reatment of the tree leaves something to be de-
sired; in the “Madonna of the Little Bird" by
sphere the enveloppe, as the French would
Morales, where the motion in the lines used for
say. To put it in another way, the mechanical
reproduction is soulless even when authentic,
the drapery in the background is not quite pleas-
while the wood-cut may retain the vitality of the
ant; and in "The Adoration of the Shepherds
by Murillo, where again the lines used in en-
*OLD SPANISH MASTERS. Engraved by Timothy Cole. With
Historical Notes by Charles H. Caffin; and Comments by the
graving the figure of the shepherd in the fore-
Engraver. New York: The Century Co.
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ness
faultfinding is ever an ungrateful task; these chances, of moving accidents by flood and field”;
comparisons should be understood as being and the slippered philosopher, too, delights in
made with Mr. Cole's work at its best, and at such tales “ of hair-breadth 'scapes i’ the im-
his best he is a master without a rival.
minent deadly breach.” The very sound of such
Without having knowledge of all the cir- enchanted words as “ The Gold Coast, 66 The
cumstances that governed Mr. Cole in making Spanish Main,” “ The Frozen North,” “Darkest
his choice of the paintings reproduced, criticism Africa,” and “ The Southern Cross” stir the
of the selection would be unfair. Were they imagination. The spirit of the wanderlust is
to be estimated solely for the artistic value of an abiding one, though the world grows smaller
the originals, it would be difficult to justify the and the volume of books describing it grows
inclusion of as many works by Murillo as by ever larger.
Velasquez. In the accompanying text Mr. No recent book on Africa more strikingly
Caffin champions the cause of Murillo and finds confirms Sir Richard Burton's saying,
66 Ex
comparison between him and Valasquez“ unjust Africa aliquid semper novi,” than the books of
and profitless.” It is the “ intrinsic human- Herr C. Ĝ. Schillings, the German animal
” of the works of the Sevillian painter that photographer and naturalist. Out of Africa
appeals to him more especially. Their trivial-
Herr Schillings has brought the most wonderful
ity and lack of intellectual force do not seem and most intimate pictures of wild animals
to count with him, which is the more surprising we have ever seen. “ In Wildest Africa," the
as what he has to say about Velasquez is very naturalist-photographer's latest work, is a stout
good indeed, and as he is careful to point out volume of over seven hundred pages, with over
that his paintings, in spite of their naturalism, three hundred photographic studies direct from
owe much of their distinction to “ the decorative the author's negatives. It brings the lives of
quality of the compositions.” As this quality African birds and beasts before us with almost
the harmonic arrangement of line, mass, and startling accuracy. At first view, these pictures
tones is fundamental, it furnishes a criterion are likely to be disappointing; they lack that
for all works of art; yet of its application to sharpness and distinctness of outline which we
these by Murillo, Mr. Caffin has naught to say. associate with ordinary photography. But as
In the main, however, his text is excellent, and one grows familiar with them they take on a
should not be overlooked by those who buy the new aspect, that of impressionistic art. On
book for the sake of the engravings.
this particular point, Herr Schillings says:
FREDERICK W. GOOKIN. “Considering the extreme difficulty of taking por-
traits of living animals in their wild, timid state, such
pictures can only in a few instances lay claim to tech-
nical perfection. But so far as my taste goes, a certain
SOME PLEASANT BOOKS OF TRAVEL.*
lack of sharp definition in the picture
is not only
no disadvantage, but is even desirable.”
Books of travel probably appeal to more
The author writes further on this subject :
varied types of mind than any other books in lit-
“ It must be noted that if the animals are drawn so
erature. High poetry is for the few, philosophy
as to stand out separated from the landscape which is a
for the elect, fiction (the kind that Thackeray
needful accessory of the picture, and brought forward
wrote or Meredith expounds) for the cultured, into the foreground in an obviously selected pose, they
sociology for the studious; but books of travel must appear unnatural to the eye of the expert. Such
are the favorites of old and young, grave and
pictures cannot fail to give an unnatural impression, for
in the freedom of the wilderness the animal would never
gay, cultured and uncultured readers. Travel-
present itself in this way to the eyes of man. . . . It
lers' tales appeal to the youth blest with the spirit has been a keen satisfaction to me to find that many
of the wandering foot, and to the fireside philos-world-renowned artists have appreciated warmly the
opher whose journey's end lies beyond in the un beauty of these photographs, and have given expression
what
discovered country. Boys delight in those tales
to this feeling. I have been told, for instance,
I myself had already noticed, that many of the pic-
of which Othello speaks, 66 of most disastrous
tures, especially those showing birds on the wing, bear
* IN WILDEST AFRICA. By C. G. Schillings. Translated by a great resemblance to certain famous works of Japanese
Frederic Whyte. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers. painters of animal life, works that seem to dive into the
THE UNVEILED EAST. By F. A. McKenzie. Illustrated. New
secrets of nature."
THE NEAR East. Anonymous. Illustrated. New York: Bearing these words in mind, we can view a
Doubleday, Page & Co.
SUNSHINE AND SPORT IN FLORIDA AND THE WEST INDIES. By photograph of a herd of antelopes, a troop of
F. G. Aflalo. Illustrated. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.
gazelles, giraffes, or zebras, or it may be a flock
IN SEARCH OF EL DORADO. By Alexander Macdonald. Illus-
trated. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.
of cranes or storks, and understand how they and
York: E. P. Dutton & Co.


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their environment are one; their bodies and their China, and the great missionary question. On
very actions shading into the hazy atmosphere the last topic, Mr. McKenzie says:
of their native wilds, or melting away into in “The day of the foreign missionary of the old type
definite outlines in the shimmering light of the in Japan is over. The missionary work there to-morrow
African veldt or jungle. As a matter of fact,
will rather be done by the occasional visits of expert
foreign evangelists and by the literary and intellectual
there is a wide divergence between title and text
efforts of a few highly trained teachers, than along
in this volume: the larger part of the text deals
present lines.”
with matter entirely foreign to the title. After England's opportunity in the vital issues soon
an introductory chapter treating the changes in to be sifted in the Far East lies in her being the
Africa during the past decade, the author writes friend and protector of China ; and, concludes
on such diverse topics as the development of ani the author, “English and American interests
mal portraiture, the disappearance of African in the Far East are identical.”
wild game, and then — of all topics! — “Sport No book on our present list is more worthy
and Nature in Germany." This foreign matter of extended consideration that the one bearing
is followed by chapters relating to the real sub the title - The Near East." Although the volume
ject of the volume, the most interesting one be- is published anonymously, every page reveals
ing “ The Capturing of a Lion "; and the book the author as one who investigates his subject
closes with two more chapters on photography thoroughly, discriminates his information care-
and its possibilities as helps to the study of fully, and writes convincingly. Moreover he
wild-life.
apparently had easy access to the powers that
Mr. F. A. McKenzie, an Englishman, in his rule in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria,
volume entitled “ The Unveiled East,” depicts Roumania, and Turkey. He sipped coffee,
Japan as a menace to the trade and prestige of smoked cigarettes, and talked with the “ various
Great Britain in that region. The opening kings and princes of the Balkan states,” the
words of the book tell the reader what the Sultan of Turkey, and nearly all the members
uplifted veil reveals.
of the various cabinets, as well as with people
* By the extension and maintenance of territorial of the middle class and with peasants, in order
supremacy outside her own borders, by securing exclu to form some conclusion as to the real situa-
sive trading privileges, by a wholesale system of mono-
polies, subsidies, bounties, and concessions, and by the
tion-political, economical, social, and finan-
skilful use of her limited tariff autonomy, Japan has
cial --- in this European hotbed of discord. He
entered fully upon a campaign of aggressive imperial- found Montenegro the most interesting country
ism. . . . Entering Korea under the guise of friend in all the Balkans.. Prince Nicholas, its ruler,
ship and alliance, her representatives have absorbed told the author that the solution of the Balkan
the government, made the Emperor virtually a pris difficulty lies in placing Macedonia under a
oner, forced the British chief of the Custom Service
from office, acquired many concessions, and seized the governor-general who must be a European
lands and homes of the common people in town and prince. Against the advice of his London
country.”
friends and contrary to the strong opposition of
Manchuria too, the author asserts, will soon Prince Nicholas, and, moreover, in spite of the
be under the rule of Tokyo, and the integrity fact that the insurance companies declined to
of China is threatened with the grasping hand accept the risk of accident, the author went to
of the wily Japanese. National pride and the Accursed Mountains in Northern Albania
economic necessity are driving the Japanese a country hitherto practically a sealed book, for
onward, and it is time, so Mr. McKenzie thinks, there are no printed accounts of actual travel
to treat them, “not as children, not as semi- there, nothing even in the journals of the Royal
angels, but as a great, ambitious, and strong- Geographical Society. The Accursed Mountains
purposed nation.” Such is the drift of Mr. are inhabited by brigandish tribes — the real
McKenzie's book; but we do not wish to con thing
out of the story-book - who hold life
vey the idea through our quotations that the cheap. They come down from the mountains
author is a Jeremiah. Quite to the contrary in armed bands, and walk through the town, a
his book is well-balanced and reserved in opinion dozen or so together, in complete defiance of
and in fact, and makes interesting and profita- the Turks. After much trouble, the author
ble reading for anyone concerned in Far Eastern enjoyed the unique pleasure of being the guest
affairs. Besides his thorough discussion of of Vatt Marashi, chief of the Skeli, the strongest
commercial and diplomatic affairs in China and and most feared of the mountain bands. This
Japan, the author has entertaining chapters on story-book brigand spoke significantly of the
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“ The revolt will come one day ere long — when we gave him such good entertainment. But not-
are ready. We can, however, afford to wait at pres-
withstanding his plea of candor, Mr. Aflalo, in
ent. Turkey will soon have her hands full with Bul-
garia and Macedonia, and then — well, we shall help
his volume entitled “Sunshine and Sport in
Bulgaria, and in a week there won't be a Turk in Florida and the West Indies,” amuses himself
Skodra.”
by giving some hard raps to us and our institu-
In Bosnia, the writer found the clever, subtle, tions. In the first part of his book, “ The
evil hand of Austria working in Machiavellian Way There” (meaning his trip to New York, to
style - one of extermination and extension. Washington, and the South), the author takes
When writing on the subject of Austria and Ger a shy at our cigars, children, coffee, food, tea,
many in the Balkans, the writer is so intensely men and women, and our idea of liberty.
"I
in earnest that the reader holds his breath at venture to suggest that there is in one hour in
the audacious charges made against those na London more personal liberty than in a year of
tions. But his very earnestness is proof of his
New York." This last statement, we gather,
own assertion that his purpose is not“ to scream
arises from an incident in a New York street-
hysterical condemnations.” One of the most car in which a large and overheated bricklayer
astonishing features in this rather remarkable sat on the author's knees without as much as
book is the author's commendation of King Peter
“ by your leave.”
The South, in Mr. Aflalo's
of Servia. The world has come to think, rightly opinion, is to be pitied for the paralyzing influ-
or wrongly, that King Peter is sadly out of place ence of the negro question. The author's view
as a ruler in this highly sensitized region. In all of the race problem is revealed thus : “ I wish
circles of society, the author tells us, the King that some of the poor negro's advocates could
is recognized as a model father, as a wise ruler know the sensation of being hustled off a side-
who leaves politics to his ministers, and as a man walk by a buck nigger in the full flush of
who concerns himself with the more humble emancipation." There are, to be sure, many
duties of advancing the cause of sanitation, words of praise for us and our institutions, —
agriculture, and religion. Surely a new picture the zoological collection and the aquarium in
of King Peter! In regard to the
In regard to the ever-present New York, the beauty of Washington, and the
quarrel between the Bulgar and the Turk, the scenery of North Carolina around Asheville ;
author is clear that “ Bulgaria has right on her but on the whole, the view is warped and per-
side, and in the name of humanity it is the duty verted. Had Mr. Aflalo gathered his impressions
of the Powers to support her.” The Turks, at at greater leisure, and generalized less from
least those in high place, regard their govern-
trivial instances, he would have informed his
ment of Macedonia with complacent equanimity, volume with the more genial spirit which we
denying that they aid and abet the Greek bands associate with the men who go a-fishing. For
in massacring the Christians, and viewing the we can find no fault with Mr. Affalo's story of
possibilities of war with Bulgaria with perfect his tarpon fishing. He writes on that subject
tranquillity. This tranquillity and equanimity, with such zest and good-humor that we too can
asserts our author, doubtless arise from the re fish with him from our arm-chair. All that
liance of Turkey on Germany. ‘All Turks are pertains to tarpon catching, from the cost of the
fascinated by the benign smile of Germany; they tackle to landing the game, is interestingly
are mystified as to what Austria will do in event recounted in the book. In eleven days the
of war, and they are given to treating Great author caught seventeen tarpon, most of them
Britain with studied politeness. In conclusion, on the afternoon of the last day. As a matter
the author predicts war in that country within a of mere sport, however, Mr. Aflalo does not
few months. An excellent map, many choice rank tarpon fishing very high. If one's tackle
illustrations made from photographs by the au- holds, one is likely to land one's catch — unless,
thor and by Princess Xenia of Montenegro, and as often occurs, a shark takes a hand in the
a good table of contents, make the volume a sport, a tip breaks, or the fish is foul-hooked.
pleasing one.
With less powerful tackle, so the author con-
Mr. F. G. Aflalo, an Englishman, came to tends, the sport would be increased, as more
our country on two ambitious quests : first, to skill would be required. But sometimes, as
meet the President, and, secondly, to catch tar happened to the writer of this book, the heavy
pon on the Florida coast.
Both ambitions were tackle which makes tarpon fishing a comedy
happily attained. Such hospitality and such makes a tragedy in the play of fishing, as when
good luck should have inclined the author to a a shark takes the bait. Mr. Aflalo suffered
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two hours in his boat by a shark which had for the esoteric meaning
for the esoteric meaning — even if thinly veiled
taken the bait, —a grim performance which - of its spiritual content.
made ordinary fishing seem commonplace. Mr. Crane was born in 1845, and his career
Mr. Alexander Macdonald, the author of "In as an artist may be said to have begun while he
Search of El Dorado,” is one of those venture was yet a schoolboy of twelve. He was only thir-
some spirits of our day whose exploits challenge teen when he was apprenticed to the eminent
comparison with the deeds of soldiers of fortune wood-engraver, W. J. Linton, to learn the craft
of earlier times. He has wandered over much of drawing on the wood, in that day a necessary
of the world in search of gold, opals, and pearls, accomplishment for those who intended devoting
and his book recounts his adventures in such themselves to book illustrating. In 1863, an
remotely related lands as the Klondike, the introduction to Mr. Edmund Evans — whose
back-blocks and the Never-Never Land of Aus name deserves wide renown for notable achieve-
tralia, and British New Guinea. Nature, how ment in the development of color-printing - led
ever, has made the balance so even over the to the designing of the children's picture-books
globe, that the seeker for her treasures finds with which, so long as he continues to be known,
sufficient occupation and diversion. The gold- the name of Walter Crane will be associated.
seeker is ever rewarded with a host of tales, if He was but twenty when the first of these books
not with a phethora of wealth ; and of the tales, appeared. Like many so-called children's books,
Mr. Macdonald has garnered his share. At times their refinements in design and coloring were
his adventures are a little too marvellous, the beyond the appreciation of the very young; and,
coincidences a bit too striking, and the luck to quote Mr. Crane's words, they were issued
or ill-luck slightly too much colored; but we can “ not without protest from the publishers, who
appreciate the stories, for they are capitally told. thought the raw coarse colors and vulgar designs
The reader who remembers his boyhood stories usually current appealed to a larger public, and
of the gold-hunters in Australia will enjoy this therefore paid better.”
breezy book.
H. E. COBLENTZ. The distinctive quality of the illustrations
for these books was due in large measure to
the influence of some Japanese color-prints that
REMINISCENCES OF AN ENGLISH ARTIST.*
were presented to the artist by a lieutenant in
the navy, who had recently visited Japan. From
Although not the foremost of living British
the first they found favor in the eyes of people
artists, Mr. Walter Crane enjoys the distinction
of taste, and soon achieved wide popularity.
of being the most widely known. Wherever
Unfortunately, the cost of production made an
the English language is spoken, his name for
edition of at least fifty thousand copies neces-
more than a quarter of a century has been as a
sary to yield a profit to the publishers, and
household word among those to whom art is
their unwillingness to allow Mr. Crane a royalty
something more than a were abstraction. Nor above the price paid him for his designs caused
is his fame confined to his own countrymen and
him to “ strike,” and so about 1875 the series
their cousins in the colonies and in America. It
came to an end. In 1876 - The Baby's Opera
is even greater on the continent of Europe than
was brought out under different auspices ; and
at home; and in Germany, Austria, and Italy, this, meeting with marked success, was followed
in particular, he is the idol of a considerable by “The Baby's Bouquet,
number of the more progressive spirits who Åsop," and, in the course of years, by many
Baby's Own
regard placid acceptance of traditional views as
other picture books to delight grown-up chil-
stifling, and hail Mr. Crane as the leader under
dren if not wee ones.
whose guidance the arts of design shall be Mr. Crane as of less importance than the more
Though considered by
revivified.
ambitious works sent by him to the London ex-
The reason for this lies not so much in the
hibitions, it is nevertheless upon his designs for
quality of the work from Mr. Crane's hand, as
book illustration, for paper hangings, and other
in the fact that almost from the beginning of his
decorative purposes, that his reputation chiefly
career he has been a pioneer. To some extent
rests. It was in these that he marked out a new
also it is attributable to his fertility of ideas, and
to a fondness for allegory which captivates those path, and inspired others quite as much by
who value art less for its æsthetic message than Their teaching was reinforced by a book on
what he suggested as by what he accomplisheil.
AN Artist's REMINISCENCES. By Walter Crane. With one “ The Claims of Decorative Art,” and by numer-
hundred and twenty-three illustrations by the author, and others
from photographs. New York: The Macmillan Co.
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Together with George Clausen, W. Holman “W. J. Linton was in appearance small of stature,
Hunt, and others, Mr. Crane did much to give rather fine and thin, fell in actual locks to his shoulders,
but a very remarkable-looking man. His fair hair,
impetus to a movement begun in 1886 as a pro-
and he wore a long flowing beard and mustache, then
test against the arrogant attitude of the Royal beginning to be tinged with grey. A keen, impulsive-
Academy, which, as Holman Hunt phrased it in looking, highly sensitive face, with kindly blue eyes,
a letter to “The Times,” constituted “a per looked out under the unusually broad brim of a black
• wide awake.' He wore turn-down collars when the
petual injury to art” by helping “ to dazzle the
rest of the world mostly turned them up – a loose con-
feeble judgments of the world as to what is true
tinental-looking necktie, black velvet waistcoat, and a
merit." The idea of an exhibition open to all long-waisted coat of a very peculiar cut, having no
artists, each of whom should be eligible upon traditional two buttons at the junction of the skirts
committees and should have a voice in their at the back, trousers of an antique pattern belonging
selection, appealed strongly to Mr. Crane, who
to the forties,' rather tight at the knees and falling
over Wellington boots with small slits at the sides. He
about this time had become an ardent socialist
had abundance of nervous energy, and moved with a
of the type represented by William Morris. quick, rapid step, coming into the office with a sort of
Through the timidity of many of its supporters, breezy rush, bringing with him always a stimulating
the original idea fell through ; but it bore fruit
sense of vitality. He spoke rapidly in a light-toned
voice, frequently punctuated with a curious dry,
a little later in the formation of the Arts and
obstructed sort of laugh.”
Crafts Exhibition Society, of which Mr. Crane
Amusing anecdote is not abundant in the
was the first president. To the extensive adver-
book, and it is a pity to be obliged to state that
tising this movement received, his popularity on
the continent may in large measure be ascribed, frequent slipshod writing. In this there is some-
as a literary production it is marred by rather
though it would be unfair to hold him responsi-
times entertainment, as when we read :
ble for the eccentricities perpetrated by some of
“ Bateman was the most remarkable draughtsman of
his disciples under the guise of “ Secessionism
flowers among moderns I have seen, after the best
and « L’Art Nouveau.'
Japanese work.”
In the course of an active life and extensive But what shall be said about such a sentence
travel, Mr. Crane has been brought into con as the following ?
tact, and frequently into intimate relations, with
“This had the effect of making me very shy of offer-
many of the distinguished men of his day. It ing any more MS. to editors, though I continued to
might well be expected, therefore, that in “ An write, simply as an outlet for one's thoughts and ideas.”
Artist's Reminiscences” he would give a new Mr. Crane's comments upon both people and
exemplification of the saying that such recol events are always kindly, and are singularly
lections furnish the most fascinating form of free from acrimony. If he ever had fallings-
literary dissipation. Instead, we have a long out with any of his associates, he has seen fit to
autobiography, crowded with trivial detail, in- keep them to himself. In this connection, one
teresting, no doubt, to the circle of those imme incident that he relates is worth repeating for
diately concerned, but not especially enlivening the light it throws upon the view held by Sir
to the world at large. Where detail would be Edward Burne-Jones regarding the work of
of interest it is often lacking. The catalogue another eminent artist.
of eminent people whom he mentions is little “Mr. Leyland of Prince's Gate I also met about this
more than a list of names, casually introduced, time. He was a notable patron of art, and very wealthy,
as in the following example:
but became still more celebrated as the owner of the
“We continued to extend our acquaintanceship in
famous peacock room decorated by Whistler. I recall
a dinner in that room he gave to a company of artists,
Rome, chiefly in the English and American colony. At
most of them exhibitors at the Grosvenor, I think, as
the hotel Molaro, nearly opposite to us, lived Mr. Healy
well as some R.A.'s. Burne-Jones was there, and Val.
and his family. He was an American portrait painter Prinsep, G. H. Boughton, E. J. Poynter, T. Armstrong,
of considerable repute in his own country. They used
Spencer Stanhope (I think), Comyns Carr, and others.
to give evening conversazioni; and I remember on one
I sat next to Burne-Jones, and the conversation happened
occasion, in the spring of 1872, General Sherman, who
to turn on Whistler's work, and I expressed my appre-
had been Commander-in-Chief of the Northern forces
in the American Civil War, was the principal lion, — a
ciation of its artistic quality. I was rather surprised
to find, however, that Burne-Jones could not, or would
tall, thin, keen, but kindly-looking American.”
not, see his merit as an artist, or recognize the differ-
To such brevities of description there are ence of his aims. He seemed to think there was only
naturally many exceptions, and there are occa one right way of painting, and after a little discussion,
sional word-pictures for which we should be he said, with some emphasis, This is the only time we
ever had a difference and — it shall be the last !' I
grateful. One of these — it is too long to be
forgot, or did not realize, that the libel case of Whistler
here given in full — tells of his early master,
v. Ruskin was about to come on, in which Burne-Jones
Mr. Linton.
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fact, though much against the grain, and only under the man whose pleasure is intellectual, London is the
strongest pressure from Ruskin, he undertook to appear place.” It is to this type of man, who loves the Lon-
in court for him. Under the circumstances he could don
squares and streets for their crowding human
hardly afford to allow any credit to Whistler.”
associations — with real people and with imaginary
Admirers of Mr. Crane's art will find scat people, who, thanks to Dickens and Thackeray and
tered through the pages of the volume a very the rest, are no less real, that Mr. Chancellor's
full record of his work in various forms, and scholarly and yet picturesque record will appeal. For
reproductions in black-and-white of many of his such a person it is hard to imagine a more welcome
more important compositions. The book will gift than this leisurely guide to the quiet little squares
be valued for these, but still more as the life-
through which he has often rambled, with a pleasure
record of a man of refined and gentle person-
in the scenes that was vague by comparison with
the vivid enjoyment that Mr. Chancellor's good
ality, who, while keeping well to the fore in the
company will afford him.
storm and stress of a busy world, has yet been
Quite different in its appeal, but equally infused
more truly a dweller in “ the magic world of
with the pungent, compelling charm of London, is
romance and pictured poetry.”
one of Messrs. George W. Jacobs & Co.'s holiday
publications, “The Colour of London, Historic, Per-
sonal, and Local.” The text is written by Mr. W.J.
Loftie, and the illustrations and a quaint essay are
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
furnished by the Japanese artist, Yoshio Markino,
whose career in London is the subject of an appre-
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
ciative introduction by Mr. M. H. Spielmann. Mr.
The residential London Square is essentially an Loftie writes of a few of the myriad aspects of Lon-
English institution. Those groups of private houses, don, — its color, in the broadest sense of the word,
whose inhabitants have a sort of prescriptive right its boundaries and districts, its fashionable quarters
over the iron-fenced park or garden on which their past and present, its curious names, its pleasant parks,
residences abut, have no counterpart in any other its quaint records and its quainter corporation gov-
quarter of the globe. And they are as fascinating ernment, – treating them all in a delightfully sug-
as they are unique, — these pleasant green oases set gestive fashion, with a true feeling for the oddities
in the thick of the noisy and murky city. It is of and ramifications of his subject. The artist's essay
these residential Squares, far more numerous than is an amusingly naïve account of his impressions of
the uninformed reader would believe, that Mr. E. London and its people, of his artistic experiences
Beresford Chancellor has written, entitling his study there, and particularly of his delight in the London
“The History of the Squares of London, Topo- fog, with its mystically beautifying influence on line
graphical and Historical” (Lippincott). The stout and color. Like all Japanese artists, Mr. Markino
quarto volume is handsomely bound, and thirty-six makes only skeleton sketches on the spot, filling them
photogravure illustrations reproduce quaint old up later from memory and aiming at essential truth
prints, engravings, and drawings, picturing the rather than accuracy of detail. His studies of Lon-
Squares in by-gone days. “It has been absolutely don are neither Japanese nor European, but a blend
impossible to be exhaustive in the treatment of the of the two. It seems unlikely that full justice has
different Squares," writes Mr. Chancellor in his pre been done their delicate coloring in the printing, but
face. “What I have attempted to do, is to set down even so they are pretty, quaint, striking, and sugges-
their history, to describe their formation, to trace tive of new values. Some of the best are night-scenes
the occupancy of their houses to interesting, notable, done in sepia. The subjects vary from “Sunday
and, in some cases, notorious people, and here and Morning in Petticoat Lane,” “ The Flower-Sellers,
there to enliven a mere dull enumeration of names Piccadilly," and "Sloan Square on a Wet Day," to
and dates by some story or anecdote which may “Tourists before St. Paul's Cathedral,” “A Winter
seem to be not wholly out of place in a book of this Afternoon, Chelsea Embankment,” and “The Porch
character. Had I attempted to do more than this, of the Carlton Hotel at Night.” The enterprising
the result would have been stupendous, for it is a young Japanese, that is to say, seems to know all
fact that, taken as a whole, the history of the Squares parts of his beloved London, and to have observed
of London and their inhabitants, past and present, it with the stranger's open-mindedness and the
makes a large inroad on the literary, the artistic, and artist's sensitiveness to effect.
the political annals of the country.” The most fam It is seldom, even in these days of unique and
ous Squares are treated separately, the others are beautiful travel books, that anything so thoroughly
discussed in neighborhood groups. Mr. Chancellor's delightful as Mr. Edward Penfield's “Holland
account of his style is too modest. There is very Sketches” (Scribner) is published. The illustra-
little indeed in his book that can accurately be called tions, some of which have already appeared in con-
“dull enumeration," and there are plenty of anec nection with the "Sketches” in Scribner's Magazine,
dotes, bits of forgotten history, and curious reminis are of course in the poster style, which Mr. Penfield
“ London is nothing to some people,” Mr. originated in America, and which he has developed,
Chancellor quotes Dr. Johnson as saying, “but to a both artistically and mechanically, in a manner quite
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his own. Nothing could be better suited to his style It is now more than forty years since Mr. William
than the quaint Dutch peasants in their baggy trousers Dean Howells published his “Venetian Life,” but
or voluminous skirts, picturesque caps, and clumsy the flood of travel-literature that has followed in
wooden sabots. Queer little by-streets, flapping wind its wake has not thrust it from its assured place in
mills on the banks of quiet canals, fishing smacks American letters. In fitting recognition of this fact
with patched brown sails, “interiors" hung with Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have issued a beau-
Delft and old brasses, these are the things that tiful new edition, for which twenty full-page illustra-
Mr. Penfield paints and writes about. Geographi- tions in color have been furnished by Mr. Edmund
cally speaking, he does not go far from the beaten H. Garrett. The typography and general plan of
path in his wanderings through Holland; but he the volume were placed in the hands of Mr. Bruce
never has a beaten-track experience, even when he Rogers, designer of the Riverside Press editions,
travels to Marken on the regular tourists' steamer. and it is needless to say that the result is a book of
He went from Rotterdam to Friesland in a “boeier,” rare distinction. Mr. Howells has done his part by
which is a real Dutch freight-boat, willing to carry adding to and revising his impressions and by writ-
stray passengers and advertised to sail •
any time ing a personal introduction, addressed “ to the read-
to-day.” Any time to-day!”” Mr. Penfield com er's private eye,” which chronicles the history of his
ments. “How delightfully Dutch! Everyone has time maiden adventure in the field of pure literature, and
to talk and smoke, and no one is ever in a hurry. For comments, with delightful humor, upon the author's
a life of elegant leisure, commend me to Holland.” | early style and youthful point of view. Mr. Garrett's
Thus at every point Mr. Penfield shows himself in illustrations make a worthy and harmonious com-
sympathy with the situation in which he finds him- plement to the text, though, necessarily limiting
self, whether he is spending a lonely “ Christmas at themselves to its pictorial interest. It is the peculiar
Café Spaander,” poking around the side-streets of charm of Mr. Howells's interpretation of Venice
Amsterdam, or buying a sandwich in“ The Magenta that it is not limited to these aspects; the beauty
Village” of a woman who refuses to understand of the city of lagoons, the humor and the picturesque-
his Dutch but capitulates to his realistically colored ness of its social life, and the wealth of its historical
drawing of bread and cheese.
associations are combined in his pages to form a
A book like "Poets' Country” (Lippincott), which signally complete and sympathetic interpretation of
aims to trace the relations of some English poets a fascinating theme.
with the aspects of “their ain countrie," and to pic Most of the travel-books mentioned in this article
ture these scenes in beautiful colored illustrations, describe regions likely to be familiar to many of their
might easily degenerate into a purely mechanical readers, who will enjoy living over their own experi-
performance. But with Mr. Andrew Lang as editor, ences while they share those of the authors. But
and joint contributor with Professor J. Churton "The Savage South Seas" (Macmillan), painted by
Collins, and Messrs. E. Hartley Coleridge, W. J. Mr. Norman Hardy and described by Mr. E. Way
Loftie, and Michael Macmillan, and with Mr. Elkington, will attract by virtue of the novelty of
Francis S. Walker supplying fifty oil paintings for its theme. The material of the book is arranged
colored reproduction, “ Poets’ Country” cannot fail under three headings — British New Guinea, the
to possess substantial literary and artistic merits. Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides. There
Mr. Lang's preface points out that there are poets are sixty colored page-plates, portraying the island
and poets ; some who are nomads from birth, loving scenery and the native types and manners and cus-
strange lands better than their own, some, like toms in a great variety of aspects. As is fortunately
Shelley, whose country is the “Land of Dreams," coming more and more to be the rule nowadays, the
but others, like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, text of the book is well worthy of the pains that have
Drayton, or Tennyson, who found their highest been taken to beautify it. Mr. Elkington is not a
inspiration in the familiar English scenes among tourist writing impressions caught snap-shot fashion
which their lives were spent. However, the dreamers over a steamer railing. Sixteen years ago he took
and the wanderers have not been excluded from this his first trip to New Zealand, where he tried gold
book; and some of the essays which show how little and gum digging, cattle-driving, and journalism.
a poet may know about nature are quite as illumin Since then he has travelled around the world, and
ating as those devoted to the poets who were patient has already published several volumes reminiscent
and loving students of her many moods. The of his South Sea experiences. He does not state
authors and the illustrator have varied their methods any of these facts in the text, which is a purely
to suit a wide range of subjects, and yet each con impersonal narrative ; but the authoritative tone and
tribution is distinctive of its author's individuality. the evidently intimate knowledge of native customs
The book is one to delight lovers of poetry and are proof positive of something beyond a cursory
lovers of the English country. There are twenty- observation of life among the islanders.
four essays, discussing as many poets or groups of “ From Gretna Green to Land's End" (Crowell)
poets, and varied authorship gives them both variety is a book that readers who look forward to a trip
and authority. The illustrations are intrinsically abroad will enjoy and that returned travellers will
beautiful, and are, besides, excellent examples of the thoroughly appreciate. Miss Katherine Lee Bates
best modern color-printing.
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lent illustrations made from photographs especially nounced. Among the many things that pleased her
taken for this book. Miss Bates writes informally rather uncritical taste were good-looking men. She
of her summer wanderings through the west of happened upon one at Angers, met him again at
England. History, ballad lore, “open-air delights,” Saumur, helped him to explore Poitiers, after
and particularly literary associations, are touched having been properly introduced by some friends
upon in informal, intimate fashion, the variety of who appeared opportunely in a motor car,—definitely
scenes visited making possible a delightful variety abandoned the book at Carcassonne, and at Tarascon
of impressions. Miss Bates does not get far off the accepted the man, who promised that she should
beaten tracks, but her experiences are not the casual continue to travel as she pleased and should write
ones of the hurried summer tourist. Her reminis ten books about each trip if she wanted to.
cences have a leisurely atmosphere; and she de It would be hard to imagine a more delightful
scribes several unique sights like the Ambleside and and appropriate subject for a lavishly illustrated
Grasmere rush-bearings and some out-of-the-way book of travel than the Riviera. Its possibilities
villages in Devonshire and Cornwall.
have been utilized to the full by Mr. William Scott,
No doubt all cities are complex, meaning a differ who is both author and artist of “The Riviera,"
ent thing and making a different appeal to each just published by the Macmillan Company. As is
observer; but perhaps none is quite so subtle or so perhaps inevitable when the character of the subject
many-sided as Paris. In “Nooks and Corners of is considered, the book is chiefly notable for its illus-
Old Paris” (Lippincott) M. Georges Cain introduces trations. These depict both the gaiety and the quaint-
us to a Paris that probably no one else knows as well ness of the region, its tropically luxuriant vegetation,
as he. M. Cain is curator of the Carnavalet Museum, its crags and castles, and its changeful blue sea. Alto-
which houses the historic collections of the city of gether they give a complete and artistic picture of
Paris. Of the object of his book he writes: “Seek the region which some one has called the loveliest
ing only the rare, if not the never-yet-brought-to-garden-spot of the earth. The text is filled with
light, we would simply give to those who, like us, information, and it is hard to think of a phase of the
adore our old City a little of the joy we have each subject that it does not touch upon, from accounts
day in strolling' about this incomparable Town. of the early inhabitants to descriptions of Riviera
Our object is to continue, by means of walks through tourists and “chit-chat” about the characteristic
what remains to us of the dear old Paris, the series delicacies of the Riviera hotels. Three chapters,
of documents painted, pencilled, or engraved, which one on the French Riviera and two on the Northern
are contained in the Carnavalet Museum. . . It is and Southern stretches of the Italian coast, give the
a delightful nook in which still throbs a little of the intending traveller a cursory glance at the many
old soul of the great City!” There is nothing aloof stopping-places from which he may take his choice;
or academic in M. Cain's account of the landmarks while a general chapter entitled “The Sunny South”
of the Paris of by-gone days; he takes his readers gives a bird's-eye view of the whole region and
on four delightful rambles through four divisions of suggests some unexplored corners of it and some
the region that held the germs of the great city of unconventional points of view for the consideration
to-day. The book is artistically illustrated from of the traveller who wishes to see things with his
photographs, etchings, drawings, and water-colors, own eyes.
some from the Carnavalet and other historic collec “Mexico and Her People To-day" (Page) is a
tions, others showing modern views of the old quar book of up-to-date information of a miscellaneous
ters. This notice would be sadly incomplete should sort about a nation concerning which, though she
it conclude without some mention of the long and stands at our very doors, most of us know very little.
delightful introduction contributed by M. Victorien As Mr. Nevin A. Winter, author of the book, puts
Sardou, who gives many entertaining reminiscences it, Every schoolboy knows of Loch Katrine and
of the Paris of his childhood and youth.
Loch Lomond in bonnie Scotland, and most people
“ A Spring Fortnight in France" (Dodd, Mead), are familiar with the location of Lago di Como in
by Miss Josephine Tozier, is a sprightly combina- Italy. And yet I should not be surprised if fair-
tion of romantic fiction and traveller's impressions. sized towns could be found in the United States
Angela Victoria, its protagonist, is a delightful where no one could tell whether such a body of water
wanderer, who
goes where she pleases, sees what she as Lake Chapala existed or not. As a matter of
pleases, and always has a good time. In her own fact, it is ten times as large as all the lakes of
charming fashion she visits Le Mans, Poitiers, Northern Italy combined; and it embraces islands
Carcassonne, Arles, Tarascon, and half a dozen other larger than the entire surface of Loch Lomond.”
cities of Southern France, and many excellent illus This is probably a fair example of the popular ignor-
trations from photographs show characteristic views ance about Mexican geography, and it undoubtedly
of them. Angela Victoria had an object in making extends to the resources of the country and their
her journey. She had been intending ever since state of development, if not to the customs and
she was sixteen to write a book; and at thirty-six characteristics of the people. The author's preface
she had finally gotten as far as to decide that it calls attention to the fact that many of the best books
should be a book of travel. But, as usual, Angela about Mexico are now out of print, while American
Victoria did the unexpected — or at least the unan interest in the Mexican situation and the progres-


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sive movement among the Mexicans make a new the writings of Fromentin sufficiently attest; that
work, whose aim is to give reliable information Mr. Cox is an artist of equal catholicity of judgment
rather than to advance radical theories, particularly is proved by the present volume, in which the artist-
timely. The book is illustrated by some fifty photo-
critic touches upon
“ The Education of an Artist,”
graphs, reproduced in sepia. These were taken by “The Pollaiuoli,” “Painters of the Mode,” “Hol-
the author and his travelling companion, Mr. C. R. bein,” “The Rembrandt Tercentenary," "Rodin,"
Birt.
and “Lord Leighton.” Through these pages we
ART AND ARCHITECTURE.
are helped to acquaintance with the artists whose
Miss Estelle M. Hurll's volume on “ Portraits and names figure in the chapter, headings, shown their
Portrait Painting” (Page) deals with a branch of art points of view, and given a general insight into their
which the amateur student is likely to find both diffi pictorial methods and motives. It is a careful and
cult of approach and unattractive; and accordingly
detailed work, which will of course appeal especially
it has been generally avoided by the writers of popu.
to students of art, the numerous illustrations being
lar art-manuals. Miss Hurll, however, has braved valuable adjuncts to an appreciation of the great
prejudice and chosen the field of portraiture for ex masters' work. With these, and a tasteful binding,
ploitation in her latest book. The studies are effec the volume is one of the attractive holiday books of
tively illustrated in sepia half-tones, which reproduce
the season.
a representative collection of great portraits, from “ Famous Painters of America” (Crowell), by Mr.
Botticelli's time to Sargent's. A brief but very signi- J. Walker McSpadden, is a book about painters rather
ficant introduction puts the tyro right upon the gen than a book about painting. Eleven men
eral principles of portrait-painting, suggesting the Copley, Stuart, Inness, Vedder, Winslow, Homer,
correspondence between portraiture and literary La Farge, Whistler, Sargent, Abbey, and Chase —
biography, explaining the interpretative, æsthetic, are the subjects of as many biographical sketches.
and photographic purposes of the art, the difference The author's aim is to give a readable, picturesque
between the subjective and objective methods, and account of the artists as men, telling how their im-
the general relation between the painter and his time pulse to paint first showed itself, how they worked
and environment. With these interests in mind, the behind their easels, and how they lived among their
reader embarks the more readily upon the main friends. There is only the most casual effort to
body of the text, which is a brief survey of portrait appraise an artist's work or estimate his standing,
painting from the Middle Ages to the present, show though the story of the origin of a picture is given,
ing what each age and nationality has contributed where it has a human interest, and there are some
to the art, with some information about the people descriptions of paintings, but always from the prac-
who, often quite by chance, have been fortunate tical observer's point of view. Mr. McSpadden is
enough to be the subjects of famous portraits. “It a lively chronicler, and understands the art of telling
is impossible to put one's finger upon a definite date an effective anecdote, as well as of judicious quota-
for the origin of portrait painting,” Miss Hurll ex tion from memoirs, autobiography, and magazine
plains, because it grew gradually out of religious reminiscences. There is a bibliography for the use of
figure-painting; but the general reader will be well students who wish to pursue their researches further,
satisfied to begin with the Italian painters of the and forty excellent pictures of the painters and their
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Titian, Dürer, work. The make-up of the book is decidedly attrac-
Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyke, Frans Hals, Rem tive, and while its point of view is popular there is
brandt, and Velasquez are accorded detailed study, nothing superficial about its method.
and there are general chapters dealing with schools The season's addition to Messrs. L. C. Page & Co.'s
and tendencies. The ability, already noticed in con guides to the art galleries of Europe is “The Art
nection with the preface, to hold the reader's inter of the Prado," written by Mr. Charles S. Ricketts.
est by a crisp style, and by a skilful presentation of It is uniform with other volumes in the series, bound
salient points and large issues, is evident throughout in cloth, appropriately decorated, and profusely
the book, which is an unusually satisfactory example illustrated with full-page plates in duogravure. The
of its class.
Prado gallery is probably one of the least known,
The preface to the first edition of Mr. Kenyon as it is certainly one of the most interesting, among
Cox's "Old Masters and New,” published without the world's great treasure-houses of art.
In a suc-
illustrations in 1905, gave promise of a future edition, cinct introductory chapter, Mr. Ricketts explains the
augmented and enlarged, in which those masters and general character of the collection, which he de-
others, old and new, should be treated of. The pub scribes as less complete and constructive than the
lishers decided, however, that an entirely different Louvre, wider in range than the galleries of Venice,
collection of
essays should be offered, rather than an Milan, or Antwerp, -as a whole the result of magni-
enlarged edition of the first series, and “Painters ficent art patronage exercised, at particularly for-
and Sculptors” (Duffield), handsomely bound and tunate moments and without too much national bias,
profusely illustrated with upwards of a hundred full to produce "a gallery of masterpieces."
page reproductions, many from rare and inaccessible these, the collection is rich in works of Rubens,
originals, is the result. That an artist may be quite Titian, and the Italian painters of the sixteenth and
as broad-minded in his views of art as any layman, seventeenth centuries; while all the greatest pictures


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covers
of Velasquez, with four or five exceptions, are to be distinctly day-off philosophy. Among the nature
found here, and there is no other place where the essays and animal stories, “Silver-horns ” will pro-
specialist can study the Spanish school. On the other bably raise fresh doubts in the minds of some
hand, Van Dyke's portrait work is poorly represented, naturalists, while “ Little Red Tom” is labelled “A
and there is an almost total absence of Italian Prim- | Contribution to the Fight about Nature Books.” A
itives, except Fra Angelico and Mantegna. When number of attractively tinted illustrations and an
he embarks upon detailed criticism, Mr. Ricketts is artistic cover-design give a decorative touch to a
fortunate in his ability to awaken and to hold his volume that is sure to be a favorite with holiday
readers' attention. He apportions his space about shoppers.
evenly between the Spanish painters and the out One of the prettiest novelettes of this season, as
siders, so to speak. He does not burden his pages well as one of the most delightful from a literary
with detail unintelligible to everyone except the few point of view, is Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin's “The
who read his book in direct connection with their Old Peabody Pew" (Houghton). It appears in
visits to the Prado; and he does understand how to holiday dress with colored illustrations by Miss Alice
give his criticism a turn which is at once illuminat Barber Stephens, and festive page decorations and
ing and suggestive. The plates are of excellent end-papers in color. Mrs. Wiggin's sub-title, “A
quality, and their subjects are wisely chosen. Christmas Romance of a Country Church,” states
Since Mr. Gibson withdrew from the field of tersely the three elements that combine to produce
black-and-white illustration, Mr. Harrison Fisher the simple little story's charm. There is the Christ-
has taken his place as the matinee-idol, so to speak, mas spirit, which makes the book an especially
among illustrators, and the painter par excellence of appropriate holiday gift, there is romance, - the
the beautiful American girl and the well-dressed and inevitable feature of successful fiction, and there
well-groomed men who naturally dog her footsteps. is the genuine atmosphere of old New England, easy
This account of the matter is fair neither to Mr. enough to counterfeit, but very difficult to reproduce
Gibson nor Mr. Fisher, because it allows popularity in a fashion that will create the illusion of reality for
of subject matter and facility of style to obscure those who have intimate knowledge of the quiet little
masterly workmanship, a gift for pictorial anecdote, villages clustering about their white-spired churches,
and a keen appreciation of the “human comedy” of with their Dorcas Societies, their Peabody Pews,
life and love. “The Harrison Fisher Book” of pic- and their humble romances. The story appeared
tures, which Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons publish, some two years ago in one of the magazines; in
contains work in both black-and-white and in color,
especially in covers as pretty as those
including illustrations of popular novels, pictures which have been provided for it — it is sure to find
which have appeared in various magazines, and many hosts of new readers.
drawings hitherto unpublished, -altogether a repre Holly” is a Southern girl, beautiful of course,
sentative selection from the artist's best work. The and fascinating to the verge of distraction, while
cover-design is a “Harrison Fisher girl” done in color. her inexperience, her orphaned state, and her “re-
duced circumstances” lend the needed touch of
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF FICTION.
pathos to the portrait. Holly lived in a house which
Dr. Henry van Dyke has found an extremely she supposed was her own, but which really, through
tempting title for his new volume of stories and a series of curious accidents, belonged to a certain
essays. “Days Off and Other Digressions” (Scribner) Mr. Winthrop of Boston. He, supposing it to be
suggests all sorts of vague and therefore delightful empty, came down to Florida to occupy his
prop-
possibilities, which Dr. van Dyke brings to realiza erty during a much needed vacation - and found
tion in his characteristically charming fashion. The Holly. His invalid state disarmed Holly of her sec-
introductory essay states that “A day off is a day tional prejudices, but there are plenty of other com-
that a man takes to himself,” explains this thesis, plications — including an irascible Southern suitor
and suggests modestly that the essays interspersed approved by all Holly's friends -- to make a lively
among the stories, on day-off opinions and preju- story. It is related by Mr. Ralph Henry Barbour,
dices, are merely chapters to be read or skipped, as well known as a writer of clever novelettes. Being
the reader's day-off humor pleases. Furthermore, longer and more ambitious than his previous efforts, it
nothing in the book is meant “to prove anything, is natural that it should not be quite so well finished.
or convince anybody, or convey any profitable in Nevertheless “Holly” is a pretty story, prettily
struction "; it is only a book to “browse through” | bound, and illustrated in line and color by Mr. Edwin
in one's days off. The first story, with its ironic F. Bayha. (Lippincott.)
title, “A Holiday in a Vacation,” certainly belongs Gallantry” (Harper) is the odd title bestowed
in the book. The next is a “ Fisherman's Luck" by Mr. James Branch Cabell upon a collection of
tale, telling how Bolton Chichester of the Petrine twelve of his eighteenth century tales, reprinted,
Club went fishing when he was engaged to be mar with considerable additions, from various magazines.
ried, and thereby met with a singular adventure. One of them, “In the Second April,” was accom-
“ Books that I Loved as a Boy,” “ Notions about panied, when it appeared in “ Harper's Magazine,"
Novels,” and “ The Art of Leaving Off” are written by four colored illustrations done by Mr. Howard
in informal conversational style, and are based on Pyle. These are reproduced with the new version.


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even
The distinctive character of Mr. Cabell's short-story especially colored. Great pains have been taken with
type is too well known to need much comment. His the color-printing, and special mounts are used for
stories are studies of temperament, of epochs, of the colored and the more ambitious line-drawings.
“precious” stylistic effects ; but the story-interest The text has been entirely re-set, and the binding is
invariably remains strong. “Gallantry,” it appears buckram with decorations in gilt. But these details
from the quaint “ Epistle Dedicatory to Mrs. are of small moment compared with the essential fact
Grundy,” is Mr. Cabell's characterization of the atti that Mr. Rackham has caught the fantastic humor
tude of the eighteenth century towards life. His of the “ Legends ” so perfectly that one feels for the
description of the gallant is a bit of very pretty first time his full
power. “Rip Van Winkle” and
writing in prose, pleasantly suggestive, as is the “ Peter Pan” furnished him with a relatively
versified prologue, of Mr. Andrew Lang.
small opportunity. Therefore admirers of Mr
“ My Lady Caprice,” by Mr. Jeffery Farnol, has Rackham's very individual style will prefer these
already been printed in magazine form under another drawings to any of his previous work; and persons
title “Chronicles of the Imp.” It is now pub- who have been doubtful about the legitimacy of his
lished by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. with four effects and inclined to object to the loose rein he
colored pictures by Miss Charlotte Weber Ditzler, gives his imagination will find in the Rackham
besides decorated headings and page-borders, and a Ingoldsby Legends” further evidence on which
pretty cover from which the “ Lady Caprice” her to base their distaste.
self, done in facsimile of a gold-framed miniature, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. honor the cen-
looks mockingly out at the reader. The comedy of tennial of Longfellow's birth by the publication of
which she is heroine is set in London and at Selwyn a new illustrated edition of “The Hanging of the
Park, country-seat of the attractive young English- Crane," daintily bound and elegantly printed.
man whom a titled aunt of the capricious Miss publisher's note repeats Thomas Bailey Aldrich's
Elizabeth has selected as her niece's future husband. interesting account of the origin of the poem, and
But the Imp, who is Elizabeth's nephew, and the explains that the dozen illustrations, which are done
hero, who tells his own story, conspire to defeat this in color by Mr. Arthur I. Keller, were actually
plan. The Imp is decidedly the most ingenious and made at Craigie House, where the poem was written
interesting person in the book, but the Lady's posi and most of the scenes which it relates were enacted.
tion as the central figure in the romance furnishes The colonial architecture of the house also furnishes
good warrant for giving her the title-rôle.
motives for many of the text decorations by Miss
In the “ Little Novels of Famous Cities” series Florence Swan. It is needless to say that the
(Stokes) appears Mr. Duffield Osborne's pretty story edition is mechanically a very beautiful one, well
of old-time Perugia, entitled “ The Angels of Messer worthy of the anniversary that calls it forth.
Ercole.” The small size of the book, its decorated One of the prettiest of the season's holiday
cover and page-borders, and the sepia-tinted illus- productions is Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co.'s
trations — from photographs of Perugia, her master illustrated translation of “Immensee," Theodore
painters, and their works — are the holiday features Storm's idyllic masterpiece. Mr. George P. Upton,
of the edition. The story, which has been printed the translator, furnishes, besides a singularly grace-
before, relates how Ercole da Passigno, humble pupil ful rendering of the text, an interesting apprecia-
in painting of Pietro Vannucci, “The Perugian," tion of Storm and his work. The illustrations and
became a bold lover, daring to lift his eyes to the decorations are done by Margaret and Helen
golden-haired Princess Ottavia Baglioni; and how Maitland Armstrong, whose artistic cooperation is
between them they defied “coward caution and the responsible for some of our most beautiful decorated
pride of princes” and made their dream of love editions. The water-lily, which was Reinhardt's
come true.
symbol for his lost love, is the decorative motive on
pages and cover. Nine delicately tinted illustrations
STANDARD LITERATURE IN HOLIDAY FORM.
reflect the lyric sentiment and restrained pathos of
Undoubtedly the most sumptuous of the illustrated the text.
new editions of ihe year is Messrs. Dutton's reprint “Old comedies are mostly those which, in spite
of “The Ingoldsby Legends," with pictures by Mr. of their being more than a hundred years old, are
Arthur Rackham. Mr. Rackham's illustrations for yet lively and sprightly enough to amuse a modern
“ Peter Pan” were so popular last fall as to create audience.” So writes Mr. Brander Matthews in an
an urgent demand for more of his work, new or old; appreciative introduction to a new illustrated edi-
and accordingly a small English edition of “The tion of “The Rivals” (Crowell). There is no ques-
Ingoldsby Legends,” published in 1898, has been tion that “The Rivals” is “lively and sprightly
used as a basis, so to speak, of a new definitive edi enough” to please modern audiences, and modern
tion. That is, some of the pen-and-ink drawings in readers too. Mr. Power O'Malley has illustrated
the earlier edition have been reproduced for the new the play for the present edition in a fashion to em-
one, with more or less re-drawing and on a larger phasize both its old-time quaintness and its sparkling
scale to conform to the quarto size of the issue. humor. His eighteen pictures are reproduced in
Many of the twenty-four colored illustrations are photogravure, except the frontispiece, which is col-
quite new, and the rest have been worked over and ored. Typography and binding are artistic.


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ance.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons publish a beautiful from tribe to tribe ; offering friendship, and every-
holiday reprint of George Wither's “Christmas where meeting a warm response and hearty coopera-
Carroll,” with pictures and ornamental text done by tion in her work, in which her part was planned to
Mr. Frank T. Merrill. The “ Carroll ” is printed be that of “the white friend come to be the pencil
twice, once in ornamental lettering, a couplet or a in the hand of the Indians.” She carried to the
quatrain to a page, with dainty pen-and-ink drawings camps and villages only a note-book and pencil, a
above and below it and on the opposite page; and camera, and a color-box for the use of the Indians;
again in type, plain and unadorned, at the back of and she wrote down their songs and stories as she
the book. A brief note on the poet's life is also listened to them “by the light of the tipi fire or
included. The end-leaves of this edition are espe under the glare of the desert sun, in adobe houses
cially attractive; and so is the cover, which depends while the women ground the corn, or in the open
upon fancy lettering and color for its adornment. camp where after some festival or ceremonial
A particularly attractive Christmas anthology is gathering a leader re-sang for the book a character-
that compiled by Miss Ina Russelle Warren, chiefly istic song.” She respected their superstitions and
from the work of the older English poets. Of course reserves, tried to represent all types of thought and
there is no possibility of finding all one's old favor all sides of life, especially to get at the primitive
ites in so small a collection, but there will surely be motives and notions of a primitive race, and to re-
several of them in“Under the Holly Bough” (Jacobs). cord the stories and songs of the very oldest men.
The book is illustrated with sepia half-tones, separ These were often entirely unknown to the younger
ately mounted. The cover-decoration is a sort of tribesmen, and sometimes were even told in archaic
composite of mistletoe and holly, the leaves being of language. Perhaps the best recommendation that
the holly shape, but the berries, for some strange Miss Curtis's work as editor, translator, and musical
reason, colored white instead of red.
transcriber can have is the Indians' testimony that
her book “speaks with the straight tongue," and the
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY Books.
eagerness with which they have awaited its appear-
Unique among the publications of this or any year
To most of its white readers the book will
is “The Indians' Book," "recorded and edited” by be a revelation of the vaguely stirring genius and
Miss Natalie Curtis, and published with every pos the art, mystic in its intent, spontaneous in its
sible advantage of typography and color-printing symbolism, of a child race.
by Messrs. Harper & Brothers. The title-page de It seems almost incredible, in view of the recent
scribes the book as “an offering by the American popularity of biography, that John Harvard's life
Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to should have waited until now to be written. But
form a record of the songs and legends of their the fact is that while his name became a household
race,” with illustrations from photographs and from word in America long before George Washington's,
original drawings by Indians. There is a curious absolutely nothing was known about him save that
foreword by Hiamori, Chief among the Cheyennes he was a minister of God and “gave gifts”; so that
and the Dakotas, and one of the most enthusiastic when in 1842, James Savage offered a reward of five
and helpful of the contributors to the work. “I hundred dollars for five lines of information about
want all Indians and white men to read,” he says, John Harvard in any private or public capacity, no
“and learn how the Indians lived and thought in one could claim it. Since then, however, the baptis-
the olden time, and may it bring holy-good upon the mal entry in the archives of St. Saviour's Church,
younger Indians to know of their fathers. A little Southwark, has been discovered, and assiduous re-
while, and the old Indians will no longer be, and search has unearthed some other facts and suggested
the
young
will be even as white men." This is, in many
theories. And now comes the first biography,
brief, the double purpose of the book; its originality written by Mr. Henry C. Shelley and entitled “John
consists in the fact that Miss Curtis has literally Harvard and His Times” (Little, Brown & Co.).
done nothing but collect, edit, and arrange contri “The pioneer is liable to take a wrong trail now and
butions actually made by the Indians. The songs then,” explains Mr. Shelley, modestly, in his pre-
and stories are theirs, chosen by the chiefs of the face; “ and some allowances will no doubt be made
different tribes and their people, often after long on that score.” But Mr. Shelley shows himself ac-
and earnest consideration, as being the most worthy curate and unbiased in stating his slender store of
to be preserved among the lore of the tribe. The absolutely determined facts, and singularly clever
drawings, cover-design, and title-pages are all the in piecing them together and eking them out with
free-hand work of Indians, although sometimes ingenious possibilities. One of the most interest-
they have used an inverted basket to form a circle. ing of these is involved in his attempt to prove,
The interesting lettering on the tribal title-pages, by a chain of circumstantial evidence, that the par-
of which there are twenty-four, each with a char ents of John Harvard were introduced to each other
acteristic symbolic design by a member of the tribe, by William Shakespeare. Throughout his account
was done by Miss Angel De Cora of the Winnebagoes, he aims to "place" John Harvard in his environ-
art instructor at the Carlisle Indian School. Miss ment, English and American, and thus to make a
Curtis's Introduction explains how she collected firm background for the somewhat attenuated out-
her material, going by rail, wagon, or on horseback line sketch, which further investigation may modify


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or fill out. The biography is appropriately bound in from the story will enjoy the book just as much,
Harvard crimson, with the Harvard crest and other since boys are boys the world over. The memories
decorations in gold, and there are a number of inter of district-school, based on Mr. Johnson's experiences
esting and apposite illustrations from photographs. and those of his friends, are also written informally,
“There were once two people who supposed that as the story of one child's school-days. Both books
they had lived a happy life. To be sure, the Man gain a unique interest from the fact that the life they
Had Always Wanted a Farm, and the Woman Had picture is passing away; district schools are being
Never Wanted a Country House; but they had jogged deserted, the telephone and the rural mail service
along in comfortable and contented fashion for years have altered the distinctive tone of New England
and
years, until that fateful moment when they farm life, and it is now if ever that the record of the
walked one day in a forest.” So Mrs. Frances older period must be written. Mr. Johnson does not
Kinsley Hutchinson begins her account of “Our explain how he got his photographs of old-time boys
Country Home” (McClurg) which the man who had and girls. Most likely he hunted out suitable sub-
always wanted a farm, and the woman who had jects in some remote corner of rural New England.
changed her mind about having a country house, But however obtained, the pictures are certainly
together built and beautified. The forest which in- interesting and effective.
spired them was a bit of Wisconsin woodland along Mrs. Lucy Fitch Perkins assures us that she is a loyal
the shore of a lovely little lake. They bought seventy- Westerner, but her “Book of Joys” (McClurg) tells of
two acres of it, and leaving all but a small part un aspring and summer spent in two quaint New England
touched except for a roadway leading through it, villages, in old houses of the sort that stand far back
planned a house and garden for the part bordering from the street, shaded by elms and pines, with lilac
on the lake. An architect and a landscape gardener bushes along the front path and apple-trees, laden
were called in to draw up a general scheme, but the with flowers or fruit in season, in the back yard.
owners constituted themselves a consulting staff, in Mrs. Perkins is keenly alive to both the delights and
which was vested the final authority. They were in the limitations of the old-school New England life,
no hurry to finish their house; they realized that seeing it with the clear eyes of an alien who is
as a matter of fact it could never be finished, and sympathetic to its charm but fully conscious of its
that, if it should ever seem to be so, the fun would whimsicalities and oddities. Being city-bred, Mrs.
be over.
Pictures of the house in its first and second Perkins feels the lack of congenial society in the
years, of an upstairs porch before and after three country, but with characteristic optimism she finds
years of vine culture, and of the formal garden in compensation in a more intimate acquaintance with
its various stages, show that a woodland home can cats and dogs and other live-stock; and," she adds,
not be made, but must grow.
The illustrations in “if one agreed with the misanthropist who said that
the volume, which are made from photographs by the more he saw of men the better he liked dogs, it
the author, are a decided feature of interest. There might he considered a fair exchange." However,
are nearly two hundred of them, picturing the house the neighborhood of Marston Hill is not a solitude.
from various vantage-points and showing many in There are Cousin Henrietta and her husband, who
teresting bits of detail, practical as well as artistic. own the place; there is Barney Bump, who helped
Mrs. Hutchinson tells her story most entertainingly, build them a rustic pergola, expostulating, mean-
giving many suggestions to readers who are inter- while, that "it looked so wild you'd expect gorillars
ested in having country homes of their own. to come out on it any minute"; and there is the
Mr.Clifton Johnson may be unfailingly relied upon
“ little dove-colored lady” who had a distractingly
to add a volume or two to each year's quota of illus beautiful old-fashioned garden, but whose ideas about
trated books, for which, with versatility unusual in Chicago temporarily snapped the summer's spell of
these days of specialization he furnishes both text and joy for Mrs. Perkins. And at the old homestead
illustrations. This year, instead of exploring some there were a Bride and Groom Elect, and a large
new field with note-book and camera, Mr. Johnson family party gathered to attend their wedding, which
has chosen to revise and greatly enlarge two of his furnishes a fitting climax to the summer's pleasures.
early volumes, first issued some ten years ago and Mrs. Perkins, being hitherto known rather as an
now published as companion volumes by Messrs. artist than as an author, has naturally chosen to
T. Y. Crowell & Co. The titles are “The Farmer's illustrate “ A Book of Joys” herself, providing five
Boy” and “The Country School.” Mr. Johnson full-page drawings in color, and for a cover design an
was a New England farmer's boy, and he firmly inset colored picture of an elm-shaded farm-house.
believes that there is more fun in being that particu People who like old furniture and who like still
lar kind of boy than in being any other imaginable better to go in pursuit of it and to discover it in the
kind. His recollections are therefore pleasant, most unlikely places, will look far before finding a
though not so rose-colored that they lack the note of book so exactly to their taste as Robert and Elizabeth
reality. Readers who have had similar experiences Shackleton's “The Quest of the Colonial” (Century
will find Mr. Johnson a very competent conductor Co.). The volume is illustrated by many excellent
back to the happy land of childhood ; and those who and useful photographs of typical styles of old
have never been New England boys and girls — for furniture, brass, silver, etc., and is given a decora-
Mr. Johnson finds it impossible to leave out the girls tive touch by the addition of a colored frontispiece


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and appropriate head and tail pieces cleverly drawn dozen photographic illustrations of present-day Italy,
by Mr. Harry Fenn. It contains a great deal of by the Baker & Taylor Co. The fact is that Brown-
definite and accurately stated information for the ing's types are so vivid, and his situations so intensely
amateur collector, besides many anecdotes calculated dramatic, that the average reader has to think twice
to quicken his enthusiasm and arouse his envy
and before he realizes that they belong to the Middle
admiration. Mr. and Mrs. Shackleton went on Ages, and that “Browning's Italy" means Italy of
exploring tours all through the East and South, and the Renaissance. Miss Clarke classifies Browning's
made many discoveries, some of which they bore Italian interests under five chapter-headings: The
home in triumph, while others, even finer, were left Dawn of the Renaissance, Glimpses of Political Life,
in the hands of too-avaricious dealers or too-wealthy The Italian Scholar, The Artist and His Art, and
rivals. But the true collector counts possession only Pictures of Social Life. For each she supplies the
one joy — though the crowning one — among the needed background of history, connecting it with
many that go to make
up his experiences. Not the the poetry by liberal quotations, -a method which
least of these are involved in the necessity of suitably makes possible the extension of her audience beyond
housing his antiques, and not the least interest of the limited circle of those who know Browning thor-
Mr. and Mrs. Shackleton's book is the account it oughly. On the other hand, the historical studies
gives of their making over their house to fit the sort are complete enough to interest students of Browning,
of furniture they preferred. Of course a book that because of the new light they cast on the sources of
touches upon so many branches of the large subject his love for Italy and on the relation between the
of “ Antiques” cannot be exhaustive, but the begin- historic facts of the records and his poetic inter-
ner does not want exhaustive treatises ; he wants to pretation of them.
be guided through the first stages of promiscuous A whimsical bibelot, which may be counted upon
buying. This is what Mr. and Mrs. Shackleton offer to please fastidious readers, both in substance and
to do for him. Incidentally they give much encour mechanical features, is Mrs. Anna Benneson Mc-
agement to the buyer of small means, assuring him Mahan's “Shakespeare's Gift to Queen Bess”
that even the choicest specimens are within his (McClurg). It relates in a simple vivid style that
reach if he knows where to go for them.
gets a quaint coloring from the archaic type, the
Books on old furniture are having at the present story of the court presentation of “Midsummer
time a vogue similar to that given to books on natural Night's Dream” before Queen Elizabeth in the
history a few years since. The subject, in its various Christmas revels at Whitehall Palace in 1596.
relations to history and economics, and to the prin- | Mrs. McMahan handles her story with a light touch
ciples of art and construction, is one that admits that deftly conceals much genuine erudition. Her
of a great variety of treatment. A recent contri treatment is fanciful and suggestive, but at the same
butor to the literature of old furniture is Mr. Fred time has an air of verisimilitude that takes her read-
Roe, whose “ Ancient Coffers and Cupboards,” pub ers back to the Mermaid Tavern, crowded on a Club
lished in 1902, is now followed by “Old Oak Fur- night, and to the Queen's Palace, decked for a festi-
niture” (McClurg). In this volume the author's val and thronged with Elizabethan lords and ladies.
interest in his subject is that of the antiquary, the There are many pretty illustrations picturing the
collector, and the artist. His illustrations are fur setting of the tale, and the cover-design is a unique
nished from his own drawings, including the beau-conception.
tiful frontispiece of a handsome sideboard in his Among all the holiday books of the season none
possession, reproduced in color. His “Seventeenth- is more thoroughly artistic in binding, decoration,
Century Chair," indexed to be shown on the title and make-up than “Gods and Heroes of Old Japan"
page, however, appears to have been lost from the (Lippincott). Miss Ada Galton is responsible for
book, possibly in the American edition only. The the decorative features, and Miss Violet M. Pasteur
author gives little in the way of scientific classifica for the text. This latter consists of short stories
tion, and enlightens his readers but little regarding taken from the sacred writings and ancient histories
the development of the various styles of domestic of Japan. Some are legendary and miraculous ;
furniture, but writes always with the collector in others correspond to the tales of our own age of
mind, ready to warn him against forgeries and other chivalry.
chivalry. They are simply and gracefully told,
pitfalls which beset the path of lovers of old oak, with a quaintness that suits the primitive type of
and incidentally tells of certain traditions attached the stories. The wide page margins are decorated
to some famous articles of furniture in the native in tint, with a great variety of graceful floral designs
English oak, which, in the hands of English work and with odd little figures in attitudes that are full
men, assumed a distinctive character of its own of meaning and suggestion. Many of these sketches
about the time of Elizabeth.
are after Hokusai and other old masters. There
“Browning's Italy” is the somewhat misleading are also four full-page drawings in color, - one of
though intrinsically correct title of an interesting them, “The Iris Page,” being perhaps the crown-
study of Italian life and art as it is interpreted in ing feature of the book. Decorated end-leaves and
Browning's poetry. The book is written by Miss an attractively designed cover complete a book sure
Helen Archibald Clarke, and published with a de to please those who appreciate Japanese art and are
corative cover-design, fancy end-leaves, and some two interested in oriental mythologies.


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Land Where East Meets West.” One can hardly glance
NOTES.
over these fifty or more plates without at once being
“ A New Method for Cæsar,” by Professor F. H. seized with a wild desire to start upon an Adriatic trip.
Potter, is published by Messrs. B. H. Sanborn & Co. in “Little Eyolf,” « John Gabriel Borkman,” and “ When
their “Students' Series of Latin Classics."
We Dead Awaken" are the three plays comprised within
Professor Frank W. Blackmar's well-known text-book the eleventh (and concluding) volume of Mr. Archer's
of « Economics” has been rewritten in simple form for uniform edition of Ibsen in English. In the last-named
the use of secondary schools. It is published by the of the three plays Mr. Archer finds evidences of a
Macmillan Co.
“mental breakdown” which it never occurred to us to
Messrs. John W. Luce & Co. republish in America
detect. Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons are the pub-
the English edition of Miss Agnes Tobin's beautiful lishers of this edition.
translations from Petrarch. “On the Death of Madonna The Open Court Publishing Co. send us an ingenious
Laura” is the title of the collection.
satire on agnosticism, by Dr. Paul Carus. It is entitled
The poems of Bayard Taylor are published by Messrs. “ The Philosopher's Martyrdom," and takes the form
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. in their “ Astor" series of of a report of the discussions of an imaginary philo-
poets. The volume does not, however, include the later sophical club. Dr_Carus has also recently prepared a
poems still under copyright protection.
sort of primer of Buddhism, entitled “ The Dharma,"
“ The Animal Behavior Series," a new collection of
which includes an exposition of the “religion of enlighten-
studies from the psychological laboratory, is inaugurated
ment,” and an anthology of “Gems of Buddhist Poetry.”
by the issue of “The Dancing Mouse,” a monograph The John Lane Co. publish an illustrated edition, in
by Dr. Robert M. Yerkes. The Macmillan Co. are the a single large volume, of "The Poems of Coleridge."
publishers.
Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge provides an introduction.
Professor Alexander Kerr goes steadily on with his The order of the poems is chronological. A few pieces,
translation of Plato's “Republic.” The fifth of the little still under copyright, are not included, but on the other
pamphlets (containing a book each) is now published by hand, the present volume contains a few unimportant
Messrs. Charles H. Kerr & Co. This number contains poems now collected for the first time. As for Mr.
an introduction to the entire five books.
Gerald Metcalfe's illustrations, we may say of them that
• History in Fiction,” by Mr. Ernest A. Baker, is a they are interesting, but in no way extraordinary.
classified and annotated catalogue of historical novels.
The work is in two volumes, one devoted to English
fiction, and the other to American and foreign novelists.
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. are the publishers.
“ Immunochemistry,” by Mr. Svante Arrhenius, is a
The following is a list of all children's books published
volume on “the application of the principles of physical
during the present season and received at the office of THE
chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies,” based
DIAL up to the time of going to press with this issue. The
titles are classified in a general way, and brief descriptions
upon a course of lectures given by the author at the
of the character and contents of the books are given. It is
University of California. The Macmillan Co. publish believed that this carefully-prepared list will commend itself
the work.
to Holiday purchasers as a convenient and trustworthy guide
The Macmillan Co. have undertaken the publication to the juvenile books of 1907.
of a translation, by Mr. E. M. Waller, of the - Memoirs"
STORIES FOR BOYS ESPECIALLY
of Alexandre Dumas. The first volume, covering the
The Kenton Pines; or, Raymond Benson at College. By Clar-
author's boyhood up to the age of nineteen, is at hand, ence B. Burleigh. Illus., 12mo. Lothrop, Lee & Shep-
and is furnished with an introductory essay by Mr.
ard Co. $1.50.
The third story of which Raymond Benson is the hero.
Andrew Lang
“Kenton College'' is evidently Bowdoin, where the author
“ A Field Book of the Stars,” by Mr. William Tyler
graduated.
The Young Train Dispatcher. By Burton E. Stevenson. Illus.,
Olcott, is a guide to the constellations, illustrated by
L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
half a hundred diagrams, published by the Messrs.
The young hero is given many opportunities to prove his
courage in the course of the exciting adventures which
Putnam. The little book also contains a catalogue of
star-names with their meanings, and some elementary
Jack Lorimer's Champions; or, Sports on Land and Lake. By
Winn Standish. Illus., 12mo. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
matter about meteors and planets.
Another book about High School life and athletics, by
The American Book Co. publish a “High School
the author of "Captain Jack Lorimer."
Sunnyside Tad. By Philip Verrill Mighels. Illus., 12mo.
Algebra” by Professor J. H. Tanner; a “ Practical
Harper & Brothers, $1.25.
Zoology,” by Professor Alvin Davison; and, in their
Tad and his dog Diogenes are outcasts, who face the
world together and finally conquer it.
series of “ Eclectic Readings,” volumes on “ Explorers Harry's Runaway and What Came of it. By Olive Thorne
and Founders of America," « Famous Pictures of Chil Miller. Illus. in tint, etc., 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. $1.25.
dren,” and “ The Adventures of Deerslayer.”
Mrs. Miller's latest story concerns a mischievous boy,
A third edition, revised and enlarged, of Mr. R. A. who persuades one of his playmates to run away with him.
Their experiences are entertaining and point a moral, too.
Streatfeild's historical work on “ The Opera ” has just Making the Freshman Team. By T. Truxton Hare.
Illus.,
been published by the J. B. Lippincott Co. This very
Penn Publishing Co. $1.25.
College athletics form the chief theme of this story.
readable and trustworthy book may be commended to
The author is himselt a well-known athlete.
all lovers of music who wish to know something about The Boys of Pigeon Camp: Their Luck and Fun. By Martha
Illus., 12mo.
the great works of the lyric stage.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
This second volume of the “Pigeon Camp Series" tells
The Dalmatian coast is one of the most interesting of more good times that Jimmie Suter and his friends had
in camp:
parts of Europe, and is as yet comparatively unspoiled A Voyage with Captain Dynamite. By Charles E. Rich. Illus.,
by the tourist. It will not long remain so if many books
$1.25.
A party of boys are rescued by Captain Dynamite, who
are published about it as charming, both in text and illus-
forces them to stay on board the mysterious ship “Mari-
tration, as Mrs. Maude M. Holbach's “ Dalmatia: The ella" through the rest of an exciting cruise.
12mo.
befall him.
12mo.
James.
12mo.
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Vivian's Lesson. By E. W. Grierson. Illus., 12mo. J. B.
Lippincott Co. $1.25.
Like most boys who will read about him, Vivian needed
a lesson in obedience and carefulness, and he got it.
An Annapolis Plebe. By E. L. Beach. Illus., 12mo. Penn
Publishing Co., $1.25.
The story of a cadet at the United States Naval
Academy.
Peter: A Christmas Story. By Mrs Edwin Hohler. Illus.,
12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.25.
Peter is a little English lad, and the story tells of the
strange adventures that fell to his lot one Christmas week.
A West Point Yearling. By Paul B. Malone. Illus., 12mo.
Penn Publishing Co. $1.25.
As president of the Yearling class the hero succeeds
in breaking up hazing at the military academy.
The Great Year. By Albertus T. Dudley. Illus., 12mo. LO-
throp, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
The same boys appear in this latest "Phillips Exeter"
book and there are some new ones. Athletics is, as usual,
the center of interest.
Marion's Vacation. By Nina Rhoades. Illus., 12mo. Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
Tells of the pleasant vacation spent by a wealthy New
York girl with her country relatives, on a little farm in
Vermont.
The Heroine of Roseland. By Evelyn Raymond. Illus., 12mo.
Penn Publishing Co. $1.25.
The central figure is a girl of strong character, whose
courage eventually saves the home of the schoolmaster.
Theodora. By Katharine Pyle and Laura Spencer Porter.
Illus., 12mo. Little, Brown & Co. $1.25.
Deals with the experiences of the little heroine, Theo-
dora Winthrop, in an Episcopal Sister's school in New York
city, where she is sent while her father goes abroad. Miss
Pyle is the popular author of several favorite books for
the young
The Queens' Company. By Sara Hawks Sterling. Illus. In
color, etc., 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.25.
A story of a group of high school girls. Most of them
are members of a club, which presents a play of Shake.
speare at the school graduation.
Randy's Prince. By Amy Brooks. Illus., 12mo. Lothrop.
Lee & Shepard Co. $1.
The eighth and concluding volume of the "Randy
Books."
Cross Currents: The Story of Margaret. By Eleanor H. Por-
ter. Illus., 12mo. W. A. Wilde Co. $1.
Poor Margaret finds herself suddenly transformed from
a rich and petted darling to a child of the slums and
sweat-shops.
Doro: hy Dainty at Home. By Amy Brooks. Illus., 12mo.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.
The favorite characters of the other "Dorothy” books
reappear here, and a comical new one is introduced.
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STORIES FOR GIRLS ESPECIALLY
The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding. By Annie Fellows
Johnston, Illus., 12mo. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
Probably the last "Little Colonel" story, in which the
Little Colonel finds her Prince.
Abbie Ann. By George Madden Martin; Illus., in color, etc.,
by C. M. Relyea. 12mo. Century Co. $1.50.
Abbie Ann has red hair and the sort of temper that is
supposed to go with it. Nevertheless you can't help liking
her, for she is as irresistible in her way as Emmy Lou.
The Daughters of the Little Grey House. By Marion Ames
Taggart. 12mo. McClure Co. $1.50.
A sequel to Miss Taggart's popular "Little Grey
House," telling the experiences of the same girls grown
older.
Nina's Career, By Christina Gowans Whyte. 12mo. Mac-
millan Co. $1.50.
A new book by the author of "The Story Book Girls."
Six Girls and the Tea Room. By Marion Ames Taggart.
Illus., 12mo. W. A. Wilde Co. $1.50.
A sequel to "Six Girls and Bob," telling how the six
made a success of their tea room, and what good times
they had in the "Patty-Pans flat.”
Day: Her Year in New York. By Anna Chapin Ray. Illus.,
12mo. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
A new "Sidney" book. At the opening of the story Day
declares that she is tired of doing "the same old things.
Then she proceeds to find plenty of new ones to do.
Betty Baird's Ventures. By Anna Hamlin Weikel. Illus.,
12mo. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
Betty Baird is the kind of girl who "does things."
The story tells what she did, and how she succeeded.
Three Girls from School. By Laura T. Meade. Illus., 12mo.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
An English story of fashionable school-life, and of the
evils which result from a poor girl's trying to keep pace
with her richer friends.
The Doctor's Little Girl. By Marion Ames Taggart. Illus.,
12mo. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
Because the doctor shares his little girl with so many
other people, all of whom do pleasant things for her, she
decides that she ought really to be called "everybody's
little girl."
The Next Door Morelands. By Emily Westwood Lewis. Illus.,
12mo. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
When the little French orphan, Corinne, came to live in
America with her uncle, the jolly family of dren next
door helped her to forget her loneliness.
Ruth Erskine's Son. By Pansy (Mrs. G. R. Alden). Illus.,
12mo. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.50.
Ruth Erskine was one of the famous "Four Girls at
Chautauqua." In "Pansy's" latest book she is a widow
with a grown son, who is the center of interest in her
life.
Judy. By Temple Bailey. Illus., 12mo. Little, Brown & Co.
$1.50.
Girls of from ten to sixteen will enjoy this story, which
is about two bright, wide-awake girls and their friends.
Betty Wales, Senior. By Margaret Warde. Illus., 12mo. Penu
Publishing Co. $1.25.
The fourth "Betty Wales" book, in which Betty and
other well-known characters are taken through the most
interesting year of their college course.
Beatrice Leigh at College. By Julia A. Schwartz. Illus., 12mo.
Penn Publishing Co. $1.25.
This book is especially adapted to girls looking forward
to college careers of their own.
Helen Grant, Senior. By Amanda M. Douglas. Illus., 12mo.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
Friends of Helen Grant, who have followed her fortunes
through school and college, will be eager to read about
the experiences of her senior year.
Dorcaster Days. By A. G. Plympton. Illus., 12mo. Little,
Brown & Co. $1.25.
By playing Lady Bountiful to her poorer neighbors a
gracious little heroine makes her own and their days pass
more happily,
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS BOTH
Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House. By Margaret
Sidney. Illus., 12mo. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.50.
The beginning of this new "Pepper Book" was published
years ago in the "Wide Awake Magazine." The rest of
the story is entirely new and is the eleventh "Pepper
Book" to be published.
The Youngsters of Centerville. By Etta Anthony Baker. Illus.,
12mo. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
Because the youngsters of .Centerville act Just like real
hoys and girls, other boys and girls will like to read about
them.
Now Treasure Seekers; or, The Bastable Children in Search
of a Fortune. By E. Nesbit. Illus., 12mo. Frederick A.
Stokes Co. $1.50.
Another delightful story about the six Bastable children,
who, as "The Would-Be Goods" and "The Treasure Seek-
ers," have already won the hearts of many readers.
Tom, Dick and Harriet. By Ralph Henry Barbour. Illus.,
12mo. Century Co. $1.50.
The scenes and many of the characters in Mr. Barbour's
new book are the same as in "The Crimson Sweater.
Roy and Harry continue to be leaders in the life at
Ferry Hill, but there is a new boy, Dick, who does his
full share towards keeping the school lively.
The Luck of the Dudley Grahams, as Related in Extracts from
Elizabeth Graham's Diary. By Alice Calhoun Haines.
Illus., 12mo. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
The Grahams were poor and kept a boarding house. The
boarders left, and they were poorer still. But they were
plucky and persevering, and in the end they were poor no
longer.
The Friendship of Anne. By Ellen Douglas Deland. Illus.,
12mo. W. A. Wilde Co. $1.50.
A lively chronicle of boarding-school life, with plenty of
excitement, and some feuds as well as many friendships.
The Rival Campers Ashore; or, The Mystery of the Mill. Ву
Ruel Perley Smith. Illus., 12mo. L. C. Page & Co.
$1.50.
In this story "The Rival Campers" make the acquaint-
ance of a girl, as daring and resourceful as themselves.
She takes them to the old mill, where many mysterious
things happen.
Little Girl and Philip. By Gertrude Smith; illus. in color
by Rachel Robinson. Large 8vo. Harper & Brothers.
$1.30 net.
“Little Girl" is quick and full of mischief, Philip is
quiet and clever. They live next door to each other, and
have a great deal of fun together,
Billy's Princess. -By Helen Eggleston Haskell. Illus., 12mo.
L. C. Page & Co. $1.25.
Billy's mother had to go to a hospital, leaving Billy
to his own resources. It was while she was away that
he found the Princess, lost her, and found her again.
Gail Weston. By Mrs. S. R. Graham Clark. Illus., 12mo.
Philadelphia: Griffith & Rowland Press. $1.25.
A large and lively family of boys and girls keep this
story moving. Mrs. Clark aims especially at an im-
proving moral tone.
Friend and Cousins. By Abbie Farwell Brown. Illus., 12mo.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.
Further experiences of the same children who
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Pet Marjorie: A Story of Child Life a Century Ago. By John
Brown. Illus. in color, 16mo. George W. Jacobs & Co.
75 cts.
This classic account of little Marjorie Fleming, Sir Wal-
ter Scott's child friend, should interest his child friends of
today.
TALES OF HISTORY AND TRAVEL
The Camp-Fire of Mad Anthony. By Everett T. Tomlinson.
Illus., 12mo. Houghton, Mimin & Co. $1.50
“Mad Anthony" Wayne is an ideal boys' hero. This
story centers around his exploits. It also tells of
revolutionary "tea-party," somewhat like the more famous
one at Boston.
Rod Top Ranch: A Story of Ranch Lite in Wyoming. Ву
Minna Caroline Smith. Illus., 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co.
$1.50.
Mary Lloyd, who spends a summer at Red Top Ranch, is
the kind of girl who has a good time anywhere and who
makes other people glad to see her and sorry to have
ber go.
Long Knives: The Story of How They Won the West. Ву
George Cary Eggleston. Illus., 12mo. Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Co. $1.50.
George Rogers Clark's conquest of the great North-
west furnishes a background for this story.
With Fighting Jack Barry. By John T. McIntyre. Illus. in
color, 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
John Barry, who has often been called "the Father of
the American Navy," is the leading figure.
Napoleon's Young Neighbor. By Helen Leah Reed. Illus.,
12mo. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
The “neighbor" is Betsy Balcombe, at whose father's
house on St. Helena Napoleon spent the first weeks of
his exile. The details of the story are all founded on fact.
John Smith, Gentleman Adventurer. By C. H. Forbes-Lindsay.
Illus. in color, 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
The first part of the book deals with the career of the
hero as a soldier of fortune in the armies of Europe, and
the second with his career in America.
When Hawkins Sailed the Sea. By Tinsley Pratt. Illus.,
12mo. Brentano's. $1.50.
The story deals with the time of good Queen Bess and
the days of the great deeds of the sailor heroes of Eng-
land.
Jack the Young Trapper. By George B. Grinnell. Illus.,
12mo. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.25.
Describes Jack's ifth summer in the West, which he
spent in the Rocky Mountains trapping beaver.
Boys of the Border. By Mary P. Wells Smith. Illus., 12mo.
Little, Brown & Co. $1.25.
In this third volume of “The Old Deerfield Series" Mrs.
Smith tells the story of the border forts in and near the
Deerfield valley, during the French and Indian wars.
The Boy Tars of 1812. By John T. McIntyre. Illus., 12mo.
Penn Publishing Co. $1.25.
A vivid picture of two great battles, the sea fight
between the Constitution and the Guerriere, and the land
fight at New Orleans.
Treasure Seekers of the Andes; or, American Boys in Peru.
By Edward Stratemeyer. Illus., 12mo. Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Co. $1.25.
In this tale Mr. Stratemeyer takes his five young trav-
elers and their tutor on an interesting and at times ad.
venturous trip through Peru.
The Minute Boys of South Carolina. By James Otis. Illus.,
12mo. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
Tells how two Southern lads aided Marion, the “Swamp
Fox," in his heroic struggle to save the colony of South
Carolina.
Captain June. By Alice Hegan Rice. Illus., 8vo. Century
Co. $1.
Captain June is a little American boy whose mother
has to leave him with his Japanese nurse in a Japanese
home. While there he has many strange adventures.
A Little Prospector, By Edi h M. H. Baylor. Illus., 12mo.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.
A little boy's experiences in the mining districts of
Nevada, illustrated from photographs.
Cast Away at the North Pole. By Edwin J. Houston. Illus.,
12mo. John C. Winston Co.
The heroes reach the North Pole, and then are cast
away in the midst of an arctic winter.
The Forest Messengers, By Edward S. Ellis. With frontis-
piece in color, 12mo. John C. Winston Co. $1.
The plot hinges upon the Indian uprisings against our
frontier forts, soon after the French and Indian War.
Pioneer Boys Afloat on the Mississippi. By C. A. Stephens.
Illus., 12mo. A. S. Barnes & Co. $1.
A story for boys describing life on the "father of
waters" in the early days.
Ten Indian Hunters. By Mary Hazelton Wade. Illus., 12mo.
W. A. Wilde Co. $1.
This, the fourth volume in Mrs. Wade's Indian series,
tells of the daring adventures and marvelous skill of
some of the famous old Indian hunters.
Geographical Stories Retold from St. Nicholas. Comprising:
Western Frontier Stories, Sea Stories, Stories of Strange
Sights, Stories of the Great Lakes, and Island Stories.
Each illus., 12mo. Century Co. Per vol., 65 cts. net.
Stories of adventure, travel, and description, chiefly
in our own country, meant for home use or for supple-
mentary reading in the schools.
Building the Nation, By Mary Hazelton Wade. Illus., 12mo.
"Uncle Sam's Old-Time Stories. W. A. Wilde Co. 75 cts.
Stepping stones of early American history, told in story
form.
The Young Acadian. By Charles G. D. Roberts. Illus., 12mo.
L. C. Page & Co. 50 cts.
A tale of the raid from Beausejour, by the author of
"Red Fox,” "The Kindred of the wild," and other
nature books.
FAIRY TALES AND LEGENDS
Favorite Fairy Tales. With illustrations in tint by Peter
Newell, and decorations. 8vo. Harper & Brothers. $3 net.
Mr. Newell, feeling that many heads are better than
one, wrote to a number of representative men and women,
and his collection includes the tales that they liked best
when they were children. Their names are given with the
stories.
The Free Lances. By Captain Jack Brand. Illus., 12mo.
McClure Co. $1.50.
A series of thrilling sea storles, chronicling the exploits
of the greatest sailors of all nations.
Aboard the Hylow on Sable Island Bank. By James Otis.
Illus., 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50.
Two boys' adventures on board a fishing smack of the
Nova Scotian coast are bere described.
Jack Hardy. By Herbert Strang. Illus., 12mo. Bobbs-Merrill
Co. $1.50.
Jack Hardy is a daring lad who lived in the days of
Napoleon. He has some interesting times with English
smugglers.
On the Trail of the Arabs. By Herbert Strang. Tlus., 12mo.
Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
The Congo country, under the oppression of tbe slave-
dealing Arabs, is the scene of the hero's many gallant
exploits.
Rob, the Ranger: A Story of the Fight for Canada. Illus.,
12mo. Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
The scene is laid in Quebec about the year 1759, and
the story recounts the hero's adventures in search of his
father and brother who are held captive in Canada.
The Wreck of the "Ocean Queen": A Story of the Sea. By
James Otis. Illus., 12mo. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
Adventure aboard a treasure ship on its voyage around
the world is described in this story.
The Young Traders. By Harold Bindloss. Illus., 12mo.
Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
Two boys, thrown upon their own resources, go to West
Africa for a company trading in rubber and oil, and face
terrible hardships and dangers.
Northwestern Fights and Fighters, 1876-1900. By Cyrus Town-
send Brady. Illus., 12mo. McClure Co. $1.50.
Supplements Dr. Brady's first volume of "Indian Fights
and Fighters," by telling the story of two of our great
Indian wars.
The Treasure of the Canyon: A Story of Adventure in Arl-
zona. By Joseph B. Ames. Illus., 12mo. Henry Holt & Co.
$1.60.
Boys from ten to sixteen years old will like this story,
which tells how two boys went west to make their for-
tunes.
Four Boys in the Land of Cotton. By Everett T. Tomlinson.
· Illus., 12mo. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.50.
Second volume of "Our Own Land Series." The same
boys who went to the Yellowstone Park now take an
equally enjoyable southern tour.
The Boys of Crawford's Basin. By Sidford F. Hamp. Illus.,
12mo. W. A. Wilde Co. $1.50.
A companion volume to "Dale and Fraser-Sheepmen,"
which was published last year. It gives a vivid picture
of ranch life in Colorado in the early seventies.
Little Travelers Around the World. By Helen Coleman.
Illus., 12mo. A. S. Barnes & Co. $1.50.
The "Little Travelers" visit China, Japan, India,
Turkey, and the countries of Europe and America, seeing
the things that interest children.
Adventure Series. New vols.: Adventures on the High Moun-
tains, by Richard Stead; Adventures in Modern. Sieges,
by E. Gilliat; Adventures in Great Forests, by H. W. G.
Hyrst. Each Illus., 8vo. J. B. Lippincott Co. Per vol.,
$1.50 net
All the adventures related in the new volumes of this
series are actual deeds of daring, performed by moun-
taineers, soldiers, woodsmen, or tra velers. The books
make exciting reading.
Defending His Flag; or, A Boy in Blue and a Boy in Gray.
By Edward Stratemeyer. Illus., 12mo. Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Co. $1.50.
A Civil War story with a hero in each army. The
author tries to give an unbiased impression of the great
conflict.
The Battle of the Bears: Life in the North Land. By Eger-
ton R. Young. Illus., 12mo. W. A. Wilde Co. $1.50.
Dr. Young was for years a missionary among the Hudson
Bay Indians, and his stories of life in the far North,
with its privations and perils, are out of the author's
own experience.
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The Windfairies, and Other Tales. By Mary De Morgan.
New edition; illus., 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50.
New fairy-tales, apparently of foreign origin.
The Voyage of the Wishbone Boat. By Alice 0. D. Riley;
illus. in color, etc., by L. J. Bridgman. Large 8vo. 2.
M. Caldwell Co. $1.25.
Holiday edition of this popular fairy-tale, fully illus-
trated in color and with attractive page-borders.
Hilda and the Wishes. By Harry Thurston Peck. Illus.,
12mo. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.
Professor Peck has written one very popular child's
story, "The Adventures of Mabel." This is of the same
type.
The Cozy Lion, as Told by Queen Crosspatch. By Frances
Hodgson Burnett; illus. in color by Harrison Cady. 16mo.
Century Co. 60 cts.
The Fairy Queen reformed the lion and introduced him
to the village society, and after that no children's party
was complete without him.
The House of the Red Fox, By Miriam Byrne. Illus., 12mo.
Frederick A. Stokes Co. 50 cts.
Mary Ellen had to work so hard that she never had
time to play, until, like Cinderella, she acquired a fairy
god-mother.
The Arabian Nights. Rewritten by Lawrence Housman;
Illus. in color by Dulac, Large 8vo. Charles Scribner's
Sons. $5 net.
Five stories from "The Arabian Nights” have been
fully Illustrated in color. This is a companion volume
to Mr. Rackham's "Peter Pan," issued last year.
Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights. Edited and arranged
by E. Dixon; illus. in color, etc., by John D. Batten.
Large 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.50 net.
Mr. Batten is a well-known Illustrator, with both
humor and imagination. Mechanically the edition is a fine
one.
The Arabian Nights. Edited, with introduction, by W. N. D.
Rouse; illus. in color, etc., by Walter Paget. 8vo. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $2.50.
Children will like this edition of their favorite fairy-
tales, with its many good illustrations and gay cover.
The Magic Mirror. By William Gilbert; illus. in color by
John Menzies. Large 8vo. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.50.
When mirrors were first introduced into England &
Venetian merchant, visiting there, had a magic one, which
had the power of granting wishes. This is a story
about it.
The Adventures of Merrywink. By Christina Gowans Whyte;
illus. in color, etc., by M. V. Wheelhouse. Large 8vo.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. $2.
This book of fairy-tales won the prize of $500 offered
by the London "Bookman" for the best illustrated story.
book for iittle children.
The Russian Fairy Book. Trans. by Nathan Haskell Dole;
illus. in color by Bilibin.
8vo.
T. Y. Crowell & Co.
$2.
A sheaf of fairy-tales, directly translated from the
Russian, the original flavor being faithfully preserved.
The Olivo Fairy Book. Edited by Andrew Lang; illus. in
color, etc., by H. J. Ford. 12mo. Longmans, Green &
Co $1.60 net.
Another of Mr. Lang's delightful fairy-books, named, as
usual, from the color of its binding.
The Princess and the Goblin.
By George Macdonald. New
edition; illus. in color by Maria L. Kirk, and with wood
engravings after Arthur Hughes. 8vo. J. B. Lippincott
Co. $1.50.
The increased interest in this ever-popular story, mani.
fested since the author's recent death, has led to the
publication of a beautiful illustrated edition.
Magic Casements: A Second Fairy Book. Edited by Kate Doug-
las Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. 12mo. McClure
Co. $1.50.
A companion to "The Fairy Ring," published last year.
Bobbie in Bugabooland. By Curtis Dunham; with illustrations
in color by George Kerr. Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
Bobbie and his dog Sport are whisked away to fairy-
land, where they have many delightful experiences.
Red Coat Captain: A Story of That Country. By Alfred
Ollivant. Illus., 12mo. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
A fairy-tale containing many novel adventures, by the
author of "Bob, Son of Battle."
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. By Selma Lagerlof; trans.
by Velma S. Howard. With illustrations and decora-
tions, 12mo. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50.
An original fairy tale, by a popular Swedish writer.
The Jeweled Toad. By Isabel M. Johnston; illus. in color by
W. W. Denslow. 8vo. Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
Fairy-tale adventure, rhymes, and humorous pictures,
which will delight the little ones.
The Happy Forest. Text and illustrations by Daisy D. Plymp-
ton. 4to. H. M. Caldwell Co. $1.50.
Six fairy and Christmas stories meant for children under
twelve.
The Red Feathers.' By Theodore Roberts. Illus. in color, etc.,
12mo. L. 0. Page & Co. $1.50.
How an Indian boy lived in the Stone Age among
fairies, magicians, and other queer people.
The Diamond King and the Little Man in Gray. By Lily F.
Wesselhoeft. Illus., 12mo. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
What a small girl saw and did among the elves, gnomes
and giants of a fairy kingdom.
The Golden Palace of Neverland. By Will Robinson; illus.
in color by Clara D. Davidson. 12mo. E. P. Dutton &
Co. $1.50.
or course “Neverland" is a sort of fairy-land, and the
story tells how a boy and girl happened to visit its gold.
en palace.
The Remarkable Adventures of Little Boy Pip. By Philip
W. Francis. Illus. in color, etc., large 8vo. Paul Elder
& Co. $1.50 net.
Relates the thrilling and hazardous journey taken by a
little lad and the Welsh Rabbit to the place where the
Sky Comes Down.
The Golden Porch: A Book of Greek Falry Tales. By w
M. L. Hutchinson. Illus. in tint, 12mo. Longmans, Green,
& Co. $1.40 net.
Myths from Pindar's odes, retold in style similar to
Kingsley's "Heroes," and Hawthorne's “Wonder Book."
Art Fairy Tales Series. Comprising: Jack the Giant-Killer,
and Puss in Boots. Illus. in color by H. M. Brock.
Each 4to. Frederick Warne & Co. Per vol., $1 net.
Two popular fairy tales, each accompanied by eight full-
page colored Illustrations by H. M. Brock, mounted on
tinted cartridge paper.
NATURE AND OUT-DOOR LIFE
Folk of the Wild. By Bertram Atkey; illus. by Harry Roun.
tree. 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
Animal stories, somewhat in the vein of Kipling's
"Jungle Books." A few titles: "How Wild Pig Learned
to go Quietly," "How the Brindled Whelp Hunted Alone,"
"How Man Said the Last Word to the Shark."
Beautiful Joe. By Marshall Saunders; with introduction by
Hezekiah Butterworth. New enlarged edition; illus. in
color, etc., 8vo. Philadelphia: Griffith & Rowland Press.
$1.25.
of this classic of dog life 500,000 copies bave already
been sold, so the enlarged edition will surely ind a wel-
come.
Fables in Featherg. By S. Ten Eyck Illus., 12mo. T. Y.
Crowell & Co. $1.
Fairy 'stories of the birds and beasts in the days of
King Solomon.
Johnny Orow's Party. Illustrations in color, etc., by L. Leslie
Brooke. Svo. Frederick Warne & Co. $1 net.
Johnny Crow's guests, all pictured in color, are as
varied as are their experiences at his garden party.
Kitty-Cat Tales. By Alice Van Leer Carrick. Tlus., 12mo.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.
This might be called a “Kitten's Arabian Nights,” for
the tales are told by a black kitten, in nine nights, one
for each of her fabled lives.
Dorothy's Rabbit Stories. By Mary E. Calhoun; illus by
E. Warde Blaisdell. 12mo. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.
Dorothy is a little Southern girl, with an old negro
“Uncle" who tells her after-supper stories about the
beasts and birds.
Little Water-Folks: Stories of Lake and River. By Clarence
Hawkes; 1llus. by Charles Copeland. 12mo. T. Y.
Crowell & Co. 75 cts.
Stories of a real country boy's real experiences, dedi-
cated to "the boy who sees.'
The Tale of Tom Kitten. By Beatrix Potter. Illus. in color.
24mo. Frederick Warne & Co. 50 cts.
Tom Kitten is the “black sheep" of his family, and
disgraces his good little sisters, Mittens and Moppet.
Little Betty Marigold and Her Friends. By Carro Frances
Warren. Illus. in color, etc., 12mo. C. M. Clark Co.
The latest volume in the Garden Series," containing
nature studies of interest and value to little readers.
PICTURES, STORIES, AND VERSES FOR THE
LITTLE ONES
The Golliwogg's Christmas. Illus. in color by Florence K.
Upton; verses by Bertha Upton. Oblong 8vo. Longmans,
Green & Co. $2.
Golliwogg's holiday adventures told, like all his other
experiences, in verse.
The Sandman: His Ship Stories. By William J. Hopkins.
Illus., 12mo. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
“The Sandman," who has already told a great many
farm stories in a fashion to please the little folks, now
turns his attention to tales of the sea.
A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Edited by $. Baring-
Gould; with border decorations and illustrations on wood.
12mo. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50 net.
Many of these old English nursery rhymes will be quite
new to American children.
Childhood. Illus. in color, etc., by Millicent Sowerby; writ-
ten in verse by Githa Sowerby. Large 8vo. Duthield & Co.
$1.50.
The quaint thoughts of children told in simple verse,
and illustrated in a style that suggests Kate Greenaway.
Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose. Illus. in color, etc., by
G. G. Wiederseim. Large 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$1.50.
All the regular Mother Goose rhymes are in this collec-
tion, which is fully illustrated in black and white and in
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The Santa Claus Club. By L. J. Bridgman. Illus. in color,
12mo. H. M. Caldwell Co. 75 cts.
A story told in verse about Santa Claus, his friends,
and his rivals in the hearts of the children.
Days Before History. By H. H. Hall; with preface by J. J.
Findlay. Illus., 12mo. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 50 cts.
The story of a boy who lived in the “days before
history."
Caldecott's Picture Books. Two new vols., each illus. in
color, 24mo. Frederick Warne & Co. Per vol., 50 cts.
A miniature edition of two of the famous Caldecott
"Picture Books."
Improving Songs for Anxious Children. By John and Rue
Carpenter. Illus. in color, etc., oblong 4to. A. C. Mc-
Clurg & Co. $1.50 net.
A new book of songs for children, by the authors of
“When Little Boys Sing."
Bed Time Book. By Helen Hay Whitney; illus. in color by
Jessie Willcox Smith. 4to. Duffield & Co. $1.50.
Bed-time experiences and some others, told in picture
and verse, for very young readers.
Son Riley Rabbit and Little Girl. By Grace MacGowan Cooke.
Illus., large 8vo. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
Son Riley Rabbit is like Brer Rabbit in that he can
talk. His adventures are of the interesting kind that
you almost but not quite believe.
According to Grandma. By Alice Calhoun Haines; illus. in
color, etc., by B. Cory Kilvert. 4to. Frederick A. Stokes
Co. $1.50.
Stories and verses about the days when “Grandma" was
a little girl.
Wee Winkles and Her Friends. By Gabrielle E. Jackson.
Illus., 12mo. Harper & Brothers. $1.25.
The new "Wee Winkles" book tells of Wee Winkles's
dolls and kittens and of her schoolroom.
The Baby's Day Book: Songs of the Day, the Dusk, and the
Dark. By W. Graham Robertson; illus. in color, etc., by
the author. 8vo. John Lane Co. $1.25.
Verses on all sorts of subjects that little people are
curious to know about, with plenty of pictures.
Little White Indians. By Fannie E. Ostrander. Illus. in
color, 12mo. L. C. Page & Co. $1.25.
The "Little White Indians" are two families of chil-
dren who played Indian," building wigwams to live in,
hunting, fishing, and going on the warpath.
The Teddy Bears. By Adab L. Sutton. Illus. in color, 4to.
Saalfield Publishing Co. $1.
The Teddy Bears "come alive," and have many inter-
esting frolics.
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. By Joel Chandler Harris;
illus. in color by J. A. Condé. Oblong 12mo. Frederick
A. Stokes Co. $1.
Children who are still at the “picture-book" stage will
enjoy this fully Illustrated edition of some of the most
amusing Brer Rabbit stories.
Us Fellers. Pictured in color by B. Cory Kilvert; text by
Izola L. Forrester. 8vo. George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.
The experiences of a number of amusing youngsters,
who call themselves “Us Fellers," are humorously pre-
sented in illustration and text.
Billy Whiskers, Jr., and His Chums. By Frances T. Mont.
gomery. Illus. in color, etc., large 8vo. Saalfield Pub-
lishing Co. $1.
Billy Whiskers, Jr., and his chums bave many exciting
adventures in San Francisco during the earthquake.
Andiron Tales. By John Kendrick Bangs. Illus. in color,
etc., large 8vo. John C. Winston Co. $1.25.
Stories told by the Andirons, the Poker, and others, to
a small boy who likes to sit by the fire and think.
The Happy Heart Family. By Virginia Gerson. New edition;
illus. in color, large 8vo. Duffield & Co. $1.
A large-print book of short stories, with many pic-
tures, "The Happy Heart Family” is large, and its exper-
lences are very exciting.
Santa Claus' Twin Brother. By Frances Trego Montgomery.
Illus. In color, etc., large 8vo. Saalfield Publishing Co. $1.
Santa Claus and his twin brother, Kris Kringle, invite
four children to accompany them on their holiday tours.
The Adventures of a Doll. By Nora Archibald Smith; illus. In
color by Dan Sayre Groesbeck. 8vo. McClure Co. 75
cts. net.
A little Scotch lassie, her dog, Muft, and her doll.
Bettykin, play the leading roles in these delightful adven-
tures.
The Teddy Bear A B C. By Laura R. Johnson; illus. in
color by Margaret L. Sanford.
8vo.
H. M. Caldwell
Co. 75 cts.
Humorous verses and illustrations show the Teddy
Bears' experiences in going through the alphabet.
The Bogie Man. By Ruth Crosby Dimmick. Illus., large
Svo. John C. Winston Co. 75 cts.
The hero of these rhymes is a very jolly “Bogie Man,"
not at all like the traditional spectre of childhood.
Little Me Too. By Julia Dalrymple. Illus., 12mo. Little,
Brown & Co. 75 cts., net.
Little Me Too and his brother Philip are real boys,
whose mother wrote this story about them.
Mother Goose in Silhouettes. Cut by Katharine G. Buffum.
12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 75 cts.
Thirty of the most popular “Mother Goose" rhymes
are printed with a silhouette illustration for each one
on the opposite page.
Just a Little Girl: Stories about Gracie. By Alice Ashworth.
Illus., 8vo. Frederick Warne & Co. 75 cts.
A companion volume to the author's "Just a Little
Boy." This is intended as a child's first reading book.
Mother Goose's Picture Puzzles. Illus. in color, etc., 8vo.
Henry Altemus Co.
50 cts.
Mother Goose rhymes, illustrated by "puzzle pictures,"
each of which cleverly conceals some person mentioned
in the Jingle.
ANTHOLOGIES AND PROSE SERIES
The Golden Staircase: Poems and Verses for Children. Chosen
by Louey Chisolm; illus. in color by M. Dibdin Spooner.
Large 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.50 net.
A children's anthology, selected by a woman who knows
and loves children. It contains something for those of
all ages between four and fourteen, and is illustrated in
color.
Pinafore Palace: A Book of Rhymes for the Nursery. Edited
by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith.
12mo. McClure Co. $1.50.
Contains all the best nursery rhymes, nonsense verses,
guessing games, and lullabies, for the delectation of the
very smallest readers and the relief of kindergarten
teachers and mothers with children to entertain.
Another Book of Verses for Children, Edited by E. V. Lucas;
illus. in color, etc., by F. D. Bedford. 8vo. Macmillan
Co. $1.50 net.
A delightful anthology of what Mr. Lucas calls “poetry-
for-children," similar to one compiled by him ten years
ago. The verses have been chosen with a view to their
fitness for being read aloud.
Heroes of the World Series. New vols, : Heroes of Mission-
ary Enterprise, by Claude Field; Heroes of Pioneering, by
Edgar Sanderson. Each illus., 8vo. J. B. Lippincott Co.
Per vol., $1.50 net.
These volumes describe the adventures of missionaries
with uncivilized peoples and wild beasts, and of pioneers
with their enemies and with the hardships of life in the
wilderness.
Romance Series. New vols.: The Romance of Bird Life,
by John Lea; The Romance of the World's Fisheries, by
H. W. G. Hyrst; The Romance of Savage Life, by G. P.
Scott Elliot; The Romance of Modern Photography, by
Charles R. Gibson. Each illus., 8vo. J. B. Lippincott
Co. Per vol., $1.50 net.
Avoiding all dry and purely scientific information, these
books give interesting descriptions of curious phenomena
observed in their various fields.
Young People Series. New vols.: Johnson's Boys' Life of
Captain John Smith, Amicis's Cuore; Bolton's Famous
Givers, and Famous Leaders among Women; Creegan's
Famous Missionaries; Drysdale's Helps for Ambitious
Girls, and Helps for Ambitious Boys; Ray's In Blue Creek
Canon; Sparhawk's Life of Lincoln for Boys; Oxley's
North Overland with Franklin, and Romance of Com-
merce; Thayer's Successful Careers; Cowan's The King's
Children. Each 12mo. T. Y. Crowell & Co. Per vol.,
75 cts.
Most of the books in this series deal with the biogra.
phies of heroic characters, of the sort that arouse a young
reader's ambition.
Children's Favorite Classics. New vols, : Stories from Chau-
cer, by F. Walker MeSpadden; Stories from Morris, by
Madalen Edgar; Stories of Early England, by E. M. Wil.
mot-Buxton. Each illus. in color, etc., 16mo. Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co. Per vol., 60 cts.
New volumes in a series for children, meant to intro-
duce them to some of the books they ought to know.
GOOD BOOKS OF ALL SORTS
The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions. By Howard
Pyle; illus. in color, etc., by the author. Svo. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $2.50 net.
Uniform in style and illustration with Mr. Pyle's other
stories of the Knights of King Arthur. This book tells the
adventures of the greatest of the knights, and those of his
son, Sir Galahad.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. By Jules Verne.
Illus., large 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.50 net.
A handsome reprint of this prophetic story, with_twen-
ty-four full-page illustrations from the original French
edition.
Boys and Girls from Thackeray. By Kate Dickinson Sweetser;
illus. by George Alfred Williams. 8vo. Duffield & Co. $2.
Sketches of juvenile life extracted from Thackeray's
novels and presented as complete stories. The author
has compiled similar volumes from Dickens and George
Eliot.
School Days: A Memory Book. Arranged and pictured in
color, etc., by Josephine Bruce. 4to, pp. 163. Bren-
tano's, $2.
A book for the recording of all the events of school
life, from the first day in kindergarten to the grammar
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[The following list, containing 122 titles, includes books
received by The DiaL since its last issue.]
The Boyhood of Italian Painters. Illus, in color with six-
teen reproductions from Italian masterpieces, 8vo. George
W. Jacobs & Co. $2 net.
The early lives of these painters contains much to en-
tertain and instruct young readers.
tories from the Old Testament for Children. By Harriet S.
Blaine Beale; illus. in color by E. Roscoe Shrader and
Herbert Moore. 8vo. Duffield & Co. $2.
New edition of this popular collection of Bible stories
retold in simple language.
The Boys' Book of Locomotives. By J. R. Howden. Illus.,
Svo.
McClure Co.
$2.
Tells about the history of locomotives, and explains
in detall just how they are made, with many fine pic.
tures.
Harper's Electricity Book for Boys. By Joseph H. Adams.
Illus., 8vo. Harper & Brothers. $1.75.
This is not a book of mere theories, but shows what
boys can actually do with simple home-made electrica)
appliances.
Harper's Indoor Book for Boys. By Joseph H. Adams and
others. Illus., 8vo. Harper & Brothers. $1.75.
Tells a boy how his leisure time indoors can be pleas-
antly and profitably spent.
Theodore Roosevelt: The Boy and the Man. By James Mor.
gan. Illus., 12mo. Macmillan Co. $1.50 net.
Avoids analysis and criticism. “Meant to be a simple,
straightforward, yet complete blography of the most in-
teresting personality of our day."
The Boy Electricians. By Edwin James Houston. Illus.,
12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
Professor Houston has a world-wide reputation as an
electrician. His accounts, in
story form, of simple
electrical and other experiments, will interest boys with
& taste for science.
Boyhood Days on the Farm. By Charles Clark Munn. Illus.,
12mo. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.50.
Mr. Munn pictures the old-fashioned, sturdy farm boy
of a generation ago and his environment, which has pro-
duced so many strong and noble men and women.
Electricity for Young People. By Tudor Jenks. Illus., 12mo.
Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50 net.
Mr. Jenks here relates the story of the progress of
electricity, from ancient times to its recent remarkable
developments.
The Iliad for Boys and Girls: Told from Homer in Simple
language. By Alfred J. Church. Illus. in color, 8vo.
Macmillan Co. $1.50.
Mr. Church's "Stories from Homer" are classic. This
new book of Homeric tales is beautifully illustrated.
The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes. By Edwin
J. Houston. Illus. in color, etc., 12mo. Frederick A.
Stokes Co. $1.50.
Accounts, in simple, popular style, of the famous vol-
canic eruptions of history, from the destruction of Pom-
peil and Herculaneum to the recent disasters at Mar-
tinique and San Francisco.
What shall We Do Now? Suggestions for Children's Games
and Employments. By Dorothy Canfield, and others.
Illus., 12mo. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
Five hundred children's games of all sorts, with chap-
ters on children's reading, the making of toys and candies,
etc.
The Children and the Pictures. By Pamela Tennant. Illus.
in color, etc., 8vo. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
Lady Tennant describes, in story form, some of the pic.
tures in her husband's famous private collection, many
of which are here reproduced in color.
Talos of Troy and Greece. By Andrew Lang. Illus., 12mo.
Longmans, Green & Co. $1.50 net.
The tales comprise: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities, The
Wanderings of Ulysses, Meleager, Theseus, and Perseus.
When America Was New. By Tudor Jenks. Illus., 12mo.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.25.
Pictures the home-life of the early settlers of America,
telling how they worked and played, what they ate and
wore, etc. There are many pictures.
A Child's Story of Hans Christian Andersen. By Paul Harboe.
Illus., 12 mo. Duffield & Co. $1.50.
Narrates in simple, straightforward language the life
story of the Danish writer whose fairy tales are loved
by children the world over.
Fire-Fighters and their Pets. By Alfred M. Downes. Illus.,
8vo. Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
Describes the many picturesque phases of a fireman's
life.
Stories of the Saints. By Mrs. C. Van D. Chenoweth. New
enlarged edition; illus., 12mo. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$1.25.
A new and enlarged edition, with illustrations and
quaint cover-design.
Father and Baby Plays. By Emilie Poulsson; Illus. by Flor-
ence E. Storer; music by Theresa H. Garrison and
Charles Cornish. Large 8vo. Century Co. $1.25.
A book of games that a father may play with his baby,
with rhymes, songs, and pictures to show him how.
The
author is editor of the “Kindergarten Review."
Ted in Mythland. By Hermine Schwed. Illus., 12mo. Moffat,
Yard & Co. $1 net.
The stories of the Greek gods and goddesses, familiarly
retold in prose and verse.
HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS.
The Riviera. Painted and described by William Scott. Large
8vo, gilt top, pp. 235. Macmillan Co. $6. net.
The Old Venetian Palaces and Old Venetian Folk. By
Thomas Okey ; illus. in color, etc., by Trevor Haddon. Large
8vo. gilt top, pp. 322. E. P. Dutton & Co. $6. net.
Venetian Life. By William Dean Howells. Revised and
enlarged edition, with illustrations in color by Edmund H.
Garrett; large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 423. Houghton, Miffin &
Co. $5. net.
The Builders of Florence. By J. Wood Brown; illus. in
photogravure, etc., by Herbert Railton. 4to, gilt top, pp. 430.
E, P. Dutton & Co. $6. net.
Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways. By J. G. Millais;
illus. in photogravure, color, etc., by the author. Large 8vo,
gilt top, pp. 340. Longmans, Green, & Co. $6. net.
Old and New Japan. By Clive Holland ; illus. in color by
Montagn Smyth. Large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 292. E. P. Dutton
& Co. $5. net.
The Story of the White House. By Esther Singleton. In
2 vols., illus., 8vo. gilt tops. McClure Co. $5. net.
Greece and the Aegean Isles. By Philip Sanford Marden.
Illus., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 386. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $3.
Holland Sketches. By Edward Penfield ; illus. in color by the
author. Large 8vo. pp. 147. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50 net.
Italy, the Magic Land. By Lilian Whiting. Illus. in plio-
togravure, etc., 8vo. gilt top, uncut, pp. 470. Little, Brown &
Co. $2.50 net.
Cathedral Cities of France. By Herbert and Hester
Marshall. Illus. in color, 4to, gilt top, pp. 396. Dodd, Mead
& Co. $3.50 net.
Old New England Inns: Being an Account of Little Journeys
to Various Quaint Inns and Hostelries of Colonial New En-
gland. By Mary Caroline Crawford. Illus., 12mo, gilt top,
pp. 381. L. C. Page & Co. $2.
India Impressions, with some Notes on Ceylon during a
Winter Tour, 1906-07. By Walter Crane. Illus, in color, etc.,
by the author, 8vo, pp. 325. Macmillan Co. $2.50.
Historio Landmarks of America, as Seen and Described by
Famous Writers. Collected and edited by Esther Singleton.
Illus., 8vo. gilt top. pp. 305. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.60 net.
Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Illus. in color, etc., by Robert
Anning Bell; with introduction by Edward Hutton. Large
8vo, gilt top, pp. 364. E. P. Dutton & Co. $3. net.
Browning's Italy: A Study of Italian Life and Art in Brown.
ing. By Helen Archibald Clarke. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 382.
Baker & Taylor Co. $2. net.
Hymns of the Marshes. By Sydney Lanier. Illus. in photo-
gravure, 8vo. gilt top. pp. 60. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.net.
The Life and Works of Vittorio Carpaccio. By Pompeo
Molmenti and the late Gustav Ludwig; trans. by Robert H.
Hobart Cust. Illus. in photogravure, etc., 4to, gilt top, pp. 248.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $15. net.
Of the Imitation of Christ. By Thomas à Kempis. Illus. in
color. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 310. E. P. Dutton & Co. $2. net.
Whose Home is the Wilderness: Some Studies of Wild
Animal Life. By William J. Long; illus. in color, etc., by
Charles Copeland. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 230. Ginn & Co. $1.25 net.
American Birds : Studied and Photographed from Life. By
William Lovell Finley; illus. by Herman T. Bohlman and the
author. 8vo, pp. 255. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50 net.
The Keramic Gallery : Containing several Hundred Illustra-
tions of Rare, Curious, and Choice Examples of Pottery and
Porcelain from the Earliest Time to the Beginning of the
XIXth Century, with Historical Notes and Descriptions. By
William Chaffers. Second edition, revised and edited by
H. M. Cundall; 4to, gilt top, pp. 468. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$12.50 net.
A Gallery of Portraits. Reproduced from Original Etchings
by Paul Helleu; with introduction by Frederick Wedmore.
Longmans, Green & Co. $7. net.
The Story of American Painting: The Evolution of Painting
in America from Colonial Times to the Present. By Charles
H, Caffin. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 396. Frederick A. Stokes
Co. $2.50 net.
The Holly Tree Inn, and A Christmas Tree. By Charles
Dickens; illus. in color, etc., by George Alfred Williams.
Large 8yo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 140. Baker & Taylor Co. $2.
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Jesse ben David: A Shepherd of Bethlehem. By James M.
Ludlow; with illustrations in color and decorations by
Samuel M. Palmer. 12mo, pp. 132. Fleming H. Revell Co.
$1. net.
The Music-Lover. By Henry van Dyke; with frontispiece by
Sigismond de Ivanowski. 8vo. Moffat, Yard & Co. $1. net.
The Pearl: Its Story, Charm, and Value. By W. R. Cattelle.
Illus., 12mo. gilt top. pp. 376. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2. net.
A Vers de Société Anthology. Collected by Carolyn Wells.
16mo, gilt top, pp. 357. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25 net.
The Quite New Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for
1908. By Ethel Watts-Mumford Grant, Oliver Herford, and
Addison Mizner. With illustrations and decorations in color,
16mo. Paul Elder & Co. 75 cts. net.
The Intelligence of the Flowers. By Maurice Maeterlinck;
trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. With frontispiece
in color and decorations, 12mo, pp. 179. Dodd, Mead & Co.
$1.20 net.
The Optimist's Good Morning. Compiled by Florence
Hobart Perin. 16mo, gilt top, pp. 379. Little, Brown, & Co.
$1. net.
Many Happy Returns. Edited by Helen P. Strong. IUus.
in color, 16mo, gilt edges. H. M. Caldwell Co. 50 cts.
Our Baby's Journal. Edited by Helen P. Strong. Illus. in
color, 16mo, gilt edges. H. M. Caldwell Co. 50 cts.
The Teddyssey. Illustrations and text by Otho Cushing.
Oblong 12mo. Life Publishing Co. $1.
A Dog Day; or, The Angel in the House. By Walter Emanuel;
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The Natural History of the Ten Commandments. By
Ernest Thompson Seton. 16mo, pp. 77. Charles Scribner's
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The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country
Church. By Kate Douglas Wiggin; illus. in tint by Alice
Barber Stephens. 8vo, gilt top, pp. 143. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. $1.50.
The Story of the Other Wise Man. By Henry van Dyke;
with frontispiece in color, and decorations by Enrico Monetti.
Edition de luxe; 4to, gilt top, pp. 88. Harper & Brothers. $5.
A Spring Fortnight in France. By Josephine Tozier. Illus.,
8vo, gilt top, pp. 352. Dodd, Mead & Co. $2. net.
The Romance of an old-Fashioned Gentleman. By F.
Hopkinson Smith; illus. in color by A. I. Keller. 12mo, gilt
top. pp. 213. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
An Encore. By Margaret Deland; with illustrations by Alice
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Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
Sport Royal. By Anthony Hope; with illustrations in color,
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$1.50.
Mother. By Owen Wister. Illus. in color, etc., 12mo, pp. 95.
Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.
The Woman's Exchange of Simpkinsville. By Ruth McEnery
Stuart. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp.74. Harper & Brothers. $1.25.
My Lady Caprice. By Jeffery Farnol; with illustrations in
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Under the Holly Bough: A Collection of Christmas Poems.
Compiled by Ina Russelle Warren. Illus. in photogravure,
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Holly: The Romance of a Southern Girl. By Ralph Henry
Barbour; illus. in color by Edwin F. Bayha. 8vo, gilt top,
pp. 295. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.
Days Off, and Other Digressions. By Henry van Dyke. Illus.
in tint, 12mo, gilt top, pp. 322. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
The Haunted Man, and The Battle of Life. By Charles
Dickens. Each illus. in color, etc., by C. E. Brock. 12mo,
gilt tops. E. P. Dutton & Co. Per vol., $1.
The Real Agatha: The Unusual Adventures of Two Young
Men and an Heiress. By Edith Huntington Mason. With
frontispiece, 8vo, pp. 166. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1. net.
The Spinners' Book of Fiction. Collected by the Book
Committee of the Spinners' Club. Illus. in color, 12mo, gilt
top, pp. 367. Paul Elder & Co. $2. net.
The Garden of Allah. By Robert Hichens. Illustrated edi.
tion ; 8vo, gilt top, pp. 490. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $2.50 net.
Helen's Babies. By John Habberton. Author's edition;
illus. in color by B. Cory Kilvert and C. V. Dwiggins. Svo,
pp. 258, Moffat, Yard & Co. $1.50.
The Ingoldsby Legends : Mirth and Marvels. By Thomas
Ingoldsby; illus. in color, tint, etc., by Arthur Rackham.
4to, gilt top, pp. 548. E. P. Dutton & Co. $6. net.
The Grandissimes. By George W. Cable; illus. in photo-
gravure by Albert Herter. 8vo, gilt top, pp. 491. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $2.50.
Love Affairs of Literary Men. By Myrtle Reed. 12mo,
gilt top, pp. 204. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50 net.
Pride and Prejudice. By Jane Austen ; illus. in color by
C. E. Brock. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 336. Series of English
Idylls." E. P. Dutton & Co. $2. net.
The Value of Sincerity and Character. Edited by Mary M.
Barrows; with introduction by Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son. With decorations in tint, large 8vo, pp. 97. H. M.
Caldwell Co. $2.50.
The Secrets of the Vatican. By Douglas Sladen. Illus.,
large 8vo. gilt top, pp. 504. J. B. Lippincott Co. $5. net.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators, new
series. By Elbert Hubbard. With photogravure portraits,
8vo, gilt top, pp. 553. G. P. Putnams Sons. $2.50.
The Quest of the Colonial. By Robert and Elizabeth Shackle-
ton. Illus. in color, etc., 8vo, pp. 425. Century Co. $2.40 net.
Christmasse Tyde: Being a Collection of Seasonable Quota-
tions. Chosen and arranged by Jennie Day Haines. With
frontispiece in color and decorations, large 8vo, gilt top,
pp. 111. Paul Elder & Co. $2. net.
The Land of Make-Believe, and other Christmas Poems.
By Wilbur Nesbit. Illus. in tint, large 8vo, gilt edges, pp. 99.
Harper & Brothers. $1.40 net.
“Merry Christmas" to You, My Friend. Compiled by
Mary C. Vose. 12mo, pp. 90. Boston: The Gorham Press.
$1.25.
The Story of Joseph, as Told in the Old Testament. With
descriptive essay and illustrations in color, etc., by George
Alfred Williams and introduction by Fletcher Harper Swift.
Large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 140. Baker & Taylor Co. $2.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. In 2 vols., illus., large
8vo, gilt tops, uncut. McClure Co. $6. net.
Memoirs of Mistral. Rendered into English by Constance
Elisabeth Maud; Lyrics from the Provençal by Alma
Strettell. With portraits in photogravure, etc., 8vo, gilt top,
pp. 336. Baker & Taylor Co. $3.50.
John Greenleaf Whittier: A Sketch of his Life by Bliss
Perry, with Selected Poems. Limited large paper edition;
with photogravure portraits, 8vo, uncut, pp. 111. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.
George Sand and her Lovers. By Francis Griubble. Illus. in
photogravure, large 8vo, uncut, pp. 375. Charles Scribner's
Sons. $3.75 net.
The Life of Louis XI.: The Rebel Dauphin and the States-
man King, from His Original Letters and Other Documents.
By Christopher Hare. Illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 300. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50 net.
Recollections of My Life. By Hermann Krüsi. An Autobio-
graphical Sketch Supplemented by Extracts from His Per-
sonal Records and a Review of His Literary Productions,
together with Selected Essays, arranged and edited by
Elizabeth Sheldon Alling. Illus. in photogravure, etc., 8vo,
gilt top, pp. 439. New York: The Grafton Press. $2.50 net,
Memoirs of a Huguenot Family. Trans. and compiled from
the Original Autobiography of Rev. James Fontaine and
Other Family Manuscripts by Ann Maury; with an Appendix
containing translations of historical documents, reprinted
from the Original Edition of 1852. With photogravure frontis-
piece, 8vo, gilt top, pp. 512. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.50 net.
Reminiscences of Richard Lathers : Sixty Years of a Busy
Life in South Carolina, Massachusetts, and New York.
Edited by Alvan F. Sanborn. Illus. in photogravure, etc.,
large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 425. New York: The Grafton Press.
$2.50 net.
Memorials of Thomas Davidson: The Wandering Scholar.
Collected and edited by William Knight. With portrait,
8vo, pp. 241. Ginn & Co. $1.25 net.
Father and Son: Biographical Recollections. With photo-
gravure frontispiece, 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 354. Charles
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No. 516.
DECEMBER 16, 1907.
Vol. XLIII.
CONTENTS.
PAGB
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sage,
THE WHITTIER CENTENARY.
. 407
SOME FRIENDSHIPS OF WHITTIER. With letters
hitherto unpublished. Annie Russell Marble 409
COMMUNICATION .
410
Spelling Reform at Columbia. Nicholas Murray
Butler.
CASUAL COMMENT
411
Books that are hard to classify. – The literature
of taxation. - Interesting facts about younger
sons and daughters. — The particularity of library
statistics. – John Harvard's benefaction. — The
unveiling of Zola's monument in Paris. - A nona-
genarian's birthday. – The Whistler house at
Lowell, Mass. — Mrs. Humphry Ward in French
costume.
THE LIFE-STORY OF A TRUE AMERICAN.
W. H. Johnson
413
A TRAMP ACROSS WIDEST AFRICA. H. E.
Coblentz .
415
NATURE'S VARIOUS WAYS. May Estelle Cook. 418
Maeterlinck’s The Intelligence of the Flowers.
Thompson Seton's The Natural History of the Ten
Commandments.—Long's Whose Home is the Wil-
derness. Rich's Feathered Game of the Northeast.
-Finley's American Birds. — Burroughs's Camping
and Tramping with Roosevelt. - White's Camp
and Trail. --Miss Kingsley's Eversley Gardens and
Others. – Quayle's God's Calendar.
MEMOIRS OF SOME FRENCH CELEBRITIES 420
Aldis's The Queen of Letter Writers. — Sergeant's
The Last Empress of the French. — Court Life of
the Second Empire. — Hare's Life of Louis XI.
Nicoullaud's Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne.
Gribble's George Sand and her Lovers.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS — II.
423
Art and Architecture. — Biography and Reminis-
Travel and Description. — Holiday Edi-
tions of Standard Literature. Illustrated Books of
Fiction.- Inexpensive Gift-Books.-- Miscellaneous
Holiday Books.
NOTES
432
THE WHITTIER CENTENARY.
When the hard-pressed Spartans sent to
Athens for a leader at the time of the Mes-
senian war, they were not a little surprised
when there came to them, instead of the soldier
they expected, a lame schoolmaster. But his
songs proved more potent than strategy, and
so inspired them that they won their cause.
No less striking an adjustment of unexpected
means to unforeseen ends is found in the history
of our own great national conflict which issued
in the triumph of human liberty. It was of
Emerson that Lowell wrote: “ To him more
than to all other causes together did the young
martyrs of our Civil War owe the sustaining
strength of thoughtful heroism that is so touch-
ing in every record of their lives.” But the
words fit Whittier almost as well, and the in-
spiring influence of our Quaker Tyrtæus, even
more directly than the spiritual counsels of our
Puritan kindled the fires of devotion that
consumed our fortress of vested wrong. It is
highly significant for the spiritual interpretation
of the Civil War that its outcome should be
so largely attributable to these two men, both
having the temperament of the recluse, and
both forced by the pressure of events to come
out into the open and address plain speech to
their fellow-men upon the commanding prac-
tical question of their time. We celebrated
the Emerson centenary four years ago ; to-day,
fifteen years after his death, we celebrate the
centenary of John Greenleaf Whittier.
It was years before Emerson said, “ There
is an infamy in the air,” that Whittier
Quaker and man of peace
took the militant
attitude toward the institution of slavery. In
the early thirties, when Emerson was still rather
repelled by the vehemence of the reformers,
Whittier had allied himself with Garrison, and
enlisted for the war.
"My heart both leaped to answer thine,
And echo back thy words,
As leaps the warrior's at the shine
And flash of kindred swords."
And from that time on, until the breaking of the
storm-cloud of war, he was outspoken and
uncompromising in his stand for righteousness,
although still trying hard to reconcile the need
cences.
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for action with the spirit of non-resistance. “One faith alone, so broad that all mankind
Lowell pictures him in 1848 as
Within themselves its secret witness find,
The soul's communion with the Eternal Mind,"
“Both singing and striking in front of the war,
And hitting his foes with the mallet of Thor," and in many a simple and touching strain he
and others than Lowell must have wonderingly imparted that vision to restless souls seeking
asked :
after peace. There is nothing that is offen-
“O leather-clad Fox,
Can that be thy son, in the battle's mad din,
sively dogmatic in his religious verse, only the
Preaching brotherly love and then driving it in
pure gold of aspiration for the good and faith
To the brain of the tough old Goliath of sin,
in its ultimate realization.
With the smoothest of pebbles from Castaly's spring
Impressed on his hard moral sense with a sling ? "
It is safe to say that Whittier's fame as a
And so for more than thirty years, and until poet has steadily brightened during the years
the end of the war was in sight, he fought since his death. There was a time when criti-
stoutly on, and was at last free to raise the
cism viewed him with a supercilious air, dwell-
pæan
of his " Laus Deo."
ing upon his perfectly obvious limitations, his
“Ring and swing,
lack of finish, his defect of ear, and the general
Bells of joy! On morning's wing
crudity of many of his improvisations. These
Send the song of praise abroad!
things obscured the critical vision, and pre-
With a sound of broken chains
Tell the nations that He reigns
vented his entire work from being seen in its
Who alone is Lord and God!"
true perspective. We do not now dwell upon
When the long conflict was over, and the them so much, because his qualities of positive
political passion that had hitherto inspired his excellence are seen to be more deserving of
song had achieved its aim, Whittier found his attention. He has been variously compared
intimate self once more, and became what Nature to Crabbe, Cowper, and Burns, and even to
had all along meant him to be - the poet of his Tennyson. The comparisons may not be close,
own native section. “Snow-Bound” and “ The but the fact that he suggests them at all is
Tent on the Beach” are the works by which significant. The faithful and minute realism of
he is likely to live the longest, because of the his New England descriptive pieces more than
sincerity and fidelity with which they picture confirms the likeness with Crabbe, and the
what is now a fast-vanishing phase of American lyrical quality of Burns, his acknowledged
civilization. They are the pieces which make him master, is echoed in many of his New England
peculiarly the poet of New England, and justify songs and ballads. It was a Southern poet, Paul
Parkman's exact description : " His genius drew Hayne, who spoke of his verse as “ rhythmic
its nourishment from her soil ; his pages are the gold,” and compared him with the poet of “The
mirror of her outward nature, and the strong Task” in this quatrain :
utterance of her inward life.” The course of
“God's innocent pensioners in the woodland dim,
the twentieth century will carry New England The fields, the pastures, know and trust in him,
far from those conditions of primitive simplicity
And in their love, his lonely heart is blest,
Our pure hale-minded Cowper of the West.”
which made a poet like Whittier possible, and
that body of his work which enshrines for pos-
As for Tennyson, if Whittier touches him at all,
terity the old homely life which nurtured him it is upon the idyllic side, and also in a few
will grow increasingly precious as that life, with rare flashes of spiritual insight. We have often
all its accidents, recedes into the past.
thought that the closing stanzas of “ Burning
Among Whittier's titles to our gratitude two Drift-Wood ” would not suffer greatly if set in
have been considered — his championship of the comparison even with the faultless stanzas of
cause of freedom and his industry as a chron-
“ Crossing the Bar.” Here they are, ready for
icler of New England life and legend. A third
the touch-stone.
chief title is based upon his religious poems.
“ I hear the solemn monotone
The atmosphere of Puritanism in which he grew
Of waters calling unto me,
I know from whence the airs have blown
up was tonic but harsh, and needed the soft-
That whisper of the Eternal Sea.
ening breath of airs from some milder source
“As low my fires of drift-wood burn,
of spiritual refreshment. The principles of
I hear that sea's deep sounds increase,
Quakerism supplied just this need, and produced
And, fair in sunset light, discern
in Whittier the fortunate blend of strength and
Its mirage-lifted Isles of Peace.”
gentleness, of austerity and tolerance, that made One word more, and this centennial tribute
his religious utterances so singularly appealing. shall end. What have the younger poets
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as
Mr. Stedman, dedicating to Whittier a volume home near Newburyport, and with her and her
of verse.
And the answer was this :
husband Whittier had relations of true friendship.
“Righteous anger, burning scorn
He acknowledged indebtedness to Mrs. Spofford for
Of the oppressor, love to humankind,
the germ-ideas of two of his poems, "The King's
Sweet fealty to country and to home,
Missive" and "The Captain's Well." Mrs.Spofford
Peace, stainless purity, high thoughts of heaven,
And the clear, natural music of thy song.”
offered the story of Captain Valentine Bagley and
his well to Whittier before she wrote her poem,
But more significant than this incisive sum believing that "all the legends of the countryside
mary is the title of the dedicatory lines — “Ad belonged to him,” but he did not then intend to use
Vatem for it reminds us that the poet was this story. The letter following, loaned by Mrs.
also the prophet. All true poets are prophets Spofford and never before published, was written in
in some degrees, but few wear the robes with 1882, after the publication of her verses ; the tribute
Whittier's dignity. It is the authentic accent
which Whittier paid to her poem may be applied
of prophecy that we hear in “ Ichabod
also to his later rendering of the same tradition.
noble a poem as any of Hugo's "Châtiments
“Oak Knoll, Danvers,
and in the Centennial Hymn" whose stately
8mo., 17, 1882.
« MY DEAR MRS. SPOFFORD:
measures embody a rational ideal not likely to
“I had the pleasure of meeting thy best friend in
become outworn.
the cars the other day, and he told me that a copy of
“Oh make Thou us, through centuries long,
thy Valentine Bagley poem had been sent to me. I
In peace secure, in justice strong;
searched my great pile of papers for it, but failed to
Around our gift of freedom draw
find it until very lately. I have read it with the hearti-
The safeguards of thy righteous law:
est satisfaction. The touching and beautiful story could
And, cast in some diviner mould,
not be better told. It is worth ten thousand dollars to
Let the new cycle shame the old !”
Amesbury, and would be cheap at that, if thee had not
given it to us. It has made the old well immortal. It
has indissolubly wedded Powow River and the Merri-
mack with the Sea of Oman and the Cove of Muscat.
SOME FRIENDSHIPS OF WHITTIER.
Between the boughs of Daniel Huntington's apple-trees
WITH LETTERS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.
the date-palms of Arabia will wave and rustle forever.”
Among the centenary thoughts on Whittier,
Miss Jewett was associated in Whittier's life with
impressed upon us by re-reading his published letters those other friends, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fields.
and listening to scattered reminiscences, has been
Her stories of New England life gave him rare
realization of the large and varied circle of friends pleasure. Miss Jewett has allowed the publication
who were recipients of his sympathetic and loyal
of one of his letters to her which reveals his constant
good-will. With his contemporaries in literature, sympathy for his friends. Miss Jewett was visiting
who are ranked to-day among the greater authors,
Mrs. Fields in Boston at this time.
he did not maintain cordial and free relations. In
Amesbury, 1st mo., 14, 1886.
his
young manhood he lacked educational and social « MY DEAR FRIEND :
opportunities to form such bonds of friendship; in “I wonder whether you know in Charles street how
later life, his mingled shyness and ill-health pre cold it is ! The world seems freezing up, — another
vented him from accepting many friendly invitations
ice-period is upon us. We are 18 degrees below zero
that came to him. For Emerson and Longfellow
here this morning. It must be terribly hard for the
and Lowell he had great admiration, but he was
poor in your city. If it were not for such angels of
reserved and sometimes ill at ease in their company.
mercy as our dear Annie Fields and her associates,
what would become of them ?
In the last decade of his life he exchanged cordial
“I enclose a long notice of thy writings by the literary
notes of congratulation with Holmes, as they shared
editor of the Providence Daily Journal, Kate H. Austin,
successive birthdays with their honors. With three a Quaker friend of mine. If it gives thee half the
men of letters he was on more intimate terms of pleasure it has given me, I shall be satisfied.
friendship, — Edwin P. Whipple, Bayard Taylor, “Don't let . . . risk her life too much this terrible
and James T. Fields.
weather. I have been thinking of her daily outgoings
For the women writers who came to him often for
ever since this awful wave of cold has rolled upon us.
advice and encouragement, he had warm regard, and
With a great deal of love for her, I am thy affectionate
friend,
his letters to them show real cordiality and often
JOHN G. WAITTIER.
humorous responsiveness. His friendship with Lucy
« Please hand the enclosed check to A. F. I want, in
Larcom and Abigail Dodge (“Gail Hamilton")
my small way, to share in her work, or if possible to
was expressed in many letters and in hours of hos relieve a little of the suffering she is obliged to witness.”
pitality at his Amesbury home. He was deeply One of the memorable friendships of Whittier
interested in the literary achievements of two women with another poet came in his later years, when Paul
who are still writing graceful prose and verse, Mrs. Hamilton Hayne paid the visits to Longfellow and
Harriet Prescott Spofford and Miss Sarah Orne Whittier which he has described in “The Snow-
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me
the two poets, once so diametrically opposed in “I am surprised at the anxiety of some religious
political faith, became friends whose correspond teachers with regard to the effect of scientific investiga-
ence gave mutual pleasure. Mr. William Hamilton
tions. We must never be afraid of truth, and, more
than that, truth can never contradict itself. Even
Hayne has permitted the use of two letters from
Whittier to his father which are revelatory and
evolution, if that can be proved, would not affect the
doctrines we have been talking of”
gracious. The first is dated November, 1880.
“It is nearly a year ago since thee and dear Mrs.
In the same conversation Whittier spoke with
Hayne were here. I was wishing this morning that
earnest interpretation of the motives which suggested
you could see our trees, which Autumn has painted to him his poem on “The Eternal Goodness."
more gloriously than ever before. How do you do? “It was directed against the Calvinistic teaching in
The newspapers say thy health is better, but we were the midst of which I was brought up. Some of my
pained to hear of thy illness some months ago. For friends have felt uneasy with that poem. It has sur-
myself, I am feeling the effects of age : - am rarely prised me very much that they should be. I am sure
free from pain, and find all writing and serious thought it came from my heart. I sometimes heard teachers
very wearisome. I realize that there is little left for that represented God as a tormentor. This wounded
me but to trust and wait. . . Yet I am thankful for
I felt that I would not love the God who was
the many blessings, — for friends, for books, for the thus depicted. It seemed to shut me up in a selfish
ever beautiful nature, and hope that, despite of many love as though I must just love Him for what He gave
errors and shortcomings, I have not lived wholly in vain. me, or what I hoped that He would give. This did not
The poetical temperament has its trials and keen suscep satisfy me. I wanted to love Him for Himself. Charles
tibility to the hard, harsh, and unlovely things of life; Kingsley told me how he passed through the same strug-
but, my dear friend, we have also a capacity for enjoy- gle, how he and his wife would lie awake agonizing,
ment which others do not know, the still air and because they could not love God, being what they
delightful studies,' the glow and enthusiasm of rhythmic imagined Him to be. Through a severe and painful
utterance, and the rapturous love of all beauty and har struggle I have learned to have larger hopes for the race
mony. And as Holmes says, “It is a satisfaction some than I once entertained. I do not think that God's love for
times to sit under a tree and read our own songs. His creatures ever ceases, or that probation closes with
The election is at hand. However it goes, I hope the the grave. This view seems to me the necessary conse-
country will not suffer. I long for peace and kindly quence of our retaining our personality in the other life.
feeling.”
God will not in the resurrection make us mere automata.
After the death of Longfellow, Whittier wrote to
We must have the exercise of free-will, the power of
Hayne:
choice, or we cease to be ourselves. I sympathise with
the old divine who maintained that, if even the devil
“ Ever since our great poet fell asleep, I have wanted
to write thee, but I have scarcely courage or strength
would repent, God would forgive him. But do not think
I wish to detract from the force of our Saviour's ex-
for the effort. I heard from my dear Mrs. Fields, who
had visited him, that he was wishing to see me.
pressions. I accept them. I can see the possibility of
As
soon as I was able I went out from Boston on the Sun-
eternal punishment. I believe it would be the inevitable
result of eternal rebellion.
day of his last week. His daughter told me he had
The penalty must follow
been taken suddenly ill the night before, and it was not
sin; we see it in this life. I am thankful for the altered
possible for him to see me or anyone. I was greatly
teaching of the present day. Friends have had their
grieved, but I hoped he was not seriously ill. He was
share in counteracting Calvinistic views.'
more comfortable afterward but no permanent restora-
These unstudied utterances well express the deeply
tion. The last two days of his life he slept much and religious faith which was so large a part of Whittier's
seemed quiet. And so he passed as from one lower cham nature, and are an interesting commentary on the
ber to one higher. Ah me! but the world seems the less
notable poem to which they refer.
for his leaving. And a feeling of great loneliness op-
ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE.
presses me.
I should have answered thy last letter
but for illness and weakness. I am 80 dreadfully
oppressed by my correspondence with strangers that I
cannot do justice to my friends. My letters for the
last six months have been at the rate of twenty a day.”
COMMUNICATION.
In his earlier and later years alike, Whittier had
SPELLING REFORM AT COLUMBIA.
many friends among the Quakers whose faith he
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
always maintained, while he was ever open-minded
In the issue of THE DIAL for December 1, 1907, I
toward all creeds. He was interested in the scientific
find page 366) an editorial paragraph which opens
research and discussions which were wide-spread
with the following sentence:
during the later decades of his life. In 1879 an
“The Columbia craze for spelling reform reached its climax
English Quaker, Stanley Pumphrey, visited Whittier in the late formal acceptance by the Board of Trustees, in coun-
cil assembled, of 180 ' reformed' words."
at Oak Knoll, with some friends of the poet, Pliny
and Thomas Chase. To his guests he spoke freely
No such action has been proposed to or taken by the
of his religious experiences and hopes. A record of
Trustees of Columbia University. The source of your
information is unknown to me, but the information
the conversation was kept in a diary, from which I
itself has no foundation in fact.
am privileged to quote these extracts. Referring to
On November 4, 1907, the Trustees of Columbia
the seeming conflict between science and religion, University voted that instead of permitting the differ-
Whittier said:
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each for itself the orthography to be used in the Uni wise display marks of indignation or anger. The citizen
versity publications, these printing offices should be re of that day was required, in terms probably more amus-
quired to follow the standards of the Century Dictionary. ing to us than to him, to state the number of ratable
The editor-in-chief of that dictionary was the most polls in his family, sixteen years old and upward to
eminent philologist that America has yet produced. twenty-one years, and the number of polls of other and
Without either examining or counting his orthographical curious varieties; the number of his dwelling-houses,
preferences, we choose to follow his authority, rather shops, distilleries, sugar-houses, bake-houses, tan-houses,
than the varying authorities of several printing offices slaughter and other houses; of his pot and pearl-ash
whose philological standing is unknown to us.
works, iron works, furnaces, rope-walks, grist and full-
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. ing mills, saw and slitting mills, and all other mills of
President's Room, Columbia University,
whatever description; also the number of ounces of
New York, Dec. 4, 1907.
silver plate in his possession, the acreage of his arable
lands and of his orchards, his stock of wheat, rye, oats,
barley, Indian corn, peas, and beans, his acreage of fresh
meadow and salt marsh and every other conceivable
CASUAL COMMENT.
variety of land; and so on to inconceivable length.
BOOKS THAT ARE HARD TO CLASSIFY are numerous
Finally the climax was reached in a demand to know
enough, heaven knows (or at any rate librarians know),
the number of his “cow rights” and how many barrels
without the addition of literary hoaxes and other
of “cyder” his whole estate yielded annually. We
mas«ed, disguised, hybrid, or nondescript products of
read little about tax-dodgers in those virtuous days, bnt
the writer's art. Among recent puzzlers of this sort to
the filling out of such a schedule as is here indicated
which the President of the American Library Associa-
must have tried the patience and tested the honesty of
tion has called attention are “The Letters of a Chinese
William Dodd and his neighbors.
Official,” “ As the Hague Ordains,” and “Indiscreet
Letters from Pekin.” To a cataloguer, at first glance,
THE PARTICULARITY
STATISTICS is
or even at second and third glance, these are all serious, becoming so minute as to impress the observer with
truth-telling books; but to the intelligent reader, with
the painstaking vigilance of librarians and assistants.
more time to study them than the over-worked cata-
Sometimes, indeed, a gentle amusement is aroused by
loguer can command, they are nothing but fiction painted
the ingenuity displayed in this department of library
over with a more or less thick coating of plausibility and
lore, and the outsider wonders what new task will next
local color. The “make-up" of the Chinese Official"
be imposed upon the indefatigable statistician. The
was so deceptive as to move a certain eminent public public library of Hartford, Conn., has begun to keep
man to write, and almost to publish, a serious rejoinder
count of the questions propounded in its reference room,
in the form of a solemn defense of Christianity and
and now announces a gain of 1156 such queries over last
Western civilization; but in the nick of time he learned year, the present year's total falling little short of a
that the Chinaman was born in England and had never
myriad, without including inquiries for books, maps,
worn a pigtail. Books, too, that deal with inventions
and other publications kept in the room. Here, too,
of the future or wars of the twenty-first century are a
the contestants in 112 debates were furnished with
thorn in the cataloguer's flesh. They flout Mr. Dewey
ammunition for their argumentative encounters, and the
and his decimal system, and laugh to scorn Mr. Cutter
department at all times has been crowded with infor-
and his expansive classification. The decimal scheme
mation seekers from every walk of life. Useful appli-
should have been made a duodecimal, or better a quin-
cations of, or fruitful deductions from, these as yet rather
quedecimal or octodecimal one; the expansive system
dry statistics are to be hoped for some day. There is
would need a more than India-rubber elasticity to in-
brought to mind, by the way, a certain library whose head
clude all the whimsical creations of an author's brain.
conceived the idea of having his subordinates beep a re-
For a private reader, in the seclusion of his own study,
cord of all books applied for unsuccessfully,
- name of
to have been deceived by one of these masqueraders, is
book and name of disappointed applicant to be in each
humiliating enough; but for a professional cataloguer
case put down in black and white. Though such a record
to have placed his gullibility on public record in a
might have furnished an illustration, more impressive
printed catalogue, or even in a card-catalogue, tends to
than Johnson's poem, of the vanity of human wishes,
lessen the joy of living.
to require it to be kept was asking too much of library-
assistant human nature, and a curious chapter was thus
THE LITERATURE OF TAXATION, if tax bills and lost to the literature of library statistics.
tax-collectors' books can be called literature, contains
some quaint and curious reading. Certain ancient INTERESTING FACTS
documents belonging by inheritance to a Boston business DAUGHTERS were brought to light in a paper read by
man have been brought to light and made to show how Dr. Louise G. Rabinovitch of New York before the late
taxes were assessed and collected in the latter part of International Congress on Psychiatry, at Amsterdam.
the eighteenth century, when the metropolis of New After studying the lives of seventy-four great men and
England was still under town government. A tax bill women — poets and prose-writers, politicians, painters,
of 1780, made out against one William Dodd, who and musicians Dr. Rabinovitch reports that only ten
owned no real estate, charges him with a tax on "per of the number were first-born children, while a great
sonal estate and faculty" to the amount of 261,17s, 60 majority of these seventy-four persons of genius were
for town and county. His state tax on the same items youngest or next-to-the-youngest children. For instance,
was 121, 188, 4d. His state poll tax was twenty pounds Coleridge was the last-born of thirteen children, James
sterling! And his town and county poll tax, forty Fenimore Cooper the eleventh of twelve children,
pounds and ten shillings !! Total, 1001, 58, 10d. Yet Washington Irving the youngest of eleven, Balzac the
the bill is neither crumpled nor torn, nor does it other youngest of three, George Eliot the youngest of four,
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Napoleon an eighth and probably youngest child, Daniel
Webster the youngest of seven, Benjamin Franklin the
seventeenth child of his parents and the last-born child
of the last-born child for several generations back,
Rembrandt the last of six, Rubens of seven, Landseer
the fifth of seven children, Reynolds a seventh child,
Weber a ninth, Wagner the youngest of seven, Mozart
the same, Schubert the thirteenth of fourteen, Schumann
the last-born of five. The prominent part played here
by the sacred seven is noticeable. Moreover, since
maturity in the parents seems to be necessary for the
production of children of genius, have we not here
indicated a sphere of usefulness for Dr. Osler's effete
quadragenarians ? A reading of Dr. Rabinovitch's list
makes one wish he might have chosen, not so much his
parents as the order of his birth; but if all were to
choose to be youngest sons or daughters, an obvious
difficulty would present itself, comparable with that of
the Irishman's railway train which should insure condi-
tions of safety by having no first or last cars attached.
Statistics, however, let it be recalled in closing, can be
made to prove almost anything; and it would doubtless
be an easy matter to draw up a list of first-born men
and women of genius — which also would be interesting
reading
John HARVARD'S BENEFACTION seems to be held in
rather slight esteem by at least one of the thousands
of his living beneficiaries. Mr. Frank B. Sanborn, a
loyal son of the University, shows the courage of his
convictions in refusing to join the general chorus of
praise. He is reported as saying, and with a good deal
of reason when one calmly considers the matter, that
Harvard " has had his full share of posthumous honor
for what was at best but a small contribution to the
triumph of civilization, while other men who did more
have been honored less, or, more politely speaking, have
far surpassed Harvard in the value of their counsels
and donations.” Harvard's bequest of £700 and his
library to the infant college came when the school was
already established by legislative enactment and appro-
priation, so that no founder's honors are properly his;
nor does his gift impress the present generation by
reason of its size. But it was timely; and because the
testator had the good fortune to die at the “psycholog-
ical moment” in the struggling institution's existence,
he stepped into an imperishable renown. We live in
an unjust world, and the prizes are never awarded with
exact equity; but perhaps, in this instance, instead of
seeking to honor John Harvard less we might better
strive to honor Mr. Sanborn's “ other men
he kept receiving letters from the young captain who
so sudden had been his end — continued to the last de-
scribing the life about him and giving animated ex-
pression to his high hopes for the future. Under this
refinement of torture, Meunier developed tendencies to
heart-disease, and finally succumbed. In all this there
is something of the grim horror of Greek tragedy.
A NONAGENARIAN'S BIRTHDAY that should not pass
without due notice was that of the Honorable, or we
might fitly say the Right Honorable, John Bigelow, man
of many books and many honors, who first saw light on
the 25th Nov., 1817. Graduated at eighteen from
Union College, admitted to the bar a little later, ap-
pointed inspector of Sing Sing prison at twenty-eight,
holding an editorial position on the New York « Evening
Post ” in the important decade (it was a duodecade, how-
ever) 1849-61, U. S. Consul at Paris during most of
the Civil War, Minister to France from 1864 to 1867,
Secretary of State of New York in the middle seventies,
friend and biographer of Samuel J. Tilden and co-
worker with him in politics, president now of the board
of trustees of the New York Public Library, a trustee
of the Metropolitan Art Museum, member of the his-
torical societies of New York, Massachusetts, and Mary-
land, editor of Franklin's works, author of a life of
Bryant and of other books, and still so busy with his pen
that he was forced to work over-time to acknowledge the
birthday tributes he received from his many friends,
surely such a man need not wait till he is dead to be
accounted happy.
THE WHISTLER HOUSE AT LOWELL, Mass., has been
bought by the Lowell Art Association and is to serve
as the local headquarters of those who are interested in
art and literature. This manufacturing city, although
it maintains a good school of industrial arts, has never
been regarded as a seat of culture. Whistler himself
seems not to have been over-proud of his birthplace.
“Can any good thing come out of Lowell ?” might have
been the irritating query, had he advertised the fact of
his being born there The immediate cause of the pur-
chase was the Art Association's need of a suitable place
for holding a projected course of lectures; and though
it is glad to have acquired the celebrated artist's boy-
hood home, it by no means wishes the house to be
regarded as merely a Whistler memorial. “It is a
memorial incidentally only,” declares one who is deeply
interested in the movement; “first of all, it is the home
from which a small band of enthusiastic lovers of the finer
things hope one day to exert a needful influence for good
in a community hitherto dependent too largely on Boston
for its intellectual pleasures.” The house is commodious,
and has great possibilities to the artist's eye.
Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD IN FRENCH COSTUME is not
always immediately recognizable. With the beginning
of her « Diana Mallory” in serial form there comes to
our notice a French translation of “The Marriage of
William Ashe" under the much altered title, “L'Erreur
d'Aimer.” To the novel-readers of France it is "the
history of a young woman, romantic and whimsical,
who by her disconcerting caprices scandalizes the
drawing-rooms of London society, and who, irresistibly
impelled by an inexorable destiny, rushes onward to the
final catastrophe." It is probable that to most English-
speaking readers of the book it is likewise rather the
story of the brilliant and erratic wife's escapades than
of the sedate, solidly-endowed, long-suffering husband's
hopeless struggle against an unkind fate.
>
more.
THE UNVEILING OF ZOLA'S MONUMENT IN PARIS
brings to light a pathetic incident that caused the death
of its sculptor, Constantine Meunier, and that might well
be made the theme of some powerful novel or drama or
poem. Indeed, it is not inconceivable that Zola him-
self might have treated it effectively. The celebrated
Belgian sculptor, as we learn through his collaborator,
M. Alexandre Charpentier, was devoted to his children.
He had two sons, the older thirty years of age, the
younger twenty-eight. One of them, of delicate con-
stitution, had recently died, of tuberculosis; the other,
who had entered the army, was absent in French Guiana.
Only a few days after the death of the son at home the
father received a long telegram announcing the sad fate
of the other, who had died of a fever that commonly
proves mortal to Europeans in tropical lands. Then
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seas.
criticism which Mr. Schurz's militant political
The New Books.
independence has again and again called forth,
there are few to-day who would seriously gainsay
THE LIFE STORY OF A TRUE AMERICAN.* his title to a conspicuous place in the highest
It is the fashion of many in these days to ranks of intelligent and patriotic American
draw gloomy pictures of the ruin that awaits citizenship, during the fifty years of his partici-
the Republic at the hands of the European pation therein.
immigrant. Doubtless the steerage of every
The romantic story of his part in the abortive
trans-Atlantic liner brings in individuals des- revolutionary movement of 1848, his successful
tined to be of no material service, if not of escape after defeat, and his daring penetration
positive injury, in the work of building up a
back into Prussian territory for the rescue from
self-governing people ; but at the worst it must imprisonment of his old friend Professor Kinkel,
be admitted that we can match from the native- has been bandied about by the press so often
born product the most dangerous elements ever
that few have not met with its main facts gar-
discovered in our importations from beyond the nished up in one style or another; but no art
There is a bright as well as a forbidding of fiction could improve on his own detailed
side to the subject, and it is well to consider relation of the facts, in the first of the two vol-
once in a while some of the genuine contributions
umes before us. We shall attempt no epitome
which the immigrant vessel has not infrequently of a romance too good to be broken, and merely
made to the very highest types of the various
remark that nothing less than a courageous and
phases of American citizenship.
unflagging advocate of personal and political
Carl Schurz was too effective a fighter for liberty could grow out of such a youth as is
any cause which appealed to his judgment and here pictured.
conscience to get through this world without
It was no mere chance that brought such a
making enemies and subjecting himself to harsh young man as Schurz to America in the decade
and partisan judgment, even at the hands of preceding our Civil War. He was born for
many well-meaning people. His entrance into American citizenship, and nothing short of the
the field of American politics came at a period most perverse interference with the eternal fit-
when the habit of exaggerated partisanism had ness of things could have kept him permanently
been fastened upon the country by the acerbities
out of this birthright. The revolutionary move-
growing out of the slavery question, and the
ments of Europe in 1848 were premature, so
effect of the Civil War was to maintain that far as anything more than a mere seed-sowing
habit among the masses, with but slightly dimin- for an indefinite future was concerned; but in
ished force, throughout his life. But it was not America a struggle was in progress into which
in his nature to submit his own judgment and youthful idealism could throw its strength and
conscience to partisan leadership. No measure
enthusiasm with reasonable grounds for hope
whatever could count on his support merely of early and substantial results. The funda-
because it had the stamp of party approval, nor
mental principles of liberty were already im-
was his political thinking ever of that hazy type
bedded in the United States Constitution, and
which tends to confuse party with country.
the question at issue was, in the last analysis,
Indeed, the first experiences of his budding what to do with an institution radically at
manhood had taught him that country itself, in
variance with the essential character and the
so far as country is identical with
successful working of that document. German-
organization, may go radically wrong, and that American citizens were already numerous and
ideal citizenship must look still deeper for its
influential in various parts of the Union, but
ultimate standards. Of course
man who
the “Native American” movement, with various
plants himself on a moral rock of that kind is subsidiary causes, had led the majority of them
“ impracticable” to the average politician, who
to affiliate with the Democratic party. Schurz
finds sand a more workable material than solid
reached America in 1852, and was fairly get-
rock in more ways than one. And, sad to say, ting his bearings in the land of his adoption
too
many of us who have had experience enough when the wreck of the Whig party cleared the
to know better are always ready to accept the
way for the formation of a new organization
interested politician's estimate when such a man
capable of considering the slavery question free
comes into view. And yet with all the bitter from the trammel of past alliances and working
its way steadily towards a permanent solution,
* THE REMINISCENCES OF CARL SCHURZ. In two volumes.
in place of the shifty and unsatisfactory com-
governmental
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promises with which the Clays and Websters tended assault should come. But in spite of all
and Calhouns of the immediately preceding era this warning, the superior authority was capable
had sought to keep their constituents quiet. of believing that Jackson's forces were in full
Naturally, Schurz threw in his lot with the new retreat, and of leaving the army in a position
movement, and proved a very effective worker which would have been justifiable only if that
in detaching German voters of the Northern unwarranted theory had been a demonstrated
States from their former Democratic allegiance. fact! The frank, dignified, and lucid presenta-
It has always been recognized that the German tion of the whole case, with which the second
element in Missouri was one of the most pow-
volume of these reminiscences closes, leaves
erful influences in holding that State in the nothing to be desired, and is highly honorable
Union; and for the fact that this vote was so to the mind and heart of the writer.
strongly massed on the right side when the crisis It is a great misfortune that the story breaks
came, much credit is due to the efforts of Mr.
off at so early a period in the author's career.
Schurz.
We are not told, in these volumes, whether he
By the year 1858 his effectiveness on the left materials for its continuation through the
stump was so well recognized that he was remaining forty years of his active life, but it
invited into Illinois to take part in the great may easily be conceived that the present might
Lincoln-Douglas campaign, and here began the not be the most auspicuous time for the publi-
acquaintance which led Lincoln to so high an cation of such materials, at least so far as they
opinion of the young German's character and concern the imperialistic movement of the past
ability that three years later he insisted upon decade.
sending him as Minister to Spain, in spite Carl Schurz was emphatically an idealist, but
of his foreign birth, his record as an anti never a mere doctrinaire. Holding unswervingly
monarchical revolutionist, his less than a decade to the belief in personal and political liberty as
of American citizenship, and the active opposi- the best means of social and political progress, he
tion of the Secretary of State. He himself yet realized at a very early period in his career
asserts that the President would have been
that liberty in itself is no cure-all for human
wise to heed such objection ; but he proved troubles. It merely clears the
It merely clears the way for possible
thoroughly efficient during the short time that
improvement.
he held the position, and Secretary Seward
“The newly arrived European democrat, having lived
declared himself well pleased with his services. in a world of theories and imaginings without having had
As might have been expected, however, a life of any practical experience of a democracy at work, behold-
comparative ease in Madrid could not satisfy ing it for the first time, asks himself:"Is this really a
his ideas of duty when once the country be- people living in freedom ? Is this the realization of my
ideal?' He is puzzled and perplexed until it dawns
came involved in what was evidently to be a
upon him that in a condition of real freedom man mani-
long and bloody struggle for existence. He fests himself not as he ought to be but as he is, with all
took the first plausible opportunity to ask for his bad as well as his good qualities, instincts and im-
permission to return to Washington on a fur- pulses; with all his attributes of strength as well as his
weaknesses: that this, therefore, is not an ideal state,
lough, and then persuaded the President to ac-
but simply a state in which the forces of good have a
cept his resignation from the diplomatic service
free field as against the forces of evil, and in which the
and send him to the front. That his services as victories of virtue, of enlightenment, and of progress
an officer in the army were intelligent, effective, are not achieved by some power or agency outside of the
and faithful in every way, will hardly be denied
people, for their benefit, but by the people themselves.”
to-day by any unprejudiced reader of the evi Few men of his time appreciated order and
dence, though unfortunately the necessity in efficiency in government more highly than did
higher quarters of finding a scapegoat for the Schurz, as is amply proved by his vigorous and
unfortunate blunders at Chancellorsville long long continued battle for order and efficiency in
threw a wholly undeserved reproach upon the the Civil Service of the United States; but he
Eleventh Corps, to which his forces belonged. realized that even such desirable qualities as
As a matter of fact, General Schurz had dis these come at too high a price when imposed
tinctly foreseen the danger of just such an from without, at the sacrifice of freedom. Even
attack as Jackson actually made, had reported a slow and comparatively disorderly approach to
the movements of hostile troops directly in har better things, through the stony path of experi-
mony with his forecast, and had protested again ence, is better than the firm hand which reaches
and again that the Eleventh Corps was in an down from above and removes disorder and
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“What is sometimes called the Art of Self-government very few even of the native-born Americans of
is not learned by masses of people theoretically, nor his time.
even by the mere presentation of other people's experi-
With the externals of this work one might
ences by way of instructive example. Practice is the
only really effective teacher. Other methods of instruc- easily pick a few quarrels. There should have
tion will rather retard, if not altogether prevent, the been some guide to its contents, such as a brief
development of the self-governing capacity, because
analytical paragraph at the head of each chapter.
they will serve to weaken the sense of responsibility and
Again, either the proof-reading has been lament-
self-reliance. This is the reason why there is not an
instance in history of a people having been successfully ably careless in a considerable number of
taught to govern themselves by a tutelary power acting instances, or else bad editorial judgment has
upon the principle that its wards should not be given the religiously followed mere slips of the pen
in the
power of self-government until they had shown them- original manuscript. Carl Schurz himself was
selves fit for it."
hardly likely to have had three ways of spelling
He was perfectly willing to admit that self-
the name of his friend General Schimmelpfennig,
government does not reach the highest possi nor could he have forgotten that the running
bility in point of a wise and economical
mate of General Scott in the Presidential cam-
administration of public affairs. We can easily paign in progress when he first landed on
conceive of a wise, just, benevolent, and unselfish
American shores was named Graham, not
despot capable under any given circumstances Gorham. Still less could he have written of
of controlling affairs more advantageously than
General McDowell's sharp tongue, which done
the people, through any possible machinery of also mischief elsewhere.' Time was when our
self-government, could manage them for them- leading publishers were a little more careful in
selves. But with all its shortcomings in the such matters. All this, however, cannot seri-
work of administration, self-government is im- ously detract from the value of one of the really
measurably superior as an educator.
great biographical works of recent years, des-
“ The foreign observer in America is at once struck tined to an honored place on the shelf which
by the fact that the average of intelligence, as that
already holds the life stories of Lowell, Tennyson,
intelligence manifests itself in the spirit of inquiry, in
the interest taken in a great variety of things, and in
Andrew D. White, Conway, Stillman, and
alertness of judgment, is much higher among the masses
Leslie Stephen.
W. H. JOHNSON.
here than anywhere else. This is certainly not owing
to any superiority in the public school system in this
country — or, if such superiority exists, not to that
alone - but rather to the fact that here the individual
A TRAMP ACROSS WIDEST AFRICA.*
is constantly brought into interested contact with a
greater variety of things, and is admitted to active par Mr. A. Henry Savage Landor needs no in-
ticipation in the exercise of functions which in other troduction to readers of books of travel. His
countries are left to the care of a superior authority.”
adventures and explorations in the highlands of
We would gladly take up various other phases Asia, in China, and in the coveted lands of the
of this commendable and interesting career, and Near East, have made him one of the most no-
illustrate them by ample quotation, did space table travellers of our day. “ Across Widest
permit. The constant evidence of the author's Africa,” his most recent book, recounts one of
keen appreciation of the highest achievements the most ambitious and most important journeys
in music, the drama, and other branches of ever made in Africa. Starting from Djibuti in
artistic effort, cannot fail to give pleasure to French Somaliland, on January 6, 1906, Mr.
every
cultivated reader. When he was in Berlin Landor travelled 8500 miles, for the most part
stealthily perfecting his plans for the rescue of alone except for one faithful Somali servant, and
Professor Kinkel, although in constant danger reached Cape Verde, the most westerly point of
of detection and imprisonment, the fame of Africa, in one day less than a year. His route
Rachel's acting drew him again and again into lay through regions but little travelled, and
the theatre, and the overwhelming impression among curious savage tribes that have been but
which the mysterious power of the Alsatian little studied.
Jewess made upon him is described in para Unlike most African explorers, Mr. Landor
graphs hardly less artistic and effective in their
disdained the usual appointments in his outfit.
own way and for their own purpose than was The elaborate traveller's apparel, with its pith
Rachel's acting in the field to which it belonged. helmet, its special headgear and footgear, and
Indeed, one of the notable things in the career its means of protecting the body from the burn-
of Carl Schurz was the ease with which he
ACROSS WIDEST AFRICA. By A. Henry Savage Landor. In
acquired a mastery of English surpassed by
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ing sun of the tropics, was discarded, and in its leg, not unlike flamingoes, the other foot resting upon
place was worn the customary London attire for the knee of the extended leg."
a walk down Piccadilly — a blue serge
suit and Among the Djur tribe, the iron-working
a straw hat! Moreover, in this land of virulent industry has reached a relatively high degree of
malarial fever and pestilential diseases Mr. development. Notwithstanding their rudiment-
Landor carried only the simplest remedies, such
ary tools, they smelt iron-ore and work the
as carbolic soap, castor oil, caustic, and iodine. extracted metal with considerable success. Still
And the greatest of these was castor oil !— his
farther west the author saw a “hard-working
panacea for all aches and ills, from incipient fever factory of vermicelli.”
to the restoration of a man who was struck by Of the much-disputed “sleeping sickness,” a
lightning. To this disregard of the ordinary pre-
sort of death-in-life disease, Mr. Landor, as
cautions against accidents, the author ascribes usual with him when discussing any controverted
his continuous health during his arduous jour point, has a well-defined opinion. He believes
ney. But an important factor doubtless was that it is a disorder of the spinal vertebræ,
his faith in the value of sunshine; for, unlike "producing severe effects mainly upon the cere-
many travellers in Africa, he seldom made night bellum, and, owing to the exhausted condition
marches. But to whatever due, his splendid of the patient's blood, causing the intense
physical condition allowed him to use every
drowsiness and exhaustion from which the suf-
moment of his time in energetic activity. ferers generally never wake up.” The usually
Abyssinia and the Emperor Menelik form the assigned cause of the disease, the tze-tze fly, is
subject of some very interesting chapters of the held innocent by our author.
book. The Emperor is, according to the author, Very naturally, the explorer writes at some
an admirable man.
length on the conditions in the Congo Free State.
“He possesses an abnormal amount of sound sense. “I think there could be no better proof that the
He is as just and fair to his country as is possible to an natives are well treated by the Congo Free State than
Emperor; he is generous enough with what he possesses, to see how neat and flourishing all the villages were, and
and tries at all times to do what is right and proper. how numerous was the population on the Belgian side
His simplicity and natural charm of manner are quite in comparison with the other side, the French. If
delightful.”
these people were so ill-treated as they are made out to
This charming Emperor certainly has a novel "be (only by people who have never been there), I do
way of obtaining building material.
not believe for one moment that they would remain
where they are. All they would have do would be
“ If he wishes to put up another building, in the
to cross the river and go over to the French side. ...
Palace for instance, or a church somewhere, he rides
Nothing could be simpler. Far from it, the inclination
out upon his mule and picks up a stone or a piece of
is just the other way. The people from the French
wood, which he carries back upon his shoulders to the
side go over to the Belgian side in far greater numbers
Palace, or to the spot where the erection is to be made.
than those of the Belgian to the French. They find
The thousands of soldiers who always follow him must
they can do better business and live just as happy in the
imitate his example, so that by the cvening plenty of
Congo Free State, where roads were constantly being
building material is already at hand."
cut by the Belgians, and the country was fast being
Many curious customs of the Abyssinians are improved."
recounted, and although they are but semi In regard to the indictment against the Bel-
civilized — a state in which they are not long to gian Government concerning the mutilation of
be allowed to remain — they appeal to us for natives, our author dismisses the whole horrible
one marked trait revealed in the following business with the assertion that photographs of
comment:
hundreds of mutilated individuals, mutilated by
“ There is one great thing in Abyssinia - goods their own people, can be taken in any part of
travel in absolute safety, when not accompanied by a
Africa.
military escort. Caravans can travel from one end of
the country to the other, provided the necessary passes In the country around Fort Archambault the
are carried, without fear of being robbed.”
custom of elongating the lips of the women, to
To the west of Abyssinia the author met sev enhance their beauty, was more pronounced than
eral tribes with peculiarly long legs. These in any other part of Africa.
Shiluk, Denka, and Nuer people have such “ It was most ludicrous to hear these young ladies talk,
remarkably developed anatomical structures that especially when they had two plates, one in the upper
the observer is led to believe that they have been
and one in the lower lip, as these clapped like castanets,
and the voice became nasal and unmusical. ... The
especially built by Nature to live in marshy
plates in the lips were occasionally removed, when the
regions.
upper lip hung down so low in a loop as to reach lower
“Often one sees them along the river banks or in than the chin, and left a repulsive aperture under the
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ness-like way
From the region of the Ubanghi River the all countries in Africa must be highly picturesque; but,
explorer journeyed to Lake Tchad, in order to indeed, there is no continent in the world where anything
is more difficult to find than is picturesqueness among
study the mooted geographical problems about
the people, scenery, or buildings, in the zone of Africa
that lake; thence he travelled in a wide semi-
I travelled. There is no attractive colour to speak of
circle northward and eastward in Kanem, to in the landscape, the light being too brilliantly diffused
visit some of the fanatical tribes on the border in the middle of the day, and the contrasts too hard and
of the Borku and the Sinussi region, and to study they are ungraceful and ugly, and wrapped in elnmsy
violent in the morning and evening. As for the people,
the fanatical Musselman movement against the
clothing, usually white or brown. Central Africa
white people. This movement undoubtedly orig- has a depressing effect. One never sees or hears any.
inated among the Marabu (priests). “These body enjoy life thoroughly. All moan, sulk, and look
people,” says Mr. Landor, “at best a most un or feel nasty about everything."
scrupulous lot, are blowing the fire with all their Mr. Landor's book has none of the usual
might, and the time will come when they will characteristics which we associate with African
feel strong enough and will make a firm stand travellers' tales. There are few exciting adven-
against Christianity.” Superstition, which is tures with animals, and the most momentous
rampant among the people, is carefully nursed accident which seems to have happened to the
by, the priests. “ The Sultan of Zinder himself author was to cut his hand while opening a tin
tells a story, in all seriousness, of a Marabu can. But Mr. Landor did not go to Africa to
being transformed into a lion under his own (the find adventures, and his trans-African journey
Sultan's) eyes. In order to be able to accom was planned in such an unpretentious manner
plish a similar feat of transmigration, the Sultan and carried out in such a thoroughgoing busi-
had been smearing himself with powder for
that we cannot hold him account-
three consecutive months."
able for not realizing our youthful expectations
In the Nigerian region was met one of the of direful accidents by field and flood. He is
most interesting people described in the book. far more concerned with the characteristic fea-
The Tuaregs, according to the author, are re tures of that country than we have even inti-
specters of women. Unlike those of other African mated in this review. The rivers, mountains,
tribes, the Tuareg women are quite free; they elevations and deserts, the flora and fauna, the
go where they wish; they take a leading part in various complicated tribal divisions and names,
the councils of the tribes; they make war or
the languages and customs of the tribes, and
peace between tribes, and often they are at the the host of details which of necessity must con-
bottom of the raids upon passing caravans or
stitute the study of the observing traveller, are
upon weaker tribes. The men of the tribe fight the objects which appeal to him. It should be
their enemies in a manly way. They do not
added that the volumes are splendidly printed
poison their spears or their arrows, and disdain and handsomely and profusely illustrated.
to carry fire-arms, for with such modern imple-
H. E. COBLENTZ.
ments of warfare, say the Tuaregs, you can kill
your enemy without being seen or running any READING new books instead of old is not a thing
danger to yourself.
that it is usually thought necessary to urge upon present-
From Lake Tchad to Timbuctu, a distance
day readers; but Mr. Richard Whiteing, of “ No.5 John
Street," has taken the trouble to advise this practice,
of about 1500 miles, the country is inhabited
forestalling objections by adding that “
;" for
every age the
by the Tuaregs, the Haussas, and the tribes of chief business is to reset the problems and principles
the Niger Valley. The author made a consid of the past in terms of the present.
You need never,
erable visit at Timbuctu, and writes an inter-
therefore, fear you would miss anything of first im-
portance." But how are we to know surely and at first
esting account of this town with the melodious
hand what were the problems and principles of the past
name. Here, as elsewhere in Africa, Mr. Landor
without studying the records of that past? A conspic-
found much to commend in slavery - not as a uous instance of what Mr. Whiteing regards as undue
theory, but as a condition beneficent to the slave. attention paid to antiquity he finds in the monumental
We can readily agree with our author, in view-
Cambridge “ Modern ” History, which begins its multi-
voluminous treatment of modern events with the year
ing the pictures presented in the book, that the
1492. “ You may imagine at this rate,” he says, “what
varieties of head-dress worn in Timbuctu are chance Methuselah himself would have to catch up, say,
most remarkable.
with our first Reform Bill.” All this would be more
Mr. Landor's opinion of Africa, at least that convincing if urged, not by a writer of modern books,
but by one of the ancients, as by Plutarch, for example,
part of Africa through which he travelled, is
or Plato, or Terence, or Tacitus. Cannot the Psychic
indicated in the following passage.
Researchers obtain for us the views of these gentlemen
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his purpose.
NATURE'S VARIOUS WAYS.*
flourished in proportion as they have approxi-
mated obedience to the decalogue. “Years ago,"
There are so few stories amo
mong the new
says the author, “ I set for my theory that: The
nature books that they may seem on the whole
Ten Commandments are not arbitrary laws
rather inferior in interest to those of other
given to man, but are fundamental laws of all
seasons. But in range of subject at least they
highly developed animals.” The novelty of
are unusual, and among them are several books
this theory makes the essay, which is little more
quite out of the ordinary. The eyes of nature-
than a pamphlet in bulk and binding, the most
lovers will brighten at sight of the new volume
original writing of the group under discussion.
by M. Maeterlinck, which he calls “ The Intel-
Scoff as the reader may at the beginning, he is
ligence of the Flowers,” and intends in some likely in the end to consider the idea a possible
sort as a complement to the essay on bees. The
argument for moral evolution. Mr. Seton evi-
title suggests such endless adaptations of root,
dently believes in separating business and pleas-
stem, and leaf, as well as blossom, that disap- ure, for though he outlines a few stories to prove
pointment awaits the reader unless heed is given his points, he does not allow himself to elaborate
to the author's warning that he wishes “ merely
them enough to interfere with the seriousness of
to recall a few facts known to every botanist,"
and has “no intention of reviewing all the
Mr. Long's new volume, “ Whose Home is
proofs of intelligence which the plants give us.” the Wilderness," on the contrary, is a story-
He confines himself almost entirely to the book pure and simple. To our surprise, the
delicate arrangements for cross-fertilization, de-
author appears in its pages gun in hand. But
scribing them with as great scientific accuracy he usually manages to turn his shooting into a
as if he were not a poet. But the charm of the joke, and to tell entertainingly how his interest in
book lies nevertheless in the fact that he is a
his intended victim overcame his desire for meat.
poet. Life is to him a great inclusive mystery
The title of one chapter, “ Wild Folk One by
in which flowers have a share comparable to
One,” expresses the underlying idea of the
that of human beings.
stories, which is that each animal has its own
“ It would really seem as though ideas came to the
individuality, and that this is much more marked
flowers in the same way as to us.
The flowers grope
in the same darkness, encounter the same obstacles,
among the wild than among the domesticated
the same ill-will, in the same unknown. They have the species. Two of the stories, “ A Sable Hero”
same laws, the same disillusions, the same slow and and “Himself,” will hold their own with the
difficult triumphs."
best Mr. Long has written. The first relates
The book-making is daintily done, though one how a crow, bent on giving the alarm-call to a
longs for drawings of lilies and orchids in place flock of birds, deliberately faces the gun
which
of the photographs of conventional gardens. has just shot down his mate, and how the gunner
If flowers have intelligence, animals must feels " that a man must not shoot a bird like
have morals. At least the reader is tempted that "; the second is dedicated to the white-
to make that logical connection between M. throated sparrow, and comes as near as one
Maeterlinck's book and Mr. Thompson Seton's would think possible to putting into words the
“ Natural History of the Ten Commandments," author's feeling for his kindred of the wild.
which attempts to show that animal tribes have That we need to reform some of our ideas is
several times indicated — as in this instance :
* THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE FLOWERS. By Maurice Maeter-
linck. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. New York: “ To understand a wild goose two things are neces-
Dodd, Mead & Co.
sary, luck and a good disposition; luck to find him at
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. By
Ernest Thompson Seton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
home, and a disposition to lay aside your gun and your
WHOSE HOME IS THE WILDERNESS. By William J. Long. prejudices and to see with an open mind. If happily
Illustrated by Charles Copeland, Boston: Ginn & Co.
these two pleasant things have ever fallen to your lot,
FEATHERED GAME OF THE NORTHEAST. By Walter H. Rich.
you no longer call a person a goose unless you mean to
With illustrations by the author.
pay him a compliment and you no longer speak of a
Crowell.
AMERICAN BIRDS. By William Lovell Finley. Illustrated
wild goose chase as a symbol of a useless and hopeless
by photographs by Herman T. Bohlman and the author. New quest; for among all the birds there is none that so
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
readily responds to your advances, and none that so
CAMPING AND TRAMPING WITH ROOSEVELT. By John Bur-
abundantly repays you for your time and trouble.”
roughs. Illustrated. Boston: Houghton, Miffin & Co.
CAMP AND TRAIL. By Stewart Edward White. With fron. In make-up the book corresponds to previous
tispiece in color by Fernand Lungren, and many other illustra-
volumes from the same pen, except that the mar-
tions from photographs. New York: The Outing Publishing Co.
EVERSLEY GARDENS AND OTHERS. By Rose G. Kingsley. ginal drawings are more varied.
Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Co.
The two bird books of the present group
God's CALENDAR. By William A. Quayle. Illustrated. Cin-
cinnati: Jennings & Graham,
are of very different character.
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It con-
« Feathered Game of the Northeast is a Roosevelt, and a visit to Sagamore Hill. The
sportsman's book in the sense of giving elab- friendship between the two men is ideal, and ad-
orate and accurate descriptions of game birds, mirers of both will be glad to have these records
and not in the sense of giving lengthy admoni- of it in available shape. These “prominent
tions about shooting. Aside from an emphatic citizens” disport themselves on a vacation like
plea for obedience to game laws and moderation boys on a holiday, and one would ask nothing
in killing, the author for the most part leaves better than to have seen them as they ran from
methods to be inferred.
His descriptions are
camp coatless and hatless to see the mountain
so good that enjoyment of them need not be con sheep descend a precipice, or raced each other
fined to sportsmen, while the numerous full-page down the hills on their skis. The book is plainly
drawings will help bird-lovers to identify closely bound, but has some excellent photographs.
related species of plover, duck, grouse, etc. Mr. White's “Camp and Trail” is not an
To most readers Mr. Finley's hunting will account of journeys, but a book of directions for
seem even more satisfactory, for it was done those who intend to go camping and tramping
only with the camera. The attractive title in the West. So far as one who has not had
“ American Birds Photographed and Studied experience can judge, the advice about clothes,
from Life” gives only a slight idea of the food, tents, cooking utensils, etc., is thoroughly
attractiveness of the text. One is tempted to sensible. Certainly with the drawings, and even
dare a superlative and call this the most delight the names of firms that furnish the desirable
ful bird book that has been written.
articles, the way of it all is as “plain as plum
fessedly does not cover the entire field, but it porridge,” so that the westward-faring man,
has something new to say of the commonest though a tenderfoot, cannot err therein.
birds, and many unimagined things about rarer A book about gardens does not necessarily
species such as yellow-throats, weavers, warbling belong with nature books, since a garden is the
vireos, and eagles. The ingenuity which was place where art and nature meet. But it is pleas-
required to place the camera for some of the ant to find in the present collection as enjoyable
pictures — that, for instance, of the eagle's nest a volume as Miss Kingsley's “ Eversley Gardens
one hundred and twenty feet from the ground and Others.” To be sure, the volume is in one
would give interest to the pictures even if they way an encourager of envy, for the reader can
were not fascinating for their own sakes. An only hear about the garden and look at the pic-
individual bird or family is studied in each case, tures of it, while the writer not only has the
and the author makes them so human that we garden but has had the joy of making it. But
half repent of spying upon their secrets. To if the reader does not receive his share of the
us, the end justifies the means ; but we should pleasure it is his own fault. Even the long list
like to know how the birds felt about it. In of plant-names can be made as impressive as the
several instances even this is made known, as Catalogue of the Ships if they are read in the
when Mr. Finley cut out the wood at the back right spirit. For practical purposes the book will
of a chickadee's nest and took a snap-shot of have little value for Americans, since the English
the sitting mother-bird who bravely kept her climate is so much kinder to roses and other
place. This is what happened next :
things. But anyone who is enthusiastic about
“I knew she had done a heroic deed. I sat down flowers will enjoy the combination of good sense
under the tree to watch. As soon as all was quiet she and artistic feeling with which Miss Kingsley
shot from the door like a winged bullet and struck right
on the limb beside her mate who had been dee-dee-ing
presents the whole process of gardening, from
to her all the time. Of course, birds do not feel as we
the time when the soil is turned “ moist and blue
feel, but I don't believe a sweetheart ever met her lover on one side where the spade presses, softly lilac
returning from a field of battle with a greater show of and chocolate where it breaks and crumbles," to
joy. They simply threw themselves into each other's
the time when the cut flowers stand in the vase
It wasn't a silent meeting either; there were
real cracks of kisses and twitters of praise. Chickadees
“ which should always form a harmonious whole
are not human by any means, but had she not defended
with them.'
her home all alone against a giant ? ”
“God's Calendar," by Mr. William Quayle,
After all, the outdoor life is not entirely for sums up in a general way much that has been
the animals, and two good books on camping said in detail in the other volumes. Having read
remind us that man may share it if he will. The of the individual bird, beast, and blossom, we
first is a reprint of articles by Mr. Burroughs may read here of the individual month, and what
which have appeared in the magazines, recount it accomplishes in the world. “Twelve comings
ing his trip to the Yellowstone with President and goings of the moon, with a few days excess
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charms.
thrown in for good measure, as is customary with her disposal, the author reproduces no little of
God; and God's Calendar is an accomplished “ the charm of that wonderful century,” as she
loveliness." Each month is celebrated some calls it, the charm of romance and color and
what briefly, but with rather a sure sense of its joyous life. As Sainte-Beuve has said, the
peculiar quality, and the word-pictures are en letters cover “twenty-seven years of the most
forced with delicate photogravures.
delightful period of the most agreeable French
“ January is winter at noon. Weather cuts up now society"; and of course these letters are the
if at all. The sense of mastery, cold, cruel, relentless, most valuable of all extant material to a biog-
is in winter's heart. . . . March is the feast of trumpets rapher of their writer. Yet they have not been
of the year. It is the wind month. Jehu's driving was
a jog troţ compared with the speed of the March winds. drawn upon unduly in this work; familiarity
June for the wild rose blooming! June never will never breed weariness of their piquant
wears at her throat other than a wild rose flower. Nor
Who does not enjoy having the page
could a colorist like Titian conjure up a tint more
before him brightened up with a vivid touch
enticing.”
But it is obviously unfair to quote disjointedly: to a Provençal gentleman described by her
like the following ? The mother is referring
The tone of the book is distinctly rapturous, but
daughter. “I have seen sleeves like those of
it will find many appreciators. One would sur-
mise that it will be especially popular with the
“ Ah! what a
your chevalier," she writes.
older generation of readers, who have not been
charming picture they make, dancing in a plate
sated with nature books, and who will like it for
of soup, or sweeping over a salad bowl! But
expressing feelings which they have never quite tion whether they would draw me; in spite of
though they draw everything with them, I ques-
dared to voice for themselves.
my weakness for fashion, I have a great aversion
MAY ESTELLE COOK.
to slovenliness." Portraits in abundance, and
views of three houses once lived in by Madame
de Sévigné, adorn the volume ; but the personal
MEMOIRS OF SOME FRENCH CELEBRITIES.*
attractiveness of the lively and witty Marquise,
The autumn harvest of memoirs has been as delineated by the pens of her admirers,
abundant. Selecting a number of the more appears to have been less successfully repro
important ones, or in some cases the more pre duced by the artist's brush. Miss Aldis, quot-
tentious, and craving the pardon of each for not ing the malevolent Bussy de Rabutin, speaks of
according it a separate and detailed review, the pupils of her eyes as being of different
group them together and bestow upon each such colors — using the word “pupil” where she
passing comment as space will permit.
evidently means
- iris.” Her fidelity, in gen-
A letter-writer who has kindled enthusiastic eral, to her authorities deserves praise; she does
admiration in readers so unlike, both in their not; like some of her sex who have essayed
literary tastes and in their general character, as biography, vault from the spring-board of her
Horace Walpole and Edward FitzGerald, can imagination high over the actual facts.
not but be an object of interest to a wide circle It was but a short while ago that the name
of students and readers. Miss Janet Aldis's of the Empress Eugénie, who now seldom
book,
“ The Queen of Letter Writers,” is a full, emerges from the retirement of her Hampshire
readable, and altogether excellent account of home, came into some prominence by reason of
Madame de Sévigné and her times. With an her alleged promotion of the Hispaño-English
abundance of seventeenth-century memoirs at royal marriage, she being godmother of the bride
*THE QUEEN OF LETTER WRITERS, Marquise de Sévigné
and feeling a deep interest in both bride and
Dame de Bourbilly. 1626–1696. By Janet Aldis. Illustrated.
groom. Thus the present life of her, entitled
THE LAST EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH. Being the Life of the
“ The Last. Empress of the French," by Mr.
Empress Eugénie, Wife of Napoleon III. By Philip W. Sergeant.
Philip W. Sergeant, comes not inopportunely
Illustrated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
COURT LIFE OF THE SECOND EMPIRE. 1852-1870. Its Organ-
from the press. Agreeably written, clearly
ization, Chief Personages, Splendour, Frivolity, and Downfall. printed, and handsomely illustrated, the book
By Le Petit Homme Rouge. With a frontispiece. New York:
Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons.
is worthy of its subject. It shows, too, care
THE LIFE OF LOUIS XI., the Rebel Dauphin and the Statesman and painstaking research in its preparation ; but
King. From his original letters and other documents. By
Christopher Hare. Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's one might have expected that the restraint
imposed upon the biographer by the Empress
Edited from the original manuscript by M. Charles Nicoullaud. Eugénie's being still alive would have been off-
With portrait. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
set by the advantage of some little help from her
GEORGE SAND AND HER LOVERS. By Francis Gribble. With
portraits. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
in the clearing up of certain obscurities in her
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Sons.
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men.
eventful history. No traces of such timely aid, ography (for it unblushingly professes to give
however, are manifest ; and the curious world is some of the worst court scandals current). We
still left in darkness concerning some of the said “unblushingly,” and said so advisedly,
more important details of her acquaintance and because the Little Red Man's complexion must
marriage with Napoleon III. Not even when make it impossible for him to blush ; he leaves
and where she first met him are we yet to know. that to his readers. Among the many items of
However, swallowing our disappointment as best innocent interest with which his pages are also
we can, we turn the pages and hit upon many sprinkled may be mentioned the account of the
passages of a very real and human interest. luxury indulged in by the imperial household,
The famous “ Mondays ” at the Tuileries, with while the Empire, all unsuspected by the pam-
charades or tableaux under the supervision of pered inmates of the Tuileries, was tottering to
Mérimée or Viollet-le-Duc, or with romping its fall. His stable alone, with its three or four
games that somewhat scandalized those of stiff hundred horses and its scores of attendant
and stately habit, are pleasantly noticed, with menials, cost Napoleon 'III. nearly two million
other incidents of court life. On the whole, one francs a year. A matter of considerable uncer-
is left with the impression of a beautiful and tainty referred to in the foregoing paragraph is
lovable character, after following the fortunes confidently cleared up by the Little Red Man,
of the polynomial Spanish grandee's charming who asserts that the first time Eugénie de
daughter from her birth in the city of Granada Montijo saw her future husband“ was after the
to her widowed and childless retirement at Strasburg affair in 1836, when, being in Paris,
Farnborough Hill. Studying once more the
more the they (she and her mother) happened to call at
enigmatic genius of her imperial spouse, one can the Prefecture of Police to see the Prefect's
well agree with Mr. Sergeant in his assertion wife, Mme. Delessert, a Spaniard by birth and
that “ history's final verdict upon Napoleon III. a family friend, on which occasion they saw the
has yet to be heard,” and that “perhaps no Prince passing in the custody of several police-
final and satisfactory verdict can ever be given."
The book furnishes entertainment and
A late decision in the Evans will case may amusement, which is probably its prime purpose.
remind some newspaper readers of the famous A Life of Louis XI.” cannot but call
and wealthy American dentist's part in effecting instantly and pleasantly to mind that delicious
the Empress Eugénie's escape from Paris to summer morning, before the sun had assumed
England in the war-distracted summer of 1870. its scorching power, and while the dews yet
This rather exciting story, drawn chiefly from cooled and perfumed the air,” when a youth in
the Evans Memoirs, is again fully narrated. short gray cloak and smart blue bonnet adorned
Other equally good things in the book must be with a single sprig of holly and an eagle's feather
left unnoticed in so brief a review.
came walking with springing step from the
Of a different character from the preceding, north-east and made his way across a wide brook,
though on the same general subject, is the tributary to the Cher, toward the royal castle of
“ Court Life of the Second French Empire,” Plessis-les-Tours. The kingly occupant of that
detailing “its organization, chief personages, castle turns out, upon historical inquiry, to be
splendour, frivolity, and downfall.” The writer's far different from the inhumanly cold and calcu-
gathering together of a great amount of history lating and cruel villain of “ Quentin Durward.”
and myth, gossip and scandal, joke and anec His latest biographer, Mr. Christopher Hare,
dote, is a performance of which he is either so appears to be the first to have made use of the
little proud, or from claiming the credit of which nine large volumes of Louis's “ lettres missives'
he so modestly shrinks, that the authorship is and“ pièces justificatives” which have just been
ascribed to “Le Petit Homme Rouge" — the
- the published under the auspices of the Société de
Little Red Man who is supposed to have haunted l'Histoire de France. A remark of the Abbé
the ulace of the Tuileries and other residences Le Grand quoted by Mr. Hare helps to explain
of the French court, and to have his quarters why this able and in many respects estimable
now, under a republican rule, in the Elysée ruler has hitherto been the victim of “ concert
Palace. In the more abundant leisure enjoyed of maledictions." The Abbé says : 66 As it
by this gossipy ghost in these less superstitious,
was needful for Louis XI., in order to establish
less credulous times, he has taken to recording law and order in the kingdom, to punish various
his memories of the past; and hence we are great lords, even princes of the blood, such as
treated to the present good-sized volume of the dukes of Alençon and Bourbon
miscellanies — history, biography, and scandal- | being also the persistent enemy of the great
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House of Burgundy — and as all these lords and significant footnote is a letter from Rainulphe
princes had chroniclers in their pay, we cannot d'Osmond, the Comtesse's brother, to his father,
wonder that the King of France received from in which he narrates an occurrence that is also
them the character of a sanguinary tyrant. described in the page above; and as the brother's
The occasional scraps of fifteenth-century French letter is obviously the sister's source of informa-
that the author has interspersed give a quaintly tion, a little comparison of the two accounts
realistic touch to his picture of feudal France. shows the reader that in this instance, and pre-
This “ most difficult period of history” presents sumably in others, the entertaining author is
a network of tangled politics and a snarl of wont to clothe the baldness of fact in the
interminable feuds; and the patience and skill embroidery of fancy. Much, therefore, that
with which Mr. Hare has threaded his way she records is to be taken with reservations.
through it all deserves praise. Portraits, maps, Mr. Francis Gribble's “ George Sand and
chronological table, bibliography, and index are her Lovers" is written in a spirit of protest and
duly provided.
revolt. To him English reserve in affairs of the
The gossipy pen of the Comtesse de Boigne heart and English intolerance of illicit love are
by no means ceased from its pleasant labors nothing but ridiculous prudery - an exhibition
with the year 1814, which closed her first vol- of men and women
of men and women “capable of better things
ume of " Memoirs ” as edited by M. Charles grovelling at the feet of bourgeois conventions."
Nicoullaud and already reviewed in these pages. This is perhaps an extreme representation of his
A second instalment covering the years 1815– attitude, and the quotation is wrested somewhat
1819 is now published, uniform with its prede violently from its context; but it is plain that
cessor and giving promise (though unexpressed) his sympathies in the matter are on the further
of more still to follow ; for the writing appears side of the English Channel. Convinced that
to have been done about the year 1835 — which, previous biographies of the great Frenchwoman
at the leisurely pace of the chapters already have slighted an interesting side of her character,
printed, would provide matter for three or four he attempts to make good their shortcomings
additional volumes. The four years now passed to fill out their reticences
to fill out their reticences — by detailing, from
in review seem to have been spent by the writer a great mass of extant letters to and from George
with her parents, first at Turin, where her father Sand, the particulars of her successive passions.
was settled a short time as French Ambassador; Contrasting the examples of George Eliot and
then in London, whither he was transferred in George Sand, very much as he evidently thinks)
the same capacity; and finally in Paris, which to the latter's advantage, he declares that whereas
became his home once more upon his retirement in England romance is degraded to the level of
from the diplomatic service. The unloved and intrigue - or so it seems to the French - in
unloving husband, M. de Boigne, is mentioned France the endeavor is to raise intrigue to the
but three times in the whole volume. The dignity of romance; and the best instance of
Comtesse's experience of the life diplomatic such laudable endeavor is furnished by the sub-
moved her at its close to write: “I have seen ject of his volume. Living in an extravagant
the diplomatic career under the pleasantest con age,
he
says, " she gloried in her own contri-
ditions — when my father occupied an embassy
occupied an embassy butions to its extravagance. She not only • lived
of first importance, enjoyed the complete con her own life' but boldly asserted her right to do
fidence of his own Government, and was in high so. Her feeling apparently was that, when she
favour with the London authorities — neverthe- loved, she was making history; and she took
less I emphatically repeat that it is one of the pains that the future historian should not find
least agreeable that a man can pursue.” Among the records incomplete. Not only did she most
the more important events touched upon by the carefully preserve such records of her amours
writer are Napoleon's return from Elba, his as her own and Alfred de Musset's letters, and
defeat at Waterloo, and the restoration of leave directions that they should be published
Louis XVIII. She thinks that “ possibly if he after her death : she also chronicled them from
[Napoleon] had found among his former civil day to day almost from hour to hour — in
servants the same enthusiasm which inspired her letters to various friends." Mr. Gribble's
the military, he would have been better able to previous achievement in “ Madame de Staël and
accomplish the gigantic task which lay before her Lovers” ought to have qualified him for a
him "?; but “ his instinct for government imme similar study of George Sand; and those inter-
diately understood that these people represented ested in this branch of literature will probably
public feeling much more than the soldiers.” A not be disappointed in this volume.
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II.
from the original etchings of M. Paul Helleu. The
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
reproductions are facsimile in size - with the result
that the book is decidedly unwieldly—as well as
ART AND ARCHITECTURE.
in coloring and style of mounting. A brief but
The recent death of Augustus Saint-Gaudens authoritative and deftly phrased introduction by
makes timely the sumptuous publication bearing his Mr. Frederick Wedmore places the artist and char-
rame and consisting of an appreciation of his work acterizes his dry-point work, illustrating its theses
by Mr. Royal Cortissoz, elegantly illustrated in photo from the twenty-four specimens in the present collec-
gravure. No American reader can fail to be proud tion.
“ The greater part of Helleu's work,” writes
of the fact that we may claim Saint-Gaudens. Mr. Wedmore, “consists of his prompt record of
Stevenson's title “the god-like sculptor” rings in women.” It is entirely this type of his portraiture,
one's ears as one looks at these inspiring figures “young and gracious women, seen with eyes appre-
and beautiful bas-reliefs. Mr. Cortissoz was fortunate
ciative, and set down for us with fingers deft and
in knowing the great artist personally, and some of busy and untired,” – that is here reproduced.
his most delightful passages are those that embody (Longmans, Green & Co., $7. net.)
intimate reminiscence. The bulk of the m
monograph, Not Florence, but its buildings, not all those
however, is criticism, needless to say of the most monumental churches and palaces that are the de-
discriminating kind. There are twenty-four illus- light of visitors, but twelve only, chosen for their
trations, and the book is bound with rare taste and combined historical and architectural significance,-
originality. Altogether it must be ranked as the this, in brief, is Mr. J. Wood Brown's account of
leading American art-book of the year. (Houghton, the subject matter of his “Builders of Florence.”
Mifflin & Co., $7.50 net.)
The buildings are discussed in historical instead of
An elaborate and authoritative monograph, which architectural sequence, so that the architectural stu-
will be appreciated by students of the Venetian dent may, at first glance, consider that his side of
school and especially by admirers of its fine flower, the subject has received somewhat desultory treat-
Carpaccio, is “The Life and Works of Vittore ment; but further consideration will show him that
Carpaccio,” translated from the German of Pompeo certainly the treatment is not superficial. The
Molmenti and the late Gustav Ludwig by Mr. Robert artistic feature of the book, which is quarto size, is
H. Hobart Cust. The thick quarto volume is bound the work of Mr. Herbert Railton, well known for
with taste and lavishly illustrated. There are several his remarkable drawings in pen-and-ink and wash.
fine photogravure plates, two hundred and forty Seventy-five plates, besides the small chapter head-
half-tones, and a number of illustrations in the text, ings, embellish Mr. Brown's Florentine studies, and
so that pictorially as well as from the point of view make of the book an art treasure as well as a de-
of scholarship the work is exhaustive. (E. P. lightful account of some aspects of Florentine life
Dutton & Co., $15. net.)
and thought as expressed most vitally and most
“The Keramic Gallery” by Mr. William Chaffers permanently in the city's buildings. (E. P. Dutton
was first published in 1871, as a pictorial supplement & Co., $6. net.)
to the same author's “Marks and Monograms on “ If we care to look upon the France of the past
Pottery and Porcelain.” The illustrations were century,” writes Miss Elisabeth Luther Cary in her
printed by the Woodbury photographic process, the preface to “Honoré Daumier,” “ with eyes that note
best method then known for securing faithful copies not merely the surface view, but types, character-
of the original specimens. In the new edition, just istics, deep-seated principles, unconscious tendencies,
issued, half-tone plates have been substituted, mak-' with a clear appreciation of their values and rela-
ing equally good or better reproductions, without the tions, we cannot do better than turn page by page a
necessity of pasting them on separate mounts, as had collection of Daumier's drawings, if by good fortune
to be done with the Woodbury prints. By way of such may have fallen in our way.” It is the privi-
further improvement, one hundred illustrations of lege of looking over such a collection of Daumier's
pottery and porcelain have been added, including five greatest social and political caricatures that Miss
colored plates. The text has been revised wherever Cary offers her readers. Some seventy-five of them
lapse of time or subsequent information has occa are reproduced as full-page plates, titles and captions
sioned inaccuracies, and an index, which was greatly being translated into English. Miss Cary's intro-
needed in the first edition, has been added. For duction is critical and interpretative, and makes an
the benefit of those unfamiliar with the work, it excellent basis for a study of the great cartoonist's
should be explained that the text covers ancient work. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, $5. net.)
pottery, majolica, Continental fayence, Continental Mr. Charles H. Caffin is well known as one of
porcelain, and the pottery and porcelain of Great our foremost critics of native art, and his “Story of
Britain and of the Orient, to the beginning of the American Painting ” will find many eager
readers.
nineteenth century. It includes both historical and The aim of the book is “to trace the growth of
descriptive matter, and it is both exact and exhaus American painting from its scanty beginnings in
tive. (Charles Scribner's Sons, $12.50 net.) Colonial times up to its abundant harvest." At first,
One of the most elaborate and interesting art books individuals are prominent; later, schools, motives
of the season is “A Gallery of Portraits ” reproduced and methods, the influence of England, Düsseldorf,


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Munich, and Paris are discussed ; and individuals life of the unhappy Queen. M. Lenotre's “ The
are introduced by way of illustration. That is to Last Days of Marie Antoinette "describes in minute
say, Mr. Caffin tries to lay down general principles and authentic detail the life led by the captive Queen
for the appreciation of American art, as well as to in Les Feuillants, the Temple, and the Conciergerie.
acquaint his readers with the work of our chief Only the narratives of eye-witnesses have been in-
painters. No such history could be really valuable cluded,-a gaoler's wife, a gendarme, a sweeper,
without illustrations, and the publishers have pro an upholsterer, and two servants. Originally pub-
vided a very generous number, so that merely as a lished as short pamphlets, these unadorned accounts
picture-book the volume would be both entertaining have been smothered by the dramatic additions of
and instructive. Mr. Caffin's criticism, however, is historians striving after a rhetorical effect. M.
not of the kind that is subordinate to its illustrations. Lenotre restores them to their clumsy, vivid bare-
(Frederick A. Stokes Co., $2. net.)
ness, and presents them side by side with the official
records. The translation of Mrs. Rodolph Stawell
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
is easy and spirited, and the narrative in her English
“ Shirley Brooks of Punch ” is an alluring title, redaction is more absorbing than most fiction. (J. B.
and Mr. G. S. Layard's memoir carries out its Lippincott Co., $3.50 net.)
delightful suggestion to the full. There is very little In a significant introductory chapter to his “Seven
available material for a study of the early life of Ages of Washington ” Mr. Owen Wister explains
the great “ Punch” editor, but with the beginning how the veneration felt for the first President
of his literary career there is an abundance, and all resulted in the congealing, so to speak, of his per-
of it has been freely put at Mr. Layard's disposal, sonality into a frozen image rigid with virtue,
both by the proprietors of " Punch” and by private being whom we must admire but cannot love. “The
persons. A special feature of interest is the initial unfreezing of Washington,” explains Mr. Wister,
letters. They originally decorated “Punch’s Essence “was begun by Irving,” but he went at it gingerly
of Parliament,” with which Shirley Brooks's name and with many inferential deprecations. His hand,
will be always identified. There are also several however, first broke the ice, and today we can see
interesting illustrations. Shirley Brooks was a de the live and human Washington, full length.” It
lightful letter-writer, a voluminous and entertaining is this “live and human” Washington that Mr.
diarist, and a brilliant talker. His life makes Wister writes about, and his portrait is thoroughly
interesting reading. London of the sixties and convincing. The “Seven Ages” begin with ances-
early seventies and ™ Punch's" inner editorial circle, try and end with immortality. The biography is
besides many more intimate matters, live again in bound in old-style paper boards with calf back. The
its pages. (Henry Holt & Co., $3.50 net.) Washington coat-of-arms is on the cover-lining, and
Admirers of Abraham Lincoln and lovers of fine there are several illustrations. (Macmillan Co.,
editions will unite in praise of “Abraham Lincoln."
$2. net.)
by Messrs. Carl Schurz and Truman H. Bartlett. The recent biography of “ James Francis Edward,
Bound in paper boards with the French medal to the Old Chevalier by Mr. Martin Haile grew out
Lincoln inset on the front cover, illustrated entirely of Mr. Haile's collection of material for the life of
in photogravure, and printed, in an edition limited Queen Mary of Modena, James's mother. The
to a thousand copies, at the Riverside Press, this purpose was strengthened by the discovery that no
reprint of the Schurz monograph, which first ap connected biography of the Prince had ever been
peared in 1891, and of Mr. Bartlett's recent study published. The chief sources of material were the
of “ The Portraits of Lincoln," is one of the notable vast collection of Stuart MSS. at Windsor, to the
publications of a year marked by its wealth of good unpublished portions of which Mr. Haile was given
things. Mr. Richard Watson Gilder's sonnet “On
As a study of personality, of the Jacobite
the Life-mask of Abraham Lincoln” is printed op movement in England, and of the views of a Stuart
posite one view of the mask, and Stedman's “The restoration held by the great powers of Europe, Mr.
Hand of Lincoln ” appears in connection with Haile's work will be found both thorough and inter-
Leonard W. Volk's casts of Lincoln's hands. The esting. Eleven photogravures, most of them portraits,
index to illustrations contains full and interesting a handsome binding, and uncut sheets, gilt-topped,
notes on nearly every plate. The portraits of Lin make the biography as elegant in appearance as it
coln, of which a long series is reproduced, make, is authoritative in content. (E. P. Dutton & Co.,
particularly in connection with Mr. Bartlett's essay,
$4. net.)
a fascinating study. It is unnecessary to say any In “The Ghosts of Piccadilly” Mr. George S.
thing at this late day of Mr. Schurz's sketch, save Street writes entertainingly of some of the interest-
to declare that it is well worthy the honor that has ing figures whose presence has enlivened the annals
been done it by the publication of this édition de of that famous thoroughfare. "Old Q," he explains, is
luxe. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., $10. net.) its presiding genius ; Georgiana, Duchess of Devon-
Last year M. Lenotre's “The Flight of Marie shire, its most gracious figure. Byron spent there
Antoinette” was translated for English readers, and the last of his bachelor days and the last of his life in
the interest taken in it has encouraged the publishers | England. Lord and Lady Palmerston belong to the
to offer a fresh translation of another episode in the chronicles of the street by virtue of their residence
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at Cambridge House. Burlington House and its Street, and other students of Venetian architecture.
inmates supply romance set in squalid tragedy, and The chief examples are described in the order of
Emma Hamilton danced and sang through life at their erection, and grouped as Byzantine, Gothic, or
Number 23. A score and more of other fitting Renaissance. From the writings of the three great
figures add each his touch of passion, poetry, gaiety, Venetian diarists has been drawn an accompanying
or glory. A dozen portraits, including a photograv- picture of life in the palaces in the days of Venice's
ure frontispiece of “Old Q,” serve to illustrate these greatest glory. There are fifty beautiful illustrations
lively, gossipy chronicles of bygone days. (G. P. in color, and others, possibly more valuable to the
Putnam's Sons, $2. net. )
student, in black and white, by Mr. Trevor Haddon,
Two volumes of “Little Journeys,” “To the besides several reproductions from Ruskin's studies
Homes of Eminent Orators” and “To the Homes of of Venetian architecture. An unusually artistic
Eminent Artists,” respectively, are Mr. Elbert Hub-binding gives a finishing touch of elegance to a
bard's new books this year. As usual, his sketches book that will delight all lovers of Venice.
(E. P.
are biographical and interpretative rather than geo Dutton & Co., $6. net.)
graphical and descriptive, and as usual his range of Mr. J. G. Millais is a hunter of wide experience,
subject-matter is wide. Whistler jostles Raphael but he declares that nowhere has he found game
and Gainsborough in one volume; and the names so abundant and guides so companionable as in
of Pericles, Mark Antony, Ingersoll, Marat, and Newfoundland. His book entitled “Newfoundland
Henry Ward Beecher will suggest the dissimilarity and its Untrodden Ways” is primarily for hunters
of type among the orators. Each sketch is accom and naturalists, dealing with the fauna of the country
panied by a beautiful photogravure portrait, most of and the chase of its wild beasts and birds. But
them being reproduced from engravings. (G. P. Mr. Millais has also much to tell of the daily life
Putnam's Sons, $2.50 each volume.)
of the islanders and the customs of the Micmac
Swift, Pope, Johnson, Sterne, Cowper, Carlyle, Indians, of whom he has made a special study. He
Poe, Shelley, and Keats are the subjects of Miss assures us that the stories and conversations he relates
Myrtle Reed's lively accounts of the “Love Affairs are all genuine, and not mere padding. The illus-
of Literary Men." There is a portrait of each of trations are of remarkable interest. There are a
them, coupled with that of the woman that each dozen beautiful photogravures and colored plates and
loved best, last, or longest. For unfortunately the nearly a hundred line drawings and half-tones, either
clearest deduction suggested by Miss Reed's book by Mr. Millais or photographed. The book is a thick
is that literary men make ardent but fickle lovers, quarto. (Longmans, Green, & Co., $6. net.)
offering at best a tumultuous sort of happiness to Miss Elise Whitlock Rose's “Cathedrals and
their wives and sweethearts. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, Cloisters of Midland France” is published in two
$1.50 net.)
handsomely bound volumes, lavishly illustrated from
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
photographs by Miss Vida Hunt Francis. Together
“Mexico of the Twentieth Century,” an authori the volumes contain four photogravure and two hun-
tative and exhaustive account of present-day condi dred half-tone illustrations picturing the churches of
tions in our neighbor republic, is written in the hope Central France, whose architecture is differentiated
of remedying popular ignorance and prejudice in from that to the north and south by the dominance
regard to a country whose geography, social and of the Byzantine influence. Miss Rose has already
economic conditions, and facilities of travel are as a written of the South of France cathedrals; and the
sealed book to Europeans and even to other Amer new books are bound uniformly with the others, and
icans. Mr. Percy F. Martin, the author, is a Fellow follow a similar method. That is, architectural
of the Royal Geographical Society, and author of beauty, historical associations, and human interest
“Through Five Republics of South America ” and are all considered, and accuracy rather than popu-
Mexico's Treasure House"; so that he knows his larity is the author's aim. (G. P. Putnam's Sons,
subject thoroughly. He treats it in so many different $5. net.)
aspects that the seeker after any conceivable piece Miss Katharine M. Abbott has already written of
of information will be likely to find just what he the “Old Paths and Legends” of the New England
wants somewhere in these two volumes. The illus coast, and her account of the “Old Paths and
trations, from photographs, are as varied in subject- Legends of the New England Border" will be wel-
matter as the text. In tasteful binding, and neatly comed by many readers. There are numerous ex-
boxed, this set will make an acceptable gift for some cellent photographs of the old landmarks, most of
of the difficult persons to whom few current publi- them made especially for this book, which is prettily
cations appeal. (Dodd, Mead & Co., $8.50 net.) bound with an inset of the Wolcott Mansion at Litch-
Mr. Thomas Okey, in his preface, gives a terse field, Conn., as its cover decoration. The western
account of his part — the author's—in the making border, it must be remembered, swept slowly through
of “The Old Venetian Palaces and Old Venetian central and western Connecticut, while the Deerfield
Folk.” It grew, he writes, from a pilgrimage about valley and the Berkshire hill country are its most
Venetian streets and canals “for the purpose of storied regions in Massachusetts. These are the
identifying, and precisely indicating, the position" three localities around which Miss Abbott's account
of the palaces referred to by Ruskin, Fergusson, centres. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, $3.50 net.)
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A fascinating subject, a writer (Mr. Clive intended only as a running commentary on the
Holland) who knows how to make the most of it, pictures, and criticism that views it in any other
and an illustrator (Mr. Montague Smyth) whose light is therefore not demanded. (Dodd, Mead &
work must surprise even the most blasé critic into Co., $3.50 net.)
reluctant admiration, these are the elements that In Greece and the Ægean Islands," Mr.
contribute to the charm of “Old and New Japan.” Marden writes especially for the tourist, with the
The text covers in unusually competent fashion a object of showing him “that it is as easy now to
wide variety of topics, from the legendary genesis of view and enjoy the visible remnants of the glory
the nation, its art and its religion, to Japanese babies, that was Greece as it is to view those of the grandeur
gardens, greetings, and festivals “quaint, pathetic, that was Rome.” Technicalities and Hellenisms have
and beautiful.” The fifty colored plates are not been avoided, Athens has been treated very briefly
mere perfunctory accessories to the text; they evi because so much has already been written about it;
dently embody genuine impressions, and they are so while accounts of new excavations not adequately
artistically reproduced that merely as a picture-book described elsewhere, of journeys to remote inland
of Japanese scenes in town and country the volume sites, and of cruises to some of the classic islands of
would be of unusual interest. (E. P. Dutton & Co., the Ægean, will be of particular interest to both
$5. net.)
tourists and stay-at-home readers. The volume is
Mr. Walter Tyndale is a painter who has spent fully illustrated with reproductions of photographs
some years at work in the Nile valley and is inter taken by the author, who has spent much time in
ested in both the mysterious beauty of the ancient the Grecian Archipelago. The cover is particularly
monuments and in the picturesqueness of the Egypt- attractive. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., $3. net.)
ian life of to-day. Cairo with its winding streets, The writing and illustrating of a travel-book seems
beautiful mosques, and tempting bazaars, Thebes rather out of Mr. Walter Crane's field; but “ Indian
with its tombs and temples, and Karnak with its Impressions,” his account of a last winter's trip
wonderful wall-inscriptions and reliefs, furnish most through India with his wife, makes a delightful
of the material for the sixty beautiful colored plates addendum to the lately published “Reminiscences.”
and the chapters of description and personal reminis And as for the illustrations, they are not of the con-
cence of travel in Egypt which make up his recently ventional sort. There are, to be sure, a colored
published volume “ Below the Cataracts.” (J. B. frontispiece and sixteen excellent page-plates which
Lippincott Co., $3.50 net.)
are not particularly characteristic; but there are
J. W. and A. M. Cruickshank, the authors of “The also a far larger number of small drawings inserted
Umbrian Cities of Italy,” have attempted to carry in the text, depicting, with delightful humor, inci-
out, as far as possible, the ideas of Mr. Grant Allen, dents of the trip, types of Indian tourists, and
who planned the “ Travel Lovers' Library” and con oddities of native life. (Macmillan Co., $2.50.)
tributed several volumes to it. They have therefore • Turkey and the Turks,” by Mr. W. S. Monroe,
tried to notice, in the two small volumes devoted to is confessedly the result of a brief sojourn in the
their subject, only matters of essential interest in Ottoman Empire. Mr. Monroe states in his preface
art, architecture, or historical tradition, leaving de that he has tried to give a brief but unified picture,
tails of travel and the cataloguing of sights and col- gained through study and travel, of the incoherent
lections to the authorized guide books. Assisi and Ottoman Empire and its complex civilization. A
Orvieto are treated in volume one, Perugia and a Scotch philosopher has remarked that if one wishes
group of smaller towns in volume two. Abundant to give a strong and emphatic description of a
illustration in photogravure and half-tone, with gaily country he must not linger long enough to be
decorated binding, will commend this work to the annoyed with contradictions.” The topics covered
attention of the purchaser seeking books whose are most of them of the sort that appeal to popular
holiday appearance is combined with substantial interest, eight chapters out of twenty-one and practi-
worth. (L. C. Page & Co., $3.)
cally all the illustrations being devoted to the sights
The raison d'être of “Cathedral Cities of France,” of Constantinople. The book is printed on tinted
a large octavo volume attractive in print and bind paper, and the cover-design is particularly pleasing.
ing, lies in its sixty beautiful colored plates, the (L. C. Page & Co., $3.)
work of Mr. Herbert Marshall, showing French Mr. Francis Miltoun, whose latest work is entitled
cathedrals or streets in cathedral cities. Hester “ Castles and Châteaux of Old Navarre and the
Marshall furnishes the accompanying text, which is Basque Provinces," is the author of several delight-
a rather perfunctory performance, suffering, by com ful travel-books, and this is not the first time that
parison with other work of its kind, from a lack of Blanche McManus has collaborated with him as
spontaneity and originality. The author seems
illustrator.
For the present volume she furnishes
oppressed by the weight of her authorities; constant a colored frontispiece and a generous allowance of
quotation from them on all sorts of subjects, whether wash-drawings. There are also maps and diagrams
architecture, topography, history, or scenic beauty, to assist travellers in planning new trips or recalling
becomes monotonous after a time, and the reader routes already familiar. The text combines descrip-
longs for an occasional opinion that is unsupported tive and historical material with personal impres-
by expert testimony. However, the text is obviously sions. (L. C. Page & Co., $3.)


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In “ The Florence of Landor” Miss Lilian Wayside Inn,” “Some Portsmouth Publicans and
Whiting has already published her impressions of Their Famous Guests," and "Tavern Signs - and
one Italian city. She therefore omits
any
extended Wonders.” (L. C. Page & Co., $2.)
reference to it from her new book of Italian remin In choosing her “Historic Landmarks of Amer-
iscences, entitled “Italy, the Magic Land." The ica ” Miss Singleton has tried to include those where
volume is illustrated with over thirty fine photo historical association is combined with striking and
graphs. The chapter-titles are: “The Period of beautiful scenery and those that represent all sections
Modern Art in Rome,” “Social Life in the Eternal of the country — north, south, east, and west. Forts
-City,
,” “Day Dreams in Naples, Amalfi, and Capri," predominate, since nearly every American town orig-
“A Page de Conti from Ischia,” “ Voices of St. inated in a stockade. The footprints of early settlers,
Francis d'Assisi,” “The Glory of a Venetian June," explorers, Indian chiefs, and soldiers in our various
and “The Magic Land." (Little, Brown, & Co., wars, have been followed, so that not only cities but
$2.50 net.)
lakes, mountains, plains, and rivers are described.
“Historic Churches of America,” by Mrs. Nellie As usual in Miss Singleton's books, the text is by a
Urner Wallington, consists of brief but entertaining large number of interesting writers. Miss Singleton
sketches of the founding of nearly seventy famous herself contributes an account of Annapolis. There
American houses of worship, together with some are many excellent illustrations. (Dodd, Mead &
account of the notable events in their history. By Co., $1.60 net.)
way of illustration there are photographs of about
“Castles and Keeps of Scotland," so its author,
half the churches described. A suggestive introduc Mr. Frank Roy Fraprie, tells us, is the outcome of
tion by Dr. Edward Everett Hale provides the reader three trips to Scotland, supplemented by study of the
with some general information about the trend of authoritative histories and architectural treatises.
religious thought in America, thus giving him a While it is in part a record of personal opinions
background for the detailed pictures presented by and experiences, it is intended more distinctively as a
Mrs. Wallington. (Duffield & Co., $2. net.) companion and guide for travel. As the only popular
In an introductory chapter to his “Bohemia in
hand-book on the subject, it will be sure to find an
London,” Mr. Arthur Ransome explains that he does
eager welcome. Mr. Fraprie treats a very inclusive
not intend to write about the talk at the Savage Club,
list of Scotch castles, but for the benefit of the hurried
the Vagabond dinners, or any of the other “con-
tourist he suggests a few of those best worth seeing
sciously unconventional things that like to consider
for beautiful situation, for historic interest, or ro-
themselves Bohemian." The real “Bohemia in
mantic association. There are many beautiful illus-
London,” he declares, is hard to localize; visitors
trations from photographs; and a unique cover-design
will not find there, as they do in Paris, men waiting and effective end-leaves add a distinctively holiday
about the principal streets offering themselves as
touch. (L. C. Page & Co., $3.)
guides to the London "Quartier.” As a result, very HOLIDAY EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE
few people in London are Bohemians for the fun First published in 1861, Palgrave's "Golden
of the thing, and the Parisian “tinsel and sham” Treasury of English Lyric Poetry” still remains,
is happily absent from its unconventionalities. It despite the lapse of years and the change of taste
is impossible, of course, to separate the present-day since mid-Victorian times, the standard lyric an-
Bohemia from its glorious traditions, so Mr. Ransome thology. A beautiful new edition has recently been
includes some history in his account. Mr. Fred issued, handsomely bound and worthily illustrated
Taylor's illustrations, in poster style and printed on in line and color by Mr. Robert Anning Bell. Mr.
brown sheets, are exactly in harmony with the note Bell is one of a very few illustrators who may be
struck by the text. (Dodd, Mead & Co., $2. net.) trusted to adorn great poetry instead of marring it.
Travellers through rural New England are The color in some of his “Golden Treasury” plates
familiar with those sombre weather-stained farm is a little crude, a fact due no doubt to the limita-
houses whose huge rambling construction is ac tions of mechanical reproduction, but the designs
counted for only by the fact that once, before rail are always interesting and suggestive. Mr. Edward
roads took the place of stage-coaches, they were Hutton introduces the edition with an interesting
taverns. It is of these quaint hostelries of Colonial account of the making of the collection and of Alfred
New England that Miss Mary Caroline Crawford Tennyson's part in it. (E. P. Duiton & Co., $3. net.)
writes, under the title “ Little Pilgrimages Among No daintier reprints can be imagined than the
Old New England Inns,” describing them and relat Dent-Dutton “English Idylls ” series, with their
ing their histories. Many pictures supplement her delicate bindings and delightful colored illustrations
account and give alluring glimpses of the quaint old done by Mr. C. E. Brock. The new volume for
houses, some few of which are still catering to the this year is Jane Austen's “Pride and Prejudice,"
chance traveller's need, though the majority are and it is, if possible, more thoroughly satisfying than
nowadays only “ landmarks.” A few chapter head any of its predecessors. Mr. Brock is at his best
ings will serve to give an idea of Miss Crawford's in every one of the twenty-four pictures, with their
material: “When the Inn was a Puritan Ordinary,” delicious combination of old-time quaintness and
“The Taverns that Entertained Washington,” “The the humor that belongs to all times. No better gift


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ers.
an
than this can be imagined for the lover of really many colored illustrations, large and small, by Mr.
choice book-making. (E. P. Dutton & Co., $2. net.) Paul Hardy, will appeal especially to younger read-
Sidney Lanier's “Hymns of the Marshes”
ap-
The volume is of handy size and prettily
pears in a beautifully illustrated edition, embellished bound. (E. P. Dutton & Co., $1.)
by photogravure reproductions of Mr. Henry Troth's
photographs. Mr. Troth's work with the camera is
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF FICTION.
thoroughly artistic; he has been wise in choosing Among the most inviting of the season's novels in
lines that lend themselves to photographic illustration holiday guise must be ranked Mr. F. Hopkinson
and skilful in finding the right material in nature Smith's “The Romance of an Old-Fashioned
for his pictures. The result is a rarely beautiful Gentleman.” It is delightfully illustrated in color
edition of a classic text. (Charles Scribner's Sons, by Mr. A. I. Keller, one of his prettiest plates being
$2. net.)
used as a cover inset. The story is full of romance.
A beautifully illuminated frontispiece, and title There is the Old-Fashioned Gentleman's own, and
pages for the whole book and for each of its four there is also the one for which he acts as a sort of
parts, together with a white cover, gold-lettered and fairy godfather. The Old-Fashioned Gentleman is
inset with small pictures, also in the illuminated an artist, and the atmosphere of the story is that of
style, are the decorative features of a beautiful new Bohemian studios and art-schools in New York and
edition “Of the Imitation of Christ.” (E. P. Dutton Paris, which Mr. Smith always reproduces so con-
& Co., $2. net.)
vincingly. (Charles Scribner's Sons, $1.50.)
A third volume has been added to the “ Williams One of Mrs. Deland's “Old Chester Tales,
Edition" of Dickens. Like the others of the series, “odd one,” so to speak, that has not been pub-
this contains stories appropriate to Christmas time, lished before in covers,
has been made the basis
“The Holly Tree Inn” and “ A Christmas Tree.' of a very dainty gift-book. There are illustrations
Mr. George Alfred Williams, the illustrator, con by Alice Barber Stephens, floral-page borders, and a
tributes, besides a preface, ten full-page drawings in cream-colored cover ornamented with tall pink holly-
black-and-white and color, and many smaller ones. hocks. The title of the book is .“ An Encore."
Mr. Williams's work is good, if not great, and will (Harper & Brothers, $1.50.)
appeal particularly to the younger generation of “The Spinners' Book of Fiction” contains short
readers. (Baker & Taylor Co., $2.)
stories by sixteen California writers, with illustra-
Four volumes Dickens's “Oliver Twist” and tions and decorations by seven California artists.
“A Tale of Two Cities," and Scott's “Kenilworth” The binding of heavy buckram is unique, and the
and “Ivanhoe” – initiate “The Prairie Classics," whole make-up of the volume is in the Elder Com-
which are intended eventually to include, in uniform pany's best style. Gertrude Atherton, Mary Hallock
handy-sized volumes, the complete works of a con Foote, Jack London, Mary Austin, Miriam Michel-
siderable number of the great English novelists. son, Frank Norris, and Henry Milner Rideout are
The plates are new, the type attractive, the paper
thin among the literary contributors. The book takes its
and yet opaque, with gilt tops and uncut edges, and name from the fact that the Spinners' Club of San
the binding plain cloth, gold-lettered. Mr. George Francisco got the material together, with the object
Alfred Williams, who has defied the traditions of of increasing their fund for the assistance of needy
the great caricaturists in his illustrations for some writers, artists, and musicians. (Paul Elder & Co.,
of Dickens's stories, has made a colored frontispiece $2. net.)
for each of the four volumes. (A. C. McClurg & “Sport Royal,” which is Anthony Hope's effective
Co., $1. each volume.)
inversion of royal sport, as it is supposed to be
A pretty edition of “Evangeline,” called out, prob enjoyed by certain Continental princes and their
ably, by the Longfellow centennial, is gaily bound, courts, is a dashing novelette, full of strange adven-
furnished with decorated end-leaves, and lavishly ture, love, and intrigue. The hero and raconteur is
illustrated in line and color by Mr. Arthur Dixon. a reckless young Englishman of the type that “The
Besides the full-page plates there are numerous small Prisoner of Zenda” immortalized. He fights duels
pictures, many of them in color, inset in the text, so without knowing why or against whom he is draw-
that
every second or third page is graced with some ing pistol, breakfasts with charming princesses that
sort of illustration. (E. P. Dutton & Co., $1.50.) he has never seen before, — all with equal non-
To the Dent-Dutton Dickens, with illustrations in chalance and zest for the game. Decorations by
color and line by Mr. C. E. Brock, two titles have Mr. Will Jenkins, colored illustrations by Mr. Simon
been added, -“The Battle of Life” and “The Warner, and a royal purple cover with gold lettering,
Haunted Man." The volumes are daintily bound, are in character with the contents. (Harper &
in uniformity with the rest of the series, and Mr. Brothers, $1.50.)
Brock's work is of its usual delightful quality. There There were six Agathas, and the puzzle was to
is perhaps more humor in the black-and-white illus- pick out “The Real Agatha,” who was an heiress,
trations, while the colored plates are of course more from
among
them. As a matter of fact she was not
decorative. (E. P. Dutton & Co., $1. each volume.) even among them; she was masking as secretary
A new edition of Macaulay's “Lays of Ancient to their chaperon. But the two Englishmen who
Rome,” with an unusually attractive binding and happened upon her estates and stayed to make her


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as
acquaintance did not know that, and when one of remodelled and signed by Mr. Owen Wister, it is
them eloped with the real Agatha he had no idea published separately in the prettiest possible of
that he was doing it. The other man, who is a bindings, with illustrations and decorations by Mr.
confirmed “old bachelor," tells the story. Edith John Rae. Love and speculation in copper stocks
Huntington Mason is the author of “The Real are the themes of the novelette, which Mr. Wister
Agatha.” (A. C. McClurg & Co., $1. net.) blithely dedicates “To my favorite broker, with the
The édition de luxe of Mr. Hitchens's master earnest assurance that Mr. Beverly is not meant for
piece, “ The Garden of Allah," is illustrated from him.” (Dodd, Mead & Co., $1.25.)
photographs picturing the desert and its people, “ The Little City of Hope” is a Christmas book
artistically reproduced in sepia. No photographs by Mr. F. Marion Crawford. Its covers are gay
could catch the poetic beauty, - the magic loveli with scarlet berries, holly and mistletoe wreathe
ness and the awful loneliness of endless wastes, the margins, and there are pretty pictures by Mr.
that gives “The Garden of Allah” its atmosphere W. Benda. The story is about an unsuccessful and
and its distinction; but these, which are by Hélène | discouraged inventor and his little son who had no
Philippe, at least do not jar, and the comparison Merry Christmas to look forward to. So they set
between reality and the novelist's impressionistic to work to build a “Little City of Hope," and they
descriptions is interesting. The text is printed on builded better than they knew, as the end of the
tinted paper, and the book is handsomely bound. story shows. Pessimists ought to read it, and
(Frederick A. Stokes Co., $2.50 net.)
optimists will enjoy it. (Macmillan Co., $1.25.)
Some years ago Mr. George W. Cable’s “ The
Grandissimes” was published in a sumptuous quarto
INEXPENSIVE GIFT-BOOKS.
volume embellished by Mr. Albert Herter's draw With two volumes, containing respectively
ings. Now a new edition is issued, cheaper and of Stevenson's “The Sea Fogs” and Mr. W. H.
smaller size. But Mr. Herter's drawings are again | Rhodes's “The Case of Summerfield,” Messrs. Paul
beautifully reproduced in photogravure, and the Elder & Co. begin a series of reprints to be known
book is handsomely bound, uniformly with the • Western Classics.” The idea of the publishers
edition of “Creole Days” published last year. is to offer literature that belongs characteristically
(Charles Scribner's Sons, $2.50.)
to the Pacific slope, in dainty and artistic volumes.
“Helen's Babies," in a smart new edition with The books are printed from special type on hand-
pictures by Messrs. B. Cary Kilvert and C. V. made paper and bound in paper boards of various
Dwiggins, comes as a climax to the triumphal prog- shades, with vellum backs, gold-lettered. Each has
ress of the book through nine English and two a photogravure frontispiece. It should perhaps be
Scotch editions and translation into several Euro- explained that “The Case of Summerfield” is a
pean languages. Older readers remember the first fantastic story which attracted much attention when,
* Helen's Babies,” in its light-blue paper covers, in 1871, it appeared anonymously in a San Francisco
now sadly dog's-eared and faded. But paper-bound newspaper. It is the one remarkable literary
novels are now quite a thing of the past, and the old achievement of its author. (Paul Elder & Co.,
charm of them hardly survives comparison with the $1.50 net each volume.)
elegance of to-day's holiday editions. So, after the No other of the countless miniature " series has
first difficult moment of readjustment, it is a pleas- quite the distinction of the “ Thumbnail” classics
ure to welcome this old friend in a new dress, and with their embossed leather covers, each especially
to read once more in the “Author's Edition” the designed to fit its contents, by Mrs. Blanche
merry record of Uncle Harry's persecution at the McManus Mansfield.
The new
volumes
hands of the irrepressible Budge and Toddie. Stevenson's "Travels with a Donkey,” Longfellow's
(Moffat, Yard & Co., $1.50.)
“ Tales of a Wayside Inn," and Dickens's “The
A pretty story full of the deeper meaning of the Seven Poor Travellers” and “ The Holly Tree.”
Christmas season is Mr. Robert E. Knowles's “ The
(Century Co., $1. net each volume.)
Dawn at Shanty Bay.” Its scenes are laid in a Mr. Wallace Rice, compiler of the “ Franklin
Scotch settlement in western New York. The hero Year Book,” chooses his maxims and morals with a ·
is a crusty Scotchman. He inherits his creed and keen appreciation of the great philosopher's trench-
his theory of life from his Covenanter father, who ant style and blunt humor. The cover is distinctive,
“got till his rest wi'out hardly hearin' tell o' and so are the marginal sketches, which depict the
Christmas, or ony o'thae new-fangled schemes for life of the self-made philosopher and statesman in
worshippin' Almichty God.” But before the end of twenty characteristic incidents. (A. C. McClurg &
the story Ronald Robertson changed his mind about Co., $1. net.)
Christmas and several other things. The novelette “The Engagement Book," designed by Mr. A.
is prettily gotten up, with symbolic designs in color Hart Hunter, has spaces within its prettily decorated
in the margins, illustrative chapter-headings, and a floral borders for the appointments of each day in the
colored frontispiece. (F. H. Revell Co., $1. net.) year. Each month is supplied with an illustrated
In 1901 a story entitled “Mother” appeared quotation, and there are verses for six or eight days
anonymously in a volume of short stories by various out of each month. These, playing upon the double
authors, called “A House Party.” Now, slightly meaning of an “engagement,” are all sentimental
are


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ditties, together tracing the progress of love from On the title-page of “The Maxims of Methuselah”
the first meeting to the happy end of the wooing. Mr. Gelett Burgess states that the maxims embody
The book is printed in two colors, and gaily bound. “the advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine
(The Penn Publishing Co., $1.)
Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grand-
“ If you 've never made a Blottentot
son, in Regard to Women.” They are, however,
This book will help you quite a lot!”
“ freely rendered into the idiom of the hour,” and
So runs the verse on the title-page of Mr. John the illustrations are also thoroughly up-to-date, while
Prosper Carmel's “ Blottentots and How to Make the colored page-decorations add the needed sug-
Them.' The directions, which are in rhyme, are gestion of, antiquity. A new nonsense-book by the
easy to follow, and the examples, which are accom author of “ Are You a Bromide ? ” will be sure to
panied by explanatory verses, inspire the reader
find a ready welcome. Mr. Louis D. Fancher is
with a mad desire to rival them. Cover and end. responsible for the artistic features. (Frederick
leaves are in keeping with the contents. (Paul A. Stokes Co., 75 cts. net.)
Elder & Co., 75 cts. net.)
Ethel Watts-Mumford Grant, Oliver Herford, and
“Check-Mated; or The Tale of a Check-book, by Addison Mizner, the indefatigable originators of the
the Paying Teller, John Stuyvesant Snowdon — “Cynic's Calendar," seem to have no difficulty in
Written for his own amusement, not for publication” producing a “Quite New” stock of “ Revised Wis-
is the diverting title-page of Mr. Newton Newkirk's dom” for each new year. This time a “ Lexicon
diverting nonsense book. Mr. Snowdon has a of Legal Phrases designed to enlighten the unini-
pleasant habit of annotating his checks, so that it is tiated has been added. The “ Wisdom” is as
possible to make out their story without reading diverting as ever, and the familiar linen covers and
much between the lines. The tale has its
ups
and
general style of decoration have been retained.
downs, but Mr. Snowdon declares cheerfully on the (Paul Elder & Co., 75 cts. net.)
back cover of his check-book, “ I consider that the Mr. Newton Newkirk, author of “The Stork
money was well spent.” (John W. Luce & Co., 75 cts.) | Book,” explains candidly that he knows nothing of
Four volumes of the so-called “ Abbey Classics” babies, and therefore follows a well-established pre-
have been issued: Burns's “ Cotter's Saturday cedent by choosing to write a book about them.
Night," Milton's "Ode on the Morning of Christ's The cover and end-leaves are novel in design, and
Nativity,” Lowell's “The Vision of Sir Launfal,” there are many humorous illustrations by Mr.
and Longfellow's “The Building of the Ship.” | Wallace Goldsmith. (H. M. Caldwell Co., $1.)
Each poem is provided with an introduction by Mr. In “ Abelard and Heloise : The Love Letters,"
Walter Taylor Field, and a photogravure portrait Miss Ella C. Bennett offers a graceful and interest-
frontispiece. The text is beautifully printed on ing poetical version of the famous epistles. She has
Normandy vellum, bound in boards with parchment not attempted to follow the text of the correspond-
back, and neatly boxed. The sumptuous little vol ence, but merely to reproduce its sentiment; and
umes, each containing a poem short enough to be her redaction ends at the point where sentiment was
read at a sitting and worth reading often, will be replaced by theological and religious discussion. A
most acceptable gift-books, at a moderate price frontispiece in photogravure and a simple but
(Paul Elder & Co., 60 cts. net each volume.) appropriate binding, together with special type and
Mr. Herford's satires are so clever that even their paper, give distinction to the edition, which is a
victims must enjoy them. His new book holds
up
to
limited one.
(Paul Elder & Co., $1.50 net.)
ridicule a popular school of black-and-white artists Mr. Otho Cushing's “ Teddyssey," being humor-
whose beautiful girls possess so wonderful a family re ous drawings in classic style of eleven episodes in
semblance that the men, who also belong to a strongly the life of President Roosevelt, is reprinted from
marked type, find it difficult to distinguish between “Life” in an oblong octavo, bound in paper boards.
them. The title of the book is “The Astonishing The President is a subject of perennial interest to
Tale of a Pen-and-Ink Puppet, or the Genteel Art all good Americans, and whatever
may
be their
of Illustrating.” As usual with Mr. Herford, text political affiliations they will find Mr. Cushing's pic-
and illustrations are equally amusing. (Charles torial account of the particularly strenuous moments
Scribner's Sons, $1. net.)
in a strenuous career entertaining and possibly not
“Betel Nuts,” “rhymed in English” by Mr. without food for thought. (Life Publishing Co., $1.)
Arthur Guiterman, proves upon inspection to be a Faithless Nelly Gray," Thomas Hood's humor-
collection of Hindustan proverbs. They are so called ously “ Pathetic Ballad,” has been illustrated with
because they color the native idiom even as the betel old-fashioned wood-cuts one on every page --- by
nut—"the chewing gum of the Orient — spices Mr. Robert Seaver, and put up in antique blue board
the breath and reddens the lips of the folk of the covers, with paper label and leather back. The little
bazaars.” The proverbs have been cleverly rendered book has the true antiquarian flavor of the old prim-
into English verse and attractively printed in sepia ers and juveniles, whose style the publishers have
on tinted paper, with ornamental lettering, marginal cleverly copied. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 75 cts.)
decorations, and a colored frontispiece designed by A unique edition of Longfellow's “ Wooing of
Mr. Will Jenkins. The binding and red silk end Hiawatha” is printed on paper finished to simulate
papers are in keeping. (Paul Elder & Co., 75 cts. net.) birch-bark, bound in paper-boards to match, and


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laced
up
with leather thongs.
There are illustra Undoubtedly the favorite among Dr. Henry van
tions and decorations in “primitive ” poster style, Dyke's many favorite works is “ The Story of the
by Mr. Wallace Goldsmith. (John W. Luce & Other Wise Man.” It has been published in many
Co., 75 cents.)
inexpensive forms, and now it appears in a sumptu-
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS.
ous édition de luce, with illuminated cover,
frontis-
Taking advantage of the recent interest in the piece, and page-borders. Design and coloring are
subject awakened by the revolt of the French gov both beautiful, and those who like the story will
ernment from Papal authority, Mr. Douglas Sladen want to possess it in this sumptuous form. (Harper
writes about the sights of the Vatican Palace which & Brothers, $5.)
are not generally accessible to the public, and of the “The Value of Sincerity and Character” is the
routine of life, official and personal, that centres in rather clumsy caption under which Mary M.
those hidden portions of the palace. Those to whom Barrows issues an exceedingly well edited book of
his title, “ The Secrets of the Vatican,” suggests extracts, all bearing upon that theme. Thomas
scandal will be disappointed. The history of the Wentworth Higginson has written a pleasant intro-
Vatican, its gradual construction and decoration, its ductory essay on the same subject, and the pub-
libraries, private chapels, and Borgia apartments on lishers have provided a dainty white and gold cover
the one hand, and on the other the elaborate and elaborate marginal decorations. The extracts
machinery of the Vatican hierarchy, — the cere vary in length from a line to half a page, and have
monies that accompany the death and election of a been culled with much discrimination from a wide
Pope and the creation of a cardinal, the duties of the range of prose and poetic literature. (H. M.
Papal Secretary of State and of the Cardinal Caldwell Co., $2.50.)
Nephew, the simple every day life of the Pope, the “Christmasse Tyde,” further described on the
Papal audi ces, the functions of the Papal Court title-page as “A Collection of Seasonable Quota-
and the Sacred Congregations, these are the topics tions,” is as delightful a Christmas anthology as the
of which Mr. Sladen writes. An elaborate index most fastidious reader could desire. The board
renders the contents easily available, and numerous covers are lettered and decorated in gold, and there
page-plates, including a plan of the Palace, add are rubricated headings and a colored frontispiece
materially to the book's interest and value. (J. B. by Mr. Gordon Ross. Miss Jennie Day Haines
Lippincott Co., $5. net.)
compiled the extracts, and her work shows the same
In compiling “The Story of the White House" faculty that her other books have exhibited for doing
Miss Esther Singleton has consulted histories, a conventional thing in an unusual way. (Paul
memoirs, travels, biographies, diaries, letters, official Elder & Co., $2. net. )
documents, and newspapers. She has confined her It is hard to classify Dr. Henry van Dyke's
self strictly to the social life of the Presidents and “The Music-Lover.” Narrative, sketch, apprecia-
their families, avoiding any reference to the political tion, character-study,- it is at once all and none of
turmoils of which the Executive mansion has often them. In this brief note it must suffice to say that
been the centre. Even then, in spite of the fact Dr. van Dyke describes the emotions of the true lover
that the history extends to two stout volumes, it has of music, as he sits in his chosen place and hears a
been necessary to select from an enormous mass of great orchestra render a great symphony. Generous
material; and wherever there were alternatives Miss margins appropriately decorated in color, and a col-
Singleton explains that she has chosen “the lighter ored frontispiece by Sigismond de Ivanowski, whose
and more picturesque points of view.” She devotes work has lately attracted much attention, are the de-
a chapter to each administration, and extra ones to corative features. (Moffat, Yard & Co., $1. net.)
the building, re-building, and remodelling of the Two gift-books gotten up on a novel plan are
mansion. The illustrations show the Wbite House “The Parables,” edited by Dr. Lyman Abbott, and
at different dates, some of its furnishings, and many “ David,” for which the Rev. W. S. Richardson
of its occupants. (McClure Co., $5. net.)
has done editorial service. The books reproduce in
As an essayist, as “A Wanderer in Holland' strictly Biblical phrasing the New Testament para-
and elsewhere, or as a compiler of anthologies, Mr. bles and the Old Testament story of David, respec-
E. V. Lucas has a touch of his own. The Open
tively. They are in decorative bindings, and have
Road,” his anthology of poetry, and “ The Friendly marginal borders and illustrations. The aim has
Town,” comprising, besides poetry, many bits of been to secure a reading for a great man's biography,
delightful prose, have marked a new era in the and for a body of Christian philosophy, that shall in
much-abused art of compilation; and “The Gentlest each case add vividness to old issues by putting them
Art,” his new anthology of letters “by Entertaining on the same footing as contemporary literature, and
Hands,” is of the same charming type. The letters thus bringing them into relation with everyday life.
are arranged in nineteen groups, of which “ Children (D. Appleton & Co., $2.50 the volume.)
and Grandfathers," “ First Person Singular,” “The Story of Joseph," as the King James version
“Friendship and More must serve as examples. tells it, is reprinted among the holiday books of the
Altogether this is one of the “chosen few”
among season with many illustrations, colored and otherwise,
the new books, meant for the “chosen few” among by Mr. George Alfred Williams. Mr. Fletcher
readers. (Macmillan Co., $1.25 net.)
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the edition and explaining some of the reasons why
Baedeker's “ Paris and Environs " has reached the
the story of Joseph is ranked as the most beautiful sixteenth revised edition (in English), and is now pub-
in Hebrew, if not in any, literature. Mr. Williams lished, with its many maps and plans, by Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
writes at length of “ Egypt, the Land of Joseph's
Sojourn," elucidating his account by many drawings
“ Heine's Book of Songs” has found still another
of Egyptian symbols. Then follows the Old
translator in the person of Mr. John Todhunter, whose
version is now published by Mr. Henry Frowde at the
Testament text, generously illustrated in color. The
Oxford Clarendon Press.
edition should arouse new interest in the old story.
Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. publish a second edition,
(Baker & Taylor Co., $2.)
thoroughly revised, of the translation of “ Villani's
A curious little document, which the publishers Chronicle” made some years ago by Miss Rose E. Selfe,
assure us is of undoubted authenticity, is issued and edited by the Rev. P. H. Wicksteed.
under the inviting title “ The First Nantucket Tea Lamb's “ Tales from Shakespeare,” edited by Canon
Party.” It is a letter written in 1745 by Ruth Ainger, and Sheridan's “ Plays” (the two famous ones),
Starbuck Wentworth to her mother. Besides relat edited by Dr. W. D. Howe, are new volumes of the
ing the amusing story of the first tea-brewing that
“ Pocket Classics "published by the Messrs. Macmillan.
ever took place on Nantucket, it traces the romance
Professor J. B. Bury's “A Student's History of
of Ruth Wentworth and Captain Morris, which
Greece" is an Americanized edition of an authoritative
began and ended while the letter was being written
work, edited for the uses of our schools and colleges
in those delightful daily portions that our grand-
by Professor Everett Kimball, and published by the
Macmillan Co.
mothers used to indite as painstakingly as they did
“ Hymns That Every Child Should Know" is an
their other daily stints. The letter is charming, and
anthology whose character is sufficiently indicated by the
the setting it has been given, with illustrations, title. It has been compiled by Miss Dolores Bacon,
decorations, and illuminations by Mr. Walter Tittle, and is published by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co.
makes it one of the most elaborate and artistic gift The music of the hymns accompanies the text.
books that have been issued this season. (Doubleday, A volume of miscellaneous papers by the late Mary
Page & Co., $2. net.)
Putnam Jacobi has been brought together from various
“ The Land of Make-Believe," — the title is taken magazine sources and published by the Messrs. Putnam
from that of the first poem, is a collection of
under the title of “Stories and Sketches." There are
graceful verses about Christmas by Mr. Wilbur
eight papers altogether, the greater number of them
Nesbit. Most of them, naturally, are about children;
being in the form of fiction.
and children will like them, but grown people will
A translation of Sig. d'Annunzio's “La Figlia di
Jorio” is published in handsome style by Messrs. Little,
like them even better, for they represent, perhaps Brown & Co. Miss Charlotte Porter contributes an
unconsciously, the man's retrospect of the boy's introduction, and has also taken part in the work of
hopes and joys and quaint fancies, often tinged with translation, having been assisted by Sig. Pietro Isola
a retrospective pathos that did not belong in the and Miss Alice Henry. The work is illustrated.
boy's idea.
Christmas wreaths and candles bedeck Two volumes of « The Shakespeare Library,” under
the cover, and there are illustrations by various the general editorship of Professor Gollancz, are now
artists. (Harper & Brothers, $1.40 net.)
published by Messrs. Duffield & Co. They give us,
Dr. James M. Ludlow made a daring attempt respectively, Lodge's "Rosalynde,” edited by Mr. W.W.
when he wrote “ Jesse ben David : a Shepherd of Grey, and Greene's “ Pandosto," edited by Mr. P. G.
Bethlehem," and it is therefore the more to his credit
Thomas. They make very pretty books, and are sup-
plied with the needful critical apparatus.
that he certainly succeeds in convincing and inter-
“ Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul” is an
esting his readers. The book has been decorated in
anthology compiled by Mr. James Mudge, and pub-
color and illustrated in a quaint style suggesting lished by Messrs. Eaton & Mains. Its contents are, as
wood-cut prints, which harmonizes perfectly with the the title indicates, of a distinctly ethical or religious
spirit of the text. This relates the story of the character, and they are classified under suitable head-
birth of Christ, as eye-witnesses, — shepherds, seers, ings. Singularly, the book has no index of authors,
soldiers, Jews, and Romans, saw it, and talked although titles and first lines are duly indexed.
about it. The English is modern but dignified and That accomplished Latinist, Professor Frank Frost
adequate, and the incidents, worked out in the vivid
Abbott, has prepared “ A Short History of Rome" for
form of fiction, gain a fresh interest. (Fleming H.
use as a school and college text-book. It is a book dis-
Revell Co., $1. net.)
tinguished by great lucidity of statement and a sense of
proportional values. The many illustrations are judi-
ciously chosen. The period is from Romulus to
Charlemagne. A pamphlet hand-book for teachers
NOTES.
accompanies the work, and both are published by Messrs.
Scott, Foresman & Co.
“ The Science of Ethics,” perhaps the ablest of Leslie German texts recently published by Messrs. Henry
Stephen's books, is published in a second edition by the Holt & Co. include Grillparzer's “ Die Ahnfrau," edited
Messrs. Putnam.
by Messrs. F. W J. Heuser and G. H. Danton; Keller's
“ A Text-Book in Physics for Secondary Schools,” by “ Das Fähnlein der Lieben Aufrechten,” edited by
Professor William N. Mumper, is published by the Messrs. W. G. Howard and A. M. Sturtevant; and
American Book Co.
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Gesellen,” edited by Professor Robert H. Fife, Jr. The
Charles E. Merrill Co. send us in their series of “German
Texts” an edition of Lessing's “ Minna von Barnhelm,"
edited by Professor Philip L. Allen.
Programme music is so large a feature of modern
concerts that music lovers are more than ever in need
of guides to the ideas and intentions of the composers.
An admirable guide of this sort is provided by Mr.
Lawrence Gilman's “Stories of Symphonic Music,
published by the Messrs. Harper. It gives just the
sort of matter that should be (but frequently is not)
printed with the programme. The selection of works
described is catholic, ranging from Beethoven sym-
phonies to such ultra-modern works as the tone-pictures
of Strauss, Glazounoff, and Debussy. The comment is
of a highly intelligent character, providing real inform-
ation and avoiding the meaningless rhapsodizing into
which writers upon music are tempted to fall.
The Van Rensselaers of Old Manhattan. By Weymer Jay
Mills; illus. in color and decorated by John Rae. 12mo, gilt
top, pp. 215. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50 net.
The Lays of Ancient Rome. By Lord Macaulay; illus. in
color by Paul Hardy. 16mo, gilt edges, pp. 148. E. P. Dutton
& Co. $1.
The Dawn at Shanty Bay. By Robert E. Knowles; with illus-
trations in tint, etc., and decorations by Griselda Marshall
McClure. 8vo, pp. 156. Fleming H, Revell Co. $1. net.
The Maxims of Methuselah : Being Advice Given by the
Patriarch to his Great Grandson in Regard to Women, By
Gelett Burgess; with illustrations and decorations by Louis D.
Fancher. 12mo, pp. 108. Frederick A. Stokes Co. 75 cts. net.
The Engagement Book. By A. Hart Hunter; illus. in color
and decorated by Helen Knipe. Penn Publishing Co. $1..
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 190 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
60
HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens. By Royal Cortissoz. Illus. in
photogravure, large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 86. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. $7.50 net.
Abraham Lincoln : A Biographical Essay. By Carl Schurz.
With an Essay on the Portraits of Lincoln, by Truman H.
Bartlett. Limited edition; illus. in photogravure, 4to, uncut,
pp. 134. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $10. net.
Cathedrals and Cloisters of Midland France. By Elise
Whitlock Rose; illus. in photogravure by Vida Hunt Francis.
In 2 vols., large 8vo, gilt tops. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $5.net.
Mexico of the Twentieth Century. By Percy F. Martin. In
2 vols., illus., 8vo, gilt tops. Dodd, Mead & Co. $8.50 net.
Old Paths and Legends of the New England Border:
Connecticut, Deerfield, Berkshire. By Katharine M. Abbott.
Illus. in color, etc., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 408. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$3.50 net.
Below the Cataracts. By Walter Tyndale; illus. in color by
the author. Large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 271. J. B. Lippincott
Co. $3.50 net.
The Umbrian Cities of Italy. By J. W. and A. M. Cruick-
shank. In 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, etc., 12mo, gilt tops,
L. C. Page & Co. $3.
Nooks and Corners of Old England. By Allan Fea. Illus. in
photogravure, etc., 8vo, gilt top. pp. 273. Charles Scribner's
Sons. $2.50 net.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists. By
Elbert Hubbard. With photogravure portraits, 8ro, gilt top,
pp. 450. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.50.
The First Nantucket Tea Party. Illustrated, decorated and
illuminated by Walter Tittle. Large 8vo, gilt top. Doubleday,
Page & Co. $2. net.
Castles and Keeps of Scotland. By Frank Roy Fraprie.
Illus. in color, etc., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 411. L. C. Page & Co. $3.
Bohemia in London. By Arthur Ransome; illus. by Fred
Taylor. 8vo, gilt top, pp. 290. Dodd, Mead & Co. $2. net.
Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque
Provinces, including also Foix, Roussilon and Béarn. By
Francis Miltoun; illus. in color by Blanche McManus. 8vo,
gilt top, pp. 456. L. C. Page & Co. $3.
Turkey and the Turks ; An Account of the Lands, the Peoples.
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