almost everything can be ex- period. One by one the tales are taken up, the
pressed." But he admits that the Canterbury sources, analogues, and obvious imitations in
Tales equal the Decameron in design, and far contemporary and subsequent literature dis-
excel it in characterization. Boccaccio's story-cussed, with a synopsis of many of the variants.
tellers are not individualized ; they are little One is given practically a series of independent
more than mouthpieces. And he (with some notes on each of the novels ; they are all readable
what unneccessary reluctance) admits that the as literature, as well as packed with information.
Decameron “lacks a certain idealism, a certain Miss Jones's “ Boccaccio and his Imitators"
moral sense which is never absent from English is a drier and narrower product of modern re-
work, and which, even from a purely æsthetic search. There is a brief and somewhat conven-
point of view, would have given a sort of balance tional introductory essay on the subject; for
or sense of proportion to the book which, I con- | the rest, the investigator is content to tabulate
fess, in my weaker moments, it has sometimes her results. There is a table to determine the
seemed to me it lacks." It would have been relative popularity of the tales on the basis of
better for Mr. Hutton to acknowledge this lack the number of imitations registered. There is
cheerfully, offsetting against it, by way of con another table giving a summary of the Boccac-
solation, a lack of the hypocrisy often present in cio tales imitated by ten authors, selected two
English work. Whatever its demerits, this biog- by two from Germany, England, France, Spain,
raphy is a spirited and sincere piece of work. and Italy, “to show the wide geographical dis-
The four-volume reprint of the Decameron tribution of these tales of the Decameron,” etc.
edited by Mr. Hutton for the “ Tudor Trans-Altogether, we find tabulated some 850 imi-
lations” series is a model of typographical tations of the Decameron tales.
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pre-
aspect to this painstaking and spectacled grub In treating the conduct of the war, the author
bing among the bones and the dust of the joyous follows the usual chronological order. In his
Decameron. For a joyous book it is, though chapter on Fort Sumter, he says:
" At the
marred for the Anglo-American reader by the South, practically all the able-bodied young
acrid tang of a sensualism - a variety of sen men were enlisted in what were then called
sualism — peculiar to the Latin races. And • volunteer companies, though it did not yet
yet it is well for us to to be advised from time appear in what cause they were supposed to be
to time that this story-teller was no mere trifler, volunteering” (p. 187). The present reviewer
but a man of generous mould, whose propor was one of that class, and he thinks he knew
tions grow rather than dwindle as time passes. perfectly well in what cause he was volunteer-
H. W. BOYNTON. ing; and he was not wiser than his comrades.
That remark might well have been omitted.
The author speaks of the Buchanan adminis-
A CONFEDERATE'S HISTORY OF THE
tration as “ seemingly at least, promising the
CIVIL WAR.*
early evacuation of Fort Sumter.” There was
no “ seemingly" about it, even after Lincoln's
It must be premised that Mr. Eggleston,
author of the latest history of our Civil War, inauguration. We all remember Seward's noted
served in the Confederate army, and that the
telegram : “Faith fully kept; wait and see.”
writer of this review also spent four years in the
We waited, and we saw; but we did not see
“faith fully kept,” but something very different.
same service. Whatever the author's Southern
proclivities may have been, he seems to have
The “pepper-box strategy” of the Federal
approached his task in a spirit of fairness and
government in 1861 is commented on, and an
account is given of the first battle of Manassas
impartiality, in which he has doubtless been
aided by his long residence in the North since (Bull Run), with the Confederate mistake of
not pressing on to Washington, and the conse-
the war; he has tried to divest himself of
judice, and to hold the scales of justice evenly. quent “ paralysis of victory” on the part of the
judice, and to hold the scales of justice evenly: | Confederates. A chapter on “ The European
The work is divided into two books, of which
Menace” follows. There was never any real
the first, comprising 173 pages, treats of “The
Causes of the War,” and the second of The prospect of European intervention. It was a
Deus ex machina for which the Confederates
Conduct of the War." It is hard to treat the
causes of the war impartially, even at this day, discarded all thought of it, and trusted entirely
were always wrongly hoping; but if they had
although the author says: “The passions of the
to their own arms, it would have been better for
war are completely gone. Even in politics, war
them. The chapter on “ Border Operations,"
prejudices no longer play a part worth consider-
in its conclusion, touches upon the formation
ing” (p. 11). This is probably in the main
of the State of West Virginia - a thoroughly
correct, notwithstanding the recent sporadic
unconstitutional operation from every point of
ebullition of “war prejudices” over the erec-
tion of a statue of General Lee at the Capitol, defended, as President Lincoln always con-
view, but, like the emancipation of the slaves,
Only one other criticism on the first book, and
to the second and by far the more impor- the blockade is rightly emphasized, for without
tended, as a war-measure. The importance of
pass
tant one. The author says: “As for the ex-
tremists [i. e., of the South], they anticipated be successful. (In this chapter the misprint
it the United States could never have hoped to
military commissions and political preferment
three
for themselves, and they cared for little else times.) What the author denominates the
Pocotatigo,” for Pocotaligo, occurs
than to occupy a conspicuous place in public
attention for a little while” (p. 172). The
era of incapacity” follows, in which Halleck is
present reviewer was of full age when he entered greatly depreciated and Grant magnified; but
Halleck had at least written a book on strategy,
the Southern service, and he saw nothing of
in which he showed himself familiar with its
regarded the action of his comrades, in April, theory, while Grant had not yet shown what
was in him. As soon as President Lincoln
1861, as purely unselfish and patriotic; and
found Grant out, there were no more domineer-
time has in no wise changed his views.
ings by Halleck, who sank to his proper level.
THE HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR: Its Causes The author scarcely gives the importance it
and its Conduct. A Narrative and Critical History. By
George Cary Eggleston. In two volumes. New York:
deserves to the death of Albert Sidney (not
Sturgis & Walton Co.
Sydney) Johnston at Shiloh. But for that
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event, Shiloh would undoubtedly have been a it, for Romney was not “the strategic key to
Confederate victory the first day, and there the position." It was a mere outpost, and
would have been no need for the second day's Jackson would undoubtedly soon have ordered
battle which Beauregard lost to Buell's fresh Loring back; but this does not excuse Secretary
troops.
Benjamin's action. The reviewer would like to
The war in the West is treated in better dwell on Jackson's Valley campaign, which he
perspective than that in the East, where the went through to the end; but lack of space
exploits of the Army of the Potomac and of forbids.
the Army of Northern Virginia are chiefly Next we have accounts of the Seven Days'
dwelt upon. After Farragut's capture of New Battles, the Second Manassas Campaign, and
Orleans — in which chapter Butler receives a Lee's First Invasion of Maryland; but the treat-
few well-deserved touches we return to Mc ment is very meagre — especially of the last
Clellan, who had been all winter getting ready campaign, which involved one of the best-fought
for his Richmond campaign. It should be
It should be battles of the war (Antietam), where the Con-
remarked, in passing, that Fredericksburg is federates had but about 36,000 men against
not on the Potomac (p. 356), and that Joseph E. McClellan's 90,000. McClellan's mistake was
Johnston himself made the stand at Williams- | in not putting in more men, for they were there.
burg in order to give his wagon-train time to We fought from daylight to 9 a. m., resisting
retire (p. 357). The author rightly remarks successively Hooker, Mansfield, and Sedgwick,
that “McClellan was not Grant, nor such as he” when we were at last forced back on the left,
(p. 359); but he seems to forget that Grant had but not far, and as soon as some of McLaws's
not yet been developed. And he might have troops came up from Harper's Ferry the Fed-
recalled Grant's own words, in which he said erals were forced back across the Hagerstown
that neither he, nor General Sherman, nor any pike, where they stayed until we retired the
officer known to him in the war, could have second night, and recrossed the Potomac after
done better than McClellan did under the con sunrise.
ditions in which the latter was placed in his In the chapter on the Seven Days' Battles
operations on the Peninsula.
(p. 400), “twenty-seventh " is wrongly printed
If Mr. Eggleston had read the work of the for twenty-sixth ; it is important to be accurate
late Colonel Allan on “ Jackson's Valley Cam as to the day here. The author says (p. 407):
paign,” he would have obtained a clearer view • Magruder and Huger failed Lee at the crisis”;
of that stirring event, and especially of the but to these Jackson himself should be added,
cause of Secretary Benjamin's order which for he too failed on this day (June 30) to do
induced Jackson's resignation. The order re what was expected of him. The battle of
ferred to was due to the request of General Malvern Hill (July 1) should never have been
Loring to be ordered back from Romney to fought; it was fought by detachments until
Winchester; and the only result of it was the ten p. m., rather than nine, with no result but
relief of Loring from service with Jackson. the loss of many brave men. The author calls
Too much is made of this incident. Benjamin Pope “ a good and active officer, unfortunately
did not “sacrifice” anything that “ Jackson's given to vainglorious boastings” (p. 417); but
energy and genius had accomplished in the I cannot concur in this commendation, for he
Valley.” Jackson continued “master of the wrecked a body of good troops when he should
Valley,” and nobody was discouraged, except have gained the day at the second battle of
perhaps some of Loring's troops who thought Manassas. Lincoln's opinion of Pope is shown
they had been hardly dealt with. Having by his action in restoring McClellan to com-
been Jackson's Ordnance officer in the Valley, mand; but the latter's treatment was “hard
the writer of this review saw something of the lines ” after his relief of Maryland from Lee's
snow and sleet and slush and mud.” Jack- invasion. While McClellan was slow, he was
son did not have the troops that would have certainly capable,—which cannot be said of his
justified an invasion of Maryland and Penn successor, Burnside, who persisted in " butting
sylvania; he was merely “ bluffing,” as was his his head against a stone wall” and suffered the
wont. While Secretary Benjamin is to blame bloody repulse of Fredericksburg.
for yielding to General Loring's request, and After a brief account of this exploit, the
directing Jackson to order Loring back to author continues his narrative of the war in
Winchester, thus overriding both Jackson and the West. Here, as elsewhere in the work, a
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desirable, and a reasonable supply of maps Hill having brought on the battle of July 1.)
would have helped the narrative, for "chron The author rightly says (p. 143): “Long-
ology and geography are the eyes of history.” street's support of Lee's plan of battle seems to
Bragg is "let off easy” for his Kentucky cam have lacked something of efficiency—the lack of
paign, the only result of which was “a rich which may have been determinative of results.”
booty of supplies,” when so much had been This is putting it mildly. Longstreet's advice
expected from it. It is very true that the dis- had been overridden, and as a consequence his
proportionate numbers of Bragg and Buell must heart was not in the fight. The battle was not
be taken into consideration, but it does seem fought with the force that General Lee intended,
that with better management Buell might have and it was therefore a predestined failure. The
been prevented from reaching Louisville. The author closes the chapter with a comment on
subsequent battle of Murfreesboro, between the inactivity after Gettysburg: “ The where
Bragg and Rosecrans, may be rightly called a fore of this inactivity has never been explained ”
drawn battle; but the Confederacy could not (p. 150). To anyone who was there it seems
afford to fight drawn battles.
patent enough. Men are not machines, and
We now travel East again, to the field of superhuman efforts cannot be kept up indefi-
Chancellorsville, (Vol. II., p. 83), where Hooker nitely.
had 180,000 men against Lee's 60,000,- for but Next we have an account of the Vicksburg
two divisions of Longstreet's corps (McLaws's campaign, with certain comments on “ the state
and Anderson's) were with Lee (It may be of things after Gettysburg.” The author ex-
remarked, in passing, that Lee's soldiers did aggerates the conduct of “Winder's men,” the
not call him “Mas' Bob” (p. 89), but “ Mas' provost-guard of Richmond (p. 179). The
Robert”; though writers often make this mis- present reviewer got to Richmond very
seldom
take.) An interesting account of the Chancel- during the war, although his home was within
lorsville battle is given, which, however, requires twenty-five miles of it; but if he had ever gone
one or two corrections. “Hanover Court House” without a written leave, he deserved to be ar-
(p. 100) should be “ Hanover Junction "; and rested. The events following Gettysburg must
“Culpeper” (p. 101) would have been a bad be greatly condensed in this brief review.
route to take to reach Richmond, it being on The struggle for Charleston is followed by
the road to Washington, where Hooker could the Chickamauga and Chattanooga campaigns.
have easily headed off Lee even without cavalry. There must always be a scapegoat for lack of
The author quotes Dodge's “ Campaign of success, and Bragg now served the purpose ; 80,
Chancellorsville," but he should also have read after Grant's success at Chattanooga, – though
Allan's book on the same subject. The chief it was partly accidental, Gen. Joseph E.
defect in the treatment of this battle is the Johnston was put in command of the Confed-
failure to mention that Hooker was stunned by erate Western army. He conducted an admir-
a shell striking a post against which he was able defensive campaign from Dalton to Atlanta.
leaning, which seriously affected his power of
But the South wanted an advance, — not a
thought at a critical moment. The next in retreat; so when Johnston reached Atlanta,
command, General Couch, should have directed President Davis committed the astonishing blun-
the fight thereafter, but does not seem to have der (though urged to it by those in whom he had
confidence) of relieving him of his command and
Following this battle, we have an account of replacing him with Hood — an excellent fighter
the Gettysburg campaign, the events of which as a division commander, but totally unequal
are familiar to all readers of military history. to the responsibilities placed upon him, as was
Here I must take exception to the author's
later seen.
use of an expression in speaking of General Grant was transferred to Virginia at the
Stuart, “who had no discretion." Stuart had
Stuart had opening of the campaign of 1864; and now
much discretion, as was shown at Chancellorsville, began the struggle between the two great lead-
when he took command of Jackson's corps at
with overwhelming resources of both
the latter's request; but in his march to Carlisle men and means, the other with neither men
he met with obstacles that he had not antici means for the emergency.
The result
pated. Too much has been made of Stuart's was inevitable. The battles of the Wilderness,
absence from the main army on this march. Spotsylvania, Hanover Junction, Cold Harbor,
(“Ewell” should read “ Hill,” on p. 135; for followed in quick succession, until -- although
Ewell joined Hill later in the day on the left, the summer was not over — “ this line” was
done so.
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over.
abandoned for one that could have been reached London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London
by water without the loss of a man, and the two he is tired of life.” This anecdote, recalled in con-
armies settled down to the siege of Petersburg, nection with Mr. Milne's pleasure in coming to live
which consumed nearly another year. Mean-
in the very heart of the city, suggests a comment of
while Sherman, finding nothing to oppose him
Mark Twain's on Hay's “Prairie Bell”; while a
when Hood started on his “ wild-goose " trip to
description of London roofs at night brings back an
Nashville, was enabled to take his holiday jaunt shared the weird sight, and incidentally told how he
evening when the author of “Wee Macgreegor
to Savannah, himself furnishing a forceful illus met the little "Glasgow pickle" named Macgreegor,
tration of his adage, " War is hell.” There
who was the original of his famous character. Again
is an interesting account of “ Early's Valley Gladstone's statue in Westminster is the peg upon
Campaign,” in which the reviewer participated which hangs a characterization of the great states-
and which he would like to discuss did space
man based on personal acquaintance, a description
allow. But Early's troops were needed at
of his way of speaking, and an account of the visit
Petersburg, and took part in that siege during
of Li Hung Chang to England's Grand Old Man.
the last tragic months. The line was stretched
The place to see royalty to advantage is not London;
Mr. Milne takes us to Balmoral for that, reproduc-
until it snapped, and after Appomattox all was
ing the impressions of homely Highlanders, and
showing kings, queens, and princes enjoying them-
With certain corrections, some of which have
selves quite like other people. “What London
been noted, Mr. Eggleston's book will serve as Reads” is the title of a chapter enlivened by anec-
a good compendium of the history of the war. dotes from the stores of some cynical booksellers.
It has the advantage over some that have been “Those Dear Americans” is full of dangerous
written, in that it covers the whole field. Doubt generalizations and some amusing misconceptions,
less some portions would have been treated in
underlaid with keen interest in us and cordial appre-
greater detail if it had not been necessary to con-
ciation of our breezy directness. Altogether Mr.
dense the narrative. As a Confederate soldier,
Milne has filled his summer in town with real and
the reviewer can commend the impartiality with ing. Excellent photographs depict the author's
varied interests, which his readers will enjoy shar-
which the work is written ; and I think a Fed- favorite bits of his favorite city.
eral soldier will find little, if anything, to object
to, except perhaps in the under-estimate of
Under the title “ The Influence of
General Early's numbers in his Valley cam-
Darwin on Philosophy, and Other
in philosophy. Essays in Contemporary Thought”
paign. Having been Ordnance officer of the
largest division in Early's army, I well know (Holt), Professor John Dewey has collected a series
the force with which the battle of Winchester
of essays and addresses dealing with various aspects
of the pragmatic movement in philosophy. The
(Sept. 19, 1864) was fought: about 9,500 majority of these papers have previously appeared
muskets. Adding officers (proportionately very in one or another of the technical journals of philo-
few at that period) and artillery and cavalry, sophy. It is to the clientele of such journals, rather
15,000 would be an over-estimate, against than to the “general reader” that they are adapted
Sheridan's 45,000 men of all arms. (See both in matter and in manner, but particularly in
Early's “ Memoirs" and Pond's “ The Shen-
The treatment is often rather severely
andoah Valley.”) JAMES M. GARNETT.
metaphysical. To one somewhat out of practice in
this particular kind of intellectual gymnastics the
following of the subtleties of metaphysical discus-
sions is a rather difficult business. Thus it is not
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
immediately clear in what manner the following
statement regarding the mutual relation conceived
London
Mr. James Milne's “My Summer in by the author to exist between a rose and its smell
and some London” (Dutton) covers not only helps one either to understand or to enjoy a beauti-
Londoners.
experiences and impressions, but re ful rose: “The import of the smell is the indicating
trospections and memories as well. It is, in fact, a and demanding relation which it sustains to the
series of informal jottings, — odd bits culled here enjoyment of the rose as its fulfilling experience;
and there from the varied adventures of a journalist, while this enjoyment is just the content or definition
whose occupation has brought him in contact with of what the rose consciously meant, i. e., meant to
many aspects of London life and with many great mean.” One must hasten to say, however, that even
Londoners and good lovers of London. Among
Among though Professor Dewey's style may not always in
these last was John Hay, who, upon once being asked matters of detail be the most lucid in the world,
by Mr. Milne whether he was sorry to leave Lon these essays do form a real contribution to contem-
don, quoted Johnson's saying: “Why, sir, you find porary thought. They give a critical and conserv-
no man at all intellectual who is willing to leave ative exposition of the pragmatic standpoint re-
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on
..
Species.?”
Short studies in
garding a number of the fundamental problems of of Wordsworth. Thus to couple the author of
philosophy; such, for example, as the nature of “ Peter Bell” and the author of “Empedocles on
truth, the basis of morals, the problem of knowledge, Etna' as poets of the same school will seem to
and the relation of belief to knowledge. The first many as emphasizing too strongly the common ele-
essay gives the main title to the collection. Perhaps ment of nature-love in the two. In so varied and
nowhere has the essential nature of the great and comprehensive a volume as Mr. Russell's he will be
far-reaching effect which Darwin's work had upon hard to please who cannot find something to suit
all modern thought been so succinctly and happily his taste.
expressed as it is in the following words which form
the concluding summary of this first essay: “Intel-
That something original can still be
An English
account of
lectual progress usually occurs through sheer aban-
done by one writing about the Civil
our Civil War.
donment of questions together with both of the alter-
War has been shown by Mr. John
natives they assume an abandonment that results
Formby, an English writer, whose two-volume work
“ The American Civil War: A Concise History
from their decreasing vitality and a change of
urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over
of its Causes, Progress, and Results” (Scribners)
them. Old questions are solved by disappearing,
has just appeared. The arrangement of the work
evaporating, while new questions corresponding to
is unique. The author divides the field of opera-
the changed attitude of endeavor and preference tions into the following sections : East, Southeast,
take their place. Doubtless the greatest dissolvent in
South, Southwest, and West. Each chapter relat-
contemporary thought of old questions, the greatest ing to the war covers a half year, and at the end
precipitant of new methods, new intentions, new
of the chapter is placed a chronological table to
problems, is the one effected by the scientific revo-
show the progress of events in each section. The
ution that found its climax in the Origin of
aim is so to arrange the account that the reader can
keep in mind the entire field of operations, conse-
quently each chapter takes up in turn the military
A fifth volume of the Right Honor operations of each section, with footnotes and cross-
history, politics, able George W. E. Russell's re references on each page to show what is taking
and literature. printed papers from the Manchester place elsewhere
the blockade, the war at sea,
“Guardian” and other publications is now offered affairs in Mexico, etc. Each chapter closes with
to the lover of miscellaneous chronicle and com estimates of the leaders on both sides, of the gains
ment, cut up into short chapters and marked with and losses of each combatant, and a short summary:
a high degree of journalistic fluency and positive In order to avoid confusion, Confederate names and
ness of opinion. "Sketches and Snapshots” (Duf- titles are printed in italics. The maps, sixty-five
field) contains fifty-five articles, largely reminiscent in number and very good ones, are printed in a
of noted persons now deceased, partly also of a separate volume, and are standardized as to scale-
political-historical character, and occasionally de the first time that this has been done. Throughout
voted to literary criticism. The most considerable the volume of narrative frequent references are
and most important chapter in the book has to do made to the maps. The unusual arrangement of the
with Gladstone, whom the author knew well, both text destroys its unity, though it undoubtedly adds
as a man and as a public character, and whom he to the value of the work for one making a close
greatly admired. Other personages, of more inter study of the campaigns. The style is at times
est to English than to American readers, are treated involved. The views of the author are always
in more or less detail. Coming to matters of literary interesting and sometimes original. His tracing of
and miscellaneous interest, we catch as we turn the the causes which led to the war is not of much value,
pages the following sentence, commendable in its
and the same may be said of the brief sketch of
sentiment: “ To speak the tongue that Shake Reconstruction. On the other hand the importance
speare spake’ is a stronger title to the world's of the French intrigues in Mexico is properly
regard than the possession of all the bloated arma shown, and the Mexican affairs are well woven into
ments that delirium ever conceived, or the reddest the account of the general situation. Some of
of red lines ever traced across a subjected Conti Mr. Formby's conclusions and opinions are inter-
nent.” Seasonable and likely to touch responsive esting. For example, he asserts that the contest
chords is this concerning a world-language : “ But was decided in the really vital part of the country
what is that language to be ? Esperanto? A thou between the Mississippi River and the Appalachians,
sand times, No; for unless it is remarkably unlike and that the great campaigns of the East were due
all other languages, Esperanto must be learnt; and mainly to political and sentimental considerations.
I have no mind to replace myself, in tottering age, The Confederacy, he says, had three chances of suc-
under the linguistic discipline which oppressed my cess: the first, to win by force of arms, was lost at
youth." In literary themes the author will meet Murfreesboro in December, 1862; the second, to
with some occasional dissent on the reader's part, win through recognition by foreign states, was lost
as of course he will expect to do. A paper devoted at Gettysburg in 1863; and the third, to win by
to Matthew Arnold makes this most Greek of tiring out the North, was lost when Johnston was
English poets to be of the school and of the lineage I replaced by Hood in 1864.
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Seven studies
never
could have built an efficient marine engine the au-
In order to “acquaint men who are
thor believes that its chances for success would have
in statesmanship.
interested in the bearings of modern
been greatly increased. As it
was,
the
strong Con-
history on public life with sundry
federate ironclads could not be maneuvered. The statesmen whose time was devoted not to seeking
Confederate military organization was, however, office or to winning a brief popular fame by chican-
superior to the Federal, for in it each officer exer ery or pettifoggery, but to serving the great inter-
cised command appropriate to his rank, and quar ests of modern states and, indeed, of universal
rels over seniority were therefore infrequent. Some humanity,” Dr. Andrew D. White has made a care-
of the judgments expressed about the military lead ful study of “Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare
ers are of interest: Pope was "a most able offi of Humanity with Unreason " (Century Co.), which
cer,” in spite of his erratic speech; Rosecrans was he appropriately dedicates to the memory of another
the best minor strategist the war produced”; Buell champion of humanity, the late Goldwin Smith.
and McDowell were fine generals who were not Statesmen of the European continent rather than
allowed proper opportunities; Sidney Johnston is of England or America have been chosen because,
not highly regarded; Sheridan and Hardee “ as the author says, “the great leaders of our own
found their limit"; Early was an extraordinary” country and of Great Britain have already been
general; McClernand was one of the ablest of gen- | fully and admirably portrayed for the American
erals but “the worst of politicals”; Semmes was student of history," and also because, he continnes,
unequalled for the making and carrying out of large “ my early years abroad were spent mainly upon
designs; Halleck was jealous, vindictive, obstinate, the European continent, and public duties since
and untrustworthy; Joe Johnston and other engineer have led me to make prolonged stays in various
generals were prone to the defensive; Sherman “was Continental states — France, Germany, the Nether-
the cleverest intellect brought to bear on the war”; lands, Italy, Russia — where the study of Continen-
Lee was prejudiced in favor of Virginia generals. tal statesmen has been almost forced upon me.”.
Of the seven statesmen selected for portraiture,-
Pen portraits
“Mad Shepherds, and Other Human
Sarpi, Grotius, Thomasius, Turgot, Stein, Cavour,
of rustic
Studies" (Holt), by Mr. L. P. Jacks,
oddities.
Bismarck, the author could, of course, claim
editor of “The Hibbert Journal,”
belongs to that class of quietly realistic, semi- anything like first-hand knowledge of only the last
two; and even in Cavour's case he had no personal
humorous, and semi-pathetic delineation of humble impressions to draw on, but only conversations with
humanity that can almost be said to have come into
friends and political associates of the great man.
being within the last decade, and to which Mr. John
Galsworthy (in his sketches entitled collectively know long and with some intimacy; consequently
Bismarck, however, it was Dr. White's fortune to
“A Motley”) and Mr. Edward Thomas (in his
" Rest and Unrest”) have very recently made note-
he is presented with greater fulness and vividness
than any of the other characters. To the author
worthy contributions. The plot and the continuity
of “The Warfare of Science with Religion” this
of the formal novel are lacking to these delicate
little fabrications ; but the artistic touch, the insight, reasonableness forms a congenial subject for care
kindred antagonism between unreason and sweet
the creative imagination, and the tender sentiment
ful study and illuminating discussion; and the work
of the romancer are present. How true to their
originals such characters as the Mad Shepherds may
is undertaken and executed with a scholarly thor-
be, or how far idealized and beautified, one cannot
oughness and a contagious enthusiasm that give
the book both weight and vitality.
say; but at any rate they convey the impression of
reality viewed with the eyes of loving tenderness
When Mr. Harry Graham christened
and large charity, and presented with artistic detach-
Mirthful essays his volume of humorous essays and
ment and literary skill. What reader of books and
sketches “The Bolster Book” (Duf.
student of human nature could fail to find rich enter field), he was humorously apologizing for the absence
tainment in Mr. Jack's atheist shoemaker of whom of a quality which in fact particularly distinguishes
we are told that “the boots of labourers out of work his work. Mr. Graham's worst enemy could not
and of other unfortunates he mended free of cost, accuse him of soporific dullness. He is as lively as
regularly devoting to this purpose that part of the a cricket, and as irresponsibly, unreasonably cheer
Sabbath which was not occupied in proving the non ful. His wit is not of a very high order; it consists
existence of God," and who, as one of his cronies chiefly in outrageous puns, delightful misquotations,
said of him, "spent his breath in proving that God daring personalities, and cutting home truths indis-
doesn't exist, and his life in proving that He does ”? tinguishably mixed with wild exaggeration and utter,
A baker's dozen of these captivating little character nonsense. It plays, apparently with perfect ease,
studies, all breathing a sense of the mysteries and upon any subject, from keeping a dog, breakfasting
the sublimities of our common lot, are embraced in bed, or the dangerous trade of cheese-punching,
in the little volume, which is provided with a to the personality of Andrew Carnegie, the manners
frontispiece portrait of “Snarley Bob,” mad shep- of the idle rich, and the merits of Brighton as a
herd, or inspired shepherd, as the reader may choose holiday resort. Nothing notable is said upon any
to regard him.
of these subjects, but plenty of good laughs are
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evoked from them all,- provided only that the first Napoleon and consort of the King of Naples.
reader is in a mellow mood, content to be merely A view of the Murat house at Bordentown, from a
amused by this stream of desultory banter. The painting by the writer of the Memoirs, forms one
tale of Mr. Graham's expensive efforts to "live up of the many interesting illustrations in the book.
to the sumptuous appearance of a magnificent fur Restored to the land of her ancestors in 1848, the
coat will evoke a responsive thrill in the hearts of Princess again became a wanderer with the down-
many readers. The incisive analysis of the motives fall of Napoleon the Third, this time choosing En-
and methods of holiday-makers will please others. gland for her place of exile. That she should have
Some of the topics are hackneyed and some of the cherished for the English no fond affection is not
jokes slender, but we doubt if anybody will fall asleep surprising, and to this frank dislike of that country
over “The Bolster Book.”
and all persons and things belonging thereto the
reader is indebted for some of the spice and snap of
In the mellow maturity of his eighth
The permanent
her outspoken style. She seems to have written,
pleasures decade, the President Emeritus of
however, in the language of that hated land, and
of existence. Harvard has favored us with a vol-
at the instance of one of its citizens, Mr. Robert
ume of five essays which readily group themselves
Leighton, who contributes an introduction to the
under the general title, “ The Durable Satisfactions
volume. Many famous persons appear in her pages,
of Life" (Crowell). This is also the heading of
This is also the heading of notably the Empress Eugénie, whom she seems to
the first chapter, a brief address given to the new
students at Harvard, October 3, 1905, on what
have cordially hated, and the Emperor himself,
makes for an honorable and useful life. More
whom the kindred blood in her veins made her judge
more kindly. The fact that the Memoirs were left
elaborated, and fitted to the needs of somewhat
younger hearers, is the next-following lecture on
unrevised probably makes them all the better reading,
as far as human quality is concerned.
“ The Happy Life: The Moral Purpose of the
Universe,” which was first read before the students
of Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and afterward
rewritten. Then comes the sketch of “John Gil-
BRIEFER MENTION.
ley, Maine Farmer and Fisherman,” which has
The late Alexander Johnston's “ History of American
already appeared in print. As a lifelike and thor-
Politics ” (Holt) is a book which it would be difficult to
oughly interesting account of a plain man of the
improve, but the lapse of time since the last edition has
people, who was a hero in his humble way, the sketch made additions necessary, and these have been supplied
is admirable, and it exhibits the writer's powers in by Professors W.M. Sloane and Winthrop More Daniels,
a field not habitually occupied by him. Some reflec- bringing the work strictly up to date.
tions on
“Great Riches come next, and the now “ A Bibliography of History for Schools and Libra-
rather famous lecture on “The Religion of the Fu. ries,” by Dr. Charles M. Andrews (with two collabor-
ture" closes the volume. Dr. Eliot counts health“ the ators), is published by Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co.
chief blessing of life after the domestic affections,"
The titles are usefully and intelligently annotated, and
and in his opening page he says: “So far as I have
the book is just what is needed by a teacher of history
in doubt as to the best books to purchase for the school
seen, there is one indispensable foundation for the
library or for private reading.
satisfactions of life-health." Yet there have been
The vexed question of the authorship of “Timon of
chronic invalids who have conquered for themselves
Athens” is discussed by Dr. Ernest Hunter Wright in
some few durable satisfactions of life, perhaps even
a monograph recently issued from the Columbia Uni-
some satisfactions denied to the robust. Encourag-versity Press. The writer makes a strong, and perhaps
ing is the author's conviction that “it is quite unnec a convincing argument for Shakespeare's priority—that
essary in this country to feel alarm about the rise is, for the view that an unknown author spuiled a play
of a permanent class of very rich people. To trans-
largely written by Shakespeare, rather than the view
mit great estates is hard. They get divided or dis-
that Shakespeare built upon the basis of an earlier
persed.” In this, as in his other views, Dr. Eliot
work. Dr. Wright marshals his evidence in a systema-
shows himself a confirmed optimist, always taking
tic and logical fashion, and his style is noticeably better
than is customary in studies of this description.
a wide and hopeful outlook, and seeing life in its
Some there are, perhaps many, who can recall the
wholeness.
presence among us of the Swami Vivekananda, who was
Of unusual interest to American
Memoirs of an
an impressive figure at the Parliament of Religions in
American-born readers of autobiographical reminis Chicago, in 1893, and who remained in this country,
French princess.
cences will be the volume entitled lecturing in various cities, until 1895, when he pro-
“My Memoirs ”
(Putnam) which the Princess ceeded to England in further pursuance of his mission,
Caroline Murat, granddaughter of the great Murat, returning again to America a little later on his way to
his own country.
« The Master as I Saw Him, being
King of Naples, left unfinished at her death in the
summer of 1902. She was born in exile, at Borden-
Pages from the Life of the Swami Vivekananda”
(Longmans) contains characteristic passages from the
town, New Jersey, Dec. 31, 1833, her father being Swami's teachings, as noted by a devout hearer and sub-
Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat, and her
sequent follower, the Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble).
own name Caroline pointing back to her grand The volume contains much that belongs to all true
mother, Caroline Bonaparte, youngest sister of the religion, of whatever clime or century.


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66
Two posthumous volumes of essays by the late Henry D.
Lloyd are announced by Messrs. Putnam. “ Mazzini and
Other Essays” and “Lords of Industry "are their titles.
The Elm-Tree on the Mall,” in a translation made by
Mr. M. P. Willcocks, is a new volume in the John Lane
Co.'s timely and attractive edition of Anatole France.
A “History of the French Academy," by Mr. D.
Maclaren Robertson, is announced by the G. W.
Dillingham Co. The plan of the work will be biogra-
phical rather than critical.
Mr. Arnold Bennett's novel, “Clayhanger,” being the
first volume of a new trilogy with the familiar “ Five
Towns” for a background, will be published Oct. 1 by
Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co.
A biographical sketch of the late Frederick William
Maitland has been prepared by Mr. H. A. L. Fisher,
and will be published by the Messrs. Putnam in con-
junction with the Cambridge University Press.
A new edition, revised for the coming year, of Messrs.
Laird & Lee's well-known “Vest-Pocket Diary and
Time-Saver" has just made its appearance. A more use-
ful book, in proportion to its size, would be difficult to
find.
“ The Function of the Church in Modern Society” is
to be the title of a new book by Dr. William Jewett
Tucker, former president of Dartmouth College, which
is announced by Houghton Mifflin Co., for publication
this Fall.
“ The Time of the Singing of Birds" is the title of
an altogether pleasing little anthology of poems about
birds, published by Mr. Henry Frowde. It is evidently
the joint work of three compilers, their initials only
being given.
“ The Forum” will hereafter be published by Mr.
Mitchell Kennerley. A new and attractive cover appears
on the September issue, and the contents include con-
tributions by M. Maeterlinck, Mr. Maurice Hewlett, and
Count Tolstoy.
“The Egoist ” and “ Beauchamp's Career,” each in
two volumes, bring the new “ Memorial Edition"
(Scribner) of George Meredith's writings half-way to
completion. The illustrations continue to form a fea-
ture of much interest.
Messrs. Crowell's excellent series of “ Handy Volume
Classics” has been lately extended by two new vol-
umes, “ Best American Essays” and “ Best Amer-
ican Orations.” Both compilations are the work of Mr.
John R. Howard,
“The Merry Wives of Windsor," edited from the
quarto of 1602 by Dr. W. W. Greg, is a publication of
Mr. Henry Frowde in his “ Tudor and Stuart Library.”
The text is a facsimile reprint, and the introduction and
notes are elaborate.
Miss Nanette B. Paul is the author of a manual of
“ Parliamentary Law” published by The Century Co.
An appendix of review questions will serve to test the
thoroughness with which the reader has mastered the
oontents of the book.
A new English periodical, “ The Librarian,” is announ-
ced, which is to “mirror the state of the library pro-
fession in this country, and to appeal to the public
libraries, the great private university and collegiate
libraries of the United Kingdom." The advisory editor
is Mr. Alexander J. Philip of the Gravesend Public
Library. The editorial announcement lays stress on the
fact that the venture is an independent journal, whose
only purpose is to minister to the tastes of its readers
and the highest interests of the profession.
Coleridge's “ Poems of Nature and Romance, 1794-
1807,” edited by Miss Margaret A. Keeling, is published
by Mr. Henry Frowde. The edition of 1829 is the basis
of the present text, although other sources are drawn
upon to a slight extent.
The remarkable success of “The New Word” by Mr.
Allen Upward, lends special interest to the announce-
ment by Mr. Mitchell Kennerley that he will publish
immediately a novel by this writer, to be entitled
“ Lord Alistair's Rebellion."
Two new biographies of Goldsmith are under way in
England. One of these will be the work of Mr. F.
Frankfort Moore ; the other, dealing with “Goldsmith
and his Friends," is by Mr. Richard Ashe King, author
of a former volume on the same subject.
“ Bernard Shaw as Artist-Philosopher,” a brief ac-
count of the Shavian philosophy prepared by Mr. Renée
M. Deacon, is announced by the John Lane Co. This
house will also publish a little volume by the artist-
philosopher himself, to be entitled “Socialism and
Superior Brains."
Maxim Gorky has just finished two new plays, and
arrangements have been made for their production on
the German stage. The first, which is called “Peculiar
People,” is said to be a bitter satire on Russian society
in the days following the Revolution. The other is a
comedy entitled “Children.”
Seven English mystical treatises of the fourteenth
century, as first collected and printed by Henry Pep-
well in 1521, are presented in a new volume of the
“ Medieval Library” (Duffield), under the title, “ The
Cell of Self-Knowledge." An introduction and notes
are supplied by Dr. Edmund G. Gardner.
Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. publish a
“ Luxembourg" edition of Kingsley's “ Hereward the
Wake,” that sterling work of historical romance which,
we trust, has not yet lost its hold upon young readers.
There are a dozen or more of rather striking illus-
trations by Miss Gertrude Hammond.
Sir Martin Conway's well-known book on the Alps
is now issued by the Macmillan Co. in a new edition
costing but one-fourth the price of the original large
octavo edition illustrated in color by Mr. A. D. Mo-
Cormick. A number of excellent reproductions from
photographs illustrate the present issue.
A " Pocket Reference Library," comprising a number
of compact pocket-size dictionaries and encyclopædias,
printed on India paper, is announced by Messrs. Cassell
& Co. The first five volumes will be : The Pocket
Doctor, English Dictionary, Proverbs and Maxims, A
Dictionary of Mythology, Poetical Quotations.
Professor Lewis A. Rhoades of Ohio State University,
for many years past a valued contributor to THE DIAL,
died in Columbus on August 30. He had held the chair
of Germanic languages and literature at Columbus since
1903, previous to which time he had been connected
with the faculties of Michigan, Cornell, and Illinois.
The discovery among Lafcadio Hearn's papers of a
translation of Flaubert's “The Temptation of St.
Anthony” has been recently reported. The book is
said to have engaged Hearn's attention for several
years. It will be published before long, with an intro-
duction by Miss Elizabeth Bisland, Hearn's biographer.


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aro
Miss Bisland has also edited a further collection of
Hearn's Japanese letters, which will be published this
Fall by Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Co. These new let-
ters contain Hearn's final and frankest expression of
views in regard to Japan, and are said to be marked by
a note of disillusion which contrasts sharply with his
former admiration.
Three new volumes in the series of « Riverside
Educational Monographs,” published by the Houghton
Mifflin Co., are the following: “ The Ideal Teacher,"
by Professor George Herbert Palmer; “ The Problem
of Vocational Education,” by Dr. David Snedden; and
“ The Teacher's Philosophy in and out of School," by
President William DeWitt Hyde.
Miss Ida M. Tarbell is now preparing a volume of
“Selections from Lincoln,” which will include the two
Inaugurals, the speeches in Independence Hall and at
Gettysburg, the last public address, and the letter to
Horace Greeley. A brief memoir of Lincoln from the
pen of Miss Tarbell will add interest to this book,
which is to be published by Messrs. Ginn & Company.
Two interesting new
volumes in 6. The Guide
Series” of books, published by the Baker & Taylor Co.,
“ A Guide to Biography" (American Men of Mind),
by Mr. Burton E. Stevenson ; and “A Guide to Great
Cities"
(Northwestern Europe), by Miss Esther
Singleton. Both volumes are illustrated, the one with
portraits, the other with photographs of buildings and
street scenes.
The seventh series of “Shelburne Essays,” by Mr.
Paul Elmer More, which the Messrs. Putnam will
publish this Fall, contains papers on the following
subjects : Shelley, Wordsworth, Hood, Tennyson, Will-
iam Morris, Louisa Shore, Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
Francis Thompson, the Socialism of G. Lowes Dickinson,
the Pragmatism of William James, Criticism, and
Victorian Literature.
An interesting “human document” is promised in the
“Life of the late Empress Dowager of China,'' which
the Lippincotts will publish shortly. This volume was
compiled from state papers and the private diary of the
Comptroller of the Empress's household, and also incor-
porates the diary of His Excellency Ching Shan. The
author, Mr. J.O. P. Bland, was for several years in the
Chinese government service under Sir Robert Hart.
A new volume of eighteenth century studies from Mr.
Austin Dobson's graceful but frugal pen will be to many
one of the most interesting announcements of the Fall
season. The title is “Old Kensington Palace and Other
Papers," and the contents are described as short studies,
rather than vignettes, with a larger admixture of literary
criticism. Though he deals mainly with English scenes
and personages, Mr. Dobson makes some excursions
into France.
The reproduction of the Cædmon MS. in the Bodleian
is to be undertaken as soon as a sufficient number of
subscribers have been secured. This MS. of the late
tenth and early eleventh century is of exceptional inter-
est, both linguistically and artistically — the text is
illustrated with drawings affording a curious and instruc-
tive display of the national art and customs of the
period. The Modern Language Association has already
secured a number of subscribers in this country.
New light on the ever-fascinating master of Abbots-
ford is promised in “Sir Walter Scott's Friends,'' by
Miss Florence Mac Cunn, to be published soon by the
John Lane Company. Alison Rutherford (Mrs. Cock-
burn), Mrs. Anne Murray Keith, George Cranstoun
(Lord Corehouse), William Erskine (Lord Kinneder),
Anna Seward, and Joanna Baillie, are among the friends
described in this volume. An account will be given
of Scott's relations with other poets, among them
Campbell, Crabbe, Moore, Byron, and Wordsworth.
An exceptionally welcome addition to the “ Riverside
Literature Series ” (Houghton) is the volume in which
Professor Clarence Griffin Child has edited for school
use a group of early English plays, including " Every-
man," the Towneley “ Second Shepherds' Play,” the
Brome “ Abraham and Isaac," and several others The
text is modernized, a change which could hardly have
been helped in a book designed for students of the
lower schools.
“The Edinburgh Book of Scottish Poetry” is an
anthology, on a plan similar to the “Oxford Book of
English Verse" and the “ Dublin Book of Irish Verse,"
which is announced for publication in the early autumn
by Mr. Fisher Unwin of London. The editor, Sir
George Douglas, has aimed at presenting the best and
most characteristic work of the Scottish poets, accom-
panied by notes at the foot of each page, so that the
reader will not be troubled by linguistic difficulties.
A number of unpublished letters, written by Carlyle
and Mrs. Carlyle, have recently been discovered in New
Zealand, and are now on sale in New York, so that there
is every likelihood of a further addition to the already
imposing array of volumes that contain the published
correspondence of the Carlyles. Mr. Henry Larkin, who
acted for a time as Carlyle's literary assistant, emigrated
to New Zealand, taking with him the letters he had
received from the Carlyles while in England, and it is
this collection that has now come upon the market. It
comprises sixty-eight letters written by Thomas Carlyle,
thirteen by Jane Welsh Carlyle, and fourteen by Ruskin.
An historical work of considerable importance is
announced by the Yale University Press in Dr. Max
Farrand's “ Records of the Federal Convention of 1787."
The proceedings of the convention were held under the
strictest confidence, and for a period of thirty years no
word of what took place there was made public by the
delegates. The variety of versions thereafter published
shows the need for the present exhaustive work, which
constitutes the result of years of study on the part of
the editor, and comprehensively embraces all that has
been written or published by the various participants
in the deliberations of the Convention. The work will
be issued in three royal octavo volumes. There is also
to be a large-paper Subscribers' Edition, numbered, and
strictly limited to 250 copies.
It has been decided to issue two supplementary vol-
umes to the “ Cambridge History of English Literature,”
containing illustrative passages in prose and verse from
the great English writers, together with many repro-
ductions of title-pages, portraits, and facsimiles. The
fifth and sixth volumes of the History, which treat of
the drama down to the closing of the theatres under
the Puritan rule, will be published this month. Among
the contents are chapters by Professor Saintsbury on
Shakespeare, Professor Gregory Smith on Marlowe,
Mr. F. S. Boas on early English comedy, Professor
Thorndike of Columbia on Ben Jonson, Mr Arthur
Symons on Middleton and Rowley, Mr. Harold Child
on the Elizabethan theatre, and Dr. A. W. Ward on
Thomas Heywood, and on some political and social
aspects of the Elizabethan age. Messrs. Putnam pub-
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ANNOUNCEMENT LIST OF FALL BOOKS.
In accordance with an annual custom of many
years' standing, we present to our readers herewith
a complete and classified summary of the books plan-
ned for publication during the Fall and Winter sea-
son by the leading publishing houses of America,
an even fifty in number. This list has as usual been
prepared especially for our pages, from the earliest
and most authentic information to be obtained. As
affording a trustworthy bird's-eye view, as it were,
of the publishing season of 1910–11, its interest
and value to every bookbuyer — whether librarian,
bookseller, or private purchaser - will be at once
apparent. About 1650 titles are included in the
present list, -a substantial increase over last year's
total. All the books entered are new books -
editions not being included unless having new form
or matter. Some of the more interesting features
among these announcements are commented upon
in the leading editorial in this number of The DIAL.
Considerations of space make it necessary to carry
over to our next issue the categories of “School and
College Text-Books” and “ Books for the Young."
- new
&
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
Tho Autobiography of Goldwin Smith, edited by
Arnold Haultain, illus.-Memories and Impres-
sions of Helena Modjeska, illus. from photo-
graphs, etc., $4. net.-Twenty Years at Hull
House, by Jane Addams, illus.—Princess Helene
Von Racowitza, an autobiography, authorized
translation from the German by Cecil Mar, illus.,
$3, net.—The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, prepared
from official sources.-Douglas Jerrold and Punch,
by Walter Jerrold, with photogravure portraits.
Life and Letters of Alexander Macmillan, by
Charles L. Graves, with portraits. (Macmillan Co.)
Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman, by
his granddaughter, Laura Stedman, 2 vols., illus.,
$7.50 net. (Moffat, Yard & Co.)
The Digressions of V, by Flihu Vedder, illus. by the
author, $6. net.-John Brown, a biography, fifty
years after, by Oswald Garrison Villard, illus.,
$5. net.—Richard H. Dana, Jr., speeches in stirring
times and letters to a son, edited, with intro.
ductory sketch and notes, by Richard H. Dana,
with portraits, $3. net.—The Corsican, a diary of
Napoleon's life in his own words, compiled and
translated by Prof. R. M. Johnston, $1.50 net.-
An American Citizen, the life of William H.
Baldwin, Jr., by John Graham Brooks, with por-
traits, $1.50 net. (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Grover Cleveland, a record of friendship, by Richard
Watson Gilder, illus., $1.80 net.-Seven Great
Statesmen, by Hon. Andrew D. White, $2.50 net.-
Napoleon Bonaparte, a history, by William Milli-
gan Sloane, new library edition from new plates,
illus., $10. net. (Century Co.)
The Life and Letters of William Beckford, edited
by Lewis Melville, illus. in photogravure, etc.,
$3.50 net.--The Life and Letters of William
Sharp, edited by Mrs. William Sharp, 2 vols., with
portraits, $3. net. (Duffield & Co.)
Sir Walter Scott's Friends, by Florence MacCann,
illus., $3.50 net.-Memoirs of Heinrich Heine,
2 vols., illus. in photogravure, etc., $6. net.-
Under Five Reigns, further reminiscences of Lady
Dorothy Nevill, illus., $6. net.—The Papers of
Walter Spencer Stanhope, M.P., a Macaroni and
his kindred, by A. M. W. Stirling, 2 vols., illus.
in color, etc., $10. net.— William Harrison Ains.
worth and his friends, by S. M. Ellis, 2 vols.,
illus., $10. net.—The Speakers of the House of
Commons, from the earliest times to the present
day, by Arthur Irwin Dasent, $6.50 net.-Bess of
Hardwick and her Circle, by Mrs. Stepney Raw-
son, illus. in photogravure, etc., $5. net.-Peter
the Cruel in Love and War, the life of the noto-
rious Don Pedro of Spain, illus. in photogravure,
etc., $4. net.-A Princess of Intrigue, Anne Louise
Benedicte Duchesse Du Maine, by General de
Piepape, trans. from the French by J. Lewis May,
illus., $4. net.-Charles de Bourbon, constable of
France, “the great Condottiere,” by Christopher
Hare, with photogravure frontispiece, etc., $4.
net.— The Beaux and the Dandies, Nash, Brum-
mel, and D'Orsay, with their Courts, by Clare
Jerrold, illus., $5. net.-A Queen at Bay, the story
of Maria Christina and Don Carlos, by Edmund B.
D'Auvergne, illus., $5. net.—Robert Blatchford, the
sketch of a personality and an estimate of some
achievements, by A. Neil Lyons, 75 cts. net.-
The People's King, a short life of Edward VII.,
by W. Holt-White, with frontispiece, $1.25 net.
(John Lane Co.)
Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend, by
Lilian Whiting, illus., $1.50 net.—The Women
Napoleon Loved, by Tighe Hopkins, illus. in
photogravure, $4.50 net.—Reminiscenses of
K. C., by Thomas Edward Crispe, with portrait,
$3.50 net.—Heroes of California, by George Whar.
ton James, illus., $1.50 net.-A Lawyer's Recol-
lections in and out of Court, by George A. Torrey,
$1.50 net. (Little, Brown & Co.)
The Intimate Letters of Alexander Hamilton, edited
by Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton, illus., $3.50 net.-
Recollections of a Long Life, 1823-1834, by Lord
Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, edited by his
daughter, Lady Dorchester, 2 vols., with portraits,
$6. net.—The Romance of a Medici Warrior, a
study in heredity, by Christopher Hare, illus.,
$2.50 net.—Molière, his life and his works, by
Brander Matthews, illus., $3. net.—Memoirs of
the Duchesse de Dino, Vols. II. and III., 1836-1862,
$2.50 net.—The Empress Eugenie, 1870-1910, by
Edward Legge, illus., $2. net.—The Fascinating
Duc de Richelieu, by H. Noel Williams, illus, in
photogravure, etc., $4. net.—Madame de Monte-
span and Loạis XIVth, by H. Noel Williams, new
and cheaper edition, $2. net. (Charles Scribner's
Sons.)
China under the Empress Dowager, the history of the
life and times of Tzu Hsi, compiled from state
papers and the private diary of the comptroller of
her household, by J. O. P. Bland and E. Backhouse,
illus., $5. net.—The Life and Public Services of J.
Glancy Jones, by Charles Henry Jones, 2 vols., with
portrait in photogravure, $7.50 net. (J. B. Lippin-
cott Co.)
Napoleon and the End of the French Revolution, by
Hon. Charles F. Warwick, illus., $2.50 net.—The
American Crisis Biographies, edited by Ellis Pax.
son Oberholtzer, Ph.D., new vols.: William H.
Seward, by Edward Everett Hale, Jr.; Stephen A.
Douglas, by Henry Parker Willis, Ph.D.; William
Lloyd Garrison, by Lindsay Swift; each with
portrait, $1.25 net. (George W. Jacobs & Co.)
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CONTENTS.
defined, than no distinctive character at all.
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A PEOPLE'S PERSONALITY
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THE TRADITIONS AND THE NEW AGE. Charles and Lord Morley, who hold that every attempt
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and their investigations seem to show that the lock Ellis's “ The Soul of Spain,” Mr. W. C.
character of a large group of people is not quite Brownell's “ French Traits,” and Professor
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of its separate units. There is perhaps no new are genuinely enlightening, and will repay care-
element, but there is such a suppression bere ful reading. But the majority of judgments
and such an emphasis there that the qualities glibly expressed by our would-be national phy-
which
emerge
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that seems
siognomists are the veriest snap-shots, inductions
disproportionate to the importance of their con from observations that are neither comprehen-
stituent items. We get a suggestion as of the sive nor penetrating.
driving force of a turbine, and a sense of wonder The character of the American people has
that so tremendous a resultant should proceed tempted a great many foreigners to display
from the pressure of the steam upon such tiny their acumen, with results for the most part
blades. It is evident that when the psychology pitifully prejudiced or inaccurate. Nor have
of a people is in action as in some social or our own self-appointed critics done much better,
political upheaval — we need more than arith for they have rarely had an intimate acquaint-
metic to account for it, that a more subtle cal ance with more than a narrow section of this
culus than the statistician employs is requisite great commonwealth. One may have a fair
for a complete analysis. We have got far knowledge of the spirit of puritan New England,
beyond Buckle in our way of envisaging the or of the South, old or new, or of the Missis.
problems of organized society, and the old cock sippi Valley, or of the Pacific Coast, and be
sureness has given way to a great deal of amazingly ignorant of American life as a whole.
philosophic doubt.
Possibly there is no such thing as American life
That there is such a thing as national char as a whole, or will be until the ingredients of
acter, that it is possible to make definite propo the melting-pot shall have entered into a fusion
sitions concerning the personality of a whole of which there are few signs at present. It is
people, are general opinions to which most of true that American society has developed upon
us will give some sort of assent, however much the basis of a few simple ideas of political and
we may afterwards disagree when it comes to social relationships, but abstract ideas may be
actual characterization in a particular instance. potent in shaping the external life of a nation
It is like the problem of Shakespeare as raised without entering into its temper. Perhaps
by certain modern commentators
the man
nothing is more noteworthy about our life than
must have revealed himself in his works, the lip-service that it pays to the ideals of the
but whose vision is clear enough to read the founders of the nation, and the unconcerned way
revelation with certainty ? Hit or-miss character in which it flouts those ideals when they are
izations of nations are offered us a-plenty, both found to run counter to the primal instincts of
by tourists and arm-chair philosophers. Then greed and self-sufficiency. We are in theory a
there are great numbers of conventional judg- people devoted to the rights of man and opposed
ments, crystallized into telling descriptive to all forms of special privilege; we are in fact a
phrases, passed on from generation to genera- people willing to ride rough-shod over the rights
tion, and accepted without close critical inspec- of man and to foster privilege by the enact-
tion. The French frivolity, the English arrog ment of iniquitous laws. Still worse, we are a
ance, the German stolidity, and the Russian people bound by all our inherited traditions and
melancholy, are ascriptions that have just enough instincts to insist upon the largest measure of
of truth to pass muster with the superficially individual liberty, and yet we bow to the fetich
minded, but they are subject to so many qualifi- of majority rule even when that rule would
cations that little is left of them after a really impair the right of contract and go so far as to
searching analysis. Now and then we find a regulate our personal habits.
student of national character who really thinks, |. These remarks about national character have
and who has the insight to discern what is es been suggested to us by an article in “ The
sential and enduring in the people under observa- Fortnightly Review” which seeks to define
tion. Taine had this faculty in a marked “ The Personality of America.” The article
degree, and his examination of the English is absolutely insignificant, but is typical of its
temper as expressed in English literature has kind. An Englishman comes to this country,
lasting value. Other examples of a truly philo- spends a few weeks in the four leading cities of
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of our national life. He discovers that we are Semitic races are saturated with references to
good-natured and hospitable, that our boots and music — bear witness to their intense delight and
trousers are admirable, that we are clean-shaven preoccupation with it. It is hardly conceivable that
and boisterously patriotic, and that our girls
races so intelligent should have been continually
have a good time. By way of criticism, he talking of an art that did not exist. Painting of
thinks that we work too hard and neglect our
course they had. Some of their wonderful vase
painting remains, and from the excellence of this
wives. He learns that Mr. Roosevelt is our
almost mechanical work we may argue the greatness
national hero, and thinks we have done well in
of the real artists. Homer must have seen some
choosing him for that part. This is a summary marvellous work in relief or mosaic before he wrote
of the dozen pages of chatter which have been the description of Achilles' shield. In the Hindoo
dignified with the title quoted above. Breaking poet Bhavabhūti's drama, “ The Latter Acts of
butterflies is not a task to our mind, and it Rama,” the whole of a long act is given up to the
would be ink wasted to enlarge upon the super- description of a set of wall paintings, which, if they
ficiality and emptiness of this latest contribution were ever realized, must have rivalled anything in
modern art.
to comparative sociology. Such articles may be
But as so little of this past work exists, we are
useful in helping to keep up the entente cordiale,
driven in these two arts to near comparisons to see
but they have nothing but their good nature to
if the New Age has won out and driven tradition
recommend them. It is, however, a little sad from its stronghold. The New Age in painting
dening to think how much of this sort of writing claims landscape for its own. Take, it says, to the
we get, and how little of the kind that bears
Past, your figure compositions, your dramas of the
with it any real message for instruction or doings of men and gods ; take your portraits, your
chastening reproof. And we need both of these realizations of the soul of man; - I admit that I do
things if we are ever truly to know ourselves not equal you here, but resign the outer world to
and resolutely to set about mending our ways.
me. Now upon some minds Ruysdael and Hobbema
and Claude Lorraine, and even Salvator Rosa or
Richard Wilson, make as strong impressions as the
modern masters. Their truths are not quite the
THE TRADITIONS AND THE NEW AGE. recent truths, but they are true enough for illusion,
and their pictures bear the stamp of superior minds.
The New Age is always here. It is always im And the landscape backgrounds of Titian, Rubens,
patient of its predecessors, confident that it is the Rembrandt, and Velasquez are as magnificent as
champion of humanity and the culminating epoch anything in modern art, which indeed they anti-
of the world. It always tries to break with the Past. cipate in a remarkable degree. Constable, too, is
As if it could! As if the filaments that run through not quite a modern, though he is the father of mod-
it had not their root in the Past, — as if its flesh ern landscape.
were not made and moulded of things gone! The But the last great French School claims that it
very Doppelganger of the Past, it turns and draws has brought the sun upon the stage, that it has
its sword upon its own image, threatens it with its painted light. It has theorized, has brought the
own force, challenges it in the tones of tradition. science of chromatics to its aid, and in practice has
Are the arts progressive? Science doubtless is, actually realized the vibration of light. There are
though we are much in the dark as to the knowl. pictures of Degas and Monet that are absolute incar-
edge of the ancients. In mechanics, at least, they nations of shimmering, pulsating light. It is not to
could do things we cannot approach. But the ex disparage the often splendid work of this school, or
tension of scientific knowledge seems unquestionable, the pioneer courage which its members displayed, if
though even yet we are Newton's children, picking one suggests that much which they have done has
up pebbles on the sea-shore.
been anticipated. In Turner's skies we get much
Art, however, is the revelation of the human the same broken vibratory light as in Manet or
spirit, and as far back as we can trace it has revealed Monet. And that white sky-mud which FitzGerald
pretty much the same thing. There are no such said that Constable's sun threw up on its revolutions
steps rising one above the other, no such culminat- produces a like effect. There are sketches of Con-
ing growth, in art as in science. Doubtless human stable which might be signed by Monet or Seurat.
ity has never possessed all its faculties complete at Even the “pointillisme" of the latter harks back to
one time.
Doubtless one age has been stronger in Canaletto. For ages there have been schools both
one form of art-expression than another. There have of drawing and engraving based on the use of the
been strange lapses of forgetfulness and sudden dot. Many of the Dutchmen, too, have painted
revivals; but on the whole there has been main artificial life as vividly and as truthfully as Degas.
tained a pretty even level.
And there is a wonderful light which, whether truth-
The work of antiquity in two of the arts, music ful or not, has fascinated the world, in Leonardo's
and painting, has perished. Its music has been “Our Lady of the Rocks” and Rembrandt's “ Night
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Of course,
know;
we may
want to paint light, - we want to paint solid bodies surprise; making a composition of them can hardly
of different hues, densities, and distances, illumined be musical.
with light. Against light-colored backgrounds, But the New Age decided that music must be
clouds, white walls or water, the vibrating light of dramatic, that it must express and give the exact
the moderns is a success. Against dark backgrounds equivalent for the sharply defined thoughts, feelings,
or scenes much involved in shadow, it is a failure. and actions of humanity. Wagner is the great
And shadow is the soul of painting, as it is of dividing name in music.
He thought that pure
literature.
music had reached its climax, and that nothing
The use of flat painting is another sign of the remained for him to do but to invent a new method
moderns. But this is no new thing, and was in fact of using tones as a mnemonic exercise. And his
learned by them from Velasquez, who sometimes invention — the leit-motif — has great merit. Of
paints so thinly that the canvass shows through. course no succession of notes or chords has any re-
Scorn of the Subject is another note of recent art. semblance to a helmet or a sword or the Niblung
But it is pretty hard to escape from the Subject. gold; but after certain musical phrases had been
The subject of Manet's Déjeûner sur l'herbe is associated a number of times with these things in
what caused the scandal and the persecution of that the action of the drama, the mind of the hearer
great painter. Whistler laughed at the English began dimly to appreciate the repetition, and to
artist's preoccupation with story, but his own "Lady realize the symmetry of the musical architecture.
with the Yellow Buskin” is a subject picture. In It was a little like the game of “hunt the slipper”;
its fugitive motion it embodies the idea of woman but once we were trained to the quest, we could
flying and inviting pursuit. If Whistler had painted understand in the Wagnerian work a sort of gigan-
a nude nymph in just that attitude, given a suspicion tic harmony, a titanic thorough bass.
of foliage to the background, and labelled it “ Daphne with every new work of this kind we have got to
flying from Apollo," he would have had a subject learn the harmony over again; and it is at least
picture which everyone would have understood. As questionable if this repays us as do the legitimate
it is, the meaning is cryptically concealed by the forms of music.
modern dress. Gainsborough’s “Morning Walk,” There were six hundred thousand volumes in the
though only two portraits, is a subject picture. And Alexandrian library. At a mere guess
it
may
be
Constable's “Cornfield" might be labelled “Peace" doubted if more than a thousandth part of these
or "Fecundity."
remain. What did the others contain? What
song
One would not wish to say a word against the did the Sirens sing? No one may
but
great modern school of French artists, of whom be sure that, as Tom Moore said of the Irish epics,
Burne-Jones said that they were noble gentlemen those books were not written by fools or for foolish
working courageously for their ideals without regard purposes. From what remains we must judge that
for success or even for the necessities of life. But the literature of the ancients subtended as wide an
they are all fragmentary. The great painters of arc of experience as our own. Realism and romanti-
the past, — Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, -
cism were there, and allegory, - the most daring
riors completely equipped, armed cap-à-pie. Each flights of imagination, the most literal reproduction
of the moderns would seem to have seized a part of of fact. The New Comedy of Athens, if we had it,
this equipment a helmet, a breastplate, a lance, would probably be a fair offset for our whole mass
or a sword; and though each one may have bur of modern novels. And all the forms of literature
nished or sharpened up his piece of hardware beyond were then invented, drama, epic, novel, tale, lyric,
anything its original owner knew, yet it makes but idyll. Mr. Burbank may create a new flower or
a poor show against the full armament of the vegetable, or we may get a new animal by crossing
masters.
breeds; but the modern writer may despair of making
Music is a language that has only two words —— a new form or kind of literature. Whitman aspired
joy and grief. Its lively tones excite and interpret to this sort of originality. He took the forms of
the one, its slow and solemn motions the other. But literature, which are really its living body, to be
just what joy or what grief are associated with the cerements ; and he essayed to burst these and soar,
notes we must determine for ourselves. Anything a new thing. But the Greeks had their irregular
can be read into their broad expressions. This indef. dithyrambic verse. It is a legitimate enough species ;
initeness, this resolution of all existence into the though such is the craving of the human mind for
pulsations of the heart, its systole and diastole, is recognizable form in poetry, for repetition, recur-
what gives music its universal appeal, and what rence, symmetry, that such shapeless verse has
keeps it from having an intellectual content. never made any wide appeal. Blake, who anti-
Again, a musical phrase is like a syllogism, - it cipated Whitman in the use of
cipated Whitman in the use of it, as he did to a
is a movement that has a beginning, a middle, great extent in thought, has never been much read.
and an end, and that satisfies us with its com Nor has the irregular lyrical blank verse of Milton
pleteness. But to give us two terms of the syllogism and Matthew Arnold. Probably the most popular
and withhold the third, or to wrench them violently thing Whitman ever wrote is the little lyric, “My
apart, is certainly to deny any such satisfaction. Captain,” which comes nearer than anything else of
Discords are necessary for variety and the shock of his to recognized models of metre and rhyme.
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as the
as the
The genius of a language when in its formative How TO MAKE THE BOOK-FUND GO THE FUR-
period can and does create new forms. Modern THEST, whether in buying for a public or for a
accented verse differs from the quantitative poetry private library, is often a question of great impor-
of the ancients, and each modern race has developed tance. As a help in answering it, Mr. Le Roy
special and favorite variations of its own,
Jeffers’s “List of Editions Selected for Economy in
assonance of the Spanish, the alliteration of Scan Book Buying," published by the American Library
dinavian and Celtic poetry, the alexandrine in Association, may profitably be consulted. The com-
French, and the heroic line in English.
piler's experience as “ Chief of Book Department”
The real originality of every writer lies in the of the New York Public Library enables him to
glow and movement and vibration of his spirit. If deal intelligently with the matter, and his nineteen
these are vivid and rapid they will certainly differ double-column pages embrace a range of works in
entiate him from all others, though he make no polite literature that would alone constitute a re-
effort for originality of thought or newness of form. spectable library for a small town, and a more than
The stronger they are, indeed, the more probability respectable library for an individual. It is surpris-
that he will accept the dower of the past, — willing how many good books, well printed and well
take what tradition gives him, in order to ease him bound, can be had at fifty cents each, with a liberal
in his work.
discount in the case of public libraries, while for
Let us deal kindly with tradition, and tradition sixty and seventy-five something approaching to
will be good to us. Let us not try to push our grand- luxury is at one's command. In some points of
sires from their thrones. Rather, if it is necessary
detail Mr. Jeffers's list is a little puzzling. Why,
to save them, let us bear them tenderly on,
for instance, does he give only a very few of the
pious Æneas carried old Anchises from the wreck excellent “ Astor” editions of the standard poets ?
of burning Troy.
Matthew Arnold and George Eliot we find, but
CHARLES LEONARD MOORE.
many others, far more likely to be in demand, as
Milton, Byron, Scott, Shelley, and Keats, appear
only in more expensive editions. Again, why enter
George Eliot and George Sand under their pseudo-
CASUAL COMMENT.
nyms, with cross-reference to their real names, but
compel the reader to turn back from “Twain,
A CHINESE STUDENT'S REASONABLE REQUEST Mark,” to “Clemens, S. L.”? However, the little
that irritating and time-wasting formalities at the pamphlet is of such worth, and, in its way, of such
port of arrival should be waived in the case of those interest that one ought to enjoy turning its leaves
seekers for knowledge now coming in considerable the oftener the better.
numbers from China to the colleges and universities
of our land, appears in a New York journal. The THE IMMORAL NOTE IN FICTION cannot be de-
oriental courtesy and dignity and restraint that scribed in definite terms and thereafter invariably
mark the style of the letter (and that incidentally recognized from the description. Nevertheless a
remind one of the gentle phraseology of the author sensible reply to the question,
6 What Makes a
of “A Japanese Artist in London," elsewhere re Novel Immoral ?” has recently been written by
viewed in this issue) are highly ingratiating. We Miss Corinne Bacon of the Newark (N. J.) Public
quote a passage, which will point its own moral : Library; and her article, originally published in
“I am sorry to confess that my first impression as “New York Libraries," has been reprinted in the
I reached America was unpleasant. In order that “Wisconsin Library Bulletin.” Its breadth of view
the students who enjoy the benefit of the kindness is worthy of all praise, as a few random citations
of the United States in returning the indemnity
“A novel may have nothing objection-
money may not at the moment of their arrival able about it, so far as its love affairs go, and yet be
experience the same disagreeable sensation, in a thoroughly immoral book. For morality includes
order that no germ of hatred may arise in the proud the whole of life — not simply one relation.” “The
hearts of these young men coming here for training sinful woman in the Scarlet Letter is a healthier
for important offices in the New China, I plead for companion than the blameless Pamela.” “The book
more simplicity and less restraint in the forms which degrades our intellect, vulgarizes our emo-
through which they are required to go upon arrival. tions, kills our faith in our kind, is an immoral
These forms detained me in San Francisco against book: the book which stimulates thought, quickens
my will for some thirty-six hours, and were it not our sense of humor, gives us a deeper insight into
for subsequent kindness shown me, I fear that men and women and a finer sympathy with them,
I should have kept a while here, and later on is a moral book, let its subject-matter have as wide
carried back to China, hatred instead of friendship a range as life itself.” Is it not the two-edged
and good feeling toward America.” Let us take a quality of all criticism that makes the censorship of
few lessons in manners from the East while we are fiction so odious a task? “ To the pure all things
trying to give lessons in some perhaps less important are pure,” is the disconcerting rejoinder to the one
departments.
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strainer and caught a few real or fancied impurities. future achievements in the literary or learned world
And, furthermore, here as elsewhere in literature, on the part of the two children whose present men-
what is one man's meat is another man's poison tal equipment is so far above the average.
except that of course there are some books too
indubitably bad to be other than poisonous to all EYE-STRAIN AMONG LIBRARIANS ought next to be
readers.
made the subject of special study, and of a special
THE SENSUOUS BEAUTY IN WORDS might be dis-
volume, by Dr. Gould of Philadelphia, who has so
coursed on at great length. “ The Westminster zealously pursued his quest for eye-strain and its
Gazette" has been conducting a sort of symposium
attendant ills among various sorts of learned and
on the subject of the most beautiful words in En-
literary workers. In a paper on the recreations of
glish and other languages, and of course examples
librarians prepared for the recent Mackinac meeting
of such mysteriously haunting vocables have been
by Mr. Samuel H. Ranck, of the Grand Rapids Pub-
forthcoming in abundance. Who shall say what it
lic Library, but crowded out of the programme, to
is in sounds, sights, tastes, and smells, that conveys
the
regret of
many,
he had this to say among other
the impression of beauty or of ugliness, of sweetness
things :-“I believe that the beginning of the dis-
or of sourness, of softness or of harshness, and why
organization of the nervous system among librarians
it does so? The quality of beauty is one, but its
is frequently due to eye-strain. I have seen many
manifestations are countless. In the case of words,
examples of this where nervous indigestion, leading
this appeal of the mere sound to the ear is too often up to nervous prostration, and all the ills that follow,
drowned in the associations attached to the word. began with eye-strain. Library work and library
But in a comparatively unfamiliar tongue, as the
lighting can easily make all of us victims of eye-
American Indian dialects are to most of us, the
strain; and I may add that the lighting in many of
unmodified effect of sounds on the ear and on the
our libraries is vicious.” Significant, in this con-
inner sense can be studied. Are there any more
nection, is the large number of library workers wear
beautiful words than some of those selected by Long-
ing glasses whom one sees in our public libraries.
fellow for poetic uses in his “Song of Hiawatha”?
Nowhere else, except perhaps in a German univer-
What, for example, could be more liquidly musical
sity lecture-room, will one find so many be-spectacled
than the word “ Minnehaha"? Or what invitation
pairs of eyes.
could fall more gratefully on the city-dweller's ear, THE VOGUE OF OUR LAMENTED PRAGMATIST, the
on a sultry summer day, than one bidding him step late William James, has never before been brought
on the magic carpet of Prince Housain and be trans home to us as it has since his death. From all
ported to the Falls of Minnehaha ? Even though parts of Europe, as well as from every quarter of
he never heard of the Falls of Minnehaha, what
our own country, come evidences of the esteem in
fragrantly moist and musical delights, what coolness which he was held, the extent to which he was read,
and shady freshness, what babble of laughing waters, and the measure of his influence on the lives and
are immediately suggested!
the thinking of his readers. Noting the keen regret
in London over his death, a correspondent ventures
Two INSTANCES OF INTELLECTUAL PRECOCITY the assertion that no philosophical writer of the
that have attracted some attention of late raise again
the old question whether such abnormal development
present generation has been so widely read. The
far-reaching and beneficial influence of his doctrine
of mental powers at a very early period furnishes of “what works” in breaking down senseless con-
promise of later remarkable achievement, or is rather
vention, in overthrowing dogmatism, and in under-
an ominous symptom and one to be dreaded by par mining prejudice, is immeasurable. “ Modernism"
ents. The children in question, who need not here in religion, the reform of our penal system, and the
be specified by name, are the boy wonder of Har-
radical tone of much recent legislation, must all
vard, and the eight-year-old San Francisco prodigy
owe something, however indirectly, to the growth
who already speaks seven languages and has now and spread of the pragmatic habit of mind; and
begun on that simulacrum of a language, Esperanto. most who have caught the habit have done so from
Dr. Andrew D. White in his latest book, “Seven his books, magazine articles, and reported utter.
Great Statesmen," has a disparaging word to say of
His was a message that seems likely to be
those precociously learned young men who so com delivering itself to future ages long after the name
monly sink later, under the weight of their acquisi of William James himself shall have been forgotten.
tions, into everlasting obscurity. But his selected
statesmen were rather noted for early display of THE LIBRARIAN WHO WRITES is probably in
unusual powers of intellectual acquisition. The more perilous case than the librarian who reads.
difficulty in such an inquiry as this lies in the fact “ The librarian who reads is lost," runs the ancient
that, as a rule, only the infant prodigies who have adage; and any who desire an illustration of its
“made good” are available for purposes of investi truth should turn to “ The Old Librarian's Alma-
gation, while the possible thousands who have failed nack" and see there what befell the admirable
to fulfill their early promise have left no record Timothy Mason, a librarian whose love for the in-
behind them. We shall watch with interest for
any
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sides. Among the writing librarians must be in THE TRAVELLING LIBRARIES OF WISCONSIN now
cluded the late Leopold Delisle, whose custody of go to some nine hundred towns, or "stations," as
the literary treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale they are called in a well-written and well illustrated
ended a few weeks ago with his death at Chantilly. pamphlet (“Traveling Libraries in Wisconsin, with
So prolific a writer was he that the number of his Directory of Stations ") compiled by Miss Lutie E.
books and learned treatises, with the works edited Stearns, chief of this department of educational
and annotated by him, runs up to nearly two thou activity in that energetic commonwealth. It
appears
sand—1889 more exactly. A complete bibliography that the state and the county systems together own
of his literary labors is said to fill a volume of more nine hundred and forty-four of these peripatetic
than five hundred pages. But the librarian in him collections, with a total of nearly forty-five thousand
came so near to being lost in the author and scholar volumes, and that only lack of funds prevents a still
that his administration of the famous library under more extensive circulation of much-desired reading
his care was adversely criticized by more than one matter. Travelling study libraries, for study clubs,
student who had occasion to use it. In view of together with typewritten outlines for guidance, go
Delisle’s long and ardent devotion to his literary and also to the more serious-minded communities. A
learned labors, it is not surprising that the French map that forms the frontispiece to the little pamphlet
National Library should now be far less ably man shows that nearly all the counties are well studded
aged than the library of the British Museum, which with "stations,” no county being entirely neglected,
in turn cannot compete with our great American and even the lonely lumber camp receiving an
libraries in practical efficiency as a public institution. appreciated attention. As fore-runner to the per-
manent library, its itinerant substitute is doing a
THE LEFFERTS COLLECTION OF POPE's WORKS
good work.
which has recently been presented to the Harvard
University Library, through the generosity of an
unnamed benefactor (presumably Mr. J. Pierpont
COMMUNICATIONS.
Morgan), contains more than five hundred volumes,
none of later date than 1751, when Warburton's
THE JOURNALIZED SHORT STORY.
complete edition was published, and is the largest
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
collection of first and other early editions of Pope in
In a recent number of “The Athenæum " a writer,
existence. It was brought together by Marshall C.
who signs himself L. N., heartily complains of the
Lefferts, the bibliophile, whose fond hope it was to
abuse of the short story in England. Editors, so he
acquire a copy of every early edition of every one
asserts, have desired “force and body," both of a physi-
cal kind, writers have been weak enough to respond,
of the poet's works. But forced in his old age to
and, as a result, that desirable kind of short story which
recognize the impossibility of accomplishing his
does perfectly what in so brief a space can be perfectly
object, he decided to sell the collection, and it was done, has gone down before condensed novellettes cram-
placed in the hands of Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., med with stereotyped incident and machine-made char-
from whom it has now been bought and given to
acters. As a touchstone to test the inferiority of the
Harvard, which already had about one hundred and contemporary product, he brings forward Scott's
fifty Pope volumes in addition to the Lefferts lot,
“Wandering Willie s Tale," and so concludes a criti-
cism which deserves circulation on this side of the
so that its present equipment in the editions of that
water.
poet's works is unequalled in this country and, one
It deserves circulation here, whatever its truth for
might confidently assert, in the world.
England, because it describes admirably the vulgarizing
of the short story by the new American magazine.
AN OCTOGENARIAN COLLEGE STUDENT who has The new magazine we all know, and, within limits,
already attracted our admiring attention, and who
admire. It is active, it is thoroughly contemporary ; if
is undoubtedly the only undergraduate of eighty
one is looking for news it is interesting ; it is read to
now climbing the hill of knowledge with the inten-
an extent which is astonishing or appalling according to
one's point of view. The pamphlets of the eighteenth
tion of completing the four years' course and of
century were not more effective politically. But it is
following it with post-graduate study, is Mrs. Amy
not a magazine.
D. Winship of Racine, Wisconsin, widow of the
A magazine is specifically a storehouse of literature,
late E. B. Winship of the Winship Manufacturing or of writing which aspires to be literature. But the
Company. This eighty-years-young-collegian (she new so-called magazine is not so to be described. Ex-
is now a sophomore, apparently) is enrolled at cluding the poetry, which remains as a survival, and, in
the Ohio State University, whence a press despatch some measure, the short stories, it is sheer journalism,
announces her chosen studies for the coming winter
as a rule good journalism. Far from representing, as
to be philosophy, psychology, and literature, with
some pessimists think, the decline of the old magazine,
it is actually a step forward in the perfection of the
Shakespeare for a specialty. Not content with the
newspaper.
Its leading articles make little attempt to
regular college year of work, she attends summer
refine upon life as literature must; on the contrary, their
school in the long vacation. No wonder she is
purpose is to emphasize, as journalism should, the
reputed one of the best-read women in Wisconsin, To features" of the month's events. The new periodical
as well as one of the closest students.
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has robbed the dailies of some of their popularity and servative monthlies which still deserve the name of
much of their influence. Only the narrow-minded will magazine. A pale, faint creature this, usually tinged
criticise it because it is journalistic instead of literary, with the local color of some rural neighborhood, or puls-
or will insist that it should become a true magazine. ing gently to the flow of a pathetic sentiment. Delicacy
But, unfortunately, these extra-illustrated newspapers is carried to the verge of emptiness, suggestiveness to
insist upon feeding the hungry for news and the hungry a point where nothing interesting is suggested, the
for art out of one ladle. As the dress-coat has kept the “spiritual body," for which our English critic asks,
sword button, so these periodicals have retained certain is attained by starving the physical. The authors and
appurtenances of the literary magazine, – namely, editors of such stories are, after all, less dangerous than
poetry and the short story. The poetry was so inef the journalists — they have at worst emasculated an
fective that a great change in setting has only narrowed art which should be delicate and graceful, though strong.
its already straitened province. But the short story has But they have rendered bad service to the cause of fic-
been the sweetening, the ballast, the most popular ele tion, for they have led many readers to associate a
ment of the new magazine, and, inevitably, it has been literary touch with effeminacy and tonelessness, with the
journalized.
tale of a dull farm, and a faded old woman who looks
The symptoms of the journalized short story are through dingy curtains and talks dully. Such tales,
easily distinguished. Lack of style is the most evident, since they are literary but unsuccessful, have left open
and this probably means a failure to mature the thought, the way for an unliterary narrative which, thanks to a
to ripen the character-study, to drive observation similitude of vigor and masculinity, has attained a con-
beneath the drift of occasional happenings. It would siderable if not a meritorious success. They must share
be easy to name twenty short stories of the last decade the blame for the journalized short story.
in America that lack only style to be perilously near An American, however, who sought to escape from
greatness. Sensationalism, which after all is only ex these unfortunate tendencies, would scarcely instance
aggeration and therefore bad art, is another symptom. “Wandering Willie's Tale" as an example of what one
The journalized short story roars its laughter, bellows would advise our tellers of short stories to be doing.
its pathos, shouts its strenuosity. Or it is crudely Much water has run under the bridges since Scott wrote
realistic, smeared with local color, stuck over with a the Tale. It has the worthy and sufficient style which
specialized slang or rare dialect, all in the attempt to many of our stories, for lack of maturity, are wanting
make the thing “go" with hasty readers, to give it a in. It is written with that subtle interweaving of strand
“ challenge," as the magazine people say. An overplus and strand of the narrative which makes consummate art.
of “body” is probably a symptom also. By overplus But the mode of its telling is the straightforward, in-
of “body” the « Athenæum ” writer means a crowding cident-by-incident fashion of Chaucer and Boccaccio.
of incident, an accumulation of climaxes, a stringing In English, to judge by the scarcity of great successes,
together of vivid episodes, so that the purchaser shall this has always been a difficult mode for the short story,
feel that he is getting his money's worth of fiction. But I do not know why. And surely, for the situations or
this fault is more English than American. Since Irving, impressions out of which we make so many of our mod-
Poe, and Hawthorne began the cultivation of the fine ern short stories, the difficulty is enormously increased.
short narrative among us, the American sense for what It would seem that we must grapple with such material
should and should not go into a short story seems to have for stories, in the majority of instances, by means of
been keener and truer than the English. Kipling and the technique which Poe gave us, the technique which
Stevenson are exceptions, but then the one studied Bret bends every word towards the end of the story, and
Harte, the other Hawthorne. Such clever craftsmen arranges tone, setting, and succession of incident so as
as Mr. Galsworthy and Mr. Hewlett will blur the lines to throw all emphasis upon the situation or impression
of a short story whose technique a much lesser American which is subject and conclusion of the narrative. This
would handle with skill, while even the journalistic technical method is surely not to be neglected when, in
short story is usually well constructed and duly limited America certainly, hundreds can use it successfully.
in scope when it appears in an American magazine. On Nor is it to be neglected because thousands are carrying
the other hand, if journalism has not affected our tech it into abuse.
nique it has certainly drawn the short story into the In all probability it is the likeness of this method of
service of the propaganda which gave the new magazine story-telling to the methods of the journalists which
its reason for being and its success. These journalistic accounts for the ready abuse. Poe developed this tech-
stories smell of the muck-rake. Too often a strained nique in search of the power of vividness and immedi-
plot and a warped character-study show that they are ate effect which journalism, for other purposes,
likewise
cut to fit a popular movement, or made to order for the desires. Under the whip-lash of demand our moderns
illustration of some social or political defect.
seem to be taking it from literature to give it to jour-
So far we can hug the Englishman's grievance to our nalism. But if so, the cry for the writers of the American
breasts, and, if that is any satisfaction, feel that “ L. N.” short story is not back to the technique of Scott, or to
would add fire, salt, and vinegar to his strictures if he any technique whatsoever. It is rather back to litera-
could but spend an hour over a Subway news-stand. And ture, and all that literature implies of style, of worthi-
yet, however just his words may be for England, and
ness, and of art.
Only so can they hope to gather
however truly they apply to our journalized short stories, immortelles from an age which offers unexampled op-
there is one group of American narratives which they portunities for the keenly-poised, carefully-wrought
misfit in an almost ludicrous fashion. I do not mean short story. Otherwise they will be swung along in
the thoroughly good short stories which, in spite of all the wake of the extra-illustrated newspaper, their
evil tendencies whatsoever, are being written here more stories, like canoes lashed to a steamer's stern, strained
numerously and, I believe, more excellently than in and sprung out of art, out of beauty, and out of grace.
England. I mean the feminized short story.
The
HENRY SEIDEL CANBY.
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.
THE WRITING OF HISTORY.
Every crude investigator imagines himself a historian,
when he is nothing but a miner digging out facts; and
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
his facts are either meaningless or else make a wrong
A half-century ago, Macaulay, as essayist and his impression from lack of proper contrast, relief, or per-
torian, if not as poet, was all the vogue. Indeed, one spective. Every artist knows that there is no greater
might say simply as historian; for most of his essays liar than the sun; but the camera-fiends do not know
were on historical subjects, and his very poems were this, and cannot be brought to understand it.
historical.
The student of history on a large scale knows that
In several of his essays he had set forth, years before it can never be a science. Research is admirable, but
he undertook his great historical task, his conception of one may have done excellent work in that line and yet
what a history should be. In the main he worked up to be perfectly incapable of turning into history the mate-
this ideal, and the result was at the time truly marvel rial that he has so industriously gathered. This is what
lous. His history was more entertaining than most of has happened in the case of most of the young
doctors
the novels of the day, and was read with enthusiasm all
turned out by our higher institutions of learning, under
over the English-speaking world. His clear-cut and
the lead of the Germans. It is deplorable that they
vigorous style, as lucid as Voltaire's French and often
should have been taught to believe that their theses
as caustic, made reading easy and stimulating to the were both science and history, when in point of fact
weariest minds. His rich allusiveness to the whole
they were neither.
known world of literature flattered and delighted those It is about time that the writers of history should
whose general reading permitted them to catch the force
return to the spirit and methods of Macaulay ; that
and aptness of the allusions, and piqued the curiosity they should try at least to do their digesting of docu-
of those who failed to comprehend them. The vastness ments before they begin their real work, and then should
of his knowledge inspired confidence in his judgment; seek to acquire some skill in the use of his variety of
and his very cocksureness — his greatest foible -- was statement, his art in emphasis, his illuminating allusive-
to many minds a steady support against doubt and
ness, his compass of view, his sense of perspective, his
vacillation. His own enthusiastic optimism was in sweep and flow of coherent narrative, and, above all, his
keeping with the spirit of the age, unaffected as yet to capacity to breathe into his characters the breath of life.
any great extent by the vaticinations of Carlyle and The historical writers who superseded Macaulay
Ruskin; and he might be said to have found myriads accused him of partisan bias, and prided themselves
of disciples ready-made, holding his own doctrines and on their own impartiality. There can be no doubt that
only too glad to have them confirmed and ratified by so their charge against Macaulay was well-grounded; but
plausible a reasoner and set forth by so vivid a narrator. neither have they succeeded in writing without bias. No
He died, and speedily the reaction came. His imi- | thinking man can be wholly impartial; and since this is
tators had made that facile, forcible, uncompromising so, better a thousand times that a writer having the
style a disgust to many. Truth, they argued, could not defect of partisanship should also have the divine gifts
possibly be so direct and unmistakable; there must be of the writer who can make the Past live again for those
limitations, modifications, exceptions to almost any state who read his pages. Macaulay not only does this, but
ment. Besides, science had then captured the attention he hangs that Past of which he writes upon the chain
of the public and wholly absorbed it. Darwin, Wallace, of human historic development, and links us with the
Spencer, Huxley, and their followers, were directing the remotest Past of the historic nations, giving us a sense
forms and the trend of thought. A craze for explaining of continuity that assures us of our being a part of the
everything by scientific analysis and in terms of evolu Divine Plan. His optimism reaches back as well as
tionary progress had seized upon the whole thinking and forward, and is in its essence a true philosophy of life.
reading world, and it was seriously believed that history His ordered thought on the historic sequence of events
could be made a science. There are some who still has for its foundation recorded facts; for its buttresses
cherish the delusion.
the steadiness of law; for its columns, capitals, and
Buckle set himself to working the environment hy arches, the charm of art; and for its inner adornment
pothesis. Taine explained literature by climate; Free the innumerable delights of literature.
man, Stubbs, Creighton, Gardiner swore by documents,
CHARLES WOODWARD HUTSON.
and pretty well eliminated the personal human element. New Orleans, Sept. 23, 1910.
The new school of literary expression also turned its
back on Macaulay. His method was rhetorical. The
SAN FRANCISCO'S PUBLIC LIBRARY.
younger writers, at the head of whom was Matthew
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
Arnold, disdained rhetoric, and devoted themselves to We appreciate the favorable comment on the San
critical analysis. They drowned their thought with an Francisco Library which appeared in the September 1
endless tangle of modifications. Those who still stood issue of The DIAL, but we have accomplished a little
by rhetoric looked on Macaulay's style as crude and more than you give us credit for. Instead of three
sometimes cacophonous, and aimed at effects which we branches we have six in operation, and in addition there
call, after the French, "precious." Of these were are eleven deposit stations.
Walter Pater and Robert Louis Stevenson.
The “pig-tail" has been seen in the public library
Well, what has been the result? Perhaps we have here, though most of the educated Chinese have adopted
greater exactness as to facts, in many cases new points American customs. Our reference room is not infre-
of view, a more cautious summing up of the evidence; quently visited by this class for purposes of study, and
but nowhere is the clear and flowing current of narra they usually call for the best class of books. Very many
tive, the allurement of style, the wonderful touch of art of the Japanese avail themselves of the resources of
in the presentation of truth. Many modern historical the Library, but for serious purposes rather than for
studies put before us merely ill-digested chunks of recreation.
Wm. R. WATSON, Librarian.
material the material for history, not history itself. San Francisco, Sept. 20, 1910.


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The New
Books.
when I was walking on the street the showers of pebbles
used to fall upon me often. And I was spat on more
occasionally. Of course they were very low-class peo-
A CHILD OF THE ORIENT IN THE TURMOIL ples, but even better-class peoples had not a very nice
OF LONDON.*
manner to the Japanese."
Of the exquisite art and captivating artless-
What a change from all this to the compar-
ness of Mr. Yoshio Markino something is already
ative cordiality of London! 6 Nobody shouted
known from his three large color books, “ The
me, relates the new-comer with surprise.
Color of London," “ The Color of Paris," and
• Then I went near the crowds of people with
6. The Color of Rome,” to each of which the
still more fear. But being quite ignorant of the
illustrator's has added a single chapter
English civilization I anticipated some pebble-
own pen
of even more arresting quality than the beautiful
showers every minute.” None came, however,
pictures themselves. And now he has written
and ere long we find him rejoicing in the safety
an entire book," A Japanese Artist in London,"
of London streets, even in the dead of night,
which is the richest possible treat of its kind.
when he frequently sallied forth in quest of new
Mr. Wallace Irwin, in his mirth-provoking impressions and novel artistic effects. Devoted
“ Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy," has some-
to his art, he scorned delights and lived labori-
what familiarized American readers with the
ous days, or, as he expresses it, he “ rejected
the comfortable life.” The shifts to which he
peculiar idiom of the visitor from Dai Nippon
attempting to give in English his impressions of
was reduced to keep body and soul together
the West; but the studied drollery of that book
must have been far less amusing to experience
must yield precedence to the simple and spon-
than they are to read about. Compelled at
taneous comicality of Mr. Yoshio Markino's
one time to accept the position of designer to a
style. " It was a rather difficult task for me
tombstone manufacturer, he suffered his admira-
tion for the beauty of English women to affect
to go on for a whole book with my terribly
deformed English,” he confesses, “but
his stone angels, turning them all to the sex
my
English friend has so kindly dragged me all
where, etymologically, they do not belong; and
round to reach the finishing point.
so he lost his place, and was reduced, as often
These humorously pathetic pages from his
both before and afterward, to penniless poverty,
as he describes it, and to the position of a stary-
own life begin with a brief account of the writ-
“But only one thing was,
er's harsh experience of Californian in hospitality ing unemployee.
in San Francisco, where he arrived as a mere
says this son of a family that could trace its
lad from Japan in the summer of 1893, and
lineage back for a thousand years, “I could not
where he stayed four years, having run away
ask any disgraceful money like chips (tips?] or
from home with a hope to become a poet or a
charity. Even in my hardest time, it seemed to
writer in English.” But the difficulties of the
me the Samurai spirit of my dead father above
language in which he had hoped to write his
was always demanding me, • Keep your own dig.
way to fame soon led him to take the advice of
nity.' The guilelessness of the young artist
was more than once imposed upon by unscrupu-
friends and turn artist.
“So I entered into Hopkins' Art College. Of course
lous publishers, and he was both saddened and
I was penniless. I had to make livelihood by washing
made to suffer hunger by this dishonorable con-
windows and dishes, or a little better thing, making sets duct. Comparing the spirit of the two coun-
of false teeth for some dentists. It was awfully difficult tries, England and Japan, he writes :
for me to pay my school tuition, seven dollars a month.
“ The Soul of Old Japan is Honor, and the soul of
... The school used to supply French breads to the
England is business.
For the sake of Honor many
students for the purpose of charcoal drawing. But I
Samurais had dead-heat duels with their dearest friends,
used to live on this bread. I made it as my luncheon
and for the sake of Honor the fathers often stabbed
every day. (This is the very first time that I confess
their children unto death. In England Business has
the truth. Thank Heaven that the curator did not find
the power almost the same with Honor in Japan. I
often notice my English friends change their expression
“I was rather amused with my poor life, but by no
and knock the table with their fists and say, “Ah, but
means did I feel pleasant with the way those Californians
this is Business.' For • business' laughter gets serious,
treated me. It is the world-known fact that they hate
drunkards get sober, friends quarrel, and lovers depart
Japanese. While I have been there four years I never
each other. English husbands would bring their wives
went out to the parks, for I was so frightened of those
to the court, all for the business matter. Of course I
savage people, who threw stones and bricks at me. Even
know that English peoples do much for Honor also, but
*A JAPANESE ARTIST IN LONDON. Written and illus in Japan it is only the merchants who do the business,
trated by Yoshio Markino. Philadelphia: George W. while in England it may be that even Princes have
Jacobs & Co.
business."
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ness
Another passage, showing the writer's atti- ideal of perfection are what he is seriously con-
tude toward the religion of his adopted country, cerned with. Again and again he refuses to
furnishes matter for thought:
descend to “ pot-boilers,” and at all times feels
“One day those friends of hers [of Mrs. Dryhurst] reluctant to sell any of his work, so inferior
surrounded me and asked me how was about the religions does he regard it to that which he aspires to
in Japan. That was a very difficult question to me. It
execute. It is “ studies” simply that he feels
is fact that I was at an American Missionary College in
Japan and studied the Bible lessons for four years. But
himself to have been engaged in thus far; the
among us, the young schoolboys, the Christians were worthy product of his art he sees only far in
looked down as not highly educated.' I think the main the future. A paragraph from his own pen will
reason was that those terribly ignorant and uneducated show his way of looking at the question :
American missionaries in Japan were talking and doing " At this time I was not at all in safe condition of
too much nonsences. While I was in America when
my livelihood.' Some kind-hearted person offered me
anybody asked me if I were a Christian I always an-
a position as an artist for lithographer firm. It was
swered negatively to prove that I was not one of those
Uneducated.' But to my astonishment I was entirely
£3 10s. a week. I absolutely refused this, because I
knew it would stop my study altogether. Many of my
knocked down. They called me • Pagan 'and · Heathen'
friends were either angry with me or laughing at me.
and · Barbarian,' and they treated me as if I were not a
human. Fancy! that one whose duty is supposed to be
I got a name, “most foolish boy.''
to seek the lost sheep'should act himself not at all
If it has not already been made plain that
humanly!”
Mr. Markino's book is written from the heart,
But his English friends, on this occasion, is in fact the very quintessence of that “ sincere-
applauded him when at last he mustered courage which he so justly values, let the conclud-
to declare his loyalty to Laotze, Confucius, and ing words of his volume remove all doubt in
Mencius, his “very best sweethearts in this the matter.
world,” as he calls them in his book. “I do “When I finished writing this book I showed it to
not worship them as gods,” he adds, “ but I
some friends: they looked rather amazed because I have
heartily love them as my elderly brothers.”
written about my friends and everything too directly,'
and I have come back to my own conscience to think
Some effects of his early Bible study show that I might have written too much. But I am not
themselves here and there in a curious or apt clever enough to conceal the fact that I am not hypo-
English phrase, as when he explains why he did crite enough to tell a lie. So this book itself is I myself.
not present a few bottles of Japanese wine
When Confucius made Shunju, he said, . It is this book
through which the public will know me. It is this book
(saké) to his landlord, who preferred Scotch
through which the public will condemn me.' I must
whiskey. “It was pearl to a pig. Too pity to say, too, that it is this book through which I may get
give away such precious thing which we cannot
It is this book through which I may
get by money! So I finished all seven bottles get real friends. Anyhow, it is this book through which
the public will know me thoroughly."
in one night”— with consequences that were
rather startling.
The pictures in the book, eight in color and
The injurious effects of poor living, overwork,
four in black and white, are of a daintiness and
exposure, and other hard experiences, at one
delicacy wholly characteristic of Japanese art,
but also of a faithfulness in drawing and per-
time brought the struggling artist to a condition
in which he could have sympathized feelingly spective that remove them from any such mis-
with Job. But through it all he retained his leading classification. As the artist himself
says,
native cheerfulness and courage, as we infer from
his style is not Japanese ; it is rather European,
but he himself would be better pleased to have
passages like the following:
us simply commend its excellence, since, as he
“ Blood-poison visited me next as the penalty of the
bad food I had. Toothache, influenza, and intestine
holds, art that is worthy of the name belongs
troubles were not modest enough to keep away from me. to no one country or one continent. He has
However, the ill-health and the bad weathers never made a special study of London atmospheric
affected on my tempers at all. The worst thing was, or
effects, and is particularly successful, in these
is evermore, the insincereness of business peoples. Oh,
those intentional insincerities on the matter of only a
illustrations, in giving the glimmer of electric
little payment ! I often sank into most disheartened lights through fog, and in reproducing the
condition, when I thought how faithless this world was.” veritable rain and slippery wetness of London
Note the delicacy with which the writer refrains streets in nasty weather; and all with the trans-
from accusing these “ business peoples” of dis- figuring touch of art. Mr. Douglas Sladen
honesty or cheating. It is only insincereness." contributes a short introduction, and the book
From first to last, money appears to have been is dedicated to the author's patrons and friends,
a thing beneath the serious consideration of
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Spielmann.
this high-minded Samurai. His art and his
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
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THE INDIAN AND HIS PROBLEM.*
of suicide, of murder, and of war, all find ex-
To those who have followed Mr. Leupp's
pression here. The Indian's side of the Little
Big Horn battle and the Custer tragedy; the
administration of Indian affairs, and who have
ghost-dancers and the death of Sitting Bull;
heard him talk as he did at Mohonk in October,
Captain Jack and his Modocs; Joseph and the
1908, the assertion made by his assistant and
Nez Percès, - all these furnish topics of absorb-
successor, Mr. Valentine, before the Mohonk
Conference in 1909 that Mr. Leupp had con-
ing interest. But the more important contribu-
tion lies in the author's estimate of Indian
tributed force and virility to the Indian Service
character and in his statement concerning the
as no other man had ever done, will meet with
a ready endorsement. The same assertive, vigor- proper treatment of the Indian.
ous, dominating personality is revealed in the his ancestors have been treated as liars and
Mr. McLaughlin believes that the Indian and
book which Mr. Leupp has written concerning cheats by liars and cheats.” He adds, “ I have
the Indian problem as he has seen it from both
been asked how I have succeeded in retaining
within and without the Service. His book will
the respect and even regard of the Indians. ...
probably long remain as the most interesting I may say now ... that I treated the Indian as
and popular work dealing with the Indian and
an individual as nearly as possible as though he
the government attitudes and policies in Indian
affairs. Mr. Leupp is an adept in combining
were a white man and capable of coping with
abstract theory with concrete illustrations. In
white men with their own weapons.” “When I
said I would do a thing I did it.” “I had con-
fact, his story of personal experiences, limited
ceived the idea that the Indian had rights.”
in number as those stories have to be, almost
obviate the necessity of
“ The making of unfair treaties and the violation
any formal statement of
theory. To the casual reader, the book must
of treaty rights are the two things of which the
Indian has most right to complain.” The author
prove not only absorbing in human quality and
has in recent decades been a maker of treaties
dramatic narrative, but equally persuasive and
convincing.
and agreements with Indians. Although the
The fundamental proposition of the first believes that they were both under the same
reviewer has never met Mr. McLaughlin, he
chapter, that to understand the problem we
treaty tent in Wyoming in the year 1904, after
must first understand the Indian, both from
the Supreme Court had decided in the Lone
intimate contact and in perspective, is undoubt-
Wolf case that what was regarded by the Indians
edly correct. To a student of the problem it
as a treaty was not necessary even as an agree-
must always seem strange that assertions need
ment. Consultation was an act of grace on the
be made that the Indian is genial, talkative,
honest, artistic, and religious. But on these
part of Congress. Perhaps it was not insignifi-
cant that the tent came down upon our heads,
points the reader will turn for fuller and
and so forced the meeting from the Indian's
more convincing information to Mr.
outdoors to the government council hall. If we
McLaughlin's book on “My Friend the In-
dian." The author has labored in the Indian
may believe Mr. McLaughlin, he has exercised
his large powers in the interest of the red man,
Service for thirty-eight years, as Agent and
and he avers that “there never was a time in
Inspector, chiefly among the Sioux. Know-
the history of his country when the government
ing the Indians most intimately, and speaking
could not have obtained any reasonable con-
their language, he has been a potent factor in
cession from the Indians, if it had treated the
Indian affairs for more than a third of a century: red men honestly; and I know of few Indian
In this book he reveals rather than tells what
outbreaks ... which were not preceded by acts
power he has exerted. What he has seen and
experienced, as well as what he has learned
of oppression practiced by the civilized people
on the barbarians." His indisposition to use
from the lips of noted and unnoted Indians, pro- the troops, his belief in a literal fulfilment of
vides him with material for a book that is as
fascinating as a novel. The style may be uneven,
treaty obligations, and his emphasis upon sub-
but it attains in many places to the beauty of
stantial legal rights, are all points worth
pondering.
poetry and the power of eloquence. The lure of
the frontier, the romance of love, the tragedy review of the policies which resulted from the
Mr. Leupp's second chapter gives us a brief
THE INDIAN AND HIS PROBLEM. By Francis E. Leupp. conquest of the continent by the whites, and
Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
MY FRIEND THE INDIAN. By James McLaughlin. Illus-
the consequent pushing aside of the Indians.
trated. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
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zens.
exterminated as a means of reducing the Indians our national life. The Indian's “ unbalanced
to submission, and that the reservation system, white friends ” have led a number of the race
rations, idleness, debauchery, and graft, were to professional aspirations, and these have
the natural outcome. Education was at first survived, save in three or four instances, only
left to the churches, and to mission schools; but as they have settled in some philanthropic city
sectarian jealousies brought an end to govern where they subsist by continuous borrowing,
ment subsidies, and compelled a great national by philanthropic subsidies, and by frauds
upon
educational policy. The Government schools, the landlady. Without attempting to suggest
however, Mr. Leupp avers, in proportion to out the sharp disclaimer which might be entered
lay do not begin to equal the mission schools in here, it must be recognized that Mr. Leupp
results, and “in vital energy must always be argues very strongly for a “policy of shrink-
lacking.” Here the reader must beware. Mr. age” long known by the term “ vanishing
Leupp's belief is so strong, and his style so policy” — which will make the Indian a citizen
lucid and compelling, that we are apt to forget with the full rights and obligations of all citi-
that there is another side to the question, and
Earnestly, however, as he argues for
that the argument presented is based on a funda such a policy, he himself has been one of the
mental premise as yet unexpressed. In passing most serious barriers in the way of its realiza-
it should be said that mission schools, as schools,
tion. When by his influence the Burke law
are notably inefficient. It should further be superseded the Dawes Act, the possibility of
remembered that we have in our government citizenship for most Indians was postponed fully
schools many teachers possessed of an immense twenty-five years beyond the time when land
“vital energy” and the truest devotion. More in severalty should be granted them. True,
important still, what we lack in school efficiency individual Indians may apply for and may
be
is due in large part to the miserably small granted citizenship upon proof of special capa-
salaries paid the teachers, to the unjust and city, but Mr. Leupp recognizes that it is only a
unnecessary subordination of the school to the
rare Indian who will voluntarily dissociate him-
general administrative authorities, and in partic self from his tribe, and experience in Canada
ular to the disastrous military discipline which has fully demonstrated the fact. The Indian will
pervades the whole system.
never choose to jump the chasm which separates
The great number of topics discussed by his stage of civilization from ours, yet his only
Mr. Leupp, and the very practical reforms hope of salvation lies in taking the leap. An
initiated by or under his administration, cannot Indian can survive in our civilization only by
be reviewed here. Problems of land, property, living in it and trusting completely to it, just
inheritance, education, liquor, and administra as a man learns to swim only when he casts
tion, are all taken up with a view to the enlight himself into the water. Primitive race after
enment of the public, the justification of self, primitive race has died out in the presence of a
and criticism of the critics. Mr. Leupp, in
Mr. Leupp, in higher race, under the unpractical theory that
spite of a special disclaimer to the contrary, gradual improvement rather than quick trans-
seems to put a majority of his critics in the formation was possible. In comparative isola-
class of the malevolent or the ignorant. As a tion, gradual improvement is possible; under
matter of fact, there are people who are neither, sharp competition, the less advanced race has a
who yet differ radically from him. The bottom choice between transformation and extinction.
question at issue is summed up in Mr. Leupp's Mr. Leupp's plan is more drastic than Senator
striking phrase, “ Improvement, not transfor Dawes's, for it gives both economic and politi-
mation.” He holds that with all his good cal freedom at one time, and it postpones the
qualities, the red man remains essentially a moment of transition for most Indians a gen-
different being from the white, and that there- eration in the future, when conditions may be
fore we should cultivate his racial aptitudes, harder and the Indians still less prepared than
with a view to his continued existence as a now. If we may not hold to the Dawes policy,
separate species until disease and intermarriage let us at least make self-responsibility compul-
remove him from the stage. The Indian is sory upon the youth as they emerge from our
and must remain fundamentally incapable of schools.
certain of our moral, social, and intellectual The same philosophy which would early ad-
standards, and we make him a hypocritical mit the Indian fully into our economic, political,
“hopeless and pathetic nondescript" when we and intellectual life, would insist strongly upon
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administration based upon definitely established ment, of independent sources of moral author-
law. Unfortunately, it would seem that the ity. Pitiful is the case of the missionary who
government from the beginning has essayed to has succumbed and become a reservation
prevent any clear definition of the legal status sycophant. On the other hand, our churches
of the Indian. This is one of the fundamental and societies should demand the highest stand-
reasons for the great confusion in Indian poli-ards of intelligence as a part of character for
cies, and for our relative failure in the solution the men and women it is sending into the field.
of the Indian problem. It is not unfair, then, The thousand and one ignorant, petty, inter-
to suggest that perhaps what Mr. Leupp regards ested or malevolent criticisms that come to a
as a great failure in administrative justice at Commissioner of Indian Affairs are probably
the close of his official career in the famous enough to make him question the intelligence or
Navajo case may prove to be one of the land the virtue of the public. Nevertheless, they are
marks of progress in Indian affairs and in the price we have to pay for democracy. A
American law. The country owes a debt of remedy which would require every person or
gratitude to the Indian Rights Association for society to report even its suspicions of wrong
carrying the case to the courts; losing in the first to Washington, would be worse than the
lower courts, it won in the Supreme Court of disease. Such a policy has been known to have
the Territory. Mr. Leupp probably is right in absolutely no effect, while a suggestion of a dif-
thinking that the government should have car ferent method has brought immediate results.
ried the case to the national Supreme Court, Even for a Commissioner of the highest energy,
that we might have a final and definite determin- intelligence, and integrity, such a policy would
ation of Indian rights and Indian law. Congress become an intolerable burden. If the remedy
or some private association should formulate for democracy is more democracy, the remedy
at an early date an Indian code. It certainly for publicity and public intervention is more
ought not to be true that if the most definite publicity and more public intervention. The
court decision on this question (the Standing public would be less ignorant if it knew more.
Bear case) is sound and of general application, We have suffered too long from obscuration of
“no federal officer who has had charge of the principles and suppression of facts. These two
dependent race has got through his administra books make a notable contribution to general
tion without violating the law from once to fifty knowledge, and so will make criticism more
times.” The facts and the law regarding the effective because more intelligent. For the
Navajo case are likely to be matters of dispute same reason, they will also make administra-
and discussion for some years to come. If the tion, both public and private, more efficient.
result be more definite law and a more clearly
FAYETTE AVERY MCKENZIE.
legal administration, the country will have
reason to be thankful.
In his discussion of missionaries and of phil-
THE WORLD AND MR. CHESTERTON.*
anthropic societies, Mr. Leupp raises some very
important questions. It is probable that in his The title of Mr. Chesterton's new book is
citation of unworthy missionaries he misrepre “What's Wrong with the World.” He would
sents himself to the reader. Three or four have preferred the terser “What is Wrong,
cases, as he would agree, do not determine the but he relates that it startled his mild lady
character of the great body of missionaries, any visitors and ministerial friends too painfully
more than government opposition to mission when he remarked to them casually, “I have
aries in as many cases demonstrates government been doing • What is Wrong' all this morn-
antagonism to religious teachers as a class. Yet ing. This would not have mattered to some
it is well to remember that even a missionary modern authors; but Mr. Chesterton has a deep
may be indiscreet and unwise. But beyond that regard for mild-mannered ladies and orthodox
we should also remember that people of widely gentlemen of the old school. He tempered his
different standards, as missionaries and Indian title. He has also slightly tempered his style;
Agents sometimes are, see things in very differ it is not quite so Chestertonian as formerly.
ent
ways, and that the missionary who will fail That is to say, it is better suited to the gravity
to protest in certain instances will lose the and complexity of a great theme. The sprightly
greater part of his power. The efficiency of the manner that befits the defence of pet absurdities,
national administration depends in large part, *What's WRONG WITH THE WORLD. By Gilbert K.
not on the suppression, but on the encourage Chesterton. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.


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the consideration of life's ephemeral aspects, and office, or even to the wildness of being a
the discussion of “ tremendous trifles,” or even suffragette ; that
every child might be healthy
of gay heretics like Mr. Bernard Shaw, is not and happy if its education were directed by its
adapted to a serious analysis of the fundamental mother and not by a schoolmaster with require-
ills that beset modern society.
ments alien to the traditions and possibilities of
What is wrong with the world, according to the home. In brief, Mr. Chesterton considers
Mr. Chesterton, is of course too much Progress: the institution of the Family more important if
too much G. B. S. with his Fabian Calvinism possible than the institution of the State. If
and his obnoxious Superman, too much of Mr. the Socialist agrees with him to the extent of
Kipling's imperialism, too much Mr. Wells wishing to preserve the family, he is warned that
romancing easily of a capricious future, too he must stop talking nonsense about women ;
much heresy, too much talk of expediency and if the Tory is of the same mind, he must be
efficiency, too much business, too much special- willing to help equalize property. What is to be
ization, too much muddle-headedness, — all done with the women, otherwise normal, whom
resulting in too little sensible, democratic, Socialism, or some other ism, or the goad of
definite understanding of what sort of world necessity, has already turned against “ the wild-
most of us really want.
- What is wrong is
ness of domesticity” is not specified. Mr.
that we do not ask what is right,” explains Chesterton is evidently quite convinced that the
Mr. Chesterton airily, meaning, possibly, that suffragists are an inconsiderable minority, and
we cannot agree about what is right. At any he implies an easy assurance that the same is
rate, having put “What's Wrong” in his title, true of voluntary wage-earners among women.
Mr. Chesterton makes it his chief care to depict But it is idle to criticize Mr. Chesterton for
the world as it would please himself and the not having written a practical guide to the
man in the street” – that omnipresent, inar- re-domesticating of woman. The thing to do
ticulate creature who is left out of most socio with Mr. Chesterton is, always, to enjoy him,
logical theorizings, but who has found so staunch to be waked up by him, to grasp at the distinc-
and so brilliant an advocate in G. K. C. The tions and analyses that fit in with one's own
paradox of the Chestertonian manner explain-consciousness of life, and not to be irritated
ing and defending the habits, tastes, beliefs, more than is quite pleasant by those which
and hopes of the Average Man is of course the seem absurd. If this attitude is impossible, it
ultimate basis for the Chestertonian charm. If would appear that the best thing to do with
Mr. Chesterton's conclusions were as subtle | Mr. Chesterton is to leave him alone.
and esoteric as his reasons, he would be a cult For example, Mr. Chesterton does not know
for the few, like the second manner of Mr. all about women, but he puts many of his
Henry James. But everybody enjoys speculat- theories very cleverly. This, for instance, about
ing on the subtlety and complexity of common the supposed subjection of women :
things, so long as they remain common.
“Some impatient trader, some superficial missionary,
Fireworks are fascinating, — when they do not walks across an island and sees the squaw digging in
set anything on fire.
the fields while the man is playing a flute; and immedi-
Thus Mr. Chesterton begins by brilliantly ately says that the man is a mere lord of creation and
demonstrating the fallacy of a few idols of pop- he might see the same thing in half the back gardens
the woman a mere serf. He does not remember that
ular thought. He proves that idealists are the in Brixton, merely because women are at once more
only practical men, that the current insistence conscientious and more impatient, while men are at
on that maxim of hope, “ Look forward and not once more quiescent and more greedy for pleasure. It
back,” is responsible for many current evils and
may often be in Hawaii simply as it is in Hoxton. That
is, the woman does not work because the man tells her
misapprehensions, that wealth and not poverty
to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman
is the great social canker, that compromise is works because she has told the man to work, and he
ever the great foe to getting something done. hasn 't obeyed.”
All this in order that he may clear the way for Another good bit is this, about human pleas-
his remedy, or rather for his picture of an ideal ure in property :
world, which is to be founded on the simple “The mass of men have neither time nor aptitude for
facts that every normal man wants a home of the invention of invisible beauty. For the mass of men
- not a model tenement with com-
the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by
an idea unpopular in present discussions the idea
munal cooking, but a house ; that every normal
of property. The average man cannot cut clay into
woman prefers the “wildness of domesticity
the shape of a man; but he can cut earth into the
to the tame routine of manly labor in factory shape of a garden; and though he arranges it with red
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geraniums and blue potatoes in alternate straight lines, indexes trivial incidents of travel, — like a tri-
he is still an artist; because he has chosen. The average cycle accident, or an uncomfortable journey in
man cannot paint the sunset whose colors he admires;
but he can paint his own house with what color he
a diligence, with the result that the entries
chooses, and though he paints it pea green with pink
under his name fill five columns and a half of
spots, he is still an artist; because that is his choice. the index. His - Memories" are a sort of
Property is merely the art of the democracy. It means monologue, and into it the zest of the original
that every man should have something that he can action brings many matters which to the out-
shape in his own image, as he is shaped in the image
of heaven."
sider are seemingly unimportant. Old pupils,
We should like to go on with passages about companions of travel, and friends, are not
the economic dependence of woman and the
viewed objectively in his pages, even if one of
dullness of domesticity, both treated as fallacies
them has since become a prime minister and
generated by mere wealth”; with Mr. Ches- another viceroy of India, but intimately, as one
terton's ideas about the despotism of modern
of his own group. Mr. Balfour is still Arthur
business, and the essential difference between
to him. This attitude, interpreted aright, adds
umbrellas and walking-sticks, as paralleling the
interest to Mr. Browning's reminiscences; for
difference between communal laundries and com-
through his manner of giving them we come to
munal kitchens. But the quotability of his ideas
know “O.B.," although we may have never seen
is less a warrant for quoting them than for going King's College. It is evident that he has always
to the original source, where juxtaposition gives ried him whole-heartedly into everything he un-
been a person of abounding energy, which car-
a delightful sense of sprightliness and inex-
haustible energy, and where close-knit logic dertook, and impelled him to give time and
adds cogency and point.
devotion without stint to his students or friends.
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON.
Oscar Browning was born in 1837, and was
educated at Eton and at the King's College. His
description of the older Eton is vivid. The
material comforts for the young aristocrats were
REMINISCENCES OF AN ENGLISH TEACHER.* certainly not excessive.
certainly not excessive. For food, the “ juniors
Oscar Browning has for many years been a
had to content themselves with cabobed breast,'
familiar figure in English education. He has
a dish I never saw on any other table. It was
written much, but his most important work has composed of bones, a thin layer of flesh and a
been done as a teacher. His fidelity to this thick layer of cabob,' which looked to the
task has had the natural result that his repu-
uninitiated like boiled chickweed. ... There
tation is mainly English, and that in America, were not enough plates to go round, and knives,
except to those who know King's College, Cam- forks, and glasses had to be struggled for. One
bridge, and the older Eton, he is hardly more
left the table as hungry as one had approached
than a name on the title-page of several interest it.” Mr. Browning believes that if he had
As these books belong to two or
been fed properly at Eton he would have been
three different fields, one does not always re-
several inches taller. The arrangements for
member that the Oscar Browning of « Edu- washing were so primitive that it was no wonder
cational Theories is also the author of the if “ little washing was done and less drying, if
“Flight to Varennes or of “Napoleon, the
their hands were begrimed with dirt and seamed
First Phase."
with bleeding cracks. How often was I kicked
For this reason,
some readers of these at my tutor's for being a dirty tug'!” He
“Memories of Sixty Years” may at first be
went back to this unreformed Eton as master
surprised by the author's attitude, — by the
in 1860, and remained until 1875, when a dif-
apparent absence of a sense of proportion, infer- ference with the head master led to his dismissal.
red from the way in which the “I” and the
While at Eton he also had charge of one of the
“my” recur on the same levels of importance houses where the boys lived. His income from
with the names of cabinet ministers and literary the two sources would cause the ordinary Ameri-
notabilities. Mr. Browning seems to regard
can teacher so much astonishment as to leave
with affectionate interest everything that belongs no room for envy. Mr. Browning estimated
to the story of his experience. The little and it at £3,000 a year. In 1875 he returned to
the large have a similar emphasis. He even
King's College, where he became one of the
organizers of the “ History School,” and presi-
* MEMORIES OF Sixty YEARS, at Eton, Cambridge, and
Elsewhere. By Oscar Browning, M.A. With portraits. New
dent of the Cambridge University Day Training
York: John Lane Company.
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found. The latter position he held until last adaptable element was the “private business”
year.
which was done in the “pupil room of the tutor,
His “Memories ” include accounts of his and consisted mainly of reading Greek and
experiences as student and teacher, some exposi- Latin authors apart from the regular course."
tion of his theories of education, and the record He describes the scene in William Johnson's
of innumerable journeys on the continent, — pupil-room :
for as long as he was at Eton at almost every “Some dozen fourth-form boys are seated at the
vacation he hastened across the Channel, return desks doing their weekly copy of Latin verses. He has
ing only in time for the first exercise of the
allowed each to choose a different subject, which, with
new term. His work as a teacher and manager
their coöperation, he elaborates as they proceed.
He calls out to each in turn, stimulating their invention
of a house was exhausting, and he needed the and their humours. Each copy of verse when com-
diversion of travel in order to maintain the pleted is a gem, full of fancy and wit and supreme in
pace he had originally set. By his family rela- scholarship. While he is driving a not always very
tionships, by his life at Eton and Cambridge,
orderly team he is seated at his desk correcting
with perfect ease copies of sixth-form Greek Iambics,
and in his travels, he was brought into contact
translated from Shakespeare, and whistling in a tone
with many persons, some of them famous; and very sweet and low an air from • Lucia,' or something
of these he notes his impressions. Many of
like his own Eton boating-song."
these recollections are no more than statements When a master Mr. Browning endeavored to
of passing contact -as, for example, that he saw treat each pupil individually, on the theory that
the Emperor Napoleon III. on the street several every boy's mind has its own order of develop-
times. Others contain impressions which will ment, and shows a real desire for knowledge, if
add something to our knowledge of George only the appropriate knowledge be offered at the
Eliot, Tennyson, Robert Browning, and certain right time. This sounds like an echo from
lesser personalities. He looked upon George Rousseau, but is none the less worth remarking.
Eliot as an oracle, whose pronouncements he It was in the pupil-room, or in the houses where
obeyed always, except once when she told him the boys lived, that their growth could be studied
not to come again until he had gotten himself carefully and the method of treatment be adapted
married. Even in this case he offered to obey, to their requirements. The secret of Mr. Brown-
if she would indicate the person. Her influence ing's success was his devotion to his pupils.
over him was so great that he was drifting into With him, teaching was not a means of income,
positivism, when an acquaintance with the or an opportunity to pursue favorite studies, or
Tennysons, which ripened into intimacy, and to write. His great ambition was to train states-
the influence of Mrs. Tennyson, whom he re-
He believes that the study of literature
garded as a woman ideally beautiful, turned his furnishes the true basis for the development of
thought in a spiritual direction.” Apropos public spirit, because of the suggestiveness of
of Tennyson's “Lucretius," which he notes writings like those of Cicero, Livy, and Tacitus.
“was written to show how an indelicate subject Although he had a share in introducing the
might be treated delicately,” he says that while study of science into Eton, he regards its edu-
Tennyson was reading it to him, the poet ex cational value as now over-emphasized. The
claimed: “What a mess little Swinburne would chief difficulty of the present situation comes,
have made of this!" Although he does not however, from the exaggerated interest in ath-
think Tennyson exaggerated Arthur Hallam's letics, which, he believes, amounts to a national
abilities and promise, he reports a remark of peril. When he was at Eton, he resisted the
General Fox to the effect that Hallam “ encroachments of athletics, and his efforts
the most conceited and priggish young man he divided the school into two parties, the “ High
had ever met.”
Souls" and the “ Bludgers.”
What Mr. Browning says about education pos-
HENRY E. BOURNE.
sesses an interest for those who are baffled by the
confusion of much talking on this problem and by
THE MEMOIRS of Heinrich Heine, as compiled and
the inadequacy of the solutions that are offered.
edited by Gustav Karpeles, and translated by Mr. Gil-
He thinks the older Eton gave an excellent edu bert Cannan, will be published at an early date. These
cation, in spite of its shortcomings, because it two volumes of memoirs contain much of Heine's own
was founded on the study of literature, and writings, though the actual work which he is supposed
because it combined a“ firm and uniform course"
to have compiled before his death was destroyed.
with an element which was "adaptable, fitted
Enough, however, remains, in combination with his
letters and writings previously published, to form a
for every kind of mind and capacity." This record of his life.
men.
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case.
period of time that perhaps might be otherwise
MEANINGS OF MUSIC.*
given over to more questionable pleasures. Bach,
Music, being the latest of the arts to arrive Beethoven, and Wagner, have made such con-
at maturity, has not given as long'a time to clusions impossible. The message of music is
the theorist for the discovery of its substance essentially that of the other arts ; and probably
and the explanation of its achievements as the none of them has presented it with more fulness
others have done. Moreover, the theorist in the or greater allurement.
new field has had some special difficulties to The theory above cited is a starting-point for
overcome. A painting evidently reproduces a the explanation of music in all its forms and
scene or a person; a cathedral is designed to manifestations. Melody, harmony, the develop-
afford a place for a ritual and a worship; a ment of instruments, the relation to language,
statue presents a figure that delivers a ready the universality of the musical appeal, the pro-
message ; a poem often tells a definite story; gress of the art from its incoherent appearances
the symphonies of the masters, — what are they?
- what are they? in savagery to its maturest creations in modern
and how do they relate themselves to the essen times, are all shown to lie in a comprehension
tial life of mankind ?
of it as thinking in sounds without the inter-
Professor Combarieu, in his “Music, its Laws vention of concepts. As such, it spans the
and Evolution,” has an answer ready, which he whole of thought and is competent to bring to
presents in pages of entertaining and often light the whole of experience. It is susceptible,
eloquent argument. The matter is carried in our opinion, notwithstanding the statement
through with the clearness and simplicity char- of our author, of translation into picture or
acteristic of the French mind; but there are not poetry; but it has, of course, elements of ex-
wanting indications that some exceptional diffi- pression peculiar to itself which constitute its
culties in the subject have been treated with a special charm. Wagner's idea of the Opera as
deft lightness that is far from being entirely the unification of the arts, in which they mutu-
convincing. Among his definitive statements ally reinforce the total effect, is thus shown in
we find the following:
consonance with inherent possibilities of the
“ Music is the only popular art. It draws its sub-
stance from social life, as a plant draws its substance Professor Combarieu develops the relation of
from the soil into which its roots plunge. There is no music to the various sciences, and to the social
popular painting, no popular sculpture. Architecture is
too complicated an art, too loaded with technical knowl-
organization, at full length. The mathematical
edge and archæology, and too much subjected to the
side of music, its physiological aspects, its re-
prejudices of luxury or to special needs, to be the spon markable prevalence and power among primitive
taneous product of a community. To music alone, and tribes, its many and remarkable analogies with
to its younger sister, poetry, belongs this privilege.
the institutional life of man - all these are dis-
“Such are the principles we shall elucidate when re-
viewing different peoples and ages. Taking as our basis
cussed with the learning and system that pertain
the first proposition, that music is the art of thinking in to a comprehensive treatment of the subject.
sounds, we shall reserve to ourselves the right of adding One may possibly have doubts about a form of
this, which is founded on observation: Musical thought is
thinking that goes on without the intervention of
the manifestation of a general and deep instinct, more or
less hidden, but everywhere recognizable in humanity.”
concepts; the truth about music leads, it would
After the definitions, we have this summary:
seem, to a satisfactory exposition of the emo-
tional nature of mankind, and the adequate ex-
“ Music a synthesis of sounds not to be confused pression therefor, and should answer completely
with purely sonorous phenomena has a meaning un-
translatable into verbal language ; it is formed by a
certain questions that for a long time have ob-
thought without concepts, rhythmically constructed, of
truded themselves. Nevertheless, the subject
which we cannot anywhere find the equivalent.” is here treated with a clearness, a fulness, a re-
The claims here set up for music are those cognition of its importance, that deserve praise.
that are now generally upheld by students as well Music has now reached the point where it can
as enthusiasts. The author's aim is to give these turn back upon itself, and study its own mean-
claims a more complete and scientific expression. ings and processes. That music has essentially
The day is evidently gone by when music can the same substance and message as the other
be considered merely as a succession of agreeable arts can hardly call for discussion; that it treats
Founds, whose sole object is to while away a
profoundly and with inspiration the meaning of
this intelligible world in its large aspects, no
* Music, ITS LAWS AND Evolution. By Jules Combarieu,
Professor of the History of Music in the College de France.
longer requires debate. Professor Combarieu
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of view, and does it with singular directness and publication will prove invaluable to other inves-
finish. The work is not merely a technical tigators in the same field, and that it deserves
treatise, it is also an appeal to the general | the gratitude of all scholars, will hardly require
reader, and should have immediate interest for demonstration.
everybody who cares about the great art of The title of the work is somewhat mislead-
which it treats. The translation, although ing; for while the material contained in these
anonymous, is in the main well done.
volumes throws much light on other subjects
LOUIS JAMES BLOCK.
than those pertaining to labor, the undisguised
purpose of the editors has been to present docu-
ments which in one way or another deal with
the labor problem. Some exception to this rule
A HISTORY OF LABOR IN AMERICA.* may perhaps be allowed in the case of the first
two volumes, entitled “Plantation and Frontier,”
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Professor
Richard T. Ély published his history of « The although here too the main purpose has been to
throw light on such subjects as the use of coerced
Labor Movement in America,” a pioneer work
in its field, and one which has enjoyed great of the indentured whites, and to deal with certain
labor, whether that of the negro slaves or that
popularity, but which was intended by its author
aspects of free labor when used either on the
only as an earnest of a greater work to come,
one which should constitute when finished noth: plantation or at the frontier. Of the other vol-
umes, two deal with “ Labor Conspiracy Cases,"
ing less than a complete History of Labor in
the New World. The task of preparing this
while the remaining six will reveal the efforts
that have been made by free laborers to better
larger work proved, however, too great an
their conditions by means of association, organi-
undertaking for a single investigator; and the
scantiness of the material which was so arranged
zation, and political propaganda.
as to be available for the compiler was brought
To the first volume, Professor Ely contributes
a General Preface" to the entire work, setting
so forcibly to Dr. Ely's attention that he deter-
forth the history of its inception and the diffi-
mined to organize a force of collaborators and
culties that have been met with in collecting and
endeavor to secure a fund for the prosecution
collating the material. He also describes in a
of this task of industrial research.
fortunate enough to succeed in both these pre-
general way the character of the material which
has been gathered by the “ Bureau of Industrial
liminary undertakings.
Research,” which is the name of the organi-
A portion — said by the editors to be the
zation established to further the work of prepar-
most valuable part of the fruits of the inves-
ing this history of labor. Much of the material
tigation conducted by the collaborators is now
gathered by the Bureau is not included in the
being shared with the public in the form of ten
large volumes entitled “A Documentary His-
contents of the work now being published.
tory of American Industrial Society.” While
Dr. Ely's Preface is followed by a “General
it is nowhere directly so stated, it is probable Clark, who figures as one of the “advisory
Introduction," written by Professor John B.
that the editors have not abandoned their orig- editors” of the work. Professor Clark mentions
inal intention of producing a narrative history
what he considers to be the significant economic
of the labor movement, but that they are offer-
characteristics of American history, and attempts
ing those interested an opportunity to judge
of the thoroughness with which they are pro-
not very successfully, it must be said – to
formulate a philosophy of American history
ceeding by furnishing them, in advance of the
based on the inter-relation of these leading
final work, with a partial survey of the mate-
characteristics. The foremost of American eco-
rials with which they have to deal. That such
nomic theorists is clearly not at home in the
* A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL domain of history, and we hardly need the
SOCIETY. Edited by John R. Commons, Ulrich B. Phillips,
Eugene A. Gilmore, Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews: testimony of the last page of this Introduction
Prepared under the auspices of the American Bureau of (which is numbered 53-65) to convince us that
Industrial Research, with the coöperation of the Carnegie this “General Introduction" was intended by
Institution of Washington. With Preface by Richard T.
the editors as a “filler,” a service which it
Ely, and Introduction by John B. Clark. (To be completed
in ten volumes). Volumes I. and II., Plantation and Fron rather inadequately performs.
tier, 1649–1863. Edited by Ulrich B. Phillips. Volumes III., The real Introduction to the first two volumes
IV., and Supplementary Volume, Labor Conspiracy Cases,
1806-1842. Edited by John R. Commons and Eugene A. Gil-
is furnished by their editor, Dr. Ulrich B.
more. Cleveland : The Arthur H. Clark Co.
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scholarly investigators in the field of Southern takes made by historians who have sought to
history. As already stated, the subject matter interpret for us the story of the Old South would
of these two volumes is the “ Plantation and have been prevented could the writers have had
Frontier"; and Dr. Phillips's Introduction per access to the material now placed before us as
forms a real service in showing us the part played a result of Dr. Phillips's careful research. For
by these historic institutions in our social and the printed materials, political speeches, news-
economic development. He claims that the paper and magazine articles and editorials, pub-
South offers the best examples not only of lished sermons, even the governmental reports
plantation life but of that of the frontier as and statistics with which historians have in the
well. The frontier in the Northwest was pro main had to satisfy themselves, were prepared
tected by the United States army, and the by men who were conscious of the fact that
government of this region was under Federal their work was to receive publication, and even
authority. In the South, on the other hand, though these men were honest in their convic-
little was done to assist the frontiersmen to tions, and earnestly desirous of setting forth
develop their resources, and the people were the truth concerning the subjects with which
consequently left free to develop their own forms they had to deal, they were hampered by the
of legislation, administration, and military con fact that they had a thesis to defend, and they
trol. Dr. Phillips further shows how both the knew that what they had to say was likely to
plantation and the farming systems spread in be used by others as evidence for certain pro-
the South, the conflict between the two systems, positions which they desired should be believed.
the development of their respective fields of On the other hand, of the documents which Dr.
enterprise, and the peculiar fitness of each type Phillips here offers, many
Phillips here offers, many — not all — consist
for the task to be performed. Taking in its of extracts from letters written to members of
turn each of the great industrial areas of the the family or to personal friends, never intended
South, Dr. Phillips traces the growth of popula- for publication : directions from plantation own-
tion, the history of the selection of staple crops ers to their overseers and reports from overseers
suited to the area in question, and the gradual to the owners, extracts from diaries and personal
adaptation of the form of landholdings and of memoranda kept for the exclusive use of the
agricultural methods to meet the conditions writers, newspaper advertisements, and the like,
imposed by these crops.
all of which unconsciously describe the real situ-
It would be impossible to mention, let alone ation in the ante-bellum South and enable us
discuss, most of the nearly 400 documents to understand somewhat of the life of a by-gone
which Dr. Phillips has elected to give us, either age which few of us, in the North at least, have
in full or in part, as his selections for illustrat ever been able to comprehend.
ing the history of the South between the years The documents in the first volume have to
1649 and 1863. In making his selection, the do entirely with the Plantation, describing its
editor tells us that he has sought to combine in management, routine, staple crops, vicissitudes,
each instance the three qualities of rareness, supplies and factorage, overseers, and white
unconsciousness, and faithful illustration. To labor, whether free or indentured. Particularly
say that he has succeeded in doing this in every interesting are those which deal with the experi-
instance would be to claim for him the impos ence of planters and overseers with slave labor
sible; and doubtless any investigator in this and that of the bond-servants. It is from these
field will be able to criticize with justice some documents that one gets the most accurate infor-
of the selections made, and to point to others mation concerning the real advantages and dis-
which in his judgment would have better illus- advantages of coerced labor; and no abolitionist
trated the tendencies or institutions which it is could have better pictured the economic evils
sought to depict. Yet it may be said with fair- resulting from trying to carry on agricultural
ness that in no other single work has so much operations with slave labor and absentee owner-
material been collected tending to reveal to us ship than do many of these letters and planta-
the real character of the Southern people and tion reports. The reader is quite prepared to
the problems which they had to solve in the days sympathize with the brother-in-law of Howell
of slavery and the plantation règime, as is to Cobb, who wishes that he could trade his negroes
be found within the covers of these two volumes. for lands. “ The lands would lie still, and not
An economic history of the South could not be bother one like the negroes.”
written from the material contained in these The section dealing with “ Plantation Vicissi-
volumes alone, but at the same time many mis tudes” shows us the fear which constantly pos-


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sessed the slaveowner that his most valuable hortation following the sermon, and all-night
property might at any time be lost, by running sessions were not infrequent. The meetings
away, by theft, by disease, or by suicide. The lasted five days, and the average attendance was
cholera in particular was a subject of dread. from three to four thousand. If a statistical
Other documents of much interest in the first estimate of the results of the meetings be not out
volume are those in which redemptioners in of place, it may be safe to venture the remark
colonial days give the results of their experience that only "eighty souls converted, including
in selling themselves into service. Two of these black and white people” seem to be rather
which deserve especial mention are the accounts scanty returns from such strenuous efforts.
furnished by an intelligent schoolmaster and by In volumes three and four, and in the sup-
a confessed criminal.
plementary volume, Professors Commons and
The selections contained in the second volume Gilmore have reprinted the court proceedings
cover a wider range than do those in the first. in seven important cases, occuring between the
About half of the volume contains documents years 1806 and 1842, in which combinations of
having to do, in one way or another, with slavery laborers were indicted and tried for conspiring
and slave labor. Other subjects treated are the to raise their wages. Several other cases of the
free
negroes, whose
presence
in the South was same sort are given briefer notice by the editors.
always a thorn in the flesh to the slave-owner, All of these cases have to do with what is to-day
the poor whites, immigration and western migra- known as the “closed shop” controversy.
tion, frontier settlement and frontier society, The earliest and perhaps the most important
manufacturing and town labor, and public reg of these cases is that of the Philadelphia cord-
ulation of industry and commerce.
wainers of 1806. Eight journeymen boot and
Both the bright and the dark sides of slavery shoe makers of that city were tried and found
are well presented by these documents, and the guilty of entering into a conspiracy to raise their
editor, although a Southerner, has held no brief wages, and each of the defendants was fined
for either side. Some of the documents contain eight dollars and costs. The chief point at issue
an element of real pathos, -as, for example, in this and the subsequent trials was as to
the letter of Billy Proctor to John Lamar, urg whether the English common law, according to
ing the latter to purchase him until he can buy which combinations of laborers to raise wages
his own freedom. On the other hand, the easy, were illegal, was applicable to the United States.
care-free life of the Jamaica slave is indicated Notwithstanding a strong showing by the de-
by this statement of an English planter : “ As fense, who argued that there was no precedent
far as I can judge, if I were now standing on for such a trial in the history of our colonies,
the banks of Vergil's Lethe, with a goblet of and that the spirit of American constitutions
waters of oblivion in my hand, and asked and laws was opposed to this idea of conspiracy,
whether I choose to enter life anew as an English the Recorder in his charge to the jury practi-
labourer or a Jamaica negro, I should have no cally left that body no alternative but to render
hesitation in preferring the latter.” Probably a verdict of guilty.
the most interesting document in either volume The original pamphlet report of this case is
is the one which purports to be a description very rare, being found in few libraries. How
by an intelligent slave of his experiences as a scarce it had become is shown by the fact that
member of a slave-gang being taken from only twenty-two years later in Philadelphia
Maryland to South Carolina. The description itself, when the record was wanted in a similar
of the journey may be a tolerably correct pic- trial of the journeymen tailors, the counsel for
ture of what was likely to occur, but the inter- the prosecution said that he had been unable to
nal evidence is against the authenticity of the find any record of the proceedings in the earlier
document itself.
trial. It is a somewhat curious fact that the
The documents that describe frontier condi- copy from which the editors have secured their
tions are not numerous, but are selected with a reprint was found in the library of the State
view to illustrating conditions in various parts University of Iowa.
of the South as the frontier was gradually The later cases reported in these volumes are
pushed westward and northward. There is an very much similar to the one just described,
interesting description of a Georgia camp-meet- with the difference that as time passes both
ing held in the year 1807, in which “ thirty-seven court and jury become somewhat more lenient
Methodist preachers” participated. Preaching concerning the offence of the laboring men, un-
occured four times a day, with usually an ex til in one or two of the later cases, particularly


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>
memories of
Mark Twain.
in that of the Thompsonville (Conn.) weavers,
Shall one be a sober chronicler of
the verdict turned in favor of the workers. How
An impressionist truth or a Merry Andrew of litera-
that impresses.
far the legal question at issue is from being a
ture? Or can one unite the two func-
dead one even today, however, is shown by the
tions as a critic? These thoughts come naturally to
recent decision of Judge Richardson of the
the mind in reading Mr. James Huneker's latest
book of essays, “ Promenades of an Impressionist”
Massachusetts Superior Court, that a strike
(Scribner), a study of painters, etchers, sculptors of
called for the purpose of compelling an em-
to-day, yesterday, or forever, — Rodin, Rops, Botti-
ployer to unionize his shop is illegal.
celli. Mr. Huneker, in the matter of style, scintil-
În a splendid introduction to these three vol- lates, challenges, and alternately provokes and de-
umes Professor Commons has utilized the facts lights. He forgets that while cleverness arouses,
brought out in these cases and elsewhere to trace only beauty of manner satisfies in the long run. Like
the development of industrial organization in the Mr. Chesterton, he falls over his own smartness again
boot and shoe industry. M. B. HAMMOND.
and again ; and, if you happen to know something
whereof he speaks, you have an uneasy sense that he
seizes on the eccentrics and extremists of art or liter-
ature or music and uses them for what they offer him
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
as picturesque material. You fear that he will sacri-
fice a fact to an epigram, or at least that effect with
His forty-four years' intimate friend-
Mr. Howells's
ship with Mark Twain has qualified this, when your eye encounters some plangent phrase
him always comes first. Yet hardly have you said
Mr. Howells to speak with authority,
or some search-light of penetrative opinion, and you
as he does also with all his genial grace and charm
feel apologetic. One thing is sure, anyway, with
and quiet play of wit and humor, on the character regard to Mr. Huneker: he is neither negative nor
and achievements of our foremost humorist. “My
neuter. If it be the business of the impressionist not
Mark Twain ” (Harper) is made up of the recent
only to receive impressions, but to impress, he cer-
chapters of personal reminiscence published in
tainly does his duty. He offers a kind of sauce
“Harper's Magazine," sundry “Atlantic” reviews
piquante to the literary feast. The way to read him
of early books by Mark Twain, and a few later appre-
ciations of the man and his work from other period- then turn to this cocksure art-for-art's-sakist, and
is to get your humdrum facts from Dr. Dryasdust,
icals. The poem,
“ The American Joke,” read by
Mr. Howells at the birthday dinner given to his respond to his stimulation and suggestiveness. He
has sympathy, that precious quality, and love for
friend in 1905, agreeably closes the book. That the
those he writes of; read him on Degas, or Monticelli,
author of “Tom Sawyer” was a boy to the end of
for example,—what a tender-ironic lovely note is that
his days, and that as a humorist he is to be ranked
with which he closes his brief study of the last-
with Cervantes and with Swift, neither of whom,
named colorist: 66
: “ Alas, poor Fada!" Stimulation,
however, was his equal in humanity; and, further,
suggestion, sympathy, egoistic bias, and a harlequin's
that as an orator or lecturer he was the most
pleasure in the fine phrase, — these are all here and
consummate public performer” Mr. Howells has
make the volume at once a delight, an irritation, and
ever seen, being, on the platform, “the great and
a danger.
finished actor which he probably would not have
been on the stage
these are some of the terms
In "The Psychology of Reasoning”
Psychology
in which are expressed a warm appreciation and and reasoning. (Appleton) Professor W. B. Pills-
hearty admiration of him concerning whose death
bury has made available a useful
Johnson's famous words on the death of Garrick guide to a useful subject. The title of his volume
might have been uttered with far less of hyperbole suggests either of two references; and it is import-
than in their original application. Even above his ant to state that its content refers to the psycho-
scrupulous honesty in discharging that mountain of logical analysis of the logical procedures, and not to
debt which was none of his contracting, Mr. Howells the general consideration of the wealth of psycho-
rates his friend's " abhorrence of the Spanish War, | logical processes that go on in the human mind when
and the destruction of the South-African republics, it is on reasoning bent. The appeal of the volume
and our deceit of the Filipinos, and his hate of slav- is to the student. It sets before him as psychology
ery, and his support of a poor artist for three what has been most commonly considered as logic.
years in Paris, and his loan of opportunity to the Reasoning as an instrument, both in its operation
youth who became the most brilliant of our actor and in the securing of the wherewithal to work upon,
dramatists,” and “even his pity for the wounded is dependent upon a fair range of mental procedure.
bird throbbing out its little life on the grass for the Experience would be reacted too formlessly and un-
pleasure of the cruel fool who shot it.” The book profitably were it not that through the mind's logical
is an instructive and engrossing study of a noble temper it coalesces in a system, - a system of mean-
and unique character, and no one can read it with ings. The justification of reasoning belongs to logic;
out being the better for it. Its fine portraits and the description of the contributory tendencies belongs
views add much to its attractiveness.
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At Vailima
with R. L. S.
marked path of the former; and the several chap- (Duffield) from the competent pen of Mr. Lewis
ters of the present volume undertake to set forth Melville. By permission of the Duke of Hamilton,
what is involved on the psychological side when the in whose possession, by reason of the marriage of
mind believes and judges, when it infers and syllo-Beckford's daughter Susan to the tenth Duke, are
gizes, when it proves and generalises and applies. many letters and other papers of Beckford's, much
The discussion drifts at times into finer distinctions manuscript material of value has been at the biog-
that seem urgent; but at bottom the only difference rapher's disposal ; and the book abounds in extracts
between the plain man's account of these processes from these and other equally important original
and the academic one is a more disciplined realisa documents. The many letters, printed entire or in
tion of the implications. The plain man, like the
The plain man, like the part, tell much of Beckford's life-story in his own
logician, uses a system to make of his mental rumina- words. They are the letters of a man never un
tion a real progressive digestion. He feels less keenly mindful of his own dignity, somewhat pompous in
the satisfaction that comes from an inward analysis style, but revealing great vigor of intellect, a wide
and justification; but, the student interest once as.' range of interests and tastes, varied and extensive
sumed, the expositions furnished by Professor Pills- learning, and remarkable strength of character and
bury may be warmly commended as a safe and sane force of will. “He was inclined, especially in his
guide to the understanding of a technical but import- later days, to take himself seriously,” we read, “but
ant chapter in the mind's productions and processes. his sense of honour always saved him from becoming
ridiculous a timely rescue that the rest of us
In Mr. H. J. Moors's agreeably anec-
generally owe to our sense of humor. The most
dotal volume, “With Stevenson in
interesting chapters in the book are those relating
Samoa” (Small, Maynard & Co.),
the genesis and history of “Vathek" and the build-
are a number of corrections of false impressions. ing of Fonthill Abbey. Numerous characters of
At least, the author evidently believes in the correct note appear as Beckford's friends and correspond-
ness of his corrections, and he certainly had full
ents, despite the literally walled-in life he led at
opportunity to become acquainted with the real
Fonthill. Mr. Melville's “ Bibliography,” with its
Stevenson, being his first host and his constant
long list of successive editions of “Vathek,” attests
intimate in Samoa, besides acting as his agent and
the former popularity of that now little-read romance,
banker in business and pecuniary matters. “It has and it also calls attention to the now never-read
been said," writes Mr. Moors, “ that he took his ill other works from the same pen. A contemporary
health cheerfully; that is wrong, it was his good description of Fonthill recalls, in twelve closely
health that he took cheerfully.” As to the novelist's printed pages, the splendors of that costly piece of
flageolet-playing, we read : “My friend Carruthers,
architecture. The French passages in the book are
who had him for a neighbor, averred positively that not free from typographical errors, but otherwise
he played so dolefully upon the instrument as to be
the workmanship of the volume is admirable. Ten
a menace to one's enjoyment of life.” According to
portraits and two views of the Abbey are inserted.
the author's account - and he seems to have been
This is a biographical work not likely ever to be
in a position to know, being purchasing agent for
superseded.
the family
enough cigarettes and coffee were con-
sumed at Vailima to shorten the lives of several
Fortunately, it is quite impossible to
strong men, to say nothing of one invalid. But the
write a dull book about Florence,
Stevensons were lavish entertainers, and spent a
not only does the subject forbid, but
small fortune in enlarging and keeping up their even a dull person, under the spell of Florence, be-
island villa. That they cleared, however, the whole comes to a certain extent an inspired one. Hence,
of the four hundred acres attached to it, as at least in taking up a new addition to the already long list
one biographer has asserted, is declared by Mr. of books about the city, one is pretty nearly certain
Moors to be false, since only fifteen acres were thus that while he will find nothing new the chances are
reclaimed from the wilderness. The author's strong
that he will not be bored. Such proves to be the
disapproval of Stevenson's collaborating with another case with Mr. Max Vernon's “In and Out of
in story-writing was openly expressed to him at the Florence" (Holt). “ Florence, Mecca of that sect
time of this perversion of his genius, and will be of believers, persistent even in these breathless days
heartily endorsed by all true lovers of R. L. S. Mr. of machines and money-madness, the believers in
Moors's book is fully illustrated and forms a welcome the reality of the ideal,” – the author exclaims on
addition to the already long list of reminiscences of the first page of his book. But he recognizes also
a most winsome personality.
that one cannot live on wonder and inspiration
alone; even John in the desert had his locusts and
The rather unaccountable lack of wild honey. Many are the persons who, like Mr.
of " Vathek." any previous biography of William Vernon, wish to become temporarily Florentines.
Beckford, excepting the unsatisfac Neither hotel nor pension will satisfy; they must
tory compilation given to the world in 1859 by take a house or villa, or at least a villino, in order
Cyrus Redding, makes unusually welcome “The to come into closer touch with the community. All
Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill” such will be grateful for the opening chapters, deal.
In and out
of Florence.
The author


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18th century.
mern.
ing with such practical matters as house-hunting,
Feminism in
Something more than a literary com-
servants, marketing, housekeeping, garden and England of the pilation, — quite as much, perhaps, a
village (Settignano, in this case.) These details
womans' rights document, — is Miss
being happily adjusted, the author becomes a chatty Ethel Rolt Wheeler's book entitled “Famous Blue-
but never tedious guide to the usual sights, the Stockings ” (John Lane Co.). The group of brilliant
churches, the galleries, the courts and palaces, stray women who formed the kernel of cultured London
pictures on monastery walls, the streets, the shops, society between 1770 and 1785 were by no means
the festas, the nearby excursions to Vallombrosa, noisy advocates of woman suffrage, but they proved
Prato, Pistoja, Lucca, and Pisa. The book does by their own accomplishment that wit and learning
not pretend to take the place either of general guide in women are not inconsistent with domestic effi-
like Baedeker, Gardner, or Hare, or yet of the ciency and sound common sense, nor even with the
specialist like Berenson, Hewlett, Hyett, or Zim retention of feminine charm. More than this, they
Rather it is to be commended as agreeable even raised their voices in calm and gentle criticism
reading for a first-tripper, either before going or of the position assigned their sex, although leaving
after his return. Not the least of its charm is its to their great-granddaughters all forcible efforts to
copious and artistic illustrations of Italian scenery right such wrongs. The arrangement of Miss
from the drawings of Miss Maud Lanktree, besides Wheeler's book is peculiar. Alternating with the
the good reproductions from photographs of famous general chapters on manners and customs are separate
paintings, sculpture, and architecture.
biographies of the leading “ Blue-Stockings," —Mrs.
Montagu, the brilliant and lavish hostess; Mrs.
The purpose of Mr. C. W. Wrights Delany, the marvellous artist in “
Wool-growing
paper mosaics ";
as affected by volume on Wool-Growing and the
the tarift.
Mrs. Thrale, the somewhat melodramatic enthusiast;
Tariff” (Houghton) is “to examine
Mrs. Vesey, the sweet and sympathetic friend of
the history of the wool-growing industry in this
humankind; Mrs. Chapone, the exponent of straight-
country with a view to finding out what influences
laced propriety; Fanny Burney, the gifted egoist;
have shaped its development and especially to what
Elizabeth Carter, the learned but unassuming
extent it has been affected by the tariff.” The task
translator of Epictetus ; Hannah More, the ver-
has been well done, especially the first part of it;
satile writer, the educational and social reformer.
and although the author disavows any intention of
A proem sketches the striking characteristics of the
attempting to state in detail the effect of the tariff
age, and a conclusion treats of its influence on later
at different periods, yet the intelligent reader will
generations. The author makes dexterous use of
not be in much doubt as to the author's opinion in
this particular. Mr. Wright very properly realizes
the points of contact between these gifted ladies
and the more familiar names from the other sex,-
that economic results are the product of many
vari-
Johnson, Richardson, Garrick, Macaulay, Scott, Sir
able forces, and he refuses to attempt to assign to
Joshua Reynolds, Goldsmith, John Wesley, and a
each force its weight in bringing about the result.
long list of others. The fascinating spirit of the
The study shows familiar acquaintance with the
eighteenth century is caught most delightfully in
original and secondary sources of material. Foot-
these lively pages.
notes and references are numerous, and at the close
of each chapter a summary is given — an excellent
Recent agitations and activities
Vocations for
feature of a study in economic history. The develop-
among women have caused the dis-
ment of the industry is divided into eight periods,
college woman. cussion of their particular problems
viz., wool-growing before 1800; the advent of the to assume a place not inconspicuous in current litera-
Merino, 1800-1815; commercial wool-growing, ture. A recent publication of the Women's Educa-
1816–1830; the supremacy of the East, 1830– tional and Industrial Union of Boston, entitled
1840; the rise of the middle west, 1840–1860; the “ Vocations for the Trained Woman-Opportunities
Civil War period, 1860-1870; the rise of the far other than Teaching,” answers, with conciseness,
west, 1870-1890; free. wool and the end of the many questions necessarily put by the educated
westward movement, 1890-1907. It
may
be ques woman about to earn her living, and is valuable
tioned whether there is in each case logical reasons since it deals with fact rather than with speculation,
for such absolute divisions, but the plan adds interest and is free from sentimentality. The book, we are
and definiteness to the subject. The author considers told, is an outcome of the conviction that many
the protective duties to have benefitted the manu women who are unfitted for teaching drift into that
facturers more than the growers of wool. The study vocation as the one with which they are most famil-
shows the effect of the tutelage of Professor Taussig, iar; that the teaching which results is poor; and
and no better guarantee of its value could be given. that unsuccessful teachers might become able work-
A number of interesting charts add much to the ers in other fields. In order to suggest what these
value of the book. It is the type of a study which fields are, and to indicate to what extent a college
is all too rare, and its contents should be made gen education helps a woman to attain positions and
erally known in this period of wide-spread interest promotions therein, this series of articles has been
in the question of what shall be the characteristics prepared by specialists,- men and women actively
of our future tariff legislation.
interested in the subject they are presenting. The
the trained


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conditions described are largely those now existent vancement of Science. In the Preface the author
in Massachusetts and New York, but the conclusions states : “ It was the chief aim of the lectures to ex.
deduced therefrom are presumably applicable to a plain the gist of Darwinism — what problems
more extended area. Seventy articles or thereabouts Darwin set himself to solve, and what solutions he
are grouped under the eight headings of Social and arrived at, and to indicate what progress has been
Economic Service, Scientific Work, Domestic Science made as regards the problems of Organic Evolution
and Arts, Agriculture, Business, Clerical and Secre since Darwin's day what has been added to
tarial Work, Literary Work, Art (Illustrating and Darwinism, what, if anything, has been taken away,
Designing), and Special Forms of Teaching. Each and, especially, what is now being reconsidered.'
contributor has endeavored to set forth the qualifi- As was to be expected from the quality of Professor
cations and training necessary efficiently to follow Thomson's previous writings, the task thus set has
such vocations as he describes, and to take account been well done. The book is especially to be com-
of the compensations therein and the opportunities mended to college and university teachers who wish
for advancement. One is impressed with the fact to put into the hands of students a brief account of
that nowadays either specialized education or a long what has been accomplished in the study of evolu-
apprenticeship is requisite for success in any given tion, which shall be authoritative and at the same
field. In presenting these facts, no false lure is time of sort to stimulate and hold interest. No
held out to the woman about to earn her living; she better book for such a purpose is available. The
need, however, find no occasion for discouragement; last chapter, “Selection : Organic and Social,” deals
the search-light has been turned helpfully upon the in a sane way with the problems and possibilities of
occupations which are open to her.
eugenics. A brief but well chosen list of recent
On the sixteenth of September, 1810,
books on evolutionary topics closes the volume. It
The father
of Mexican in the churchyard of the little Mexi-
is a pity that so good a book, containing such a
independence.
can village of Dolores, there arose
wealth of detailed facts to which many a reader will
from the motley crowd of villagers, armed and un-
want to refer, should not have been deemed worthy
of an index.
armed, gathered about their priest, Miguel Hidalgo
y Costilla, a great shout, “ Viva Independencia!
The events leading up to the organi-
The mounted
Viva America! Muera el mal gobierno !” This
police of the zation of the mounted constabulary
battle cry of freedom, known ever since as “el Grito far Northwest.
of northwestern British America,
de Dolores,” is annually commemorated by fitting the stern task confronting this gallant force, and
ceremonies throughout the Republic of Mexico, and divers incidents and adventures from its history,
has this year had its centennial celebration. Almost together with the writer's personal experiences as
simultaneously with that celebration there has ap-
the policemen's guest, in the barracks and on the
peared in this country a biography of the priest and prairie, are fully and graphically related by Mr. A.
patriot, the originator of the movement for Mexican
L. Haydon in a substantial octavo entitled “The
independence. “The Life and Times of Miguel Riders of the Plains: Adventures and Romance
Hidalgo y Costilla” (McClurg) is the joint work with the North-West Mounted Police, 1873–1910,"
of Dr. Arthur Howard Noll and Mr. A. Philip published by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. The
McMahon, and is the first complete account of that author writes that it has been his “good fortune and
famous man in our language, if not indeed in any privilege to be admitted into the confidence of the
language. At all events there seems to be no corps, and thus to acquire exclusive and accurate
adequate biography of him in his own country, and information.” Instances proving the efficiency of
the authors have shown diligence and zeal in getting this carefully selected and well trained police force
together, from sources none too abundant, so many abound in Mr. Haydon's pages, interspersed with
facts concerning one whose life in full detail can stories and adventures of a diverting character, and
now probably never be told. Their book, of two
also agreeably diversified with numerous illustra-
hundred pages, is a noteworthy contribution to the tions, chiefly from photographs, and with four
maps
history of Mexican independence. A portrait of and diagrams. A chapter entitled “Horse Thieves
the patriot," from a rare print,” forms the frontis and "Cattle Rustlers"" contains some especially
piece.
striking instances of prompt and successful action on
Professor J. Arthur Thomson justly the part of the Mounted Police, and one on “Indian
The gist of holds high rank among popular Problems” is of no less interest. In describing the
Darwinism.
writers on biological subjects. He ruthless practices that have cleared the buffalo herds
has the rare ability to present the concrete data of from the prairie, the author uses a far too mild
science on the one hand, and the theoretical discus word (“decimation”) to denote their rapid deple-
sion of such data on the other hand, in a manner tion. If our buffalo-hunters had been content with
that is at once technically correct and untechnically decimation the bison (to give the animal its proper
comprehensible and interesting. His latest book, name) would still abound in the great Northwest.
“ Darwinism and Human Life" (Holt), consists of a The present awakened interest in that land of
series of lectures delivered in 1909 under the auspi- promise makes timely and acceptable such a work
ces of the South African Association for the Ad as Mr. Haydon's.


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to hear from anybody who is interested ih i biography to
tried by this progressive institution, and what Mr.
NOTES.
Dana has to say of their comparative effectiveness is of
Mrs. Humphry Ward has written a new novel, “ The
interest and value to other library workers. “Try all
Case of Richard Meynell,” which will run its course
things ; keep everlastingly at it; and especially keep
serially in “ McClure's Magazine " before appearing in
everlastingly at it in the newspapers,” are his closing
book form.
words.
Two further volumes of the Emerson Journals are
It is announced that the Cambridge University Press
shortly to be issued by Houghton Mifflin Co. They will
has taken over the control and copyright of the eleventh
contain virtually all the hitherto unprinted matter written
edition of “ The Encyclopædia Britannica,” which is to
by Emerson from 1833 to 1837.
appear about the end of the year. The Syndics of the
New editions of two of Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim's
Press have thought it wise to explain in a pamphlet the
earlier novels, “The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown"
circumstances that have led to this novel departure. The
and “A Daughter of the Marionis,” have just been
main point is this: that the association of the University
issued by Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., the authorized
with the publication amounts to a guarantee that it is a
publishers in America for all of Mr. Oppenheim's work.
trustworthy guide to sound learning, being not only
During the autumn the Macmillan Co. will publish
up-to-date, but also the work of experts who are en-
the first volume of the Life of Lord Beaconsfield, based
titled to speak on their several subjects. The new vol-
on his private papers, that Mr. W. F. Monypenny has
umes represent the elaborate organization and arduous
been engaged upon for some years past.
labour of eight years, and the editor, while retaining
This volume
certain articles of permanent value, has been constantly
covers the period from Disraeli's birth to his entry into
Parliament in 1837.
employed in securing authoritative contributions from
new hands in many countries. The whole edition will
The general interest aroused by the publication of
be issued as a complete work. A current Index has
M. Romain Rolland's romance in ten volumes entitled
been in use throughout, and special pains have been
“ Jean Christophe” has led Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. to
taken to avoid mere verbosity, duplications, and incon-
prepare a translation of the first two, which they will pub-
sistencies. So, though the Eleventh Edition occupies
lish in one volume under the title of “John Christopher:
Dawn and Morning."
but little more space than the Ninth — twenty-eight
volumes, including one devoted to the Index, as against
Mr. Harry Peyton Steger, literary executor of the
twenty-five — it is believed that it will contain twice as
late W. S. Porter (“0. Henry "), would be glad to have much independent information. In the practical ques-
copies of any letters or documents from this writer, or tion of form there will be a great advance. The use of
India paper will reduce the size and weight of the vol-
of “0. Henry." Communications should be addressed to umes to less than one-third of the average of ordinary
Mr. Steger at Garden City, New York.
paper, and this edition will be provided with limp bind-
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Classic Myths in English Literature, by Charles
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duction by Brother Leo. (Macmillan Co.)
A Beginner's History of Philosophy, by Herbert E.
Cushman.—Prose Literature for Secondary Schools,
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Willard G. Bleyer.—Little Mr. Thimblefinger
Stories, by Joel Chandler Harris, illus.—The
Story of the Roman People, by Eva March Tap-
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field, illus.; Captains of Industry, by James Par.
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