. The binding “ It was probably one of the queerest that was ever set
and end-leaves are particularly attractive.
before an exiled Britisher. I left the task of preparing the
meal entirely to Sam (a native of Ceylon), who managed
Miss Meakin's chapters of “ Travels and Studies
somehow to procure some wallaby, a piece of bacon, and
in Russia" have much of the charm that has been biscuits. Instead of pudding we had a Cinghalese plum-cake,
noticed in the letters of a good woman-correspondent.
made by Sam's daughter, and a glass of claret rounded off
the banquet. We were not very festive."
They are somewhat desultory and discursive, but
they contain nothing uninteresting, and they cover
This book is fully illustrated; and here, as else-
fields ordinarily left untouched even in a country so
where, the camera has been relied upon for much
voluminously written of as Russia.
It would seem
of the description. It is a long journey from the
as if it were an enormous distance, with a great
old New England of Dr. Hale's youth to the canni-
climatic difference, from the Riviera to the lands of bals of Papua, but a common speech binds all the
the Czar ; yet there is a Russian Riviera too, as Miss
books together, and common race-traditions stand
Meakin shows in her chapters on the Crimea. Few
behind them.
WALLACE RICE.
of the provinces of the empire are left untouched,
and from every one of them comes information con-
cerning the private lives and industries of the people
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS.
which are truly informing. The volume has numer-
ous illustrations reproduced from photographs. Among the holiday publications of last season
Professor A. V. Williams Jackson's “ Persia Past Mrs. Edith Wharton's “ Italian Villas and their
and Present” is something more than a book of Gardens," with pictures by Mr. Parrish, will be re-
travel, for it contains much that is important to membered as one of the loveliest and most sumptuous.
Assyriologists in the way of scholarship, especially This year a so-called companion volume has been
in regard to the original rock inscriptions at Behistan issued by the Century Co., having for its subject
and elsewhere. So many men great in the various “ The Châteaux of Touraine.” The text is by Maria
activities of life lie buried in Persian soil that the Hornor Lansdale; the sixteen colored illustrations
book abounds in accounts of famous tombs. Saadi, are by Jules Guérin, and the others, in black and
Avicenna, and
many
anoth ancient and mediæval tint, over forty in all, are reproduced from photo-
notability, have their resting-places described and graphs of sufficient artistic merit to make their in-
pictured here. There is little of importance in the clusion in so beautiful a volume eminently fitting.
Shah's domains in the field of scholarship and lit For the first and perhaps the ultimate appeal of the
erature which Professor Jackson does not touch, book is the artistic one. The quality of Mr. Guérin's
and his reproduced photographs are numerous and work is well known, and these drawings, for the
attractive.
making of which he took a special trip to France,
Miss Gertrude Adams Fisher did not wander far represent him at his best. His object, as is easily
from the haunts of white folk in “ A Woman Alone evident, is to portray unusual aspects of the châteaux
in the Heart of Japan,” though she was without a — to make light and shadow and coloring suggestive
companion during the greater part of her journey. of the sentiment that is individual to each one. The
Her book, however, is more frank and outspoken photographs therefore serve to round out the reader's
than the books of most men regarding this much impressions, and also to make certain architectural
visited land, and impressions may be obtained from effects and details clearer. The book is royal octavo
it that are hardly to be gained from any other recent in size, printed with red running-heads on fine deckel
work. She enjoyed her intercourse with the polite edged paper. The binding is of dark green cloth,
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is copiously indexed. Book-lovers, art-lovers, and titled “Touraine and Its Story” (Dent-Dutton). It
travellers actual or would be through sunny is a handsomely-bound quarto volume, whose artis-
France, cannot fail to be delighted with a book tic feature is the colored illustrations furnished by
which, considered from all their several points of Mr. A. B. Atkinson. There are fifty of these, por-
view, gives complete satisfaction. The writer of the traying every aspect of country and village; and
text has evidently devoted painstaking study both to almost as many smaller black-and-white drawings are
the châteaux themselves and to the records of their set in the text. The color-printing is excellent, and
history. Her facts are accurate and authoritative, the artist's choice and handling of material are at once
and at the same time picturesquely presented. She beautifully suggestive and thoroughly in harmony
has not, in her conscientious effort to master her with the point of view of the text. This has been
subject, lost sight of its charm; she clothes the dry prepared by Miss Anne Macdonnell, and in no per-
bones of her history with flesh and blood, and thereby functory spirit. Miss Macdonnell loves the chateaux
puts her readers under the spell of these romantic of Touraine so well that she does not limit herself to
old castles where were enacted many thrilling dra the usual round of a dozen or so of the most typical
mas of the most fascinating period of French history. and imposing. Indeed, she finds more of the flavor
She has chosen twelve châteaux for exploitation, of by-gone days in the lesser-known castles, where
nine of them actually in Touraine, the others just there are no guides to hurry the visitor, and where the
over its border. But, as the preface assures us, we shabbiness and quiet decay give the imagination free
need fear no monotony either in description or his- rein. It is to these that she takes her readers ; to
torical association, since each of the twelve is as the grim fortresses, also, that guarded the lands; to
different as possible from the other eleven. Chinon the humble dwellings that nestled in the shadow of
is a ruin, haunted by splendid memories of the Maid the lordly manors; and to the rivers - shy and silent
of Orleans and a score of kings. Azay-le-Rideau is or swift and rapacious that water this “Garden
an exquisitely dainty example of French renaissance of France." We wish that, with her taste for the
architecture, standing serenely amidst its fine old pleasant by-ways of travel, and with the gift, besides,
trees, its brilliant flower-beds, and its lily-fringed to make others see and enjoy what she has seen,
ponds, whose still waters reflect its stately towers Miss Macdonnell had devoted herself to the present-
and pinnacles. Langeais is a feudal castle at its day aspects of Touraine rather than to its glorious
best, "armed cap-à-pie as on the day when it gave past. She relates history and legend very well, but
refuge to the breathless little Bretonne Duchess rid she describes even better; and the art of good de-
ing to her hurried nuptials with the king of France." scription is rare. More than half the text is devoted
In like manner the impression made by each of the to the chronological story of Tours and its neighbor-
twelve is unique. Together they are representative hood. The remaining chapters take the reader to
of one of the most fascinating but necessarily least various chateaux and churches, often leading him
accessible aspects of old-time France.
from one architectural monument to the next, along
With appetite whetted by a glimpse at the the banks of a quiet stream. Thus her history sys-
Touraine book just described, a critic is not in tematizes and rounds out the story of the twelve indi-
clined to quarrel with the fate that has led other vidual chateaux, as told by Miss Lansdale, and her
authors and artists to the same fair country for ma itineraries sometimes duplicate but often supplement
terial. “Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the other writers. The three books, each with its
the Loire Country” is published by Messrs. L. C. own purpose and point of view, are alike in the in-
Page and Co. Mr. Francis Miltoun, author of a spiration they furnish for a visit to a region as rich
long series of books of travel issued by the same in historical association as it is picturesque and beau-
house, is responsible for the text, and his artistic col tiful in landscape features.
laborator is Miss Blanche McManus. Her studies Those who remember Miss Blanche Elizabeth
of Breton types, and her sketches in wash and color Wade's last year's book, “ A Garden in Pink,” will
of the chateaux and the country-side that environs be glad to know that her new one, “The Stained
them, while not so pretentious as Mr. Guérin’s, are Glass Lady” (McClurg & Co.), is written in the
charming of their kind. The scope of this volume
same happy vein.
The thread of the story is very
is wider than that of the foregoing, and its method slight; it relates the progress of a friendship be-
more nearly that of the guide-book. Readers who, tween the Stained Glass Lady and the little boy
fired by Miss Lansdale's enthusiasm, contemplate a who, seeing her first in church, noticed her resem-
tour of the region, will find in Mr. Miltoun a guide blance to a figure in the window near which she sat,
brim-full of information and suggestions for routes named her according y, and kept awake during a long
and itinerary; while the stay-at-home traveller will sermon to wonder how she would look in a halo in-
have no need to complain of dulness or over stead of the white hat she was wearing. The quaint
complicated detail. It is a pity, however, that Mr. plays that the lady devised for her little friend after
Miltoun should continue to present his material in the two had become acquainted, the stories she told
so disorderly a form. His arrangement lacks both him, the talks they had together, and the delightful
method and sequence, and his style has a qualified ways she found for teaching him the things that
and uncertain ring that is very annoying.
shy and imaginative little boys need to learn, make
The third and last of the Touraine series is en up the substance of the story. But a bare account


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of these facts does the book scant justice. A vivid rare and interesting photographs, and he shows in
descriptive touch, a whimsical humor, and a highly his choice of subjects an excellent sense of propor-
imaginative appreciation of nature combine to pro tion. An introductory chapter gives a desultory
duce a unique and decided charm, which a slight but entertaining account of the early days of the
affectation of style rather increases than diminishes. American theatre, and the various biographies throw
Miss Blanche Ostertag furnishes a frontispiece, cover a good deal of light upon the development of our
vignette, and end-pages, all of which are conceived stage, besides relating many interesting traditions
and colored in the quaint style suggested by the title. of the older London play-houses. The book is
Miss Ostertag is also responsible for the pretty and attractively printed in two colors, with forty full-
appropriate page-borders.
page illustrations.
Ten years ago Mr. H. M. Brock made a set of Another book which, probably to the surprise of
pen-and-ink illustrations for a volume of Thackeray's most readers, proves to be largely about actors, is
“ Ballads and Songs "; and in spite of all the good Mr. Gustav Kobbe’s “Famous American Songs”
work that he has given us since, he has never done (Crowell). The songs of which Mr. Kobbé writes
anything better than those drawings. It is a happy are the old-time popular favorites like “Home, Sweet
thought on the part of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Song Home,” “ Dixie,' “ Ben Bolt,” and “Old Folks at
to give these charming pictures a decennial revival Home,” with various patriotic and national songs.
by issuing a new edition of the “ Ballads and Songs” And it is astonishing to find that most of these, like
in a prettily decorated but substantial binding. This most of the popular airs of the present day, were
last precaution is well taken, for here is a holiday written for the stage, often by men who combined
volume that is sure to be well thumbed and long the professions of acting and of writing or adapting
cherished by its fortunate possessors. It is unne plays. The chief difference between these early song-
cessary to say anything about the delightfully spon writers and their followers seems to be that most of
taneous humor of Thackeray's verses. As for Mr. the former sold their wares for a paltry sum, and
Brock's drawings, they are, like all his illustrations, often neglected even to sign their work; which is
really interpretative ; for Mr. Brock is one of a few in striking contrast with the methods of the pros-
popular modern illustrators who, knowing their own perous song-writers of today. The accounts of the
best vein, are content to keep well within it. There-composition of the words and music of each song in
fore his smallest tail-piece has a meaning quite be Mr. Kobbé's collection are supplemented by sketches
yond its office in filling up a blank space, and the of their authors' lives. Photographs of the song-
most thoughtful reader finds a new interest and writers and of their homes, of famous singers who
suggestiveness in pages that are punctuated by his helped to immortalize them, and of autograph copies
happily conceived and daintily executed vignettes. of several songs, serve to illustrate the book, which
There are more than a hundred illustrations, large is tastefully printed and bound.
and small, for the seventy-odd ballads and poems, The new volume in Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons'
besides headings for the tables of contents and of series, collectively entitled “The Great Waterways
illustrations, and lavish incidental decorations. This of America,” deals with the Ohio River, which the
is one of the really choice illustrated books of the subtitle aptly characterizes as a Course of Empire.”
year.
Its author is Mr. Archer Butler Hulbert, associate
“Famous Actor Families in America” (Crowell) | professor of American history at Marietta College,
is a volume of biographical studies written by Mr. secretary of the Ohio Valley Historical Association,
Montrose J. Moses and first printed in the “Theatre and author of several notable historical works. He
Magazine." Like that of the great orator, the spell acknowledges especial indebtedness, in the prepara-
cast by the great actor can live after him only as a tion of the present volume, to the splendid collection
vague tradition; but his character and personality, of Americana recently presented to Marietta Col-
his artistic career, the story of his great triumphs, lege, which includes many clippings of unique in-
and some account of his peculiar methods, are all terest. The illustrations, which are numerous, are
legitimate subjects of research and interest, tending from photographs, old prints, maps, and paintings,
to create a respect for the past of the stage that and are a distinct contribution to the value of the
should have a good influence upon its present eleva book. Mr. Hulbert brings to his work unusual quali-
tion. Mr. Moses's studies are preceded by gene- fications, for he unites a local interest and pride in
alogical tables showing the relationships between the the region of which he writes, with a large perspec-
various actors of each family. Each actor member tive, and accuracy and perseverance in research with
is accorded brief mention, but the main part of the a picturesque and pungent style. The Age of the
sketch is in most cases devoted to the one great Canoe, the Flatboat, and the Steamer, as he names
actor — e.g., Edwin Booth, our Joseph Jefferson, the divisions of the Ohio's history, are each treated
Mrs. John Drew, Tyrone Power the elder, or George fully and entertainingly, in a fashion to vivify the
Holland whose work is, so to speak, the centre heroes of each period from La Salle, Boone, and the
of the family's theatrical interest and activity. Mr. Clarks, to St. Clair, “ Mad Anthony ” Wayne, and
Moses has taken great pains to collect and verify the rest of the Indian fighters, who in their turn
his material; he has been given unusual opportuni were supplanted by the heterogenous multitude of
ties both to inspect rare manuscript and to reprint ' pioneers. Here not individuals but personal types


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stand out in bold relief : conscienceless land-jobbers, have come to associate him rather with the charms
honest surveyors, “ promoters,” and the rough crowd of the modern girl and her train of handsome and
of flat-boat men, sailors, and beachcombers who well-tailored admirers. But examination of the
formed altogether as unique a human element as Hiawatha illustrations reveals an unexpected vein
can be found in all Western history.” Throughout of mysticism and poetic sentiment, combined with
is emphasized the great drama of conquest and ex a strong dramatic quality that is also new. Mr.
pansion in which, often unconsciously, all the varying Fisher's Indian faces would perhaps be hard to
company were actors. Among the lighter and more duplicate on a reservation, — but neither do Long-
evanescent sort of holiday books, this study of the fellow's Indians live in the commonplace humdrum
Ohio River has no place; it will nevertheless prove world of reality ; so there is no lack of sympathy
a welcome gift to many persons who would care between pictures and text. There is one full-page
nothing for the more conventional variety of gift drawing, usually printed in colors, for each of the
book.
parts of the poem, and two smaller ones, which are
The handsome volume entitled “ American Coun equally suggestive and spirited. Altogether the
try Homes and their Gardens ” is calculated to im new edition of “Hiawatha” is as pretty a gift-book
press its readers with the fact that England is not as one could wish.
the only country where people live a long way from We have long wondered how it is possible to pro-
their front gates. It is a folio of over two hundred duce publications so luxurious in make-up and at the
pages, whose plates exhibit the best features of nearly same time so inexpensive as the “special numbers”
fifty American country-places, scattered from Maine issued from time to time by “The International
to California and from Massachusetts to North Studio” (John Lane Co.). Nearly every modern
Carolina. The owners' and architects' names are process of reproduction is laid under lavish contri-
generally given, and a plan of the estate often sup bution in the pictorial equipment of these volumes,
plements the pictures of its most attractive aspects. while in typography, paper, and presswork they put
All the houses are of the more pretentious kind of to shame many art publications issued at several
country-seat, such as “ Blair Eyrie” at Bar Harbor times their cost. The two latest numbers have for
and “ Biltmore” at Asheville; but they are artistic their subjects “ The Art Revival in Austria” and
rather than showy, and prospective builders may get “Old English Country Cottages.” The text of the
many hints from the book, even though they may be former consists of four essays, by different hands,
working on a much smaller and less ambitious scale. dealing with this interesting movement in its various
The only text is a brief and very suggestive introduc phases of art, architecture, and decorative art. There
tion by Mr. Donn Barber, who packs into three are over two hundred fine illustrations, many in pho-
pages a tremendous amount of information about
togravure and color.
- The book of “Old English
the status and development of American architecture Country Cottages” is an attempt to preserve some
and landscape gardening, and puts the reader in the record of these antique buildings that form one of
way of appreciating and profiting by the pictures. the chief charms of rural England. They are dealt
The book is edited by Mr. John Cordis Baker and with in the text by counties; and while no attempt
published by the John C. Winston Co. The press has been made to cover the subject thoroughly, a
work is excellent, and the decorated linen binding most interesting general outline has been achieved.
both substantial and attractive.
Some 135 pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. Sidney R.
Whittier's “Snow-Bound,” a classic American Jones, depicting general views and architectural
poem if there is one, has been many times illus detail with charm and marked artistic skill, are
trated, but a new pictorial edition of it needs no scattered through the text; and in addition there are
apology when it is as beautiful as the one issued fifteen beautiful full-page plates in color, after
this season by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. paintings by Mrs. Allingham and others. Both of
Drawings by Messrs. Howard Pyle, John J. Enne these volumes appear under the editorial direction
king, and E. H. Garrett; a number of photographs, of Mr. Charles Holme, and doubtless it is to his fine
the work of Mr. Herbert W. Gleason and others; taste that their excellence is due. Choicer gifts for
and floral decorations for cover and pages by Mr. an art-loving friend, at so modest a price, could not
Adrian J. Iorio, combine with superior printing to
be found.
make a book of unusual artistic charm and merit. “ Rosemary in Search of a Father” (McClure-
Another American classic to receive the tribute Phillips) belongs to the class of light and amusing
of tasteful illustration this year is Longfellow's novelettes which seem to be sufficiently popular
" Song of Hiawatha.” This is issued by the Bobbs nowadays to engage the attention of more than one
Merrill Co. in large octavo, with pictures by Mr. of our cleverest writers of fiction. Rosemary, with
Harrison Fisher and decorations by Mr. E. Stetson her pathetic insight into the affairs of her elders and
Crawford. The latter take the form of symbolic her no less pathetic eagerness to set them right, is
designs printed in pale green underneath the text, as charming a little person as has lately appeared
and giving an odd but pretty appearance to the pages in the world of fiction. The Angel, the Fairy Fa-
without rendering them in the least illegible. One ther, and the Cockney nurse-maid Jane, are all
opens the volume with some distrust of Mr. Fisher's delightful, while the Rose Girl adds a spice of adven-
ability to depict Indian character and legend; we ture to the tale, and the inevitable motor-car lends


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a characteristic touch to the plot. Six charming portrait of the author, rubricated title-page, deco-
illustrations by Mr. William Hatherell, some tasteful rated end-papers, and a silk marker. All are printed
decorations, and a gay cover, combine with the charm in fair-sized type on very thin paper, of good quality,
of the story to make this an eminently pretty and and are uniformly bound in calf-finished limp leather
suitable Christmas gift-book.
with gold stamping. The small size and dainty fin-
Another book of the same type is “A Maid in ish of the edition will appeal to a large class of holi-
Arcady” (Lippincott), written by Mr. Ralph Henry day shoppers in search of a good and inexpensive
Barbour, whose “Kitty of the Roses” and “ An book with a Christmas air about it. Issued by the
Orchard Princess many readers will remember same publishers, and similarly bound, printed, and
with pleasure. The new story is longer and some embellished, except that the frontispieces are not
what more substantial than its predecessors, but authors' portraits, are the “Thin Paper Two Volume
equally graceful and amusing. The hero is a brief- Sets,” of which five titles have so far been pub-
less but ambitious young barrister off on a holiday lished, 66 The Count of Monte Cristo,” “Don
with his motor-car, which, by opportunely breaking Quixote," “ Les Miserables,” Boswell's “Life of
down, puts its owner in the way of discovering Johnson,” and Carlyle's “ French Revolution.” Each
Arcady and its presiding genius. The Maid is both of these works is ordinarily issued in from two to
elusive and mysterious, as well as being, according five good-sized volumes; whereas in the thin paper
to her own account at least, a very designing young edition they take up, box and all, no more room on
person. But everything ends happily, and the two the shelves or in a travelling-bag than the ordinary
retire to Arcady, where, presumably, they live hap- novel. Yet the type is of good size and the print clear.
pily for ever after. Mr. F. J. von Rapp's colored Ever since the days of Æsop and Reynard the
pictures of the Maid, the hero, and their haunts, are Fox, the humorist, whether author or artist, has
unusually soft in coloring and careful in finish. Par found an inexhaustible source of inspiration in the
ticularly pretty are the little sketches which are comic correspondences between the human and the
occasionally, but not so often as to grow monotonous, animal world. Mr. E. Warde Blaisdell's animal
vignetted into the generous margins. The cover is drawings are conceived in the spirit of the fabulist ;
pretty and unique.
that is, the satiric purpose is always evident, and his
Of the many delightful Christmas stories of beasts, despite their fur and feathers, are more than
Charles Dickens, none is fuller of the joyous aban half human. The new collection of Mr. Blaisdell's
donment to the good cheer that Christmas brings drawings, entitled “ Animal Serials” and published
than his account of the Pickwick Club's holiday fes by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co., is large octavo size,
tivities at the Manor farm. Remembering that the with appropriately humorous decorations on cover
“Pickwick Papers" were originally published in and end-papers. The serials are pictorial, with just
monthly instalments, the Baker & Taylor Co. have a word of running comment. They depict the foibles
felt justified in printing the Christmas chapters by and fancies of Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit, Miss Hippo-
themselves in a handsomely bound and lavishly potamus, Colonel Lion, and the other beasts, in such
illustrated holiday volume. Mr. George Alfred telling fashion that it will be a faultless reader indeed
Williams, who last year furnished the pictures for whose pet failing is not satirized somewhere in the
another Dickens Christmas book, contributes an in breezy pages of the book. - Mr. Blaisdell's pictures
teresting preface in support of his theory that the are also a feature of Mr. Burges Johnson's “Beastly
time has come when a realistic combination of the Rhymes," which seem even funnier now than they did
serious and the comic may fitly replace the extrava when they appeared without pictures in “Harper's
gant caricature that was the only humorous style Monthly.” Mr. Blaisdell shows his versatility by his
known to Dickens's original illustrators. Ten full-pleasing delineations of the Kinkajue, the Aoudad,
page plates, several of them in color, and a number Gnu, and the Okapé, which are quite as satisfactory
of small line-drawings, present the Pickwickians as his soulful drawings of the Glad Young Chamois,
and their friends, as well as the goblins of Mr. the Large Oyster, the Fireside Elephant, and other
Wardle's tale, in spirited and felicitous fashion. fairly familiar beasts. Mr. Johnson's animal verses
If the older generation clings to the Pickwick Club are as amusing in their way as his “Rhymes of
that it remembers, younger readers, who are often Little Boys” were in another fashion. The obvious
repelled by the coarse humor of Leech and “Phiz,"comparison, which is not at all to Mr. Johnson's dis-
will undoubtedly prefer Mr. Williams's gentler advantage, is with Mr. Gelett Burgess, who furnishes
methods and more pleasing effects.
a characteristic rhyme by way of introduction.
A “Thin Paper” edition of classic poetry has Mr. Frank Ver Beck’s “Book of Bears ” (Lippincott)
been launched by Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. is chiefly pictorial in its appeal, for the comment in
with eight volumes, containing respectively the com verse and prose is not half so telling as the illustrations
plete poems of Burns, Keats, Shelley, Scott, Long- which it accompanies. The volume is dedicated to
fellow, and Whittier, and a selection from the work the “poetical, fantastic, idealistic painter of animals,
of Browning. Each volume is provided with an F. S. Church,” with whose work Mr. Ver Beck's has
introduction, generally in the form of a biographical a close kinship, though it possesses also a distinct and
sketch, with a few notes, and in some cases with an pleasing individuality.
index to first lines; and each has a photogravure A dainty illustrated edition of Mr. Kipling's


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“They” has been issued by Messrs. Doubleday, gestive of the oriental setting, and several illustra-
Page & Co. It will be recalled that when this story tions in color.
first appeared its curious combination of realism and Readers, old and young, seem never to tire of
mysticism, of fitting ghosts and thundering motor Mr. James Whitcomb Riley's child-verses. This
cars, called forth a whirlwind of criticism, ranging year the Bobbs-Merrill Co. publish a delightful
from unmeasured praise to jeering scorn. Each holiday edition of “When the Heart Beats Young,”
reader had his own theory of the story's meaning, a title that includes all the best of Mr. Riley's child-
which it was the dearest object of his life to force verses, with many pictures in color by Ethel
upon his friends. Thus, for reasons both intrinsic Franklin Betts. The little folk of this artist are
and extrinsic, the little story has been very popular, merry, red-cheeked country boys and girls, who
and has been translated into many tongues. Holiday wear pinafores and "jumpers,” torn straw hats and
buyers will welcome the first illustrated edition of gingham sun-bonnets, and whose hands and feet are
it, with a decorated cover and fifteen colored plates evidently quite as active as their imaginations. The
by Mr. F. H. Townsend, whose pictures are cer pictures are pretty and appropriate, and fully within
tainly ornamental, if they do not go far toward the comprehension of child readers. The mechan-
elucidating the elusive mysticism of the tale. The ical features of the volume are excellent, with the
printing is in large clear type, on one side of each exception of one very patent error in the printing
page only.
of the title-poem.
Full of breezy originality are “ The Adventures of Every year Mrs. Blanche McManus Mansfield's
Joujou ” (Lippincott), as Miss Edith Macvane relates designs for the leather covers of the little “Thumb-
them. Joujou is the only daughter of the wealthy but Nail Series " (Century Co.) grow more artistic and
bourgeois proprietor of Perfumery Poizelle, the shop satisfying, and every year the editors of the series
with the largest gold sign and the finest crystal hit upon exactly the right sort of thing to be re
windows in all the Rue de la Paix. Being but lately printed in miniature volumes. This time their choice
emancipated from a convent, she finds life at her has fallen upon Emerson's Essays on “Friendship
father's Norman chateau highly diverting and ro and “Character,” which are prefaced by Miss Emma
mantic. Her efforts to enjoy herself and to marry Lazarus's appreciation of Emerson's personality;
the man she loves — who happens, of course, to be upon Dr. Edward Everett Hale’s “The Man without
her family's bitterest enemy are ably seconded by a Country,” with Dr. Hale's introduction written in
an American girl who comes to the chateau to visit the year of our war with Spain and his preface to
and opportunely falls in love with Joujou's intended the edition of 1897; and upon “ The Proverbs of
husband. Miss Macvane's style is piquant and tell-Solomon,” which are introduced by the illuminating
ing, and the story has atmosphere and vivacity. chapter on “ The Proverbs of the Hebrews” from
Some of the illustrations, which are by Mr. Frank Dr. Lyman Abbott's “The Life and Literature of the
Ver Beck, are clever, but the color printing is poor. Ancient Hebrews.” It would be hard to imagine a
The book is gaily bound and decorated in red. more suitable gift for a fastidious book-lover than
One can scarcely imagine more alluring material one of these dainty little reprints.
for illustration than is furnished by Mr. George W. In her preface to “Fairest Girlhood ” (Revell),
Cable's “Old Creole Days,” or a more distin Mrs. Margaret Sangster apologizes for adding to
guished and delightful method of utilizing the ma the multitude of books written especially for girls
terial than that of Mr. Albert Herter in the new by explaining that she knows so many of them all
illustrated edition recently issued by Messrs. Charles over the world, and is so intimately acquainted with
Scribner's Sons. Eight full-page pictures and four all their hopes and ambitions that she is, as it were,
teen smaller ones are beautifully reproduced in especially privileged to write for them. " Fairest
photogravure. The mechanical features are all of Girlhood” is made up of a series of essays, aptly
a high grade of excellence, and the volume has an named and entertainingly written, dealing with many
air of dignity and beauty that well fits the charm of the problems that beset the modern girl, — from
of the contents.
what to wear and what to say, to the larger issues
“A Japanese Blossom ” (Harper) is the title of of health, happiness, education, and the choice of a
Onoto Watanna's new book, which, like the others vocation in life. Mrs. Sangster is a modern woman,
that have preceded it, is a simple and yet dramatic and therefore has a strong sympathy for the modern
little story of life in old Japan, with the inevitable girl and a real understanding of her needs and
complication produced by an incongruous American aspirations as well as of her possible limitations.
lover or husband. But while the situation may be The cover of this volume is especially pretty, and so
tragic enough for a while, Miss Watanna always are the drawings of various types of girlhood, by
brings it to a happy ending, even when it involves, Griselda Marshall McClure.
as it does in “ A Japanese Blossom,” the horrors of Of whimsical booklets, meant merely for the diver-
war and the necessity of reconciling a family of sion of an idle hour, the season has produced its
little Japs to the strange ways of an American step full quota. Quite the cleverest that has come to
mother. The style of this publication is similar to our notice is Mr. Oliver Herford's “Little Book of
that adopted for Miss Watanna's other books Bores ” (Scribner). Mr. Herford has discovered
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the alphabet. His rhymes and pictures — for Mr. of Max Müller's “Memories,” in Mr. Upton's grace
Herford is as usual his own artist are inimitable. ful translation, is indeed an elegant and tasteful re-
One may be assured of finding all his enemies and print. The pictures and decorations are by Misses
most of his friends among the Bores and possibly. Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong, whose
he may discover himself there.
" The Altogether artistic work needs, at this time, no introduction.
New Cynic's Calendar for 1907” (Paul Elder&Co.) Thus adorned and beautified, this quaint idyl, with
appears in its familiar dress of checked gingham, its interesting old-world setting and its universal
and is compiled and decorated, as usual, by Mrs. pathos, is notable among the choicer gift-books of
Ethel Watts-Mumford Grant, Mr. Oliver Herford, and
the season.
Mr. Addison C. Mizner. On the whole, the twisted “Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas ”
proverbs seem hardly as clever as usual, which is (George W. Jacobs & Co.) is a holiday novelette
perhaps natural considering the drain that several of the conventional type, varied in this case by the
previous years has made upon the collaborators. It introduction of rather more novelty and less prob-
is a pity that one vulgar illustration has been allowed ability than are customary in similar narratives.
to disfigure an otherwise amusing little book. — Mr. Rupert Hughes is its author. Holly sprays on
Similar in conception to the “Cynic's Calendar” is the cover, Christmas trees and Christmas puddings
"A Cheerful Year Book” (Henry Holt & Co.), on the end-papers, two or three tinted illustrations,
with verses and aphorisms by Mr. F. M. Knowles, and pen-and-ink sketches in the wide margins, give
pictures by Mr. C. F. Lester, and a prologue and an appropriate air of festivity to the little book.
epilogue by Miss Carolyn Wells. Besides contrib-
uting to the gaiety of its readers, this book furnishes
three or four lines wherein they may record the
doings of each day, inspired to cheerfulness in the
NOTES.
recital by the illustrated motto on the page opposite.
It is not too much to say that anyone with a sense
Oscar Wilde's “ The Duchess of Padua” and “Sa-
of humor will enjoy the “ Cheerful Year Book”;
lome,” two volumes bound in one, are issued by F. M.
Buckles & Co.
its jests are merry without being in the least vulgar.
- "Cigarettes in Fact and Fancy” (Caldwell) is a
Scott's “Old Mortality,” edited for school use by
collection, made by Mr. John Bain, Jr., of the prose
Mr. Hereford B. George, is a recent publication by the
Oxford Clarendon Press.
and poetry of cigarette smoking. “The How and
« The Fundamental Principle of Fichte's Philosophy,"
Where of Them," “ Puffs of Poetry,” “Facts and
by Miss Ellen Bliss Talbot, is published in the “Cornell
Fancies,” “Rings Blown in Rhyme,” and “ My
Studies in Philosophy" by the Macmillan Co.
Lady and the Cigarette," are the titles of the five
An edition of Kinglake's “Eothen,” that classic of
sections under which the material is grouped. The Eastern travel, comes to us in tasteful typography and
ardent defense of the cigarette, and its glorification flexible cloth covers from the Oxford University Press.
in lighter vein, will please its devotees. The make Virgil's “Æneid,” in Spenserian stanzas by Mr. E.
up of the book is attractive. “ Knick-knacks,” Fairfax Taylor, fills two volumes of the “ Temple Greek
from the press of the Penn Publishing Co., is a and Latin Classics,” published by the Messrs. Putnam.
compilation of amusing anecdotes, for which,
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons send us a new edi-
Mr. Coggins, the compiler, assures us, - he has
tion of “The Stones of Paris in History and Letters,"
raked, pirate-fashion, every craft sighted on journal- by Mr. Benjamin Ellis Martin and Miss Charlotte M.
Martin.
istic seas. Alternate pages of the book contain illus-
trations of the anecdotes, by Clare Victor Dwiggins.
A“ Rhetoric and Composition,” the work of Professor
Edward Fulton, is published by Messrs. Henry Holt &
- From the same publishers comes “Wise and
Co. It is a text-book suitable for high-school and col-
Otherwise,” another collection of anecdotes and
lege use.
bon mots, which have been compiled by Mr. W. M.
Tennyson," published by Messrs. George W. Jacobs
Rhoads and illustrated by Mr. A. R. Bowker. The & Co., is a small volume of selections without editorial
unique feature of the book is its flexible leather
sponsorship. It is the first issue in a new “ Best of
cover, which, in shape as well as in decoration, simu British Poetry " series
lates an owl. — “The Book of Spice,” by “ Ginger," “ An Introductory Course in Argumentation,” by
(John W. Luce & Co.) is aptly described on its title Miss Frances M. Perry, and “ Plane Geometry," by
page as "a work recommended to Sufferers who are Mr. Edward R. Robbins, are recent school publications
tired of dipping their Daily Bread in the Milk of
of the American Book Co.
Human Kindness, and whose diet requires a Dash
Mr. Fisher Unwin of London announces a memoir by
of High Seasoning ; Recklessly Illustrated.” “Gin-
Professor William Knight of " Thomas Davidson, the
Wandering Scholar.” Estimates by numerous friends
ger's” humor is naturally of an exuberant, not too
and pupils of Davidson will add to the attractions of
carefully pruned or assorted type; but at its best it
the book.
is really spicy. The “reckless” illustrations are very
“Selections from the Works of Joseph Addison ” is
funny, and the style of binding is unique.
an addition to the singularly well-edited“ English
Daintily bound in blue and gold, with marginal Readings ” of Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. Professor
drawings to match, and nine tinted illustrations, Edward Bliss Reed is responsible for the selections, the
Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co.'s new illustrated edition introduction, and the notes.
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A new edition of Dr. David Murray's volume on notes. Marginal references indicate the location of the
“ Japan,” in “ The Story of the Nations " series, with quatrains in other translations. The book is published
supplementary chapters by Baron Kentaro Kaneko, is in tasteful guise by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co.
now published by the Messrs. Putnam.
“ A First Book of Poetics,” by Miss Martha Hale
“ A Priced Lincoln Bibliography," compiled and pri- Shackford, is published by Messrs. B. H. Sanborn &
vately published in a limited edition by Mr. William Co. It is a very small book, and a very elementary
H. Smith, Jr., New York, includes nearly twelve hun one, which makes the words on the title-page, “ for
dred items, alphabetically arranged by authors, with the colleges and advanced schools," rather puzzling. A
prices that they have brought at auction.
child should hardly be permitted to get into college
M. F. de Martens, the eminent authority upon inter without knowing considerably more about the subject
national law, publishes (Paris: Charles-Lavauzelle) a than may be learned from this primer of poetics.
brochure entitled “ Par la Justice vers la Paix,” dealing Mr. Peter Eckler, New York, publishes a volume
with the general problem of South American politics, called “Last Words on Evolution,” by Professor Ernst
and more particularly with the Drago doctrine. Haeckel. It is a translation by Mr. Joseph McCabe,
Mr. Richard Harding Davis's three farces, entitled of a series of three lectures given by the author in Ber-
respectively “The Dictator,” “ The Galloper," and lin, for the special purpose of replying to some of his
“ Miss Civilization,” are now collected into a single vol latest theological critics. These lectures were delivered
ume, illustrated by photographs of actors and scenes, a little over a year ago, and it is interesting to note that
and published by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. only once before in 1868) had the author ever addressed
A text-book of « Rhetoric and English Composition,” a popular audience.
by Professor George Rice Carpenter, is published by
A selection of the “ Poésies Choisies de Alfred de
the Macmillan Co., and adds one more to the lengthen-
Musset,” edited by Mr. C. Edmund Delbos, has been
ing list of excellent manuals for the teachers' use. It added to the “Oxford Higher French Series," and is
is based, in substance, upon an earlier work of the now published by Mr. Henry Frowde. Other recent
author.
French texts are Pailleron's "L'Etincelle," edited by
Everyday Ethics,” by Miss Ella Lyman Cabot, is a
Professor O. G. Guerlac; Theuriet’s “L'Abbé Daniel,”
book intended for schoolroom use, and appears to be
edited by Professor Robert L. Taylor; and Molière's
an unusually sensible work of its kind. It is a book
“ Le Tartuffe," edited by Professor John E. Matzke.
that any child might read with profit if it were not
All three of these are published by Messrs. Henry Holt
& Co.
forced upon him in the form of “ lessons.” Messrs.
Henry Holt & Co. are the publishers.
“ Les Cent Meilleurs Poèmes (Lyriques) de la Langue
Messrs. George W. Jacobs & Co. publish a second
Française," selected by M. Auguste Dorchain, is a
edition of “ The Bravest Deed I Ever Saw," being a col-
pretty little book published by Messrs. George W.
Jacobs & Co. One must not take a title like this too
lection of personal experiences by many writers, edited
by Mr. Alfred H. Miles. Among the contributors are
critically; what the book really gives us is an anthology
Lord Roberts, Admiral Dewey, the Hon. Winston
comprising a hundred pieces from Charles d'Orléans to
Churchill, Mr. Rider Haggard, and Mr. Frederick
Heredia and Verlaine, chosen for the most part with
judgment, and chronologically arranged. French poetry
Villiers.
would doubtless offer a hundred others “equally as
“ The Value of Love” is an anthology of brief pas-
sages in verse and prose, prepared by the late Frederic
Lawrence Knowles, and now offered to the public under
After an interval of four years, Professor Edward
the sponsorship of Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, who
G. Browne has published the second volume of his « Lit-
supplies it with an introduction memorial of its com-
erary History of Persia.” The period covered is from
piler. The volume is a tasteful example of holiday
the beginning of the eleventh century to the middle of
the thirteenth
book-making, published by the H. M. Caldwell Co.
roughly speaking, from Firdawsi to
Sa'di. This is, of course, the richest period of all, and
Mr. Swinburne's “ William Blake: A Critical Essay
the volume is for that reason more generally interesting
was published forty years ago, and has long been out
than its predecessor, although it is so weighted by the
of print. He has at last sanctioned a new edition (or
enormous erudition of the author as to be anything but
rather a reprint, for no changes are noted), and of this
Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. are the American publishers.
light reading. It is expected that a third volume will
complete the work. The publication belongs to the
It is a very welcome book, and all the more so because
“ Library of Literary History,” of which Messrs.
it comes at a time when there are many indications of a
Charles Scribner's Sons are the American publishers.
renewed in erest in Blake.
“The “Story of the Rocks and Minerals of Wiscon-
Richard Hildreth's “ Japan as It Was and Is,” a semi-
sin," by Mr. Publius V. Lawson, is sent us by the Post
classic of a half-century ago, is still held in such esteem Publishing Co., Appleton, Wis. It presents in popular
that Mr. Ernest W. Clement has thought it deserving form the results of geological surveys of the state, and
of a new edition. This he has prepared, with many has many illustrations. This is a very useful book for
supplementary notes, and the two volumes of the work
educational purposes, and represents a type that we
in its present form are published by Messrs. A. C. Mc-
wish might be multiplied until a similar work for every
Clurg & Co. There are many illustrations, and there is
state and territory in the country should be provided.
also an introduction by Dr. W. E. Griffis.
Since the rock-formations of Wisconsin are the most
Mr. George Roe is the latest of those who, greatly archaic in the United States, it is quite proper that they
daring, have followed after FitzGerald in translating should be first to receive such treatment as this. We
Omar Khayyam. His version aims at a middle course may add that the author has himself done much useful
in satisfying the claims of both letter and spirit. He work in the geological field, the results of which are here
contributes of his own an introduction and many learned incorporated.
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A Hunt on Snowshces. By Edward E. Ellis. Illus., 12mo.
John C. Winston Co. 75 cts.
A new volume of the “Up and Doing Series," by one
of the most popular writers for boys.
The Cruise of the Firefly. By Edward S. Ellis and William
Pendleton Chipman, D.D. Illus., 12mo. John C. Winston
Co. 75 cts.
The story revolves around the rivalry between two
school boy boat clubs.
The Tenting of the Tillicums. By Herbert Bashford. Illus.,
12mo. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 75 cts.
A story of camp-life on Puget Sound, filled with hunt.
ing and fishing adventures.
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
The following is a list of all new children's books pub-
lished during the present season and received at the office
of The DIAL up to the time of going to press. The titles
are classified in a general way, and brief descriptions of the
character and contents of the books are given. It is hoped
that this list may commend itself to Holiday book purchas
ers as a convenient and trustworthy guide to the juvenile
books of 1906.
STORIES FOR BOYS ESPECIALLY.
The Crimson Sweater, By Ralph Henry Barbour. 12mo.
Century Co. $1.50.
The story of a manly, natural boy, who likes football
more than he does algebra.
Harding of St. Timothy's. By Arthur Stanwood Pier. Illus.,
12mo. Houghton, Mifflin Co. $1.50.
This story shows what a courageous youngster can do
for himself and other boys in an American school of the
same class as Rugby or Sherborne.
Donald Barton and the Doings of the Ajax Club. By Amos
R. Wells. Illus., 12mo. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.50.
The "Ajax Club" boys have many exciting adventures.
especially some encounters with Joe Green and his fol.
lowers, the most disreputable boys in the village.
Captain Jack Lorimer; or, The Young Athlete of Millvale
High. By Winn Standish. Illus., 12mo. L. C. Page
& Co. $1.50.
A story of high school life and athletics. Football
supplies the main interest.
Further Fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. By Captain Harold
Hammond. Illus., 12mo. Century Co. $1.50.
Continues the adventures of a lively youngster made
famous through a previous book by the same author.
The Camp on Letter K.; or, Two Live Boys in Northern
Maine. By C. B. Burleigh. Illus., 12mo. Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard Co. $1.50.
The adventures of two active boys in Aroostook County
close to the northeastern boundary of our country.
The Rival Campers Afloat; or, The Prize Yacht Viking. By
Ruel Perley Smith. Illus., 12mo. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
A continuation of the adventures of “The Rival Camp-
ers" on their prize yacht "Viking."
Pelham and his Friend Tim. By Allen French. Illus., 12mo.
Little. Brown, & Co. $1.50.
The plot centres around a mill strike, and the story is
a spirited account of boyish exploits.
Jimmie Suter and the Boys of Pigeon Camp. By Martha
James. Illus., 12mo. Lotbrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
How Jimmie Suter and bis friends organized the "S.
F. B." or Society for Feeding Birds.
From Low to High Gear. By Edward S. Ellis, A.M. Illus.,
12mo. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
An automobile story, with hero who wing sucess
through his application, grit, and honesty.
The Young Express Agent. By Frank E. Kellogg. Illus.,
12mo. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
How a typical Yankee boy worked bls way to a posi-
tion of trust in the transportation industry.
Born to the Blue. By Florence Kimball Russel. Illus., 12mo.
L. C. Page & Co. $1.25.
How the son of a Captain of U. S. Cavalry at a
frontier post profits by the soldierly qualities of manhood
and modesty and courtesy.
With Mask and Mitt. By Albertus T. Dudley. Illus., 12mo.
Lothrop. Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
Athletic science, rousing good fun, and wholesome char-
acter-building are combined in this new volume in the
“Phillips-Exeter Series,"
The Young Musician. By Horatio Alger, Jr. Illus., 12mo.
Penn Publishing Co. $1.25.
The bero, left homeless and penniless by the death of
his father, makes his way by means of his violin.
A Little Son of Sunshine. By Ellen Douglas Deland. Illus.,
12mo Harper & Brothers. $1.25.
A story of a little lame boy from a Home who is in-
vited to spend the summer with a prosperous farmer and
his wife.
The Rainy Day Railroad War. By Holman F. Day. Illus.,
12mo. A. S. Barnes & Co. $1.
A story of a young engineer's fight to build a railroad
in the Maine woods against the opposition of a lumber
king.
Gabriel and the Hour Book. By Evaleen Stein. Illus, in
color, 12mo. L. C. Page & Co. $1.
Gabriel was a little French lad. who helped the monks
of long ago in their work of Illuminating.
Joey at the Fair. By James Otis. With frontispiece, 12mo.
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 75 cts,
Joey is a farm lad in his early “teens," whose chief
ambition. when the story opens, is to take a calf of his
own raising to the country fair and win the blue ribbon.
STORIES FOR GIRLS ESPECIALLY.
The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor. By Annie Fellows John-
ston. Illus., 12mo. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
That popular heroine, the "little Colonel," reappears
in this new book ouce more upon her native heath. А
wedding is the main incident.
Brenda's Ward. By Helen Leah Reed; illus. by Frænk T.
Merrill. 12mo. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.50.
A sixth volume of the popular “Brenda" series. In this
new story Brenda herself is less conspicuous than her 80-
called ward, Martine, the bright Western girl who was
a leading figure in "Amy in Acadia."
The Hill-Top Girl. By L. T. Meade. Illus., 12mo. J. B.
Lippincott Co. $1.50.
Has to do with the experiences of six girls who live
on a bill in rural England.
Betty Baird. By Anna Hamlin Weikel. Illus., 12mo. Little,
Brown, & Co. $1.50.
A boarding-school story. Betty enters the school dressed
in rather old-fashioned style and is treated coldly at first,
but her attractiveness and genuine lovableness soon win
her many friends.
Daddy's Daughters. By Marlon Ames Taggart; illus. by G.
William Breck. 12mo. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
“Daddy's" four daughters belp him in many practical
ways, and bave lots of good times besides.
The Four Corners. By Amy E. Blanchard Illus., 12mo.
George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.50.
A story for girls from ten to fourteen. The "Four
Corners" are four children by the name of Corner.
Roberta and her Brothers. By Alice Ward Balley. Illus.,
12mo. Little,. Brown, & Co. $1.50.
Roberta is a human girl, full of life, ambitious for her
brothers more than bersell, and eager to take a mother's
place in their lives.
Ester Ried's Namesake. By Pansy. Illus., 12mo. Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Co. $1.50.
The namesake is a bright and talented daughter of a
western home missionary, for whom circumstances make
possible a college course.
Janet: Her Winter in Quebec. By Anna Chapin Ray. Illus.,
12mo. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.50.
The second volume in the new and popular “Sidney"
series, by the author of the famous "Teddy" books.
Merle and May: A Story of Girlhood Days. By Grace
Squires. Illus., 8vo. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50.
The lively experiences of two charming girls, both at
home and at school.
The Story Book Girls. By Christina Gowans Whyte. 12mo.
Macmillan Co. $1.50.
This story was awarded a prize offered by the English
magazine "The Bookman" for th¢ best story for young
girls.
Little Red, White and Blue. By Josephine Scribner Gates;
illus. by Virginia Keep. Large 8vo. Bobbs-Merril Co. $1.25.
The story of a soldier's little daughter who was born
in a frontier fort on the border of Old Mexico.
Nancy Rutledge. Written and illus. by Katherine Pyle. 12mo.
Little. Brown, & Co. $1.25.
A new story by the author of the popular "Christmas
Angel" which will delight children of about eight years
old.
Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic. By Olive Thorne Miller. Illus.
in color, 12mo. Houghton, Millin & Co. $1.25.
Ten entertaining stories run together as in the two
other "Kristy" books.
That Little Limb. By May Baldwin. Illus., 12mo. George
W. Jacobs & Co. $1.25.
What this little "limb" does not think of is not worth
the doing, and the results of her "thinks" are sometimes
quite disastrous.
Flossy's Play.Days. By Florence Howe Hall. Illus. in tint,
12mo. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
Reminiscences of the author's own childhood days.
Helen Grant in College. By Amanda M. Douglas. Illus.,
12mo. Lothrop. Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
This fourth volume of the "Helen Grant Books" de-
scribes the college experiences of this popular heroine.
Betty Wales, Junior. By Margaret Warde. Illus., 12mo.
Penn Publishing Co. $1.25.
The third year in college of Betty Wales is enllvened
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Marigold. By Edith Francis Foster. Illus., 12mo. Dana
Estes & Co. $1.25.
Experiences of a little girl and her friends during a
summer on the New England coast.
Little Miss Mouse. By Amy E. Blanchard. Illus, in color,
12mo. George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.
A demure little mald, so shy and reserved and quiet
that the name of Miss Mouse just suits her, is the heroine.
Little Miss Rosamund. By Nina Rhoa des. Illus., 12mo.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.
The heroine is the playmate of Gladys and Joy, known
through the author's previous book, "The Little Girl Next
Door."
Mildred's Inheritance. By Annie Fellows Johnston. Illus.,
12mo. L. C. Page & Co. 50 cts.
One of the new volumes of the "Cozy Corner Series."
A Borrowed Sister. By Eliza Orne White. Illus., 12mo.
Houghton, Mimin & Co. $1.
The little heroine lives with her friend for a year, and
a great many experiences befall the two girls and their
playmates.
A Sunny Little Lass. By Evelyn Raymond. Illus., 12mo.
George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.
The story of a little lass who was always sunny. No
matter what befell, she kept her bright smile and sun-
shiny disposition through all.
By Love's Sweet Rule. By Gabrielle E. Jackson. Illus., 12mo
John C. Winston Co. $1.
The story of a girl who lost her mother early in life
and suffered from the cold treatment of an unsympathetic
aunt.
A Maid of the Mountains. By Dorothy C. Paine. Illus., 12mo.
George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.
Has to do with the experiences of a Northern girl
among the mountains of North Carolina.
Dorothy Dainty in the City. By Amy Brooks. 12mo. Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Co. $1,
The fifth volume in the ever-popular "Dorothy Dainty
Series."
The Young Violinist. Trans. from the twelfth edition of the
German of Emma von Rhoden by Mary E. Ireland. 12mo.
Saalfeld Publishing Co. $1.
The story of a German orphan girl, and her struggles
to follow a musical career.
Polly and the Aunt. By the Aunt. With portrait, 12mo.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 75 cts.
Sketches of child life by the author of "Little Jane
and Me."
Saturday Mornings. By Caroline French Benton. 12mo. Dana
Estes & Co. 75 cts.
The experiments and discoveries of a little girl who
learned to keep house.
Mog and the Others. By Harriet T. Comstock. Illus., 12mo.
Thomas Y, Crowell & Co. 75 cts.
The tale of a little girl of the long ago, her playmates
and her adventures, as they were related to the two other
little girls, after supper time by their grandmother.
The Court Jester. By Cornelia Baker, Illus., 12mo. Bobbs-
Merrill Co. $1.25.
A tale of merry doings at the court of Charles the
Seventh of France.
Old Home Day at Hazeltown. By A. G. Plympton. Illas.,
12mo. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.25.
Miss Plympton has made the Old Home Day sentiment
the basis of a pretty story..
Santa Claus' Sweetheart. By Imogen Clark. Illus. in color,
12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.25.
The scene of this little Chirstmas story is a logging
camp in the heart of the woods.
Three Boys and a Girl. By Anne Helena Woodruff. Illas.,
12mo, pp. 219. Jennings & Graham. $1.25.
How some young people had fun in the country,-rais-
ing chickens, logging, etc.
The Millers at Pencroft. By Clara Dillingham Pierson. Illus.,
12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1. net.
Relates the various ways in which three jolly children
managed to have plenty of fun.
The Little Runaways. By Alice Turner Curtis. Illus., 12mo.
Penn Publishing Co. $1.
The adventures of a little boy and girl in a small New
England town.
Brothers and Sisters. By Abbie Farwell Brown. Illus., 12mo.
Houghton, Miffin & Co. $1.
The story of Kenneth and Rose and what happened to
these enterprising young people on Christmas and April
Fool's Day.
The Cruise of the Yacht "Dido": A Tale of the Tide Country.
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Studies of animal life and character, Illustrated uld
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is hardly saying too much to declare that it was through Byron that Englishmen
first became interested in Italy.”—From the Introduction.
"The letters are all characterized by a dash and piquancy which reveal the author
as among the great letter-writers of all time. They contain little comment upon
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reveal, moreover, the poet's intense love for Italy, which is less generally known or
appreciated than his devotion to Greece. There are extracts from the longer poems,
representing Byron's best and most mature work, and which show the extraordinary
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AMERICAN CHARACTERSMATTHEWS
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tal control, the mastery
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The Spirit of the Orient
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Anna H. Smith. Appropriate quo-
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Copping
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Friendship. By Henry D.
Thoreau. One of his most delight-
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Saint Francis of Assisi. By
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Oscar Kuhns. A delightful study
of the life of this famous church
Germelshausen. Translated
saint. Illustrated from rare prints.
from the German of Friedrich Ger-
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Stone and Beebe's The Log of the Sun
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Mary Moss's The Poet and the Parish
$1.50
Episodes in the life of an American poet of to-day by one of America's leading critics.
The Outlook: “Marks an epoch in contemporary fiction. Good workmanship and entertaining
qualities are happily combined. . . . An extraordinary and admirable climax, the interest never
THE
flags. There is no black and white in this novel. It is real."
POET AND
New York Times Review: “Much originality . . . such cleverness and original spirit that whoever
THE PARISH
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MARY MOSS
Hawtrey's A Romance of Old Wars
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A very human and idyllic story. A honeymoon in the French camp at the time of Van Artveld's
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Colton's The Cruise of the Violetta
By the author of "The Belted Seas.” $1.50
A joyous nautical farce full of astounding happenings. A masterful Yankee widow bosses things.
Philadelphia Press: "Amusing episodes ... skillful turns of humor and clever wit ... many quaint characters and un-
usual incidents are encountered. The repartee is snappy and highly humorous."
Mrs. Fraser's In the Shadow of the Lord
$1.50
A Romance of the Washingtons. 2d printing.
New York Times Review : "A splendid biography of a splendid family."
Dolores Bacon's A King's Divinity
$1.50
A tale which illustrates a king's humanity more than his divinity, and in which the American heroine is more royal than the
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Springfield Republican: "Cleverly told. A good deal of wit.... The characters are well drawn.”
Charles Duff Stuart's Casa Grande
$1.50
A strenuous idyl of squatter days in old California.
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of description : the love story is quite idyllic."
William De Morgan's Joseph Vance
2d printing
A tale of English life in the 50's that has received remarkable praise from the highest authorities both in England and America.
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Nation: A work of true humor."
A new 16mo edition of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine
$1.00
Constant demands for Mr. Wells's first novel of the future have induced the publishers to reissue it in a new form.
Atlantic Monthly: "Singularly graphic and unfailingly interesting."
Some Books of 1906 for the young folks
Marion Ames Taggart's Daddy's Daughters By the author of " Nut-brown Joan.” $1.50
An unusually good story for older boys and girls by one of their best loved authors.
New York Sun: "A lot of sound, hearty children provide the proper sort of fun."
Mrs. Rankins's The Girls of Gardenville
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Miss Brooks's The Larky Furnace
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Mrs. Lipsett's A Summer in the Apple Tree Inn
$1.25
For younger children who like outdoor stories. A Japanese servant tells real Japanese folk-lore tales of great charm and
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Louisville Courier-Journal: "A little boy or girl can hardly fail to enjoy it. A very charming story."
NEW 1906
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EDITIONS Champlin's Young Folks Cyclopædias OF PERSONS and PLACES
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THE MOSHER BOOKS
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Jenks's Citizenship and the
Schools
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Marian Lee: “ Confessions to a Heathen Idol.”
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Johnson's Four Centuries of the
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Shakespeare's Sweetheart
By SARA Hawks STERLING. 8vo, cloth. Five illustrations in color and marginal decorations in color on
every page. In handsome box. Price $2.00.
A love story founded on the courtship and early married life of Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway.
Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas
By RUPERT HUGHES. 12mo, cloth. Six colored illustrations. Marginal decorations on every page. In
holly box. Price $1.00. The Christmas book of 1906.
Courtesy
Captain
By EDWARD CHILDS CARPENTER. 12mo, cloth. Five illustrations in color. Price $1.50. A dramatic
love story of Southern California in the days of Mexican rule.
Mr. Kris Kringle
By S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D. 12mo, cloth. Five illustrations in color. Price $1.00. “A fairy tale for
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Rhymes for Wee Sweethearts
By KATHARINE FORREST HAMILL. Large 8vo, cloth.
Five full-page illustrations in color and decorations
on every page. Price $1.50 net.
Fifty bright jingles for children that well express
the feelings and point of view of the little folks.
The Four Corners
By Amy E. BLANCHARD. 12mo, cloth. Illustrated.
Price $1.50.
A pure, wholesome, yet highly entertaining tale of four
Virginia girls by the name of Corner who go through
the natural experiences of healthy, growing children.
Shaggycoat
The Biography of a Beaver
By CLARENCE HAWKES. 12mo, cloth. Illustrated.
Price $1.25.
An entertaining story and a so one that teaches all
the essential facts of a beaver's life and habits.
Little Miss Mouse
By Amy E. BLANCHARD. 12mo, cloth. Illustrated
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Every young reader will be sorry when the end of
the story is reached.
A Maid of the Mountains
By DOROTHY C. PAINE. 12mo, cloth. Illustrated.
Price $1.00.
There is just enough excitement in the story to keep
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A Sunny Little Lass
By EVELYN RAYMOND. 12mo, cloth. Illustrated.
Price $1.00.
A delightful story of a little lass who was always
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One Thousand Poems for
Children
Edited 'by ROGER INGPEN. 12mo, cloth.
Price
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Unquestionably the most comprehensive collection
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Baby Bunting & Co.
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The Gentlewoman says:“ A clever little book to have
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A. Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel
The companion volume to “ The White Company”
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pany,' a representation of mediæval manners, only
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was middle-aged, you must have him now as an
piece of Charles Reade."— N. Y. Globe.
adventurous youth.”— Cleveland Leader.
Six illustrations by The Kinneys. $1.50
Marjorie Bowen's splendid Italian Romance The Viper of Milan
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The century has not produced a more fascinating romance. Cloth, $1.50.
Review.
Stanley J. Weyman's delightful novel Chippinge Borough
( Mr. Weyman's fine art of re-creating another period is here displayed at its highest. Here again is the
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“The Long Night,” and which places his work so far above the ordinary. Cloth, $1.50.
Eden Phillpotts' and Arnold Bennett's new novel Doubloons
( Mr. Phillpotts is a distinctly successful,” says the New York Sun. “ Doubloons is an exciting tale, well
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I
An exquisite new Holiday book by C. N. & A. M. Williamson
Rosemary in Search of a Father
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With six superb illustrations in photogravure and decorations in green. $1.50
The Complete Photographer
This superb contribution to the literature of the
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every phase of photography, and its magnificent
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With 99 illustrations Postpaid, $3.67; net, $3.50.
Queens of Old Spain
By MARTIN HUME
C Eight intimate portraits of brilliant Spanish
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the country and wielded with power the sceptre of
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Splendidly illustrated. Postpaid, $3.75; net, $3.50.
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THE LOVE-THEME IN FICTION. Charles Leonard
Moore.
CASUAL COMMENT
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The Atlantic Monthly's fiftieth birthday. – A
retreat for literary workers. — Another author of
the Shakespeare plays. — The ready recognition
of literary merit. — John Keats's will. — Judging
literature through the nose. —A biography of
Herman Melville. — The probable effects of a gen-
eral cheapening of book-prices. — To syndicate the
public libraries. — Genius for pervasiveness in the
world of letters.
MORE OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHER-
HOOD. Edith Kellogg Dunton .
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FIGURES FROM ROME'S GOLDEN DAYS. Anna
B. McMahan
446
THE SELF-REVELATION OF LAFCADIO
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The Wonders of the Colorado Desert. — Forbes-
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THE LOVE-THEME IN FICTION.
Enter, woman. Immediately the world begins to
brighten and bustle and sparkle. Man's Eden with-
out Eve would be a dirty place, full of tobacco
smoke. Nay, if it had not been for the urging of
the ever-womanly he would have been content with
cocoanuts and a strong tail to swing himself from
tree to tree. All that man really wants of his own
accord is to knaw at a great shin of beef, knock some
other man's brains out with the bone, and then plunge
into meditation on the What and Why and Where
of the universe. But his sweet tormentor appears,
and he has to clean and dress himself and cultivate
the courtesies of life, and turn his talents to practical
account in order to furnish her with barbaric wealth
of gold and gems.
This essay is predicated on the fact that there is
some difference between men and women, and that
the sexes equally acknowledge this and are willing
to do their duty in the station of life to which it
has pleased God to call them. This view is not
altogether fashionable to-day. Perhaps it was not
fashionable in the Athens of old, when Aristophanes
wrote his Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusce and Thes-
mophoriazusc; or in Alexandria, when Hypatia
preached rebellion to her girl acolytes. A lost
tragedy of Æschylus is founded on an incident which
shows that even in mythical times the question of
woman's place and rights was to the front. The
story is to the effect that the women of an island in
the Archipelago rose one night and killed all their
male relatives to the last child. That was thorough,
and might be commended to our modern ladies.
On the other hand, there is a novel by Sir Walter
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a future revolution against the power of women. It right. But is sensuality a proper subject for lit-
is well to get these abnormal situations out of the erary treatment ? This is the sole meaning of all
way before beginning on our proper study.
the discussions about morality in art. Nobody
Man's idol-worship of woman springs partly from objects to the use of other evil agencies — envy,
his long years of submission to and reverence for hatred, murder, theft, and so forth, in fiction. It
his mother, and partly from the instinct for beauty would be impossible to write a Sunday school
which nature has implanted in him. The girl, in story of two pages without some bad habit or vicc
her grace and charm and softness and modesty, is a in it. But Profane Love, the illicit relations of
mystery to him. He is imperiously compelled to men and women, is that a fit subject for print ?
account her a higher being than himself. Her glance The prints we see the most of — the newspapers –
inspires him. His tongue is attuned to eloquence are full of it. I do not see why we should prevent
and wit; his limbs spring forward for deeds of emu great artists from using such matter, if they want
lation or valor. That is the Sacred Love of the to. In the first place, it is full of power,
and crea-
great painter. In its highest manifestations it be tive artists will seek power wherever it is to be
comes the devotion of Dante for Beatrice or Michael found. In the second place, the Earth-spirit of
Angelo for Vittoria. On a lower but still high level Lust is the foil or complement to the Divine Spirit
it is the theme of most of the love poems of the of Love. He keeps the latter from becoming too
world. Mixed with a good deal of Profane Love, thin and aërial, or too false and pompous, and sets him
it is the common stuff out of which domestic life is off in true relief. You cannot paint a picture with
fashioned. The South Sea Islander, having wor white paint on a white canvas. All colors and
shipped his misshapen image of stone or wood for shadows must enter into the composition of a pic-
a year or so, takes it down, gives it a good thrashing, ture of the world. Personally, I prefer the creed
and then sets it back upon its pedestal and worships of Lovelace's lines,
it some more. Men do this, mentally at least, with
“I could not love thee, dear, so much,
women; for the need of adoration remains to the end.
Loved I not Honour more,"
There is a question whether such romantic love to the creed of Browning's poem, "The Statue
as I have described is not a comparatively recent and the Bust.” I prefer the girls of Shakespeare
invention. It certainly does not come out strongly to the problematic women with an unproblematic
in Greek literature, where woman seldom finds her- past who flourish in contemporary plays. But all
self dominant, except in the case of Helen, whose are part of the show of the world, and I do not
power is attributed to a goddess behind her. But know where to draw the line between Molière's
the Ramayana, perhaps in its original state orie of “ School for Wives” and Casanova's Memoirs, be-
the oldest of human compositions, is the
very ecstasy tween Goethe's “ Wilhelm Meister" and Balzac's
of romantic love. The questions of the purity and Contes Drôlatiques, between “ Tom Jones” and
faithfulness of woman, and her consequent influence Zola. The very worst of such books soon correct
over men, are worked out in this poem as they might themselves by causing a surfeit, and we return with
have been by Shakespeare or Tennyson. And the greater love to the pure delineations of imaginative
same is true of Kalidasa's Sakuntala, and even of passion.
“The Toy Cart,” though the heroine of this last If love is the sun that vivifies the world, friend.
piece is a courtesan. The power of woman to charm ship is the moon and all the stars. In Greek lit-
and inspire and lead man to the heights is probably erature it has practically thrust love out of doors.
as old as human nature. In the literature of the The friendship of Achilles and Patroclus is a nobler
south of Europe — leaving out Dante and Petrarch and more beautiful thing than the love of Paris and
- it is not much in evidence; while the Scandina Helen. Orestes and Pylades are examples of a bet-
vian and Celtic literatures fairly blaze with the glory ter feeling than the hot and selfish love of man and
of this power. Siegfried and Brunhild, Deirdre and girl. And the sisterly friendships of Antigone or
Naoise, the men and women of the Arthurian le Electra stretch down to us across the years with
gends, are perfect exponents of romantic love. And calm and healing charm. What situations there
the supreme poet of the North has given expression are in earth's records of the friendship of men for
to a score of varieties of imaginative passion, from men, of women for women - or of men and women
the tender fooling of Orlando and Rosalind, the for each other! That circle of orators and poets and
jealousy and devotion of Posthumus and Imogen, philosophers around Pericles; those other circles
up to the blighted adoration of Othello's great heart. around Augustus, or Louis the Fourteenth, or the
Goethe is a good second in painting the overwhelm Duke of Weimer; Shakespeare's tavern companions;
ing power of good women over strong men. And Dr. Johnson's club, and a myriad other coteries, –
with Wagner, the devotion of woman is the redemp- how they stand out in the light of Time! The world
tion of man.
owes a great part of its good work to the mutual
Sensuousness, as Milton saw, is the very essence admiration and mutual help of friends. Of course
of poetry. Milton himself, and his master Spenser, the modern epic of friendship is “The Three Mus-
are perhaps more sensuous in their painting of the keteers” of Dumas.
nude the nude touched, too, with passion — than Courtship may be considered as the duel of sex.
any other of our poets. There is no doubt they did There is probably nothing in the world so proud


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verge and
and self-sufficient as a high-spirited young girl. cution, she compels him to bring all these gifts to her
She will patronize the Pope, or pat a pyramid on service; she makes him build her beautiful houses
the head. Before she can be brought to surrender, and furnish them fittingly; she makes him invent
tamed to submission, there is
scope exquisite fabrics for her to wear, and dig up gems
enough for great comedy. Mirabell and Millamant's wherewith to adorn her. More than this, she turns
love-chase in Congreve's “Way of the World,” and him man himself, the Orson of woods and caves
Di Vernon's treatment of her rather loutish lover - into an exquisite, into a courtier, into a dandy.
in Scott's novel, are examples. On the other hand, Osrick and Beau Brummel are her creation; so are
Rosalind's wooing of Orlando gives the woman as the wits and beaux that flourish in a thousand com-
the aggressor; and Mr. Bernard Shaw has developed edies and novels.
this theme to its full, and rather more than its full, Finally, woman is the maker of home. I hardly
extent.
know whether this can be considered a separate
Desire without requital is a noble theme, albeit theme, though such poems as Goethe's“Hermann and
one that carries with it a slightly ridiculous air. In Dorothea" and Burns's “Cotter's Saturday Night”
the old-fashioned novels the maiden pines away and really express the sentiment of home more than
the lover goes into the army and leads a forlorn anything else. And the same sentiment dominates
hope. Michael Angelo's love for Vittoria is an “ The Vicar of Wakefield.” The home-making in-
instance in real life. Tennyson's “ Maud” is per-
stinct is indeed almost the dominant one in woman.
haps the most thorough-going instance in modern She goes about building her nest as inevitably and
poetry. The whole theory of the Troubadour life almost as unconsciously as a bird. This instinct
and the later Courts of Love was based on this idea. peeps out of Imogen's action in her brother's cave;
Quarrels, reconciliations, love intrigues, the oppo it accompanies Deirdre on her flight in Alba; it sits
sition of circumstance, — these are the spice of half prettily upon Eve in her paradisiacal bower in Milton's
the fiction of the world. The fact that the course epic. In a myriad interiors of a myriad novels and
of true love never did run smooth is a providential poems, woman sits enthroned the queen of a limited
enactment for the sake of plot and situation. Few but undisputed domain.
plays could get beyond the first act, few novels The best kind of love, as I have tried to show, is
beyond the first chapter, if it were not for this based upon sacrifice. We bring presents of flowers
quality in the constitution of things. Shakespeare and fruits to our idols, we offer up burnt sacrifices,
pleasantly ridicules the whole matter in "The Mid and finally we yield them our hearts and lives.
summer Night's Dream” with Puck’s ironical com This kind of service can be given to other objects
ment, “What fools these mortals be!”
than women. We are rooted, almost as trees are, in
Poe thought that the death of a beautiful and the soil from which we spring : our frames are built
beloved woman was the highest theme that poetry out of its elements; we bear the badge of its clime
could attempt. He has expressed it in “The Raven” upon our brow. And love of country, patriotism, is
so as to thrill all the world. But this matter prop the natural outcome. Literature is full of this theme.
erly belongs to another study.
In the narrow states of Greece, duty to the state
Woman is the joy-giver. A great part of the was almost the first obligation of life. Antigone is
realized happiness of life comes through her. Books refused permission to bury her brother because he
that end well end in marriage. Yet it is the antici has sinned against his native land. “The Persians ”
pation of happiness which comes out most in litera of Æschylus is a chant of triumph for Salamis.
ture. Wedding songs are short. I cannot recall any Virgil's epic was written with the one view of the
play or poem or novel which is one long epithalamium. eternal emblazonment of Rome. Shakespeare's En-
Perhaps they would be dull.
glish histories were inspired by a like purpose — at
Woman is the guardian of life. As mother, nurse, least, many of their most splendid passages breathe
guide, teacher, she holds a great place in literature. the fire of passionate love. Walter Scott may almost
Andromache smiles to us across the centuries with be said to have created Scotland by his intense patri-
Astyanax on her lap. Medea is an instance of per otism. The theme of country love is treated by
verted maternity. Shakespeare is full of mothers - Schiller in his “ William Tell” and by Goethe in
the tragic Constance, Lady Macduff, the mother of “ Egmont.” There are innumerable other works in
Perdita, Countess Rousillon, and many more. One which it is the dominant note.
of the most truthfully drawn mothers in fiction is Love of mankind — philanthropy – is in some
Mrs. Pendennis ; and one of the most enchantingly sense a modern feeling. It is of course an ingredient
portrayed is Lady Castlewood, Esmond's second in some religions — the Buddhistic and Christian,
love. Beyond and above all, there is the Mother of but national and racial hatreds kept it long in
Christ to whom art and song have done homage for check. It really seems to be a special growth of our
two thousand years.
times. Lessing's “Nathan the Wise” is almost the
Woman is the organizer of the social pageant. She earliest document of it, - Rousseau's propaganda
is the principle of cohesion which brings together the the most effective one. The final scene of the second
male atoms that would otherwise fly apart. And part of "Faust" is a summing up of philanthropy ;
though without a hundredth part of man's instinct for Hugo's Les Miserables is an immense expression of
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vast to be a good theme for fiction. The love of like-minded in forming a community, whose exact
fame, of glory, dictating heroism and personal action location seems not yet determined. Weariness of the
of various kinds, is a better one. Hotspur, impa- struggle and discord and aimless rush of modern life,
tient of the hour in which he could not fight, aspir-
he
argues,
makes
necessary such a retreat, and he hopes
ing to pluck bright honor from the drowned moon;
to gather together a congenial group of tired workers,
literary men, journalists, artists, scientists even, to enjoy
Falconbridge, pushing into the quarrel of kings ;
fraternal intercourse in an atmosphere of tolerance,
Cellini, sacrificing his metal household implements liberty, and friendliest brotherhood. This permanent
to fill out the mould of his Perseus ; Chatterton,
or temporary colony, forming itself into a happy inter-
fighting for fame in his garret, - these are vivid national family, may perhaps engage in some artistic or
and distinct figures of appeal.
literary labors, even publish a magazine or books; but its
There are various oddities of love which may main purpose is to find rest and spiritual refreshment,
form a sort of comic afterpiece to this study. Such and a life of peace. Experiments of this sort, though
are the love of animals pushed to excess, the love of
often tried and seldom or never successful, will always
bric-a-brac, the collector's mania, and so forth. Squire appeal to certain ardent souls who seek some means of
making life better worth the living than they have found
Western probably cared more for his dogs and
it in the rush, the hum, the shock of men.”
horses than he did for Sophia, and Scott's Antiquary
certainly loved his black-letter ballads better than
ANOTHER AUTHOR OF THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS has
his niece. There is a delightful French story, “The
been discovered, and now it is the Shakespeare-Bacon-
Porcelain Violin,” which gives the collector's mania
Rutland controversy. A German scholar, Dr. Bleibtreu,
to the life.
CHARLES LEONARD MOORE. informs the learned world that the Earl of Rutland
(1576–1612) — who spent some years in France and
Italy, studied law at Padua, went on a mission to Den-
mark in 1603 to represent James I. at the baptism of
CASUAL COMMENT.
the Danish crown prince, and employed his spare time
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY'S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY is an
there in getting up the local color for “ Hamlet," ac-
occasion for cheer to all who care for what is best and
tually meeting Rosencrantz and Guildenstern meanwhile
highest in our literature. It was in November, 1857,
wrote the plays and poems falsely attributed to "the
that this most distinguished of American magazines,
low comedian, William Shakespeare, who regularly got
under Lowell's editorship and with a staff of contribu-
drunk at the Mermaid Tavern," and who for abundant
tors many of whose names are now famous in literary
convincing reasons could not possibly have produced the
history, made its appearance in Boston, then the un-
works ascribed to him. Should doubt still remain in
questioned literary and intellectual centre of the any mind, Dr. Turszinsky, the distinguished German lit-
country. Stanchly true to national and especially New
erary critic, will dispel it in short order. He declares
England traditions and ideals, without sensational or
the evidence collected by Dr. Bleibtreu to be irresistible.
pictorial allurement, and with no very material changes
It probably is— to him. And yet, in the face of it all,
in form or character, this modestly but tastefully clad
a goodly number of scholars of repute still obstinately
monthly has for half a century held to its even and
cling to the Shakespeare heresy.
dignified course, enjoying a reputation for sanity and
restraint, for refinement of manner and devotion to what THE READY RECOGNITION OF LITERARY MERIT, and the
sweetens and inspires and elevates, such as no other eagerness of editors and publishers to welcome genius
American magazine can claim. Scanning the roll of whencesoever it may hail, is a theory often urged, though
those associated with its honored past, and bearing in naturally a little difficult of belief to those whose con-
mind those of a later generation who are now bearing tributions are rejected. Some doubter of this class re-
onward the torch, we feel that it is not too high praise cently tried the experiment of copying, with changes of
to rank « The Atlantic" by itself, in a class where there personal and place names, one of Mr. Kipling's most
is none to hold even the second place. Announcements popular stories, and sent it out to ten leading magazines
for the coming year give warranty that the old excel of this country, by all of which it was politely declined
lence of the magazine will suffer no decline. A special with no indication that the hoax was discovered. Fi-
feature will be a series of articles by its living ex-editors, nally the very publishers who had originally issued the
Mr. Howells, Mr. Aldrich, and Mr. Page, and by a few story, after gravely weighing its merits for seven weeks,
of its earliest contributors, notably Professor Norton, sent the practical joker a letter of acceptance and a
Colonel Higginson, and Mr. Trowbridge. Not many
check. Of course the check was returned and the manu-
are left who recall the appearance of the first issue of script recovered. One offered explanation of the ten
“ The Atlantic,” with its ruffed portrait of Governor rejections is that although the fraud was detected the
Winthrop, and its imprint of Phillips, Sampson & Com editors were too polite to mention so rude a thing!
pany, on the cover; but these will cherish the memory
of its honored past, while wishing for it even greater JOHN KEATS'S WILL is passing, or will soon pass,
good and higher honor for the future.
under the auctioneer's hammer. The bit of paper con-
taining the poet's autograph testament was enclosed in
A RETREAT FOR LITERARY WORKERS and other brain a letter to his friend and publisher, John Taylor, Aug.
weary and world-weary folk, a sort of conventual 14, 1820. The letter asks that a passage to Leghorn
settlement of a non-religious kind, - is planned by a the voyage that took Keats to his death — be secured
Swiss gentleman named Bignami. In a circular out for him. Another letter, written by Joseph Severn, the
lining his project he invites those who feel a craving faithful friend who tended the poet on his death-bed, a
for retirement and isolation, and an opportunity to com portrait sketch of the dying man, also by Severn, a lock
mune with their souls in quiet, to join him and others of the boy Keats's hair, and the letter to Taylor, accom-


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pany the will. The short and simple directions of the large. A still more striking example is cited in the
letter are as follows: “My Chest of Books divide among enormous sale of “ Robert Elsmere ” in cheap editions
my friends. In case of my death, this scrap of Paper issued by a score of American publishers in the days
may be servicable [sic] in your possession. All my before international copyright. The commercial prac-
estate real and personal consists in the hopes of the sale ticability of cheap editions of popular books has often
of books published or unpublished. Now I wish Brown enough been proved in scattering instances; but a gen-
and you to be the first paid Creditors — the rest is in eral great reduction could hardly insure correspond-
nubibus, but in case it should shower pay my Taylor the ingly increased sales on all books. There is a limit
few pounds I owe him."
both to the reading appetite and to the fund available
for book-buying The instances alleged by “ The
JUDGING LITERATURE THROUGH THE NOSE is a method Times” might, we suspect, appear less convincing after
applied by a New York reader a woman. In select a little scrutiny. The American editions of “Robert
ing her books from the library, it is said, she follows her Elsmere,” besides despoiling the author of her rights
sense of smell. A nose for news we have all heard of; of royalty, were usually issued in such wretched form
a nose for novels and poems and memoirs and histories that, although sold for little, it was about all they were
is less common. Only books that smell of tobacco will worth. And the concept of a copyrighted novel issued
suit this robust feminine reader ; and the stronger the in the style of the ordinary $1.50 novel, yet sold at a
nicotine exhalations, the better. A whiff of musk or vio retail price of fifty cents, may be acceptable to the
let or heliotrope wafted to her nostrils would condemn somewhat heated intellects of the “ Times” champions,
a volume at once; it would mean that the work was but will hardly bear the test of the cold arithmetic
read only by women, and is not for her. The formula known to the solvent Book Trade. Cheap paper and
is simple : strong odor of tobacco — strong literature ; binding, and authors' pittance, may not cost much, but
delicate feminine odors — weak namby-pamby stuff. they do cost something.
Clearly, this woman has once been a girl, and longed to
do the things and read the books her big brothers did;
TO SYNDICATE THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES is a plan now
and now the child is mother of the woman, and she im- proposed by Librarian Canfield of Columbia University.
proves her chance. We once knew a publisher's reader A scheme of coöperation somewhat after the plan of a
who rejected a MS., without even untying the package,
commercial trust is held to be necessary in order to
on the ground of smell — the combined fumes of rank cope with the outpour of books and cover the literary
tobacco and bad whiskey which it exhaled making too field economically and without needless duplication. By
obvious the nature of the inspiration under which the specialization and a division of labor, the libraries of a
romance or poem was composed. It was not this literary large city could doubtless increase their collective effi-
expert's nose, it now appears, but his judgment, that ciency; and this plan is already in partial operation in
was at fault. If the odoriferous work could have been Chicago, New York, Boston, Baltimore, and elsewhere.
issued in all its original flavors, it would certainly have
But somehow this movement seems unpleasantly domi-
found favor in the eyes or rather in the nostrils -- of
nated by the same spirit that uses in reference to it the
this discriminating New York reader. But are there words “syndicate” and “ proposition.” Perhaps it is
enough noses like hers to make it worth while for pub- not unfortunate that the smaller communities must still
lishers to cater to them with their literary wares? depend on their one library, which, in an eclectic man-
ner and within modest limits, will continue to aim at
A BIOGRAPHY OF HERMAN MELVILLE, the first and per encyclopædic comprehensiveness, and whose quiet al-
haps still the best of the South Sea romancers, the charm coves the “syndicate proposition " has not yet invaded.
ing friend and visitor of Hawthorne, and on the whole a
man much to be admired, is forthcoming. His daughter, GENIUS FOR PERVASIVENESS IN THE WORLD OF LET-
Miss Elizabeth Melville (Fourth Ave. and Eighteenth TERS is in a fair way to make Mr. A. C. Benson a for-
St., New York) is asking for letters by and reminiscences midable rival even to the ubiquitous Mr. Andrew Lang.
of her father, to be used in preparing his biography. Mr. Benson's emergence from the shelter of anonymity
Juvenile conservatism in the matter of literary likings to acknowledge the authorship of one successful book
should make the once favorite « Typee,” “Omoo," and after another, has prompted “ Punch” to declare him
“Moby Dick” still good " sellers ” in the book market, responsible for the “ Apocalypse,” thus settling a dis-
although just now they appear to be outstripped by pute centuries old. “ The House of Quiet” (now in its
later creations of the same order but of inferior merit. tenth edition), which was cordially commended in these
Possibly a life of Melville will do something toward re pages on its first appearance about three years ago,
storing these old-time favorites to their deserved place. “ The Upton Letters," also most favorably noticed by
us, and “ The Thread of Gold," more recently urged
THE PROBABLE EFFECTS OF A GENERAL CHEAPENING upon our readers' attention, are now admitted to equal
OF BOOK-PRICES is an interesting point of discussion in rank and honors with “ Walter Pater," " From a Col-
the “ book war” still raging in London. In urging the lege Window," and other of Mr. Benson's signed works.
desirability, even for commercial reasons, of cheaper Prophetic vision can be cheaply claimed after the flood-
books, the “ Times” adduces some interesting facts. tide of popular approval has set in; but it is gratifying
It appears that in the past year a young London pub to be able to point to printed proofs of critical appreci-
lisher, not of the “ Trust,” secured a novel from each ation of the above-named books in the days of their
of twelve well-known authors (six English and six unknown authorship and comparative obscurity. Mr.
American) and published these books in a style equal Benson's books seem to find favor with American readers,
to that of the ordinary $1.50 novel, but at a retail price as appears from the announcement of new editions of
of fifty cents; and though the profit to all concerned his House of Quiet,” with an author's introduction,
was small on each copy, the low price sent the sales up and of « The Gate of Death,” soon to be issued in this
to a figure that made the aggregate gains unusually | country.


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The New Books.
charge of vain repetition. He places a list of
his previous contributions to Rossetti literature
in the preface to the present volume, and occa-
MORE OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITE sionally refers the reader to one or another of
BROTHERHOOD.
them for information concerning relatives or
The last briefs of the Pre-Raphaelite Brothers
associates. The specific aim of these reminis-
are fast being turned in. Early this year the
cences is to detail the facts of their author's own
long awaited autobiography of the venerable life, which though uneventful was not without
Mr. Holman Hunt was published ; and a most
interest, and to hang upon this thread of auto-
interesting supplement to it has been furnished biography any recollections of personages of
this autumn in the very complete exhibition, public importance which have been hitherto un-
in London, of Hunt's pictures and drawings. recounted.
Now come the personal reminiscences of one of It may as well be admitted first as last that
the two surviving Pre-Raphaelites, Mr. William the general tone of these memoirs is a little dis-
Michael Rossetti, who, though he never realized, appointing. Mr. Rossetti is so afraid of saying
or apparently much tried to realize, the ex-
something that he has said already, as well as
pectations of the “P. R. B.” that he might be-
of seeming either to blow his own trumpet or
come an active and productive member of their to cast undue blame on someone else, that his
painters' guild, has certainly proved himself a chapters decidedly lack color and movement
competent champion and expounder of the faith. as compared with much of his previous writing.
The Reminiscences,” so Mr. Rossetti points
The reason for this is probably two-fold. The
out in his preface, make the eighteenth volume fact that these are his last words makes him
in which his personal recollections, “ more espe- anxious that they shall be well-considered and
cially as affecting other members of the family," discreet, and also that they shall omit nothing
have appeared. In fifteen out of the preceding of possible value. The result is that his tone,
seventeen volumes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti is the always moderate, becomes almost painfully re-
subject ; either some phase or other of his ver served, and that he includes many trivial recol-
satile genius is under discussion, or editorial and
lections too scant or superficial to be of any
introductory matter is supplied for some of his particular interest, but which load his biography
poems or letters. Thus Mr. W.M. Rossetti may with meaningless detail. Again, Mr. Rossetti
safely be accounted in some measure responsible is not used to holding the centre of the stage:
for the fact, so deeply deplored by Mr. Holman
that place belonged to his brother Dante Gabriel,
Hunt, that Dante Gabriel's work, with its ex-
and after him to his sister Christina ; William
travagances and vagaries corresponding to those was too shy, as well as too good a judge of his
of its creator, has been so much in the public own attainments, to desire or claim it. But by
eye, and that he has generally been considered, the plan of this work he is forced to focus at-
on the mistaken authority of his brother and
tention upon himself, and he accordingly grows
other prejudiced persons, the originator and best self-conscious and his style becomes formal and
exponent of Pre-Raphaelitism. As was pointed stilted. Nevertheless, we could ill have spared
out in our review of Holman Hunt's autobiog- this biography. There are pages of discerning
raphy, already referred to, the whole dispute criticism and delightful reminiscence, and there
rests upon a vital difference in the understanding are occasional illuminating phrases ; while the
of the term Pre-Raphaelitism. Granted Mr.
very defects of the book are faults for which we
Hunt's definition of the term, he is undoubtedly esteem its author. Exaggerated reserve is better
correct in considering himself the first and the than violated confidence or petty malice. Con-
best Pre-Raphaelite ; but he certainly does not sidering the tone of much that has been said and
use the word as D. G. Rossetti and his followers
written about Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his
used it, nor as the public has come to under- circle, it is small wonder that his brother should
stand it.
prefer to err on the side of reticence.
Mr. W. M. Rossetti does not revert to the In regarding Mr. William M. Rossetti as the
old debate in this his latest volume. He seems convenient and accommodating scribe of the
to feel that his last word upon that, as upon
“P. R. B.,” it must not be forgotten that his
many other matters, has already been said, and literary career had wider affiliations — that the
he is apparently anxious not to be open to the ill-fated “ Germ” was far from being typical of
his journalistic connections. It should be un-
* SOME REMINISCENCES OF WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI. In
two volumes. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. derstood that for forty-nine years, ending in


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1894, W. M. Rossetti held various appoint- a small circle of very choice friends. Of the
ments in the Inland Revenue Office, and it was latter he writes, as usual, most entertainingly;
only his not too abundant leisure that could be it is a pity that he was not wise enough to omit
devoted to artistic and literary criticism, edito all mention of the former except in those rare
rial work, encyclopædia articles, and lecturing: cases where he makes his miniature portraits
To - The Critic, “ The Spectator,” “ The Acad both vivid and significant.
>
numerous reviews and exhibition-notices, some delightful and delightfully portrayed “inner
times as a staff contributor, at others as an occa circle.” One of Mr. Rossetti's best anecdotes
sional writer. Outside of his long series of concerns the storm of abuse that greeted the
books about his brother, most of which belong publication, in 1866, of Mr. Swinburne's
to the last eighteen years, his most interesting - Poems and Ballads."
editorial work was that undertaken for an edi “ In 1868 Mr. Legros exhibited in the Royal Acad-
tion of Shelley's poems.
This led to a meeting emy an excellent picture of some monks or friars at
and a subsequent warm friendship with Edward
their repast — called “The Refectory. There was a
tabby cat painted in the picture. In that year was pub-
John Trelawny, who is one of the most pic-
lished a pamphlet of Notes on the art of the season.
turesque figures in the “Reminiscences," and to
Mr. Swinburne wrote one section of it, and I the other.
interviews with Mrs. Hogg — Jane Williams Mr. Swinburne -- who is a great lover of cats (a fancy
when Shelley addressed poems to her — and which I share with him), and also (a fancy which I only
with Clare Clairmont. Rossetti also edited a
very faintly share) of serpents wrote of this painted
selection of Whitman's poems for English pub-
quadruped as “a splendid cat.' The picture was bought
– presumably before Swinburne's eulogium had ap-
lication, and was among the first critics to peared — by a person of some distinction. Many years
champion the cause of Browning in print. afterwards, in 1895, I had occasion to look at this
For critical work, William Rossetti has some
painting in the house of the heir of the original pur-
chaser. To my surprise, the cat had disappeared.
decided temperamental advantages. He is mod-
· Why,' said I, there used to be a cat in that corner of
est, tactful, cool, and dispassionate, not enthu the picture. Yes,' replied the owner, there was; but
siastic and yet tending to a favorable verdict my predecessor, on seeing that Swinburne had found a
rather than to the opposite. On the other hand,
good word to say for the cat, got her obliterated forth-
while a fair critic he can hardly be adjudged to
with.' Such was the feeling of the enlightened British
world for • Poems and Ballads' and the author thereof."
have the mind of a great one.
His judgment of
men and books seems superficial ; his phrases
The account of Dante Gabriel's enthusiasm
seldom bite to the core of the matter. In clos-
for Browning is amusing.
ing an account of a meeting with Clough, one of
“My brother, by readings, recitations, and preach-
whose poems he had reviewed in - The Germ,"
ments, imposed Browning as a sort of dogmatic standard
upon the P. R. B., meeting the readiest response from
he says: “ He [Clough] treated his youthful Woolner and Stephens, and it may be in a rather
critic with much courtesy, but our interview minor degree) from Holman Hunt; Millais, so far as I
closed without my feeling that I had gained any
can remember, was too busy with his own affairs to do
great additional insight into his personality.”
much reading, whether of Browning or of anyone,
he was however a devotee of Keats. Madox Brown
The reader's thought reverts to this sentence at proved mainly recalcitrant; to Dante Gabriel's rather
the close of many of Rossetti's related inter scornful indignation, he continued to uphold Longfellow
views. On the other hand, when he says of
as the first of living poets, next to Tennyson.”
Madox Brown, “ He kept on at painting with a Of Browning, Rossetti says
well-developed sense of being very scantily ap “Both by the tone of his talk and by his personal
preciated,” or of Burne-Jones, “ His nature had manner, Browning set you very much at your ease. To
the musical ring of glass, not the clangour of
be conscious of your inferiority was, save for the fewest,
at once right and inevitable; but he did nothing towards
iron,” one feels his power of apt characteriza-
screwing the consciousness into you. He seemed to be
tion. His account of the relation existing be always simply and straightforwardly himself: brilliant
tween himself and Dante Gabriel is singularly and many-sided, not by any direct endeavour, but be-
accurate and vivid, and he makes his own rather
cause this pertained to him. At all points he was vivid
and alert — the turn of his head, his footfall on the
curious personality felt on every page of his
floor. . . . To say that Browning was eloquent in talk
biography.
would -
so far as my experience extends — be going too
Between his literary work, his rather “ad far; he was also not rhetorical nor long-winded in ex-
vanced” opinions, his relationship with Dante position; but his talk included most of the good qualities
Gabriel, and later with Madox Brown, whose
short of eloquence — especially masculine acumen and
versatile promptitude. . . . The time flew fast in his
daughter he married, Rossetti had a very wide
company. He spoke but little about himself and his
circle of literary and artistic acquaintance, and poetry, but gave information freely when asked.”
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Mr. Rossetti relates a curious judgment of Mr. William Rossetti cherishes no illusion,
Browning's to the effect that he considered common to brothers of genius, that, given the
Tommaso Salvini's (Edipus “the finest effort of opportunity, he might have ranked with Dante
art he had ever beheld ; not only the finest in Gabriel and Christina. Considering that his
the art of acting, but in any art whatsoever, verse would never be more than 6 passable,”
including painting, music, etc.” Mr. Rossetti and that his paintings would never get above
adds that he made this extraordinary statement careful mediocrity, he definitely, and apparently
6 in a tone of entire conviction."
without regret, withdrew from the arena. He
For Ruskin, Mr. Rossetti has nothing but realizes that his literary vocations and his most
liking and admiration. He pardons many interesting friendships were both in large meas-
things to an over-sensitive mind and to feelings ure due to Gabriel's influence on a retiring,
“ somewhat strained and overstrained, and a self-poised character, prone to accept unques-
little liable to take a contrary or perverse bias tioningly its limitations and its humble destiny.
- in the sense that, when there was every fair
He takes credit to himself that, despite Gabriel's
presumption and anticipation that he would be magnetic and somewhat overpowering personal-
well pleased and affirmative, he turned out to ity, his opinions were his own, and his decisions
be punctilious and negative."
were made in conformity to them. He would
In general, Mr. Rossetti seems to have kept be the last to question the statement that his
as clear as was humanly possible of the acrid own life is most interesting when viewed as a
disputes in which his impetuous brother and sort of dull gray background for Dante Gabriel's
irascible father-in-law were continually becom brilliant career.
ing involved. He refuses, as has already been The “ Reminiscences" fill two thick but
said, to discuss any of these quarrels save one surprisingly light-weight royal octavo volumes.
that with Buchanan — in the "Reminiscences." Many of the illustrations are unique and inter-
He necessarily mentions some of them — always esting ; other are already familiar.
with regret both for the trouble and the breaches
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON.
of friendship that followed. Most keenly does
he deplore the stand that Madox Brown took
when the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulk-
ner & Co. was dissolved. Owing to Mrs. Wil FIGURES FROM ROME'S GOLDEN DAYS.*
liam Rossetti's sympathy with her father, it Although not the most profound and scholarly
was impossible, or at least not easy, for Mr.
among Roman archæologists, Signor Rodolfo
Rossetti to see anything of the Burne-Jones and
Lanciani is certainly the one who has done most
Morris families afterwards. “But,” he adds, to make the antiquities and discoveries in Rome
“ from first to last I had never any quarrel of comprehensible and interesting to the world.
my own with any member of this
group
of
my His gift of skilful presentation of facts, and his
old familiars.”
power to communicate something of the enthu-
Mr. Rossetti has undoubtedly given us, in siasm which he has himself felt in turning up
other volumes, the cream of his recollections of the soil of the old city, have made his numerous
his gifted brother, and yet Dante Rossetti is the books about Ancient Rome as attractive as
most inspiring figure in these chronicles, and
romance. Now he offers a beautiful book
upon
the chapter on the early days at Cheyne Walk closely-allied subjects, with the title “Golden
is the most brilliant in the biography, as that Days of the Renaissance in Rome.” The cen-
period was probably the happiest in the life of trai figures of the book are five : Paul III., who
the chronicler. Interesting and quotable is the during the fifteen years that he occupied the
account of the origin and growth of the “ Jap- chair of St. Peter's accomplished such wonders
anese mania,” of the old-furniture craze, of the in rescuing Rome from the degradation into
prints, the “pots” and the “ beasts," which, which it had fallen ; Michelangelo and Raphael,
among them, engrossed so much of Dante
supreme in art; Vittoria Colonna, the most cul-
Gabriel's time and attention. The famous
tured of sixteenth century women ; and Agostino
wombat, it seems, was discovered in the zoolog- Chigi, the banker whose splendid financial
ical gardens by William and Christina Rossetti. abilities and great wealth gave him the surname
They inspired Dante Gabriel to examine its of “ Il Magnifico.” These figures have been for
charms - its “fat lumpish look and want of
a long time some of the best known of the Re-
sculpturesque form ” — and he in turn sent
* GOLDEN DAYS OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ROME. By Rodolfo
Burne-Jones upon the same quest.
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naissance, and it has been assumed that every ingenuity and patience with which archæolo-
obtainable fact in connection with their lives gists, by following slight clues, often reach the
must have been already many times retold. But most brilliant results.
it now appears that there is a great deal of com Financially, the most powerful man in the
paratively new matter deduced from researches world of these golden days was Agostino Chigi.
among obscure documents or the results of Gifted by nature with keen insight and great tact
happy “ finds” in unexpected places.
in the art of trading, before he was forty years old
The fascinating chapter on Vittoria Colonna, he had made a name for himself that impelled
Marchesa di Pescara, is an illustration. The republics and kingdoms, Christians and infidels,
stories of this lady's powerful intellect, sincere popes and sultans alike to seek his help in money
piety, purity of mind and body, and friendship negotiations and in collecting their revenues and
with Michelangelo, are assumed to be familiar customs. Strange as it seems, no complete pub-
knowledge. Signor Lanciani takes
up
the
ques lished biography of this remarkable man exists.
tions of her burial and the mysterious disap- In a general way, we have known that he had
pearance of the remains, which have baffled the boundless wealth, that he fostered art and artists,
inquirers of three and a half centuries. Dying and that many splendid monuments of his taste
in the convent of the church of Saint Anna de and generosity still exist in Rome — such as Ra-
Funari at Rome, she requested in her will that phael's Sybils, in a chapel of the church of Santa
she should be buried in that church. Docu- Maria della Pace, the chapel of our Lady of
ments of the time show that her wish was in Loreto in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo,
part carried out, the body being enclosed in a and the casino and gardens of the Villa Farne-
wooden coffin coated with tar and left on the sina. Signor Lanciani has gathered from MS.
floor of the church. But such was the cowardly authorities many new details of the great banker's
fear that seized all those who had been asso life. The story reads very much like that of the
ciated with the deceased lady in her work of the “ self-made man ” of to-day, and shows that in
Italian Reformation, lest the Inquisition should Rome of the sixteenth century, as in America to-
involve them in the disgrace with which her day, a key of gold will unlock many doors. This
memory was threatened, that the coffin was
man,
who lived to see his name inscribed among
abandoned without any of the usual impressive the great patrician families in the Libro d'Oro,
ceremonies of the Catholic Church. At this had no lineage worth mentioning, and started in
point, all traces ceased. In 1887, when the
In 1887, when the business with a partner when their aggregate
demolition of the old church was ordered to capital was but little more than two thousand dol-
make room for a new street, Signors Lanciani lars. From the first, he was a bold speculator.
and Visconti were commissioned by the City Even in our days of money kings and railway
Council of Rome to oversee the work, and they magnates, we have nothing to mateh the stories
watched the removal of every brick and stone of his countless enterprises at home and abroad,
down to the level of the foundations. Not only and of his gorgeous style of living in his villa
was no coffin coated with tar found, but there on the banks of the Tiber, now known as Villa
was no grave at all. This confirmed the sur Farnesina. At one of his Lucullean feasts, to
mise that the coffin had been secretly removed prove that the same silver plate was not used
from Rome when the posthumous proceedings twice in the course of the meal, the dishes were
against the Marchesa were initiated by the In thrown into the Tiber ; at another, each of the
quisition. Search began in other cities asso twenty cardinals or foreign representatives was
ciated with traditions of the Colonna family, served on silver and gold plate, bearing his par-
but no clue was obtained until within the
pres ticular coat of arms, crest, and motto, with such
ent decade. It is now settled beyond doubt that accuracy on the part of the butlers that not one
the remains of this typical great Italian lady of mistake occurred in the course of the meal. Each
the sixteenth century, the dearest friend that guest also was served with fish, game, fruit, veg-
Michelangelo ever had, now rest in the sacristy etables, delicacies, and wines peculiar to his own
of the church of San Dominico Maggiore at country, these supplies being brought to Rome
Naples, by the side of the beloved husband by messengers timed to arrive simultaneously
whose death preceded hers by twenty-two years,
from the four corners of the earth on the very eve
and in accordance with the often-expressed wish of the banquet.
in her poems that she might be reunited to him But these tales of a loud and vulgar display
in her last resting-place. The story of the find- of wealth are atoned for by Agostino's great
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collector, and his various residences were filled plates and sixty-one illustrations, many of them
with pictures, statues, bronzes, busts, until there from rare sources and here published for the first
was no room for more. His characteristic con time, are worthy accompaniments of these charm-
nection with art, as with business, was originality ing pages of text. ANNA B. MCMAHAN.
of conception. He gave the inspiring note, and
the artists adapted themselves to it to the best
of their ability. He protected such artists as
THE SELF-REVELATION OF
Raphael, Perugino, Giulio Romano, Lorenzetto,
LAFCADIO HEARN *
Bramante, Sodoma, even in the face of the ill-
will of popes and cardinals. When Leo X. dis-
The thrill of pleasurable anticipation awak-
missed Sodoma from his commission to paint ened by the announcement of the publication of
certain rooms in the Vatican, and substituted
6. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn"
Raphael, Agostino felt the offense to his protégé finds its fulfilment in the delight afforded by
as a personal one, and at once set him to paint the book itself. In it we are given that pro-
ing his own bedroom. The result was - The foundly interesting thing, insight into a noble,
Wedding of Alexander and Roxana” – one of sensitive, and refined human soul. The revela-
Sodoma's most delightful works, seldom seen,
tion is of course but partial ; more than that
however, as visitors are not often admitted to
were impossible, for, as Hearn himself has said
the upper floor of the Farnesina. Rich as
in one of these letters, “ No man, as a general
this period was in noble creations of art, we
rule, shows his soul to another man; he shows
should have lost some of its greatest achieve-
it only to a woman, - and then only with the
ments without the ideas and the purse of
assurance that she won't give him away. As a
Agostino Chigi.
matter of fact she can't : - the Holy Ghost
The remaining figures which appear in this
takes care of that!"
book are scarcely less interesting, and the two
In all the world of letters there are few char-
opening chapters, on “ The City” and “Life in
acters more striking than that of Lafcadio
the City,” give the proper setting to the whole.
Hearn. His personality was unique. The story
In a backward glance, due significance is given of his life is in many ways a pathetic one. Sel-
to the act of Pope Gregory XI. (1377) in leav-
dom has notable achievement been accomplished
ing Avignon and restoring to Rome the seat of
in the face of greater difficulties and discour-
the supreme pontificate, of which it had been agements. For the most part, the root of these
deprived for seventy-two years. It is said that lay within himself. The disability caused by
the young Pope was so affected by the transi-
defective vision he surmounted ; his incapacity
tion from the gay and refined life of Avignon
for anything connected with business shut him
to the horrors of Rome that he died the follow-
out from many things for which he greatly
ing year, and that his memory was treated with longed, and made his life-journey an unceasing
contempt, as that of a weakling, by the Romans. struggle. Yet in all the bitter experiences of
Signor Lanciani takes the death of this man as
his early years, when ill and half-blind, cast
the period marking the end of the Middle Ages adrift by his relatives, and sinking so low that
and the beginning of the Renaissance. The
for awhile he had to seek refuge in a London
transition from one to the other was neither
workhouse in a vile quarter by the Thames, he
sudden nor noticeable at first, but the simple resolutely kept on with his studies and never
fact of the head of the Church having again allowed the fire he had kindled upon the altar
taken up his residence in the city of the Tiber, of the imagination to burn dim.
where hundreds and thousands of pilgrims were
The life of a man so shrinking and retired
expected to assemble from every part of the
could only be written by one who had been for
globe each quarter of a century, not only saved many years one of his closest friends. Mrs.
the city from abandonment or final collapse, but
Wetmore (better known as Elizabeth Bisland)
gave it a new lease of life and helped it towards
has wisely let the story be told for the most
its moral and material regeneration.
part in Hearn's own words. The unconscious
The many matters which Signor Lanciani has
self-revelation in his letters, and the exquisite
taken out of their semi-obscurity in the Italian fragments of personal recollection that were
archives of learned societies and made available
found among his papers after his death, need
to the English reader, the many stories which
little by way of supplement from the hand of
he has himself aided in unfolding, entitle him
to not a little gratitude. Thirty-one full-page Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
* THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN. By Elizabeth
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the biographer. That little, despite some un The grand-aunt by whom Lafcadio was
evenness of workmanship and the occasional use brought up was the widow of a wealthy Irishman,
of a word in a wrong sense, has been done very and an ardent convert to Romanism. Nothing
well, and with understanding and sympathy. that Hearn ever wrote is more precious than the
Four chapters, comprising about a third of one attempts he made to recall something of his ex-
volume, – that is all there is of the introductory periences during those early days when he lived
sketch, and even that is largely taken up with under her roof. One of them tells of an occas-
extracts from Hearn's writings. The rest of ional visitor to the house whom he was taught
the book is made up of his letters, placed by to call “ Cousin Jane,” and of her startling ad-
themselves without comment. This unusual monition one gloomy winter morning when she
arrangement has both its advantages and disad- discovered that the child had no comprehension
vantages. The gaps seem more pronounced, the of God.
transitions more abrupt; but at the same time “ At once she caught me up, placed me upon her lap,
the strength and variety and beauty of these
and fixed her black eyes upon my face with a piercing
wonderful letters are made all the more apparent.
earnestness that terrified me, as she exclaimed:
My child ! --- is it possible that you do not know
Mrs. Wetmore is fortunately able to add some who God is?'
details to what was previously known about “ No,' I answered in a choking whisper.
Hearn's early years. He was born in 1850, in “« God! — God who made you!—God who made the
the Grecian island of Lefcada, after which he
sun and the moon and the sky,— and the trees and the
was named. His mother, Rosa Cerigote, was a
beautiful flowers,-- everything!. . . You do not know?'
“ I was too much alarmed by her manner to reply.
beautiful Greek girl, for whom his father, Sur 6. You do not know,' she went on, that God made
geon-Major Charles Bush Hearn, conceived a
you and me?
that God made your father and mother
passionate attachment that led to a romantic
and everybody.
You do not know about Heaven
and Hell?'
marriage. For a few years Dr. Hearn and his
“I do not remember all the rest of her words; I can
wife lived together happily, but after he took recall with distinctness only the following:
his family to Dublin there was an estrangement 666 And send you down to Hell to burn alive in fire for
followed by separation. Mrs. Hearn abandoned ever and ever! ... Think of it! - always burning,
her children and fled to Smyrna with a Greek
burning, burning, -- screaming and burning! scream-
cousin whom she afterward married. Lafcadio
ing and burning! — never to be saved from that pain of
fire! . . . You remember when you burned your finger
was sent to Wales to Dr. Hearn's aunt, Mrs. at the lamp? Think of your whole body burning,
Brenane, and never again saw either of his always, always, always burning! — for ever and ever!'
parents. All his life he felt this deprivation.
I can still see her face as in the instant of that utter-
ance,
Long years after, he wrote to the younger
the horror of it, and the pain. . . . Then she
suddenly burst into tears, and kissed me and left the
brother from whom also he was separated and room."
whom he did not see again:
Lafcadio was then aged not more than six,-
“ And you do not remember that dark and beautiful passionate, sensitive, impressionable, and living
face — with large, brown eyes like a wild deer's -- that in the dreamland of the imagination from which
used to bend above your cradle? You do not remember
• For the best of
the voice which told you each night to cross your fingers
he never entirely emerged.
after the old Greek orthodox fashion, and utter the possible reasons,” he says,
possible reasons," he says, “I then believed in
words - - In the name of the Father, and of the Son, ghosts and in goblins,— because I saw them, both
and of the Holy Ghost'?
by day and by night.” It is not strange, there-
“When I saw your photograph I felt all my blood
fore, that some time after the event just narrated
stir, --- and I thought, · Here is the unknown being, in
Cousin Jane should have appeared to him in an
whom the soul of my mother lives, who must have
known the same strange impulses, the same longings, apparition. She passed him in the hall and went
the same resolves as I! Will he tell me of them? into a bedroom.
There was another Self, — would that Self interpret “I ran after her, calling out ·Cousin Jane! Cousin
This ? . . . Whatever there is of good in me came Jane!' I saw her pass round the foot of a great four-
from that dark race-soul of which we know so little. pillared bed, as if to approach the window beyond it; and
My love of right, my hate of wrong; — my admiration I followed her to the other side of the bed. Then as if
for what is beautiful or true; — my capacity for faith first aware of my presence, she turned; and I looked up,
in man or woman; — my sensitiveness to artistic things expecting to meet her smile. . . . She had no face.
which gives me whatever little success I have,
There was only a pale blur instead of a face. And even
that language-power whose physical sign is the large as I stared, the figure vanished. It did not fade; it sim-
eyes of both of us, - came from Her. . . . It is the
ply ceased to be, - like the shape of a flame blown out.”
mother who makes us, - makes at least all that makes
tion, but his heart and power to love. And I would
he says, only with much effort, and in telling
rather have her portrait than a fortune."
them there was the consciousness that his later
even
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a ser-
and “ more artificial Self” was trying to speak But in time the charm wore off. The Eden of his
instead of the Self that was. In these boyish dreams was always in the unattainable elsewhere.
imaginings no doubt the interest he always felt Once he found it for a little while when he visited
in the ghostly and supernatural had its incep- the island of Martinique. And later, in Japan,
tion. A lesser mind would easily have been he experienced for one brief year the joy of actual
unbalanced by it, but he was too deep a thinker realization. This was at Matsue, where he went
to be thus led astray.
as a teacher in the Government school. There,
Mrs. Brenane's efforts to make a Catholic of to his great delight, he found that the manners
Lafcadio met with no success.
He was sent and customs of Old Japan still survived almost
for two years to a Jesuit college in France, and unchanged. There he found his wife, and there
later to Ushaw, the Roman Catholic college at he spent what was perhaps the happiest period
Durham. While there he met with the great- of his life. Before the glamour faded, loss of
est misfortune of his life in the loss of the sight health compelled his removal to a place where the
of one eye. About the same time, his rejection winters were less rigorous. The thirteen years
of Romanism led to a complete rupture with that yet remained were spent in the New Japan
his grand-aunt, and he was plunged at once
which had for him no illusions.
into the direst poverty. How he lived and how The super-sensitiveness of the artistic tem-
he met this experience is told in a letter to one perament is a heavy handicap in coping with the
of his Japanese pupils.
world. That temperament Hearn possessed in
“When I was a boy of sixteen, although my blood marked degree. From visible beauty he was shut
relations were
some of them very rich, no one out by his extreme near-sightedness, and so he
would pay anything to help me finish my education. I
turned to the beauties of the intellect. He be-
had to become what you never had to become
vant. I partly lost my sight. I had two years of
came a thinker and dreamer. His aim was the
sickness in bed. I had no one to help me. And I had writing of poetic prose. The creative impulse of
to educate myself in spite of all difficulties."
the artist compelled him to work and gave him a
Somehow he made his way to New York, keen sense of the value of time. Work forced by
where he managed to exist for two years, “griev- necessity he hated ; yet it was in work that he
ously tormented by grim realities” which he found his chief pleasure. And his work was good.
did not know how to surmount.
From the nature of their subjects, his books have
I tried to forget them as much as possible, and had a narrower circle of readers than they de-
romantic dreams daily nourished at a public serve; but it requires no prophetic eye to per-
library helped me to forget.” Although his ceive that as the years go on the permanence of
outward circumstances were gradually bettered their place in literature will come to be recog-
as the years went on, he never ceased to live nized, and more and more they will be valued
this dual life. To the end, the visions in which for the aptness and beauty of their phraseology,
he revelled were verities scarcely less tangible the singular felicity with which words were found
than the facts of daily experience. It was in to convey the most delicate shades of meaning.
one of his later years that he wrote:
It would be impossible to give in a few words
“Always having lived in hopes and imaginations, the any adequate impression of the rare quality of
smallest practical matters that everybody should know, I the letters that make up the larger part of this
don't know anything about. Nothing, for example, about book. The range of subjects upon which they
a boat, a horse, a farm, an orchard, a watch, a garden.
Nothing about what a man ought to do under any possible
touch is as wide as life itself. They reflect the
circumstances. I know nothing but sensation and books." varying moods of the writer's ever alert and
Another of the early reminiscences tells of
well stored mind; they tell of his hopes and
the journey to Cincinnati, where he began his fears, of his aspirations, his sensations and ideas,
literary career as a newspaper reporter.
In
his views about men and books. They are philo-
New Orleans, whither he drifted a little later, sophical and even humorous by turns. Not one
he found a congenial atmosphere, and oppor-
among them is dull. But this is not the secret
tunity for the incursions into strange lore of all
of their power. It is impossible to read them
kinds that had ever a potent fascination for
and not feel acquainted with the writer — with
him. To his friend H. E. Krehbiel he wrote:
the real man behind the mask. He is no longer
“ This is a land where one can really enjoy the Inner
a vague somebody known only by name and
Life. Every one has an inner life of his own which reputation, but one with whom we have been in
no other life can see, and the great secrets of which are
close personal contact through the magic of his
never revealed, although occasionally when we create
something beautiful we betray a faint glimpse of it.”
FREDERICK W. GOOKIN.
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they are practically confined to the earlier por-
OLD EVELYN IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE.*
tion of the first volume. But Forster's text has
John Evelyn died, a very old man, in 1706, long enjoyed a deserved reputation ; it was de-
leaving behind him in the library at Wotton, clared by the • Quarterly Review,' as late as
among other manuscripts, an ordered series of 1896, to · leave little to be desired '; and being
memoirs. In 1814 the mistress of Wotton, demonstrably the fullest, it has been adopted in
widow of Evelyn's great-great-grandson, showed the present case.” Mr. Dobson retains, and
this manuscript, which she regarded as a mildly somewhat extends, the modernized spelling of
interesting relic, to a librarian named Upcott, the Upcott-Forster text, a blessing for all
who had been commissioned to catalogue the concerned, since Evelyn's spelling is mainly a
Wotton books. He secured permission to pub- matter of chance.
matter of chance. In facsimile taken from
lish the manuscript, turned it over to William manuscript, such aberrations are of whimsical
Bray, an antiquarian of standing, and in 1818 interest; but for the general reader they are a
the first edition was published. The first edi- nuisance. The original misspellings are retained
tion of Pepys did not appear until 1825. Bray's in the W]
in the Wheatley edition.
final edition appeared in 1827; and this version But what gives Mr. Dobson's edition its
has been frequently reprinted. In 1879 Mr. importance is less its text than its "editorial
Henry B. Wheatley attempted to get access to equipment.” Mr. Wheatley contributes a re-
the original manuscript, still at Wotton; but spectable life of Evelyn, but is otherwise content
the incumbent Evelyn refused permission, re to reprint Bray, notes and all. Mr. Dobson
marking that “ Colburn's third edition the writes a much better life, or Introduction, as he
1827 edition] of the diary was very correctly calls it ; and most of the notes, which are char-
printed from the MS., and may be relied on as acteristic and illuminating, are his own. These
giving an accurate text.” The Colburn edition are modestly imprisoned in brackets, while the
was consequently reprinted, with a Life and a notes of Bray and Forster, however modified,
Bibliography by Mr. Wheatley. This version, go free. The numerous appendixes are as truly
“ in order to commemorate the two hundredth illustrative as the pictures, which are admirable
anniversary of Evelyn's death,” is now reprinted both in kind and in reproduction. It is to be
with new illustrations. Mr. Wheatley deplores, said that the illustrations in Mr. Wheatley's
in his Preface, the impossibility of getting a
edition are very nearly as good, though not so
complete edition of the Diary. He plainly im numerous. One does not quite understand why,
plies that his own version is as nearly complete with no appreciable difference in thickness of
as can be had under present conditions. paper, size of type, or number of pages, Mr.
Mr. Dobson's edition makes it clear that this Wheatley should need four volumes octavo while
implication, however ingenuous, is misleading.
Mr. Dobson needs but three. Both sets are at-
Upcott, the original discoverer of the Diary, tractive in typography and general appearance;
retained his interest in it all his life. He actu Mr. Dobson's being nearly identical with his
ally compared the 1827 edition with the original recent edition of Fanny Burney.
manuscript, " by which many material omissions It has been my business to speak here of these
in the earlier quartos were supplied, and other two editions of Evelyn rather than of Evelyn
not unimportant corrections made." These la himself. But in looking them over I have found
bors were made use of by Forster (the biographer an old impression of him somewhat deepened.
of Landor) in an edition published in 1850. For I have kept stumbling upon passages of such
This became the Bohn text, and is the text boyish enthusiasm, such childlike curiosity, such
upon which Mr. Dobson builds his new edition. (if it must be said) womanish excitement over
“ It would be going too far,” says Mr. Dob- trifles, as to transport me incontinent into the
son, with his usual caution, “ to claim the addi- | heaven of trivialities and quiddities where dwells
tions of Upcott as of any signal importance, - that cheerful contemporary and sometime gossip
many of them, indeed, by Forster's own admis of Evelyn's, Samuel Pepys. One is sorry that
sion, consist of trifling personal details,' and Evelyn did not find place in his memoirs (as
Mr. Dobson rightly calls them) for so much as
* THE DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN. Edited, with Introduction and
Notes, by Austin Dobson. In three volumes. Illustrated. New a mention of the bustling friend who paid him
York: The Macmillan Co.
such ungrudged tribute. It is common to
THE DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN. Edited, from the Original
Manuscript, by William Bray, F.S.A.
contrast them as the reverend signor and the
volumes, with a Life of the Author and a new Preface by Henry
garrulous chronicler of small beer. Evelyn, the
B. Wheatley, F.S.A. Illustrated. In four volumes. New York:
Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons.
country gentleman, putting himself in conscious
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queen! Too
black and white, is a more formal, possibly a Waller tells her story of a winter spent at The
more dignified, person than our busy Pepys, Hague, with excursions to the usual points of
babbling to himself under his breath of the interest, all set off with illustrations from paint-
infinitesimal things which take up the lives of ings and drawings, and printed and bound in
most men, but which most men are too sheepish handsome form. A prominent part throughout
to mention even to themselves. But there are is played by " James " - James Moulton, archi-
seasons when Evelyn also babbles delectably; he tect, supposed to be the writer's husband and
has the true Pepysian delight in novelties and to be competing for the new Peace Palace de-
gimcracks, trick fountains, grottos, fire-eaters, signs. He helps to make conversation and to
6 arithmetical wheels, quench-fires, and new break
up the page
into invitingly short para-
harps.” In describing such portents as the great graphs with an attractive sprinkling of quotation
fire and the greater plague, to be sure, he attains marks. Inevitably there is considerable de-
a note beyond Pepys; but the likenesses between scription of Dutch scenery, urban, rural, and
them are as striking as the differences. With aquatic. If such things must be undertaken
such fresh heart, alert step, and inquiring eye, with pen instead of brush, the author is fai
men made their way through the fog and the mire successful. Of the young Queen she gives this
of that much-despised day. Alas, not even our picture:
great-great-great-grandfathers can now teach us “I sat nearly opposite to her [at the opera] for three
the secret of that youth.
H. W. BOYNTON.
hours, and I had time to study the face of this young
royal ruler. . . At eighteen she was a beauty. At
twenty-six she had aged nearly twenty years from that
youth. It is sad, pathetic almost, to see such a change;
for to the young, life's cup should be brimmed to over-
IIOLIDAY BOOKS OF TRAVEL AND flowing. This is the divine right' of youth. Poor little
DESCRIPTION.*
young to bear the burdens of a royal name
and what it entails !”
With an abundance of profusely illustrated
books of travel pouring from the press, why un- Something of the unfading charm of Italy is
dergo the fatigue of an actual journey ? Travel, caught in the pages of Miss Wharton's “ Italian
outside the covers of a book, often dispels some Days and Ways.” Her readers do not need to
very pretty illusions. The following works - be told that (to quote from her opening chapter)
a few out of many of like nature - are necessa-
“it is inspiring to travel with a woman, no
rily treated with brevity, almost with uncere longer young, to whom the world and its inhab-
monious curtness; but if their excellences receive itants still wear the glory and the dream.
scant recognition, their defects too are charitably This, of course, she writes in reference not to
dismissed with few words.
herself, but to the elder of her two companions,
In a pleasant, chatty style, Mrs. Mary E. to the younger of whom she later acknowledges
herself to stand in the relation of “chaperon
* THROUGH THE GATES OF THE NETHERLANDS. By Mary E.
Waller. With illustrations, after Lalanne and others, by A. and temporary guardian.” These sketches, of
Montferrand. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
scenes and adventures in Rome, Naples, Flor-
ITALIAN DAYS AND WAYS. By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton.
Illustrated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
ence, Genoa, Venice, and elsewhere in Italy,
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
Written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson. New York: The
are clothed in epistolary dress of an informal
Macmillan Co.
but always gracefully fitting pattern. The pic-
LITTLE PILGRIMAGES AMONG BAVARIAN INNs. By Frank Roy
Fraprie. Illustrated. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
torial accompaniment is from photographs, and
IN LONDON Town. By F. Berkeley Smith. Illustrated by the
is not confined to the famous and familiar. Of
author and other artists. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co.
Michael Angelo's “ Twilight” and “ Dawn,"
A CRUISE ACROSS EUROPE. Notes of a Freshwater Voyage
from Holland to the Black Sea. By Donald Maxwell. With one the remark is made that “ they seem to be slip-
hundred illustrations by the author and Cottington Taylor.
New York: John Lane Co.
ping off the pitiable pedestals which support
THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT. From Pike's Peak to the them "; and Ruskin is quoted, to whom these
Pacific. By Lilian Whiting. With illustrations from photo-
figures spoke “not of morning nor evening, but
graphs. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
THE WONDERS OF THE COLORADO DESERT (Southern Cali of the departure and the resurrection, the twi-
fornia). By George Wharton James. Illustrated by Carl Eytel
and from photographs. In two volumes. Boston: Little, Brown
light and the dawn of the souls of men.”
& Co.
The latest addition to Mr. Clifton Johnson's
THE PHILIPPINES under Spanish and American Rules.
C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. Illustrated. Philadelphia: The John C. "Highways and Byways " series takes the reader
Winston Co.
to the Mississippi Valley. The greater part of the
In Constable's COUNTRY. With many reproductions from
his paintings. By Herbert W. Tompkins, New York: E. P. book, as some will recall and as a note explains,
Dutton & Co.
has already seen the light in “ Outing "and other
THE HEART OF ENGLAND. By Edward Thomas. Illustrated
by H. L. Richardson. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. periodicals. The author moves northward from
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The very
the river's mouth to its head-waters, pressing the Park and the busy scenes of the Strand. A
bulb of his camera at short intervals, until he brief breathing spell at a near-by country house,
has produced sixty-three excellent photographs of and a mouthful of sea-air at Brighton, are wel-
animate and inanimate nature. From the chap come; and then we hasten back to our beloved
ter entitled “ Mark Twain's Country” (Hannibal, boulevards, with a nightmare remembrance of
Missouri) the following will interest all readers : the London Sunday and less gloomy impressions
“ The house the humorist lived in still stands (a pic of other things — all of which it is well to have
ture is given) and is much the same as it always was seen through the eyes of our observant artist-
a stumpy, two-story, clapboarded dwelling close to the
author.
sidewalk. . . . The senior Clemens had a printing shop
upstairs in the L of the house, and as there were several
title of Mr. Donald Maxwell's book,
children the living rooms must have been pretty well “ A Cruise across Europe," excites curiosity.
crowded. All the family was the nicest people you ever There have been many a tour and run and scam-
saw,' I was told;. but they were very poor and the father
died bankrupt when Mark was twelve years old. On
per across the much be-travelled continent, but
the next street lived · Huckleberry Finn,' whose real surely never before a fresh-water voyage from
name was Tom Blankenshipp. . . . In actual life he and Holland to the Black Sea. The preface declares
all his relatives were a very rough lot, and when he left that “ of all the navigable throughfares of Europe
town it was to go to the penitentiary.”
there is none so little known or so seldom used
The Huckleberry Finn house, too, is still stand-
as the Ludwig's Canal, which lies in Bavaria
ing. Supplementary notes for the guidance of
between Bamburg and Kelheim.” By this canal,
travellers increase the book's usefulness. Its
which, we are told, was begun by Charlemagne
double wrappers, paper and linen, are artistic,
and is a hundred miles long, small craft may
and the linen one is durable.
climb fifteen hundred feet above sea-level and
Another illustrated travel series receives an cross the mountain-range separating the Rhine
attractive addition in Mr. Frank Roy Fraprie's from the Danube. The passage through this
“ Little Pilgrimages among Bavarian Inns.” waterway is described in a chapter fitly entitled
The author is said to have taken a course of art “ nautical mountaineering.” The entire voyage,
study at Munich in preparation for some such one of incident and adventure, including encoun-
tour with his camera as that which has resulted
ters with the police, is well narrated, and still
in the present volume. His connection, too, with better illustrated by the author himself and an-
the “ American Amateur Photographer” would other artist. One hundred pictures, large and
lead one to expect good pictures from him ; nor small, and four maps, make a generous allowance.
is the expectation disappointed. The point of The heavy glazed paper renders the volume more
view appears always to be well chosen, the defi- inviting as a picture-book than as a book to read.
nition is of the clearest, and the slightly brown Good literature and dazzlingly brilliant paper go
ish tone of the prints gives them somewhat the not well together.
effect of etchings. The descriptive and historical
The nouns and verbs in Miss Whiting's book
matter will interest both past and prospective of far-western travel, “ The Land of Enchant-
travellers in a region where, to quote the author, ment,” have an easy time, so much of the bur-
are to be found “scenery as beautiful as any in den is shouldered by the adjectives and adverbs,
the Swiss Alps, a country where extortion from
in various degrees of comparison. But our
travellers is almost unknown, and a hospitable and truly gigantic mountain scenery may well strain
kindly peasantry, who still retain in large meas-
the
expression. 6. The record of the
ure the simplicity of life of their forefathers.”
ages," we read in a characteristic passage de-
Just as breathless, sparkling, superficial, and scriptive of Pike's Peak, “ is written on parch-
amusing as his Parisian sketches is Mr. F. Berke ment that will never crumble. The mysteries
ley Smith's snap-shot picture of London, entitled of the very creation itself,
of the very creation itself, - of all this vast
“ In London Town." Very taking illustrations and marvellous West, -of infinite expanse of
by the author himself, by Mr. Phil May, Mr. sea and of volcanic fires that swallowed up the
Frank Reynolds, and others, are provided in waters and crystallized them into granite and
abundance; and with their help, and that of the porphyry, — this very record of Titanic pro-
brisk and snappy narrative and descriptive mat cesses is written, in mystic characters, in that
ter, one is transported to “ the Devil's Highway" far upper air where the lofty Peak reigns in
(Piccadilly), to that gilded palace of frivolity, the unapproachable majesty.” More than half the
Gaiety Theatre, to the Empire and the Alham- book is devoted to Colorado; New Mexico, Ari-
bra music halls, to the passing show at Hyde | zona, and Southern California claim the remain-
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der. Apart from the enthusiasm (the Schwär- Philippines under Spanish and American Rules,"
merei, as the Germans would say) that ani- is based on personal observation and on study
mates the narrative, and the wealth of imagery of Philippine problems in the islands themselves.
that adorns it, nothing new could be expected | Its character and tone may be gathered from
from this Pullman-car explorer ; but she has the preface, in which the author says:
brought back some excellent photographs, and “For my statements regarding industries, resources,
thirty-five are given in clean-cut plates. It is
etc., I have depended, in the main, upon ample sources
almost needless to add that quotations from the
of information afforded by the U. S. War Department,
having been taught by experience to regard them as
poets abound.
the most reliable. I have avoided polemic discussion,
Twenty-five years of observation and experi- because there are others much better qualified than
ence in the desert have resulted in a remarkable myself to pass opinion on the controversial questions
and valuable work from the pen of Mr. George
connected with the Philippines; but that the reader ...
may be satisfied, I have fully remedied the deficiency
Wharton James, entitled “The Wonders of the
on my part by inserting a chapter of extracts from pub-
Colorado Desert." This vast territory of moun lic addresses delivered by the Honorable William H.
tain and plain, thinly settled and showing but Taft," etc.
few signs of vegetable or animal life, is not in Twenty-six photogravure illustrations from
Colorado, as most readers would assume at the photographs are given, one of them being en-
outset, but in Southern California, and it may titled, with an attempt at grammatical harmony,
truly be regarded as a part of Miss Whiting's - Filipina Women." The book is dedicated, by
“ Land of Enchantment.” Besides the very full permission, to Mr. Taft, and his portrait faces
and painstaking descriptive and historical matter the dedication.
of these volumes, there are given more than Mr. Herbert W. Tompkins explains at the
three hundred admirable drawings from nature, outset that his book, " In Constable's Country,"
including a delicately beautiful colored frontis-
" is not an essay on Constable and his art. It
piece, by Mr. Carl Eytel, and numerous full is a transcript of impressions, penned, in the
page photographic prints. A chapter, too, on first instance, by the wayside." Nevertheless
Mr. Eytel himself is one of the best in the book. he gives occasional expression to his art theo-
Some portion of the writer's enthusiasm for this ries, as when, in discussing the painting, “ Flat-
vast expanse of aridity and heat and barren rocks ford Mill,” he is inclined to think that “ land-
and sands might perhaps be accounted for by his scape may be truly ideal, apart from any inven-
having studied it, in part, from a safe and fairly tion by the artist”; and also when he says
of
comfortable post of observation on the outskirts, Constable : “ That he was a realist will hardly
" within five and a half hours' ride from my be disputed; but how ideal the real may appear
Pasadena home, where library and pictures and we perceive, clearly enough, as we turn the
piano and flowers and birds and congenial society pages of Constable’s Sketches.' The region
all conspire to keep me,'' and whither, doubtless, described is, in general, Suffolkshire. Literary
they do occasionally call him. Between this and and historical references enrich Mr. Tomp-
being athirst in the desert there must be a con kins's pages and help to relieve the inevitable
siderable difference. Yet Mr. James evidently tedium of verbal scene-painting. The fifteen
knows what it is to rough it, and he has written reproductions of Constable’s landscapes are in
most instructively and entertainingly of his rov color, and, so far as a colored print can suggest
ing experiences. The agricultural possibilities the original, are not bad. The frontispiece is
of this district, under artificial irrigation, are a portrait of the artist himself, from a tinted
enlarged upon, and they are indeed marvellous. pencil-drawing by his own hand.
May they some day be realized, as indeed they A book luxuriously made for the holiday
have already begun to be. The dedication of the
trade is Mr. Edward Thomas's “ The Heart of
book “ to the SOURCE, the Maker of Deserts, England,” with its forty-eight colored pictures
is a little startling, but becomes less so as one by Mr. H. L. Richardson. The ample page
turns the pages descriptive of this land of (ten by eight), the heavy paper, clear type,
wonders.
broad margins, ornamental binding, and, above
The Philippine Islands are treated, descrip- all, the many bright illustrations, form a strik-
tively, historically, industrially, commercially, ing if somewhat gaudy combination. Rambling
and politically, by Mr. Charles Harcourt Forbes- descriptive matter, with a sprinkling of poetry
Lindsay, at present a Philadelphia business man and philosophy, and an occasional backward
and writer, formerly of the English army. It glance at the “ old-fashioned times,” serve to
does not appear that his book, entitled “ The string the pictures together.
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Of the new edition of Cellini's Autobiography
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS. produced by Mr. D. B. Updike at the Merrymount
Press, it may be said at once that no more distin-
All collectors of china will gloat over Mr. W. guished piece of book-making has come from an
Moore Binns's “The First Century of English Por American press for a long while past. It occupies
celain,” and the person who spends much time over two octavo volumes, printed on soft toned paper
the book and escapes without a bad case of the craze from a large size of the type-face that Mr. Updike
for “pots ” must indeed have been born without uses so freely – a graceful combination of “old-
the instinct of a collector. Mr. Binns was for years style” and “ modern ”fonts. The typography, while
the art director of the Worcester Royal Porcelain usually excellent, is not impeccable. We notice, for
Works, and is at present managing director of sev instance, a case in which the last line of a paragraph
eral famous potteries. He explains that he is “a is made to begin a page (p. XV.), where a slight
practical potter with artistic inclinations, who has change of wording would have made this impropri-
had neither the leisure nor the means to enable him
ety unnecessary. The press-work is beautifully clear
to aspire to the rank of a collector.”. In the prac and en throughout. A few decorative initials in
tical and technical side of his subject, which most red add a charming minor note, and there is an
amateur collectors find very baffling, he is therefore ornate title-page to each volume designed by Mr.
thoroughly at home, and his exact and careful distinc- Thomas Maitland Cleland. Especial praise must be
tions will prove extremely useful to readers who aspire accorded the forty or more photogravure plates
to be thorough students of the keramic art.
If not scattered through the volumes; these reproduce
a collector himself, Mr. Binns is a friend of many examples of Cellini's handiwork, as well as old por-
collectors, who have put at his disposal unrivalled traits of himself and his contemporaries. The
specimens of china to examine and illustrate. The
beautiful gold stamping on the covers is an adapta-
British and South Kensington Museums, the Welsh tion from one of Mr. Laurence Housman's designs.
Museum at Cardiff, and the Worcester Royal Com As for the text, not much needs be said, except that
pany have also extended special courtesies to Mr. the translation given is that of John Addington
Binns, so that his study of late eighteenth and early Symonds, – than which there is not now, nor is
nineteenth century English porcelain is likely to there likely to be, a better. Symonds's extended
remain the authoritative work for the period. Mr. introduction is reprinted in full ; and an introduction
Binns has command of a compact, nervous, and on Cellini as artist and writer is contributed espe-
well-ordered style. He is technical without being cially for this edition by Mr. Royal Cortissoz. This
involved or obscure, and his historical facts are pice latter is an essay of fine critical quality and dis-
turesque in spite of full and accurate detail. In short, crimination. It dwells particularly on Cellini as an
Mr. Binns is a thorough connoisseur with a gift for artist, and accounts convincingly for the paradox
imparting his enthusiasms a combination as rare presented by the fact of an artist's fame resting
as it is delightful. An introductory chapter equips upon a work of literature rather than upon a work
the reader with some fundamental facts regarding of art. Braggart and rascal though Cellini was, his
pastes, glazes, and colors, and helps him to estimate unique memoirs will never lose their charm. It is
correctly the value and significance of trade and a rare pleasure to read them anew in the beautiful
workmen's marks. Eighteen varieties of porcelain setting provided by Mr. Updike, and with the fresh
are then discussed in as many chapters, the longest illumination of Mr. Cortissoz’ introduction. Bren-
naturally being devoted to the Bow, Chelsea, Wor tano's publish this noteworthy edition.
cester, and Derby wares. A chronological table of As a result of last spring's disaster in San Fran-
the progress of English keramics follows, giving cisco, the enterprising publishing house of Paul Elder
significant events and their dates between 1744 and & Co. found it necessary to migrate to the more con-
1848. Three brief appendixes and a copious index venient, if less distinctive, precincts of New York City,
of subjects complete the bulky folio, which is bound and it is from thence that this firm's publications for
in cloth with a cover design suggesting the decora the present season issue. The “Elder books ” have
tions on Dresden china. One feature remains to be come to occupy so distinct a place in the minds of
spoken of — the exquisite full-page illustrations, holiday book-buyers, that no apology need be offered
seventy-seven in number, many of them printed in for considering them briefly in a paragraph by them-
colors, and altogether furnishing the best possible selves. Of the “ Entirely New Cynic's Calendar for
substitute for a visit to the collections from which 1907" we had something to say in our last issue. Of
the pictured specimens were taken. Indeed, color the other volumes to be considered, first mention must
and form and pattern are so faithfully and artisti be given to "Ye Gardeyne Boke," a collection of
cally reproduced that one feels almost as if he were quotations about gardens and gardening gathered by
handling cups and plates instead of turning pages, Jennie Day Haines from the literature of all ages.
and the book will be prized as a real art-treasure by The volume is a large-sized octavo, bound in green
its fortunate possessors, quite as much as for its store cloth, with decorative end-leaves in green
and page
of information. The work is imported by the J. B. borders by Mr. Spencer Wright. Garden-lovers need
Lippincott Company, to whom American collectors look no further for an appropriate gift. — Similar in
certainly owe a debt of gratitude.
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isms from Robert Ingersoll, presented in an attrac simile reproduction on the two covers of the volume,
tively-made volume entitled "The Philosophy of the design being deeply embossed in leather and
Ingersoll.” The pungent quotations are arranged inlaid in the board covers, – the obverse side in
under various headings, so that it is possible in a few front, the reverse in back. A brief introduction re-
moments to get the gist of Ingersoll's views on any counts the romantic story of the discovery and pur-
main subject of human interest. In a volume which chase of the original MS. of the autobiography by
in paper, binding, and illustrations follows a unique the Hon. John Bigelow in 1867, part of this account
color-scheme of tropical brown, Mrs. Frank R. Day being told in the sprightly correspondence of
presents nine tales from the folk-lore of old Hawaii, William H. Huntington, who acted as Mr. Bigelow's
the volume taking its title from the first story, “The agent in acquiring the MS. The text follows Mr.
Princess of Manoa." Ten illustrations, printed in Bigelow's fifth edition, and is therefore an exact
sepia and mounted on blank pages throughout the reproduction of the original, even to a few mis-
book, are contributed by Mr. D. Howard Hitchcock. • spellings.
- The five “ Mosaic Essays " hitherto published by A unique two-volume edition of "Romola,” issued
Messrs. Elder in separate booklets have now been by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co., is described on its
brought together in a collected edition. The contents title-page as “historically illustrated,” — which means
consist of brief quotations about love, friendship, hap that a hundred and sixty engravings of scenes and
piness, nature, and success, chosen from
many
authors characters have been chosen by the editor, Dr. Guido
and woven together in appropriate sequence. Decor Biagi, librarian of the Laurentian Library at Florence.
ative end-leaves and frontispiece, as well as tasteful To reproduce the setting of the story and suggest the
typography and binding, give the volume an unusual extent and character of the material from which
charm. The religious flavor is predominant in both George Eliot constructed her wonderful romance, Dr.
“ Sunday Symphonies,” compiled by Jennie Day Biagi furnishes an occasional note, and also a twenty-
Haines, and “Fear Not,” arranged by “D. J. D. five page introduction, explaining his project and
and E. W.” The first of these is a collection of tracing, by means of the author's diaries and his own
quotations, harmonious and helpful, for every Sunday investigations in the archives of the Magliabecchian
of the year.” The second consists of “quotations of Library, the stages of her research through the streets
courage from the Holy Bible, followed by inspiring of the city and the records of its past. Without this
thoughts from later sources.” Both booklets are no introduction, many of the illustrations would seem
less unique than attractive in mechanical make-up. superfluous; but after reading it, each one takes its
-If Macbeth had been provided with the booklet en place as a contribution, more or less important, to
titled “Spots, or Two Hundred and Two Cleansers, the complex fabric of history and tradition with which
there would have been no occasion for the profanity the author's two trips to Florence, in 1860 and 1861,
contained in his famous exclamation. Here are re equipped her. Dr. Biagi considers this work, in spite
cipes before which the most obdurate spot must evap of its imperfections, "the most classical romance of
orate, and the form of the booklet is dainty enough to modern English literature.” The illustrations, nearly
grace any table. - For younger readers are “ The all of which are from photographs specially taken
Twins and the Whys," a "fairy tale worth while, for this edition, show panoramas and plans of the old
by Susan F. Thompson; and two more of “Johnny city, engravings of its ancient buildings, some of which
Jones's ” inimitable copy-books with “ spelling by his are now demolished, photographs of its art treasures,
mother, the “Book of Nature" and “ Wonders contemporary portraits of Savonarola and the great
of the Deep."
men of his time, and facsimiles of the author's orig.
A stately edition of Franklin's Autobiography, inal manuscript. Sir Frederick Burton's portrait of
produced with all the skill and resources of the George Eliot forms the frontispiece for this hand-
Riverside Press, commemorates most fittingly this some edition of what is her most monumental, though
year of the two hundredth anniversary of Franklin's perhaps not her greatest, work.
birth. The volume is a quarto in size, uniform in Discriminating book-lovers have learned to look
general appearance with the “Life and Death of forward each year to the new volumes in the Dent-
Cardinal Wolsey,” issued by the Riverside Press Dutton series of " English Idylls," which combine
last year. There is no pretension of undue elegance dainty decoration and appropriate and delightful
about the book, yet in every detail its appearance
illustration with a fine taste in the choice of material
satisfies the most critical eye. A baker's dozen of for reprinting. The new titles this winter are “The
portraits in photogravure, and several half-tone Household of Sir Thomas More,” perhaps the favor-
facsimiles of old pamphlets and documents, make ite among Miss Anne Manning's delightful novels,
up the illustrative features. Of very unusual interest and “Christmas at Bracebridge Hall," reprinted
is the frontispiece, a fine photogravure reproduction from “The Sketch Book” and “ Bracebridge Hall.”
of the contemporary portrait of Franklin recently Both books are illustrated in color by Mr. C. E.
presented by Earl Grey to the United States, and Brock. Washington Irving's sketches of an old-
now hanging upon the White House walls. This time English Christmas have been reprinted a count-
portrait has not before been reproduced in any book. less number of times before and often illustrated;
The St. Gaudens medal, struck off in commemora but Mr. Brock's work is so sympathetic and indi-
tion of the Franklin bi-centennial, is given in fac vidual as to lend distinction to this new edition. His


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English servants, villages, and children, and the which make it evident that the Caradoc Press must
Christmas party at the hall, become even more real be reckoned with in any account of present-day
and charming than they were before. The intro- English printing. These volumes, presenting in the
duction to this volume presents a brief biographical way of text “The Compleat Angler” and “The
sketch of Irving, and a graceful tribute to his sym Vicar of Wakefield,” are similar in size and general
pathetic observation of rural England. The editor appearance. Both are set in the same face of type,
of Miss Manning's novel has devoted his introduc a modification of the Jenson cut so much in vogue
tion to showing how skilfully she has “transmuted with amateur printers. The paper is hand-made, a
and heartened” the history which she found in trifle stiff for a small octavo volume, but otherwise
Roper's “Life of Sir Thomas More” and elsewhere, of excellent quality. No fault may be found with
preserving the maximum of historical fidelity, and the press-work; and the brown leather binding,
yet mingling enough fancy and imagination to vivify bearing almost no decoration, is unique and tasteful.
the facts and make the people of the history books Etched frontispiece portraits, and several small etch-
real and living. Mr. Brock's pictures for this volume ings in the text of "The Compleat Angler,” form a
also are singularly successful. King Henry and distinctive and artistic feature of the books. These
Queen Anne, Sir Thomas, Hans Holbein, and Eras- etchings, together with the decorative borders and
mus, appearing in company with the dainty Marga- initials, are the work of Mr. H. George Webb, who
ret Roper and her little sisters, lose their formal seems to be the chief personality behind the Press.
historic aspect and take a more distinct place among It should be said that both of these reprints follow
the dear and delightful people of fiction. Many the variable orthography and punctuation of the
readers will like to make or renew acquaintance originals, and that they contain no editorial matter
with Miss Manning's work through the medium of of any sort. Each edition is limited to 350 copies.
this alluring reprint.
It would seem that the success of Mr. E. V.
“Dem Good Ole Times,” by Mrs. James H. Lucas's “The Open Road,” published some three
Dooley, is a gaily bound royal octavo, full of tales or four years ago, has served to set a new fashion
in negro dialect of the glorious days befo' de war,” in anthologies. Within a fortnight we have re-
issued by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. Daddy ceived no less than four compilations all modelled
Ben, the supposed raconteur, is a sort of second upon the same pattern ; that is to say, each is a col-
Uncle Remus, only that his listener is his little lection of good verse and prose of all sorts, intended
black grandchild, and instead of the adventures of as a little pocket companion to sustain and pleasure
Brer Rabbit and his friends Daddy Ben tells stories those who go on pilgrimage or, as in one of the
of life in the big house of his master's bravery and present cases, those who stay at home in the city.
his mistress's goodness and beauty, of the children's One of these books is a new compilation from Mr.
pranks and the young people's dancing and riding Lucas's own hand; one is in many ways a better
and courting, or of the merry-making in the cabins, book than “ The Open Road”; while the other two
where “dar was always some kind er frolic on han’. are good collections of their kind, but too obviously
Ef tworn't a funeral, twuz a possum-hunt, less'n imitations to be taken very seriously. Of Mr. Lucas's
twuz a prar-meetin', or a dance, - sho' to be one or new volume, "The Friendly Town" (Holt), nothing
tuther.” Accordingly, one of the stories is a “pos but good may be said, although as is inevitable
sum tale”; another is about a certain famous “sweet with any anthology
the reader will wish that some
tales times,” and still others cluster about the “ ole things had been included in place of some that are
time Crismus,” and the Sunday-school “ befo' de given. The selections cover a wide
range,
and
many
war” whose battles came very near to the big of them have but a remote relation to the urban
house and add a touch of adventure to several chap- spirit in literature; but they all serve Mr. Lucas's
ters. All the stories are full of the genuine negro purpose, and go to make up a volume that should
humor that sometimes comes so close to pathos. find a place under every reading-lamp. The decora-
Daddy Ben has a fine contempt for “free niggers,” tive cover and end-leaves are unusually attractive.
and a polite scorn for the mistaken notions enter While similar in appearance and general arrange-
tained by “Mr. Roosumfeltum un dem folks in ment to “ The Open Road,” Mr. Quiller-Couch's
Washington," which he takes every opportunity to " The Pilgrim's Way” is compiled upon a somewhat
vent. Each of the eleven chapters is accompanied different plan, its purpose being to provide the way-
by a dainty full-page picture in colors, the work of farer with good counsel rather than pleasant read-
Miss Suzanne Gutherz; and each is introduced by ing
ing – though both ends are attained. Unerring
a decorated title-page and an appropriate heading good taste is evident throughout the collection, as
in black-and-white by Miss Cora Parker.
might have been expected from so skilful a hand as
Whatever previous knowledge we have had of the that which formed “The Oxford Book of English
Caradoc Press, situate in Chiswick, London, has been Poetry.” Not the least of the volume's charms is
based upon “ The Acorn,” a quarterly miscellany of the compiler's fine little prefatory essay; while the
art and literature patterned somewhat upon details of typography and paper could not well be
Yellow Book,” though quite without the decadent bettered. – The idea of both Mr. W. G. Waters's
tendencies of that much-discussed publication. Now, “ Traveller's Joy” (Dutton) and Mr. Alfred H.
however, we have two volumes bearing this imprint Hyatt's “ The Footpath Way” (Jacobs) is obviously
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based
upon “ The Open Road"; and the first-named World's Christmas Tree,” by the Rev. Charles E.
book goes so far as exactly to copy the mechanical Jefferson; “ American Character,” by Professor
form of Mr. Lucas's volume in practically every Brander Matthews; “The Happy Family," by Dr.
detail. This is unfortunate, since it will prejudice George Hodges ; “Putting the Most into Life,” by
some readers against what are in themselves most Mr. Booker T. Washington ; “Great Riches," by
agreeable little compilations. It is to be noted that President Eliot of Harvard ; Thoreau's Essay on
Mr. Waters has made his selections in large part | Friendship; “The Beauty of Kindness,” by Rev.
from early and less well-known writers who seldom J. R. Miller; Dr. Hale's “ The Man without a
find place in collections of this sort.
Country”; “Saint Francis of Assisi,” by Mr. Oscar
Among a little group of holiday booklets to which, Kuhns; and “Germelshausen," translated from
as one of them puts it, there is “no admittance the German of Friedrich Gerstäcker by Clara M.
except on pleasure,” first place belongs to “Mis- Lathrop. All of these volumes are choicely printed
representative Women" (Duffield), in which Mr. in red and black, and several contain photogravure
Harry Graham has dared to do for the fair sex frontispieces. Of equal attractiveness with these are
what he has already done for " Mere Men," namely, two volumes from the American Unitarian Associa-
describe a few famous characters in humorous verse. tion, “Life's Enthusiasms” by President David
As Dame Rumor, Mrs. Christopher Columbus, and Starr Jordan, and “The Shepherd's Question " by
Mrs. Grundy are among the subjects to whom his Mr. Burt Estes Howard ; the binding of each of
sprightly muse does honor, the reader need fear no these is particularly artistic and pleasing. From
lack of variety. A few clever illustrations add a Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. we have Dr. George
festive touch to the book. 6. The Foolish Almanac, Hodge's "The Pursuit of Happiness," and Frank
2nd” (Luce) shows no falling off from the excellent Norris's “ The Joyous Miracle.” Messrs. McClurg
standard of foolishness set by its predecessor of & Co. send us Mrs. Sara A. Hubbard's “ The Re-
last year. There is enough genuine fun between its ligion of Cheerfulness," and from the Messrs. Harper
gay covers to provide a good laugh for every day in we have Dr. Henry van Dyke's "The Americanism
the year, and the pictures by Mr. Wallace Gold of Washington.” Inexpensive as are all the volumes
smith are no less clever than the text. “Over the mentioned in this paragraph, they combine attractive-
Walnuts and Wine” (Caldwell), by Mr. James ness of make-up with high quality of text in such
Clarence Harvey, is shaped to represent a cham measure as to render them ideal gift-books of an
pagne bottle reposing in its appropriate bucket of ice. unassuming sort.
While Mr. Harvey's verses and epigrams are a bit Calendars and year-books are perennial accom-
uneven, they have not a little of the sparkle and paniments of the holiday season. Among this
zest that we naturally look for in such a setting. A autumn's varied selections one of the prettiest and
decorative border in tint surrounds each page, and most unique is “ All the Year in a Garden," a cal-
there is a frontispiece. — Something of the cham endar for nature-lovers, compiled by Miss Esther
pagne flavor belongs also to the collection of toasts Matson and issued in a dainty and suitable binding
brought together by Miss Idella Phelps in a little by Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Miss Matson
volume entitled “Your Health!” (Jacobs). A has hunted her quotations in all sorts of delightful
charming drawing in red and black, the work of nooks and by-ways of nature literature, and her
Miss Helen Alden Knipe, appears on every other gleanings have a distinct flavor of piquancy and
page. “Who's It in America” (B. W. Dodge & originality. A photograph of a garden or a flower
Co.) is described on its title-page as “a sort o' accompanies the quotations for each month." Daily
biography of certain prominent persons, with some Joy and Daily Peace" (Crowell) contains the gen-
facts about them hitherto unpublished in a work of erous allowance of three or more brief but inspiring
this nature." It is mildly amusing in general quality. sentiments for every day in the year. Miss Rose
A collection of up-to-date aphorisms of the “self Porter is the editor. The little book is daintily
made merchant” variety are to be found in “Senator bound in white and gold, and there are twelve illus-
Sorghum's Primer of Politics ” (Altemus), by Mr. trations from famous paintings. — “A Longfellow
Philander Chase Johnson. Others besides practical Calendar” (Crowell) contains extracts, descriptive
politicians will derive an occasional good pointer” or didactic, from the poems of our favorite Ameri-
from these “helpful hints on the science of not can singer. A beautiful photogravure portrait of
getting the worst of it.”
the poet forms the frontispiece. - Mr. H. B. Metcalf
A type of gift-book which seems to grow more has endeavored to produce in “Gems of Wisdom
popular every season is that of the brief essay or ser for Every Day” (McClurg) a volume not of fami-
mon, usually by some well-known writer, presented liar, but of unfamiliar quotations. The thoughtful
in a booklet at once inexpensive in price and elegant, reader will approve his selections, which cover a
often luxurious, in appearance. Among the publi wide range of ancient and modern literature. Blue
cations of this sort, those of Messrs. Crowell & Co. page-borders and the checked denim cover with its
hold first place, for both number and quality. This pretty paper label furnish somewhat of a novelty in
firm's output for the present season, of which it is the way of decoration.
impossible to do much more than give a list of titles “ The Face in the Girandole" is the title of a
and authors, includes the following volumes : “The book that will make an ideal present for the friend


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who
goes in for old furniture. Daintily bound and appeal especially to those who are interested in the
decorated and prettily illustrated, with an attractive musical society of Rome and Paris.
touch of romance in its slender plot, it is a novelette In the volume entitled “With Byron in Italy”
that almost anybody might like to spend an idle hour (McClurg), Mrs. Anna B. McMahan deals with
upon. But the lover of old furniture will gloat over Byron as she has previously dealt with the Brown-
it. He will recognize in Mr. William Frederick Dix, ings and with Shelley, — that is to say, she has
its author, a kindred spirit, with fine appreciation of brought together and arranged in logical sequence
all the subtle joys of the old-furniture fad, including such portions of the poet's verse and letters as are
an interest in the dealers who cheat you and the associated with his life in Italy. Of all the English
friends who buy away from you the things you have poets who have adopted Italy as a foster-mother,
been secretly bargaining for. Such readers will Mrs. McMahan considers that Byron's absorption
criticize Mr. Dix's dogmas about Sheraton and into the country was the most obvious and complete.
Chippendale, add bits out of their own experience The years of Byron's residence in Italy, from 1816
to his amusing “furniturosophy,” sigh regretfully to 1823, constituted the ripest and most prolific
that they cannot compete with his hero for the period of his life. It follows, as the compiler sug-
treasures in the old house at Mendham, and start gests, that the letters and poems here presented form
out forthwith on a determined search for a girandole. perhaps the best material upon which to base an
Mr. Dix has shown a good deal of astuteness in individual opinion regarding one who, of all English
choosing his title ; collectors who do not know just poets, has been most praised and most reviled. A
what a girandole is will be particularly eager to read distinctive feature of the volume is the series of sixty
his book. (Moffat, Yard & Co.)
illustrations, reproduced in half-tone from photo-
Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Company have fur- graphs of Italian art, architecture, and scenery; these
nished an unusually sumptuous setting for Mrs. throw a vivid illumination upon most of the impor-
Tryphosa Bates Batcheller's “Glimpses of Italian tant allusions in the text. Besides the regular edi-
Court Life.” The dark green cover is heavily dec- tion in cloth, Mrs. McMahan's book appears in an
orated in gold to simulate the clasps used in mediæval edition on large paper limited to 250 copies. It is
book-making. The frontispiece is a photogravure this latter that we direct particular attention to here,
portrait of Queen Elena of Italy, to whom the book as a gift-book whose attractions are not surpassed
is dedicated by special permission. The other pic- in their way among the season's publications. The
tures are half-tones of unusually fine quality, made text is printed on Italian hand-made paper of fine
from photographs, and a few water-colors. They in- quality, with the illustrations on Japanese vellum.
clude views of Rome, Naples, and some other Italian The binding is of dark paper boards and vellum
cities and villages, and a great many portraits of Mrs. back, bearing on the front cover a rich fleur de lys
Batcheller's Roman friends, many signed with a few design in gold. In all respects the volume is a con-
pleasant words of appreciation and friendship by their spicuous example of fine bookmaking.
donors. Mrs. Batcheller has chosen to write her remi “ The Art of the Dresden Gallery,” by Miss Julia
niscences of a notable visit to Rome, with brief stops de Wolf Addison, is the sixth volume in a handsomely
on the two journeys through Italy, in the form of illustrated series of guides to the principal galleries
letters to her mother and father, and to one or two of Europe, which Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. are pub-
intimate friends. The personal note is therefore lishing, and makes Miss Addison's third contribution
strong, and the narrative is rambling, informal, and to the series. In plan it is similar to its predecessors;
thoroughly readable. Mrs. Batcheller does not as it consists of notes and observations upon a large
sume the office of guide to the wonders of the im number of the finest paintings, both ancient and mod-
perial city. Occasionally she writes of delightful but ern, in the royal collection at Dresden, arranged in
rather perfunctory expeditions " to see the sights," schools or grouping together the works of one or two
made at the instigation of an indefatigble American great masters. In the main, it is possible to adhere
friend. But more interesting, both to writer and to this plan and still follow the arrangement of the
reader, are the glimpses of the Roman court and so- pictures in the gallery, diagrams of which are fur-
ciety life, to which Mrs. Batcheller's musical talents nished the reader. Where deviation from the regular
and social position gave her entrance. She was ac route is necessary, the location of the pictures is
corded the honor of a special presentation to the two clearly indicated, and every effort is made to render
Queens of Italy, and to the Pope. She went to a court a tour through the gallery pleasant and profitable,
ball, met many distinguished Americans and members and to save those toilsome searches after inconspicu-
of the diplomatic circle, saw some private theatricals ously hung masterpieces, which all European travel-
in which a princess played the part of “leading lers remember to their sorrow. On behalf of the large
lady," attended many splendid balls during carnival number of art-students who must get their knowledge
week and many notable concerts all through the of great paintings from books about them, the ac-
winter, and saw the inner splendors of many lovely counts of the pictures are descriptive as well
criti-
villas and famous palaces. All these novel experi- cal and historical, and fifty tinted half-tones illustrate
ences she writes of in a sprightly conversational style, - the greatest and most characteristic works of the col-
with an enthusiasm which, although sometimes a little lection. An interesting history of its formation and
overdone, yet adds to the charm of the book. It will growth serves as introduction to the opening chapter.
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he
The text furnishes as much detail as the ordinary comments. The pictures are bound up in a thin
traveller will care for, and he will find it of a more quarto, with one of Mr. Smith's designs inset on the
manageable and useful sort than that offered by most cover, and specially decorated end-papers and title-
guides and catalogues. The binding is both hand page. Mr. Smith's style is unique; all phases of it
some and durable, and the volume not over-large or get full play in the new volume, and his particular
weighty.
genius for animal drawings loses nothing by being
Miss Esther Singleton's compilations of extracts relegated to the corners of the pictures. Indeed the
describing various cities and countries or famous ob- drollery of Mr. Smith's corners is always the most
jects of art and architecture are too familiar to need delightful feature of his work. Messrs. Houghton,
further introduction. This year she has added a work Miftin & Co. publish the book, with typography and
upon Rome to the series which already includes vol color-work well up to their customary high standard.
umes about Paris, London, Venice, Japan, Russia, “ The Dogs of War," Mr. Walter Emanuel tells
and Holland; and to her art series, one entitled “His us, was the greatest dogs' club in the largest city in
toric Buildings of America." The latter has been the world. All its members were mongrels except
prepared, so the preface tells us, in response to many Mr. Emanuel's own dog, a thoroughbred field
requests; and it is sure to prove particularly success spaniel, whose friendship with a neighbor's nonde-
ful, since it covers a field comparatively untrodden. script cur, known to his admiring followers as the
Miss Singleton uses America in its broadest sense, Captain, led to the admission of this one aristocrat
and it is astonishing how much interesting material into the Captain's club. “ The Dogs of War” were
she has gathered. In our own land, our most his pledged to attack at sight all thoroughbreds who gave
toric and most beautiful churches are included, from themselves airs or offered insult to plebian canines.
Christ Church in Alexandria to the curious Bee-Hive Naturally “Ears," as the Captain named his aristo-
Tabernacle at Salt Lake City. A few typical old cratic friend, had more battles to fight than any
other
time homes are described, several of them closely member, for all mongrels hated him and all thorough-
associated with Washington, besides a number of breds looked upon him as a traitor. But his courage
forts, many of our national and municipal civic and his admiration for the Captain, who seems to
buildings, several famous college halls, and two have been as unworthy the adulation lavished upon
monuments. The Palace of Chapultepec, the cathe him as many human heroes, never faltered ; and
drals of Mexico and Havana, and the Church of St. when the Captain died he grew suddenly old and
Anne de Beaupré in Canada, have all the picturesque-spiritless and fell to writing his memoirs. Mr.
ness of the old-world shrines, and ought to be more Emanuel allows “Ears” to tell his story exactly as
familiar to Americans than they are. Miss Single- pleases, even though he has included some scathing
ton has shown more than her customary ingenuity remarks about his master's “ silly ways.” His great-
in unearthing vivid descriptions of the buildings, est failing as a raconteur is his lack of humor; but
and the book is, as usual, amply illustrated from his artistic collaborator, Mr. Cecil Aldin, does his
photographs. — The selections in the Roman volume best to atone for this by making a great many very
not only describe the most famous buildings of the funny pictures of the “Dogs of War,” their friends
city and give glimpses of some of its beautiful envi and their foes.
rons, but also include accounts of ancient Rome, of A volume of “Prose You Ought to Know"
the rise of modern Rome, of social life in the cos (Revell) has been edited by Mr. John R. Howard
mopolitan city, of holy week, the yearly carnival, with an intelligence and originality that will make
and the weekly rag fair. “ Rome Revisited,” by it acceptable even to the avowed enemy of the ordi-
Mr. Frederic Harrison, is the final selection
a sort nary book of extracts. Mr. Howard has had a wide
of summary of all the multiform impressions that experience in the work of compilation. His aim in
have preceded it. The volume will make an excel the present volume is to gather, from a wide range
lent guide-book for tourists, and those who have not of authorship and subject matter, a series of brief
seen Rome and do not expect to see it will enjoy excerpts, each of which shall be typical of its au-
the vivid and interesting descriptions and gain much thor's best style, and, besides exciting a momentary
comprehensive information, well distributed between interest, shall “ at least hint at the richness of an
topography, history, architecture, and manners and essay, a tale, a history, an oration.” The selections
customs. The illustrations are many and excellent. are longer than mere aphorisms, being from one to
(Dodd, Mead & Co.)
four
pages in length. They are chosen with refer-
In "The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John ence to a quality that many compilers do not under-
Smith,” told and pictured by Mr. E. Boyd Smith, stand, - namely, a really fine and forceful style.
that delightful colorist has abandoned clever farce Milton, Sydney Smith, Henry Clay, Lowell, Bulwer
to enter the higher domains of semi-historical por-Lytton, Kane, Sterne, Thackeray, and Gough, among
traiture. In a series of twenty-six colored plates, full the seventy-five names in the table of contents, will
of spirit and beauty, and not without sly touches of suggest the somewhat unusual variety of fare which
humor at the expense of everybody concerned, he the book offers. Each selection is preceded by a
has portrayed the various episodes in the stirring pithy paragraph of biographical data. Colored mar-
story of our first international romance. As usual, ginal borders and a pretty cover give the air of
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serious import, when they are intended for Christ moral applications not found in the original avoided,
mas giving
and no imaginary scenes or conversations interpo-
“ The Swarm,' the subject of the most fascinat lated. There is certainly a perennial demand for a
ing and dramatic portion of Maurice Maeterlinck's book of this sort, and it would be hard to find a
marvellous study of “The Life of the Bee,” – is the wiser, more tactful, or more skilful adapter than Dr.
title of a little booklet decorated by Mr. Anthony Hurlbut proves himself. The numerous illustrations,
Euwer and published by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. which include a few colored plates and nearly three
The separation of these chapters from their setting hundred half-tones, will undoubtedly be a decided
seems fully justified, for the author's splendid phi- attraction in the eyes of young readers.
losophy and careful observation are no less evident A notable edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's
in this portion of the book than in the whole; and “Tales from Shakespeare ” comes in two volumes,
these chapters will serve to introduce “ The Life of bound in green cloth with tasteful gold stamping,
the Bee” to many persons who have missed the with Brentano's imprint. The two frontispieces are
pleasure of reading it hitherto because they do not authors' portraits; and the illustrations, one to each
discriminate between M. Maeterlinck and the aver of the twenty plays, are photogravure reproductions
age modern nature-writer, whose emphasis is quite of engravings from the paintings of Reynolds, Mac-
different and less to their taste. The cover is ap- | lise, Sir John Gilbert, Snirke, Ilbetson, Westall, and
propriately and not too lavishly decorated. The others. The quaintness and spirit of the designs will
colored designs which underlie the type are so sub-appeal more strongly to adult than to youthful read-
dued as not to interfere with easy reading, and they ers, as will the introduction, from the pen of Mr.
have the right tone to harmonize with the essayist’s. Alfred Ainger and bearing the date 1878. But, as
Altogether this is one of the choicest of the season's Mr. Ainger points out, when a genius writes for
bibelots.
children it is inevitable that children of a larger
Those who are familiar with Mr. Sidney Lee's growth shall also like his work.
scholarly and readable work, “Stratford-on-Avon," “ The Happy-Go-Lucky” is one of those delightful
will be glad to learn of the new edition issued by German romances, lying in the middle distance be-
the Lippincott Company. Mr. Lee has revised his tween fairy-land and this workaday world of ours,
text to bring it strictly up to date, and has added for which the German nation seems to have a pecu-
considerable information which historical researches liar genius. Many years ago, Mrs. A. L. Wister
since 1890 have brought to light. Three years ago translated this story from the German of Joseph
Mr. Lee was chosen chairman of their executive Freiherr von Eichendorff ; and now the Lippincott
committee by the Trustees of Shakespeare's Birth- Company publish a new edition in holiday dress.
place, so that his acquaintance with the town and The illustrations in color and tint by Philipp Grot
its memories is even more intimate, and his interest Johann and Professor Edmund Kanoldt reproduce
greater, than when his book was first published. the quaint foreign atmosphere of the story; and the
Among the mass of modern Shakespeariana, which marginal drawings by Mrs. Eva Nagel Wolf are
grows vaster with every publishing season, it is a illustrative as well as decorative. Many readers will
relief to find one book on Stratford that deals with enjoy these “leaves from the life of a good-for-
the town for its own rather than for the great poet's nothing” in their new garb.
sake. This picturesque account of Stratford's early Four of Hawthorne's delightful stories of the old
history, - its old markets and fairs, its nobility, its Province House in Boston have been grouped under
guild, its village sports and industries, serves not the general title “In Colonial Days," copiously
only to make a setting for the life of Shakespeare, illustrated by Mr. Frank C. Merrill, ornately bound,
but also to bring out much that, having nothing to and published with the imprint of Messrs. L. C.
do with him, is nevertheless quaint and characteristic Page & Co. Hawthorne's pellucid style is suffi-
in the most popular pilgrimage-place in all England. ciently picturesque to prove of infinite suggestive-
The new edition is adequately and pleasingly ness to an artist, and Mr. Merrill's pictures, redo-
illustrated, chiefly by Messrs. Herbert Railton and lent of old times and customs, and yet full of life
Edward Hull, and very tastefully bound.
and spirit, are evidently the fruits of congenial and
“The Story of the Bible" (Winston), by Rev. sympathetic effort. Anybody would enjoy the Tales
Dr. Jesse L. Hurlbut, well known to visitors to in their new setting, which ought, however to prove
Chautauqua and readers of “The Sunday-school partieularly acceptable to younger readers.
Times,” is meant to be put into the hands of older If one has entered on his list of friends an epi-
children, and to be used by parents who find it diffi cure for whom some holiday remembrance must be
cult to tell Bible stories effectively, in instructing provided, nothing more fitting could be found than
children too young to read the book for themselves. the two companion volumes, “ Louis's Salads and
It contains seven hundred and fifty pages, on which Chafing Dishes” and “Louis's Mixed Drinks "
one hundred and sixty-eight complete stories, each (Caldwell). The author is Mr. Louis Muckensturm,
independent of the rest, but all together forming a chef of long experience, and it is his genial (if not
the continuous Bible history, are told. The lan intellectual) face that looks out upon us from the
guage is simple, direct, and wherever possible bib- frontispiece of each volume. The recipes of which
lical. Hard words are explained, doctrines and the books are composed look well in print, and the


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is an
form of the volumes is refreshingly removed from De Quincey's “ Autobiography” and “Confessions,"
conventional cook-book ugliness.
edited by Mr. Tighe Hopkins, is a new volume of the
Sumptuously bound in limp ooze leather, with “Caxton Thin Paper Classics,” imported by the Messrs.
page-borders whose swirling lines and suggestive
Scribner.
symbolism, printed in a shade to harmonize pleas-
“ The Friendly Year," published by Messrs. Scrib-
antly with the cover, make an attractive frame for
ner's Sons, is a day-book of selections, in prose and
the text, the “Love Poems” of Lord Byron are as
verse, from the pleasant writings of the Rev. Henry
van Dyke.
elegant a piece of book-making as one could wish.
The revision of Baedeker goes on forever. The
Whether or not Byronic love is still sufficiently in
latest volume is “ Northern Italy" in its thirteenth re-
fashion to justify so luxurious a reprint is an inter-modelled edition, and the Messrs. Scribner import it
esting question which the reviewer is not called
upon for the American market.
to settle. But it would be difficult to imagine a more A translation, by Mr. Charles Conner Hayden, of Mlle.
harmonious and effective setting for these mellifluous Arvède Barine's “ Alfred de Musset," is presented
lyrics than has now been provided by the publishers in dignified typographical dress to “subscribers only"
of this little volume. (The H. M. Caldwell Co.)
by the Edwin C. Hill Co.
Since some of the illustrations for Messrs. G. P. · A Sentiment in Ve for Every Day in the Year”
Putnam's Sons' holiday edition of “The Last Ride
" ethical
year book” compiled by Mr. Walter L.
Together” are so good, it is a pity that others should
Sheldon, and publishd by Mr. S. Burns Weston. The
be lacking in both appropriateness and artistic merit.
title of the pamphlet is self-explanatory.
In attempting to illustrate one of Browning's strongest heretofore, of Mr. A. B. de Guerville's “ New Egypt?
A revised edition, published at a lower price than
and most beautiful love lyrics, Mr. Frederick Simpson
comes to us from Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. It is an
Coburn has set himself an heroic task; but several of
interesting book and attractively illustrated.
his pictures, which are effectively printed in sepia on Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. publish “ A Text-Book
parchment-finished paper, show spirit, suggestiveness, of Hydraulics," by Professor L. M. Hoskins.
It is a
and a real gift of imagination.
work for students in technical schools, and includes
Quite the daintiest volume we have seen this among its features an outline of the theory of turbines.
season is a selection from the “ Lyrists of the Resto · Professor George Rice Carpenter's “ English Gram-
ration,” made by John Constance Masefield, and mar,” published by the Macmillan Co., is a largely
published by the Frederick A. Stokes Co. in a new
rewritten form of the “ Principles of English Grammar”
series called “ The Chapbooks.” In its chaste white
prepared by the author nearly ten years ago. It is a
vellum binding, tied with white leather thongs, this
typical high-school text of the best modern sort.
diminutive volume suggests somewhat those products
Wentworth Smith's “The Hector of Germaine, or
- of the early printers which so warm the collector's
the Palsgrave Prime Elector," a little-known play of the
early seventeenth century, is reprinted from the rare
heart. The selections seem to have been made with
quarto of 1615, with editorial matter by Mr. Leonidas
discrimination, and there is an interesting introduc-
W. Payne, Jr., and published by the University of
tory essay.
Pennsylvania.
Forty Lessons in Physics,” by Mr. Lynn B. Mc-
NOTES.
Mullen, is a class-room texi remarkable for the profu-
sion of its diagrams. In fact, every right-hand page is
Shakespeare's “ The Tempest," edited by Professor given up to some sort of graphic material illustrative
Sidney C. Newsom, is a new “ Pocket Classic "published of the text which faces it. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co.
by the Macmillan Co.
are the publishers.
“ Lawns and How to Make Them,” by Mr. Leonard “ A Rhetoric and Composition,” the work of Pro-
Barron, appears in the “Garden Library” of Messrs. fessor Edward Futon, is among the latest educational
Doubleday, Page & Co.
publications of Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. The author
“A Bodleian Guide for Visitors," by Mr. Andrew
does not claim that he has made a book better than the
Clark, is a small book, with many pictures, published
others of its kind, but merely the book that represents
by Mr. Henry Frowde at the Oxford Clarendon Press. his personal methods of teaching and the needs of his
“The Preliminary Geography” of Dr. A. J. Herbert own classes.
son is the first and simplest of a series of “Oxford “What's Next; or, Shall a Man Live Again?” is the
Geographies" in course of publication by Mr. Henry flippant and catchy title of a compilation of opinions
Frowde.
upon the subject of personal immortality, compiled by
Among the manuscripts left by Thomas Davidson were Miss Clara Spalding Ellis. It includes letters from
included a course of six lectures on “ The Philosophy
over a hundred well-known writers, besides extracts
of Goethe's Faust," and these, edited by Davidson's lit from many books, and a selection of poems. It is pub-
erary legatee, Mr. Charles M. Bakewell, are now put lished by Mr. Richard G. Badger.
into book form by Messrs. Ginn & Co.
“ Outlines for the Study of Biblical History and Lit-
Mr. Thomas Wright, an industrious biographer known erature,” by Dr. Frank Knight Sanders and Dr. Henry
through his volumes on Cowper, FitzGerald, and Sir Thatcher Fowler, is a recent publication of Messrs
Richard Burton, has prepared a Life of Walter Pater, Charles Scribner's Sons. It is practically a syllabus,
which Messrs. Putnam's Sons will publish at once. It with references and bibliography, of the subject with
will occupy two octavo volumes, with a generous supply which it deals, and will furnish students with a valuable
of illustrations.
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mans.
The Messrs. Brentano reprint Mr. G. B. Shaw's
“ Three Plays for Puritans,” making the third volume
of the collected plays. The titles are « The Devil's
Disciple,” “Cæsar and Cleopatra,” and “Captain
Brassbound's Conversion.” The preface of 1900 is
given with the plays.
“ The Romances of Chivalry in Italian Verse," pub-
lished by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., is a stout volume
of annotated selections from the texts of Pulci, Boiardo,
Ariosto, and Tasso. The editorial work, including an
introduction, is done by Professor J. D. M. Ford and
Miss Mary A. Ford.
“ Heroes of European History," by Miss Louise
Creighton, offers children an introduction to world-
history, from the ancient Greeks to the modern Ger-
It would make an excellent supplementary
reader for elementary schools. The book is published
by Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co.
“ Dalton's Complete Bridge,” published by the Fred-
erick A. Stokes Co., is a treatise which leaves nothing to
be desired on the score of thoroughness. Mr. Dalton
is the foremost of English authorities on the subject, and
may fairly be styled the Cavendish of this perverted
form of the noble game of whist.
Mr. Gosse's “ Short History of Modern English Lit-
erature," first published in the “ Literatures of the
World” series, is now reissued by the Frederick A.
Stokes Co. in illustrated form. The illustrations are
portraits, and there are no less than seventy-two of
them. A few revisions have also been made in the text.
Mr. Percy Mackaye’s “ Jeanne d'Arc,” just now be-
ing presented upon the stage, is published in book form
by the Macmillan Co.. The author is one of the most
promising of our younger dramatists, and the present
work offers a dignified and poetic treatment of one of
the noblest of all possible themes. Such publications
are among the most welcome signs of the times.
“Longmans' Historical Series for Schools” consists of
three volumes for as many grades of students, based
upon what is felicitously styled the “concentric sys-
tem.” They are the work of Professor T. F. Tout.
The series is now completed by the publication of the
third volume, “ An Advanced History of Great Britain,”
a volume of over seven hundred pages, with many maps
and plans.
Two big books and two little ones are added to the
“Standard English Classics ” of Messrs. Ginn & Co.
The former are “ Ivanhoe,” edited by Mr. W. D. Lewis,
and Lorna Doone," edited by Professors W. P. Trent
and W. P. Brewster. The latter are “The Rape of the
Lock and Other Poems,” edited by Professor T. M.
Parrott, and “ Selections from Browning,” edited by
Professor Robert M. Lovett.
The House in St. Martin's Street: Being Chronicles of the
Burney Family. By Constance Hall. Illus., in photogravure,
etc., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 366. John Lane Co. $7. net.
Sir Joshua and His Circle. By Fitzgerald Molloy. In 2 vols.,
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Mead & Co. $6.50 net.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of his Discovery.
By Filson Young; with a Note on the Navigation of Colum-
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illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. J. B.
Lippincott Co. $6.50 net.
Glimpses of Italian Court Life : Happy Days in Italia Ado-
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Real Soldiers of Fortune. By Richard Harding Davis. Illüs.,
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The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill. Edited by
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The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne. By Frank
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Cadwallader Colden: A Representative Eighteenth Century
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Reminiscences of a Mosby Guerrilla. By John W. Munson.
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My People of the Plains. By Ethelbert Talbot, D:D. Illus.,
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Thomas Hill Green : A Memoir. By R. L. Nettleship; with
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Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promo-
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gilt top, uncut, pp. 359. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50 net.
Sigismondo Malatesta Lord of Rimini: A Study of a XVth
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Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, D.D. By his wife.
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Links in My Life on Land and Sea. By J. W. Gambier,
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408, 469
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W. B. KNISKERN,
Passenger Traffic Manager,
CHICAGO.
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