskin,
another; with shade for summer and sunny
and two days afterward Ruskin wrote, “Mr. Dar:
win was delightful." ;
sheltered walks for winter easily accessible
The editor is apparently in error when he calls * ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS. By Edith Whar-
Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish and from photo-
this the first meeting; for Ruskin himself has
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from the house; with terraces and formal gar would be less interesting and less serviceable
dens in the foreground from which lead ilex than one divided according to the varied
or laurel walks, clipped into shape in order to requirements of its inmatés, so also a garden
effect a transition between the straight lines which consists of merely one huge outdoor room
of masonry and the untrimmed growth of the 'is'less interesting and less serviceable than one
outlying woodland. Thus each step away from which has its logical divisions.
architecture brings a'nearer approach to nature. The American who stops long enough in
Moreover, if the surrounding landscape be of Italy is sure, sooner or later, to come under the
the grand type, the artist has probably broad spell of the Italian villas and their gardens,
ened and simplified his plan. Intricacy of
Intricacy of, and he who began by scoffing ends by praising.
detail, complicated groupings of terraces, foun On some fair day, as he wanders under the
tains, labyrinths, and porticoes are found in umbrella pines of the Villa Borghese, or prom-
sites where there is no great sweep of land enades the terraces of the Villa Medici, he
scape attuning the eye to larger impressions. yields to the garden-magic and ever after his
Where landscapes are the least grand, as in bondage is complete."
northern Italy, gardens are the most elaborate. But how shall he explain it? Who will
The great pleasure-grounds overlooking the understand him in his native land? Why does
Roman Campagna, on the contrary, are laid he like these stiff and ugly things that he
out on severe and majestic lines; the parts are exhibits in photograph? Analysis of impres-
few, and the total effect is one of breadth and sions, especially of æsthetic impressions, is
simplicity. And everywhere the climate of always a thankless task and requires genius of
Italy combines with the artist to effect a gradual a peculiar kind.
blending of nature and architecture by covering Mrs. Edith Wharton, in writing of Italian
its bronze and stone and marble with an Villas and their Gardens, and Mr. Maxfield
exquisite coloring of time, the patina which Parrish by his pictures of them, have produced
can neither be imitated nor acquired in any
a book analytic enough to satisfy the most
other land or in any other way. Even the exacting mind and beautiful enough to content
unromantic site of the house on the high road the most artistic taste. Mrs. Wharton is one
is forgiven after one lives a while in an Italian who, having fallen under the ineffable spell of
villa and finds how thoroughly this secures to the Italian garden-magic, has found it .more
his private use the full extent of the groundspotent, more enduring, more intoxicating to
when no space has had to be sacrificed for the every sense than the most elaborate and glowing
sake of a public approach to the house.
effects of modern horticulture,' and she can also
Such, then, are the typical excellencies of tell us why. She has analyzed the secret of the
the old Italian garden: free circulation of sun charm, and shows us that it is because the great
light and air about the house, abundance of object of all landscape gardening — the fusion
water, easy access to dense shade, sheltered of nature and art — has never been so success-
walks with different points of view, variety of fully accomplished as in the treatment of the
effect produced by the skilful use of different Italian country-house from the beginning of
levels, and, finally, breadth and simplicity of the sixteenth century to the end of the eight-
composition. Utility is at the foundation, but eenth. Indeed, next to sitting on a marble
an artistic race can never content itself with bench and watching the play of light and shade
mere utility, and aesthetic emotions are as neces among the trees and statues of an Italian
sary as breathing to the life of the Italian, garden for oneself, is the pleasure of reading
The effect of passing from the sunny fruit about it in this book. Who that has ayailed
garden to the dense grove, thence to the wide himself of the Wednesday afternoon privilege
reaching view, and again to the sheltered pri of rambling in the grounds of the Villa Medici
vacy of the pleached walk or the mossy coolness at Rome, will not feel himself again transported
of the grotto,- all these were taken into there by Mrs. Wharton's description ?
account by the old artists who, centuries ago, 'It is not necessary to be a student of garden-
studied the contrast of asthetic emotions as
architecture to feel the spell of quiet and serenity
which falls on one at the very gateway; but it is
keenly as they did the juxtaposition of dark worth the student's while to try to analyze the ele-
cypress and pale lemon-tree, of deep shade and ments of which the sensation is composed. Per-
level sunlight. Moreover, their designs were haps they will be found to resolve themselves into
based on a principle exactly the reverse of our
diversity, simplicity, fitness. The plan of the gar-
den is simple, but its different parts are so con-
own. Whereas the modern gardener's one idea trasted as to produce, by the fewest means, a pleas-
of producing an effect of space is to annihilate ant sense of variety without sacrifice of repose.
boundaries, and to blend a vague whole with the
Emerging from the straight shady walks,
landscape in general, the old garden-architect
with their effect of uniformity and repose, one
proceeded on the opposite principle, arguinging to the sunshine its box-edged parterres adorned
comes on the flower-garden before the house, spread-
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house-front are harmonized by a strong predomi-
spent in an atmosphere which was heavily
nance of architectural lines, and by the beautiful
lateral loggia, with niches for statues, above which
charged with literary aspiration, and in which
the upper ilex-wood rises. Tall hedges and trees the pressure of genteel poverty acted as a spur
there are none; for from the villa one looks across to endeavor. It was family poverty that turned
the garden at the wide sweep of the Campagna and him from law to journalism as a profession.
the mountains; indeed, this is probably one of the
first of the gardens which Gurlitt defines as gar-
Beginning as a reporter for the Cork Exam-
dens to look out from” in contradistinction to the iner' in 1848, his first newspaper work was
earlier sort, “gardens to look into.” Mounting to connected with the stories of suffering endured
the terrace, one comes to the third division of the
garden, the wild-wood with its irregular levels,
during the years of the great famine, and with
through which a path leads to the mount, with a
the rebellion that followed. From this he
little temple on its summit. This is a rare feature gained a close and sympathetic understanding of
in Italian grounds; in hilly Italy there was small political and social conditions in his native
need of creating the artificial hillocks so much
esteemed in the old English gardens. In this case,
country, and grew into touch with the acknowl-
however, the mount justifies its existence, for it
edged leaders of Irish thought. But his ambi-
affords a wonderful view over the other side of tion had always been to see for himself, and
Rome and the Campagna.'
to be a part of, the intense journalistic life of
In other chapters, we get similar sympa-
London; and he welcomed an offer of a place
thetic descriptions of the villas of Florence, of on a Liverpool paper as a step in that direc-
Siena, of Genoa, of Lombardy, Venetia, and tion. Finally, in 1860, he secured a place on
other regions.
the “Morning Star,' a Radical London journal,
The cult of the Italian garden in America at that time controlled and guided by John
has hardly progressed further than an attempt Bright. This brought acquaintance with that
to introduce Italian 'effects' by placing a mar-
element in English politics which best under-
ble bench here, à sun-dial there, and statues stood conditions in America, and stood for a
numerous. But it is not thus that we shall distinctly friendly attitude toward the North in
bring the old garden magic into our own our Civil War. The influence of Bright in this
garden patches. What will help us is to improve
connection is unmistakeable in the writings of
our opportunities for studying the old garden Mr. McCarthy at this period, and in his
craft, which had for its aim to make a garden speeches in America at a later date. Mean-
adapted to the uses for which it was to be put. while, he was growing in power in newspaper
Thus may we bring into our landscape and work, making more or less successful experi-
our age not indeed the Italian garden itself, ments in the production of novels and histories,
but the informing spirit which told those men and becoming thoroughly familiar with politics
of old that house, garden and landscape must and politicians by reason of his duties as a
each be planned with reference to the other reporter of debates in the House of Commons.
and blended into one harmonious whole; which In 1868 he came to America, where he was
taught them how with simple materials and in already known as a writer of short stories and
a limited space they might give impressions of as a literary critic, but came primarily to seek
distance and sensations of the unexpected for a lecture-field and a wider public for his books.
which one now looks in vain outside of Italy. Throughout all this period he had been a quiet
The pictures, many of them in color, are of though untiring worker in the cause of Irish
uncommon beauty and charm; while cover independence, though without much hope of
design and mechanical features throughout any immediate betterment of the situation. But
make the volume one of great distinction even in 1871 he thought conditions were ripe for
at this time when publishers are vying with the adoption of a definite policy by Irish
each other as never before in the elegance of
Nationalists; and, setting aside the attractive
their output. ANNA BENNESON MCMAHAN.
idea of American citizenship, he returned to
Villa Rondinina, Rapallo, Italy.
England to throw himself heart and soul into
what was for him the one great patriotic cause.
He was welcomed by the leaders of his party,
and in 1873 became a member of Parliament
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JUSTIN
for the Irish constituency of Longford, soon
MCCARTHY.*
being elected vice-chairman of the party of
Mr. Justin McCarthy's life has been one of
which Parnell was the head, bearing his share
euch varied interests and broad experience as
of the burden of those tactics of obstruction
to warrant the expectation that his autobiog- adopted by Parnell as the only means of forcing
raphy would include scenes and incidents English attention to Irish grievances, devoting
attractive to a wide circle of readers. Born his pen to the service of the cause, and mean-
near the city of Cork, in Ireland, his youth was while earning the means of support for himself
and his family by all sorts of literary produc-
* AN IRISHMAN'S STORY. By Justin McCarthy.
The Macmillan Co.
tions. Later he became the personal represen-
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ance.
tative of Gladstone, when the latter attempted There is such a thing as carrying good-nature
to force Parnell into a temporary abdication of and kindness of treatment too far. The result
leadership -- the result of the scandal aroused in the present work is to make it easy to chal-
by the Parnell divorce suit; and upon Parnell's lenge the soundness of the author's judgments;
refusal to retire, he was chosen chairman of and in truth his judgments, by their very gen-
that majority of the Irish party which thought erosity, are provocative of such challenge. His
the only hope of Ireland lay in acquiescence to comments, whether of men or of events, can
the will of the great leader of the Liberal party. be designated by no other term than 'scrappy,'
The succeeding years inflicted on Mr. McCarthy with the unfortunate result that the pages
the unhappiness of being personally engaged in devoted to comparatively unimportant events in
the bitter political quarrels of his native coun his own life seem wasted, when topics of ex-
try, and of seeing many of the strong ties of treme interest in the literary or political world
long friendship severed by political animosities. are but hastily summarized. In the course of
Ultimately, ill-health drove him from political his story over a hundred and fifty names are
life; and since 1897 he has given his whole time briefly mentioned, of persons in the dramatic,
to such literary labor as has been possible under literary, or political world, with whom Mr.
the infliction of a partial loss of sight, serious McCarthy claims acquaintance. With most of
enough to forbid any work whether of reading these he could have had no more than acquaint-
or writing without the aid of an amanuensis.
How much more satisfactory would have
This bare outline of a wonderfully interest been a careful even though wholly kindly
ing and useful life indicates the principal topics account of the few whom he knew with suffi-
upon which Mr. McCarthy has touched in his cient intimacy to render his estimate worth
autobiography. From whatever aspect this life consideration.
is considered, whether in the light of literary Such a mere enumeration of notables might
acquaintance in both England and America, or seem an evidence of egotism on the part of the
of social conditions in Ireland, or of political author; but this is certainly not the case, for if
conditions in England, enough material existed egotism were the cause of this lack of discrim-
for a vividly illuminative and wholly entertain ination it would be manifested by a self-lauda-
ing work. Mr. McCarthy had, as a part of his tory history of services rendered to the cause
equipment for the field of journalism, an unu of Irish nationalism and to literature. Far
sually attractive personality, pleasing manners, from offering such a history, he is here also
and a happy ability in social conversation. He brief and disinclined to expand upon his own
also came to be trusted for the unvarying kind- labors. Now, Mr. McCarthy has met with vari-
ness of his judgments, and for his desire to ous judgments from critics and historians as to
avoid wounding the sensibilities of others. It the merits of his writings, but of his genuine
followed that wherever he went or lived, he was service to the cause of Ireland there can be but
welcomed by men in all walks of life, and was one opinion. He has stood forward as a pure,
entrusted with secret motives and purposes to high-minded Irish patriot, pursuring honest
an extent enjoyed by few other men of his time. and upright methods in politics, steadily
His readers will therefore expect intimate char devoted to an ideal form of government for
acterizations of men famous in the literary or his beloved island. He has been able and vig-
the political world, and details of the inner orous, a real help to the cause; and has been
workings of Irish associations and English closely in touch with all the movements of
politics. But here is a genuine disappointment; the last twenty-five years in both English and
for Mr. McCarthy has carefully refrained from Irish politics. Why then could he not have told
anything like intimate description or details. us more of himself, of the causes of things, of
Possibly, and conceivably, it is a very delicate the characters of the men engaged with him
undertaking for a man to permit the publica or opposed to him in the pursuit of that high
tion, during his life-time, of writings unravel ideal — in fine, more of the actual political life
ling concealed political mancuvres, or indulg and labors of Mr. Justin McCarthy? This
ing in honest and fearless criticism; and pos would not have been regarded as an evidence of
sibly also Mr. McCarthy might urge that the egotism, save by the hypercritical; for the repu-
public should be interested in his own life, tation of Mr. McCarthy will survive, not as an
when he tells it, and not demand careful analy author and critic, but as a worker in the cause
sis of other men's acts and books. But the of Irish nationalism, and he has a right to tell
fact remains that he has been so extremely his story in this connection at any length he
good-natured in his treatment of personalities pleases. It is to be hoped that for the sake
as to deny to his work any suggestion of that of historical knowledge, if for no other reason,
intimate knowledge which its author undoubt he will still find strength and inclination to
edly possesses.
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THE LATEST HISTORY OF AMERICA.* tences must convey a very distorted and con-
fused idea to the reader's mind. As a matter
The first volume of Messrs. Chancellor and
of fact, Clarendon did not die until 1674, and
Hewes's “The United States: A History of Locke was Shaftesbury's private secretary, not
Three Centuries' presents a pleasing appear Clarendon's. Doubtless the authors are famil-
ance. With an attractive binding, with clear iar with these facts; but if so, why not be more
print, and with many novel and sometimes use accurate? As remarkably misleading are the
ful little maps to illustrate the text, the gen statements upon page 312, to the effect that
eral impression is inviting. One notes favor-
Governor Nicholson's 'very unpopularity stirred
ably, also, the plan of the work, and especially his political enemy, James Blair, to go to Eng-
the division of each volume into four sections, land, and, by the greatest efforts to secure a
which treat respectively of Population and
charter for the second college in America,
Politics,' 'War and Conquest,' 'Industry and
William and Mary, founded in 1693 at Wil-
Commerce,' and 'Civilization. The work is to
liamstown. From 1672 to 1698 Sir Edmund
be complete in ten parts, each of which will be
Andros was governor in Virginia, after his
a unit and will be sold separately.
exciting experiences as governor
Unfortunately, notwithstanding the large England. The date 1672 is wrong, Williams-
of New
promises of the Publisher's Announcement
town should be Williamsburg, and at this time
prefixed to this volume, there is much to crit-
Blair and Nicholson were friends. It would
icize with reference to the execution of the
seem hard to use more careless language about
work. One of the authors, we are told, ‘has
for a series of years [sic] been accepted as a
this one topic; but this feat the authors accom-
plish later (page 472) by referring to William
leading authority in the department of statis-
and Mary College in Maryland!
tical and economic history’; and the other's
Not all the pages are so bad as these quoted :
clear-cut and vigorous style, his dramatic and
the treatment of the Eastern and Middle Col-
picturesque presentation of events, and his
onies is less inaccurate than that of the South-
critical and discriminating characterization of
ern Colonies. But the suspicion thus aroused
the men about whom American history has
finds too much justification elsewhere. A happy
been shaped and whose careers are themselves a
large factor in such history, will serve to give the year under the Old Style causes the writers
uncertainty or carelessness to the beginning of
to readers who are already familiar with the
to refer to the same event as of different years.
subject fresh interest in it; while the younger
On page 238, Charles II. dies in 1685, but
readers of the later generation will, it is be-
on page 312 the news of James II.'s accession
lieved, secure from this history information
reaches Virginia in 1684; and the error is
and interest not to be found in any other single repeated on page 321. It would be better to
work.'
Further
take one system and stick to it.
Without attempting to controvert these posi- instances of confusion in dates may be noted:
tive assertions as to the merits of the authors,
on page 132, 1558 should be 1658; on page
we may accept the last statement, though
the last statement, though 237, 1626 should be 1624; on page 291
hardly in the sense intended. Certainly the
'younger readers' will find here much infor-
(map), 1652 should be 1562. These are errors
contained in the text. Appended to each sec-
mation, if not interest, not to be found
tion, and sometimes to an individual chap-
in any other single work. Let us take, for
example, these statements as to the Funda-
ter, is a list of events with dates, entitled
mental Constitutions of Carolina, page 285:
‘Historical Perspective, and sometimes this is
supplemented by a colored scheme or plan to
'In 1669 the "unalterable Constitutions' were
begun. These were devised by the Earl of Shaftes help the weary intellect. Both lists and plans
bury, that famous Anthony Ashley Cooper whose
are fearfully and wonderfully made, often
initial “A” appears in the word "Cabal.” They including matters not referred to in the text,
were originated in 1667, after the death of Claren-
and vice versa. The statements found in them
don, and were prepared in literary form by his
private secretary, the immortal philosopher, John
are frequently inaccurate, and sometimes unin-
Locke, than whom no other philosopher ever did a telligible. The bibliographical matter also is
worse piece of work in an attempt at constructive not well selected, and one has a grave suspicion
statesmanship. There is, however, no evidence that that some books included therein - e. g., the
he really approved of the Constitutions, though he
doubtless acquiesced in the political theory of his
Johns Hopkins Studies — have not received
employer.'
exhaustive attention from the authors. The
Without any attempt to argue the question work, or at least this volume, in its present
of authorship, it may be noted that these sen-
form, full of mistakes and omissions, can make
* THE UNITED STATES.
"little pretense to scholarship. To serve even a
A History of Three Centuries :
Population, Politics, War, Industry, Civilization. popular use, the succeeding volumes should
William Estabrook Chancellor and Fletcher Willis Hewes.
show a marked improvement upon this one.
(To be complete in 10 parts.) Part I., 1607-1697.
Illustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
ST. GEORGE L. SIOUSSAT.
By


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FIFTY YEARS OF ILLINOIS. *
the wresting of thousands of square miles of the
richest soil of the world from primeval wilder-
It is perhaps one of the inevitable conse ness to the highest pursuits of civilization, the
quences of the centralization of power in the building up within his own life-time of a popu-
federal government of the United States, espe lation in numbers only to be estimated by
cially since the Civil War, that not only should millions and of a community which in intel-
the various States lose individual prestige with ligence and wealth is perhaps unsurpassed in
their waning powers, but that the status of the history. From this experience, and from per-
: American as an inhabitant or native of a State sonal contact with the men who made Illinois
should seem to him of comparative unimpor- great a half-century ago, he provides a series
tance beside his status as a citizen of the United
of pen-pictures of those whom Illinois gave to
States. The practical decision by the arbitra the Nation for its preservation during the
'ment of arms in 1861-65 that the sovereign period of its greatest struggle. Lincoln, Grant,
States of the Union do not possess that final Douglas, Logan, Oglesby, Yates, Palmer, Inger-
attribute of sovereignty, the right of secession, soll, Davis, Secretary Hay,— these are some
- until that arbitrament a question open, at of the names that fill a large place in Colonel
least, to discussion, - has diminished the impor- Carr's pages.
Carr's pages. Nothing except the very high-
tance of the individual State in the minds of
est literary art could excel in vividness of pre-
practically all Americans in the northern
sentation the actuality of these figures, which
States, and has modified greatly the feeling of live and breathe here as they did in life, men
those in the South. It is likely that even now of like passions and feelings with ourselves,
the real affection and pride of dwellers in the humanized as they cannot be on the formal
newer States, as in the West, turn toward the
pages of history; strong men all, but with the
commonwealths of their origin in the East, weaknesses of the strong to keep them sweetly
rather than to those in which they live; while
reasonable and humane. Chief figure of all is
the descendants of immigrants of more recent Lincoln, and Colonel Carr's portrait of 'Old
introduction, and a fortiori the immigrants Abe' must add to the interest, however great
themselves, find their pride almost wholly it is to-day, with which he is regarded.
absorbed by their American citizenship in rela My first impression was that he was the home-
tion to the government at Washington, with liest man I had ever seen; but as he moved and
little left for the closer and more intimate spoke, this impression was gradually changed. He
government in their own State capitol.
was awkward and ungainly, bony and angular, his
No book published for a long while past can
body, abnormally extending, his long legs and arms
terminating in big feet and large bony fingers. His
be said to compare with Colonel Clark E. Carr's neck was long, and seemed to be intended espe-
« The Illini: A Story of the Prairies,' as cially to lift his head high enough to survey every
regards its effect of awakening in the breast of
object about him. His head was covered with thick
the inhabitant of an individual State, Illinois
matted brown hair; his forehead was not high but
wide, his nose was prominent, his mouth large, his
in this instance, a feeling of proper pride in jaws widening back from his mouth and chin, and
the achievements of his fellows as citizens of a his cheek-bones high. He had dark grey eyes, well
State rather than of the Nation. No American
set in his head, heavy eyebrows, a large expressive
mouth, and dark complexion.'
can arise from a perusal of this book without a
vastly increased respect, based upon authentic
The book may be briefly described as a story
knowledge, for the people of Illinois; and to told in the first person by one who, at the
the Illinoisan it will come almost as a gospel beginning of the narrative, is a mere lad remov-
of enlightenment and encouragement to inter- ing with his parents from their comfortable
est himself in the past history and present home in central New York to a prairie farm in
fame of so majestic a commonwealth. This is
central Illinois, situated not a great way from
the first and most important aspect of Colonel the flourishing city of Galesburg. The father
Carr's handsomely printed and entertaining of this boy was already an abolitionist, and the
volume: that it stands as the interpreter to
son took his opinions and carried them through
millions of people politically united of their the days of persecution and unrighteousness to
own history and serious glory, and to the vaster their great and bloody vindication on the field
multitude outside the State of the part played
of battle. The fortunes of this little fellow are
by Illinois in the enactment of one of the followed patiently through youth into man-
world's greatest political and social dramas. hood, through the early struggles of Republi-
To the preparation of his book, the author has can radicalism against Democratic conserva-
brought, first of all, actual experience in the tism, through the excitements of the Lincoln-
field of which he treats, a mind informed and Douglas debates and the nomination of Lincoln
clarified by participation in mighty deeds,-
for the presidency, through Lincoln's election
and inauguration, and through the fighting of
A Story of the Prairies. By Clark E.
Carr. With portraits. Chicago : A. C. McClurg & Co. Grant in the Mississippi valley, the narrative
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closing with the fall of New Orleans and the much, or by what theories they are schooled. Yet
imminent control of the great river by the he is not to be classed with those most unpleas-
federal forces. So much of the story is fully | ant and insidious of all •dogmatists, the advo-
authentic and in a sense autobiographical.
cates of the “Just let them grow' method. The
But, for good measure and mindful of his publishers have provided a delightful setting for
this delightful book. There are eight full-page
countrymen's liking for a love story, Colonel
Carr has added a romance of real moment, an
colored plates by Miss Sarah S. Stilwell, and the
same artist has filled the wide margins with tiny
outgrowth of the times, properly subordinating pictures of quaint little lads and lassies, singly
it to the more important events of actual his or in groups, working, playing, laughing, crying,
tory. This romance is in two parts, one having sleeping, or wondering at the big world they live
to do with the love of the youthful hero for a
in. These little pictures are printed in two
charming girl of wealth and station, the other colors, with a decidedly original and pleasing
with the career of a slave, the son of a slave,
result.
from the moment of his escape from a brutal
Among the very choicest of the season's holi-
overseer on a Missouri plantation to his trium-
day reprints are three volumes which inaugurate
phant vindication as the descendant of an
the Dent-Dutton series of English Idylls.' The
important and aristocratic family of France.
publishers state in one of the prefaces, that they
hope eventually to include in the series all those
This story would make an entertaining, book pieces of fine literature which depend for their
in itself, independent of the historical and charm on the presentment of the simpler life and
biographical incidents in which it is imbedded. emotion amid the environment of sweet country
Taken as a whole, the book is of a sort not to scenes around our old English homes.' They
be described in a phrase, - a skilful blending
could not have selected three more charming
of fact and fiction quite different from the usual
idylls for a beginning than Goldsmith's 'Vicar of
historical romance in form and treatment.
Wakefield,' Mrs. Gaskell’s ‘Cranford,' and Miss
On his title-page Colonel Carr quotes from
Mitford's" "Our Village.' Each volume is very
Father Hennepin the sentence from which the
daintily bound in gray and gold, and delightfully
illustrated by Mr. Č. E. Brock. The quaint
name of his work is derived : “ The word Illinois humor and picturesque setting which all three
comes from the Indian Illini, signifying a com-' stories share in common, have tempted many
plete, finished, and perfect Man, imbued with illustrators; but the opportunity afforded by
the spirit and bravery of the men of every modern processes of color printing furnishes the
nation that ever lived.' The etymology cannot
present edition with ample excuse for being.
fail to gain new emphasis and significance
Mr. Brock is at his best in pen-and-ink, but the
through this intimate picture of men and
soft coloring and delicate finish of his water-
measures in the most momentous period of
colors is almost as unusual, and his humor is of
Illinois history.
exactly the sort needed to interpret these clas-
WALLACE RICE. sics. He has provided twenty-five illustrations
for each volume. In them all, the human figures
are the central interest, but the village scenes,
of the sort that are fast fading from English life,
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
and the delightful costumes and manners of early
Victorian days, all receive due attention. A brief
The Luxury of Children and Some Other Lux foreword gives an interesting history of each
uries' (Harper) is a book of informal and very
classic. Cranford' and 'The Vicar' are of
engaging essays by Mr. Edward Sandford Mar course published in their entirety; 'The Village'
tin, wherein is proved, to the satisfaction of all sketches are selected from the five volumes of the
right-minded persons, that no other luxury is to complete work, the effort being to choose those
be compared for a moment with the luxury of chapters that best show the author's personality
children. Incidentally the author makes his and that are most directly studies of nature and
readers feel that life is a very good thing and of village character. These idylls are of the sort
that there is plenty of fun in it for the man who that never grow old or lose their interest; but
will cease striving so desperately to get things one re-reads them with a new zest and a keener
that he wouldn't care about if he had them. appreciation, to the accompaniment of Mr.
Besides their breezy optimism, the particular Brock's suggestive pictorial interpretations.
merit of the essays is that they are entertaining A holiday publication in lighter vein, but
without being dogmatic on issues which are sel charming enough to satisfy the most critical
dom discussed without the dullest kind of dog-taste, is Mr. Oliver Herford's illustrated 'Ru-
matism. Most writers about children have an báiyát of a Persian Kitten' (Scribner). One
axe to grind. Mr. Martin does not; he tells us opens it assured that it is good, being Mr. Her-
what he has observed and what he thinks, with ford's, and closes it with the conviction that Mr.
out insisting that we agree with him, and with Herford has fairly out-done himself. The Kitten
out even being sure that his is the only right way is a long-haired, frisky, introspective ball of fur;
of looking at the subject. He does not seem the verses are a delicious combination of spark-
to care much on what system of parental manage ling humor and subtle parody. From the open-
ment children are brought up, or where, how ing stanza, which advises the Kitten to
.
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more.
more
'Wake! For the Golden Cat has put to fight nation of delicacy and vigor' which is the charac-
The Mouse of Darkness with his Paw of Light:
Which means, in Plain and simple every-day
teristic mark of his drawings, and to the
Unoriental Speech - The Dawn is bright,'-
instructive variety in method' which they dis-
through those that tell of the Kitten's disil-
play, and which a corresponding variation in
lusioning experiences with too active early birds,
the mounting and coloring of the plates aims to
stolen dainties, savage dogs, and the mysteries of
reproduce. Mr. Baldry's comment not only fits
ink-bottles and looking-glasses, to the concluding
his readers to appreciate the drawings, but is
quatrain,
so inspiring that it will lead them to make the
portfolio a point of departure for further study.
And fear not lest Existence shut the Door
On You and Me, to open it no
Mrs. Julia Cartwright Ady, in her account of
The Cream of Life from out your Bowl shall pour
“The Life and Art of Sandro Botticelli' (Dut-
Nine times - ere it lie broken on the floor,'
ton), does not assume that her work is particu-
with the absurd little angel-pussy soaring away
larly original; she acknowledges indebtedness to
from a broken milk-bowl on the opposite page,
many previous writers, particularly to Mr. Beren-
every stanza and every picture is irresistible. It son and Mr. Herbert Horne, the chief recent
is almost useless to quote, since we cannot repro-
authorities on the general subject, and to French
duce the pictures, but we are tempted to give
and German commentators on the Sixtine fres-
one or two of the stanzas. Here is the moth coes, the Dante drawings, and the relation be-
eaten alley cat's advice to the Kitten:
tween Savonarola and the Botticelli brothers.
She explains, too, that, in spite of the keen mod-
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
The Backyard fence and heard great argument.
ern interest in Botticelli and the vast amount
About it and about, yet ever
of study recently devoted to him, our knowledge
Came out with fewer fur than in I went.'
of his history is still so scanty that no complete
And this is the Kitten's reflection on a tenanted record can be given. The present work is an
mouse-trap:
attempt to serve up the 'fragments,'- to put
'Tis but a Tent where takes his one Night's Rest
together in accessible and fairly popular form
A Rodent to the Realms of Death address'd,
the results of research and of criticism from
When Cook, arising, looks for him and then
the time when Ruskin re-discovered Botticelli to
Baits, and prepares it for another Guest.'
the present, when Walter Pater, the Pre-Raph-
An art book at once beautiful and of peculiar aelite painters, and a host of others have made
interest and uniqueness is the collection of his name familiar and interesting to the art-
‘Drawings of Hans Holbein,' the first volume in loving public. Mrs. Ady's work is, of course,
a series of ‘Drawings of the Great Masters' thoroughly standard and adequate, showing a
(imported by Scribner). It is tastefully bound full knowledge of the bibliography of the subject
in dull blue paper boards, stamped with a grace and an unusual ability to view her material in
ful design in gold, and backed with vellum. many different lights, and thus to make the most
There are forty-eight quarto-sized plates, some
of it. The masters with whom the painter
in half-tone on white paper, others printed in studied, the friends he loved, the environment
tints and mounted on
a paper of harmonious that molded him, ‘his relations with the Medicis
shade; so that the publication is, to begin with, and the Florentine humanists on the one hand,
a luxurious and unusually alluring book of pic and his connection with Savonarola and the
tures. An introduction by Mr. A. L. Baldry, Piagnone revival on the other,' the life he lived
brief but pithy and suggestive, furnishes the and the pictures he painted, are all matters of
“backing' that so many otherwise similar works interest to Mrs. Ady. Forty full-page plates
lack, and adds greatly to the value of the port and as many smaller pictures set in the text
folio, both for art students and casual purchasers. eke out the verbal descriptions of the paintings.
Most of the drawings here reproduced belong to A few portraits are reproduced, some of the
the famous Windsor collection of eighty-seven mythical paintings, more of those dealing with
portraits, whose checkered history Mr. Baldry sacred subjects, and seven of the curious draw-
traces down to the present time. Many of these, ings for the Divine Comedy.' A catalogue of
such as the portraits of the More family, of Botticelli's principal works, with their present
John Colet, Anne Boleyn, Sir Thomas Wyatt, locations, is appended. We, of course, cannot
Jane Seymour, Edward VI., and Philip Melanch do justice here to the special critical merits of
thon, are of decided historical interest, apart the book, but merely call attention to it as a
from their artistic value. Besides the Windsor volume altogether calculated to appeal to the
drawings, there are a few from originals pre holiday buyer with a scholarly taste and a full
served at Basle, among them being one study purse.
of sheep and several interesting German types. Students of English art will welcome the new
Mr. Baldry's introduction sums up the essential popular edition of Sir Walter Armstrong's mono-
facts of Holbein's life, with especial reference graph on Gainsborough, recently imported by the
to his comprehensive artistic training and his Messrs. Scribner. The work was first published
many-sided artistic career, discusses very briefly several years ago in a magnificent folio edition,
his methods and aims in portraiture, and then the price of which put it far out of the reach of
turns to the specific subjects of the drawings. the general public, and which was besides very
Attention is called to the master-touch that is as cumbersome to handle. The present edition,
evident in Holbein's most fugitive work as in his while designated as popular, is still a very hand-
most ambitious painting, to the 'exquisite combi some book, of convenient size, substantially


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bound, printed on excellent paper, and embel laces, are much less discursive, and about one-
lished with eight photogravures and forty fine third of each chapter is devoted to a reference
half-tones. These illustrations form a represen list which contains brief descriptions of all the
tative collection of Gainsborough's portraits and principal kinds of lace included in the chapter
landscapes, and furnish a clear and adequate title. The Lace Book' must be counted one of
impression of his work. For the benefit of those the most successful of the holiday publications.
who are not familiar with the scope of the text, Another book on the same subject, but quite
it may be said that it is a complete and scholarly different in scope, method of treatment, and
biographical study, prefaced by a preliminary dis mechanical features, is Mr. Samuel L. Golden-
cussion of the æsthetic principles involved in berg's manual called 'Lace: Its Origin and His-
Gainsborough's methods, and by a chapter on tory' (Brentano's). Mr. Goldenberg makes no
‘English Art and the Precursors of Gainsbor-
attempt to brush the dust from the early history
ough,' which makes possible a comparative treat of lace-making for the delectation of the col-
ment later on. The biographer complains of the lector or the dilettante. His aim is to furnish
paucity of details for a life of Gainsborough, but those whose relation to lace is primarily com-
he does not let his readers feel the deficiency. mercial with a simple but comprehensive treatise
He fills out the skeleton of facts by an indus that will fit them to judge of lace, and serve as
trious following up of slight clues and a skilful a practical guide in times of doubt. However,
use of whatever he can run down, producing a in spite of his very matter-of-fact attitude, he
narrative at once vivacious and authoritative, has found it impossible entirely to dissociate lace
interwoven with a singularly clear and illuminat from its makers and wearers, or to get rid of
ing analysis of the painter's art. A complete
all the romance that inevitably colors the sub-
catalogue of Gainsborough's pictures, including ject. Mr. Goldenberg's book is practical with-
portraits, landscapes, and copies, is given in an out being dull; his information is summary and
appendix.
straight to the point; his tables of 'Characteris-
Mr. N. Hudson Moore, known to connoisseurs tics of the Different Types of Lace,' which occu-
in old china and old furniture for his delightful py two-thirds of the book, are complete, well-
researches among these fascinating possessions
arranged, and explicit. This publication is of
of our ancestors, has now put readers who are course not so sumptuous as The Lace Book,'
interested in lace in his debt by writing "The but it is neat and attractive, and there are an
Lace Book.' The volume is published in elab-
abundance of well-printed plates.
orate form by the Frederick A. Stokes Co., with Probably no other city in the world presents
a charming cover design, borders of coffee-col so kaleidoscopic a combination of pulsing modern
ored lace around each page, and about seventy life, historical associations, and
mediæval
illustrations. Many of the pictures are photo
romance as Vienna. In his book entitled 'Imperial
graphs showing rare specimens of lace; others Vienna' (John Lane), Mr. A. S. Levetus attempts
are reproductions of famous portraits in which to give his readers at least a glimpse of each of
rare and beautiful lace is a prominent feature. the city's manifold interests and activities. One
Mr. Moore evidently believes that association notable thing about the book is the fact that it
with its wearers, and with the dress and man is comprehensive without being barren,-an
ners of a period, makes up a large part of the unusual combination, as readers of guide-books
interest attaching to the study of lace. His can attest. Another striking feature is its wealth
pages are full of quaint anecdotes, citations from of illustration, furnished by Herr Erwin Puch-
old diaries, letters and account-books, inven inger, whose interesting sketches of the architec-
tories of royal wardrobes, sumptuary laws and ture of the city and some of its street types
trade statutes, couplets from observant poets and form a delightful record of impressions, besides
comedians, all showing how important a part being a vivid commentary on the text. They are
ruffs and ruffles, frills and flounces, caps, aprons,
from sketches in charcoal, pencil, pen-and-ink,
stomachers, cuffs and collars, lappets and mantil and wash, so that there is plenty of variety in
las played in the life of by-gone days. Whether method of treatment as well as in subject-matter.
one knows or cares anything about the technical Mr. Levetus acknowledges special indebtedness
side of the subject, he cannot help being inter to the Austrian Emperor, who gave author and
ested in the fact that Prince Charles spent fifteen illustrator permission to visit the Hofburg and
pounds for the gold and silver lace on two night other palaces for the purpose of making observa-
caps which he carried with him on his Spanish tions and drawings. This fact adds a special
trip, or that King William the Silent once squan interest to the chapters about Austrian court life
dered one hundred and fifty-eight pounds for and ceremony. A number of chapters are devoted
six point-lace cravats. The book is full of such to old Vienna, several to picturesque historical
little items, fully half of them about the men, incidents such as the visit of Napoleon, others
who seem to have been quite as vain and extrava treat of the magnificent galleries that house the
gant as the women, as long as fashion gave them national collections of painting and sculpture,
the chance. For the more practical seeker after of the musical and dramatic interests of the city,
facts there is plenty of definite and explicit its universities, its society, and the life of its
information. The first chapter, on “The Growth people. The cover design is very handsome, and
of Lace,' is necessarily very general, but the the tinted paper attractive.
other four, which treat respectively of Italian, Three toast books offer a wide field of choice
Flemish, French and Spanish, English and Irish to the seeker for after-dinner wit and wisdom.


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A very substantial and systematic collection is in two volumes, and 'Switzerland: Picturesque
"Toasts and Tributes, edited by Mr. Arthur and Descriptive' in one volume, both being the
Gray, and published by Messrs. Rohde & Has work of Mr. Joel Cook. They belong to the
kins. As its name suggests, it contains not only systematic, orderly, and objective class of trav-
formal toasts, but also quotable sentiments. elers' guides, and embody more detail than is
There is a short essay on the origin of toasts by essential to any except those persons who con-
the editor; another about the responsibilities of template a journey through the countries
the toast-master by Mr. Allan Forman, and some described. - For this latter class, Mr. . Cook's
epigrammatic post-prandial philosophy contrib volumes would prove excellent preparatory read-
uted by Creswell Maclaughlin. These writers ing, and would serve equally well as guide-books,
and others furnish a few original toasts, but the - though they are rather too heavy to carry
main strength of the volume lies in its large about comfortably. Copious indices and descrip-
collection of standard quotations, conveniently tive running-heads make the contents available
arranged under twenty-five different headings for hasty reference. The book about France
and carefully indexed by subjects and authors. opens with a chapter on the English Channel,
A few blank pages are left at the end of the wherein all the ports and places of interest on
book for the entry of original toasts or those both shores are noted and described. Next comes
heard at dinners. The volume is printed with the journey to Paris by several different routes,
rubricated title-page and running-heads and then a full description of the capital city and its
ornamental chapter-headings, and is bound in gay environs. The remainder of the work describes
colors.-In lighter vein, wittier, and more strictly various journeys from Paris; south to Provence
a toast-book, but, on the other hand, less com and the Rhone valley, and to the Mediterranean
plete and substantial, is the volume entitled and the Riviera, west into Britanny, southwest
* Prosit.' It is issued by Messrs. Paul Elder & to the Bay of Biscay and the Pyrenees, and
Co., under the auspices of the Spinner's Club of northeast into Flanders and Belgium, the last-
San Francisco, who think that the state of the named country being included because of its
vine is the fitting place whence a toast-book similarity to France in geography, language, and
should emanate. The California writers have history. It seems as if Mr. Cook had neglected
contributed a number of original toasts and col nothing in the way of either historic or romantic
lected others, ancient and modern, including a associations which could enrich his work. About
few in foreign languages. Among the best of the fifty photogravure illustrations display the art,
newer ones is. Mr. Jack London's 'A health to architecture, and landscape of the country. The
the man on trail this night; may his grub hold volume on Switzerland includes the Rhine trip,
out; may his dogs keep their legs; may his which is generally combined by American visi-
matches never miss fire.' The
tors with the regular Swiss tour. The method
shows an ingenious design by Mr. Gordon Ross, of treatment is the same as in the other volumes,
who also furnishes a very bibulous frontispiece. except that while legend and history get equal
-The third book, "Waes Hael,' written and attention, scenic description naturally gets more,
compiled by Miss Edithe Lea Chase and Capt. both in text and pictures. Western Switzerland,
W. E. P. French, and published by the Grafton eastern Switzerland, the Upper Rhine, the Mid-
Press, seems rather more representative than dle Rhine and Main, the great Rhine Gorge, and
'Prosit,' and equally clever and up-to-date. the Lower Rhine are the six divisions of the
Among its novel features are the tiny beer stein tour. The volumes are handsomely bound, and
attached to the ribbon marker, the 'apology' in each work is protected by cloth slip covers and
the form of a very clever parody of Kipling, and a substantial cloth case.
the grouping of the toasts according to the man Mr. Clifton Johnson and his camera have in
ner in which they should most appropriately past years journeyed together through France,
be drunk. For example, toasts to Humanity, Scotland, Ireland, England, and New England.
America, the Union, and the Flag are to be
This year they have chosen to stay in America
quaffed 'In Bumpers’; the army and navy are again, and have spent their time exploring some
to be toasted 'In Red Wine'; sweethearts, wives 'Highways and Byways of the South. The
and mothers, love and marriage need 'The Lov-
records of the expedition have been made into a
ing Cup'; wine and revelry are to be drunk handsome volume, plentifully illustrated from the
From the Flowing Bowl'; the professions and author's photographs, and very prettily bound,
such abstractions as music, literature, science, and bearing the imprint of the Macmillan Co. As
wit, go down ‘In Mixed Ale'; while toasts to 'The
usual, Mr. Johnson has avoided the bustle of
Day After,' «The Men Who Lost,' death and
towns and cities; he gives no facts about the
parting, use up The Lees of the Wine Cup.'
commercial progress of the New South, and takes
There are some fourteen hundred toasts in the
no side on the race question. Instead he rambles
book, about one-third of which are new and origi through the woods and fields, stops for the night
nal. The long list of toasts to colleges and to at isolated hamlets or lonely farmhouses, and
states of the Union will prove acceptable to describes the scenes along the way and the peo
harassed toast-masters. The book is carefully
ple he meets in his journeyings. Chapters like
indexed and attractively printed and bound. The Birthplace of Lincoln, John Brown's
This year's additions to Messrs. Henry T. Town,' or 'Way Down upon the Suwanee River'
Coates & Co.'s 'Photogravure Series' of books have an incidental historic or romantic interest,
of travel are 'France: Historic and Romantic,' and so have many of the pictures; but the main
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purpose of the book is to describe the unspoiled suggest their originals to anybody who keeps up
rural life of a picturesque part of America-the with the products of the Long-Seton-Roberts
most picturesque part, Mr. Johnson calls it, and school. Little Upsidaisi communicates with Mr.
he ought to be a good judge. His studies of types Johnson-Sitdown by means of the Morse code,
like the Georgia 'Cracker' and the Tennessee which unfortunately is also intelligible to Tom-
mountaineer are sympathetic and full of humor. Tom, the pet cat of the hermitage; Jim Crow sets
Miss Esther Singleton is never at a loss for his own broken leg in a clay cast; and the other
a subject on which to compile a volume of clever beasts' perform feats equally marvellous.
extracts by well-known authors. This year she Miss Reed is a daring punster, as well as an
has chosen to deal with 'Famous Women,' limit- ingenious fabulist. Not content merely to enter-
ing the very elastic adjective by making it refer tain her readers with animal stories, she keeps
to women who have wielded an appreciable up a running comment-or, rather, makes Mr.
political influence. The list of such women of Johnson-Sitdown do so-upon the exigencies of
course includes many sovereigns, queens of the the literary life and upon modern literary and
left hand, mistresses of salons whose interest in scientific (or pseudo-scientific) methods. Mr.
litics was intellectual, women like the Duchesses Peter Newell's nine pictures of the clever beasts
de Longueville and du Maine who plunged into add the finishing touch of drollery to the book.
civil strife for the love of intrigue, and a few “Yosemite Legends' (Paul Elder & Co.) is one
like Agnes Sorel and Joan of Arc whose sense of the most original and artistic of the smaller
of duty led them into the political arena. Of holiday publications. The text consists of six
the forty women included by far the greater num short legends, each relating the substance of some
ber are French, and all but a very few of the ancient folk-song of the Ah-wah-nee-chee Indians,
rest are English. The selections, which deal who dwelt in the Yosemite valley until the tribes
chiefly with the political career of each subject, of the pale-face drove them out. One of the
are chosen with a view to variety and pictur- legends tells how the Yosemite Fall got its name;
esqueness as well as accuracy, and like all Miss another explains why the Indians.fear the Bridal
Singleton's compilations 'Famous Women Veil; a third reveals the origin of the pointed.
Described by Great Writers' is interesting read rock that sticks up in the cliff between the fall
ing. A portrait of each famous woman stands and the cañon of the Arrow-wood. There is a
before the sketch of her career. The binding is weird legend of Mirror Lake, and a bit of history
uniform with the rest of Miss Singleton's works. about the three sons of the last great chief of
(Dodd, Mead & Co.)
the Ah-wah-nee-chee, who were captured at the
Another book about famous French women is base of the triple peak called thereafter "The
Miss Geraldine Brooks's 'Dames and Daughters Three Brothers. The stories are admirably
of the French Court' (Crowell). But instead of related by Miss Bertha H. Smith, who succeeds
treating her celebrities as founders of salons or in transcribing the impressiveness, the sense of
as political and social leaders, Miss Brooks writes mystery, and the barbaric poetry of the originals
of their intimate family life, showing them liter into her carefully finished and dramatic little
ally as 'dames and daughters' in their own homes. sketches. Miss Florence Lundborg, the illus-
With this point in view, she has chosen from the trator, ha's furnished a dozen full-page wash-
innumerable characters at her disposal ten of drawings of a mystical, impressionistic sort,
the most natural and lovable, those that will showing the valley as it might appear to the
stand close scrutiny and repay close acquaintance. awed and frightened tribesman who has fallen
All of them have been written about many times under the spell of the legends. These drawings
before, some by so discriminating an analyst of are reproduced in color, as are the marginal
human nature as Sainte-Beuve; but Miss Brooks's decorations, whose curious patterns suggest the
original and very American point of view and designs of Indian pottery and baskets.
her fresh and racy style throw a new light upon ‘Kitty of the Roses' is the sentimental little
her subjects. Portraits reproduced from famous romance of a young architect who found the lady
paintings and a cheerful cover give a holiday of his dreams in a rose-garden, had to leave her
air to the book.
before he had more than found her, just failed
Parody, particularly clever parody, is so rare to see her again before she sailed for Algiers,
nowadays that one opens Miss Myrtle Reed's and at last caught her once for all in the rose-
‘Book of Clever Beasts' (Putnam), further garden. Roses, pink, white, and red, riot through
described on the title page as 'Studies in Unnatu the story, which is simply and prettily told. Mr.
ral History,' with a lively expectation of joys to Ralph Henry Barbour is the author, Mr. Frederic
come, which fortunately is not doomed to dis J. von Rapp the illustrator, and the J. B. Lippin-
appointment. The tales purport to be written cott Co. the publishers. The pink cloth cover is
by Mr. Johnson-Sitdown, a telegraph operator, stamped in gold, with a gold border framing a
who is compelled by ill health to return to vignette of Kitty,-a form of cover decoration
Nature, and resolves to make the most of his that seems to be very popular this season. The
enforced vacation in approved modern fashion illustrations are tinted, and the page margins are
by writing up his experiences. Little Upsidaisi, filled with long-stemmed roses.
.a field-mouse, Kitchi-Kitchi, a red squirrel, "The Entirely New Cynic's Calendar of
Jagg the Skootaway goat, Snoof, the big bear Revised Wisdom for 1905' (Paul Elder & Co.)
that lives off the garbage, heap at the Geyser appears in the same familiar gingham cover, with
Hotel, Jenny Ragtail and Jim Crow, will at once the same familiar and fantastic decorations in


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red and black, as in previous issues; but this floral borders in various colors, a number of
year the twisted proverbs and the illustrations illustrations from photographs, and a dainty
accompanying them are all new. Possibly this cover,
second crop of cynicism is not quite so fresh and Mr. John Uri Lloyd's latest story, 'Scroggins,'
sparkling as the first, but it is still sprightly
is published by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. in a
enough to be very entertaining to cynics and handsome holiday edition, illustrated and deco-
others. There is really no reason for fault-find rated by Mr. Reginald B. Birch. Scroggins is a
ing when we get a number of new proverbs as Rocky Mountain stage-driver, who, finding him-
good as these: 'Actresses will happen in the best self suddenly a millionaire, first tries to spend
regulated families,' and `You will never miss
his money and then goes back to his old home
water while the Champagne runs dry.' Mr. and gives it away, finally returning happily to
Oliver Herford's preface, "To the World at the box-seat of the Gulch stage. The plot is
Large,' is one of the best things in the book,
perfectly conventional, but there is a good deal
and his picture called "The First Monday' is
of pathos in the telling, and much sound sense
another irresistible bit of fooling. Mr. Herford in the old stage-driver's philosophy of life. The
and his collaborators, Miss Ethel Watts Mum-
cover, which simulates birch bark, with a pan-
ford and Mr. Addison Mizner, are putting all elled view of the Rockies set in across the top,
cynics in their debt by showing up the profession
is unique and effective.
in so genial and pleasing a light.
Of all the so-called pocket editions, the Vest
"Gilhooleyisms' is a little book of observations
Pocket Series' (Putnam) is probably the small-
about life, made by 'Lord Gilhooley' (otherwise
est, being literally tiny enough to slip conveni-
Mr. Frederick H. Seymour) and illustrated by
ently into the receptacle indicated by its name.
Mr. Tom Fleming. The epigrams vary greatly The text is printed lengthwise on the page, thus
in merit, their worst faults being that they making it possible to use fairly large type with-
generally take themselves too seriously and oc out the necessity of breaking the lines of verse.
casionally incline to triteness. There are people Goldsmith's ‘Deserted Village,'. Browning's
who make themselves so ridiculous, living, that
'Pied Piper' and 'The Last Ride (in one vol-
they are not forgotten when dead,' just misses
ume), Tennyson's 'Locksley Hall,' and Burns's
being very good; so does “The genius does one
“Tam O'Shanter' and 'The Cotter's Saturday
thing too well, and other things not well enough.' Night' (the last two furnished with glossaries),
These are fair samples of the book's quality.
are some of the titles from which the man who
We should like the observations better without
wants a pocket companion- and the woman, too,
the pictures, which emphasize the unpleasant if she can lay claim to a pocket-may make a
cynicism of the text without adding to it either choice. The little books open easily, and are
humor or point. (Stokes.)
bound in flexible morocco of various colors.
Of the same general sort, but cleverer and There is no end to editions of the Rubáiyát.
much better illustrated, is a little book of 'Com A new one, which will interest the Omar cult
pleted Proverbs' (Coates), by Mr. L. de V. because of its pictures, is offered by Messrs. E.
Matthewman. 6 "True love is grounded on es P. Dutton & Co. It contains Edward FitzGer-
teem," but esteem rests upon no foundation, ald's original preface and is illustrated by twelve
• “Man proposes” when woman so permits, photogravures after the drawing of Mr. Gilbert
««Live within your means," if you have any James. Omarians who care for the Vedder
means of doing so,'— these excerpts will give an illustrations will find Mr. James's interpretations
idea of the satirical-humorous treatment of the monotonous, lacking both in imagination and dra-
proverbs. They are genuinely illustrated and matic quality. They all picture the poet and the
greatly improved by the pictures, which are lady to whom he sings, thus limiting their scope
witty and suggestive. These are the work of to the poet's action and feeling instead of to
Mr. Clare Victor Dwiggins, who has collaborated the action and feeling of the poem. As the
with Mr. Matthewman in previous volumes. poster style precludes characterization, there is
‘Flower Fables and Fancies' (Stokes), by
little left for the artist to strive for except
Mr. N. Hudson Moore, is a sort of modernized,
graceful composition and a a Persian setting.
expanded, and de-sentimentalized version of the These he certainly secures, and his designs,
chapter on the language of flowers that always though they miss the subtler suggestions of the
found a place in the 'Friendship's Offerings' of
poem, are exceedingly decorative.
our grandmothers. It contains a vast amount A new volume in Mr. John Lane's 'Flowers of
of pleasantly diversified information about flow-Parnassus' series of bibelots is William Morris's
ers, references to them in English poetry and ‘Defence of Guenevere,' with six illustrations
Greek or oriental myth, explanations of the odd by Miss Jessie M. King. Last winter Mr. Lane
conceits involved in local nomenclature, quaint published this poem, with a number of Morris's
superstitions about flowers, their religious sym shorter pieces, in a regulation-sized volume,
bolism, their medicinal uses, the lore of perfumes, which Miss King illustrated; and the pictures
the rites of May-day and other floral festivals, in the present edition appear to be reduced from
glimpses of old-time gardens, and occasionally a those in the larger one. In this miniature size
curious bit of botanical information, or the his they are very dainty, and the little book will
tory of a floral mania like the tulip fad in Hol make the best sort of Christmas greeting for a
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“The Wandering Host' is a forceful little alle-
gory by Dr. David Starr Jordan, published in
holiday form, with decorative borders and a
pretty cover, by the American Unitarian Asso-
ciation. The text was first printed several years
ago under the title of 'The Story of the Innum-
erable Company,' by which name some readers
may remember it. The present edition is revised
and slightly enlarged. We do not see any reason
why President Jordan's singularly direct and
vigorous style should mask itself in symbolism,
and we like him better in The Call of the Twen-
tieth Century' than in this allegorical argument
for individualism in the moral and religious life.
Nevertheless, his points are well taken, and his
logic sound and convincing beneath the figurative
dress.
În the 'Art Gift-book Series,' of the Fleming
H. Revell Co., with its pretty and unusual bind-
iny and tinted marginal decorations, come two
little books, ‘Divided, the Story of a Poem,' by
Miss Clara Laughlin, and "Gwen, an Idyll of the
Canyon,' by Ralph Connor. 'Divided,' which has
already appeared in one of the magazines, is the
story of a lonely and sentimental little girl, who
happened upon an illustrated copy of Jean Inge-
low's poem of ‘Divided,' liked its pictures, pored
over its symbolism, and finally grasped its mean-
ing by living through the same sad experience
herself. Like all Miss Laughlin's work, this
story is a piece of special pleading,-a reminder
that fame and a career, however splendid, are
not worth the loss of love. It is simply and
graphically written, and is well suited to its
present tasteful setting. “Gwen,' dedicated to
all who question the Why of human pain,' is an
episode taken from Ralph Connor's popular
novel, The Sky Pilot.' Standing by itself, it
makes a vivid and convincing study of the Pilot's
wonderful power, and is just the gift with which
to brighten the Christmas of a sad or sick friend.
The marginal drawings are clever and sug-
gestive.
An illustrated holiday edition of Mr. Hamil-
ton Wright Mabie's 'Parables of Life' is pub-
lished by the Macmillan Co., with four new alle-
gories added and eight drawings by Mr. W.
Benda reproduced in photogravure. We like
these parables as well as anything that Mr.
Mabie has written lately. The imagery is grace-
ful and sufficiently transparent, without being
conventional, the movement rapid, and the
thoughts vital, incisive, and inspiring. Mr. Ben-
da's drawings are quite in the spirit of the text,
as well as being artistic in themselves and well
reproduced.
Among the calendars for the new year those
issued by Mr. Alfred Bartlett are as usual dis-
tinguished for their artistic designs and well
selected quotations. The most novel among them
is the small 'Sepia Calendar,' decorated with six
landscapes from drawings by Miss Helen Sin-
clair Patterson. These are printed on the calen-
dar sheets directly from photographic negatives,
and a touch of color is added by hand, making
an original and pleasing effect. One of the least
pretentious of Mr. Bartlett's publications is 'A
Calendar of Inspiration,' gotten up in his char-
acteristic style with decorative borders and
initials, and old English lettering, and printed
in black and red. There are two sheets to the
month, each containing a quotation from such
masters of hope and good cheer as Stevenson,
Dr. van Dyke, Phillips Brooks, Emerson, and
David Swing. Similar in spirit and make-up,
but larger and more elaborately colored. and
decorated, is 'The House of Life' calendar. The
quotations are of the same inspiring type, but
less familiar. Six of the twelve sheets are
printed in sepia and purple, the rest in sepia and
ochre. The Calendar of Prayers by Robert
Louis Stevenson' is not new, but the 1905 edition
appears in four colors, every other page being
done in green and gold. To say that the decora-
tive setting, which suggests the pages of an
illuminated missal, is beautiful enough for the
prayers is high praise, but no more than is
deserved. "The St. Cecilia Calendar' is a single
sheet, with a picture of the saint and a border
around picture and calendar, for decoration.-
'A Book of Days' is the title of a calendar issued
by the Young People's Religious Union, a Uni-
tarian society. Each page contains the calendar
for a week, with seven quotations taken from the
works of some prominent Unitarian. There is no
lack of good material for such a calendar, and
in the present instance excellent use has been
made of it. The calendar is tied up with green
cord, is printed in green, and is bound in a green
and gold cover. - Decidedly unique and as pretty
as we always expect Japanese work to be, is a
series of Japanese calendars published in Tokyo
by T. Hasegawa. Two of the most elaborate are
in the form of an oblong case or pocket prettily
decorated. Into this slips a packet of twelve
sheets, which can be sorted to get the current
month uppermost. Each sheet shows a Japanese
print, the designs in the smaller of the two calen-
dars being mostly landscapes and flowers, and
in the larger consisting of street scenes and
characteristic bits of Japanese life. The ‘Pagoda
Calendar' is made up of twelve crosswise sec-
tions, which spread out to form a fascinating,
many-storied pagoda, with quaint little figures
perched on its various balconies. Three booklet
calendars show respectively the flowers of the
Japanese year, the landscapes of Tokyo, and the
months of Japanese children.' The pictures in
the last-named booklet suggest that life is one
long and amusing holiday for Japanese boys and
girls. Most unique of all is the ‘Calendar in
Japanese Towels.' An introduction explains that
according to Japanese standards every household
utensil must be decorative as well as useful, and
that the patterns on towels are almost as varied,
beautiful, and full of symbolism as the patterns
on china or screens. Having looked through the
calendar, each page of which has for its back-
ground a towel pattern, we are ready to credit
this statement. - Very gaudy in comparison with
the dainty Japanese calendars just mentioned
are three published by Messrs. E. P. Dutton &
Co. "The Coon Calendar' is conceived along the
lines of broad caricature, the twelve large and
brightly colored pictures being accompanied by
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types. "Gems from the Poets' is a floral calen-
dar, or rather a series of flower pictures, each
accompanied by a 'gem' on the general floral
theme. The calendar proper is a mere accessory,
and is contained in a small appendage fastened
by ribbons to the large sheets. The 'Friendship
Calendar' contains twelve quotations from a wide
range of authors. The borders and initials are
in colors, and are fairly artistic in design.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
II.
new
(Scribner), known to younger readers for thirty
years past. The pieces newly included show no
trace of their author's more than three score years,
but are as fresh and youthful as their predecessors
of a long generation ago,
The book has been
beautifully illustrated and decorated by Miss Sarah
S. Stilwell, in a style uniform with Mr. Charles
Robinson's pictorial setting of 'A Child's Garden
of Verses.' — Miss Stilwell has also designed the
pictures for Miss Katharine Pyle's Childhood'
(Dutton), using a combination of delicate reds and
blacks, and achieving marked success. The verses
are tender and graceful, and of more merit than
usually goes to the entertainment of American
children. — The poems of the late Blanche Mary
Channing have been posthumously collected, and
are published in a pretty little book called 'Lullaby
Castle and Other Poems' (Little, Brown & Co.).
More than half of the poems in the collection are
intended for children, and they possess a delicacy
of feeling which deserves to make them widely
known. An excellent book in everything but name
is the quarto volume entitled 'Babies Classics'
(Longmans, Green & Co.), in which are brought
together some two score poems for children by
standard authors. The compiler, Miss Lilia Scott
MacDonald, has made a most intelligent selection,
including a number of old-time favorites by such
forgotten writers as Jane and Ann Taylor and
Mary Howitt. The illustrations by Mr. Arthur
Hughes are nothing less than a rare artistic treat.
Among books having to do with
Stories of
school life.
school and college life, the collection
of short stories brought together by
Mr. Arthur Stanwood Pier under the collective
title of 'Boys of St. Timothy's' (Scribner) deserves
high praise. The school concerned is that of St.
Mark's of Southborough, Mass., and the deeds of
its youth are set forth in a series of entertaining
episodes. Most of these, but not all, are concerned
with athletic sports and the playing fields, and all
are instinct with the spirit of honorable competi-
tion. The book is cleverly illustrated by various
hands.-A service somewhat similar to that of Mr.
Pier's for St. Mark's has been done for Phillips
Exeter Academy by Mr. Albertus T. Dudley in his
story called 'Making the Nine' (Lee & Shepard).
The interest of the book, as the title indicates, is
with baseball. It shows the spiritual side of a
game which Americans hold in too little esteem,
describing how a lad both young and slight wins
his way to a place on the school nine by the
patient development of every manly quality. -- If
Mr. Leslie W. Quirk had not been quite so eager
to make his hero heroic, his story called 'Baby
Elton, Quarter-Back' (Century Co.) would take
equal rank with the two just mentioned. It deals
with a boy's freshman year in college, and gives
him an amount of glory that is almost overwhelm-
ing It is a well-told story, nevertheless, with
plenty of exciting incidents. — 'Helen Grant's
Friends' (Lee & Shepard) has to do with a young
person whom Miss Amanda M. Douglas has already
made familiar to us in a previous book called
Helen Grant's Schooldays. The
story
describes how the heroine won her way through a
secondary school with the help (and occasional
hindrance) of her numerous friends. - Miss Amy
Brooks also brings a familiar figure to the front
once more in ‘Dorothy Dainty at School' (Lee &
Shepard). Dorothy's mild adventures at Aunt
Charlotte's educational institution are eclipsed in
interest by the much more thrilling experiences of
little Nancy Ferris, who is kidnapped and made
to dance upon the stage.
Judging from the few books remaining for con-
sideration in this second of our two articles
devoted to the children's books of the present
season, it would seem that the output this year
has been at once more forward and less prolific
than for several seasons past. But the residue
with which we have now to deal contains a number
of books of more than ordinary merit. Especially
praiseworthy are several new editions or
adaptations of books that have gladdened the hearts
of past generations, and these will have our first
attention.
It is doubtful if many children will
Old books in
be able to appreciate fully the charm
new covers.
of the setting in which is offered to
them the series of 'Stories from Shakespeare's
Plays' (Dent-Dutton.) These dainty volumes have
all the outward characteristics of the well-known
"Temple Shakespeare,' being issued in the same
convenient form, with the same beauty of typog-
raphy and binding, and possessing the added
attraction of graceful illustrations. The stories
are retold, simply and sensibly, by Mrs. Alice
Spencer Hoffman, with the aid of plentiful
extracts from the plays themselves. Two vol-
umes have far appeared: "The Tempest,'
illustrated by Mr. Walter Crane, and 'King Richard
II.,' with drawings by Miss Dora Curtis.-Of special
distinction also is the handsome new edition of
Mrs. Anna Jameson’s ‘Shakespeare's Heroines'
(Dutton). The text requires no comment at this
time; it need only be said that Mr. W. Paget has
illustrated the book most sumptuously, his six full-
page pictures in color and seventy drawings in half-
tone leaving little to be desired.-Prof. U. Waldo
Cutler has utilized the wealth of splendid material
in Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur' for his
volume of 'Stories of King Arthur and his Knights'
(Crowell). Simplification of both the narrative and
the language in which it is told have been con-
stantly in the editor's mind, and the result is a
book unusually attractive to children.—A somewhat
similar service has been performed for another
old favorite in the Stories of Robin Hood and his
Merry Outlaws' (Crowell), by Mr. J. Walker
McSpadden. The old ballads are the sources from
which the several tales have been derived, and
stanzas from them preface every chapter. This
book and the one just mentioned are issued in
uniform style in the series of 'Children's Favor-
ite Classics,' with colored frontispieces and other
illustrations.
There is not much poetry, as distin-
Poetry, new
and old.
guished from mere jingle, among the
children's books this year, but the
little that there is deserves prominent mention.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge has prepared a new and
enlarged edition of her ‘Rhymes and Jingles'
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son.
list. For smaller children nothing more delightful
in their own unique way could possibly be found.
Messrs. F. Warne & Co. publish the series. — Mr.
Gelett Burgess's cheerful and fascinating Goops
reappear this season in a volume comprehensively
entitled 'Goop Tales Alphabetically Told: A Study
of the Behavior of some Fifty-Two Individuals,
Each of which, while Mainly Virtuous, yet has
some One Human and Redeeming Fault? (Stokes).
While children can hardly fail to enjoy the peculiar
Goop characteristics, we fancy that Mr. Burgess's
clever drawings and verses will make their strong-
est appeal to the 'grown-up.'- A book of fairy tales
from the versatile pen of the late Thomas Dunu
English is among the pleasant surprises of the sea-
It is called The Little Giant, The Big Dwarf,
and Two Other Wonder Tales' (McClurg), and is
addressed to 'boys and girls from eight to eighty
years old.' The two other' tales are "The Four
Rescues' and 'The Adventures of Wydawayk,' this
last now appearing in print for the first time. All
the stories are quaint and humorous in the best
sense of those words, and their effect is greatly
heightened by the graceful drawings of Mrs. Lucy
Fitch Perkins. — Another admirable book intended
for small children is Mrs. Mary Austin's 'The
Basket Woman' (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), in which
are told a number of fanciful tales based upon
Indian myths of the California desert. The book is
marked throughout by imagination and literary
skill, and the whole effect is delightful. — Mrs.
Frances Trego Montgomery's 'On a Lark to the
Planets' (Saalfield) is a sequel to last year's
Wonderful Electric Elephant.' In the new book the
children take a ballon trip as far as the Milky
Way, talk with the classical gods, and have adven-
tures many and various before their safe return to
earth. The illustrations in color are by Miss Wini-
fred D. Elrod. — Of the simplest words of one
syllable Miss Clara Murray has composed the little
stories in her book called The Child at Play' (Lit-
tle, Brown & Co.). The tales are intended for very
small children indeed, and there are suitable pic-
tures in color by Mr. Hermann Hayer, — Rev.
Augustus Mendon Lord has written a delightful
little account of children all over Europe in his
book entitled "The Touch of Nature: Little Stories
of Great People' (American Unitarian Association).
Child life in Italy, Spain, Hungary, Ireland, and
many other countries is here described in a way
to appeal strongly to the young mind. — Of a simi-
lar sort, but going much farther afield in its range,
in Miss Lulu Maude Chance's 'Little Folks of Many
Lands' (Ginn). The book is fully illustrated.
In 'The Story of a Mission Indian; or, Sunshine in
a Dark Place' (Badger), Miss Kathryn Wallace has
depicted the life led by the Indian children in the
California missions before the coming of the Anglo-
Saxon. The book will perform a praiseworthy
service in telling the shameful truth of the treat-
ment accorded these once happy people.
A little brother and sister living with
Stories of
home life.
their deserted and unhappy mother
come down very late Christmas Eve
and surprise a real Santa Claus; who turns out to
be their father, returned from long wanderings
restored to moral sanity and in possession of great
wealth. This is the situation described in Dr. S.
Weir Mitchell's tale called 'Mr. Kris Kringle,' now
published in a new edition by Messrs. George W.
Jacobs & Co. The pictures, by Mr. Clyde 0.
DeLand, are thoroughly harmonious with the atmos-
phere of the charming little story. — A book with
the genuine holiday flavor is Mrs. Olive Thorne
Miller's 'Kristy's Queer. Christmas' (Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.). Little Kristy gathers a number of
interesting grown folk about a great hearth fire
on Christmas evening in order to have them describe
the most wonderful thing that ever happened to
each of them on that wonderful day. The result
is a series of tales which cover pretty much all of
America in scene, and which are in turn heroic,
thrilling, and humorous. — The scene of ‘Dandelion
Cottage' (Holt) is laid by its author, Miss Carroll
Watson Rankin, in northern Michigan, where a
number of girls and an occasional boy work out
their destiny in what had been the rectory of the
small town. The story is one of difficulties bravely
overcome, and the humor of the tale is well borne
out in the pictures by Florence Scovel Shinn and
Elizabeth R. Finley. - To escape treatment more
rigid than kind the heroine of Miss Harriet A.
Cheever's 'Lou' (Estes) runs away from the insti-
tution in which she had been placed as an orphan,
and finds happiness at the end of her long journey.
- How a small middle-class London lad wins his
way to the esteem of his elder brothers is told most
attractively by Mr. B. A. Clarke in Minnows and
Tritons' (Dodd, Mead & Co.), the little chap having
the most exhilarating adventures with wild animals
and robbers during the process.
The second volume of Mr. Edward S.
Four tales
Ellis's 'Colonial Series' is called
of adventure.
Cromwell of Virginia: A Story of
Bacon's Rebellion' (Coates), and it utilizes afresh
some of the characters of An American King,'
published last year. An interesting struggle indi-
cative of the high spirit of the settlers which was
eventually to win them independence occupies the
narrative. — How a small family of boys and girls
defended their home in their father's absence dur-
ing the last French and Indian war makes the
exciting topic of Mr. James Otis's 'Defending the
Island: A Story of Bar Harbor in 1758' (Estes).
A new volume in the 'Holly Tree Series' is Mr.
H. Irving Hancock's 'Chuggins, the Youngest Hero
in the Army: A Tale of the Capture of Santiago'
(Altemus). It is a convincing account of what
befell a lad of thirteen who wished to fight because
his ancestors had, and who made his way to Cuba
as a stowaway. The colored frontispiece and other
illustrations are by Mr. J. C. Claghorn. — We come
almost to contemporary affairs in Mr. Edward
Stratemeyer's ‘Under the Mikado's Flag; or, Young
Soldiers of Fortune' (Lee & Shepard). The boy
heroes already known to readers of previous vol-
umes in Mr. Stratemeyer's 'Old Glory Series' are
in Korea when the present war with Russia breaks
forth, and they follow the fortunes of the Japanese
through the battle of Liao-Yang.
It would be a queer sort of child
Good books
indeed that could resist the charm of
of all sorts.
the little animal books written and
illustrated in color by Miss Beatrix Potter. "The
Tale of Benjamin Bunny' and 'The Tale of Two Bad
Mice' are the titles of this year's additions to the
6
Dr. Edward Cannan of the University of London
has edited for modern students of economics the
greatest of all economic classics—An Inquiry into
the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.'
The text is that of the fifth edition, carefully
collated with the others. The notes and commen.
taries of the editor are judicious and reverential,
and are just what the modern student needs as
a guide for the study of Adam Smith. The edition
is in handsome library form, in two volumes, and
is published in this country by Messrs. G. P. Put-
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NOTES.
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons import a charm-
ing new edition of R. L. Stevenson's Edinburgh,'
printed on fine paper, bound in tasteful buckram,
and illustrated.
A new text-book of Psychology, prepared by Prof.
James Rowland Angell of the University of Chi-
cago, is promised for early publication by Messrs.
Henry Holt & Co.
A Guide to English Syntax' and 'The Study of
Ivanhoe' are two pamphlet issues in the 'Study.
Guide Series,' prepared and published by Mrs. H.
A. Davidson, Cambridge.
Mr. Thomas Dixon's new novel, The Clans-
man,
is now in the hands of his publishers,
Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co., and will appear
about the middle of next month.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale's - Memories of a Hun-
dred Years' is reissued, two volumes in one, by
the Macmillan Co. The new edition is revised, and
includes three additional chapters.
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons republish, in a
seventh revised and enlarged edition, the Rev.
William Elliot Griffis's 'Corea, the Hermit Nation,'
now for over twenty years a standard work.
'The Book of the Iris,' by Mr. R. Irwin Lynch,
is a new volume in the series of 'Handbooks of
Practical Gardening,' published by Mr. John Lane.
This series now numbers twenty-one volumes.
'How to Study Shakespeare,' by Mr. William
H. Fleming, has reached Series IV. This useful
little publication (five or six plays to a volume)
comes to us from Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co.
'Lessons in Music Form,' by Dr. Percy Goet-
schius, is a recent publication of the Oliver Ditson
Co. It is 'a manual of analysis of all the structural
factors and designs employed in musical composi-
tion.'
The Barrows Lectures delivered in 1902-3 in
India, Ceylon, and Japan by Dr. Charles Cuthbert
Hall, President of the Union Theological Seminary,
will be published shortly in book form by the Uni-
versity of Chicago Press.
We are glad to note that the 'International'
Webster's Dictionary and its abridgments have
received the well-deserved distinction of a Grana
Prize (the highest award) from the Superior Jury
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
The eventful and romantic life of Benjamin
Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, has been made tho
basis of a novel which Messrs. A. C. McClurg &
Co. will publish in the early Spring. The author
is an Englishman who is said to have made an
intimate study of Disraeli's career.
The 'Life and Correspondence of John Duke,
Lord Coleridge' will be published at once by
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. Another imminent pub-
lication of the same firm is a volume on India,
written by Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich,
late Superintendent of the Survey of India.
A collection of 'Letters of Henrik Ibsen,' as
translated by Mr. John Nilsen Laurvik, is
announced for early issue by Messrs. Fox, Duffield
& Co. The selection has been made by a son of
the dramatist, with his father's sanction, and the
letters included cover the period from 1849 to 1898.
Baedeker’s ‘Paris and Environs,' imported by
the Messrs. Scribner, is the fifteenth revised edition
of that most useful of all manuals for the visitor
to the French capitol. It offers no noticeable
departure from previous editions, but has all the
additions necessary to bring it strictly up to date.
A complete account of the proceedings of the
Hawthorne Centenary celebration, held at Concord
last July, together with the speeches and addresses
delivered on that occasion, will be published this
month by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Count Tolstoy's 'Bethink Yourselves!' is now
published in book form by the Frederick A. Stokes
Co., which makes the third publication of this
eloquent work which we have had occasion to
chronicle. We hope that it will be still further
multiplied, until it reaches every intelligent person
in the United States.
A most attractive and well-prepared bookseller's
catalogue is the 'Partial List of a Unique Exhibi-
tion of the Work of the French Illustrators of the
Eighteenth Century,' issued by Messrs. Charles
Scribner's Sons. The typography is in the French
manner, and there are a number of reproduced
title-pages and illustrations.
"The Star of Bethlehem' is a miracle play of the
nativity, reconstructed by Professor Charles Mills
Gayley from a number of plays of the Towneley
and other cycles, and adapted to modern condi.
tions. It was composed for Mr. Ben Greet, and has
been performed by his company. It is published in
a tasteful volume by Messrs. Fox, Duffield & Co.
A Hawthorne Bibliography, compiled by Miss
Nina E. Browne of the Boston Athenaeum, is in
preparation for Spring publication by Messrs.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. It will contain references
to all known items in print either by or about
Hawthorne, conveniently classified
and
made
especially serviceable by a double entry magazine
index.
As no copy of the first edition of Bacon's Essays
is known to be in this country, book-collectors
will be glad to know that a facsimile reprint of
this rare edition, published in 1597, will be made
from the copy in the British Museum by Messrs.
Dodd, Mead & Co., and published in a limited
edition in one volume as near the size of the origi-
nal work as is possible.
According to the announcement of its publisher,
Mr. William Abbatt of New York, the old 'Maga-
zine of American History' will be re-established
early in the coming year. The name of the new
series will be that under which the publication
was started in 1877, The Magazine of American
History, with Notes and Queries.' Contributions
are promised from a number of well-known histori.
cal writers.
'Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto?
is the title of a work edited by Professor Edward
G. Bourne, and published in two volumes by Messrs.
A. S. Barnes & Co. in their Trail Makers' series
of reprints and translations. The work includes the
narrative of the Knight of Elvas and that of
Luys Hernandez de Biedma. It also contains an
account of de Soto's expedition taken from Oviedo,
and based upon the diary of Rodrigo Ranjel.
There is also a life of the explorer by Mr. Buck.
ingham Smith.
Prominent among the contents of The Inter-
national Studio' for December is a forcible article
by Mr. R. Harold Paget relative to the proposed
remodelling and improvement' of the old State
Capitol at Richmond, Virginia. In directing atten-
tion to this particular instance of official desecra.
tion, it is to be hoped that Mr. Paget's article
will have some effect in arousing national senti-
ment to a realization of the fact that without
the most active sort of preventive measures many
of our historic public buildings are likely to be
obliterated within a very few years.


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idiom. There is an appendix of verbal paradigms.
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341
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437
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408
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330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 397, 398, 399
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393
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393
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393
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