e lecture opened, the
and this was what the young man most desired. students, to the number of sixty, appeared in
We are told that
the hall dressed in an extravagant burlesque of
“Oscar Wilde has been heard to explain that the rea the “ æsthete's” costume, each bearing a lily in
son why he assumed that costume which it pleased his buttonhole and a huge sunflower in his hand,
him to describe as the “æsthetic costume' was merely
and paraded solemnly to the front seats that
to attract attention to his personality. For months he
had tried in vain to find a publisher for his collected
had been reserved for them in the crowded hall.
poems, and having failed to do so because he was an The effect was of course ludicrous, but the joke
unknown man, he determined to make himself known, lost something of its point when the lecturer ap-
and hit upon the device of appearing in public in an peared clad in conventional evening clothes, and
extraordinary dress. He adopted as the “æsthetic cos-
tume' a velvet coat, knee-breeches, a loose shirt with a
proceeded with his lecture in apparent uncon-
turn-down collar, and a floating tie of some unusual
sciousness of the prank that had been attempted
shade; and he not unfrequently appeared in public carry- by the fun-loving students. From Boston,
ing in his hand a lily or a sunflower, which he used to con Wilde made a long jump to Omaha, where he
template with expressions of the greatest admiration.”
lectured on Decorative Art,” startling his
Whether or not as a result of this masquerading, audience by denouncing American furniture as
Wilde did succeed in finding a publisher for his "not honestly made, and out of character."
poems, which appeared in a volume “ issued in
His visits to Denver and Louisville are briefly
the best style” in London in 1881. With all noted, but it is surprising to find no mention
their faults, the marks of youth and immaturity, at all of his trip to California, although this
the poems showed unmistakable signs of origi- afforded some of the most interesting of his
nality and strength; it is seldom indeed that so American experiences, and a memorable evening
much of merit is seen in a volume of poems by of “high jinks” given him by the Bohemian
so young a man. The book was received with Club in San Francisco is even yet spoken of as
a curious mixture of jeers and praise by the among the more notable entertainments in the
reviewers, but was “ commercially a great suc history of that famous club. Returning from
cess,” and this “ pleased Wilde very much,” California,
California, — bringing with him the character-
as he appears now to have been in very strait- ization, which he used with considerable itera-
ened financial circumstances, which contrasted tion, “ California is beautiful, it is Italy without
strangely with his early habits of reckless indul- her art," Wilde stopped in Chicago, in the
gence. The volume was promptly reprinted in spring of 1882. Of his stay here, one inter-
America, where it had rather more of a literary esting incident, relating to a since famous but
success than in England ; and this fact, and then obscure artist — the sculptor Donoghue -
the hope of making money by lecturing, seem must be quoted from Mr. Sherard's narrative.
to have led Wilde to plan a trip to America, On his arrival in Chicago, he received a letter at
where he arrived late in the
year
1881. He his hotel from a young Irish sculptor who told him of
came here with a fairly good reputation as a
the misery in which he was living, and begged him to
poet, and a rather vague one as “ the apostle of
come to the garret which was his studio and look at his
work. Wilde set out directly for the address given, and
æstheticism ” which Wilde himself probably did after a hazardous excursion into the slums of Chicago
not take too seriously, his statement being that found John Donoghue's abode. He stayed with him a
he came to expound - a philososophy of art," long time, he praised his work, he comforted him, he
and that “ æstheticism was to be taken as a
told him the great consolation of l’Art pour l'Art, and
he did not leave him without commissioning him to do
“study of truth in art.” His first experience
a piece of work. The next evening, John Donoghue,
was in Chickering Hall, New York, where he sitting in the audience in the crowded lecture hall, sud-
lectured on “ The Renaissance.” Again he was denly heard Oscar Wilde, in the course of his lecture,
successful “ from a commercial point of view," reproach the fashionable men and women who were
as his biographer tells us; and his success led to
listening to his words with the fact that a young sculp-
tor of undoubted genius who was living in their midst
an arrangement with the well-known manager
was being allowed to die of hunger and neglect. He
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spoke of the beautiful things he had seen there, of the
THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIONALITY.*
beautiful things this young man could do, of the honor
he could bring to the city of Chicago if only people Making a virtue of necessity, the earlier vol-
would encourage his efforts. The consequence was that umes of “ The American Nation” series very suc-
the next day John Donoghue was everywhere discussed
in Chicago; people flocked to his studio; commissions cessfully covered in short compass long periods
poured in. John Donoghue's artistic career was assured.
of time: for the whole narrative history of the
He came to Europe, he studied, he prospered.”
colonies, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth
Another case in which Wilde endeavored to century, is contained in only six volumes. It
help a deserving friend had a less happy ter is with joy that we now find, in what may
be
mination, though one not unusual, perhaps, in
called the second quarter of this coöperative
similar attempts to assist struggling but some-
series, that to the same number of volumes is
times peevish children of genius. The reference allotted the history of only those two genera-
in this case we take to be to the English poet
tions which extended from the Peace of Paris
Rennell Rodd. Wilde made great efforts to find
in 1763 to the close of the War of 1812. In
an American publisher for this young man's
this way, each writer is allowed far greater
poems, and at last succeeded, he himself writing opportunity for the elaboration of his subject,
a preface for the book. But when it appeared, it
and those are pleased who regret to see anything
represented such astonishing ideas of “æsthetic overworked
even a good book.
decoration " in its make-up that the author felt There are certain general principles which one
himself aggrieved, and, holding Wilde respon-
should always bear in mind when one wishes to
sible, wrote him a bitter letter putting an end
understand and appreciate any work upon the
to their friendship.
Revolutionary epoch. The course of events
Wilde's visit to Walt Whitman is interest-
indeed proved that separation from the mother
ingly described.
country must be a condition precedent for the
establishment of a national government.
But
“Wilde was distressed by the poverty of Walt Whit-
man's appearance, his shabby attire, and especially by for many years, in all the English colonies, there
the untidiness and squalor of the one room in which the had been developing those habits of self-govern-
American poet lived. The place was littered with great ment and those principles of political action
heaps of newspapers, strewn all over the room, and
without which independence would have been
over them was so thick a coat of dust that it was im-
vain and the document of 1787 a lifeless paper.
possible for the visitor to find a clean spot where he
could sit down. Walt Whitman, primeval, natural,
At that time, moreover, the necessity of inde-
aboriginal, would feel little sympathy for the dandified pendence was by no means obvious. When we
Hellene."
recall that in the early years all the colonists,
Wilde's lecture-trip extended to the largest and to the very end a large and respectable
cities of Canada and Nova Scotia, from whence minority of them, professed their belief that
he returned to New York with a “substantial colonial life might still find ample expression
sum of money” as the result of his year's work within the British Empire, we are always eager
in America. He soon went back to London, for any new light which may explain how words
and not long after went to Paris, where consid-
of loyalty changed into deeds of war. Finally,
erable portions of his future life were passed, the degree to which the tendency towards unity,
and where he died in poverty and obscurity, at but little effective in the seventeenth century,
the
age of forty-six. Mr. Sherard's account of had developed before 1787, and the relative
this strange and broken life is full and inter-weight of it as contrasted with the provincial or
esting, although it suffers from the extravagant state feeling, were matters of dispute, and the
tone of eulogy and admiration which colors it discussion has yielded ground only through
throughout. It is to be taken, as we said at absorption into the larger question of State as
the outset, as a defense and an apology; and against National sovereignty.
taken thus, it well repays perusal. The volume The first of these points — the growth of the
is admirably printed, and is supplied with a colonies into self-government has been de-
good index ; while the bibliography, showing a
* THE AMERICAN NATION. A History. From original sources
surprising number of titles in prose and verse, by associated scholars. Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, LL.D.,
with translations into French, German, Italian,
Vol. VIII., The Preliminaries of the Revolution, by
G. E. Howard. Vol. IX., The American Revolution, by Claude
Spanish, Russian, Swedish, and Polish, gives a Halstead Van Tyne. Vol. X., The Confederation and the Con-
stitution, by Andrew C. McLaughlin. Vol. XI., The Federalist
new sense of the brilliancy of Wilde's talents
System, by John Spencer Bassett. Vol. XII., The Jeffersonian
as a writer, mingled with regret and pity for his System, by Edward Channing. Vol. XIII., The Rise of American
Nationality, by Kendric Charles Babcock. Illustrated. New
downfall as a man.
York: Harper & Brothers.
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veloped in the earlier volumes of this series. Committees of Correspondence, and the coercive
With “ The Preliminaries of the Revolution," legislation of 1773–74. With chapters upon
the solution of the second and third problems the meeting of the first Continental Congress,
is taken up by Professor G. E. Howard. Pro- the appeal to arms, and the loyalist side of the
fessor Howard reviews first the educative and argument, this volume comes to a close. The
unifying effects of the French war, refers to the main causes of the Revolution, in the author's
prophecies of independence made by foreign mind, were economic and political, working
statesmen or by travellers in America, and then throughout a long period of time; but he stresses
treats in considerable detail the topic about also the too much neglected side of social change.
which there has been most disagreement among 6. The conditions were favorable to the rise of a
writers, that is, the influence as a cause of the more united and a freer society in America ; but
Revolution of England's commercial policy to this was hindered by the inertia of a colonial sys-
ward the colonies. The course of two centuries tem which the American people had outgrown.”
had developed a large body of laws, which were Hardly any book in the series is more attrac-
designed to regulate the economic activities of tively written than "The American Revolution,"
all parts of the empire. Allowing full weight by Professor C. H. Van Tyne, which covers
to the argument that England's course was more especially the years 1776-1783. To recount
enlightened and her code less severe than those merely the campaigns of the Revolution demands
of other nations, Professor Howard nevertheless either large space or very careful condensation ;
holds the view that “the primary cause of the and the author has chosen and successfully exe-
American Revolution must be sought in the cuted the latter plan, reinforcing his text with
character of the old colonial system.” The maps and charts of peculiar excellence. By
author is thus led to a review of the commercial thus carefully compressing the story of battles
legislation of England, which, if it involves a and marches, Professor Van Tyne gains space
repetition, in part, of matter found in previous for touches of personal description,
as in the
volumes, justifies this by the clearness of the simple and impressive sketches of Washington
treatment. As one might expect in such a work, and Jefferson, - and for summaries of arguments
the discussion is largely external. The history like that which he gives of Paine's “ Common
of the system as it actually worked is still to be Sense.” For his treatment of the loyalist posi-
quarried from the manuscript archives of the tion, Professor Van Tyne is able to draw on the
colonies and from the materials in the British results of his own special researches in that
Public Record Office; and these two classes of field. The intensity of party strife is much
sources seem to have been little used by Pro-emphasized, as is also the importance of the
fessor Howard.
diplomatic activities of the Congress. One
Worthy of special notice is Professor How topic, it seems to us, is handled somewhat less
ard's handling of the law of 1764, known as the skilfully. In neither this nor the succeeding
Sugar Act.";
This statute, which Mr. Fiske volume do we find a worthy explanation of the
(for example) entirely neglected, links the parlia- establishment of the government under the
mentary legislation of the Revolutionary period Articles of Confederation. Perhaps this is due
to the former code. A full realization of this to faulty linking between books each of which
reduces somewhat the cataclysmic importance has strong individuality. In contrast with this,
usually ascribed to the Stamp Act, and shows only praise can be given to the thoroughness
that the latter aroused such violent opposition with which Professor Van Tyne has worked over
largely because its burdens were to fall upon the story of the erection of the State govern-
a people already enraged and fearful of com ments. The result of this, in the author's mind,
mercial ruin. The fall of Grenville's ministry, is to establish the undoubted sovereignty of the
the author reminds us, was in no way due to States. He points out that the very federal activi-
the Stamp Act, nor did Rockingham himself at ties of the Congress, so often brought forward to
first consider it of prime importance. After argue the residence of sovereignty in that body,
discussing this topic and the unhappy inventions on the contrary were so exercised as to show
of Charles Townshend, Professor Howard turns that the Congress itself made no such pretense.
aside to speak of the attempts to secure Anglican Th
This States-rights interpretation of Professor
Another chapter tells of Van Tyne draws from the editor of the series
the settlement of the Western country, after the explanation that “it is no part of the scheme
which we are brought back to the narrative of of the series to adjust the conclusions of the
constitutional and political development — the
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The conclusions of the next volume, “ The suited the colonists or that in the long run suited her-
Confederation and the Constitution,” are doubt-
self. The learned Mansfield or the faithful Grenville
could do no more than assert the sovereignty of Parlia-
less more in accord with those of the editor ;
ment and declare that all power rested at Westminster.
for the author, Professor A. C. McLaughlin, The Americans were not content with this simple dec-
sympathizes with the nationalist sentiment of laration of law; they insisted on other rights, on an
those early years, represented in the Conven imperial order in which not all legislative power was
gathered at the centre. When at length independence
tion by such men as King and Wilson. Of the gathered at the centre.
came, when the colonies were states, and especially when
doctrine of the indivisibility of sovereignty, out-
the war was over, what was America to do? Could
lined by Calhoun and accepted by most modern the Americans, who had scolded England so roundly
publicists, Professor McLaughlin speaks some and broken away from her control, find imperial organi-
what disrespectfully.“ To discuss metaphysical
“ To discuss metaphysical zation themselves without giving up all they had con-
tended for ? Could they reconcile local liberty with
sovereignty is to get lost in mazes of intangible
central authority and real unity? The work was a
argument and of more impalpable assertion.'
momentous one, of great significance to mankind, and
The last seven chapters of this book give, how it must be done, if at all, by a distracted country emerg-
ever, the best general account that is now avail ing from civil war.”
able, in anything like the same space, of the The next three volumes of the series describe
Convention of 1787 and of the adoption of the the life of the United States under the Consti-
Constitution by the States. Written with that tution to the administration of James Monroe.
freshness and firmness that come from direct and The first of these is “ The Federalist System,
intimate contact with the sources, they should by Professor J. S. Bassett, to whom, for this
make this volume a boon to students, especially work, the John Marshall Prize in American
to college classes.
History has recently been awarded by Johns
The first part of the work is taken up with Hopkins University. For Washington's two
the story of the negotiations for peace. To the administrations and the single term of John
course of the American commissioners in break- Adams, Professor Bassett has almost the same
ing their instructions, the author gives a quali- space at his command as that taken by Dr.
fied approval, holding that “while Vergennes Schouler for the same period; but the book,
was not altogether frank, and was considering while scholarly and inclusive, lacks somewhat
the interests of Spain and France, he was not the verve of Professor McLaughlin's and Pro-
deliberately, treacherously, and maliciously fessor Channing's volumes.
plotting, as has sometimes been charged, to The principal facts of these twelve years were
cramp and belittle the United States.” As to
the successful establishment of the government
the economic and social conditions of the times under the Constitution, the organization of the
finance, commerce, paper money, and the Republican party on the basis of popular gov-
Professor McLaughlin's ernment, and the policy of neutrality in foreign
treatment is clear and full. To one point, not affairs. Hamilton for the first, Jefferson for
always emphasized, we must call attention -
the second, Washington and Adams for the third
the fact that when finances were at their worst
of these accomplishments, are the figures which
and the governments in their greatest exigencies, at once become the chief actors in the drama.
the people generally were rather prosperous than
The whole epoch, indeed, brings out sharply,
otherwise. “ The trouble was not poverty, but and often in a most unpleasant manner, the facts
commercial confusion, vicious politics, and a of personality. Before long the country was
natural disinclination to pay taxes.” Against divided by faction, and the political billingsgate
such human failings, even the influence of
became so merciless that one is reminded of the
Washington would not avail.
expression of a colonial governor, — " If you
There are two chapters upon the development throw enough mud, some of it will stick.” But
of the Western country; but they must now be more important and enduring facts were the
passed by, and our appreciation of this excellent building of a wonderful financial machine by
book must close with the quotation of a single the genius of the brilliant Secretary of the Treas-
paragraph, in which Professor McLaughlin pre ury, the devious twists and turns of plots in the
sents the central thesis of the whole work.
western and southwestern border, and the loom-
“ The political task that confronted the people when ing up of the slavery question. To his discussion
independence from Great Britain was declared was in
its essence the same that had confronted the British
of these leading topics, Professor Bassett adds
ministry ten years before -- the task of imperial organiza- chapters on " The Republican Court,” the state
tion. Britain had been able to find no principles that of society, and economic conditions. The latter


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.
part of the book treats of the quarrel with France, and diplomatic sides of this main achievement
the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, and the of the third president to recall to us the influence
fall of the Federalist party.
of Jefferson's scientific turn of mind, which led
Professor Channing modestly refers to his him to suggest and provide for the exploration
book,“ The Jeffersonian System," as a "sketch," of the new acquisitions. He then takes up
and gracefully acknowledges Professor Henry slavery, the Chase impeachment, and Jefferson's
Adams's masterpiece as the foundation of it. reëlection. There follows a clear statement of
But the source material is so much Professor what the author calls - in its various ramifica-
Channing's own, and the book is so pervaded tions . . probably the most complicated his-
with a humor just touched with cynicism, that torical problem in the annals of the United
this volume impresses one as more " original” States.” This, the Yazoo affair, of course brings
than most of the series. While Mr. Henry to the front the unique figure of John Randolph
Adams may rejoice to have such a redactor, of Roanoke, whose ugly countenance and flash-
Professor Channing's views are entirely indepen ing invective stand out vividly in Professor
dent, and indeed his criticisms constitute one of Channing's pages. In this chapter ålso is pointed
the most valuable features of the work. He out the beginning of that rift in the Republican
tries to hold to a compromise point of view party which left Randolph in opposition to Madi-
between Mr. Adams's lack of sympathy and the son and to everything that Madison wished.
opposite tendency of Schouler's second volume. The next dramatic episode appeared in the
Some parts of the story, indeed, even Professor mysterious conspiracy of Aaron Burr. Here
Channing hardly makes interesting ; the account Professor Channing has availed himself of Dr.
of the Tripolitan war suggests a pious duty per- McCaleb's working-over of the materials, but
formed. But this is notably exceptional. he does not accept the latter's conclusions in
The book opens with the scene at the inau their entirety. He thinks that Burr at one time
guration, “ doubly interesting, indeed, because did meditate the severance of the West from the
probably in the whole country there could not Union, and that his designs on Mexico were an
have been found three men who more thoroughly opportunist variation of his plan. It is strange
detested and distrusted one another than Thomas how
many
and how different men were concerned
Jefferson, John Marshall, and Aaron Burr."
in one way or another with this discreditable
“It would have been interesting to have heard affair, - the eccentric Blennerhassett, the un-
what Marshall said to himself as he held out the suspecting Jackson and Clay, the arch-deceiver
Bible on which Jefferson swore to preserve, pro- Wilkinson, who “sold his alternate oaths to
tect and defend the Constitution of the United either throne,” John Marshall, with partisanship
States.' To Jefferson, in the matter of removals regrettably displayed, and lastly the irate Presi-
from office, Professor Channing ascribes greater dent, for once vexed out of his customary self-
moderation than has sometimes been awarded possession.
him. Indeed, while no laudatory biography is The remaining eight chapters, which consti-
attempted, the book is in a way a rehabilitation tute somewhat less than half the book, are
of Jefferson — "an idealist," says Professor devoted to a thorough, clear, and interesting
Channing, “ who was in politics from a sincere account of the causes of the War of 1812.
desire to save the nation from those whom he The influence of the wars in Europe upon the
termed monocrats and monopolists."
commerce of the United States, the principal
Of the measures of his presidency the pièce neutral country, the commercial policy of the
de résistance was the Louisiana Purchase, the European nations at that day, the ideas that
strange stroke of chance which caused or helped then prevailed as to citizenship, expatriation,
cause the volte-face of Federalists and Republi- search and impressment, the decisions of the
cans, and which always reminds us of Macaulay's prize courts, finally the mediocre character of
description, in the essay on the Earl of Chatham, the representatives sent to the United States by
of the two great English parties. When we find foreign powers — all these points are taken up
John Breckenridge, who introduced Jefferson's and explained. Then follows the narrative of the
Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, maintaining that outrages which so incensed America, and of the
foreign territory could actually be admitted into continued attempts of the executive to avoid war.
the Union as a State or any number of States by This topic is carried over into Madison's admin-
treaty, we feel that verily things were marching istration to the declaration of hostilities, June,
to the tune of “ The world turned upside down.” 1812, with chief emphasis upon the diplomatic
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sto
Babcock’s volume, “ The Rise of American Na- finally the author sums up the early work of John
tionality,” the same period is gone over again, Marshall as Chief Justice, emphasizing Mar-
but with more reference to internal politics. shall's conversion of his associates to such an
Party factions, as before, the American hunger extent that " if the court were. Republicanized
to possess the Floridas, and the other problems its practice became Federalized or perhaps Mar-
of the Southwest and Northwest; the composi- shallized.” Whether “ the United States in full
tion of the new Congress, called in extra session nationalism found itself,” depends on the point
in November, 1811, and the sharp break with of view; certainly a fresh and important start
old traditions which the younger members was made towards nationalism ; but the fact was
brought about, - these movements, and the to be bitterly questioned in the years to come.
last phases of unfortunate diplomacy, carry the If the problem of imperial organization was
reader to the beginning of the war.
not yet finally solved, the war had nevertheless
American accounts of the War of 1812 have brought about mighty results. In its handling
often been marred by one or the other of two of these, Professor Babcock's work cannot be
opposite evils : over-patriotic apology, or in- considered by itself, but must be regarded as
discriminate ridicule. From a scholarly writer the conclusion to the whole group which we
of the present day we expect neither. Instead, have had under review; while the results of the
President Babcock gives three chapters to the war must be looked at in the light of the whole
war, one to the Canadian campaigns, one to the preceding history. In his opening chapter, the
fighting at sea, and one to the coast campaigns. author points out that all the quarter-century
While not sparing vigorous criticism, either of between the peace of 1783 and Madison's inau-
the government or of individuals, the author is guration had only served to show that the United
upon the whole sympathetic, and endeavors to States had not become really independent of
be just to everyone. The story of action is so Europe, because economically, if not politically,
calmly presented as sometimes to be cold; the they were still in the position of a colonial sys-
connection, for example, between the bombard- tem. From this embarrassing situation they
ment of Fort McHenry and the hymn of Francis were set free by the War of 1812, through which
Scott Key might at least be noticed.
they attained“ an independence which was not
It is in the discussion of politics that the merely recognized but respected, a sovereignty
author is at his best. He has given considerable which was at once dynamic and efficient."
space to the lack of financial and moral support After the war, the country suffered no more
which characterized New England during the from the old irritations which had fixed her gaze
struggle, and to the disaffection which was most upon
The questions of neutral rights,
patently expressed in the Hartford Convention. impressments, etc., faded into the background.
The journal of the Convention, when published, “ The new world was to be a domestic world. Its
“ was found to contain nothing treasonable, but questions would be too big for the states to solve alone;
national settlement and national action would be re-
it was always suspected that this journal reflected
quired on such issues as the currency, banking, the
neither the temper nor the decisions of the con-
tariff, internal improvements, public lands, the extension
vention.” President Babcock is of the opinion of slavery, immigration and the development of the
that the danger to the country has been under-
West.
All but unconsciously the nation at the close
estimated. “Had Jackson been defeated at New of the war heard and obeyed the call to face about."
Orleans, or had news of the failure of the nego Into these questions of the future, the realign-
tiations at Ghent been received, the overthrow ment of parties, the Second Bank, the new tariff,
of the government at Washington and the westward migration and internal improvements,
establishment of a New England confederacy, the succeeding chapters of this volume enter ;
and possibly an alliance with Great Britain, but these topics may with more propriety be
would seem to have been inevitable. The news
considered in connection with their larger de-
of peace and of victory saved Madison, and per- velopment in the volumes to follow. In conclud-
haps the Union.” After an interesting account ing our review of this group of fine volumes, we
of the peace negotiations, and of the treaty which
think it not out of order to express the hope
decided practically none of the important issues that the last volume of the series, which is ad-
on which the war was fought, the latter half of vertised to be a general index, may include an
the book deals with the results of the war,
index to the bibliographical material appended
of which we shall say more below. The closing to the several volumes. This will increase yet
chapters proceed with the further diplomatic
more the usefulness of “ The American Nation
business with England and with Spain, and
series.
Sr. GEORGE L. SIOUSSAT.
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;
seed-plots, if not also as achievements — that his death,
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF HERBERT
writ large, was immortality.”
SPENCER.*
It is characteristic of Spencer, that his first
English Men of Science”, is the general title
bias in favor of Evolution was the result of read-
of a series of small volumes, edited by Dr. J. ing the chapter in Lyell's
Reynolds Green, and published at a very mod- logy” devoted to a refutation of that doctrine.
erate price. While they are larger and more
He did not perceive how it might have come
elaborate than the “ Beacon Biographies of
about (those were pre-Darwinian days), but it
Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co., they share with
these (so far as the examples before us show) Nature than special creation, which he later
was clearly more congruous with the order of
the good qualities of readability, reasonable
characterized as “a pseudo-idea" - a “mere
brevity, and attractive form, together with an
verbal hypothesis,” meaningless even to those
excellent portrait of the subject of the biography who professed to believe in it.
as a frontispiece. The appearance of a small
Spencer's ponderous Autobiography has been
work on Herbert Spencer might not seem to call adversely criticised by those who are little com-
for special comment; but when we learn that petent to appreciate its meaning ; in the work
the author is Professor J. Arthur Thomson, we
before us we find what seems to be a juster
look forward to a combination of wisdom and
estimate.
style which will remove it far from the multi-
“Some one has called autobiography the least cred-
tude of horrid little pot-boilers; and we are not ible form of fiction; but that is not the impression which
disappointed. Just as Professor Poulton's small Spencer's gives. His self-analysis is candid and con-
volume on “Charles Darwin and the Theory of
tinuous; he is always revealing his feet of clay, and that
with a self-complacency which is unintelligible to those
Natural Selection ” (1896) has had an influence
who do not understand the impersonal scientific mood
quite out of proportion to its external preten which had become habitual to Spencer. He almost
sions, so we may expect that Thomson on Spencer achieved the impossible, of looking at himself from the
will long remain one of the most frequented
outside.
sources of information about the English phi- and he never wrote anything better; Spencer occupied
“ Huxley wrote an autobiography in a score of pages,
losopher.
over a thousand pages with his account of himself, and
It would be absurd to give a summary
of he never wrote anything worse. Dictated in outline in
summary; the more so, since the facts presented 1875, it was elaborated piecemeal in small daily instal-
are not new. It will better serve the reader's
ments, after the most serious of the many breakdowns
purpose to offer a few characteristic quotations, enough, therefore, the Autobiography is often prolix
in health had precluded more difficult work. Naturally
sufficient to show the flavor of the book. What
and lacking in proportion, often slack in style, and, it
could be more charming, and more true, than must be confessed, tedious. Little details in a picture
the following from the Introduction ?
may be essential to the effective impression, but Spencer
“ The story of Spencer's life is neither eventful nor
often wearies us with trifling incidents whose narration
picturesque, but it commands the interest of all who
has no excuse except as happening in a great life. Yet,
admire faith, courage, and loyalty to an ideal. It is a
if we lay the volumes aside, bored by their monumental
story of plain living and high thinking, of one who, though
egotism, we return to them with sympathy, and are won
vexed by an extremely nervous temperament, was as
again by their unaffected frankness and candid sincerity.”
resolute as a Hebrew prophet in delivering his message. Using the Autobiography as a basis, but
It is the story of a quiet servant of science, indifferent “ exercising the right of private judgment,”
to conventional honors, careless about getting on,' dis Professor Thomson proceeds to an analysis of
liking controversy, sensationalism, and noise, trusting to
the power of truth alone, that it must prevail.
Spencer's character and work, — his physical,
“ Another aspect of interest is that Spencer was an
intellectual, and emotional characteristics, his
arch-heretic, one of the flowers of nonconformity, against achievements and their effect upon mankind.
theology and against metaphysics, against monarchy and
All is so well presented, and is so significant in
against molly-coddling legislation, against classical edu-
relation to the thought of our day, that one is
cation and against socialism, against war and against
Weismann. So that we can hardly picture the man who tempted to class the book
tempted to class the book among the compara-
has not some crow to pick with Spencer. . .
tively small number of those which“ everybody"
" In an age of specialism he held up the banner of the should read.
T. D. A. COCKERELL.
Unity of Science, and he actually completed, so far as
he could complete, the great task of his life greater
than most men have even dreamed of — that of apply The new two-volume edition of Mr. W. B. Yeats's
ing the evolution-formula to everything knowable. He poems, to be issued this fall by the Macmillan Co., will,
influenced thought so largely, he inspired so many dis it is promised, contain the entire works in verse of the
ciples, he left so many enduring works — enduring as Irish poet. The first volume will be devoted to lyrics
• HERBERT SPENCER. By J. Arthur Thomson. New York:
and miscellaneous poems, while the second volume will
contain the dramas in verse.
a
E. P. Dutton & Co.


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THE NEW ORDER IN FINANCE.*
Although the political campaign of 1896 is now
a decade past, each year brings its group of new books
upon finance. Very different in tone, however, are
the books of the last few years from those that were
issued in the days of the silver contest. Then, the
battle raged about the question of the money,
stand-
ard; while the works now appearing deal with the
principles and history of our financial system, and
with proposed changes and reforms.
The four books assigned for review in this article
may be arranged under the division suggested above.
Mr. Conant's two-volume work upon “The Principles
of Money and Banking” falls under the first caption,
Professor Wildman's “Money Inflation in the United
States, a Study in Social Pathology” is classed as
historical, and Professor Cleveland's “The Bank
and the Treasury” and Mr. Lawson's "Frenzied
Finance” are forced into the category of reforms.
The book on “Frenzied Finance” hardly belongs
to a discussion of monetary subjects, for it is a
polemic upon the doings of industrial corporations
engaged in taking to themselves the resources of the
earth. Coming in the same express packages with
the others, and having now resided upon the shelves
of the reviewer in the company of the three books
first named, “Frenzied Finance” is admitted into the
privileges of review with the more dignified treatises
upon phases of the money question. This concession
may affect the "rotundity” of the article, but “Fren-
zied Finance” will be disposed of in the
process.
The largest of the books on money published for
many a year is Mr. Conant's “ Principles of Money
and Banking.” Filled to half of their bulk with quo-
tations, the two volumes have the appearance, upon
first glimpse, of being inflated; yet a careful reading
increases the admiration for the skill with which the
well-selected quotations have been woven into the
book. Like many writers, Mr. Conant has accepted
the definition of intrinsic value as the real test of a
commodity money. By this limitation, a treatise
on money would be confined to gold coin; whereas
popular usage invariably forces the consideration
of other forms of currency. Indirectly, the author
recognizes this fact by making a distinction between
scientific and popular points of view. It is just this
that determines the ability of the economist to come
in touch with real industrial life. If the economist
is to define economic tools in language that does not
touch the facts, he never can come in close contact
with the people. The definition selected by our
author is the easiest way out of a difficult matter.
Professor Seligman, in his recent “ Principles of
Economics,” uses the term “money” in the wide
sense of popular usage (p. 451). The same prac-
tically may be said of Professor Kinley's definition
(p. 70 " Money”). Aside from the question of
definition, the book proceeds to the discussion of
money and banking principles with a clearness and
breadth of view that is really refreshing in these
days of marginal utility. Here and there is to be
noticed an antiquarian tendency to delve deep into
the historical details of some ancient bank or money
issue quite out of relation to the bigger principles
of modern money and banking. In Volume I., the
chapters upon "How Credit Influences the Value of
Money," "The Relation of Money to Prices," and
the “Types of Currency Systems” are valuable
contributions to much discussed questions that show
clearly the influence of an actual banking experience
upon the application of theory to practice. The
opening of the chapter upon the Quantity Theory of
Money gives the reader the impression that here at
last we are getting somewhere in this quantitative
discussion; but the chapter closed with distinct dis-
appointment to at least one reader who still had the
feeling that the real point had not been touched. The
volume
upon Banking is the best of the two. The
chapters upon Credit, Cash Reserves, The Function
of the Banker, The Influence of the Discount Rate,
The Origin of Crises and the Management of Crises,
are especially valuable. The reviewer does not wish
to leave the impression that he is an ingrate, for he
feels under great obligations to Mr. Conant for his
book. What was once scattered and almost unattain-
able in small libraries has been brought together in
an attractive, new, and forceful way, which leaves
the professor of economics deeply indebted to the
author.
With Mr. Wildman's book on “Money Inflation,"
this review turns to an old phase of the money
question under a new dress referred to by the author
as psychological. It is the question of economic
distress, its resultant influence upon the minds of
the men who live in a community so affected, and
the nature of the thought and legislation put forth
by them as a remedy for the economic conditions.
Professor Wildman shows conclusively the close
relation between economic conditions and the atti-
tude of men toward monetary legislation; but the
use of the two introductory chapters on “ Psycho-
logical Basis of Popular Movements in General”
and “ Particular Psychological Forces Effective in a
Movement for Currency Legislation” gives the
reader the impression of a discovery in economics.
The points emphasized by Professor Wildman were
strongly put by Professor Sumner in his “ Andrew
Jackson and “Finances and Financiers of the
American Revolution," and also by Professor Tur-
ner in the “Significance of the Frontier in American
History.” Not that the author has not done well to
repeat the positions of his predecessors, but that the
force of the points made is likely to be lost in a too
extensive use of psychological terms and in separating
their treatment from the actual events dealt with so
interestingly in the last seven chapters of the book.
*THE PRINCIPLES OF MONEY AND BANKING. By Charles A.
Conant. In two volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers.
MONEY INFLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. By Murray Shipley
Wildman. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
THE BANK AND THE TREASURY. By Frederick A. Cleveland.
New York: Longmans, Green, & Co.
FRENZIED FINANCE. By Thomas W. Lawson. New York:
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In pointing out slowness of mind, undeveloped view. Not for a moment is the reader allowed to
powers of analysis, as the reasons for acceptance of think that the system in the United States is a per-
money fallacies by people of rural districts, Professor fect one, for the author devotes a number of chapters
Wildman places the authors of vituperation during to reforms of the monetary system. Most authori-
the campaign of 1896 in an almost inexcusable posi ties regard the Independent Treasury as unsatisfac-
tion. When such unenlightenment exists, there is tory and even dangerous. Professor Cleveland has
but one policy to follow — that of education. On at least raised the question of examining both sides
the other hand, Professor Wildman has not over of any proposal to establish central banks with
looked the advocacy of a money fallacy because it branches.
was productive of gains to leading citizens. This The use of the word “system” is about the only
fact is clearly shown in the issue of bank notes connecting link between the first three books and the
during the land speculation period (1815–1840), last one considered in this article. But Mr. Law-
and the opposition of the Middle West to the Sec son's system has no reference to the monetary system
ond Bank of the United States. The continuance of the United States, but rather to that industrial
of a frontier in the United States meant that a con system which has taken to itself the business of a
siderable proportion of the population was isolated great industry and out of the profits secured the
and likely to be affected by emotional tendencies, control of railroads, insurance companies, and banks.
while the numbers under similar conditions created The character of the book's contents are known to
a solidarity of interest which in time took the form most readers, so that any review of them to-day is
of a political movement and the demand for redress unnecessary. However, it should be said that Mr.
from the Government. Willingness to yield on Lawson's prediction came nearer to the truth than
financial legislation has kept the United States in the most suspicious supposed. It is not always true
the boiling pot of money fallacy almost from the that a man's words are justified so thoroughly as
beginning. All this, and much more, has been clearly those of Mr. Lawson. The book is bombastic at times;
brought out in this book, which is well worthy of nevertheless it did a great service in pointing out so
commendation to the inquiring student.
clearly the
way
the
game was carried on.
The period of credit expansion is not limited to
FRANK L. McVey.
the days of wild-cat currency alone. Each decade
sees it in some form. To-day the expansion of bank
credits for speculative purposes has been repeatedly
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
referred to in the comments and writings of bankers
and trained observers. Increase of deposits through
Voyagers, There has been no lack of material,
the medium of loans and discounts beyond the point explorers of
pirates, and
especially in recent years, on the
of conservative banking is a matter of common the Pacific. voyages and personality of the great
occurrence in every large city. The third book in navigators who sailed across the Atlantic, from the
our present group is a protest against banking on ports of England, France, Spain, and Scandinavia,
inadequate capital and reserves. Professor Cleveland and unveiled to the astonished eyes of Europe the
subjects the banking equipment to thorough analysis vast outlines of a new continent. The historians
and criticism. In his opinion, too much of banking have been so busy, however, with the Atlantic voy-
capital is tied up in slow assets, and too little atten ages, that the equally important, or hardly less
tion is paid to the maintenance of redemption equip- | important, voyages to the Pacific coast of North
ment. The elasticity of note issue is a small question America have been pretty well lost sight of. It is
in these days of commercial paper, as compared therefore matter for congratulation that Miss Agnes
with the elasticity of loans and discounts. In the Laut, who had already thrown such an attractive
words of Mr. Cleveland, a bank should have a capital light upon the achievements of these pathfinders
equipment “ large enough to protect its credit and of the West, Radisson, La Vérendrye, Mackenzie,
to meet all commercial demands of its customers for Hearne, and Lewis and Clark, has since turned her
money without calling in its loans.” In fact, it may attention, with no less satisfactory results, to the
be held that too much attention has been paid to the voyages of those whom she happily calls “ Vikings
security of notes at the expense of soundness of bank of the Pacific.” Miss Laut possesses the happy
credit.
faculty of seizing upon the elements of human inter-
It is rather refreshing to note the courage with est that lie buried in even the dryest of historical
which this author accepts the American system as documents, enfolding them in a glamor of romance
an outcome of evolution, and as especially adapted without destroying their historical value, and pre-
to American needs. He argues strongly against the senting them to the reader with the combined fidelity
present vicious system of helping the banks by Gov. and skill of historian and novelist. Beginning with
ernment aid in periods of financial flurry, maintain the Russian explorations along the Pacific coast, she
ing that the receipt of Government funds cannot recounts the voyages of Vitus Bering the Dane, the
increase the elasticity of banking paper, since such daring sea-otter hunters of the northwest coast, and
funds are soon absorbed in business. Instead of the remarkable adventures of Count Benyowsky;
the Independent Treasury checking the national she then traces for us the voyages of Drake, Cook,
money supply, Mr. Cleveland holds to the opposite | Ledyard, Gray of Boston, and Vancouver, closing


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.
with an account of the Russian fur-trade and the problems, political, executive, and administrative,
exploitation of the Pacific coast under the Russian with which the State and Federal authorities were
American Fur Company and the renowned leader confronted; the conflict of Federaland State activities;
Baranof. Peter the Great's laconic instructions to the Northern opposition to the war; the draft; and
Bering were, to build two boats at Kamchatka, with the various mistakes and some of the good measures
these to sail northward along the coast, to inquire of the Washington authorities. The field is an inter-
where the American coast begins, to chart this un esting one; the author lived through the period of
known coast, and return. Peter died before his which he treats, and has had access to the records,
wishes could be obeyed; but Vitus Bering, having published and unpublished; but it cannot be said
received his orders, rested not until they had been that the work is a success. It brings out little that
fulfilled. The story of his wonderful journey across is new, and is not nearly so clear and satisfactory as
two continents, in the face of obstacles of every Mr. Rhodes's briefer treatment of the same subjects.
kind; of the building and equipment of his boats ; Mr. Weeden has several handicaps, chief among
of his voyage out into the unknown; of his discov them being a lack of the historical attitude of mind.
ery of the American coast; and of his death, worn He begins with certain assumptions and goes on to
out in the service of his adopted and ungrateful prove certain theses, rejecting all that conflicts with
country, on the little island that now bears his his views, which appear to be those of the heat and
name, is all admirably told by Miss Laut. She passion of 1861-1865 as regards Northern Demo-
gives us a picture of the brave and tireless Dane crats, though he has forgiven the Southern “rebel.”
that one would not willingly have missed. The
The In his opinion, the Union, or American Nation, is
story of Benyowsky, the Polish pirate, furnishes one not a thing of slow evolution, but dates even back
of the most extraordinary incidents of a romantic of the 1789 beginning; the theories of to-day are
period. Sent as an exile to Siberia, he drew his projected back of 1861, and this is justified by say:
fellow-prisoners into a plot to escape; by a daring ing that the Constitution of 1865 was the same as
piece of forgery they were transferred to Bolcheresk, that of 1789 and therefore the Union was the same,
the capital of Kamchatka, as the most promising etc. The author seems not to have the slightest con-
point from which to escape the country; here arms ception of what was meant by the theories of State
and supplies were obtained and secreted, the fort Rights and Secession, and of the distinction between
was surprised by a clever ruse, a vessel seized, the the two. To him, the views of Calhoun and Seymour
Polish flag run up to the mast-head, and Benyowsky were identical. Though widely read in political sci-
and his wild crew set forth on a melodramatic ence, Mr. Weeden seems to suffer from a certain
voyage to the South Seas, or some equally vague vague-mindedness, an inability to grasp fundamental
destination. Benyowsky finally came to grief in a principles; and in consequence his theories are con-
characteristically wild attempt to conquer Mada- fused and contradictory. In fact, he seems to have
gascar and set up an independent government. In adopted as scientific principles the heated patriotic
telling the story of this engaging buccaneer, Miss editorial arguments of the war time. As an old
Laut finds opportunity for a very interesting descrip- soldier, Mr. Weeden has great respect for the
tion of Bolcheresk, its Cossack garrison and its “ rebels,” but those "abortive and mischievous crea-
extraordinary medley of squalor and luxury. From tures” the Northern Democrats or “copperheads
an historical point of view, perhaps the most valu how he despises them! The Radicals as com-
able chapter in the book is that which deals with pared with them, were, as he says, as “Gabriel
the voyage of the “ Columbia " and Robert Gray's and Michael arrayed against Satan and Moloch.”
discovery of the greatest river of the Pacific coast. Lincoln is criticised severely - the old New En-
The world was long ago made familiar with the gland criticism; and while also praised, it is the
explorations of Drake, Cook, and Vancouver, but praise of one who does not understand. The author
little has been known, and less understood, of the believes that the patriotic enthusiasms of 1861 placed
exploits of the Bostonian navigator. Miss Laut has at Lincoln's disposal resources with which he might
gathered together the scattered fragments, and out have made a quick end of the war; instead, the
of them has woven a connected story. The useful administration put on the dampers, and uselessly
ness of her book has been heightened by the addition prolonged the struggle. Curiously enough, this is
to each chapter of brief bibliographical references, precisely the same criticism now directed against
and its attractiveness is increased by a number of Jefferson Davis by ex-Confederate wiseacres; and
well-selected illustrations. (Macmillan Co.) one criticism is worth about as much as the other.
Mr. Lincoln was working, in 1861, with the light of
Government
Mr. William B. Weeden, author of 1861, not of 1906. The author's dislike of those
“War Government, Federal and on the other side and his failure to appreciate their
in the Civil War. State” (Houghton), tells us that his position, his inability to recognize and understand
book is a “Study of the Interplay of the National the principle of evolution in human affairs, and
Union and the State Commonwealths” during the his twentieth century criticism of nineteenth cen.
Civil War. Four States — Massachusetts, New York, tury deeds, are defects that mar a work which
Pennsylvania, and Indiana are selected for the otherwise might have been of considerable interest
study. In nine chapters, the author discusses the and value.
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The biography
It is ninety-nine years since Montagu in chronological order the events which marked the
of a famous Pennington, Mrs. Carter's nephew decline of authority over the press in the New World.
blue-stocking. and executor, published the "Memoirs He shows that censorship was due primarily to the
of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter.” This work, union of church and state, whereby the state assumed
which must have been Miss Alice C. C. Gaussen's the task of suppressing heresies and seditions. That
chief source of information in writing her book, “ A the Puritans in Massachusetts should adopt a censor-
Woman of Wit and Wisdom” (Dutton), is not men ship of the press, while disavowing the authority of
tioned in the acknowledgments at the end of her the church, is attributed to the power of imitation
preface. Her volume is handy and attractive, and and established custom. “For the preventing of
shows evidences of zeal and industry; and interest irregularities & abuse to the authority of this country
in the accomplished woman who first popularized by the printing presse" was sufficient warrant for
Epictetus for English-speaking readers, and who was controlling the printer -- a control which, however,
pronounced by Johnson the best Greek scholar of was never enforced as rigidly in the colonies as in
his time, may be expected to win for the book a the mother country. A most interesting part of the
considerable number of readers. But whether Eliz- study is that devoted to the numerous local contests
abeth Carter's life was too uneventful to supply between the “patriots” and the colonial authorities
material for a volume of 250 pages, or whether her in the inauguration of the American Revolution.
latest biographer has failed to make the most of the After the establishment of Independence, censorship
lady's voluminous letters and other memorials, certain was assumed by the state only in the protection of
it is that “A Woman of Wit and Wisdom" contains the individual from libel. Here the author traces
passages remarkable for neither wisdom nor wit. the gradual changes in public sentiment which led
Platitude and padding have not been excluded. In- ultimately to more tolerance of the press and to the
accuracies have crept in. For example, we read Massachusetts libel law of 1827.
“ The
passage of
that the Epictetus “ brought her in 10001,” and that this act,” concludes Mr. Duniway, “marked the
it “made her independent and enabled her to pass removal of the last substantial legal restriction upon
every winter in lodgings in Clarges Street.” The the freedom of the press in Massachusetts.” Abund-
translator's receipts actually fell short of the amount ant footnotes, with references and appendices, attest
here named, but even 10001. is hardly an indepen- the scholarly investigation, the authoritativeness, and
dent fortune. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Elizabeth the excellence of this study of the early press in
Montagu in 1775 settled an annuity of 1001. on her Massachusetts.
friend and fellow-bluestocking, and it is probable
that Dr. Carter provided also for his daughter at his
In “How Ferns Grow" (Holt) Miss
death, as he had looked out for her in his lifetime.
Margaret Slosson gives us the latest
(Let it here be recalled that “Mrs.” in Elizabeth
word concerning this most fascinat-
Carter's case was a courtesy title only.)
ing group of flowerless plants. Miss Slosson argues,
Among
somewhat by way of apology, that since the frond
other matters for criticism may be noted Miss Gaus-
sen's excessive praise of Xenophon as a general fication and identification, it would seem well that
or leaf of the fern plays so important a part in classi-
and a philosopher, in her comments on the Epictetus.
the various stages along which the leaf comes to
After speaking on an early page of “the mushroom
growth of a new language filled with phrases which maturity, or perfectness of form, were more minutely
nobody could have understood when she [Mrs.Carter] reference, accordingly, to the leaf alone, and “ How
known. The growth referred to in the title has
was young,” the writer is guilty of the following, as
faulty in syntax as it is objectionable in vocabulary: preferable inscription. The volume consists largely
the fern frond grows” would appear to have been a
“ With grim humour he would allow an importunate of illustrations – full-page, sometimes double-page,
fair one to pass, knowing that her farther progress plates, half-tone reproductions of photographs repre-
was barred by a solid barrier of high seats that no
senting more or less perfectly the fern-leaf's progress
persuasion could move, and that impeded by a train
and veil it would be impossible to negotiate. We
toward completion. Eighteen species only, chosen
from the flora of the northeastern United States, are
wish Miss Gaussen had made it plain which house
lived in by her heroine was known as the Vinegar formal description of the species concerned, a setting;
thus delineated. The text in each case includes a
Bottle. Good portraits enliven the volume, but no
forth of the facts of distribution and synonymy, and
index consummates the whole.
such notes explanatory of the plates and figures as
The Toppan prize of Harvard Uni-
Freedom of the
seem necessary to bring out the results of the investi-
early press in versity was awarded in 1897 to Mr. gation. Miss Slosson has conscientiously followed
Massachusetts. Clyde Augustus Duniway for a mon. her subject, and some of her discoveries no doubt
ograph entitled “The Development of Freedom of throw light upon the phytology of the group — upon
the Press in Massachusetts.” It is now reprinted
It is now reprinted the affinities of so-called genera, for instance, a
in the series of “Harvard Historical Studies” (Long- subject on which any light is especially welcome.
mans, Green & Co.). After a preliminary chapter on The work is, of course, almost purely technical, and
the control of the press in England, the author trans- makes but small appeal to the interest of the general
fers his investigations to Massachusetts, and traces reader.
Another
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A Confederate Some of the best materials for history “ Lucian: Selected Writings,” edited by Prof. Francis
surgeon and
chaplain, after- are found in unpretentious records of Greenleaf Allinson, is added to the “ College Series of
wards bishop. events, or life-stories of interesting
Greek Authors,” published by Messrs. Ginn & Co.
personalities. Among these may be counted " Doctor “ The Sources of Tyndale’s Version of the Penta-
Quintard, Chaplain C. S. A. and Second Bishop of
teuch," by Mr. John Rothwell Slater, is a doctoral
dissertation issued from the University of Chicago Press.
Tennessee,” a small volume prepared by the Rev.
The author's main conclusion is that Tyndale “kept
Arthur Howard Noll, and published by the Uni-
constantly before him the Hebrew text and Luther's
versity Press of Sewanee, Tennessee. The book
version, with the Septuagint and Vulgate within easy
contains a plain narrative of Dr. Quintard's four reach, and fragments of the Middle English archaisms
years of very active service in the Confederate army running through his mind as he worked.” A series of
- a double activity, in fact, for the good doctor passages in seven parallel columns serves to bear out
ministered both to the bodies of the soldiers as army
these contentions.
surgeon and to their souls as chaplain, and in both
The first volume of Mr. Russell Sturgis's “History of
capacities did most efficient service. He was, withal,
Architecture” is nearing completion, and will be pub-
an exceedingly attractive and lovable man, and was
lished in the early autumn by the Baker & Taylor Co.
on terms of intimacy with a large number of the
An important feature of this work will be the careful
study of the climatic influences on architecture and of
generals and leading men of the Confederacy; he is
the relation of the domestic to the monumental archi-
thus able to take his readers behind the scenes and
tecture in various countries a field which has been
show them both the personalities of the leaders somewhat neglected by architectural writers. The first
and the condition of feeling in the South at different volume will deal with the architecture of Egypt, Western
stages of the war. This is done only incidentally, Asia, Greece, Etruria, and Rome.
but is the more valuable for this reason. The story An important new library edition of the works of
of Dr. Quintard's arduous and successful episcopal Plutarch is an interesting autumn announcement of
labors after the war, given in the two closing chap Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. There will be ten vol-
ters of the book, will also prove interesting to other
umes in the set, consisting of Dryden's translation of
readers besides those of his own church.
Plutarch's Lives, in five volumes, corrected from the
Greek and revised by A. H. Clough; and Plutarch's
Lovers of nature and of art will find
Essays and Miscellanies, in five volumes, comprising
The cloudy
all his writings collected under the title of “
a new field of exploration opened to
architecture
Morals,
of the sky.
them in Professor Claydon's “ Cloud
translated from the Greek by several hands, corrected
from the Greek and revised by W. W. Goodwin, Ph.D.,
Studies" (Dutton). Those who find æsthetic enjoy-
with an introduction by R. W. Emerson. Each volume
ment in the beauty of form, light, and color of the
contains a photogravure frontispiece.
heavens, or who seek to portray this element of the
Two interesting “Riverside Press Editions” are an-
landscape with brush or pencil, will find here a nounced for autumn publication by Messrs. Houghton,
tific treatment that will widen the horizon of enjoy- Mifflin & Co. These will consist of a folio reprint of
ment and tend to bring accuracy and order where the French epic, “ The Song of Roland," in Miss Isabel
art is often weak and vague. A study of the clouds Butler's translation, with seven hand-colored illustra-
in our best art galleries will reveal the misconceptions
tions derived from the window of Charlemagne in the
under which many artists labor as to the architecture
Cathedral at Chartres; and an octavo edition of the Idylls
of Theocritus, as translated by Charles Stuart Calver-
of the sky. Not only the nature-lover and the artist,
ley, with decorative wood-engravings by M. Lamont
but the meteorologist as well, will find much of value
Brown. In their series of “ Special Limited Editions,”
and interest in this book. The author employs the the same firm will publish “ The Familiar Letters of
international code of cloud nomenclature, but urges James Howell,” in four volumes, with an introduction
its extension to include the manifold varieties that by Miss Agnes Repplier; and a “ Bibliography of Oliver
occur in nature, many of which he describes in his Wendell Holmes,” compiled by Mr. George B. Ives.
text. The book is illustrated with over sixty full-page The following books having to do with Italy and its
plates, and contains practical suggestions for study associations find place in the autumn announcement
ing the sky and measuring the altitude of clouds, a list of Messrs A. C. McClurg & Co.: « The History of
valuable chapter on cloud-photography, and a bibli-
Venice,” by Senator Pompeo Molmenti, translated by
Mr. Horatio F. Brown, British archivist in Venice, to
ography.
be completed in six volumes; a new edition of George
Eliot's “ Romola," edited by Dr. Guido Biagi, librarian
NOTES.
of the Laurentian and Riccardi libraries in Florence, with
an introduction, notes, and one hundred and sixty rare
“A History of the Northern Securities Case,” by engravings; “With Byron in Italy,” edited by Mrs.
Professor Balthasar Henry Meyer, is a recent mono Anna B. McMahan, containing all the extracts from the
graph published by the University of Wisconsin.
poet's verses, letters, and diary which throw light on his
“ Farquhar,” edited by Mr. William Archer, is now sojourn in Italy from 1817 to 1823; “The Guilds of
added to the thin-paper reprint of the “Mermaid Florence,” an illustrated octavo by Mr. Edgcumbe
Series," imported by the Messrs. Scribner. From the Staley; and a novel of fourteenth century Italy entitled
same source we have the fourth English edition of “Ridolfo: The Coming of the Dawn,” by Mr. Edgerton
Baedeker's “ Palestine and Syria," most useful of all R. Williams, Jr., author of " Hill Towns of Italy.” All
guide-books to the Holy Land.
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of limited marital tenure. We are not now par-
ticularly concerned with this startling proposi-
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tion, nor do we profess to understand why Mr.
Meredith made it, or with what qualifications it
THE ROOT IDEAS OF FICTION. Charles Leonard
was advanced. We should be inclined to regard
Moore ..
. 195
it as a forecast rather than as a plea, although
COMMUNICATION ..
197
it is possible that Mr. Meredith's strong indi-
Another Phase of the “Spelling Reform." Thomas
H. Briggs, Jr.
vidualism and love of liberty may have led him
to consider favorably so radical a transforma-
“HANS BREITMANN” AND “ROMANY RYE."
tion of one of the most fundamental of social
Percy F. Bicknell
198
relations. At all events, he is a man whose
TWO FAMOUS ENGLISH RIVERS. Anna Benneson
ideas must be reckoned with, even if they run
McMahan
200
counter to our dearest prejudices; and we make
THE STORY OF OUR GREAT DECLARATION.
free to borrow the title of the story, not for the
Edwin E. Sparks .
202
purpose of taking up its special theme, but
MATURE JUDGMENTS ON NAPOLEON. Henry merely as a peg upon which to hang a few obser-
E. Bourne
203
vations upon Mr. Meredith's general attitude
RECENT AMERICAN POETRY. William Morton toward his fellow-men and the world in which
Payne
,205
they live.
Rogers's The Rosary and Other Poems. Dodd's
A Modern Alchemist, and Other Poems. — Block's
We have been led to this subject by reading
Many Moods and Many Minds. — Wallace's The Mr. G. M. Trevelyan's extremely interesting
Blood of the Prophets. — Burroughs's Bird and little book on “ The Poetry and Philosophy of
Bough.-Mifflin's My Lady of Dream.—Nicholson's
Poems. — Koopman's At the Gates of the Century.
George Meredith," which has come to our desk
- Bell's Words of the Wood. Worthington among the recent importations of the Messrs.
Smith's In the Furrow. - Barnard's The Moods of
Scribner. The writer belongs to the younger
Life. - Dodge's Mystery of the West. — Miss Wil-
son's Actæon's Defense, and Other Poems. — Miss generation of thoughtful Englishmen to whom
Peck's Songs by the Sedges. - Miss Ryan's Songs Mr. Meredith's message, ignored by his con-
in a Sun-Garden. — Miss Bright's The Dream-
Child, and Other Verses.
temporaries, now comes as a vitalizing influence,
and who are determined to repair the neglect
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
209
The Frog's Own Book. — “Intermittent bursts" of
which the poet's fame has hitherto suffered.
criticism. — The progress of civilization in Central He writes as an enthusiast, although admiration
Africa. - A noble life in the service of humanity. does not often blind his judgment, and he ex-
- Palestine on the surface, and beneath. — Telling
and interpreting Bible stories for the young.
pounds the poet's doctrine in an engaging man-
ner, citing chapter and verse whenever needed
BRIEFER MENTION
212
to illustrate the points at issue. No one, we
NOTES
212
should say, could fail to be interested by this
LIST OF NEW BOOK.
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those who are well acquainted with the poet are “Our life is but a little holding, lent
likely to find it illuminating.
To do a mighty labour. We are one
With heaven and the stars when it is spent
Mr. Meredith is essentially a poet of the
To serve God's aim : else die we with the sun."
positive scientific spirit, of temperamental opti-
This may fairly be set beside the austere message
mism, and of the joy of earth. We should
of Mr. Swinburne's "Super Flumina Babylonis,
really write Earth with a capital, as Mr. Trev-
a poem also kindled at Mazzini's altar.
elyan does ; for to this poet she is the spiritual
Mr. Meredith sounds the note of exultant
mother, the source of all man's strength, the
individualism, strong to achieve and equally
true inspiration of all his highest endeavor.
strong to endure, in verses that remind us of
“ He builds the soaring spires,
Henley's defiant challenge to adverse circum-
That sing his soul in stone — of her he draws
stance.
Though blind to her, by spelling at her laws,
Her purest fires.
“Ay, be we faithful to ourselves : despise
Nought but the coward in us! That way lies
“Through him hath she exchanged
The wisdom making passage through our slough.
For the gold harvest-robes, the mural crown,
Am I not heard, my head to Earth shall bow;
Her haggard quarry-features, and thick frown
Like her, shall wait to see, and seeing wait.
Where monsters ranged.
Philosophy is Life's one match for Fate."
“ And order, high discourse,
Of all cowardice, the most abject is that which
And decency, than which is life less dear,
tries to shuffle upon environment the responsi-
She has of him: the lyre of language clear,
Love's tongue and source.”
bility for a man's acts, and of all hypocrisy the
most contemptible is that which would make of
Thus man repays to her his debt, and in close cowardice a virtue.
communion with her works out the secret pur-
“I am not of those miserable males
pose
for which she created him. And in the Who sniff at vice, and, daring not to snap,
end, if he has known and loved her aright, he
Do therefore hope for heaven. I take the hap
Of all my deeds. The wind that fills my sails,
may ask the question that really needs no answer: Propels; but I am helmsman. Am I wrecked?
“ Into the breast that gives the rose
I know the devil has sufficient weight
Shall I with shuddering fall?”
To bear: I lay it not on him, or fate.
Besides, he's damned. That man I do suspect
Clearly, this is no philosophy of despair, nor
A coward, who would burden the poor deuce
With what ensues from his own slipperiness."
is it a philosophy of the sensual gratification
which certain dull souls imagine to be all that We may suffer for our follies, but we may also
would remain to us were we to part company
profit by them. Let us refrain, above all, from
with their metaphysical idols. The deepest wis the folly of seeking forgetfulness as an anodyne
dom of Goethe is thus expressed anew for us : for the pangs which come with memories of the
“We do not get to any heaven by renouncing past.
the Mother we spring from ; and when there is
“If I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul."
an eternal secret for us, it is best to believe that
Earth knows, to keep near her, even in our ut-
All experience is good, if only we know how to
most aspirations.” What truth and inspiration
make use of it. Again we seem to hear the
there is in this sentence, and in the following
voice of Goethe.
verses which may be taken as its complement !
“ The inspired prophet of sanity,” this is what
Mr. Trevelyan repeatedly calls our poet, happily
“She can lead us, only she,
Unto God's footstool, whither she reaches,
quoting him to the effect that “our civilization
Loved, enjoyed her gifts must be ;
is founded in common sense, and it is the first
Reverenced the truths she teaches."
condition of sanity to believe it.” This principle
And foremost among those truths is the moral | is what saves him from being an extremist, and
responsibility of the individual, the realization preserves his balance in all sorts of intellectual
of the law that man must be
contortions. It is the solid cornerstone of his
faith ; for faith, as Mr. Trevelyan urges, is
“ Obedient to Nature, not her slave;
Her lord, if to her rigid laws he bows;
acceptance as well as hope — acceptance of the
Her dust, if with his conscience he plays knave, unalterable laws of nature as science reveals
And bids the Passions on the Pleasures browse."
them, no less than hope of a better future for
A nobler scorn of the life of self-indulgence has the race, a future to be realized by the applica-
never been breathed, a finer lesson of the ethics tion of man's intelligence to the hard conditions
of self-sacrifice has never been read, than comes under which he lives. Mr. Meredith will have
to us in the song of Camilla, who in Vittoria" none of the old antithesis between faith and
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doctrine to be the nonsense that it is. There is Poe's William Wilson, Stevenson's Dr. Jeykll and
legitimate scope for faith, no doubt, beyond the Mr. Hyde, are embodiments of this thought.
borderland of the realms which science has re-
A second phase of this root idea is the confusion
claimed by conquest ; but only a pseudo-faith
of personality. This is identity in disguise — as in
will flout the dictates of reason, or seek to but-
acting, in girls masquerading as men, in people
assuming some other character than their own.
tress its soaring spires with the fantastic sup-
This set of situations has been a veritable gold-
ports of the unregulated imagination. Mean-
mine to poets and romance writers. Charles Lamb
while, beset by many dangers, and far from complained that every one of Shakespeare's come-
certain of its goal, life has to be lived, and we dies has a girl-boy in it. But princesses attired as
must adopt some sort of attitude toward it. Mr. pages trip up and down the whole field of roinance.
Meredith's attitude is thus described in pictur Tasso and Spenser have women warriors who are
esque metaphor by this his latest critic : only revealed when some unlucky stroke of a sword
“A wary but a cheerful and kindly Odysseus, he
smites their helmets apart and lets the long hair
steers us, “compact of what we are, between the ascetic
ripple down. Edgar in“ King Lear," and Hugo's
rocks and the sensual whirlpools '; he can listen unbound Tribonlet, are instances of disguise of character.
to every song of the Sirens, enraptured, but resolute by The little play of “ David Garrick ” gives an ex-
the rudder; and the one-eyed Polyphemus of despair is ample of a person acting a part, and in Peg Wof-
left cheated and shouting after the white track of his fington we have a character assuming to be her
departing vessel.”
own portrait.
Again, there is the transference of personality,
as in the legends of the Were Wolf, or in many
witch-stories where those possessed persons turn
THE ROOT IDEAS OF FICTION.
themselves into cats or dogs. Reincarnation would
seem to be a magnificent basis for plot, but I can
The making of categories is one of the pet amuse recall only a few instances of it in literature
ments of philosophers, and it is rather astonishing Poe's “Tale of the Ragged Mountains,” and “Phra
to note the variety of their views as to the root the Phænician” of the
younger
Arnold among
them.
ideas or essential facts of the universe. It might Even the epics and dramas of India deal but spar-
be worth while to apply their methods to Fiction, ingly with this idea.
and, without any pretense at philosophic accuracy, The domination of personality, as in hypnotism,
try to draw out the basic facts on which literature witchcraft, dealings with the devil, have given a
is founded, - stop the kaleidoscope, as it were, and good many situations to literature. There is Joseph
examine the few scraps of human experience out Balselmo's relations to his mistress in Dumas, the
of which the colored confusion of fictional life is trances of Trilby, the ballad-stories of the revenges
of witches on lovers or rivals, Faust's subjugation
The first root idea of Fiction, then, is Identity. to Mephistopheles. The imposition of a false per-
Of course personality, in the wider sense, is
sonality is a great source of comic plot, as in the
dicate of everything in literature, from the lyrist's story of “ The Sleeper Awakened ”in “ The Arabian
strain of passion to the clashing figures of the Nights,” the Christopher Sly framework of “The
dramatist or the more complex web of the narra Taming of the Shrew,” and Molière's “Médecin
tive artist. All that happens must happen to or Malgré Lui.” In all these situations, the character
be caused by personality. But it is a more con changes, or seems to change, while the world remains
fined idea of personality — the Me as opposed to the the same. Essentially of the same kind are the plots
Not-Me – which I refer to as Identity. Literature which turn on rejuvenations - obtaining the Elixir
dallies with this fact in a hundred forms.
of Youth, drinking of the Fountain of Life, etc.
Take the idea of twins, or what might be called The suspension of personality, as in a long sleep,
divided personality. From Plautus to Shakespeare has given rise to some good plots. There are “ The
and Molière, and down the line, this idea has been Seven Sleepers of Ephesus "and" Rip Van Winkle."
a most prolific source of plot and situation. The Here the character remains the same, while the
double or echoing personality is nature's variant on world changes about it. Everlasting identity, as in
the twin theme. Classic literature does not deal the legend of the Wandering Jew, has exercised a
largely with such creations, but in the folk-poetry deep spell on the human mind, but it is not capable
and wonder-fiction of the Middle Ages they are of much variation, though something of the same
common enough. Spenser's Duessa is a false double nature is bodied forth in the popular imaginations
of Una. Dickens's “Tale of Two Cities” and Dr. which describe Babarossa sitting clothed and armed
Hale's “My Double and How He Undid Me" are in his rock cave ready to issue forth when his time
two modern instances of the use of this theme. Then shall come again, or King Arthur in his temporary
there is the idea of a double identity of the Soul – sleep at Avillion.
of a shadow character capable of being projected, The modern theories of heredity have brought
usually to plague the real one. Calderon's Embozado, forward the inheritance of character as a literary
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subject. Ibsen's “Ghosts ” is the most pronounced are other forms of the same theme. Shakespeare's
embodiment of these theories.
Timon, Molière's Alceste, Byron's Childe Harold,
It may almost be said that every German novel is are figures of a kindred group. Personality in
an educational treatise. Since “Wilhelm Meister antithesis is a minor variant of this last type. Don
set the fashion, the Germans have hardly been able Quixote and Sancho, Walter Shandy and My Uncle
to write a novel which does not deal with the devel- Toby, give in little the idea of the heroic struggler
opment of a character by training and environment. and the resisting world.
This subject is to them what the eternal theme of Evil identity, bad intellect dominant, is another
three husband, wife, and lover - is to the French. type, and, after the group I have just named, is
Yet they derive it from the French, through Rousseau probably the most prominent in literature. Iago,
and our old friend Telemachus.
Richard, Don Juan, Mephistopheles, - one could
Surprises, detections, unravelments, recognitions, call an endless roll of these Satanic stars. Milton's
revelations, all these have to do with identity. Lucifer is on the whole too noble to be named with
Coleridge said that the Edipus of Sophocles and them. He is a great and rebellious son of God, and
“ Tom Jones” had the best plots in the world. This belongs rather with Prometheus and Hamlet.
is hardly so, but they both deal with revelations Animal identity – or, rather, the casting of human
of identity. So do Poe's detective stories, and the personalities into animals has been a great cause
superb novels of Wilkie Collins. Mr. Aldrich has of good writing, from Æsop and the Indian origi-
patented a plot of surprise which is mighty effective. nals of Pilpay through the French beast-epic of
There are more kinds of disguises of personality Reynard the Fox, down to the stories of Uncle
than one.
There is the material disguise, as where Remus. I do not know whether the reverse has
Odysseus returns to Penelope's court in the rags
of ever been distinctively and definitely tried, -I mean
a beggar; or where Rosalind sallies forth in doublet the clothing of beasts in men's skins.
Of course
and hose. And there is the mental disguise of such a process is glimpsed at in almost every work
drunkenness or madness. Herakles is hilariously of literature. We always have men resembling
disguised in the Alcestis of Euripides. Falstaff goes lions or wolves or foxes, and women who carry
with
through life in a disguise of sack, a dozen different them the stamp of tigers or antelopes or snakes.
characters peeping forth through the thick fumes Lastly, we have intellect identifying itself with
that envelop him. The two most magnificent mad nature - the human personality projecting itself into
men in literature are Don Quixote and King Lear, the world. This is the main source of mythologies
and it is a question whether they are not both of and folk-lores. In older literature this projection
them more inspired than crazy. Intoxication is a was a definite one; the god or nymph or naiad sat
kind of cheap exaltation, and the primitive races visibly enthroned on cloud or tree or wave. Modern
all consider a madman inspired. Personality at
Personality at landscapists, either in words or colors, have changed
ineridian, personality inspired, personality as genius, all that. They give a sense of identity or personality
ought to be a fascinating theme for literature, and to ocean or desert or storm, but they do not embody
I cannot recall that anybody has made much of a these aspects of nature in human form. Theirs is
fist at it. Chateaubriand and Lamartine and George a deeper and subtler manner of myth-making, but it
Sand were always attempting it, but their geniuses is also more vague and uncertain. The poet or
are weak-kneed and boneless creations. Poe has painter who uses it asks a great deal from the reader
hints of this theme throughout his work, and in or spectator. This difference in method probably
one or two of his stories quite hits the mark. A explains the preponderance of landscape in modern
recent novel, “The Divine Fire," does very well literature and our apparent greater enjoyment of
indeed. In real life, the inspirer of personality natural aspects. The Greeks loved nature as much
often takes a supposedly outward form. Numa has as we do, studied its appearances as deeply; but
his Egeria, Socrates his Dæmon. The idea of an when they brought it into art, they dealt with it in
Egeria has taken firm root in the poetic mind, and brief: their mythological figures were hieroglyphics
it has been embodied for all time in Dante and a sort of shorthand which saved a great deal of
Petrarch. The hero of one of Du Maurier's novels writing. We have to use a cloud of words to give
has an Egeria in a lady from Mars who dictates the same impressions.
novels and poems to him in his sleep. One cannot I have probably not touched upon
say anything about the novels, but the poetry is in which the mysterious thing I have called Identity
atrocious.
enters into Fiction. And I have not even named
Character's collusion with the Not-Me, or Person the other roots of Fiction whose innumerable runners
ality vs. The World, is the root idea of many of the send vigor and virtue up to build the great trunk
noblest masterpieces of literature. Wherever a noble and the commingling intricacies of branch and foli-
dreamer or enthusiast shatters himself against the age of the tree of Literature. As I conceive it,
inexorable fact, this idea is at work. Prometheus, these other roots are Hunger, Love, and Death.
Hamlet, the Marquis of Posa, Brand, Shelley's cloud Anyone who desires can easily take the clue of one
characters, Hugo's Galley Slave,—these and myriad or the other of these essential ideas and trace it
other beings of the same blood testify to its power. through the maze of Fiction.
Personality misunderstood, loneliness, misanthropy,
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COMMUNICATION.
ANOTHER PHASE OF THE “SPELLING REFORM."
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
Your recent editorial article, with which I am in
hearty sympathy, regarding the latest move in the “re-
form" of our spelling, omits one phase which to my
mind deserves attention. Careful examination of the
logic it appeareth not — being the “reforming” of the
much-discussed twelve words. How far the propa-
gandists see, and plan to lead us, apparently is disclosed
more and more each year. Accept this insignificant
change," they plead or urge or bully, — for, by another
inexplicable connection, to withstand is to be denounced
as an enemy to progress and democracy of all kinds;
but accept them on your peril. Agree to drop the “e
in “abridgement,” and you are heralded as a reformer;
66
President for modification shows that some of them, modatingly yielding a pawn you find yourself committed
such as
homonym,” are already in common use by to a well-planned campaign I see they have so far left
practically everyone; a sixth of the words are technical us the “g”
that ends only with the loss of the game.
or else rarely needed in the vocabulary of a man of So long as this is the attitude of the enemy - enemy
ordinary culture; seventy-four merely insist on -t for not of us personally but of the venerable mother-tongue
-ed to indicate the past tense of verbs, an extension of we must not only admit, but even emphasize, that,
a change already accepted through custom in many
as the “reformers” have asserted, there is a “moral
similar words; and a majority of the remainder suffer question” at stake in the matter, but it is not perhaps
such changes as are insignificant in proportion to the the one they at the time had in mind.
blare of the announcements.
Thomas H. BRIGGS, Jr.
But together with these “reformed ” words, at least The Eastern Illinois State Normal School,
some of which everyone already uses, are for some Charleston, Illinois, Sept. 20, 1906.
reason included a number of words which, besides being
distasteful to many
am I not safe in saying to most?
people who have respect and feeling for the lan SPELLING REFORMERS, and others, may like to examine
guage, are also illogical and mischievously absurd. “If," this beginning and end of a letter from Anna, Countess
the argument seems to run, "you spell . dactyl,' then of Argyll, to her friend the Countess of Athole, as
you must use thru,' tho,' thoro,' and all the entire printed in “ Pryings Among Private Papers,” a recent
list.” This is “advancing abreast of popular sentiment” ingenious compilation by the author of « The Life of Sir
with a vengeance! Usage in America probably has Kenelm Digby.” Except the curious spelling of sweet
already decisively chosen “honor," leaving to a few at the end, the letter contains nothing to puzzle a mod-
old-fashioned folk, and fur peculiar shades of meaning, ern reader. It was written at Inverary, Sept. 23, 1675.
the vowel that still is pronounced in the last syllable; “ Dear Madam, I was verie solisitus all this sumer to
but the monstrosities thru,' «tho,' and their kin, are know how your Ladyship & all yours war, & how you
abortions from the mind of the zealot. I never knew a keep your health, & was onc going to send in to you bot
person to use these spellings unless he first had been I was hindered by my ouen sikness, & my Lord sent me
indoctrinated by a missionary. I have failed in this word you was well, which was verie exceptabell to me:
part of the world, too, to find any “popular sentiment my dear Lord has been in the condision of a soger this
demanding the abbreviated, or any other, spelling for fortnight. Pray madam giue me liue to present
“hematin,” “colter,” “eponym,” and “etiology." Those my humbell seruic to your Lord & I am my Lady Jan's
who are so acute as to have discovered this “ * popular sereuent & my suit Lady Emilia.”
sentiment” should also have discovered that Professor
Lounsbury and Professor Skeat are not the only author As 18 USUAL with such compilations, there is a good
ities on the English language: other men, just as learned, deal of rather dull fooling in Mr. Marshall Brown's
just as conscientious, and just as sincere, are opposed “Humor of Bulls and Blunders ” (Small, Maynard &
to all this movement, which by some is irreverently Co.), but the book has smiles enough in its keeping to be
called meddling. Where specialists and lovers of the worth looking over. The man who was asked his Christian
language have not yet found an agreement, it would at name, and replied “Solomon Isaacs,” is an old acquain-
least be modest for mere money and power delegated tance, but it is amusing to remember that an innocent
for other purposes to refrain awhile from casting their New York reporter once addressed the same question
“slight weight” with either side.
to Dr. Wu Ting-fang, much to the delight of that ap-
Everyone who has attended a meeting of spelling preciative oriental. The following may be old, but it is
reformers has found it inspired and conducted by men perennially provocative of mirth: “Wanted -
who show every evidence of being consecrated to a petent person to undertake the sale of a new medicine
“ cause." They speak of this and that “ step in the that will prove highly lucrative to the undertaker."
programme may I indulge in the luxury of a final And we always read with fresh joy of the rural justice
-me once more before it is forbidden? -
as if every
who thus addressed a convicted marauder: “ Prisoner,
move were advancing a definite and thoroughly conceived a bountiful Providence has endowed you with health
propaganda. This seems to begin with the fostering of a and strength, instead of which you go about the country
movement to secure a uniform system of phonetic nota stealing hens.” Schoolboy blunders are multitudinous,
tion for dictionaries and language books, which, every but we have never seen a better one than the statement
one agrees, is much to be desired. But so far, after that “Puritans were people who thought the church
many attempts and years of study and discussion, the ought to be putrefied,” which we offer to Mr. Brown
learned societies of this country and of England have for his next edition. We will also supply the section of
not been able to invent such a system that is generally mixed metaphors with Joseph Cook's original remark
acceptable. To secure this system of phonetic notation that “many a materialistic armada has been wrecked
seems to be the first step, the second — but by what on the hungry tusks of self-contradiction."
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over."
“the Rye,” even for the years preceding his
The New Books.
rather late acquisition of Romany, seems not
always quite appropriate. A preliminary defi-
• HANS BREITMANN' AND • ROMANY RYE."* nition of the word as meaning, among Gypsies,
Three and a half years ago, after a long life
a superior person or gentleman, might have been
spent in going to and fro in the earth, in meeting Mrs. Pennell's opening pages is here in place.
welcome to the uninitiated. A quotation from
with all sorts of adventures, in making all sorts
“ His interests were wide and varied, and only a
of acquaintances, in searching after divers kinds
writer as many-sided could do full justice to all his
of rare and out-of-the-way knowledge, and in
intellectual adventures. There were so many subjects
writing more than half a hundred books on
he mastered of which my knowledge — if I have any
widely varied subjects, not to mention a multi is slight, that I can only hope to show what they were
tude of shorter pieces, Charles Godfrey Leland
to him and how he was influenced by them. One other
set out on the greatest of all conceivable adven-
explanation I ought to make. If I have less knowledge
than my task demands, on the other hand, no such fault
tures, the “ Adventure into the Unknown.”
can be found with the sympathy and affection I bring to
But though he has departed -— vanished into the it. I had a friend in my uncle — or in • The Rye,' as
“ Ewigkeit” of his own “Hans Breitmann's I must be allowed to call him. For it was the name
Barty - he has left not a few warm friends by which I knew him best, not knowing him really
until he had become • The Rye' for every Gypsy on
and admirers to keep his memory green; among
the English roads and every Gypsy scholar the world
whom attention is now called to his niece, Mrs.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell, by the appearance of To those who think of Leland chiefly as the
her two-volume biography of her uncle. Having author of the “ Breitmann” jingles, his many-
enjoyed during her adult years a very close sidedness must come as a surprise. He himself
intimacy with this remarkable man, Mrs. Pen-
was displeased and hurt that so many knew him
nell writes with a rare understanding of his only as “ Hans Breitmann,” whereas the best of
character and genius, and seems to have pre his energies had been most generously spent in
sented us with the true Leland, so far as one
the cause of industrial art education. Some of
mortal may penetrate the mystery of another's the book-titles from the four-page bibliography
individuality. The “ Memoirs," written by Mr. at the end of Mrs. Pennell's work may serve to
Leland himself, and bringing his life down to illustrate the variety of Leland's interests and
1870, have served as an important source of pursuits. His first book was on “ The Poetry
information, supplemented by private papers
and Mystery of Dreams.” Later in the list
left to her at his death, and by letters to and
come “ The Book of Copperheads," "Legends
from a great number of persons in different of the Birds," "The Music Lesson of Confucius,"
parts of the world. Thus, not a little of the
“ The Egyptian Sketch-Book," " The Minor
charm of Leland's personality breathes in the Arts," " A Dictionary of Slang,” “ A Manual
pages of his biography; and though the work
of Mending and Repairing,” “ Have You a
cannot rival or displace the “ Memoirs," it is a
Strong Will ?” and last of all, “ The Alternate
worthy tribute and will be received as the defi-
Sex." The very variety of his tastes was against
nitive and authoritative life of this highly inter-
his producing any one work of lasting renown.
esting and attractive man.
Life to him was a joyous journey through
Mrs. Pennell is imbued with something of wonderland, mystery lurking behind every way-
her late uncle's love of Gypsy lore, witchcraft, side hedge and strange adventure awaiting one
sorcery, demonology, popular superstitions, beyond the brow of every hill. Through it all,
tinkers’-talk, fortune-telling, crystal-gazing, his appetite for work was insatiable. Even
voodooism, and kindred branches of unpolite reading gave him little pleasure except as sug-
learning. In fact, she has given more space to gesting themes for books and articles. Those
these matters, to the 66 Romany" side of her
who had not this love of hard work were to him
hero, than most readers would have demanded. incomprehensible creatures.
He failed to per-
But let them thank her for having conscien-
ceive how fortunate it is for the workers that
tiously translated the Romany talk, what there
so many are content to be drones.
If all were
is of it. Of " Shelta,” or tinkers'-talk, we learn
writers, where would be the readers for so
from her pages just enough to awaken curiosity.
many
books?
Her almost invariable reference to her uncle as
Carl Schurz's impressions of a famous actress
* CHARLES GODFREY LELAND. A Biography. By Elizabeth have recently appeared in print. Leland's im-
Robins Pennell. In two volumes. Illustrated. Boston: Hough-
pressions of the same actress are no less worth
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publishing. He found in Rachel more of art “When my book on the Gypsies appeared, I, knowing
than of “pure sympathetic genius.”
that it would interest him, gave him a copy, in which
I had written a short complimentary poem, and, mindful
“Sometimes there is so much art that the multitude
of the great and warm gratitude which he had declared
believe it is genius. Both Rachel and Bernhardt were,
like all Jews, immensely talented and quick to feel what
regarding my brother Henry, I asked him if he would
not write for me a few original verses, though it were
took with the public; but though great as actresses,
they belonged to the second class. Read what Heine
only a couplet, in the copy of • Leaves of Grass' which
says of Rachel, how severely he blames her want of
he had sent to my brother. His reply was a refusal, at
which I should not have felt hurt, had it been gently
all soul; and yet as a Jew he would fain praise her. I
saw Rachel for the first time in 1847. I was then
worded or civilly evasive, but his reply was to the effect
that he never did anything of the kind except for money.
twenty-four, and I never shall forget how, while I
His exact words then were, Sometimes when a fellow
appreciated her mere skill and cleverness, I was,
I
may
says to me, “ Walt, here's ten or five dollars -- write
say, disgusted at her tricks of the stage and utter want
of soul. Her great dodge was to work herself into a
me a poem for it,” I do so.' And then seeing a look of
disappointment or astonishment in my face, he added:
spasm of passion, and then in a second cast herself into
• But I will give you my photograph and autograph,'
a statuesque attitude of utter calm and exclaim in an
which he did."
icy voice, Monsieur,' or • Mon Seigneur. And then
ali Paris, from Dumas down, went mad with applause;
Matthew Arnold is called by Leland “the
but it was so transparently tricky that I could only Prince of Prigs.” A stern encounter with Car-
laugh.”
lyle is graphically reproduced. One would like
In the French Revolution of 1848 the young to know Leland's opinion of Sir Richard Bur-
Leland took an active part. From a letter de- | ton. Why did they never meet and become
scribing scenes in Paris at that time, a lively fast friends ? Or did they meet and fail to hit
passage calls for quotation.
it off? The two have points of striking simi-
“Whack! hurrah! guns and drums, fusillades and larity. As was once said of Leland
- to quote
barricades ! We dined under a Monarchy, supped Mrs. Pennell's version of the remark — he had
under a Regency, went to sleep under a Provisional
Government, and woke under a Republic
something of Burton in his delight in natural
not to
mention two hours when we had just no Government
human beings other than the ordinary frock-
at all. ... We had a Review with nearly 350,000
coated, tall-hatted, high-heeled English types.”
soldiers the other day, and all Paris is overrun with And yet, Romany enthusiasts though they both
penny papers, newsboys, and newswomen, who make
were, they seem never to have coöperated in
such a row night and day that the city has become in-
their researches in Gypsy lore.
sufferable. . . . Every night at all the theatres the
entire audience sing the songs of the revolution and
The too short-lived Rabelais Club, of which
amuse themselves in a free and easy way which would Leland was the chief founder, is now remem-
do honour to the Bowery, so that even I - quiet and bered by few. But his boyish enthusiasm for
sober citizen — have been inspired with their enthusi-
whatever he undertook, and at whatever time
asm. I really begin to think of addressing the opera
audience on the American Constitution — the price of
of life, is a perennially joyful thing to contem-
provisions electromagnetism – and matters and plate. He exclaims in a letter:
things in general. You will find the report of the “I want the Rabelais to corruscate whizz, blaze
speech the next day after never in the columns of the and sparkle, fulminate and bang. It must be great and
Constitutionnel' - Vive la bagatelle ! ”
wise and good, ripstavering, bland, dynamitic, gentle,
Some of Leland's personal and literary lik-
awful, tender, and tremulous."
ings and dislikings, especially the latter, are The reader, if critically inclined, will note
amusingly characteristic of the man. In a new
Leland's divided allegiance between “Gypsy
poem of Swinburne's he finds “ more of the and “ Gipsy" -- which may partly explain why
strength of poison than of muscle.” Of Emer we fail to find Burton among his intimate
son, whom he early met at an 66 Atlantic friends, as Burton cherished a pet abhorrence
Saturday dinner, he says in his unpublished for the spelling “Gipsy," and for all who gave
memoranda :
it their countenance. The letter of Leland's
“ Emerson dabbled with mysticism and paddled in beginning “ My Dear Walter,” and printed with
metempsychosis, and shirked pantheism, as did Carlyle, letters to Besant, though, as Mrs. Pennell says,
while using it as a garment, and exalted Goethe; but manifestly written to some other Walter, may
would have died of blushes and sunk into his boots be have been addressed to the writer's friend Pol-
fore Greek fleshliness. So he once said to me, and that
rather rudely and uncalled for, that · Heine was a quack
lock; at any rate, the suggestion is here offered
and charlatan in literature,' which, considering that I
in passing
had translated the two principal works of Heine, I The publishing of memoirs and letters has
thought very unkind.”
gone to great lengths in these latter days; but
Of Walt Whitman, whom he admired in gen this life of Leland brings to the reader no un-
eral, Leland has a good story to tell.
pleasant consciousness of the fact. As a com-
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panion and supplement to the “ Memoirs ” of seen big things, and the phases of its life are
1893, it helps to furnish a full-length portrait many. To know it well is to know a great deal
of an unusually interesting man. The many of English history.
of English history. It laves and cuts in twain
portraits and other illustrations — especially the
especially the the burliest city in all the world ; it bears a vast
facsimiles of Leland's illustrated letters scat commerce from London to the sea ; years agone,
tered through the volumes add much to the kings and princes and the fairest women in the
book's attractiveness. The two portraits of land rode upon its tide in functions of state or
Leland himself, one taken in Philadelphia in in the idle pose of pleasure. Take almost any
his prime, the other shortly before his death in view-point — for example, Richmond Terrace,
Italy, show us unmistakably the same man, and only a few miles from the great city — and we
yet so strangely different! The 36-page index, behold no end of interesting things.
and the bibliography already mentioned, are “ Elizabeth and Leicester once enjoyed the rapture
manifestly the products of scholarly care and of the same beautiful landscape that enchants us to-day.
painstaking thoroughness.
To the left, and below the terrace of the Star and
Garter, a modern hostelry which occupies the site of the
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
structure where Queen Elizabeth died, one sees White
Lodge, sometime the residence of the Prince of Wales,
of the Battenbergs, and of other members of the royal
household. Beyond is Ham House on the banks of the
Two FAMOUS ENGLISH RIVERS.*
Thames in the dull little village of Petersham, where
Charles I. took refuge in his flight. On the opposite,
The charm of landscape often lies less in the
the north bank, Pope's villa peeps out its ruddy turrets
actual view than in its associations. The Thames from a dark green foliate mass. Weir House and Ted-
and the Tiber seem more beautiful than similar dington lock, a pretty islet and backwater, and the dis-
streams with lesser histories. England's Avon tant towers of Windsor, glint in the afternoon sun,
is a pretty river, but in itself is not much prettier Winding through the valley, stretching its silvern width
than Michigan's Kalamazoo, which in parts it
craft and flanneled fuss and play; a scene of everchang-
resembles not a little.
ing loveliness, of perfect tranquillity on a summer's day,
Taking up the companion volumes, “In Behind us is old London, and all around the ancient
Thamesland " and "The Idyllic Avon,” we know
town of Richmond, the fashionable resort of the great
courtiers and fine ladies of many splendid days ago."
that we shall meet with poetry, history, and
romance in their enticing pages. The natural
Or, let us pause in our Thames journey at
scenery is indeed beautiful, as the copiously Oxford. Let us make the rounds of its ivied
illustrated pages of both books prove; but after college buildings in the companionship of some
all, what is the actual compared with our dreams?
old and enthusiastic alumnus; let us absorb
What visions are conjured by the mere utter-
his affection for his alma mater and his joy in
ance of these two historic names — visions of everything, from Gothic façade to a turf six
that wonderful past in which all the men were
hundred years old, and we shall not care to
brave and all the women fair! These square dispute with him that Oxford is the stateliest
walled-in gardens — how can we do otherwise
intellectual monument in the world. The beau-
than fill them with pretty ladies in high-waisted tiful Saxon, early Norman, English, Gothic,
befrilled frocks, with courtly-mannered men in
and Italian structures have been faithfully pre-
brightly colored coats and gaily flowered waist served through all necessary alterations and
coats, knee-breeches, and periwigs? These velvety additions ; they still glorify her past, while
lawns of vivid green — who shall explain their serving to make the Oxford of to-day larger
secret? Only the English gardener knows it, and grander than before.
and his explanation is far from poetical: “We At Oxford, as elsewhere, one continues to
mows 'em and we rolls 'em for a thousand
years,
feel the powerful personality of that great ruler
and the rain on 'em does the rest."
and wonderful woman, Queen Elizabeth. Ox-
It is impossible to think of England without ford, and indeed all England, were in bad plight
its principal river. The Thames has done and when Elizabeth ascended the throne. But her
* IN THAMESLAND. Being the Gossipping Record of Rambles
advent heralded a new and glorious era. She
through England from the Source of the Thames to the Sea, with encouraged learning by choosing for her ser-
Casual Studies of the English People, their Historic, Literary
and Romantic Shrines. By Harry Wellington Wack, F.R.G.S.
vice eminent and hopeful students like Sir
With Map and 100 Ilustrations. New York: G. P. Putnam's Thomas Bodley. The Bodleian Library, oldest
THE IDYLLIC Avon. Being a Simple Description of the Avon public library in Europe, is his monument. He
from Tewkesbury to above Stratford-on-Avon; with Songs and
was followed by a long line of eminent scholars,
Pictures of the River and its Neighbourhood. By John Henry
Garrett. With two Maps. New York: G. P. Putman's Sons. each in his turn carrying on the University's
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prosperity. Archbishop Laud re-cast its stat- knowledge of Shakespeare, replied : “Oh, ah!
utes and built Convocation House, Oxford's I've heard on him ; he's a bloke as keeps a
Parliament. The city became in spirit the
e in
museum at Stratford.”
Royalist capital of England, and later, during For the local people, Stratford is not so much
the civil war, an actual court and fortress. the town of Shakespeare as the market-town of
Memories such as these are aroused through- Stratford. There are numbers of persons living
out the hundred and forty-eight miles of this within a dozen miles of it who have never been
journey down the Thames, from its source near there, and when they do go it will be to buy,
Crickdale to Putney Bridge in London. But sell, receive, or deliver something, or to hire a
after all, in the opinion of our guide through servant or be hired, and not to worship at the
Thamesland, the dominating fact of the Thames, shrine of the great poet.
The town was there
dwarfing its natural beauty and unrivalled his before Shakespeare, and it maintains locally a
torical associations, is that London stands upon primal importance to which the fact of its having
its shores — majestic London, that world within supplied the circumstances into which Shake-
a world, not only appalling in extent, but with speare was born is accidental.
an antiquity and a history such that no street time, Stratford does not differ materially from
can be found in it of which something of interest other market-towns in central England, except-
has not been recorded. Yet a first view of the ing that on account of its many visitors it is a
Thames from a London window or street is quite little more smartly kept. And, since so much
likely to be a disappointment. It seems scarcely has been written about Shakespeare and Strat-
a river at all, but a smooth-banked park rivu- ford by abler pens than Mr. Garrett's, it is
let, with a picturesque swagger, a smug compla- perhaps quite as well that his trip on the Avon
cency, typically British. But there are times
deals rather with idyls of other towns and
and places fit for first meetings with localities, peoples.
as with persons. Walk half-way across West-
The voyage begins near the mouth of the
minster Bridge, and turn to look back on the Severn, at Tewkesbury. This furnishes occa-
view of the river embracing the noble Houses
sion for a fairly good résumé of the last battle
of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and the
in the Wars of the Roses ; also for a history of
Victoria Embankment with its Somerset House Tewkesbury Abbey, and some very charming
and Cleopatra's Needle. Thus Wordsworth saw
pictures of it. At Pershore Town is another
it at four o'clock in the morning, from the top | Abbey, whose bells ring a chime at the hour,
of a coach on its way to Dover; and here his
and after the stroke of every third hour a tune
magnificent lines will start into memory:
the air of one or another of fourteen old
“ Earth has not anything to show more fair:
songs or hymns; they repeat the melody four
Never did sun more beautifully steep
times, so that some minutes of the next hour
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; have passed before they cease. The ostler at
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! the inn or the man in the street unconsciously
The river glideth at his own sweet will;
whistles the tune of the day as he goes about
Dear God I the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still.”
his business. Besides its chimes, Pershore is
noted for its fruit, especially its plums.
Compared with the Thames, the Avon is an
insignificant river, yet to many it is dearer than
“There are many plantations of plum-trees in and
about the town, and the prosperity of the place greatly
the larger stream. If Queen Elizabeth is the
varies with a good or bad plum year. They say that if
dominating personality of the Thames story, the you meet a Pershore man in a good gardening season
Avon too has its hero a certain poet and actor
and ask him where he comes from, he replies, • Pershore;
whom Elizabeth sometimes summoned to her where you thinbad one, the grumbles out the reply,
court to amuse her with his latest play. The
• Pershore, — God help us !'... In a place the size of
thought of Avon is linked so inseparably with Pershore everybody is supposed to know everybody
thoughts of Shakespeare and Stratford, that in else; but such knowledge can, after all, be but partial,
taking up “ The Idyllic Avon " it is a surprise
and the estimation one makes of another is probably in
to find only about forty of its two hundred and
some cases mistaken, notwithstanding the great facilities
afforded to everybody to discuss every other person's
sixty pages given to these matters. The Avon
business. That is nothing, or nothing but very com-
has fifty miles to travel after it leaves Stratford, monplace; but what is something is the sunniness and
before it empties into the Severn. Even at simplicity of this little town, and the genial, friendly
nature of its inhabitants."
Welford, only five miles below Stratford, a resi-
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English country life, its simplicity and friend-
THE STORY OF OUR GREAT DECLARATION.*
liness, that the book makes its strongest appeal
to the reader. These are days in which it is well
Significant of the thorough investigation and
to be reminded that the essence of human life scholarly results characterizing modern Ameri-
can historical composition is a volume of more
consists in things simple and commonplace,
than five hundred pages devoted to an intensive
the gathering in of the last sheaves of the har-
vest, and the driving in of the plough into the study of the Declaration of Independence. That
stubbles ; the milking of kine and the feeding nation's history should be given so much time
one incident in the comprehensive annals of the
of pigs; the picking of fruit and the digging up and space in the hurrying present may appear
of potatoes; — the homely primary duties of man.
over-refinement to the hasty traveller, but that
The eighty-seven illustrations from Mr. Gar-
the final word has been said on one topic will
rett's own camera are charming, and the two
be a satisfaction to the sojourner in the land of
maps are excellent. It is pathetic that a man
letters. Other volumes devoted to this subject,
who can make such good pictures and write notably those of Sanderson, Michaels, and Fried-
pretty prose should be tempted into mak- enwald, have set forth the lives of the signers,
ing such very bad verse. There are about thirty the statements made in the document, and the
“ Songs and Ballads scattered through the
text, which we would gladly pass over in silence. picturesque elements of the occasion. This
writer is concerned with collecting every scrap of
But since the author calls attention to them
both on title-page and in preface, they cannot
information concerning the inception of the idea
be ignored. Here is one, entitled “The Storm
of “ Independency,” the passing of the motion
by Congress, the penning of the Declaration,
on the River.”
and the reception of the action of Congress by
“ Now the daylight
the people of the States. It is one of those
Turns to greylight,
And a cold gust sends a shiver
abnormal books in which the space devoted to
Through the river reeds and rushes, and stirs the wait notes is larger than that given to the text; yet
ing trees;
by placing the notes after the text, the attention
Clouds so dun, now
of the reader is not unduly distracted. Another
Hide the sun, now
device likely to prove of benefit to investigators
There are rain-drops on the river,
And the echo of the thunder rumbles loud along the
and students is the designation by an initial
breeze.
letter of the library or collection in which the
“ Be not sad, oh,
document or book quoted was found.
For this shadow -
The growing sentiment for Independence is
Change of shine to showery weather; traced rapidly through Seventy-Four, the year
The cloud is needful to the earth, as to our life its pain;
There's a warm rift
“ in which the people for the first time recog.
nized that the cause of Boston was a common
In the storm-drift,
Showing sun and cloud together,
cause "; through Seventy-Five, “ when war had
And the wasting of the river is replenished by the rain.” become a reality,” to the beginning of Seventy-
But Mr. Garrett's temptation to “drop into Six. Subsequently, Independence itself is fol-
poetry” on slight occasion should perhaps be lowed through the the initial steps and the
forgiven for the sake of the book's merits in postponement, through the drafting of the
many respects. Moreover, it is a beautiful Declaration, and through the battle-royal be-
specimen of the publishing art, the cover de tween pro- and anti-Independents in New York
sign a view of the Stratford church where and Pennsylvania. The actual signing is next
Shakespeare is buried — being as lovely as it is critically examined, and the public opinions of
appropriate.
the action are collated. A chapter follows on
ANNA BENNESON MCMAHAN.
the fireworks," or celebrations throughout the
States, with a final chapter on the later history
“ Wer Ist's ? Unsere Zeitgenossen" (Leipzig: Deg-
of the engrossed copy of the Declaration and the
ener – New York: Stechert) comes to us in its second
various copies made by Jefferson for his friends.
annual issue. It is closely modelled upon the type of The author approaches with confidence the
“Who's Who in America,” and contains about sixteen crux of whether or not the Declaration was
thousand biographies, which is approximately the num-
ber included in the latest edition of our own similar signed generally on July 4, 1776. He analyzes
work. A few American names are found in the list, but
the old dispute, and finds that Jefferson was
their selection has not been made upon any rational basis.
mistaken in saying that all members present
A great variety of statistical and other information is
• THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: ITS HISTORY.
given in the preliminary pages.
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In it he says:
signed except Dickinson of Pennsylvania. He
MATURE JUDGMENTS ON NAPOLEON.*
even ventures to impeach Jefferson's statement
that his " notes were made at the time, and In reading the volume in the “ Cambridge
thinks they were changed subsequently to prove Modern History” which expresses the maturer
his assertion. No doubt, as the author points judgment of English historical scholarship upon
out, this ancient dispute originated in a con the work of Napoleon, one is reminded, by way.
fusion between the signing of the original copy of contrast, that a century ago Englishmen
and the engrossed copy.
even sympathizers with the French Revolution
One could wish that as much analysis and like Wordsworth — failed to note any charac-
thorough investigation had been given to the teristic of the new régime except the absence of
many stories connected with the signing as political liberty. General Bonaparte appeared
related by Jared Sparks, by Sanderson, Lossing, to them an upstart tyrant, and the subservience
and others, to determine whether they are of the French seemed odious. They ignored the
authentic or apocryphal. The author passes positive elements of his work, which Lafayette,
over the “ Ring, Grandpa, Ring” tradition, - an equally ardent apostle of freedom, indicated
no doubt one of the many historical fictions so well in a public letter without being unfaith-
from Lippard, being content to label it “ im- ful to his early ideals. This letter was written
probable.” It would seem that Marshall would to General Bonaparte, to explain why Lafayette
have chronicled the hubbub in the streets of voted against the project of the consulship for
Philadelphia if the bell had been rung.
life.
“ We have seen since the
Perhaps the most interesting portion of the 18th Brumaire in the consular power a restor-
book is that devoted to the means taken to atory dictatorship, which, under the auspices of
spread the Declaration through the various your genius, has accomplished great things,
States in order that the patriot cause might less great, however, than would be the restoration
have the benefit of it. On the Monday follow- of liberty.” It is the attitude of Lafayette, rather
ing its adoption on Thursday, it was read in the than that of Wordsworth, which is assumed in the
State House Yard at Philadelphia, and before the volume on Napoleon in the “Cambridge Modern
militia at Easton, Pennsylvania, and at Trenton, History.” Its breadth of view is also emphasized
New Jersey. The following night, Princeton by the association in the group of writers, with
College was illuminated. The same evening, several of England's most distinguished histor-
by Washington's orders, the Declaration was ians, of Continental scholars like Professor
read to the troops in New York City, drawn up Pariset of the University of Nancy, Professor
in the “ Commons” where the City Hall now Guilland of Zürich, General Keim and Dr,
stands. On the 18th of July it was proclaimed PAugk-Harttung of Germany, and Professor
from the State House balcony in Boston, and Stschepkin of the University of Odessa.
the same day at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In the assignment of topics to their European
Southward it was read at Williamsburg, Vir- associates, the editors of this important series
ginia, and at Charleston, South Carolina, on the have been especially happy. Professor Pariset's
25th ; and at Savannah, Georgia, August 10. description of the Consulate impresses one as a
Amidst the rejoicings, the huzzas, the firing of piece of work which could be written only by a
cannon, and the drinking of toasts, the king's man with a native's experience of the operation
coat of arms was taken down from court rooms, of French administrative machinery. Dealing
cut from the front of stone buildings, and with such matters is largely a question of pro-
stripped from flags.
Patriotic parents even portion and emphasis. The foreign scholar, with
baptized their children “ Independence.” his array of “ sources,” is often led to measure
Mr. Hazelton has preferred to send out his the importance of an institution by the number
material in bullion rather than to coin it into of columns filled by its provisions in the collec-
currency.
As a narrative it suffers in conse tion of laws. In Professor Pariset's treatment
quence, but it has the greater value for the stu- there is not much that is new, but the exact func-
dent. Magazine writers and others who mould tion of such a body as the Council of State is
original material into popular forms are likely better explained than is commonly the case.
to draw largely on this work. Mention should And this is not the only example which might
be made of the photographic reproductions of be cited. Again, Professor Guilland studies the
the various drafts of the Declaration and kin French policy toward the dependent states like
dred papers, which serve really to illustrate the
*NAPOLEON. The Cambridge Modern History, Volume IX.
text.
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” he argues,
crees.
Switzerland, not primarily from its results in In his biography of Napoleon he still speaks of
the rupture of the Peace of Amiens, but rather them as “ harsh and high-handed.” In the present
from its bearing upon the permanent well-being volume his attitude is much more favorable to
of the Swiss. Must it not be refreshing also to the British case.
- The facilities,
read a Russian's account of that much described granted to neutrals were clearly of such a kind
episode, the retreat from Moscow ?
as to disprove the charge that George III. 's
The division of the subject matter into topics government deliberately sought to ruin neutral
has been accomplished satisfactorily. How vast commerce. On the contrary, it sought to attract
this subject-matter is, one realizes when one notes neutral ships to British harbors, but only on
the condensed treatment of important topics, conditions which contravened Napoleon's de-
although the volume contains nearly eight hun-
The aim clearly was not to ruin neutral
dred pages up to the bibliographies. Each commerce, but to make the Continental System
writer seems to have planned his work well in odious to neutrals.”
relation to other parts of the book. In a few In his discussion of Bonaparte's policy at the
instances, however, all that is said in various beginning of the Consulate, Professor Guilland
places upon a particular subject does not amount ignores one or two elements of the situation. It
to a sufficiently complete statement of it. This is obvious that if the new government was not
is true of the rupture of the Peace of Amiens. to share the discredit of the Directory it must
It is questionable whether, in his discussion of recover the position guaranteed by the terms of
the Continental System, Dr. Rose should not the treaty of Campo Formio — the “natural
have included an explanation of the consequences limits” securely flanked by French domination
of the Embargo, instead of merely referring to in Holland and Italy. No magistrate, not even
the treatment of this subject in a previous vol a Washington, could have persuaded the French
ume of the series.
While depending upon one in 1800 to give up the power they had enjoyed
another in this
way,
the authors have not sacri so recently. The “ elevation of war into a sys-
ficed their personal attitude. For example, in tem,” to quote Professor Guilland's words, may
dealing with the Copenhagen affair Dr. Rose have been Napoleon's later policy; but at this
writes as a sympathetic critic of the policy of time, even if he were following his inclination,
Canning, but Mr. Wilson refers to the plan he was also attempting what was unavoidable.
adopted and carried into such terrible effect in The most masterly handling of a complex diplo-
terms which would be expected from persons matic situation is to be found in Dr. Ward's
who regard the exigencies of naval strategy as two chapters on the Congress of Vienna.
superior to considerations of national honor or The editors have not called their volume “ The
public right.
Napoleonic Era,” or “ The Consulate and the
Among the questions given an exceptionally Empire," but simply “ Napoleon.” This implies
clear treatinent in the light of the results of that in reading the chapters there shall appear
recent investigation is the significance of Ville one after another the lines of a consistent por-
neuve's failure in 1805. This appears in Mr. | trait, and that in this personality shall be found
Wilson's chapter on “The Command of the Sea.” the real unity of the treatment. This promise
He shows by a comparison of dates that before is fulfilled. The outlines of the picture are
Napoleon knew that Villeneuve had sailed south- peculiarly clear in the closing pages of Mr.
ward to Cadiz he had written, “ The army is in Fisher's admirable chapter on St. Helena, in
full march " against Austria. Mr. Wilson re his reflections upon the significance of Napo-
marks : “ In reality, it was Nelson's swift move leon's work, and of the attitude of the peoples
ments, the Austrian division in Napoleon's rear, of England and of Europe toward him.
and the hopeless unseaworthiness of the flotilla,
HENRY E. BOURNE.
that dictated the abandonment of the immense
project'” of an invasion of England.
The prevailing interest in matters relating to the
From Dr. Rose's treatment of the Continental
South American republics is shown not only in the de-
System, it appears that his opinion has changed scriptive articles regarding them in various magazines,
in regard to the aim of the British Orders in
these is a new work by Mr. Percy F. Martin, F.R.G.S.,
Council of November, 1807. In his book on entitled “Through Five Republics of South America,"
the “Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era," pub-
the five being Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and
Venezuela. The volume will contain valuable statistical
lished twelve years ago, he declared that “the
tables, with pictures and maps, and will treat of the man-
chief aim of our Orders in Council " the
ners, customs, and life of the people, as well as the rail-
monopoly of the ocean commerce of the world.” way, financial, commercial, and sociological conditions.
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RECENT AMERICAN POETRY.*
Blank verse is the most difficult of English verse-
forms, and we rarely find it worth while to illustrate
the work of our minor poets by extracts of that de-
scription. But we find in Mr. Robert Cameron
Rogers's new volume"The Rosary and Other Poems”
a group of four classical idyls in blank verse that
are distinctly out of the common, and that yield such
lines as these spoken by “Blind Polyphemus.”
"And Zeus grants one delight; — when day is gone,
When night blinds all, my sight comes back to me;
And I can see, as last I saw, the day
The great blue, breathing deep - the black-ribbed slag
That Titans flung from Ætna's forge to cool
Amid the breakers, and away, beyond,
The coast of Italy. Again I see
The hazy hills where graze my brothers' sheep,
The olive trees that bow themselves and peer
Down grassy gullies, and the timid joy
Of almond trees in bloom.
When morning comes
The ewes unbidden crowd about my knees,
And with blind hands grown gentler than of old
I milk them one by one; then pasturewards
I follow them who one time followed me."
There is a Landorian touch of divine simplicity about
these new"Hellenics” which gives them a marked dis-
tinction. But the talent of Mr. Rogersis for the most
part lyrical, and a very charming talent it is. This
last half of “A Riding Song” is a memorable strain.
“ Then ride, for dawn is swift and sure,
And an ebb must always be ;
The magic moon will but endure
One hour more up from the sea.
The gold of a year of sun's too poor
To buy that hour of me!
Though it has no thread in the loom of the past,
Though a future has been denied,
Though I may not hold it, riding fast,
And it die, die, die, as we ride ;
The rim of the moon has touched at last,
And here is the turn of the tide.
“O, never for me a moon shall rise
To shine as this moon has shone,
Like a bark aflame, hull-down, it lies,
Like a spent flame sunk it has gone,
To shine, where a haunted flood-tide cries
To the coasts of Avalon."
This lyric illustrates both the free swing of the poet's
verse, and the out-door quality which is one of its
chief characteristics.
Mr. Dodd's volume, “A Modern Alchemist,”
opens with a suggestion that should be taken to
heart by those readers who ever seek to find the
singer in the song, and whose interest in verse par-
takes more of personal curiosity than of literary
appreciation.
“Friend, if you read, read wisely, nor believe
Grief's name is graven here because I grieve,
Nor when I sing love's passion deem that I
Have felt each worded rapture sigh for sigh!
Life I interpret as I may, but keep
Myself a secret where all secrets sleep."
By way of a supplement to this finger-post of warn-
ing, we may quote “ Love and the Poet.”
“A maiden loved him, wooed him with her eyes ;
He felt their limpid blueness like a dream,
So rhymed of love with a divine surprise !
Love (not the blue-eyed maiden) was his theme.
“O luring lips!' he sang, who knew them not;
O burning kisses!' But his soul was strong,
Silent, aloof, a sentinel of thought,
Dwelling a hermit on the heights of song."
In this volume also, as in the one preceding, we
note the Landorian inspiration, and this time it is
expressly and gratefully acknowledged in these lines
on “ The Pentameron.'
“O breath of something from beyond these hills,
Some higher heaven whence the essential sweetness
Comes down to us imperfectly in gusts,
Striking a faintness of pure ecstasy
Through the minutest fibre of our beings!
Such breaths come seldom to the innocent,
How seldom to the wordly! and, alas,
There are who have not known them, nor shall know.
To me one full intoxicating pang,
Whereat my spirit cried out for painful bliss,
Thou hast sent down to me, 0 Landor, one
For which I thank thee not in words but tears!”
Mr. Dodd has the command of tragic pathos, a qual-
ity exhibited most remarkably, perhaps, in “What
the Coroner Found," a poem that inevitably recalls
Rossetti’s “ Jenny.” We must quote two or three
stanzas, although they suffer sadly by being wrenched
from their context.
“ Dead - Nell' is dead; frail siren of the streets,
Love-starved, with lips reddened to summon shame . .
To-morrow's tale is written, Vulturous sheets
Which lend the fallen miserable fame
Will mark the spot, counting the tale well told.
But 'Nell' is dead; poor . Nell' was overbold.
“She has forgotten pain ... I must
go
down
To where she lies, and elbow past the men
Who press
about her staring at the gown
Stained with new blood, go down to her ... and then,
O then perhaps I shall return and know
Why life yields unto death. 'Tis better so.
*
* THE ROSARY, AND OTHER POEMS. By Robert Cameron
Rogers. New York: The John Lane Co.
A MODERN ALCHEMIST, AND OTHER POEMS. By Lee Wilson
Dodd. Boston: Richard G. Badger.
MANY MOODS AND MANY MINDS. A Book of Poems. By
Louis James Block. New York: The John Lane Co.
THE BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS. By Dexter Wallace. Chicago:
The Rooks Press.
BIRD AND BOUGH. By John Burroughs. Boston: Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.
MY LADY OF DREAM. By Lloyd Mifflin. New York: Henry
Frowde.
POEMS. By Meredith Nicholson. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Co.
AT THE GATES OF THE CENTURY. By Harry Lyman Koopman.
Boston: The Everett Press.
WORDS OF THE Wood. By Ralcy Husted Bell. Boston: Small,
Maynard & Co.
IN THE FURROW. Poems by Lewis Worthington Smith. Des
Moines: The Baker-Trisler Co.
THE MOODS OF LIFE. Poems of Varied Feeling. By William
Francis Barnard. Chicago: The Rooks Press.
MYSTERY OF THE WEST. By Henry Nehemiah Dodge. Boston:
Richard G. Badger.
ACTÆON'S DEFENSE, AND OTHER POEMs. By Alice Wilson.
Boston: Richard G. Badger.
SONGS BY THE SEDGES. By Ellen Brainerd Peck. Boston:
Richard G. Badger.
SONGS IN A SUN-GARDEN. By Coletta Ryan. Boston: Herbert
B. Turner & Co.
THE DREAM CHILD, AND OTHER VERSES. By Norma K. Bright.
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'Tis better so: death quiets life. This night
artistic value than the composition which evoked
So much the still face of a courtesan
it; the other is a symphony in verse, in the ortho-
Has taught me, showing strangely calm and white
Under its rouge, peaceful and strangely wan,
dox four movements, entitled “From Over-Man to
As if tired into silence. Death, through her,
Over-Soul,” which suggests the similar poems of Mr.
Invokes the incense of a worshipper.”
Charles E. Russell, reviewed by us last year.
There is stuff in these poems - deep thought and “ Dexter Wallace,” we are given to understand
deep feeling. And conjoined with them is a delicacy is a pseudonym. His book of verse, “ The Blood of
of touch that shows the artist keeping the upper the Prophets,” is a collection of poems inspired by
hand of his emotions. Let us close this review with passionate indignation, but too rugged in diction to
the exquisite lines upon The Debutante.”
deserve much artistic consideration. Their indig-
“Her name 's not Amaryllis, though she seems
nation is directed toward the mammon-worship of
To shepherd with her eyes a flock of dreams;
our time, and the “ Ballad of Jesus of Nazareth,"
And yet, it may be, when their tale is told
which fills half the volume, is a plea for the spirit
(Poor sheep, poor silly dream-sheep pastured far
Along faint hills lit by a maiden star!)
of Christianity as opposed to the practice of Chris-
She will desert them for the Fleece of Gold."
tendom.“ Samson and Delilah” expounds a similar
parable with equal effectiveness. We quote a stanza
“ Many Moods” was the title given to a volume from the “ Ballade of Dead Republics.”
of his poenis by the late J. A. Symonds. “Many
“Tell me ye King-craft of to-day
Moods and Many Minds ” is the caption under
Where is Athens, who made men free ;
which Mr. Louis James Block has made his latest
Then sank into stupor by the way,
collection of miscellaneous pieces. Mr. Block has
Subdued by the Spartan tyranny ?
And Rome that staggered to death, perdie,
paid loyal devotion to the muse for many years,
Stabbed by the sword of Hannibal,
and the present volume exhibits him as a very
And bled by patrician infamy –
thoughtful poet, with many forms of technical ex-
The Dragon of Greed destroyed them all!"
pression at his command. It seems to us that he is
This is technically the best poem in the book. Others
best when his form is simplest, as these stanzas from
suffer from over-vehemence of expression, as in this
“In the Afternoon ” may serve to illustrate.
description of
“ Gifts have the gray hours brought,
“The perjured Marshall, who with sorcery
Gray hours of the afternoon,
Planted the jungle of unequal laws,"
Soft lighted hours, whose sun
Faces the lampless moon.
or of “this huge reptile, now a nation's Fear," which
is the author's pleasant way of referring to Mr.
“Not the wild blooms of youth,
Rockefeller. But such excesses as these may almost
Not passion's golden flowers,
But blossoms wan of hue,
be condoned for the sake of the author's denuncia-
Plucked in life's gentler bowers.
tion of the Philippine iniquity, and of his stanch
adherence to the fine older ideals of the Republic,
“Sweeter is rest and calm
Than ecstasy's fierce pain,
so shamelessly flouted in these decadent days.
And sweeter this sad bliss
When a man styles himself a minor poet, criticism
Than all youth strove to gain.
is disarmed. In such case is Mr. John Burroughs,
“ The calm of twilight descends
who has been told, he says, that his readers could
Unvexed of sunset, and gray,
forgive him everything but his poetry, and who
Star-crowned, and bringer of dreams,
nevertheless makes bold to collect his fugitive pieces
Day's shadow, dearer than day.”
into a volume called “Bird and Bough,” with the
As an example of Mr. Block's more stately meas following felicitous motto from Bunyan: “Some said,
ures, we quote his fine sonnet on “The Arbitration John, print it; others said, Not so. “The Cardinal
Treaty.”
Flower" is pretty enough for quotation.
“ Yet the world moves; although the bitter Past
“Like peal of a bugle
Lingering enthroned demands to be obeyed ;
Upon the still night,
Across the seas the nations war-arrayed
So flames her deep scarlet
Still stand at gaze, and hearken for the vast
In dim forest light.
And harsh call unto strife, the thunderous blast
Of trumpets while the fields are sore dismayed ;
"A heart-throb of color
In Time's great balance such rule duly weighed
Lit up the dim nook,
Has been found wanting, its sure doom forecast;
A dash of deep scarlet
The dark shadows shook.
“For two strong peoples shape the newer thought,
With joinèd might invoke the reign of peace,
“Thou darling of August,
Seeing each man's fatherland is where is sought
Thou flame of her flame,
Some nobler hope for true life's bright increase,
'Tis only bold Autumn
And of one blood is goodness, and release
Thy ardor can tame."
From world-care by the whole world's toil is wrought!"
One merit Mr. Burroughs may and does claim un-
Two interesting experiments in music are found in reproved for his songs, that “they keep closer to
this volume. One is a transcription of Gillet's our wild nature — to the birds, the flowers, the
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There are no daisies and nightingales in his song,
but instead arbutus and columbine and hepatica,
the crow, the bobolink, and the bluebird.
“My Lady of Dream,” by Mr. Lloyd Mifflin, is
a volume of lyrics of which “The Tryst with His
Love” may be taken as an example.
“When the wings of the twilight-legion
And the ghosts of the sunset pale,
I float in the nebulous region
Of a spirit-haunted vale:
By the marge of a mystical river
I make of my love a lyre,
For she is a reed a-quiver,
And I am the wind, her desire."
This is charming, if ineffectual. It must be admitted
that the author does better with the stately move
ment of the sonnet than with the freer utterance of
the song. He has not the gift of liquid melody,
whatever others he may have. The present volume
includes a number of sonnets, and one curious ex-
periment in the form of a two-octaved sonnet. This
we quote as perhaps the most satisfactory poem in
the collection. It is entitled “Imperial Inventress.”
“O guardian of the sought-for sacred fire;
Mother of splendors springing from the mind;
Imperial Inventress, let me find
Melodious solace great as my desire !
Grant me to waken thine impassioned lyre
To most mellifluous music, and unbind
The bands of silence; oh, once more be kind
E'en unto me, the least among thy choir!
O Breath of Godhead, voicing mysteries
That mortal men, unheeding, seldom hear,
Fain would my spirit bend a reverent ear
To feast upon thy heavenly harmonies !
Come through the sunset gates, or on the breeze
Memnonian, murmur to me, spirit clear;
Breathe solace and dispel this life-long tear
By mystic music sweeter than the sea's !
Give to this essence flaming seraph wings,
Or burn it, incense-like, to thee and thine,
Upon thy alter with its purging fire ;
Strike thou at last from out these trembling strings
Apocalypses of the inner shrine –
oBreath of God! make of my soul thy lyre!”
Fifteen years ago, Mr. Meredith Nicholson pub-
lished “Short Flights,” a small volume of songs and
lyrics. Since then, the author has become widely
known as a writer of acceptable fiction, but it appears
from his new volume of “ Poems” that he has not
meanwhile forsaken the muse. We find in these
pieces a graver and more reflective note than in the
earlier ones the natural mark of a maturer experi-
ence and a widened outlook. “A Prayer of the
Hill-Country” shall be taken for our illustration.
“Lift me, O Lord, above the level plain,
Beyond the cities where life throbs and thrills,
And in the cool airs let my spirit gain
The stable strength and courage of Thy hills.
They are Thy secret dwelling-places, Lord !
Like Thy majestic prophets, old and hoar,
They stand assembled in divine accord,
Thy sign of 'stablished power forevermore.
“Here peace finds refugc from ignoble wars,
And faith, triumphant, builds in snow and rime,
Near the broad highways of the greater stars,
*Above the tide-line of the seas of time.
“Lead me yet farther, Lord, to peaks more clear,
Until the clouds like shining meadows lie,
Where through the deeps of silence I may hear
The thunder of Thy legions marching by."
Nature, art, and patriotic sentiment are the chief
elements of Mr. Nicholson's inspiration.
The metrical diversions of a score of years
mostly bits of verse are collected into a volume
called “At the Gate of the Century,” by Mr. Harry
Lyman Koopman. Neatly epigrammatic couplets
and quatrains abound, as this on Shelley's great
lyrical drama.
*Unbound, for who would bind it?' the perplexed
And sneering critics of the poet cried,
Whose son saw England's scholarship divide
Over a doubtful comma in the text."
“Shelley's Birthday (August 4, 2792)" may be set
beside the above quatrain to illustrate Mr. Koopman's
more serious manner.
“ I stood before the open gate of birth,
Where souls unborn await their doom to earth.
Forth from the throng there burst a soul of flame,
Mine hour of birth, O Lord, the stars proclaim!'
To whom then gravely He: ‘Yea, now at last
The world is fit thy lot therein to cast.
But, through thy haste, a thousand years ago
Men called thee Shelley in that life below.""
Conventional verse of a rather commonplace kind,
devoid of anything like originality and not notice-
ably felicitous in diction, makes up the volume called
“Words of the Wood,” by Dr. Ralcy Husted Bell.
“ Dreamland Voices” is a specimen well above the
average.
“Now sings the mated bird,
Scarce knowing why he utters golden mirth ;
The thrilling leaves are stirred
With melodies of bird and sky and earth.
“From far-off fields of sleep
I hear the drowsy phantom voices rise;
There are no winds to sweep
The misty murmur-echoes from the skies.
“Serene soft stars eclipse
Their full-eyed gaze with lids of love half closed ;
The great world gently dips
Beneath a sea of azure, opal-rosed.
“ The half-wake grasses droop
Where pools of moonlight lie between the trees ;
And tall night-shadows stoop
Like timid silence shrinking from the breeze."
A “Threnody” lamenting the passing of the
ancient gods, one of the poems included in a slender
volume by Mr. Lewis Worthington Smith, closes
with this appealing stanza :
“ Plataa's soil is sacred as of old;
In Salamis the white spray flashes still ;
But nevermore in prophecy is told
Apollo's promise or dark Hera's will.
The winds may pluck the reeds for music mellow,
Or buoyant lift some song-bird's throat of yellow;
But not again the god's deft fingers straying
Shall charm the fawns and dryads with his playing.
My steps from sea to height are longing-led;
The ancient gods are dead; sweet Pan is dead."
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sea.
"Brother of Shakespeare, England's strength and will, The defect in the third and fourth lines is unfortu-
As he was England's heart and mind, I fill
nate, particularly in view of the obvious remedy,
Opie brimming beaker to the sword that hung
which is nothing more than shifting the superfluous
Close at thy side, the ready hands that flung
The power of Spain upon the tumbling seas
" and” of the one to its proper place at the begin-
With careless laughter as of kings at ease;
ning of the other.
One brimming beaker as the pledge goes round
And in our ears the world-wide surges sound."
“Mystery of the West," by Mr. Henry Nehemiah
Mr. Smith has a fondness for long and swinging
Dodge, may be described as a sort of sectional epic
of the discovery of America. Beginning with Leif
measures, as in the poem “ Southern Stars.”
and ending with the chained Columbus, the history
“The earth rolls onward night by night through wondrous is unfolded episodically, with lyrical interludes. We
arcs of sky;
quote the verses called “ Too Soon the Light."
Aldebaran, the Pleiades, and Sirius go by.
The Great Bear, Draco, Perseus, and Cassiopæia keep “Blow, night winds, blow your kindly, mystic veil
Their silent watch of centuries, though I should wake or
Athwart the rift made by the Norseman's prow;
sleep;
Let Vineland slumber yet awhile in peace,
But on my little spot of earth there may not come to me Lulled by her guardian ocean's melodies.
The vision of the Southern Cross above the Southern sea. Hide once again this earthly paradise,
Whose waters flow unvexed, whose limpid streams
:"Job saw Arcturus, Plato watched the marshalled host go by; Leap in sweet Freedom's haunts, where fearless drink
Their spirits thrill to meet my own from out the midnight All her wild creatures, in her love secure;
sky.
Whose forest wilds, untouched by the woodman's axe,
Chaldean shepherds lost in awe are with me as I gaze;
In their primeval glory undefiled,
Upon us falls the reverent hush of wonder and amaze;
Murmur their joy unto caressing winds.
But I may never share the joy, the rapture fine and free, Too soon the light! the world is moving slow;
Of those who watch the Argo breast the glowing Southern These shores be for its riper heritage!"
This
Altogether, this little book seems to be worth while.
poem was written for the Phi Beta Kappa Soci-
We note in one instance the detestable malformation
ety of Massachusetts. It is supplemented by “Com-
“ thru”: is not even poetry to be spared this dese- | ing of the Nations,” a series of lyrical outpourings
cration?
supposed to express the feelings of the various na-
tionalities that have come to people the new world.
A lyric and a sonnet shall be our illustrative ex-
tracts from “The Moods of Life," a volume of verse
From Miss Alice Wilson's “Actæon's Defense,
by Mr. William Francis Barnard. The lyric is
and Other Poems,” we select this love-sonnet for its
« Pioneers.”
note of sincerity and quiet charm.
“Too full of freedom's passion to endure
By all the ways of life I come to thee:
The heavy bonds of custom, age on age,
Along the highroad of my common day
Men rise up, having strength and courage sure,
In the full glare of trials that betray
And would in time's adventurous tasks engage.
The frailties of my nature; I come to thee
Along the woodpaths of my fantasy
“Alien in settled lands, Earth's titans these,
Where once my virgin spirit loved to stray
Whose mighty strength must find fit deeds afar;
In lone delight; and when I climb to lay
In curious search they sail o'er all her seas,
My burst of rapture near eternity;
Asking no guides save sun, or moon, or star.
I come through vales where vespers have been ringing,
What time my heart is touched with solemn grace;
"And where they pause, enamored, for a time,
And last, with spirit ’neath its sorrow stinging,
They hear their hearts within, that long to go;
I reach thee in its secret mourning place.
Which will not let them rest in any clime
Thou my horizon art, my life enringing
As long as worlds lie wide, and far streams flow.
And o'er it like a star is set thy face."
“They toil up mountains, pierce great pathless woods, We do not quite understand how a “burst” may
They cross the deserts waste, then hasten on.
Taming the earth for following multitudes,
be laid, but the poem as a whole is acceptable. As
They face the beckoning sunset, and are gone."
the title would indicate, classical themes are some-
times chosen by Miss Wilson for treatment.
We
The subject of the sonnet is “The Graves of Shelley strongly suspect that she imagines " Iphigenia” to
and Keats" in the Protestant Cemetery at Rome.
be accented upon its third syllable, and Herbert
“Is this where Death his jealous state doth keep
Spencer's tolerance of this fault is hardly enough to
Over two glorious ones, who early passed
excuse it.
Out of the ways of song and into the Vast,
Out of being into sealed sleep?
Old clothes, old furniture, and old fashions are
Is this the spot where Joy lies buried deep;
the chief themes of Miss Ellen Brainerd Peck's
Where Hope and Love are hushed; where prisoned fast,
Young power and high desire are cold at last,
Songs by the Sedges.” A neat example is “The
Moving no more? I smile, and cannot weep.
Spinet."
Ye trees; grey pyramid clearing the blue air
“On the tinkling notes, and faint,
Within whose shade the flowers with beauty bent,
Of the spinet old and quaint,
Grow thickly; ivied walls; and lingering wind;
Once pretty hands oft lightly strayed,
Green grass, and sunlight; is there otherwhere
Coaxing gentle melodies,
Fitter for poets on whose heads were spent
From the slender ivory keys,
The scorn and maledictions of Mankind ?"
In days when dainty tunes were played.
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sun,
“In frock of dimity bedight,
Of a fashion then the height,
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
Perchance, some maid, demure and slim,
The last ten years have witnessed a
Practiced here a canzonet,
The Frog's
Or a graceful minuet,
marked increase in the output of
In studied measure, queer and prim.
books of natural history, nature books,
“Now untouched the keys lie hid;
and not a few excellent tales of unnatural history
Silence sleeps beneath the lid.
masquerading in the borders of the arid regions of
And the voiceless spinet seems
pure (and, alas, too often dry) science. Publishers
Haunted with refrains of song,
have awakened to the fact that there is a growing
That to other days belong
demand for books in this field. The introduction of
And eloquent of olden dreams."
high-grade instruction in the natural sciences in the
Miss Peck has a pretty fancy and a light touch, secondary schools, and the development of nature
which are just the qualities needed for this sort of study in the graded schools, have created an intelli-
reminiscent verse.
gent constituency of no mean proportions, in whom
Miss Coletta Ryan is the author of “ Songs in a natural history works of high standard command a
Sun-Garden.” She cries :
quick appreciation. Not every candidate for favor
has deserved success. Some have not reflected the
“Oh, let me sing!
The the birds, the grief-defying trees
essential scientific experience or training, and have
Are joyous minstrels, playing with the breeze. consequently failed to develop the subject with due
Through field and forest gleeful echoes ring - regard to proportionate values of its various phases.
Oh, let me sing !”
Others have sacrificed fact for effect, or have cov-
But we doubt if the permission should be granted, ered too large a field in too superficial a manner ;
in view of the rather futile character of the outpour-while a few do not rise above the monotony of a
ings that follow. “ A Lover's Song” is one of the mere clerical compilation. In the main, however, a
few things afforded by this volume that are reason high standard of scientific accuracy has been attained,
ably acceptable.
and improvement in form and in illustration has
“She is more golden than the golden sun,
been marked in the general level during the past
More silver than the silver moonlight's glow; decade. The latest number in that series of high-
More fair, more rare, more holy than the one
grade works, “ The Nature Library” (Doubleday,
I taught my heart to worship long ago!
Page & Co.), Miss Mary C. Dickerson's “Frog
“She is more starry than the stars that fall
Book,” reaches the high-water mark of general
Speechless beneath her beauty. In her eyes excellence. The scope of the work is not too great
I see my bride, my heaven, and my all,-
for the space allotted; the treatment is scientific,
My light, my love, my deathless Paradise."
thoroughly modern and up-to-date, reflecting current
This is all very well. but it seems to be a little university standards. The illustrations are ample
hard on the one of long ago, now so completely and in the main well chosen.
and in the main well chosen. The subject is treated
supplanted.
comprehensively, and the matter is sufficiently va-
Above
Of “The Dream Child, and Other Verses,” by ried to maintain the interest of the reader.
Miss Norma K. Bright, we can only say that they all, it is no clerical compilation made for the market,
have neither melody nor felicity of phrase, that they
but rather an enthusiastic recital of close and critical
are often rude and sometimes even ungrammatical personal observation told without striving for effect.
in construction. Ambition, for example, is thus
The selection of material and the completeness and
apostrophized :
comprehensiveness of the treatment are commend
able. Little attention is paid to structural or ana-
“ Thou Spirit that feeth so swiftly before me,
tomical matters.
How long have I thee pursued !
The introductory chapter deals
Over meadows of green have I weariedly chased thee,
with the distinction between batrachians and fishes
But thou seem'st ever my grasp to elude."
and reptiles, development and metamorphoses, clas-
We have small sympathy for the Czar of Russia sification, phylogeny, hibernation, poison, voice, color
in his present predicament, but even he deserves a
change, behavior, and distribution of the Batrachia
better fate than to be made the victim of such verse
Salientia, or frogs and toads. A well worked out
as the following:
key is provided for the identification of the North
American species, and all technical terms are fully
“ A man is a man and a king;
illustrated. The remainder of the book is given up
As much a monarch as you!
With a soul to dare and to do!
to a detailed account of about sixty frogs, tree-toads,
Would you trample him low ?
and toads, of this continent. Each is described
Have him bend and bow at your beck ?
briefly in the matter of color, measurements, and
Put your foot, at will, on his neck ?
The spirit cries justice' loud ;
external characters, and a more or less extended
What! Do you merely smile grim ?
account of its natural history follows. An extensive
Smile as at childish whim?
bibliography of scientific works and articles in jour-
Then zealously flee from him ? "
nals, dealing with the classification and natural his-
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The
civilization in
criticism.
illustrations are plates by the color-printing process, man's first book published after his conversion (p.15);
in which the colors are portrayed with excellent gen nor was it the gifted author of “Dodo” who con-
eral effect and considerable fidelity to the actual tributed the life of Rossetti to the “ English Men of
colors in nature. There are also over three hundred Letters” series (p. 223). And what, finally, is a
well-executed half-tones from photographs by the “liberal, High Anglican”?
author, — frogs and hop-toads galore, front, rear, and
In the summer of 1904 the Govern-
side-view, in the water and out. In fact, there are
progress of
ment of the Congo Free State ap
almost too many toads for the best literary effect !
Central Africa. pointed a commission of three to
The final plate, whose legend runs “The bullfrog -
independent, self-composed, alert,” is the embodi-
study the prevailing administrative system in Central
ment of batrachian complacency. The subject of
Africa and to formulate suggestions for the amelio-
the portrait is evidently well pleased at the publicity
ration of such evils as might be found to exist. The
results of this investigation have recently been given
he seems destined to acquire.
to the English-reading public through the medium
Mr. Arthur Rickett's 66 Personal of a small volume in the “Questions of the Day”
"Intermittent
bursts” of
Forces in Modern Literature"
(Dut-
series (Putnam) under the title of “The Congo : A
ton)professes to be concerned rather Report of the Commission of Inquiry.” The mem-
with the personal equation' of the writers discussed bers of the commission, de Cuvelier, Droogmans,
than with the purely literary aspects of their work. and Liebrechts, are men of eminent ability, and
The guiding principle in the selection of names it is safe to assume that their task has been performed
has been to exhibit as great a diversity of tempera with becoming thoroughness. All important dis-
ment as possible” (p. vii.). The writers considered tricts of the Congo were visited, and at every stopping-
are Newman and Martineau, representing the moral place sessions were held in which testimony was
ist type ; Huxley, the scientist; Wordsworth, Keats, taken from all officials, agents, missionaries, and
and Rossetti, the poet; Dickens, the novelist; Haz natives who presented themselves to make complaints
litt and De Quincey, the vagabond. There is an or to furnish information, and also from scores of
"outline scheme of reading for students,” and a persons specially summoned because supposed to
drawing of the young Rossetti, made by himself. possess unusual knowledge of conditions. Hospitals,
As a matter of fact, the title is justified only by a prisons, schools, missions, and plantations were vis-
few personal anecdotes that preface each lecture. ited, and the search was carried relentlessly into the
For the rest, the book is devoted to somewhat dis offices of government employees and the counting-
cursive literary criticism of the usual kind. Mr. rooms of commercial agencies. The main topics
Rickett quotes from Martineau the following sen taken up in the commission's report are the land
tence, which fairly represents our experience with régime, taxation, military service, trade concessions,
this volume (p. 31): “ True criticism seems to me depopulation, and the administration of justice. In
the recorded struggle of the reader's mind into closer respect to all of these matters, numerous evils are
.relations with an author whose intermittent bursts, pointed out: the arrogance of the Government in
helpful as they are, still do not enable him clearly appropriating alleged vacant lands, the oppressive-
to see his way.” Mr. Rickett has, we think, indulged ness of the labor tax, the terrorism and cruelty
himself too far in the method of “intermittent bursts”; resulting from quasi-military expeditions, the exploi-
le leaves with us no impression of a well-considered tation of the natives by agents of greedy commercial
singleness of aim. His style is choppy and disquiet companies, and the lax jurisdiction of the territorial
ing; he does not permit us, in FitzGerald's phrase, courts. Nevertheless, the conclusion of the report
“ to sail before the wind over the surface of an even is that the twenty years which have elapsed since
rolling eloquence.” The eccentric paragraph divi the creation of the Free State have witnessed a tre-
sions contribute not a little to this effect, and for mendous improvement in conditions — an advance
these the "colloquial form " adopted by the writer from gross barbarism to at least an outward confor-
is not an excuse. Many of the “intermittent bursts," mity with the rules of civilization. The slave-trade
however, really show a sense of values and a preci- has disappeared, cannibalism has been practically
sion of imagery. “The curative influence attributed suppressed, and sacrifices of human beings have be-
to light rays, from which heat rays have been come rare. The railroad, the telegraph, the postal
excluded, suggests an analogy with the influence of system, the schools, churches, and hospitals, - all
Wordsworth's work. The heat rays' of poetry find born of yesterday, — give the traveller the impres-
little place in his calm, meditative muse; all that sion that he is in a land which has long enjoyed the
can fever or distract has been eliminated. What blessings of western civilization rather than one
remains is a beneficent focus of cool light” (p. 109). which but a quarter of a century ago was totally
De Quincey's literary style is “ like the purple haze unknown and savage. It is the Commission's opinion
of a summer evening, through which we dimly that, with the resources at its command, the Gov-
apprehend the shape and contour of the scenery ernment of the Free State has achieved really re-
surrounding, all things taking on a strange hue and markable things, and that it has but to continue its
unsubstantiality" (p. 209). There are a few errors labors to bring about a satisfactory solution of the
in matters of fact. The “Apologia ” was not New much-discussed Congo problem.


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scenes.
Telling and
Bible stories
for the young.
Success in the field of medicine is too
A noble life
any real value in these fields falls within the last
in the service often measured, in this commercial forty years. Dr. Bliss sees great possibilities in
of humanity.
age, by extensive practice, exorbitant future exploration and excavations when made by
fees, or spectacular surgery. The patient work of competent specialists.--A very different book is that
the investigator in medical and sanitary science is of an Italian lady, Matilde Serao, “In the Country
rewarded, if at all, by a living pittance, and his of Jesus” (Dutton), which takes its place in the
discoveries attract but little public notice. Yet few lighter literature of its subject. Here we find many
men add more to the safety and comfort of human unusual out-of-the-way things, seen by the keen eye
life. No discovery in the field of medicine in recent of an experienced traveller, woven by a devout
years has contributed so much to the safety of life Catholic Italian mind into an attractive and charm-
and the stability of commerce, transportation, and ing narrative. At every point of interest — as, for
industry, in the warm temperate and tropical climates, example, at Bethel or in Galilee, — the author has
as that of Dr. Walter Reed, who first conclusively caught and recorded things that nine-tenths of the
proved that the mosquito is the active agent in the travellers and writers would never see or think of
transmission of that scourge of the South, the yellow mentioning. Devoutness, too, is found everywhere,
fever. The story of “Walter Reed and Yellow except where the author attempts a bout with a
Fever” (McClure, Phillips & Co.) has been written dragoman or a cunning impostor. Her picturesque
by Dr. H. A. Kelly of Johns Hopkins University. narrative is illustrated by a few first-class half-
Reed was a graduate of the University of Virginia, tones of some of the choicest scenes on the jour-
and of medicine, at an early age; he was an army ney.
The evident enthusiasm of the writer enlivens
surgeon in the far Southeast for many years, and the whole story, and makes the reader feel like en-
took up his scientific work relatively late in life. gaging quarters on the next steamer to Jaffa, that
During the Spanish war the opportunity came to he too may be stirred by the same sights and
him to carry out a series of critical experiments
which proved beyond cavil that yellow fever is trans-
ferable only by the bite of an infected mosquito or
Everyone who is interested in the
interpreting
by transfusion of infected blood. The results of his
religious instruction of children will
discovery made it possible to stamp out yellow fever
welcome Mrs. Houghton's "Telling
in Cuba within a year, where it had been entrenched
Bible Stories ” (Scribner). There are certainly few
for centuries ; and to reduce the mortality and check subjects in which the need for help is greater; for
the spread of the disease, and eventually to stamp
even the most conscientious mother is often baffled,
it out, in New Orleans, on the occasion of its last
as Mrs. Houghton says, by the question, " Knowing
invasion of this country. Methods of quarantine
as I do that the Old Testament is not precisely such
have been made doubly effective, and at the same
a book as I was taught to think it, and not knowing
time far less costly and disruptive of commerce and
as yet precisely what sort of book it is, how shall Î
travel, by reason of Dr. Reed's discovery. The story
interpret it to my children?” Mrs. Houghton an-
of his life reveals a man of the greatest fidelity to
swers this question in a way likely to satisfy a'l but
friends and duty, an heroic character, and an inspira-
the most conservative. She believes in two broad
tion to all who would serve humanity by a scientific
principles, first, that the Old Testament, which is
6 the marvellous and accurate revelation of human
study of the causes of the ills of men. Incidentally
nature in all its elemental characteristics," is of
the book gives a very full account of the long cam-
paign of investigation waged against the yellow
all books best adapted to the child, who is the true
fever plague, and of the experiments which finally representative of the essential elements of human
resulted in victory.
nature; and, second, that the right method of telling
Bible stories is not to insist upon their truth as a
“The Development of Palestine Ex-
Palestine
matter of historic fact, but to ask what is their true
on the surface ploration” (Scribner), by Dr. Fred- meaning. This, as Dr. Munger reminds us in his
and beneath.
erick Jones Bliss, the well-known excellent Introduction to the book, was the method
explorer and lecturer, is an ambitious work covering of the Head-Master of Uppingham, who always said
in small compass a large tract of history. Explora- to his boys, “Never mind whether the story is true
tion, in the sense of excavation, is practically a or not; what does it mean?” Mrs. Houghton does
modern idea. All earlier attempts to understand not re-tell many of the stories, but recommends ad-
and interpret the country were superficial, and did herence to the Bible wording, since “poetic imagery
not achieve any notable results. Renan and his con never puzzles the child until we begin to explain it
temporaries began a closer study of objects and to him.” She classifies the stories into groups for
ruins that pointed to the possibilities of larger things ; children of different ages a group of “Morning
but the organization of the Palestine Exploration Stories” for the very little folk, of “Hero and Ro-
Fund marked the first attempt to study scientifically mance Stories” for those next older, and of “Purpose
the land of the Israelites. Excavations were begun Stories” for growing young people; and she inter-
also on the site of Jerusalem, to ascertain facts re prets a large number of them in an interesting and
garding the situation, size, and structure of the old suggestive way. It is a pity that so excellent a book
city. Practically everything that has been done of has no index.


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BRIEFER MENTION.
is called by Mr. Lang “one of the best in fiction.” But
who can recall without a shudder that horrible butch-
A companion volume to his “Choice of Books" has ery, deliberately planned by the King's councillors, and
been prepared by Mr. Frederic Harrison, and is en grimly executed by thirty foemen on a side within an
titled “ Memories and Thoughts: Men, Books, Cities, enclosed space whence there was no escape except for
Art.” The forty chapters of which it consists are partly the last survivor ? One feels that the great artist here
autobiographical, and have a delightful width of scope, fails to realize what it is he is setting forth in such brave
as indicated by the title. It is the fine tone, the genial
colors. Interesting is the biographer's note that “in
atmosphere, the rich suggestiveness, of Mr. Harrison's Conachar, who has drunk the milk of the white doe,'
writings that attract the reader and win him over to the his foster mother, Scott expiates his extreme harshness
cause of good literature. These attributes, rather than to a ne'er-do-well brother, who had shown the white
any specific advice on the choice of books, will help to feather in the West Indies ” — and whom, except to
keep the dust from settling on the classics on our library supply him with money, Sir Walter would have nothing
shelves. To pursue a prescribed course of reading is to do with thereafter.
labor and sorrow, and the wisdom of those who counsel
such pursuit is foolishness, unless perhaps in the case
of very young readers.
The series of “Heroes of the Nations" (Putnam) must
NOTES.
of necessity include a biography of America's greatest
“On Reading," an essay by Dr. Georg Brandes,
hero, George Washington, and this has now appeared
from the pen of a Virginian, Professor James A. Harri-
which appeared some months ago as a contribution to
the now defunct “ International Quarterly,” is published
son. The book is written with enthusiasm for the subject,
as a booklet by Messrs. Fox, Duffield, & Co.
and for the state and the life therein during Washing-
ton's time. But while it is interesting as a general
The acquisitive impulse shows itself unmistakably in
description of times and conditions, it lacks clearness
the passion for collecting and collections. Some have
and definiteness as a biography. It aims to portray the
been known to find pleasure even in the collecting of
patriot, soldier, statesman; it does show Washington as
strings. Miss Carolyn Wells now adds to her collec-
a patriot from his own letters as well as from his deeds,
tions of the lighter forms of literature a “ Whimsey
but it gives almost nothing about him as a soldier except
Anthology," which will soon appear, to gladden the
hearts of the whimsical.
rhapsody, and passes over in a few scanty pages the
fateful period of his presidency. Rhetorical descrip The question of the authorship of “Truth Dexter"
tions abound, and there are digressions not a few; but
and “ The Breath of the Gods" is now settled. “Sidney
the portrait presented in the work is hazy and inade McCall” proves to be Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa. The
quate in all that relates to Washington's public life. title-page of the novel, “The Dragon Painter," to be
It is not long that university men have been giving published this month by Messrs. Little, Brown & Co.,
attention to the problems of the elementary school, but
will bear the name of Mary McNeill Fenollosa as its
author and as author of the other two books above
in recent days the men of practical training are tak-
named.
ing up the discussion of school problems, and and
essays
addresses on educational subjects are becoming more
“Experimental Physiology and Anatomy for High
frequent. Thus university professors are coming to exert Schools,” by Mr. Walter Hollis Eddy, is a text-book
the influence that they ought to exert both upon the prepared to cover the Harvard entrance requirements.
school course and the spirit of the schools. Among the
It is a publication of the American Book Co., from
more sensible and practical of these is Professor Jere whom we have also “ Half Hours with Fishes, Reptiles,
miah W. Jenks, who has put into a small volume under and Birds,” an “eclectic reading ” prepared by Profes-
the title “Citizenship and the Schools ” (Holt) nine
sor C. F. Holder, and Professor W. C. Morey's “Out-
of the addresses and articles produced by him during
lines of Ancient History'
the last twenty years. The prominent thought of inost “ A Bibliography of the History of the United States
of these papers is the training of children and young Navy," compiled by Mr. Charles T. Harbeck and re-
people into a sense of their social obligation and civic vised and edited by Miss Agnes C. Boyle, has just been
duty. Besides these we find “ Education for Commerce, privately printed by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
the Far East" that ought to be worth many thousands at the Riverside Press, in an edition of 350 copies.
of dollars to the manufacturers and merchants of our This is said to be the first attempt to gather into book
country; a theoretical “Critique of Educational Values”; form bibliographical material relating to the history of
and an elaborate article on “School-book Legislation,” the United States Navy.
written fifteen years ago when the subject was especially Statistics, which we know can prove anything, but
prominent, but brought down to date.
which in this instance appear not untrustworthy, have
“ The Fair Maid of Perth," the last of Scott's really been compiled to show the fate of magazine publication
good novels, is commended by Mr. Andrew Lang in his in Chicago — using the word “ magazine ” in a some-
recent life of Sir Walter. Simon Glover's beautiful what elastic sense. Out of more than three hundred
daughter, when she condescends to dismount from her periodicals started here, forty-nine per cent. lived but a
high stilts, is very natural and human and winsome, as year or less, only a quarter of the number struggled on
Mr. Lang says; but the poor girl is made to talk like a for five years, and no more than twelve per cent. are
book, and a very correct and pious book too, almost
now alive.
Of these thirty-six, nearly half are under
every time she opens her mouth. Scott's spirit of five years old. But a high rate of mortality – infant
chivalry, which, as is well known, hindered any near mortality at that — is common among periodical publi-
approach to realism in his treatment of his heroines, cations everywhere; and this is especially true in the
here operates to the full. The clan combat in the story | early history of a community or a region.


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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 140 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
Lincoln at Gettysburg : An Address. By Clark E. Carr.
With portraits, 16mo, gilt top, pp. 92. A. C. McClurg & Co.
$1. net.
On Reading : An Essay. By George Brandes. 18mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 64. Duffield & Co. 75 cts. net.
Stray Leaves. By Herbert Paul, M.P. 12mo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 307. John Lane Co. $1.50 net.
The Quest of the Simple Life. By W. J. Dawson. 12mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 278. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50.
The Pursuit of Happiness. By George Hodges. With pho-
togravure portrait, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 91. Doubleday,
Page & Co. 75 cts. net.
A Hundred Years Hence : The Expectations of an Optimist.
By T. Baron Russell. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 312. A. C.
McClurg & Co. $1.50 net.
The Duchess of Padua, and Salome. By Oscar Wilde.
12mo, gilt top uncut, pp. 60. F. M. Buckles & Co.
Essay on the Creative Imagination. By Th. Ribot; trans.
from the French by Albert H, N. Baron. 12mo, pp. 370.
Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co.
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
Charles Godfrey Leland. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell. In
2 vols., with frontispiece portraits, 8vo, gilt tops. Houghton,
Miffin & Co. $5. net.
Reminiscences of a Missionary Bishop. By Rt. Rev.D.S.
Tuttle, D.D. With portraits, 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 498.
New York: Thomas Whittaker. $2. net.
A Child's Recollection of Tennyson. By Edith Nicholl Elli.
son. Illus., 18mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 112. E. P. Dutton & Co.
$1. net.
The Story of Marie de Rozel-Huguenot. By Alicia Aspin-
wall. With photogravure portrait, 18mo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 82 E. P. Dutton & Co. $1. net.
HISTORY.
Travels in the Far Northwest (1839-1846). Vol. II., Farn.
ham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, 1839; Father
Pierre Jean de Smet's Oregon Missions and Travels over the
Rocky Mountains, 1845-46. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites,
LL.D. With frontispiece, large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 424.
“Early Western Travels." Arthur H. Clark Co. $4. net.
The American Ten Years' War, 1855-1865. By Denton J.
Snider. 12mo, pp. 527. St. Louis: Sigma Publishing Co.
From Bull-Run to Chancellorsville: The Story of the Six-
teenth New York, together with Personal Reminiscences. By
Newton Martin Curtis, LL.D. With portraits, large 8vo, gilt
top, pp. 384. G. P. Putnam's Song. $2. net.
The Purchase of Florida: Its History and Diplomacy. By
Hubert Bruce Fuller, A.M. With maps, large 8vo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 399. Cleveland, O.: Burrows Brothers Co.
Dixie After the War: An Exposition of Social Conditions
Existing in the South during the Twelve Years Succeeding
the Fall of Richmond. By Myrta Lockett Avary; with Intro-
duction by General Clement A. Evans. Illus., large 8vo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 435. Doubleday, Page & Co. $2.75 net.
Makers of Japan. By J. Morris. Illus., large svo, uncut,
pp. 330. A. C. McClurg & Co. $3. net.
The Passing of Korea. By Homer B. Hulbert, A.M. Illus.,
4to, gilt top, uncut, pp. 473. Doubleday, Page & Co. $3.80 net.
The Guilds of Florence. By Edgcumbe Staley. Ilus., 4to,
uncut, pp. 623. A. C. McClurg & Co. $5. net.
History of Ancient Civilization. By Charles Seignobos;
trang. and edited by Arthur Herbert Wilde; with Introduc-
tion by James Alton James, Ph.D. 12mo, pp 373. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $1.25 net.
De Soto and the Invasion of Florida. By Frederick A. Ober.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 291. “Heroes of American History." Harper
& Brothers. $1.
Five Fair Sisters. An Italian Episode at the Court of Louis
XIV. By H. Noel Williams. Illus. in photogravure, etc., 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 422. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $3.50 net.
ESSAYS AND GENERAL LITERATURE.
The Complete Writings of Henry David Thoreau, includ-
ing The Journal of Thoreau, edited by Bradford Torrey.
Walden edition; in 20 vols.; Vols. I.-X., illus., 12mo, gilt tops,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Per vol., $1.75.
Some Literary Eccentrics. By John Fyvie. With portraits
in photogravure, etc., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 296. James
Pott & Co. $3. net.
Makers of English Poetry. By W. J. Dawson. New revised
edition; 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 404. Fleming H. Revell Co.
$1.50 net.
The Makers of English Prose. By W. J. Dawson. New
revised edition, 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 404. Fleming H.
Revell Co. $1.50.
The Name of William Shakespeare: A Study in Orthogra-
phy. By John Louis Haney, Ph.D. 12mo, uncut, pp. 68.
Philadelphia: Egerton Press. $1. net.
Emerson's Essay on Compensation. With Introduction by
Lewis Nathaniel Chase. 12mo, uncut, pp. 31. University
Press of Sewanee, Tenn. Paper.
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson, Selected and Edited,
with Introduction and Notes, by William Lyon Phelps. 16mo,
gilt top, pp. 185. Charles Scribner's Sons.
Benigna Vena : Essays, Literary and Personal. By Michael
Monahan. With portrait, large 8vo, pp. 187. New York:
Alban Publishing Co,
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
New Pocket Edition of the Works of George Mere-
dith. New vols.: The Tragic Comedians, The Shaving
of Shagpat, Evan Harrington, One of Our Conquerors.
18mo, gilt tops. Charles Scribner's Sons. Per vol., leather,
$1.25 net; cloth. $1.
George Eliot's Works. Vol. IV., Romola; with frontispiece,
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