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JUNE 1, 1908.
Vol. XLIV.
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CONTENTS.
PAGB
PEDESTRIANISM AND POETRY
. 333
ESSAYS IN EVERY-DAY PHILOSOPHY. Percy
F. Bicknell.
335
Ideas of a Plain Country Woman. – Miss Humphrey's
Over Against Green Peak. - Miss Winslow's Spinster
Farm. -Spender's The Comments of Bagshot. —
Bland's The Happy Moralist. - Masson's The New
Plato. -Conan Doyle's Through the Magic Door.-
Hind's The Diary of a Looker-on.
IN ENGLISH GARDENS. Edith Kellogg Dunton 339
Miss Waterfield's Flower Grouping in English,
Scotch, and Irish Gardens. - Miss Jekyll's Colour
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' NOW AGAIN THE TUFTED TREES." Thomas
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Myth, and Art.
GAME BIG AND LITTLE, AFLOAT AND
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NATURE'S “FINE PRINT.” May Estelle Cool 343
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AN ORNITHOLOGIST AT SEA. T. D. A. Cockerell 344
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF TRAVEL. H. E.
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RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne . 349
Churchill's Mr. Crewe's Career, - Day's King Spruce.
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ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING 355
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358
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
359
PEDESTRIANISM AND POETRY.
Ambulator nascitur, non fit. That the poet
is born and not made, no one would dispute ;
that the walker, like the poet, is born and not
made, might not be so generally admitted, but
was the belief of at least one authority on walk-
ing, Thoreau. A gift for poetry and a gift for
walking are perhaps not found so often together
as separate ; yet there are many instances of
their happy union in one and the same person.
Bards and minstrels we think of as making
their way on foot from place to place, and even
from country to country. Homer must have
been a tremendous walker - so little stationary
that no fewer than seven cities claimed him as
son. Goldsmith, strolling over Europe and
making music as he went, is a familiar example.
Wordsworth composed his poems as he walked,
elaborating long passages of verse before putting
pen to paper.
Walking for the love of walking, and for the
enjoyment of nature by the way, seems to be a
comparatively modern form of recreation. When
Wordsworth, in his third long vacation at
Cambridge, in the summer of 1790, took staff
in hand and, with a friend, made the tour of
Switzerland on foot, he spoke of this pedestrian
enterprise as an “unprecedented course," and
as indicative of “a hardy slight of college
studies and their set rewards." One of the
poet's biographers inclines to think that Words-
worth and his companion were indeed the first
students to indulge in this now so common
relaxation from academic toil.
Until about a century ago it seems rarely to
have occurred to anyone that mountains and
woods and rocky coasts are objects to be ad-
mired, and to be visited even at much cost of
bodily ease and comfort. One of the characters
in “ Sir Charles Grandison ” feels nothing but
horror for the Alpine scenery of Savoy, as
viewed from the Mont Cenis
pass.
He contrasts
the region, “equally noted for its poverty and
rocky mountains," with the smiling fields of
France, and declares that his spirits “were great
sufferers by the change.” But for Sir Charles's
kindness and attention to his comfort, he feels
that he never could have faced the terrible
pass-
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road to Italy in 1714, was “put out of humour purpose of witnessing, if weather conditions
by the most horrible precipices,” and advised a should be favorable, a spectacle of extraordinary
friend to choose the comparatively safe and grandeur that not more than half a dozen human
pleasant route by sea. Dr. Johnson (to quote beings had seen before him ? Let us transcribe
one more eighteenth-century authority) was so a few sentences.
little inspired by the scenery of the Scotch « Peak by peak the high snowfields caught the rosy
highlands that he could declare in all serious glow and shone like signal-fires across the dim breadths
ness : “ It will readily occur that this uniformity
of delicate twilight. Like Xerxes we looked over the
countless host sinking to rest, but with the rather differ-
of barrenness can afford very little amusement
ent reflection, that a hundred years hence they would
to the traveller ; that it is easy to sit at home probably be doing much the same thing, whilst we
and conceive rocks, heaths, and waterfalls, and should long have ceased to take any interest in the
that these journeys are useless labours, which
performance. We were between the day and the
night. The western heavens were of the most brilliant
neither impregnate the imagination nor inform
blue with spaces of transparent green, whilst a few
the understanding.” Perhaps if Johnson had scattering cloudlets glowed as if with internal fire. To
been a walker, instead of being obliged to sub the east the night rushed up furiously, and it was diffi-
mit his unwieldly bulk to the jolts and jars of
cult to imagine that the dark purple sky was really
cloudless and not blackened by the rising of some por-
vehicular transport, he might have brought
tentous storm. That it was, in fact, cloudless, appeared
home a kinder remembrance of that“ uniformity from the unbroken disc of the full moon, which, if I may
of barrenness. As it was, he could just as well, venture to say so, had a kind of silly expression, as
so far as his susceptibility to scenic charm was though it were a bad imitation of the sun, totally unable
concerned, have sat at his ease in the parlor of
to keep the darkness in order.
the “ Mitre" and conceived rocks, heaths, and
“ With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the sky,
How silently and with how wan a face !'"
waterfalls, in any number and variety. For him,
Stephen walked with senses alert for every
certainly, there was no pleasure in the pathless impression from without, but at the same time
woods, no rapture on the lonely shore.
It is refreshing to turn from the incorrigibly walk like a camel,” says Thoreau, “ which is
with no vacancy of mind within.
6 You must
urban and sedentary Johnson to that pedestrian said to be the only beast which ruminates when
enthusiast and enamoured mountain-climber, walking.” And yet the rumination must not
Leslie Stephen — who, curiously enough, was
be too engrossing. “I am alarmed," confesses
one of Johnson's warmest admirers. Stephen's
the same nature lover and sturdy pedestrian,
ascription of a moral quality to the innate love
“when it happens that I have walked a mile
of walking is well known : a passion for pedes- into the woods bodily, without getting there in
trianism could not, to his thinking, consist with spirit.” Rather should one have the soul tuned
vicious habits. And however matter-of-fact
in harmony with that of the jocund traveller who
and drily prosaic he may have chosen to imagine rises before the mind's eye in the quaint old
himself in his editorial chair or in the bookish
lines:
seclusion of his study, there was something in
“ When he came to a grene wode,
In a merry mornynge,
the charm of natural scenery to make him break
There he herde the notes small
forth in song, at least in his earlier life. In
Of byrdes merry syngynge."
that delightful and too-little-read early book of What could better picture the escape from the
his, entitled “The Playground of Europe," are asphyxia of towns and streets, and from the
to be found no fewer than thirty-eight quota- mustiness of libraries and studies ?
tions or adaptations from the poets, an average Thoreau, who held that the noble art of
of one to every nine pages, which, for a writer walking comes only by the grace of God, said
by no means sentimental or romantic, is doing that he had met with but two persons who
pretty well. He gives the reader the feeling of understood this art, who had a genius, so to
walking with him up steep mountain paths, speak, for sauntering; and he took pleasure in
across glaciers, over jagged rocks, along fearful going back to the derivation of “saunter" (from
precipices, and down snowy slopes; and with him sainte terre), a wood whose history is written
the reader finds himself poetically inspired
on its face.
He liked to think of every real
to the point of more or less apt quotation, at any walk as a sort of crusade. His crusades, how-
rate. For poetic charm, just relieved (so to ever, were preferably to the West, not toward
speak) by the subtlest suggestion of dry humor, the East
the East - probably because Boston and other
what could be better than Stephen's description cities of men lay not far distant in the latter
of a sunset that he viewed from Mont Blanc, direction, and the hermit of Walden sought the
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are
in proportion to the outward dreariness,” he scraps and tags of appropriate rhyme, haunting
tells us; and further, with the true walker's lines that may have lain unsuspected in his
impulse toward poetry : “I do not know of memory for twenty years or more, are called to
any poetry to quote which adequately expresses mind by the ever-changing scene. It is a delight
this yearning for the Wild. Approached from to walk with him, as with one who, in his own
this side, the best poetry is tame. I do not genial way, proves how true it is that a merry
know where to find in any literature, ancient (and a poetry-loving) heart goes all the day,
or modern, any account which contents me of whereas your sad and prosaic one tires in a
that Nature with which even I am acquainted. mile.
You will perceive that I demand something
which no Augustan nor
Elizabethan
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no culture, in short, can give. Mythology
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The swift bicycle did much to discredit plod ESSAYS IN EVERY-DAY PHILOSOPHY,*
ding pedestrianism, and the automobile has,
with the wealthy and fashionable, wrought still
The much current talk about the simple life
and a return to nature is, of course, a sure sign
further mischief ; but inasmuch as far fewer can
of increasing complexity and artificiality in our
afford to own motor-cars than bicycles, and as
the speedier vehicle has well-nigh put its prede- least inclined to talk about.
way of living. What we really are we
Nevertheless, if
cessor out of use, perhaps walking may yet regain
we will persist in not living the simple life, it
something of its former vogue, at least with the
multitude who are not blessed (or cursed) with
may be better than nothing to discuss it and
read books in praise of it, even though thereby
a motor-car income. To be sure, there is the
convenient and inexpensive “trolley” to tempt from her mate the Deed.”
the risk is run lest we “divorce the Feeling
one from the pedestrian's path of rectitude; but
it will be long before it conquers (if it ever does pendent woman of rural Indiana has of late
A shrewdly observant and refreshingly inde-
conquer) our more rural districts and relegates
years been expressing her views on subjects of
pedestrianism to the limbo of the lost arts.
human interest to all readers, in “ The Indian-
Let us quote a contemporary poet's words on
apolis News,” and, more recently, in “ The
walking as a beautiful and dignified bodily exer-
3. An idea that shall help us to walk well,” the latter periodical there are
Ladies' Home Journal."
cise.
From the pages of
now collected
says Mr. Bliss Carman,“ is to think of the walk
as a moderated run rather than to think of the
into a small volume, prefaced by Mr. Edward
Bok, a number of these informal but well-
run as a modification of the walk. Fancy the
written disquisitions on topics congenial espe-
Flying Mercury changing feet, and you have an
cially to women unless the women are too
Fancy that run slackened in speed,
and have a godlike walk.” It was said of
you
It was said of pronouncedly of the “new” sort. These brief
and sensible talks, entitled collectively “ The
Adelaide Neilson, as the same writer reminds
Ideas of a Plain Country Woman,” are credited
us, that " to see her walk was like listening to
exquisite music, so well rhymed and eloquent modestly assumed anonymity we will not seek
to “ The Country Contributor,” beneath whose
was her motion." In Salvini's walk, too, espe-
to penetrate. That she is possessed of a keen
cially in the character of Othello, there was
sense of humor is made delightfully evident
majesty of motion ; and though (or because) he
again and again, but nowhere more conclusively
played the part in bare feet, his tread was
than in her regretful admission that women are
dignified. These and other instances tending
to prove that the poetry of motion is by no * THE IDEAS OF A PLAIN COUNTRY WOMAN. By " The Coun-
try Contributor.” New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
means confined to dancing are cited by Mr.
OVER AGAINST GREEN PEAK. By Zephine Humphrey. New
Carman, who is himself an accomplished pedes York: Henry Holt & Co.
SPINSTER FARM. By Helen M. Winslow. Illustrated. Boston:
trian as well as a poet.
L. C. Page & Co.
A friend and classmate of the writer's offers THE COMMENTS OF BAGSHOT. Edited by J. A. Spender.
another living example of a happy marriage of
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
poetry and pedestrianism. He loves the woods
and mountains and lakes, and cannot take
THE NEW PLATO; or, Socrates Redivivus. By Thomas L.
hundred steps toward them without experienc THROUGH THE Magic DOOR. By Arthur Conan Doyle. New
ing a strong impulse to break into verse, prefer-
York: The McClure Co.
THE DIARY OF A LOOKER-ON. By C. Lewis Hind. New York:
ably from Byron or Scott. Innumerable other
ideal run.
New York:
THE HAPPY MORALIST. By Hubert Bland.
Mitchell Kennerley.
Masson. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co.
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sadly lacking in this sense. “I wish,” she Like Miss Humphrey, Miss Helen M. Wins-
declares, “that when Adam gave up that rib low has a penchant for old run-to-seed farms, a
he had also parted with some of the funny-bone, humorous way of describing country scenes and
so that his help-meet might be able to see the events, and a fresh unconventional manner of
joke oftener.” The writer is a wife and mother, looking at life's problems and perplexities. In
and she praises and ennobles the homely joys her “Spinster Farm" we are made acquainted
of domestic life. Almost she persuades one that with some original though not too clearly drawn
the lot of even a prairie farmer's wife is richly
characters,
the Spinster, Janet Fleming by
blessed and beyond all others desirable. name, who purchases the farm and engages in
To Miss Zephine Humphrey, life with all its chicken-raising; her lively young niece Peggy;
joys and sorrows, and even its petty anxieties the Professor, who pays persistent court to the
and vexations, is immensely interesting and Spinster; young Robert Graves, who does the
decidedly worth living. Such at least is the same to Peggy; and the humbler characters
impression one gets of her in reading “ Over playing their useful parts in kitchen and barn.
Against Green Peak,” wherein she describes, Homely reality is interspersed with romance ;
with freshness and gusto, her selection and pur but far be it from the reviewer to reveal the
chase of an old house in rural New England, and plot and spoil the story for others. Rather let
her moving into and living in it with “ Aunt it suffice here to give a specimen or two of the
Susan” and “ Jane," and, after a little, “ Brid- Spinster's philosophy of life. Listen to her
get.” Experiments with abandoned farms have praises of rural as contrasted with urban
already furnished forth literature in abundance, existence.
but that detracts nothing from the merits of Miss “When I go into the city, to-day, I see everywhere
Humphrey's venture in the same field. Her the man with the muck-rake, his eyes ever on the
story is told out of her own experience, one can-
ground, insensible to the world of beauty around him.
not but believe; and if here and there, for the
People hurry on with eager, strained faces, wildly pur-
suing the unattainable; or, if it proves to be attainable,
sake of effect, she over-accentuates a note or to what end? The best countenances have a weary,
strains her reader's credulity — as in her account unrested look; the worst are worse than I ever realized
of the butcher's carts that drove madly by her
before. So much of the real essence of life is lost to
door in a feverish haste to escape her patronage
these hurried and breathless ones. I thank God for the
privilege of living where I may look up to the stars and
— that must be excused as literary license. But
listen with quiet heart for the music of the spheres.
it makes one thirsty to think of all the dinners After a day of noise, of struggling with pushing,
of dried beef those three women had to eat in jostling crowds in the city, the old low-ceilinged living-
consequence of the very un-Yankeelike, uncom-
room, with its cheerful wood fire in the ancient fire-
mercial conduct of those meat-peddlers. Of all
place, its comfortable old chairs, its books and its home
atmosphere, seems to me the most refreshing spot on
the experiences related in the book, one of the earth.”
most enjoyable, to a book-reviewer at any rate, And who would not wish to be an old maid
is the account of the putting in order of the after reading the following ?
library. Here is what is said of the little corner
“Things are altogether changed from the previous
bookcase that held the collection of essays : generation. To-day the old maid does not wear herself out
“ All there, my hearties? Then all is well. The working for her brother's family or taking care of her
assortment here is the least creditable, from a book col sister's children. If she has no money she teaches, or
lector's point of view, of any the house contains. Odd, lectures, or writes books or poems, or she does anything
ragged volumes, mismated, despoiled, vagabonds of the but hang on the coat-skirts of somebody's husband, and
shelf, merry survivors of statelier times when the gar she feels self-respecting and self-dependent in conse-
ments were at least stiff and new which now hang about quence. She is as bright and happy as any young girl,
them so recklessly, they look out into the room with a and even better to those who have outgrown bread and
certain disreputable good-cheer which is quite irresist butter. She has sense as well as freshness, conversa-
ible. Their demoralization is completed by the fact tional power and wit as well as downright ability and
that there is never a time when some two or three of good looks. She has live poets and notables and phil-
them are not leaning confidingly across space to take osophers in her train. She wears well-fitting gowns.
advantage of the temporary absence of a next neighbor She does n't care whether she is married or not;
and have a chat with a next neighbor but one.”
at least, one would never know if she does."
Although we have selected the only bookish The numerous illustrations from photographs,
chapter in the volume for purposes of quotation, showing among other things the farm-house or
it must not be supposed that the book as a whole 6 mansion” from two points of view, and also
is not as fresh and exhilarating, to nature lovers, the spinster herself, help to make the story very
as the mountain air and mountain scenery that real; and if more were needed, we have the
have largely inspired it.
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dents and all of the characters are real, as well pages, where they seem to have attracted unusual
as the farm and farmhouse, unchanged since attention. Their brightness and originality make
Colonial days.”
them well worthy of republication in their pres-
What is one man's paradox is another man's ent more convenient and permanent form.
platitude. So says Bagshot, and the saying is Mr. Hubert Bland, author of Letters to a
likely to prove its truth in the different impres- Daughter,” and joint author (with his wife,
sion his utterances (as recorded in “The Com “ E. Nesbit”) of “ The Prophet's Mantle,'
ments of Bagshot”) will make on different cheerfully reappears in “ The Happy Moralist,”
readers. But no one, unless hopelessly dull and a collection of comments and opinions on liter-
unimpressionable, can fail to find something re ature, art, music, socialism, love, marriage,
freshingly original in many of Bagshot's opinions ethics, and numerous other topics of interest to
and judgments of men and things. Bagshot, let everybody, and offering endless possibilities of
it be understood, owes his being to Mr. J. A. novel treatment at the hands of each successive
Spender, whose name will sound not unfamiliar essayist. Mr. Bland's style is piquant, now and
to those acquainted with the novels of Mrs. J.K. then a little cynical, characterized throughout by
Spender, his mother. Mr. Spender chooses to this-worldliness rather than other worldliness,
style himself "editor" of the Bagshottian par- but never other than light and bright and
adoxes and platitudes, and gravely informs us breezy and thoroughly readable. His advice
that poor Bagshot is now no more ; but of on reading presents pretty well the man and his
course we all know what that kind of preface to methods as a writer.
this kind of book means in these days, and of “My advice in the matter of literature is, browse
course the writer himself knows that we know. freely among books, rifle a library as you would rifle a
Mr. Spender's little volume is, in one respect garden; confine yourself to no author, to no subject, to
at least, an improvement on its Bensonian arche-
no century. Boggle not a moment to lay down Milton
and to take up Herrick; turn without a qualm of con-
type : its chapters are of sententious brevity, science from The Pilgrim's Progress to The Decameron,
and the book is ended long before the reader be from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy to the Arabian
comes conscious of that fatigue which unbroken Nights of the other Burton.”
monologue, even from the brightest of essayists, His counsel to read dead authors rather than liv-
tends to induce unless taken by snatches and reading ones, and to select the books that have sur-
non-consecutively. These miscellaneous and vived, is old and excellent; but how would there
widely-ranging comments are often so epigram- ever be any survival of the fittest if all readers fol-
matically put as to make them very quotable. lowed this advice and waited to see what should
Here, for example, are a few neatly-expressed be cast aside as ephemeral, and what preserved
Bagshottisms.
for posterity ? Let no man shirk his part in
“ The common saying that you should know every-
the work of weeding out the worthless. In the
thing of something and something of everything Bagshot domain of art, more especially modern French
paraphrases as follows : . It is necessary to fathom one's
art, the author thus expresses himself :
ignorance on one subject in order to discover how little
one knows on other subjects. If the modern world
« Remember the aim of Art is not to inculcate
abandons the religious idea of sin it will have to recover
morality, but to give the Thrill. You can get the
the Greek idea of virtue as a fine art. It is a pity that
Thrill easily enough, if you put yourself in the right
the two cannot be combined. The next nation which mood, from all these gracious curves and contours,
leads mankind to a higher level of conduct will be one
these delicate flesh tints, these charming draperies.
which adds conscience to instinctive good taste.' 'A
They are the kisses of art, as it were. Neither art nor
large number of scholars are men of science gone astray,
life must be all kisses, but still there is room for kisses
and many editions of classical authors are but chemical
both in art and life. There is a time to kiss and a
analyses of their component parts, from which the ele-
time to refrain from kissing - a much longer time,
ment of literature is excluded.' • If science enlarges
alas ! Well, these brilliant Frenchmen chose the time
the bounds of knowledge, it also enormously expands
to kiss, and they immortalized it upon their canvas.”
our conception of the unknown. The modern positive In words reminiscent of Emerson, to whom he
and scientific world has a sense of mystery which was acknowledges his indebtedness, Mr. Bland epi-
altogether lacking in the ancient and mediæval world,
and which is akin to the mysticism of the East. The
grammatically says that “the gist of Good Man-
scientific age is that which has the measure of its own
ners is to have none.” Of all the verbs which
ignorance. It is a solemn fact that the discovery of authors so ingeniously use to avoid over-working
a new disease immediately creates a demand for it.'»
the verb " say,” this author has gone far in his
Bagshot's first appearance was made in “ The quest of the unhackneyed in employing the verb
Westminster Gazette," of which Mr. Spender is “ shrug.” Many of the Happy Moralist's chap-
editor; and these chapters are reprinted from its ters are in dialogue form, with a woman as the
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Moralist's interlocutor - which makes for light- ing and then to show what you can get under it.”
ness and grace, and relieves the monotony. Those How true, alas, will both readers and writers
who habitually shun “improving ” reading will of essays acknowledge that to be! Perhaps to
like Mr. Bland's sophisticated and sufficiently avoid illustrating its truth, as far as possible,
superficial treatment of his themes.
the author of " Through the Magic Door” has
In " The New Plato, or Socrates Redivivus," refrained from headings altogether, after having
our old friend the humorist - Tom” Masson once named his book. The unnamed chapters
reappears under the more dignified signature are inspired by the writer's old oak bookcase
Thomas L. Masson, but with as much love of containing his favorite volumes, and he is led
fun and laughter as of yore. The temptation to on to talk, confidentially and informally, about
parody the Platonic dialogue has been yielded to novels, poetry, history, essays, science, in a way
by others before Mr. Masson, but probably no that proves his own wide range of literary likings
parodist has so struck the modern note as he has and also tends to broaden his reader's outlook
done in his ten brief colloquies on such subjects on the world of letters. The magic door is, of
as marriage, gambling in stocks, bridge-playing, course, the door leading into the world of the
the tariff, the missionary, college education, imagination as depicted in the books of great
socialism, and happiness. His English imitates authors. In his closing paragraph the writer
successfully, and often amusingly, the Jowett modestly says to his readers :
style ; in fact, it is plain that Mr. Masson is no
“If I have put you on the track of anything which
close student of the original Greek, nor need you
did not know before, then verify it and pass it on.
he be for his present purpose. Yet he would
If I have not, there is no harm done, save that my
breath
have done well to submit his proof-sheets to a
and your time have been wasted. There may be a score
of mistakes in what I have said — is it not the privilege
Greek scholar before publication. Our old
of the conversationalist to misquote? My judgments
Platonic acquaintance Adeimantos repeatedly may differ very far from yours, and my likings may be
appears in " The New Plato” under the impos- your abhorrence; but the mere thinking and talking of
sible form Adæimantus, and “ gynæconitis,” to
books is in itself good, be the upshot what it may."
denote (apparently) a woman's club or club- The misquotations (not bad ones) are there, and
building, is not happy. The classic tone, so the literary judgments, are necessarily of debat-
well preserved for the most part in the Jowett able soundness. How many readers, for instance,
like forms of expression, is now and then put would make “ The Cloister and the Hearth” a
at discord with a neologism that approaches very greater novel than “ Ivanhoe”? However, we
near to slang. “ All over," for 6 everywhere,' are none the less indebted to this writer of
would never have been used by the Master of novels for letting us know, in so pleasant a way,
Balliol, nor, probably, “that is right,” to what are some of his favorites among novels, as
indicate simple assent. As a sample of Mr. also among works of a more serious nature. As
Masson's
wares,
here is the close of a short dis an essayist and critic his style is informal and
cussion of the tariff between Socrates and Car- agreeable.
nigas. Carnigas speaks : “ I might say to you
In the opening pages of “The Diary of a
that the Tariff benefits the few at the expense Looker-on " Mr. C. Lewis Hind frankly con-
of the many, and that is why it is imposed on fesses that he has never read “ Don Quixote,"
all necessities except laborers. For the finan- although he has read and heard so much about
ciers who control the State wish to keep the it that, before stopping to reflect, he was almost
price of everything high which they sell; but persuaded that his knowledge was first-hand.
labor, which they buy, they wish to obtain at Asking others whether they had read the book,
the lowest price. But if I said all this you would he could find no one who had done so.
not believe me.' To which Socrates replies : you mean right through from beginning to end,
" O Carnigas, how then could I help but believe I have n’t,” was the candid answer of one per-
you, seeing that
you
have become so rich by just son, and the substance of several other answers.
such a method ?”
In the same way, concerning his latest collection
“ The essay,” says Sir Conan Doyle toward of hap-hazard reflections on the lesser things of
the end of his collected talks on books (under life and art and literature, few if any readers
the attractive title " Through the Magic Door"), will be found to have read its three hundred
“must always be a somewhat repellant form of and thirty-four closely printed pages
literature, unless it be handled with the lightest through from beginning to end." A dedicatory
and deftest touch. It is too reminiscent of the preface explains that “ The Diary of a Looker-
school themes of our boyhood — to put a head ” took shape at the suggestion of a friend.
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The entries are selected from “ fourteen pocket- and species, bedding plans, and methods of cul-
books closely written, a day to a page, records ture, while others lean rather toward picturesque
of things fancied, seen, felt, that seemed worth description of general effects, — lend largeness
preserving," and have already appeared, wholly to the outlook of the book. But amid so much
or in part, in various English periodicals. The variety of authorship and opinion, there is no
grouping by months breaks up the book into lack of essential harmony; all the writers belong
twelve parts or chapters, but the division desig to the new school of naturalistic gardeners, who
nations might as well have been numerals, or protest against any sort of stiff and formal
the first twelve letters of the Greek alphabet, arrangement, have a horror of “ bedding out”
or the twelve labors of Hercules, so little indic- and particularly of “carpet-bedding,” and adopt
ative are they of the subjects treated. As Mr. as their standard Nature's plan of strewing one
Hind is preëminently an art critic, let us close flower about with a lavish hand, or grouping
this notice of his freely-rambling diary with a together two or three of harmonious coloring.
suggestive quotation on Color, which he calls So, while there is a special section entitled
“ The confessional of personality. Like the wind, it is Wild Garden Notes," all the gardens painted
there and here at once. It comes from unknown store and described are of the delightful variety that
houses, differing in glory, finding expression in Velas-
look as if, with Topsy, they “just growed,"
quez's silver greys and flights to red and blue, Titian's
autumn opulence, and the hasheesh dreams of Monticelli.
though in fact their artless effects conceal long
The pursuit of it, assisted by absinthe, drove Monticelli and patient exercise of the gardener's craft.
crazy until he believed he was a reincarnation of Titian." Irish and Scotch gardens get high praise for
PERCY F. BICKNELL. their luxuriance, beautiful surroundings, and
truly artistic arrangement. Of English gardens,
those of Cornwall are given first place for both
naturalness and wealth of floral treasures.
IN ENGLISH GARDENS,*
Most of the pictures in Miss Waterfield's book
To garden-lovers, every garden has charm; will be the despair of those who must do their
but the English garden is superlatively the gardening in cramped and temporary quarters.
garden beautiful, with a spell in its very name. Overarching trees as a background for all the
Books about English gardens are almost always
most beautiful effects, century-old walls with
fascinating. For the American gardener, dif ferns and moss in their crannies, “grass-walks”
ferences in climate and other conditions make and borders that have been unchanged since the
many
of their recommendations untrustworthy;
'40's, — these are not to be had in a hurry.
but as inspirations to the desire for a garden
Besides incidental descriptions of the best fea-
that shall be not merely a place to pick flowers
tures of many lovely gardens, there are chapters
out of, but a thing of beauty in itself, these devoted to suggestions for the planting of spring
books are unrivalled. And if the possession of
bulbs and flowering trees, for rose and lily gar-
such a garden is denied, a garden-book with the dens, for the selection of climbers for walls and
right kind of pictures is not to be despised as a pergolas, for water-gardens, and for woodland
substitute.
effects. Thus, as a garden-book at once artistic
Just such a book is Miss Margaret Water and yet fairly practical, Miss Waterfield's leaves
field's “ Flower-Grouping in English, Scotch,
little to be desired within its chosen field.
and Irish Gardens.” Since Miss Waterfield's Oddly enough, Miss Gertrude Jekyll's sub-
“Garden Colour” was published, she has been ject, “Colour in the Flower-Garden,” is one
busy exploring and painting more gardens.
that Miss Waterfield has already treated, though
The color-plates in the new book, of which in quite a different way. Miss Jekyll is inter-
there are more than fifty, are all from her own ested in one particular garden her own; and
sketches; but in preparing the accompanying judged by pictures and descriptions, it is cer-
text she has been assisted by nearly a dozen tainly beautiful enough to give warrant for all
other garden-lovers. Their diverse points of its maker's loving enthusiasm and to provide
view,—some of them being explicit about genus abundant material for many delightful books.
Like Miss Waterfield, Miss Jekyll prefers nat-
DENS. Notes and Sketches in Colour. By Margaret Waterfield ural effects. She believes that a garden should
make a picture, or a succession of pictures ; so
By Gertrude Jekyll.
Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
that color and massing are as important to the
gardener as to the artist, and should be his first
COUNTIES. Edited by Charles Holme. Illustrated. New York:
John Lane Company.
and constant study. She is anxious to impress
*FLOWER GROUPING IN ENGLISH, SCOTCH, AND IRISH GAR-
and Others. Illustrated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
COLOUR IN THE FLOWER GARDEN.
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summer.
her readers with the fact that in gardening, as It is edited by Mr. Charles Holme; and Mr.
in other arts, trifles are all-important. If trel- | A. L. Baldry signs one of the three articles
lises are painted an ugly green, the effect of the that make up the text. Of the hundred and
loveliest roses is marred. Supporting sticks thirty-six illustrations, eight are in color, the
must be concealed; bare spaces must be tem work of various artists, and the rest are from
porarily filled while the plants in the border are excellent photographs. In contrast to Miss
growing to cover them. And as in this imper-Waterfield and her coadjutors, and to Miss
fect world no bed can be in perfection for more Jekyll, the taste of the makers of this book
than a month or two at a time, the skilful gar- leans toward the formal style of garden and the
dener must provide a succession of beauties so more studied type of landscaping. But gar-
arranged that the right one will catch the eye dening on a very large and sumptuous scale is
at the right moment. One exception Miss bound to be somewhat formal; and it is the
Jekyll admits to the rule of not trying to patch great garden, — with its marble statues and
up one season's border to look well in another : seats, its sun-dials and fountains, its majestic
the bulb-bed, that problem of the amateur gar-avenues and its grass-walks stretching between
dener, is too unsightly to remain through the hedges of box or mossy walls of clipped yew,--
summer. Miss Jekyll’s happy suggestion is to with which this monograph is concerned, both
plant ferns in the bed, instead of scattered in pictures and text. A brief " History of
clumps of herbaceous plants. These will cover Garden-making” traces the progress of the art
the bare spaces better and will not require any from the quaint mediæval type through the
of the digging so injurious to the bulbs in mid various stages of formality, fantasy, and pseudo-
naturalism, to the intelligently composite style
Miss Jekyll pays an innocent tribute to her of to-day. “The Principles of Garden-making
faculty for imparting the charm of her garden formulates briefly such general rules as the
in previous books about it, when, in her pre- necessity of keeping the garden in relation to
face, she begs her “ kind readers not to take it the house and the site, and discusses the proper
amiss if she says that she cannot admit combination of formal gardening and landscap-
strangers to her garden, which is at once “her ing. There is also a chapter of suggestive notes
workshop, her private study, and place of rest," on the illustrations. Of these, the ones in black
and asks them to spare her failing sight the and white are very beautiful; several of the
task of writing “ long letters of excuse and colored plates show such a riot of hues as might
explanation." We can scarcely blame the over- possibly be pleasing in nature, but is certainly
enthusiastic persons who have unwittingly made garish in art.
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON.
Miss Jekyll's life a burden. The photographs
of her garden are tantalizingly lovely, and,
colored by her vivid descriptions and suggestive
comment, they are calculated to make every
garden-lover sigh with envy. Ten acres of “ NOW AGAIN THE TUFTED TREES.*)
woodland threaded by alluring paths, carpeted Tree-books fill in our library by no means
here and there with daffodils and primroses, and
the least frequented corner. There is about
cleverly blended with the garden proper ; a June
this subject a singular fascination, attracting
garden, a border for late summer, a tiny “hid-
readers and students of every kind and degree.
den garden,” a grey garden, which ought, Miss
A tree is such a strange, weird, inexplicable
Jekyll explains, to have a gold garden beside
it, these are only a few of Miss Jekyll's all about us ; they form the stately background
thing, and yet withal so common! Trees stand
treasures. Besides the pictures, there are de-
of all our human history, nor less of our in-
tailed plans of many of the beds, and of some
dividual human lives. We are by nature lovers
beds she would like to have if there were room
for them. Everyone with a trace of gardening racial memory perhaps, long and intimate per-
of a tree, by instinct, by vaguest memory,
instinct will enjoy Miss Jekyll's book, and those
who work under anything like the same condi-
* NORTH AMERICAN TREES. Being Descriptions and Illus-
trations of the Trees growing Independently of Cultivation in
tions will find it very helpful.
North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies. By
The formal garden gets its share of attention
Nathaniel Lord Britton, Ph.D. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
OUR TREES: How to Know Them. Photographs from Nature,
in “ The Gardens of England in the Southern by Arthur I. Emerson ; with a Guide to their Recognition, etc.,
and Western Counties,” being the special mid-
by Clarence Weed, D.Sc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
TREES IN NATURE, MYTH, AND ART. By J. Ernest Phytbian.
winter number of The Studio" for 1907-8.
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to
sonal association and acquaintance. Where is does sometimes aspire to tree-hood by offering
the happy child who has not played beneath a single stem. Furthermore, the yuccas are
these sheltering arms, or laughed to watch the described ; but the cacti are omitted. In all,
flickering shadows of these leaves ? Where is the perhaps it is safe to say that we have here the
full-grown man, toiling beneath the heat and longest list of the kind ever offered to English
burden of the day, who has not found refreshing readers.
beneath the shades of some familiar tree? And The descriptions, while scientific, are in gen-
where is he who does not hope to find at length eral easy of comprehension ; and since each
a longer rest beneath some Bethel oak, some specific characterization is accompanied by a
whispering pine ? Our lives begin and end wood-cut sketch intended to show detail of leaf
among the trees.
and flower and fruit, identification of the mate-
This is the ordinary, the personal, shall we say rial collected, anywhere from Klondike swamps
the sentimental view of the subject. But there to the everglades and even the islands of Florida,
are other and more practical ways of looking at would seem a simple matter. The specific dis-
this strange type of vegetation. Utility asserts tinctions are, however, often slight, and in some
itself. Trees make forests for the mountain's cases are confessedly illusive; so that the student
cover, fuel for the fire, beams for the palace and must sometimes be guided by locality rather than
the home; and architecture of every school
pro- description.
claims to them its obligation. The Gothic arch The text illustrations are, as far as pertinent,
springs in the pattern of the elm, and all the from Britton and Brown's “ North American
graceful columns of the farther East are but the Flora"; additional cuts illustrate in similar
shafts of trees crowned in the richness of their fashion all species extra-limitary to that work.
flowers and leaves. Nay, the forests of earth Besides these, we have in the present volume
are its wealth, the wealth of men and peoples. some sixty half-tone reproductions of photo-
Uncounted millions do not tell their value; the graphs which afford an idea of the particular
gold of the Sierras and the silver of Nevada species as illustrated by a typical specimen often
have not equalled it. Even as these sentences in its natural surroundings.
are written, the President of the Republic, the As the work is intended as a hand-book, there
Governors of all the States, are met in Wash- is less occasion for a display of literary style.
ington to play statesmen, if possible, for once ; The author contents himself generally with a
to see whether perchance the preservation of simple recital of the distinguishing character-
the natural wealth of trees is a thing feasible istics of his plant, not without reference, how-
under republican institutions, or whether stupid ever, to its relationships and its uses. Even
greed shall rule, while California and the Caro- the splendor of the glorious sugar-pine, or the
linas are made over into deserts even as Palestine majesty of the hoary sequoias, fails to stir him
Small wonder, when we come to think of it, that The tweedle dum and tweedle-dee of nomen-
men still write and read and study the books clature, and all the inconsistency of the disfigur-
that tell of trees!
ing use of capitals in common and scientific
Of the three tree-books treated in this article, names, need not here detain us; but one might
the first in the list is by far the most pretentious have hoped that even a poor cottonwood should
and important. Dr. Britton's work on “ North have attained immortality under some other
American Trees” constitutes the third volume specific designation than tweedyi.
of a proposed extended series, the “ American The photographic illustrations are in general
Nature Series,” which shall present in popular not so good as this splendid book deserves. They
and yet scientific style the whole realm of the fail of doing justice to the subject. If a species
living world in arrangement, form, and function. is to be so portrayed, a specimen for photograph-
We have here, accordingly, a descriptive list of ing should be chosen which, if possible, will show
all arboreal plants growing spontaneously in the characteristic pose where the type is growing
North America north of our Mexican boundary. at its fairest ; not the poor stunted specimen of
This includes, therefore, not only plants indige- park or planting. In this book the palms, for
nous, but also such types as, having been intro this reason, are well shown. The figures of the
duced from other countries, have now escaped white pine and the hackberry, the sycamore and
cultivation and established themselves as part of the live-oak, do not, as it seems to us, even in
our common flora. Besides, there is included far-away fashion suggest the beauty and sym-
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valley homes from Wisconsin and Minnesota to
the Louisiana delta.
GAME BIG AND LITTLE, AFLOAT
AND ASHORE.*
The same criticism must be made on the
illustrations offered by Messrs. Emerson and Imagine, if you can, the mild and serene
Weed, in their work entitled “ Our Trees: How Izaak, patron of good fishermen of the elder
to Know Them.” Their volume lays special day, trolling for sea-bats or devil-fish larger than
claim to utility on account of its plates. The the favorite English punt, exchanging the calm
photo-engravings of leaf and flower are good : perfection of his typical cloudy day for the fish-
those that display the tree itself are not. The ing in Florida which Mr. Holder describes as
figure of the cottonwood, for instance, would sitting in a Turkish bath holding a string,"
never suggest the splendid tree familiar to every and all in the interest of the art piscatorial !
lover of nature who has crossed our western Yet this appears to be one of the mildest of the
prairies. Mr. Hough, in his handbook of Trees, diversions so graphically pictured and photo
is much more successful in displaying the char-graphed — in “ Big Game at Sea,” wherein
acteristic appearance of our northern species ; squids, octopusses (octopodes or octopi?), amber
and Miss Rogers, in both her tree-books, gives fish, bonitos, walking fish, rock bass, puff sharks,
more successful portraiture. There is perhaps rose-of-paradise fish, sea urchins, hammerhead
still room for a volume that shall show in full and ground sharks, tunas, yellowtails, barra-
page illustrations typical specimens of all our cudas, sun fish, angel fish (which look like the
beautiful forest types.
devil), bottle-nosed dolphins, spiny lobsters,
The third volume in our list, “ Trees in blue-eyed perch, giant star fish, sea anemones,
Nature, Myth, and Art,” is practically what its and the new game fish, the yellow-finned tuna,
title indicates - a book which tells what men appear to have their pictures taken, their fight-
have thought and said about trees, how artists ing and other habits set forth in detail, and all to
have painted them, rather than a discussion aid in making a modern American sportsman's
of trees themselves. Mr. Phythian talks in a holiday.
pleasant leisurely way about myths and artists The capture of some of these giants of the
and art and the more or less scientific fancies of deep appears to be much the same sort of diver-
unscientific observers ; he shows us in full-page sion that the prairie Indians found in attempting
engravings some pretty pictures, and closes with to lassoo the earlier locomotives of the trans-
a sentiment which would no doubt command the continental lines : in a number of authentic
approval of
every
author who sets his hand to cases the fish took the man, and made off with
write about the forest :
him, boat and all. The excitement of the chase
“ If this book should fall into the hands of some, be
is undoubted, and Mr. Holder leaves the impres-
they few or many, who, through reading it, shall come sion on his readers that he has had “ the time
to live more with the trees, and to love them better of his life” more than once,
than hitherto they have done, then it will not be in vain
ferred from the list of names given ; the fish he
that another has been added to the innumerable host of
books."
caught, or which caught him, being seldom or
All three volumes are welcome additions to a
never good to eat; indeed, there seems to be
rapidly growing literature. Dr. Britton's work
only one appropriate place for feeding on devil-
is a notable contribution to the science of his
fish, which were surely invented after the Fall.
country and the world ; Messrs. Emerson and
Instances are given in which the fish not only
Weed have rendered a service to those who
made its escape after being hooked, but returned
would identify the species as they move on sum-
to leap through the sail of the attacking boat
or to splinter it with natural but efficient
mer outing in our northern woods; while Mr.
Phythian's book will interest those who, less
weapons. Not one of the chapters lacks its
active, still love to lounge in grove or glade and
own peculiar interest. The climax comes with
dream of the stately procession of the friendly
the last, in which the yellow-finned tuna, Japa-
trees.
nese albacore, or hirenaga, commands attention
THOMAS H. MACBRIDE.
as a quarry that may run in weight up to a
as may be in-
The thousands of boys and girls who have enjoyed
Marshall Saunders's perenially popular autobiography
of a dog, “ Beautiful Joe,” will welcome the announce-
ment of a new book from Miss Saunders's pen, which the
American Baptist Publication Society will issue early next
Fall in a profusely illustrated volume entitled “My Pets."
* BIG GAME AT SEA. By Charles Frederick Holder. Illus-
trated. New York: The Outing Company.
IN THE WOODS AND ON THE SHORE. By Richard D. Ware.
Illustrated. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
FAVORITE FISH AND FISHING. By James A. Henshall. Illus-
trated. New York: The Outing Company.
THE WAY OF THE Woods. By Edward Breck. Illustrated.
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season.
hundred pounds, and may yet be taken by a Woods," has for its sub-title “A Manual for
skilful angler with the ordinary light tackle! Sportsmen in the Northeastern United States
" In the Woods and on the Shore” is Mr. and Canada," and it fully justifies this in a
Richard D. Ware's narrative of the good times thorough-going, practical manner. It is to such
he has been having at various times and places books as these that one goes for information
with furred, horned, and feathered creatures in about what to take to the woods to insure com-
their native wilds. Much of his endeavor has fort and health in the way of equipment and
been in Newfoundland after caribou, the New commissary. Illustrated with diagrams and
World variety of the reindeer. But the large photographs of actual camp-scenes, the novice
and uncomely moose has been successfully can gain information from it which will enable
pursued by him in New Brunswick; the black him to avoid many mistakes — even when it
bear in assorted sizes, one of them about as comes to taking photographs. It goes so far as
big as a polo pony, fell to his prowess ; and to to discuss quite exhaustively the several prob-
justify the second clause of his title, he shot lems presented by having women in the party;
wild geese, ducks, brant, and many smaller it deals with possible illness and injuries, and
sorts of birds, and went a-fishing often as well as it ends with a good working bibliography where-
early. The book has a human side, too, for there from further knowledge may be gained.
seems no better way to become acquainted with
WALLACE RICE.
one's fellows — not even the French method,
of dividing an inheritance with them — than
by camping out in the wilds with them for a
On some of his longest expeditions,
NATURE'S “FINE PRINT.” *
Mrs. Ware was a member of the hard-working
company; so that this book, unlike most of “ We all read the large type [of Nature]
its fellows, has a feminine touch added to its more or less appreciatively,” says Mr. Bur-
other desirable features. The influence of the roughs, “ but only the students and lovers of
woods, coupled with the single-mindedness Nature read the fine lines and the footnotes."
of the sportsman, has given a simplicity and His own excellent reading of the fine lines, as
directness to the style that is good to meet, well as his uncommon appreciation of large type,
and the pages may be aptly described as is newly exemplified by “ Leaf and Tendril,” a
spacious.
compilation of recent magazine articles.
After Mr. Holder's heroic bouts with piscine To the question of animal intelligence, which
mammoths, Mr. James A. Henshall's “ Favorite is the part of Nature's fine print under most
Fish and Fishing " seems tame, but it is at least careful scrutiny at present, Mr. Burroughs de-
the work of one of the world's great authorities
votes considerable space.
And the fact that
on the topics of which it treats. The smaller Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, who is also a close
game-fish of the North American continent are student, presents an interpretation exactly the
given full attention, and the work is an authentic opposite of his, shows how baffling Nature's text
natural history within its limits, as well as a is at this point. Mr. Burroughs's belief that
guide to the genuine follower of Walton. Mr. “ the animal is a bundle of instincts, impulses,
Henshall knows the literature of his gentle art affinities, appetites, and race traits, without the
as well as its practical side, and he sets forth his extra gift of reason,” is well known. Mrs.
descriptions with an enthusiasm and a grace that Miller begins her study with the remark that
are decidedly alluring Fishing is, after all, a “To study them intelligently we have even now
serious business sometimes -as all can attest first to divest ourselves of the old-time notion
who have seen stout gentlemen solemnly making that birds — and beasts as well — are radically
casts over a grass plot in a city park miles from different from ourselves, that in place of the
any water; and this side of the art is never reason which governs, or should govern, our
absent from these pages, though not with the conduct, they possess only a blind instinct.”
same lack of humor. The book is profusely Mr. Burroughs thinks that the idea of the
illustrated, every fish discussed having had his individuality of birds and animals has been
portrait taken by an artist of repute; in addi- greatly over-emphasized. He considers that
tion, there are many reproduced instantaneous
* LEAF AND TENDRIL. By John Burroughs. Boston: Hough.
photographs, some of them actually showing the ton, Mifflin & Co.
fish leaping after a strike.
A Contribution to the Study of
the Bird as he is in Life. By Olive Thorne Miller. Boston:
Mr. Edward Breck's book, “ The Way of the Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
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what is true of one member of a species is admits that evil follows good as its shadow ; it
“practically true of all the others." Mrs. is “ inseparable from the constitution of things.”
Miller quotes with approval from “ A Son of Yet still he is content, coming to this cheerful
the Marshes" a quite contrary opinion : “A conclusion : “I would gladly chant a pæan for
practical naturalist knows that all animals vary; the world as I find it. What a mighty inter-
and you will find as much difference, compara- esting place to live in ! If I had my life to live
tively speaking, in the sizes and dispositions of over again, and had my choice of celestial abodes,
a nest of young birds, or a litter of animals, as I am sure I should take this planet, and I should
you will in a family of human beings.
choose these men and women for my
friends and
Mrs. Miller upholds the theory of animal companions.” MAY ESTELLE COOK.
“altruism," of the education of the young by
their parents -- and even by their older brothers
and sisters, -and of sympathy and self-sacrifice;
while Mr. Burroughs turns a skeptical ear to the
AN ORNITHOLOGIST AT SEA.*
stories which apparently prove such theories.
It is rather discouraging when two such authen It is fortunate for science that the Earl of
tic naturalists show by their disagreement that Crawford is a sufferer from chronic rheumatism
Nature's fine print with regard to animal psy- and asthma. We are not altogether sure that it
chology has not yet been deciphered. But is not fortunate for the Earl himself ; at least
let us have patience, even though the study he informs us that the impossibility of remaining
seems long; for when we have learned how far to face the cold and damp of English winters has
animals are controlled by inherited impulses, been the cause of his wanderings,
of voyages
and how far by reason, we shall have begun the which have led him to many little-known shores,
solution of the problem with regard to man and given him innumerable experiences which
himself.
any man might envy. In 1902 he was preparing
Mrs. Miller's book has to do with birds only, to go round the world in his splendid yacht, the
and collects much evidence from eminent natu “ Valhalla,” when it was suggested to him that
ralists with regard to these disputed points. It he really ought to bring back something for the
will be a valuable defense for those who uphold British Museum. Being himself a trustee of
the same theories, though for pure delight in the that institution, he naturally regarded the idea
reading one cannot help grudging the pages that with favor, and as a means of carrying it out
are thus taken from the writer's record of her took steps to add a naturalist to his party.
own discoveries.
Thus it happened that Mr. Michael J. Nicoll
The scope of Mr. Burroughs's book is broader, made three voyages in the “ Valhalla," and
including much on the general subject of Nature wrote the book which is now before us.
study, with specific references to plants, animals, The work is not, and makes no pretense to
birds
and men.
To this are added some self-be, a classic of travel, like Wallace's “ Malay
revealing statements of his own philosophy. If Archipelago or Darwin's “ Beagle.” It is
Mr. Burroughs should not write another book merely a pleasantly written account of the
may
the fear
prove
unfounded! — we shall have writer's experiences, accompanied by many ex-
in Leaf and Tendril” the summary of his belief cellent pictures of scenery and birds. There
on many great questions. With him, the study are no important generalizations or philosophical
of " fine print " has not led to the foot-note habit observations, no noteworthy contributions to
of mind, but to the developing and correlation of geography or sociology, no ambitious attempts
thought. His philosophy is of the wholesome at word painting. There is, instead, a simple
and kindly sort which we like to think belongs realism which permits the reader to accompany
to those who live much out-of-doors. He has the author in thought to the various remote
practised and approved the simple life — the islands visited, to see them more or less as he
“ direct and immediate contact with things, with saw them, and to search with him for the rare
the false wrappings torn away.” He has worked and new birds so many of them harbored. We
the divine soil," and learned from it that“ the approach a remote island in the Atlantic or the
true inwardness of this gross visible world tran Pacific. It has, perhaps, never been visited by
scends anything we have dreamed of super- any naturalist; or if so visited, only long ago
terrestrial bodies." He has found “ a God in and for a short time. As its rocky shores
the common, the near, always present, always
* THREE VOYAGES OF A NATURALIST. By M.J. Nicoll. Illus-
active, always creating the world anew." He
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are all
appear on the horizon, we wonder what birds
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF TRAVEL.*
and other creatures may
live
upon it. Nearly
all such islands have peculiar isolated species, The author of "The Log of the · Laura' in Polar
found nowhere else in the world. Coming nearer, Seas,” Mrs. Bettie Fleischmann Holmes, may well
we see vegetation ; that looks promising. Can congratulate herself on the mechanical make-up of
we land? There is a heavy sea on, and the
her volume. The University Press of Cambridge
surf breaks noisily upon the beach. Sometimes
has recently been exhibiting some fine specimens of
the printer's craft, and this book is not the least
it proves necessary to go away without landing,
beautiful it has produced. The paper is hand-
leaving the prospective discoveries to some more
made from an Italian mill; the type is the exellent
fortunate time and man; but usually a way is
“ Bodoni” face, designed and used exclusively by
found to get to shore, and then the hunt begins. the University Press; and the illustrations — photo-
Is there
any land bird ? If so, it is practically gravure prints from untouched negatives
certain to be new. The peak must be climbed, of superlative merit. The half-leather binding, too,
and the forests examined, or something will be is pleasing and serviceable. The sub-title of Mrs.
missed. Thus we are led on, until we learn of
Holmes's volume, “A Hunting Cruise from Tromso,
success or failure, and the return to the ship, Norway, to Spitsenbergen, the Polar Ice of Green-
always a little regretfully and too soon.
land, and the island of Jan Mayen, in the summer
In the course of the three voyages, eleven
of 1906,” very adequately describes the course of
the “ Laura" in the far North Seas. For eleven
entirely new birds were obtained, all on islands.
weeks the party cruised about in search of the pic-
In addition, many interesting observations were
turesque, and more especially for the big and little
made on little-known species, and some good game which the Arctic regions afford. The reader
material was collected in other groups of ani may incline to smile at the author's tale of the dis-
mals. Thus on the island of Aldabra, north of comforts encountered, when he reads of the com-
Madagascar, the very rare Abbott's Ibis, known pleteness of the outfit provided by the leader of the
from no other place, was found. Mr. Nicoll company, Colonel Max Fleischmann of Cincinnati ;
was very anxious to obtain a photograph, and
but it should be remembered that the ice was
approached a
heavier and the conditions generally worse in the
of them
group very cautiously with
his camera. The precaution was needless; the
summer of 1906 in the regions visited than they
birds, not accustomed to the wiles of man, were
had been for several years past. By far the most
entertaining part of the book deals with the hunts
not only fearless, “ but so inquisitive that they for the great Polar bears. As thorough-going sports-
waded across the pool, and, coming close up to men, bent on the quest of game, the party cannot
the camera, began to peck at the tripod. We be blamed for any lack of sentiment; yet the calm
drove them back to the rocks, but before a brutality manifested in the following account of a
plate could be exposed they were back again killing is, happily, not often encountered. A mother
inspecting the legs of the camera ; it was only bear and her two cubs were seen,
by repeated threats — a novel experience for “The old one, followed by her young, going with her great
them and for us
ambling strides over the floes, jumping into and swimming
- that we could keep them far
rapidly across all intervening water. When we
enough away to enable us to get a series of
*The LOG OF THE “LAURA" IN POLAR SEAs. By Bettie
photographs in proper perspective” (p. 121).
Fleischmann Holmes. Illustrated. Cambridge: The University
The result, as presented to us in the book, is a
TO THE TOP OF THE CONTINENT. By Frederick A. Cook, M.D.
couple of the finest bird pictures we have ever
Illustrated. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
seen.
ICE-BOUND HEIGHTS OF THE MUSTAGH. By Fanny Bullock
Workman and William Hunter Workman, Illustrated. New
We cannot take the space to tell here about
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
the visit to Easter Island, and the new bird PRESENT-DAY JAPAN. By Augusta M. Campbell Davidson.
which has been seen there but could not be
Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
FROM WEST TO EAST. By Sir Hubert Jerningham. Illus-
obtained ; about Terra del Fuego and the trated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
steamer-duck; about Pitcairn Island and the
AROUND THE WORLD IN A YEAR. By George L. Carlisle. Illus-
trated. New York: Baker & Taylor Co.
descendants of the mutineers ; about the sea BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CAR. By
serpent, which was actually seen and is graphi-
Thomas D. Murphy. Illustrated. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
By T. Russell Sullivan. Illustrated.
cally illustrated ; and many other things equally Boston: Houghton, Miffin & Co.
exciting. Let it suffice to commend the book PANAMA AND BACK. By Henry T. Byford, M.D. Illustrated.
Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company.
equally to those who are obliged to make their
THREE WEEKS IN HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. By John U.
voyages in an arm-chair, and to those who have Higinbotham. Illustrated. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co.
CEYLON, THE PARADISE OF ADAM. By Caroline Corner.
the time and means to travel abroad in a cor-
Illustrated. New York: John Lane Company.
poreal capacity.
IN AND AROUND THE ISLE OF PURBECK. By Ida Woodward.
T. D. A. COCKERELL.
Illustrated. New York: John Lane Company,
were
Press.
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many times.”
within range cameras were first brought into play, and then a distinct individuality, and he will be forced to recon-
Colonel Fleischmann with a well-directed shot hit the larger
struct his pigmy ideas of the vastness of the world.
bear, which tumbled back into the water. She was hit in
the side, the bullet ranging through her lungs and passing
Ordinary standards of heights and distances are in-
close to the heart. Dr. Holmes and Mr. Learmonth each adequate in estimating the immensities of these
brought down one of the cubs. They rolled about, growling Titanic mountains of the Mustagh.
“ This fact,”
loudly, and staggered and crawled fully one hundred yards
say the authors, “is accounted for by the much
after being hit. One was in advance, but the second man-
aged to reach him, and they lay one on the top of the other
greater altitudes and dimensions of the Himalayan
when found."
snow-world, and by the wonderfully clear atmosphere
The author fails in breathing a distinct personality
which causes distant points to appear near.
The
into her account, a failure, no doubt, which may
mind is also dazed and overwhelmed by the immen-
be a virtue in a log-book.
sity, and fails to comprehend it.” Mr. and Mrs.
Workman, however, know this snow-world; they
After failing in his attempt to climb Mount
have lived in it and have absorbed something of its
McKinley, in 1903, Dr. Frederick A. Cook came to
the following conclusion:
atmosphere. Hence, their volume, though uninter-
esting in many parts, gives the reader a proper con-
“Mt. McKinley offers a unique challenge to mountain-
eers, but its ascent will prove a prodigious task. It is the
ception of the vastness and remoteness of these giants
loftiest mountain in North America, the steepest mountain of the earth. They have been fortunate, too, in
in the world, and the most arctic of all great mountains. The their photographic work ; no such satisfactory pic-
area of this mountain is far inland, in the heart of a most
tures of mountain scenery have been published since
difficult and trackless country, making the transportation of
men and supplies a very arduous task. The thick under-
Mr. Douglas Freshfield's “ Round Kangchenjunga'
brush, the endless marshes, and the myriads of vicious mos-
was issued in 1904. We wish, however, that the
quitos bring to the traveller the troubles of the tropics. The authors had used their pens more in describing these
necessity for fording and swimming icy streams, the almost
impressive scenes. Our complaint only indicates
perpetual cold rains, the camps in high altitudes of glaciers
in snows and violent storms, bring to the traveller all of the
that the writers were more scientific than literary
discomforts of the arctic explorer. The prospective conqueror
in their pursuit; and as mountain climbers bent on
of America's culminating peaks will be amply rewarded, increasing the world's knowledge of scientific geo-
but he must be prepared to withstand the tortures of the
graphical data, they have succeeded to an unusual
torrids, the discomforts of the north pole seeker, combined
with the hardships of, the Matterhorn ascents multiplied
degree.
It has been well said that no one knows anything
But on September 16, 1906, Dr. Cook, with a about the Japanese except the Japanese themselves-
single companion, Edward Barrille, accomplished and they will not tell. Miss Augusta M. Campbell
the ascent and stood on the top of the continent,” Davidson, in her volume entitled “Present Day
at an altitude of 20,390 feet. The record of Dr. Japan,” verifies this saying by citing her many hope-
Cook's two expeditions is interestingly, even thrill less attempts to exchange ideas with the Japanese.
ingly, told in the volume entitled “To the Top of “As a rule, I observe, they do not care to tell you too much
the Continent.” Hunters, prospectors, adventurers,
about their country's past. They do not mind a picturesque
geographers, and the casual reader will each find
legend, or a story of a grand battle, but they do not like you
to know too much about their constitutional history, and it
food for his particular appetite in this well-told nar-
is well to betray superfluous information on points of this
rative. Excellent photographic illustrations, many kind. There is a desire on the part of a good many of them
drawings and maps, appendices written by various to glide rather gently over the fact of the nonentity of the
members of the expeditions (giving accounts of the
Mikado during so many centuries (to take one instance), so
as to give an air of antiquity to existing institutions. ... I
natives, the fauna and flora, the geology, and the am told by those who can read them that the same tendency
routes of proposed railways in Alaska), and an is to be discovered in the text-books of his used in the
excellent frontispiece in color from a painting by
schools.”
Mr. Russell W. Porter, enhance the value and
“ If you could manage to get behind the polite phrases of
the most educated of Japanese you would find a profound
attractiveness of the volume.
conviction of the superiority of his country to every other to
Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman and Mr. William be at the root of his views on all subjects whatsoever. He
Hunter Workman, in their book entitled “Ice-Bound
certainly speaks to you very humbly about his country and
Heights of the Mustagh," show in detail what a seri-
very respectfully about yours. Everything in Japan, accord-
ing to him, is poor and inferior, everything in your country
ous sport mountain-climbing may become. The story all that is desirable. You may say as much as you like to
of their climbs in the ice-world of the Himalaya is a try to convince him that there are certain things in your
record of scientific observations and discoveries com-
country that you do not particularly admire, and that you
prehensible only to those who are masters of the
really do think much of certain things in his. He does not
in the least mean what he says, and you may talk to the end
ce of geography, and of interest only to those of time without convincing him that you mean what you
who have some knowledge of mountain-climbing, or say. ... There is not a Japanese alive who does not think
those who wish to enlarge their information regard-
his country worth any six of the countries of the West, but
ing the physiography of the world. Here and there
there is none who would be rude enough to say so. They
act on this view all the same, and it is this, contrasted with
in the book the general reader will find some ordinary their polite verbal depreciation, which gets them the character
statement of fact that will interest him. He will find of being such unmitigated humbugs."
pleasure in reading the descriptions of the many These quotations will serve to show that the author
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“ It is an
one.
of Japanese psychology. Her knowledge, moreover, although admitting at the same time that his view
is not mere snap observation, but is founded upon a may have been perverted by a severe attack of the
study of the ethical forces and the national religion itch while in the Mikado's country. Among the
of the Japanese, their daily goings in and comings places which caught Mr. Carlisle's fancy and tickled
out, — their social life, and their amusements. his humor, Carlsbad holds first place.
Though in no sense a heavy discourse, this revised expensive place. Others go there for their health,
edition of a series of letters home to English friends but the hotel proprietors do not." A mud-bath ex-
is complete in giving a wide and varied view of perience leads to some highly humorous remarks on
Japanese life. In brief, there are few books about the efficacy of this operation in relation to running
Japan more illuminating and entertaining than this for office in America. No country escapes without
some gibe from the author's facile pen. The judi-
The principal motive of Sir Hubert Jerningham's cious reader may be grieved at Mr. Carlisle's irrev-
trip around the world was a desire to see Japan. erent tone, but he will find many compensations in
His account of the journey, as told in the volume the shrewd humor and the keen interpretations of
entitled “From West to East,” is cons
onsequently de-
the New York barrister.
voted largely to the Land of the Rising Sun. More
No one contemplating a motor trip through En-
than half of the volume recounts his visits to the
gland, Wales, or Scotland should neglect a cursory
principal Japanese cities. Each city was evidently
reading of Mr. Thomas D. Murphy's “British High-
viewed for some single interesting fact or experi-
ways and By-ways from a Motor Car.” The volume
ence illustrative of the general course of Japanese bears a distinctive value in one respect: it recites
life. Thus, Osaka invites a discourse on wealth, the attractions of some of the lesser-known villages
Kyota on Old Japan, Nara on bronzes, Nagoya on and towns seldom visited by the “quick-tripper."
wrestling, and Yokohoma on Japanese art. Nikko Ludlow, for example, though known to students of
interests Sir Hubert because of its temples, Tokyo literary history as the place where Milton's “Comus”
because of its educational ideas, and Kobe because
was first presented, is seldom mentioned in accounts
of its progressiveness. Japanese religion, too,
of tours in Britain. Mr. Murphy, however, is
everywhere attracted Sir Hubert's attention and
almost extravagant in his praise of the village.
criticism. Mukden and Port Arthur were visited,
“After visiting hundreds of historic places during our
and the famous battles which took place there are summer's pilgrimage, the memory of Ludlow, with its quaint,
fought over again in detail, — though the author unsullied, old-world air, and its magnificent church, whose
disclaims all practical and theoretical knowledge of
melodious chime of bells lingers with us yet, its great ruined
castle, redolent with romance, and its surrounding country
warfare. The rest of the world receives scant
of unmatched interest and beauty, is still the pleasantest of
treatment in the volume. San Francisco, Chicago, all. If we could re-visit only one of the English towns it
Niagara, and New York are dismissed in the short would be Ludlow."
space of one chapter. An appendix gives Admiral Should any prospective traveller through Britain be
Togo's “ Report of the Battles of the Sea of Japan" fortunate enough to make his trip in a motor car,
and the French text of the Treaty of Portsmouth. he will find Mr. Murphy's book an excellent guide ;
A reading of this book leads one to look upon
the the
maps of England and Scotland are suggestive
author's report of his six months' journeying as a road guides, and the incidental information about
sort of disjecta membra, written by a man who is hotels and garages will save many moments of
capable of more valuable and entertaining writing worry. The volume contains numerous and excel-
than is contained in the present volume.
lent illustrations, reproduced both in color and tint.
Twenty-five
years of drudgery at the New York Seven sketches of travel in Italy, Sicily, and
bar brought Mr. George L. Carlisle to the necessity Greece make up the contents of Mr. T. R. Sullivan's
of choosing between breaking down or breaking “Lands of Summer.' “Spring-Time with Theo-
away. Selecting the latter course, Mr. Carlisle took critus,” the first chapter, has but little to do with
a year off and started on a trip around the world. spring-time, and still less with the bucolic poet; it
Habits of activity with the pen would not, however, really recounts the author's mishaps on a May-Day
allow him to rest entirely, so he wrote an account at Catania in Sicily, when he was held up in this
of his journey. The resulting volume, entitled miserable little village by labor-union decrees and
“ Around the World in a Year,” would merit but strikes, thus upsetting his plans and retarding his
little attention were it not for the author's genial progress toward Greece. In Greece, too, the un-
good sense, his freshness of observation, his odd expected and the distressing were always happen-
turns of speech, his delightful scorn of all things ing, — so much so that Mr. Sullivan coined the
praised by those more scholastically inclined, and expression, “In Greece expect the unexpected."
his almost sinful disrespect for venerable objects, The author agrees with many other travellers that
both sacred and profane. It is not given to every the road from Corinth to Patras, along the Corinthian
writer to speak in light terms of the ancient mummy Gulf, with views “across the blue waves to Helicon
of Rameses II., to characterize the mountains of and Parnassas, up the bay of Itea to the white gleam
Greece as “a fine lot of old timers,” and to insist of Delphi,” is probably the finest railway journey
that the beauties of Japan have been over-praised in the world. Yet he chooses to dismiss the prospect


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and to disappoint our hopes by the mere assertion. Belgium,” may be judged from this specimen day's
But the other chapters of the book are less disappoint- | itinerary: “ July 27 : Left Alkmaar 8:25 A. M.;
ing. The reader will enjoy the restful accounts of arrived Hoorn 8:45 A. M.; left Hoorn 9:56 A. M.;
the author's journeyings in Tuscany, of the trips from arrived Enkhuisen 10:25 A. M.; boat to Stavoren,
Poppi, the description of Camaldoli and of Abetone 1:39 P. M.; arrived Stavoren 2:49 P. M.; left Stavoren
“ the finest spot on earth.” No less interesting is 2:57 P. M.; arrived Sneek 3:24 P. M.; left Sneek
the chapter entitled “The Centenary of Alfieri at 7:12 P. M.; arrived Leeuwarden 7:53 P. M.” Such
Asti.” As this celebration happily coincided in 1903 a day must not be taken as wholly typical, however,
with that of Asti's movable autumnal feast, the vint for Mr. Higinbotham was more leisurely at times,
age, Mr. Sullivan not only witnessed Salvini's last spending one whole day in Amsterdam, another day
performances in the dramatist's greater plays, but in Brussels, and a third day in Antwerp. Although
also enjoyed seeing the “continuous procession of the author evidently travelled with an accurately set
the white oxen, bulls, or cows, yoked in pairs," cir watch in one hand and a “rundreise” time-table in
cling round the great square of Asti,“ dragging loads the other, he made excellent use of his eyes. Of
of purple grapes along the Corso and its tributaries, humor Mr. Higinbotham has his due share, as wit-
to every courtyard in town." The romantically ness these examples: “At Assen we are scheduled
inclined reader will find pleasure in the chapter for three hours in a fifteen-minute town.”
6 The
entitled “The Wraith of a Ducal City," telling the Dutch have a dry sense of humor. Their new
story of how Duke Vespasian Gonzaga built at church in Amsterdam was built in 1408. I asked
Sabbioneta a marvellous city, which he intended the concierge if he thought the plastering thoroughly
should be only a lesser Athens. This Kubla Khan dry. They have also an exaggerated notion of the
caused streets, squares, pleasure-grounds, palaces, speed of an American pedestrian. If they tell you
theatres, churches, colonnades, and triumphal arches that anything is within fifteen minutes' walk, and
to be planned and constructed with amazing swift you reach it in half an hour, you have probably
ness and incredible beauty. But when he died, in broken a record.” Of the family which owns the
1590, the people whom he had forced to live in his house at Hougomont on the battlefield of Waterloo,
capital city fled from the gilded environment, and Mr. Higinbotham writes : “They plant little bullets
to-day Sabbioneta stands desolate, “magnificent, and souvenirs. These are sown in the fall, and the
with empty courts and grass-grown streets, fortified winter snows and spring rains bring them to per-
against all but neglect and the treacherous enmity of fection. Early in the summer they are ploughed
time. Her glory had departed; and no man ever up and sold to the credulous." Mr. Higinbotham's
dreamed of reviving it.” Text, pictures, and binding observations are so acute and well-balanced that we
are all of a spirit in this dainty book, making it an should like to have fuller records of his journeys.
unusually pleasant volume for reading and possession.
Those readers of books of travel who enjoy diluted
The little volume entitled “Panama and Back" facts of strange life in fictional form will find a book
recounts Dr. Henry T. Byford's trip to the Pan to their liking in Miss Caroline Corner's volume
American Medical Congress held at Panama in bearing the title “Ceylon: The Paradise of Adam."
1904. His story, however, mentions only a reason Having resided in the island for seven years, the
able proportion of the events which occurred at the author writes of the many peculiar institutions,
meeting of the medical men, but contains much of customs, and manners of the Ceylonese. Much of
the physician's personal experience. The result of the book is written in dialogue, with comments in
his observation is that, after trying everything, solution, — a method of composition which calls the
seeing everything, and discussing everything with reader's imagination into play, but which does not
learned and unlearned persons, he is convinced that entirely satisfy any desire he may have for an ex-
everything in Panama is wrong or distorted, and tended explanation of Ceylonese life. If we are to
everything or nearly everything in Chicago is right believe the records of this volume, life in Ceylon is
or nearly right. His summary of his trip is re more interesting and diverting than in any other
vealed in the comments, “Very pleasant, but warm part of the world. Our own view is that Miss Corner
and sunshiny,” and “It was a great success and I would have pleased the general reader more if she
got back safely.” The worthy physician is never at had been more expository and less fictional in her
a loss for a pun. In commenting on a bull-fight, he narrative.
says: “It was neither a bull fight nor a bully fight,
The “ Isle" of Purbeck, described in Miss Ida
it was merely a fight between bulls and bullies.”
Woodward's volume entitled “In and Around the
Those who appreciate this sort of word-play will
Isle of Purbeck,” is in reality a peninsula, situated
find a plethora of it in Dr. Byford's book. The
at the south-east corner of the county of Dorset, and
more diligent reader will occasionally find some per- covering an area of one hundred and twenty square
tinent and sensible remarks on affairs in Panama,
miles. To the local English historian, the geologist,
especially on the canal.
the antiquarian, and the seeker of the picturesque,
The rapid pace of Mr. John U. Higinbotham's this area is of importance; but for the general reader
dash through the Netherlands, as recorded in his it has little interest. Celt, Saxon, Roman, English,
volume entitled “Three Weeks in Holland and and even Phænician, have left their trail in the


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an
famous Kimmeridge clay of Purbeck; and the
govern themselves.
The central political situation
English Kings, from the time of mythical Arthur of the present novel is found in a compaign for the
to Charles I., have ever held Purbeck in high honor governorship — a campaign in which the old order
as a place renowned for hunting. In its earliest days triumphs, but which reveals the handwriting on the
it was the scene of many miracles worked by now wall. The love interest is supplied by the daughter
forgotten worthies of the church. In these later days of the railroad magnate and the son of his trusted
it is famous for its clay, which is shipped to all parts corporation counsel.
corporation counsel. These are of the new genera-
of the world. But above all things, it is best known tion, and both have to face the problem of a duty
for its varied and beautiful scenery; hills, dales, divided between the promptings of filial piety and
woodlands, marshes, rugged coasts, and valleys give the clear conviction that their respective fathers are
a charm which "age cannot wither nor custom stale.” hopelessly in the wrong. This has long been a
For this reason, Miss Woodward's account offers favorite situation with our novelists of tendency, and
unusual opportunities to the artist, Mr. John W. G. Mr. Churchill uses it with striking success. Thus
Bond, whose series of thirty-six plates in color forms far we have said nothing of Mr. Crewe, whom we
a most attractive feature of the volume.
should
expect
from the title of the story to be the
H. E. COBLENTZ. chief figure, which he certainly is not, although he
is an interesting one. This gentleman is a pompous
and self-sufficient millionaire with a sense of duty
(about equally divided between his own important
RECENT FICTION.*
self and the public), who magnanimously decides to
Readers who liked “Coniston” will undoubtedly
offer his services to the commonwealth. He becomes
like “Mr. Crewe's Career” for the same reasons.
first a legislator, then a candidate for the governor-
They may register a faint objection to it on the
ship. He is so thickly encased in the armor of con-
score that it is a little too obviously the same sort of
ceit that he cannot dream of being taken at a less
thing, but that does not greatly matter, since it is a
serious estimate than his own, and becomes easy
thoroughly readable and interesting story, and em-
mark" for the predatory politicians who flatter and
bodies a wholesome lesson. The scene is the same
bleed him at the same time. His is the most care-
as in “Coniston,” but the time is a generation later. fully studied character in the novel, which perhaps
Jethro Bass has become a dim memory in the politi-
justifies the title; but the leading interest centres
cal world, and his old-fashioned methods have been
about the others. Mr. Churchill, as we all know,
superseded by better organized forms of corruption.
is no outsider when it comes to writing about New
The empire has taken the place of the rival princi- Hampshire politics, and his satirical and vivid ac-
palities, to adopt Mr. Churchill's imagery, and the
count of the gubernatorial campaign shows in many
great company of the Northeastern Railroads (can ways that the writer has been in the midst of the
this be the Boston and Maine ?), having consolidated
fray. His book is too long, is rather loosely put
the old warring interests, now rules the State of New
together, and the manner of its setting forth is
Hampshire in accordance with the most approved
almost slovenly at times, but it is a story that has
modern corporation principles. But even this new
vitality, is informed by a fine idealism, and
pos-
empire, in Mr. Churchill's sanguine view, is totter-
sessed of an interest that does not pall.
ing to decay, and although we do not witness its
“King Spruce" is a novel that takes us to the Maine
actual downfall in his pages, we may discern in the
woods under the guidance of a man who knows them,
not distant future such an awakening of the civic
not only as a camper and nature-lover, but also as
conscience as shall restore to the people the right to
one acquainted with the practical business of lum-
bering and conversant with its highly specialized
* MR. CREWE's CAREER. By Winston Churchill. New York:
dialect. There is too much of this technical speech
KING SPRUCE, By Holman Day. New York: Harper &
for easy reading, but we do not need to understand
all the terms employed to enjoy the tale, which is
OLD WIVES FOR NEW. By David Graham Phillips. New both virile and exciting. The hero is a college man,
York: D. Appleton & Co.
The Sixti SPEED. By E. J. Rath. New York: Moffat,
which would seem to be against him were the
Yard & Co.
unfavorable impression produced by the fact not
THE BARRIER. By Rex Beach. New York: Harper &
promptly modified by the information that his chief
Brothers.
FENNEL AND RUE. By William Dean Howells. New York:
distinction had been won upon the football field.
Harper & Brothers.
He finds teaching in the country school a little too
A PRINCESS AND ANOTHER. By Stephen Jenkins. New York:
tame for his taste, and sets out to beard the lumber
B. W. Huebsch.
PRISONERS OF CHANCE. By Randall Parrish. Chicago: A. O.
magnate in his forest lair, having previously won
McClurg & Co.
the affections of the magnate's daughter. His peace-
WILLIAM JORDAN, JUNIOR. By J. C. Snaith. New York:
ful overtures having been met with scorn and con-
Mottat, Yard & Co.
THE AVENGER. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Boston: Little,
tumely, he proceeds to make himself really respected
Brown & Co.
by starting a rival enterprise, and, incidentally, by
THE FAIR MOON OF BATH. By Elizabeth Ellis. New York:
applying the methods of scientific forestry to his
Dodd, Mead & Co.
THE HEART OF A CHILD. By Frank Danby. New York:
work. He conquers the bully who acts as foreman of
The Macmillan Co.
the enemy, dynamites the dam which gives the enemy
The Macmillan Co.
Brothers.


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a monopoly of water-rights, and outwits the organ- pirate in very up-to-date fashion. He invents, or
ization all along the line. King Spruce then comes somebody invents for him, a new motor which will
to terms, and the hero marries the fair daughter propel a boat at the speed of more than a hundred
with her father's blessing. Mr. Holman Day, the miles an hour. His boat is secretly built and
author of this book, is clearly an enthusiastic cham- equipped, a trusty crew is secured, and he starts out
pion of the cause of our wasted forests, but the cause to plunder the yachts of the wealthy. Audacity is
is unobtrusively urged, which is perhaps as effective his weapon, for all brutal arms are forbidden, and
a way of urging it as the hammer-and-tongs method his lightning-like appearances and disappearances
resorted to by others. That it is a cause of the ut strike terror into the hearts of the owners of the
most importance to our national welfare will hardly pleasure squadron. The matter becomes so serious
be doubted by any well-informed American. that the United States navy takes a hand, trying in
“Old Wives for New,” the latest invention of Mr. vain to capture the bold buccaneer, and at last even
David Graham Phillips, is a novel with a prologue. international complications are produced by his
The prologue is a summer day's idyl in southern deeds. A part of his equipment being a Marconi
Indiana, the tale of a boy and a girl falling reck-outfit, he reads all the wireless messages that are sent
lessly in love before either of them has learned any concerning him, and thus eludes capture. Huge re-
thing of the realities of life. The sensuous note is wards are offered, at first for him, and then to him,
forced, but the effect comes close to being poetical. with the promise of immunity, but he prefers to
In the long-winded tale that follows, poetry has dis remain the terror of the seas. But an imminent
appeared, its place being taken by a particularly sor war between the United States and Japan arouses
did sort of prose. The boy has become a man, and his patriotism, and he decides to surrender, in order
even a magnate, while the girl whom he had made that he may place his motor at the service of the
his wife has grown fat and slovenly. The author government. What is done to him after that we are
leaves nothing to our imagination on this score, for not informed, for the closing passage of a perfunctory
he describes the reasons for the husband's estrange- love story takes the place of the final explanation
ment with disgusting detail. Presently, the man goes that we are awaiting.
off for a summer's outing in the northern wilderness, To “The Spoilers” succeeds “The Barrier," a
and there meets a woman whose delicacy and refine second story of Alaska much like the first. The
ment are in striking contrast with the vulgarity and scene is a trading-post which a lucky "strike” trans-
dowdiness of his wife. This woman, incidentally, is forms into a mining camp; the hero is an army
the proprietor of a fashionable dressmaking establish officer who for the first time brings governmental
ment in New York. The development of the story authority into the region; the heroine is a dusky
deals with the man's efforts to obtain a divorce, and maiden supposed to be a half-breed but in reality of
with his wife's jealous opposition to the scheme. pure
white parentage; the miscellaneous characters
Eventually, she is forced to consent, after which she include two “bad men” and a big-hearted French
resorts to “beauty-doctors,” renews her youth, and Canadian who loves the heroine in secret, saves her
succumbs to the wiles of the treacherous and fortune- by a daring exploit, and resigns her to his rival.
seeking secretary of her former husband. The latter, Fighting goes on interniittently throughout the tale,
instead of seeking at once the woman he loves, aims and red blood courses in the veins of the men, some
at first to protect her name from connection with the of it being spilled from time to time. It is all good
scandalous situation. This he accomplishes by the thrilling conventional melodrama, written by a man
ingenious device of persuading a girl of easy virtue with an eye for actuality and a sense of dramatic
to go with him to Paris, and by making the most fitness.
ostentatious display of their association. The dear “Fennel and Rue” is hardly more than a novel-
public is thus diverted from its scent, and the reputa ette in volume, and rather less than that in sub-
tion of the dressmaker is saved from blemish. It stance. Mr. Howells seems to have surpassed his
would appear that the author expects us to consider own previous efforts in spinning a considerable
this a most praiseworthy performance, and quite story out of a trifling incident. A young novelist
enough to condone the man's offenses. It would be receives a pathetic letter from an unknown young
useless to try to find a moral in this incoherent fab woman, takes it in good faith, and afterwards learns
rication, which is one of the most revolting books, in that it was only a trick. His pride is hurt, and he
both incident and general plan, that we have ever now takes the matter seriously in another way,
read.
writing the young woman a rather brutal letter.
For a book not to be taken seriously in any liter- | This is the prelude. The sequel brings the two to-
ary sense, without either form or style, but having gether in a country house, and he learns that his
the characteristics of surprise and excitement that letter has had serious consequences, for the young
go to the making of an entertaining yarn, we may woman is just recovering from the serious nervous
say a word of mild commendation in behalf of “The illness which it occasioned. She is also a particu-
Sixth Speed,” by Mr. E. J. Rath. It tells of an
larly nice girl. The conclusion would be obvious
ingenious chauffeur who wearies of his menial ser were we dealing with another than Mr. Howells.
vice, calls his millionaire employer “a damn fool,” The actual conclusion is whimsical, and anything
thereby separating himself from his job, and turns but flattering to the hero's conceit. It is all very


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charming and slyly humorous in the working out, is a cruel and passionate creature, who somehow
but cannot be said to engage any serious interest. reminds us of the “She” of Mr. Rider Haggard's
It is some time since we have read a story of the invention. The prisoners are condemned to be sacri-
American Revolution, and a fairly good one is now ficed, but contrive to escape after many exciting
offered us by Mr. Stephen Jenkins, who calls it adventures, including the experience of a convulsion
“A Princess and Another.” The hero appears to us of nature that exterminates their savage captors, as
when a child, brought to New York by a French well as the Puritan and the Frenchman. The latter
woman whose services are sold in payment for her is a poor thing, and we are not sorry to lose him,
passage. The child is not her own, but the secret particularly as his wife is clearly predestined for
of his birth remains concealed for many years. The Geoffrey, and has loved him all the time. So the
young woman is presently wooed and won by a two survivors, being hurriedly united in marriage by
Quaker farmer of the neighborhood, and the boy a French priest conveniently produced for the pur-
thus finds a happy home among respectable hard pose, start on their journey back to civilization, and
working people. His education is provided for, and the story ends. It is an excellent example of the
at the outbreak of the war he is a fine young
fellow sort of romantic narrative which Mr. Parrish has
in early twenties. He has an adventurous career,
cultivated with marked success, and
upon
which he
not becoming an ardent partisan of either cause, but has brought to bear the fruits of much serious his-
serving for a time, more by accident than from torical investigation.
conviction, in the tory ranks. He gets into trouble Readers of current fiction have learned to expect
with the colonial forces, being found within their a book by Mr. J. C. Snaith to be something out of
lines and taken for a spy, although his errand is of the ordinary. “William Jordan, Junior” certainly
private concern only. Things look dark for him at fulfils this expectation, for a stranger book at
first, but the devotion of the heroine produces the once puzzling and fascinating
has not often come
evidence that clears him at the critical moment, and
our way
The hero is introduced to us as a boy,
at the same time he discovers his long-lost father in the sole companion of his father, who is a venerable
one of the French officers taking part in his trial. scholar gaining a scant livelihood as the owner of a
The story is mildly interesting, rather more roman second-hand book shop in London. The boy has
tic than real in plot and characterization, but is had almost literally no contact with the real world,
anchored with reasonable security to the essential and his mind has been fed upon the ancient classics
facts of the historical situation.
to the exclusion of almost everything else. Greek
“Prisoners of Chance," by Mr. Randall Parrish, is more familiar to him than his native English, and
is a romance of adventure based upon the history of the only ideals he knows have been shaped by com-
Louisiana in the later eighteenth century. The time munion with the poets and philosophers of antiquity.
is that of Spanish rule, and the story is set in opera We are called upon to follow the development of
tion by the French attempt of 1768 to regain pos this naïve and sensitive spirit as it is brought into
session of the province. The leaders of the revolt contact with various aspects of common life, from
are captured, sentenced to death, and confined upon the day when the boy first takes his father's hand
a Spanish warship to await their execution. One of to be led out into the world of “street persons” to
the prisoners is a certain Charles de Noyan, married the day when the man, having toiled and suffered
to a French girl whose hand had formerly been sought and felt the springs of sympathy welling up within
by one Geoffrey Benteen, an English adventurer, his soul, lies upon his deathbed, leaving as his legacy
who has spent many years in the wilderness fighting to mankind a marvellous poem the very epic of
Indians and trading in furs. It is Geoffrey who humanity — which has been distilled from his ex-
tells the story, which begins with his arrival in New perience. Four passages of his life are described
Orleans after several years' absence. His former for us with some particularity. First, the period
love learns of his arrival, and appeals to him to save which he spends in a day school for boys, where he
her husband. Being a resourceful man, this task first learns that there is such a thing as brutality in
is accomplished, and the three make their escape the world ; second, the years passed in clerical
together in a boat headed up the great river. When drudgery for a firm of publishers; third, a term of
the Arkansas is reached, they take to that stream, imprisonment for an offence technically criminal
having added to their party a strange companion in although committed from the purest of motives ;
the person of a red-headed Yankee, a puritan and fourth, a season of wanderings, in which con-
preacher, valiant both as fighter and trencher-man, tact with all sorts and conditions of men is alternated
whose language upon all occasions is that of the con with rapt communings with nature. These influ-
venticle. Penetrating to the Ozark region, they come ences, projected upon the background of his child-
upon a strange tribe of natives, by whom they are hood training, are what go to make of him a living
taken captive. These natives, the author would have soul, and are so blended for good and beauty that
us believe, were the last remnant of the mound something like awe takes possession of us as we
builders, a savage race with strange rites and cus watch his dying hours. And to emphasize the ideal
toms. But, strange to say, they are ruled by a white and fantastic character of this creation, the author
queen, a Frenchwoman, who in some unexplained provides for it a setting of the most unsparing real-
manner has gained the ascendancy over them. She ism, illustrated by photographic types of what passes
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for humanity in modern London, made all the more Jacobite Conspiracy is a tenuous affair, and comes
vivid by touches of pungent satire, the representa- to naught, but it supplies an exciting basis for what
tives of actuality in both manners and speech. To is essentially a story of private character and social
the hero, this is all material for spiritual nurture, concern. Miss Ellis is to be congratulated upon her
and his life blossoms as a water-lily from the bosom success in dealing freshly with this well-worn theme.
of a swamp. But no outline can do justice to this How Sally Snape, a child of the slums, becomes
remarkable book. It puts for us in poignant modern Miss Sarita Mainwaring, the idol of the music halls,
terms some of the oldest of questions: What is and after that the happy wife of the still happier
reality? What is the inner meaning of life? What Lord Kidderminster, is circumstantially related in
is the true path of the soul in its quest for happiness ? “ The Heart of a Child." Green eyes, red hair, and
It would be too much to say that the questions are a certain artless grace, seem to have been the causes
answered, but we may perhaps go so far as to say of this soubrette's progress, as described by the lady
that the answers are broadly hinted at. Of this we who writes under the name of “Frank Danby.” The
are sure, that the book is one to love, and one that heroine, we are told, preserves the childish heart in
may act as a leaven upon the spirits that are not all her varied contacts with life, and this is why we
wholly stale, but are still capable of some sort or are bidden to sympathize with “ Kiddie's" infatua-
degree of fermentation.
tion. It is not a bad reason, and is made almost con-
The moral of “The Avenger” appears to be that vincing by the mass of corroborative detail brought
a man who resorts to blackmail, especially if a to bear upon its support. Sally (or Sarita ) is cer-
woman's reputation is at his mercy, puts himself tainly represented to us as a most engaging person,
without the pale of the law, and becomes a legitimate and is, moreover, a very real figure, while her lover,
object of private vengeance. Assassination becomes who appears at first as a “ Johnnie,” grows into
a virtue in such a case, and is duly meted out to two something quite like a man before we take leave of
blackmailers in Mr. Oppenheim's latest novel. The him. The author's realism, as exhibited in her earlier
instrument of justice in this case is a retired army books, has often come near to being disgusting, but
officer of the highest character, and we are given to in the present instance, save for a few touches of vul-
understand that the author considers his conduct garity, it is realism of a good and honest sort. She
wholly praiseworthy. Since that is the point of view has an amazingly minute and sympathetic knowledge
presented, we hardly see why the aforesaid officer of the sort of life she describes, and she uses it, for
should have committed suicide, which seems to be a the most part, discreetly and effectively. The gutter,
weak concession to the bourgeois morality which the the shop, and the variety stage, all contribute to the
novelist scorns. Possibly, however, we are going far effect, and the heroine moves amid this shifting en-
afield in seeking for a moral in a story so obviously vironment as a distinctly individual appearance, and
designed for no higher purpose than that of sensa as a human being whose character wins and holds
tional entertainment. Considered as an invention our respect.
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
merely, the story is neat and effective. The mystery
is carefully guarded, and the factors which lead to
its unravelling are introduced one at a time at dis-
creet intervals. In the outcome it is cleared
up,
and
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there are no loose ends, unless we are still puzzled
to know how the heroine got that latch-key, and why
Two practical Mr. Herman B. Dorner, author of
handbooks for
she turned so pale when told that the lawyer was on
the little manual of 6 Window-
the track of the assassin. Construction is everything gardener. Gardening" (Bobbs-Merrill), is a
in such work as Mr. Oppenheim has chosen to do, teacher as well as a plant-grower, and his book is
and in this respect he is steadily improving. intended not only for the general public but for the
Miss Elizabeth Ellis made her first appearance as
school-room as well. The young folks are appealed
a novelist, if we are not mistaken, about two years to not by means of story but by practical advice in
ago, when her story of “ Barbara Winslow, Rebel” plain and simple language. The book is introduced
called our attention anew to the happenings of by Professor Stanley Coulter of Purdue University,
Monmouth Rebellion and the Bloody Circuit. It who emphasizes the value of nature-study in the
was an amateurish work, but an interesting one that school-room and the extent to which it may be de-
showed marked signs of promise. That the signs veloped by the practice of window-gardening under
were not misleading is made plainly evident by “The the direction of teachers. An introductory chapter
Fair Moon of Bath,” now at hand. This is a tale suggests the probable causes of failure in window-
of the Forty-five, that inexhaustible theme of roman gardening. Following this are chapters on con-
tic interest, and although it does nothing more than tainers, describing the advantages and uses of
has been done a hundred times before, succeeds in different kinds ; potting and re-potting, and trans-
holding our attention closely by its ingenious plot, planting from the garden; soils, their types and
its poetically-conceived love-interest, and its repro- conditions, with formulæ for their preparation ;
duction (in the conventional manner, of course) of watering, the right and wrong ways, and the
the speech and manners of English society in the effects of too much or too little water; fertilizers
days when Nash held sovereignty at Bath. The and their uses ; light, heat, and ventilation; insect
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enemies and their destruction ; propagation by seed, gone days, the bits of ancient gossip, the tales of
and the care of seedlings; the propagation and care brilliant assemblies and romantic meetings, that she
of cuttings; the use of bulbs for forcing, with advice has gathered. She groups the parks in five divi-
on the best kinds for this purpose ; foliage plants, sions : the Royal Parks, which are the largest and
including ferns; and flowering plants. As the book most beautiful, though not of the greatest use to the
is small and the type large, the descriptions and greatest number; the municipal parks, thoroughly
instructions are necessarily brief; but for this very democratic, seldom very decorative, with their in-
reason, perhaps, they gain in clearness. There is evitable band-stands, cricket-pitches, playgrounds,
no extraneous matter, and for the inexperienced the and beds of simple hardy flowers by way of orna-
little volume will be a real help. - Mr. Tarkington ment; the gardens belonging to institutions, like the
Baker's volume entitled “Yard and Garden” (Bobbs- Charterhouse and the Inns of Court; the Squares,
Merrill) claims to be “a book of practical informa most of them accessible only to the favored few who
tion for the amateur gardener in city, town, or live on the streets surrounding them, but enjoyed
suburb." It gives in plain language instructions that from outside the railings by the larger public; and,
should enable the beginner to evolve an attractive finally, a few notable private gardens that still sur-
garden out of any ground, even an ugly one. The vive in spite of the smoke and over-crowding of the
author is no Philistine: he does not advise beds city. Mrs. Cecil considers the houses abutting on
of “bedding-out” plants on the lawn. He is both the Squares as within her province, and surely they
artistic and sensible: he explains the effectiveness of are, since the quality of their inmates gave the tone,
mass-planting, of hiding the “bare feet” of a house, fashionable or the opposite, to each enclosure. She
of the beauty of outside planting that is developed writes at length of the history and development of
inward; and he cautions the amateur against the
the parks,
the purchase of sites, dates of changes
aimless curves of paths, against "splotchiness" of and improvements, and other such practical matters.
effect, against trying to do too much at once. The effect of so heterogeneous a mass of informa-
Indeed, one of his wisest bits of advice is the sug tion is somewhat appalling taken en masse, but Mrs.
gestion to begin the garden one year, with the larger Cecil's book is meant rather for reference. It con-
and more permanent plantings; leaving the filling-in tains everything one could reasonably wish to know
and foregrounds for successive seasons, when it will on the subject, together with some details that seem
be more readily seen just what is needed. This is unlikely to be of the slightest possible interest to
not in opposition to the making of a permanent plan anyone.
before beginning to plant, the necessity of which is
recognized; but the author holds that in this way Highways and
The general plan of the “ Highways
the plan can be more effectively carried out, while
and Byways Series " (Macmillan)
English shires. is well known to lovers of books
at the same time modifications that suggest them-
selves from time to time can be more easily adopted.
about rural England. Like their predecessors, the
There are seventeen chapters, covering the various
two latest volumes, dealing respectively with Kent
subdivisions of the subject; and in some of these,
and Hampshire, are rather appreciations of the
as well as in the appendix, there are numerous
regions in all their varied aspects than formal guide-
books. The text for the volume on Kent is furnished
reference-lists of plants, vines, and shrubs of dif-
ferent classes and for varying purposes.
by Mr. Walter Jerrold, and the illustrations, in even
pendix also includes outlines of several plans for
more generous abundance than usual, by Mr. Hugh
planting city yards.
Thomson. In these latter, Mr. Thomson, being with-
out the collaborator who has aided him in previous
The multitudinous fascination of
The parks
volumes of the series, departs from his usual manner
and gardens
London has made a strong appeal and shows himself a delightful landscape artist, with
of London.
lately to the writers of books. We the same appreciation for the essential picturesque-
have had accounts of its Bohemian resorts, of its ness of scenery that he has for the essential oddities
storied Squares, of its “colour," as a young Japanese of humanity. There are charming little figures in
artist and a clever English essayist, between them, his landscapes, but they are all subordinated to the
understand it. And now comes still another book, general effect. In the preface to his volume on
on “ London Parks and Gardens” (Dutton), written Hampshire, Mr. D. H. Moutray Read says: “Hamp-
by Mrs. Evelyn Cecil and lavishly illustrated in color shire to me is a bundle of memories, all colourful,
and black-and-white by Lady Victoria Manners. Like and few but have a setting of sun-washed landscapes,
everything else about the great city, the parks are sweet scents, and bird melodies. This is only the
imposing in extent and deeply dyed with historical said bundle with notes and impressions of many
and literary associations. Mrs. Cecil has something happy days, motoring, driving, cycling, walking, in
to say also about the botanical and decorative features a country that I love entirely.” Mr. Read is a keen
of the parks, and more about their importance as observer of natural beauties, an industrious recorder
green oases for the rest and recreation of the London of historical and literary associations, and a writer
poor; but these matters are of far less interest, to of considerable charm. His "gossip of bygone days
American readers at least, than the memories of by- | and present ways” in what he considers “the most
byways in two
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and romance
perfect of English counties " is a book in every way would be the addition of skeleton maps of the con-
worthy of the series in which it appears. Nearly stellations, showing only the brighter stars, and
a hundred charming pen-and-ink drawings are con connecting them by dotted lines ; these would be of
tributed by Mr. Arthur B. Connor, and a good map decided assistance to the learner in finding on the
and an index are useful features deserving of mention. face of the sky the marvellous objects which the
author has described so well.
Too arduous a process seems implied
The humur's
in the title of Mrs. Mary Heaton
of vachting.
Nearly twenty years ago Mr. Charles
Vorse's “The Breaking in of a
Solitary
wanderings M. Doughty's account of his solitary
Yachtsman's Wife” (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). It in Arabia.
wanderings through Central Arabia
is evidently true, as she says, that she and the
was published by the Cambridge Press, under the
breaker-in“ have played the most fascinating of all
title “Travels in Arabia Deserta." The scientific
games, the game of yachting, as seriously as if it
world at once acknowledged its value as an authori-
were our life-work." But she soon discovered that
tative answer to many vexed questions of Arabian
no yachtsman believes that any of his fellows can
“ tell a canal-boat from a cup-defender,” so she early tribes; but the great bulk and the costliness of
geography and of the life and history of the desert
took courage (this was while she was merely a yachts. the original edition stood in the way of a general
man's affianced bride, on the way to promotion), and recognition of its extraordinary merits as a literary
was the rather inducted into the enthusiasm that vivi- masterpiece of travel. In order that it may be so
fies her work with a sweet reasonableness that quite recognized and enjoyed, Mr. Edward Garnett has
belies the thought of any“breaking in.” Her book tells prepared an abridgment of the original narrative,
a great deal that one wishes to know about yachts -
which, extending to a little more than half the orig-
enough, let us say, to enable a man insistently resi-
inal length, retains the personal chronicle, with its
dent on the western prairies to write an acceptable
rare charm for the layman, and omits part of the
sea-story for the magazines; but it is even more
vast store of detailed information on things Arabic,
interesting in its mixture of the briny element with
meant especially for the student or the traveller. The
the moonlight-on-the-water effects of early love. A
abridgment is entitled “Wanderings in Arabia,"
voyager on many seas, and these as various as the
and is published in two well-made volumes by the
differing shores of Venice and Cape Cod can make
Messrs. Scribner. The peculiarity of Mr. Doughty's
them, she and the faithful Stan, yachtsman-in-chief,
Arabian journeyings was that he went fearlessly
were attended by more than one pair of lovers in
among the fanatical Arabs, not only not concealing,
differing stages of infection. All the world loves a
but actually proclaiming, his race and his faith. His
lover, of course, though the treatment accorded them
style has an oddly archaic flavor, but it is wonder-
here is probably the one that endears them most to
fully direct and trenchant, in fit correspondence
the reading public that likes to be amused; for Mrs.
with the incisive quality of his insight.
Vorse's lovers are amusing. It is a pleasant book,
flavored with more than one kind of salt.
Dr. Clarence M. Weed, teacher of
Wild-flowers
A beginner's
Twenty years ago Mr. Garrett P. and their family nature-study in the Lowell, Mass.,
relationships.
guide to the Serviss published his first book on
normal school, bas utilized his class
the starry heavens, entitled “ Astron and field experiences, as well as an intimate know-
omy with an Opera-Glass." His latest book is ledge of recent poetry, in the preparation of his book
named“ Astronomy with the Naked Eye" (Harper), entitled “Wild Flower Families: The Haunts, Char-
and is in the main a guide to the study of the con acters, and Family Relationships of the Herbaceous
stellations. The author devotes his opening chapter | Wild Flowers, with Suggestions for their Identifi-
to interesting the reader in the beauty of the starry cation” (Lippincott). As the fully descriptive title
sky. He then follows the familiar plan of describ- indicates, the treatment is by families, beginning
ing the most conspicuous constellations for each with such flowers as appear earliest in spring and
month of the year, in order. There are twelve ending with those that longest defy the frosts of
two-page charts of constellations, showing not only autumn. In each case, representative species and
the stars but also the mythological figures in light genera of each family are selected, generally with
tracings made with orange-colored ink. These charts reference to the ease with which they may be found ;
are intended to enable the reader to pick out the and as much information is imparted concerning
stars in each group, and to perceive their relation them as will satisfy without surfeiting the curiosity
(where any exists) to the mythological figures. of the average youthful mind. Photographs and
Mr. Serviss thereafter devotes his attention to his printed descriptions go as far as possible toward
torical and descriptive matter about the chief stars identification without the over-use of technical terms,
in each group, and succeeds in making his theme very special attention being paid to times and places; and
interesting. Following the constellation chapters the book always keeps in view the giving of practi-
are four others, treating respectively of the Milky cal information, which is admirably blended with
Way, the Zodiacal light, the planets, and the moon. literary flavor through apt quotation, largely from
A possible improvement on this excellent handbook | contemporary poets.
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A guide to the
A complete and beautiful guide to A third edition of Karl Baedeker's “ Handbook for
mountain flora
the flora of the Canadian Rockies Spain and Portugal” (Scribner) contains two additional
of Canada.
and Selkirks has recently been issued maps and ten more plans, and brings all the information
by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons in the volume
of the text up to date. As the second edition bore date
entitled “ Alpine Flora of the Canadian Rocky
of 1901, there has been ample chance for changes, par-
Mountains.” Mr. Stewardson Brown, curator of the
ticularly in hotel and railway accommodations. Both,
herbarium at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural
we are warned, are still poor, and in the case of hotels
a deficiency in the supply for the accommodations of the
Sciences, furnishes the text. Species are arranged increasing number of visitors has led to high charges.
in accordance with their scientific relationships, and But the tourist who is willing to adapt himself to cir-
there are keys to the genera, a general key to the cumstances can travel through Spain comfortably and
families, a glossary, and an index to both common at a cost not materially different from what he would
and scientific names. Seventy-nine full-page plates, spend elsewhere in Europe.
about half of them in color, reproduce more than
double that number of species, a great many of which
have never been pictured before. Both water-color
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BARRON, EDWARD. The Lost Goddess. Henry Holt &
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The adventures of a group of modern New Yorkers
in their search of a lost goddess at the headwaters
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The tourist who is planning a few weeks' or a few
Their perlls make life and love
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months' trip to Europe and means to avoid the vexatious is finally found nearest home.
baggage problem by “ travelling light,” cannot do better BATES, ARLO. The Intoxicated Ghost, and Other Stories.
Houghton, Miffin & Co. $1.50.
than fill a corner in his closely packed bag with Dr. Stories involving some striking psychological idea
William J. Rolfe's “ Satchel Guide to Europe” (Hough or haunting situation. Besides the bibulous ghost,
a girl with a dual personality and a club-man Inter-
ton). For a brief journey, particularly if it be also a ested in East Indian magic are typical characters.
first trip abroad, which necessarily keeps pretty closely BEACH, Rex. The Barrier. Illustrated in color. Harper
to the beaten track, this little guide will be found entirely
& Brothers. $1.50.
An Alaskan story of the same general type as
adequate. The 1908 edition, which has recently appeared, “The Spoilers." In the very first chapter the reader
brings text and maps up to date. An outline of excur-
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BENNET, ROBERT AMES. Into the Primitive. Illustrated
sions in the Dolomite district has been added; also a in color. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50.
sketch of a short tour through southern Spain. It is
Three people, a woman and two men, are ship-
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amazing how much information about the entire tourist
with the primitive, see one another in a new light.
region of Europe Dr. Rolfe has managed to crowd into BIANCHI, MARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON. A Modern Pro-
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metheus. With frontispiece. Duffield & Co. $1.50.
The heroine is an American, and the manner in
sized « Baedeker."
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The Egyptian tourist season extends from October to influence of a young Italian priest furnishes the
theme of the novel.
May. Within that time, we are assured by the anony BOYCE, NEITH. The Bond. Duffield & Co. $1.50.
mous author of the handy little guide « Egypt and How
"The Bond" has the dcuble significance of a union
and a fetter, as the best marriage may be sometimes
to See It” (Doubleday), one may possibly count ten
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days, in the worst years, that are not quite perfect. The BROWN, ALICE. Rose MacLeod. With frontispiece.
distinctive feature of the new guide is the attractive
Houghton, Mimin & Co. $1.50.
Miss Brown's longest story of New England life.
colored illustrations done by Mr. A. O. Lamplough. The The heroine, with her strange parentage and Bohe-
text is written in a style considerably less impersonal
mian experience, stands in striking contrast to the
pleasantly domestic setting.
than that of the out-and-out guide-book, but it is sys CHAMBERLAIN, ESTHER AND LUCIA. The Coast of Chance.
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various lengths, an English-Arabic vocabulary, lists of
Somebody took the Chatworth ring. The discov-
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hotels and banks, time-tables of the Egyptian State prise at the end of the story.
Railway, and much other useful information for trav CHAMBERS, ROBERT W. Some Ladies in Haste. Illus-
ellers. And a traveller through Egypt everyone who
trated. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
The story of five pretty girls, five club-men who
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Mr. Frederick A. Ober's Guide to the West Indies"
hypnotist, who gets them all into a hopeless tangle.
CHESTERTON, GILBERT K. The Man Who Was Thursday.
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an account of that more northerly group of islands, the
The astounding adventures of a detective who
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illustrations will serve to whet the appetite of the hesi-
Madonna's and the face of a prize-fighter, who tries
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CHURCHILL, WINSTON. Mr. Crewe's Career. Illustrated.
planning his trip. As far as we know, this is the first Macmillan Co. $1.50.
comprehensive guide to the West Indies to be published.
A story of today, with at least a dozen interest-
ing characters, a love motive, and another political
It describes the attractions, resources, climate, and his game in New Hampshire, skilfully played by men
tory of each island, gives a list of hotels and boarding-
of a later generation than Jethro Bass of Coniston.
COOPER, EDWARD H. The Marquis and Pamela. Illus-
houses, with prices, and tells how to get to the various trated. Duffield & Co. $1.50.
groups of islands from the United States, Canada, or
Describes the wooing of a notorious gambling
marquis, and paints a brilliant picture of English
Europe.
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CHAMBERS, JULIUS. On a Margin. With frontispiece.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley. $1.50.
A romantic tale of Wall Street manipulation and
of the family life of a great financier.
CRAWFORD, F. MARION, The Primadonna. Macmillan
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A sequel to "Fair Margaret,” who, when the
new story opens, has become the greatest singer in
the world. A murder mystery lends intensity of
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DANBY, FRANK. The Heart of a Child. Macmillan Co.
$1.50.
Passages in the early life of Sally Snape, Lady
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DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING. Vera the Medium. Illus
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Modern spiritualism is the main theme of this
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DAY, HOLMAN. King Spruce. Illustrated in color. Har-
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Dwight Wade, opposed in his love for the daugh-
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DE MORGAN, WILLIAM. Somehow Good. Henry Holt &
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After years of separation from his wife, the hero,
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DURHAM, ROBERT LEE. The Call of the South. Illus-
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The horror of life in the South, if social equality
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ELLIS, J. B. Arkingaw Cousins: A Story of the Ozarks.
Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
The Thornberry cousins are very different in char.
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FARRER, REGINALD. The Ways of Rebellion. Longmans,
Green & Co. $1.50.
Hero and heroine are both rebels. One pays the
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FORD, SEWELL. Side-stepping with Shorty. Illustrated.
New York : Mitchell Kennerley. $1.50.
A new "Shorty McCabe" book, in which the slangy
New York physical Instructor has many diverting
experiences.
HEWLETT, MAURICE. The Spanish Jade. Illustrated in
color. Doubleday, Page & Co. 90 cents net.
A romance laid' in old-time Spain, where travellers
were few and far between, and consequently always
viewed with suspicion.
JENKINS, STEPHEN. A Princess and Another. With
frontispiece. New York: B. W. Huebsch. $1.25 net.
Colonial life in New York City and Westchester
county is pictured in this story. Nathan Hale and
other colonial beroes appear as important charac-
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KINKAID, MARY HOLLAND. The Man of Yesterday. Il-
lustrated in color. Frederick A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
The heroine, daughter of a half-breed Indian and
a white woman, falls in love with a young lawyer
from the East. He marries and then deserts her,
and finally meets a tragic fate at the hands of her
kinsmen.
KRAMER, HAROLD MORTON. The Castle of Dawn. Illus-
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The "Castle" is in the Ozark mountains, and the
story is one of love, recklessness, intrigue, bravery,
and final good fortune, crowning as wild an adven-
ture as ever a hero and heroine took part in.
MACGRATH, HAROLD. The Lure of the Mask. Illustrated.
Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
Masks seem to have a deadly fascination for Mr.
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pivotal point in his new novel. The scene shifts
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MACVANE, EDITH. The Duchess of Dreams. With fron-
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The real Grand Duchess fails to materialize, so a
clever young woman takes her place, is discovered
by a Hungarian prince, and has to face many amaz-
ing complications before her game is played out.
McCUTCHEON, GEORGE BARR. The Husbands of Edith,
Illustrated in color. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.
While he is taking the place of one woman's hus-
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hero.
MCINTYRE, JOHN T. In the Dead of Night. Illustrated
in color. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
A story of the night in New York. The hero
walks into a mystery in the first chapter, and noth-
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MULFORD, CLARENCE E. The Orphan. Outing Co. $1.50.
A western story of frontier life, during the days
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NEWMAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY. The Belle Islers. Illus-
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The son of a minister gives a humorous account
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full advantage of his father's simple-minded hon-
esty and kindliness.
NICHOLAS, FRANCIS C. The Power Supreme. With fron-
tisplece in color. Boston: R. E. Lee Co. $1.50.
This "novel of church and state in South Amer-
ica" deals with the life of a young Indian half-
breed who tries to better his conditions.
NICOLLS; WILLIAN JASPER. Brunhilda of Orr's Island.
George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.50.
The rugged shores of Casco Bay form the back-
ground for this tale, the central figure of which is
the niece of a sturdy old fisherman.
OPPENHEIM, E. PHILLIPS. The Avenger. Illustrated
Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
A typical Oppenheim tale, full of political in-
trigues and private revenges, inextricably mixed with
a love-affair of unusual interest.
PARRISH, RANDALL. Prisoners of Chance. Illustrated in
color. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50.
The story of what bef ell Geoffrey Benteen, gentle-
man adventurer, through his love for a fair lady
of France.
PASTURE, MRS. HENRY DE LA. The Grey Knight. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $1.50.
The heroine is a beautiful widow, and the hero a
fiery Welshman whose home is a Norman castle
among his native hills.
PINKHAM, EDWIN GEOKGE. Fate's a Fiddler. Illustrated
in color, etc. Small, Maynard & Co. $1.50.
This presentation of modern American life and
love is the work of a writer hitherto unknown.
POTTER, MARGARET. The Golden Ladder. Harper &
Brothers. $1.50.
While John Kildare is on the lowest rung of the
ladder he loves a girl, who plays him false. He
never forgives her, and though he becomes a mil-
lionaire, he is never happy.
PRIOR, JAMES. A Walking Gentleman. E. P. Dutton &
Co. $1.50.
Lord Belley, on the eve of his marriage to his old
friend, Lady Sarah Sallis, took an unaccountable
dislike to the kind of life he knew and went off in
search of another kind, thus becoming "A Walking
Gentleman.'
RANDALL, F. J. Love and the Ironmonger. John Lane
Co. $1.50.
A queer will and the strange complications arising
therefrom furnish Mr. Randall with materials for
his plot.
REID, CHRISTIAN. Princess Nadine. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. $1.50.
Princess Nadine, of Russia, numbers among her
many lovers a resourceful American, who stops at
nothing when the wishes of his lady are concerned, -
a fact which leads to many dramatic situations.
The scene is largely laid in Italy.
REYNOLDS, MRS. BAILLIE. Broken Oft. Brentano's.
$1.50
By the author of "A Dull Girl's Destiny," etc.
The story contains many reflections upon the rela-
tive value of money and culture.
RHODES, HARRISON. The Adventures of Charles Ed-
ward. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
Charles Edward Austin is an irrepressible young
New Yorker with a full purse, a keen sense of
humor, a kind heart, and a turn for fantastic adven-
tures.
ROBERTS, THEODORE. Captain Love. Illustrated. L. C.
Page & Co. $1.50.
Further described on the title-page as “The his-
tory of a most romantic event in the life of an
English gentleman during the reign of His Majesty
George the First.
SCOTT, JOHN REED. The Princess Dehra. Illustrated in
color. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
Like "The Colonel of the Red Huzzars," this is a
tale of Valeria, where a life and death struggle for
the throne is in progress.
SHOLL, ANNA MCCLURE. The Greater Love, Outing Co.
$1.50.
This tale of modern American life embodies the
fundamental truth that the family is the unit of
society, and all individualism which tends to im.
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ROBINS, ELIZABETH. Come and Find Me. Illustrated.
Century Co. $1.50.
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.
SINCLAIR, UPTON. The Metropolis. Moffat, Yard & Co.
$1.50.
As "The Jungle" was a study of the extremes of
poverty in Chicago, so is "The Metropolis" a study
of the extremes of wealth in New York society.
SNAITH, J. C. William Jordan, Jr. Moffat, Yard & Co.
$1.50.
As in "Broke of Covenden," Mr. Snaith works with
strong types. William Jordan, poet, dreamer, and
recluse, is thrown into the vortex of commercial
London, with results that may be imagined.
STRINGER, ARTHUR. The Under Groove. Illustrated.
McClure Co. $1.50.
The hero is another gentleman-cracksman, upon
whom the desire for house-breaking descends dow
and then with mysterious but Irresistible force. The
possibilities of dual personalities furnish the plot
with a problem.
TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR. Doctor Ellen. Illustrated.
Baker & Taylor Co. $1.50.
Doctor Ellen, the heroine, sacrifices a brilliant
future in the East to live in the California Sierras
in order to combat the progress of a lung disease
with which her sister is threatened.
VAN VORST, MARIE. The Sentimental Adventures of Jim-
my Bulstrode. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$1.50.
Whether Jimmy buys a Christmas tree under
highly original circumstances, or surprises some
people into being happy, or fails in a gallant attempt
toward the same object, or collects curios, or makes
love through many adventures, he is always a strong,
fine, and delightfully unusual character.
VORSE, MARY HEATON. The Breaking in of a Yachtsman's
Wife. Illustrated. Houghton, Miffin & Co. $1.50.
A breezy yarn of a yachtsman's adventures with
all sorts of small craft from a cat-boat to a gondola.
Two love affairs and many amusing episodes develop
on board ship.
WALK, CHARLES E. The Silver Blade. Illustrated in
color. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50.
The silver blade was a small paper knife that
usually lay on Doctor Westbrook's office table. The
question that interests the reader is : Does that
prove that Doctor Westbrook was the one who used
the knife to kill Alberto de Sanchez?
WARNER, ANNE. Seeing England with Uncle John. Il-
lustrated. Century Co. $1.50.
Uncle John, who last year "did" France on the
run, with his family tagging breathlessly on behind,
now does up England and Scotland in the same
fashion.
WHITE, FRED M. The Five Knots. Illustrated. Little,
Brown & Co. $1.50.
A string with five knots and the "blue terror"
are the magic devices whereby two Malays try to
frighten an English shipowner into giving up his
hidden treasure.
WILLIAMS, JESSE LYNCH. The Girl and the Game. Il-
lustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
Several vivid and amusing stories of eastern col.
lege life, together with "Eight Talks with a Kid
Brother.'
WILLIAMS, JESSE LYNCH. My Lost Duchess : An Idyl
of the Town. Illustrated in tint. Century Co.
$1.50.
From his club window Nick sees the lovely "Duch-
ess" march past him up Fifth avenue, promptly loses
his heart, and sets out to find her. His quest makes
an exciting love story.
WILLIAMSON, C. N. AND A. M. The Chaperon. Illus-
trated. McClure Co. $1.50.
Mr. and Mrs. Williamson turn from the automo-
bile to the motor boat in this latest of their stories,
which tells of love and sightseeing on a trip through
the waterways of Holland.
BRECK, EDWARD. The Way of the Woods : A Manual
for Sportsmen in Northeastern United States and
Canada. Illustrated. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.75 net.
This practical field-manual will be a useful ad-
junct to the kits of campers, fishermen, and hunters
in the North Woods.
BRITTON, NATHANIEL LORD. North American Trees. Il.
lustrated. "American Nature Series." Henry Holt
& Co. $7.50 net.
An elaborate book about trees, adapted for popular
study, but unusually complete and very fully Illus-
trated.
BROWN, STEWARDSON. Alpine Flora of the Canadian
Rocky Mountains. Illustrated in color, etc., by
Mrs. Charles Shäffer. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $3 net.
A guide_to the rich flora of that portion of the
Canadian Rockles and Selkirks along the Canadian
Pacific Railway between Banff and Glacier.
DORNER, HERMAN B. Window Gardening. Illustrated.
Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.20 net.
A concise and simple manual, of equal use in the
schoolroom or the home, giving practical and defi-
nite instructions about the care of house plants.
HENSHALL, JAMES A. Favorite Fish and Fishing. Illus-
trated. Outing Co. $1.25 net.
The black bass, the grayling, the trout, the tarpon,
and the fish found in Florida waters are Mr. Hen-
shall's favorites, or at least the ones of which he
writes.
HOLDER, CHARLES FREDERICK. Big Game at Sea. Illus-
trated. Outing Co. $2 net.
Mr. Holder tells of adventures with the Giant
Tuna, the relentless Devil-fish, the Shark, and other
mammoth denizens of the deep sea.
HOLME, CHARLES. The Gardens of England in the South-
ern and Western Counties. Illustrated in color,
etc. John Lane Co. $3 net.
The special winter number of "The Studio," con-
taining a histo of English gar ing and some
notes on the art of garden-making, copiously illus-
trated.
JEKYLL, GERTRUDE. Colour in the Flower Garden. Illus-
trated. Charles Scribner's Sons. $3.75 net.
Aims to show how plants may be used so as to
form beautiful color pictures in the garden.
JOB, HERBERT K. The Sport of Bird Study. Illus-
trated. Outing Co. $2 net.
The author, an enthusiastic nature photographer,
here describes some of his experiences while hunting
birds with a camera.
JORDAN, DAVID STARR. Fishes. Illustrated in color, etc.
"American Nature Series." Henry Holt & Co. $6 net.
Covers the natural history of fishes. Practically
all of the less technical material contained in Pro-
fessor Jordan's larger work, "Guide to the Study of
Fishes," is here included.
MAYNARD, SAMUEL T. The Small Country Place. Illus-
trated. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50 net.
Discusses the growing of farm and garden crops,
the care of the horse, cow, and poultry, and similar
subjects having to do with the care and improve-
ment of a small farm.
MILLER, OLIVE THORNE. The Bird Our Brother. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25 net.
The intelligence of the birds is the special topic
of Mrs. Miller's new book about her feathered
friends.
PYTHIAN, J. ERNEST. Trees in Nature, Myth, and Art.
Illustrated George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.50 net.
"The Soul of a Tree," "Tree-worship," "The Archi-
tecture of Trees," and "Trees in Architecture" are
the subjects of some of Mr. Pythian's essays.
ROBERTS, CHARLES G. D. The House in the Water. Il-
lustrated. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
"The Boy" and Jabe the Woodsman again appear
in Professor Roberts's new book, in which he tells
of the life of that wonderfully acute and tireless
little worker, the beaver.
WARE, RICHARD D. In the Woods and on the Shore.
Illustrated. L. C. Page & Co. $1.50.
Sportsmen will enjoy this sportsman's record of
hunting and fishing in the wilds of Newfoundland
and New Brunswick.
WATERFIELD, MARGARET, AND OTHERS. Flower Grouping
In English, Scotch, and Irish Gardens. Illustrated
in color. D. P. Dutton & Co. $6 net.
A richly Illustrated study of the effective massing
of flowers, vines, and trees in gardens of the British
Isles. Both text and pictures are full of sugges-
tions for the landscape gardener.
WEED, CLARENCE M. Wild Flower Families. Illustrated.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50 net.
The haunts, characteristics, and family relation-
ships of the commoner herbaceous wild flowers are
carefully explained, in a way to make a study of
them of real interest.
NATURE AND OUTDOOR LIFE.
BAKER, TARKINGTON. Yard and Garden : A Book of
Practical Information for the Amateur Gardener in
City, Town, or Suburb. Illustrated. Bobbs-Merrill
Co. $2 net.
Tells how to take care of the lawn, and how to
make it and the garden attractive throughout the
spring and summer.
BURROUGHS, JOHN. Leaf and Tendril. With portrait.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.10 net.
Acute and sympathetic observation of nature com-
bined with discussion of some of the still unsolved
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WEED, CLARENCE M. Our Trees: How to Know Them.
Illustrated from photographs by Arthur I. Emerson.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $3 net.
A plate is devoted to each tree, showing the tree
itself and its foliage, bloom, and fruit. Mr. Weed
furnishes notes on characteristics, distribution, and
culture, and a guide to the recognition of the trees
at any season.
PLATT, DAN FELLOWS. Through Italy with Car and
Camera. Illustrated in photogravure, etc. G. P.
Putnam's Sons. $5 net.
of interest alike to the art-lover and motor en-
thusiast is Mr. Platt's sympathetic description of
his recent trip through Italy. His reminiscences of
student days in Rome and of climbs in the Abruzzi,
as well as the many illustrations, are features of
especial attractiveness.
READ, D. H. MOUTRAY. Highways and Byways in Hamp-
shire. Illustrated by Arthur B. Connor. "High-
ways and Byways Series." Macmillan Co.
$2.
Text and pictures delineate the scenery and asso-
ciations of one of England's most picturesque shires.
STARR, FREDERICK. In Indian Mexico : A Narrative of
Travel and Labor. Illustrated. Chicago : Forbes
& Co. $5 net.
Professor Starr spent parts of four years studying
the Indians of southern Mexico. This is a popular
account of his experiences.
SULLIVAN, T. R. Lands of Summer : Sketches in Italy,
Sicily, and Greece. Illustrated. Houghton, Minin
& Co. $1.50 net.
"Spring-time with Theocritus," "From Athens to
Corfu," "The Wraith of a Ducal City," and "Life
on a Tuscan Farm," some of Mr. Sullivan's chapter-
titles, will suggest the character of his sketches.
WOODWARD, IDA. In and Around the Isle of Purbeck.
Illustrated in color by John W. G. Bond. John
Lane Co. $6 net.
Purbeck is really a peninsula at the southeast
corner of Dorsetshire. Its quaint villages, beautiful
manors, and wild coast are pictured and described.
WORKMAN, FANNY B. AND WILLIAM H. The Ice-Bound
Heights of the Mustagh : An Account of Pioneer
Exploration and High Climbing in the Baltistan
Himalaya. With maps and illustrations in photo-
gravure, color, etc. Charles Scribner's Sons. $5 net.
These mountain-climbers scaled several Himalayan
peaks of over 17,000 feet, and Mrs. Workman made
à new record for women.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
BARZINI, LUIGI. Pekin to Paris : An Account of Prince
Borghese's Journey Across Two Continents in a
Motor-Car. Translated by L. P. de Castelvecchio,
with Introduction by Prince Borghese. Illustrated.
Mitchell Kennerley. $5 net.
The account of a journey that even in these days
of aniversal motoring is unusual enough to attract
attention.
CARLISLE, GEORGE L. Around the World in a Year. Il-
lustrated. Baker & Taylor Co. $2 net.
The informal chronicle of a busy lawyer's kaleido-
scopic vacation tour.
CORNER, CAROLINE. Ceylon : The Paradise of Adam.
Illustrated. John Lane Co. $4 net.
The lively narrative of Mrs. Corner's seven years'
residence in Ceylon. Being of an adventurous turn
of mind, she justified the Spanish proverb which
declares that "Travellers and inquisitive women see
strange sights."
DAVIDSON, AUGUSTA M. CAMPBELL. Present-day Japan.
Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50 net.
Relates the experiences of the newcomer arriving
in Japan and gradually falling under the influence
of its manifold charms.
ELLIS, HAVELOCK. The Soul of Spain. With frontis-
piece in photogravure. Houghton, Mifilin & Co. $2 net.
Being a famous English psychologist, Mr. Ellis
is naturally most interested in the peculiarities of
Spanish temperament. He writes also of Spanish
art, women, dancing, gardens, and other topſcs.
HIGINBOTHAM, JOHN U. Three Weeks in Holland and
Belglum. Illustrated. Chicago : Reilly & Britton
Co. $1.50.
Like "Three Weeks in Europe,” this book tells
the busy man or woman what he can do and see in
a brief vacation abroad.
JDRMINGHAM, SIR HUBERT. From West to East: Notes
by the Way With maps and illustrations. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $4 net.
Annals of a trip to Japan by way of Suez, India,
and Ceylon. The author visited many out-of-the-way
spots, and found the battlefields of Manchuria espe-
cially interesting.
JERROLD, WALTER. Highways and Byways in Kent. Il-
lustrated by Hugh Thomson. Macmillan Co. $2.
Kent is one of the most picturesque counties of
southern England, and Mr. Jerrold's descriptions,
supplemented by Hugh Thomson's charming sketches,
make this volume a very welcome addition to the
"Highways and Byways Series."
LESDAIN, COUNT DE. From Pekin to Sikkim, through the
Ordos, the Gobi Desert, and Tibet. With maps and
Illustrations in photogravure. E. P. Dutton & Co.
$4 net.
A record of the first trip across Thibet from north
to south, and the first sūccessful attempt to enter
India from China.
LOMAS, JOHN. In Spain. Illustrated. Macmillan Co.
$2 net.
А new edition, rewritten and enlarged, of the
author's book called "Sketches in Spain, from Na-
ture, Art, and Life," published in 1884.
MILTOUN, FRANCIS. In the Land of Mosques and Mina.
rets; or, Rambles in Algerit and Tunisia. Illustrated.
L. C. Page & Co.
$3.
From Navarre and Touraine Mr. Miltoun and his
artistic coadjutor, Miss Blanche McManus, cross the
Mediterranean to the land of the Moor, the Arab,
the Turk, and the Jew, for material for their new
book.
MURPHY, THOMAS D. British Highways and Byways
from a Motor Car. Illustrated in color, etc. L. C.
Page & Co. $3.
An interesting account of a motor-flight through
England, beautifully Illustrated in color and photo-
vure from paintings by prominent artists.
PROTHERO, ROWLAND E. The Pleasant Land of France.
E. P.' Dutton & Co. $3.50 net.
Essays on French life and ways, including chap-
ters on farming and folk-lore, modern French poetry,
and kindred themes.
SHERRILL, CHARLES HITCHCOCK. Stained Glass Tours in
France. Illustrated. John Lane Co. $1.50 net.
Mr. Sherrill takes his readers on a delightful tour
through France, for the novel purpose of studying
the famous examples of stained glass windows to be
found there.
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
June, 1908.
Abbotsholme School, The. Preston W. Search. Century.
Alaska and Its Wealth. W.W. Atwood. World Today.
Alps, The High. John C. Van Dyke. Scribner,
America. What is the Matter with! L. Steffens. Everybody's.
American Appearance, My First. Ellen Terry. McClure.
Anarchism, Menace of. B. Brandenburg. Broadway.
Architect's Office, An Ideal. Craftsman.
Army: Is Ours a Suicide Club ? Rupert Hughes. Broadway.
Artistic Temperament, The. R. A. Bowen. Lippincott.
Artists in Paris in 1873. Will H. Low. Scribner.
Arts and Crafts in America. Charles F. Binns. Craftsman.
Asquith: English Premier. T. P. O'Connor. World Today.
Asquith, Mr., The Real. W. T. Stead. Review of Reviews.
Astronomer's Work, Nature of an. W.W. Campbell. No. Am.
Australian Capital, New Water Supply for a. Rev, of Reviews.
Baden, Unlucky Reigning House of. T. Schwarz. Munsey.
Baltimore, the South's Metropolis. H. N. Casson. Munsey.
Bank Clerk, Humanity Seen by. E. Russell. World Today.
Berlin and Its Burghers. Samuel G. Blythe. Everybody's.
Biology and Human Progress. T. D. A. Cockerell. Atlantic.
Birds from a Trolley-car. Estelle M. Hart. Atlantic.
Boys, Educating Our-IV. Joseph M. Rogers. Lippincott.
"Brasses” on Ancient English Tombs. E. B. Brown. Munsev.
Brazil, Land of Coffee. Arthur Ruhl. Scribner.
Buchanan, James. Lyndon Orr. Munsey.
Bull Fight, A Mexican. Mildred Woodruff. World Today.
Burglar, A, in the Making. Charles E. Russell. Everybody's.
Business in West and Southwest. C. F. Speare. Rev. of Reus.
Candidates, Claims of the. By various writers. No. American.
Child Labor Movement, The. E. N. Clopper. World Today.
Christian Science, Claims of. I. C. Tomlinson. Metropolitan.
Church, A Proper Village. R. L. Hartt. World's Work.
Churchill, Lady Randolph, Reminiscences of - VII. Century.
City Planning in America. C. R. Woodruff. Atlantic.
Clipper-ship Days. Arthur H. Clark. Harper.
Coloration, Concealing, of Animals. G. H. Thayer. Century.
Compunctions and Proclivities. E. S. Martin. Harper.
Corporation Spirit, The New. K. Wolff. Appleton.
Country Home, Environment of. E. D. Ford. Craftsman.
Croker, Chief, and his Men. Gilson Willets. Broadway.
Davis, Jefferson, at West Point. W. L. Fleming. Metropolitan.
De Morgan, Wm., Work Habits. Bram Stoker. World's Work.
Design, Lessons in -IX. E. A. Batchelder. Craftsman,
Diplomacy, Mr. Dooley on. F. P. Dunne. American.
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Tennyson's Poems. Henry Thurston Peck. Munsey.
Tramp, The American. Orlando F. Lewis. Atlantic.
Travel, Novel Reason for. Anne H. Wharton. Lippincott.
Viardot-Garcia, Mme. Mme. Charles Bigot. Putnam.
Wall Street During the Revolution. F. T. Hill. Harper.
Water Fends in the West. W. V. Woehlke. World Today.
Waterways, Development of Our. F.G. Newlands. No. Amer.
Weddings of American Heiresses. May Warwick. Broadway.
Western Pacific Route, The. G. C. Lawrence. Appleton.
Woman, The New. Lucy M. Saunderg. Appleton.
Women Artists and the Critics. Giles Edgerton. Craftsman.
Women of France, Some. Emily J. Putnam. Putnam.
Words, Correct Use of. T. R. Lounsbury. Harper.
Zelaya, President. C. A. Zelaya. Metropolitan.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 85 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
Dumas, Alexandre. Gamaliel Bradford, Jr. Atlantic.
Dyestuffs, Modern, in Crafts Work. C. E. Pellew. Craftsman.
Eddy, Mary Baker G.–XIV. Georgine Milmine. McClure.
Egypt, The Spell of - III. Robert Hichens. Century.
Elderly Men, Achievements of. E. B. Simmons. Munsey.
Eskimos, Wintering among. V. Stefánsson. Harper.
Evils, Some American. Anna A. Rogers. Putnam.
Faith in God. Howard A. Kelly. Appleton.
Farming. Small, Revival of. E. J. Hollister. Craftsman.
Fishing Village, A Maine. Sidney M. Chase. Scribner.
Foreign Tour at Home, A-IV. Henry Holt. Putnam.
Fourth, Our Barbarous. Mrs. Isaac L. Rice. Century.
Garden Gateways Old and New. Craftsman.
Gas from a Cottonwood Tree. R. R. Moore. World Today.
George III.: England's Last Royal Political Boss. Century.
German Expansion, Truth about. North American.
God, The Love of. Arthur C. Benson. Putnam.
Governmental Railroad Holding Company, A. No. American.
Graduation Day. John T. McCutcheon. Appleton.
Graft, An Apology for. Lincoln Steffens. American.
Grant's Last Days-II. George F. Shrady. Century.
Greek, The Study of. Albert G. Keller. Atlantic.
Harbor Guide System, New. M. Campbell. World Today,
Health, Step toward Unļversal. F. W. Coburn, World Today.
House Dignified, The-IX. Lillie H. French. Putnam.
Hovenden, Thomas, Art of. Florence F. Kelly. Broadway.
India, The English in. James M. Hubbard. Atlantic.
Insect Enemies of our Corps, Fighting Review of Reviews.
Ireland, The New - IV. Sidney Brooks. No. American.
Johnson, Pres., and his War on Congress. Carl Schurz. McClure.
Justice of a Friend, The W. D. Howells. No. American.
Kentucky Cardinal, Our. Jennie Brooks. Lippincott.
Knickerbocker Trust Co. Jackson Cross. Metropolitan.
Lakes, Great, Romance of - III. James O. Curwood. Putnam.
Law Enforcement, Defects in Our. W.H. Taft. No. American.
Life Insurance Problem, The Wm.J. Graham. World Today.
Light, The Pressure of. Waldemar Kaempffert. Harper.
Lincoln's Vote for Vice-President. Jesse W. Weik. Century.
Lions, Lasooing, in the Siwash. Zane Grey. Everybody's.
Literary Gleanings. Martha Baker Dunn. Atlantic.
Lords, Collapse of the Movement against the. No. American.
Mars, Proofs of Life on. Percival Lowell. Century.
Millions and Imagination. Herman Scheffauer. Lippincott.
Moret-sur-Loing. Cora K. Howland. World Today.
Motor Boat, Across Europe by - II. H. C. Rowland. Appleton.
Mountain Climbing as Sport. G. D. Abraham. World's Work.
Murray, Lawrence 0. C. H. Forbes-Lindsay. World Today.
National Conventions, Power of. C.W. Camp. Metropolitan.
National Conventions, Reporting. T. White. Appleton.
Naval Cruise, The Great. Francis J. Dyer. World's Work.
Negro, The, in Politics. Ray S. Baker. American.
Negro as Business Man, The. T. J. Calloway. World's Work.
New York, City of Brilliant Night. S. Gould. Broadway.
Novel, The Old-Style. Agnes Repplier. Atlantic.
Novel, The Political. William Everett. Atlantic.
Occult Phenomena - III. Hamlin Garland. Everybody's.
Painter's Model, A Noted. Virginia Calhoun. World's Work.
Physical Conscience, High Tide of. L. H. Gulick. World's Work.
Physical Training, Simple. Eustace Miles. Metropolitan.
President, Preparing to Nominate. H. L. Beach. World Today.
Pseudo-Rich, Wives of the. Everybody's.
Quebec's History, Re-enacting. J. Mcllwraith. World's Work.
Railroad Capitalization and Federal Regulation. Rev.of Revs.
Railroad Freight Rates Too Low. Luis Jackson. Rev.of Revs.
Railroad Signalman's Confessions - V. J. O. Fagan. Atlantic.
Railroad Wizards, Modern. H. Vanderhoof. World Today.
Religion via Greasepaint. H. M. Lyon, Broadway.
Salem. Charles Henry White Harper.
Saloon Problem, The. C. A. Phelps. Broadway.
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CONTENTS.
not help comparing it with that which was dealt
out (with far more sparing hand) to the youth
AN EDUCATIONAL SCANDAL .
367
of a past generation. It cost that generation an
effort to get educated at all, and commensurate
CASUAL COMMENT
369 with the degree of the effort was the strength of
Vacation-planning by book and time-table.—Grad the determination to get the best education that
uate schools for literary workers. — The function
the accumulated wisdom of the
ages
of the literary journal. - The evolution of “The
vide. Education is now so much a matter of
Metropolis.”—The comparative greatness of Goethe
and Shakespeare. — The “Bibliosmiles.” – This course, and is presented in such a variety of
brief span of life. —Qualifications for successful shapes, that we are in danger of forgetting the
journalism. — The wireless way of typesetting. – importance of a wise choice, and of taking with
Mr. John Murray and the London “ Times.".
too little deliberation the kind that lies nearest
The function of the library bulletin.— The French
novel in France.- Historic Winchester's new library
to our reach.
building.
The following instructive story, which we
assure our readers is not the invention of a
“A PERFECT WOMAN, NOBLY PLANNED."
humorist, but the report of an actual occurrence,
Percy F. Bicknell
. 372
provides a case in point. It was at a gathering
THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT IN LITERA of the alumni, old and young, of a famous col-
TURE. F. B. R. Hellems
374 lege. One of the older men spoke, and the
burden of his discourse was to the effect that
THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
William Elliot Griffis
377
in his student days college men took a serious
interest in literature and the humanities in gen-
TWO NEW STUDIES OF PETRARCH. Annie eral, an interest which did not seem to be shared
Russell Marble .
378 with them by the students of the younger gener-
ation. He said by way of illustration that it
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
380
Examinations of Life and Literature. - The play
was not uncommon for a group of his fellow-
and the book. The battle of Gettysburg, by an eye-
students to go out for an afternoon walk, and
witness. — Functions and meanings of the Church spend most of their time in talking about Keats
of to-day. – Lather's letters in English form. -A and Shelley. This speaker was followed by a
serviceable new edition of Bacon's Essays.—Times
representative of the younger generation — a
and manners in Old Virginia. - The training of a
docile house-builder. - A narrative of the early
graduate in engineering or something of the
discoveries in North America.
sort -- who frankly admitted the truth of what
had just been said, and added, for his own part,
BRIEFER MENTION
383
that he had never heard of “Sheats and Kelley."
One cannot have much intercourse with the
NOTES
384
young college graduates of to-day without com-
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
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course.
case — many men, that is, who have been sent science, and get no realizing sense of the exist-
out into life with the academic stamp upon them, ence of such a thing as art.
duly documented as educated men, yet lacking It is not alone the classics and the Scriptures
in the very elements of an education in any that suffer neglect, it is pretty nearly everything
liberal sense. They may have the formulas of that is deeply significant for human culture.
the electrician upon their tongue's end, but the Just the other day we casually read on one page
simplest allusion to literature finds them blankly of a periodical written for educated readers that
unresponsive; nay, they may even be prepared " the public will not borrow Gargantua's mouth
to settle the business of a new Hoti, and yet for things of a past generation," and on the next
know nothing of the spiritual message of page that “the Republic has no need of chem-
Æschylus or of Plato.
ists ; nor, it seems, the Church of scholars."
The steadily increasing ignorance, on the part The two allusions set us to thinking ; for besides
of our young college men, of matters absolutely their obvious lesson, they put before us the
essential to any kind of education that deserves question : How large a percentage of the recent
to be called liberal, is nothing less than an edu- graduates of any of our colleges would be likely
cational scandal. Professor Wilbur L. Cross of to understand them? There is nothing recon-
Yale has just given us a striking illustration of dite about either of them; yet we have a dark
that ignorance in the case of the English Bible. suspicion that neither the name of Rabelais
“Not long ago,” he says, “to recall an extreme nor that of Lavoisier has any associations at
case, not one of forty students under
my
instruc all for the average modern man who has been
tion could quite place Judas Iscariot; and a through the college mill and received the acad-
venerable colleague of mine discovered a Jew emic certification that comes at the end of the
among the seniors who had never heard of
Moses.” We have had much other testimony The melancholy exhibits which have just been
to similar effect of late years, and it seems fairly presented might be multiplied indefinitely
evident that the Bible, which is perhaps the far beyond the point at which they would still
greatest single source of liberal culture for be capable of raising even a smile. Where
English readers, has become a sealed book to a shall the responsibility for them be fixed ? We
large fraction of the present generation. The doubt if it is to be fixed at all in
any very defi-
Greek and Latin classics are in like case, and nite way. Certainly it would be unjust to
the best part of English literature is fast grow- charge it all to the account of the colleges.
ing unintelligible even to those of our young They do about the best they can with the plas-
readers who have enjoyed what are euphemisti- tic material placed in their hands for moulding,
cally called educational advantages. Upon this and should rest under no severer indictment
point we may quote Professor Grant Showerman than that of fostering a confused sense of values,
of Wisconsin, who informs us of students who and conducting an educational scheme in which
have told him that
there are far too many loose ends. The lower
“The Centaurs and Chimæras were German tribes schools come in for some share of the censure,
conquered by Augustus, called Dolabella the goddess and the parents for some further share. But
of peace, Aristides the goddess of the chace,' Andro-
the evil must in large measure be ascribed to
mache a Greek hero at Troy, Astyanax an island some-
where in the Mediterranean,' and defined Soractus
the general conditions of American life, to the
as an intimate friend of Horace to whom he expounded ideals which are in the air, to the prevailing
the carpe diem idea. According to one of them, · Pil incentive of commercialism, and to the countless
grim's Progress' was one of the sources of New influences that encourage the frivolous disposi-
England history. A single set of examination papers
yielded the edifying information that Penelope was the
tions of the young and discourage the develop-
Muse of history, the wife of Achilles, the Trojan Helen
ment of their serious aptitudes. Against the
stolen by Agamemnon, the goddess of wine, mirth, and pressure of the spiritually-enervating environ-
the like, the mother of Proserpine, one of the Muses ment to which our youth is almost everywhere
who presided over lyric poetry, and a kind of wine-jar." exposed, it is little more than a vain resistance
We should be inclined to
say
that
many
stu that may be offered by the school or the college.
dents nowadays get from their college life little The young man joins in the game, and plays it
but educational disadvantages. They are advised with zest, but the cards are stacked against him,
that “sociology” is as good as history, and take and he loses steadily without discovering the
to it greedily; they learn French through the reason until it is too late for him to recoup.
medium of trivial fiction, and never hear of The moral of it all seems to be that our mod-
Bossuet and Racine; they absorb themselves in ern society has thought to relieve itself of


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educational responsibility by multiplying the impudence of little children asking for bread, receive a
So much for enlarging their acquaintance
mere machinery of education, forgetting the gold brick.
all-important fact that the ordering of the daily authorship, a seminary for literary inspiration, could be
with great men and great ideas." Whether a school for
life, most of which is spent perforce outside of planned and conducted with less disappointing results
academic walls, is the controlling factor in the than the graduate courses above referred to, is a ques-
shaping of intellect and character alike. tion. Perhaps a thoughtful reading of Stevenson's
“ Apology for Idlers” might help one to an answer.
Meanwhile, let us ask, can we by any stretch of the
imagination think of our great creative authors as hav-
ing fitted themselves for their work in a graduate
CASUAL COMMENT.
school ? Would any number of years in such a school
have inspired Poe to write “ The Raven," or Whitman
VACATION-PLANNING BY BOOK AND TIME-TABLE may “Leaves of Grass,” or Mark Twain “ The Adventures
seem a rather cold-blooded performance, likely to take of Huckleberry Finn," or Bret Harte « The Luck of
much of the zest and charm from one's summer holiday Roaring Camp”? How to express oneself correctly is
at the very start. In vacation time all trammels are
a matter of elementary education; but creative authors
irksome---at least until one is old enough to have learned
are born, not made in graduate schools.
that one's own unregulated impulses and whims are the
worst of tyrants. At this season of the year many THE FUNCTION OF THE LITERARY JOURNAL is vari-
public libraries make a point of placing on open shelves ously conceived. Some think it is to promote the
and tables a collection of railway guides, summer-resort reading of the best that is written in the world to-day;
booklets, books on camping, canoeing, fishing, and itin and others say it is to serve as the busy man's short-cut
eraries of various kinds, so that their patrons may intel to a knowledge of what the teeming presses are produc-
ligently plan their summer outings. The current issue
ing, and to save him the time and trouble of readiug
of the “ Bulletin of the Grand Rapids Public Library” the books themselves. A literary journalist's notion of
calls attention to its display of such material, and those
the matter is well given in a passage from Mr. Frederic
whose wanderlust is willing to be regulated and controlled C. Brown's recent address at Atlantic City on “Literary
will profit by a visit to the library, if it lies within their
Journalism in Theory and Practice.” The literary
reach. And not only can they learn where to go for journal, in a quiet way,” he believes, “is influencing the
their vacation, but also, if they are young enough to be people who think. Many centuries ago Plato showed
able still to profit by such advice, they can learn at
us how, by a process of percolation, profound results of
the same library where to go to school or college or
the thinkers ultimately descend upon the non-thinkers.
university when their vacation is over; for we read in
Is it not fair to maintain, then, that lacking so much
the same issue of the Bulletin that “the Library has that goes to make up commercial success, the literary
gathered a very large collection of school and college journal, by revising and shaping and helping the scholas-
catalogues and other literature which will help to solve
tic life of America, is going a long way toward that
this question.” What human needs, we wonder as we intellectualism which is the salvation of any people ?
read of the manifold activities of the libraries of our
Moreover, if the literary journal stand without much
broad land, will these beneficent institutions ere long not financial gain and without blatant success to urge it on
be able to meet?
a yellow way, and yet manages somehow and somewhere
GRADUATE SCHOOLS FOR LITERARY WORKERS have
to rebuke the impatience of modern, rushing commer-
been proposed and much written about and talked about cialism, is it not, after all, well worth while?'
of late. Foremost among the favorers of such schools
is the energetic and enterprising editor of “The World's THE EVOLUTION OF "THE METROPOLIS" must be of
Work,” who appears to be seriously in earnest in urging interest to many out of the thousands now reading and
that the cause of creative literature can be served by discussing Mr. Upton Sinclair's latest sensation. In an
placing our would-be great authors on a bench in a open letter he relates the many opportunities he has had
class-room and putting them through a prescribed course for acquainting himself with the ways of the worshippers
of studies and exercises and lectures and examinations. of mammon. His early associations and later experience
But, says one who evidently knows whereof he speaks, seem to have qualified him to make his picture true to
those who every year come from the remoter corners of life, without resorting to any of the questionable methods
our country to take post-graduate courses in the great that some of his critics have assumed, and without grind-
universities, ardently seeking after the best that has ing his colors in the mill of his own mind, as others have
been thought and said in the world, “are bidden to charged him with doing. He says, among much else of
provide themselves with an adding machine to count an autobiographic nature: “I had, of course, many oppor-
the occurrence of fish' and 'flesh' in the poetry of the tunities of getting into touch with social life in under-
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; they are asked to ground ways (some of which are described]. . . . I
hearken to the vowels and consonants singing together chose a much more obvious way of getting my material,
through the Dark Ages; they are invited to embrace the so obvious, perhaps, that few would have thought of it.
inspiring relics of the Gothic gospels; they are inducted I sat down and wrote personal letters to the people I
into the physiology of the vocal organs; they are set wished to meet. I told them frankly just what I intended
astride an enchanted booomstick and sent chasing to do, and I said that I should like to make their acquaint-
Cuchulinn through the Celtic moonshine. Seriously, ance. I said that I had talked with many people in get-
there is nothing more pathetic in the world than the ting material for my work, and that I had never violated
sight of the ardent and aspiring souls from Utah, Oregon, a confidence, nor dropped the remotest hint as to the
Texas, and the isles of the sea, who come up to the source of my information. I said that I would like to
graduate schools, and, in the faith and heart-ravishing meet them privately and explain my purposes to them.


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In about three-fourths of the cases the result of this
was that I met the person I wanted to meet.” Refuting
the charge that his pictures of club life have been taken
from the cafés, he says: “I have lived in New York City
off and on for eighteen years, and in that time I have
been in just exactly one café. I do not know the taste
of liquor, and I have never smoked tobacco, nor even
drunk a cup of coffee. Living as a solitary student and
hack-writer in lodging house garrets, I have been in and
out and around the Tenderloin a good deal, but I never
even realized what it was until a couple of years ago,
when I began my study of the life of New York. . .
As to the clubs, I have at various times been a guest of
the Authors, the Players, the Century, the Union League,
the Lotos, and the Metropolitan.” In reply to the charge
of having incorporated newspaper yarns in his novel, he
admits that “ several of these items were gathered from
newspapers, but so far as 95 per cent of the contents of
the book is concerned, it has come directly from the lips
of persons who themselves have taken part in what they
described, and I should say that 60 per cent of it I have
seen with my own eyes." Mr. Sinclair has even sat down
to a “tospy-turvy lunch ” — not in a Long Island road-
house, however, but near New Rochelle.
THE COMPARATIVE GREATNESS OF GOETHE AND
SHAKESPEARE in tragedy can hardly be discussed
without noticing how completely Goethe was saturated
with the works of his predecessor. He took Iago from
one play, and the worst part of Hamlet's character from
another. He borrowed Ophelia bodily. Has it ever
been noted how closely Marguerite follows the pattern
of Ophelia ? Each is a comparatively humble maiden
wooed by a superior. There is the possible seduction
in Hamlet and the certain one in Faust. Ophelia's sug-
gestive mad-song is echoed in Faust. The two girls are
sisters in modesty, gentleness, and submissive worship
of their lovers. To both come madness and death.
Goethe lifted his Witches' Kitchen from Macbeth, and
the Walpurgis Night is at least suggestive of the
Midsummer Night's Dream. Auerbach's Cellar is
reminiscent of the Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap; and
Dame Martha might have been studied from Mrs.
Quickly or Juliet's Nurse. All this does not exhaust
the tale of Goethe's borrowings. To Marlowe he was
indebted for the whole idea of his work; and the first
scene of Faust in his study, particularly the opening
soliloquy, is full of the English poet. The Helena
theme of the second part also came from him. From
Calderon's Magico Prodigioso, Goethe absorbed a great
deal. From the Hindoo drama in general and Sakun-
tala in particular he took the idea of the Theatre
Prologue. And from the Book of Job he got the
Prologue in Heaven. Truly, a splendid assortment of
borrowed trappings. Yet the originality of Faust is
unquestionable, and it holds up its head among its
fellows in literature in spite of the fact that it owes
something to almost all of them.
at the twenty-ninth Annual Conference of the American
Library Association that grave and reverend body en-
joyed an unexpected parthenogenesis (vide Isaiah ix., 6).
This mild protest against the solemnity into which the
profession has fallen — its tendency to forget that we
are, after all, mere retailers of Tinned Humanity . .
and that the books we pass out belong, after all, to the
Public, and not to us' -- is christened the Bibliosmiles,
a rally of Librarians who are Nevertheless Human.' Its
object is to keep the bookdust off our own top shelves.'
Membership is limited to thirty. All the official insignia
of fraternalism are provided for. There will be annual
meetings at the conference of the A. L. A. The motto
of the order is (Virgil to date). Homo Sum- and Then
Some.'” But just why the birth of this interesting off-
spring of grave and reverend parentage is called a
“parthenogenesis " rather than, for example (if we may
coin the word), a "gerontogenesis," is somewhat less
clear than crystal, even with Isaiah to sharpen one's
vision.
THIS BRIEF SPAN OF LIFE seems, by a curious con-
tradiction, the briefer the older we grow. « Even at
eighty-nine," said Mrs. Julia Ward Howe on her next-
to-ninetieth birthday celebration last month,“ individual
life is very short. We cannot do too much in the time
we have.
At my age one spends much time in remin-
iscences. When I remember the events of fifty and
sixty years ago, the cold welcome given those who cham-
pioned the cause of anti-slavery and of woman's suffrage,
how they were elbowed out of the
way
when I
remember that, and then see these very things adopted
in the ordinary programme of progress, I think life is
miraculous. I have learned that much about it, if
nothing else. This is a time of great light and progress.
Things that sixty years ago only philosophers and saints
dreamed of, we, who are neither philosophers nor saints,
talk about calmly to-day.” This was at a luncheon
tendered her by the New England Woman's Club, of
which she is president. With the eager attention of
nineteen rather than eighty-nine, she listened to all the
speeches, gayly applauded the witticisms, and acknowl-
edged each tribute of praise with a gracious bow.
Heartily she joined in the singing of “Auld Lang
Syne," and hers was the first voice to start the second
stanza. Thus she is pictured to us by one who was
present. Her closing words, which met with emphatic
dissent from her assembled friends, were these: “I take
a good bit off the corner of all these fine things I've
heard about myself. I'm sorry to say, ladies and
gentlemen,” shaking her head sadly, “that I know
better.”
QUALIFICATIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL JOURNALISM are
acknowledged to be many and varied, but a new one is
rather amusingly emphasized in a Baltimore editor's
free and easy reply to a North Carolina aspirant to
journalistic honors. “A good literary style," writes the
experienced newspaper man, “is less essential than a
good digestion. The journalist must be able to digest
anything and nothing. He must be able to go three
days without food. The accidents and catastrophes
which make up the news of the world have no regular
office-hours. They happen at any old time, day or
night. When they break loose the journalist must pro-
ceed to record them, and he must stick to the task until
they are recorded. As a result he must learn to stretch
the hiatus between lunch and dinner until it attains
the dignity of a geological epoch." As to rapidity of
.
THE “ BIBLIOSMILES," a merry offshoot of the serious
and dignified American Library Association, receive a
sort of official recognition in the current report of the
Los Angeles Public Library. « This annual," says the
librarian, Dr. Charles F. Lummis, “ has none of the
exigencies of journalism; but it would be a pity for it to
lose a “scoop 'ready to its hand — since no other library
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promotion and the time required for reaching the top of a commonplace nature, such as one hears tried every
of the ladder, this painfully conscientious editor says : day, it is much as if it were a quarrel between Magna
“The question has interested us very much, and we Charta and the Bill of Rights." To a distant and im-
bave lain awake several nights figuring upon an answer. partial on-looker, unendowed with legal acumen, the
Working it out carefully after consulting more than whole affair presents itself in a very plain light. The
2,000 journalists and with the aid of the table of Letters of Queen Victoria, interesting though they may
logarithms, the United States census reports for the be to the English public, are not a necessary of life; and
period 1820–1900, and all available dream books, we if their authorized publisher chooses to put a handsome
have settled
upon
265.7645364827 years.
We
may
be price on them, the poor man may regret it, but, not being
wrong about the decimals, but the 265, we are sure, is under the slightest compulsion to buy, it is absurd for
reasonably correct.” The higher positions in journalism him to cry out, as did Artifex, “ Now, sir, these figures
are well known to be filled by men unreasonably averse . . spell simple extortion.” The figures spell more than
to dying or resigning, but their tenacity of office and of most of us like to spend on even a queen's correspondence;
life has never been so startlingly revealed as it is by an but to say that our pockets have been wrung is a misuse
intelligent study of the foregoing figures.
of language.
THE FUNCTION OF THE LIBRARY BULLETIN is well
THE WIRELESS WAY OF TYPESETTING, if what we conceived and aptly expressed in the initial number of
hear is true, may relieve the present linotype operator “ The Library Guide,” an attractive little periodical
of a part of his burden. Mr. Hans Knudsen, the issued by the Aurora (III.) Public Library. “Compara-
Danish inventor, after achieving fame in liquid air, tively few," says the editor (whom we safely assume to
now proposes to add to his glory by his mastery of the be Mr. James Shaw, the librarian), “know the extent of
properties of non-liquefied air. Or, to be more specific, the riches contained even in a small library. A remark
by means of electric waves generated in the atmosphere we frequently hear is, “Why, I did not know you had
by methods known to wireless telegraph experts, he that book in the library.' Hundreds of books are on the
declares himself able to set type in an ordinary linotype shelves, equally unknown to the general reader, books
machine in Paris (let us say), the inventor himself being possessing vitality and interest, whose pages have power
in London. “I shall publicly demonstrate my new wire to touch life deeply, to brighten, beautify, and broaden
less typesetting invention," is the Dane's interesting it, to make it more enjoyable as well as more useful.”
announcement (as reported in the press),“ within a few The aim proposed by the Aurora "Guide" is to make
weeks. I have already had the first machine con more widely known, and more often and more intelli-
structed, and it proved successful, setting three thou gently read, the books bought and to be bought and
sand words an hour, at a distance, just as if the operator undeserving of the dust and repose to which so many
were working the machine. The time is not faf distant accessions are condemned by a too incurious public. The
when, with my invention, the London correspondents of explanatory comments sprinkled through the « List of
the New York newspapers will be able to send their New Books brief and to the point, and other
news straight to the printing press through the Mar matter, including a picture of the well-filled Children's
coni operator.” And perhaps more astonishing still: Room, contributes to the interest of this promising
“I claim I can send pictures wherever Marconi can publication.
send messages. Within a short time I shall be sending THE FRENCH NOVEL IN FRANCE would almost seem to
pictures of criminals and finger prints from England to be in less demand than abroad. A Paris correspondent
New York.” Puck's putting a girdle round the earth of the New York “ Evening Post ”finds reason to believe
in forty minutes has long since come to be regarded as that “there must be in France a relatively larger num-
the work of a bungler; but now that Mr. Knudsen is ber of readers of books which are not novels, for cer-
going to put an illustrated newspaper (will it be illus tainly the predominance of fiction during the publishing
trated in colors, we wonder ?) from London to New York
season is not so great in Paris as in London or New
in the twinkling of an eye, poor Puck will wish the
York.” It has long been deeply regretted, by those
fertile brain of his creator had never given him birth. concerned for the fair fame of French writers, that the
yellow-covered novel of a certain familiar type should
MR. JOHN MURRAY AND THE LONDON “TIMES" be so much demanded by non-French readers, and that
have been enjoying a little legal tilt in the King's Bench French literature as a whole should be so thoughtlessly
Division of the High Court of Justice, before Mr. Justice and unjustly judged and condemned by alien censors
Darling and a special jury, and the publisher has won whose knowledge of that literature extends, perhaps, not
(to the extent of £7500 damages) from the newspaper. further than a second-hand impression of the inferior
This litigation, which may be regarded as a closing skir fiction manufactured it may be) for export.
mish in the great “ book war” whose cannon-thunders
have echoed round the world, owes its cause to a London HISTORIC WINCHESTER'S NEW LIBRARY BUILDING
“ Times ” letter, signed “ Artifex,” which charged Mr. had its corner-stone laid on the 28th of May. We refer
Murray with practising extortion in placing so high a to Winchester, Virginia, and to the fine Handley Library,
price (£3 3s.) on the Queen Victoria Letters. The quar the gift of the late Judge John Handley, that is soon to
rel is little more edifying than are most libel suits, but adorn that city. It is reported that $200,000 will be
its peculiarity and its special significance to both sellers expended in erecting the building, and that it will be
and buyers of books make it deserving of at least a pass 66 one of the handsomest edifices in the State.” It is
ing note. As Mr. Justice Darling said in his summing with unusual satisfaction that we note this evidence of
up of the evidence, — “It is a very unusual action in library activity in one of our Southern states. If in the
many respects, particularly because of the parties to it. past less than justice has been done to that part of our
It is not too much to say that The Times and the house broad land, in these occasional comments on library mat-
of Murray are practically institutions of the country. I ters, it is pleasant to hail this sympton of a literary re-
cannot help feeling that so far from its being an action | awakening in the Old Dominion.
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The Mew Books.
in 1902. These four periods, while not exclu-
sive of one another, are dominated each by
special interests that are roughly indicated by
“ A PERFECT WOMAN, NOBLY PLANNED."*
the four designations chosen by the biographer.
A more sympathetic and satisfying portrayal Externally, the early life is limited by conditions
of a beautiful character could not be imagined that may be regarded as commonplace enough;
than Professor Palmer's “Life of Alice Freeman but it is not our opportunities, it is the use we
Palmer.” Fifteen years of happy married life, make of them that counts. Alice Freeman took
following and continuing a friendship that had her life in her own hands, and, with restricted
ripened during Alice Freeman's presidency of means and a rather frail physique to contend
Wellesley, brought the two into so close an against, shaped it into a thing of beauty and of
intimacy, without merging their separate individ- power. Characteristic of her was her early de-
ualities, that no better equipped biographer could termination, in the face of much opposition, to go
have been desired for this wonderfully interest to college in the days when college education
ing and brilliant woman whose untimely death for girls was an experiment frowned upon by the
was so great a loss to her countless friends and majority. Her choice of far-away Ann Arbor,
admirers and to the noble causes she so valiantly because there she could have the same instruc-
championed. But though her life was compara tion and receive the same degree as male stu-
tively short, covering as it did less than half a dents, shows the stuff she was made of.
century, the work of that life cannot be said to In this connection her views on co-education
have been left unfinished at her death. So alive are of interest. While President Hall and
was Mrs. Palmer, while she did live, that her other educators are fearing a feminization of
achievement, even when at thirty-two she relin- schoolboys and college youths, and are demand-
quished her college presidency, was something ing more exclusively male influences both in the
astonishing. What quality it was in her that teacher's chair and in the student associates,
made possible so speedy attainment of great ends Mrs. Palmer continued to the end a firm be-
must remain a mystery; hers was a nature that liever in co-education. In her opinion, says her
had in large proportion the baffling element of husband, the natural association of girls with
genius. Her biographer himself says in his boys in interests of a noble sort tends to broaden
Introduction :
their vision, to solidify their minds, and to
“ I cannot explain it. Probably genius is never expli remove much that is hectic and unwholesome
cable. The more nearly it is examined, the more intri from the awakening instincts of sex. In the
cately marvellous it appears. Fifteen years of closest
words of Professor Hale of Chicago, as quoted
companionship with Mrs. Palmer did not disclose to me
the pulse of that curious machine. She always remained by the biographer,
by the biographer, “ It was Mrs. Palmer's con-
a surprise. Yet I never tired of studying her; for viction that the normal form of education for
though we seldom can fully comprehend a person, in both sexes is that in which the natural relations
studying one who is great we can push analysis farther
- begun in the life of the home and the neigh-
than elsewhere and with larger entertainment and pro-
fit; we discover a multitude of ingredients unsuspected
borhood, continued for the great majority in the
at first; and, most interesting of all, we come upon
life of the school, and inevitably existing in the
strange modes of turning trivial things to power and of later social life are carried without break
gaily discarding what men usually count important. And through the four years of higher intellectual
even when at last we arrive at what defies analysis, being work. She may have been right or she
may
have
the very individuality itself, its beautiful mystery still
lures us on and—like Keats's Grecian Umn-enlargingly been wrong ; but that such a woman, with her
* teases us out of thought.'”
personal experience of Ann Arbor, of Wellesley,
The rich and beneficent life of this woman
of Radcliffe, and of Harvard, should have held
falls into four chief divisions, in the biog- this belief is a fact to be reckoned with."
rapher's treatment of it: first, what he calls her In the things of religion, no less than in those of
family life, from her birth in 1855 at Colesville, education, Mrs. Palmer always thought for her-
Broome County, N. Y., to her entering Windsor
self. Her faith was of the orthodox complexion,
Academy in 1865; second, the expansion of her but she held it not as a mere matter of conven-
powers, up to her graduation from Michigan tion, but from personal conviction. A paragraph
University in 1876; third, her service to others, from a college letter to her mother illustrates
extending to her marriage in 1887; and last, this side of her character. The letter was writ-
the expression of herself, ending with her death
ten in a moment of considerable perplexity,
when lack of money was about to force the
Palmer. Illustrated. Boston: Houghton, Mimin & Co.
writer to discontinue for a while her course at
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Ann Arbor and undertake the principalship of her part in organizing the great World's Colum-
the high school at Ottawa, Illinois. This step bian Exposition, and her share in other works
she took without consulting her parents, though of philanthropy too numerous to mention
she was not twenty years old at the time. are matters of recent history and need not be
“ If you can help me through this year I will try as dwelt on here. As a pleasing picture of her in
best I may to take up the paddle and push my own canoe her happy comradeship with her husband, let
afterwards. Whatever comes, dear mother, I know is
best for me. It is all right. Still, I believe God helps
us quote a passage referring to their favorite
only those who help themselves. I shall try to do my
method of touring Europe together in the
part, and I fully expect He will do the rest. . . . So I “sabbatical years” that gave variety to their
am waiting and trusting and working just as hard as I university life.
can while the day lasts. Don't make yourself unhappy
“ The sport of bicycling suited Mrs. Palmer's passion
nor let any of the rest do so. Why should you when
for independence as did little else. Ready as her sym-
He has said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and all things pathies regularly were, she was no less ready, when the
shall be added. If our Father wants me to go through burden of the world became oppressive, to throw them
college, I know I shall go; and if He does n't, I don't want
all aside. Then she would renew herself in utter free-
to. That is the end of it. Meanwhile I am planning and
dom and isolation, afterwards coming forth ardently
thinking. If it comes to anything, I will report."
social again. In her the child and the responsible
The personal influence — or magnetism, as woman were ever amusingly combined. It was the
some would call it -- of this gifted and forceful former that steered when she sat on her bicycle. At
the call of the white road she felt all ties to be cut.
woman must be made to explain many of her
The world was all before her where to choose. She
marvellous achievements. When, at the age of
could turn to the right or left, could feel the down-
twenty-six, she was appointed acting president of pressed pedal and the rushing air, could lie in the shade
an appointment that led by the roadside, visit a castle, dally long at luncheon,
naturally to the presidency in the following gather grapes or blackberries from the field, stop at
year she was in doubt whether her young
whatever small inn might attract at night, and for days
shoulders could bear so heavy a burden. Her together commune rather with nature than with man.
final action shows her compelling influence on for Paedere the fullest, sense of independence, we sent
others and her quick resourcefulness. The story designed a soft bag for the bicycle which would hold
is best told in the words of the book.
supplies for three weeks. We made our nights long,
beginning to ride about half-past nine in the morning
“I have already shown the necessarily disturbed con-
dition of the college in these early years. There were
and ending in time for the bath and rest before dinner.
now fears of trouble from the more than usually ani-
We rode slowly, avoiding records of more than forty
miles a day, and dismounting at every colorable excuse;
mated senior class. They had intimations of the election
almost as soon as Miss Freeman learned it herself, and
our rule for hills being that wherever a horse should
walk, we would.”
were much elated over the prospect of being ruled by a
president but little older than themselves. When Miss The letters and unpublished poems of Mrs.
Freeman returned to her rooms, she sent for this class. Palmer are drawn upon to complete the picture
They came in a body, filling with their merry presence of her life and mind, her temperament and
all her chairs, tables, and floor. She told them she had
sympathies. A set of verses entitled “ The
called them together because she needed their advice.
She had been asked that day to become acting president
Butterfly some of its lines suggestive of
of Wellesley. She was too young for the office. Indeed, Tennyson, and perhaps not unworthy of him -
its duties were too heavy for anyone. If she must meet is especially pleasing.
them alone, she would have to decline. But it had oc-
curred to her that perhaps they would be willing to take
“ I hold you at last in my hand,
part with her, looking after the order of the college them-
Exquisite child of the air.
selves, and leaving her free for general administration.
Can I ever understand
If they were ready to undertake this, she thought she
How you grew to be so fair ?
might accept. Of course the response was hearty. They
“ You came to my linden tree
voted themselves her assistants on the spot, and difficult
To taste its delicious sweet,
indeed it was for any member of the three lower classes
I sitting here in the shadow and shine
to stray from the straight path that year.”
Playing around my feet.
The various useful activities into which Mrs.
“ Now I hold you fast in my hand,
Palmer threw herself after her marriage and her
You marvellous butterfly,
settlement in Cambridge - her service on the
Till you help me to understand
Massachusetts Board of Education, her presi-
The eternal mystery.
dency of the Woman's Education Association, “ From that creeping thing in the dust
of the Woman's Home Missionary Association,
To this shining bliss in the blue !
and of other like bodies, her work as non-resident
God give me courage to trust
Dean of Women at Chicago University, where
I can break my chrysalis too !”
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a name for herself in literature, had she so age of rhetoric, the old bondage of exteriority,”
desired, cannot be doubted ; but when her hus to substitute the language of the spirit for the
band remonstrated with her for building no language of the flesh ; that it was a call to the
literary monument to her memory, and added, soul long starved on the husks of materialism or
“ When you are gone people will ask who you confined in the mud-walled prisons of extreme
were, and nobody will be able to say,” she realism ; that it was a recognition of mystery
replied: “Well, why should they say? I am and a yearning for the infinite. It was there-
trying to make girls wiser and happier. Books fore our duty to understand. But what did it
do n't help much toward that. They are enter all mean? Blind faces huddled together and
taining enough, but really dead things. Why half seen through grudging windows ; a child
should I make more of them? It is people that weeping in a lonely tower on a dreary strand;
count. You want to put yourself into people ; a sister sobbing with arms outstretched toward
they touch other people; these, others still, and a relentless door, while her idolized brother is
so you go on working forever.' So little thirst pitilessly done to death beyond the wall at the
had she for posthumous fame.
behest of a mysterious queen, — all of these
The chief value to us now of Mrs. Palmer's appeals stirred our emotions, but not seldom
life, and of her husband's record of it, lies in each of us read a different meaning in the sym-
the renewed sense it imparts of the richness and bol. How beit, when we grew fainthearted we
worth of this our mortal existence of the end remembered that after all Symbolism was a
less opportunities that lie ever open to us if we phase, an expression, of Mysticism, and that all
will but shake off our sloth and our bondage to lofty imaginations were marked by a mystic
convention. Laziness and conventionality Mrs. element. Our memories drifted back to the
Palmer hated above all else, and she early heaven-scaling myths of Plato ; and we recalled
became convinced that most people are only half the teachings of Emerson, with his reiterated
awake. In the diffidence and self-searching with admonitions against literalism and earthliness.
which Professor Palmer has approached the task
Even the cold scientific voice of Pasteur rang
of preparing a biography, in any degree satis in our ears : “How wretched are they who have
factory, of his eminently gifted wife, we read at only clear ideas!” Ever we felt that we might
the outset fair promise of success in his difficult be holding in our hands a golden key to a
undertaking ; and we close the book feeling that glorious treasure ; and ever we feared that the
no one could better have discharged this debt fault must lie within ourselves. But now we
of love. It is a biography of unusual interest may quote Aglavaine's suggestive avowal that
just now, and it is safe to predict that it will “ there is nothing more beautiful than a key, as
interest future generations of readers to whom long as we do not know what it opens,” and we
Alice Freeman Palmer's name may be unknown. are no longer quite so prone to blame ourselves.
It has a human appeal and a literary charm and Nay, we have lived to be able to write down these
finish that combine to make it almost an ideal words from the lips of Maeterlinck the essayist,
book of its kind.
PERCY F. BICKNELL. who is constantly needed as a commentator on
Maeterlinck the dramatist.
“ Is the poet's duty not rather to furnish an explana-
tion loftier, clearer, more widely and profoundly human
THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT IN
than any his reader can find for himself? It is time
that the poet should realize that the symbol is legitimate
LITERATURE.*
only when it stands for accepted truth, or for truth
“ Je sais bien que je ne puis comprendre
which as yet we cannot or will not accept; but the
et cependant je sais qu'il faut comprendre.” | symbol is out of place at a time when it is truth itself
Readers of Maeterlinck will recognize the dazed
that we seek. And besides, to merit admission into a
really living poem, the symbol should be at least as
of Sélysette, who is trying to do her great and beautiful as the truth for which it stands, and
part in a superhuman effort of three characters should, moreover, precede this truth, and not follow a
to convince themselves that the perfect triangle long way behind.”
of love may include three right angles ; and this With some such concession it becomes possi-
mingling of bewilderment and struggle is not ble to assign Symbolism its legitimate field and
far from the mood begotten in many of us by function. For the majority of us, life is made
our first contact with Symbolism. We felt up of the day's work in some form or other, of
that it was an attempt to evade“ the old bond- trivial pleasures and ordinary pains, and finally of
our closer association with the mystery of things.
The three divisions naturally vary as to relative
loving cry
* THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT IN LITERATURE. By Arthur
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6 the
.
importance with almost every individual, even disdain ordinary channels of communication in
as they vary from time to time in the individual favor of the soul-message of figure and metaphor.
himself. Naturally, too, they interact and are Herewith, if a little presumption be allowed
not ultimately separable. Roughly speaking, us, we may hope that we have touched upon
however, the partition is valid, despite the myste some of the straying tendencies of the modern
riousness of the commonplace and the occasional Symbolist movement as seen in French litera-
commonplaceness of what seems the supreme ture during the last half-century. It is dis-
mystery. Even the most ordinary of us come at tinctly a revolt against Materialism ; but its
times very close to the final heights and depths, to advocates must not insist that no other form of
heaven or hell. We rise for a moment to the revolt can be beautiful and fruitful. In a prac-
level of the love of the woman who loves us ; tical age, it dwells laudably on the importance
we rebel with all frustrated spirits when we are of being and becoming as opposed to doing ;
torn from her and our dream. Or, in the brood and yet we cannot accept quite fully
ing stillness of some four walls that shut us from infinite insignificance of action.” Again, be-
the world, we seem to be borne out on the un cause every great writer has elements of mysti-
fathomable flow of time to eternity, until we cism in him, and uses myth or symbol when he
reach the realm where nothing is felt and noth-will, it is hardly fair to conclude that conscious
ing is real save the pulsations of the universe, and exclusive Symbolism should be made the
with which the throbbings of our own heart are whole of literature, or even that it represents
at one. In such a moment some of us are prone the only line of advance from the present
to feel that the mystery is solved, because we stage. Silence, if we care to be concessively
have realized that we are a part thereof; and a esoteric, may be the most eloquent language of
deep joy is shed over our being. But to others the soul, and the symbol may be nearer silence
of us the mystery appears only more transcend than the spoken word; but it does not follow
ental, more baffling, more (let us be honest in that a writer can be most effective by using
our heart of hearts) more bitter. The music only silences and symbols. Even between two
of the spheres to you may be a moan of pain to souls in perfect communion — to take the ex-
me. Howbeit, the true mystic, whether finding ample to which the Symbolists themselves con-
joy or pain, concludes that mystery is alike the stantly recur the ideal lover and the ideal
final reality and the only clarity; and it is a nat-beloved, life could not be always an unbroken
ural step to conclude that only by myth and sym- silence or its language limited to a caress. To
bol can soul speak to soul. Le style de l'école make literature untempered Symbolism, the
c'est la philosophie de l'école. But herewith deliberate Symbolism that shall be the whole
arises the old, old danger of emphasizing a part work and , not the great moment therein, is
until it becomes more than the whole ; and only equivalent to asking us to live always either in
the supreme leader is safe. The greatest writer blinding light or depressing gloom. “A chacun
is he who compasses alike the day's work with son infini” proclaims Villiers de L'Isle-Adam ;
out being filled by its soul-choking dust ; the and we glady acquiesce. But for most of us,
trivial pains and pleasures, without being lulled our infinity must still remember the day's work
in their benumbing circle ; and the highest and the lowly duties ; and literature must follow
mysteries, without losing himself in mysticism the steps of life or lose its only path to the
or ecstasy. To teach us about these things, he heights. In so far as Symbolism brings us to
will command every possibility of the world of a healthful and inspiring appreciation of the
the word. Symbolism will be a noble minister prophets who have redeemed the world, the
of his will. But he will use it as Plato used it, artists who have made the world beautiful, and
or Dante, or Shakespeare ; and in his loftiest the lovers who have quickened the pulses of the
soaring he will never quite lose from sight the world,” in so far as it helps us to live at our
every-day world beneath ; the winged steeds of finest intensity morally and æsthetically, we
his imagination will never quite escape the must heed its voice and acclaim its service. But
masterful rein. He will praise silence, as withal it must come for judgment to the bar of
Carlyle or Emerson praised it; but he will life, where so many movements find pitiless
speak to us by his word as well as by his reti- arbitrament.
cence, and will remember that Symbolism is an In any event, whatever be our attitude to the
approximation to the mysterious language of movement, we must find its history keenly in-
silence. Never will he make the symbol greater teresting; and when the account thereof comes
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the interest will for many be quickened into hard to return to the thought that Symbolism
delight. One may quarrel with this frankly too must have its frailties ; that it, like all other
partisan historian at whatever turn one will; work of man's hand, will show inequalities of
but his book remains exceptionally attractive craftsmanship; that the lives of its votaries
and enlightening. He has wisely chosen to fol have frequently been far from indicating its
low the development of the principle in France, saving grace; that the mystagogue has some-
" the country of movements,” although he sees times been hard to distinguish from the char-
it spreading over all Europe as the one quick- latan. Mr. Symons himself is prompt to
ening impulse in literature. As a result of this recognize that much of the output of the repre-
deliberate limitation, he is able to give a con sentatives of Symbolism has served no tangible
nected and not inadequate treatment of the purpose; but nevertheless his pages glow with
development of Symbolism in the hands of a hope and faith. Always, as you read, you wish
strangely diverse group of men. There could you could see with his eyes.
hardly be a more enlightening comment on the The beginning of the movement our histo-
potential inclusiveness of the movement than rian traces to Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855),
the depiction of its outworking in the actual although with him Symbolism was still com-
instances he has selected. The mad and dream- paratively unconscious. In this pathetic figure
ing Gérard de Nerval, the proud aristocratic any student of human nature must find grim
Villiers, the restless poet-trader-explorer Rim- food for thought. Living the transfigured life
baud, the sensual religious Verlaine, the gentle of the dreamer, but sinking often to the most
aspiring Maeterlinck, and the rest, — where
where flagrant bestiality, he wrote between intervals
could one find such representatives of another of madness, or even during the very onslaughts
literary movement? Where could one find of his malady. It is easy to be impatient with
another movement that should allow their kin his vagaries when he is sane ; but it is almost
ship with all their divergence ?
impossible not to weep over the waking dreams
Mr. Symons's introductory chapter is a bril- of his madness. It was with strange appropri-
liantly clever attempt to identify the new ateness that his insanity declared itself by his
Symbolist movement with the fundamental sym- | leading a lobster into the Palais Royal at the
bolism that has played so large a part in human end of a blue ribbon. "Because,' he said,
development. “Symbolism began with the first • it does not bark, and knows the secrets of the
words uttered by the first man, as he named sea.”)” But we must not mar for our readers
every living thing; or before then, in heaven, the picture drawn by Mr. Symons of this
when God named the world into being." A incredible writer, “ graceful and elegant when
little later, we find interwoven Carlyle's unfor he is sane ; but only inspired, only really wise,
gettable vindication : “ In the symbol proper, passionate, collected, only really master of him-
what we can call a symbol, there is ever more self, when he is insane." We are bound, how-
or less distinctly and directly some embodiment ever, to transcribe the estimate given as to his
and revelation of the Infinite, the Infinite is place in the movement we are discussing.
made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand “Gérard de Nerval, then, had divined, before all the
visible, and as it were attainable there.” Thus world, that poetry should be a miracle; not a hymn to
our guide leads us skilfully up to the logical beauty, nor the description of beauty, nor beauty's
obstacles of our colder moods, and winningly mirror; but beauty itself, the colour, fragrance and
form of the imagined flower, as it blossoms again out of
persuades us they are not there, until we are
the page. Vision, the over-powering vision, had come
almost ready to admit that in Symbolism we to him beyond, if not against, his will; and he knew
have set our feet
upon “the one pathway lead that vision is the root out of which the flower must
ing through beautiful things to eternal beauty,"
grow.
Vision had taught him symbol, and he knew
that it is by symbol alone that the flower can take vis-
and enabling literature “to come closer to
ible form. He knew that the whole mystery of beauty
humanity, to everything in humanity that may can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that
have begun before the world and may outlast while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness
it.” If we could read only Mr. Symons and
is not a necessary virtue."
not some of the Symbolist literature itself, we Here, if we follow Mr. Symons, begins the lit-
might believe that herein art and conduct and erature in which the visible world is no longer
the dream are at last brought into a glorious a reality, and the unseen world no longer a
harmony that at once simplifies and beautifies dream. With de Nerval arises that use of
these three elements of life which often appear words “ which create an atmosphere by the
so dissonant. From his glowing tribute it is actual quality of their syllables, as, according to
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the theory of Mallarmé, they should do, as in before us not a searching philosophical treatise,
the recent attempts of the Symbolists, writer but a delightful bit of literary history and
after writer has endeavored to lure them into æsthetic appreciation.
doing.” To him we may trace that striving A few pages of welcome “ Bibliography and
for the perfection of form that shall annihilate Notes” are appended. In the dedication to Mr.
form. In his lyrics we hear the preliminary W. B. Yeats, and in a list of “works by the
notes that foretell the 66 art of Verlaine in same author,” we are reminded that the original
bringing verse to a bird's song, the art of English edition appeared in 1899. The book
Mallarmé in bringing verse to the song of an is well printed, simply bound, and generally
orchestra.” In his dramatic writing, the stage tasteful.
F. B. R. HELLEMS.
is prepared for Villiers to make drama " the
embodiment of spiritual forces,” for Maeterlinck
to make it “not even their embodiment, but the
remote sound of their voices.” We may only THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.*
tarry long enough to query whether it is quite
A consideration of the personality of Dr.
certain that verse should be brought to the song Hoffman, author of “The Sphere of Religion,"
of a bird or an orchestra ; whether it is not
and of the institutions which he represents,
possible that the bird and the orchestra are
reveals a striking perspective. As compared
doing their parts fairly well, and that verse has
with his predecessor in the true apostolic (i.e.,
a function of its own; and whether the drama missionary) succession, he presents a notable
is really at its highest when it becomes only example of progress. No deeper or more inter-
the remote sound of the voices of spiritual esting change in men's religious thought, belief,
forces, as in some of the famous “ marionette
and life was probably ever wrought than that
plays. In any event, de Nerval seems to have
which has silently taken place within the last
made ready the mystic way to these mystic three decades. The Protestant Reformation,
extremes.
linked as it was with politics, economics, new
With Villiers (1838-1889), “the Don
“the Don trade routes, the rise and fall of governments,
Quixote of Idealism,” we come to the conscious
and the sweeping away of the survivals of feudal-
stage of the movement, with which most of us are
ism, was vastly more violent. The more modern
more familiar. In addition to authors mentioned change has been as the coming of morning light
elsewhere in the course of this notice, Mr.Symons
evolution without revolution. At Schenec-
treats Jules Laforgue, Stéphane Mallarmé, and tady, until the hour of his death in May, 1877,
“the later" Huysmans. With reference to the
Professor Tayler Lewis, past-master of Hebrew
last named, “who began by acquiring so aston-
and seventeenth-century orthodoxy, contended
ishing a mastery of description that he could valiantly for those notions of religion then
describe the inside of a cow hanging in a butcher's thought mighty to save, but which are now,
shop as beautifully as if it were a casket of jewels," without observation, melting into the infinite
we should like to enter upon a controversy ; but
In this year of grace behold a fellow
already we have gone beyond our allotted
space. elder in the same noble old Reformed Church
It is safe to say that almost every reader will
in the same city, Professor Lewis's successor in
share the reviewer's desire to fight it out on
the professorial chair at Union College, preach-
many points ; it is equally safe to say that those ing that man's religion develops as he himself
who quarrel most will not enjoy the book least. develops.” Axiomatic indeed, but hardly ac-
We have enjoyed it thoroughly, finding it stimu-cording to Dort. Again he writes :
lating and valuable. Our pleasure was greatly “ Even if we allow that every word in Scripture came
heightened by the style, which is worthy of the directly from the lips of the Almighty, no man could
spirit wherewith Mr. Symons approached his ever be more than probably certain that he correctly
subject; and that is saying much.
heard the words when they were uttered, or correctly
wrote them down, or correctly understood them after
We should point out, in conclusion, that the
they were written, either by themselves or in their mutual
volume must be taken for what it is.
relations. . . . All that the profoundest thinker can do
tains no systematic attempt to connect the for them is to establish their probable truthfulness."
modern Symbolist movement in literature with This is the author's comment on the Apostles'
the great mystics of other centuries or other creed, traditionally so called ; but it applies, he
spheres. Upon the relations between mysticism tells us, “ with equal force, to every creed in
and race-heredity it does not even touch, although
THE SPHERE OF RELIGION. By Frank Sargent Hoffman.
the
problem is fundamental. In short, we have
azure.
It con-
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Christendom and to every system of theology.
Two NEW STUDIES OF PETRARCH.*
i. Those who teach them are never justified
in urging their acceptance upon others on any
When the sixth centenary of Petrarch was
other ground.” Golden words from a repre-
celebrated, three years ago, there were pub-
sentative of that Church which had, on Manhat- lished a few noteworthy books — translations
tan in 1628, the first fully organized Protestant of his sonnets and interpretations of his life
church on this continent, and which carries as and work as one of the major apostles of the
historic impedimenta an enormous bulk of “ bal. | Renaissance. Since this impetus the interest
ance of probabilities”inherited from Athanasius has increased ; readers of all nationalities, who
and of mediæval tradition from the apostles, seek inspiration and delight from pure litera-
Guido de Bres, Ursinus, and the theologians ture, have responded to the products of this
of the State Church at Dordrecht. Yet these poet and humanist, and also have found pleas-
wise and sane words of Dr. Hoffman will be ure in the biographical studies by his devotees
acceptable to all churches. Let one read his
of earlier as well as more recent years.
Two
thirteen analyses and digests of the sacred books notable contributions of the current season re-
of Babylon, Egypt, India, and China; of Jewish, present an aftermath of research and inter-
Buddhist, and Christian literature ; of the teach- pretation, proclaiming the personal traits of
ings of Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Mrs. Eddy, Petrarch, his literary purposes, and his rank
and Madame Blavatsky, and judge whether this as adjudged by modern scholars.
man is not of the spirit of him who said, The brief study,“ Petrarch and the Ancient
“Other sheep have I, which are not of this World," by M. de Nolhac, curator of the
fold.” On his title-page he writes, “ Truth, by Palace of Versailles, is an expansion of an
whomsoever uttered, is from God.” Could any
address delivered by the author in this country,
sentiment be more truly Christian in spirit !
and now issued as a volume in “The Humanists'
This is a book that may best be judged by Library” from the Merrymount Press. It is
quotations. Thus its power is manifest. Dr. fitting that one who cherished and collected
Hoffman asks that
classic writings in their simple and beautiful
“Every student of theology take up the subject pre-
forms should have been thus honored by Mr.
cisely as he would every other science. .. We believe Updike in one of his finest examples of book-
that even the teachings of Jesus should be ... accepted making. The aim of this study is definite,
or rejected on the ground of their inherent reason-
a recognition of Petrarch's work as scholar and
ableness."
“ The view of today is that we get our ideas of God
humanist-poet “who revived once more the
from what we know of the universe about us and from worship of the Ancient World.” In accom-
what we know about ourselves.”
plishing this work for literature, Petrarch
“ God is all the time incarnating himself in human brought a mind of marked poetic sensibility
history. We cannot set any limits to his incarnation
to the study of the great masters of the clas-
in the future.”
In other words, what is in one century the artil- and keen raillery for all false science of his
sics, especially Virgil and Cicero. With scorn
lery of the church becomes its baggage in the day, with a sharp tongue and pen against all
next. The “sphere of religion,” then, is like charlatans, Petrarch was sometimes guilty of
the sphere of the air : it is all around us and
too great indifference towards contemporary
we are in it.
methods and leaders.
Thus in fewer than four hundred pages Dr.
Archæology and his-
tory, especially from the perspective of the
Hoffman shows his conception of the nature moralist, appealed to him both as a scholar and
of religion and its influence on civilization.
a poet.
“ Petrarch dreamed as a poet, and
“Religion is the key to history.” Crystal clear
wrote as a poet, even when he believed his
is the whole of this eminently sane and practical mission to be the restoration and reproduction
discussion. Even the man in the street" will
in his own books of the knowledge of the an-
want to finish the book. That it will be widely cients ; and that alone was enough to keep him
read is certain. Issuing from a thinker who is
from being a pedant, even when he paid the
prominently identified with one of the most con-
highest homage to pedantry.” An interesting
servative churches of honorable history, notable
and valuable portion of this book is devoted to
for its sanity and power, its simplicity, direct Petrarch's library and its gradual acquisition
ness, and grasp, the book is a landmark in the
history of religious thought.
PETRARCH AND THE ANCIENT WORLD. By Pierre de Nolhac.
"The Humanists' Library.” Boston: The Merrymount Press.
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS.
PETRARCH. His Life and Times. By H. C. Hollway-Calthrop.
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through personal quests and the aid of friends Among the earlier influences upon Petrarch, .
in many countries. With due emphasis the as emphasized by this biographer, was the en-
author recounts Petrarch's services to literature vironment of his childhood home on the Tuscan
through the discovery and preservation, with estate at Incisa. Although Arezzo chanced to
the aid of trained copyists under his direction, be his birthplace, he passed there only a few
of certain letters and discourses of Cicero. months of babyhood, while the first seven years
The second of our two biographical and of an impressionable boyhood were spent amid
critical studies is more detailed and ambitious. the beauties and melodies of Tuscany. Bologna,
It is excellent in its revealment of Petrarch’s Genoa, Florence, Rome, and other places of
temperament, of the vital influences of his en historical and romantic associations, played
vironment and friendships, and of the pictorial their parts in his mental and poetic growth.
story of his daily life at Vaucluse in activity as Two influences which contributed largely to his
host and in literary retirement. The author, happiness and temperamental development were
Mr. Hollway-Calthrop, is discriminating and his travels and his friends. He was, in truth,
conservative in his treatment of the various “always a wanderer,” yet he was also at times
aspects of the poet's life. Acknowledging his a hermit, a lover of the country, an earnest
obligations to earlier biographers — notably student, and a poet with such fixed and exalted
de Sade, Baldelli, Fracassetti, and Kærting aspirations that he well merited the Crown of
he casts aside some of the romantic suppositions Song" bestowed by the hands of King Robert
indulged by other biographers, and frankly per of Sicily.
mits the reader either to imagine or to leave The friends of Petrarch were many and of
in mystery the identity of the poet's mistress varied types -- popes and cardinals, statesmen
and the intimate details of Petrarch's relations
and political intriguers, men of erudition and
with her. He says :
" Who was Laura ?
women of sensuous charm. In his friendship
Frankly, we do not know. 'In all probability alike with Cardinal Colonna and Rienzi he
Petrarch purposely destroyed all marks of proved a fervid politician and a wise counsellor.
identification ; if this was his intention, his Of all his friendships, that with Boccaccio has
success was complete, and the riddle will prob- the greatest interest to literary students, and
ably never be answered with certainty.” That the younger man owed much of his development
Laura was only an allegorical term, however,
as poet to the cordial and stimulating friend-
as some would surmise, the author of this study ship of Petrarch. The two men were supple-
refuses to believe, in face of the evidence from mentary in their mental qualities, as Mr.
Petrarch's letters, and his notes in the Virgil | Hollway-Calthrop has thus indicated :
which was his constant companion and is now
“ The life of neither could be reckoned complete till
preserved in the Ambrosian Library at Milan. he had found his fellow. Petrarch had an anxious
Much effort has been made to show that Laura spirit; under every rose he looked for the thorn, and if
was the wife of Count Hugo de Sade ; but such
he failed to find it he vexed his soul with questioning
a claim rests largely on surmises and ingenious plucked the Rower and wore it with a gay assurance
whether it ought not to have pricked him. Boccaccio
if not forced interpretations. Yet if the identity that took no note of thorn-pricks. . . . They were alike
of Laura is hidden in secrecy, the author doubts in their enthusiasm for learning and in their indefati-
not that she was a real woman, and Petrarch gable industry, but they were alike in hardly anything
was desperately her lover.” Moreover, her else. Petrarch was incomparably the riper scholar, the
sounder critic; he had a more reasoned judgment, a
influence was paramount in unfolding his emo-
more cultivated taste; Boccaccio had the more fertile
tional and poetic nature, in raising his standards imagination, the brighter wit. Petrarch was lucid in
of thought and piety until he confessed in his argument, but apt to be prolix in narrative; Boccaccio
“ Secretum,” “ Through love of her I attained showed little talent for disquisition, but his was the
to love of God. It was she who reclaimed my
story-teller's inimitable gift.”
youthful spirit from all baseness.” Intellect By liberal quotations from Petrarch's letters,
ually, the youth became a man under the and through the testimony of friends, the biog-
influence of this passion, and the immature rapher gives a vivid impression of the life at
verses of “ Juvenalia” were destroyed by him Vaucluse, and of the lovable and regrettable
as insincere and unworthy, while the “Can- traits of the poet. He acknowledges frankly
zoniere," written under the stimulus of this love the errancy of Petrarch's disposition in dealing
and its memory, have given Petrarch an unques with Giovanni, his illegitimate and stubborn son
tioned place among the world's masters of love whose perverseness and idleness increased rather
songs and sonnets.
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.
.training of the father. Attention is given to spired by a stroll through a picture gallery. The
Petrarch's poem “ Africa,” which, although a second paper treats of “ The Mob Spirit in Litera-
failure artistically, is of value historically in
ture, ,” and divides the reading mob into the prole-
tracing the revival of learning. Historical stu-
tarian or dime-novel-reading section, the lower
dents are indebted also to his " Lives of Illus-bourgeois section, which is addicted to Albert Ross,
trious Men," consisting of thirty-one biographies, section, which reads such popular novelists as Win-
E. P. Roe, and the like, and the upper bourgeois
nearly one-half of the volume of seven hundred
ston Churchill, Charles Major, Thomas Dixon, Jr.,
and fifty pages being devoted to the life of
and Hallie Erminie Rives. This mob spirit is not
Cæsar.
admirable, and in Mr. Sedgwick's opinion, "if there
While this study of Petrarch is essentially a were critics, men of natural gifts and educated taste,
personal revelation of the man in the midst of experienced in the humanities, there would be no
political and literary associates, and in happy mob; for the condition of headlessness, of unguided-
retirement among his books and gardens at Vau-
ness, is essential to a mob. But there are no Amer-
cluse, there are some forceful sentences of criti ican critics, except Mr. Henry James, who confines
himself to a consideration of foreigners.” Rather
cal analysis upon his place as poet and humanist.
With characteristic caution, the true meaning of
severe, this, on American literary criticism, or what
passes as such. Moreover, even in Europe, in
his mission is thus stated :
England and in France, where it seems to be ad-
“When, therefore, we say that Petrarch founded
mitted that there are literary critics, the craze for the
Humanism and inaugurated the New Learning, we do
latest literary sensation is hardly less unrestrained
not mean that he created something out of nothing; we
than with us.
mean that he inspired ideas and modes of thought, which
In the third essay, on Mrs. Wharton,
preceding scholars had possessed in their own brains, but
the author does her scant justice in denying her
could not communicate to society at large.”
almost every excellence but “ cleverness.” To him
In actual scholarship, and in Latin compositions,
she is one who makes an effective display of what
has been studied up in books and museums and pic-
Petrarch was inferior to some of his contempo-
ture galleries, while on the deeper things of life she
raries and successors who are more directly con-
has little hold. Surely there are passages even in
nected with the Renaissance movement. He
her brilliantly successful “House of Mirth” that
sought not merely to revive study of the classics
show a more than superficial acquaintance with stern
but “to bring the world back to the mental realities. Other chapters, on educational, social, and
standpoint of the classical writers.” The lover bookish themes, follow; and the book closes with
of Petrarch will rejoice in this latest sympathetic
an ingenious political forecast entitled “The Coup
revelation of his personality, and the reader who
d'Etat of 1961.” The writer's ideals are high, and
first seeks acquaintance with the poet will find
his style that of a critic “of natural gifts and edu-
here a discriminating yet enthusiastic guide who
cated taste, experienced in the humanities"
has made good use of the material already pub- though he does deny the existence among us of any
lished and added several unfamiliar extracts from
Petrarch's frank and charming letters.
Followers of the fortunes of the
The play
ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE.
American drama will note with in-
terest the appearance in book form
of Mr. Percy Mackaye's new play, “ The Scare-
crow” (Macmillan). We do not suppose it can be
called a closet-drama, for it is undoubtedly meant
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
for the stage ; and yet we cannot speak of it as one
Examinations
On turning the very first leaf of Mr. sees it on the stage, for we do not even know
of life and Henry Dwight Sedgwick’s collected whether it has ever been acted. Considering the
literature.
pieces, “ The New American Type, book thus — with a thought of the stage, but still as
and Other Essays" (Houghton), one's attention is
we find a good deal of interest in it, but
pleasantly arrested. The dedication, “ To S. S. M., not quite as much as we should like.
A play, to
Amicæ Mirabili, Matri Admirabili, Socrui Incom be really successful, should, to our mind, have some
parabili,” with its cumulative praise expressed in import or significance in its idea. We do not mean
three successive adjectives in -bilis, each stronger that it should necessarily be a miracle-play, or a
than the preceding, is such a tribute to a mother-in- problem-play, or a symbolic-play; but it ought to
law as is not often met with in this naughty world have a subject that really interests people. And
in books at least. The “new American type " is this “ The Scarecrow” has. The conception of
the nervous, unreposeful type portrayed by Mr. Ravensbane as the incongruity between our real
Sargent, Mr. Thayer, Mr. Alexander, and other souls and our lofty pretensions or ideals, — that is
modern painters of American portraits, as contrasted something that is worth while. If it be well done,
with the self-satisfied, self-contained type seen in the people will be interested. In another quality of
canvases of Stuart and Copley. The essay was in the drama — namely, the being something that can
even
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the Church
be readily seen, that shall present its meaning
Functions and The Church of To-day is a subject
meanings of
strongly in terms of sight, — in this also Mr.
that offers so many phases — phases
Mackaye is successful, especially in Act I. And of To-day. so difficult of reconciliation and cap-
as to structure, another dramatic necessity, the playable of so much deficiency and so much exaggeration
has a plot. If, then, we find the piece to have these in their presentation -- that candor and adequacy in
three excellent possibilities, of significance, scenic a book about it are very observable qualities. The
capacity, and construction, what does it lack? We little volume of Dr. Joseph Henry Crooker (“ The
think it lacks coherence. The story of the play Church of To-day,” Pilgrim Press, Boston) is re-
that is developed in the plot does not appear to us markable both for comprehensiveness and sobriety.
to have the same significance as the character of The author works up to the line of truth, and rarely
Ravensbane, as the general idea of the play. The if ever transcends it. The functions he assigns the
two things distract our thoughts instead of intensi Church, and the reasons he gives for its existence,
fying the impression. And although if the play are sound and sufficient, and bear the emphasis put
were presented we should doubtless be interested in upon them. Even an opponent, if there is any pene-
what we saw, yet we do not readily imagine any trative and lenient thought in him, can hardly fail
definite situation, figure, or scene, that seems typi to feel that the subject is broader and profounder
cal of the one thing the author had it at heart to than he has been accustomed to regard it. So gen-
impress. So it is possible that the play would not eral a movement among mankind, taking on so many
have been entirely appreciated without the explana- directions, must stand closely associated with equally
tion of the preface. But of course a dramatist will universal natural forces. An habitual mistake means
want his work to impress itself without the help of something. This copious rendering of reasons, in
comment.
the searching light of our time, in behalf of an
institution so often and so deeply in error, means
The Massachusetts Commandery of
The battle of
Gettysburg, by the Military Order of the Loyal it needs must be ; yet the real Church so opens the
very much. The presentation is somewhat ideal, as
an eye-witness.
Legion has reprinted Colonel Frank
A. Haskell's contemporary narrative of the battle
way to it, and gives so much impulse in the pursuit,
that we feel at once that conception, search, and
of Gettysburg. A native of New England, a grad-
attainment are one growing and indivisible blessing.
uate of Dartmouth, and a Wisconsin lawyer at the
If the part played by the Church is so comprehensive
outbreak of the Civil War, Colonel Haskell was
killed at Cold Harbor in 1864. At Gettysburg he
and catholic as not only to shake off special faults
and bigotries, but to place every organization of this
was an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Gibbon,
order on the broad basis of service rendered, we are
who temporarily commanded the Second corps of
led, without carping or criticism, to find in it the
Hancock and Gibbon were both
truest and simplest means of progress. There are
wounded on the third day of the battle, and the
gathered up in the Church
a church that may
opportunity thus came to Colonel Haskell to take
assume forms as numerous as are the wants of men,
upon himself the bringing up of reinforcements, to
and is to be judged in each of them by its imme-
distinguish himself by intelligent appreciation of
diate adaptability — a depth and wealth of motive,
the urgent needs of the moment, and by personal
a ceaseless incentive to effort not otherwise to be
bravery, and also to see much of the contest that
attained. The frequent failures of the Church indi-
raged about the centre of the Union line. A few
cate not so much its lack of intrinsic fitness as they
days after the battle he rode back to the field from
do the ever-growing labor laid upon it. The author
Maryland, and confirmed his conception of its
of this thoughtful book is to be congratulated on the
topography. His narrative of the campaign, dated
July 16, 1863, was first published by his family, ception of its significance.
inner light he brings to the theme, and his clear per-
and a second edition, with certain unfortunate alter-
ations and omissions, was printed by the Dartmouth
Few great men of so long ago are
College Class of 1854. It is to be regretted that
Luther's letters
in English form. represented by so large and rich a
the present edition the third -of this important
collection of letters as Martin Luther.
chapter of contemporary evidence should not have And these letters illuminate his career from every
given the narrative just as it was written by Colonel point of view, -as reformer, as one of the founders
Haskell. His classmate, Hall, an aide-de-camp on of the modern High German tongue, and as a great
General Howard's staff, has attempted to justify the typical German. They have been collected and well
omissions and alterations, in a foot-note in the pres edited in Germany by De Wette, Kolde, and Enders,
ent edition, with the unwarranted assumption that aside from the smaller selections from them that
Haskell, if he had lived, would have changed his view. appear in the various biographies and household
Such an assumption is especially to be condemned editions of Luther's works. But Luther is too little
from the fact that the suppressed views of Colonel known at first hand by the mass of English-speaking
Haskell were the views always maintained by the people. Following the attitude of the Lutheran
most competent officers in the army — Hancock, Church, he has been represented as an almost super-
Humphreys, Warren, Gibbon, and General Meade human saint, surrounded already by a body of folk-
himself.
lore. In fact, he was the most German man of the
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Of
Times and
manners in
« No
" the
6
past, with most of the frailties as well as most of rose path to an educational ideal of small Latin
the charm and greatness of the German character. and less Greek.”” The notes draw frequently on
This is revealed very frankly in his letters, and it was two contemporary works for illustrative and explan-
a good undertaking to present a considerable selec atory matter : they are the King James version of
tion of these to the English world. Mrs. Currrie has the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare. But Miss
followed the text and the chronology of De Wette, Scott is no mere bookworm : in the essay
and has on the whole been wise in her selections. Gardens” she has identified botanically all the
They are the letters which are most commonly cited plants and flowers there named, except those so
in Luther biographies. In fact, they would constitute familiar as to need no comment; and she has also
of themselves a fair biography of Luther if only they added a posy from Shakespeare's plays wherever
had been provided with more prefatory and explan possible. An eighty-page Introduction, which in-
atory matter. It would have been desirable to cludes an account of Bacon's life and literary work,
introduce this matter at the expense even of some of precedes the Essays, and a full index completes the
the selections. It should have been stated, also, that equipment of this serviceable and inexpensive
the letters have been cut and altered in detail
very
edition.
much beyond what is indicated by the usual signs
From Messrs. Scribner's Sons comes
of omission. Finally, it is a great pity that a volume
the latest book of Mr. Thomas Nelson
otherwise so handsomely and carefully prepared Old Virginia.
Page, the genial Virginian writer of
should not have been submitted to thorough criti-
romances and pleasant historical sketches. The
cism by an expert German scholar. Not only is the
translation very free,
it suffers from the presence
present work, which he calls “The Old Dominion,
Her Making and Her Manners," consists largely of
on almost every page of numerous and serious errors
papers that the author has read before historical
in sense.
Eobanus Hesse, the humanist, is named
societies and other gatherings. The collection is
and referred to persistently as Cobanus Hesse, an
an appreciation of what Virginia has stood for in
error due evidently to mistaking a German capital E
American history. The author writes in a reverent
for a C, the two being quite similar. In the single
spirit. It is his belief that the early history of
short letter to Luther's wife, of July 29, 1534, occur
Virginia deserves more attention. page
of the
these slips : In the ascription the jesting 'master'
history of the race will better repay patient study;
(Herr) before · Käthe' is omitted; Wie Du mich
for none shines with more heroic deeds, or more
losmachst is rendered, 'How long you will get quit sublime fortitude and endeavor.” Virginia was
of me,' instead of “How you can release me';
foundation of a new nation." “She brought forth
Sonst komme ich vor dem neuen Bier nicht wieder'
in time a new civilization where character and cour-
is rendered, 'Or else I shall not be back before the
tesy went hand in hand; where the goal ever set
new beer is ready,' instead of Or else I shall never
before the eye was honor, and where the distin-
get back (i. e., shall die) for (i. e., on account of)
guishing marks of the life were simplicity and sin-
the fresh beer. Aside from this, several phrases
cerity.” The book is about evenly divided as to
are omitted or transposed. The translation of the
contents between the old times and the new.
whole book needs careful revision, for the under-
Chapters one to five, on the Beginnings, Jamestown,
taking is important and highly commendable. ("The
Colonial Life, the Revolution, and the University of
Letters of Martin Luther.” Macmillan Co.)
Virginia, while containing no new material, are so
Those who wish Bacon's "Essayes
well written, with emphasis so well placed, that the
A serviceable
in lay reader will be thankful to the author for the
Bacon's essays. fresh, clean, modern form, fully an-
rewriting. The second part, on Reconstruction,
notated, prefaced, indexed, and otherwise admirably
Virginia since the War, an Old Neighborhood, and
edited, cannot do better than turn to the edition an Old Virginia Sunday, while good, is of less value
that comes from the careful and scholarly hand of
historically. These latter essays are rather in the
Miss Mary Augusta Scott, Ph.D., Professor of
nature of an appreciation of social conditions in the
English at Smith College. One likes to learn, in latter days. The book is a good example of the
Miss Scott's preface, that, though she is a teacher
service a practiced writer may perform in re-casting
of English, she is “ of those who deplore the dis-
the work of scientific historians for the benefit of
placement of Latin literature in our schools and
colleges by vaguer subjects requiring less mental
The training
Messrs. Desmond and Frohne, editor
exertion.” She well says that it is impossible to
and associate editor, respectively, of
read Bacon understandingly without a knowledge
house-builder.
“The Architectural Record,” have
of Latin, as he is likely to quote Tacitus or Cicero scant sympathy with the “every man his own
or Seneca on almost every page ; and she has, in builder” theory so popular at present and so se-
her editing of the Essays, “made no effort to min ductively promulgated by attractive plans and pic-
imize or to popularize” these ancient classics. tures in periodicals and handbooks. Therefore the
“ They are of the elect. They become more elect, book on which they have collaborated, “Building a
more the aristocrats of letters, as an irrepressible Home” (Baker & Taylor), is not a manual for the
and levelling democracy passes them by on its prim- practical assistance of the daring amateur. Among
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on
the many beautiful illustrations, there are only two or
BRIEFER MENTION.
three ground-plans and no accompanying estimates
of cost. The object of the pictures is to educate the M. Georges Pellissier has written a volume
reader, subtly and by pleasant and easy stages, up to “ Voltaire Philosophe” (Paris : Colin) in which he sets
the lesson of the text. House-building is an art with
forth the ideas of Voltaire upon metaphysics, religion,
which the layman who wants distinctive and lastingly ethics, and politics. The author has made an interest-
satisfactory results will do well not to meddle. He ing book, and has done his work conscientiously, having
read the complete works of Voltaire by way of prepar-
may choose his site, taking care that it is both intrin-
ation. We fancy that few writers upon the subject
sically desirable and suited to his need ; and he must
may claim as much. His standpoint is one of sympa-
acquaint his architect, who should also be chosen
thetic admiration, but he is by no means an uncritical
with the utmost consideration, with his family re eulogist. He does the public a particular service in
quirements. Beyond that, it seems, he should be con correcting the errors of many of Voltaire's ignorant or
tent with the part of on-looker, until, when the house inimical critics.
is built and furnished and the site beautified in ac A volume of “Studies in New England Transcen-
cordance with the architect's plan, he may take over
dentalism,” by Professor Harold Clarke Goddard, is
his property and enjoy it. Granted that the archi-published in the series of “ Columbia University Studies
tect is a good one, capable both in planning and in
in English." It is a work of limited scope and inten-
sive character, being primarily a study of the Unitarian
supervision, the enjoyment will be a lasting satis-
movement as it merged into transcendentalism, and
faction, well worth both the extra cost and the re-
giving rather more attention to Channing and Parker
nunciation of the delights of dabbling in the plans than to Emerson and Thoreau. The relations of tran-
oneself. Having tried to inspire the reader with a scendentalism to the practical life are discussed at much
wholesome distrust of his own power to superintend length, and there is a valuable appendix on the influence
the building of just the house he wants, the authors of German literature on nineteenth century New England
attack certain popular prejudices, such as the insist thought.
ence upon a certain favorite “style” for the house, “ A Teacher of Dante" is the title given to a volume
or upon the conventional number of rooms when containing seven studies in Italian literature from the
fewer and larger ones will really serve better. The
pen of Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole, published by Moffat,
Yard & Co. The most instructive chapter is the first,
final chapters complete the education of the would be
builder by setting forth some general principles of sections, we hardly need say that it is impossible to be
which gives its name to the collection. As to the other
design and decoration which should guide him in
uninteresting when one is writing under such captions
judging architectural effects. The book is a strong as " Lyric Poetry and Petrarca, « Boccaccio and the
presentation of the architect's side of the case, Novella,” or “ Alfieri and Tragedy.” The essays are
but we think few house-builders will be willing to obviously intended for the general reader, so we may be
renounce, quite so completely as is here urged, a excused from recording any detailed criticism. On the
share in the planning and building of a house which
whole, however, our impression is rather unsatisfactory;
they are to live in and
for we cannot escape the feeling that the book might
for.
pay
have been made much more valuable by its well-known
author, as well as more attractive.
A narrative
In adding to his admirable series
of the early
The students of history in our high schools may not
discoveries in
of “Heroes of American History
be grateful, but they certainly ought to be, for the
North America. (Harper) a volume on John and intelligence and judgment that have gone into recent
Sebastian Cabot, the accredited discoverers of the text-books for their use. The gratitude of the teachers
North American continent, concerning whom com is, of course, beyond question. Of the many good books
paratively so little is known, Mr. Frederick A. Ober in this field that have been prepared of recent years,
takes occasion to present in readable form an account
none are more admirable than those which we owe to
of the voyages of the Northmen to the western con-
Professor James Harvey Robinson. His latest work,
tinent five hundred years before the Cabots, and
in two volumes, is “ The Development of Modem
thus makes his book a narrative of discoveries in the Europe,” a work designed as an introduction to the
study of current history. Covering only the period
region which we now know as North America. He
from the age of Louis XIV. to the present time, these
his claims to have been an original discoverer; but subject than is found in the “Western Europe” of the
he gives a vivid picture of his relations to his con same series. Professor Charles E. Beard has collab-
temporaries, makes a contribution to the history of orated with Professor Robinson in the preparation of
post-Columbian discoveries and explorations, and
this work, which, like its predecessors, is published by
succeeds in disentangling some of the contradictory
Messrs. Ginn & Co.
accounts in which the history of those discoveries has
Holland celebrates this summer the tercentenary of
been involved. For example, he presents and sums
the birth of her greatest painter, and the attention of
up the evidence, which he finds conclusive, that
the English-speaking world is called to the fact by the
John Cabot was in command of a ship that made a
publication of an extra number of « The International
Studio” (Lane) with seventy plates reproducing
voyage to America in 1497, and that he landed on
Rembrandt's work and an appreciative commentary
the northeast coast, probably between Labrador and upon them by Emile Michel, the French critic whose
Nova Scotia.
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ably the results of modern research into the facts of the A fourth edition of “ A Popular History of Astron-
painter's life and achievement. The present essay does omy," by Miss Agnes M. Clerke, is published by The
not, of course, attempt to be exhaustive either as com Macmillan Company. This extremely interesting and
ment or biography; but because the author has his valuable work deserves periodical reincarnations as fre-
material in perfect command he has been able to com quently as may be warranted by new developments in
press a very vivid picture of the painter's personality the noble science with which it is concerned.
and artistic development, and a clear account of his life
A new and greatly enlarged edition of Mrs. Rosa
as it related itself to his work, into a little over a hundred Newmarch's volume on Tschaikowsky is now published
pages. His criticism does not confine itself wholly to by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. It has been edited
the plates, and it keeps that happy mean between super by Mr. Edwin Evans, and gives us elaborate analyses
ficiality and technicality that is as rare as it is satisfac-
of the more important works. To the “ Pathetic Sym-
tory. The plates, which are in photogravure or in tint phony” alone more than fifty pages are devoted.
on separately mounted sheets, are fine examples of the
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have just published
modern art of illustration, and for them alone the book
the Second Part of the Second Volume of Mr. Charles
would be well worth having. They include, besides
Sprague Sargent's "Trees and Shrubs." Twenty-five
many of Rembrandt's masterpieces, landscapes and
species are described and illustrated, and for once
other studies in chalk, sepia, pen, and wash, and a
Crataegus does not get the greater part of the space,
number of etchings.
being represented by only ten species, while Viburnum
has thirteen examples.
Three new volumes in the “Oxford Higher French
Series," published by Mr. Henry Frowde, are as fol-
NOTES.
lows: “Trois Portraits Littéraires " (Molière, Corneille,
Racine), by Sainte-Beuve, edited by Mr. D. L. Savery;
Miss Margaret Vere Farrington's "Fra Lippo Lippi: Pages Choisies de Auguste Angellier,” edited by Pro-
a Romance has reached its fourth edition, now fessor Emile Legouis; and Gautier's “ España" and
published, with photogravure illustrations, by Messrs. “ Emaux et Camées,” edited by M. C. Edmond Delbos.
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Two new books by Mr. T. H. S. Escott, author of
The third novel of Mr. F. Marion Crawford's “ Society in the Country House," will be published at
Margaret Donne” triology is already written, and an early date by Messrs. George W. Jacobs & Co. Their
will be published probably before the end of the year, titles are: “King Edward VII. and his Court" and "The
with the title “The Diva's Ruby.”
Story of British Diplomacy.” Mr. Escott has long been
« The Æsthetic Experience: Its Nature and Function leading editorial writer for the London “Standard," and
in Epistemology” is the subject of a monograph by Dr. has recently succeeded Mr. John Morley as editor of the
William Davis Furry, now published as a supplementary “Fortnightly Review."
issue of “The Psychological Review."
A limited reprint, on handmade paper, of the “Debate
“ The Perfect Garden,” by Mr. Walter Page Wright, of the Body and the Soul,” taken from an early four-
editor of « The Gardener" and a well-known English teenth century manuscript and modernized by the late
expert on gardening and horticulture, is announced for
Professor Child of Harvard, is announced by the R. E.
early publication by the J. B. Lippincott Co.
Lee Company of Boston. An introductory essay by
A new volume shortly to appear in the Messrs. Professor George Lyman Kittredge and illustrations
Macmillan's widely-known “Citizen's Library” is “ The by Miss Marion L. Peabody will be contributed to the
Principles of Anthropology and Sociology in their Rela edition.
tions to Criminal Procedure," by Mr. Maurice Parmelee Among their Fall fiction, Houghton, Mifflin Company
of Boston.
expect to publish new books by the following authors:
Early this month the Messrs. Putnam will publish Dr. Miss Mary Johnston, Mrs. Clara Louise Burnham, Miss
Fred Morrow Fling's “The Youth of Mirabeau,” con Alice Brown, Charles Egbert Craddock, Mrs. Elizabeth
stituting the first part of what will be, when completed, Stuart Phelps Ward, and Mr. C. Hanford Henderson.
a three-volume work with the general title “Mirabeau They also will publish the first novel by Mr. Harry
and the French Revolution."
James Smith, whose recent short stories in the leading
“ The Indian Captive; or, A Narrative of the Cap- magazines have attracted considerable attention.
tivity and Sufferings of Zadock Steele” is republished Four German texts are the following: “German Com-
by the H. E. Huntting Co., Springfield, Mass., in the position” (Holt), by Professor Paul R. Pope; Goethe's
“ Indian Captivities Series” of that house. The original • The Vicar of Sesenheim ” (Holt), being extracts from
was printed in 1816 at Montpelier, Vermont.
“ Dichtung und Wahrheit,” edited by Professor A. B.
In connection with Colonel Clark E. Carr's new Nichols; “ Der Weg zum Glück” (Heath), being two
volume, “ My Day and Generation,” it is interesting to short stories by Herr Viktor Blüthgen and Julius
note that his first book, " The Illini,” is just appearing Lohmeyer, edited by Dr. Wilhelm Bernhardt; and
in a seventh edition. The publishers have added several Alltägliches : Ein Konversations und Lesebuch"
portraits and a complete Index, and the author has (Heath), prepared by Mr. M. B. Lambert.
revised the text throughout.
An interesting little book in a field not hitherto
A book on “ The Acropolis of Athens,” by Professor occupied is that entitled « Weather and Weather
Martin L. d'Ooge of the University of Michigan, is Instruments," lately issued by the Taylor Instrument
announced for Fall publication by The Macmillan Com Companies of Rochester, N. Y. Explanations are given
pany. It will embody the results of a number of years of of the phenomena that make up weather, good and bad,
study and of repeated visits to Athens, where in 1886–87 and the instruments for foretelling or recording it, such
the author was Director of the American School of Class as aneroids, barometers, barographs, thermometers,
ical Studies.
hygrometers, rain gauges, sun dials, and many more.
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To the casual reader the instructions for using a baro
meter and the account of the manufacture of thermo-
meters will be of especial interest.
The “Oraisons Funèbres" of Bossuet, with a preface
by M. René Doumic, form a new volume in the charm-
ing series of “Classiques Français,” published by the
Messrs. Putnam. From Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. we
have a new edition of About's " Le Roi des Montagnes,”
edited by Mr. Otto Patzer. Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.
are the publishers of a “Choix de Contes de Daudet,”
edited by Dr. C. Fontaine, and of Halévy's “Un
Mariage d'Amour,” edited by Mr. Richmond Laurin
Hawkins.
“ The Essays of Francis Bacon,” edited by Professor
Clark S. Northup, is an addition to the “Riverside
Literature Series” of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. Other English texts are Coleridge's “Literary
Criticism,” extracted from his various books, edited
by Mr. J. W. Mackail, and published by Mr. Henry
Frowde; Dickens's “ A Tale of Two Cities,” edited by
Dr. Julian W. Abernethy, and published by the Charles
E. Merrill Co.; and “Selected Poems and Songs of
Robert Burns,” edited by Mr. Philo Melvyn Buck, Jr.,
and published as a “ Pocket Classic" by the Macmillan
Co. "Two books for students of the English language
are “Grammar and Its Reasons,” by Miss Mary Hall
Leonard, published by Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co.; and
“ Words and Sentences,” by Mr. Alfred M. Hitchcock,
published by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 90 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
The Works of James Buchanan : Comprising his Speeches,
State Papers, and Private Correspondence. Collected and
edited by John Bassett Moore. Vol. II., 1830-1836. Large
8vo, gilt top, pp. 514. J. B. Lippincott Co. $5. net.
The Oxford Treasury of English Literature. Vol. III.,
Jacobean to Victorian, by G. E. and W. H. Hadow. 12mo,
pp. 431. Oxford University Press.
Materials and Methods of Fiction. By Clayton Hamilton;
with Introduction by Brander Matthews. 12mo, gilt top,
pp. 228. Baker & Taylor Co. $1.50 net.
The Iliad of the East: A Selection of Legends Drawn from
Valmiki's Sanscrit Poem The Ramayana. By Fredericka
Macdonald. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 311. John Lane Co.
$1.50 net.
The Schoolmaster : A Commentary upon the Aims and
Methods of an Assistant Master in a Public School. By
Arthur Christopher Benson. New edition; 12mo, gilt top,
pp. 169. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25 net.
The New Anecdote Book. Compiled by Alfred H. Miles.
12mo, pp. 388. New York: Thomas Whittaker. $1.50 net.
The Sayings of Grandmamma, and Others. By Elinor Glyn.
New edition; with photogravure portrait, 16mo, pp. 85.
Duffield & Co. $1.
Bayard Taylor's Translation of Goethe's Faust. By
Juliana Haskell. Large 8vo, pp. 110. Macmillan Co. Paper.
$1. net.
DRAMA AND VERSE.
The Unicorn from the Stars, and Other Plays. By William
B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 210. Mac-
millan Co. $1.50 net.
Wild Honey from Various Thyme. By Michael Field. 12mo,
gilt top, pp. 194. A. Wessels Co. $1.65 net.
The Dead Friendship, and Other Poems. By Litchfield
Woods. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 64. Glasgow: Frederick W.
Wilson & Co.
Brand. By Henrik Ibsen; edited, with Introduction and
Notes, by Julius E. Olson. With portrait, 12mo, pp. 349.
Chicago: John Anderson Publishing Co. $1.25.
Artist Songs. By E. Richardson. Illus., 16mo, pp. 70.
A. Wessels Co. $1.15 net.
A Passing Voice. 12mo, pp. 89. Boston: The Gorham
Press. $1.
Quivira. By Harrison Conrard. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 117.
Boston: The Gorham Press. $1.50.
The “Rimas” of Gustavo A. Becker. Trans. by Jules
Renard. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 78. Boston: The Gorham
Press. $1.25.
FICTION.
The Princess Dehra. By John Reed Scott. Illus. in color,
12mo, pp. 360. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
Brunhilda of Orr's Island. By William Jasper Nicolls.
With frontispiece in color, 12mo, gilt top, pp. 307. George
W. Jacobs & Co. $1.50.
The Greater Love. By Anna McClure Sholl. 12mo, pp. 390.
Outing Publishing Co. $1.50.
The Chauffeur and the Chaperon. By C. N. and A. M.
Williamson. Il[us., 12mo, pp. 408. McClure Co. $1.50.
The Blue Lagoon. By H. de Vere Stacpoole. 12mo, pp. 826.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
The Lure of the Mask. By Harold MacGrath. Illus. in tint,
etc., 12mo, pp. 401. Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
Gleam o'Dawn. By Arthur Goodrich. Illus., 12mo, pp. 308.
D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
A Man of Genius: A Story of the Judgment of Paris. By
M. P. Willcocks. 12mo, pp. 405. John Lane Co. $1.50.
Jack Sparlock - Prodigal. By George Horace Lorimer.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 333. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50.
Handicapped. By Emery Pottle. 12mo, pp. 267. John Lane,
Co. $1.50.
Young Lord Stranleigh. By Robert Barr. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 313. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
The Cobbler. By Elma A. Travis. 12mo, pp. 287. Outing
Publishing Co. $1.50.
June Jeopardy. By Inez Haynes Gillmore. 12mo, pp. 343.
New York: B. W. Huebsch. $1.50.
The Child of Chance. Trans. from the French of Marime
Formont. 12mo, pp. 312. John Lane Co, $1.50.
The Last Duchess of Belgarde. By Molly Elliot Seawell.
With frontispiece in tint, 12mo, gilt top, pp. 122. D. Appleton
& Co. $1.25.
David the Giant Killer, and Other Tales of Grandma Lopez.
By Emily Solis-Cohen, Jr. Illus., 12mo, pp. 247. Phila-
delphia: Jewish Publication Society of America.
The Bottle in the Smoke By Cooke Don-Carlog. With
frontispiece in tint, 12mo, pp. 341. R. F. Fenno & Co. $1.50
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
Catherine of Bragança: Infanta of Portugal and Queen-
Consort of England. By Lilias Campbell Davidson. Illus.
in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 517. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $5. net.
Life and Works of Christopher Dock, with a Translation
of his Works into the English Language. By Martin G.
Brumbaugh, with Introduction by Samuel W. Pennypacker.
Limited edition; illus., large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 272. J. B.
Lippincott Co. $5. net.
Oriental Campaigns and European Furloughs: The
Autobiography of a Veteran of the Indian Mutiny. By E.
Maude. With photogravure portrait, large 8vo, gilt top,
pp. 292. A. Wessels Co. $2.50 net.
A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt:
A Study of the President at the Nation's Business. By
William B. Hale. Illus., 12mo, gilt top. pp. 153. G. P.
Putnam's Sons. $1.25 net.
Lady Lettice, Vi-Countess Falkland. Edited, with Intro-
duction, by M. F. Howard. Illus. in photogravure, etc.,
12mo, gilt top, pp. 109. E. P. Dutton & Co. $2. net.
HISTORY.
Early London, Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, and Norman. By
Sir Walter Besant. Ilus., 4to, gilt top, pp. 370. Macmillan
Co. $7.50 net.
The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth century. By
E. A. Brayley Hodgetts. In 2 vols., illus., 8vo. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $6. net.
The Truth about Port Arthur. By E. K. Nojine; trans. and
abridged by A. B. Lindsay; edited by E. D. Swinton. Illus.,
large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 395. E. P. Dutton & Co. $5. net.
Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of Assyria, 722-705
B.C.: A Study in Oriental History. By A. T. Olmstead.
12mo, pp. 192. Henry Holt & Co.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Cambridge History of English Literature. Edited by
A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. Vol. II., The End of the
Middle Ages. Large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 604. G. P. Putnam's
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RELIGION.
High Priesthood and Sacrifice : An Exposition of the
Epistle to the Hebrews. By William P. Du Bose. 12mo,
pp. 248. Longmans, Green, & Co. $1.50 net.
The Age of Revolution : Being an Outline of the History of
the Church from 1648 to 1815. By William Holden Hutton.
12mo, uncut, pp. 301. Macmillan Co. $1.50 net.
The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
By M. Brodrick. 12mo, pp. 196. Longmans, Green, & Co.
$1.25 net.
Wisdom of the East Series. Comprising: The Way of the
Buddha, by Herbert Baynes, 60 cts. net; Teachings of
Zoroaster and the Philosophy of the Parsi Religion, by S. A.
Kapadia, 60 cts. net; Sayings of Confucius, with Introduction
and Notes by Lionel Giles, 60 cts. net; Brahma-Knowledge,
by L. D. Barnett, 60 cts. net; The Persian Mystics, by F.
Hadland Davis, 60 cts. net; Musings of a Chinese Mystic,
with Introduction by Lionel Giles, 60 cts. net; The Awaken-
ing of the Soul, by Paul Brönnle, 40 cts. net; Odes of Con-
fucius, by L. Cranmer-Byng, 40 cts. net; Classics of
Confucius (Shu King), compiled by W. Gorn Old, 40 cts. net;
Arabian Wisdom, selected and trans. by John Wortabet,
40 cts. net. Each 16mo. E. P. Dution & Co.
Wanted - A Theology. By Samuel T. Carter. 12mo, pp. 144.
Funk & Wagnalls Co. 75 cts. net.
The Sunday-School Teacher's Pedagogy. Edited by H. T.
Musselman, 16mo, pp. 160. Philadelphia: American Bap-
tist Publication Society. 40 cts. net.
The Victory: A Collection of Popular Sunday School Songs.
Edited by Chas. H. Gabriel. 12mo. Jennings & Graham.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Small Country Place. By Samuel T. Maynard. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 320. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50 net.
Righthandedness and Lefthandedness, with Chapters
Treating of the Writing Posture, the Rule of the Road, etc.
By George M. Gould. 12mo, pp. 210. J. B. Lippincott Co.
$1.25 net.
The Gospel of Pain. By Thomas J. Hardy. 12mo, gilt top,
pp. 223. Macmillan Co. $1.25 net.
The Rise of Man. By O. R. Conder. Large 8vo, gilt top.
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