e of the Dominion
general newspaper and candy trade on the train,
government by taking too active a part in the
was a rather remarkable sheet. Only one copy
Papineau Rebellion. An allotment of the
is now known to be extant, and a facsimile of
public land which he had received was forfeited,
and Samuel Edison took a hurried leave of his We are told that the English engineer Stephen-
one of its two small pages is given in the book.
home and made his way to the American side
son, who chanced to travel one day on the Port
of the St. Clair River. It is worth noting, in
Huron and Detroit train, was so impressed with
connection with the son's extraordinary powers
this little journal that he ordered a thousand
of continuous work, that the father, in his flight copies; and that “even the London Times
from Canada, walked one hundred and eighty
miles without sleep. One would gladly learn expressed interest in the paper, and unbent
more than is told of this hardy and energetic sufficiently to quote from its columns.”
Fortune is ever on the alert to serve him who
man ; but beyond the fact that he first settled
is worthy of her favors. After a variety of
* THOMAS ALVA EDISON: Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life. experiences young Edison was one morning
By Francis Arthur Jones. With numerous illustrations from
photographs. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
walking along lower Broadway, wondering


1908.]
127
THE DIAL
:
whether the time would ever come when he could best filaments; and then began a quest for speci-
devote himself heart and soul to his germinat mens of all the twelve hundred known varieties
ing schemes of invention, when the way was of bamboo in all parts of the bamboo-growing
suddenly opened to him toward that desired world, in order to determine what kind was the
end. Entering the office of the Law Gold
best for the purpose.
Nearly one hundred
Indicator, in Wall Street, he found trouble and thousand dollars was spent in this bamboo-hunt,
confusion prevailing because something had but the desired end was attained.
gone wrong with the “ tickers," and brokers were Descriptions of many other interesting experi-
despatching frantic messages to headquarters to ments and a sufficient number of not too tech-
find out what was the matter.
nical accounts of Edisonian inventions find a
“ Mr. Law was in the office, together with a small place in the book. Judged by the number and
army of workmen, but no one seemed capable of locat- importance of his inventions, Mr. Edison is the
ing the trouble. Then Edison, who was standing by and greatest inventor the world has yet seen. Out
seemed mildly interested in the commotion, remarked
of twelve hundred applications for patents in
that he thought he could put things to rights, and Mr.
Law told him to go ahead and see what he could do. this country, more than eight hundred have been
Whereupon the young man quietly but deliberately granted so far; and for patents in most of the
removed a loose contact spring which had fallen between other countries more than two thousand appli-
the wheels and immediately the instruments worked as
cations have been filed.
chirpily as before. The repairers looked foolish and
Mr. Law requested Edison to step into his office. After
The closing chapters of the book treat more
asking him a few questions, Mr. Law offered him the especially of Mr. Edison the man, rather than
position of manager of the service at a salary of three the inventor. He is delightfully human in his
hundred dollars a month. Edison says he nearly fainted
attributes, as one learns from the following
when told what his remuneration was to be, but some-
descriptive passage
how he managed to keep a straight face and accepted
the position with becoming gravity. Now that he had
« Some one has described Edison as “thoroughly
an assured income of thirty-six hundred dollars a year,
comfortable and undeniably human. It is a queer form
Edison immediately opened a workshop down town,'
of description, and yet it suits the inventor admirably.
and every moment that he could spare was devoted to
Those portraits or drawings which show him with head
his, beloved experimenting."
resting upon his hand, and a solemn, dreamy look in his
eyes, are all wrong. Edison is the exact reverse of a
Another seeming accident, which led to still
dreamer, and always has been — he never gives himself
more important results, and which illustrates Mr. time to dream, and his chief characteristics through life
Edison's quickness to take a hint from whatever have been marvellous alertness, indomitable determina-
source, occurred in connection with the invention
tion, and mercurial energy. His eyes are more often
of the incandescent electric light. A suitable fila-
laughing with suppressed humor than solemn with
thought. When he was a young man, and no one knew
ment for the lamp had long been sought in vain. him, he was shy in disposition and seldom spoke of him-
“ The inventor was seated in his laboratory alone one self or his doings. When he became famous he did not
evening, a little serious over his thousand-and-one dis 'grow out of proportion to himself,' but was the same
appointments, though by no means crushed in spirit, and, simple, unaffected human being that he had always been.
as usual, thinking deeply, when his right hand, which He has about as much conceit and self-esteem as there
lay idly upon the table, strayed towards a little pile of is air in one of his own electric globes, and the thing he
lampblack mixed with tar which his assistants had been fears most in life is a “swelled head.' His kindliness
using in connection with his telephone transmitter. Pick is unfailing, and he never loses his temper. No man
ing up a modicum of this substance he began rolling it in the laboratory has ever seen Edison · let himself go';
between his finger and thumb, still wondering what one and though his eyes may take on the sternness of a
thing he had forgotten which should make the electric Napoleon, his anger never expresses itself outwardly.”
light possible, and little dreaming that it lay between An abundance of illustrative anecdote fol-
his fingers. For perhaps half an hour he continued to
lows, and these little characteristic incidents,
ponder and at the same time to roll the mixture, until
at last he had obtained a thin thread not unlike a piece
combined with the numerous pictures of the man
of wire in appearance. He looked at it idly, and then in various unstudied attitudes, make the reader
began to speculate on its possibilities as a flament for feel something very like a personal acquaintance
an incandescent lamp. It was carbon, of course, and, with him by the time the last page is reached
this being so, might have strength to withstand the
electric current to a greater degree than platinum itself.
With young men possessed of some love of
He determined to put it to the test, and at once began science, fondness for machinery, a taste for ex-
the work of rolling out fine threads of the black com- perimenting, and a touch perhaps of inventive
position preparatory to placing them in the lamps."
genius, the book is sure to be a favorite ; as a
This experiment, though not wholly satisfactory, finger-post pointing the way to success for brains
convinced the experimenter that he was at last and energy, it ought to exert a good influence ;
on the right road. After further search and and its attractiveness to the lover of biography
study, bamboo fibres were found to make the is beyond dispute. PERCY F. BICKNELL.


128
[March 1,
THE DIAL
mentary History. Dare we say that some of
THE COLONIAL RELATIONS OF ENGLAND
AND AMERICA.*
her chapters are a mere epitome of it? In
truth they are an epitome, yet they are much
So many really excellent works dealing with
the causes and events of the American Revolution style is greatly enlivened by anecdotes, by glean-
more ; for at frequent intervals their narrative
have appeared of late that we scarcely feel the ings from memoirs like Wraxall's, and by per-
need of additional ones. Anything that ade-
sonal estimates of great men drawn from the
quately reproduces an historical period is of
course welcome, especially when it comes from writings of their contemporaries, associates, and
friends.
the pen of an accredited author. But what shall
We have dealt with the carrying out of the
we say when the writer is seemingly unknown, at
least among sober critical scholars ? Shall we
first part of our author's purpose, and have
found it good. Let us now consider the carry-
say
that the work will be any the less welcome, or
simply that it will be more searchingly examined? ing out of the second part. The report here
This question calls for practical application in
cannot be nearly so favorable. Mrs. Marks,
the case of Mrs. Mary A. M. Marks, who, from although hailing from the British Isles and
her home in the British Isles, has sent out two
presumably a Briton by birth or adoption, is
extremely pro-colonial — unnecessarily so, in
most interesting volumes on“ England and
fact.
America, 1763-1783."
In many instances her account is so
colored that the reader is obliged to infer one
In the Introduction to these volumes, we
of two things : either that she is over-careful,
notice a very suggestive passage which reads as
and so desperately afraid of being thought
follows : “ It is always interesting, and often
instructive, to look back and see how the great prejudiced in favor of her own country that she
errs in the other direction, or that she is pos-
events of the past appeared while they were taking itively ignorant of the final verdict of history.
place, and to compare contemporary views with
the final verdict of history.” This is the key to
Who to-day, knowing that Bancroft wrote at a
very anti-British period of American history,
Mrs. Marks's present work. Her authorities
would think of accepting his judgment as conclu-
are almost exclusively contemporaneous in char-
sive, especially when Lecky, Van Tyne, Winsor,
acter, and, as far as the mother country is
concerned, are fairly comprehensive; but on
and many more, have all supplemented him and
the colonial side they are, unfortunately, very degree authoritative by historical scholars ?
have been generally accepted as in the highest
limited. It might be said that this is only nat-
Nevertheless, Mrs. Marks often takes Bancroft
ural, and so it may be ; but still it is hardly for her only guide, and has apparently regarded
excusable. The historian of to-day knows no
him as almost the only great secondary Amer-
barrier of distance, no dividing line of land or
ican writer worthy a place in her bibliography.
In this particular instance, however, the
We have already remarked that our author
fault — and surely we must call it such — of
takes colonial facts for granted. She does more
ignoring sources from abroad, can be, from one
than that.
point of view, fully condoned ; for, in carrying like the Putnam wolf story, and offers an
She gives as sober history myths
out her general scheme of things, Mrs. Marks
account of the Mecklenburg Declaration of
was not nearly so dependent upon documentary Independence without the slightest allusion to
sources as she was upon narrative ones ; and
its doubtful authenticity or to the long con-
could, therefore, quite easily dispense with
colonial official records. With respect to co-
troversy concerning it. Likewise, she gives the
traditional details of the Peggy Stewart affair
lonial doings, she accepted facts as she found
and of the Boston tea-party.
them in fairly reputable secondary authorities,
On the side of technical construction, a few
and seemed to take it for granted that the
general criticisms are needed. Errors fre-
reader would know all about them without his
attention being called to them by her. Her quently occur, not so much in the body of the
text as in the footnote references. These errors
interest was centred absolutely upon British
are largely born of carelessness; quotation
contemporary opinions ; and in treating of them
marks are omitted or misplaced, paraphrases
she has produced what all must admit to be a
are confounded with quotations, the works of
very creditable piece of work. Her main
authors are variously and often ambiguously
dependence was of course upon the Parlia-
cited, and sometimes even the original has been
inaccurately rendered.
Reaction. By Mary A. M. Marks. In two volumes. New York:
D. Appleton & Co.
But the really great merit of the book has
sea.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 1763 to 1783.
The History of a


1908.]
129
THE DIAL
yet to be remarked upon. It lies in its inclu- unchallenged ideals. When Meredith became a
siveness. Mrs. Marks has taken a wonderfully master-workman, emancipated and Meredithian,
broad view of her subject. She has treated
She has treated he entered upon a period of free invention in
colonial pre-Revolutionary affairs as a part only which he attacked egoism (in “Harry Rich-
of British eighteenth-century history. India mond,” “Beauchamp's Career," "Short Stories,"
and other imperial possessions, at that time “The Egoist," and " The Tragic Comedians "),
fully as important as the famous Thirteen, and then concentrated his interest into an assault
receive more or less attention, and home com upon the seemingly impregnable conventionality
plications and local politics are given their due which looks upon the marriage-bond as indis-
weight. This fact alone ought to commend the soluble (in “ Diana of the Crossways,” 6. Lord
book to the favorable notice of specialists as well Ormont and his Aminta,” “One of Our
as of general readers, and win for it a place by Conquerors,” and “The Amazing Marriage ”).
the side of Trevelyan's.
Such, briefly stated, is Mr. Bailey's classifica-
ANNIE HELOISE ABEL. tion ; and in making it, he analyzes the characters
and situations with true insight, appreciation, and
restraint. He clearly sees and feels Meredith's
high ideals, his strength, his beauty of tempera-
Two STUDIES OF GEORGE MEREDITH.*
ment; and yet, worthily of Meredith himself, he
A certain passion for orderliness seems to have says, “ Whatever the impulse of the heart, they
possessed Mr. Elmer James Bailey while he [his readers] know that it should be tempered
wrote of the novels of George Meredith. Each
to the working of the brain; and they therefore
work is assigned its particular place in the do not undertake to assert more than that
scheme of the whole, like cards in a library cata- Meredith must be regarded as no unworthy
logue ; and its displacement would be, one feels, companion of the greatest English novelists.”
equally improper. Throughout the study, it is In Mr. Bailey's study, short, definite, and
assumed that a network of analogies and simil- concise as it is, the scope did not include
arities binds his novels into a fabric of firmest Meredith's poetry, which is but occasionally
texture, that, large and thickly settled as the discussed and little quoted. Mrs. M. Sturge
world seen in them is, the chief inhabitants, if Henderson has been far more ambitious in her
not all of one nation, are plainly of one family; study of Meredith as novelist, poet, and reformer.
that they and the ordeals through which they So desirous, indeed, was Mrs. Henderson that
pass are the product of one creative mind. The her criticism should be comprehensive that she
relation between Meredith's various novels is elicited the services of Mr. Basil de Sélincourt
Mr. Bailey's point of departure.
to write four chapters on Meredith's poetry
Borrowing terms from the artisan, he divides (xiv. xvii.). This contribution has a double
the fiction of Meredith into three periods, in value: it is intrinsically of worth, in its subtle
which the author showed himself successively exposition of Meredith's philosophical thought
an apprentice, a journeyman, and a master and his poetical form or lack of it; and, further,
To the first belong “ The Shaving it goes far to illuminate the treatment of char-
of Shagpat” and “Farina," — the work of a acter and situation in his novels. As Mrs.
writer strongly suggesting some of his prede- Henderson has said elsewhere in the book,
cessors and contemporaries, yet showing certain “ Meredith's poems are his novels in distilla-
individual traits which later on were so highly tion.” To quote again (chapter xvi.), “The
colored. In the second period, although Meredith distinctive quality of Meredith's poetical work
had discovered the bent of his genius and was depends for a large part of its value on the
consciously possessed of power and skill, yet he incisiveness, the grit, which are to be associated
was indubitably influenced by the writings of with the emphasis he thus lays upon the need
Richardson and Fielding and Sterne, Dickens for a firm foundation of vital energy to the
and Thackeray and George Eliot. The novels driving force, the horse-power of the soul.”
then produced (" Richard Feverel,” “Evan This conclusion is in tune with Mrs. Henderson's
Harrington," “ Sandra Belloni,” “ Vittoria, major premise, “ Intermittently, Meredith is a
and “ Rhoda Fleming ") were also an attack great artist ; primarily and consistently, he is a
upon a sentimental deference to various long- moralist - a teacher.”
Making no such lines of demarcation and in-
James Bailey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
terception as does Mr. Bailey between Meredith's
novels, Mrs. Henderson analyzes them in chrono-
THE NOVELS OF GEORGE MEREDITH, A Study. By Elmer
GEORGE MEREDITH: Novelist -- Poet -- Reformer. By M.
Sturge Henderson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.


130
[March 1,
THE DIAL
-
logical order, in detail, conscientiously and at versity School of Law. After discussing the
times brilliantly, with the moralist and reformer nature of the public service rendered by a rail-
ever in the foreground. Endowed as she is road, the benefits conferred by it on the public,
with a rare intellectual responsiveness, and and the burdens imposed by it on the public, he
thoroughly conversant with her subject, Mrs. comes to his main purpose — “the amelioration
Henderson is without doubt entitled to her of the existing relations between railway corpo-
opinions. From these, however, the student of rations and the public whom they serve.” This
Meredith may occasionally beg to dissent, is attempted in the four final chapters on the
notably from the contention that “The Tragic results of ineffectual control, the reasonableness
Comedians” and “One of Our Conquerors" of rates, the standard of service, and the proper
are among Meredith's greatest novels. Grant- regulation of service.
ing at times a difference in estimates between Here we have a model treatise on a vexing
the writer and the reader, the latter will find question. Approaching this from the “ inside
all that Mrs. Henderson has to say interesting standpoint, equipped with expert experience,
and her quotations both beautiful and appro and yet with an a priori handicap — in the
priate. She is especially felicitous in some of reader's opinion — through his very identifica-
her phrases describing Meredith’s artisanship, tion in sympathy with the railway managers, he
- such as “ his uniting of problem and pageant soon commands respectful and admiring atten-
in the reading of life,” and his “unvitalized " tion through his dispassionate and judicial frame
or “ middle-distance characters the sisters of mind, which never once fails him. He sees
Pole, for instance, in “Sandra Belloni."
as a railway man he sees as truly as one of
It gives one the feeling of being turned from the great travelling and shipping and consuming
a door, to find that both of Meredith's critics, public. The tone and the temper are as admir-
sensitive as they are to his beauty, his brilliance, able as though he might be a university professor
and the versatility of his intellect, fail to assign of railway economics engaged in academic dis-
him unreservedly the highest of literary positions. cussion. This contrasts favorably with the
Mrs. Henderson feels that where Meredith's almost petulant impatience displayed in the
genius falters, his judgment is not always ready recent special message of President Roosevelt,
to give support.
“ His inspiration,” she says, as he contemplates the obdurate federal judge
appears to lie in his poetic grasp, the intensity who decides according to his conviction as to the
of realization with which he holds to the main law and the Constitution. We note the follow-
issue and keeps it living, in defiance of the ing passage:
tangles and complexity he is forever weaving “Cases (under the Interstate Commerce Act) were
every side of it, and which might have been contested step by step from the hearings before the
expected to prove fatal to the life within.”
Commission up through the lower courts, until at length
they reached the Supreme Court for its interpretation.
EUNICE FOLLANSBEE. But in each case that court restricted its decision, as
far as practicable, to the issues directly involved in the
case on appeal; and frequently it happened that the
appeal resulted in the case being sent back, either to a
RAILWAY REGULATION.
lower court with instructions, or to the Commission for
Mr. Henry S. Haines speaks as an authority a rehearing. It was a slow process, and one which
severely tested the patience of those who felt that their
on railway questions. A member of the Socie-
grievances remained in the meantime unremedied. Yet
ties of Civil and Mechanical Engineers, he has it was necessarily consequent upon the application of
in turn acted as vice-president and general legislation in an untried field of such magnitude, and
manager of the “ Plant System ” of railroad and which was occupied by a conflict of complicated inter-
steamship lines and as a commissioner of the
ests. By degrees the decisions of the Supreme Court
dissipated the obscurity which had overshadowed the
Southern States Freight Association, and he is provisions of the Act, and pointed out the way to their
widely and favorably known as a critic through proper interpretation."
his books on “ Railway Management” and In this connection Mr. Merritt does equal
“ Restrictive Railway Legislation.” In a new justice to the Commission and to the Federal
volume he pursues the subject of railway con courts when he discerningly says:
trol through nine chapters, delivered as lectures
“ The present Commission is composed of men of
less than a year ago before the Boston Uni undoubted integrity and of great individual acumen.
They have been battling with some of the greatest prob-
RAILWAY CORPORATIONS AS PUBLIC SERVANTS., By Henry S.
lems which have ever confronted any similar body of
FEDERAL REGULATION OF RAILWAY RATES. By Albert N.
men. "The subject matter with which they are dealing
Merritt. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
is of comparatively recent origin. Their decisions can-
Haines. New York: The Macmillan Co.


1908.]
131
THE DIAL
not be based upon a long line of judicial opinions. It is and after three years the administration was
not at all surprising, therefore, that they have made rewarded for its patience and composure when,
mistakes. That those individuals whose limited field
of investigation has been entirely confined to those cases
in the Brown case, the Supreme Court sustained
where the decisions of the Commission have appeared the the helpful decision rendered in the two lower
weakest, the purpose of whose investigations has been courts.
to find fault with the work of the Commission, should Mr. Haines, when he discusses rate-making,
find abundant material for their purpose, is by no means
remarkable. ... With regard to the points of law upon
gets away from a crude " cost of service "theory,
which the Commission and the Courts have been at
without landing in a brutal " what the traffic
variance, the Commission has in each case assumed the
will bear.” He says:
reasonable interpretation which would give to the Inter “ Viewing the service of transportation as a contract
state Commerce Law the broad application which its relation, the standard for determining the reasonable-
framers evidently intended that it should have, while ness of the compensation demanded for rendering a
the Courts on the other hand have narrowed and moulded specific service should include, as one of its elements, a
its application till its interpretation is more in accord- | recognition of the value of the service to the person for
ance with the genius of our institutions, which is to give whose benefit it is performed, as well as the cost to the
the largest possible range to private initiative which is person performing it. ... The cost is the lowest com-
consistent with equal rights and justice to all, by which pensation that the carrier would accept; its value to the
policy it is believed that in the long run the greatest traveller or shipper is the highest compensation that he
good will be secured for the greatest number."
would pay. Somewhere between these limits there is a
It may be pertinent to add that Courts which balance or reasonable adjustment of the benefit to each
have given some recent decisions that are in
of the parties to the transaction."
every memory, deserve courteous treatment on
That “ somewhere” he further indicates in
the part of a government whose hands they have saying :
so much strengthened. The decision in the “ An average standard of service should be estab-
Brown case in 1896, which enables the govern-
lished as to speed of trains, character of equipment, and
other conditions as to safety, comfort and convenience;
ment to give complete immunity to witnesses,
the number and frequency of such trains should be
and so secure testimony previously unattain suited to the average requirements of the people in
able; the Joint-Traffic decision in 1899 and general; and this service should be rendered at a fixed
the Addyston Pipe Company decision in 1899, rate per mile per passenger. . . . Viewing the railroad
which brought under the ban of the Sherman
company as a public servant, it would be expected to
meet the necessary requirements of the public at large
Act of 1890 any form of combination in
at the actual cost of service, that cost including a fair
restraint of trade by railroads and industrials rate of interest upon the investment in private property.
respectively; and the Northern Securities deci If the necessary requirements of the travelling
sion in 1904, which forbade the railroads to
public are to be furnished at cost, where is the profit to
the railroad stockholder, the inducement to invest money
smuggle in again the trust form of combination
in the performance of a public service? The answer is
in the guise of a holding company; these alone, based upon the other element of a reasonable rate
out of a number, bear sufficient testimony to the value of the service performed in each specific
the coöperation of the Federal bench in the transaction apart from its value as a necessary require-
arduous undertaking of preventing injurious
ment for the people in general. The specific value to
each person is in the different character of the service
monopoly. When in 1892 the famous decision
rendered, the difference to be measured by the depart-
by Justice Blatchford in the Counselman case ure from the average service required for the average
sustained this witness in his refusal to possibly mileage rate of fare.”
incriminate himself, and Congress passed in the Mr. Haines suggests that this departure from
next session an act of immunity for witnesses the average service may involve greater speed,
under such circumstances, Judge Grosscup, in or better accommodations, and that the carriers
the notable decision for James and McLeod, should sell such higher values in speed and com-
still sustained these witnesses in their refusal fort for what they could obtain. He would
to testify, on the ground that the statute did not make an average service second class, a better
secure to a witness “ his place in society, his good than average first class, and a less than average
name in the world.” Just now it is interesting third class. This is his proposition for passenger
to recall that the administration of that day traffic. Coming to freight traffic, he seeks to
did not publicly censure Judge Grosscup for a find some commodity which in weight and bulk
decision which arrested its procedure — for the constitutes an average percentage of the total
government could not carry a criminal case traffic, and which is not susceptible of the dis-
further by appeal to a higher court. Silently tinctions as to inherent qualities, manner of
the department of justice took up the line of packing, and insurable value, which affect the
march de novo on a similar case that came up classification of most commodities for transpor-
just then in a lower court in Pennsylvania, I tation by rail. It should be a commodity in


132
[March 1,
THE DIAL
such general use that fluctuations in its price It is to the railroads “ police magistrate, prose-
would not merely affect a class of users, but cuting attorney, and judge; the law imposes
would exert a general and profound influence upon it both the administrative duty of investi-
upon the public welfare." He finds this in gating alleged violations of the law, and of
bituminous coal, and would base a reasonable prosecuting offenders, while at the same time it
rate on the average cost of service
per
ton mile, is given the quasi judicial duty of sitting as a
eliminating the elements of equipment other court to try the cases in which it is itself fre-
than motive power and those of receipt and quently the prosecutor.” He is not pleased
delivery, since these may be and have been with the discretionary power to fix rates given
handled in private cars on private terminals. to the Commission by the Hepburn law, and his
Space does not allow even the presentation of own constructive contribution to this discussion
the forcible arguments set forth by Mr. Haines is the suggestion of a special court for the hand-
against government ownership, but a few words ling of railway cases, to which the Commission
must be given to his suggestions for a more could present its findings. To the objection that
rational and effective control of railroads. He such a court could not be empowered to fix rates,
would “ make the corporations penally respon but could merely declare certain rates illegal, and
sible for results, - its officials also, if you that an endless series of such declarations might
please, but leave the means to them.” He
He be made necessary by the nominal reduction in
would secure the advantages of unified railroad infinitesimal sums, he well replies that a court
management and of efficient government super can always enjoin the whole as well as the part
vision, without permitting further consolidation of an unlawful thing. This book, while inferior
or resorting to State ownership, by taking into in command of English style to the one reviewed
counsel with the Interstate Commerce Commis- with it, is of equal value as to the temper and
sion the American Railway Association and the the matter.
JOHN J. HALSEY.
traffic associations. The sooner public opinion
removes the ban of outlawry from railway men
as such, the sooner we may come to some rational,
control which recognizes the values and the
RECENT FICTION.*
rights involved on either side.
With unexpected promptitude, Mr. De Morgan
This book is an admirable chapter added to
has put forth a new novel, and for the third time
the fruitful discussion of railway problems. One
in two years has provided his readers with a more
misleading misprint should be corrected in
delectable feast than many of them had ever hoped
another edition by the insertion of a decimal
to partake of, except by going back to the bountiful
point before the figures on page 111 giving the tables spread for them by Dickens and Thackeray.
passenger rates in Germany, Russia, and India. Really, if this rate of production is kept up, our older
novelists will have to look to their laurels, for the
Mr. Merritt's work on “ Federal Regulation new one is fast proving himself their equal in rich-
of Rates” is a prize volume in response to the
ness of mind, in depth of human sympathy, and in
skilled delineation of character and contrivance of
generosity of Messrs. Hart, Schaffner, and Marx
plot. We
of Chicago, and is a careful and dispassionate
e are not prepared to say that “Somehow
Good” is any better than its two predecessors; but
piece of work. After showing that rates in this
we are quite sure that it has given us the same
country have not been excessive, and that the
general quality of enjoyment, and that a higher
public grievance is discrimination rather than
quality than is derivable from the work of
any
other
extortion, the writer justifies federal control and
novelist now living and active in either England or
condemns rate-making by a commission. In an America. The announcement of its appearance will
excellent discussion of a rational plan for public fill many hearts with anticipative joy, and its read-
control of rate-making, he suggests that some-
ing will realize every reasonable expectation. The
thing must be wrong with the present commission title, of course, is a Tennysonian tag, taken from one
plan in that it has produced such general dis-
of the most familiar passages of “In Memoriam.”
satisfaction. He gives the Commission due SOMEHOW Good. By William De Morgan. New York:
credit, and explains the fact that ninety per
SHEAVES. By E. F. Benson, New York: Doubleday, Page
cent of the cases which it has carried to the
courts have been decided against it, in the passage
FOR JACINTA.
we have already cited. The radical basis of the
GRET. The Story of a Pagan. By Beatrice Mantle. New
weakness of the present Commission he very
THE ANCIENT LAW. By Ellen Glasgow. New York: Double-
justly finds in the inconsistency of its functions. day, Page & Co.
Henry Holt & Co.
& Co.
By Harold Bindloss.
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
New York: The
York: The Century Co.


1908.]
133
THE DIAL
own.
-
The “ sins of will ” and “taints of blood” out of story, from this time on, is found in the psychologi-
which good is finally wrought are revealed to us in cal study of the man's mind, for memory does come
somewhat shadowy outline, but we gather, as the fully back to him in the end, but by slow degrees
story occasionally gives us glimpses of the past, and evoked by all sorts of subtly suggestive associ-
enough of their general character to reconstruct the ations. In this aspect, the author's treatment of the
essentials of a basis of understanding. Some score story is absolutely masterly, revealing, if anything,
of years before the story opens, an English girl had a higher power than is displayed in his earlier novels.
gone out to India and had fallen the victim of a When recollection returns to him in full flood, its
seducer. We are not exactly told, but are made to imagined terrors are dissipated for both man and
infer, that her betrayer had resorted to a baseness woman, and the tale ends serenely. Space does not
that in some manner made her out to be less blame-
permit us to write at any length of the minor char-
worthy than a bare statement of her case would acters or the secondary elements of the plot. There
make her appear.
Soon after the betrayal, the are a dozen other figures besides those of the two prin-
young Englishman to whom she was betrothed had cipals, outlined with penetration and genial insight,
come out to urge his claim, had married her, had figures that the best of novelists might be proud to
afterwards discovered her secret, and, after vainly The young people concerned have their love-
seeking a legal separation, had deserted wife and stories also, and two such affairs, discussed and illus-
child, disappearing for parts unknown. It takes trated at great length, lend their charm to the
a long time for the reader to piece this history narrative. The plot, while simple in one sense, is
together (as readers of “ Alice-for-Short” will not extremely ingenious and complicated in another, for
need to be told), for the author makes a fine art of it involves the twisting together of two sets of threads,
indirection, and one must have all the shrewdness broken for many years, and the uniting into a con-
of a detective to recognize the clues that are hidden gruous whole of elements seemingly almost as dis-
in the most unexpected crevices of the text. The parate as those of “ Alice-for-Short.” And the
beginning of the story simply introduces to our atten writer's style — simple and natural, freighted alter-
tion a bronzed stranger arriving in London and nately with rich humor and warm-hearted philosophy
making the preliminary arrangements for settling is so enjoyable on its own account that it makes
down in a country which he has evidently not visited garrulity a virtue, and gives point to the most point-
for many years. He is a man of wealth, for he has less of digressions. If yearly novels from this master-
cabled to New York for credit, but that is practi hand are to be a feature of the bookish future, we shall
cally all that we are told about him. Before he has hope to keep a hold upon life as long as they last.
been in London twenty-four hours he has an acci Another of the novels which Mr. E. F. Benson
dent in the Twopenny Tube which gives the story puts forth with such unflagging industry is at hand.
its real starting-point. Reaching under the seat to It is entitled “Sheaves,” which may mean anything
recover a lost coin, he receives a current of high you wish, and introduces us to a group of the English
voltage, and, otherwise rallying from the shock, it gentlefolk whose lives and manners and ideas the
is found that his memory has completely disappeared. author knows so intimately. They are interesting
He knows nothing of the past, does not even remem people, and their characters are drawn for us with
ber his own name.
A young woman, his fellow evident fidelity. Conversation and incident are alike
passenger, having been talking with him just before, natural, and the author's contribution of comment
feels somehow responsible for him, and, not knowing and analysis is temperate and pleasing. The lead-
what else to do, takes him to her home in a cab. ing purpose of the story is to study the case of a
Now this young woman is his own danghter, legally man married to a woman many years his senior. It
although not legitimately, and her mother is the wife is an ideal union in all respects save that of
age,
and
whom he has not seen for twenty years. When the nothing mars its happiness until the wife contracts
mother (and wife) sees him, she knows him at once, tuberculosis, and the couple join the colony of exiles
but restrains herself to the point of making no exhi at Davos. A year or two still remains for her, and
bition of her emotion. During the following days, their happiness goes on under the new conditions
as the stranger becomes a normal man again in all with hardly a flaw. But the end is inevitable,
and
respects save that of his lapsed memory, he
proves when it comes we have a feeling that the author
so agreeable an inmate of the household that he found it a relief that he could not see how to
is invited to stay on; he gets a business position in sustain the unnatural situation any longer. It must
the city, and settles down to a routine existence. be admitted that the story, even then, is drawn out
As time goes on, he comes to love the woman who to tiresome length, and that it demands much judi-
has befriended him, but is always haunted by the cious skipping if it is to provide tolerable entertain-
fear that somewhere in his forgotten past there may ment. Mr. Benson is too facile a writer to achieve
be a wife who is mourning his disappearance. The the higher aims of fiction, and one is not likely to
real wife, meanwhile, does not dare to enlighten remember his novels six months after having read
him, for that might mean a recurrence of the old them.
repulsion, and a second desertion. After a while, Mr. Harold Bindloss takes us to the Canaries and
however, both yield to the call of affection, and a the west coast of Africa for the scene of his
wedding takes place. The leading interest of the novel. “For Jacinta " tells us, in the main,


134
[March 1,
THE DIAL
palm oil.
desperate venture which has for its object the float has known and who have for many years sought to
ing of a sunken ship and the salvage of its cargo of make him their prey, that he asks her to be his wife,
Two men engage in this enterprise, both and she, having learned for the first time the mean-
for love. It is the story of a struggle with loath-ing of love, joyfully consents. Then follows a season
some conditions and deadly disease, told with much in San Francisco, where Gret blossoms out and wins
of the grim power that Mr. Conrad has applied to all hearts by her fresh charm. Then comes a return
similar situations. The strong man contending with to the camp, and the discovery of Gret's early mar-
adverse circumstance is evidently the favorite theme riage. She is quite frank about it, and admits to
of this writer, who has illustrated it alike in the him that she had never intended to mention the in-
Cuban jungle and on the prairies of the Canadian cident, regarding it as closed and quite insignificant.
northwest. He now gives us a new variant upon Naturally, the man of the world cannot view the
the same theme. Jacinta, the daughter of an English matter in just that light, and Gret's romance is
merchant in the Canaries, is the sort of heroine who ended forever. Thus is brought to its semi-tragic
is so keen about character that, before she will sur conclusion a story which is told with singular charm,
render to a man's love, she will insist upon his and which is remarkable alike for picturesque
acquiring merit (as the Japanese say) by meeting quality and penetrative insight into character.
the test of danger, and staking his life for her sake Miss Glasgow's latest novel has both dignity and
upon
the odd chance of success.' This does not seem charm, although certain almost melodramatic hap-
to us altogether admirable, but the hero seems to penings, huddled into the closing chapters, do not
have liked her all the more for it, and took the risk. seem quite in keeping with the sincerity and restraint
The story is capitally told, and takes us to an inter of what has gone before. “ The Ancient Law” is
esting part of the world not much frequented by the title of the book, and its theme is the inevitable
novelists. As in all the books by Mr. Bindloss that consequence of sin. The hero, when we first make
we have read, the money motive is forced a little too his acquaintance, has just been released from prison,
much, jarring the romantic sensibilities to which he where he has served a term of several years for the
particularly endeavors to appeal.
fraudulent diversion of trust funds. He had been
A lumber camp which seems to be somewhere in happily married, but temptation had proved too much
the Oregon country is the scene of Miss Mantle's for him, and a desire to keep the pace of New York
“Gret." Gret is unfortunate in her parents. Her life had led to his downfall. In consequence of his
father, who owns the camp, prefers the gaiety of crime, his father (a wealthy Virginian) had dis-
Portland to the simple life of the woods, and her owned him, but had offered a home to his wife and
mother, who lives in the camp with her, lets the child. We meet him one spring morning, on the
child
grow up
without much care. In consequence, road in Virginia, ready to start life anew.
His
Gret is a very unconventional maiden with ideas of prison years have chastened him, and the wild
She has also engaging qualities which impulses which had once made him a criminal have
make her the idol of the men, and her sway over her been wholly subdued. His one purpose henceforth
rough subjects is absolute.
One day a youth sug is to expiate his fault by a life of helpful service to
gests that they get married, and Gret, after weighing his fellows. He settles in the first country town
the suggestion and realizing that relations with her that offers him an opening, and soon strikes root
own family are getting a little strained, falls in with there. His past is behind him, and his new asso-
the plan. Her only idea about it is that if the trouble ciates know nothing of it. His kindly ways soon
at home should become acute, she would want another win for him the esteem of the little community, and
place to go to. So the two start out one morning on presently his neighbors turn to him for leadership
an all-day excursion, and when they return in the and even seek to make him the mayor of the town.
evening they have been united by a justice of the Then the long-delayed blow falls upon
his head ; the
of a town some miles distant. But on the way back story of his past comes out, and he determines to
Gret calmly informs the youth that he is to say seek a new home. At just this juncture, however,
nothing about it until he gets her permission. Then news comes to him of his father's death, and of the
months, and even years go by, and nothing more wish of his wife and child that he should come to
is said upon the subject. They meet casually in the live with them again.
The double crisis occurs
camp, but the marriage episode is completely ignored midway in the narrative, and gives a new complexion
and practically forgotten. Presently a glimpse of to the second half of the book. His life henceforth
the great world comes to our little pagan heroine, is one of luxury but also of moral isolation. He is
brought by some young men who undertake to received by his family, but cannot be one of them.
operate a saw-mill in the neighborhood of the camp. He has offended their proudest traditions, and the
Their ignorance is so pathetic that Gret is moved to reconciliation is only a surface affair. The wife will
pity, takes the burden upon her shoulders, and con do her duty by him, but she cannot control the feel-
verts failure into success. A man of wealth and ing of repulsion which his presence creates. His
culture comes to visit them, makes Gret's acquaint only comfort is in his daughter, who loves him, but
ance, and is charmed by her unsophistication and in whose nature he discovers an alarming intensifi-
native strength of character. She offers so refresh cation of his own early recklessness. This, in fact,
ing a contrast to the women of the world whom he leads her to the brink of disaster, from which, for a
her own.
peace


1908.]
135
THE DIAL
essays of the
time, he rescues her. The later chapters of the story ance of Mr. H. B. Irving's “Occasional Papers'
have a sort of Jean Valjean pathos that works (Small, Maynard & Co.). The author is a student
powerfully upon the reader's feelings. The end is of history with a good Oxford training, a member
rather inconclusive, but falls just short of tragedy, of the English bar, and a successful actor, repre-
for it leaves the hero with the prospect of a return senting the honorable traditions and aspirations of
to the little town in which his new life began, and the best dramatic circles. All of these influences
of a peaceful rounding out of a destiny that had are apparent in the present volume. The first four
once seemed hopelessly shattered.
essays deal with such topics as “ The Calling of the
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. Actor” and “The English Stage in the Eighteenth
Century.” Under the latter caption, which belongs
to the most serious study in the volume, Mr. Irving
points out that during this second great century of
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
our national stage the interest shifts from the drama
The name of Mr. E. V. Lucas is
Leisurely
to the player; it was the age of plays deserving
probably associated by most Ameri soon to die, presented by actors of enduring fame,
Elian sort.
can readers with a series of delight who were spurred to the highest histrionic effort by
ful anthologies, delightfully named.
“ The Open
the inadequate scenery, the anachronous costumes,
Road,” « The Friendly Town,” “The Gentlest Art," and the immediate criticism of a most free-speaking
each title is alluring, and the contents, chosen on body of spectators.
Of this last incentive many
no merely mechanical principle, amply fulfil the instances, some of them even literally striking, are
promise of the titles. But Mr. Lucas's literary embodied in the chapter. The second and fourth
labors are not limited to compilation; he is also an essays might have been welded advantageously into
essayist with several small volumes to his credit, each one, offering a discussion of the actor's calling and
marked by the same unique quality that distinguishes status. There is not a little suggestiveness in the
his editorial work. The latest of these, “Character constant recurrence of such expressions as
« social
and Comedy” (Macmillan), is made up in about recognition," and in Mr. Irving's emphasis on the
equal parts of informal essays and sketches and of growing respectability of the craft. One encourag-
ironic episodes related by means of letters. The ing and laudable feature is the author's insistence
essays are of an Elian flavor, full of piquant humor, on the desirability and possibility of unsullied char-
keen psychology, intent and happy observation of acter and lofty moral ideals in the life behind the
the minor issues of life. “I am not lucky,” com scenes and off the stage. The last three studies are
plains Mr. Lucas, apropos of his exceptional experi devoted to three notorious criminal cases, which are
ences with a Persian kitten. “The harvest of my readably presented with no disturbing suggestion of
quiet eye comprises little that is unusual.” And so the “ detective” method. Between the two parts
he asserts a great envy of men who have “the luck of the work there seems to be no nece
cessary connec-
of the woods” (as he calls the faculty of happening tion, - although it is possible that by some subtle
upon the rare and curious sights of nature), a great psychology the reader interested in the actor is often
liking for detective stories and for “the old-fashioned interested in the criminal, and the present reviewer
novel in which there are long journeys, and in which may admit that he passed from the first division of
new characters are continually appearing,” and a essays to the second with no particular difficulty.
firm conviction that the perfect life is that of the On the whole, the hours devoted to Mr. Irving's
conjurer who goes about "continually mystifying “Occasional Papers" will be spent pleasantly, and
fresh groups of people — with cab fares both ways not without gain, by readers who have not already
and a satisfactory fee.” This playful, unhurried across most of the studies in the English
view of life - with long afternoons to spend poking magazines.
about the Zoo, summer holidays for walking trips
The blue cover of Miss Jane Harri-
through quiet Shropshire, spare time to enjoy
Boswell and to evoke a flesh-and-blood cousin for
Topography of son’s “Mythology and Monuments
primitive Athens.
Charles Lamb out of a casual reference in a letter
of Ancient Athens is hardly less
this sort of life is finding less and less expression in
familiar to the archæological tourist than is the
the world of letters. Wherefore many readers, who
red binding of the tripper's “ Baedeker.” But the
book is overweighted with speculative mythology ;
lament the passing of the essay, will welcome Mr.
Lucas's practice of it. The epistolary comedies are
and as it is now superseded for scholars by Dr.
amusing in their way, but Mr. Lucas lacks the dra-
Frazer's monumental edition of Pausanias, and for
matic sense to bring them to a telling climax.
the general public by Professor Ernest Gardner's
“Ancient Athens,” Miss Harrison does not care to
Seven studies,
The actor's craft and personality are republish it. Instead, she issues, under the title
dramatic and receiving at least their share of atten “ Primitive Athens as Described by Thucydides
criminological. tion in contemporary publications ; (Cambridge University Press; New York: Putnam),
and one could wish that more of the articles and a new manifesto of her allegiance to the theories of
books in this field exhibited the quiet tone, the Dr. Dorpfeld against which Mr. Frazer and Mr.
neglect of the negligible, and the almost legal bal Gardner still harden their hearts. The little volume
come


136
[March 1,
THE DIAL
Italian cities.
of 168 pages takes the form of a commentary on the sibility, without orders or authority to do it. In
famous Chapter of Thucydides (II. 15) in which 1870 General Eaton was appointed by Grant Com-
the historian demonstrates the small compass, of missioner of Education, and so maintained his per-
primitive Athens by the fact that the oldest shrines sonal relations with him. The author was also
are all either on the Acropolis or in the adjoining brought into official and personal relations with
precinct to the south (or southwest). Miss Harri Lincoln, and tells many interesting stories of those
son discusses all the old topographical problems eventful years.
which look so large when we are at Athens, and so
Five years ago this journal noticed
small, except to specialists, when we are away. She Impressions of
Mr. Arthur Symons's volume entitled
tells us all that is known and much that is conjec-
“ Cities," and accorded its author the
tured of the earlier pre-Persian Athens on which
praise of treating with attractive individualism a
Pater's imagination so fondly dwelt, and of the
commonplace theme. In his latest book, that well-
earliest Mycenæan Athens on the Acropolis. She known littérateur has brought together such of his
gives her reasons as a scholar, but what is perhaps
writings as he hoped would lay open to his readers
her chief reason she does not explicitly mention :
the souls of some “Cities of Italy” (Dutton). “ And
Dr. Dörpfeld, most persuasive of lecturers, most
as love, or it may be hate, can alone reveal soul to
fascinating in personality, is infallible. Miss
soul, among human beings, so, it seems to me, the
Harrison's book, which is admirably illustrated, is
soul of a city will reveal itself only to those who
by no means too technical to be enjoyed by any
love, or, perhaps, hate it, with a far-sighted emotion.”
intelligent reader who has visited or intends to visit
In this frame of mind, which is becoming delight-
Athens. But only in the pages of a technical
fully familiar and has been so daintily voiced by
journal could the dissenting critic animadvert upon
“Vernon Lee” in her “Genius Loci,” Mr. Symons
her construing of Thucydides (in which she fol-
deals with the historic centres of Italian life and cul-
lows Professor Verrall), her interpretation of the
ture. Not seldom his treatment becomes purely a con-
“Enneakrounos Episode,” or her identification
sideration of the local manifestation of the art spirit,
(pp. 97–8) of the Lenæa with the Anthesteria in
as in the pages on Brescia; nor are the sections
the face of recent evidence that proves them distinct.
representing this tendency the least attractive in the
General John Eaton's book entitled
book to a reader at all interested in Italian painting.
The freedmen
in and after “Grant, Lincoln, and the Freedmen” Space forbids the recording of mild protests ; but the
the Civil War.
(Longmans) is an interesting and
reviewer happened to spend the same winter in Rome
valuable addition to the historical literature of the that gave Mr. Symons the basis of his chapters on
Civil War period. It deals mainly with one sub-
that ever-beloved mistress of the seven hills, and we
ject - the condition of the Southern negroes during
have one tiny quarrel : in the course of forty pages
the the efforts that were made to protect them
our author lovingly describes three sunsets, whereas
war,
from the results of their own ignorance, helplessness,
the glorious softly-shifting lights of those wintry
and lack of morality, and the efforts to help them mornings are coldly neglected.
make the beginnings of an independent life. General subjective difference may serve to indicate pretty
Eaton, then Chaplain of an Ohio regiment, with some
adequately the tone of most of the criticisms we
experience as a school superintendent, was selected
should pass upon the book. It is a volume well
by General Grant in 1862 to care for the contra-
worth while, and will be enjoyed by many readers ;
bands who were flocking by thousands into the Union
it will be most valuable and most enjoyable for those
lines. He shrank from the great burden; but Grant,
who have basked long enough in Italy's smile and
with the insight that marked his military appoint- learned enough of her nature to compare impressions
ments, urged it upon him. It is needless to say that
and to enter upon the little, lovable, silent contro-
the work was carried on with ability and conscience,
versies that add so much flavor to literature of this
and that the efficiency of the Superintendent grew type.
with the increase of the burden. General Eaton's
Hunting for
In these days of universal travel and
duties and position brought him into intimate per stained glass of the almost universal writing of
sonal contact with Grant, and they were friends
in France.
travel-books, it is unusual to find an
until Grant's death. The book gives an insight into author whose point of view is unique or whose subject-
Grant's mind and heart that is exceedingly interest matter is unhackneyed. But these difficult require-
ing. The author shows Grant's keen interest in the ments seem to be met by Mr. Charles Hitchcock
welfare of the freedmen, and his intuitive grasp of Sherrill, whose “Stained Glass Tours in France"
the great questions involved. Every appeal to him (John Lane Co.) furnishes the jaded traveller with
met with ready response and loyal support, and this a new fad which, if it suits his taste, will at once
interest and support were not lessened even when add zest to and direct his wanderings. Mr. Sherrill
the awful responsibility of the whole war was put states the purpose of his book tersely in his “fore-
him. At the time when his own standing was word”: it provides an answer to the question,
still insecure, Grant took the risk of furnishing hun “ Where does one find good stained glass in France,
dreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rations and and how can it most conveniently be seen ?”. Mr.
clothing to the needy freedmen on his own respon Sherrill modestly adds that he is not an authority
upon


1908.]
137
THE DIAL
and interior
decoration.
on glass — just a lawyer on a holiday,” who, having pressions of the country make interesting reading,
enjoyed his own “stained glass tours ” thinks that a because he is full of his subject and treats it from
"simple touring hand-book” may help other trav so many points of view. He takes his title from
ellers to enjoy theirs. In the interests of simplicity, Victor Hugo's phrase for the rôle Poland has played
the glass has been divided into three groups : as militant guardian of the western boundary of
thirteenth century and earlier, fourteenth and fif- European civilization and the Christian faith. The
teenth centuries, and sixteenth century; and for each relations of dismembered Poland with her three mas-
epoch a tour has been arranged, with a map showing ters -
ters - Russia, Austria, and Prussia - are explained
the most convenient order to pursue in visiting the in interesting chapters, which have for their sub-
various churches and châteaux. Mr. Sherrill's structure a close analysis of the Polish national char-
descriptions of the distinctive windows in each town acter, with its splendid virtues and fatal defects.
are simple, non-technical, and interesting. The Several Polish cities are described, including Czen-
subject of glass is inextricably associated with the stochowa, " the Mecca of the Poles”; while a
more general one of architecture, but Mr. Sherrill chapter entitled “A Voyage over the Steppes” gives
the
And to
necessary connection and yet keeping strictly to his round out the picture there is an account of the
chosen field.
great patriot Kosciuszko and of the nation's leading
A dozen essays of varying merit artists, musicians, and writers, as well as of some
Some literary
opinions and make up the volume of Professor distinguished Polish-Americans.
examinations.
Brander Matthews's “Inquiries and
Opinions” (Scribner). Some of them might better
English domestic An interesting study of domestic
architecture
have been left to the temporary honor of the
architecture in England, principally
popu-
confined to work of the Gothic and
lar magazine, to be read and enjoyed and forgotten ;
others deserve the doubtful permanence given to-day
Renascent periods, is presented in the second vol-
by publication in book form. A short piece of bio-
ume of " In English Homes" (Scribner), a lavishly
graphical criticism on Mark Twain, which has
illustrated quarto for which Mr. Charles Latham
already served as an introduction to a complete
furnishes the photographs and Mr. H. Avray
edition of that author's works, aims at giving our
Tipping the textual comment. This last consists
greatest American humorist a place in literature
of an introductory account of the characteristics of
among writers of high seriousness, such as Molière
the four periods of English home building, with
and Cervantes, Chaucer and Fielding. If he does
the emphasis on the two earlier ones, and of full
not equal these mighty ones, our essayist holds, he
descriptions of the fifty houses with whose interior
decoration and furnishings and exterior appearance
belongs to their class, though how far down in the
class it is for the future to declare. In this belief
Mr. Latham's pictures make us familiar. In most
a good many admirers of Mark Twain will be ready
cases, also, a good deal of the history of successive
to concur. The superiority of Poe's detective-
owners of the castles and estates is interwoven with
the account of the additions and restorations that
stories is shown by comparison with the broken-
backed productions of Gaboriau, not to mention the
they made to their property; and in a few instances,
" thrillers” of the ten-cent magazines. It is inter-
- for example, Knebworth House, owned by the
esting to note that none of these writers has improved Lyttons, the interesting family associations seem
in technique upon Poe, though, as Professor
to be the chief reason for describing the mansion.
Matthews
says in another essay in this volume, the
Mr. Tipping promises another volume that shall be
followers usually improve upon the master in this
devoted to buildings of the classic and modern
respect. It merely means learning the rules of the
schools, but there are a few wholly modern houses
game.
How well Ibsen has learned these rules in in this collection; notably Clouds, in Salisbury, the
the drama is clearly brought out in the essay on
crowning labor of Philip Webb, friend of Rossetti
“ Ibsen the Playwright.” He is a consummate
and Morris and architect of Morris's “Red House.”
craftsman, chief in his own art, however much he
The fine quality of Mr. Latham's work as artist-
For the present vol-
may fall short of those great qualities which dis photographer is well-known.
tinguish Sophocles and Shakespeare and Molière.
ume he furnishes two hundred full-page plates and
nearly as many smaller ones. The volume is sub-
An American's
"Poland, the Knight among Na- stantially bound in blue buckram.
impressions tions” (Revell), by Mr. Louis E.
of Poland. Van Norman, is a comprehensive
What appears to be a belated James-
first-hand study of the modern Polish nation, with of the Jamestown town Exposition book is “The Old
some account of the history that has made her what Exposition. South and the New, from the Earli-
she is. Mr. Van Norman visited Poland for the est Times to the Jamestown Exposition ” (John C.
“ Review of Reviews.” He was treated with signal Winston Co.). It contains over 600 pages, is
honors on various public occasions, and he stayed printed on heavy white smooth paper, and is pro-
long enough to learn the language, enter into the fusely illustrated with pictures of Southern people,
life and the ideals of the people, and pay visits to scenes, and buildings. The text, which contains
their great men, including Sienkiewicz. His im- | nothing new, gives an account of Southern history
A belated book


138
[March 1,
THE DIAL
from the beginning to the present time. It is written period ” in European porcelains is the end of the seven-
in easy style, has many good anecdotes, and deals teenth century and the eighteenth, since by the year
mainly with the personal and picturesque elements
1810 the art of china decoration had sadly declined.
in Southern history. The latter part of the book
Mr. Wylde gives the history of all the important old
has much about present conditions, the race prob-
European factories, devoting most space to Sévres,
where soft paste porcelain reached its perfection, and to
lem, of course, the increasing output of staple crops,
Meissen, where the use of hard paste was discovered
the development of mineral and forest wealth, the
There is also a careful account of the forms and styles
rise of manufactures and the growth of cities, and of decoration characteristic of the various factories,
finally a history of Southern Expositions. In spite many of whose productions are reproduced in some of
of the fact that in make-up it resembles the subscrip the forty excellent plates. The makers' marks are also
tion book, it is better than most works of that kind, reproduced in facsimile.
and will probably serve a useful purpose in giving
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons are the publishers
some readers a knowledge of the South that they
of “ An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclo-
uld not get from other accessible authorities. It pædia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890–1899,"
is to be regretted that the author, Mr. Charles Morris,
compiled and edited by Mr. Ernest Cushing Richardson.
includes in his volume the classic myths about slavery of nearly twelve hundred closely printed pages, con-
This is a work of enormous industry, forming a volume
and the Southern aristocracy.
taining perhaps seventy thousand references. If this
represents the product of only ten years, it is evident
that theological discussion does not suffer in our days
from any lack of activity. Under the word “ Bible"
BRIEFER MENTION.
alone something like a thousand references are indexed.
The number of periodicals indexed appears to be about
It is not so uncommon a thing for an author to illus-
fifteen hundred, and they represent all of the culturally
trate his own book; but for him also to design the
important modern languages. Mr. Richardson has had
make-up and set the type by hand is certainly unusual. several collaborators in this work, which is one of the
This is what Mr. Ivan Swift has done for his volume
most important bibliographical publications of recent
entitled “ Fagots of Cedar,” a collection of verses of the
years.
Michigan woods and lumber camps, issued in an attrac A volume dealing with the work of Michael Angelo
tively made limited edition with the imprint of The has been added to the familiar “ Drawings of the Great
Outer's Book Press of Milwaukee. At its best Mr.
Masters" series, and one on Rembrandt, with an intro-
Swift's verse is virile, rhythmical, and full of meaning, duction by A. M. Hinds, to the similar series called
suggesting kinship with the school of Kipling and Henley. “ Great Etchers” (Scribner). The latter contains
The following French texts have recently come to our sixty-one plates arranged chronologically and together
desk: Hugo's "La Légende des siècles” (Frowde), making an impressive commentary on the steady develop-
edited by Mr. G. F. Bridge; Barbier's “ Iambes et ment of Rembrandt's genius. The introduction com-
Poèmes ” (Frowde), edited by Mr. Charles M. Garnier; ments interestingly upon his choice of subjects, his
“ Contes Choisis,” by René Bazin (Heath), edited by artistic style and methods, and contemporary and present-
Professor Victor E. François; “ Extracts for Composition day estimates of his etchings. Mr. E. Boroughs John-
in French ” (Heath), by M. J. E. Mansion; “ Exercises son contributes a commentary upon “ The Drawings of
in French Prose Composition" (Heath), by Professor Michæl Angelo," pointing out the wonderful draughts-
W. W. Comfort; a volume of « French Short Stories manship and knowledge of human anatomy which are
(Holt), edited by Dr. Douglas L. Buffum; and Renan's displayed in even the simplest of the cartoons. Several
« Ma Sæur Henriette (Holt), edited by Professor of these latter are reproduced in tint.
William F. Grèse.
Mr. L. Stanley Jast's “ Classification of Library
For some strange reason, the collected editions of
Economy and Office Papers” (and of supplies too,
Herr Björnson's novels, as published in both England though that is not mentioned in its title), will give a
and America, have hitherto failed to include his two fair idea of the manifold details that compose a modern
most important works of this class. One of them, the librarian's daily life and work. For instance, - to choose
greatest of all his novels, is now added to the edition from both the practical and cultural side of his calling, –
published by the Macmillan Co. The work in question, under the head of « Extension Work" we find such
“In God's Way,” fills two volumes in the series edited matters as conferences between the library authorities
by Mr. Edmund Gosse. The translation by Miss and other organizations or public bodies, the relations
Elizabeth Carmichael, published somewhat furtively of the library to local factories, exhibitions, circulars,
many years ago, is here reproduced, and Mr. Gosse's
and, of course, work with the schools and with children
introduction even includes the statement that the author
in general; and under the head of “ Buildings ” all the
“ has not yet approached his sixtieth year.” Since he various rooms that are needed for the work of the
passed his seventy-fifth birthday last December, some library, including staff rooms and storage rooms, and
body is clearly chargeable with slovenliness in the then the matters of heating, ventilation, and the different
preparation of these volumes for republication.
kinds of furniture. The scheme is worked out as a part
The china collector has no occasion nowadays to com of Mr. D. Brown's “Subject Classification," and was
plain of lack of books about his fad, since nearly every first printed as part of that work; it has now been
month brings him a volume or two on some phase of issued separately, with a very full index. It might be
the fascinating subject of ceramics. One of the latest found suggestive to others besides librarians who wish
to appear is Mr. C. H. Wylde's “ How to Collect to keep in proper order their office papers and other
Continental China” (Macmillan). The initiated will memoranda, or an assortment of stationery supplies.
probably know without being told that the collector's (London: Library Supply Company.)


1908.]
139.
THE DIAL
other genera.
66
in the form of a doctoral dissertation, by Mr. J. P.
NOTES.
Wickersham Crawford. “Studies in the Word-Play of
A new edition, revised and enlarged, of Mr. Justin
Plautus” is a thesis of similar nature, the work of Dr.
McCarthy's popular and readable « History of Our Own
Charles Jastrow Mendelsohn.
Times” is now published by Messrs. Harper & Brothers. Volume II., Part I., of Mr. Charles Sprague Sargent's
Messrs. Ginn & Co. send us a volume of “Specimens
« Trees and Shrubs,” published by Messrs. Houghton,
of Prose Composition,” for use in college classes, the
Mifflin & Co., includes descriptions and drawings of
work of Messrs. C. R. Nutter, F. W. Č. Hersey, and twenty-five species of ligneous plants, hitherto unknown
C. N. Greenough.
or almost so. Six of the species are of Cratægus and
A third edition of Mr. George B. Rose's “ Renaissance
eight of Viburnum. The remainder represent eight
Masters” is published by the Messrs. Putnam.
A new
chapter on Claude Lorraine is now added to the seven
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons have published a new
of the original work.
and cheaper edition of Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury's
Dr. Walter Dennison has edited a volume of Livy for
Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist." The new edition
college use, and the text is published by the Macmillan
is made uniform with Professor Lounsbury's other
Co. Book I. is given complete, but only selections from
Shakespearean studies, —“The Text of Shakespeare
Books II. to IX. are included.
and “Shakespeare and Voltaire," the three volumes
Professor Schillings's “ Don Basilio," being a practical
being collectively known as “The Wars of Shake-
guide to Spanish conversation and correspondence, edited
speare.”
Mr. H. E. Krehbiel has edited for the “Musicians'
by Mr. Frederick Zagel, is a recent educational publica-
tion of Messrs. Henry Holt & Co.
Library” of the Messrs. Ditson a volume of “ Songs
« The Wisdom of the Wise,” by Professor W. Cun- represented, from the early Italians (Caccini, Bononcini,
from the Operas for Soprano.” Nineteen composers are
ningham, is a small volume containing three lectures
on free trade imperialism, published by Messrs. Putnam
and Pergolese) to the modern Frenchmen (Gounod,
for the Cambridge University Press.
Delibes, and Bizet). The introductory matter is
briefly but adequately descriptive of the selections, and
“ Hamlet and the Ur-Hamlet” is the title of a new
the frontispiece is a group of nine portraits.
volume of “The Bankside-Restoration Shakespeare
The work has an introduction by Mr. Appleton Morgan,
and is issued by the Shakespeare Society of New York.
“ Adventures with Indians " is the title of a new vol-
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
ume in the “ Stories of Adventure " series, published by
March, 1908.
the Messrs. Harper. There are a baker's dozen of the
Actor and the Manager, The. Hartley Davis. Everybody's.
stories, by something less than that number of authors. Aerial Navigation, Prospects of. Simon Newcomb. No. Amer.
Boys will like them.
American Army, Weakness of. Lieut. H. Johnson. Everybody's.
Enamelling," by Mr. Lewis F. Day, is a work
American Artist in the Sahara, An. C. W. Furlong. World's
imported by the Messrs. Scribner, and forms a new American Finance: Stock Exchange. J.P.Ryan. Metropolitan.
volume in the series entitled “The Course of Art and American Heiress, Pursuit of the. Anon. Everybody's.
Workmanship.” The book is handsomely printed and
American Mothers. Anna A. Rogers. Atlantic.
American Museum, A Great. H. C. Bumpus. World's Work.
has many illustrations.
American Rivers, Handling. W. A. Dupuy. World's Work.
A quarto publication of the University of Pennsylvania America, Prophetic Voices about. W. G. Brown. Atlantic.
gives us a “Catalogue and Re-measurement of the 648 Antony and Cleopatra, The Variorum. W. A. Neilson. Atlantic.
Balloon Voyage, A Record-Breaking. H. H. Clayton. Atlantic.
Double Stars Discovered by Professor G. W. Hough.”
Bank-Deposit Insurance. David Kinley. Review of Reviews.
This monograph is the work of Professor Eric Doolittle Bank Deposits, Guaranteeing. A. B. Nettleton. Rev. of Revs.
of the Flower Astronomical Observatory.
Beauty, Economic Forces for-I. R. L. Hartt. World's Work.
Body, Rebuilding of a. W. R. C. Latson. Outing.
Volume III. of “My Memoirs,” by Alexandre Dumas,
Books Worth While-VIII., “Vanity Fair.” H.T.Peck. Munsey.
and two more volumes of the same author's “ Celebrated Bronze Sculpture in America. G. Edgerton. Craftsman.
Crimes," have just been published by the Macmillan Business Recovery, The Outlook for. H.C. Watson, Rev. of Revs.
Co. The introductions are furnished, respectively, by
Caucasus, The Fire of the. Henry W. Nevinson. Harper.
Chateau and Country Life in France - IV., Ceremonies and
Mr. Andrew Lang and Mr. R. S. Garnett.
Festivals. Mary King Waddington. Scribner.
Volume II. of the revised edition of " A Treatise on China, Impending Changes in. W.A.P. Martin. World's Work.
Chemistry,” by Messrs. Roscoe and Schorlemmer, is
Christianity and Health. Samuel McComb. Century.
Cleveland, Grover. John T. McCutcheon. Appleton.
published by the Macmillan Co. It is a work of over Clubs, Cosmopolitan University. L. Lochner. Rev.of Revs.
fourteen hundred pages, having “The Metals" for its Commerce, Controlling Conditions of. Profs. H. E. Gregory
and A.G. Keller. Harper.
special subject-matter. The revision has been done by
Cordilleras, Across the, in Winter. Arthur Ruhl. Scribner.
Sir H. E. Roscoe and Dr. A. Harden.
Corporations in Modern Business. G. W. Perkins. No. Amer.
Charles F. Chicester, treasurer of The Century Co. Craft Movement, Government Aid for. H. R. Albee. Craftsman.
and one of its three trustees, died in New York on Desert Commonwealth, A. C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. Craftsman.
Diamond, Romance of the. Sir Wm. Crookes. No. American.
February 20. Mr. Chicester had been connected with
Diplomatic Life: Further Glimpses. Mme. de Bunsen. Harper.
The Century Co. since 1875, and his ability and judg Doctoring of the Future, The. Edward A. Ayers. World's Work.
ment were vital factors in bringing this house to the Door, The Ivory. E. Ayrton Zangwill. Lippincott.
honorable position it now holds in the American book
Educating Our Boys - I., The Cost. J. M. Rogers. Lippincott.
Encyclopedias, Past and Present. L. Windmüller. Rev.of Revs.
trade.
England and Germany. Edwin D, Mead. Atlantic.
Two recent publications of the University of Penn England and Scotland, Through. Frank Presbrey. Outing.
sylvania are of literary interest. 6 The Life and Works Esparto-pickers of Tripoli. Charles W. Furlong. Harper.
Everglades, The Maligned. William Todd. Outing.
of Christobal Suárez de Figueroa " is a study of an Farrar, Geraldine. Emily M. Burbank. Century.
important Spanish author of the seventeenth century, Fighters in Real Life. Robert Edgren. Outing.
66
Work,
.


· 140
[March 1,
THE DIAL
DIAL
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 70 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
Finance, Methods of High. C. E. Russell. Everybody's.
Food-Products of America. A. H. Ford. Metropolitan.
Foreigners in the Northwest. F.G. Moorhead. World's Work.
Foreign Tour at Home, A-1. Henry Holt. Putnam.
Freethinker's Conclusions Examined, A. R.F. Coyle. No. Amer.
Fruit-Farm, A One-Acre. W. H. Kirkbride. Century.
Garden, How to Make a. Zona Gale. Outing.
German Expansion. Baron von Speck-Sternburg. No. Amer.
Giants, Some Ancient American. J. C. Beard. Outing.
Gold, Can there be Too Much? Charles A. Conant. Putnam.
Gondolier, The Venetian. Vance Thompson. Outing.
Green heart Fleet, The. D. A. Willey. Metropolitan.
Habitant in Winter, The Birge Harrison. Scribner,
Handicrafts, Profitable. G. de Szögyény. Craftsman.
House Dignified, The - VI. Lillie Hamilton French. Putnam.
Hughes. Erman J. Ridgway. Everybody's.
Hughesand What He Stands for. Newspaper Man. World's Work.
Hughes. How about? Ida M. Tarbell. American.
Indian Princes, The Wealth of. A. V. W. Jackson. Munsey.
Industrial Idleness, The Cause of. Craftsman.
Inland Waterways - III. Herbert Quick. Putnam.
Investment Securities - IV. Financier. North American,
Ireland, The New-1. Sydney Brooks. North American.
Japanese Immigration. $. Aoki. #World's Work.
Living within One's Means. E. S. Martin. Appleton.
MacDowell. Lawrence Gilman. Review of Reviews.
Magnetic Workof Carnegie Institution. H.T.Wade. Rev.of Revs.
Man Out of Work, The. Arthur P. Kellogg. Rev. of Revs.
Mars as the Abode of Life. Percival Lowell. Century.
Meredith, George. Duncan Campbell Scott. Munsey.
Millet, The Art of. Kenyon Cox. Scribner.
Minerva, At the. Thomas A. Janvier. Harper.
Mother Earth. John Burroughs. Putnam.
Motor-boats as Pleasure Craft. W.L. Dudley. Metropolitan.
Motoring Through France - III. Edith Wharton. Atlantic.
Music-Education and “Automatics." Leo R. Lewis. Atlantic.
Music-halls, London, Glimpses of. Horace Barnes. Munsey.
Negro's Industrial Position in the North. R. S. Baker. Amer.
Newspaper as It is, The. Charles H. Taylor. Appleton.
Nominating a President. Victor Rosewater. Rev. of Revs.
Optimism. Arthur C. Benson. Putnam.
Original, On being: Irving Babbitt. Atlantic.
Panama Canal: an English View. A.R. Colquhoun. No. Amer.
Panic, A Bulwark Against. C. M. Keys. World's Work.
Parcels Post, For 2. George v. L. Meyer. North American.
Perkins of the Burlington.” Frederic A. Delano. Appleton.
Photographing Indians. Edmond S. Meany. World's Work.
Philosophers, Mr. Dooley on. F. P. Dunne. American.
Poet's Mind, The. Max Eastman. North American.
Portugal Among the Nations. Isabel Moore. Rev. of Revs.
Tariffs in the British Empire, Preferential. Sir A. Moloney.
North American.
Psychopathic Rulers. Allan McLane Hamilton. No. Amer.
Railway Rates and Rebates. Andrew Carnegie. Century.
Rattlesnake, The Way of a. H. R. Sass. Metropolitan.
Reading: An Essay. Edward S. Martin. Harper.
Reaper. Romance of the - IV. H. N. Casson. Everybody's.
Renan, Ernest, in his Youth - II. Alys Hallard. Putnam.
Road, The Open. David Grayson. American,
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus. Kenyon Cox. Atlantic.
Saint-Gaudens, Later Works of. Homer Saint-Gaudens. Century.
Salem Ships and Sailors, Old, Ralph D. Paine. Outing.
Sea, Spring Awakening of the. H. J. Shannon. Harper.
Sense and Sensibility" - II. Helen Keller. Century.
Sheep Barons, In the Land of. Arthur Chapman. Rev.of Revs.
Sherman's Army, In the Track of. E. F. Andrews. Appleton.
Singing, The Study of. Francis Rogers. Scribner.
Sky, Experiences in the. Henry B. Hersey. Century.
Stedman, Edmund C. Thomas W. Higginson. Atlantic.
Sugar: A Lesson on Reciprocity. F. W. Taussig. Atlantic.
Telephoning Through the Fleet. H. T. Wade. World's Work.
Tenements, Money-making Model. L. E. Drew. World's Work.
U’ren, Lawgiver of Oregon. Lincoln Steffens, American.
Vanderlip, F. A., Banker-Journalist. C. F.Speare. Rev. of Revs.
Volcanoes, On the Chase for. Robert Dunn. Outing.
Washington Society, Old-Time. Lyndon Ort. Munsey.
Washington, The Dehumanizing of. Owen Wister. Everybody's.
Waste: Woman's Opportunity. Walter R. Evans. Appleton.
West in the Orient, The-III., The Transformation of Trans-
portation. Charles M. Pepper. Scribner.
Will, A Strange. W. I. L. Lippincott.
Women of the West, Pioneer - I. Agnes O. Laut. Outing.
Women's Sense of Honor. Mary Heaton Vorse. Appleton.
Work: Does Yours Drive You? L. H. Gulick. World's Work.
Worry : Home Treatment. George L. Walton, Lippincott.
Yellow Book, Browning's Old. Charles W. Hodell. Atlantic.
Yellow Journals, Psychology of. W. I. Thomas. American.
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
Rambling Recollections. By the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Drum-
mond Wolf. In two vols., 8vo, gilt tops, uncut, pp. 858. Mac-
millan Co. $7.50 net.
With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West. By
R. H. Williams; edited by E. W. Williams. With portraits,
8vo, pp. 478. E. P. Dutton & Co. $4. net.
The Story of a Beautiful Duchess: Being an Account of the
Life and Times of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton
and Argyll. By Horace Bleackley. Illus. in photogravure,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 362. E. P. Dutton & Co. $5. net.
The Life and Voyages of Joseph Wiggins, F.R.G.S.,
Modern Discoverer of the Kara Sea Route to Siberia, based
on his journals and letters. By Henry Johnson. Illus. in
photogravure, etc., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 896. E. P. Dutton & Co.
$5. net.
With Walt Whitman in Camden. By Horace Traubel.
Vol. II. (July 16, 1888 - October 31, 1888), illus., 8vo, uncut,
pp. 570. D. Appleton & Co. $3. net.
Saint Catherine of Siena: A Study in the Religion, Litera-
ture, and History of the XIV. Century in Italy. By Edmund
G. Gardner. Illus. in photogravure, 8vo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 440. E. P. Dutton & Co. $4. net.
James Francis Edward, the Old Chevalier. By Martin Haile.
Illus. in photograrure, 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 479. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $4. net.
My Memoirs. By Alexandre Dumas; trans. by E. M. Waller,
with Introduction by Andrew Lang. Vol. III., 1826 to 1830;
with photogravure frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 543. Macmillan
Co. $1.75.
HISTORY.
Studies in Venetian History. By Horatio F. Brown. In
two vols., 8vo. gilt tops, pp. 715. E. P. Dutton & Co. $6. net.
A Short History of Our Own Times from the Accession of
Queen Victoria to the Accession of Edward VII. By Justin
McCarthy. New edition; 12mo, pp. 673. Harper & Brothers.
$1.50 net.
A History of the United States Navy. By John R. Spears.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 334. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50 net.
Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society. New vols.,
Millard Fillmore Papers. Edited by Frank H. Severance.
In 2 vols., 8vo, pp. 1014. Buffalo, N. Y.: Buffalo Historical
Society. Paper.
The Ancient History of China to the End of the Chou
Dynasty. By Friedrich Hirth. 12mo, pp. 383. New York:
Columbia University Press. $2.50 net.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tuden.
Edited by John Bigelow. In 2 vols., 8vo, gilt tops, uncut,
pp. 752. Harper & Brothers. $6. net.
Letters of Dr. John Brown. With Letters from Ruskin,
Thackeray, and Others. Edited by his son and D. W.
Forrest. Illus. in photogravure, etc., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 368.
Macmillan Co. $4. net.
Confessio Medici. By the writer of The Young People."
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 158. Macmillan Co. $1.25 net.
Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, with an Account of His
Reputation at Various Periods. By Thomas R. Lounsbury.
New edition ; 12mo, pp. 449. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2. net.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
The Essays of Francis Bacon. Edited, with Introduction
and notes, by Mary Augusta Scott. 12mo, pp. 293. Charles
Scribner'e Sons. $1.25 net.
Celebrated Crimes. By Alexandre Dumas; with Introduc-
tions by R. S. Garnett. New vols.: The Crimes of Ali Pacha
and Others; The Crimes of the Marquise de Brinvilliers and
Others. Illus., 12mo. Macmillan Co. Per vol., $1.75.
In God's Way: A Novel. By Björnstjerne Björnson; trans.
by Elizabeth Carmichael and edited by Edmund Gosse. In
two vols., 16mo, gilt tops, uncut, pp. 416. The Macmillan Co.
$2.50.
Les Maîtres Sonneurs. Par George Sand. Illus. in color.
etc., by M. V. Wheelhouse. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 401.
Macmillan Co. $1.40 net.
Oraisons Funèbres. Par Jacques Bénigne Bossuet. With
photogravure portrait, 16mo, gilt top, pp. 261. * Les Clas-
siques Français." G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1. net.


1908.]
141
THE DIAL
BOOKS OF VERSE.
Through Italy with the Poets: An Anthology. Edited by
Robert Haven Schauffler. With frontispiece, 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 429. Moffat, Yard & Co. $2. net.
Ropes of Sand. By Lura Kelsey Clendening. 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 140. Boston: The Gorham Press. $1.50.
Songs and Poems. By J. H.T. Case. 16mo, pp. 105. London:
David Nutt. Paper.
Thokla: A Drama. By Aileen Cleveland Higgins. 12mo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 62. Boston: The Poet Lore Co. $1.
The Secret of the Statue and Other Verse. By Eleanor
C. Donnelly. With portrait, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 80.
Boston: The Gorham Press. $1.
Poems. By Helen Elizabeth Coolidge. 12mo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 102. Boston: The Gorham Press. $1.
American Waterways. Edited by Emory R. Johnson and
otherg. Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science for January, 1908. 8vo, uncut, pp. 299. Phila-
delphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Paper, $1. net.
ART AND MUSIC.
Vasari on Technique : Being the Introduction to the Three
Arts of Design, Prefixed to the “Lives.” By Giorgio Vasari;
trans. by Louisa S. Maclehose; edited, with Introduction and
notes, by Professor G. Baldwin Brown. Illus. in color, etc.,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 328. E. P. Dutton & Co. $4. net.
Songs from the Operas for Soprano. Edited by H. E.
Krehbiel. With portraits, 4to, gilt top, pp. 188. The
Musician's Library." Oliver Ditson Co. $1.50.
NATURE.
Flower Grouping in English, Scotch, and Irish Gardens.
By Margaret Waterfield and others. Illus. in color, large 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 237. E. P. Dutton & Co. $6. net.
London Parks and Gardens. By the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil;
illus. in color, etc., by Lady Victoria Manners. 8vo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 384. E. P. Dutton & Co. $6. net.
SCIENCE.
A Treatise on Chemistry. By H. E. Roscoe and C. Schor-
lemmer. Vol. II.-The Metals. Fourth edition, revised by
H. E. Roscoe and A. Hardem. Illus., 8vo, pp. 1436. Macmillan
Co. $7.50 net.
The Solar System : A Study of Recent Observations. By
Charles Lane Poor. Illus., 8vo, pp. 310. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$2. net.
The World's Peoples : An Account of their Bodily and Mental
Characters, Beliefs, Traditions, and Institutions. By A. H.
Keane. Illus., 12mo, pp. 434. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2. net.
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
Periodical Articles on Religion: An Alphabetical Subject
Index and Index Encyclopædia, 1890-1899. Compiled and
edited by Ernest Cushing Richardson. 8vo, pp. 1168. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $10.net.
English Quotations: A Collection of the More Memorable
Passages and Poems of English Literature, Arranged Accord.
ing to Authors Chronologically. Edited, with word index, by
Robinson Smith. 8vo, pp. 312. E. P. Dutton & Co. $3. net.
FICTION
The Mother of the Man. By Eden Phillpotts. With fron-
tispiece, 12mo, uncut, pp. 455. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.
Seraphica. By Justin Huntly McCarthy. 12mo, pp. 304.
Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
On the Knees of the Gods. By Anna Bowman Dodd. 12mo,
uncut, pp. 429. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.
The Stem of the Crimson Dahlia. By James Locke. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 342. Moffat, Yard & Co. $1.50.
The Lady of the Mount. By Frederic S. Isham. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 389. Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
The Greater Mischief. By Margaret Westrup. 12mo, pp. 377.
Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
My Lady of Oleeve. By Percy J. Hartley; illus. in tint by
Harrison Fisher and man Pfeifer. 12mo, pp. 308. Dodd.
Mead & Co. $1.50.
Bahama Bill. By T. Jenkins Hains. With frontispiece, 12mo,
pp. 368. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
The Man Who Was Dead. By Arthur W. Marchmont. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 344. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
Exton Manor. By Archibald Marshall. 12mo, pp. 483. Dodd,
Mead & Co. $1.50.
Altars to Mammon. By Elizabeth Neff. Illus., 12mo, pp. 334.
Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
The Wife of Narcissus. By Annulet Andrews. 12mo, pp. 251,
Moffat, Yard & Co. $1.25.
The Cat and the Canary. By Margaret Cameron; with illus-
trations in tint by W. D. Stevens and decorations. 12mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 62. Harper & Brothers. $1.
A Romance of Arlington House. By Sarah A. Reed. With
frontispiece. 12mo, pp. 110. Boston: The Chapple Publishing
Co.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car. By
Thomas D. Murphy. Illus. in color, etc., 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 318. L. C. Page & Co. $3.
Ceylon: The Paradise of Adam. By Caroline Corner. Illus.,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 324. John Lane Co.
RELIGION.
The Sphere of Religion: A Consideration of its Nature and
of its Influence upon the Progress of Civilization. By Frank
Sargent Hoffman. 12mo, pp. 394. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$1.75 net.
Roman Catholio and Protestant Bibles Compared: The
Gould Prize Essays. Edited by Melancthon Williams Jacobus.
Second edition; 12mo, pp. 361. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$1.25 net.
Messages for Home and Life. By Dinsdale T. Young. 12mo,
pp. 274. Jennings & Graham. $1.25 net.
The Forgiveness of sins: A Course of Sermons. By A.C.A.
Hall. 12mo, pp. 118. Longmans, Green, & Co. $1. net.
The Gospel of Ramakrishna.. Authorized English edition,
with Introduction by Swami Abhedananda. 18mo, pp. 436.
New York: The Vedanta Society.
me Little Prayers. By Lucy Ri er Meyer. 18mo, pp. 106.
Jennings & Graham. 35 cts. net.
ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.
Value and Distribution : A Critical and Constructive Study.
By Herbert Joseph Davenport. 8vo, pp. 582. University of
Chicago Press. $3.50 net.
The Ory of the Children. By Mrs. John Van Vorst; with
Introduction by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge. 12mo, pp. 246.
Moffat, Yard & Co. $1.25 net.
The Elimination of the Tramp. By Edmond Kelly. 12mo,
Questions of the Day" Series. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. $1. net.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
To the Front: A Sequel to “Cadet Days." By Gen. Charles
King. Illus., 12mo, pp. 261. Harper & Brotberg. $1.25.
The Pendleton Twins. By E. M. Jameson. Tlus. in color,
12mo, pp. 303. Jennings & Graham. $1.25.
Delight: The Story of a Little Christian Scientist. By
Gertrude Smith. Illus., 16mo, pp. 221. Henry Altemus Co.
50 cts.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Devonshire Characters and Strange Events. By 8. Baring-
Gould. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 813. John Lane Co.
$7. net.
Hypnotic Therapeutics in Theory and Practice, with
Numerous Illustrations of Treatment by Suggestion. By
John Duncan Quackenbos. 8vo, uncut, pp. 336. Harper &
Brothers. $2. net.
Negro Mystic Lore. By Mamie Hunt Sims. With portrait,
12mo, pp. 149. Chicago: Tomorrow Press.
Publications of the University of Pennsylvania: New
vols.: Series in Philology and Literature, Studies in the
World-Play in Plautus, by Charles Jastrow Mendelsohn;
Series in Romanic Languages and Literatures, The Life and
Works of Christobal Suárez de Figueroa, by J. P. Wicker-
sham Crawford; Astronomical Series, Catalogue and Re-
Measurement of the 648 Double Stars Discovered by Professor
G. W. Hough, by Eric Doolittle. Philadelphia: John C.
Winston Co.
FEBRUARY LIST OF BOOKS AND PERIODICALS sent
on request. H. WILLIAMS, 105 East 22d Street, New York.
!
FOR ANY BOOK ON EARTH write to H. H. TIMBY,
Book Hunter. Catalogues free. 1st Nat. Bank Bldg., Connoaut, 0.
STORY-WRITERS, Biographers, Historians, Poets — Do
you desire the honest criticism of your
pook or its skilled revision and correction, or advice as to publication?
Such work, said George William Curtis, is “done as it should be by The
Easy Chair's friend and fellow laborer in letters, Dr. Titus M. Coan."
Terms by agreement. Send for circular D, or forward your book or MS.
to the New York Bureau of Revision, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York.
60
pp. 111.


142
[March 1,
THE
DIAL
THE ART
OF LIFE
SERIES
E. H. GRIGGS,
Editor.
THE USE OF THE MARGIN
By Edward Howard Griggs
WHERE KNOWLEDGE FAILS
By Earl Barnes
Cloth, each, 60 cts. net; 55 cts. postpaid.
B. W. Huobsch, Publishor, Now York
BOOKS. ALL OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS SUPPLIED,
no matter on what subject. Write us. We can get
you any book over published. Please stato wants. Catalogue free.
BAKER'S GREAT BOOK SHOP, 14-16 Bright St., BIRMINGHAU, ENG.
WRITERS Known and Unknown
The Study-Guide Series
FOR USE IN HIGH SCHOOLS: The study of Ivanhoe; A
Guide to English Syntax; The Study of Four Idylls of the King,
- college entrance requirements.
FOR ADVANCED AND CRITICAL STUDY : The study of
Romola; The Study of Henry Eamond; The Creative Art of Vic-
tion; second edition ready. The Study of Idylls of the King, full
series; new edition ready.
Address, H. A. DAVIDSON,
The Study-Guide Series, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
Have you manuscripts of plays, novels, or stories of over
ten thousand words? If so, write for our proposition.
THE NATIONAL LITERARY AND DRAMATIC
BUREAU OF NEW YORK
Astor Theater Building, New York City
Old and Rare Books
HARVARD COLLEGE
COTTON MATHER'S HISTORY OF HARVARD
COLLEGE, and his biographies of the first two
Presidents of the college, HENRY DUNSTER and
CHARLES CHANNEY, from the Magnolia, are pub-
lished in the Old South Leaflet series.
Price, 5 cents eachs $4 per 100.
Our Catalogue No. 38 (32 pages) just
ready. This catalogue contains some
items of interest to every booklover.
Copy mailed upon request.
SEND FOR COMPLETE LISTS
NIEL MORROW LADD COMPANY (INC.)
646-648 Fulton St., Brooklyn, New York
DIRECTORS OF OLD SOUTH WORK
OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE, BOSTON
WILLIAM R. JENKINS CO.
Publishers, Booksellers, Stationers, and Printers
851-853 SIXTH AVE., Cor. 48th St., NEW YORK
FRENCH
Librarians
AND OTHER
FOREIGN
BOOKS
READ OUR
Romans Choisis
26 Titles. Paper 60c., cloth 85c., vol.
Contes Choisis
24 Titles. Paper 25c., cloth 40c., vol.
Masterpieces, pure, by well-known
authors. Read extensively by classes;
notes in English, List on application.
Complete catar
logs sent when
requested.
Will find it to their advan-
tage to send us their Book
Orders, because of our
large and complete stock
of books covering all
branches of literature, and
our extensive experience
in handling orders from
1public Libraries,
School, College, and
Unibersity Libraries
We are prepared to offer
the promptest service com-
bined with the highest de-
gree of efficiency, and the
most satisfactory prices.
LIBRARY DEPARTMENT
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
CHICAGO
WHAT WE ARE DOING
FOR LIBRARIANS
We now have the most efficient department for the
handling of Library orders.
1. A tremendous miscellaneous stock.
2. Greatly increased facilities for the importation
of English publications.
3. Competent bookmen to price lists and collect
books.
All this means prompt and complete shipments and
right prices.
THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO.,
Wholesale
Booksellers
33-37 East Seventeenth St., New York


1908.] :
143
THE DIAL
FRANZ GRILLPARZER And the Austrian Drama
By GUSTAV POLLAK
MR. POLLAK, himself a Viennese by birth, has been a lifelong student of the literature and political history
since 1881, he has had abundant opportunity of attesting his familiarity with Austrian topics. The volume is an
outgrowth of two lectures on “ Austrian Dramatists” delivered by him at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
in April, 1905. He has been connected with the editorial revision of various encyclopædic works, notably the New
International Encyclopædia (1902–4) and Nelson's Encyclopædia (1905–6). During the Presidential campaign of
1892 Mr. Pollak was associated with Carl Schurz, Henry Villard, Oswald Ottendorfer, and other prominent German-
Americans in founding in New York the "German-American Reform Union."
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
Mr. Pollak's book is the first attempt, outside of our Shows rare command of words and a musical ear.
college world, to introduce Franz Grillparzer to American His book will find an honorable niche on the shelf of liter-
readers. As a son of the country which gave birth to ary history.” - Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
the poet. Mr. Pollak is singalarly fitted to interpret Grill-
Gustav Pollak has placed all students of the drama
parzer's isolation in life and unique position in letters. .
under a debt of gratitude." - Boston Herald.
The metrical translations are an important feature of the
book. With few exceptions they render with uncommon
“The translations will allure many readers to the
success the meaning and melody of the original." - Nation.
originals." - San Francisco Chronicle.
“In the main, in its triple character of biography, criti-
A real welcome will be accorded Mr. Gustav Pollak's
cism, and translation, it is an admirable piece of interpret-
study of this dramatist." - Review of Reviews.
ation, and in view of the place which Grillparzer has come
"The work must meet with the enthusiastic approval of
to hold in German literature, it can scarcely be doubted that those who rejoice in the introduction to American readers
Mr. Pollak, in introducing him more fully to the American of such elements of the great foreign literatures as have thus
public, has given us one of the most important books of the far been inaccessible." - Cleveland Plain Dealer.
season.” - New York Times.
"Not only & weighty contribution to literature, but a
The intrinsic merit of the book will add dignity to the vivid and masterly account of the history of the period.
position it will occupy as a pioneer in a little-known field.” This admirable work fills with the greatest distinction a
- Chicago Tribune. long-felt want. New York Staats-Zeitung.
Shows the 'ardent appreciation of one who has studied “His selections are well made, and his versions have a
deeply into Grillparzer's work and accomplishments."
good deal of merit; his diction is often happy."
- Boston Transcript.
- London Atheneum.
PRICE, $2.50 NET
00
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 372 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
EDUCATIONAL
REVIEW
Edited by NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
Professor of Philosophy and Education in Columbia University, and President of the University.
THE EDUCATIONAL REVIEW, founded in 1891, commands the support of every prominent
student of education, both in the United States and in Europe.
It is not an educational newspaper; it is not a journal for the presentation of schoolroom methods;
it is not an organ of any special educational interest or of any one type of educational doctrine.
It is the organ of representative students of education; it is national and international in scope,
and catholic in sympathy; its field of interest includes educational work of every form and grade.
The readers of the Educational Review are studious teachers and students of education who
wish to know the ripest thought, the newest investigations, and the best books on education.
“In editing the Review you have done a valuable and much needed work for education in the United States.'
President Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University, April, 2, 1907. -
“We find the Educational Review absolutely indispensable at every turn. MICHAEL E. SADLER, Director of
Special Enquiries and Reports Board of Education, London, England, September 13, 1901.
Subscription Price, $3 a Year;
Trial Subscription (for new subscribers only) Three Months, 500; Single Copies, 350.
Analytical Index to the first twenty-five volumes (1891-1903 inclusive)
218 pp. $3.00 + 12 cents postage.
EDUCATIONAL REVIEW, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
.


144
[March 1, 1908.
THE DIAL
w
A GREAT NOVEL OF LOVE
AND ADVENTURE IN THE FAR NORTH
READY FEBRUARY 26
By ELIZABETH ROBINS
Author of "The Magnetic North,” etc.

OME AND
FIND ME
There has been no such book as this written of the Far North's
lure and beauty the reader is gripped by that passion for the
North that is like nothing else on earth.'
Come and Find Me" is a story in which the love interest is always promi-
nent and which holds the reader in its grip until the last page is turned.
There is not a dull character nor a trite incident in the book. Miss Robins
has returned to the scenes of her first success in fiction, The Magnetic
North.” The chief motive is the attraction of the far North. It draws
back to it a man who has been there in '65 and has found gold in Nome.
It draws other characters there: John Galbraith, traveler and discoverer;
and the heroine, Hildegarde, and her faithful lover. It is a book full of
humor and pathos and largeness, and many of its scenes rise to a high level
of art.
Ilustrated by Blumenschein. 550 pages, cloth. $1.50
THE LADY OF THE DECORATION
By FRANCES LITTLE. The most exquisite letters
that ever came out of Japan; the gaiest, saddest,
dearest, tenderest love story written in years.
1907's Best Selling Book. 25th edition ready. $1.00.
UNCLE WILLIAM
By JENNETTE LEE. Just the story of an old Ari-
chat fisherman, but so sane, and sweet, and
wholesome-so quaintly humorous too- that the
sunshine and the uplift go with the reader many
a day. Pass it on.
$1.00
THE CONFESSIONS OF A DADDY
By Ellis PARKER BUTLER. The story of a little
child's coming and her welcome, fragrant with
delicate sentiment, bubbling with true humor.
Illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory. $0.75
READY IN MARCH
A NEW HUMOROUS BOOK
By ANNE WARNER
Author of “Seeing France with Uncle John," "Susan Clegg and
Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop," etc., etc. '350 pages, cloth, with an
index. Illustrations by F. R. Gruger.
$1.50
Seeing
England
with
Uncle
John

LONDO
Never has there been a spicier
combination of fun and informa-
tion since "Innocents Abroad." It
is even funnier than the author's
Seeing France with Uncle John."
9
GRET ("Frankly and delightfully a Pagan")
By BEATRICE MANTLE. Daringly unusual in plot
and treatment, a dramatic tale of life and love in
an Oregon lumber camp.
Frontispiece in color.
$1.50
BRUNHILDE'S PAYING GUEST
By CAROLINE FULLER. An altogether charming
picture of the 'witchery of Southern hospitality
and the romances - several for every girl-of the
South. Frontispiece in color.
$1.50
A FOUNTAIN SEALED
By ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK. A mother, of rare
charm, is the heroine in this novel of unique plot
and gripping interest. It is exquisitely done. $1.50
CLEM (“The woman who dared to be herself")
By EDNA KENTON. The clever story of a beauty
with red blood in her veins and a scorn of all con-
ventions. Frontispiece in tint.
$1.00
A Fine, New Detective Story
The Four-Pools Mystery
• By ?
A capital tale of mystery and its unraveling by a clever New
York newspaper man. A book that will keep the reader up
all night. The author is a well-known writer.
Frontispiece in color.
$1.50
THE CENTURY CO.,
Union Square,
NEW YORK
THE DIAL PRESS, FINE ARTS BUILDING, CHICAGO


THE
DIAL
SPRING ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER
A SEMI-MONTHLY FOURNAL OF
Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information
EDITED BY
Volume XLIV.
FRANCIS F. BROWNES No. 522.
CHICAGO, MARCH 16, 1908.
10 cts. a copy. S FINE ARTS BUILDING
$2. a vear. 203 Michigan Blvd.
{
SCRIBNER'S SPRING BOOKS
NOW READY
In Korea With Marquis Ito
By GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD, LL.D. Illus. $2.50 net; postpaid $2.70.
The most important book on Korea and her relations with Japan that has ever been brought out. Professor Ladd
had, through his relations with Marquis Ito, very exceptional facilities for personal observation in Korea, and
unprecedented opportunities for obtaining inside information and accurate knowledge as to the past and present
conduct of Japan and her present intentions. Much hitherto unpublished diplomatic material was placed in his
hands. No one can, in the future, write the history of these events or discuss them with authority, without making
himself familiar with the views and conclusions of Professor Ladd in this book.
The Old Dominion Her Making and Her Manners
By THOMAS NELSON PAGE. $1.50 net; postpaid, $1.62.
An account of the early history and later development of Virginia and of the men and women and the manners
and customs that grew up in it. Mr. Page is full of the knowledge of his subject and writes of his native State with
the literary skill, grace, and enthusiasm that make the book as brilliant as literature as it is valuable as history.
Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne Outdoor Pastimes of an
1820-1830
American Hunter
The third and final vol ne of these delightful memoirs,
By THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Illus. $3.00 net.
describing the rein . ut Louis XVIII. and Charles X., and
the Revolution of July, 1830. An enchanting book of
New and enlarged edition, containing two additional
memoirs
chapters.
“He writes well, and, of course, he has a vastly interest-
Bacon's Essays
ing story to tell." - London Standard.
Edited by MARY AUGUSTA SCOTT, Ph.D.
$1.25 net; postpaid, $1.35.
A History of the United States
“ This volume will be invaluable." — Providence Journal.
Navy
By JOHN R. SPEARS. Illus. $1.50 net; postpaid $1.62.
Henrik Ibsen
“A carefully prepared and reliable record.”
By EDMUND GOSSE.
- Boston Advertiser.
Illustrated. $1.00 net; postpaid $1.10.
The American Constitution
"His biography is very complete and must be taken into
consideration by all Ibsenites.” – New York Sun.
By FREDERIC J. STIMSON. $1.25 net; postpaid $1.35.
“ To read this book is to take a deep and refreshing
The Passing Protestantism and draught from the fountains of our liberties."
- Chicago Daily News.
Coming Catholicism
The Roman Catholic and
By NEWMAN SMYTH. $1.00 net; postpaid $1.10.
An eloquent and highly suggestive statement of the
Protestant Bibles Compared
causes of the failure of Roman Catholicism and Protest-
Edited by M. W. JACOBUS. $1.25 net.
antism to meet the needs of the day, and of the strong “This work far outranks all others on the subject."
hopes of a united Christian Church for the near future.
- The Outlook.
READY SHORTLY
The Life and Letters of George Bancroft
By M. A. DE WOLFE HOWE. Illustrated. Two vols. $4.00 net; postage extra.
One of the most important books of biography and history of recent years. The long life of George Bancroft (1800-1891)
almost covered the nineteenth century; and during the greater part of it, as scholar, historian, statesman and diplomatist,
he had a wider personal acquaintance with the great figures among his contemporaries than perhaps any other American.
-
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 153 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK


146
[March 16,
THE DIAL
DIAL
SCRIBNER'S SPRING
BOOKS
of the year.
FICTION NOW READY
The Footprint and Other Tales
The Old Room
By GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. $1.50.
By CARL EWALD. Translated by A. TEIXIERA
The extraordinary quality of this story, in which Oriental
DE MATTOS. $1.25.
magic and mysticism are contrasted with the vivid realism
An extraordinarily powerful novel of life to-day.
of to-day, makes this the most unusual book of fiction
Old Mr. Davenant's Money
True Stories of Crime
By FRANCIS POWELL. $1.50.
By ARTHUR TRAIN. Illus. $1.50.
A Romance of Long Island. A story with a real
Literally and in fact true stories of the most exciting and mystery, full of adventure and sentiment.
thrilling crimes of our own day.
The Sentimental Adventures
The Girl and the Game
of Jimmy Bulstrode
And Other College Stories
By JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS. Illus. $1.50.
By MARIE VAN VORST. Illus. $1.50.
The athletics, the fun and the sentiment, the heroes and
The amusing adventures of a particularly likeable hero.
the failure, the study and the sport that are part of life in
college, make up these lively, well-written, and, above all,
Monologues
real stories by the author of the best book of college stories.
By BEATRICE HERFORD.
His First Leave
With illustrations by Oliver Herford. $1.25.
Six of Miss Herford's famous monologues now for the
By L. ALLEN HARKER. $1.50.
first time brought together in a book. They are master-
A delightful novel of English life in the country. pieces of witty observation and genial fun.
Practical Bridge
By J. B. ELWELL. $1.50 net; postage extra.
Latest developments in the play of the game explained and discussed by the leading instructor in Bridge in this country.
Mind in the Making
Ecclesiastes
A Study in Mental Development
By Professor GEORGE A. RTON, Ph.D.
By EDGAR J. SWIFT. $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.35.
$2.25 net; postage extra
A clear, direct, and interesting work on the various phases
A new volume in the International Critical Tu.mentary.
of a child's growth, physical and mental. Based on the An able and scholarly commentary in which, whil, dis-
results of the best modern investigation in Psychology, cussing clearly and impartially the various modern intei:
Sociology, and Pedagogy, it is not technical but is intended pretations of the book, Professor Barton quotes his own
for parents as well as teachers.
authorities and conservative views. The work contains
two series of notes, one for ordinary students of the Bible
Seventeenth Century Men of
and one for technical scholars.
Latitude
The Essential Life
By Rev. EDWARD GEORGE, D.D.
$1.25 net; postpaid, $1.35.
By STEPHEN B. STANTON. $1. net; postpaid, $1.10.
Brilliant sketches of the life and writings of a number No profounder or more spirited essays on what may be
of men of broad and tolerant views in that most bigoted called the philosophy of life have appeared in many
century. These men are Hales of Eton, Chillingworth, seasons. The style is extraordinarily vivid and eloquent,
Browne, Whichcote, Taylor, More, Baxter, and Smith. and is brilliantly concise.
NEW VOLUME OF THE ORIGINAL NARRATIVES OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation
Edited by Hon. WILLIAM T. DAVIS. With a map and three facsimile reproductions. $3.00 net; postage extra.
This volume reproduces, with a full introduction and copious notes, Governor William Bradford's famous history of
the Pilgrim Colony of Plymouth, the manuscript of which, found in England about fifty years ago, was presented
by the British Government in 1897 to the State of Massachusetts.
Governor John Winthrop's Journal, the History of New England,
1630-1649. Edited by Dr. J. K. HOSMER. In 2 vols. With maps and facsimile reproductions.
A reprint in two volumes, with a biographical and bibliographical introduction, and with full notes of Governor
John Winthrop's Journal, giving the events from day to day for a period of nineteen years in the history of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 153 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK


1908.]
147
THE DIAL
FROM
DUTTON'S SPRING LIST
BISHOP GORE'S NEW BOOK
The History of Aythan Waring
By VIOLET JACOB. $1.25 net.
A novel of admirable plot, able delinea-
tion of character, and intelligent criticism of
human life and affairs. Mrs. Jacob's career
as a novelist began with a work of such strik.
ing ability that her new book naturally excites
interest. In it will be found a singular gift for
creating and diffusing atmosphere and a close
study of unusual types of humanity.
The New Theology and the Old Religion
By CHARLES GORE, D.C.L.. D.D., Bishop of Birmingham. Crown 8vo.
$2.00 net.
“This is a work that was much needed. It says, and says plainly, what we
all wanted to hear. And the author is one who will claim a wider hearing than
any other man in England on this point. Bishop Gore is more tender to the man
troubled with intellectual doubts than any other teacher."
A Pocketful of Sixpences
By G. W. L. RUSSELL. Post 8vo, pp.
vii.+ 344. $3.00 net.
“Here Mr. Russell keeps up to his high-
est level, and that is a high level indeed."
- Athenæum.
Studies in Venetian History
By HORATIO F. BROWN. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. xii.+386, v. +349. $6.00 net.
These studies, as their author says, are intended to illustrate Venetian History
by dwelling on certain crucial moments and significant episodes in the formation,
growth, and decline of the Republic, by drawing attention to the Constitutional,
Financial, Commercial, and Diplomatic Development of the State, by an examina-
tion of its attitude towards the printing press, the book trade, and ecclesiastical
censorship, and by recounting picturesque events, such as the career of the alchemist
Bragadin and the Spanish Conspiracy, which are symptomatic of decline.
Syria : The Desert and the Sown
By GERTRUDE L. BELL. With colored
frontispiece and map and many illustra-
tions. 8vo, pp, xii. +347. New and cheaper
edition. $3.00 net.
“An enchanting example of travel litera-
ture." - Spectator.
Abraham Lincoln (From an English Point of View)
By HENRY BRYAN BINNS. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50 net.
“A lucid and convincing sketch not cumbered with entanglement of detail....
The curious blend of extravagance in speech with self-control of conduct, the
boisterous humor set in a background of deep and almost superstitious melancholy,
all the baffling combinations which went to the making of this powerful man, are
concisely illustrated in this carefully constructed story."
Life and Voyages of
Joseph Wiggins, F.R.G.S.
Modern Discoverer of the Kara Sea
Route to Siberia; Based on His
Journals and Letters.
By HENRY JOHNSON. With illustra-
tions. 8vo, pp. xxiv. +396. $5.00 net.
"A most interesting record of an inter-
esting life, of Captain Wiggins's work, his
energy, skill, and courage, and the results.
A History of Sculpture
By ERNEST H. SHORT. With many illustrations of the masterpieces of
various schools and periods. 8vo. $3.00 net.
"A History of Sculpture," although by no means a small book, is so simple in
its outlines, 80 concentrated in its substance, and so welded by constant compari-
son and reference, that one hardly realizes how many individual sculptors and
how many great works are criticised in its pages until one notes the number of
the pictures or the size of the index. Holding the theory that art can be under.
stood only in the light of national and international history, and that schools of
sculpture were really created by the peoples to whom they appealed, he has given
closest attention to sculpture expressive of national feeling, and thus has made
a history of sculpture more truly entitled to the name than those which merely
tell of the passage of the torch of art from hand to hand.
English Children in the Olden
Time
By ELIZABETH GODFREY, With 32
illustrations. 8vo, pp. xvii. +336. $3.00 net.
Among books for and about children, this
is one of the best that has been produced.
James Frances Edward,
• The Old Chevalier”
By MARTIN HAILE. 8vo, pp. xii.+479.
$4.00 net.
"Mr. Haile's work will be found both
thorough and interesting." - The Dial.
With the Border Ruffians:
Memoirs of the Far West, 1852-1868
By R. H. WILLIAMS, Sometime Lieutenant in the Kansas Rangers and after-
wards Captain in the Texan Rangers. With portraits. 8vo. $4.00 net.
A wonderfully vivid picture of frontier life and adventure during the opening
of the West before and during the War.
"It has close upon 500 pages, and not one of them is devoid of stirring interest.
It is a fascinating romance. ... One almost wishes it were fiction, for then it
would be a remarkable work of art." - Athenæum.
St. Catherine of Siena
A Study of XIVth Century Italy
By E. G. GARDNER, M.A.
8vo, pp.
xix. +439. $4.00 net.
“ This book is indubitably the best ever
written about St. Catherine, . by far the
most readable life of the saint with which we
are acquainted." - Nation.
Phillips Brooks
By ALEXANDER V.G. ALLEN. Cloth. With frontispiece. 8vo. $2.50 net.
Since the publication of the three-volume life of Phillips Brooks there has been
a strong demand for a cheaper and shorter biography. With this in view, Dr
Allen, the author of the longer life, has written the present biography. The book
is full of inspiration, and is a wonderful picture of the life and mental development
of Phillips Brooks. While embodying the spirit of the first biography, it perhaps
enables the reader to get a more clear-cut picture of this great man.
SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET "BOOKS ON ITALY”
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, 31 WEST 23D STREET, NEW YORK


148
[March 16,
THE DIAL
A. C. McCLURG & CO.'S
SPRING BOOKS-1908
Ready March 28
By RANDALL PARRISH
PRISONERS OF CHANCE
The Story of What befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through his
Love for a Lady of France
Illustrated in He who calls himself Geoffrey Benteen, gentleman adventurer, tells the strange story of
full color by the disappearance from New Orleans of the Chevalier de Noyan and his beautiful young
the Kinneys. wife. Only a man like Geoffrey Benteen could have brought this fair lady of France safely
Large 12mo. through such perils as beset them in their journey through the Northern wilderness and in
the mountain stronghold of the Children of the Sun. How Geoffrey finally came to his
reward may be left to the reader, who knows that Mr. Parrish is at his best in a story like this. $1.50
Ready March 18
By CHARLES E. WALK
THE SILVER BLADE
A True Chronicle of a Double Mystery
Five plates Alberto de Sanchez was murdered with a small silver paper knife which usually lay upon
in color by the table in Dr. Westbrook's office. However, the coroner's jury reached no verdict,
A. B. Wenzell. even though it was generally known that the Doctor resented the Spaniard's persistent
Large 12mo. attentions to his beautiful sister. The murder of old General Westbrook, which followed
that of De Sanchez, served to involve even more the already baffling situation. It remained
for Converse, the most remarkable detective of recent fiction, to solve the double mystery, after a series of
amazing complications. It is more than the ordinary detective story, as the central figure is not eliminated with
the solution of the mystery but plays a part in the lives of the other characters.
$1.50
Ready April 11
By ROBERT AMES BENNET
INTO THE PRIMITIVE
Illustrated in The beginning was at Capetown, when Blake and Winthrope boarded the steamer as
full color by fellow-passengers with Lady Bayrose and her party, which included the beautiful Miss
Allen T. True. Leslie. Three days later the ship went to pieces in a cyclone on a wild and isolated coast,
Large 12mo. and these three — the American engineer, the Englishman, and the heiress — were the
only survivors. Neither of the girl's companions was a man to inspire confidence, but
necessity developed in one of them the most tireless ingenuity and resource, and even some of the finer qualities
which had been almost eliminated. And when highly cultivated civilization was brought face to face with
the primitive, what law could prevail but the survival of the fittest. It is a splendid story, full of vigorous
strength and unusual charm, with an ending that can hardly be foreseen.
$1.50
Ready April 4
By CLARK E. CARR
MY DAY AND GENERATION
With over In “My Day and Generation " the distinguished author of “ The Illini" and "Lincoln
60 illustrations. at Gettysburg” presents some of the pivotal experiences in his long career of public use-
Large 8vo, fulness. Colonel Carr has known personally and intimately probably as many of the
cloth, gilt top. great men and women of this country as any other man now living, and his recollections
cover our history from the period of the anti-slavery agitation down to the present time.
His book is not a formal autobiography, but presents in essay form incidents in his life that are fraught with
meaning for all who would understand how this country has come to be what it is. Colonel Carr's public
career has identified him with the Republican party since its inception, throwing him into contact with
Lincoln, Douglas, Grant, Sherman, Logan, and the great ones of the Civil War, and has included his service
for four years as Minister from this country to the court of Denmark. His facility of narration and his powers
of philosophical analysis of men and events are extraordinary, and these characteristics will be found in his
new book in the same marked degree as in “The Illini” and “ Lincoln at Gettysburg.” The volume
contains over sixty illustrations.
net $3.00


1908.]
149
THE DIAL
A. C.
C. McCLURG & CO.'S
SPRING BOOKS-1908
Ready April 4
By KATHERINE TYNAN
HER LADYSHIP
With frontis Her Ladyship” is a piece of work inimitable in its kind. The atmosphere of sweet
piece by Walter naturalness and genial mirth, along with the sturdy, democratic spirit of the Lady Anne,
J. Enright. who passes over the flattering offer of Lord Dunlaverock, to marry Hugh Randall, the
12mo.
manager of her estate, should make a strong appeal to American readers. Altogether, the
story carries a feeling of reality, the characters are such as one meets in actual life, and as
for the exquisite bits of scenery sketched in, the author's delighted Irish readers will eagerly testify to their
realness.
$1.25
Ready April 11
By ABBÉ FÉLIX KLEIN
AN AMERICAN STUDENT IN FRANCE
With illustra Just as the author's previous volume gave the reader an original and clever insight into
tions from American institutions and people from the standpoint of an acute and observing French-
photographs. man, so this new book gives a picture of France as it might be viewed by a student from
Large 8vo, America. In his delightfully polished manner, the Abbé has chronicled the sensations
cloth, gilt top. that the mellowed, time-matured establishments and life of the Old World naturally
produce upon the mind of a young man brought up in the midst of our newer civilization,
different ways, and energetic temperament. The Abbé Klein is author of “ The Land of the Strenuous Life."
net $2.50
Published December 7, 1907
By WALTER D. MOODY
MEN WHO SELL THINGS
Observations and Experiences of Over Twenty Years as Travelling
Salesman, European Buyer, Sales Manager, Employer
This book is for salesmen who desire to move forward in their profession, as well as for
12mo.
merchants, manufacturers, sales managers, and indeed everyone who has anything to do
with the creative, money-getting side of business. There is no other book in the market
which occupies the field covered by this one. It presents the experiences of a practical man who has spent a
life-time studying the problems that confront the average seller of goods, in whatever line of trade. The
author begins with the stock boy, and shows his opportunities for development through one phase of the
business or another up to the point of owning his own business. The book is invaluable to everyone engaged
in the building of a business, and there are few young men who may not profit by its truths in any position in
which they may be engaged.
net $1.00
295 pages,
Published January 15
By HORACE FLETCHER
OPTIMISM-A REAL REMEDY
With Foreword by WILLIAM DANA ORCUTT
Boards,
This daintily printed little book presents the foundation of Mr. Fletcher's philosophy –
with portrait. the physiological basis of happiness. It is a summary of his most successful experiments
Tall 18mo. in the field of right living. All who are familiar with his earlier works will be eager to
In slip case. possess this newest, latest, and most optimistic little book. It is really an open
to a wonderful new existence for all who will heed its teachings. net 75 cents
sesame
Ready March 15
By IDA LYNCH HOWER
THE ART OF RETOUCHING SYSTEMATIZED
With photograph This is a manual of practical and methodical instructions, for the professional as well as the
frontispiece and amateur photographer, in the art of retouching negatives. It has been prepared from the
other illustra standpoint of over a quarter of a century of professional training on the part of the author, and
tions. 12mo. will provide a much-desired system for all who wish to turn out good work. net $1.00


150
[March 16,
THE DIAL
A SELECTION FROM
Dodd, Mead & Co's Spring List
$1.25
$1.50
$1.50
$1.50
FICTION
The Husbands of Edith. By GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON, author of “Graustark,"
“The Day of the Dog," etc. Illustrations in color by Harrison Fisher.
12mo, cloth. .
This is in Mr. McCutcheon's best style, which is to say that it is inimitably clever and entertaining.
The story opens in Paris, where the hero is ingeniously induced by a friend, a young Englishman, to assume
his identity for a few weeks and make a trip to Vienna. The Englishman disappears upon a mission of his
own and the hero prepares for his trip. What is his horror when he learns that not only must he assume his
friend's name, clothes, monocle and speech, but his wife and baby! To complicate matters, his supposed
wife's sister, a charming girl, joins the party. The hero falls desperately in love with her, and is unable to
conceal his feelings, not only from the young lady, but from anyone else. In this situation, the hero, with his
supposed wife, baby and sister-in-law, sets out with a party of English tourists for a trip through the Tyrol.
For the story of what happens there, told as Mr. McCutcheon can tell it, the reader is referred to the book itself.
My Lady of Cleeve. By PERCY J. HARTLEY. Illustrated in colors. Cover in color by
HARRISON FISHER. 12mo, cloth
It would be difficult to find a more fascinating story for those who enjoy a tale of the course of true love -
which never does run smooth.
The Fair Moon of Bath. By ELIZABETH ELLIS, author of "Barbara Winslow.” Illus-
trated in colors by John Rae.
12mo, cloth.
$1.50
Candidly, “The Fair Moon of Bath” is not just as good as Barbara Winslow,” it is better.
Meryl. By WILLIAM TILLINGHAST ELDRIDGE, author of " Hilma." Full-page illustrations
in color by John Rae. 12mo, cloth
There is always room for a story in which there is "something doing.' Meryl moves with a whirl;
it is modern, absorbing, exciting. It should be dedicated to tiresome journeys, sleepy evenings and dull days,
for while one reads it, time will be neither dull nor slow.
The Mother of the Man. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS, author of “Children of the Mist, “The
Farm of the Dagger, etc.
12mo, cloth
The sincerity and humanity of Mr. Phillpotts' method at its best are found in his new Dartmoor
Romance.' - The Evening Star (Washington, D. C.).
The Dissolving Circle. By WILL LILLIBRIDGE, author of “Ben Blair,"" " Where the Trail
Divides," etc. Illustrated in color by The Kinneys. 12mo, cloth
$1.50
Mr. Lillibridge writes about men of the Far West - big, primitive men with headstrong passions and
iron wills. The hero of “The Dissolving Circle" is such a man.
Lord of the World. By ROBERT HUGH BENSON, author of "The Light Invisible,”!." A
Mirror of Shalott,'' etc.
$1.50
This story is, in every sense of the word, remarkable. The author's brilliant imagination is guided by
logic and restrained by common sense, and the whole book is animated with a big purpose.
The Man Who Was Thursday. By GILBERT K. CHESTERTON, author of “Varied
Types,” “Heretics,” etc.
12mo, cloth
Mr. Chesterton is such a past-master in sophistries and casuistry, such a juggler of paradoxes, such an
adept in the arts whereby the brilliant and quick-witted pull the wool over the eyes of their less gifted brethren,
that he can give full and serious credibility to his tale of the astounding adventures of the detective who was
admitted into the innermost circle of anarchists.
The Vigil. By HAROLD BEGBIE, author of “The Penalty," etc.
12mo, cloth.
$1.50
This is a theological novel, and such a good one that a distinguished critic who read the story before
publication says: “I am inclined to call it the very best of its kind in the language. It shows a far deeper
and truer insight into the theological controversy of the time than, for example, Robert Elsmere.""
Exton Manor. By ARCHIBALD MARSHALL, author of “Richard Baldock," “ The House of
Peter Binney, Undergraduate,” etc.
* Such a piece of quiet, good workmanship is a pleasure in the days of up-to-date bad writing. -The
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.).
On the Knees of the Gods. By ANNA BOWMAN DODD, author of “Cathedral Days,"
“Three Normandy Inns," “ The American Husband in Paris," etc.
12mo, cloth
The author has here succeeded in revivifying the Golden Age of Athens, as Bulwer did that of Pompeii.
12mo, cloth
$1.50
12mo, cloth
$1.50
$1.50


1908.]
151
THE DIAL
A SELECTION FROM
Dodd, Mead & Co's Spring List
net,
$2.25
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
A Guide to the West Indies. By FREDERICK A. OBER, author of “Our West Indian
Neighbors,” etc. Profusely illustrated, and with many colored maps.
8vo, flexible, cloth
8vo, flexible leather
Special net, $2.75
In view of the number of tourists who yearly visit these islands, there is great need of an accurate and
comprehensive guide-book. Such a book has been prepared by Mr. Frederick A. Ober, who, having been
intimately acquainted with the West Indies for thirty years, is well qualified for his task. It is a guide-book
to the Bermudas, Bahamas, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, Haiti and Santo Domingo, the Danish, Virgin,
Dutch, French, Leeward and Windward Islands, Barbados and Trinidad. It is comprehensive, accurate and
convenient, giving all the information which a tourist desires as to routes, hotels, rates, places of interest, the
history and present condition of the islands, their fora and fauna, commerce,
natural resources, etc.
This
book should be the Standard Guide to the West Indies.
Tuscan Feasts and Tuscan Friends. By DOROTHY NEVILE LEES. Illustrated,
12mo, cloth.
net, $1.60
A charming book on a charming subject, will be the reader's verdict. From her home in a Tuscan villa
near Florence the author sallies out into the country roundabout and returns with delightful sketches of the
bills and woods, and the country people big and little. The author knows her Tuscan peasantry, from
wrinkled grandfathers to tiny bambinos, and she writes of their work, their homes, their customs and their
feasts with a sympathetic and sure touch. Individual characters are so deftly and feelingly portrayed that one
might characterize the book as a kind of “Cranford or “Our Village.'
Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener. Now first
publisbed. With introduction and notes by BERTRAM DOBELL. 12mo, cloth
net, $1.50
The forty-seven letters here printed were written between June, 1811, and June, 1812. At that time
Shelley was only about nineteen years of age, but during the period covered by the letters many of the most
important events of his life took place. In fact, his life during these months was full of romantic incidents
which were to leave their mark for good or evil on the whole of his future career. The letters are written in
a strain of the most candid and unreserved self-revelation. They exhibit in the liveliest colors the character of
this rash, chivalrous, frank, and generous youthful poet. Without them we should want by far the most
important documents for the history of his life at this time ; with them we could dispense with all the other
records of this period.
Passages from the Past.
By HIS GRACE, THE DUKE OF ARGYLL, author of “Life of
Queen Victoria," etc. Copiously illustrated, large 8vo, cloth. Two volumes .
net, $6.50
The one important question in considering a volume of reminiscences is — has the author any recollections
which interest other people? Certainly the Duke of Argyll, who is better known to Americans as the Marquis
of Lorne, one of the best and most popular of Canadian viceroys, has had better opportunities than fall to the
lot of most men to store up interesting recollections. One of the leading peers of England, whose titles alone
occupy twenty-four lines in “Who's Who," a son-in-law of Queen Victoria and a man prominently con-
nected with the English Government at home and abroad for a lifetime, there have been few prominent men
and women in Europe and America in the last half century whom he has not known. Some of the famous
persons whom he recalls in this volume of reminiscences, to mention them at haphazard, are: Wordsworth,
Tennyson, Browning, Lord Brougham, Lord Dufferin, Cavour, Garibaldi, General Lee, General Grant,
Seward, Longfellow, Bismarck, Emperor William I., Victor Emmanuel, Emperor Francis Joseph, Mr.
Gladstone, Louis Napoleon and Eugenie, Disraeli, Queen Victoria and the royal family, of course, and
others too numerous to mention.
Myths about Monarchs. By HANSARD WATT, author of “Home-made History." 12mo,
cloth
net, $1.00
A book of clever nonsense verses, some of which have already been published in "The Westminster
Gazette,” “The London Magazine, " “ Cassell's Magazine” and others. The author draws amusing
sketches of such musty old monarchs as Pharaoh, Cyrus, Busiris, Croesus, and Darius.
Brain and Personality. Revised Edition. By DR. W. HANNA THOMSON, M.D., LLD.
12mo,
cloth.
net, $1.20
The object of this book is to acquaint the general reader with the remarkable discoveries of modern
physiological science of the specific relations of the certain areas on the surface of the brain to special mental
functions. It has been the aim of the author to steer clear of technical terms as far as possible.
.


152
[March 16,
THE DIAL
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING
BOOKS OF PERMANENT VALUE
THE ART OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING
By HUMPHRY REPTON
"It is fortunate for the progress of this art that Repton has left the record of his experience in such conven-
ient, readable, and inspiring form." - Washington Star. Fully illustrated. $3.00 net. Postage 20 cents.
GREECE AND THE ÆGEAN ISLANDS
By PHILIP S. MARDEN
"An unusually entertaining and valuable book. Every tourist in Greece will need it." - Chicago Record-
Herald.
Fully illustrated. $3.00 net. Postage 19 cents.
ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
By FELIX E. SCHELLING
A readable, complete, and scholarly work by one of the best known American scholars in his field. In two
volumes.
$7.50 net. Carriage, 44 cents.
SPENSER'S COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS
Edited by R. E. NEIL DODGE
Cambridge Edition.
With frontispiece portrait in photogravure, and vignette. $3.00.
LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROBERT BROWNING
By MRS. SUTHERLAND ORR
A thoroughly revised edition of the authoritative life of the poet, with many new letters and other fresh
material.
With portrait. $2.00. Postpaid.
THE CHURCH AND MODERN LIFE
By WASHINGTON GLADDEN
A clear, strong, and admirable discussion of the Church in its relation to modern life. $1.25 net. Postage extra.
MODERN CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHERS
Edited by BENJAMIN RAND
A series of most interesting and valuable selections in English, containing the vital and epoch-making thought
in the history of modern philosophy from Bruno to Spencer.
$2.50 net. Postpaid.
AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS
By ROYAL CORTISSOZ
"One of the handsomest books of the season. . . . As interesting as it is scholarly and convincing, an essay
that is thoroughly enjoyable.”-Outlook, N.Y. With photogravure illustrations. $7.50 net. Postage, 30 cents.
WALT WHITMAN (Revised Edition)
By BLISS PERRY
"The volume will probably take its place as the sane and authoritative life of Whitman for many years to
come." - Nation, N. Y.
Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postage, 12 cents.
WHICH COLLEGE FOR THE BOY ?
By JOHN CORBIN
A lively and interesting description of several typical American colleges, told for the benefit of the present
or prospective under graduate, and likely to be of help to inquiring parents. It is a volume novel in concep-
tion, and should find an eager audience.
Fully illustrated. $1.50 net. Postage extra.
ON THE TRAINING OF PARENTS
By ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT
Six keen essays on the relations of parents and children. A volume that will be at once entertaining and
helpful to all perplexed fathers and mothers.
$1.00 net. Postage extra.
THE LITERATURE OF ROGUERY
By FRANK W. CHANDLER
“A world of information is furnished by this almost encyclopedic work of Professor Chandler, which is really
a signal contribution to research literature.". Chicago Tribune. In two vols. $3.00 net. Postage 20 cents.
MORNINGS IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL Second Series. By FRANCIS G. PEABODY
Seldom does one find so much of helpfulness and inspiration as is compressed into these addresses of three
pages each." - Living Church.
$1.25 net. Postage 12 cents.
NAPOLEON
By THEODORE A. DODGE
"The best military history of Napoleon that has ever been published.” — The Outlook.
Fully illustrated. In 4 volumes. $16.00 net. Postage extra.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By CARL SCHURZ and TRUMAN H. BARTLETT
"A volume that no one interested in the subject can afford to overlook. Schurz's tribute has an imperishable
place in the literature of the subject.” – N. Y. Post. With photogravure illustrations. $10.00 net. Postpaid.
THE LIFE OF ALICE FREEMAN PALMER
By GEORGE HERBERT PALMER
Mrs. Palmer was President of Wellesley College, and one of the leading educators of the country. This
remarkable record of her life by Professor Palmer, her husband, will take rank among the classic biographies
of women,
Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postage extra.
THE PULSE OF ASIA
By ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON
“Dr. Huntington's story of his long travels in these strange lands is, if anything, superior in fascination to the
remarkable chronicles of Dr. Sven Hedin."--The Interior. Fully illustrated. $3.50 net. Postage 20 cents.
SEND FOR OUR SPRING BULLETIN
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
BOSTON
NEW YORK


1908.]
153
THE DIAL
IMPORTANT NEW
BOOKS
MODERN ARTISTS
By CHRISTIAN BRINTON.
Size, 74 x 10. About 350 pages. Four illustrations in 4 colors, 66 half-tones. Cloth, gilt stamping. Boxed, $6.00 net.
This elaborate and handsome volume covers modern art in its widest field, ranging from Fragonard to Zuloaga. Each artist
and his work is dealt with in the vital and suggestive text. The illustrations are elaborate and of the highest character.
There are four plates in four colors, which includes the reproduction for the first time in color of Rosa Corder, and fifty-six
half-tone plates of exceptional excellence.
THE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC
By DANIEL GREGORY MASON and THOMAS WHITNEY SURETTE.
Hlustrated, $1.50 net.
The authors have aimed to provide readers who wish to listen intelligently to music with a practical guide to simple
appreciation. It is in no sense a technical work, and it is intended for the music lover rather than the music student, but all
who are interested in the art will find this work a mine of helpful suggestion.
.
OTHER VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES:
HOW TO JUDGE ARCHITECTURE
By RUSSELL STURGIS
THE APPRECIATION OF PIOTURES
By RUSSELL STURGIS
THE APPRECIATION OF SCULPTURE
By RUSSELL STURGIS
THE APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE
By GEORGE E. WOODBERRY
Illustrated, each, $1.50 net.
IN PREPARATION: THE APPRECIATION OF THE DRAMA. By C. H. CAFFIN, Ilustrated. $1.50 net.
THE APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE
By GEORGE E. WOODBERRY.
Size, 7x9. About 200 pages. Eight illustrations. $1.50 net.
The value of this book is above the ordinary. It is rendered helpful to the general reader by its charming simplicity of style
and the original nature of its contents. Mr. Woodberry's attitude towards his reader is that of a comrade rather than that
of a critic.
BUILDING A HOME
By H. W. DESMOND and H. W. FROHNE.
Size, 6 x 9, 200 pages. 100 illustrations, plans, and specifications. $1.80 net.
The great value of this book lies in its practical qualities. It is written by the editor of the Architectural Record," assisted
by Mr. Frohne, and its field is for the moderate-priced home, ranging from $5000 to $25,000 in cost. The illustrations, of which
there are many, are helpful and beautiful, and the plans are all drawn to scale.
MATERIALS AND METHODS OF FICTION
By CLAYTON HAMILTON.
With an introduction by BRANDER MATTHEWS. Size, 5%2x8. 300 pages. $1.50 net.
“Materials and Methods of Fiction” is intended for those students and general readers of fiction who desire to see the
story in the making. Mr. Brander Matthews has written for it an introduction of several thousand words, which is at once
valuable and suggestive.
A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
By RUSSELL STURGIS.
Three volumes, cloth, gilt top. Each 420 pages. Per set, $15.00 net. Half morocco, per set, $22.50 net.
Volume I. already published.
Volume II. opens with a treatment of the architecture of India, China, Japan, and other oriental nations, and includes also
the Mohammedan architecture which arose out of the Byzantine styles, and finally the great Gothic school of Central and
Northern Europe, up to the year 1300 A. D.
DR. ELLEN
By JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS. $1.50.
"A book to be thankful for."-N, Y. Evening Sun. It is meeting with wide and deserved favor. Fourth edition on the presses.
THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO.
UNION SQUARE
NEW YORK


154
[March 16,
THE DIAL
Little, Brown, & Co.'s Spring Books
THE WEIGHT OF THE
NAME
By PAUL BOURGET
Translated by George Burnham Ives
A poignant drama of the old aristocracy in France
to-day, the ripest work of a master novelist.
Cloth, $1.50.
THE GREAT SECRET
By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
“The best and most absorbing story of adventure
yet produced by Mr. Oppenheim."
- Philadelphia Press.
“ As a story-teller he has reached the highest mark
yet registered.” — Baltimore Sun.
Fully illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
THE ADVENTURES OF CHARLES EDWARD
By HARRISON RHODES
A lively, humorous story, with an irrepressible hero and a titled heroine.
With 24 illustrations by Penrhyn Stanlaws. Cloth, $1.50.
THE REAPING
By MARY IMLAY TAYLOR
A strong story dealing with Washington social and
political life.
With frontispiece in color. Cloth, $1.50.
QUICKENED
By ANNA CHAPIN RAY
The story of Thorne Alstrom's struggle with
his conscience, with a Quebec background.
Cloth, $1.50.
THE HEART OF THE RED FIRS
By ADA WOODRUFF ANDERSON
A realistic romance of the Great Northwest that chronicles a period now passed. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
THE SUPREME GIFT
By GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD
The heroine of this novel is involved in dramatic
situations that grip the reader's sympathies to the
Frontispiece in color. Cloth, $1.50.
JANET OF THE DUNES
By HARRIET T. COMSTOCK
“ A prose idyll of a Long Island Lighthouse and
Life Saying District, with a sweet love story.”
- New York World. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
very end.
THE HEMLOCK AVENUE MYSTERY
By ROMAN DOUBLEDAY
The mystery attached to the death of a prominent lawyer puzzles the reader to the very last chapter of
this ingenious detective story.
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
IN GREECE WITH THE
CLASSICS
By WILLIAM AMORY GARDNER
A book which tells in the words of the ancient
historians and poets the legends connected with
the places most frequently visited in Greece.
Cloth, $1.50 net; postpaid, $1.62.
MORE
A Study of Financial Conditions Now
Prevalent
By GEORGE OTIS DRAPER
A business man's views of live issues.
Cloth, $1.00 net; postpaid, $1.10.
LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
BOSTON


1908.]
155
THE DIAL
The Century Co.'s Spring Books
COME AND FIND ME
By ELIZABETH ROBBINS, author of "The Magnotio North,” eto. Eleven full-page Ullastra-
tions by Blumensohein. 12mo, 681 pages.
$1.80.
Here is a book - a rarely thrilling book-in which first, last, and all the time, the call of the North is the
dominating note. It rules the lives and loves of the very real men and women who hear and follow the
call, “Come and Find Me.”
SEEING ENGLAND WITH UNCLE JOHN
By ANNE WARNER, author of "Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop, “Seeing France
with Uncle John,” oto. Numerous Illustrations by Gruger. Index. 12mo, 492 pages. $1.50.
First, last, and all the time, Uncle John is funny - innocently, unconsciously, irresistibly funny. You
feel that as a travelling companion, Uncle John would be an awful infiction; but Uncle John in perspective
is delicious, and his views of the way England does things make rich and racy reading.
FRITZI
By AGNES MOCLELLAND DAULTON, author of "From Sioux to Susan,” “Wings and
Stings," Autobiography of a Butterfly,” eto. Fourteen Wustrations by Florence E. Storer.
12mo, 417 pages.
$1.80.
This story of little Fritzi's wanderings till the return of her long-lost father to claim his motherless child is
told with much sympathy and skill; and its rare charm and tender sentiment appeal to grown-ups as well
as to girls and boys.
THE FOUR-POOLS MYSTERY
By P Frontispiece by George Varian. 12mo, 886 pages.
$1.80
An unusual and stirring story of mystery and tragedy, in which the portrayal of life on a Southern plantation,
and the horror and fear roused in the negroes by what they believed manifestations of the ancestral “ha'nt,'
is clearly and vividly done. It is a book to keep its readers up nights.
READY IN APRIL AND MAY
MY LOST DUCHESS
By JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS, author of "The Stolen Story," The Adventures of a
Freshman,” eto. Charmingly Ulustrated in tint and with a lunette on the cover by Wallace
Morgan. 12mo, 811 pagos.
$1.80.
Such a merry, tender, idyllic story of young hearts and innocent loves, with Fifth Avenue for a setting and
old New York for the background, and with a pretty touch of mystery to pique interest and keep the reader
anxious to the end.
THE CHEERFUL SMUGGLES
By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER, author of “Pigs is Pigs," "The Confessions of a Daddy,” etc.
Eight illustrations by May Wilson Preston. 16mo, 200 pages.
$1.00.
More of this popular author's fun, a bundle of absurd complications and ridiculous situations arising from
a young couple's scheme to provide funds for their year-old son's education. It is a veritable Stocktonian
story, as delightfully absurd in theme as it is realistic in characterization.
A HANDFUL OF VERSE
By HARRISON S. MORRIS, for many
years Managing Director Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, and author of
Tales from Ten Poets,” “Madonna and
Other Poems,” eto. 16mo, 110 pages.
$1.00 net; postage, 6 cents.
A collection of the latest and ripest poetical
writings of this well-known Philadelphia author,
editor, and art critic.
POEMS (New Edition)
By ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON,
author of "The Winter Hour," "Songs of
Liberty,” etc. 16mo, about 300 pages.
$1.20 et; postage, 8 cents.
Contains the five long pieces by which Mr.
Johnson is best known, with practically all of his
shorter poems.
The Century Co.
Union Square
New
York


156
[March 16,
THE DIAL
H. M. CALDWELL COMPANY
BOSTON
PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
Notice: Booksellers, Librarians
WĘ E take pleasure in announcing that we have secured control of the
following copyrighted books by Captain F. S. Brereton, Alexander
Macdonald, F.R.G.S., and Robert Macdonald, and will publish exclu-
sively in the United States all future works of these popular writers for boys.
By CAPTAIN F. S. BRERETON
“Since the death of Henty no writer of boys' stories has made a more sensational advance
than Captain Brereton." - Standard.
JONES OF THE 64TH
ROGER THE BOLD
WITH ROBERTS TO CANDAHAR WITH WOLSELEY AT KUMASI
By ALEXANDER MACDONALD, F.R.G.S.
"Mr. Alexander Macdonald's experiences as an explorer supply much thrilling and instruc-
tive matter for his books." Exchange.
THE PEARL SEEKERS
THE LOST EXPLORERS
By ROBERT MACDONALD
“Out of the common, and distinct advance on the class of fiction usually provided for
boys.” – Exchange.
THE GREAT WHITE CHIEF
ALL THE ABOVE BOOKS ARE PRINTED ON EXTRA FINE PAPER, FULLY ILLUSTRATED, AND
ATTRACTIVELY BOUND IN ENGLISH VellUM Cloth. Size, 734 x 534.
PRICE, EACH, $1.25.
New volumes by above authors will be published this fall. Announcement later.
NOW READY
A PAGEANT OF ELIZABETHAN POETRY. By ARTHUR SYMONS. Crown 8vo.
Bound in quarter vellum, photogravure frontispiece. Price, $2.00 net.
BENARES: The Sacred City. Sketches of Hindu life and religion, by E. B. Havell,
A.R.C.A., Principal of the Government School of Art, Calcutta. Large demy 8vo,
cloth, gilt top. Price, $3.00.
A BOOK OF BRIDGE. By Pontifex. With many illustrative hands. Printed in
two colors. 16mo, bound in leather. Price, $1.50.
THE COMMUTER'S GARDEN RECORD. Written and illustrated by Amy CAROL
Rand. Printed in two colors, and bound in art canvas. Size, 874 x 734. $1.50 net.
READY APRIL 15
MY HIGH SCHOOL DAYS. By L. J. BRIDGMAN. A record book for the "sweet
girl graduate," beautifully decorated and illustrated. Bound in silk vellum cloth, gilt
top. Size, 858 x 594. Price, $1.50.
Send for Our Catalogue of BOOKS FOR COMMENCEMENT — Now Ready.


1908.]
157
THE DIAL
OUT-DOOR BOOKS
SPRING PUBLICATIONS
J. B. Lippincott Company Philadelphia
The Struggle for American
Independence
By SYDNEY GEORGE FISHER
Author of "The True History of the American Revolution,"
"The True Benjamin Franklin," etc.
A
COMPREHENSIVE history of the whole revolutionary move-
ment from a point of view quite different from the usual one.
A great deal of the original evidence, which has heretofore been
ignored by historians, is brought to light and made accessible to the
ordinary reader.
Two volumes. Illustrated. Crown octavo.
Cloth, gilt top, $4.00 net per set.
Our Trees:
How to Know Them
Photographs from Nature by ARTHUR I.
EMERSON
With a guide to their recognition at any season
of the year, and notes on their characteristics,
distribution, and culture.
By CLARENCE M. WEED, D.Sc.
140 Illustrations. Size 7%2x10 inches.
Cloth, $3.00 net. Postpaid $3.20.
Persia
The Awakening East
By W. P. CRESSON, F.R.G.S.
A narrative of a trip across Persia,
taken by the author and his
brother, giving many interesting
facts about the social and com-
mercial conditions of the country.
Profusely illustrated.
Octavo. Cloth, $3.50 net.
Why Worry?
By G. L. WALTON, M.D.
This book on that great American
occupation, “Worry," will be in-
forming and helpful to readers in
general, wbile to nervous sufferers
it should be invaluable.
Frontispiece. 12mo.
Cloth, $1.00 net.
The Small Country Place
By SAMUEL T. MAYNARD
A thoroughly practical book which will be of
great value to those who live upon small coun-
try places, especially those whose work in the
city allows them but a few hours each day to
spend about the home.
The author discusses the growing of farm and
garden crops, the care of the horse, the cow,
and poultry, and similar subjects.
75 illustrations from photographs,
and numerous line drawings. 12mo.
Cloth, $1.50 net. Postpaid $1.65.
Wild Flower Families
By CLARENCE M. WEED, D.Sc.
A popular hand-book which carefully covers
the haunts, characteristics, and family rela-
tionships, with suggestions for their identifica-
tion, of the more widely distributed herbaceous
wild flowers.
80 illustrations. 12mo. Cloth,
$1.50 net. Postpaid $1.60.
Life and Works of Christopher Dock
With a Translation of His Works into the English Language, by
Martin G. Brumbaugh, Ph.D., LL.D., and an Introduction
by Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker.
This volume is devoted to the life and a translation of the works of
America's pioneer writer on education Christopher Dock.
Illustrated. Octavo. Cloth, $5.00 net.
IN PRESS - A New Volume of the New Variorum
Edition of Shakespeare.
Richard the Third
Edited by HORACE HOWARD FURNESS, JR.
NEW SPRING FICTION
Marcia Schuyler
By GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL LUTZ
A sweet and wholesome romance, fragrant of lavender and rose-
mary — yet thrilling with heart experiences, touched with humor,
and shadowed by tragedy.
Colored frontispiece and six illustrations.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Four Seasons in the
Garden
By EBEN E. REXFORD
A book on gardening for the home-maker, by
the foremost amateur gardener of the United
States. It treats of all phases of the subject,
from the simple bed or two along the fence, in
a city back yard, to the most ambitious garden
the happy suburbanite or country dweller can
manage without the services of a professional.
Sumptuously illustrated in tints.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50 net.
The Master Influence The Duchess of Dreams
By THOMAS McKEAN
By EDITH MACVANE
Author of "The Vortex." A tale of social ambition, of start-
An exceedingly readable novel, the ling adventure, and of passionate
scene of which is laid principally love; placed against the dazzling
in New York City, but with fasci. background of a Newport summer.
nating touches of Paris and Sicily. Frontispiece in color by
Colored illustrations by Will Alonzo Kimball. 12mo.
Orefé. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Cloth, $1.50.
POETRY
My Bunkie and Other
Ballads
By ERWIN CLARKSON GARRETT
These poems tell of army life in the Philip-
pines, the tropics, and out-bound trails, and
palms and the phosphor seas.
12mo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.25 net.
READY IN MARCH - A Captivating Novel
The Princess Dehra
By JOHN REED SCOTT
A sequel to the dashing romance, “The Colonel
of the Red Huzzars."
In the Dead of Night
By JOHN T. MCINTYRE
A stirring novel of deep mystery, with scenes laid in New York City.
Colored frontispiece and three illustrations.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50.


158
[March 16,
THE DIAL
Jean Jacques Rousseau
TWO IMPORTANT WORKS OF LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP
Great Writers
By Professor GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY
BY JULES LEMAITRE
Author of " The Torch," "Swinburne.”
Member of the French Academy.
Shakespeare are the writers whose work is here epit-
THE announcement made last year that the veteran critic,
omized in that graceful yet authoritative manner that has was hailed with the greatest enthusiasm throughout France.
made Professor Woodberry rank as our foremost American The function was one of the best attended of the season.
critic.
Published in the present volume, the lectures are in the
A little cameo of biographical criticism . the
highest degree interesting and suggestive for the general
tradition of Lowell and Whipple still lives." -- Pitts-
reader in their treatment of the much misunderstood
burg Gazette-Times,
Rousseau. The work emphasizes more clearly than ever the
As he says of Virgil:-'Only an immense love of
primacy of M. Lemaitre in the field of French criticism.
life could so have revealed to him the pity of it'-80
there is in these essays a fulness of life, a maturity of
"M. Lemaitre is the foremost of living French critics,
vision and mellowness of experience which satisfies
and his treatment of Rousseau leaves little to be
first the reader's intelligence." — Baltimore News.
desired. The troubled pitiful life revealed in the
Should appeal with especial force to the lover of
Confessions' serves as the discourse thread, and
books, both by reason of the soundness and clarity
with sharp analysis, mordant wit, and clever epi-
of the author's analysis, and for the effective and
gram the writer hangs upon it his brilliant chapters."
graceful style in which his thought is expressed."
- Chicago Record-Herald.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Cloth, 12mo. Postpaid, $1.30; net, $1.20.
Cloth, 8vo. Postpaid, $2.75; net, $2.50.
66
Ready shortly, a new and very important book by the author of " Letters to a Chinese Oficial," "The Greek View
of Life," "A Modern Symposium," containing a discussion of the present constitution of society and of programmes
for its betterment :
Justice and Liberty by G. Lowes Dickinson
PUBLISHED BY
THE MCCLURE COMPANY, 44 EAST 23d STREET, NEW YORK
IMPORTANT NEW PUBLICATIONS
FROM THE PRESS OF
JENNINGS & GRAHAM
Cincinnati Chicago Kansas City San Francisco
WRITE FOR COMPLETE LIST
Hypnotic
Therapeutics
In Togo's Country Ready about April 10.
By HENRY B. SCHWARTZ. Studies in Satsuma and
other little known parts of Japan. Numerous illus-
trations. Art cover. Crown 8vo. Price, probably,
$1.50 net.
Some Recent Phases of German Theology
By Professor JOHN L. NUELSEN, of Nast Theological
Seminary. Large 12mo. Cloth, gilt top. 75 cts. net;
by mail, 82 cts.
Positive Preaching and Modern Mind
By Principal P. T. FORSYTH. The Lyman Beecher
Lectures on Preaching, Yale University, 1907. Octavo.
Buckram. $1.75 net; by mail, $1.92.
The Representative Women of the Bible
By GEORGE MATHESON, D.D. Planned to accompany
"The Representative Men of the Bible." 12mo.
Cloth. $1.50 net; by mail, $1.62.
By DR. JOHN D. QUACKENBOS, A.M.
A GREAT new book, for the first time telling
the story of hypnotism. A complete and
careful exposition of the theory of hypnotic
treatment. Dr. Quackenbos gives the result of
over seven thousand personal experiences which
have led him to the positive conviction that
hypnotism is the most wonderful regenerative
force of the age.
It is a unique record of the most startling
psychopathic cases, ranging from the mere pain
of abnormal bashfulness to the great depravities
and the wildest mental delusions, both the tragic
and the absurd. This treatise is true to science,
and nevertheless written for “the man in the
street.” Dr. Quackenbos is a member of the lead-
ing societies for such research here and abroad.
Crown 8vo, Cloth, Gilt Top.
Price, $2.00 net.
Erasmus : The Scholar
By JOHN ALFRED FAULKNER, of Drew Theological
Seminary. In the Men of the Kingdom Series. 12mo.
Cloth, paper label. $1.00 net; by mail, $1.08.
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS


1908.]
159
THE DIAL
CROWELL'S APRIL BOOKS
By LILIAN WHITING
Lilies of Eternal Peace
A charming Easter book, directed to those who sorrow for loved ones gone before, and
inspired by an assured faith in the life of the future. This well-known author and lecturer
is at her best when writing upon such topics.
Special type designs. Cloth, 75 cts. net. Leather, $1.50 net. Postage 8 cts.
By THOMAS TRAVIS, Ph.D.
The Young Malefactor
A careful and comprehensive study of the child criminal and juvenile courts. Judge
Ben. B. Lindsay, the foremost authority in America in this vital branch of justice, con-
tributes a special introduction in which he pays generous tribute to Dr. Travis's research,
saying that it is an “admirable work which I rejoice to welcome with enthusiasm.”
Cloth, $1.50 net. Postage 15 cts.
By SHELDON LEAVITT, M.D.
Paths to the Heights
A “regular” physician of high standing has forsaken drugs to go into the alluring fields
of mental healing and new thought. As a result he has here produced a book not wildly
“ heterodox,” but full of vigorous thinking on matters of bodily and spiritual health. The
book is sure to challenge attention and perhaps controversy.
Cloth, $1.00 net. Postage 10 cts.
By JOHN M. THOMAS, D.D.
The Christian Faith and the Old Testament
The Independent recently spoke of Dr. Thomas as one of our profoundest and clearest
scholars in Biblical criticism. In this book he has an important and congenial topic.
Many people are at sea these days in regard to Old Testament teachings. They cannot
reconcile the ancient Jewish God with modern faith. To all such honest doubters this
book will repay the reading.
Cloth, $1.00 net. Postage 10 cts.
By GABRIEL COMPAYRE
Montaigne And Education of the Judgment
This is the last of six volumes devoted to “ Pioneers in Education,” a noteworthy series on
pedagogy. Others are Rousseau, Spencer, Pestalozzi, Herbart, and Mann.
Cloth, 90 cts. net each. Postage 10 cts.
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., NEW YORK


160
[March 16,
THE DIAL
EDUCATIONAL REVIEW
Edited by NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
Professor of Philosophy and Education in Columbia University, and President of the University.
THE EDUCATIONAL REVIEW, founded in 1891, commands the support of every prominent
student of education, both in the United States and in Europe.
It is not an educational newspaper; it is not a journal for the presentation of schoolroom methods;
it is not an organ of any special educational interest or of any one type of educational doctrine.
It is the organ of representative students of education; it is national and international in scope,
and catholic in sympathy; its field of interest includes educational work of every form and grade.
The readers of the Educational Review are studious teachers and students of education who
wish to know the ripest thought, the newest investigations, and the best books on education.
“In editing the Review you have done a valuable and much needed work for education in the United States."
- President Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University, April, 2, 1907.
"We find the Educational Review absolutely indispensable at every turn. MICHAEL E. SADLER, Director of
Special Enquiries and Reports Board of Education, London, England, September 13, 1901.
Subscription Price, $3 a Year; foreign postage, 50 cents additioual.
Trial Subscription (for new subscribers only) Three Months, 50c; Single Copies, 356.
A few complete sets of the EDUCATIONAL REVIEW remain for sale. Correspondence invited.
Analytical Index to the first twenty-five volumes (1891-1903 inclusive)
218 pp. $3.00 +12 cents postage.
EDUCATIONAL REVIEW, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
1
SIR HUBERT VON
HERKOMER and
Sir Hubert Herkomer, the distinguished artist, writing from Bushney
to the Editor of "Public Opinion," says, on February 11th, 1908:-
Dear Sir, - It gives me great pleasure to tell you how your paper, PUBLIC OPINION, answers
a purpose in my life. Although I read a great deal, I find it impossible to keep abreast of the trend
of higher thought that is going on around me, which can only be gathered from various articles and
letters in newspapers, and articles in magazines. But your paper gives me the assurance that I miss
nothing which would be of use to me in the train of thought upon which I may just be engaged,
and seldom does a weekly issue of PUBLIC OPINION appear from which I cannot cull some useful
suggestion. As a lecturer on art, I need all the suggestions on life that I can get into my bands, for I
treat art in all its pbases popularly. From PUBLIC OPINION I get to know certain modern authors
with whose methods of thinking I am ip sympathy, and those I follow up further. Your paper does me
the service to point to them.
Your selection of current thought is worthy of all praise, for it gives one the wholesome feeling
that the world is, after all, not going to the devil, but contains thinkers and good men and women.
I wish you, with all my heart, continuous success with your paper.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) HUBERT VON HERKOMER.
A WEEKLY REVIEW OF CURRENT EVERY FRIDAY
THOUGHT AND ACTIVITY
TWOPENCE
EDITED BY PERCY L. PARKER
The Purpose of PUBLIC OPINION is to provide information by means of a weekly review of current thought and
activity as they are expressed in the world's newspapers, magazines, and books, and to put on record the ideas and
activities which make for religious, political, and social progress.
PUBLIC OPINION can be obtained from any Newsagent or Bookstall, or will be sent Post Free for one year to any
address in the United Kingdom for 105. 10d.; and to any place abroad for 13s. per annum. Orders should be addressed to-
PUBLIC OPINION, 30 AND 31 TEMPLE HOUSE, TALLIS STREET, LONDON, E.C.
SPECIMENS FREE ON APPLICATION
PUBLIC OPINION A WEEKLY REVIEW OF CURRENT


1908.]
161
THE DIAL
SPRING ANNOUNCEMENTS
CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN
By GEORGE M. GOULD, M.D. 12mo, cloth, gilt top. With frontispiece portrait of Hearn.
$1.50 net; by mail, $1.65.
Dr. Gould presents a remarkable study of the man and his work. As a master of English prose, America has
not produced his superior; and as a prince of style, Hearn has seldom been surpassed in any country. This is
the first biographical and critical study of the gifted man ever issued.
DANTON AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
By Hon. CHARLES F. WARWICK, author of “Mirabeau and the French Revolution.” Large 12mo, cloth,
gilt top. Fully illustrated.
$2.50 net; by mail, $2.65.
Written in a popular style, that will appeal to the general reader. It is a complete history of that portion of the
Revolution with which “ the great tribune,” Danton, was identified. Dealing as it does with the attack on the
Tuilleries, the attempted flight of the King, his imprisonment, trial, sentence, and execution, it covers the most
vitally interesting part of the entire “ Reign of Terror.”
JEFFERSON DAVIS
By Professor W. E. DODD, of Randolph Macon College, Virginia. 12mo, cloth. With frontispiece
portrait of Davis.
$1.25 net; by mail, $1.37.
“ This book should be read by both sides. It is a historical document of intense interest.”. - N. Y. Times. « It is
likely to become the most widely circulated and popular of the lives of the Confederate Hero.” — Reviem of Reviews.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS
By Louis PENDLETON. 12mo, cloth. With frontispiece portrait of Stephens. $1.25 net; by mail, $1.37.
An important volume because it deals directly with the part Stephens took in the struggle between the supporters
of State Sovereignty and Federal supremacy.
TREES IN NATURE, MYTH, AND ART
By J. ERNEST PYTHIAN. 12mo, cloth, gilt top. With 24 full-page illustrations and uncut edges.
$1.50 net; by mail, $1.65.
This work takes up such subjects as Tree Worship, How Trees Change Through the Year, Trees in Architecture,
Trees in Painting, etc. Some of the illustrations are from most unusual sources.
THE COMPLETE LAWN TENNIS PLAYER
By A. WALLIS MYERS, author of “ Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad." 8vo, cloth. Illustrated from
original photographs and diagrams.
$3.00 net; by mail, $3.20.
This book deals authoritatively and comprehensively with every department of the game, and the varying methods
of the world's greatest players. Expert advice is offered on the construction and maintenance of courts, the
management of clubs and tournaments, refereeing, and other practical matters.
ADVANCED GOLF
By JAMES BRAID. The world's champion golf player. Large 12mo, cloth. With 55 half-tone
illustrations.
$3.00 net; by mail, $3.20.
Contains advice for the improvement of the game, of anyone who has once grappled with its early difficulties, even
though he has not mastered them. It will make an expert out of a good golfer and a good player out of a poor one.
ARCHAEOLOGY AND FALSE ANTIQUITIES
By. ROBERT MUNRO, M.A., LL.D. 8vo, cloth. With 18 plates, a plan, and 63 text illustrations.
$3.00 net; by mail, $3.20.
The author provides us with an account of the most famous attempts made by men to impede the progress of
archæology by producing forged antiquities, and he also points out the way in which nature herself has
committed the felony.
CELTIC ART: IN PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN TIMES
8vo, cloth. With 44 plates and 81 text illustrations.
$3.00 net; by mail, 3.20.
“Unquestionably the greatest living authority on the Celtic Archæology of Great Britain and Ireland. It is an
admirable piece of work.” — St. James's Gazette.
.
PUBLISHERS
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY


162
[March 16, 1908.
THE DIAL
Modern Egypt
A NOTABLY INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT NEW BOOK
Lord Cromer's
great work on
In two 8vo volumes, with portrait and map. $6.00 net. Ready this day.
It is unnecessary to dwell upon the importance of this announcement, for it will without doubt
excite the liveliest interest in both the British Empire and the foreign countries which have
watched keenly the development of Egypt from a state of anarchy to its present prosperous
condition under Lord Cromer.
The author states that his object in writing the book is twofold. In the first place, he
wishes to place on record an accurate narrative of some of the principal events which have occurred
in Egypt and in the Soudan since 1876; he has had access to all the documents in the Foreign
Offices of both Cairo and London; and has been in close communication with everyone who has
taken a leading part in Egyptian affairs during the period of which he writes.
In the second place, he wishes to explain the results which have accrued to Egypt from the
British occupation of the country in 1882. Such a showing of tangible results of twenty-five
years' experience renders the work of tremendous value to any nation facing similiar problems
in her own dependencies.
Mr. B. L. Putnam Weale's forecast of
The Coming Struggle in
Eastern Asia
contains a critical account of the Japanese plan and
policy since the great war, and a clear outline of the
attitude forced upon the United States in the East.
8vo, cloth, illus., $9.50 net.
Gertrude Atherton's striking novel
The Californians (new edition)
Mrs. Atherton is at her best in these vivid romances
of life on the Pacific Coast, whether she writes of
"The Splendid Idle Forties," or as here of that
period of transition, when the old ideas of Spain
were blending with those the "gringo" brought to
produce an entirely new type of aristocrat.
Cloth, $1.50.
Mr. Jack London's new novel
The Iron Heel
One critic says: “It is more than a mere book. It
is a phenomenon ... so charged with possibilities
of dynamic influence that in Russia it would be im-
mediately powdered out of existence." Cloth, $1.50.
Mr. Owen Wister's capital sketch
The Seven Ages of
Washington By the author of
"The Virginian'
A leading article in The Outlook declares that no
one can lay it down without a heightened sense of
Washington's greatness and an altogether new sense
of the thoroughly human quality of his nature.
In gray board, $2.00 net; boxed, by mail, $2.15.
H. Fielding Hall's attractive new book
The Inward Light
By the author of "The Soul of a People." Sets forth
the great secret of the East, its unity of its faith with
conduct of daily life.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.75 net; by mail, $1.86.
Mr. H. G. Wells's
new book
New Worlds for Old
is an attractively practical, lucid answer to the
questions:"What is Socialism?” and “How can it be
made to work now?" His point of view is broadly
human, just, and enlightened, Cloth, $1.50 net.
Confessio Medici (Anonymous)
“Whoever he may be, he is master of a most fascin-
ating style and is capable of being at once wise and
whimsical ... clever and delightful." - Living Age.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25; by mail, $1.35.
Mr. Percy MacKaye's new play
The Scarecrow
The dramatic critic of the Sun remarks: “It cannot
be too plainly or too positively said that in his own
field Mr. MacKaye deserves a place beside the leaders
in his art in England and France."
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25; by mail, $1.35.
Frank Danby's striking new novel
The Heart of a Child
BEING PASSAGES FROM THE EARLY LIFE
Ready this day.
OF SALLY SNAPE LADY KIDDERMINSTER
Cloth, $1.50.
By the author of "Pigs in Clover,” “Baccarat," “Dr. Phillips," etc.
PUBLISHED
BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64-66 5th Ave.,
NEW YORK


THE DIAL
A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
munications should be addressed to
PAGE
THE DIAL (founded in 1880) is published on the 1st and 16th of
each month. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 82. a year in advance, postage
THE CLOSET DRAMA.
prepaid in the United States, and Mexico; Foreign and Canadian
postage 50 cents per year extra. REMITTANCES should be by check, or That stern guardian of the virtues of dramatic
by express or postal order, payable to THE DIAL COMPANY.
art, Professor Brander Matthews, has long been
Unless otherwise ordered, subscriptions will begin with the current
number. When no direct request to discontinue at expiration of sub exercised over the pretensions of the literary
scription is received, it is assumed that a continuance stále zubecription play — that is, of the play which is written to
be read rather than to be acted. The closet
THE DIAL, Fine Arts Building, Chicago.
drama, as it is frequently styled, has become
Entered as Second-Class Matter October 8, 1892, at the Post Office
at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879.
a recognized species of our literature, and has
acquired an important position through the emi-
No. 522. MARCH 16, 1908. Vol. XLIV.
nence of those English writers who, during the
past hundred years or so, have in part devoted
CONTENTS.
their energies to its composition. But our critic
THE CLOSET DRAMA
163 will none of it; he calls it a “ bastard-hybrid ”
PERSONALITY VS. WORK. Charles Leonard Moore 165
and other offensive names, and, not content with
keeping it confined within its closet, he exhibits
CASUAL COMMENT
167
The endless possibilities of library improvement.
a ferocious desire to end its existence altogether.
- A cockpit for literary combats. — The eloquent So zealous a gaoler (how he will love that spell-
shrug of Omar Khayyam. - The old-fashioned
ing!) needs to be watched himself, lest his
librarian. Chicago as a centre for library exten-
sion. The press and the people. — A guide to
innocent captive be secretly done to death, or, if
current French books. — The yellowness of yellow perchance its life be spared, its reputation (that
journalism. - Of interest to dictionary-buyers. – immediate jewel of the soul) be blasted forever.
Statesmanship and the love of poetry. — The old-
time spelling bee. — Aluminum for books for the
It is against Professor Beers, in particular,
blind.
that our knight has couched his lance, and the
COMMUNICATIONS
170 arena of the tourney is found in the February
“ The Old-Fashioned Librarian” Once More.
“ North American Review," while a sort of side-
Thomas H. Briggs.
More Definitions of “Gawming” or “ Gorming."
show is provided for the entertainment of readers
Howard Mansfield.
of the “ Atlantic" in its issue of the same month.
DR. JOHN BROWN AND HIS FRIENDS. Percy Professor Beers having rashly asserted that“ the
F. Bicknell.
171
play house has no monopoly of the dramatic
THE GREAT MASTER OF MILITARY STRA form,” and having further expressed the opinion
TEGY. Josiah Renick Smith
173
that “the English closet-drama of the nineteenth
THE REJUVENATION OF HENRY JAMES.
century is an important body of literature, of
Edward E. Hale, Jr.
174
higher intellectual value than all the stage-plays
SURVEYS OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY. John
Bascom
in England during the same period,”
176
produced
a challenge became inevitable, and was promptly
THE ANCIENT APPARITION OF THE MONGOLS.
William Elliot Griffis
178
delivered The contest rages
about a
list
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
179
of works that includes Byron's “Manfred,”
The art of landscape gardening. - A pernicious George Eliot's "
Spanish Gypsy," Arnold's
instance of “ near-science." —A book about chil-
Empedocles on Etna,” Tennyson's “ Becket,"
dren's books. — The Duchesse de Longueville and
her times. The singer of the seasons. -The home
Browning's “Pippa Passes," Swinburne's “At-
of the Yankees of the southern continent. — The alanta,” and Landor's “ Gebir," although we do
life-work of a noted Pestalozzian. — A scientific
not quite see what the last-named epic is doing
Fish-book for common use. — Letters of a German
composer. — McLoughlin and the story of Oregon.
in cette galere.
BRIEFER MENTION
182
These, of course, are only a few typical
examples of the great number of works cast in
NOTES
183
the dramatic mould that have a secure position
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING BOOKS
183
in our nineteenth-century literature. The list,
A complete classified list of books to be issued by
American publishers during the Spring of 1908.
properly amplified, would seem to the plain man
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
190 | fully to justify the claims made by Mr. Beers
.
.


164
[March 16,
THE DIAL
97
for this category of creative work. Nor does of Faust's opening monologue, the parable of
Mr. Matthews deny outright the importance of " Nathan der Weise,” the invocation to the
But he seeks to min- spirit of Charlemagne
in “ Hernani," the
imise the sigificance of the list by eliminating scathing denunciation of the courtiers in “Ruy
from it two kinds of plays — those that their
those that their Blas,” and many a tirade of classical French
authors really hoped might be acted, and those tragedy. We might possibly balk at John
that are no more than imitations of ancient Knox's sermon in “ Bothwell,” but are not quite
models — and then disposing of the rest by sure of even that, never having been put to the
remarking that they might be blotted out of ex test. And, to take the most conspicuous of
istence “ without greatly impairing the renown modern instances, we would rather witness a
of the English poets who have condescended performance of Ibsen's “ Brand” than a wilder-
to the poem in dialogue.' 6 Condescended ” is ness of “ Doll Houses” and “ Hedda Gablers."
good, but it seems to beg the question; the To this point, we are prepared to defend the
demolition is very neat, in theory, but some legitimacy of the stage-play that does not limit
how it leaves - Becket” and “ Atalanta" and
and “ Atalanta ” and its effects to crisp dialogue and swiftly-moving
“ Manfred ” with all their old compelling power action. These things are well, but the play is
upon our imagination. We recall the stage dust and ashes that does not also provide its
presentation of “ Becket” as one of the most im seasons of recueillement and aim at something
pressive we have ever seen ; we think enviously more than excitement. The modern English
of the London audience that was privileged stage has deliberately divorced itself from liter-
to witness - Atalanta not long ago, and we ature, and has no reason to complain because
are by no means sure that a performance of literature chooses to preserve for itself whatever
“ Manfred” would not be the occasion of a joy- traditions and habits of the old alliance it may
ous experience - its joy perhaps enhanced by still find fitted for its purpose. That the divorce
the knowledge that it was counted illegitimate proceedings have been instituted by the stage is
by the doctrinaires of dramaturgy.
practically admitted by Mr. Matthews. He says:
Mr. Beers reminds us that the closet dra 5. The drama has cast out all that is undramatic
matist has “a freer hand than the professional and it now has no room for anything but the
playwright," pointing out the obvious advan- action and the characters. It is compacter than
tages of a form that “has not need to sacrifice ever before ; and it rejects not only description
truth of character and probability of plot to the but also narrative.” Precisely so. But the poet,
need of highly accentuated situations, and that whose claim upon the dramatic form is primary,
is not constrained to make swift development of refuses to abandon that form to the commercial-
dramatic action the be-all and end-all of its aim. ized mercies of the stage-manager, and, with
The position seems to us impregnable ; certainly strange perversity, refuses also to write for the
it is not carried by assault by hurling such stage under such limitations. The great Greeks
epithets as “wilful perversity,” “ shrinking and the great Frenchmen and the great Ger-
weakling,” and “anarchists in art” at its mans and the great Englishmen of our one great
defenders. Mr. Matthews is a warm admirer of dramatic epoch found the stage a suitable place
French dramatic literature and a recognized for both description and narrative, and the
authority upon the subject, but the canons of modern Englishman who seeks to follow in their
criticism which lead him to condemn the English footsteps, although he would willingly make
closet-drama would, if logically applied, con some concessions to stagecraft, is completely
demn also the masterpieces of Corneille and alienated by the non possumus attitude of the
Racine. There is no place for récits de manager. Thus freed to follow his own devices,
Théramène in the legitimate drama as he now he produces literature that is dramatic in sem-
seeks to circumscribe its activities. His narrow blance, but that takes little thought of exits and
definition admits Molière alone of the three entrances and stage groupings, or of histrionism
great Frenchmen, and leaves much of Hugo and in general. His work is given to the world in
Goethe, and no little of Shakespeare, in the the form of “ The Cenci,” or of “ Count Julian,
outer darkness. The stage-scene in which there or of Philip van Artevelde," and this is the
is “nothing doing” is his pet abhorrence, for he closet drama the right of which to exist Mr.
ignores the possibility that there may be a great Matthews so stoutly denies.
deal “ doing” in the mind of the listening spec Our critic speaks no more than the truth
tator. For our own part, we confess to have when he says that “ behind every appearance of
derived acute pleasure from the stage deliverance the closet drama we can discover a latent con-


1908.]
165
THE DIAL
tempt for the actual theatre," but few will great romance writer can draw curious crowds whom
follow him in discovering as well “ a desire to a battlefield would leave cold. The danger is that
claim its rewards.” It may be held as a pious
our interest in the makers of literature themselves
opinion by the closet dramatist that the ideally is likely to take the place of interest in their work.
constituted theatre of some utopian realm would
We make pilgrimages to the places where they dwelt,
reward his work in the measure of its beauty of their material life, and forget to be stirred or
and leave their books unread; we handle the relics
and truth, but he knows full well that his own
raised by their spiritual revelations; we talk to rags
audience will be one of readers only, and that
the circumstances of Shelley's life, while “ Adonais
his own rewards (materially viewed) will come and “Prometheus Unbound” sleep on the shelf;
from royalties on books and not on productions. we discuss Poe's inebriety, and forget his art. This
The stage conditions of the last half-century or might be thought the flattery of fame were it not
more have been so utterly discouraging to the that scandal is our usual quest. We dig in the dirt
serious English writer of dramatic bent that he like pigs that have been trained to hunt for truffles.
has taken the only course befitting his dignity, Antiquity knew nothing of this insatiate curiosity.
and has written his plays for print alone. He
It usually gave its poets and thinkers about as many
has missed thereby the tribute of nightly
lines of biography as we give volumes.
The huge
monuments of poetry and philosophy rose in sight
applause in the playhouse, but he has cherished
of
everyone,
while the men who reared them were
instead the consoling thought that his work had
but a name.
a fair chance of living as a part of English liter But the personality of writers affects contempo-
ature. And that is the one thing not likely to raries not by the means of biography, but by actual
be asserted concerning the English plays of the presence, — by rumor or report or by a sort of aura
same period that have borne, however triumph- which envelops their works. And this personality
antly, the test of the footlights.
may be attractive, repellant, or neutral.
The attractive personality in literature wins his
place in human regard by a variety of methods.
Sometimes he is the mere voice of the crowd — the
PERSONALITY VS. WORK.
personification of its passing moods and desires. He
sees, perhaps a little earlier than the rest of man-
There is a story of a ship sailing north which kind, what winds and tides are like to prevail, and
sights a huge black rock and in an instant all its nails steers and spreads his sail for them. He seems to
and iron-work are drawn out and the vessel falls lead, though in reality he follows, like the rest, the
into pieces. Contemporary literary criticism makes impulse of the hour. He is the exponent of the
shipwreck on the magnetic rock of personality. It Zeitgeist, and as such very often does a noble and
cannot keep its steerage way or bearings, or even stay important work.
important work. And he is always valuable his-
afloat, when confronted by a dominating character. torically as indicating the direction and interests of
At first glance it would seem a matter of indiffer the human mind at any given time. Probably the
ence to the world as to what manner of being it is greater number of the heirs of fame are of this kind.
who presents it with a work of art. We do not | They are the favorites of fortune. Like the brazen
inquire of our butchers and bakers and candlestick gate fronting the sun, they receive and render back
makers whether they have red hair and bandy legs, its rays. Popular poets, novelists, rhetoricians in
or a Bluebeard closet full of wives, or drain the religion or politics, are all of this kind. The danger
flowing bowl in their leisure moments. All such they are exposed to is of a too easy success which
facts, if true of literary genius, doubtless have relaxes the fibre of heroic effort. Their view of life
subtle influence on its work. But it is difficult to is likely to be shallow and trivial. Or the Zeitgeist
trace such influence out. The criticism of gossip, of the new age eats up the Zeitgeist of the last, and
of which Sainte-Beuve was the great modern master, they are forgotten.
fails utterly to explain the inexplicable genesis of Of a somewhat similar kind are the reformers in
literary creation. It ignores the inspiration, the literature — who, coming at a time when one good
gift, the unknown power of intellect and feeling custom has corrupted the world, when the gods have
which makes all the difference between one man hardened into idols, when formalism has replaced
and another. The experience of a genius is paral- spirituality, gather a revolting crowd about them,
leled by that of myriads of his fellows. His ability burst into the sacred places, and smash the images.
to change this experience into artistic creations is Such iconoclasts, if successful, win an even more
enthusiastic regard and a greater reward than they
Biography is one of the most fascinating forms who burn incense to the deities in power.
of literature, and the biographies of men of letters mon danger binds their followers to them, and their
are the best of all. When they are both dismissed courage makes them kings. The revolt of Words-
from life's stage the man of action must yield pre worth and his comrades against the conventional in
cedence to the man of thought. A handful of songs English literature, and that of Hugo and Dumas in
can sanctify a whole region; the birthplace of a French, are cases in point.
his own.
A com-


166
[March 16,
THE DIAL
success.
A minor kind of personality which achieves pop ambitions, what are these to him? A type of
ularity is that of the humorist who does not presume. genius, higher yet, perhaps, than that possessed by
A writer who makes himself the subject of his own the prophetic souls I have named, has known how
satire, who tacitly assumes the superiority of his to reconcile the infinitely great and the immeasur-
readers or audience, is sure to please. The public, ably little. But it has been at the cost, which
proud of patronizing, takes such a personality under Dante or Milton would not pay, of sinking its own
its protection. Such humility may be a very noble individuality.
thing, and when allied with great intellectual power The masters of the ironic strain in literature have
exercises a rightful charm. “I will speak harm of been driven to many devices to get any acceptance
no one save myself of whom I know the most ill,” at all from their audiences. Aristophanes and
is one of Shakespeare's sweetest speeches. Most of Rabelais disguised their mockery in filth, yet it is
the humorists who have won the hearts of their con difficult to believe that either of them was personally
temporaries have been deeply imbued with this popular. Defoe wrote an ironical essay on “An
feeling. One only needs to name Goldsmith, Lamb, Easy Way with Dissenters” which was taken for
and Irving
a plain straightforward proposition. Probably noth-
Once in a great while a personality appears in ing did so much to fix the charge of brutality upon
literature of such beauty, splendor, or stateliness as Swift as his suggestion for the economical utilization
to attract all eyes and entbrone himself in the admi of Irish infants.
ration of mankind. In spite of envy and hatred The most mysterious instance of a great character
which try to do him wrong, general opinion doffs its made repellant to his countrymen by subtle irony is
cap to him. The world seems to recognize in him that of Cervantes. Here was a hero among heroes,
a dæmonic character lifted above the ordinary levels an Hidalgo among Hidalgos, -one almost, to borrow
of life. It sees in him an incarnation of power and a fine phrase about a more sacred personage," the
Modern Europe has perhaps produced no first true gentleman who ever lived." He was dow-
more than two men of this kind Goethe and ered with sweetness, gentleness, fortitude, patience.
Byron. Voltaire and Swift exercised almost as His motto was “Patience, and shuffle the cards."
great a personal influence, but they lacked nearly Yet he got few honors and scant reward from his
all the gifts of nature and fortune which those fav native land. The stately Spaniard, accustomed to
ored two possessed.
being flattered to the top of his bent by Lope and
Counterfeit presentments of personality there Calderon, must have felt that Cervantes was laugh-
always are in plenty. Many authors and artists, foring in his sleeve at him. And so he thrust aside
advertising purposes, adopt eccentricities of dress or the
poet
who the incarnation of Spanish courage
manner or character. But such masquerades do not and courtesy and loftiness of soul.
mean much.
In one of Keats's most brilliant letters he says
The repellant personalities, the men of genius
the men of genius that the characteristic of the highest type of literary
who in life excite the active dislike of their fellows, genius is to have no character at all. It must have
who are reviled, persecuted, banished, -number in no decided domineering force of its own which might
their ranks many of the greatest names in literature. interfere with its receptivity to outward impressions.
They are the high and haughty souls, who, confident Keats speaks of himself as having been overwhelmed
in their own strength, hold aloof from mankind. by the personality of a child. The neutral per-
They are the logicians who syllogize hateful truths. sonages of literature are undoubtedly thus made.
They are the satirists and dealers in irony. Irony They sink themselves in their work. They go about
the appearance of things propitious, the reality of the world, as it were, incognito, watching the pas-
things malign — seems to excite the anger of man sions and humors of men, and passively reflecting
kind even more than satire or disdain.
like a mirror the phenomena of nature and human-
Æschylus, Dante, and Milton are the great ity. They are like Apollo among the shepherds of
exemplars of the kind of genius whose soul is as a Admetus, like Haroun al-Raschid prowling about the
star and dwells apart. Their contemporaries were streets of Bagdad in disguise. Of course, back of
very willing to have them keep their distance, and this seeming passivity of impression, is the mighty
helped them to do so by persecution and exile. mind always at work combining and recreating.
all such cases of misunderstanding the pity is to be And this mind is so mighty, so conscious of its
divided between the great figure and his puny divine power, that it is indifferent to the outward
fellows. Human beings have their inevitable duties, accidents which befall it. How should the man who
joys, sorrows, and sins. They tend to drag down was meditating “King Lear” feel any personal con-
ward into the darkness and resent being spurred cern in the intrigues and bustle of the life about him!
upward into the light. They look to their literary How should he care whether he had precedence at
chiefs for sympathy and flattery, and they hate the Court or place in the ranks of the nobles of the day!
clarion call which rouses them to high endeavor. How should the man who had created Rosalind and
Yet when Gulliver appears in Lilliput what can he Imogen care whether this maid of honor or that city
make of the pygmy multitude? The little messes dame smiled
upon
him or not! We know that he
which satisfy their appetites, the little round of duties did care to a certain extent for such things, but it is
which occupy their days, the toys which satisfy their doubtful whether his interest was deep enough to
was


1908.]
167
THE DIAL
-
-
make him exert his energies in actual life. Possibly I speak of a shelf' room I mean one where the books
the reason we know so little about him is that there are on the walls unconfined, to be taken by the reader
was little to know - that he strove with none, for
without application to an attendant. This worthy could
sit at a little wicket by the door to see that nothing was
none was worth his strife. Certainly he made no
stolen. Such a room as this would offer the advantages
effort to impress his personality upon his contem-
of freedom and wide selection. It is often very annoying
poraries. He laughed and drank with his fellows,
to have to go through the formalities that are now in
helped them to their triumphs, accepted good existence here to get books. It quite interrupts your
naturedly his eclipse by Ben Jonson and Fletcher thought sometimes, and puts you out of humor for a
because, in all probability, he was the only man in long while. Then, when you get what you have applied
that day conscious of the greatness of his work. Can for, often you don't want it. A hasty glance through
we doubt that Homer, the man, whoever he was,
the contents convinces you that they are worthless.
who fused the legends and traditions of the Greek
Then you have to order again and lose much time in the
process.
race into one splendid and vital whole, was a being
All this could be avoided in a shelf' room
of the same order? We know that Virgil, the per-
where you could get what you wanted when you wanted
it, and where you could be sure always of what you
fect artist, was, for we have glimpses of him, shy
were getting.” Careful selection and frequent change
and secluded, careless of his surroundings, indiffer-
of books thus exposed would be necessary, as Dr. Steiner
ent as to his place in Roman socicty while he was goes on to explain; and further: “ The visitors to such
brooding over the dream which was to make Rome a sanctum would have to be of a class that valued books
immortal. Horace probably impressed himself a and that read really for the pleasure of reading, and not
hundred times as much upon the people about him. for the sake of spending a boresome half-bour. I would
Great is the power of personality, — pervasive its
regard the place as the choicest part of the library
charm when it pleases, dreadful its doom when it
sort of holy of holies, where individuals of kindred taste
does not. But, in the main, it is only a temporary
could meet on a sure high ground.” Would that these
plans might be carried out! Baltimore deserves better
force in literature. It speedily fades into tradition
things at the hands of its appropriations committee; for
or else solidifies into biography, which is a new lit whereas, in 1906, Chicago devoted $300,000 to library
erary creation. Character is the scaffolding by uses, Boston $325,550, and Pittsburgh $200,000, Bal-
means of which the houses and palaces and temples timore's appropriation has for twenty-two years not
of art are erected. When these are done, unless exceeded $50,000.
the architecture is bad indeed, it is fitting that the A COCKPIT FOR LITERARY COMBATS has been play-
beams and timbers which helped in the building fully proposed by that fertile-brained, indefatigable,
should be taken down and the structures themselves always suggestive writer on all things in heaven and
revealed to view. The work is, after all, the thing.
earth, and a few besides, — Mr. Andrew Lang. He
Personality is an uncertain quantity — the subject suggests that “if a capitalist of disinterested character
could be enlisted,” a special paper,
“ The Cockpit,"
of conjecture and interpretation. But work is sure
might be established for the free discussion and final
and lasting in its effect - as lasting as the human
adjustment of differences between authors and critics.
nature it depicts, as the generations of men who
“I remember,” he says in the London“ Morning
enjoy it. And it is apprizable. The great produc- Post”) in some remarks leading up to this suggestion,
tions of literature can be brought from the four “meeting Mr. Browning once, when he was in an indig-
quarters of the world, from the utmost distances of nant mood. A critic, a very eminent, courteous, and
time, set side by side and judged and placed and honorable critic, had reviewed his new poem, had
ranked.
CHARLES LEONARD MOORE.
printed extracts, and had complained that they were
very obscure. No wonder, for the critic had inadvert-
ently misprinted them so as to render them wholly
unintelligible. I could not convince Mr. Browning, who
CASUAL COMMENT.
did not know the reviewer, that the error, though de-
plorable, was accidental. Now, would Mr. Browning
THE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES OF LIBRARY IMPROVE have been to blame if he had drawn the reviewer's atten-
MENT, even in the best of our libraries, and the unceasing tion to the correct text of his verses? Then the blunder
demands for more money with which to realize these would have been acknowledged, with apologies. This
possibilities, make one aware that the public library is was a very unusual case, in belles-lettres. In historical
still evolving — has by no means yet reached the stage and scientific matter I cannot but think that discussion
of stagnant perfection. While Dr. Steiner, of the Enoch is valuable to author, critic, and readers. If the critic
Pratt Free Library, of Baltimore, rejoices in the pros is in the wrong, why should the author, in dignified
pect of new branch libraries to add to the present eight, sulks, leave him and his readers in the dark? It is all
and to be paid for out of Mr. Carnegie's recent gener very well to talk about waiting the verdict of time and
ous half-million-dollar gift, he nevertheless longs for a of science.' But their wheels move so slowly that they
larger and better-appointed central building. In the need to be accelerated, and they may be accelerated by
matter of reading-room alone, he is reported as saying: discussion. There is, indeed, no other method. Suppose
“ I would like to enlarge it and divide it into depart- that the critic, however plausible his argument may
ments. I would like to make its accommodations greater seem, is in the wrong, and that the author can prove it.
and better, and I would like to break it up into chil To remain in the wrong is the last thing that the critic
dren's,'«student's,''general,' and shelf 'rooms." Each desires. Yet perhaps nobody but the author can put
of these rooms are described by him as he sees them in him in the right, and, for want of discussion, he may
his mind's eye, and of the last-named he says: “When carry his gray hairs to the grave under a misapprehen-


168
[March 16,
THE DIAL
6
sion of Xavili Athanasianism, while the world
may
be let the Importunities of Persons who come to the Library
equally deceived, sharing his illusion.” Very sane and hasten you in the Performance of this Task. They
sensible. So long as all acrimony, all personal feeling, should be Content to wait for the Book until you have
can be kept out of such discussions between authors and Satisfied yourself of its Contents. There will then
critics, they are to be encouraged, in the interests of remain the Necessity of recording its Acquisition in
truth and fairness. Answering back," on the other your Ledgers of Record. As for the Entry of its Style
hand, only leaves a bitter taste in the mouth; and though and Title in the Catalogue, many counsel that this is not
it sometimes seems to contribute to the gaiety of nations, needful, since you may be expected to remember that
the mirth aroused is Satanic.
the Book has been Purchas'd for the Library. Some
would advise that if it be a volume of Sermons it be
THE ELOQUENT SHRUG OF OMAR KHAYYÁm may placed on the Shelves with others of its like; or if it be
not be familiar to all readers. In his recent American
a work of Natural Philosophy it stand near the volumes
visit Mr. William Archer was congratulated by a young of that class. This is a waste of Labour. Assign it a
actress on the never-failing fairness of his reviews - Number which shall Correspond to its Position on the
fairness difficult for a dramatic critic, or any critic, to Shelf, and shall be the next in sequence from the latest
maintain. “To be fair," said Mr. Archer, “is some Book which you have added, and so let them stand in
times hard and cruel, and sometimes it is rash. The
the order in which they are Receiv'd. For, surely, if
unswervingly fair critic often takes up his pen with you desire to find a number of volumes of Sermons, it
the shrug of Omar, the old Persian poet. You have will be an easy matter for you, recalling when they
heard of Omar's shrug ? No? Well, it was eloquent. were Purchas'd, to pluck them from their several
The Shah one day sent for the old poet. Omar, said
resting-places. Keep your Books behind stout Gratings,
he, I have written some verses.
Listen and I will and in no wise let any Person come at them to take them
read them to you.' And he read the verses, and in the from the shelf except yourself.” We have heard of a
ensuing silence looked at Omar anxiously. Well ? 'he librarian who, to insure his tenure of office, refused to
said. • Heaven-born,' replied Omar gently, each to his issue a catalogue of the collection in his charge. He
own calling. Sceptre in hand, you are most wise, just, must have been a faithful reader of « The Old Librarian's
and powerful; but pen in hand —'Omar shook his Almanac."
head. Heaven-born,' he continued, such verses would
disgrace a nine-year-old schoolboy.' His eyes flashing
CHICAGO AS A CENTRE FOR LIBRARY EXTENSION has
with rago, the Shah shouted to his guards: “To the advantages that were recognized by the League of State
stables with this old fool, and let him be soundly Library Commissions at its mid-winter meeting in this
flogged.' Yet the Shah, for all that, respected Omar's city. On that occasion the following resolution was
judgment, and a week later he sent for the fearless and passed: “Inasmuch as a possible transfer of American
fair critic again. • Another poem, Omar,' he said. "A Library Association headquarters has been under con-
better one, I'm sure you 'll think it is a better one, he sideration by the council and executive board, and
added wistfully. And he began to read the second inasmuch as the greatest profit which can be derived
poem to the old man. But in the middle of the reading through national headquarters is in furtherance of lib-
Omar turned and started for the door. "Where are rary extension, it is hereby declared the sense of those
you going ?' demanded the Shah in amazement. Omar present at this League of Library Commissions that such
looked back and shrugged his shoulders. To the headquarters ought to be located with special reference
stables,' he answered, " for another flogging.'
?" And did
to the extension of library interests in those sections of
this would-be poet then comfort himself with repeating
the country where efforts promise the greatest possibili-
those scornful words of another merciless flogger of ties. We therefore respectfully submit for the con-
critics, “as soon seek roses in December, ice in June, sideration of the executive committee the advisability of
hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff, believe a selecting Chicago as the location for American Library
woman or an epitaph, or any other thing that's false, Association headquarters. The central location of
before you trust in critics”? Probably the Shah was Chicago affords greater convenience of access to a
guilty of no such anachronism, Byron and the “ English
larger number of the members of the American Library
Bards” being still some seven hundred years in the
Association than any other city under consideration, and
future.
the fact that it is the natural gathering point in the
THE OLD-FASHIONED LIBRARIAN, who has been made
region which is likely to prove in the next decade the
the subject of some recent comment and correspondence
chief seat of library extension gives added force to the
argument for its selection.” Although the centre of
in our pages, is again discussed by the editor of the lib-
rary department of the Boston “ Transcript.” Instead
population is now considerably to the eastward of
Chicago, that centre is steadily moving westward, and
of answering directly our correspondent's complaint of
the decay of the literature-loving custodian of books, the
thus Chicago is likely for a long time to come to prove
Boston writer thinks it better, as he says, “ to quote a
an increasingly desirable situation for the proposed
headquarters.
few sentences from that storehouse of information con-
cerning the manners and customs of the librarian of a THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE stand in a close and
past generation — that rare old work, The Old Libra curious relation to each other. In a current magazine
rian's Almanac.'” So delicious is the flavor of the article on “ The Newspaper as it is," by Gen. Charles H.
passage that it must be here reprinted in full.
“You
Taylor of the Boston Globe," he says:
shall chuse your Books with Care and Circumspection. are what the people make them. The public decides
When you have determin’d that it is Prudent to pur what it wishes to read; the editors and publishers,
chase a certain Work, do so cautiously and make a trained in their business, gather their raw material and
Shrewd Bargain with the Vendor. It will then be your work it into the finished product, news, to meet the
Duty to Peruse the Volume, even if (as doubtless will demand.” We protest that this is putting journalism
be the Fact) you have scan’d it before Buying. Do not on a level with manufactures. The law of supply and
« Our papers


1908.]
169
THE DIAL
99
will procure.
demand cannot, of course, be ignored by a journal that If a yellow sheet be analyzed, it will be found that it
has to be self-supporting; but no great editor has ever handles events and persons from the pain or disaster
let his readers lead him by the nose. Did Greeley or standpoint. The event itself is of no significance. The
Bryant or Dana let the people make their respective loss of life, the loss of happiness, the loss of property,
papers for them? No journalist is worthy of his calling the loss of reputation, death and detraction, is the whole
who simply lays his ear to the ground and then writes story. In a word, it is an appeal to the hate reflex.”
what he hears the populace clamoring for. But General This elemental savage instinct, to which, as well as to
Taylor rises to higher levels in a succeeding paragraph, other primitive and often unlovely instincts, man owes
in which he well says: “ Journalists have a much heavier his survival, is probably at the bottom of that irrational
responsibility than any other business men. The idle, and indefensible exultation that is not seldom felt in the
the self-seeking, the untruthful, the vicious, beguile them misfortunes of others, even though those others be
at every hand, to use the powerful engine of the press to neighbors, friends, or even near relatives. La Roche-
carry them a little way along their chosen road. The foucauld's pithy expression of this sad tendency of
editor must watch ceaselessly for these unwelcome frail humanity is placed at the head of Professor
passengers and eject them on sight. He appreciates Thomas's article. He defends his thesis rather con-
the responsibility of his trust. He reaches his ideal as vincingly, but fails, it must seem to many readers, to
nearly as he can, and does far more for the morals of attach enough importance to that mere, idle, good-
the community than he is usually given credit for.” 'natured curiosity, that insatiable hunger for something
Some conception of the influence of the press may be new,that prompts many a kind-hearted and well-meaning
formed from the fact that there were last year pub person to buy the liveliest, most sensationally-headlined
lished in this country alone 21,535 periodicals of all newspaper
his
penny
Human nature
kinds, daily, weekly, monthly, etc.; and from recent cannot be so utterly corrupt that we go about thirsting
statistics it is estimated by General Taylor that the total for the blood and eager for the shame of our fellow-men
circulation of the newspapers of the country in 1907 was with quite such avidity as Professor Thomas would have
not less than ten billion copies. Another significant fact us believe.
is that the world's issue of papers in the English lan-
OF INTEREST TO DICTIONARY-BUYERS and dictionary-
guage exceeds that of all others combined.
sellers is a little leaflet, sent out by the G. & C. Merriam
Company, publishers of Webster's dictionaries, wherein
A GUIDE TO CURRENT FRENCH BOOKS, authoritative, is given in full the late decision of the United States
and presumably “safe ” for use in buying for family or Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of said company
public library purposes, seems to have been discovered by against George W. Ogilvie, also a publisher of diction-
Mr. George F. Bowerman, librarian of the Washington
aries. Though imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,
Public Library, in the course of a recent study of the Mr. Ogilvie's emulous patterning of his own dictionary
eighty-two free popular libraries scattered through the after the model furnished by the Messrs. Merriam, and
twenty wards (arrondissments) of Paris. His paper on especially his manifest admiration of these gentlemen's
“ The Municipal Popular Libraries of Paris,” read be-
taste in the matter of title-page and covers and label,
fore the District of Columbia Library Association last have proved a species of blandishment inoperative on
October, published in “The Library Journal” of Jan-
that love of adulation which he evidently, and most
uary, and now reprinted and issued as a separate leaflet, naturally, had counted on as existent in the bosoms of
contains much interesting information on French public the Merriam brothers. And, worst of all, the Court of
libraries. Its wealth of matter cannot be squeezed Appeals has shown itself as little genial in this respect
into a paragraph; therefore we will simply add a few as the Merriams; for, to quote from the leaflet's sum-
more words about the book-list referred to above. Mr.
mary of the decision, “it reverses the decision of the
Bowerman says: “One of the most interesting features Circuit Court, rendered a year ago, orders an injunction
of this library system [of Paris], and the one which will, against the further sale of Ogilvie's dictionary with the
perhaps, afford most practical help to American public title-page and covers in the present form, or in any
libraries, is that which has to do with the choice of books.
form calculated to deceive members of the public into
One of the most important functions of the central purchasing his dictionary under the belief that it is a
commission is the annual publication of a list of books Merriam Webster's Dictionary,' and remands the case
accepted as suitable for these municipal libraries. It is to the Circuit Court to pass upon the question of an
from these lists that all accessions to the various libra-
accounting for the profits upon dictionaries which have
ries must be chosen.” The list for 1907 contained 273
been sold by Ogilvie up to this date.”
titles, besides periodicals, fiction covering 52 titles;
" literature,” 51; sciences, art, and education, 49; history, STATESMANSHIP AND THE LOVE OF POETRY are often
geography, and travel, 66; and other branches a lesser found happily conjoined. Instances of apt quotations
number. Advance requests for copies of these annual from the poets, manifestly impromptu and in quick reply
lists would probably receive courteous consideration. to an opponent, on the floor of the British Parliament,
At present the number printed is limited. M. Rupert and, less often, in our own congressional halls, would
Précy, Chief of the Central Service of Municipal Li fill a book, or at least a small one. Another proof of
braries, appears from Mr. Bowerman's paper to be the the affinity for classic poetry that is sometimes felt by
proper official to approach.
the man engaged in public legislative, administrative, or
judicial pursuits was furnished, in his old age, by the
THE YELLOWNESS OF YELLOW JOURNALISM is learn fourteenth Earl of Derby, who occupied the leisure of
edly discussed in a current magazine article by Professor his later years in turning Homer's “Iliad " into blank
W. I. Thomas of Chicago University. He argues, with verse. Almost half a century before, it is worth noting,
a considerable use of the psychological laboratory termi he had gained the Chancellor's Latin verse prize at
nology, that “the yellow feature of journalism ” owes Oxford, his subject being “Syracuse." Ex-Secretary
its existence to the interest attaching to the disastrous. Long, in the days when he was better known as
.


170
[March 16,
THE DIAL
source.
Governor Long, beguiled the tedium of a summer vaca sensitiveness of some librarians to the phrase, and also
tion (or was it several summers, and some winters having repeatedly read the passage quoted again by the
besides ?) by making a metrical translation of the “ Transcript,” regarding the curmudgeon of olden time
« Æneid.” And now there has just appeared, from the who kept his books under rusty lock and key.
pen of the Rt. Hon. Sir S. W. Griffith, Chief Justice of My suggestion was a very simple one, growing out
the Australian Commonwealth, a new English version, of an experienced need and from visits to a number of
in the metre of the original, of Dante's never-to-be small libraries, in more than one of which untrained
enough-translated “Inferno." Almost as pleasing a book-lovers were doing acceptable work. I don't for
spectacle as it would be to see philosophers ruling over a moment doubt that these same people would do better
the nations is it to behold poets and the translators of work if they were graduated from some good library
poets making the nations' laws.
school; but, conditions being as they are — and no one
has charged that I misstated them — the best graduates
THE OLDTIME SPELLING BEE is expected to buzz with
of the library schools very naturally accept positions
renewed energy now that one Varnum Lincoln, late of
where they have the minimum amount of merely me-
Andover, Mass., has bequeathed to his native town the
chanical work to do. In many cases, then, this leaves
sum of five hundred dollars to found a perpetual spell-
the mechanical graduate — who, of course, is not a
ing match. Once a year, according to the terms of the
product peculiar to library schools — for the remaining
will, this contest in orthography shall be held in some
positions.
public hall or place near the centre of the town, at or
Many helps have already been furnished for the
near the close of the winter term of the public schools.
untrained, and my suggestion was that correct classifi-
It must be conducted under the care and supervision of cation, the stumbling block for trained and untrained
the school committee of the town, the public to be
alike, should be furnished also from some competent
admitted free of charge. The contestants must be
Then the trustees of a small library would be
between the ages of ten and eighteen years, and the
enabled to employ a person fitted by tastes and culture
ancient method of choosing sides” must be followed.
for the position, whenever and wherever they could find
Prizes of ten, six, and four dollars are to be given to the
him. It has seemed to some that such a person, aided
three best spellers. So far, so good; but why did not
by the technical helps available, would give better ser-
the testator provide against time-wasting disputes and
vice than the poorer graduates of any school.
much possible hard feeling by stipulating that his old-
I am glad to state that a publishing house closely
fashioned spelling bee should follow the old-fashioned
identified with library interests has already announced
spelling? A town divided against itself one faction that it will soon be prepared to furnish such classifica-
clinging to Webster, and the rest blown about by every
tion as I suggested.
THOMAS H. BRIGGS.
wind of doctrine in the matter of spelling
would be a Charleston, II., March 7, 1908.
harrowing spectacle. Manifestly, Mr. Varnum Lincoln
did not rise to the level of his opportunity.
MORE DEFINITIONS OF “GAWMING" OR
“ GORMING.”
ALUMINUM FOR BOOKS FOR THE BLIND is the latest
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
application of that light and attractive metal. It is
I have read with interest the communication of Mr.
rolled into thin sheets and embossed, in the same way
Roswell Field in the issue of THE DIAL for March 1,
that paper is embossed, with the raised characters used
for the blind. Aluminum books are now being printed
with reference to the word “gawming.” I, too, recall
that in my boyhood the word was in frequent use in
in Edinburgh, and they are said to be easier to read than
Connecticut. The verb was commonly spelled “gorm,"
paper books; moreover, they do not soil with handling,
and so far as I remember was used only in the sense of
and they are practically indestructible. The one draw-
“ to smear and render sticky.” In the Century Dic-
back is the expense of manufacture. Before these books
tionary both “gorm" and “ gawm "are described as the
shall have been brought within the more general reach
of the blind it is to be hoped that the blind, or their
same as “gaum,” to which are given distinct meanings.
The first definition includes “ to care for; heed; observe;
teachers, will unite on some one alphabet, out of the
several now in use.
to understand; consider; distinguish "; another definition
is “to smear as with anything sticky (perhaps a variation
of gum).” Following this definition is the derivative
meaning, “to handle clumsily; paw." The use of the
word in all these senses is described as provincial En-
COMMUNICATIONS.
glish. The Standard Dictionary gives the like definitions
with a similar attribution. It seems to me that the defi-
nition quoted from Colonel Higginson's article on “The
“THE OLD-FASHIONED LIBRARIAN" ONCE MORE.
Migration of Words,” — "awkward, lubberly," comes
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
from the derivative meaning of the word “gaum
In addition to the very courteous reply which Mr. “ to handle clumsily." It also seems to me that the
Arthur L. Bailey made to my letter appearing in THE meaning of the expression “gorming about," which Mr.
Dial of February 1, there have been a number of other Field gives as “ looking about in a clownish and aimless
responses, through personal notes and in public print, manner," is a mistaken meaning; that expression being
some gratefully sympathetic, others ebullitions worthy apparently derived from one of the definitions of the
of a greater problem. These latter, one and all, mis word “gaum,” as first described, that is "to observe."
read my letter and charge me, to use the words of The unusual occurrence of the word must account, I
the Boston “Transcript,” with “ bringing out the old suppose, for the evident confusion of meanings in its
fashioned librarian to squeak and gibber for a season."
use this side of the Atlantic. HOWARD MANSFIELD.
This I was very careful not to do, knowing the New York, March 5, 1908.


1908.]
171
THE DIAL
The New Books.
light and heat. Keep this always before you; KNOW
the God of your fathers. Although I do not think I
am really religious — I fear I am not -- I can see from
DR. JOHN BROWN AND HIS FRIENDS.*
experience that the way of transgression is hard.”
Much more advice, equally excellent, follows and
A volume of familiar letters from the author
precedes this illustrative extract. The young
of “Rab and his Friends and 6
Marjorie
writer's reference to a personal experience of
Fleming ” is sure to be pleasant reading. In
transgression is delightful, in its way. Not so
a goodly octavo, his son (who, of course, con-
tinues the long line of John Browns) and Dr. pleasing, in fact almost shocking, is a curiously
D. W. Forrest have edited a generous
unfeeling account of a surgical operation a few
selection
months later. Anästhetics were still in the fu-
of letters to and from Dr. Brown, covering the
half-century from 1830 to the physician-author's from John to William.
ture; yet no word of pity for the patient passes
“ I took off a young
death in 1882. In the near view thus afforded
man's arm,” he writes,“ on the morning the Dr.
of a tender and beautiful, rather than a brilliant
sailed. I found the operation ridiculously easy,
and powerful, character the book is all that
and the whole of the stump, with the exception
could have been expected, and nearly all that
could be desired. Like all collections of letters, healed primâ intentione. Mr. Dods and I have
of the corner where the ligatures hung out,
however, it naturally includes many paragraphs, used the actual Cautery three times, and I hope
not to say pages, dealing with little transitory with success.”
matters of no interest in themselves, but gaining
But in surgery, as in war,
a significance from the reader's love of the writer. cutting and burning get to be matters of little
moment
The father, grandfather, and great-grand- and homely in its interest is the subjoined pas-
- the more's the pity. More human
father of Dr. John Brown were all men of some
mark, ministers of religion, at once saintly and sage from a letter to the paternal John Brown:
shrewd — canny Scotchmen, in short, each a
“I am very desirous to see Canterbury and Dover,
and my present plan is to go down to Canterbury by one
power in his parish, and even somewhat beyond of the night coaches (67 outside) so as to be there at 4
and all bore the name John, transmitted in the morning and in plenty of time to walk to Dover,
through how many previous generations we know distance 16 miles. After seeing it I shall walk to
not. Handicapped by such an apology for a
Ramsgate and Margate, and take the coach from there
name, “ John Brown ” (it might almost as well
to Canterbury, where I will remain all night, and after
spending the next day in seeing the Cathedral, etc.,
have been a number), these worthies were of return home to Chatham in the evening, but on this also
necessity compelled to assert their individuality I await your decision. If I were to return by the smack
in some unmistakable manner, in order to avoid directly without being more than a day in London, £5
confusion with the hundreds of other contem-
would suffice, inclusive of the £2:2/ for the Tailor's bill.
John Browns. And in the case of our
I think I mentioned in my last that if I remained in
porary
London and called on any of my friends, I would require
John Brown, who knows but it may have been a new pair of trowsers. They will cost £1:7/."
a fear of losing the sense of his separate identity Of such unheroic details are great and small
that made him, serious and devout though he alike compelled to take thought in this world of
was, break with the tradition of his forefathers food and clothing and tailors' bills. By way
of
and choose medicine rather than the ministry for
contrast, let us quote a few sentences addressed
a calling?
to the writer's lifelong friend, Dr. John Taylor
This inherited strain of seriousness and piety Brown. Worthy of note is the mention of the
reveals itself early, and somewhat amusingly, in three-year-old “ bairn,” from the hand that was
a letter to the writer's brother William. From
afterward to write so touchingly of “Marjorie.
John, surgeon's assistant at Chatham, twenty-one
“I often envy your very miseries, the things that
years old, goes the following fatherly advice to
drive you inwards into the Far in, where, self-sufficient
William under the paternal roof in Edinburgh : and self-contained, you may amid darkness — where
“ And now, my dear William, though I am 400 miles the light is as darkness sit i' the centre and enjoy
away from you, my thoughts are often with you, and bright day. I am going out to Callands to-day for
they are sometimes anxious and sad, at others cheering no other purpose of being all alone in the open air on
and satisfying. My dear William, be assured that there the common road for 5 hours, and have a long and
is no real happiness where there is the indulgence in full-length think with myself. The other purpose is to
guilt — that pure thoughts and upright actions as assur see a bairn of 3 years old, the daughter of my Uncle's
edly and as consequently cause real happiness as the sun ploughman's wife, a perfect image of sweet wildness.
I wish you saw her with her long eyelashes and her
* LETTERS OF DR. JOHN BROWN. With Letters from Ruskin,
unfathomable eyes, and her eerie black blink. If you
Thackeray, and Others. Edited by his Son and D. W. Forrest,
D.D. With Biographical Introductions by Elizabeth T. M'Laren.
did you would understand some of my love for her. I
Hlustrated. New York: The Macmillan Co.
have wandered days with her among the hills, leading


172
[March 16,
THE DIAL
her in my hand, and every now and then asking her to and Mark Twain. The last-named appears to
open wide her eyes that I might stare into their depth. have been on the friendliest of terms with the
She will kiss nobody in the world but her father, mother,
chronicler of Rab's little history, as was only
brothers and sisters, and me!”
Before passing to the later and, in a literary natural. From Elmira he writes in the summer
of 1876:
way, more important letters, it must be noted
“ DEAR FRIEND THE DOCTOR — It was a perfect
that even in his early professional experience at
delight to see the well-known handwriting again! But
Chatham Dr. John Brown attained some degree we so grieve to know that you are feeling miserable.
of fame. His unselfish spending of himself at It must not last; it cannot last. The regal summer has
the time of the cholera epidemic, in 1832, was come, and it will smile you into high good cheer; it will
many years later referred to by Dickens at a charm away your pains, it will banish your distresses.
I wish you were here, to spend the summer with us.
private dinner-party in Edinburgh. The nov-
We are perched on a hill-top that overlooks a little
elist, as a footnote records the incident, “ told world of green valleys, shining rivers, sumptuous for-
of the deep impression made on his mind by the ests, and billowy uplands veiled in the haze of distance.
conduct of a young Scottish doctor at Chatham
We have no neighbors. It is the quietest of all quiet
during the cholera epidemic. He described his
places, and we are hermits that eschew caves and live
in the sun. Doctor, if you'd only come! I will carry
remaining with a poor woman whom all had
your letter to Mrs. C. now, and there will be a glad
deserted, ministering to her to the end, and then, woman, I tell you! . . . Come over, Doctor John, and
overcome with fatigue, falling asleep, and being bring the Barclays, the Nicolsons, and the Browns, one
and all!
still asleep when in the morning the house was
Affectionately yours,
“SAML. L. CLEMENS."
entered. One of the party exclaimed, • That is
Dr. John Brown!'"
Readers of the “ Horæ Subsecivæ" will re-
In a letter to Lady Minto, written in 1880, member the chapter, in the third series, on the
are references to two renowned characters, one
“ Death of Thackeray"; and to them it will be
of whom was not then of so great renown as
no surprise to find in this volume of the author's
to make the recognition of his greatness a mere
correspondence evidence of the warmest friend-
matter of course.
ship between the two men. The Edinburgh
“ I don't wonder you like the Travels with a Donkey; physician was among the first to recognize the
it is just what you say of it, true genius, a new liquor,
novelist's genius, and he took the lead in pur-
fresh and aromatic. He is son of Thomas Stevenson, chasing and sending to him, as a tribute from
Civil Engineer, 'the Family Theologian,' and grandson Edinburgh admirers, a handsome silver inkstand
of the grand old Bell Rock man. He wrote in the
fashioned to represent “ Mr. Punch.” This
Cornhill some time ago the wisest and best words, since
Carlyle, on Burns, on whom of late far too much has
neatly appropriate testimonial opened the way
been written; and he has a clever little book, An Inland to a correspondence that lasted until Thackeray's
Voyage in France in a Canoe, which he made with Sir death. The closing paragraph of a letter written
James Simpson's son Walter; and he has a paper on the by Thackeray in the course of his American lec-
old Capital of California in this month's Fraser, full of
charm in feeling and description. ... I met Lowell
ture tour is not without interest. The place and
when here [in Edinburgh) and like him greatly — a full
date are - Charleston, S. C., March 25, 1853."
man,' as well knowledged as Sir Henry Taylor, but full “It's all exaggeration about this country
- barbar-
also of original fun a great poet, I think.
ism, eccentricities, nigger cruelties, and all. They are
know him and his works well? I would much rather not so highly educated as individuals, but a circle of
be him than Tennyson or Browning; there is more of people knows more than an equal number of English
the light of common day, more naturalness in thought of Scotch I don't say; there, in Edinburgh, you are
and word, and no want of depth or tenderness, with educated). The negroes are happy, whatever is said
humour of the strongest and rarest flavour. He told of them, at least all we see, and the country Planters
me he crossed the Atlantic with Thackeray, Clough, beg and implore any Englishman to go to their estates
and Lowe - such a foursome! He talked a great deal and see for themselves. I think these 4 sides of paper
about Don Quixote, which I had just been slowly reading, might contain all I have got to say regarding the country,
and I was delighted to hear his praises. But he says which I can't see for the dinners, etc. To-morrow I go
it is dreadful to read him in English. He looks upon to Richmond on my way to New York and thence into
Cervantes as on the same shelf with Homer, Shakespeare, Canada; and in July or before, I hope to see that old
and Dante, primary and unapproachable."
country again which is after all the only country for us
to live in.
These letters form, and are meant by the edi-
tors to form, an outline sketch of the writer's
Miss Elizabeth T. M'Laren, one of Dr.
life from his own pen. To supplement them Brown's friends and correspondents, has sup-
there are added others addressed to him, out of plied the necessary biographical notes relating
the comparatively few still preserved. Most in to persons named in the book, and portraits
teresting are messages from Ruskin, Thackeray, and other illustrations are interspersed at brief
Gladstone, Jowett, Dean Stanley, R. H. Hutton,
intervals.
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
Do you


1908.]
173
THE DIAL
figures, as Colonel Dodge marshals them with
THE GREAT MASTER OF MILITARY
STRATEGY.*
passionless veracity, are enough. Moscow and
the Beresina were the fourth act of the great
In the first two volumes of Colonel Dodge's tragedy ; Leipzig and Waterloo were the fifth.
Napoleon (reviewed in THE DIAL of September The account of these epoch-closing struggles
1, 1904), the campaigns from 1796 to 1807
occupies a large part of the concluding volume,
were described; the third and fourth volumes
and in it the author has put forth to the utmost
are now before us, and carry us through to the his powers of profound investigation and lucid
from 1808 to 1815 are the years of Napoleon's could seem to have said the last word.
description. In regard to Waterloo, indeed, he
decline; the dictator of European policies from
“From its actual course it seems certain that, had the
the raft at Tilsit was now to find himself more
battle of Waterloo been fought out between Napoleon
slackly followed, then stubbornly opposed, then and Wellington, quite apart from expectation of aid or
persistently forced back, then crushed. Colonel dread of interference by the Prussians, and judging by
Dodge follows every move of the Grand Army the many acknowledged weak spots in the British line
with keen but unbiased judgment; he lays his
of battle, it would, with the heavier masses and reserves
properly put in by the master hand, have proved a
finger on every faulty maneuvre ; he finds in
French victory. . . . Napoleon's gravest mistakes were
the waning vitality of the Emperor ample cause in not maneuvring when Blucher was first seen, and
for the lapses in judgment and energy which later in not retiring out of action, and in putting in what
a Bonaparte would never have shown ; and when
remained of the Guard as he did, instead of using it to
all is said and done he finds in Napoleon the
protect a retreat to the Sambre. The fatal outcome
was primarily attributable to Napoleon's want of his old
greatest military genius of modern times.
perspicacity. We can scarcely conceive him, in the days
The general reader, who may be presumed of Austerlitz or Jena, drawing from the facts he knew
to be acquainted with the outlines of the
an absolute conclusion that the Prussians could not reach
Napoleonic wars, will open these massive vol-
his right; but at Waterloo he did draw this wrong con-
clusion, acted upon it, and failed. Had he correctly
umes with some shrinking of spirit; but if he divined Blucher's intentions he would by 1 or 2 a. m.
will summon his patience and resolution, a sure have ordered in Grouchy, and he would not so long have
reward will come in the deep compelling interest put off his massed attack upon the English. The best
of the events themselves and in what is possibly
work of the day was done by Lobau at Planchenoit,
under the Emperor's eye. The Prussians had been as
his first clear comprehension of the movements
good as their word, and deserve unstinted commenda-
so clearly and minutely depicted. The true way tion; and as to Wellington, no praise is too high for his
to feel the dramatic force of a battle or a cam courage in accepting battle where he did, and for his
paign is to understand it; and this achievement
tactical alertness, his skill in handling his men, and his
is within the reach of those who will read with
dogged perseverance throughout the day. As always,
care these volumes. Colonel Dodge of course
the British troops fought as they should, and the officers
exhibited every quality that goes to make up the best
uses the technical terms of war; but these are lieutenants."
readily learned by the lay reader, and the author Along with this judgment must be read the
gives him every help with maps and plans. In author's conclusion a few pages further on :
this way, what was formerly vague geographical
“All criticism of Napoleon's conduct of this cam-
suggestion becomes accurate topography, and the paign must be read in the spirit that prompts it, the
fury and glory and terror of it all are only in utmost admiration of his genius, and a desire to inquire
tensified by the statistics and the precision. why he here failed, when previously, under as difficult
Volume III. begins with the indecisive Span- conditions, he had won, After all is said, and despite his
ish campaigns of 1808, in which Napoleon's of modern times; criticism of any kind must always
brother Joseph and some of his generals showed result in evolving this conclusion; and every word
what blunders they were capable of when away
spoken of his laxness here is subject to the knowledge
from the master's eye. Then come the series of
that no failure can rob him of his fame as the best leader
and broadest teacher of war of the Christian era.”
battles along the Danube, in which Wagram
remains the most conspicuous. Over 300 pages
This last phrase seems to exclude Alexander,
are given to the invasion of Russia in 1812; and
Hannibal, and Cæsar, the three ancient ones of
no rhetoric is employed or needed to heighten Colonel Dodge’s six great captains; and in this
the difficulties of the march to Moscow, or the
connection it is at least interesting to note his
horrors of that awful retreat. The facts and summary of his six heroes :
“ No doubt, taking him in his many-sidedness, Cæsar
*NAPOLEON. A History of the Art of War, from the Beginning
is the greatest character in history. It may not unfairly
of the Peninsular War to the Battle of Waterloo. By Theodore
Ayrault Dodge. In four volumes. Volumes III, and IV. Illus-
be claimed that Napoleon follows next, especially in that
trated. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
he preserved for Europe many germs of the liberty
:


174
[March 16,
THE DIAL
which was born of the blood of the Revolution. Cæsar Here it is just the other way: we are now called
was the most useful man of antiquity; Napoleon comes
to regret that once loved forms are rejuvenated.
near to being the most useful man of modern times.
The friend of our youth has decided upon a
But neither Cæsar nor Napoleon appeals to us as do
splendid, open-hearted Alexander, patient, intrepid, golden wig. Mr. James is translating his works
ever-constant Hannibal, the Christian hero Gustavus, and into his own dialect. At first it was hoped by
daring, obstinate, royal Frederick. Were we to classify those of older time that there would be but
these great captains, we might describe them thus:
slight change, - that Mr. James would run
Alexander, the first teacher of systematic war; Hannibal,
father of strategy; Cæsar, the organizer; Gustavus
through a volume as he sat over a cigar after
Adolphus, father of modern war; Frederick, the battle dinner, and pencil on the margin a change or so.
tactician; Napoleon, the perfect strategist.”
But such is not the case : there is hardly a page
So long as the war-drum must throb, it is well where he has not made half a dozen alterations.
that such books should be written ; and it is Such a proceeding overshadows every other
matter for honest pride that from the small Army interest connected with the edition : one cannot
list of the United States should come a man who help it. Undoubtedly, at best or at worst, the
could compose a series of perhaps the most ex-
revision is a minor matter. If we like it, it does
haustive military biographies of our time. not really change our net impression of the work;
JOSIAH RENICK SMITH.
if we do not like it, ten to one we shall hardly
notice the difference unless we set ourselves down
to collate. We must constantly say to ourselves,
“ It is not important,' but we cannot help
thinking of it and talking of it. Because, of
THE REJUVENATION OF HENRY JAMES.*
course, the recent James is so different from the
Some people will feel when they see the Henry James, Jr., of our youth. “So different,
“New York Edition" of Mr. Henry James's
yes, and so much better!" cry the neo-Jamesians,
novels and tales, as some others felt when the the recent converts. “ Would you have stopped
“Outward Bound Edition" of Kipling appeared. Tennyson's revision and re-revision ?”
That was (as this is) a very handsome edition, “ No," say the Irreconcileables, those who
and something wholly proper and what one likes. read “ The Portrait of a Lady" with the fevers
There was a pleasure in viewing, in thinking of, and pulses of youth, and strove unto death with
the stately volumes, even aside from the pleasure somnolence over “The Wings of a Dove.” “No,
of reading such good print on such good paper. [say they] we would prevent no one else from
Yet there was then, as there will be now, a touch doing as he may choose. We would stop one
of regret that those old familiar favorites are
thing only, just this one,
this
unique person
from
to be superseded, relegated to an upper shelf or doing this one unique thing.” The thing is done,
a row behind those with the new uniforms, put however, and done thoroughly; and if the irre-
away. They were of different sizes and ages, concileable will not like it, the only thing to do
and from different publishers, those old volumes is to shut oneself up with the older editions and
of James, and probably the set was not com forget the modern world, or else to confine one-
plete — even an earnest Jamesian (shall we say ?) self to “ The Spoils of Poynton "and such other
could acknowledge some gaps ; still the old vol things as Mr. James leaves outside the fold.
umes had charm, partly perhaps of association. The fact that the present edition gives us a
But these are common woes,
woes that one
revised text is really of something more than the
may happen to feel whenever a favorite contem-
sentimental interest alluded to. As he went on
porary is elevated to the Olympus of a definitive in life Mr. James changed his ideas of material
edition. There is another thing in this case,
and his ideas of expression. His interests in life
a loss which doubtless Mr. James feels, to parody seemed to turn, not unnaturally, into directions
Shelley, but we alone deplore. In this case we neglected before, and which many of his ad-
are not to have the dear old things as we remem mirers would have themselves been contented
ber them, or even as they were. They are to still to neglect. His feeling for expression
return to us brought up to date by the author.
became more precise, more refined, perhaps even
you
have ever seen one you
loved twenty-five more delicate. - He became in some respects
years ago you have perhaps regretted the changes
more modern, or more accurately he remained
made in the once familiar lines by five lustres.
modern. But chiefly he strove to get closer to
* THE NOVELS AND TALES OF HENRY JAMES. New York the texture, the movement, of his own thought,
Edition. Vol. I., Roderick Hudson; Vol. II., The American; and to give his readers a more delicate sense of
Vols. III. and VI., The Portrait of a Lady; Vols. V. and VI.,
The Princess Casamassima. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
his conception than had been possible before.
If


1908.]
175
THE DIAL
22
the new,
we are
far as my
It was a fine ideal. “Rien que la nuance ! says mending it to the university students of litera-
Paul Verlaine, "toute le reste est littérature.” ture as material for doctors' dissertations.
Mere literature Mr. James's volumes would Let us leave such things, and turn to what
never have become, and yet we cannot think him is for the moment (if not for posterity) of more
wrong for pursuing assiduously the fleeting good importance. The prefaces will be a delight to
that mocked him with the view. Others have all Jamesians, even to many who modestly dis-
done the same thing, notably Walter Pater : claim such a title. To such a one these prefaces
toward the end of his life those who had read may be interesting chiefly as helping on toward
“ The Renaissance” with passion were at some one's conception of the novel as a literary form,
pains to comprehend, even, “ Plato and Plato - to put it in very academic language. Not
nism.” Mr. James also became crabbed when, quite so interesting, I should say, as “ a unique
perhaps, he meant to be clear, or at least exact. body of criticism of the art of the novelist " (to
Thus it really is something of a question quote the prospectus), but rather a collection of
whether it was worth while to re-write his novels. facts which will help the student as a foundation
There can be little doubt that Mr. James wrote for a science of fiction. Or to be more practical,
better English thirty years ago than he writes they will serve the reader of James -
to-day. But he does not think so himself, and fresh, unsophisticated reader of James, if there
so he has done his best to put the old dears into are any such, there surely will be,-- to see what
modern dress.
the author is driving at, to see what in the novels
It is impossible without much study to say was the author's conception of the fine thing.
how he has succeeded. He has not succeeded Not that the author always knows,
entirely, it may be said. 6 Roderick Hudson " inclined to say, perhaps not, but then we may
and the others are fortunately not quite“ brought imagine that he has a keener, intenser feeling
into alignment of style, color, and general liter about it than we shall be likely to have. The
ary presentment” with “ The Golden Bowl.” author
author may be often wrong - Dickens, we may
Still they are changed. The changes are all (so remember, fancied himself so much on his plots
collations extend) in matters of word, and his pathos; but then, so are we sometimes
phrase, and sentence ; chapters and paragraphs wrong. And often it is a good tonic to get an
are as before. Such changes hardly affect idea of something that we had not particularly
larger matters : they change the general tone
noticed.
and they may change the impression of character. So, then, these prefaces are interesting as
Thus Christopher Newman seems an American showing us the novelist as he conceives his work.
gentleman who in the 70's had had the advan- | In “ Roderick Hudson ” he speaks of the neces-
tage of reading Mr. James's later writings. sity of a full living development of his subject ;
Asked if this is the first time he has been in “The American ”of the conception first of the
abroad, he used to say, “Very much so "; now situation, and the subsequent entrance therein
he says “ Quite immensely the first.” Asked of the hero. In “The Portrait of a Lady" it
if he will not learn to talk French, he used to say was the figure of Isabel Archer who appeared
only, “ Hang me if I should ever have thought first and gathered around her those who should
of it”; now he adds, “ I seemed to feel it too far enable her to do what she had to do. In “ The
off.” When Mlle. Nioche tells him that her Princess Casamassima," the first impression
copy is bad he used to say, “I like it all the was the life of a great city calling for apprecia-
same "; now he says, “ I never outgrew a mis- tion and the creation of an intelligence that
take but in my own time and in my own way.
should, after its fashion, appreciate it. Those
He once said " I'm not intellectual”; now he are very interesting things, - not unknown to
says “ I don't come up to my own standard of students before, but still rather astonishing to the
culture.”
cut-and-dried student (if anything can astonish
But I must leave this subject, fascinating him), the appearance of these three recognized
though it is, because of its immensity. To tell modes of conception, if not of construction, in
what changes Mr. James has made, even what the work of the same artist in three consecutive
sort of changes, if one tell at all accurately (and works.
works. Other things, too, - the definition (if
why at all otherwise?) would be a great task. we may use so definite a word about anything
And to tell why he made them would be, if not that Mr. James has written) of romanticism
a task at least or at most an achievement for a by this accomplished realist, the necessity of a
far finer divination than is here at the reader's chorus by this hardly classical modernist, these
service. One must be satisfied with recom things will be noted and filed away by the


176
[March 16,
THE DIAL
student, read and rolled under the tongue as a doubtless, but there is a sense of place that is
precious morsel by the Jamesian, grasped (we surely as fine, as satisfying, in a novel as a good
may at least hope) and put to the due use of situation or a good character. One had not,
cultivating the taste by the conscientious among perhaps, thought of it before in Mr. James's
general readers.
work, nor is it always there. But in some cases
Yet in addition to all these details there is it is surely felt, as surely he felt it strongly
one thing striking in these prefaces : namely, himself. Not in Northampton, Mass., or other
Mr. James's sense of life. That certainly Mr. such crudities ; Mr. James, as he explains him-
James has, of his own kind, a skeptic may self, has little sense of that sort of thing, but
say. Mr. James's world may seem to many a of great centres, of Rome, of London, of Paris,
sequestered, perverted, exasperating world, and “ the splendid, the glorious," the sophisticated,
yet to him it evidently lives.
the decadent, as they used to say themselves.
a regular literary form when he writes, or merely
EDWARD E. HALE, JR.
doing what the public will like. He has a sense
of life, and he renders it. There is nothing
mechanical in his composition, construction,
architecture. The heroine of « The Portrait of
SURVEYS OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY.*
a Lady” must have a world to live in, and
somehow the people that are to make up that
The publication of two histories of American
world gather about her, in a single night, so that Philosophy, one in French and one in English,
the novelist wakes one morning and finds them is not merely interesting in itself but also as
all there. The hero of “ The Princess Casa-indicating an advancement in our intellectual
massima must contrast socialism with society, life. We have reached a point in which our
and there is Christina Light, not settled and laid speculations on the obscure questions of being
on the shelf, but living and insistent. There the
take hold on each other, and take hold on the
creative imagination gets away from us. There
kindred speculations of other nations and other
in the feeling for vitality we have a man of times, in a fashion that makes them matters of
genius, as well as an accomplished artist. general import. It comes to be understood that,
Well, one cannot say everything. Certainly
Certainly no matter how much contempt may be expressed
one really ought to take this chance to say for metaphysics as contrasted with inquiries
something ultimate about one of the preëminent which relate more directly to our immediate
figures of English literature; but there has been welfare, any people whose thoughts are at all
so much else, that that slight matter must fall active will always be interested in this form of
aside. Let us be content for the time with the speculation. A nation is very restricted in its
information of the prospectus, that “In the works
mental effort that does not occasionally push its
of no other writer have American types of conjectures into the unseen world. Once com-
character and ideas appeared in such high relief ing under this fascination of mind, it will never
and been characterized with such definite refer rest in contentment till it has built up about
ence to nationality.” It surely is not worth known facts a system of coherent assumptions
saying anything after that.
which serve to expound and support them. If
One thing may be remarked in closing. It
we deal diligently with the visible, it is sure to
was a very happy idea to illustrate each volume
lead us to the invisible as in some way coherent
with “portraits of some scene, situation, etc.,
with it.
representative of the locality of the text," and the
The first mentioned of these two histories,
execution has admirably carried out the plan : M. Beclaere's “ La Philosophie en Amérique,”
the pictures are an immense addition to the is a clear, succinct, timely treatment of the
novels. Such as are accustomed to impressions growth in American thought of philosophy as
of the spirit of place will look long and with a solvent of the riddle of being, and helps us to
intense pleasure at the picture of the Faubourg understand how certainly these speculations have
Saint Germains in “The American,” — it almost arisen, covered the ground, and are guiding us
takes the place of the novel. People who feel to a more harmonious sense of the nature of the
that they have lost something in the modernistic life we are leading. Coming from a writer w
text may feel that they have gained something another nationality, this history is grateful
here, and so almost with some of the others. • LA PHILOSOPHIE EN AMÉRIQUE. By L. van Beclaere, O.P.
The spirit of place, — how much it may be in a
novel! People skip long descriptions of scenery,
New York: Eclectic Publishing Co.
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY. By I. Woodbridge Riley, Ph.D.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.


1908.]
177
THE DIAL
This pre-
our American pride. It gives attention to the soon as they are lifted, should be corrected with
educational and social influence of the various that patience which grows out of long continued
authors, as well as to the philosophical notions and only partially successful effort.
they have advocated.
cept of quiet consideration, Mr. Riley usually
The other history referred to, that prepared observes; but his words occasionally show aver-
by Dr. I. Woodbridge Riley, is a much fuller sion or contempt. When Clark, a small farmer,
presentation, the result of extended inquiry, and following in the steps of Edwards, ventures the
seems to give us at once footing among the conclusion, “ The question of foreordination to
thoughtful nations of the world. As a history, salvation or damnation, like raising a crop of
it
opens
the way to much further labor, and wheat, is a question of using ordinary means,"
leaves in this opening volume the impression of he is squelched by the remark, “Here is Puritan-
a large and not unfruitful field. A history of ism in bucolic trimmings; Edwards, bound
philosophy may lay stress on either part of its in half-calf.” It may be doubted whether
title ; it may be primarily historical or primarily Clark, short-sighted as he was, groped more
philosophical, itself entering the field of inquiry painfully amid the facts of the world than did
and bringing criticism to its several products. Edwards.
Dr. Riley's work unites the two tendencies, keep Dr. Riley seems to us too anxious to trace
ing neither exclusively in the foreground. What historical connections, as those of Edwards with
a history of philosophy in America chiefly calls some previous author. Forms of thought are
for is a tracing of the steps by which this form not as strictly genetic as forms of life. Given
of thought has progressed, and so preparing us general circumstances and current speculations,
to take a more intelligent and interested part in and any one person drops into them or opposes
questions still arising.
them under his own predilections. Personal
A criticism we are inclined to make on Dr. tendencies are potent in the realm of mind. It
Riley's first volume is its partial lack of a clear is a waste of ingenuity to strive to trace them
and succinct statement of the stages of discus- closely from person to person. Edwards's dis-
sion and of the persons taking part in them. It cussions grew out of his religious beliefs.
is not easy to give a brief effective presentation Granted his sense of a mystical union with
of any system of philosophy or of its advocates; God, granted the omnipotence of God, and
especially as the belief is often inadequate, and Edwards's view of liberty follows naturally
its disciples are confused and inconsistent in from his ruling convictions. What was peculiar
their allegiance. Something must be sacrificed to Edwards was his unusual analytic power. By
to prominent features ; leading considerations means of this, he heaped up about any topic a
must be strongly emphasized and qualifications formidable argument. Assume the universal
passed more rapidly. The writer must photo presence of causation, and nothing but logical
graph strongly ruling features, even if he fails coherence is called for to disprove the freedom
to define perfectly intervening surfaces. Dr. of the human mind.
Riley seems to us to wander a little too much Dr. Riley's history is the more welcome
at random through an author's works, and, by because it comes to us with a far wider survey
mingling his own criticism, to help us still of the field than any which has gone before.
further to lose our way and to be left with a We are no longer choked up by philosophy which
colorless impression of the force and order of has come to us as a by-product of science ;
events. Strong strokes should be given, even we cease to look upon philosophy as at best but
if the details of the picture seem somewhat the aftermath of a field whose chief harvest has
neglected.
been gathered in, and we are allowed once more
So many mistakes are possible in philosophy, to indulge ourselves in a wide survey of physical
the darkness shuts in so quickly at so many and spiritual facts and the one universe they
points, we institute so many inquiries to which together make up. We cannot readily attach
no answer can be given, our explanations are too much value to science, but we can easily,
so often transient and insufficient, we so readily and often do, under-estimate the considerations
exaggerate the fragment of truth we have secured, which give chief interest to life, freighted as it
that it behooves us always to have a temper very is with the wealth of physical knowledge. No
tolerant of error, and to allow the little gold matter how skilfully we may fathom the sea,
gained to be quietly added to our treasure. The must still draw our own breath from the heavens
faults of reason, finding its obscure way in a
above us.
world whose clouds roll back upon us almost as
JOHN BASCOM.
we


178
[March 16,
THE DIAL
on earth, and murderous beyond all comparison,
THE ANCIENT APPARITION OF
we must decline to take our opinions from the
THE MONGOLS.*
mediæval chroniclers or the tellers of folk-tales
A study of the Mongol race is of immense
whom Mr. Curtin seems to have so fully trusted.
importance, not only for a proper understanding Such things cannot take the place of the fruits
of European history and for the destruction of of critical scholarship.
of critical scholarship. Of course the popular
much worthless tradition and mythology based fancy may be hit by descriptions of these
on our ethnic conceits, but also for right ideas
“ squat, slit-eyed, brawny horsemen, with faces
in this twentieth century when the ends of the like the snouts of dogs," and the popular
earth have met. Not only are the Mongols “at Oriental idea of the Mongol will continue to be
our doors,” but pretty nearly everybody is called that he emerged from Tartarus, and that we
a Mongol, or Mongolian, whose eye or whose
white men and “ heirs of all the ages” have
tint of skin, as seen through the haze of our
nothing to learn from the descendants of these
ignorance, is supposed to be of the race of men who are supposed to live in China and Japan,
Genghis Khan.
and still have an ambition to cover the whole
Mr. Jeremiah Curtin's history of the Mongols earth. Nevertheless, we cannot see how the
is therefore valuable to the ordinary reader, and Mongols differed very much from the Assyrians
with its index and map will be a useful addition or the Romans, who destroyed nations, ploughed
to the library. We may even hope that among over sites of cities, and in other ways helped to
the eighty or ninety millions of a people which give humanity its blood-baths.
has treaties with both China and Japan, but It is high time for some scholar to sift the
hardly a Japanese or Korean professorship in records and evidence and give the sane and
the whole nation, there will be many readers. critical story of the Mongol invasion, treating
Having read it, we can admire the patience and of the Mongol origin, and settling once for all
learning and the literary skill of the author ; for
the dispute whether Genghis Khan was or was
he has covered a vast deal of territory, and many not Yoshitsune the Japanese. Did the Mongols
of his passages are brilliant and show us the bring, from China into Europe, printing by
chief men of the great migrations and temporary means of movable types, and other things that
kingdoms in such a way as to make them seem
were worth having ? To a large extent, the
real personalities. Yet it must be said that the Mongols constituted the influences that, by
book is not so much a history as it is an unsifted resistance and absorption, became the making
collection of traditions and folk-lore. Mr.
of Russia, even as in modern days the menace
have possessed all the scholarship of Russia became so largely the incentive for
ascribed to him in such generous measure by the making of the new Japan. Furthermore,
President Roosevelt, in the preface to the while the mediaevalists had the impression of
volume ; but we wish he had given his authori- snout-faced and squatty enemies, whom they in
ties, original and secondary, — or, if not these, their superstitious fears correlated with the
at least a chapter on the sources of his history. devil himself and with the fiends of hell, we
He might have revealed to us the labors of the
must not forget that the Mongols may have had
mighty men of research who had gone before a no less favorable opinion of the Europeans.
him over the ground both of the literature and If some of us could, or would, read in Chinese
the topography of the subject. Of Howorth the books, and other “ Mongolian " literary produc-
compiler, or of Von Hammer the investigator, tions, what the Asiatics think of us, our personal
we hear nothing ; nor are there any notes or odor, the set of our eyes, the protrusion of our
references to either chroniclers, critics, scholars,
noses, the general offensiveness of our ways, and
or narrators, Asiatic or European, who have told
the manner in which reputed Christian soldiers
the Mongol story.
and sailors have bombarded and massacred their
It is an awful picture of murder and devas: people, we might attain a different view-point
tation which Mr. Curtin has given us. No
both of ourselves and of our enemies. By all
doubt the Mongols were vile and filthy, even
means, let Mr. Curtin's book be read; it is
butchers and devils of a certain sort. Yet when
interesting and fairly attractive in form. In
it comes to believing in the Mongol as a sort of its composition, Mr. Curtin has followed the
diabolical superman, as the ugliest human being bent of his genius ; but it cannot accurately be
called a history.
* THE MONGOLS: A HISTORY. By Jeremiah Curtin. Boston:
Little, Brown, & Co.
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS.
Curtin may


1908.]
179
THE DIAL
instance of
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
entifically, and has chapters also on ancient and
modern gardening, the relation between architecture
It was inevitable that sooner or later
The art of
landscape
such standard works on landscape
and gardening, the formation of a new place, and
considerations on color in landscape. Repton's
gardening.
gardening as those of Humphry
notes, together with some by the editor, are grouped
Repton (1752-1818) should be given in modern
at the back of the volume. The illustrations, includ-
form to a public that comprises laymen as well as
ing twenty-two full-page plates besides a frontispiece
professionals. Under the auspices of the American
in color and numerous diagrams in the text, are
Society of Landscape Architects, and edited by one
especially worthy of mention, because, with the
of its members, Mr. John Nolen, the Riverside
exception of a few modern photographs, they are
Press has now put forth a volume containing the
reproductions of Repton's own sketches, most of
two most important works of this notable pioneer
them in two sections, one superimposed on the
in his field, under the title “ The Art of Landscape
other, — the upper one showing a place in its original
Gardening ” (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). These two
state, the other with improvements proposed or exe-
works, "Sketches and Hints on Landscape Garden-
cuted. The appearance of the book is in keeping
ing” and “ Theory and Practice of Landscape
with its character and with the assurance of excellence
Gardening,” have been so edited as to make them
afforded by its imprint.
of practical usefulness to modern readers and stu-
dents of the subject, without obliterating Repton's
A pernicious
A travesty upon truth is ever more
frequent quaintness of expression, of which the
dangerous than gross error. The
following sentence, opening Chapter II. of the first "near-science." latter deceives only the culpably
named work, may be given as an example: “The ignorant; the former misleads the deserving though
perfection of landscape gardening depends on a not discerning layman. In no field is such deviation
concealment of those operations of art by which more subtle and more pernicious than in that by right
nature is embellished; but where buildings are pertaining to the psychologist ; and if the distinc-
introduced, art declares herself openly, and should, tion must be awarded for the most flagrant violation
therefore, be very careful, lest she have cause to of the scientific decalogue, the works of Dr. John
blush at her interference.” Repton's high rank in Duncan Quackenbos should be considered for the
his art is undeniable; that he was appreciated in
honor. The latest issue from this source, “Hypnotic
his own time is shown by the fact that over two Therapeutics in Theory and Practice” (Harper),
hundred places, large and small, in various parts of is no worse than its predecessors, and brings hardly
England, remain as examples of his “good taste," a novel aspect of what was sufficiently exploited in
the quality that he exalts most highly. It is doubt a former work. There is the same mingling of
less true, as Mr. Nolen points out, that a part of established doctrine with fancifully supported and
this contemporary appreciation arose from the for- crudely interpreted personal dogma ; the same exag-
tunate fact that Repton “came at a time of signifi geration of what in modest proportion would be true
cant development in his profession,” which in turn enough; the same appeal to the lovers of the occult
was a part of the “romantic” movement.
and the intellectually asthenic. Mental therapeutics
man of such native genius, with a real love of nature, is a topic that looms large in the public interest.
the eye of an artist, a deep respect for utility, and a Results are obtained by methods crude and drastic,
realization that a knowledge of many
related arts “ bromidic” “sulphitic," rational and the re-
and sciences was necessary for a true practice of his verse, the success being determined by the low or
own profession, must have impressed himself on his high personal equation of the patient. In the field
times sooner or later. Mr. Nolen conceives that, where the wise do not altogether fear to tread, yet
significant as was Repton's professional work, his tread with caution, the bolder unwisdom rushes in
writings are “his most permanent contribution to and reaps (not wholly undeservedly) the reward of
his art.” They are founded upon his own observa valor; whereupon old theories are distorted and new
tions and practice, as recorded first in the “Red ones crudely woven to give to practice the back-
Books” devoted to each place that he laid out or ground of consistent design. Whether the whole
improved. In his more formal writings he gave shall bear an intelligible and significant pattern, or
numerous extracts from these note-books, and alto be put together with the coherence of a crazy-quilt,
gether put in permanent form the principles of his depends wholly upon the mental quality of the per-
art, which he derived by taking the best, as he says, former. For the product that takes something of
from his predecessors, Le Nôtre and Brown, and the warp and woof of science and imitates accepted
infusing these with his own genius. The scope of designs, but makes of the whole a plausible counter-
the two works under consideration is wide: “Sketches feit, the term “near-science” is not wholly mal-
and Hints” (1795) treats of situations, buildings, apropos. Hypnotisin is real enough; so is mental
water, large private places, formal gardening, therapy; and so are the types of ailment and of
approaches, the affinity between painting and gar relief treated in the several chapters of this book.
dening, and the sources of pleasure in landscape But when accepted relations are stated (though
gardening; "Theory and Practice” (1803) includes these also misleadingly) on one page and wholly
these subjects treated more in detail and more sci unwarranted deductions on the next — both with
Yet a
or


180
[March 16,
THE DIAL
A book about
and her times.
equal conviction
the reader selects the more sen and printing, as well as the literary qualities which
sational and builds up a system of heaven and earth should enter into the making of books for children,
that is truly never dreamt of by a sound philosophy. this series has not since been surpassed; and in no
This is really " yellow" psychology, and is none the survey of the history of books for children should
less jaundiced because one may charitably concede it be overlooked. The section devoted to “ The
that the author is sincere. The pity of it is that Library and the Book ” and “The School and the
more conservative and rational presentations of the Home,” as well as the book-lists in the appendices,
psychological domain fall upon unwilling and impa- have practical value; these chapters are mainly the
tient listeners, while these extravagant systems meet result of collaboration by experts, whose “wide
with vociferous applause. It is in no small measure experience, intimate contact with and knowledge of
because such obstacles beset his path that the psychol- the books considered, and desire to show a human
ogist cannot as successfully command his audience respect for the tastes of children” entitle them to
as he should, both for his own encouragement and the highest consideration. There are many slips,
the public good. “ Near-science” looks much the errors, and omissions, sadly needing correction,
same as the true article, but it will not stand the which we have not space to indicate here; and
weather. Yet if appearance and the cut of the surely Mr. Moses should have known better than to
garment are alone cherished, the product is sure to send out such a book without an index.
be popular.
It would be impossible to find an
In Mr. Montrose J. Moses's “Chil The Duchesse
de Longueville
dren's Books and Reading " (New
apter designation for Anne, Duchesse
children's books.
York: Mitchell Kennerley) we have
de Longueville, than the one that Mr.
H. Noel Williams has chosen as the title of his
one more addition to the abundant collection of
books about books for children. While there is recently published study of the Duchesse and her
much in it that is sound, practical, and useful, we
times, —"A Princess of Intrigue" (Putnam). Born
of a race of royal intriguers, thrust from a convent
cannot give it unqualified praise; it is, as the author
into the artificial atmosphere of the Hôtel de
himself admits, an incomplete and unfinished sketch.
Rambouillet and the gaiety of a corrupt court, where
Unlike the more comprehensive treatises on the
historical, philosophical, cultural, and ethical aspects
her wit and beauty carried everything before them,
of children's reading, Mr. Moses gives snatches of
married to a man twice her age, who cared nothing
for her but was wax in her hands for any mapcap
these things, and of some others, - all
very
inter-
esting reading, but in no sense satisfying. One
political adventure, she found herself, at twenty-five,
always feels that there is so much more that ought reckoned with in the state of France. Naturally
an object of universal homage and a power to be
to have been said. The sketch of the development her ambition responded to the spur of opportunity.
of literature for children from the Horn books to the
days of John Newbery and Isaiah Thomas is neces-
As fond of power as other great Frenchwomen have
sarily sketchy and imperfect, but it is interesting and
been, she seems to have been much less emotional.
useful mainly on account of the Diagram-Chart
Lovers, save one, she scorned, valuing personal
intended to indicate partially “The Growth of
admiration only because it could be converted into
Juvenile Literature.” In a section called “The
partisanship. And yet in the ultimate crisis her
Old-fashioned Library” the later eighteenth-century
love for La Rochefoucauld (of the “Maximes” and
the prematurely published "Mémoires ") triumphed
and early nineteenth-century writers for children are
dealt with in somewhat fuller detail. But is not
over her loyalty to the house of Condé; she joined
herself and her following to the opposition party,
the attitude of mind which judges children's books
and the wars of the Fronde followed. This is the
of the past from the present-day point of view an
unscientific one ? In order properly to evaluate
story that Mr. Williams repeats, drawing for his
details
them we should consider them with reference to the
all available sources, both contemporary
upon
and modern. His work is issued in two handsome
conditions in which the children then lived, not with
reference to the suitability of books of past times to
volumes, with many portraits of the Duchesse and
the needs of the children of to-day. The further
her friends and enemies by way of illustration.
history of books for children in England and America
Compared with some of his previous studies of great
is traced in the section "Concerning Then and Now,"
Frenchwomen this one lacks vivacity; the figure of
which is somewhat poor and thin. For example, picture of the events through which she moved. In
Mme. Longueville hardly dominates the complicated
there is no reference to Reinecke Fuchs (Reynard part at least, this is due to the fact that, stripped of
the Fox"), so popular in England and all over
Europe; and the very beautiful epoch-making series
her beauty and her semi-royal standing, she would
of books for children projected and edited by Sir scarcely have been of commanding calibre.
Henry Cole, of South Kensington fame, and W. J.
So many and, in general, so scholarly
Thoms the librarian of the House of Lords, and
The singer of
and good are the biographies and
published by Joseph Cundall in England a little
studies of the poet James Thomson
before the middle of the last century, is not honored (him of “ The Seasons,” not his “dreadfully noctur-
with a line! From the point of view of selecting, nal" namesake) that one hardly looks for new facts or
editing, illustrating, and the practical details of type 'l even new points of view in the short critical account
the seasons.


1908.]
181
THE DIAL
of a noted
of him prepared for the “ English Men of Letters” a working class as the Chilian inquilino, disciplined
series (Macmillan) by Mr. G. C. Macaulay. Yet by centuries of oppression and toil, but still suffi-
some new facts, as announced in his preface, have ciently inspirited to make a splendid soldier. Her
been unearthed, especially concerning the production vast natural resources and magnificent maritime
of Thomson's plays, his relations with Lyttelton, and opportunities, and the inroads which modern science
the tenure of his successive posts under the govern and education have even now made upon the bar-
ment. More important and interesting, however, barism and superstition which have clouded her
than these small matters of detail in a rather une history, augur well for her future.
ventful life are the author's contributions, in the way
of appreciative comment, toward a better under-
There must be hundreds of Profes-
The life-work
standing of Thomson as a poet of nature, and a
sor Hermann Krüsi's old pupils to
Pestalozzian.
more accurate determination of his influence on the
mom his “ Recollections of My Life"
poetry of his century, not only in England but also (Grafton Press)' edited by Mrs. Elizabeth Sheldon
in ance and Germany. “Poetical • nature-study' Alling, will be a most welcome and interesting book.
in the modern sense of the term,” the writer goes
Born in Switzerland in 1817, the son of that Her-
so far as to maintain," had its origin, paradoxical mann Kritsi who attained something more than local
as the assertion may seem, in the first half of the
fame as the disciple and associate of Pestalozzi, the
eighteenth century; for it was then for the first time younger Hermann followed naturally and willingly
that the phenomena of external nature came to be
in his father's footsteps as a Pestalozzian teacher
regarded as objects of poetry in and for themselves.” and educational reformer. Switzerland, England,
To say this of any poet or poets born and bred in and America were successively the scenes of his
the atmosphere of artificiality and turgid formality labors, but the institution with which he was finally
that to us
seem so characteristic of eighteenth- and permanently identified was the Oswego State
century literature, is to say a good deal. To get back Normal and Training School, where he taught the
to nature one would hardly betake himself to the philosophy of education, and also geometry and
England of Thomson's time. But, at any rate, Mr.
modern languages, for twenty-five years. He re-
Macaulay's discussion of the matter is interesting ;
signed his post in 1887, and died in 1903, leaving
and the book throughout is suggestive and stimu- behind him an autobiography, relating chiefly his
lating. The treatment of “The Castle of Indolence" rich and varied experience as an educator, and also
and the minor poems is as scholarly as that of “The a more detailed and personal record in the form of
Seasons." As a careful study of a not superla-
a diary. From these abundant sources has been
tively prepossessing theme, the little volume deserves compiled a full and readable account of a man of
nothing but praise.
pronounced character, high ideals, and remarkable
energy ; and from his lectures and unpublished
The home of A recent volume in the “South Amer-
the Yankees
writings a few characteristic selections have been
of the southern
ican Series” (imported by Charles added. He was associated, first and last, with many
continent. Scribner's Sons) is Mr. G. F. Scott prominent educators — notably Agassiz and Guyot,
Elliot's work on Chili. It is mainly historical, his compatriots,- and his life-story was well worth
though it includes chapters on the industrial and the telling An error that has rather strangely
social and commercial life of the "England of the escaped the editor's vigilance is a reference to
Pacific,” as this British author dubs what we
Williamsburgh” as one of the attractive resorts
Americans are more apt to call the “ home of the of the Berkshire hills, where Williamstown, the seat
Yankees of the southern continent." To one not
of Williams College, must have been meant. Good
versed in the intricacies of early and later Spanish illustrations, and facsimiles of letters from Long-
intrigués, the long story of plot and counter-plot, of
fellow and Agassiz, accompany the text.
rebellion and treachery, of massacre and graft, is
neither pleasing nor interesting reading; though it
The latest number in Holt's “Amer-
A scientific
is conceivable that the Chili of to-day is best inter Fish-book for
ican Nature Series" is President
preted in the light - or, rather, the darkness - of
Jordan's work on Fishes, a large vol-
her past.
The author is not in sympathy with ume of nearly eight hundred pages, with abundant
American pretensions in that quarter, and stoutly text illustrations and eighteen plates in colors, in-
denies that the United States lent any assistance to cluding a beautiful plate of the famous golden trout
Chili in its struggles for liberty – Hancock to the of Volcano Creek in the high Sierras. This work
contrary notwithstanding, - and blithely dismisses is in the main, but not wholly, a selection from the
the Monroe Doctrine as a cause for mirth among author's two-volume “Guide to the Study of Fishes”
South American republics. Chili has an aristocracy published several years ago. It contains most of the
whose Castilian lineage is a ground for hauteur and non-technical matter of that more extensive work,
exclusiveness, and for the aristocratical form of and is therefore of more interest and value to the
so-called popular government which prevails. Her general reader, the nature-student, or the angler,
industry and commerce are in the hands of the than the larger work. It is substantially a general
English and Germans, who quickly become loyal natural history of fishes, treated from the standpoint
Chileños. No country of the world has so valuable of popular interest, but upon comprehensive lines.
.
common use.


182
[March 16,
THE DIAL
a German
composer.
Naturally, fishes of importance as food, or sought conspiracy that robbed Dr. McLoughlin of his
for by anglers, are given a prominent place in the land-claim at Oregon City from its inception to the
pages of this book; but one also finds that Dr. return of the claim to Dr. McLoughlin's heirs, by
Jordan is even more alert to seize upon any item the State Legislature, five years after his death.
of interest or significance regarding the less known The address is written in an entertaining style and
representatives of the finny world. The author's with a full knowledge of local conditions ; but it is to
wide knowledge of this group of animals, his com be regretted that Mr. Holman did not put together
prehensive selection of interesting data, his terse, all the obtainable data regarding McLoughlin in a
lucid, often humorous presentation of his subject, more formal biography. About a third of the volume
and the superb selection of illustrations, all combine consists of illustrative documents, and two interesting
to make this by far the most readable and interesting portraits are given.
popular natural history of fishes which has as yet
been published.
A selection, in excellent English ren-
Letters of
BRIEFER MENTION.
dering, from Schumann's best and
liveliest letters is not a volume to be “ A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse," edited
lightly dismissed by the reviewer. In “The Letters by Miss Margaret Lynn, is published by the Macmillan
of Robert Schumann” (Dutton), as selected and Co. All the leading poets of the century are repre-
edited by Dr. Karl Storck and translated by Miss sented, and Dryden is thrown in for good measure. A
Hannah Bryant, we have, in reasonably small com group of Scotch songs and ballads fills a small but
pass, a very winning presentation of the composer's
important niche in this volume. There are about four
hundred
artistic, sentimental, and romantic ideals and enthu-
of
pages poems, and seventy-five of notes.
siasms. The earlier letters, from Leipzig and
« The Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson ”
Heidelberg, mostly to his mother at home in Zwickau,
is the title of a work in two volumes published by Mr.
Henry Frowde The author is Mr. William Stebbins,
are full of the emotions and aspirations and amiable
and his task has been to set down his “impressions " of
conceits of a gifted and imaginative youth; the about seventy poets (including four Americans), inter-
letters to his sweetheart and future wife, Clara spersing the statement of his ideas with copious extracts.
Wieck, are tender and devoted ; and those to his It makes a pleasant book to read, for it is the work of
musical friends illustrate his progress and his tastes an ardent lover of poetry, but it is too personal an
in his chosen calling. Schumann matured early, but expression to have any marked critical value.
there is an amusing mannishness about some of his The vein which Longfellow worked so satisfactorily
student letters, as in this extract from a Heidelberg
in his “Poets and Places" has suffered neglect from
letter to his mother, the writer being but nineteen
later editors, but there have been several recent signs
of a revival of this species of anthology-making. Mr.
years old : “I think it is a pity for a young man to
come to a town where the student holds undisputed
Robert Haven Schauffler, for example, now publishes,
through Messrs. Moffat, Yard & Co., a volume called
sway. A young man of any grit develops best under
“ Through Italy with the Poets," which exhihits good
a system of repression, and this perpetual lounging judgment in its choice of poems, and makes a collection
with no one but students limits his mental outlook, which every lover of Italy (and who is not one?)
and injures him incalculably for practical life. . . must prize. It will be particularly valued for bringing
Fortunately I am sufficiently sobered to value things together many beautiful pieces of very recent compo-
at their proper worth. I should certainly let any
sition, and for the classified arrangement which makes
son of mine study one year at Heidelberg and three
it useful for specific reference.
at Leipzig." A not too pronounced flavor of the
It is difficult to understand the raison d'être of the
sinnreich, the gefühlvoll, the schwärmerisch even,
book of “English Quotations ” prepared by Mr. Robinson
pervades the letters, in a pleasant way, and gives
Smith, and now published by Messrs. E. P. Dutton &
Co. It is described as “ a collection of the more memor-
them an undeniable charm. A portrait of Schumann
able passages and poems of English literature, arranged
and one of Clara Wieck are provided.
according to authors chronologically," and is provided
with a verbal index. The words “ passages and poems
Mr. Frederick V. Holman's sketch
McLoughlin
in this description indicate the uncertainty of the com-
and the story
of Dr. John McLoughlin is a eu-
piler's aim. Long poems, such as Gray's “Elegy" and
of Oregon.
logy prepared in celebration of
Wordsworth’s “Immortality” are given complete, or
“McLoughlin day” at the Lewis and Clark Expo- nearly so, but hundreds of other poems equally important
sition in 1905. Proving too lengthy for the occa are represented by short passages, or ignored altogether.
sion, it was condensed for oral delivery, and has On the other hand, the short quotations are taken rather
since been printed in full by the Arthur H. Clark
at random, and the most familiar lines are likely to be
Company of Cleveland.
Although “largely re-
looked for in vain. Consequently, we cannot call the
written” according to the introduction, the address
book either a good anthology or a good reference manual
apparently retains in the main its original form. It
of familiar quotations. The editor's sense of proportion
may be illustrated by saying that he gives us forty pages
consists of two parts : an accumlation of testimony of Wordsworth and fourteen lines of Byron. The poe-
to the effect that the Americans could not have
try selected is good, as far as it goes, but the selection
maintained themselves in Oregon without the assist seems to be representative of one man's taste, instead
ance of Dr. McLoughlin, and the story of the of illustrating the consensus of received critical opinion.


1908.]
183
THE DIAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING BOOKS.
Our annual list of books announced for Spring publication,
herewith presented, contains some eight hundred titles —
practically the same number as in the corresponding list of
last year,-and offers convincing evidence that the publishing
trade has not been seriously affected by the recent business
depression. All the books here listed are presumably new
books — new editions not being included unless having new
form or matter. The omission of any prominent publishers
from the present list is due solely to the fact that such pub-
lishers failed to respond to our repeated requests for data
regarding their Spring books. If they can yet be induced
to divulge the required information, the announcements of
these houses will appear in our next issue.
NOTES.
One of the most important forthcoming publications
of the University of Chicago Press is Professor George
M. Hale’s “ The Study of Stellar Evolution,” to appear
this month.
The Rev. Stopford A. Brooke has just finished a
volume of essays upon Matthew Arnold, Rossetti,
Morris, and Arthur Hugh Clough. The volume will be
entitled “ Four Victorian Poets,” and will appear shortly
under the Putnam imprint.
A life of Alice Freeman Palmer by her husband,
Professor George Herbert Palmer of Harvard Univer-
sity, will be issued next month by Messrs. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. Mrs. Palmer was President of Wellesley
College, and one of the leading educators of the country.
Professor Frederick Starr has in press with Messrs.
Forbes & Co. a large work describing the life and cus-
toms of the Indian tribes of Southern Mexico. The
same firm has also in press Dr. George Wharton James's
“ What the White Race May Learn from the Indian";
and « The Physical Basis of Civilization,” by T. W.
Heineman.
A book of importance to students of criminology is
promised in “ The Young Malefactor,” a study of juve-
nile punishment by Mr. Thomas Travis, Ph.D., which is
now in the presses of Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for
speedy issuance. Judge Ben. B. Lindsey, perhaps the
best known authority on children's courts in America,
contributes an introduction. Another forthcoming book
in the same field is Dr. Lilburn Merrill's “Winning
the Boy,” which the Fleming H. Revell Co. will issue
shortly. Dr. Merrill is a physician who has been asso-
ciated with Judge Lindsey's Juvenile Court work in
Denver.
The H. M. Caldwell Co. of Boston and New York
have been appointed agents in the United States for
Messrs. Blackie & Son of Glasgow of all books bearing
their copyright, and will publish all the future works of
Captain F. S. Brereton, Alexander Macdonald, F.R.G.S.,
and Robert Macdonald, three of the most popular writers
of boys' books. They also announce for immediate pub-
lication the following: “A Pageant of Elizabethan
Poetry,” arranged by Arthur Symons; “La France
Monarchique," by George A. Powell, B.A., and Oswald
B. Powell, B.A.; “ Benares, the Sacred City," by E. B.
Havell, A.R.C.A.; “ A Book of Bridge,” by “ Pontifex”;
“ My High School Days," a memory book for the girl
graduate, by L. J. Bridgman; and “Weiga of Temagami
and Other Children of the Wild," by Cy Warman.
Henry Loomis Nelson, formerly editor of “Harper's
Weekly," and for the past six years David A. Wells
professor of political science at Williams College, died
on February 29 at the home of his daughter in New
York City. Professor Nelson was born in New York
City, January 5, 1846, was graduated from Williams
College, studied law at Columbia, and was admitted to
the bar in 1869. He practiced law for six years, then
went to Washington, where he acted as correspondent
to the Boston “ Post” until 1888, and then as private
secretary for Speaker Carlisle. Later he became prin-
cipal editorial writer on the Boston “ Post," and subse-
quently he took charge of the New York “Star.” In
1894 he became editor of " Harper's Weekly," a position
he held four years.
His other journalistic work was in
connection with the New York « World." He was the
author of several books, chiefly on economic subjects.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Life and Letters of George Bancroft, by M. A. DeWolfe
Howe, 2 vols., with portraits, $4 net.--Memoirs of the
Comtese de Boigne, Vol. III., 1820-1830, with portrait,
$2.50 net.-Caroline, Duchesse du Berri, by H. Noel Wi-
liams, 2 vols., illus.-The Women Bonapartes, by H.
Noel Williams, illus.--Henrik Ibsen, by Edmund Gosse,
illus., $1 net.Some Seventeenth Century Men of Lati-
tude, by Edward George, $1.25 net. (Charles Scribner's
Sons.)
Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Leslie Stephen
and Sidney Lee, new and revised edition, 22 vols.,
Vol. I., $4 net. Stephen A. Douglas, a study in American
politics, by Allen Johnson, $2.50 net.--Rambling Remi-
niscences, by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, 2 vols., illus. in
photogravure, etc., $7.50 net.-My Memoirs, by Alexandre
Dumas, trans. by E. M. Waller, 6 vols., with portraits,
Vols. III.-VI., per vol., $1.75.--English Men of Letters
Series, new vol.: James Thomson, by G. C. Macauley,
75 cts. net. (Macmillan Co.)
Quaker and Courtier, the life and work of William Penn, by
Mrs. Colquhon Grant, illus., $3.50 net.-With the Border
Ruffians, memories of the far west, 1852-1868, by R. H.
Williams, with portraits, $4 net.--Life and Voyages of
Joseph Wiggin, based on his Journals and Letters, by
Henry Johnson, illus., $5 net.-James Francis Edward,
"the Old Chevalier, by Martin Halle, illus. in photo-
gravure, $4 net.-The Story of a Beautiful Duchess, the
life and times of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton
and Argyll, by Horace Bleackley, $5 net.--Five Stuart
Princesses, edited by Robert S. Rait, new edition, illus.,
$3.50 net.-George, Earl of Macartney, First Ambassador
to China, by Helen H. Robbins, illus., $5 net.--Remi-
niscences of Oxford, by W. Tuckwell, new edition, $2 net.
--An Apostle of the North, life and memoirs of William
Carpenter Bompas, by H. A. Cody, illus., $2 net.-Lud-
wig, the Second King of Bavaria, by Clara Tschudi, trans.
by Ethel Harriet Hearn, with portrait, $2.50 net.—Abra-
ham Lincoln, by Henry Bryan Binns, $1.50 net.-Phillips
Brooks, by A. V. G. Allen, new and cheaper edition,
$2.50 net. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Concerning Lafcadio Hearn, by George M. Gould, with por-
trait, $1.50 net.---Danton and the French Revolution, by
Charles F. Warwick, illus., $2.50 net.-American Crisis
Biographies, new vols.: Jefferson Davis, by W. E. Dodd;
Alexander H. Stephens, by Louis Pendleton; each, with
portrait, $1.25 net.Richard Hooker Wilmer, Second
Bishop of Alabama, by Walter C. Whitaker, with por-
trait, $2 net. (George W. Jacobs & Co.)
Passages from the Past, by the Duke of Argyll, 2 vols., illus.,
$6.50 net. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
A Life of Alice Freeman Palmer, by George Herbert Palmer,
with portraits.-Life and Letters of Robert Browning,
by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, new enlarged edition, with por-
trait, $2.-Walt Whitman, by Bliss Perry, revised edition,
illus., $1.50 net.—Lives of Great English Writers, by
W. S. Hinchman and Francis B. Gummere, with portraits,
$1.50 net. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
The Daughter of Louis XVI., Marie-Therese-Charlotte of
France, Duchesse d'Angouleme, by M. G. Lenotre, illus.,
$4 net.-The King's General in the West, the life of Sir
Richard Granville, by Roger Granville, illus. with por-
traits and maps, $4 net. (John Lane Co.)
The Life and Works of James Buchanan, collected and edited
by John Bassett Moore, 12 vols., Vols. 1. and II., each
with portrait in color and photogravure, per vol., $5 net.-
The Life and Works of Christopher Dock, with a transla-
tion of his works, by Martin G. B. Brumbaugh, introduc-
tion by Samuel W. Pennypacker, illus., $5 net. (J. B.
Lippincott Co.)
Thomas Alva Edison, by Francis Arthur Jones, illus., $2 net.
(Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.)
My Day and Generation, by Clark E. Carr, with portraits, $3
net. (A. C. McClurg & Co.)
Thomas Chatterton, by Charles E. Russell, illus. in photo-
gravure, $2.50 net. (Moffat, Yard & Co.)
Sea Kings of Great Britain, Hawkins to Blake, by G. A. R.
Callender, with maps and plans, 75 cts. (Longmans, Green,
& Co.)


184
[March 16,
THE DIAL
My Life, by Josiah Flynt, $2 net. (Outing Publishing Co.)
Hogarth, by_Austin Dobson, new edition, illus., $3.50 net.-
Jeanne D'Arc, by T. D. Murray, illus., $3.50. (McClure
Co.)
The Victorian Chancellors, by J. B. Atlay, 2 vols., Vol. II.,
with portraits, etc., $4 net.-Lights of Two Centuries,
edited by Edward Everett Hale, new edition, with por-
traits, $1.50. (Little, Brown & Co.)
Rooseveltiana, by Leslie Chase, paper, 50 cts. net.--Ab Moy,
the Story of a Chinese Girl, by Lu Wheat, illus., $1.50
net. (Grafton Press.)
HISTORY
A History of the United States, by Edward Channing, Vol.
II., A Century of Colonial History, 1660-1780, $2.50 net.-
Cambridge Modern History, planned by Lord Acton, edited
by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes,
Vol. V., Bourbons and Stuarts, $4 net.-General Essays and
Lectures, by Lord Acton, edited, with introduction, by
John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, 2 vols.;
Vol. I., The History of Freedom and Other Essays; Vol.
II., Historical Essays and Studies; per vol., $3 net.--The
Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies, by Henry Charles
Lea, $2.50 net. (Macmillan Co.)
Studies in the History of Venice, by Horatio F. Brown, 2
vols., $6 net.-English Children in the Olden Times, by
Elizabeth Godfrey, $3 net.--The Travels of the King
Charles II. in Germany and Flanders, 1554-1660, by Eva
Scott, with portraits, $3.50 net.--The Discoveries in Crete
and their Bearing on the History of Ancient Civilization,
by R. M. Burrows, illus., $2 net.—The Battle of Tsu-
Shima between the Japanese and Russian Fleets, by
Captain Vladimer Semenoff, trans. by Captain A. B. Lind-
say, $1.50 net.-Condition of the Border at the Union,
destruction of the Graham Clan, by John Graham, $1.25
net. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
The Struggle for American Independence, by Sydney George
Fisher, 2 vols., Illus., $4 net.— The Childhood of Man, by
Leo Frobenius, trans. by Professor Keane, Illus., $3 net.
(J. B. Lippincott Co.)
The History of Twenty-five Years, by Sir Spencer Walpole,
4 vols., Vols. III. and IV.-The Political History of Eng-
land, written by various autbors and edited by William
Hunt and Reginald Lane Poole, now complete in 12 vols.,
new vols.: Vol. VI., From the Accession of Edward VI. to
the Death of Elizabeth, by A. F. Pollard; Vol. VIII.,
From the Restoration to the Death of William III., by
Richard Lodge; Vol. IX., From the Accession of Anne
to the Death of George II., by I. S. Leadam; per vol.,
$2.60 net; per set, $28 net. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
Original Narratives of Early American History, new vols.:
Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646,
edited by William T. Davis; Governor John Winthrop's
Journal, the History of New England, 1630-1849, edited
by J. K. Hosmer, 2 vols.; each, illus., $3 net.-The Old
Dominion, by Thomas Nelson Page, $1.50 net.-A History
of the United States Navy, by John R. Spears, $1.50 net.-
The American Constitution, by Frederic J. Stimson, $1.25
net. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
The Conquest of the Great Northwest, by Agnes C. Laut, 2
vols., illus., $5 net. (Outing Publishing Co.)
Grafton Historical Series, new vols.: The Witchcraft Delusion
in Colonial Connecticut, by John M. Taylor; Historic Graves
of Maryland and the District of Columbia, by Helen W.
Ridgely, illus.; per vol., $2 net. (Grafton Press.)
Ancient Jerusalem, by Selah Merrill, illus., $6 net. (Fleming
H. Revell Co.)
Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign, by John S.
Mosby, with map and portraits, $2 net. (Moffat, Yard
& Co.)
The Mother of California, by Arthur Walbridge North, illus.,
$2 net. (Paul Elder & Co.)
The "Londons" of the British Fleet,* by Edward Fraser, $1.50
net. (John Lane Co.)
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. LIII.--Bibliography of
the Philippine Islands.-Crown Collection of Photographs
of American Maps, Vol. IV. (Arthur H. Clark Co.)
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Elizabethan Drama, by Felix E. Shelling, 2 vols., $7.50 net.-
Bibliography of R. W. Emerson, compiled by George Willis
Cooke, limited edition, with photogravure portrait, $5 net.-
Types of English Literature Series, new vol.: Tragedy, by
Ashley H. Thorndike, $1.50 net.—The New American Type
and Other Essays, by Henry D. Sedgwick, $1.50 net.-
On the Training of Parents, by Ernest Hamlin Abbott, $1
net.-Italica, studies in Italian life and letters, by William
Roscoe Thayer, $1.50 net.-The Influence of Montaigne and
The Spirit of Montaigne, compiled by Grace Norton, 2
vols.; each, $1.25 net. (Houghton, Mifin & Co.)
Apologia Diffidentis, by W. Compton Leith, $2.50 net.—The
Shakespeare Problem Restated, by George Greenwood, $5
net.--Limbo and Other Essays, by Vernon Lee, $1.50 net.-
The English Stage of Today, by Mario Borsa, translated
and edited, with preface, by Selwyn Brinton, $2.50 net.-
Modernism and Romance, by Rolfe A. Scott-James, $2.50
net.--French Novelists of Today, by Winifred Stephens,
with portraits, $1.50 net.-The Iliad of the East, by
Frederika MacDonald, illus., $1.50 net.-The Training of
the Imagination, by James Rhoades, 50 cts. net. (John
Lape Co.)
The Inward Light, by H. Fielding Hall, $1.75 net.- Collected
Essays, by Frederic Harrison, Vol. III., $2 net.-Confessio
Medici, by the writer of "The Young People." (Mac-
millan Co.)
Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener,
with introduction and notes by Bertram Dobell, $1.50 net.
(Dodd, Mead & Co.)
A Pocketful of Sixpences, by G. W. E. Russell, $3 net.-Lu-
cretius, Epicurean and Poet, by John Masson, $3.50 bet.-
The Symbolist Movement in Literature, by Arthur Symons,
$2 net. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Ibsen as He Should be Read, by Edwin Bjorkman, with
frontispiece, $1.25 net.-A Teacher of Dante, and other
studies in Italian literature, by Nathan Haskell Dole, $1.75
net. (Moffatt, Yard & Co.)
Henrik Ibsen, the Man and his Work, by Montrose J. Moses.-
The Artist's Life, by John Oliver Hobbes.—The Happy
Moralist, by Hubert Bland.-Love and All about it, by
Frank Richardson. (Mitchell Kennerley.)
The Making of Personality, by Bliss Carman, $1.50. (L. C.
Page & Co.)
Through the Magic Door, by A. Conan Doyle, $1.50. (Mc-
Clure Co.)
The Genesis of Hamlet, by Charlton Minor Lewis, $1.25 net.
(Henry Holt & Co.)
The Essential Life, by Stephen B. Stanton, $1 net. --Shakespeare
as a Dramatic Artist, by Thomas R. Lounsbury, new edi-
tion, $2 net.—The France of Today, by Barrett Wendell,
new edition, $1.50 net. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Tudor and Stuart Library, new vols.: Thomas Wilson's Arte
of Rhetorique, 1585; George Turbervile's Noble Arte of
Venerie or Hunting, 1576.-Homerica, emendations and
elucidations of the Odyssey, by Thomas Leyden Agar,
(Oxford University Press.)
Materials and Methods in Fiction, by Clayton Hamilton, with
introduction by Brander Matthews, $1.50 net. (Baker &
Taylor Co.)
In Greece with the Classics, by William Amory Gardner, with
frontispiece, $1.50 net. (Little, Brown & Co.)
The Country Contributor, ideas of a plain country woman,
$1 net. (Doubleday, Page & Co.)
Women and Other Women, by Hildegarde Hawthorne, $1.20 net.
(Duffield & Co.)
Love and Life, and other studies, by Alfred Kreymborg, $1 net.
(Grafton Press.)
Books and Life, by William A. Quayle, new edition, leather,
$1 net. (Jennings & Graham.)
POETRY AND THE DRAMA.
Faust, a drama, by Stephen Phillips, $1.25 net.--The Unicorn
from the Stars, and other plays, by William Butler Yeats,
$1.75 net.-The Scarecrow, by Percy Mackaye, $1.25_det.-
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, edited by Hallam
Tennyson, with notes by the author, 6 vols., Vols. I. and
II., per vol., $1.50 net. -The Golden Hynde and Other
Poems, by Alfred Noyes, $1.25 net. (Macmillan Co.)
Complete Poems by Stephen Phillips, uniform edition, 4 vols.,
including New Poems, Poems, Paolo and Francesca, Herod,
$5 net. Complete Works of Laurence Hope, new uniform
edition, 3 vols., $4.50 net.—The Works of Francis Thomp-
son, new uniform edition, 3 vols., $5 net.--Interludes and
Poems, by Lascelles Abercrombie, $1.25 net.-Resurgam, a
poem of optimism, by John Elliot, with frontispiece in
color by Maxfield Parrish, $1 net.--Beau Brummel, by
Clyde Fitch and Richard Mansfield, illus., $1.50 net. (John
Lane Co.)
Cambridge Poets' Series, new vol.: Spenser's Complete Poetical
Works, edited by R. E. Neil Dodge, with photogravure
frontispiece, $3.-A Scallop Shell of Quiet, by Caroline
Hazard, with frontispiece, $1 net. (Houghton, Mifflin &
Co.)
The Works of Henrik Ibsen, edited, with introduction, by Wil-
liam Archer, concluding vol.: Feast at Solhoug, Lady
Inger, Love's Comedy, $1. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Hannele, by Gerhart Hauptman, English version by Charles
Henry Meltzger, $1 net. (Doubleday, Page & Co.)
Through Italy with the Poets, an anthology, compiled by Robert
Haven Schauffler, with photogravure frontispiece, $2 net.
(Moffat, Yard & Co.)
To the End of the Trail, by Richard Hovey, $1.25 net. (Dut-
field & Co.)
The Father, by August Strindberg, trans. into English, $1 net.-
The Storm, by Ostrovsky, trans. into English, $1 net.
(John W. Luce & Co.)
Everyman, a Morality Play, with introduction by Montrose
J. Moses. (Mitchell Kennerley.)
FICTION
Somehow Good, by William De Morgan, $1.75.- Arkinsaw
Cousins, a Story of the Ozarks, by J. Breckenridge Ellis,
$1.50.- The Lost Goddess, by Edward Barron, $1.50.
(Henry Holt & Co.)
Mr.
Crewe's Career,
by
Winston Churchill, $1.50_Prima
Donna, by F. Marion Crawford, $1.50.-The Iron Heel,
by Jack London, $1.50.-Flower o' the Orange, and other
tales of bygone days, by Agnes and Egerton Castle,
$1.50.—Tales of the Months, by the author of "The
Garden of a Commuter's Wife," $1.50.---The Heart of a
Child, by Frank Danby, $1.50.- Joan of Garioch, by Albert
Kinross, $1.50.-A Canadian Girl in London, by Mrs.
Everard Cotes, $1.50. (Macmillan Co.)


1908.]
185
THE DIAL
at
Come and Find Me, by Elizabeth Robins, illus., $1.50.--See-
ing England with Uncle John, by Anne Warner, illus.,
$1.50.--My Lost Duchess, an Idyl of the Town, by Jesse
Lynch Williams, illus. in tint, $1.50.—The Cheerful Smug-
glers, by Ellis Parker Butler, illus. by May Wilson Pres-
ton, $1.-The Four-Pools Mystery, anon., with frontispiece
in color, $1.50. (Century Co.)
Rose MacLeod, by Alice Brown, with frontispiece, $1.50.-
Priest and Pagan, by Herbert M. Hopkins, with frontis-
piece, $1.50.—The Breaking in of a Yachtsman's Wife,
by Mary Heaton Vorse, illus., $1.50.--Home from Sea,
by George S. Wasson, illus., $1.50.-The Intoxicated
Ghost and Other Stories, by Arlo Bates, $1.50. (Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co.)
Vera, the Medium, by Richard Harding Davis, illus. by
Frederic D. Steele, $1.50.-The Sentimental Adventures
of Jimmy Bulstrode, by Marie Van Vorst, illus., $1.50.--
True Stories of Crime, by Arthur Train, illus., $1.50.-
The Footprint and Other Tales, by Gouverneur Morris,
$1.50.--The Girl and the Game, and other college stories,
by Jesse Lynch Williams, Illus., $1.50.-The Old Room,
by Carl Ewald, trans. from the Danish by Alexander
Teixeira de Mattos, $1.25.-His First Leave, by L. Allen
Harker, $1.50.-Old Mr. Davenant's Money, by Frances
Powell, $1.50. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
The Great Secret, by E. Phillips Oppenheim, illus., $1.50.-
The Reaping, by Mary Imlay Taylor, with frontispiece
in color, $1.50.-Quickened, by Anna Chapin Ray, $1.50.-
The Weight of the Name, by Paul Bourget, trans. by
George Burnham Ives, $1.50.-The Hemlock Avenue Mys-
tery, by Roman Doubleday, illus., $1.50.-The Supreme
Gift, by Grace Denio Litchfield, with frontispiece in color
by Alice Barber Stephens, $1.50.-Janet of the Dunes,
by Harriet T. Comstock, illus., $1.50.-The Five Knots,
by Fred M. White, illus., $1.50.--The Heart of the Red
Firs, by Ada Woodruff Anderson, illus., $1.50. (Little,
Brown & Co.)
The Mother of the Man, by Eden Phillpotts, with frontispiece,
$1.50.—The Husbands of Edith, by George Barr Mc-
Cutcheon, illus. in color by Harrison Fisher, $1.25.-My
Lady of Cleeve, by Percy J. Hartley, illus., $1.50.-The
Man Who Was Thursday, by Gilbert K. Chesterton, $1.50.
- On the Knees of the Gods, by Anna Bowman Dodd,
$1.50.-The Fair Moon of Bath, by Elizabeth Ellis, with
frontispiece in color, $1.50.-Lord of the World, by
Robert Hugh Benson, $1.50.--Exton Manor, by Archibald
Marshall.-The Dissolving Circle, by Will Lillibridge,
illus. in color, $1.50.--Meryl, by William Tillinghast
Eldridge, with frontispiece in color, $1.50.--The Vigil,
by Harold Begbie, $1.50. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
The Ancient Law, by Ellen Glasgow, $1.50.-The Spanish
Jade, by Maurice Hewlett, 90 cts. net. --The Love of a
Priest, by the Duke Litts, $1.50.-Jack Spurlock, Prodi.
gal, by George Horace Lorimer, illus., $1.50.-In the
Potter's House, by George Dyre Eldridge, $1.50.--Sow-
ing Seeds in Danny, by Nellie M. McClung, $1 net.
(Doubleday, Page & Co.)
The Statue, by Eden Phillpots and Arnold Bennett, $1.50.-
The Metropolis, by Upton Sinclair, $1.50.-The wife of
Narcissus, by Annulet Andrews, $1.25.-The Stem of the
Crimson Dahlia, by James Locke, with colored frontispiece,
$1.50.-The Daughter, by Constance Smedley, $1.50.-Wil-
liam Jordan, Jr., by J. C. Snaith, $1.50.-The Sixth Speed,
by E. J. Rath, with colored frontispiece, $1.50.-Mothers
in Israel, by J. E. Fletcher, $1.25.-Furze the Cruel, by
John Trevena, $1.50.-Woven in the Tapestry, by Emily
Post, $1 net. (Moffat, Yard & Co.)
The Chaperon, by C. N. and A. M. Williamson, illus., $1.50.-
The Wayfarers, by Mary Stewart Cutting, $1.50.-The
Flying Death, by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Illus., $1.50.-
Love's Logic, by Anthony Hope, $1.25.—The Voice of the
City. Further Stories of the Four Million, by 0. Henry.
$1.-The Sword Decides, by Marjorie Bowen.-Virginie,
by Ernest Oldmeadow, with frontispiece in color, $1.50.-
The Sisters, by Mrs. Percy Dearmer, $1.50.-The Tenants,
an Episode of the Eighties, by Mary S. Watts, $1.50.-
The Vermilion Pencil, a Romance of Old China, by Homer
Lea, with frontispiece in color, $1.50.- The House of the
Lost Court, by the Marquesa d'Alpens, $1.50.--The Magis-
trate's Own Case, by Baron Pale von Rosenkranz, $1.50.-
Under the Groove, by Arthur Stringer, illus., $1.50.-
Katherine Trevalyan, by Louise Maunsell Field, $1.50.-
Tangled Wedlock, by Edgar Jepson, $1.50.— Folks Back
Home, by Eugene Wood, $1.50.-By Wild Waves Tossed,
by Captain Jack Brand, illus., $1.50.-Retz, an Unhis-
torical Novel, by Van Zo Post, $1.50.-A Japanese Spy,
by Lancelot Lawton, with frontispiece in color, $1.50.-
The Postscript, by Eleanor Stuart, $1.25. (McClure Co.)
Novels of William J. Locke, uniform edition, 10 vols., $15
net.-My Enemy-the Motor, by Julian Street, illus., $1.-
A Man of Genius, by M. P. Willcocks, $1.50.—The Girl
in Question, by L. C. Violett Houk, $1.50.-The Bishop's
Scapegoat, by T. B. Clegg, $1.50.-The Chichester In-
trigue, by Thomas Cobb, $1.50.--The Finances of Sir John
Kynnersley, by A. C. Fox-Davies, $1.50.-Captain Des-
mond, V. C., by J. M. Diver, $1.50.- Love and the Iron-
monger, by F. J. Randall, $1.50.-The Isle of Maids,
by M. T. Hainsselin, $1.50.-Open Hatchways, by Henry
Coke, $1.50.--The Love of his Life, by Harry Bentley,
$1.50.-The Malice of the Stars, by E. W. De Guerin,
$1.50.-The Wine of Life, by Maude Annesley, $1.50.-
For the Week-end, by Handasyde, $1.50.--Arthur's Hotel,
by A. Neid Lyons, $1.50.-The Gates that Shall Not Pre-
vail, by Herbert M. Farrington, $1.50.-Ashes, by Grazia
Deledda, trans. by Helen Hester Colvill, $1.50.-The Mas.
ter Knot, by Reyner Dex, $1.50.-The Child of Chance,
by Maxime Formont, $1.50. (John Lane Co.)
The House in the Water, by Charles G. D. Roberts, illus. by
Charles Livingston Bull, $1.50.—Matthew Porter, by
Gamaliel Bradford, Jr., with frontispiece in color, $1.50.-
Bahama Bill, by T. Jenkins Hains, with frontispiece in
color, $1.50.-Spinster Farm, by Helen M. Winslow, illus.,
$1.50.- The Blue Peter, by Morley Roberts, illus., $1.50.-
The Call of the South, by Robert Lee Durham, illus.,
$1.50.---Captain Love, by Theodore Roberts, illus., $1.50.-
Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery, illus., $1.50.
(L. C. Page & Co.)
The Black Bag, by Louis Joseph Vance, illus. by Thomas
Fogarty, $1.50.-Rosalind Red Gate, by Meredith
Nicholson, illus. by A. I. Keller, $1.50.-The Coast of
Chance, by Esther and Lucia Chamberlain, illus., $1.50.-
The City of Delight, by Elizabeth Miller, illus., by F. X.
Leyendecker, $1.50.-The Lady of the Mount, by Frederic
S. Isham, illus., $1.50.-The Stufr of a Man, by Katherine
Evans Blake, with frontispiece in color, $1.50. (Bobbs-
Merrill Co.)
Marcia Schuyler, by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz, with frontis-
piece in color by Anna Whelan Betts, and illus., $1.50.-
The Princess Dehra, by John Reed Scott, illus. in color,
$1.50.- The Duchess of Dreams, by Edith Macvane, with
frontispiece in color, $1.50.--The Master Influence, by
Thomas McKean, illus. in color, $1.50.-The Call of the
South, by Louis Becke, $1.50.-In the Dead of Night, by
John T. McIntyre, illus. in color, etc., $1.50.
(J. B.
Lippincott Co.)
Deep Moat Grange, by S. R. Crockett, $1.50.-Old Wives for
New, by David Graham Phillip $1.50.—The Measure of
the Rule, by Robert Barr, $1.50.-The Thinking Machine
on the Case, by Jacques Frutelle, $1.50.-The Junior
Officer of the Watch, by Rufus Zogbaum, $1.50. (D. Ap
pleton & Co.)
Prisoners of Chance, by Randall Parrish, illus. in color by
Troy and Margaret Kinney, $1.50.-The Silver Blade, by
Charles E. Walk, illus. in color by A. B. Wenzell, $1.50.
--Her Ladyship, by Katherine Tynan, with frontispiece,
$1.25.--Into the Primitive, by Robert Ames Bennett,
illus. in color, $1.50. (A, C. McClurg & Co.)
The Call of the Deep, by Frank T. Bullen, $1.50.-The His-
tory of Aythan Waring, by Violet Jacob, $1.25 net.-
The Unlucky Family, by Mrs. Henry de la Pasture,
illus., $1.50.-A Walking Gentleman, by James Prior,
$1.50.-Bachelor Betty, by Winifred James, third edition,
$1 net. (E. P. utton & Co.)
For Jacinta, by Harold Bindloss, illus., $1.50.--The Man of
Yesterday, by Mary Holland Kinkaid, illus. in color,
$1.50.--The Man Who was Dead, by Arthur W. March-
mont, illus., $1.50.-Altars to Mammon, by Elizabeth
Nefr, illus., $1.50.-Delilah of the Snows, by Harold
Bindloss, $1.50.- Travers, by Sara Dean, illus. in color,
$1.50.--The Half-Smart Set, illus. in color, $1.50. (Fred-
erick A. Stokes & Co.)
Five Nights, by Victoria Cross.-Side-stepping with Shorty,
by Sewell Ford.The Adventures of John Johns, by
Frederic Carrel.-On a Margin, by Julius Chambers.-
The Captain's Wife, by John Lloyd.--Life's Understudies,
by Ina Rozant.–The Old Allegiance, by Hubert Wales.
(Mitchell Kennerley.)
A Modern Prometheus, by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi,
with frontispiece, $1.50.--The Bond, by Neith Boyce,
$1.50.-The Marquis and Pamela, by Edward H. Cooper,
illus., $1.50, (Duffield & Co.)
The Castle of Dawn, by Harold Morton Kramer, illus., $1.50.-
The Belle Islers, by Richard Brinsley Newman, illus.,
$1.50. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.)
Dr. Ellen, by Juliet Wilbur Tompkins, $1.50. (Baker & Tay-
lor Co.)
The Politician, by Antonio Fogazarro, trans. by G. Mantellini,
$1.50. (John W. Luce & Co.)
The Orphan, by Clarence E. Mulford, illus. in color, $1.50.
(Outing Publishing Co.)
Proposals to Kathleen, by Lucy K. Clifford, illus. (A. S.
Barnes & Co.)
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
The Icebound Heights of the Mustagh, by Fanny Bullock
Workman and William Hunter Workman, illus. in color,
etc., $5 net.-In Korea with Marquis Ito, by George
Trumbull Ladd, illus., $2.50 net.-Present-day Japan, by
Augusta M. Campbell Davidson, illus., $1.50 net. (Charles
Scribner's Sons.)
The Soul of Spain, by Havelock Ellis, with photogravure
frontispiece, $2 net.-Lands of Summer, by T. R. Sulli-
van, illus., $1.50 net.-1908 Satchel Guide to Europe,
by W. J. Rolfe, with maps, leather, $1.50 net. (Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co.)
In the Land of Mosques and Minarets, rambles in Algeria and
Tunisia, by Francis Miltoun, illus. by Blanche McManus,
$3.-British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car,
by Thomas D. Murphy, illus. in color, etc., $3. (L. C.
Page & Co.)


186
[March 16,
THE DIAL
To the Top of the Continent, by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, illus.
in color, etc., $2.50 net.—Egypt and How to See It,
illus. in color, etc., $1.40 net. (Doubleday, Page &
Co.)
Persia, the Awakening East, by W. P. Cresson, illus., $3.50
net.--The Russian Peasant, by Howard P. Kennard, illus.,
$1.50 net.--Missionary Heroes in Asia, by John G. Lam
bert, illus., 75 cts. net. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
The Path to Paris, by Frank Rutter, illus., $5 net.-In and
Around the Isle of Purbeck, by Ida Woodward, illus. in
color, $6 net.-Ceylon, the Paradise of Adam, by Caroline
Corner, illus., $4 net. (Jobn Lane & Co.)
A Guide to the West Indies, by Frederick A. Ober, illus.
and with maps, $2.25 net.-Tuscan Feasts and Tuscan
Friends, by Dorothy Nevile Lees, illus., $1.75 det. (Dodd,
Mead & Co.)
From West to Last, Notes by the Way, by Sir Hubert Jerm-
ingham, with maps and illustrations, $4 net.-The Pleas-
ant Land of France, by Rowland E. Prothero. (E. P.
Dutton & Co.)
Highways and Byways Series, new vol.: Highways and By.
ways in Hampshire, by H. Moutray Read, illus. by
Arthur B. Connor, $2. (Macmillan Co.)
Illustrated Photogravure Series, new vol.: Washington, the
City and the Seat of Government, by C. H. Forbes-Lind-
say, illus. in photogravure, $3. (John C. Winston Co.)
An American Student in France, by Abbe Felix Klein, illus.,
$2.50 net. (A. C. McClurg & Co.)
In Togo's Country, by Henry B. Schwartz, illus., $1.50 net.
(Jennings & Graham.)
Descriptive Geography of Palestine, by Lewis Bayles Paton,
illus. (University of Chicago Press.)
The Nez Perces Indians Since Lewis and Clark, by Kate C.
McBeth, $1.50 net. (Fleming H. Revell Co.)
The Web of Indian Life, by Sister Nivedita, new edition, $1.75
net. (Henry Holt & Co.)
ART.-ARCHITECTURE.-MUSIC.
A Short History of Architecture: Europe, by Russell Sturgis,
revised edition, $2.50 net.--Monuments of Christian Rome,
by A. L. Frothingham, $2.25 net.-Grove's Dictionary of
Music and Musicians, revised and enlarged under the edi-
torship of J. Fuller Maitland, 5 vols., illus., Vol. IV.,
Q-S, $5 net.-Evolution of Modern Orchestration, by Louis
Adolphe Coerne, $3 net. (Macmillan Co.)
The Studio Year-book of Decorative Art, 1908, limited edition,
illus. in color, etc., $3 net.—Plastering, Plain and Deco-
rative, by William Millar, new edition, Illus., $7.50 net.-
The Spanish Series, edited by Albert F. Calvert, new vols. :
Leon, Burgos, and Salamanca; Madrid; Goya; Valladolid,
Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila, and Zaragoza; Royal
Palaces of Spain; El Greco; Illus., per vol., $1.25 net.
Stained Glass Tours in France, by Charles H. Sherrill,
illus., $1.50 net.-Living Masters of Music, new vols.:
Ignaz Paderewski, by E. A. Baughan; Claude Debussy, by
Mrs. Franz Liebich; illus., per vol., $1 net. (John Lane
Co.)
A History of Architecture, by Russell Sturgis, complete in 3
vols., Vol. II.; per set, $15 net.- Modern Artists, by
Christian Brinton, illus., $6 net.---Building a Home, by
H. W. Desmond and H. W. Frohne, illus., $1.80 net.-
The Appreciation of Music, by Thomas Whitney Surette
and Daniel Gregory Mason, illus., $1.50.-God and Music,
by John Harrington Edwards. (Baker & Taylor Co.)
Illustrated House and Garden Books,
new
vol.: Historic
Houses and Their Gardens, illus., $6. (John C. Winston
Co.)
Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times, by J. Romilly Allen,
illus., $3 net. (George W. Jacobs & Co.)
A History of Sculpture, by Ernest H. Short, illus., $3 net.
(E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Chats on Violoncellos, by Olga Raester, illus., $1.25 net. (J.
B. Lippincott Co.)
Country Residences in Europe and America, by Louis V. Le
Moyne, illus., $7.50 net. --Primers of Art, new vol.: Lead
Glazed Pottery, by Edwin A. Barber, illus., 90 cts. net.
(Doubleday, Page & Co.)
Masterpieces in Color, new volumes: Rembrandt, by Josef
Israels; Rossetti, by Lucien Pissarro; Bellini, by George
Hay; Frau Angelico, by James Mason; Raphael, by Paul
G. Konody; Leighton, by A. Lys Baldry; Titian, by S. L.
Bensusan; Holman Hunt, by M. E. Coleridge; illus., per
vol., 65 cts. net.--Painters' Series, new vol.: Master-
pieces of Holbein, 75 cts. net. (Frederick A. Stokes
Co.)
NATURE AND OUTDOOR LIFE.
The Sport of Bird Study, by Herbert K. Job, illus., $2 net.--
Our Bird Friends, by George F. Burba, illus. in color,
$1 net.--Big Game at Sea, by Charles Frederick Holder,
illus., $2 net.-Favorite Fish and Fishing, by J.
Henshall, illus., $1.25 net.-Training the Bird Dog, by
C. B. Whitford, illus., $1.25 net.-American Poultry Cul-
ture, by R. B. Sands, illus., $1.25 net. (Outing Publish-
ing Co.)
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, by Theodore Roose-
velt, new and enlarged edition, illus., $3 net.--Camp Kits
and Camp Life, by Charles Stedman Hanks, $1.50 net.-
American Birds, Studied and Photographed from Life,
by William Lovell Finley, illus., $1.50 net. (Charles
Scribner's Sons.)
Flower Grouping in English, Scotch, and Irish Gardens, by
Margaret Waterfield, illus. in color by the author, $6
net.--London Parks, by the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, illus.
in color by Lady Victoria Manners, $6 net.-Idleburst,
a journal kept in the country, by John Ha lsham, $1.50
net. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
The Complete Mountaineer, by George D. Abraham, illus.,
$4.80 net.-The Shell Book, by Julia Ellen Rogers, illus.
in color, etc., $4 net.-Garden Library, new vols.: Vines
and How to Grow Them, by William McCollom; Chrysan-
themums and How to Grow Them, by I. M. Powell;
illus., per vol., $1.10 net. (Doubleday, Page & Co.)
Our Trees and How to Know Them, by Arthur I. Emerson,
illus., $3 net.-Wild Flower Families, by Clarence M.
Weed, illus., $1.50 net.--The China or Denny Pheasant
in Oregon, with notes on the native grouse of the Pacific
Northwest, by William T. Shaw, illus. in color, etc., $1.50
net.-The Small Country Place, by Samuel T. Maynard,
illus., $1.50 net. (J. B. Lippincott.)
Some Nature Biographies, by John J. Ward, illus., $1.50 net.
-Handbooks of Practical Gardening, new vol.: The Book
of Garden Pests and Plant Diseases, illus., $1 net.-
Country Handbook Series, new vols.: The Vet Book, by
Frank Townend Barton; The Insect Book, by W. Percival
Westell, illus.; per vol., $1 net.-Condition of Hunters,
the Choice of Horses, and their Management, letters from
"The Sporting Magazine, revised by Frank Townend
Barton, $4 net. (John Lane Co.)
Leaf and Tendril, by John Burroughs, with portrait, $1.10
net.The Bird Our Brother, by Olive Thorne Miller.
(Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
American Nature Series, new vol.: Fishes, by David Starr
Jordan, illus. in color, etc., $6 net. (Henry Holt &
Co.)
Roses, their History, Development and Cultivation, by Joseph
H. Pemberton, illus. in color, etc., $3.50. (Longmans,
Green, & Co.)
The Earth's Bounty, by Kate V. Saint Maur, $1.75 net. (Mac-
millan Co.)
Trees in Nature, Myth and Art, by J. Ernest Pythian, Illus.,
$1.50 net. (George W. Jacobs & Co.)
Yard and Garden, by Tarkington Baker, illus., $2.--Window
Gardening, by Herman B. Dorner, illus., $1.20. (Bobbs-
Merrill Co.)
The Vegetable Garden, by Ida D. Bennett, illus., $1.50 net.-
The Happy Garden State, an anthology, $1 net. (Mc-
Clure Co.)
POLITICS.-SOCIOLOGY.-ECONOMICS.
England, by A. Lawrence Lowell, 2 vols., $5 net.-Modern
Egypt, by the Earl of Cromer, with photogravure por-
traits and map, 2 vols., $6 net.-New Worlds for old,
by H. G. Wells, $1.50 net.-Socialists at Work, by Robert
Hunter, $1.50 net.—The United States as a World Power,
by Archibald Cary Coolidge. $2 net. - Social Psychology,
by Edward A. Ross, $1.50 net.-As Others See Us, a
study of progress, by John Graham Brooks, $1.50 net.-
The Coming Struggle in the East, by B. L. Putnam
Weale, $3.50 net.-The Science of Jurisprudence, by
Hannis Taylor, $4 net.--Essays in Municipal Administra-
tion, by John A. Fairlie.—Primitive Secret Societies, by
Hutton Webster. (Macmillan Co.)
Modern Germany, her Political and Economic Problems, by
J. Ellis Barker, new edition, $3 net. -The Commercial
Relations of England and Portugal, by V. M. Shillington
and A. B. Wallis Chapman, $2 net.-English Socialism of
Ownership, by Leonard Darwin, $1.25 net. (E. P. Dutton
& Co.)
Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. IV., Railroad Reorganization,
by Stuart Daggett, $1.50 net.--The Stannaries, a study
of the English tin-miner, by George Randall Lewis, $1.50
net.--The Federation of the World, by Benjamin F. True-
blood, third edition, $1. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
Work and Wages, by Sydney J. Chapman, with introduction
Today, by H. 0. Arnold-Forster, $1.25 net.--Municipal
by Lord Brassey, Vol. II., Wages and Employment, $4.
British Industries, by various authors, edited by W. J.
Ashley, new edition, $1.80 net. (Longmans, Green &
Co.)
Value and Distribution, by Herbert J. Davenport, $3.50 net.-
The Process of Government, a study of social pressures,
by Arthur F. Bentley, $3. (University of Chicago Press.)
Justice and Liberty, by G. Lowes Dickinson, $1 net. Justice
to the Jew, by Madison C. Peters, revised edition, 75 cts.
net. (McClure Co.)
Current Issues, by Leslie M. Shaw, $2 net. (D. Appleton
Co.)
The Meaning of the Times, by Albert J. Beveridge, with
portrait, $1.50. (Bobbs-Merrill Co.)
The Young Malefactor, by Thomas Travis, $1.50 net. (Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co.)
The Cry of the Children, by Mrs. John Van Vorst, with intro-
duction by Albert J. Beveridge, $1.25 net. (Moffat, Yard
& Co.)
More, a study of financial conditions, by George Otis Draper,
$1 net. (Little, Brown & Co.)
The Panama Canal and the Daughters of Danaus, by John
Bigelow, with map, 50 cts. net. (Baker & Taylor Co.)
A.


1908.]
187
THE DIAL :
PHILOSOPHY.-PSYCHOLOGY.-ETHICS.
Personalism, by Borden Parker Bowne, $1.50 net.-Modern
Classical Philosophers, being selections from the great
authors in the history of modern philosophy, edited by
Benjamin Rand, $2.50 net. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
The Philosophy of Loyalty, by Josiah Royce, $1.50 net. (Mac-
millan Co.)
On the Witness Stand, by Hugo Munsterberg, $1.50 net.
(McClure Co.)
Mind in the Making, by Edgar J. Swift, $1.25 net. (Charles
Scribner's Sons.)
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, by Henry L. Mencken,
with portrait, $2 net. (John W. Luce & Co.)
The Riddle of Personality, by H. Addington Bruce, $1.50 net.
(Moffat, Yard & Co.)
A Mind that Found Itself, by Clifford W. Beers. (Longmans,
Green, & Co.)
Optimism: A Real Remedy, by Horace Fletcher, with fore-
word by William Dana Orcutt, 75 cts. net. (A. C. Mc-
Clurg & Co.)
The Power of Concentration, by Eustace Miles, $1.25 net.
(E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Brain and Personality, by W. Hanna Thomson, revised edi-
tion, $1.20 net. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
MEDICINE.SURGERY.-HYGIENE.
Manual of Surgery, by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles,
2 vols., illus., $5 net.-Pain, by Dr. Rudolf Schmidt,
illus., $3 net.-Glimpses of Medical Europe, by R. L.
Thompson, illus., $2 net.--The Harvey Lectures, second
series, illus., $2 net.-Practical Life Insurance Examina-
tions, by Murray E. Ramsey, $1.25 net.--Why Worry, by
George L. Walton, with frontispiece, $1 net. (J. B.
Lippincott Co.)
A System of Medicine, by many writers, edited by Thomas
Clifford Allbutt and Humphry Davy Rolleston, second
edition, Vol. IV.—Neurological and Mental Diagnosis, a
manual of methods, by A. Ross Diefendorf and L. Pierce
Clark.-Nursing the Insane, by Clara Barrus. (Macmil-
lan Co.)
Surgical Memoirs, by James G. Mumford, M. D., $2.50 net.-
Religion and Medicine, by Elwood Worcester, Samuel Me-
Comb and Isador H. Coriat, $1.50 net. (Moffat, Yard &
Co.)
The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. I.,
No. 2, $2 net. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
A Short Practice of Aural Surgery, by J. Arnold Jones, illus.,
$1.75 net. (John Lane Co.)
The Secrets of Beauty and the Mysteries of Health, by Cora
Brown Potter, illus., $1.75 net. (Paul Elder & Co.)
A Mother's Year Book, by Marion Foster Washburne, $1.25
Det. (Macmillan Co.)
Paths to the Heights, by Sheldon Leavitt, $1 net. (Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co.)
Scientific Nutrition Simplified, by Goodwin Brown, 75 cts. net.
(Frederick A. Stokes Co.)
THEOLOGY AND RELIGION.
An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to
Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899, compiled by
Ernest Cushing Richardson, $10 net.-The Historical Bible
for Schools and Colleges, edited by Charles Foster Kent,
6 vols.--Ecclesiastes, by George A. Barton, $3 net.-
A new Dictionary of the Bible, edited by James Hast-
ings, with maps and illus., $5 net.--Roman Catholic and
Protestant Bibles Compared, edited by Melancthon William
Jacobus, $1.25 net. - The Coming Catholicism and the
Passing Protestantism, by Newman Smyth, $1.10 net.-
The Bible of Nature, by J. Arthur Thomson, $1 net.--
Historical Series for Bible Students, new vol.: A History
of the Ancient Egyptians, by James Henry Brestaed,
with maps, $1.25 net. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Authority, Ecclesiastical and Biblical, by Francis J. Hall.-
A Catholic Atlas, by Charles C. Grafton, $2.50 net.-
The Priest's Studies, by T. B. Scannell, $1.20 net.-A
Book of Angels, edited by L. P., cheaper edition, illus.,
$1.20 net. -The Forgiveness of Sins, a course of ser-
mons, by A. C. A. Hall, $1 net.--Talks on Religion,
a Collective Enquiry, edited by Henry Bedinger Mitchell.
-High Priesthood and Sacrifice, an Exposition of the
Epistle to the Hebrews, by Willlam Porcher Du Bose.
Buddhism, Primitive and Present, by Reginald Stephen
Copleston, new edition.-The Inquisition, a Critical and
Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church,
by the Abbé Vacandard, trans. by Bertrand L. Conway.
-The Holy Ghost the Comforter, by G. F. Holden, with
introduction by the Bishop of London, 90 cts. net. The
Mind of Christ Jesus in the Church of the Living God,
by Charles H. Brent, 50 cts. net.—Parerga, by P. A.
Sheehan.-Cardinal Newman and the Encyclical Pascendi
Dominici Gregis, by Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, 36 cts.
net. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
The Christian Religion, by J. Scott Lidgett, $2.50 net.--
History and Exposition of the Twenty-five Articles of
Religion of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Henry
Wheeler, with introduction by Henry W. Warren, $2 net.
- The Beliefs of Unbelief, by W. H. Fitchett, $1.25 net.-
A Pawn in the Game, by W. H. Fitchett.—Hymns and
Poetry of the Eastern Church, by Bernhard Pick, $1 net.
-The Revival of Religion in England and in the
Eighteenth century, the 37th Fernley Lecture, by John
S. Simon, $1.25 net.-Constitutional, Legislative, and Par-
liamentary History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by
J. M. Buckley.--Social Aspects of Religious Institutions,
by Edwin L. Earp, 75 cts. net.-Words of Cheer and
Comfort, by Willard Francis Mallalleu, with portrait, 50
cts. net.-In Defense of the Faith, by F. B. Meyer, 40
cts. net.--Foreign Religious Series, first vols., First
Series: The Virgin Birth, by Richard H. Gruetzmacher;
The Resurrection of Jesus, by Eduard Riggenbach; The
Sinlessness of Jesus, by Max Meyer; The Miracles of
Jesus, by Karl Beth; The Gospel of John and the
Synoptic Gospels, by Fritz Barth; New Testament Par-
allels in Buddhistic Literature, by Karl Von Hase; new
vols., Second Series: Do We Need Christ for Communion
with God, by Professor Lemme; Paul as a Theologian, in 2
vols., by W. Feine; The New Message in the Teaching
of Jesus, by Professor Bachman; The Peculiarity of the
Religion of the Bible, by Professor Von Orelli; Our Lord,
by Professor Miller; per vol., 40 cts. net.-Quiet Moments
Series, first vols.: The Way Into the Kingdom, by J. D.
Jones; Fruitful or Fruitless, by Edward Hoare; Methods
of Self-Culture, by J. A. Clapperton; How to Attain Fel.
lowship with God, by George s. Barrett; The Gates of
Life, by H. E. Lewis; The Teaching of Jesus Christ in
His Own Words, compiled by the Earl of Northbrook; per
vol., paper, 35 cts. net. (Eaton & Mains.)
The Minor Prophets, by Frederick Carl Eiselen, being Vol.
IX. in Whedon's Commentary on the Old Testament, $2
net.-Positive Preaching and Modern Mind, by P. T.
Forsyth, $1.75 net.--Bridgestow, some chronicles of a
Cornish parish, by Mark Guy Pearse, $1 net.-Some Recent
Phases of German Theology, by John Louis Nuelsen, 75
cts. net.-Men of the Kingdom series, new vols.: Erasmus,
the Scholar, by John Alfred Faulkner; John Bunyan,
the Seer, by Robert R. Doherty; Hildebrand, the Builder,
by E. A. Smith; per vol., $1 net.--The Resurrection
Gospel, by John Robson, $1 net.-Messages for Home and
Life, by Dinsdale T. Young, $1.25 net.--The Great Sal-
vation, by P. Wilson, $1.25 net.--Studies in the Gospel
of John, Second Series, by George P. Eckman.-Some
Little Prayers, by Lucy Rider Meyer, with introduction
by William A. Quayle, 35 cts. net.-The Cost of Christian
Conquest, by William N. Brewster, 35 cts. net. The
Christian View of Childhood, by W. S. Edwards, 35 cts.
net.- John Wesley's Conversion and Sanctification, by
Carl F. Eltzholtz, 35 cts. net.-The Mother, the Child's
First Bible Teacher, by Mary J. Chisholm Foster, 35 cts.
net.-Little Books on Missions series, new vol.; Chris-
tianity in Japan, by Merriman C. Harris, 35 cts net.
The Old Testament Problem, by Albert C. Knudson, 35
cts. net.-Living Thought series, new vols.: In Fashion
a Man, by James Robertson Cameron; The Face of
Jesus, by David Smith; Loyal to Christ, by J. Stuart
Holden; per vol., 15 cts. net. (Jennings & Graham.)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
Technological Dictionary of the French, German, and English
Languages, by Alexandre Tolhausen, revised by Louis
Tolhausen, new edition in 3 vols., per vol., $3 net.--
The Cambridge Natural History, edited by S. F. Harmer
and A. E. Shipley, 10 vols., illus., Vol. IV.--Animal Be-
havior Series, new vol.: The Animal Mind by Margaret
Floy Washburn.-Economic Zoology, by Herbert Osborn.
Safe Building Construction, by Louis de Coppet Bergh.
Cyclopedia of American Agriculture, edited by L. H.
Bailey, 4 vols., sold only in complete sets, Vol. III., per
vol., $5 net.--The Physiology of Plant Production, by
B. M. Duggar.--Bacteria in Relation to Country Life,
by Jacob G. Lipman.--Soils and Fertilizers, by Harry
Snyder, new edition. (Macmillan Co.)
Thermodynamics of Technical Gas-Reactions, by F. Haber,
trans. by Arthur B. Lamb, illus., $3 net.--Thermochemis-
try, by Julius Thomsen, trans. by Katherine A. Burke,
Stoichiometry, by Sydney Young, edited, with introduc-
tion, by William Ramsay, $2 net.--The Origin of Verte-
brates, by Walter H. Gaskell, illus.--Scheme for the
Detection of the More Common Classes of Carbon Com-
pounds, by F. E. Weston, new edition, 90 cts. net. (Long-
mans, Green, & Co.)
Hydro-Electric Engineering, by H. von Schon, illus., $6 net.-
Harbor Engineering, by Brysson Cunningham, Illus., $5
net.-Present-day Shipbuilding, by Thomas Walton, illus.,
$3.50 net.-Practical Calculations for Engineers, by
C. E. Larard and H. A. Golding, illus., $2 net.- Valves
and Valve-Gearing, by Charles Hurst, fifth edition, illus.,
$3.75 net.-Pumping Machinery, by William M. Barr,
new edition, illus., $5 net. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
Stellar Evolution, a popular account of modern methods of
ástro-physical research, by George Ellery Hale, Illus.
(University of Chicago Press.)
European Animals, their Geological History and Geographical
Distribution, by R. F. Scharff, $2.50 net. (E. P. Dutton
& Co.)
Lectures on Evolution, by E. B. Poulton.-Types of Floral
Mechanism. (Oxford University Press.)
The Orchidaceae, Fascicle II., by Oakes Ames and others,
illus., $3 net. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
as


188
[March 16,
THE DIAL
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 5 vols.,
illus., $4.-Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men, trans.
by Clough, 4 vols., $3. (John C. Winston Co.)
Bacon's Essays, edited, with introduction and notes, by Mary
Augusta Scott, $1.25 net. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Life and Writings of Henry Fielding, edited by E. S. Dickin-
son. (Arthur H. Clark Co.)
A Translation of the Last Six Books of Virgil's Aeneid, by
Harlan H. Ballard, $1.50 net. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
The Temple Molière, new vol.: L'Etourdi ou les Contretemps,
leather, 65 cts., cloth, 45 cts. (McClure Co.)
a
A History of the Christian Church, from the Reformation
to the Present Time, by S. Cheetham, $2.25.--The Seem-
ing Unreality of the Spiritual Life, by Henry Churchill
King, $1.50 net.--Introduction to the Study of Com-
parative Religion, by Frank Byron Jevons.--Interpretation
of the Bible, by George Holley Gilbert.-Some Aspects
of Rabbinic Theology, by
Dr.
Schechter.-Origin and
Development of the Moral Ideas, by Edward Wester-
marck. 2 vols., Vol. II.-The Bible for Home
and
School, edited by Shailer Matthews, per vol., 90 cts.
net.-A Course of Study for the Kindergarten Grades
of the Sunday School, by Lois Sedgwick Palmer.—United
Study of Missions series, new vol.: The Mohammedan
World, by Samuel Zwemer and Arthur Judson Brown.
(Macmillan Co.)
Sidelights on Biblical Chronology, by Olaf A. Toffteen, Part
1.-The Witness of the Oriental Consciousness to Jesus
Christ, by Charles Cuthbert Hall. (University of Chicago
Press.)
Service Book of the Greco-Russian Church, translated and
arranged by Isabel Florence Hapgood, $4 net.-The Church
and Modern Life, by Washington Gladden, $1.25 net.
(Houghton, Mithin & Co.)
The Kingdom in India, Whose, by Jacob Chamberlain, $1.25
net.--Breaking Down Chinese Walls, by Elliott I. Osgood,
$1 net.-A Life with a Purpose, by Henry B. Wright,
$1.50 net.-The New Horoscope of Missions, by James S.
Dennis, $1 net.-Giving Man Another Chance, by
Wilton Merle Smith, $1 net.--Missions Striking Home,
by J. Ernest McAfee, 75 cts. net.—Beyond the Natural
Order, by Nolan Rice Best, 75 cts. net.--The Price of
Power, by J. Stuart Holden, 50 cts. net.-Our Silent
Partner, by Alvah Sabin Hobart, 75 cts. net.-Winning
the Boy, by Lilburn Merrill, 75 cts. net. (Fleming H.
Revell Co.)
Hurlbut's Handy Bible Encyclopedia, by Jesse Lyman Hurl-
but, illus., $1.50.---Sunday Half Hours with Great Preach-
ers, by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, illus., $1.50.-Some Hymns
and Hymn Writers, by William Budd Bodine, illus., $3.
(John C. Winston Co.)
The Creed of Buddha, by the author of "The Creed of
Christ," $1.50 net. (John Lane Co.)
The New Theology and the Old Religion, by Charles Gore,
$2 net.-London Library, new vol. : Notes on the Miracles
of Our Lord, by Archbishop Trench, $1 net.--The Life
of Our Lord, chronologically arranged by John F. Lawis,
leather, 60 cts. net. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
The Christian Faith and the Old Testament, by John M.
Thomas, $1 net.—Lilies of Eternal Peace, by Lilian Whit
ing, 75 cts. (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.)
Problems of the Spiritual, by Arthur Chambers, $1 net.
(George W. Jacobs & Co.)
The Brother and the Brotherhood, by Ira S. Dodd, $1.50 net.
(Dodd, Mead & Co.)
The Poetry of Jesus, by Edwin Markbam, with frontispiece,
50 cts. net. (McClure Co.)
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
Shakespeare's Works, Variorum edition, edited by Horace
Howard Furness, new vol.: Richard the Third, edited
by Horace Howard Furness, Jr., $4 net. (J. B. Lip
pincott Co.)
The Stratford Town Shakespeare, limited edition on band,
made paper, 10 vols., per set, $50 net.—The Shakespeare
Classics,
vols,: Brooke's Poem or "Romeus and
Juliet," edited by P. A. Daniel and re-edited by J. J.
Munro; The Troublesome Reign of King John, edited by
F. J. Furnivall; The History of Hamlet, edited, with
introduction, by Professor 1. Gollancz; The Play of King
Leir and His Three Daughters, edited by Sidney - Lee;
The Taming of a Shrew, edited by Professor F. S. Boas;
each, with frontispiece, per vol., $1 net.—Rubric series,
new vol.: The Sermon on the Mount, with decorations,
60 cts. net. (Duthield & Co.)
New Universal Library, new vols.: Lectures and Notes on
Shakespeare and other Dramatists, by S. T. Coleridge;
Ethics of the Dust, by John Ruskin; Ecce Homo, by
J. R. Seeley; Lectures on the English Poets, by William
Hazlitt; Poems of Sir Arthur Lyall; Complete Poetical
Works of George Darley; Poems, Letters, and Prose Frag-
ments of Kirk White; per vol., cloth, 50 cts., leather,
75 cts. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Oxford Library of Translations, new vol.: Tacitus, Opera
Minora. trans. by W. H. Fyfe.-The Works of Aristotle,
new vol. : The Parva Naturalia, trans. by J. I. Beare and
G. R. T. Ross. (Oxford University Press.)
Shakespeare's Works, First Folio Edition, edited by Charlotte
Forter and Helen A. Clarke, new vols. : Othello; The
Tempest; The Winter's Tale; per vol., cloth, 75 cts., limp
leather, $1. (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.)
Large Print Library, new vol. : Love Me Little, Love Me
Long, by Charles Reade, $1.50.-Pocket edition of Rud-
yard Kipling, first vols.: The Day's Work, and Kim;
each, leather, $1.50 net. (Doubleday, Page & Co.)
Celebrated Crimes, by Alexander Dumas, 4 vols., per vol.,
$1.75.-Novels of Björnstjerne Björnson, new titles: In
God's Way; The Heritage of the Kurts; each in 2 vols.,
$2.50.-Famous Short Stories, English and American,
edited, with introductions, by Hamilton W. Mabie, $1.25
net. (Macmillan Co.)
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
Dave Porter in the Far North, by Edward Stratemeyer, illus.,
$1.25.--The Yale Cup, by A. T. Dudley, illus., $1.25.-
Laureled Leaders for Little Folk, by Mary E. Phillips,
illus. and decorated by the author, $2. (Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard Co.)
Essays Every child Should Know, edited by Hamilton W.
Mable, 90 cts. net.-Heroines Every Child Should Know,
edited by Hamilton W. Mable and Kate Stephens, 90 cts.
net.--Prose Every Child Should Know, edited by Mary E.
Burt, 90 cts. net. (Doubleday, Page & Co.)
Little Cousin Series, new vols.; Our Little Australian Cousin,
by Constance F. Curlewis; Our Little Egyptian Cousin,
by Blanche McManus; Our Little Greek Cousin, by Mary
F. Nixon-Roulet; illus., per vol., 60 cts. (L. C. Page
& Co.)
The Forest Playfellow, by E. K. Sanders, $1.25.—The Play.
mate, by Charles Tulley, illus., $1,50. (E. P. Dutton
& Co.)
Fritzi, by Agnes McClelland Daulton, illus., $1.50. (Century
Co.)
A Child's Guide to Pictures, by Charles H. Caffin, $1.25 net.
(Baker & Taylor Co.)
Jacquette, a Sorority Girl, by Grace Ethelwyn Cody, Illus.,
$1.25. (Duffield & Co.)
Three Little Women, by Gabrielle Emilie Jackson, illus., $1.-
The Arizona Series, by Edward S. Ellis, 3 vols., illus.,
$3.—Heroines of a Schoolroom, by Ursula Tannenforst,
illus., $1.25.-Children's Hour Series, new vol.: The Teddy
Bear Story Book, 30 cts.-Every Child's Library, new
vols.: Lives of
Our Presidents; The Leather-stocking
Tales; The Story of Jesus; Stories of Our Naval Heroes;
Stories of Great Americans; Stories About Children of
All Nations; illus., per vol., 75 cts. (John C. Winston Co.)
Photography for Young People, by Tudor Jenks, illus., $1.50
net.—The Wonder Book of the Atmosphere, by Edwin
J. Houston, illus., $1.50.—The Garden Book for Young
People, by Alice Lounsberry, illus., $1.50 net. (Frederick
A. Stokes Co.)
Brown, a Story of Waterloo Year, by Dorothea Moore, illus.,
$1. (Eaton & Mains.)
Stories of Wagner Operas told for children, by Elizabeth M.
Wheelock, $1.25. (Bobbs-Merrill Co.)
Four Plays for Children, by John Jay Chapman, $1 Det.
(Moffat, Yard & Co.)
The Pendleton Twins, by E. M. Jameson, illus., in color,
$1.25. (Jennings & Graham.)
The Life of Christ, by Isaac Bronson Burgess, adapted by
Burton and Matthews. (University of Chicago Press.)
The Story of a Red Deer, by J. W. Fortescue, new edition.-
The Little Lame Prince, by Dinah Maria Mulock, new
edition. (Macmillan Co.)
French Song and Verse for Children, edited by Helen Terry,
illus., 50 cts. net. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
Bruno, by Byrd Spllman Dewey, new edition, illus., 50 cts.
(Little, Brown & Co.)
EDUCATION.-BOOKS FOR SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.
Principles of Secondary Education, by Charles DeGarmo, Vol.
II., Educational Processes.-Psychology and Pedagogy of
Reading, by Edmund B. Huey.-The Kindergarten in
American Education, by Nina C. Vandewalker.-School
Reports and School Efficiency, by David S. Snedden and
William H. Allen.--Departmental Teaching in Elementary
Schools, by Van Evrie Kilpatrick.--The Management of
a City School, by A. C. Perry, Jr.--A Brief Course in
Elementary Dynamics, by Ervin S. Ferry.--The Elements
of Heat, by W. S. Franklin.---Practical Physics, by W. S.
Franklin, 2 vols.--Graphic Algebra, by Arthur Schultze.
-Experimental Morphology, by C. B. Davenport, new edi-
tion, 2 rols. in one.-College Physics, by Henry Crew.-
A Text-Book of Animal Histology, by Ulric Dahlgren.-
French Grammar for Colleges and Schools, by Hugo P.
Thieme and J. R. Eflinger.-An Aid to Materia Medica,
by Dawbarn-Delphey.--A Text-book of Botany, by E.
Strasburger, Fritz Noll, H. Schenck, and A. F. W.
Schimper, trans. by H. C. Porter and revised by W. H.
Lang, new edition, illus. in color.-Elementary Agricul-
ture for School Use, by G. F. Warren.-Elements of
Agriculture, Southern and Western, by W. L. Welborn.-
Text-Book of Southern Agriculture, by F. S. Earle.--Mac-
millan Latin Classics, new vols.: Livy, Book I. and Selec-
tions, edited by Walter Dennison; Livy, Book XXI. and
Selections, edited by James C. Egbert; Three Tragedies of
Seneca, edited by H. M. Kingery; Agricola of Tacitus,
edited by Duane Reed Stuart.-Caesar, The Gallic War,
edited by A. L. Hodges.--Dictionary of the French and
English Languages, by W. James and A. Molle, new edi-
new


1908.]
189
THE DIAL
Popular Fallacies, by A. S. E. Ackermann, illus., $1.50 net.
-Sea Terms and Phrases, English-Spanish and Spanish-
English, $1.25 net. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
Archaeology and False Antiquities, by Robert Munro, Illus.,
$3 net. (George W. Jacobs & Co.)
Monologues, Ly Beatrice Herford, illus. by Oliver Herford,
$1.25.--Practical Bridge, by J. B. Elwell, $1.50 net.-
(Oharles Scribner's Sons.)
Myths About Monarchs, by Hansard Watt, $1 net.-The
Wedding Day in Literature and Art, compiled by C. F.
Carter, new edition, $2 net.-My Commencement, new
edition, $1.50. (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
The Heritage of Press, by Wilfred Mark Webb, illus., $3.50
net. (McClure Co.)
The Love Sonnets of : Car Conductor, by Wallace Irwin, illus.,
50 cts. net.—Messages to Mothers, by Herman Partsch,
$1.50 net. (Paul Elder & Co.)
Walsh's International Encyclopedia of Familiar Prose and
Poetical Quotations, $3.-The New Universal Self-Pro-
nouncing Dictionary of the English Language, $1.-Toasts,
by Clare Victor Dwiggins, paper, 35 cts. (John C. Winston
Co.)
The Simple Jographyby Peter Simple, illus., $1.---Little
Stings, by T. W. H. Crosland, with decorations, $1.-
Cupid's Pack of Cards, by Walter Pulitzer, illus., $1.
(John W. Luce & Co.)
Miniature Reference Library,
vols.: A Book of the
Saints, by Lawrence H. Dawson; A Dictionary of Classical
Mythology, by s. C. Woodhouse, per vol., 50 cts. net.-
The Bridge Book, by Archibald Dunn, revised edition, $1
net. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Complete Etiquette, by Marion Harland, $1net. (Bobbs-
Merrill Co.)
The New Plato: Socrates Redivivus, by Thomas L. Masson,
75 cts. net. (Moffat, Yard & Co.)
The Wife: Her Book, by Haydn Brown, revised American
edition, $1 net. (George W. Jacobs & Co.)
Cantrill-Cantrell Genealogy, by Susan Cantrill Christie, $5 net.
(Grafton Press.)
The Marriage Vow, with decorations in color, silk, $1 pet.
(Eaton & Mains.)
new
LIST OF NEW Books.
[The following list, containing 76 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
tion.-German-English and English-German Dictionary, by
W. James, revised edition. -Dictionary of the English
and Italian Languages, by W. James and Gius. Grassi,
revised edition.-Advanced Arithmetic, by John W. Hop-
kins and P. H. Underwood.- Educational Woodworking for
School and Home, Joseph C. Park.-Modern English,
Three Books, by Henry P. Emerson and Ida C. Bender.
The Elementary German Grammar, by Elijah W. Bagster-
Collins.-Nature Study Made Easy, by Edward B. Shallow
and Winifred T. Cullen.-Elementary Biology, by L. H.
Bailey and w. s. Coleman, Illus.—The Wonderful House
that Jack bas, by Columbus N. Millard.-Lessons in Ele-
mentary Physiology, by Walter M. Coleman, new editions.
-Manual of School Music, by Frank R. Rix, 60 cts.
net.-The High School Song Book, by Edward J. A. Zeiner.
-American Government, by R. L. Ashley, new edition
with supplement for Indiana by E. L. Hendricks.--History
and Civil Government in Indiana, by E. L. Hendricks.
Macmillan's Pocket Classics, new vols.: Lamb's Tales
from Shakespeare, edited by Canon Ainger; Burns' Poems,
selected, edited by Philo M. Buck, Jr.; Midsummer Night's
Dream, edited by Ernest C. Noyes; Whittier's Snow-Bound
and other poems, edited by Archibald L. Bouton; per
vol., 25 cts. net.—Macmillan's Commercial Series, new
vols.: The Elements of Business Arithmetic, by Anson H.
Bigelow and William A. Arnold; Teachers' Manual to
Bogle's Bookkeeping. (Macmillan Co.)
Heath's Pedagogical Library, new vol.: Our City Schools,
Their Direction and Management, by W. E. Chancellor.-
Heath's English Classics, new vol.; Franklin's Auto-
biography, edited by H. A. Davidson, illus. and with
maps. --Belles-Lettres Series, new vols.: Otway's The
Orphan and Venice Preserved, edited by C. F. McClumpba;
Middleton's and Rowley's Spanish Gipsy and All's Lost
for Love, edited by John H. Walsh.-Nursery Rhyme
Primer, by Misses Helen A., Marie, and Anna McMahon,
illus.--An Arithmetic for Upper Grades, by John H.
Walsh.-Grammar School Arithmetic, by Bruce M. Wat.
son and Charles E. White.-First Course in Algebra, by
Webster Wells.- New Plane and Solid Geometry, by
Webster Wells.-Alltägliches, edited by M. B. Lambert.-
Böhlau's Radsmadelgeschichte, edited by Emma Haever-
nich.-Der Weg zum Glück, edited by Wilhelm Bern-
hardt.-Boileau, edited by Oscar Kuhns.--Diderot, edited
.by W. F. Giese.-Hugo's Poems, selected and edited
by A. Schinz.-Lectures Facile, by Mary Stone Bruce.-
Gutierrez's El Trovador, edited by H. H. Vaughn and
Professor De Duc.—Tamayo's Lo Positivo, edited by Philip
Harry and A. De Salvio.-Spanish Composition, by Alfred
Remy. (D. C. Heath & Co.)
The Child-lore Dramatic Reader, by Catherine T. Bryce.
Nature-Study, a manual for teachers and students, by
Frederick L. Holtz.-Colonial Days, by Wilbur F. Gordy.
-The Elements of English Grammar, by George Philip
Krapp.--The Scribner English Classics, first vols.: Burke's
Speech for Conciliation with the Colonies, edited by Thomas
Arkel Clark; Carlyle's Essay on Burns, edited by Archi-
bald MacMechan; Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration
and Washington's Farewell Address, edited by Thomas
Arkel Clark; Macaulay's Life and Writings of Addison
and Essay on Johnson, edited by Cecil Lavell; Coleridge's
The Ancient Mariner and Select Poems, edited by Henry
M. Beiden. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Which College for the Boy, by John Corbin, illus.--Litera-
ture and the American College, by Irving Babbitt, $1.25
net.--The Story of the Greek People, by Eva March
Tappan, Illus.-A Dramatic Reading Book, by Augusta
Stevenson, Ilus.-Riverside Literature Series, new vol.:
Bacon's Essays, edited, with introduction and notes, by
Clark S. Northup, with portrait, 40 cts. net.—The Balley-
Manly Spelling Book, by Eliza R. Bailey and John M.
Manly, 25 cts. net.-The Beginner's Primer, illus., in
color, 30 cts. net. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
A Manual of Practical Physics, by Ervin S. Ferry and Arthur
T. Jones, Vol. I., Fundamental Measurements and Prop-
erties of Matter, $1.75.-Horace Mann Readers, new vol.:
Primer, by W. L. Hervey and Melvin Hix, illus. in color,
etc., 30 cts. net.-A Summary of Punctuation, by Charles
Sears Baldwin, 5 cts. net. (Longmans, Green & Co.)
Grammar and Its Reasons, by Mary Hall Leonard, $2 net.-
Graded Games and Rhythmic Exercises, by Marion Brom-
ley Newton, illus.—The Bentley-Johnston Reading Primer,
illus. in color.-The First Year Song Reader, by Alys
E. Bentley, Illus. in color, (A. S. Barnes & Co.)
The fundamental Process in Education, by Arthur Cary Flesh
man, $1.25. (J. B. Lippincott.)
Pioneers in Education, by Gabriel Compayré, last vol.: Mon-
taigne, 90 cts. net. (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.)
The Louisa M. Alcott Reader, a supplementary reader for
the fourth year, illus., 50 cts. net. (Little, Brown & Co.)
MISCELLANEOUS.
Plans for a National Theatre, by William Archer and Gran-
ville Barker, $2.50 net. -The Sayings of Grandmamma,
by Elinor Glyn, $1.25. (Duffield & Co.)
Devonshire Characters and Strange Events, by S. Baring-Gould,
illus., $7 net. (John Lane Co.)
Poole's Index, Vol. VI., 1902-1906, edited by W. I. Fletcher
and Mary Poole, $10 net. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
pp. 249.
BIOGRAPHY.
Our First Ambassador to China: The Life and Correspond-
ence of George, Earl of Macartney, and his Experiences in
China, as Told by Himself. By Helen H. Robbins. Illus. in
photogravure, etc., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 479. E. P. Dutton & Co.
$5. net.
The Romance of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckinghanı,
and Some Men and Women of the Stuart Court. By Philip
Gibbs. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 402. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. $3.50 net.
Lucretius : Epicurean and Poet. By John Masson. 8vo, gilt
top, pp. 453. E. P. Dutton & Co. $3.50 net.
Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria. By Clara Tschudi;
trans. from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. With
colored portrait, 8vo, uncut, pp. 274. E. P. Dutton & Co.
$2.50 net.
Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy. By Ruth Putnam,
12mo, illus., pp. 484. “Heroes of the Nations." G. P. Putnam's
Sons. $1.50.
Erasmus: The Scholar. By John Alfred Faulkner. 12mo,
Men of the Kingdom.” Jennings & Graham. $1. net
HISTORY.
Cambridge Modern History. Edited by A. W. Ward, G. W.
Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. Vol.V., The Age of Louis XIV.
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 970. Macmillan Co. $4. net.
Bonapartism: Six Lectures Delivered in the University of
London. By H. A. L. Fisher. 8vo, pp. 123. Oxford University
Press. $1.15 net.
The Inquisition : A Critical and Historical Study of the Coer.
cive Power of the Church. By E. Vacandard ; trans. from the
second edition by Bertrand L. Conway, 12mo, pp. 284.
Longmans, Green & Co,
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Elizabethan Drama, 1868-1642: A History of the Drama
in England from the Accession of Queen Elizabeth to the
closing of the Theatres, to which is Prefixed a Résume of the
Earlier Drama from its Beginnings. By Felix E. Schelling.
In 2 vols., large 8vo, gilt tops. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$7.50 net.
Modernism and Romance. By R. A. Scott-James. 8vo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 284. John Lane Co. $2.50 net.


190
[March 16,
THE DIAL
The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century.
By Martha Pike Conant. 16mo, gilt top, pp. 311. Columbia
Studies in Comparative Literature." Macmillan Co. $2. net.
Bridgetstow: Some Chronicles of a Cornish Parish. By Mark
Guy Pearse. 12mo, pp. 215. Jennings & Graham. $1. net.
Wordsworth: A Study in Memory and Mysticism. By Solomon
F. Gingerich. 16mo, pp. 205. Elkhart, Ind.: Mennonite
Publishing Co. $1.20.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell.
Edited, with notes, by J. Logie Robertson. With photogra-
vure portrait, 8vo, pp. 376. Oxford University Press.
The "First Folio" Shakespeare. New vols.: Othello, The
Tempest, The Winter's Tale. Edited by Charlotte Porter and
Helen A. Clarke. Each with photogravure frontispiece, 18mo.
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Per vol., 75 cts.
World's Classics. New vols.: Cowper's Letters, a Selection,
with Introduction by E. V. Lucas; The Poetical Works of
Robert Browning, Vol. II.; The Works of Edmund Burke,
Vols. V. and VI., with Introductions by