d of my heart, it
engineering enterprises, but none more acceptable was part of my desire first of all to follow, as
to the general reader than Mr. Bullard's well-writ far as might be, in the footsteps of Chaucer's pil-
ten and well-illustrated volume. Seven full-page grims. Therefore I sought the Tabard Inn in
plates are added to the present edition, making Southwark.” Thus begins Mr. Edward Hutton in
more than two-score illustrations in all.
“England of My Heart: Spring ” (Dutton) - to
be followed by the other seasons. Kent, Sussex,
FOREIGN TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
and Hants are the counties devoted to vernal con-
The best of the many excellences of Mr. F. Hop-| templation, and the list of places visited is an
kinson Smith's “In Dickens's London " (Scribner) inviting one to lovers of England's quieter haunts.
is the remarkable faithfulness with which his char Dartford, Rochester, Faversham, Canterbury, Chi-
coal drawings reproduce the smoky, dingy, but chester, Winchester, Selborne — these are some of
picturesque aspect of the great city's old and the names that head Mr. Hutton's pages and indi-
time-stained buildings. The peculiar griminess of cate the course of his pleasant ramble. In the
ancient brickwork he pictures with astonishing veri England of his heart, " in the whole breadth of her
similitude, nor is his medium unsuited to the shad delight, there is no industrial city such as infests,
owy interiors he has selected to depict. Treating ruins, and spoils other lands, and in this she resem-
the London of Dickens much as he did the London bles her great and dear mother Italy.” Why this
of Thackeray a year ago, he presents with pen and ascription of maternity to Italy rather than to
pencil the George Inn of Pickwickian fame, Lant | Normandy or Denmark?. The Roman colonization
Street, where Bob Sawyer had his lodgings, the of Britain was not so complete. Mr. Gordon
George and Vulture, the Bull at Rochester, London Home furnishes many drawings in harmony with
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on
Novel and promising is the plan of “ The Charm part of the book's attractions. The author, whose
of Scandinavia" (Little, Brown & Co.), by Dr. name appears on the title-page as "Alice Lee
Francis E. Clark, founder of the Christian En Moqué," taxes the reader's credulity by giving her
deavor Society, and his son Sydney, experienced birth-year as 1888 after describing her Dalmatian
travellers in the land of the Vikings. They coördi- trip as her ninth annual wedding-tour.
nate their stores of knowledge, both book-learning With her customary admirable faculty for seeing
and more immediate acquisitions, in such a manner the beautiful and the joyous in whatever she chooses
as to present, first, a panorama of the many attrac to write about, Miss Lilian Whiting paints for us
tions of Sweden and Finland, in letters supposed a fair and smiling city in her book, “ The Lure
to have been written by one“ Phillips” to a certain of London" (Little, Brown & Co.), which opens
Judicia,"
," and then a similar view of the wonders with a general chapter of the same name as the
and beauties of Norway and Denmark, in letters book, and then takes us to Hyde Park Corner and
from “Aylmer” to the same impartial lady, who is Apsley House, the Royal Institution, the art galler-
asked to decide which of the two accounts reveals ies, clubs, and societies, to the sports and amuse-
the more compelling assemblage of charms. But ments of the English people, to consideration of
she begs to be excused, and suggests that the letters “ the living influence of Victorian literature," to the
be published and each reader left to settle the dis architectural and historic glories of Westminster
pute for himself. Naturally the half-tone picture Abbey, and elsewhere, ending with an essay on
plays a prominent part (to the extent of thirty-five “ The Spirit of London Life.” In a chapter on
excellent illustrations) in the book, and a map of “Annie Besant and the Theosophical Society," the
Scandinavia, but not also of Finland, is usefully priestess of occultism is treated with entire serious-
added. The style of the narrative is in admirable ness by Miss Whiting, who would have us believe
concord with its pleasing plan; but why did not that “Mrs. Besant brings the message of the vistas
the authors choose as accompaniment to their ear of new life that are opening to the world in relig-
satisfying “Aylmer” and “Judicia” the classic
Judicia” the classicion, science, and art.” Thirty-one good pictures
and beautiful “ Philip" instead of the modern and from photographs adorn the book, which is further
prosaic “Phillips"? Further disfigurement is embellished on the front cover and the wrapper.
caused by the misprinting of “Aylmer" as “Aly Nine times in as many years the public demand
mer" in the table of contents.
for Miss Mary E. Waller's “Through the Gates of
It makes the heart ache to turn the pages of the Netherlands” (Little, Brown & Co.) has neces-
Mr. George Wharton Edwards's beautiful volume sitated a new printing of the work. Its present
“ The Forest of Arden” (Stokes), with its appearance in flexible covers of limp leather (or
peaceful pictures of Dinant, the Meuse, the castle possibly a clever imitation) and with a judicious
of La Roche, the valley of the Semois, and other selection of illustrations from the masterpieces of
haunts of unpretentious charm and innocent hap Dutch painting will be welcome to those who enjoy
piness, and to think that all this loveliness is now the personal, narrative, anecdotal note in their
made hideous by the ravages of war. “ The Ar guide-books. Dealing with a part of Europe now
dennes," wrote the author, before the region had the object of considerable public notice, it is a
been brought into such painful prominence, “is timely book, though no longer a brand-new one. Its
comparatively an unknown country, and is likely attractive and handy form, as well as its pleasing
to remain so." His discerning praise of the charms literary style, commends it to favor.
of this district, with his score and a half of excel-
HOLIDAY ART BOOKS.
lent drawings, colored and uncolored, has a mel-
ancholy timeliness. Much that he has captured
Promise of something worth while is in the very
title of “The Honest House” (Century Co.), a
with pen and pencil must by this time have suffered
handsome book of quarto dimensions, “presenting
grievous disfigurement, if not utter annihilation.
Elaborately bound and sumptuous in every detail,
examples of the usual problems which face the
the book in its handsome box is well adapted to
home-builder, together with an exposition of the
simple architectural principles which underlie
purposes of Christmas presentation.
them: arranged especially in reference to small
In the form of a narrative describing her ninth
wedding-tour - for she and “ John " took one
house design." All this wealth of material is placed
every year — the author of " Delightful Dalmatia”
at our disposal, the title-page tells us, " by Ruby
Ross Goodnow in collaboration with Rayne Ad-
(Funk & Wagnalls Co.) presents a sort of pano " and with an
introduction by Frederick L.
ramic view, with accompanying explanatory lec-
Ackerman, A. I. A.” That the “honest house" in
ture, of the eastern shore of the Adriatic, or of so
America is not invariably a thing of beauty, is
much of it as she had the good fortune to visit in a
admitted at the outset; and yet, says Mr. Acker-
summer's vacation ramble. Pola, Zara, Sebenico,
man, we may take justifiable satisfaction in our
Spalato, Ragusa, and other places of interest form
domestic architecture, for “there is something ex-
the framework on which the fabric of interwoven
pressed in the plans of the houses themselves, in
anecdote and history and personal experience is the very arrangement of the plots of land upon
hung. That Dalmatia offers so many attractions to which they stand, which differentiates them from
the tourist will be news to more than one reader, similar houses of Europe. They do not express
and a visit to its shores in quieter times than the landlordism, but rather a group of democratic
present will be felt to be desirable. A profusion of ideals.” Successively and, one may add, success-
views from photographs, including a colored cover fully are handled such topics as the quest of the
panel and a colored frontispiece, forms no small ideal house, the value of the architect, American
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houses and their European prototypes, the practi "Indian Blankets and Their Makers” (McClurg),
cal problem of house-building, proportion and bal with excellent colored pictures of their work, and a
ance, the useful and the beautiful, surroundings, great number of uncolored pictures. How deft and
color, materials, walls, roofs, column and cornice, ingenious our aborigines were in the textile arts is
porches, and so on. Examples almost without num known to comparatively few; but the expert in
ber are presented to the eye in excellent illustra such matters dare to assert that there is nothing in
tions, both machine-made and hand-made, and a modern weaving that will not be found anticipated
list of other useful books of similar character is in such fragments of matting and blankets and
appended.
other fabrics as have been exhumed from Indian
German art does not hold that place in the graves that were centuries old when Columbus was
world's esteem that is accorded to Italian art, to born. Mr. James's book, a quarto of more than
Dutch and Flemish art, and to other schools that two hundred pages, is the painstaking work of one
might be named. Hence it has been less written more desirous of giving full and exact information
about, and is less familiar to the general public. than of achieving originality. Twenty-two chap-
Mrs. Helen A. Dickinson's elaborate and scholarly ters and four appended papers present the results
volume, “ German Masters of Art” (Stokes), helps of his researches. He uses, wisely enough, the still
to supply a manifest want, and is at the same time uncommon word “Amerind" to denote the Amer-
in all its details a fine example of artistic book ican Indian, and he does well also to prefer the
manufacture. She divides German painting into spelling “ Navaho” to its Spanish equivalent. The
three schools,— that of Cologne, of Swabia, and of Navaho blanket, it may be noted, forms the main
Nuremberg or Franconia; the first being character theme of his treatise. The beauty and softness of
ized by a certain dreamy or lyric quality, while the some of these products of the Navaho loom, as pic-
second is pre-eminently a narrative or illustrative tured in the book, are remarkable.
art, and the third shows striking qualities of virility “ Some people collect old furniture, some old
and passion and dramatic force. It is the old books. I for many years have been a collector of
masters and not the moderns that engage Mrs. old houses." Thus writes Mr. John Martin Ham-
Dickinson's attention, and in a series of thirty-seven mond, author of “ Colonial Mansions of Maryland
chapters, with the help of more than a hundred and Delaware” (Lippincott), a sumptuous octavo
reproductions of noteworthy paintings, she ably containing historical accounts and fine illustrations
introduces them to our better acquaintance. The of nearly two-score eighteenth-century houses,
quarto size of the book contributes to the satisfac- largely in the region about Baltimore, the author's
tory presentation of these many specimens of early home, whence with camera and a pair of intelli-
German art to the eye, four of them being in color, gently observant eyes he sallies occasionally forth
and one hundred and ten in monotone. Finally, on his collecting expeditions. His assortment of
the writer's Heidelberg degree and her experience historic houses — such as the Chase, the Hammond,
as university lecturer on art operate not at all the Brice, and the Ridout houses of Annapolis, the
to her disadvantage in winning her readers' confi Ratcliffe Manor, Whitehall, Hampton, Mount Airy,
dence.
Belvoir, and Montmorenci — shows that he has
The charm of artistic book-manufacture makes wisely given his attention to the near rather than to
itself felt in “ The Charm of the Antique the reinote. The outlying sections of Maryland are
(Hearst's) by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shackleton, but little represented in his book, and Delaware
who are experienced collectors of old furniture and occupies hardly a sixth of its bulk. There are
other memorials of bygone times. They know the others of our Atlantic States that can show houses
joy of acquiring for thirty-five cents a genuine of earlier construction, notably Massachusetts with
Sheraton armchair disguised almost beyond recog her examples of seventeenth-century domestic archi-
nition by a wadded covering of calico, and of pick-tecture, but Maryland has preserved her old houses
ing up for one lira a lion's head of iron that has more carefully than some other members of the
formerly spouted water in the garden of an old colonial sisterhood. “ Much of the available data,"
Florentine palace. Some their entures in says Mr. Hammond (as if " data” were a singular
this species of hunting, with advice and comment noun)," of the history of Maryland and Delaware
and description such as other collectors will read will be found in the voluminous writings of John
with interest, are presented in attractive style in Thomas Scharff,” to whom and to others he pays
the book's score of animated and anecdotal chap due acknowledgment.
ters, each treating of "the charm" of some phase
of the antique. Illustrations in lavish abundance,
HOLIDAY EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
including an exquisitely colored frontispiece, adorn
An old favorite among book-illustrators is Gold-
the volume and heighten the desire to become a col smith's masterpiece, “ The Vicar of Wakefield.” In
lector if one is not already a collector, and to
a substantial quarto richly illustrated by Mr. Ed-
achieve fresh triumphs in the art of collecting if mund J. Sullivan the immortal story is now offered
one is. The book is ornamentally bound and neatly to the public by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. Six-
boxed.
teen colored pictures of sufficient brightness and
Few are so well versed in the arts and crafts of variety of hue to please those who like this sort of
the American Indians as Mr. George Wharton art are given in full-page form, also thrice as many
James, who has already written with authority on equally large uncolored drawings, and there are
their basket-making and other industries, and now smaller designs as chapter-headings. To add that
presents an historical and descriptive account of the book is printed at the Edinburgh University


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Press will be commendation enough of its typo- of his naturalist friend is prefixed to the selections
graphical excellence. It is bound in blue and gold, grouped under the last-named title; introductions
and is well boxed.
by Mr. Johnson are to be found in the other vol-
Mr. Henry De Vere Stacpoole's metrical versions umes. The publishers (Thomas Y. Crowell Co.)
of Villon's poems, already known to the English call this a pocket edition, as in fact it is, though
public, appear from the house of the John Lane in the spacious typography of the original larger
Company in a generously margined, handsomely issue.
printed volume, entitled “The Poems of François Mr. Arthur Rackham's name as illustrator of
Villon," and defined as to contents by a prelim- Shakespeare's “ Midsummer Night's Dream” (Dou-
inary note: The two Testaments of François bleday) is adequate warrant for the excellence of
Villon with a running commentary and notes, also the elaborate quarto edition of the mirthful fan-
the ballades of the Grand Testament translated into tasy, issued this season in a cheaper, more popular,
English with a translation of various Ballades and form. So generously spaced as to run to the length
Rondeaux from the general poems.” A short of one hundred and thirty-four pages, the play is
treatise on Villon and his times precedes the poems. lavishly illustrated both with full page drawings,
“God made him a robber, it is true," admits his colored and uncolored, and with smaller designs
translator and admirer, “but at least let us thank scattered through the text. Mr. Rackham's render-
God that He did not make him a tradesman." Fur ings of the Puckish conceits so abundantly supplied
ther, he pronounces Villon " the greatest and truest to him are admirable, and the delicate tinting of his
of French verse-writers,” and “ the only French colored drawings is in agreeable contrast with the
poet who is entirely real.” Mr. Stacpoole's faith more garish pictures that coruscate in so many of
fulness to the original sometimes proves harmful to the books designed to make glad the holiday season.
the smoothness of his own verse, but that is better To the Ballantyne Press credit is due for the excel-
than too great freedom of rendering. An appen lent typography of this work, and the Hentschel
dix contains the French text of the ballads and Colour-type Process has demonstrated its efficiency
rondeaux.
in reproducing the artist's conceptions.
With no fewer than eight able competitors al-
RECORDS OF THE PAST.
ready in the field, Mr. Ernest J. B. Kirtlan essays a Student wit and student pranks enter inevitably
new translation of " Beowulf” (Crowell). English
and very acceptably into the truthful chronicle of
prose, with but a hint of archaism in its structure
the fortunes of any typical American college. The
and vocabulary, is the medium chosen; and the
part played by the undergraduates in moulding the
result is an agreeably readable and apparently history and fixing the character of their Alma
faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon
a version
Mater is no negligible factor. Mr. Wilder Dwight
more quickly intelligible to most readers than the
Quint makes the student body as well as the faculty
somewhat labored poetic translation of Morris and and the trustees fill important roles in his book,
Wyatt. Introduction, footnotes, and appended “ The Story of Dartmouth” (Little, Brown & Co.),
matter show that Mr. Kirtlan is not lacking in
a production similar in style and scope to Mr.
scholarly preparation for his task. Mr. Frederic
Arthur Stanwood Pier's readable account of Har-
Lawrence contributes a colored frontispiece and
vard, which came from the same publishing house
decorative initials and cover-design.
a year ago. As in that work, pencil drawings from
A thin-paper, flexibly bound, gilt-edged edition a skilful hand -- in this instance the artist is Mr.
of that excellent anthology,“ Golden Poems,” com John Albert Seaford — are not unwisely chosen in-
piled by the late Francis Fisher Browne, comes stead of photographic views to present to the eye
from the McClurg publishing house. First issued some of the more noted academic features described
in 1881, and again published in an enlarged form or mentioned by the pen. From its foundation in
in 1906, the book has not failed of an appreciative | 1770, through the critical period made famous by
reception. That it is no mere piece of book the great Dartmouth Case and Webster's memor-
making, no perfunctory putting together of passa able plea for the college, down to the present time,
ble material, those well know who remember Mr. Mr. Quint lovingly and with scholarly care traces
Browne's fondness for these carefully chosen the history of this pre-eminently American or
poems and his astonishing ability to repeat them “national" college, as its graduates and friends
from memory. They number nearly five hundred, like to call it - and its claim to the title is not
and are from both British and American poets. unfounded, since it draws more students from out-
Tables of contents, of authors, and of first lines are side New Hampshire than does Harvard (the col-
given, and previous errors of printing are cor lege proper) from outside Massachusetts. Both the
rected. In its new form the book is a most invit educator and the general reader will enjoy Mr.
ing pocket volume.
Quint's book. Additions to the series are likely to
In a five-volume, thin-paper edition, embellished receive a welcome.
with the original illustrations, Mr. Clifton John In his Preface to his third book on the metropolis
son's set of Thoreau's chief works comes neatly of England, Sir Laurence Gomme explains wherein
boxed and in every respect suitable for Christmas it differs from the preceding two. “The Govern-
purchase and Christmas gift. The books, in the ance of London " had to do with “a newly discov-
order in which Mr. Johnson first gave them forth, ered aspect of the question of origins,” and “The
are “ Cape Cod," “ The Maine Woods," "Walden," Making of London " concerned itself with applying
“A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," “the results of this study to the evolution of the
and“ Excursions.” Emerson's biographical sketch | city," while in “ London " (Lippincott) the author
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claims “to have discovered the great fact of his hand-made paper, and limited in its issue to three
torical continuity, conscious and effective conti hundred and fifty copies. Turning these pages
nuity, underlying the main issues of London life from the versatile pen of “Andrew of the brindled
throughout all its changes. Freeman and his fol hair," one may perchance feel an increased interest
lowers have proved that the conquest of Britain in the venerable buildings they describe from the
resulted in the dominance of English government, possibility, not inconceivably remote at present
language, and institutions generally; but Sir Lau writing, that some such disaster as lately befell
rence contends that one need not therefore conclude Louvain may one day be the lot of Oxford. Many
tliat in no spot in England are there any survivals curious anecdotes, traditional or historical, enliven
from pre-English times. London, in his study of these chapters, which, despite the antiquity of their
it, is rich in such survivals. Whatever may be the theme, are brisk with life and color.
soundness or the unsoundness of his theories, the Very successful has Miss Mary Caroline Craw-
book is a monument to his antiquarian research and ford been in imparting an early Yankee flavor to
at the same time a novel and interesting treatment the pages of her “ Social Life in New England”
of an inexhaustible theme. Portraits, old prints, (Little, Brown & Co.), which displays on a some-
ancient coins and implements, historic ruins, maps what broader canvas the same kind of char-
and charts, have been freely drawn upon for illus acters and incidents as in her former works on
trating the volume, which is handsomely printed at “ Old Boston Days and Ways” and “Romantic
Edinburgh in the full-faced type that we associate Days in Old Boston." Her matter is grouped un-
with Scottish presses.
der such chapter-headings as “In the Little Red
Our old colonial houses, though but infants in Schoolhouse," “Going to College," “ Choosing
comparison with the historic mansions and baro a Profession," Getting Married,"
Setting up
nial halls of England, are nevertheless extremely Housekeeping,” “Reading Books,” and “Amuse-
interesting to us and especially pleasing by way of ments of the Big Town.” The material for these
contrast with much that is more pretentious and studies is not meagre, as her Preface makes evident,
far less attractive in modern domestic architecture. and she has put it to good use. Illustrative of old-
Miss Mary H. Northend's “ Historic Homes of New time moral standards are the penalties imposed at
England” (Little, Brown & Co.) describes and pic Harvard for various misdemeanors a century and
tures a score of the most noteworthy of these old three-quarters ago. Profane language was punish-
dwellings in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, able by a fine that might reach a maximum of two
with one in Rhode Island. They are the House of shillings and sixpence, whereas drunkenness and
Seven Gables and the Pickering house in Salem; lying would each cost the offender not more than
the Hooper house, known as The Lindens, at Dan one shilling and sixpence. Miss Crawford uses the
vers; the Rogers house, at Peabody; the Jeremiah name Massachusetts when she must mean either the
Lee house, Marblehead; Ladd-Gilman house, Exe Bay Colony or the Plymouth Colony, as the two
ter; Adams house, Newbury; the Spencer Pierce were not consolidated until 1692. For instance, she
and the Dalton houses, Newburyport; Dummer says, “ Massachusetts established schools by law in
mansion, Byfield; Warner house, Portsmouth; 1642.” Her picture of “the last of the farm boys
Wentworth house, Little Harbor; Franklin Pierce and his pair of oxen might tempt an old New
house, Hillsboro; Savory house, Groveland; Stark Englander to draw his pen through “pair" and
mansion, Dunbarton; Saltonstall house, Haverhill ; substitute “yoke." In lavish illustrative features
Kittredge house, Andover; Royall house, Medford; the book is not inferior to its predecessors.
Longfellow house, Cambridge; Quincy mansion, Based largely on Washington's own diaries and
Quincy; and Middleton house, Bristol. Good views letters, as made available to students in recent
of exterior and interior abound, and the ornate years, Mr. Frederick Trevor Hill's “ Washington
cover shows the famous seven-gable structure in the Man of Action” (Appleton) is a trustworthy,
gilt. The historical and descriptive text gives straightforward, succinct account of our foremost
evidence of care and thoroughness. A novel deriva national hero, and, as its dedication " to the boys
tion catches the eye, — “clapboard” from “clay of the Alf Club” shows, is designed for young
board,” because the houses first finished in this man readers. Indeed, its quarto form, great primer
ner were daubed with clay before receiving the type, abundant colored pictures, and other striking
boards now known as clapboards.
features place it at once in the juvenile class; and
It is a quarter-century since Andrew Lang, some though one might almost say that the book weighs
time fellow of Merton College, Oxford, delighted half as much as some of the readers for whom it is
his brother Oxonians and many others with his intended, it is likely to please them none the less
historical and descriptive notes on the famous old for that. Comte J. Onfroy de Breville (“ Job")
university. That book, with its numerous exquisite furnishes the illustrations, which will be found not
drawings by Mr. Joseph Pennell, R. Kent Thomas, deficient in life and action and color.
A. Brunet-Debaines, and others, is probably no Anecdotal and sufficiently tinged with romance,
longer easily obtainable; hence the acceptability of The Man Napoleon” (Crowell), by Mr. William
a new edition with what will be to many modern Henry Hudson, justifies its addition to the thou-
readers equally attractive and even more attractive sand already existing accounts of the great Corsican
illustrations in the colored plates of Mr. George F. by its engaging style and by the well-conceived and
Carline, R.B.A. “ Oxford ” (Lippincott) now ap elaborately executed colored drawings, by Baron
pears in crown quarto form, printed at the Edin- | Myrbach, that accompany the reading matter. The
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cause its author both explicitly and implicitly dis seat. Make 'em sit back.” Miss Gale believes in
claims admiration for the “colossal image with a Romance of Life as much finer than sentimen-
feet of clay" whom he so interestingly places be tality as modern romance is saner than chivalry,"
fore us. Material, more or less trustworthy, is of and it is this wholesome romance that is now dawn-
course available in abundance for an intimate ing upon Friendship Village. If you wish to learn
study like this; the chief merit of Mr. Hudson's more about it, read the “ Neighborhood Stories" of
book is its combination of impartiality with vivid Calliope Marsh. The book is ornately bound and
interest a blend not common in biography.
has a frontispiece showing a group of Friendship
Village faces.
HOLIDAY FICTION.
Published under the auspices of the California
Bright and sunny, whimsical and humorous, and Writers' Club, “ West Winds" is described on its
not lacking in the element of romance, Mr. Mere title-page as California's book of fiction, written
dith Nicholson's story of “The Poet” (Houghton) | by California authors and illustrated by California
is likely to win him new friends while attaching to artists.” It is also, of course, published by a Cali-
him more warmly the old ones. In geniality of fornia publishing house, that of Messrs. Paul
manner and wisdom of life the book shows decided Elder & Co., San Francisco. Mr. Herman Whita-
advance over his earlier works of fiction. Obvious ker is the California editor, as he is also the author
to the discerning reader is the Poet's strong resem of one of the stories, the first of the series. The
blance to the author's fellow Hoosier, Mr. James other writers, as their names stand in the table of
Whitcomb Riley, undoubtedly the model after contents, are as follows: Elizabeth Abbey Everett,
whom the gentle and lovable hero of the tale is Shirley A. Mansfield, Sarah Thurston Nott, Agnes
patterned. Appropriately enough, the Poet's child Morley Cleaveland, Rebecca N. Porter, Julia B.
friend, Marjorie, the rather pathetic sufferer from Foster, Charles F. Lummis, Jack London, Hester
her parents' mutual uncongeniality, plays a promi A. Dickinson, Elizabeth Griswold Rowe, Frances
nent part in the story; and his kind offices as peace Orr Allen, Mrs. Carl Bank, Harriet Holmes Has-
maker, also his wise and friendly aid to a young lett, and Torrey Connor. The “spread of life,” as
brother poet, and with it all his interest in others' the editor of the book says in his Preface, extends
affairs of the heart, while he himself remains but an from Old Mexico to Alaska; and the characters
on-looker at the game of love, are so handled by the include swarthy Mexicans, Gringoes, bandits and
author as to invest his amiable hero with an increas peons, miners and mule-drivers, and all the varied
ing charm.
Marjorie's infant dialect is rather over types of that far-western wonderland. The pic-
done and wearisome; otherwise the characters are tures, in sepia-brown, harmonize with the general
wholly pleasing. The book is provided with cheer color-scheme of the book, as also with the spirit of
ful colored pictures and tinted decorations.
the text they illustrate. Not all new to print, the
Betty was a girl with a splendid dowry," youth, tales are none the less full of novel interest and
health, gaiety of heart, an indomitable spirit, and a show the California standard of short-story-writing
pair of the softest, loveliest, most misleading dark
to be a high one.
eyes that were ever seen. So she is described by A slight thing, but not inferior to her more elabo-
Miss Molly Elliot Seawell in “Betty's Virginia rate works of fiction, the story called " The Hands
Christmas” (Lippincott), wherein also her love for of Esau ” (Harper), by Mrs. Margaret Deland,
Lieutenant John Hope Fortescue, U. S. A., and the illustrates with vividness and pathos the inescapa-
happy issue of that romance, are narrated. The ble influence of heredity. How Tom Vail, a con-
antepenultimate chapter, headed, with unnecessary vict's son, wooed and won Nina Morgan, and then
disregard for orthodox orthography, “Recom- what happened, will be read with no languid inter-
pence," brings the lovers to the exchange of vows in est by Mrs. Deland's many admirers. It impresses
good earnest, and the following chapter, joyously one as a bit of tragic reality from the very heart of
entitled “Gloria," sees them safely married, with
life. Two good illustrations and an ornamental
one chapter still remaining in which to gather up binding set off the excellences of the well-told story.
the loose threads. As in her other novels, the writer In amplified form and with realistic touches and
shows her artistry in depicting southern scenes and suitable embellishment, Dr. Henry Van Dyke tells
characters, the local color including, of course, that in his own pleasing fashion the story related much
of the negro as well as the brighter hues of Betty's more briefly in the last dozen verses of the second
complexion. It is a good, wholesome Christmas chapter of St. Luke.
chapter of St. Luke." The Lost Boy" (Harper)
tale, illustrated with unusual wealth of colored pic- is a suitable book for a Christmas gift or for
tures and outline drawings.
Sunday-school use. A picture of the child Jesus in
Miss Zona Gale's short stories of Friendship Vil the temple, surrounded by the elders, precedes the
lage have won favor with readers, and such a collec- narrative, and the cover and wrapper are also
tion of these tales from her pen as now appears
appropriately adorned by the artist.
under the title, “Neighborhood Stories” (Mac A warm welcome from those seeking Christmas
millan), is assured of a welcome. The frank and gift books is assured for the “ Ooze Leather Christ-
fearless Calliope Marsh is supposed to be the nar mas Series," published by Messrs. Browne & How-
rator throughout; and she is certainly a character ell Co., in ten little volumes bound in soft, flexible
worth knowing, and her vigorous speech is worth leather. The stories have been chosen from excel-
listening to. When I die,” is one of Calliope's lent sources and are not only brightly attractive
utterances," don't you get anybody that's always but also peculiarly appropriate to the season.
treated me like a dog and put them on the front | They comprise “ Santa Claus and Little Billee,” by
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Mr. John Kendrick Bangs; “ Christmas Roses,' supply a want in its department, especially with
by Miss Anne O'Hagen;
“ Dalosa Bonbright's those who at this season are hunting for the proper
Christmas Gift," by Mrs. Grace MacGowan Cooke; “sentiment” to go with the Christmas gift.
“ The Night before Christmas," by Miss Lillian
Stimulating, as its name would indicate, is Mr.
Bennett Thompson; “Next Christmas,” by Mr. Richard Wightman's “Soul-Spur” (Century Co.),
Byron E. Veatch; Santa Claus on the Beach," by a book as sure to win favor as it is certain that
Mr. Robert Dunn; “A Christmas Gift," by Mr.
everyone is eager to know more about the half-
T. W. Hall; “ Their Christmas," by Mr. Lee Ber-
hidden things of his own life and his own soul.
trand; “ Peter's Christmas Present," by Miss Observation, reflection, intuition, friendly counsel,
Anne Story Allen; and “ When Santa Claus Was
apt illustration - of these is the book compounded,
Lost," by Mr. Bertram Lebhar.
and in some of its bracing and wholesome utter-
ances and admonitions it suggests Emerson, from
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS.
whom indeed it fittingly quotes. Here is a sample
The fascinations of book-collecting took captive
of the author's style: “It is good to do little essen-
Mr. Percy Fitzgerald when he was but a boy; and
tial things with a hot heart, to tend small tasks with
later, the charm having lost nothing of its potency,
a fine zeal which makes the seemingly insignificant
he wrote understandingly and well about first edi employment big and important. In an inn at
tions, unique copies, early printers, curious bind-
Savoy there was a flight of stone stairs. They
ings, and similar bibliological topics. This season were very dirty stairs. They had apparently not
brings forth a neat edition of his work, first pub-
been washed since the first man went up them.
lished in 1886, called “ The Book Fancier; or, The
John Ruskin saw them and the sight smote his soul
Romance of Book Collecting" (Lippincott). With
into indignation. Straightway he procured a
some lack of entire frankness, the date originally
bucket and a broom and scrubbed the stairs pains-
appended to the preface is omitted, as if to convey
takingly. Was he less an artist for this menial
service? . . :
the impression of a new work, whereas it is a nearly
Fundamental fidelities are the par-
exact reprint, in larger type and with almost iden-
ents of art.” These chapters on the common but
tical pagination, of the first edition. Exactness of
supremely important things of life are introduced
reproduction has been slightly departed from in the
each by a sententious bit of original verse, except
chapter headings, several of which are a little short in one instance where prose is used.
ened. The book, as some will recall, treats of col More fertile in new words than even the immor-
lectors and dealers, the Mazarin Bible, incunabula, tal author of " Jabberwocky," Mr. Gelett Burgess
Elzevirs, Plantins, Caxtons, and old printers of feels it incumbent on him to be his own glossarist.
both England and the Continent, libraries, curiosi Hence we have “Burgess Unabridged: A New
ties of printing and binding, Grangerizing, and Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed”
Dickensiana, illustrated books and "luxurious (Stokes), appropriately and ludicrously illustrated
editions, the auction room, and Shakespeare folios by Mr. Herbert Roth (if that be the polite desig-
and quartos. Speaking of the difficulties of book nation of “ Herb Roth”), and warranted by the
classification, the author asks, choosing an absurdly author to “solidify the chinks of conversation, ex-
simple problem in cataloguing, not in classification, press the inexpressible, make our English language
and making a curious choice of auxiliary verb: ornamental, elegant, distinguished, accurate." One
Would we enter · Coningsby,' for instance, under hundred new words and their derivatives are alpha-
Disraeli or Beaconsfield ?” Undoubtedly this enter betically arranged, with explanations and illustra-
tainingly bookish book from the variously gifted tions in prose and verse, and with pictures to help
Mr. Fitzgerald's prolific pen deserved the honor of out the text where needed. Mr. Burgess modestly
a handsome new edition.
omits his past triumphs in word-making, such as
A good collection of inscriptions, mottoes, place “ bromide” and “goop," and concerns himself only
names, sententious utterances, and similar bits of with “ the words of to-morrow." He who would
prose and verse, has been compiled by Miss Esther acquire “spuzz,” learn the art of “tashivation,”
Matson, with the title, “A Book of Inscriptions" avoid the danger of becoming a jirriwig" or a
(McBride). Its contents are grouped under three “leolump," and escape the clutches of the “ vorian-
heads,-“Much Ado about the Place Name," der,” should carry in his pocket and daily study
“ Mottoes for Hearth and Garth,” and “Accompani- “ Burgess Unabridged."
ments for Gifts," with an “Ende-Word” in the The publications of the firm of Messrs. Paul
form of an old house-blessing of unknown author Elder & Co. have an attractiveness of form, a
ship. The selections are from both ancient and distinction of design, that induce high hopes of
modern sources, and will be found to include many excellence in the reading matter; nor have these
unhackneyed mottoes that are just as good as the hopes often been disappointed. Miss Myrtle Glenn
time-worn and familiar. Dr. Holmes's “ Put not | Roberts's idealistic drama, “ The Foot of the Rain-
your trust in money, but put your money in trust,” bow," combines beauty of outward appearance, in
might well be inscribed over the door of a banking its tinted Normandy vellum pages and neatness of
house or trust company. Miss Matson puts it in a print and binding, with merits of a higher order in
section devoted to "little homely things." Her its thought and expression. With a rural setting
dining-room mottoes fail to include the French say and with farming people as the characters, the old
ing, “Il n'est sauce que d'appétit," though else story of chasing the rainbow for the blessings that
where in her book she draws freely on foreign lie immediately at hand is told with dramatic force
sources. Her scholarly little volume seems likely to and poetic imagery. It is a parable in dramatic


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form hardly suited for the professional stage, from its only blemish being the unutilitarian stiffness
a business point of view, but well fitted for recital and consequent fragility of its binding.
or amateur acting.
Told from the standpoint of an American born
Two more are added to Mr. Oliver Huckel's and resident in China, as the publisher's announce-
Wagner translations,—“Rienzi” and “ The Flying ment informs us, the seven stories or sketches that
Dutchman” (Crowell). Though latest in the order make up the contents of “Bamboo: Tales of the
of issue in this series, these operas were among the
Orient-Born” (Elder) are genuinely far-eastern in
earliest in the order of creation, being produced at
tone, and leave in the reader's mind no doubt of
Dresden in 1842 and 1843 respectively; and it was
their trustworthiness as pictures of the Orient.
“Rienzi” that established its author's reputation
The author's name appears on the title-page as
as a composer. Mr. Huckel's metre, with the excep-
“Lyon Sharman," and internal evidence favors the
tion of occasional songs that vary the monotony, is hypothesis that Lyon Sharman is a woman and the
blank verse at once flexible and strong, spirited
daughter of an American missionary. In style the
and sufficiently stately. Three photogravures in
little sketches have distinction, and their occasional
tint accompany each opera, and a good historical autobiographic note contributes to their charm.
and critical Introduction is provided for each by Distinction, too, is not absent from the book's out-
the translator. Mr. Huckel's skill and taste in this
ward appearance.
chosen work of his have already been recognized in
Mr. Franklin P. Adams, of well-earned fame as
the nine preceding numbers of the series. Printing
a smile-producer with his neat bits of humorous
and ornamentation are in harmony with the other
verse (and occasionally prose) in newspapers and
excellences of these attractive volumes.
magazines, gathers some of his happiest hits into
a little volume entitled “ By and Large” (Double-
Indefatigable in her work of collecting and edit-
day). His opening group of jingles, suggested by
ing in popular form the folklore of our Indian
passages from Horace, Catullus, and Propertius,
tribes, Miss Katharine B. Judson has issued a third
are bright and amusing; and he continues to be
volume of these native legends under the title,
entertaining when he writes entirely “off his own
“ Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and bat," if one may be allowed a colloquialism not at
the Great Lakes ” (McClurg), with pictures show discord with the style of the book under review.
ing examples of Indian graphic and industrial arts.
John G. Saxe, in the good old days, rarely did bet-
The stories are all short and of the simple and ter work in jocular rhymes than this later dis-
childish nature peculiar to such primitive exercises
peller of our melancholic humours shows himself
of the imagination, with animals playing important capable of. “By and Large” is a worthy succes-
parts in most of them. Many of the Hiawatha
sor to “ Toboganning on Parnassus” and “In
legends are given in their original crude form, while
Other Words."
other myths present curious points of resemblance
Among the numerous anthological calendars ap-
to the folklore of the Old World. Stories of the
pearing at this season to remind us pleasantly of
creation and the flood are especially noteworthy in
the opening of another year, a popular favorite is
this respect, though missionary influence is doubt-
likely to be “ The William J. Locke Calendar"
less accountable for many if not most of these simi-
(Lane), a tastefully made little book with an ex-
larities. But no such suggestion is to be found in
tract from the author of “ Septimus” for each day
the mass of these primitive attempts to explain the
in the year, so selected and arranged by Miss Emma
phenomena of the universe. The pioneer labors of
M. Pope as to give about four of these pearls of
Mr. Albert E. Jenks among the wild-rice Indians of
thought to the page, but with little attempt to make
the upper lakes, of Mr. James Mooney among the
each fit especially into its part of the entire string.
Cherokees, of Mr. George Catlin among the tribes
But the passages are characteristic of their author,
of the upper Mississippi, and of Schoolcraft in his
and seem to be carefully and wisely chosen.
noted ethnological researches, are placed under con-
tribution by Miss Judson, with due acknowledg-
Five tasteful volumes, of pocket size and in good
print on good paper — and also surprisingly inex-
ments in her Preface.
pensive in price — contain selections of standard
Seventeen heroines of song and story are passed patriotic poems, love poems, sonnets, poems on
in review by Miss Mary C. Sturgeon in a handsome sport, and religious poems. “ Oxford Garlands”
volume entitled “Women of the Classics ” (Crow is the series-title, Mr. R. M. Leonard the compiler,
ell). Seven of these characters are taken from and the imprint is that of the Oxford University
Homer, three from Æschylus, two from Sophocles, Press. Each volume has a preface, appended notes,
four from Euripides, and one, the sorrowful Dido, an index of authors, and an index of first lines. To
from Virgil. In descriptive prose of her own and poetry-lovers these little volumes are a treasure.
in standard metrical versions from the above-named Mr. George Fitch's original and unexpected way
poets, Miss Sturgeon presents her heroines and of putting things is agreeably known to thousands
gives to each a personality and a history that make of newspaper readers, whom his little syndicated
them more distinct and real than they have hitherto snatches of passing comment have daily amused
been in the minds of most readers. Some unusually for the past three years. A collection of these
good reproductions of more or less famous paint “vestpocket essays (not especially serious)” now
ings offer the same classic heroines to the eye — appears in book form, under the title, “Sizing up
with the single exception of Io, whose form and Uncle Sam” (Stokes). Its “ Map of the United
features are left to the imagination. The book, States, surveyed by George Fitch," is not the least
printed at the Ballantyne Press, is a work of art, l of its amusing features.


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THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
The following is a list of all children's books
published during the present season and received
at the office of THE DIAL up to the time of going
to press with this issue. It is believed that this
classified list will commend itself to Holiday pur-
chasers as a convenient guide to the juvenile books
for the season of 1914.
Stories of Travel and Adventure.
AFRICAN ADVENTURE STORIES. By J. Alden Loring;
with Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50 net.
THE BOY WITH THE U. S. EXPLORERS. By Francis
Rolt-Wheeler. Illustrated. “U. S. Service Series.”
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.50 net.
THE LAST INVASION: An Imaginary Invasion of the
United States by Foreign Powers. By Donal Ham-
ilton Haines. Illustrated. Harper & Brothers.
$1.25 net.
THE BOY FUGITIVES IN MEXICO: Adventures of Two
Boys at the Outbreak of the Revolution in 1911.
By Worthington Green. Illustrated. Houghton
Mifflin Co. $1.25 net.
IN THE PATH OF LA SALLE; or, Boy Scouts on the
Mississippi. By Percy K. FitzHugh. Illustrated.
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. $1.25 net.
ROGER PAULDING, ENSIGN. By Edward L. Beach,
U.S. N. Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co. $1.25 net.
DAVE PORTER IN THE GOLD FIELDS; or, The Search
for the Landslide Mine. By Edward Stratemeyer.
Illustrated. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25 net.
THE RUNAWAY: A Story for Boys and Girls. By
Allen French. Illustrated. Century Co. $1.25 net.
AN ARMY BOY IN MEXICO. By Captain C. E. Kil-
bourne. Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co. $1.25 net.
NED BREWSTER'S CARIBOU Hunt: Exciting Expe-
riences on the Gander River in the Interior of New-
foundland. By Chauncey J. Hawkins. Illustrated.
Little, Brown & Co. $1.20 net.
TO THE LAND OF THE CARIBOU: The Adventures of
Four Classmates on a Cruise to Labrador. By
Paul G. Tomlinson. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's
Sons. $1. net.
JACK STRAW IN MEXICO: How the Engineers De-
fended the Great Hydro-electric Plant. By Irving
Crump. Illustrated. McBride, Nast & Co. $1. net.
Boy SCOUTS IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS: The Story
of a Long Hike. By Walter Prichard Eaton.
Illustrated. W. A. Wilde Co. $1. net.
CAPTAIN OF THE CAT's-Paw: Adventures and Achieve-
ments of a Boy Skipper. By William O. Stoddard,
Jr. Illustrated. Harper & Brothers. $1. net.
THE BOY SCOUTS ON LOST TRAIL. By Thornton W.
Burgess. Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co. $1. net.
IN CAMP AT FORT BRADY. By Lewis Edwin Theiss.
Illustrated. W. A. Wilde Co. $1. net.
THE RAMBLER CLUB WITH THE NORTHWEST MOUNTED.
By W. Crispin Sheppard. Illustrated. Penn Pub-
lishing Co. 50 cts. net.
Stories of Past Times.
THE LITTLE BUFFALO ROBE: An Indian Girl on the
Great Prairies. By Ruth Everett Beck. Illus-
trated. Henry Holt & Co. $1.35 net.
ON THE WARPATH: The Making of a Young Chief.
By James Willard Schultz. Illustrated. Houghton
Mifflin Co. $1.25 net.
THE LAST RAID: Guerrilla Warfare in Missouri. By
Byron A. Dunn. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co.
$1.10 net.
SCOUTING WITH DANIEL BOONE. By Everett T. Tomlin-
son. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.20 net.
ACROSS THE RANGE, and Other Stories of Indian Life.
By James Otis. Illustrated. Harper & Brothers.
60 cts. net
THE TOTEM OF BLACK HAWK: A Tale of Pioneer
Days in Northwestern Illinois and the Black Hawk
War. By Everett McNeil. Illustrated. A. C. Mc-
Clurg & Co. $1.20 net.
A LITTLE MAID OF MASSACHUSETTS COLONY: In the
Days of the Revolution. By Alice Turner Curtis.
Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co. 80 cts. net.
INDIAN DAYS OF THE LONG AGO. By Edward S.
Curtis. Illustrated. World Book Co.
IN TEXAS WITH DAVY CROCKETT. By John T. McIn-
tyre. Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co. 75 cts. net.
Boys' Stories of Many Sorts.
SCARFACE RANCH; or, The Young Homesteaders. By
Edwin L. Sabin. Illustrated. Thomas Y, Crowell
Co. $1.50 net.
THE WINDS OF DEAL: A School Story. By Latta
Griswold, author of “ Deering of Deal.” Illus-
trated. Macmillan Co. $1.35 net.
GRANNIS OF THE FIFTH: A Story of St. Timothy's.
By Arthur Stanwood Pier. Illustrated. Houghton
Mifflin Co. $1.25 net.
BOYS OF EASTMARCH. By Fisher Ames, Jr. Illus-
trated. Thomas Y. Crowell Co. $1.25 net.
HANDICAPPED: The Story of a White-haired Boy. By
Homer Greene. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Co.
$1.25 net.
PHILIP KENT. By T. Truxtun Hare. Illustrated.
Penn Publishing Co. $1.25 net.
CARL HALL OF TAIT. By Everett T. Tomlinson.
Illustrated. Griffith & Rowland Press. $1.25 net.
THE THIRD STRIKE: A Story of College Life. By
Leslie W. Quirk. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co.
$1.20 net.
THE REFORMATION OF JIMMY, and Some Others. By
Henriette Eugénie Delamare. Illustrated. Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Co. $1.20 net.
TWO IN A BUNGALOW. By Mary P. Wells Smith.
Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co. $1.20 net.
MARK TIDD IN THE BACKWOODS: The Doings of Four
Jolly Lads. By Clarence B. Kelland. Illustrated.
Harper & Brothers. $1. net.
THE OLD DILLER PLACE: A Boy's Attempt to Save
the Home Farm. By Winifred Kirkland. Illus-
trated. Houghton Mifflin Co. $1. net.
“ CINDERS": The Young Apprentice of the Steel
Mills. By Hugh C. Weir. Illustrated. W. A.
Wilde Co. $1. net.
THE “BELL HAVEN” SERIES. By George Barton.
New volumes: The Bell Haven Nine; The Bell
Haven Eight. Each illustrated. John C. Winston
Co. Per volume, 60 cts. net.
SHIPMATES. By Mary T. Waggaman. With frontis-
piece. Benziger Brothers. 60 cts. net.
THE “ALAMO” SERIES. By Edward S. Ellis. First
volumes: Remember the Alamo; The Three Arrows;
each illustrated. John C. Winston Co. Per vol-
ume, 60 cts. net.
THE RAMBLER CLUB'S FOOTBALL TEAM. By W.
Crispin Sheppard. Illustrated. Penn Publishing
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BOY'S BOOK OF FAMOUS REGIMENTS. By H. A.
Ogden, with the collaboration of H. A. Hitchcock.
Illustrated in color, etc. McBride, Nast & Co.
$1.50 net.
THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA. By John Esquemel-
ing; edited and illustrated by George Alfred Wil-
liams. Illustrated in color. F. A. Stokes Co.
$2. net.
MORE THAN CONQUERORS: Handicaps in the Lives of
Great Men. By Ariadne Gilbert. Illustrated.
Century Co. $1.25 net.
IN GEORGIAN TIMES: Short Character-studies of the
Great Figures of the Period. By Edith L. Elias.
Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co. $1.25 net.
THE TREASURE FINDERS; or, How the Adventurers of
Four Centuries Sought a New Land. By Oliver
Clay. Illustrated. Duffield & Co. $1.25 net.
THE LIGHT-BRINGERS: Stories of the Wright Broth-
ers, Julia Ward Howe, Marconi, and Others. By
Mary H. Wade. Illustrated. Little, Brown & Co.
$1. net.
STORIES OF GREECE AND ROME. By Hilda Johnstone.
Illustrated, Longmans, Green & Co. 75 cts. net.
GOLDEN DEEDS ON THE FIELD OF HONOR. By Annah
Robinson Watson, Macmillan Co. 50 cts. net.
Girls' Stories of Many Sorts.
SUSAN GROWS UP. By Mary F. Leonard. Illus-
trated. Thomas Y. Crowell Co. $1.50 net.
FAIRMOUNT'S QUARTETTE: Four Academy Girls as
Seniors. By Etta Anthony Baker. Illustrated.
Little, Brown & Co. $1.30 net.
HER WINGS: A Girl's Flight into Feminism. By
Frances Newton Symmes Allen. Houghton Mifflin
Co. $1.25 net.
PHYLLIS. By Maria Thompson Daviess. Illustrated.
Century Co. $1.25 net.
BETH'S WONDER-WINTER. By Marion Ames Taggart.
Illustrated. W. A. Wilde Co. $1.25 net.
HELEN AND THE FIND-OUT CLUB. By Beth Bradford
Gilchrist. Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co.
$1.25 net.
THE LUCKY STONE: A Fairy-tale of American Life
of To-day. By Abbie Farwell Brown. Illustrated.
Century Co. $1.25 net.
JEAN CABOT IN CAP AND Gown. By Gertrude Fisher
Scott. Illustrated. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
$1. net.
JANE STUART'S CHUM. By Grace M. Remick. Illus-
trated. Penn Publishing Co. $1.25 net.
MAKING MARY LIZZIE HAPPY. By Nina Rhoades.
Illustrated. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1. net.
A SUMMER SIEGE: A Story for Girls. By Lucy T.
Poor. Sherman, French & Co. $1.25 net.
A LITTLE PRINCESS OF THE RANCH. By Aileen
Cleveland Higgins. Illustrated. Penn Publishing
Co. $1. net.
THE BAILEY TWINS. By Anna C. Chamberlain. Illus-
trated. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1. net.
FAITH PALMER IN NEW YORK. By Lazelle Thayer
Woolley. Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co. $1. net.
ELIZABETH, BETSY, AND BESS: SCHOOLMATES. By
Amy E. Blanchard. Illustrated. W. A. Wilde Co.
$1. net.
POLLY PRENTISS KEEPS A PROMISE. By Elizabeth
Lincoln Gould. Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co.
80 cts. net.
DOROTHY DAINTY's Visit. By Amy Brooks. Illus-
trated. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1. net.
THE LITTLE RUNAWAYS AT ORCHARD HOUSE. By
Alice Turner Curtis. Illustrated. Penn Publishing
Co. 80 cts. net.
LETTY'S GOOD LUCK. By Helen Sherman Griffith.
Illustrated. Penn Publishing Co. 50 cts, net.
History and Biography.
THE BOOK OF THE BLUE SEA: Pictures of Naval Life
in the Days of Nelson. By Henry Newbolt. Illus-
trated in color, etc., by Norman Wilkinson. Long-
mans, Green & Co. $1.50 net.
THE STORY OF OUR NAVY: The History of the
American Navy from Its Beginnings to Its Present
Strength. By William 0. Stevens, Ph.D. Illus-
trated. Harper & Brothers. $1.50 net.
THE WOLF HUNTERS: A Story of the Buffalo Plains.
Edited from the manuscript diary of Robert M.
Peck by George Bird Grinnell. Illustrated. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $1.35 net.
THE BOYS' MOTLEY: A Version for Younger Readers
of “ The Rise of the Dutch Republic." By Helen
Ward Banks; illustrated in color, etc. F. A. Stokes
Co. $2. net.
HISTORIC HEROES OF CHIVALRY. By Rupert S. Hol-
land, author of “Historic Boyhoods." Illustrated.
George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.50 net.
Tales from Literature and Folk-Lore.
THE BOOK OF FRIENDLY GIANTS: Giant Legends Re-
told. By Eunice Fuller; with Introduction by
Seymour Barnard and drawings by Pamela Colman
Smith. Century Co. $2. net.
LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS. Re-
told for Children by Janet MacDonald Clark;
illustrated in color by W. H. Margetson, R.I. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $2.50 net.
STORIES FROM BROWNING. By Verney Cameron Turn-
bull; illustrated in color, etc., by Sybil Barham.
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. $1.50 net.
MYTHS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW. Edited by
Hamilton Wright Mabie; illustrated in color and
decorated by Mary Hamilton Fyfe. New edition.
Doubleday, Page & Co. $2. net.
STORIES FROM NORTHERN MYTHS. By Emilie Kip
Baker. Revised and enlarged edition. Illustrated.
Macmillan Co. $1.25 net.
LITTLE TA-WISH: Indian Legends from Geyserland.
By Mary Earle Hardy. Illustrated by Kyohei
Inukai. Rand, McNally & Co. $1. net.
STORIES FROM WAGNER. By J. Walker McSpadden.
Illustrated in color by H. Heindrich and F. Lecke.
New edition. Thomas Y. Crowell Co. $1.50 net.
A BOOK OF FAIRY-TALE FOXES: Selections from
Favorite Folk-lore Stories about Foxes. Edited by
Clifton Johnson. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin
Co. 75 cts, net.
PEREZ THE MOUSE. Adapted from the Spanish of
Padre Luis Coloma. By Lady Moreton. Illustrated
in color by George Howard Vyse. John Lane Co.
35 cts. net.
Nature and Out-Door Life.
OLD MOTHER WEST WIND. By Thornton W. Burgess.
Illustrated in color by George F. Kerr. New edi.
tion. Little, Brown & Co. $1.60 net.
THE WOOD PEOPLE AND OTHERS. By Maud D. Havi-
land. Illustrated. Longmans, Green & Co. $1.40 net.
THE HUMAN SIDE OF PLANTS. By Royal Dixon,
Illustrated in color, etc. F. A. Stokes Co. $1.50 net.
HOOF AND CLAW. By Charles G. D. Roberts. Illus-
trated. Macmillan Co. $1.35 net.
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SING A SONG OF SEASONS. By Wilhelmina Seegmiller.
Illustrated in color by the author. Rand, McNally
& Co. $1. net.
TELL-ME-WHY STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS. By C. H.
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paper, by the way, is authority for the statement
that the long-awaited final volume of Mr. Arnold
M. Romain Rolland's “Musicians of To-day” Bennett's trilogy is one-third completed and is
will be issued at once by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. already entitled “ These Twain."
Mr. Byam Shaw has drawn illustrations in color Among the new volumes to be issued immedi-
for an edition of Laurence Hope's “ India's Love
ately in the cheaper edition of " Bohn's Popular
Lyrics” which is announced by the John Lane Co. Library” are: More's "Utopia," with an Introduc-
General von Bernhardi's latest book has been
tion by Mr. A. Guthkelch; the Aldine edition of
translated by Mr. J. Ellis Barker, and will be pub-
Keats, with the addition of the poems recently
lished under the title of “Britain as Germany's
published for the first time in the London
Vassal.”
“ Times”; Coleridge's “ Lectures and Notes on
Shakespeare and Other English Poets"; the third
A group of war poems by Mr. Richard Le Gal-
and fourth' volumes of Lane's “Arabian Nights”;
lienne is to be published by the John Lane Co.,
and the first and second volumes of Plutarch's
under the title of one of them, “ The Silk Hat
“Lives," translated by Mr. A. Stewart and Mr.
Soldier."
George Long.
A special edition of Sir J. M. Barrie's “The
Among the volumes which the American-Scan-
Admirable Crichton,” with illustrations in color by dinavian Foundation has in preparation are:
Mr. Hugh Thompson, is announced by Messrs. "Lyrics by Björnson ";
“Lyrics by Björnson”; “Essays by Kierke-
George H. Doran Co. for holiday publication.
gaard "; « Three Modern Icelandic Dramas”;
Alphonse Courlander, one of the younger En « The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson”; “ Danish
glish novelists of promise, died last month in Popular Ballads”; The Book of Little Brother,"
France. He was the author of five novels; the by Gustaf af Geijerstam; “ Marie Grubbe," by
last, and best known, was a study of “the fourth J. P. Jacobsen; Ibsen's “Brand"; and “Master
estate" in London and Paris under the title of Olof,” an historical drama in five acts by August
“Mightier than the Sword.”
Strindberg. In addition the Foundation will pub-
A two-volume work by General von Bernhardi,
lish a series of " Scandinavian Monographs"
“On War of To-day," is announced by Messrs. Northern literature, history, and life.
Dodd, Mead & Co. It is said to be the general A volume of Miss Mitford's letters has been
basis from which he developed the other smaller edited, with an Introduction, by Miss Elizabeth
books on specific aspects of war and militarism Lee and will be published under the title of “ Mary
which have attracted so much attention in the last Russell Mitford: Correspondence with Charles
three months. The translation is the work of a Boner and John Ruskin.” The letters to Ruskin
lieutenant in the German army.
were written in the years 1852-4, and are now
Four volumes of the “ University of Chicago printed for the first time. Miss Mitford's impres-
Science Series" are now in press. They are:
sions of Mrs. Browning, Charles Kingsley, Na-
Professor Thomas C. Chamberlin's “ The Origin of
thaniel Hawthorne, and Mr. and Mrs. Cobden are
the Earth," Professor John Merle Coulter's “ The
recorded in these letters, in addition to her reflec-
Evolution of Sex in Plants," Professor Robert A.
tions on the first appearance of Tennyson's “ The
Millikan's “ The Isolation and Measurement of the Princess," of Macaulay's “ History of England,"
Electron," and Professor Hans Blichfeldt's “ The
of Charlotte Brontë's novels, and of Matthew
Theory of Collineation Groups.”
Arnold's poems.
Four essays are to be added to “ The Art and
Dr. Ewald Flügel, head of the department of
Craft of Letters Series " as previously announced.
English philology at Leland Stanford Jr. Uni-
They are:
will
“ Criticism," by Mr. P. P. Howe;
versity since 1892, who died on November 15,
“Parody," by Mr. Christopher Stone”; “The
be remembered by readers of THE DIAL as a con-
Ballad," by Mr. Frank Sidgwick; and "Punctua-
tributor whose scholarship made his articles of
tion,” by Mr. Filson Young. Mr. Young is also
unique value. Dr. Flügel was born in Leipzig,
the author of a volume of essays, soon to be pub-
Germany, on August 4, 1863, and was a student at
lished under the title of “New Leaves."
the Universities of Freiburg and Leipzig from
1882 to 1888. He received the degree of Ph.D.
A series of Treitschke's writings translated from from the University of Leipzig in 1885. Dr.
the German is announced by Messrs. G. P. Put-
Flügel was an honorary member of the Akadem
nam's Sons for immediate publication. “Selec Neuphilologische Verein, Leipzig, and of the Ver-
tions from Heinrich von Treitschke," a group of ein für Neuere Philologie, Dresden.
He was a
lectures on politics translated into English, will be member of the American Philological Association,
published this month by Messrs. Frederick A.
of the Early English Text Society, the Chaucer
Stokes Co. This house will also publish Mr. Society, and the Goethe Gesellschaft, Weimar.
Joseph McCabe's book, " Treitschke and the Great
Among Dr. Flügel's publications are: “Carlyle's
War."
religiöse und sittliche Entwickelung,” “Sidney's
Mr. Bernard Shaw is the author of " Common 'Astrophel' and 'Defense of Poesy, " and “ Die
Sense about the War," a book that has just been Nordamerikanische Litteratur.” Dr. Flügel's com-
published in London as a thirty-two page supple pilation of the Chaucer dictionary planned and
ment to “The New Statesman," the London originated by the late Dr. Furnivall, which had
weekly paper in which, with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney proceeded as far as the letter “H,” is ended by his
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theirs. It is all very curious. For there is
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CONTENTS.
unexpected in Mr. Garnett's article. It is
true that he “places” so many living writers,
OUR HOSTILITY TO ART
491
both English and American, that disagree-
ment with him is bound to arise in this or that
CASUAL COMMENT .
493 particular instance. But his main contention,
Amusement in statistics.-A thwarted but
which is not so much that English fiction is
undismayed librarian.— Little linguistic pe-
culiarities. The arrogance of inferiority.–
better than American fiction as that America
A proposed book on the psychology of
is hostile to individuality, is eminently de-
warfare.- Peace through spelling-reform.-
fensible. Mr. Garnett says:
Books with which to become saturated.
“ The dogma put forward under innumerable
guises persistently in America, that the thinker
COMMUNICATION
. 495
and the literary artist must cater to the tastes,
The “ Conspiracy of Silence.” Allen Wilson ideas, and sentiments, moral and emotional, of the
Porterfield.
great majority under pain of being ignored or
ostracized, was noted by De Tocqueville three gen-
CALIFORNIA, Charles Atwood Kofoid . 496
erations ago, but this dogma bred in the American
Mrs. Austin's California.- Saunders's With bone seems to have been reinforced by the latter-
the Flowers and Trees in California. — Mad day tyranny of the commercial ideal. The com-
ame Sanchez's Spanish and Indian Place mercial man who says 'read this book because it is
Names of California.-- Davis's California the best seller,' is seeking to hypnotize the indi-
Romantic and Resourceful.- Mrs, Atherton's vidual's judgment and taste. If there be a notice-
California: An Intimate History.
able dearth of originality of feeling and outlook in
latter-day American fiction it must be because the
NEW MEMOIRS OF CHARLES STEWART
individual is subjected from the start to the insis-
PARNELL. Laurence M. Larson
498
tent pressure of social ideals of conformity which
paralyze or crush out the finer, rarer, more sensi-
MR. G. LOWES DICKINSON ON EAST AND tive individual talents. I do not say that English
WEST. F. B. R. Hellems .
500
writers are not vexed in a minor degree by Mrs.
Grundy's attempts to boycott or crush novels that
BALZAC AND FLAUBERT. Grant Showerman 502
offend the taste of the villa public;' but I believe
that our social atmosphere favors the writer of true
CRUISING WITH MR. ARNOLD BENNETT. individuality.”
Edith Kellogg Dunton
504
It may be possible to argue that the English
advantage in this matter is a most uncertain
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS — II. .
. 505
Travel and Description.-Holiday Art Books.
quantity. It was an English journalist who
- Holiday Editions of Standard Literature.
reminded us the other day, apropos of the
- Holiday Fiction.- Miscellaneous Holiday public dinner given to M. Anatole France in
Books.
London, that his countrymen were pleased to
honor a master who wrote in French when
NOTES
512
they would unquestionably have put him in
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
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glish. It was the English who convicted the when she classifies Mrs. Schreiner's pessimism
translator of Zola's novels, was it not? But as "morbid” is that Mrs. Schreiner's pes-
it is no great matter whether the English are simism is so much deeper than, or different
as timid about recognizing the exceptional from, her own as to be unpleasant to her. So
literary artist as we are, or only less timid. Miss Bacon, assuming that her own degree of
There can be no doubt that no civilized nation pessimism is the only truly life-giving and
is any more timid than we of the United moral degree, decides that Mrs. Schreiner's
States. We approach all art with a chip on novel is immoral. And yet, if Miss Bacon is
the shoulder, and we call the chip our moral- right in believing herself to be healthily bal-
ity. Outside commercial circles our chiefest anced this side of extreme pessimism what
concern about a work of fiction is whether or advantage would Miss Bacon derive from
not it is immoral.
reading any novelist who is equally fortunate!
There might be something fine, something It is plain that, so far as pessimism is con-
admirably courageous, in this attitude of ours cerned, only a writer possessed of considerably
if it were really morality that we are so more than the ideal amount possessed by Miss
strenuous to defend. To be anxious about Bacon could possibly furnish her with that
morals is to be anxious about something that spiritual adventure which it is the novelist,'s
men have nobly died for. But our anxiety business to give. But Miss Bacon, discover-
about art is no such high matter. It is obvious ing such a writer, rejects her novel as im-
to the most casual observer that when we moral!
speak of morality in connection with art we The only answer to Miss Bacon's absurdi-
mean that which is not exceptionable to the ties, which should not occupy us for a moment
ordinary person's view of life and conduct, if they were not so widely held as gospel, is
and that it is not immorality to which we ob to repeat that a work of art, and none more
ject but the unusual, the exceptional.
obviously than the novel, is a personal confes-
Miss Corinne Bacon, a librarian whose sion. A novel is not an instrument by which
pamphlet on “What Makes a Novel Immoral” we are to see the whole of life, or even a part
has enjoyed an unusual circulation, furnishes of it, “as it really is."
of it, “as it really is." A novel is an invita-
us with an illustration of this point. Miss tion from a particular individual to look at
Bacon thinks that those novels are immoral life for a few hours through his eyes, to see
which “appeal to our lower nature," which in it what he sees, to feel about it what he
confuse "right" and "wrong," and which are feels. It is the very fact that his view, his
“untrue to life.” As a prime example of the confession, is his, and not ours, that makes it
last class Miss Bacon cites Mrs. Olive Schrein valuable to us. Indeed, a novel has value
er's The Story of an African Farm,” which almost in proportion as the confessant's skill
is, she says, characterized by “leaden pes and power have enabled him to make his work
simism,'
” and Mr. Hardy's “Jude the Ob- the expression of his individuality. The nor-
scure,” which deals, Miss Bacon believes, with mal, or non-individual, person does not exist.
"abnormal eroticism.” Such novels are un But the artist is never so much as approxi-
true to “the normal life of men and women.' mately normal. Miss Bacon is perfectly right
Putting aside the irrelevant question (if in believing that Mrs. Schreiner is an abnor-
there is any question) of the value of the two mal woman, though we should prefer to put
novels mentioned it ought to be obvious that it less scientifically and call her an altogether
fiction habitually deals with the abnormal and exceptional woman.
has seldom made so much as a pretense of Whether the hostility to the exceptional
doing anything else. Those novelists who which Mr. Garnett remarks in us, a hostility
have so passionately defended the ordinary | almost as great in the case of the artist as in
individual as the desirable object of the novel- the case of the lunatic, is a permanent at-
ist's art have succeeded in convincing us only tribute of our particular democratic experi-
where they were able to show us how extraor- ment remains to be seen. But we had sup-
dinarily ignorant of the ordinary we are. Is posed the fact of its existence was so gener-
it necessary to say that so to deal with the ally known that neither the editors of “The
ordinary is only another way of achieving the Atlantic Monthly” nor any other intelligent
extraordinary, that is to say, the abnormal ? observers of the American scene would think
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CASUAL COMMENT.
Library, under Mr. William E. Foster's direc-
tion, has attracted attention by reason of its
AMUSEMENT IN STATISTICS might be thought intelligent and liberal ministration to the
to be about as hard to find as, for instance, literary needs of its constituency. Notable,
grapes on thornbushes, or figs on thistles,
among other things, is its generous provision
or, to change the simile, acute angles in a of books for its immigrant readers. Its
pentagon, or the square root of a minus quan current "Bulletin” prints in its list of late
tity. Nevertheless some little recreation has
accessions many titles in languages so com-
been derived from a casual examination of paratively unfamiliar as Armenian, Hebrew,
library financial reports as presented in a Hungarian, Ruthenian, and Turkish, together
number of current official publications from with a far greater number in French, German,
various free libraries of our country. The modern Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese,
Detroit Public Library, for example, deplores Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish. And
in tearful accents its inability to keep its Providence is not exactly a cosmopolitan cen-
standard books well bound, and presents a
tre or a very large city. But Mr. Foster
moving picture (not a cinematograph) of its regards the things done by himself and his
ragged regiment of classic authors as they co-workers as nothing to what might be done
“lean wearily against each other in their old
with larger resources. He likens this unful-
garments, on the crowded shelves.” But, ten
filment of purpose to the one-time incomplete
pages later, this same annual report shows a
condition of the Washington Monument, but
"balance on hand” of $310,219.97, or not far adds: “In one respect, it is true, this analogy
from one-half the total receipts of the year, does not hold. That is to say, if the residents
and almost three-fourths of the total expen of Washington had been compelled to look on
ditures. Why this enormous surplus? Or is the gradual taking down of some of the stones
it possible that we have misread the treas- which had been so painfully raised into posi-
urer's figures ? A large unexpended balance tion, their regret would have been all the
is always a temptation to all sorts of foolish- keener. But this is the situation of our read-
ness and worse. Voters, too, might with some
ers, as they witness the withdrawal of some of
reason cut down their donation the next year the features of library work which it has
if they find their liberality so little appre taken years to attain. Nevertheless, a
ciated. In marked contrast to this unduly brighter dawn will succeed the present gloom,
economical management of its funds on the
he confidently believes. "Few institutions
part of the Detroit library, the report from have represented the hopes, aspirations, and
the Lincoln (Nebraska) City Library shows endeavors of so many and so devoted work-
total annual receipts of $11,740, and total dis ers; and it would be unthinkable to despair
bursements of $12,429. Evidently the man of its ultimate success; but for the present
agement here believes that money is meant to the outlook is undeniably dark."
spend, and that it is even wise to spend more
than one has. A powerful lever on the lid
LITTLE LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES betray the
of the city's strong box is a sturdy, fast speaker's or writer's nationality or even, it
growing, and wholly unabashed annual defi-
may be, the county or the parish where he
cit. Going a little further afield, we find the learned to talk. In a large way, Englishmen
James V. Brown Library of Williamsport and Americans speak the same language, but
(Pennsylvania) sailing so close to the wind
in minor details they have their pet idioms
that out of receipts amounting to nearly ten
and excite each other's derision. Mr. Maurice
thousand dollars it remains with a balance of Baring, in his latest contribution to the
less than one hundred and fifty dollars. That gaiety of two nations — he calls his book
is not bad management. At Bristol (Con “Round the World in Any Number of Days”
necticut), on the other hand, the idle cash -indulges in some remarks on“the American
reported at the end of the year seems to be language,”
language,” as for example: "Some day,
about a fifth part of the income - not so good when I have learned the American language
management. Lack of space forbids further properly, I mean to write a large book on the
expatiation on this fruitful theme.
American language. In the meantime, the
following condensed grammar for foreigners
A THWARTED BUT UNDISMAYED LIBRARIAN may prove useful for Americans going to
sounds his note of invincible hopefulness and England, as well as for Englishmen going to
courage in what, for the present at least, and America "Chapter 1. Rule I. (Very im-
because of straitened means, must be regarded portant.) Whenever you say 'in' in English
as the valedictory number of his excellent say either'on’or'to’in American. . . . There
quarterly bulletin. The Providence Public are one hundred and twenty-six exceptions to


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this rule, the most important of which is more than the old who are harshly intolerant
this:- 'To be in trouble' is not translated in their censure: for, as Goethe long ago ob-
'to be on trouble' in American. Rule II. The served, we have only to grow old in order to
two most important words in American are become charitable, since we find in ourselves,
‘proposition' and 'stunt.' Everything is if we live long enough, all the faults we have
either a proposition or a stunt. There are no censured in others.
other rules." Prepositions will always cause
more or less perplexity and disagreement.
A PROPOSED BOOK ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
The Latin scholar will instinctively feel the WARFARE, by a Russian scientist, Dr. Alexis
propriety of saying “averse from,” “in con Maltseff, expert in psychiatry, member of the
trast with," "superiority over," and so on,
Munich Medical Society, and, until disabled
where popular usage is less strict. That we
by ague, a participant in the present Euro-
do not make sufficient use of in, as is alleged pean conflict, is expected to set forth some
above, is certainly not apparent to us, though noteworthy results of the writer's researches.
we do speak of living on instead of in a street; The psychopathic condition of the belligerent
but even here we are not unalterably fixed, and, to some extent, of the neutral nations is
occasionally using the preposition preferred certainly a surprising and a painful phe-
by our English cousins. On the other hand,
nomenon. Europe, Dr. Maltseff declares, is
we object to their being different to us in in a state of “bellicose psychosis verging on
respect of certain idioms, and their colloquial paranoia," and the “war is more like a
and even literary use of off (see Mr. Arnold mediæval obsession of the masses than a ra-
Bennett's writings) in place of from strikes tional international struggle for power and
us as a little unrefined. But who would have glory.” One form taken by the war madness
the whole world speak exactly the same lan is a persistent and absurd exaggeration of the
guage?
enemy's numbers and losses, with correspond-
THE ARROGANCE OF INFERIORITY is a quality ing magnifying of victories achieved on one's
not unheard of in critics, and, not least of all, ing a true account of battle experiences was
own side. Inability to give anything approach-
in literary critics. If we cannot surpass the
performances of genius, we can at any rate proved by examination of wounded soldiers
the genius, which we imagine
in Moscow hospitals. “Persistent, uncon-
amounts to the same thing, and is vastly
scious lying,” says Dr. Maltseff, according to
easier. In a recent “Literary Letter” to report, is one of the first elements of war
the Springfield “Republican,” Mr. Frank B. psychosis. It is the fruit of the terror and
Sanborn takes occasion to comment on this
emotion which every man feels in battle. In
defamatory habit. “This malicious way of
“This malicious way of prolonged actions the rank and file and the
estimating good men,
" he says, “is a poor
fighting officers do not know what they do."
trait in human nature, coming largely from
Fearful indeed is the prospect of what will
vanity, to which many small vices may be
follow after the war is over, if this authority
ascribed. It so pleases the petty human soul
is to be credited. So demoralizing is war,
to feel itself superior to other human souls,
even to those who only read about it, in the
that it almost instinctively misjudges them, newspapers, that a wave of crime will sweep
especially by hearsay. Charles Lamb was
over the world after the tempest now raging
shall have subsided. “There will be a reac-
humorously satirizing the race of men when
he stammered out, “No, I d-don't know h-him, part of the disbanded reservists,” and other
tion against discipline and privation on the
but d-mn him at a venture.
some illustrations of this proneness to depre- things frightful to contemplate even as re-
ciate in sundry book-criticisms, and, among
mote possibilities. But, with all due respect
them, a certain reviewer's malicious assault
to Dr. Maltseff, specialists have been known
upon his (Mr. Sanborn's) pen-portrait of his
to exaggerate, as well as soldiers that have
old friend, the poet Ellery Channing, he pro- just left the battlefield.
ceeds: “It was an instance of that bitter
intolerance which is the intellectual sin of PEACE THROUGH SPELLING-REFORM is the
New England; illustrated in times past by theme of an earnest editorial in “The Pioneer
the federalist aspersions on Jefferson, by old of Simplified Speling.” Not to weaken in the
J. Q. Adams's fling at Emerson, and the elder least degree the force of the appeal, we quote
Professor Norton's sneer at Carlyle and “the a few sentences in the writer's own speling."
latest form of infidelity.' Urbanity is forgot He says of the reform: “We hav aulwaiz
ten in such exhibitions,- or rather is shown held that it woz a faktor which must be taiken
to have been omitted from that particular intu akount in eni thuroegoing pees propa-
critic's composition.” It is the young far ganda. Brij over the speech barier, sielens
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► hence-
er war
the diskordz ov Babel, bring the peeplz ov (1786-1825). He wrote and published about as
diferent nashonalitiz intu the intimait rela many works as did, say, Heine, distributed as fol-
shonship ov the spoeken wurd, and yu hav lows: one conventional drama; one musical-roman-
gon mor than a step or tuu on the paath of
tic drama; “Guido," a novel of 360 pages; about
yuniversal brutherhood.” But it is admit-
thirty-seven novelettes; four volumes of poems,
ted that the present clash of arms can hardly
some of which are excellent as to content, the
be silenced by a mere revision of the diction- great majority of which are superb as to form;
several thousand aphorisms; a good commentary
ary; the full effect of spelling-reform as a
to Madame de Staël's “De l'Allemagne”; about
universal peace-maker cannot be felt until
sixty reviews; and a long list of letters, many of
existing discords have been somewhat har-
which are direct contributions to literary criticism.
monized. “But when this wurld-madness In addition, he left a number of unpublished frag-
haz been eksorsiezd’; when aul the haitful ments, including the outline of a pretentious novel
noizez ov worfair ar murjd in that luvli of which Heinrich von Veldeke was to be the hero.
karesing wurd 'pees,' then wil kum the dai He translated from Ariosto, Dante, Guarini, Hor-
for such muuvments az ourz.
After four
ace, Ovid, Petrarch, and Virgil. Finally, he was
months and a half of nightmare, even those
an editor of repute. As a man he seems to have
left nothing to be desired. Professor Muncker
who are strongly anti-reform in their orthog.
says “ er war eine schöne Seele in des Wortes
raphy would doubtless be willing, in order to
schönster Bedeutung." He influenced Eichendorff
secure a lasting peace, to spell the word
and Platen, and many contend that his ballad on
“pees," or "peas," or even “pease,
the Lorelei was the immediate inspiration of Heine
forth and for ever.
in his composition on the same subject. Fouqué
called him
a poet by the Grace of God," while
BOOKS WITH WHICH TO BECOME SATURATED,
Goethe is credited with the remark that
in order to acquire a good English style in
der vorzüglichste Dichter jener Zeit.” Many of
writing, need not be many in number; in
the operas on the Lorelei are said to have owed
their origin to his saga in prose on the same
fact they may be surprisingly few, and prob- subject.
ably, if a style at once simple and clear and
And yet, the compendious “Konversations-
vigorous is desired, the fewer the better. One
Lexikon” of Meyer and Brockhaus is silent on
single book, the English Bible, as has often him, unless it be in the discussion of some of the
been remarked, will supply all that is neces numerous poets with whom he associated. Of the
sary in the above-named qualities, and many
twenty best known histories of German literature,
rhetorical graces besides. Lincoln knew his some of which treat the nineteenth century exclu-
Bible from cover to cover, and next to that
sively, only six contain his name, and these simply
mention him as the friend of some one else.
he had an enviable acquaintance with Shake-
We do not wish to have Graf von Loeben
speare; and what a master he was with the
revived: there are too many unread poets now.
pen and in spoken utterance! Dr. Talcott
His poems are, for example, good, but not so
Williams, addressing the Smith College stu-
good as those of Rückert, and no one has read all
dents recently, urged those who contemplated of Rückert. To study Loeben for his own sake
entering his profession (journalism) to study would be to set up false values. But since these
diligently and incessantly both the Bible and wordy manuals list so many little, petty writers
Shakespeare, until "saturated with their and poets, they might also include Graf von
thought and expression.” A good writer, he
Loeben. It is perhaps a case of group psychology
further pointed out, “must possess facility,
in letters, rather than a conspiracy of silence.
confidence, and a sense of style. He should
Loeben was not quite good enough to last after he
died. He has not been studied. It would be diffi-
realize that there is a best way to say every-
cult to write on him in an encyclopædia; it hasn't
thing, and should not stop till he has found
been done. But let some one do it once, and then
that way." To his excellent advice always to
every succeeding encyclopædia will have an article
begin an article with the not least important on this obscure but prolific poet, this influential
part of what one has to say, he might have
added the counsel to end it with something It is not easy to make a poorer investment than
equally attention-compelling to avoid the
is made in the buying of the average encyclopædia.
too-common practice of "tapering off.”
It contains, despite the oratory of the agent, huge
stores of information that never concern us, so
that these volumes simply clutter up our desks,
COMMUNICATION.
and as to the few subjects in which we are espe-
cially interested, the information is always and
THE “CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE."
without exception deficient in quantity, and many
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
times warped and unreasoned, handed-down and
Another irritating instance of the “conspiracy
saved-over as to quality.
of silence,” similar to the one described in THE DIAL
ALLEN WILSON PORTERFIELD.
of November 16, is the case of Graf von Loeben New York, December 6, 1914.
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The New Books.
flowers, appreciative of distant vistas, and
fondly reminiscent of the pastoral and oft-
times tragic early days. Witness the charm-
CALIFORNIA.*
ing chapter on “Old Spanish Gardens":
The near approach of the completion of the
"A Spanish garden is a very intimate affair. It
is the innermost undergarment of the family life.
Panama Canal, of the unique California-
Dona Ina's was walled away from the world by
Panama Exposition at San Diego, and of the
six feet of adobe, around the top of which still
Panama-Pacific Exposition (embodied accord-lingered the red tiles of Mission manufacture. It
ing to a most glorious color-scheme by M. was not spoken of as the garden at all, it was the
Guérin on the shore of the Golden Gate in patio, an integral part of the dwelling. There
San Francisco) turns the attention of our was, in fact, a raw-hide cot on the long gallery
travelling public from war-ridden Europe to
which gave access to it, and Dona Ina's drawn-
our own Riviera.
work chemises bleaching in the sun. The patio is
American publishers, au-
thors, and artists have anticipated the de-
a gift to us from Andalusia.”
One would hardly expect the exactness of a
mand for informing and helpful books on
California, and have produced a notable array
geographical work or the completeness of Bae-
of interesting and instructive works which set sunshine, but one can hardly forgive the omis-
deker in this poetical tribute to the land of
forth the Golden State in various aspects —
sion of Oakland, the third city of the state,
scenic, historical, political, and naturalistic.
It is noteworthy that two of California's fore-
from the map and of Palo Alto and Berkeley,
the intellectual capitals of the commonwealth,
most novelists, Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Ather-
from all reference in the text. And it is a
ton, have turned their pens to this field of
curiously critical and partial interpretation
descriptive exploration to meet the demands
of the exposition year. And well they might, San Francisco which the author ventures :
of the bracing and invigorating climate of
for the theme in any aspect is rich in interest
“ The very worst location in the world, this
and dramatic in setting.
windy promontory past which the grey tides
Foremost among these books in beauty of
race, but so long as a city can dramatise itself,
conception and execution is Mr. Sutton
one situation will do as well as another in
Palmer's and Mrs. Mary Austin's "Califor which to render itself immortal.” The “larg.
nia, the Land of the Sun." It is a sincere est of the true pines” (p. 152) is not Pinus
and studied effort to convey to the uninitiated monticola but rather the giant sugar pine
reader something of the charm of the land- Lambertiana, and the island of Santa Rosa
scape, the brilliant atmosphere, the smil-
the smil- (p. 12) faces Santa Barbara, not San Diego.
ing valleys, blooming mesas, waving fields, Mr. Sutton Palmer's part in the work consists
fruitful orchards, stately forests, and tower of thirty-two beautiful colored plates repro-
ing snow-clad mountain peaks of Califor duced from paintings representative of the
nia. The two collaborators use different choicest bits of California's landscape. In
mediums to convey their ideas but they speak selection of themes and in composition they
one language. Mrs. Austin's text carries the leave little to be desired, and as a whole they
reader northward from San Diego, through give an excellent impression of the wonderful
Los Angeles (with its “mothering moun variety and the striking contrasts of the scen-
tains ”') up the coast through Santa Barbara ery of California. But they are disappoint-
and its mission to Carmel and Monterey, withing in some particulars, possibly as a result
its beautiful cypresses, to the Bay Region, of losses in execution by the three-color proc-
and thence to the great twin interior valleys ess. Mount Tamalpais, for example, lacks any
and to the High Sierras and sage brush coun-
suggestion of the brilliancy it shows at its
try beyond. It is a book of the country rather best, and the Mill Valley plate quite fails to
than of the city, for it is redolent of wayside reveal the Marin Hills. The printer has evi-
dently overworked the red tones in most of
* CALIFORNIA, THE LAND OF THE SUN. Painted by Sutton
Palmer and described by Mary Austin.
the plates and reduced too much the colors of
With thirty-two col-
ored plates and a map. New York: The Macmillan Co. the other end of the spectrum.
WITH THE FLOWERS AND TREES IN CALIFORNIA. By Charles
Francis Saunders.
New York: McBride, Nast
A series of charming essays on the trees,
flowers, and fruits of California from the
SPANISH AND INDIAN PLACE NAMES OF CALIFORNIA: Their
Meaning and Their Romance. By Nellie Van de Grift San-
facile pen of an enthusiastic lover of the out-
chez. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson.
of-doors is to be found in Mr. Charles Francis
CALIFORNIA ROMANTIC AND RESOURCEFUL. A Plea for the
Collection, Preservation, and Diffusion of Information Relat Saunders's “With the Flowers and Trees in
ing to Pacific Coast History. By John F. Davis. Illustrated. California.' The Land of Sunshine" is so
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson.
CALIFORNIA: AN INTIMATE HISTORY. By Gertrude Atherton. full of novelties of the plant world, both of
With twenty-two half-tone plates. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
its own and of those adopted from even the
Illustrated.
& Co.


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remotest corners of the earth, which find a of the bronze tablet upon the oldest adobe
congenial home in its equable climate ren building in San Francisco to mark the birth-
dered even more acceptable by irrigation, place of Concha Arguello, the heroine of one
that the inquisitive lover of flowers from the of the most tragic love stories of the world.
East has many queries to make as soon as the For it was here that the radiant and bewitch-
gates of the mountains are passed. Spain, ing Conchita was wooed and won by the ad-
Japan, Australia, South Africa, and the isles venturous and resolute Nicolai Petrovich
of the sea have all contributed to the brilliant Resanoff, Russian chamberlain, explorer, and
array of bloom and foliage which adorns the advance agent of the Slavic civilization that
parks and roadways and buries the bungalows reached in 1806 southward from Alaska even
in billows of bloom. In this book one may to the Golden Gate. Bret Harte's poetic
find first-hand knowledge of the flowers, trees, “Concepcion de Arguello" is reproduced
and shrubbery of the deserts, the mesas, the with extended critical and historical annota-
forests, the gardens, and the varied orchards tions to complete the setting of this incident.
of this land where nature is lavish and the Had the fates vouchsafed a happy conclusion
hand of man ingenious to provoke her to instead of the tragic death of the lover in the
burst into bloom. The book is far from being heart of Siberia, on his way to secure at
a dry scientific catalogue, as Mr. Saunders has Madrid royal sanction for this international
managed to weave into its pages a great deal alliance, history might even now be writing a
of descriptive matter about native and intro different story of Slav expansion.
duced plants and historical lore concerning Robert Louis Stevenson characterized the
the early botanical explorers, Douglas, Cham United States as a 'songful, tuneful land and
isso, Menzies, Eschscholtz, and Nuttall. The if the new Homer shall arise from the western
human interest of plants plays a large part in Continent, his verse will be enriched, his
his treatment. He is interested to know what pages sing spontaneously, with the names of
plants came overland in the immigrant cara states and cities that would strike the fancy
vans, what herbs were used by the Indian, the in a business circular." California has her
sources of the fibres chosen by the basket full share and more of tuneful names, thanks
weaver, the fruits, flowers, and vegetables of to the period of Spanish settlement and to the
the old Mission gardens and ranch patios, and Indian nomenclature that still lingers in her
the characteristic flowers of the gardens of to valleys and mountains to add a touch of ro-
day. The accounts of the blooming of the mesa mance not wholly free from sadness. These
and of the botanical riches of the desert are names have survived in considerable number
charming bits of descriptive natural history. in spite of the misdirected efforts at abbre-
It is to be regretted that so little of the for viation and foreshortening on the part of
ests and of the mountain flora of the north-economically inclined postal officials. They
ern part of the state receives the notice it so tend to increase with the growth of settle-
well deserves in these pages. We note that ments, due to the zeal of real-estate boom-
the Washington palm is called, by oversight, ers who seek to capitalize the romantic past.
“pine” (plate facing p. 10), and that the Not all of the word-coinage of the “Spaniards
consonant-rich name of Eschscholtz, god- from Kansas” would pass the critical inspec-
father of the California poppy, is (p. 105) tion of one familiar with the mellifluent
robbed of one of its consonants. All lovers tongue of the padres: witness such crudities
of nature who seek refreshment out-of-doors as Rio Vista for the longer but infinitely more
in California will find Mr. Saunders's book a pleasing Vista del Rio. Madame Nellie Van
delightful companion and a never failing re de Grift Sanchez has rendered a real service
minder of California's greatest charms. to all those, and they are many, to whom the
A plea for the immediate conservation of Spanish tongue is a closed book, by compiling
the sources of Pacific coast history in the form a list of “ Spanish and Indian Place Names
of original materials not yet in the safe keep- of California” and annotating the citations
ing of historical archives is the occasion of with a running comment of gossipy informa-
Mr. John F. Davis's “California Romantic tion as to their meaning and origin. Much of
and Resourceful.” This brochure contains in local Spanish and Indian history and tradi-
revised and expanded form his Admission tion is woven into these seemingly disjointed
Day address descriptive of the past of Cali- notes.
notes. The arrangement is geographical, thus
fornia, “which possesses a wealth of romantic facilitating use by the tourist en route, gen-
interest, a variety of contrast, a novelty of erally, from San Diego northward, more or
resourcefulness and an intrinsic importance less along the line of the old Mission Camino
which enthralls the imagination. There is
Real. An alphabetical list in which are gath-
added the address on the occasion of placing | ered all scattered place names of interest


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.
completes the work, which will be of perma It is a story of men and an analysis of their
nent value to travellers as well as a reference motives rather than an account of the great
work in libraries and schools. A series of cuts movements in national and international
from some early source, unfortunately not affairs which have found expression in the
named, portrays the Spanish Missions; other life of the state. It is perhaps for this rea-
illustrations are from recent photographs. The son and because of her preference for the dra-
“Univ. of Cal. Publ. of Arch, and Tec.” (34) matic that her only attempt to portray the
is a lapsus pennæ for Univ. Calif. Publ. Am. intellectual, educational, literary, and artistic
Arch, and Ethn. That the Indians ever did | life of the state is to be found in an all too
much "fishing in teeming streams” (p. 26) brief catalogue of intellectual worthies of
in Southern California where the rivers run California in a fine print appendix. In like
“upside down” is very doubtful. The chem manner the industrial and commercial his-
ical metaphor in the phrase (p. 6) “when put tory, rich as it is with its relations to the
to the acid test of such investigation, melt fur-trade, the fisheries, the Orient, Hawaii,
into thin air” is somewhat mixed. But these | Alaska, and the South seas, to the mines, irri-
are minor defects in a very useful, attractive, gation, fruit culture, and hydro-electric devel-
and well-written book.
opment, is left by our author for another
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's California: An hand.
CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID.
Intimate History" reveals an historian gifted
with a keen sense of the dramatic, a pene NEW MEMOIRS OF CHARLES STEWART
trating power of analyzing the springs of
PARNELL.*
human action, and a virile forcefulness and
In the memorable month of July, 1914, the
freedom of expression. These are qualities
movement for the repeal of the Act of Union
which make history at least attractive, how-
between England and Ireland, which O'Con-
ever much they may bias the historian's selec-
nell organized more nan seventy years ago,
tion and treatment of material. California's
saw at least a partial triumph. The new
past abounds in dramatic incidents from the machinery of government provided by the
days of the zealous padres of the Spanish Home Rule Act has not yet been set in motion;
Missions to the now projected graft trials. It but the law is on the statute books and the
scintillates with picturesque characters from enemies of home rule will probably not be able
the zealous Father Junipero Serra, the dash to repeal the act or modify it in any important
ing Rezanoff, the indomitable Coleman, the respect. The Asquith measure is not, per-
ill-fated Broderick, the rampant Kearny, to haps, what O'Connell and his followers had
the forceful Heney. The author has utilized hoped for: it does not give independence to
these abundant materials, so full of human the Irish people; but while Ireland continues
interest, to weave a dramatic story of striking to be a part of the Empire and the Kingdom,
incidents which portray the fitful and chang- the new law gives the island its own legislature
ing life of a great state, which more than any with a large measure of authority over Irish
other in the Union embodies in its history the affairs. The ideas that were enacted into law
fateful tragedies of the frontier. Her history in the third home rule bill were not those of
is a personal and political one, cast in dra O'Connell; they were developed by one who
matic mould and illumined by word pictures in leadership and statesmanship was far
from the trained hand of the novelist:
greater than the “Liberator” from Kerry,
“ That long chain of snow-white red-tiled mis-
Charles Stewart Parnell.
sions, hedged with Castilian roses, surrounded The long debates on this proposition both
with olive-orchards, whose leaves were silver in the within and without parliament naturally
sun, orange groves heavy with golden fruit, the
turned popular attention to the history of the
vast sweep of shimmering grain-fields broken by
man who first made the Irish question a
stately oaks, winding rivers set close with the tall
serious issue in British politics. Two memoirs
pale cottonwoods, lakes with the long branches of
willows trailing over the surface, bounded by for-
of this remarkable man have recently come
est and mountain and sea, and not a city to break from the press: one by his brother, Mr. John
the harmony, must have been the fairest sight in Howard Parnell, and another by Mrs. Katha-
the modern world."
rine O'Shea, whom Parnell married in the last
“Father Fr. Junipero Serra may have failed to year of his life, but with whom he had stood
reap the great harvest of Indian souls he had bap-
on a footing of close intimacy for ten years
tized with such gratitude and exultation, and that
consoled him for all his afflictions, but he lifted
A Memoir. By his brother,
John Howard Parnell. With photogravure frontispiece. New
California from the unread pages of geological York: Henry Holt & Co.
history and placed it on the modern map. I won-
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL: His Love Story and Political
Life. By Katharine O'Shea (Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell).
der what he thinks of it."
In two volumes. Illustrated. New York: George H. Doran Co.
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before. These works are in no sense of the congenial: the wife was unconventional in
word biographies; Mr. John Howard Parnell her attitude toward the world and the hus-
appears to have made no researches except in band was a failure in almost everything that
his own memory; and Katharine O'Shea he undertook. After an experience as a
(such is the name given on the title page), breeder of fast horses which brought him far
though she publishes a large number of let on the road toward bankruptcy, the young
ters, has apparently used no documents except captain found himself with nothing to do and
such as she has found in her own possession with no adequate source of income:
The student who turns to these letters in the “ Willie was now longing for some definite occupa-
hope of getting new light on Parnell's politi- tion, and he knew many political people. While
cal life will be disappointed: the letters are he was on a visit to Ireland early in 1880 he was
interesting but not very informing; they are constantly urged by his friends, the O'Donnells and
brief, often very brief, and fervid notes from others, to try for a seat in the next parliament. ..."
a man to a woman who ruled his affections, Mr. O'Shea feared that his want of money
and as a rule do not deal with public affairs would make it impossible for him to be a can-
except in a very vague manner. The follow-didate, but his wife urged “him to stand, for
ing, dated at Dublin, September 25, 1881, is I knew it would give him occupation he liked
almost typical of the collection:
and keep us apart — and therefore good
“My own Loveliest,- I send you these few words
friends. Captain O'Shea was elected, and
to assure Wifie that her husband always thinks of to promote his political fortunes his wife be-
her and hopes that she is well and happy.
gan to cultivate the friendship of Charles
Your Own King." Stewart Parnell, the unquestioned leader of
It is difficult to understand in what way the the Irish forces. This was in 1880, and from
publication of such letters will serve the cause that time Parnell was a frequent visitor at the
of English or Irish history.
home of the O'Sheas.
It is true, however, that the letters written Mrs. O'Shea seems to have been more than
during certain important periods of Parnell's a friend or a mere mistress: she claims to
career have a somewhat greater interest for have become Parnell's political secretary and
the student of history. Such are the letters an accepted intermediary between him and
written from Kilmainham jail in 1881 and the government. This may have been of some
1882, of which the first one contains this sig- advantage to her "king," but the relationship
nificant statement:
also had its embarrassments; at one time when
“Politically it is a fortunate thing for me that I Captain O'Shea was in danger of failing to
have been arrested, as the movement is breaking
secure a seat in parliament, Parnell found it
fast, and all will be quiet in a few months, when I
necessary almost to compel a reluctant con-
shall be released."
The letters included in the chapter on the stituency to give him a seat.
Though the student of history will find but
“Kilmainham treaty” between the Irish lead-
little in these volumes that he cannot obtain
ers and the Gladstone government are also of
considerable importance. It is in connection elsewhere, he will, if he is interested in prob-
with this treaty that Mrs. O'Shea first ap-
lems of personal and political ethics, find
much of interest in them. There is first of all
pears as a factor in Irish politics.
As memoirs written by persons who knew
the author's relationship to Parnell:
the “inscrutable” Parnell as he was in pri- laws, not regarding them as binding him in any
“And because Parnell contravened certain social
vate life, these volumes will have some value
way, and because I joined him in this contraven-
for future biographers. The importance of
tion since his love made all else of no account to
Mr. John Howard Parnell's "Memoir” lies
me, we did not shrink at the clamour of the up-
chiefly in the earlier chapters which deal with holders of those outraged laws, nor resent the
the life of his eminent brother before he en pressing of the consequences that were inevitable
tered a public career; to our knowledge of and always foreseen."
Parnell's political character the author adds She wishes us to believe that the relationship
almost nothing. Mrs. O'Shea professes to tell was an honorable one; and yet the narrative
Parnell's “love story and political life”; but shows clearly that for a decade she was com-
her book is for the most part a biography of pelled to lead a life of constant deception.
herself. Mrs. O'Shea was the daughter of an And when Parnell's child was born, in 1882,
English clergyman, and we gather from her Captain O'Shea believed that the child was
narrative that she was a capable, clever, and his and hoped that its birth might bring about
attractive woman. In 1867 she married Cap a complete reconciliation. The narrative leads
tain William O'Shea, a young Irish aristocrat. one to feel that neither Katharine O'Shea's
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ship to her lover was particularly sacred. It
MR. G. LOWES DICKINSON ON
would seem that her version of Parnell's “love
EAST AND WEST. *
story” adds, if possible, to the guilt that the
world has imputed to him since it was made
The most serious danger in a trip around
public in 1890.
the world is neither shipwreck, nor disease,
Mr. John Howard Parnell barely mentions but the temptation to write a book. Even
Mrs. O'Shea and has very little to say about fasting and prayer seem of little avail against
this part of his brother's life. Without at-
this particular onslaught of the Enemy of
tempting to defend his brother, he states the
Man. During the months of travel any un-
belief of the family that Captain O'Shea was
spoiled wayfarer, with ordinary intelligence
“ a false friend of Charley's, and simply waiting self so delightfully refreshed, so intensely
and reasonable mental equipment, finds him-
his time to strike a fatal blow. ... As far as our
family was concerned, we were unanimous in re-
interested, so stimulated to fertile reflection,
garding the institution of proceedings at this time
that it seems almost a sin not to write a book
as being due to a political plot, having for its and thus share with the world the benefit of
object the ruin of Charley."
his impressions and experiences. But sober
If it was a plot, the plot succeeded, for the thought should recall that the seaways of
ruin was complete, as Mrs. O'Shea found to literature are dotted with boresome unread
her great chagrin a few weeks later.
volumes, which ought to warn us of this peril
The most startling part of Mrs. O'Shea's
of the deep. Naturally, our experienced
book is the charge that the Liberal chiefs and essayist has not escaped such thoughts, nor
especially Gladstone, who threw Parnell over does he present his little book without mis-
board after the court had acted in the divorce givings: “In reprinting them [articles from
suit, had known about Parnell's love for Mrs.
the “Manchester Guardian" and the “En-
O'Shea and had even accepted his mistress as
glish Review?'] I have chosen a title which
a sort of confidential agent in dealing with the may serve also as an apology. What I offer
Irish party :
is not Reality, but appearances to me.” How-
“For ten years Gladstone had known of the rela-
ever, the solicitations of friends and editors,
tions between Parnell and myself, and had taken
with the seductive opportunity of contrasting
full advantage of the facility this intimacy offered East and West, proved too strong for our
him in keeping in touch with the Irish leader. For literary wayfarer, who had been enjoying a
ten years. But that was a private knowledge. Kahn fellowship, and he succumbed. On the
Now it was a public knowledge, and an English whole, we must be glad he did, although we
statesman must always appear on the side of the
do not feel that his present offering is quite
angels. So Mr. Gladstone found his religion could
at last be useful to his country."
as valuable as some of its predecessors so
Whether Gladstone erred in ignoring the warmly reviewed in these columns.
facts of Parnell's immorality in private life,
Of course Mr. Dickinson could not perpe-
and whether his actions after the facts were
trate a book of the ordinary "travel and place
revealed will justify Mrs. O'Shea's charges of type," and does not fill his pages with hack-
inconsistency and hypocrisy, are problems that neyed descriptions of familiar scenes. Udai-
the reviewer does not feel called upon to solve pur and Agra, for instance, are not even men-
or even to discuss. If Gladstone were living tioned, while Niagara serves merely as an
he would no doubt be able to explain and de-
occasion for recording a delightful, if imagi-
fend his conduct; but he is no longer able to nary, conversation. But even our veteran
reply. It is the reviewer's opinion, however, littérateur does not quite escape the curse of
that Gladstone's place in English history is the globe-trotter, for he wastes one chapter
fairly secure, and that Mrs. O'Shea's charges on the mongrel Malay theatre at Penang and
will not lead to any appreciable change in the
another on a commonplace treatment of
world's estimate of his private and public Peking. We could almost wish that the writer
character.
of “Letters of a Chinese Official” had never
LAURENCE M. LARSON.
seen China, although there is good reading in
“A Sacred Mountain" and "In the Yangtse
Sir Richard Burton's poem, “The Kasidah of Gorges.”
Hâjî Abdû-el-Yezdi,” is to be brought out in a new
edition with an Introduction by Mr. Roger Ingpen.
When he reaches Japan, he is captivated
Hâjî Abdâ-el-Yezdi was one of Burton's pseudo-
at once, as all of us are captivated; but Nippon
nyms and was used when the poem was first
has been described and anatomized and eulo-
printed more than thirty years ago. It was re-
gized and berated so often during the last
printed in Lady Burton's Life of her husband and two decades that it is almost impossible to
afterward twice reprinted for subscribers. This is
By G. Lowes Dickinson. New York:
the first authorized edition for the general public. Doubleday, Page & Co.
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see.
attain a new point of view or offer your read- is no need to smear the rim of the bitter
ers any fresh pabulum. However, the papers medicinal cup with the honey of compliment.
on“First Impressions of Japan” and “Fuji” And yet, Mr. Dickinson has missed America.
are genuinely enjoyable. When he turns to His graceful and forceful comments are wel-
write of “Japan and America'' he finds most come and helpful; but he himself has not yet
of us prepared to share his feeling that discovered us. We are seen at our truest in
"patience and sympathy" are sadly lacking our educational striving, for all its un-
among the Californians, and to concede, even bounded failure; and if our Cambridge
to enlarge upon, the many good qualities of economist had spent a large part of his time
the Japanese. But why should he insist that in studying our schools and colleges, he would
the “morals” of that attractive people are still have had countless strictures to pass, but
probably higher than those of Europe and he would have come much nearer understand-
America ? Surely he must give "morals" a ing our dream and our efforts than by wan-
new and elaborate definition, if he is to carry dering about like a thousand other intelligent
his point.
visitors among the things that any eyes can
But obviously we may not wander in this
spirit of enjoyment or criticism through the And whatever else anybody may discover
whole volume, so we hasten to say that its in our variegated United States we should
real value for us must be sought in the chap like to know where Mr. Dickinson made sure
ters on America and in the author's reflec- that the predominant physical type is — “the
tions on the differences between East and great jaw and chin, the huge teeth and preda-
West.
tory mouth."
We may sacrifice beauty and
Now his general attitude toward our land distinction to force in our speech as in our
is kindly. In a spirit of unnecessary but gen-
politics; we may be capable of living and
tlemanly apology he expresses regret for a acting only in masses ;
we may have abso-
tone of exasperation in his comments on us; lutely no culture, although we honestly be-
but his irritation and his expression thereof lieve we have seen gleams thereof; it may be
are mild and ladylike and courtly compared fair to accuse us of everything from super-
with the violent wrath and indignant stric- ficiality to money-grubbing; but we must pro-
tures of many of our homeborn critics. Mr. test against that great jaw and chin, those
Dickinson believes that the vision of America huge teeth, and that predatory mouth, as a
is the vision of the lighting up of the millions, basis of our national physiognomy. Surely
and that herein lies America's great contribu- the misfortune of individuals must not be
tion to civilization; but it is not what he translated into a racial calamity. Moreover,
comes across in his experience. And there is it is to be hoped that this sentence of con-
the point. It is so easy for a visitor to see demnation he passes will not come into the
our perfectly obvious failures; it is so impos- hands of any well-trained anthropologists, for
sible to perceive what we are really doing. they would justly flay him alive on purely
We do make a hopeless muddle of many
scientific grounds.
things, to our own constant and bitter grief; Of the general contrast he draws between
but we do dream and we do try. We are too East and West, we may give only this inade-
keen about money; but money is no more quate summary. There is a West, in a real
powerful in America than in England, or sense, with a unity of its own; but it must be
Germany, assert it who will; and it is absurd limited in time to the last two centuries and
to say that “no American youth of ambition in space to the countries of Western Europe
leaves college with any less or greater purpose and the continent of America. He is not
in his heart than that of emulating Mr. Car quite so sure that there is an East; for Japan
negie or Mr. Rockefeller." Our poor col and China are distinctly different from India.
leges and universities are open to no end of And in fact he ultimately takes only the last
perfectly just criticism; but they are the best named country as the opposite of his West.
antidotes the country has to the Carnegie- In his East, thus circumscribed, the great
Rockefeller ideal of success. Again, we agree feature is the “religion of Eternity," which
with our author that comment on most of our proposes as its end, not the living of temporal
Sunday newspapers is quite superfluous; but life in a particular spirit, but the transcend-
it would have been only fair to add that, ing of it by a special experience and the com-
despite all its palpable faults, the American ing into union with the Infinite. “Life is an
press has often been the agent of tremendous evil; and the escape is either, for the masses,
good. However, it is well to have the tonic by death, or, for the men of spiritual genius,
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answer.
..
And now we may quote the confession of
BALZAC AND FLAUBERT.*
faith he has put on the lips of the West:
M. Emile Faguet is no less vigorous, direct,
“I believe in the ultimate distinction between
Good and Evil, and in a real process in a real
and unsparing as a critic of the French novel
Time. I believe it to be my duty to increase Good
than as a critic of the French democracy,
and diminish Evil; I believe that in doing this I though readers of “The Cult of Incompe-
am serving the purpose of the world. I know this;
tence" and "The Dread of Responsibility”
I do not know anything else; and I am reluctant
will not find it hard to believe that he is
to put questions to which I have no answer, and somewhat more patient with the former; for,
to which I do not believe that anyone has an while he writes in both fields as the believer
Action, as defined above, is my creed. in aristocracy and the enemy of demagoguery,
Speculation weakens action. I do not wish to
the temptation to laughter and scorn is less
speculate, I wish to live. And I believe the true
likely to interfere with judicial sobriety when
life to be the life I have described."
he is dealing with literary art than when he
Naturally, however, he realizes that many
Western men have a place for the Eternal and "An admirable literary workman, upright,
the Infinite, and he is willing to modify his
conscientious, scrupulous, and arduous," he
antithesis slightly by wording it: In India, says of Balzac, in the critical study now trans-
the emphasis is on the Eternal; in the West,lated for the English and American public.
on Time.
“He is of those who have deserved, even on
For himself he is quite clearly and definitely moral grounds, both worldly success and last-
on the side of the latter:
ing fame." In the clear thinking and or-
I have said in the preceding pages hard things derly method which distinguish his work,
about Western civilization. I hate many of its M. Faguet brings into strong relief Balzac's
manifestations, I am out of sympathy with many attractive qualities both as a person and a
of its purposes. I can see no point, for instance, novelist - his vigor and
novelist - his vigor and good-nature, his
in the discovery of the north or the south pole, frankness, his generosity, his genius for the
and very little in the invention of aeroplanes; creation of lifelike and powerful characters.
while gramophones, machine guns, advertisements,
cinematographs, submarines, dreadnoughts, cos-
But he makes to stand out in still stronger
mopolitan hotels, seem to me merely fatuous or
relief the great novelist's limitations — his
sheerly disastrous. But what lies behind all this, lack of either personal or moral distinction, to
the tenacity, the courage, the spirit of adventure, say nothing of delicacy, his profound egotism,
this it is that is the great contribution of the West. the slightness of his intellectual culture, his
It is not the aeroplane that is valuable; probably want of familiarity with all except one section
it will never be anything but pernicious, for its
of the great social world he was ambitious to
main use is likely to be for war. But the fact that
men so lightly risk their lives to perfect it, that portray in its entirety in the grandiosely con-
is valuable. The West is adventurous; and, what
ceived “Comédie Humaine," the frequent
is more, it is adventurous on a quest. For behind
and garrulous interpolation of his own loose
and beyond all its fatuities, confusions, crimes, thinking in the business of the narrative, the
lies, as the justification of it all, that deep deter- mixing of base romanticism and brutal real-
mination to secure a society more just and more ism, the coarseness of his nature and his taste,
humane, which inspires all men and all movements the unreliability of his genius:
that are worth considering at all, and to those who
can understand, gives greatness and significance
“He had not genius all the time. . . . A whole
even to some of our most reckless enterprises. We
literature grew up out of Balzac's cesspools. ...
He is responsible for all the easy-going and
are living very dangerously'; all the forces are
loose, those of destruction as well as those of crea-
damnable audacity of all the novel-writers who
tion; but we are living towards something; we
pretend to believe that realism lies in the study of
sinister shameful abnormality. ... Ready-
are living with the religion of Time.”
made romanticism, coarse realism are the two
After the criticisms we have been bold
things which spoil Balzac's work, the former very
enough to pass on this delightful little vol much and the latter a little. What spoils nearly
ume, it is a pleasure to close with such a char the whole of it is the vulgarity that was inherent
acteristically thoughtful passage. Occasions in the man's nature and crept into nearly every-
ally the book must move a serious reader to thing he did."
almost impatient repudiation; much more M. Faguet's explanation of Balzac's suc-
often it will evoke his sympathy and ap cess is a long way from being unreservedly
proval; and always it will command his complimentary either to the novelist or to his
respect for its sanity and seriousness of atti-
By Emile Faguet. Translated from the French
tude, his admiration for its lucidity and by Wilfrid Thorley. With photogravure portrait. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co.
gracefulness of style.
FLAUBERT. By Emile Faguet. Translated from the French
F. B. R. HELLEMS.
by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. With photogravure portrait.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
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readers. It was his very faults that made “This law is sufficiently verified by the history
him popular:
of French literature. A period of romantic litera-
“But, if it be true that writers win success
ture has always been followed by a period of real-
through their faults, they win it through them
istic literature; a time when we demanded of Art
only on condition that they accompany great
a lively picture of the truth has always come after
qualities. . . Qualities impose on readers, and
a period when we enjoyed the magic of the
imagination."
failings hold them; qualities make people admire
the writer, and failings make them love him;
But whether indulging his romantic or his
qualities inspire veneration, and defects establish realistic bent, Flaubert was always consistent,
and maintain intimacy. Now Balzac, perhaps and always supremely the artist. His por-
more than any of those whom I have just men trait-painting was superior to Balzac's, his
tioned, had just the genius necessary to impose landscapes of an absolute reality, his alle-
itself, in good earnest, on connoisseurs, rather giance was always to the truth, his language
vaguely upon the general reader; while he has
was calculated to the utmost degree; he could
just enough faults to make himself beloved by the
not bring himself to tolerate in a sentence
mob: and that is how glory is founded.”
“any break in the rhythm, any dull sounds or
The final chapters of the volume, on
any beating of the words against each other';
“Taste," “Style," and "Balzac after His he was the master of the artistic style.
Death," deal more than the others with uni Flaubert's defects, however, are not al-
versals in literary criticism, and are especially lowed to escape our attention, though their
attractive for that reason. It is unfortunate critic is less outraged by them than by those
that the translation as a whole is far from of Balzac. Flaubert was not a great thinker,
reproducing the sprightliness, elegance, and and not a critic. He disliked authors and
originality that make the work of M. Faguet men whose chief merit lay in ideas, and the
so pleasing. The volume on Flaubert is bet one literary principle that found permanent
ter in this respect.
lodgment in his mind was
If M. Faguet is inclined to be harsh with " that literature ought to be impersonal,' that is
Balzac and partial to Flaubert, whom he to say, that an author should never appear in his
ranks very little below Balzac as a creative work; never confide his feelings, his ideas, his
genius and incomparably higher as an artist
convictions; never speak as man to man; never,
and writer, it is because for him the ideal
even indirectly, allow his ideas or the state of his
mind to be understood or suspected through his
novelist must not mingle with the great quali writing.”
ties that inspire veneration the defects that
He was a misanthrope- though he thought
establish and maintain intimacy:
men fools rather than rascals. He was exas-
“ Flaubert filtered Balzac. A romantic to his perated by human stupidity. His characters
finger-tips, more so even than Balzac, and like him do not make for themselves the place in the
devoured by the demon of observation, his own memory that Balzac's hold. This is because he
being more patient, more obstinate, and more
is a true realist, however, and sees only the
minute than Balzac's, he made up his mind (be truth, which is average humanity. He does
cause he was the most conscious' and the most
not know the great scoundrels and perverse
deliberate artist in the world) to satisfy both his
passion as a romantic and his passion as a realist, monsters of Balzac. His tone is almost al-
but never to pour both these elements into the ways satirical, though he is kept by the sense
same novel. It was quite a discovery at the time of truth and the taste for truth from the
that he wrote, for it meant the remembering of a satire that is mean:
aw of literary art which had been for long for “That suffices to make us grateful to him not only
gotten or ill understood. It meant remembering
as a great painter and a great writer, but also as
that the reader, unconsciously, though as impe-
one of those morose and bitter moralists, just nev-
riously as possible, at all times requires of a work, ertheless, who are something like the harsh con-
I do not say unity of tone, for that means science of humanity.”
monotony, but unity as regards the general impres-
M. Faguet's most serious criticism of Flau-
sion, and that the mixing up of romantic art for
bert is found at the end of the chapter on
instance with realistic art bewilders him, discon-
“La Tentation de Saint-Antoine":
certs him, and shocks him just as much as would
an anachronism or the mixing up of different “And above all, it bears witness to a prodigious
epochs."
effort of which the traces have not yet been wiped
Flaubert was thus alternately romanticist
away and which gives us a sensation of deadly
fatigue. Flaubert almost always produces that
and realist, and his novels followed, as re-
effect. Never has he known gay, abundant, happy
gards the time of their composition, the law creation, playing with its easy flow and smiling at
of action and reaction, the only "law” of
it.”
literary history in which M. Faguet has any
He is thinking here not only of Flaubert's
faith:
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strength. This is a familiar situation : con Mr. Bennett has travelled before, and writ-
fronted on the one hand with genius that ten the log of the journeys for the profit and
bursts all barriers and overwhelms the formal amusement of less gifted observers. He has
rules of art, and on the other with artistic sketched vivid glimpses of Paris nights. He
perfection of form which covers a more or has crossed to America and recorded infalli-
less uninspired content, the critic feels him- bly entertaining and often highly iliumi-
self claimed by rival allegiances. Shall it be nating impressions of life on our Eastern
nature or art? If he could only have both at frontiers. His pastels of London pulse with
the same time! It is little consolation to the grim splendor of the world's greatest
know that the trouble is as old as Horace, and capital. “From the Log of the Velsa" is as
as old as art:
jaunty as “Your United States” and less
“ Natura fieret laudabile carmen an arte,
self-conscious; and, if the strongly dramatic
Quaesitum est. Ego nec studium sine divite vena, quality of the Paris and London sketches is
Nec rude quid possit video ingenium: alterius sic generally lacking, there is instead a delight-
Altera poscit opem res et coniurat amice.” ful rambling informality, a rich variety of
M. Faguet does not say whether he makes a experience, and a fine zest for those "pleas-
choice, but it is clear enough that he is very ant average sights” that, for most of the
much repelled by the faults of Balzac, and world, exemplify the adventure of living. It
very much attracted by the virtues of Flau was a "pleasant average" person who, awed
bert. Here of course comes to mind what we by the artistry of “The Old Wives' Tale,"
have so often been told about French love of exclaimed: “That man could make a sneeze
logic and of form, French obedience to estab- interesting!"
lished rules of art, and French horror of It is the plain people experimenting in
irregularity. England's greatest poet is to the essentially romantic adventure of every.
the Frenchman “an irregular genius, now and day living in all the dull little Dutch and
then tasteful and touching, but generally in- Danish ports,— ports stagnant, tedious, pro-
correct. “On the continent,” again says | vincial, but wistful with the desire for such
Coleridge, “the works of Shakespeare are distraction as the “Velsa's" visits pro-
honored in a double way — by the admiration vided,- the plain people and the "pleasant
of the Germans, and by the contempt of the average sights” that Mr. Bennett went jour-
French.” Is Balzac to meet with the same neying to see.
fortune – or will German admiration for
“We passed through Rotterdam more than once,
both Balzac and Shakespeare be melted down without seeing more of it than the amazing traffic
along with British and French medals ? of its river and its admirable zoological gardens
GRANT SHOWERMAN. full of chromatically inclined parrots; but we
stopped at a minor town close by, on a canal off
CRUISING WITH MR. ARNOLD BENNETT.*
the Meuse, Schiedam. Instinct must have guided
me, for the sociological interest of Schiedam was
In the days before the war, when the ports
not inconsiderable."
of Holland, Denmark, France, and Eastern The visit to Schiedam, - called by the
England offered happy hunting-ground to down-right Dutch “stinking Schiedam,”'-
the wander-loving, holiday-minded wayfarer, took place on a Wednesday evening, the night
Mr. Arnold Bennett, author, and Mr. E. A. of the weekly municipal concert. The tram
Rickards, artist, fared forth together in the which conveyed the traveller to the centre of
good ship“Velsa." The “Velsa” was a activity,
yacht, “smart” but “not conventional," to “ rumbled and trundled in long curves of subur-
quote her proud owner, author of the good ban desolation. Then a few miserable shops that
ship’s log. For she resembled a very pictur- ought to have been shut; then the square, now
esque Dutch fishing-smack; she carried a jammed in every part with a roaring, barbaric
piano, an encyclopædia, and wonderful beds, horde. In the distance, over a floor of heads, was
but had no promenade deck; she could slide
an island of illumination, with the figures of
over shallows, live in any sea, but manifested puffing and blowing musicians in it; but no rumor
a "fierce gaiety" before the wind that might white tram-horse trotted mildly into and right
of music could reach us through the din. The
have disconcerted a less intrepid owner. through the multitude, which jeered angrily, but
With a Dutch skipper, who had never lived fell back. An enormous multitude, Gothic, Visi-
regularly in a house and whose one desire in gothic, savage, uncivilized, chiefly consisting of
life was to go somewhere else, the “Velsa" young men and big boys — the weekly concert of
started on her happy-go-lucky cruise.
humanizing music!
“I left the tram and walked along the dark,
* FROM THE LOG OF THE VELSA. By Arnold Bennett. Illus-
empty canal-side to the yacht. The impression of
trated in color, etc., by the author and by E. A. Rickards.
New York: The Century Co.
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ing. Nevertheless, here, as in other towns, we the glitter" of city-life is at its best in the cafés
were struck by the number of shop-windows with and restaurants, Mr. Bennett is a connois-
artist's materials for sale. Such was Schiedam.
seur of cafés. He finds those of Amsterdam
If it is asked whether I went to Holland on a
"prodigious” and satisfying. Copenhagen
yachting cruise to see this sort of thing, the answer
from the harbor he describes as "a bou-
is that I just did.”
quet of copper domes," and he admires it as
Sometimes it rained inopportunely, and
a proud city ... where exposed copper
sometimes the motor broke down. This hap- turns to a beautiful green instead of to black,
pened once in Friesland, where the road is
as in London," and as a city of beautiful
water, and all the world is on the road"; and
women. At Boulogne, where the “Velsa."
the “Velsa's” owner, cook, and deck-hand got
was imprisoned by a gale, Mr. Bennett bought
out to tow, unhappily being obliged to leave eels, ate them with ecstasy," and made
the skipper, who alone knew how to tow, on
friends with the herring fishers. He dined in
board.
Bruges, after an absence of twenty years, and
“The cook, neurasthenic by temperament, grew after dinner, "almost saturated with the ex-
sad, until he fell into three feet of inundation, quisite melancholy of the Grande Place, we
which adventure struck him as profoundly humor-
were too enchanted to move.
ous, so that he was contorted with laughter. This
did not advance the yacht. Slowly we learned that
As the log of the “Velsa” was written
towing is not mere brute striving, but an art."
down some time before Europe went to war,
At Hoorn, Mr. Bennett records that he
Mr. Bennett can of course have had no inten-
"went mad and did eight sketches in one day.”
tion of producing a peace document. But as
It should be noted that, while Mr. Rickards
one reads of these leisurely, happy cruises
is official illustrator of the “Velsa's” prog-
through seas now grimly guarded and tragic
ress, contributing many charming sketches of
with war-horrors, to ports now scarred with
the “pleasant average sights” and amusing ramparts or stained with blood and ruin, one
human phenomena observed by Mr. Bennett,
is filled with indignation and regret. No
the latter gentleman, had he so chosen, might
cruise for the “Velsa” this autumn; no such
have been his own artist. For he belongs to perfect holiday-making as her ship's com-
that amazing group of all-around geniuses, pany have hitherto enjoyed, for years to come.
along with Mr. Chesterton,
poet-novelist-
The pity of it is but a minor note in the great
cartoonist, and Mr. Shaw, musician-pam- have found our ideal holidays across the sea,
chorus of war-misery; but to some of us, who
phleteer-dramatist, who practise all the arts,
though they excel in one direction. Besides
the spoiling of the “pleasant average sights”
furnishing Mr. Rickards with congenial com-
there brings poignant sadness.
panionship while he worked, Mr. Bennett
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON.
actually contributes a frontispiece painting of
Aarhus for the “Velsa's” log-book.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
The impetus to the mad sketching bout at
II.
Hoorn was furnished by the cheese industry.
“At Hoorn I saw three men in blue blouses
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
throwing down spherical cheeses in pairs from the
If you wish to “see America first,” and that,
second story of a brown and yellow and green
too, without leaving your own comfortable arm-
ware-house into a yellow cart. One man was in
chair and cheerful fireside, read “Abroad at Home”
the second story, one in the first, and one in the (Century Co.), being “the American ramblings,
cart. They were flinging cheeses from hand to observations, and adventures of Julian · Street,
hand when we arrived and when we left, and they
with pictorial sidelights by Wallace Morgan."
never dropped a cheese or ceased to fling. They Brisk and snappy in its style, the book shows keen
flung into the mysterious night, when the great
powers of observation in its author and an envia-
forms of little cargo-steamers floated soundless
ble command of the American language (which,
over romance to moor at the dark quays, and the of course, is the English language at its best, in
long, white English steam-yacht ... with its certain respects). Mr. Street's frequent invoca-
myriad lights and gleams, glided to a berth by the
tion of apt alliteration's artful aid appears con-
water-tower, and hung there like a cloud beyond spicuously in the table of contents, where headings
the town, keeping me awake half the night while
like “ Bifurcated Buffalo," “ Cleveland Character-
I proved to myself that I did not really envy its istics,” “ Detroit the Dynamic," “Automobiles and
owner."
Art," Somnolent St. Louis," and "Pike and
In spite of his fondness for dull little Poker,”. meet the eye in abundance. His sight-
seeing journey began at New York and ended at
towns, Mr. Bennett also loves great cities -
San Francisco, and its interest for him lay rather
not for their museums or historic monuments
in the haunts and habits of men than in the unsub-
but for their quality of pulsing, noisy, throng- dued wilds of nature. His artist-companion has
ing life. And because the din, the elbowing, / ably seconded his endeavors to produce an attrac-


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No. 684.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
OUR HOSTILITY TO ART
491
.
.
CASUAL COMMENT .
Amusement in statistics.-A thwarted but
undismayed librarian.- Little linguistic pe-
culiarities. The arrogance of inferiority.-
A proposed book on the psychology of
warfare.— Peace through spelling-reform.-
Books with which to become saturated.
COMMUNICATION
495
The “ Conspiracy of Silence.” Allen Wilson
Porterfield.
OUR HOSTILITY TO ART.
Every well-written novel seems immoral.
- Remy de Gourmont.
Mr. Edward Garnett contributes Some
Remarks on American and English Fiction”
to the current issue of “The Atlantic
Monthly” with manifest doubts as to how his
view will be received in this country. The
editors, in a cautious foot-note, assure the
reader that Mr. Garnett's opinions are his
own, and not for a moment to be confused with
theirs. It is all very curious. For there is
nothing iconoclastic, nothing daring, nothing
unexpected in Mr. Garnett's article. It is
true that he “places” so many living writers,
both English and American, that disagree-
ment with him is bound to arise in this or that
particular instance. But his main contention,
which is not so much that English fiction is
better than American fiction as that America
is hostile to individuality, is eminently de-
fensible. Mr. Garnett says:
“ The dogma put forward under innumerable
guises persistently in America, that the thinker
and the literary artist must cater to the tastes,
ideas, and sentiments, moral and emotional, of the
great majority under pain of being ignored or
ostracized, was noted by De Tocqueville three gen-
erations ago, but this dogma bred in the American
bone seems to have been reinforced by the latter-
day tyranny of the commercial ideal.
The com-
mercial man who says . read this book because it is
the best seller,' is seeking to hypnotize the indi-
vidual's judgment and taste. If there be a notice-
able dearth of originality of feeling and outlook in
latter-day American fiction it must be because the
individual is subjected from the start to the insis-
tent pressure of social ideals of conformity which
paralyze or crush out the finer, rarer, more sensi-
tive individual talents. I do not say that English
writers are not vexed in a minor degree by Mrs.
Grundy's attempts to boycott or crush novels that
offend the taste of the villa public;' but I believe
that our social atmosphere favors the writer of true
individuality."
It may be possible to argue that the English
advantage in this matter is a most uncertain
quantity. It was an English journalist who
reminded us the other day, apropos of the
public dinner given to M. Anatole France in
London, that his countrymen were pleased to
honor a master who wrote in French when
they would unquestionably have put him in
jail for indecency if he had written in En-
CALIFORNIA. Charles Atwood Kofoid
496
Mrs. Austin's California. - Saunders's With
the Flowers and Trees in California.- Mad-
ame Sanchez's Spanish and Indian Place
Names of California.— Davis's California
Romantic and Resourceful.- Mrs. Atherton's
California: An Intimate History.
NEW MEMOIRS OF CHARLES STEWART
PARNELL. Laurence M. Larson .
498
MR. G. LOWES DICKINSON ON EAST AND
WEST. F. B. R. Hellems .
500
BALZAC AND FLAUBERT. Grant Showerman 502
CRUISING WITH MR. ARNOLD BENNETT.
Edith Kellogg Dunton
504
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS -- II.
505
Travel and Description.—Holiday Art Books.
- Holiday Editions of Standard Literature.
- Holiday Fiction.— Miscellaneous Holiday
Books.
NOTES.
. 512
.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS .
. 512


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glish. It was the English who convicted the when she classifies Mrs. Schreiner's pessimism
translator of Zola's novels, was it not? But as “morbid” is that Mrs. Schreiner's pes-
it is no great matter whether the English are simism is so much deeper than, or different
as timid about recognizing the exceptional from, her own as to be unpleasant to her. So
literary artist as we are, or only less timid. Miss Bacon, assuming that her own degree of
There can be no doubt that no civilized nation pessimism is the only truly life-giving and
is any more timid than we of the United moral degree, decides that Mrs. Schreiner's
States. We approach all art with a chip on novel is immoral. And yet, if Miss Bacon is
the shoulder, and we call the chip our moral right in believing herself to be healthily bal-
ity. Outside commercial circles our chiefest anced this side of extreme pessimism what
concern about a work of fiction is whether or advantage would Miss Bacon derive from
not it is immoral.
reading any novelist who is equally fortunate?
There might be something fine, something It is plain that, so far as pessimism is con-
admirably courageous, in this attitude of ours cerned, only a writer possessed of considerably
if it were really morality that we are so more than the ideal amount possessed by Miss
strenuous to defend. To be anxious about Bacon could possibly furnish her with that
morals is to be anxious about something that spiritual adventure which it is the novelist's
men have nobly died for. But our anxiety business to give. But Miss Bacon, discover-
about art is no such high matter. It is obvious ing such a writer, rejects her novel as im-
to the most casual observer that when we moral!
speak of morality in connection with art we The only answer to Miss Bacon's absurdi-
mean that which is not exceptionable to the ties, which should not occupy us for a moment
ordinary person's view of life and conduct, if they were not so widely held as gospel, is
and that it is not immorality to which we ob to repeat that a work of art, and none more
ject but the unusual, the exceptional.
obviously than the novel, is a personal confes-
Miss Corinne Bacon, a librarian whose sion. A novel is not an instrument by which
pamphlet on “What Makes a Novel Immoral” we are to see the whole of life, or even a part
has enjoyed an unusual circulation, furnishes of it, "as it really is.” A novel is an invita-
us with an illustration of this point. Miss tion from a particular individual to look at
Bacon thinks that those novels are immoral life for a few hours through his eyes, to see
which "appeal to our lower nature," which in it what he sees, to feel about it what he
confuse “right" and "wrong," and which are feels. It is the very fact that his view, his
"untrue to life." As a prime example of the confession, is his, and not ours, that makes it
last class Miss Bacon cites Mrs. Olive Schrein valuable to us. Indeed, a novel has value
er's The Story of an African Farm,” which almost in proportion as the confessant's skill
is, she says, characterized by “leaden pes- and power have enabled him to make his work
simism, ” and Mr. Hardy's “Jude the Ob- the expression of his individuality. The nor-
scure,” which deals, Miss Bacon believes, with mal, or non-individual, person does not exist.
"abnormal eroticism.” Such novels are un But the artist is never so much as approxi-
true to “the normal life of men and women." mately normal. Miss Bacon is perfectly right
Putting aside the irrelevant question (if in believing that Mrs. Schreiner is an abnor-
there is any question) of the value of the two mal woman, though we should prefer to put
novels mentioned it ought to be obvious that it less scientifically and call her an altogether
fiction habitually deals with the abnormal and exceptional woman.
has seldom made so much as a pretense of Whether the hostility to the exceptional
doing anything else. Those novelists who which Mr. Garnett remarks in us, a hostility
have so passionately defended the ordinary almost as great in the case of the artist as in
individual as the desirable object of the novel the case of the lunatic, is a permanent at-
ist's art have succeeded in convincing us only tribute of our particular democratic experi-
where they were able to show us how extraor ment remains to be seen. But we had sup-
dinarily ignorant of the ordinary we are. Is posed the fact of its existence was so gener-
it necessary to say that so to deal with the ally known that neither the editors of “The
ordinary is only another way of achieving the Atlantic Monthly” nor any other intelligent
extraordinary, that is to say, the abnormal ? observers of the American scene would think
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CASUAL COMMENT.
Library, under Mr. William E. Foster's direc-
tion, has attracted attention by reason of its
AMUSEMENT IN STATISTICS might be thought intelligent and liberal ministration to the
to be about as hard to find as, for instance, literary needs of its constituency. Notable,
grapes on thornbushes, or figs on thistles,
among other things, is its generous provision
or, to change the simile, acute angles in a
of books for its immigrant readers. Its
pentagon, or the square root of a minus quan-
current "Bulletin” prints in its list of late
tity. Nevertheless some little recreation has
accessions many titles in languages so com-
been derived from a casual examination of paratively unfamiliar as Armenian, Hebrew,
library financial reports as presented in a Hungarian, Ruthenian, and Turkish, together
number of current Official publications from with a far greater number in French, German,
various free libraries of our country. The modern Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese,
Detroit Public Library, for example, deplores Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish. And
in tearful accents its inability to keep its Providence is not exactly a cosmopolitan cen-
standard books well bound, and presents a tre or a very large city. But Mr. Foster
moving picture (not a cinematograph) of its regards the things done by himself and his
ragged regiment of classic authors as they co-workers as nothing to what might be done
“lean wearily against each other in their old with larger resources. He likens this unful-
garments, on the crowded shelves." But, ten
filment of purpose to the one-time incomplete
pages later, this same annual report shows a
condition of the Washington Monument, but
- balance on hand” of $310,219.97, or not far adds: “In one respect, it is true, this analogy
from one-half the total receipts of the year, does not hold. That is to say, if the residents
and almost three-fourths of the total expen of Washington had been compelled to look on
ditures. Why this enormous surplus? Or is the gradual taking down of some of the stones
it possible that we have misread the treas which had been so painfully raised into posi-
urer's figures? A large unexpended balance tion, their regret would have been all the
is always a temptation to all sorts of foolish-keener. But this is the situation of our read-
ness and worse. Voters, too, might with some ers, as they witness the withdrawal of some of
reason cut down their donation the next year the features of library work which it has
if they find their liberality so little appre- taken years to attain.' Nevertheless, a
ciated. In marked contrast to this unduly brighter dawn will succeed the present gloom,
economical management of its funds on the he confidently believes.
he confidently believes. "Few institutions
part of the Detroit library, the report from have represented the hopes, aspirations, and
the Lincoln (Nebraska) City Library shows endeavors of so many and so devoted work-
total annual receipts of $11,740, and total dis ers; and it would be unthinkable to despair
bursements of $12,429. Evidently the man of its ultimate success; but for the present
agement here believes that money is meant to the outlook is undeniably dark.'
spend, and that it is even wise to spend more
than one has. A powerful lever on the lid
LITTLE LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES betray the
of the city's strong box is a sturdy, fast-
speaker's or writer's nationality or even, it
growing, and wholly unabashed annual defi-
may be, the county or the parish where he
cit. Going a little further afield, we find the
learned to talk. In a large way, Englishmen
James V. Brown Library of Williamsport and Americans speak the same language, but
(Pennsylvania) sailing so close to the wind
in minor details they have their pet idioms
that out of receipts amounting to nearly ten
and excite each other's derision. Mr. Maurice
thousand dollars it remains with a balance of Baring, in his latest contribution to the
less than one hundred and fifty dollars. That gaiety of two nations — he calls his book
is not bad management. At Bristol (Con- Round the World in Any Number of Days”
necticut), on the other hand, the idle cash
-indulges in some remarks on “the American
reported at the end of the year seems to be language,” as for example: “Some day,
about a fifth part of the income - not so good when I have learned the American language
management. Lack of space forbids further properly, I mean to write a large book on the
expatiation on this fruitful theme.
American language.
In the meantime, the
following condensed grammar for foreigners
A THWARTED BUT UNDISMAYED LIBRARIAN may prove useful for Americans going to
sounds his note of invincible hopefulness and England, as well as for Englishmen going to
courage in what, for the present at least, and America :-
America :-“Chapter 1. Rule I. (Very im-
because of straitened means, must be regarded portant.) Whenever you say 'in' in English
as the valedictory number of his excellent say either'on’or'to'in American. ... There
quarterly bulletin. The Providence Public are one hundred and twenty-six exceptions to


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this rule, the most important of which is more than the old who are harshly intolerant
this:- 'To be in trouble' is not translated in their censure: for, as Goethe long ago ob-
“to be on trouble' in American. Rule II. The served, we have only to grow old in order to
two most important words in American are become charitable, since we find in ourselves,
'proposition' and 'stunt.' Everything is if we live long enough, all the faults we have
either a proposition or a stunt. There are no censured in others.
other rules. Prepositions will always cause
more or less perplexity and disagreement.
A PROPOSED BOOK ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
The Latin scholar will instinctively feel the
WARFARE, by a Russian scientist, Dr. Alexis
propriety of saying “averse from," "in con-
Maltseff, expert in psychiatry, member of the
trast with," "superiority over," and so on, Munich Medical Society, and, until disabled
where popular usage is less strict. That we
by ague, a participant in the present Euro-
do not make sufficient use of in, as is alleged
pean conflict, is expected to set forth some
above, is certainly not apparent to us, though noteworthy results of the writer's researches.
we do speak of living on instead of in a street;
The psychopathic condition of the belligerent
but even here we are not unalterably fixed, and, to some extent, of the neutral nations is
occasionally using the preposition preferred certainly a surprising and a painful phe-
by our English cousins. On the other hand,
nomenon. Europe, Dr. Maltseff declares, is
we object to their being different to us in in a state of "bellicose psychosis verging on
respect of certain idioms, and their colloquial paranoia,” and the “war is more like a
and even literary use of off (see Mr. Arnold medieval obsession of the masses than a ra-
Bennett's writings) in place of from strikes tional international struggle for power and
us as a little unrefined. But who would have glory.” One form taken by the war madness
the whole world speak exactly the same lan is a persistent and absurd exaggeration of the
guage?
enemy's numbers and losses, with correspond-
THE ARROGANCE OF INFERIORITY is a quality ing magnifying of victories achieved on one's
not unheard of in critics, and, not least of all, ing a true account of battle experiences was
own side. Inability to give anything approach-
in literary critics. If we cannot surpass the
performances of genius, we can at any rate proved by examination of wounded soldiers
cry down the genius, which we imagine in Moscow hospitals. “Persistent, uncon-
amounts to the same thing, and is vastly report, is one of the first elements of war
scious lying,” says Dr. Maltseff, according to
easier. In a recent “Literary Letter” to
the Springfield “Republican,” Mr. Frank B. psychosis. It is the fruit of the terror and
Sanborn takes occasion to comment on this
emotion which every man feels in battle. In
defamatory habit. “This malicious way of prolonged actions the rank and file and the
estimating good men,' he
says, “is a poor
fighting officers do not know what they do."
trait in human nature, coming largely from
Fearful indeed is the prospect of what will
vanity, to which many small vices may be follow after the war is over, if this authority
is to be credited. So demoralizing is war,
ascribed. It so pleases the petty human soul
to feel itself superior to other human souls,
even to those who only read about it, in the
that it almost instinctively misjudges them, newspapers, that a wave of crime will sweep
especially by hearsay. Charles Lamb was
over the world after the tempest now raging
humorously satirizing the race of men when
shall have subsided. “There will be a reac-
he stammered out, “No, I d-don't know h-him, part of the disbanded reservists,” and other
tion against discipline and privation on the
but d-mn him at a venture.'”
some illustrations of this proneness to depre- things frightful to contemplate even as re-
ciáte in sundry book-criticisms, and, among
mote possibilities. But, with all due respect
them, a certain reviewer's malicious assault
to Dr. Maltseff, specialists have been known
upon his (Mr. Sanborn's) pen-portrait of his
to exaggerate, as well as soldiers that have
old friend, the poet Ellery Channing, he pro- just left the battlefield.
ceeds: “It was an instance of that bitter
intolerance which is the intellectual sin of PEACE THROUGH SPELLING-REFORM is the
New England; illustrated in times past by theme of an earnest editorial in “The Pioneer
the federalist aspersions on Jefferson, by old of Simplified Speling." Not to weaken in the
J. Q. Adams's fling at Emerson, and the elder least degree the force of the appeal, we quote
Professor Norton's sneer at Carlyle and 'the a few sentences in the writer's own “speling."
latest form of infidelity.' Urbanity is forgot- He says of the reform: “We hav aulwaiz
ten in such exhibitions,- or rather is shown held that it woz a faktor which must be taiken
to have been omitted from that particular intu akount in eni thuroegoing pees propa-
critic's composition.” It is the young far ganda. Brij over the speech barier, sielens


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er war
the diskordz ov Babel, bring the peeplz ov (1786-1825). He wrote and published about as
diferent nashonalitiz intu the intimait rela many works as did, say, Heine, distributed as fol-
shonship ov the spoeken wurd, and yu hav lows: one conventional drama; one musical-roman-
gon mor than a step or tuu on the paath of
tic drama; “Guido," a novel of 360 pages; about
yuniversal brutherhood.” But it is admit-
thirty-seven novelettes; four volumes of poems,
ted that the present clash of arms can hardly
some of which are excellent as to content, the
be silenced by a mere revision of the diction-
great majority of which are superb as to form;
several thousand aphorisms; a good commentary
ary; the full effect of spelling-reform as a
to Madame de Staël's “ De l'Allemagne"; about
universal peace-maker cannot be felt until
sixty reviews; and a long list of letters, many of
existing discords have been somewhat har-
which are direct contributions to literary criticism.
monized. “But when this wurld-madness In addition, he left a number of unpublished frag-
haz been eksorsiezd’; when aul the haitful ments, including the outline of a pretentious novel
noizez ov worfair ar murjd in that luvli of which Heinrich von Veldeke was to be the hero.
karesing wurd 'pees,' then wil kum the dai
He translated from Ariosto, Dante, Guarini, Hor-
for such muuvments az ourz. After four
ace, Ovid, Petrarch, and Virgil. Finally, he was
months and a half of nightmare, even those
an editor of repute. As a man he seems to have
left nothing to be desired. Professor Muncker
who are strongly anti-reform in their orthog-
says “ er war eine schöne Seele in des Wortes
raphy would doubtless be willing, in order to
schönster Bedeutung.” He influenced Eichendorff
secure a lasting peace, to spell the word
and Platen, and many contend that his ballad on
“pees, or "peas, or even “pease,” hence the Lorelei was the immediate inspiration of Heine
forth and for ever.
in his composition on the same subject. Fouqué
called him" a poet by the Grace of God,” while
BOOKS WITH WHICH TO BECOME SATURATED,
Goethe is credited with the remark that “
in order to acquire a good English style in
der vorzüglichste Dichter jener Zeit.” Many of
writing, need not be many in number; in
the operas on the Lorelei are said to have owed
fact they may be surprisingly few, and prob- subject.
their origin to his saga in prose on the same
ably, if a style at once simple and clear and
And yet, the compendious "Konversations-
vigorous is desired, the fewer the better. One Lexikon” of Meyer and Brockhaus is silent on
single book, the English Bible, as has often him, unless it be in the discussion of some of the
been remarked, will supply all that is neces numerous poets with whom he associated. Of the
sary in the above-named qualities, and many
twenty best known histories of German literature,
rhetorical graces besides. Lincoln knew his some of which treat the nineteenth century exclu-
Bible from cover to cover, and next to that
sively, only six contain his name, and these simply
mention him as the friend of some one else.
he had an enviable acquaintance with Shake-
We do not wish to have Graf von Loeben
speare; and what a master he was with the
revived: there are too many unread poets now.
pen and in spoken utterance! Dr. Talcott
His poems are, for example, good, but not so
Williams, addressing the Smith College stu-
good as those of Rückert, and no one has read all
dents recently, urged those who contemplated of Rückert. To study Loeben for his own sake
entering his profession (journalism) to study would be to set up false values. But since these
diligently and incessantly both the Bible and wordy manuals list so many little, petty writers
Shakespeare, until "saturated with
their
and poets, they might also include Graf von
thought and expression." A good writer, he
Loeben. It is perhaps a case of group psychology
further pointed out, “must possess facility,
in letters, rather than a conspiracy of silence.
confidence, and a sense of style. He should
Loeben was not quite good enough to last after he
died. He has not been studied. It would be diffi-
realize that there is a best way to say every-
cult to write on him in an encyclopædia; it hasn't
thing, and should not stop till he has found been done. But let some one do it once, and then
that way." To his excellent advice always to every succeeding encyclopædia will have an article
begin an article with the not least important on this obscure but prolific poet, this influential
part of what one has to say, he might have
added the counsel to end it with something It is not easy to make a poorer investment than
equally attention-compelling — to avoid the
is made in the buying of the average encyclopædia.
too-common practice of 'tapering off.”
It contains, despite the oratory of the agent, huge
stores of information that never concern us, so
that these volumes simply clutter up our desks,
COMMUNICATION.
and as to the few subjects in which we are espe-
cially interested, the information is always and
THE “CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE."
without exception deficient in quantity, and many
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
times warped and unreasoned, handed-down and
Another irritating instance of the “conspiracy
saved-over as to quality.
of silence," similar to the one described in THE DIAL
ALLEN WILSON PORTERFIELD.
of November 16, is the case of Graf von Loeben New York, December 6, 1914.
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The New Books.
flowers, appreciative of distant vistas, and
fondly reminiscent of the pastoral and oft-
times tragic early days. Witness the charm-
CALIFORNIA.*
ing chapter on "Old Spanish Gardens":
The near approach of the completion of the
“A Spanish garden is a very intimate affair. It
is the innermost undergarment of the family life.
Panama Canal, of the unique California-
Dona Ina’s was walled away from the world by
Panama Exposition at San Diego, and of the
six feet of adobe, around the top of which still
Panama-Pacific Exposition (embodied accord- lingered the red tiles of Mission manufacture. It
ing to a most glorious color-scheme by M. was not spoken of as the garden at all, it was the
Guérin on the shore of the Golden Gate in patio, an integral part of the dwelling. There
San Francisco) turns the attention of our was, in fact, a raw-hide cot on the long gallery
travelling public from war-ridden Europe to
which gave access to it, and Dona Ina's drawn-
our own Riviera. American publishers, au-
work chemises bleaching in the sun. The patio is
a gift to us from Andalusia.”
thors, and artists have anticipated the de-
mand for informing and helpful books on
One would hardly expect the exactness of a
California, and have produced a notable array
geographical work or the completeness of Bae-
of interesting and instructive works which set
deker in this poetical tribute to the land of
forth the Golden State in various aspects –
sunshine, but one can hardly forgive the omis-
sion of Oakland, the third city of the state,
scenic, historical, political, and naturalistic.
It is noteworthy that two of California's fore-
from the map and of Palo Alto and Berkeley,
most novelists, Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Ather-
the intellectual capitals of the commonwealth,
from all reference in the text. And it is a
ton, have turned their pens to this field of
descriptive exploration to meet the demands of the bracing and invigorating climate of
curiously critical and partial interpretation
of the exposition year. And well they might, San Francisco which the author ventures :
for the theme in any aspect is rich in interest
and dramatic in setting.
“ The very worst location in the world, this
windy promontory past which the grey tides
Foremost among these books in beauty of
race, but so long as a city can dramatise itself,
conception and execution is Mr. Sutton
one situation will do as well as another in
Palmer's and Mrs. Mary Austin's “Califor which to render itself immortal.” The “larg-
nia, the Land of the Sun.” It is a sincere
It is a sincere est of the true pines” (p. 152) is not Pinus
and studied effort to convey to the uninitiated monticola but rather the giant sugar pine
reader something of the charm of the land- | Lambertiana, and the island of Santa Rosa
scape, the brilliant atmosphere, the smil (p. 12) faces Santa Barbara, not San Diego.
ing valleys, blooming mesas, waving fields, Mr. Sutton Palmer's part in the work consists
fruitful orchards, stately forests, and tower of thirty-two beautiful colored plates repro-
ing snow-clad mountain peaks of Califor duced from paintings representative of the
nia. The two collaborators use different choicest bits of California's landscape. In
mediums to convey their ideas but they speak selection of themes and in composition they
one language. Mrs. Austin's text carries the leave little to be desired, and as a whole they
reader northward from San Diego, through give an excellent impression of the wonderful
Los Angeles (with its "mothering moun variety and the striking contrasts of the scen-
tains ”') up the coast through Santa Barbara
ery of California. But they are disappoint-
and its mission to Carmel and Monterey, with ing in some particulars, possibly as a result
its beautiful cypresses, to the Bay Region,
of losses in execution by the three-color proc-
and thence to the great twin interior valleys ess. Mount Tamalpais, for example, lacks any
and to the High Sierras and sage brush coun-
suggestion of the brilliancy it shows at its
try beyond. It is a book of the country rather best, and the Mill Valley plate quite fails to
than of the city, for it is redolent of wayside reveal the Marin Hills. The printer has evi-
dently overworked the red tones in most of
* CALIFORNIA, THE LAND OF THE SUN. Painted by Sutton
Palmer and described by Mary Austin. With thirty-two col-
the plates and reduced too much the colors of
ored plates and a map. New York: The Macmillan Co. the other end of the spectrum.
WITH THE FLOWERS AND TREES IN CALIFORNIA. By Charles
Francis Saunders. Illustrated. New York: McBride, Nast
A series of charming essays on the trees,
& Co.
flowers, and fruits of California from the
SPANISH AND INDIAN PLACE NAMES OF CALIFORNIA: Their
Meaning and Their Romance. By Nellie Van de Grift San-
facile pen of an enthusiastic lover of the out-
chez. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson.
of-doors is to be found in Mr. Charles Francis
CALIFORNIA ROMANTIC AND RESOURCEFUL. A Plea for the
Collection, Preservation, and Diffusion of Information Relat Saunders's “With the Flowers and Trees in
ing to Pacific Coast History. By John F. Davis. Illustrated.
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson.
California." The “Land of Sunshine" is so
CALIFORNIA: AN INTIMATE HISTORY. By Gertrude Atherton. full of novelties of the plant world, both of
With twenty-two half-tone plates. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
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remotest corners of the earth, which find a of the bronze tablet upon the oldest adobe
congenial home in its equable climate ren building in San Francisco to mark the birth-
dered even more acceptable by irrigation, place of Concha Arguello, the heroine of one
that the inquisitive lover of flowers from the of the most tragic love stories of the world.
East has many queries to make as soon as the For it was here that the radiant and bewitch-
gates of the mountains are passed. Spain, ing Conchita was wooed and won by the ad-
Japan, Australia, South Africa, and the isles venturous and resolute Nicolai Petrovich
of the sea have all contributed to the brilliant Resanoff, Russian chamberlain, explorer, and
array of bloom and foliage which adorns the advance agent of the Slavic civilization that
parks and roadways and buries the bungalows reached in 1806 southward from Alaska even
in billows of bloom. In this book one may to the Golden Gate. Bret Harte's poetic
find first-hand knowledge of the flowers, trees, “Concepcion de Arguello" is reproduced
and shrubbery of the deserts, the mesas, the with extended critical and historical annota-
forests, the gardens, and the varied orchards tions to complete the setting of this incident.
of this land where nature is lavish and the Had the fates vouchsafed a happy conclusion
hand of man ingenious to provoke her to instead of the tragic death of the lover in the
burst into bloom. The book is far from being heart of Siberia, on his way to secure at
a dry scientific catalogue, as Mr. Saunders has Madrid royal sanction for this international
managed to weave into its pages a great deal alliance, history might even now be writing a
of descriptive matter about native and intro- different story of Slav expansion.
duced plants and historical lore concerning Robert Louis Stevenson characterized the
the early botanical explorers, Douglas, Cham- United States as a “songful, tuneful land and
isso, Menzies, Eschscholtz, and Nuttall. The if the new Homer shall arise from the western
human interest of plants plays a large part in Continent, his verse will be enriched, his
pages sing spontaneously, with the names of
plants came overland in the immigrant cara states and cities that would strike the fancy
vans, what herbs were used by the Indian, the in a business circular." California has her
sources of the fibres chosen by the basket- full share and more of tuneful names, thanks
weaver, the fruits, flowers, and vegetables of to the period of Spanish settlement and to the
the old Mission gardens and ranch patios, and Indian nomenclature that still lingers in her
the characteristic flowers of the gardens of to-valleys and mountains to add a touch of ro-
day. The accounts of the blooming of the mesa mance not wholly free from sadness. These
and of the botanical riches of the desert are names have survived in considerable number
charming bits of descriptive natural history. in spite of the misdirected efforts at abbre-
It is to be regretted that so little of the for viation and foreshortening on the part of
ests and of the mountain flora of the north-economically inclined postal officials. They
ern part of the state receives the notice it so tend to increase with the growth of settle-
well deserves in these pages. We note that ments, due to the zeal of real-estate boom-
the Washington palm is called, by oversight, ers who seek to capitalize the romantic past.
"pine” (plate facing p. 10), and that the Not all of the word-coinage of the “Spaniards
consonant-rich name of Eschscholtz, god- from Kansas” would pass the critical inspec-
father of the California poppy, is (p. 105) tion of one familiar with the mellifluent
robbed of one of its consonants. All lovers tongue of the padres: witness such crudities
of nature who seek refreshment out-of-doors as Rio Vista for the longer but infinitely more
in California will find Mr. Saunders's book a pleasing Vista del Rio. Madame Nellie Van
delightful companion and a never failing re de Grift Sanchez has rendered a real service
minder of California's greatest charms. to all those, and they are many, to whom the
A plea for the immediate conservation of Spanish tongue is a closed book, by compiling
the sources of Pacific coast history in the form a list of “ Spanish and Indian Place Names
of original materials not yet in the safe keep- of California” and annotating the citations
ing of historical archives is the occasion of with a running comment of gossipy informa-
Mr. John F. Davis's “California Romantic tion as to their meaning and origin. Much of
and Resourceful.' This brochure contains in local Spanish and Indian history and tradi-
revised and expanded form his Admission tion is woven into these seemingly disjointed
Day address descriptive of the past of Cali notes. The arrangement is geographical, thus
fornia, “which possesses a wealth of romantic facilitating use by the tourist en route, gen-
interest, a variety of contrast, a novelty oferally, from San Diego northward, more or
resourcefulness and an intrinsic importance less along the line of the old Mission Camino
which enthralls the imagination." There is
There is Real. An alphabetical list in which are gath-
added the address on the occasion of placing | ered all scattered place names of interest


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completes the work, which will be of perma It is a story of men and an analysis of their
nent value to travellers as well as a reference motives rather than an account of the great
work in libraries and schools. A series of cuts movements in national and international
from some early source, unfortunately not affairs which have found expression in the
named, portrays the Spanish Missions; other life of the state. It is perhaps for this rea-
illustrations are from recent photographs. The son and because of her preference for the dra-
“Univ. of Cal. Publ. of Arch, and Tec." (34) matic that her only attempt to portray the
is a lapsus pennæ for Univ. Calif. Publ. Am. intellectual, educational, literary, and artistic
Arch, and Ethn. That the Indians ever did life of the state is to be found in an all too
much "fishing in teeming streams" (p. 26) brief catalogue of intellectual worthies of
in Southern California where the rivers run California in a fine print appendix. In like
"upside down” is very doubtful. The chem manner the industrial and commercial his-
ical metaphor in the phrase (p. 6) "when put tory, rich as it is with its relations to the
to the acid test of such investigation, melt fur-trade, the fisheries, the Orient, Hawaii,
into thin air" is somewhat mixed. But these Alaska, and the South seas, to the mines, irri-
are minor defects in a very useful, attractive, gation, fruit culture, and hydro-electric devel-
and well-written book.
opment, is left by our author for another
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's“ California: An hand.
CHARLES ATWOOD KOFOID.
Intimate History" reveals an historian gifted
with a keen sense of the dramatic, a pene NEW MEMOIRS OF CHARLES STEWART
trating power of analyzing the springs of
PARNELL.*
human action, and a virile forcefulness and
In the memorable month of July, 1914, the
freedom of expression. These are qualities
movement for the repeal of the Act of Union
which make history at least attractive, how-
between England and Ireland, which O'Con-
ever much they may bias the historian's selec-
nell organized more than seventy years ago,
tion and treatment of material. California's
saw at least a partial triumph. The new
past abounds in dramatic incidents from the machinery of government provided by the
days of the zealous padres of the Spanish Home Rule Act has not yet been set in motion;
Missions to the now projected graft trials. It but the law is on the statute books and the
scintillates with picturesque characters from enemies of home rule will probably not be able
the zealous Father Junipero Serra, the dash to repeal the act or modify it in any important
ing Rezanoff, the indomitable Coleman, the respect. The Asquith measure is not, per-
ill-fated Broderick, the rampant Kearny, to haps, what O'Connell and his followers had
the forceful Heney. The author has utilized hoped for: it does not give independence to
these abundant materials, so full of human the Irish people; but while Ireland continues
interest, to weave a dramatic story of striking to be a part of the Empire and the Kingdom,
incidents which portray the fitful and chang the new law gives the island its own legislature
ing life of a great state, which more than any with a large measure of authority over Irish
other in the Union embodies in its history the affairs. The ideas that were enacted into law
fateful tragedies of the frontier. Her history in the third home rule bill were not those of
is a personal and political one, cast in dra O'Connell; they were developed by one who
matic mould and illumined by word pictures in leadership and statesmanship was far
from the trained hand of the novelist :
greater than the "Liberator” from Kerry,
“ That long chain of snow-white red-tiled mis-
Charles Stewart Parnell.
sions, hedged with Castilian roses, surrounded The long debates on this proposition both
with olive-orchards, whose leaves were silver in the within and without parliament naturally
sun, orange groves heavy with golden fruit, the
turned popular attention to the history of the
vast sweep of shimmering grain-fields broken by
man who first made the Irish question a
stately oaks, winding rivers set close with the tail
serious issue in British politics. Two memoirs
pale cottonwoods, lakes with the long branches of
willows trailing over the surface, bounded by for-
of this remarkable man have recently come
est and mountain and sea, and not a city to break from the press: one by his brother, Mr. John
the harmony, must have been the fairest sight in Howard Parnell, and another by Mrs. Katha-
the modern world."
rine O'Shea, whom Parnell married in the last
“Father Fr. Junipero Serra may have failed to year of his life, but with whom he had stood
reap the great harvest of Indian souls he had bap on a footing of close intimacy for ten years
tized with such gratitude and exultation, and that
consoled him for all his afflictions, but he lifted
* CHARLES STEWART PARNELL. A Memoir. By his brother,
John Howard Parnell. With photogravure frontispiece. New
California from the unread pages of geological York: Henry Holt & Co.
history and placed it on the modern map. I won-
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL: His Love Story and Political
Life. By Katharine O'Shea (Mrs. Charles Stewart Parnell).
der what he thinks of it.”
In two volumes. Illustrated. New York: George H. Doran Co.


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before. These works are in no sense of the congenial: the wife was unconventional in
word biographies; Mr. John Howard Parnell her attitude toward the world and the hus-
appears to have made no researches except in band was a failure in almost everything that
his own memory; and Katharine O'Shea he undertook. After an experience as a
(such is the name given on the title page), breeder of fast horses which brought him far
though she publishes a large number of let on the road toward bankruptcy, the young
ters, has apparently used no documents except captain found himself with nothing to do and
such as she has found in her own possession with no adequate source of income:
The student who turns to these letters in the Willie was now longing for some definite occupa-
hope of getting new light on Parnell's politi- tion, and he knew many political people. While
cal life will be disappointed: the letters are he was on a visit to Ireland early in 1880 he was
interesting but not very informing; they are constantly urged by his friends, the O'Donnells and
brief, often very brief, and fervid notes from others, to try for a seat in the next parliament. ..."
a man to a woman who ruled his affections, Mr. O'Shea feared that his want of money
and as a rule do not deal with public affairs would make it impossible for him to be a can-
except in a very vague manner. The follow didate, but his wife urged him to stand, for
ing, dated at Dublin, September 25, 1881, is I knew it would give him occupation he liked
almost typical of the collection:
and keep us apart -- and therefore good
“My own Loveliest,- I send you these few words
friends.' Captain O'Shea was elected, and
to assure Wifie that her husband always thinks of to promote his political fortunes his wife be-
her and hopes that she is well and happy.
gan to cultivate the friendship of Charles
Your Own King." Stewart Parnell, the unquestioned leader of
It is difficult to understand in what way the the Irish forces. This was in 1880, and from
publication of such letters will serve the cause that time Parnell was a frequent visitor at the
of English or Irish history.
home of the O'Sheas.
It is true, however, that the letters written Mrs. O'Shea seems to have been more than
during certain important periods of Parnell's a friend or a mere mistress: she claims to
career have a somewhat greater interest for have become Parnell's political secretary and
the student of history. Such are the letters an accepted intermediary between him and
written from Kilmainham jail in 1881 and the government. This may have been of some
1882, of which the first one contains this sig- advantage to her "king,” but the relationship
nificant statement:
also had its embarrassments; at one time when
“Politically it is a fortunate thing for me that I Captain O'Shea was in danger of failing to
have been arrested, as the movement is breaking
secure a seat in parliament, Parnell found it
fast, and all will be quiet in a few months, when I
necessary almost to compel a reluctant con-
shall be released.”
stituency to give him a seat.
The letters included in the chapter on the
Though the student of history will find but
“Kilmainham treaty” between the Irish lead-
little in these volumes that he cannot obtain
ers and the Gladstone government are also of
considerable importance. It is in connection
It is in connection elsewhere, he will, if he is interested in prob-
with this treaty that Mrs. O'Shea first ap-
lems of personal and political ethics, find
much of interest in them. There is first of all
pears as a factor in Irish politics.
As memoirs written by persons who knew
the author's relationship to Parnell :
the "inscrutable" Parnell as he was in pri-
“And because Parnell contravened certain social
vate life, these volumes will have some value
laws, not regarding them as binding him in any
way, and because I joined him in this contraven-
for future biographers. The importance of
tion since his love made all else of no account to
Mr. John Howard Parnell's "Memoir" lies
me, we did not shrink at the clamour of the up-
chiefly in the earlier chapters which deal with
holders of those outraged laws, nor resent the
the life of his eminent brother before he en- | pressing of the consequences that were inevitable
tered a public career; to our knowledge of and always foreseen.'
Parnell's political character the author adds She wishes us to believe that the relationship
almost nothing. Mrs. O'Shea professes to tell was an honorable one; and yet the narrative
Parnell's “love story and political life”; but shows clearly that for a decade she was com-
her book is for the most part a biography of pelled to lead a life of constant deception.
herself. Mrs. O'Shea was the daughter of an And when Parnell's child was born, in 1882,
English clergyman, and we gather from her Captain O'Shea believed that the child was
narrative that she was a capable, clever, and his and hoped that its birth might bring about
attractive woman. In 1867 she married Cap- a complete reconciliation. The narrative leads
tain William O'Shea, a young Irish aristocrat. one to feel that neither Katharine O'Shea's
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ship to her lover was particularly sacred. It
MR. G. LOWES DICKINSON ON
would seem that her version of Parnell's “love
EAST AND WEST.*
story" adds, if possible, to the guilt that the
world has imputed to him since it was made
The most serious danger in a trip around
public in 1890.
the world is neither shipwreck, nor disease,
Mr. John Howard Parnell barely mentions
but the temptation to write a book. Even
Mrs. O'Shea and has very little to say about fasting and prayer seem of little avail against
this part of his brother's life. Without at-
this particular onslaught of the Enemy of
tempting to defend his brother, he states the
Man. During the months of travel any un-
belief of the family that Captain O'Shea was spoiled wayfarer, with ordinary intelligence
" a false friend of Charley's, and simply waiting self so delightfully refreshed, so intensely
and reasonable mental equipment, finds him-
his time to strike a fatal blow. ... As far as our
family was concerned, we were unanimous in re-
interested, so stimulated to fertile reflection,
garding the institution of proceedings at this time
that it seems almost a sin not to write a book
as being due to a political plot, having for its and thus share with the world the benefit of
object the ruin of Charley."
his impressions and experiences. But sober
If it was a plot, the plot succeeded, for the thought should recall that the seaways of
ruin was complete, as Mrs. O'Shea found to literature are dotted with boresome unread
her great chagrin a few weeks later.
volumes, which ought to warn us of this peril
The most startling part of Mrs. O'Shea's of the deep. Naturally, our experienced
book is the charge that the Liberal chiefs and essayist has not escaped such thoughts, nor
especially Gladstone, who threw Parnell over-
does he present his little book without mis-
board after the court had acted in the divorce givings: "In reprinting them [articles from
suit, had known about Parnell's love for Mrs.
the "Manchester Guardian" and the "En-
O'Shea and had even accepted his mistress as
glish Review”'] I have chosen a title which
a sort of confidential agent in dealing with the may serve also as an apology. What I offer
Irish party:
is not Reality, but appearances to me.” How-
“For ten years Gladstone had known of the rela-
ever, the solicitations of friends and editors,
tions between Parnell and myself, and had taken
with the seductive opportunity of contrasting
full advantage of the facility this intimacy offered East and West, proved too strong for our
him in keeping in touch with the Irish leader. For literary wayfarer, who had been enjoying a
ten years. But that was a private knowledge. Kahn fellowship, and he succumbed. On the
Now it was a public knowledge, and an English whole, we must be glad he did, although we
statesman must always appear on the side of the
do not feel that his present offering is quite
angels. So Mr. Gladstone found his religion could
at last be useful to his country.”
as valuable as some of its predecessors so
Whether Gladstone erred in ignoring the
warmly reviewed in these columns.
facts of Parnell's immorality in private life,
Of course Mr. Dickinson could not perpe-
and whether his actions after the facts were
trate a book of the ordinary “travel and place
revealed will justify Mrs. O'Shea's charges of type," and does not fill his pages with hack-
inconsistency and hypocrisy, are problems that neyed descriptions of familiar scenes. Udai-
the reviewer does not feel called upon to solve pur and Agra, for instance, are not even men-
or even to discuss. If Gladstone were living tioned, while Niagara serves merely as an
he would no doubt be able to explain and de- occasion for recording a delightful, if imagi-
fend his conduct; but he is no longer able to nary, conversation. But even our veteran
reply. It is the reviewer's opinion, however, littérateur does not quite escape the curse of
that Gladstone's place in English history is the globe-trotter, for he wastes one chapter
fairly secure, and that Mrs. O'Shea's charges on the mongrel Malay theatre at Penang and
will not lead to any appreciable change in the
another on a commonplace treatment of
world's estimate of his private and public Peking. We could almost wish that the writer
character.
of “Letters of a Chinese Official” had never
LAURENCE M. LARSON.
seen China, although there is good reading in
"A Sacred Mountain" and "In the Yangtse
Sir Richard Burton's poem, “The Kasidah of
Gorges.”
Hâjî Abdû-el-Yezdi," is to be brought out in a new
edition with an Introduction by Mr. Roger Ingpen.
When he reaches Japan, he is captivated
Hâjî Abdû-el-Yezdi was one of Burton's pseudo-
at once, as all of us are captivated; but Nippon
nyms and was used when the poem was first has been described and anatomized and eulo-
printed more than thirty years ago. It was re gized and berated so often during the last
printed in Lady Burton's Life of her husband and two decades that it is almost impossible to
afterward twice reprinted for subscribers. This is
By G. Lowes Dickinson. New York:
the first authorized edition for the general public. Doubleday, Page & Co.
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see.
attain a new point of view or offer your read is no need to smear the rim of the bitter
ers any fresh pabulum. However, the papers medicinal cup with the honey of compliment.
on 'First Impressions of Japan” and “Fuji” And yet, Mr. Dickinson has missed America.
are genuinely enjoyable. When he turns to His graceful and forceful comments are wel-
write of "Japan and America'' he finds most come and helpful; but he himself has not yet
of us prepared to share his feeling that discovered us. We are seen at our truest in
“patience and sympathy” are sadly lacking our educational striving, for all its un-
among the Californians, and to concede, even bounded failure; and if our Cambridge
to enlarge upon, the many good qualities of economist had spent a large part of his time
the Japanese. But why should he insist that in studying our schools and colleges, he would
the “morals” of that attractive people are still have had countless strictures to pass, but
probably higher than those of Europe and he would have come much nearer understand-
America ? Surely he must give "morals” a ing our dream and our efforts than by wan-
new and elaborate definition, if he is to carry dering about like a thousand other intelligent
his point.
visitors among the things that any eyes can
But obviously we may not wander in this
spirit of enjoyment or criticism through the And whatever else anybody may discover
whole volume, so we hasten to say that its in our variegated United States we should
real value for us must be sought in the chap like to know where Mr. Dickinson made sure
ters on America and in the author's reflec that the predominant physical type is — “the
tions on the differences between East and great jaw and chin, the huge teeth and preda-
West.
tory mouth.”
We may sacrifice beauty and
Now his general attitude toward our land distinction to force in our speech as in our
is kindly. In a spirit of unnecessary but gen-
politics; we may be capable of living and
tlemanly apology he expresses regret for a acting only in masses; we may have abso-
tone of exasperation in his comments on us; lutely no culture, although we honestly be-
but his irritation and his expression thereof
lieve we have seen gleams thereof; it may be
are mild and ladylike and courtly compared
fair to accuse us of everything from super-
with the violent wrath and indignant stric ficiality to money-grubbing; but we must pro-
tures of many of our homeborn critics. Mr. test against that great jaw and chin, those
Dickinson believes that the vision of America huge teeth, and that predatory mouth, as a
is the vision of the lighting up of the millions, basis of our national physiognomy. Surely
and that herein lies America's great contribu the misfortune of individuals must not be
tion to civilization; but it is not what he translated into a racial calamity. Moreover,
comes across in his experience. And there is it is to be hoped that this sentence of con-
the point. It is so easy for a visitor to see demnation he passes will not come into the
our perfectly obvious failures; it is so impos- hands of any well-trained anthropologists, for
sible to perceive what we are really doing. they would justly flay him alive on purely
We do make a hopeless muddle of many scientific grounds.
things, to our own constant and bitter grief; Of the general contrast he draws between
but we do dream and we do try. We are too East and West, we may give only this inade-
keen about money; but money is no more quate summary. There is a West, in a real
powerful in America than in England, or sense, with a unity of its own; but it must be
Germany, assert it who will; and it is absurd limited in time to the last two centuries and
to say that "no American youth of ambition in space to the countries of Western Europe
leaves college with any less or greater purpose and the continent of America. He is not
in his heart than that of emulating Mr. Car quite so sure that there is an East; for Japan
negie or Mr. Rockefeller." Our poor col and China are distinctly different from India.
leges and universities are open to no end of And in fact he ultimately takes only the last
perfectly just criticism; but they are the best named country as the opposite of his West.
antidotes the country has to the Carnegie- In his East, thus circumscribed, the great
Rockefeller ideal of success. Again, we agree feature is the “religion of Eternity," which
with our author that comment on most of our proposes as its end, not the living of temporal
Sunday newspapers is quite superfluous; but life in a particular spirit, but the transcend-
it would have been only fair to add that, ing of it by a special experience and the com-
despite all its palpable faults, the American ing into union with the Infinite. “Life is an
press has often been the agent of tremendous evil; and the escape is either, for the masses,
good. However, it is well to have the tonic by death, or, for the men of spiritual genius,
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answer.
And now we may quote the confession of
BALZAC AND FLAUBERT. *
faith he has put on the lips of the West:
M. Emile Faguet is no less vigorous, direct,
“I believe in the ultimate distinction between
Good and Evil, and in a real process in a real
and unsparing as a critic of the French novel
Time. I believe it to be my duty to increase Good
than as a critic of the French democracy,
and diminish Evil; I believe that in doing this I though readers of “The Cult of Incompe-
am serving the purpose of the world. I know this;
tence” and “The Dread of Responsibility"
I do not know anything else; and I am reluctant will not find it hard to believe that he is
to put questions to which I have no answer, and somewhat more patient with the former; for,
to which I do not believe that anyone has an while he writes in both fields as the believer
Action, as defined above, is my creed. in aristocracy and the enemy of demagoguery,
Speculation weakens action. I do not wish to
the temptation to laughter and scorn is less
speculate, I wish to live. And I believe the true
likely to interfere with judicial sobriety when
life to be the life I have described."
he is dealing with literary art than when he
Naturally, however, he realizes that many
is contemplating the crowd.
Western men have a place for the Eternal and "An admirable literary workman, upright,
the Infinite, and he is willing to modify his
conscientious, scrupulous, and arduous,” he
antithesis slightly by wording it: In India,
says of Balzac, in the critical study now trans-
the emphasis is on the Eternal; in the West, lated for the English and American public.
on Time.
“He is of those who have deserved, even on
For himself he is quite clearly and definitely moral grounds, both worldly success and last-
on the side of the latter:
ing fame." In the clear thinking and or-
"I have said in the preceding pages hard things derly method which distinguish his work,
about Western civilization. I hate many of its M. Faguet brings into strong relief Balzac's
manifestations, I am out of sympathy with many attractive qualities both as a person and a
of its purposes. I can see no point, for instance,
novelist - his vigor and good-nature, his
in the discovery of the north or the south pole,
frankness, his generosity, his genius for the
and very little in the invention of aeroplanes;
creation of lifelike and powerful characters.
while gramophones, machine guns, advertisements,
cinematographs, submarines, dreadnoughts, cos-
But he makes to stand out in still stronger
mopolitan hotels, seem to me merely fatuous or
relief the great novelist's limitations — his
sheerly disastrous. But what lies behind all this, lack of either personal or moral distinction, to
the tenacity, the courage, the spirit of adventure, say nothing of delicacy, his profound egotism,
this it is that is the great contribution of the West. the slightness of his intellectual culture, his
It is not the aeroplane that is valuable; probably want of familiarity with all except one section
it will never be anything but pernicious, for its of the great social world he was ambitious to
main use is likely to be for war. But the fact that
men so lightly risk their lives to perfect it, that portray in its entirety in the grandiosely con-
is valuable. The West is adventurous; and, what
ceived “Comédie Humaine,” the frequent
is more, it is adventurous on a quest. For behind and garrulous interpolation of his own loose
and beyond all its fatuities, confusions, crimes, thinking in the business of the narrative, the
lies, as the justification of it all, that deep deter- | mixing of base romanticism and brutal real-
mination to secure a society more just and more ism, the coarseness of his nature and his taste,
humane, which inspires all men and all movements the unreliability of his genius:
that are worth considering at all, and to those who
“He had not genius all the time. . . A whole
can understand, gives greatness and significance
literature grew up out of Balzac's cesspools. .
even to some of our most reckless enterprises. We
are living very dangerously'; all the forces are
He is responsible for all the easy-going and
loose, those of destruction as well as those of crea-
damnable audacity of all the novel-writers who
tion; but we are living towards something; we
pretend to believe that realism lies in the study of
sinister shameful abnormality. ... Ready-
are living with the religion of Time."
made romanticism, coarse realism are the two
After the criticisms we have been bold things which spoil Balzac's work, the former very
enough to pass on this delightful little vol much and the latter a little. What spoils nearly
ume, it is a pleasure to close with such a char the whole of it is the vulgarity that was inherent
acteristically thoughtful passage. Occasion in the man's nature and crept into nearly every-
ally the book must move a serious reader to thing he did.”
almost impatient repudiation; much more M. Faguet's explanation of Balzac's suc-
often it will evoke his sympathy and ap cess is a long way from being unreservedly
proval; and always it will command his complimentary either to the novelist or to his
respect for its sanity and seriousness of atti-
* BALZAC. By Emile Faguet. Translated from the French
tude, his admiration for its lucidity and by Wilfrid Thorley. With photogravure portrait. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co.
gracefulness of style.
By Emile Faguet. Translated from the French
F. B. R. HELLEMS.
by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. With photogravure portrait.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
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readers. It was his very faults that made “This law is sufficiently verified by the history
him popular:
of French literature. A period of romantic litera-
“ But, if it be true that writers win success
ture has always been followed by a period of real-
through their faults, they win it through them
istic literature; a time when we demanded of Art
only on condition that they accompany great
a lively picture of the truth has always come after
qualities. . . . Qualities impose on readers, and
a period when we enjoyed the magic of the
failings hold them; qualities make people admire
imagination.”
the writer, and failings make them love him;
But whether indulging his romantic or his
qualities inspire veneration, and defects establish realistic bent, Flaubert was always consistent,
and maintain intimacy. Now Balzac, perhaps and always supremely the artist. His por-
more than any of those whom I have just men- trait-painting was superior to Balzac's, his
tioned, had just the genius necessary to impose landscapes of an absolute reality, his alle-
itself,' in good earnest, on connoisseurs, rather giance was always to the truth, his language
vaguely upon the general reader; while he has
was calculated to the utmost degree; he could
just enough faults to make himself beloved by the
not bring himself to tolerate in a sentence
mob: and that is how glory is founded."
“any break in the rhythm, any dull sounds or
The final chapters of the volume, on any beating of the words against each other'';
“Taste," “Style,” and “Balzac after His he was the master of the artistic style.
Death,” deal more than the others with uni Flaubert's defects, however, are not al-
versals in literary criticism, and are especially lowed to escape our attention, though their
attractive for that reason. It is unfortunate critic is less outraged by them than by those
that the translation as a whole is far from of Balzac. Flaubert was not a great thinker,
reproducing the sprightliness, elegance, and and not a critic. He disliked authors and
originality that make the work of M. Faguet men whose chief merit lay in ideas, and the
so pleasing. The volume on Flaubert is bet one literary principle that found permanent
ter in this respect.
lodgment in his mind was
If M. Faguet is inclined to be harsh with that literature ought to be impersonal,' that is
Balzac and partial to Flaubert, whom he to say, that an author should never appear in his
ranks very little below Balzac as a creative work; never confide his feelings, his ideas, his
genius and incomparably higher as an artist
convictions; never speak as man to man; never,
even indirectly, allow his ideas or the state of his
and writer, it is because for him the ideal
mind to be understood or suspected through his
novelist must not mingle with the great quali- writing.”
ties that inspire veneration the defects that
He was a misanthrope — though he thought
establish and maintain intimacy:
men fools rather than rascals. He was exas-
“Flaubert filtered Balzac. A romantic to his perated by human stupidity. His characters
finger-tips, more so even than Balzac, and like him do not make for themselves the place in the
devoured by the demon of observation, his own memory that Balzac's hold. This is because he
being more patient, more obstinate, and more
is a true realist, however, and sees only the
minute than Balzac's, he made up his mind (be truth, which is average humanity. He does
cause he was the most conscious' and the most
not know the great scoundrels and perverse
deliberate artist in the world) to satisfy both his
passion as a romantic and his passion as a realist,
monsters of Balzac. His tone is almost al-
but never to pour both these elements into the
ways satirical, though he is kept by the sense
same novel. It was quite a discovery at the time of truth and the taste for truth from the
that he wrote, for it meant the remembering of a satire that is mean:
law of literary art which had been for long for-
"That suffices to make us grateful to him not only
gotten or ill understood. It meant remembering
as a great painter and a great writer, but also as
that the reader, unconsciously, though as impe-
one of those morose and bitter moralists, just nev-
riously as possible, at all times requires of a work, ertheless, who are something like the harsh con-
I do not say unity of tone, for that means science of humanity.”
monotony, but unity as regards the general impres-
M. Faguet's most serious criticism of Flau-
sion, and that the mixing up of romantic art for
bert is found at the end of the chapter on
instance with realistic art bewilders him, discon-
certs him, and shocks him just as much as would
“La Tentation de Saint-Antoine":
an anachronism or the mixing up of different “And above all, it bears witness to a prodigious
epochs."
effort of which the traces have not yet been wiped
Flaubert was thus alternately romanticist
away and which gives us a sensation of deadly
and realist, and his novels followed, as re-
fatigue. Flaubert almost always produces that
effect. Never has he known gay, abundant, happy
gards the time of their composition, the law
creation, playing with its easy flow and smiling at
of action and reaction, the only “law” of it."
literary history in which M. Faguet has any He is thinking here not only of Flaubert's
faith:
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strength. This is a familiar situation: con Mr. Bennett has travelled before, and writ-
fronted on the one hand with genius that ten the log of the journeys for the profit and
bursts all barriers and overwhelms the formal amusement of less gifted observers. He has
rules of art, and on the other with artistic sketched vivid glimpses of Paris nights. He
perfection of form which covers a more or has crossed to America and recorded infalli-
less uninspired content, the critic feels him- bly entertaining nd often highly iliumi.
self claimed by rival allegiances. Shall it be nating impressions of life on our Eastern
nature or art? If he could only have both at frontiers. His pastels of London pulse with
the same time! It is little consolation to the grim splendor of the world's greatest
know that the trouble is as old as Horace, and capital. “From the Log of the Velsa" is as
as old as art:
jaunty as “Your United States and less
« Natura fieret laudabile carmen an arte,
self-conscious; and, if the strongly dramatic
Quaesitum est. Ego nec studium sine divite vena, quality of the Paris and London sketches is
Nec rude quid possit video ingenium: alterius sic generally lacking, there is instead a delight-
Altera poscit opem res et coniurat amice." ful rambling informality, a rich variety of
M. Faguet does not say whether he makes a experience, and a fine zest for those "pleas-
choice, but it is clear enough that he is very ant average sights” that, for most of the
much repelled by the faults of Balzac, and world, exemplify the adventure of living. It
very much attracted by the virtues of Flau was a "pleasant average” person who, awed
bert. Here of course comes to mind what we by the artistry of “The Old Wives' Tale,"
have so often been told about French love of exclaimed: “That man could make a sneeze
logic and of form, French obedience to estab- interesting!”
lished rules of art, and French horror of It is the plain people experimenting in
irregularity. England's greatest poet is to the essentially romantic adventure of every-
the Frenchman "an irregular genius, now and day living in all the dull little Dutch and
then tasteful and touching, but generally in- Danish ports,-ports stagnant, tedious, pro-
correct." “On the continent,” again says vincial, but wistful with the desire for such
Coleridge, “the works of Shakespeare are distraction as the “Velsa's" visits pro-
honored in a double way — by the admiration vided,- the plain people and the pleasant
of the Germans, and by the contempt of the average sights" that Mr. Bennett went jour-
French.” Is Balzac to meet with the same neying to see.
fortune- or will German admiration for
“We passed through Rotterdam more than once,
both Balzac and Shakespeare be melted down
without seeing more of it than the amazing traffic
along with British and French medals ?
of its river and its admirable zoological gardens
GRANT SHOWERMAN. full of chromatically inclined parrots; but we
stopped at a minor town close by, on a canal off
CRUISING WITH MR. ARNOLD BENNETT.*
the Meuse, Schiedam. Instinct must have guided
me, for the sociological interest of Schiedam was
In the days before the war, when the ports not inconsiderable.”
of Holland, Denmark, France, and Eastern The visit to Schiedam,- called by the
England offered happy hunting-ground to down-right Dutch "stinking Schiedam,'-
the wander-loving, holiday-minded wayfarer, took place on a Wednesday evening, the night
Mr. Arnold Bennett, author, and Mr. E. A. of the weekly municipal concert. The tram
Rickards, artist, fared forth together in the which conveyed the traveller to the centre of
good ship “Velsa. The “Velsa” was a activity,
yacht, “smart” but “not conventional," to “rumbled and trundled in long curves of subur-
quote her proud owner, author of the good ban desolation. Then a few miserable shops that
ship's log. For she resembled a very pictur- ought to have been shut; then the square, now
esque Dutch fishing-smack; she carried a jammed_in every part with a roaring, barbaric
piano, an encyclopædia, and wonderful beds,
horde. In the distance, over a floor of heads, was
but had no promenade deck; she could slide
an island of illumination, with the figures of
over shallows, live in any sea, but manifested puffing and blowing musicians in it; but no rumor
a “fierce gaiety” before the wind that might white tram-horse trotted mildly into and right
of music could reach us through the din. The
have disconcerted a less intrepid owner. through the multitude, which jeered angrily, but
With a Dutch skipper, who had never lived fell back. An enormous multitude, Gothic, Visi-
regularly in a house and whose one desire in gothic, savage, uncivilized, chiefly consisting of
life was to go somewhere else, the “Velsa' young men and big boys — the weekly concert of
started on her happy-go-lucky cruise.
humanizing music!
“I left the tram and walked along the dark,
* FROM THE LOG OF THE VELSA. By Arnold Bennett. Illus-
trated in color, etc., by the author and by E. A. Rickards.
empty canal-side to the yacht. The impression of
New York: The Century Co.
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ing. Nevertheless, here, as in other towns, we the glitter” of city-life is at its best in the cafés
were struck by the number of shop-windows with and restaurants, Mr. Bennett is a connois-
artist's materials for sale. Such was Schiedam.
seur of cafés. He finds those of Amsterdam
If it is asked whether I went to Holland on a
"prodigious” and satisfying. Copenhagen
yachting cruise to see this sort of thing, the answer
from the harbor he describes as "a bou-
is that I just did.”
quet of copper domes," and he admires it as
Sometimes it rained inopportunely, and
"a proud city . . . where exposed copper
sometimes the motor broke down. This hap- turns to a beautiful green instead of to black,
pened once in Friesland, where the road is
as in London," and as a city of beautiful
water, and all the world is on the road"; and
women. At Boulogne, where the “Velsa"
the “Velsa's” owner, cook, and deck-hand got
was imprisoned by a gale, Mr. Bennett bought
out to tow, unhappily being obliged to leave
eels, ate them with ecstasy,” and made
the skipper, who alone knew how to tow, on
friends with the herring fishers. He dined in
board.
Bruges, after an absence of twenty years, and
“ The cook, neurasthenic by temperament, grew after dinner, “almost saturated with the ex-
sad, until he fell into three feet of inundation,
quisite melancholy of the Grande Place, we
which adventure struck him as profoundly humor-
were too enchanted to move.
ous, so that he was contorted with laughter. This
did not advance the yacht. Slowly we learned that
As the log of the “Velsa” was written
towing is not mere brute striving, but an art."
down some time before Europe went to war,
Mr. Bennett can of course have had no inten-
At Hoorn, Mr. Bennett records that he
“went mad and did eight sketches in one day." tion of producing a peace document. But as
It should be noted that, while Mr. Rickards
one reads of these leisurely, happy cruises
is official illustrator of the “Velsa's" prog-
through seas now grimly guarded and tragic
ress, contributing many charming sketches of
with war-horrors, to ports now scarred with
the "pleasant average sights” and amusing ramparts or stained with blood and ruin, one
is filled with indignation and regret.
No
human phenomena observed by Mr. Bennett,
the latter gentleman, had he so chosen, might cruise for the “Velsa” this autumn; no such
have been his own artist. For he belongs to
perfect holiday-making as her ship's com-
that amazing group of all-around geniuses, pany have hitherto enjoyed, for years to come.
along with Mr. Chesterton, poet-novelist-
The pity of it is but a minor note in the great
cartoonist, and Mr. Shaw, musician-pam-have found our ideal holidays across the sea,
chorus of war-misery; but to some of us, who
phleteer-dramatist, who practise all the arts,
though they excel in one direction. Besides
the spoiling of the pleasant average sights”
furnishing Mr. Rickards with congenial com-
there brings poignant sadness.
panionship while he worked, Mr. Bennett
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON.
actually contributes a frontispiece painting of
Aarhus for the “Velsa's" log-book.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
The impetus to the mad sketching bout at
Hoorn was furnished by the cheese industry.
II.
"At Hoorn I saw three men in blue blouses
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
throwing down spherical cheeses in pairs from the If you wish to “ see America first," and that,
second story of a brown and yellow and green
too, without leaving your own comfortable arm-
ware-house into a yellow cart. One man was in
chair and cheerful fireside, read “Abroad at Home”
the second story, one in the first, and one in the
(Century Co.), being “ the American ramblings,
cart. They were flinging cheeses from hand to observations, and adventures of Julian · Street,
hand when we arrived and when we left, and they with pictorial sidelights by Wallace Morgan."
never dropped a cheese or ceased to fling. They Brisk and snappy in its style, the book shows keen
flung into the mysterious night, when the great powers of observation in its author and an envia-
forms of little cargo-steamers floated soundless
ble command of the American language (which,
over romance to moor at the dark quays, and the
of course, is the English language at its best, in
long, white English steam-yacht .. with its
certain respects). Mr. Street's frequent invoca-
myriad lights and gleams, glided to a berth by the
tion of apt alliteration's artful aid appears con-
water-tower, and hung there like a cloud beyond spicuously in the table of contents, where headings
the town, keeping me awake half the night while
like “ Bifurcated Buffalo," “ Cleveland Character-
I proved to myself that I did not really envy its istics,” “Detroit the Dynamic," "Automobiles and
owner.”
Art,” “Somnolent St. Louis," and “Pike and
In spite of his fondness for dull little Poker,”. meet the eye in abundance. His sight-
towns, Mr. Bennett also loves great cities
seeing journey began at New York and ended at
San Francisco, and its interest for him lay rather
not for their museums or historic monuments
in the haunts and habits of men than in the unsub-
but for their quality of pulsing, noisy, throng dued wilds of nature. His artist-companion has
ing life. And because the din, the elbowing, | ably seconded his endeavors to produce an attrac-


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tive book, though the drawings content themselves Mr. Bacon now adds “Rambles around Old
with being suggestive sketches, and are not fin Boston ” (Little, Brown & Co.), a leisurely, gos-
ished works of art — a fact that has doubtless sipy, anecdotal sort of book, carrying the reader
helped to make possible their lavish abundance. back to the Old Colony days, and then into the
The season's - wanderer” book from the pen of provincial period and so on to the Boston of
Mr. E. V. Lucas bears the title “A Wanderer in revolutionary times and of final severance from
Venice” (Macmillan). It is neither a guide nor an the mother country of which the city of crooked
historical study; like the earlier volumes, on streets is more reminiscent than is any other in the
Florence, Paris, London, and Holland, its aim is to country. Mr. Bacon does well to distinguish, in
kindle enthusiasm, to create a taste. His mood is his retrospect, between the Colony period and the
varied, but always he suggests that Venice above Province period — a distinction often neglected by
all cities must be enjoyed leisurely. Now he takes our historians and antiquaries. In his pages are
the reader conscientiously to the Accademia, pre-
interesting accounts of the old landmarks,-
pared for a careful study of its Titians, Tintorettos, Faneuil Hall, the historic Common (where open
Leonardos, or Bellinis; again he steals away to S. pasturage continued until 1830), the Old North
Stefano, highly esteemed by him among the city's
Church and the Old South Church, King's Chapel,
churches because it is pleasant and comfortable and Copp's Hill Burying Ground, India Wharf, and
offers “ a harbour of refuge from pictures,” since it other relics of the past, many of them no longer
contains none that need be too diligently scruti-
in existence. Good drawings are furnished by
nized. He writes of a Venice that is passing, - a
Mr. Lester G. Hornby, who shows himself to be
Venice of motor-boats instead of gondoliers, of in sympathy with his theme. All that this notable
cinema theatres crowded in among its ancient ruins, and handsome book needs to make it wholly satis-
or of gramophones that have replaced the Venetian fying is an index.
fying is an index. But perhaps this lack will
minstrel; with equal faithfulness and good-humor encourage a more diligent and consecutive reading
he deals with the Venice Byron loved, or Browning,
of the volume.
or Ruskin, or Shelley. In whimsical fashion he “ Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire"
exclaims at the end of his account: “Where many (Macmillan) is more faithful to the first part of
books could not exhaust the theme, what chance has its title than many another of the numerous
only one? ... Venice needs a whole library to “ highways and byways" books, for its author,
describe her: a book on her churches and a book Mr. Willingham Franklin Rawnsley, has travelled
on her sculptors; a book on her old families and a by motor-car the highways that he describes, and
book on her new; a book on her builders and a he confines himself closely enough to the broader
book on her bridges; a book on — but why go on?” and the narrower avenues which his book-title sug-
Something of all this he does offer, however, in gests. Lincolnshire is a large county, for England,
friendly, sociable, holiday mood. The illustrations and the description runs to corresponding length
in color are by Mr. Harry Morley; they furnish (more than five hundred pages), with many excel-
delightful glimpses of the city. Those in monotone lent drawings by Mr. Frederick L. Griggs. Old
are the more conventional reproductions of famous ston, with its famous church and church-tower,
masterpieces that many guide-books on art contain. the “ Boston stump,” figures rather prominently
Tired of the sight of strap-hanging money and very interestingly in the book. It is this
chasers, bargain-hunting shoppers, dissipated church that has been chosen to furnish a frontis-
pleasure-seekers, and all the throng of other famil piece for the volume. History and tradition and
iar types composing a great city's population, and anecdote combine with topographical description
feeling themselves at early middle age as jaded as to make a variously attractive book. A folding
if they had been on the verge of senility, Mr.
map of the county, showing the main roads in red,
Charles Tenney Jackson and a companion whom and apparently all the towns, with the network of
he calls “ Hen” set out in quest of the fountain railways, follows the index, which is also a thor-
of youth, not in Florida, but in the same latitude ough piece of work.
in the swamps and lagoons of Barataria Bay, Parody, poetry, pungency, persiflage, and sun-
about fifty miles south of New Orleans. The ad dry other constituent elements, not all beginning
ventures of these two men in a boat (which was a with p, go to the making of a humorously enter-
swamp pirogue, a kind of craft never before taining book in Mr. Maurice Baring's “Round the
pressed into the service of so long a cruise) are World in Any Number of Days” (Houghton).
related in lively, idiomatic style by Mr. Jackson, Starting from Tilbury in June, he chased the
with many illustrations from photographs, in a dawn, in leisurely stages, by way of Gibraltar, the
book called “ The Fountain of Youth" (Outing Suez Canal, Australia, San Francisco, and New
Publishing Co.), which will appeal to the large York, where the chronicle ends under date of Octo-
and increasing number of those who find their ber. Of chief interest to most American readers
keenest delight in the wide outdoors of unspoiled are the observations on America. “A street boy, a
nature. And the natives of Barataria, as pre child, in New York," says Mr. Baring in generous
sented by the author, are as little corrupted by acknowledgment of our alertness, " is more nimble-
civilization as heart could desire.
minded, more agile in thought and expression,
If there is anyone who knows his Boston better than the quickest-witted Englishman. He will
than Mr. Edwin M. Bacon, author of various have got there and be walking round him in
handy and useful books about that historic town, thought before the Englishman has begun to ex-
the fact has not been made apparent through the press himself.” He pays tribute to our baggage-
printing-press. To his previous kindred works checking system, and otherwise shows himself to


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be not hopelessly prejudiced in favor of the Euro seems to have been skilfully reproduced by the
pean way of doing things. Amusing drawings by color-printer.
color-printer. The book is published by Mr.
two clever illustrators help to leave one in no Williams at Tacoma and San Francisco.
doubt that the book is not a volume of sermons. Those to whom cathedrals, churches, abbeys, and
A country has as many aspects as there are monasteries are the most interesting features of
pairs of eyes to view it. An American girl's way the European landscape will thoroughly enjoy
of looking at things Japanese, Chinese, and Philip Mr. Michael Barrett's “Rambles in Catholic
pine, is agreeably presented in Miss M. Leola Lands”
(Benziger Bros.), a record of travel
Crawford's “ Seven Weeks in the Orient," a com through southern Germany, Austria, the Tyrol,
panion volume to her earlier “Seven Weeks in and northern Italy, with especial attention to the
Hawaii.” Yokohama, Tokyo, Kyoto, Canton, sacred edifices representing the religious faith of
Hong Kong, and Manila, with occasional less im the chronicler. Many places not included in the
portant and less-known places, were visited by ordinary tourist's itinerary become objects of in-
Miss Crawford and her companion, and the ac terest in Mr. Barrett's pages. Einsiedeln, with its
count of things seen shows the writer to be alive famous monastery and college, Fiecht, with its
to all that ought to interest a touring American abbey, Volders, with its religious house where the
woman, and the mistress of a literary style ade monks of Beuron found temporary refuge on
quate to the needs of the occasion. Rich and
being expelled from Prussia, are among these less
varied is her equipment of adjectives — no super fashionable resorts of sight-seers. Venice, Fer-
fluous furniture in the gorgeous Orient — but she rara, and Florence are the Italian cities visited by
rather exceeds the demands of the situation when the author. Many beautiful tinted views from
she writes of the most extreme southern part of photographs emphasize the attractions of the route
Kyoto.” Sixty-eight pictures from photographs chosen by him, and these illustrations are by no
enliven the narrative, but one wishes that a de means confined to churches and abbeys.
scriptive word or two had been printed beneath
each illustration. The book is published by Mr.
HOLIDAY ART BOOKS.
Howard D. Berrett, 518 Wrightwood Avenue, In the main room of what was once the Bishop's
Chicago.
Palace at Bayeux in Normandy there is to be seen,
Even into Mr. W. Barnes Steveni's peaceful pic- wrought in tapestry, a pictorial representation of
ture of “ Things Seen in Sweden” (Dutton) there the Norman conquest of England." The Book of
has crept a suggestion of militarism in the author's the Bayeux Tapestry" (Putnam) contains seventy-
reference to Sweden's preparedness for the possi six colored panels which collectively reproduce
ble invader. “ Shooting competitions are organ as accurately as may be this famous picture-story
ized on such a scale that this little nation, with a of one of the chief episodes in English history.
population less than that of London, will soon be Mr. Hilaire Belloc writes an Introduction and a
ready to take up the challenge of a much larger running commentary to the quaint pageant. He
Power, if necessary." The book, a compact duo assigns to the tapestry a date not later than 1200,
decimo, is almost as rich in half-tone illustrations and not earlier than 1140, A.D. And in his notes,
of much beauty and interest as it is in reading mat wisely restricted in number, he allows himself a
ter. Mr. Steveni emphasizes the charms of Sweden, sharp hit at the learned historian of the Norman
too often overlooked by tourists in favor of the Conquest, thus: “The Tapestry, of course, does
more familiar attractions of Norway or Switzer not show Freeman's famous “Palisade,' and that
land, Denmark, Holland, or France. In calling for an excellent reason. The Palisade never ex-
attention to the great stretch of diversified territory isted outside the imagination of Oxford.” A map
included in the kingdom, he gives the total length of Normandy and southeastern England opens the
of the country as twelve hundred miles, which book, which is in every respect an unusually fine
looks like an exaggeration by about two hundred example of the printer's, the illustrator's, and the
miles, unless the geographies are at fault. Geog binder's combined arts.
raphy, ethnology, climatology, with other matters As if in celebration of the eightieth birthday of
having less learned names, have gone into the Major Henry Lee Higginson, whose zeal and gen-
making of a good and useful book in this pocket erosity have done so much for Boston's most
handbook of Sweden.
famous musical organization, there comes from the
Many fine examples of half-tone illustration, press an historical sketch, by Mr. M. A. De Wolfe
with a smaller number of colored plates from paint Howe, of “The Boston Symphony Orchestra"
ings by Mr. Chris Jörgensen, have gone to the (Houghton), from its beginnings under Georg
making of Mr. John H. Williams's imposing vol Henschel in 1881-84 to its present approximation
ume,
Yosemite and Its High Sierra.” Expert to artistic perfection under Dr. Karl Muck.
amateur photographers in the Sierra Club, with There is something pathetic in Mr. Howe's picture
some professional camera artists, have contributed of the benefactor's early disablement as a musician
these unusually striking views of mountain scenery. in his own person and his subsequent and, one
It is true that the Yosemite Valley has been repro may add, consequent eagerness to make neverthe-
duced in illustration to the point of weariness, but less his mark in the world of music by endowing
the High Sierra back of it is a less hackneyed with the pecuniary product of his commercial
theme. Mr. Williams's descriptive text necessarily activities an orchestra worthy of the city where
takes a subordinate place in so splendidly illus he makes his home. For a book modestly described
trated a work. A blue tint is used in the pictures by its author as “not the work of a musical critic,
from photographs, while Mr. Jörgensen's work but of an editor and annalist," the present volume


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shows an admirable grasp of its subject, going trated on the book's spacious pages, and he also
into various details that might not have been ex writes an explanatory and appreciative Introduc-
pected. Appended pages give lists of soloists, of tion, which is followed by a shorter preliminary
the entire personnel of the Orchestra, and of its note by Mr. Embury himself. Few architects have
répertoire. Illustrations and an index complete given more study than he to a branch of their art
the book's equipment.
that is rather notoriously ill-paid as compared with
The celebrated chimes of the Low Countries the designing of business blocks and public build-
have never been the object of greater interest - ings. Still young in years, Mr. Embury has won
in no small part an anxious interest — than at the wide recognition for his skill and taste in domestic
present time. Mr. William Gorham Rice offers architecture. The book's illustrations show exte-
therefore a seasonable book in his “ Carillons of rior views (one or two of each house), floor plans,
Belgium and Holland: Tower Music in the Low and an occasional interior. Brief explanatory
Countries” (Lane), a systematic and apparently notes are given here and there. The large, clean-
accurate account of all the more important chimes cut half-tones are a delight to the eye.
whose aërial harmonies typify, to Mr. Rice at Following partly as a sequel to Dean Spence-
least, the peculiar charm of this part of Europe. Jones's “ Handbook to Gloucester Cathedral,"
But he would caution us not to confuse the chime, though independent in character, the same au-
which is attuned to intervals of the diatonic scale, thor's book on “ The Secrets of a Great Cathedral"
with the carillon, which has a chromatic scale and (Dutton) is intended as an answer to “the leading
a consequent greater number of bells than the
questions which are often put to the writer, who is
chime, and richer musical possibilities. Somewhat the chief custodian of a great pile, partly Roman-
of a pioneer in his researches, the author has esque, partly Gothic, as to the signification and
delved for information in the libraries of various origin of certain prominent features of an impor-
lands, besides receiving aid from many persons tant Mediæval Church." These questions concern
who share his affection and admiration for the the meaning and history of the term Romanesque
Dutch and Flemish peoples. Photographic repre as applied to architecture; they also have to do
sentations of famous bell-towers and their groups with the Lady Chapel, the Crypt, the Cloister, and
of bells, with a map of the “carillon region” and Saint Petronilla, with other matters of interest to
a page of carillon music, enrich the volume, which students of church architecture and church history.
also has appended matter of statistical, historical, Illustrations help to make clear the author's mean-
and technical interest. Unusually attractive in ing, and a full index closes the book. The Dean of
many ways is this well-planned and well-executed Gloucester shows himself to be an ardent student in
volume.
his department of research, and his writings are
Initiation into the mysteries of the oriental rug authoritative.
is offered in reasonably brief form, and with a
HOLIDAY EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
generous accompaniment of pictured examples of
this branch of art, by Dr. G. Griffin Lewis in a vol Hans Breitmann is still popular enough to in-
ume of ample page-dimensions, well suited to the sure a welcome for the complete edition of the
purposes of graphic illustration. “ The Mystery | amusing “Ballads," with an Introduction by the
of the Oriental Rug" (Lippincott) is less elabo author's niece and biographer, Mrs. Joseph Pen-
rate and hence much less expensive than the same nell. Most of us owe our acquaintance with Breit-
author's “Practical Book of Oriental Rugs,” but mann to some imperfect and perhaps pirated
it contains the essentials desired by those knowing edition of the verses bearing his name; hence our
little on the subject and wishing to learn more at satisfaction at finding him procurable in full in
a small expense of time and money. Descriptions the tasteful octavo issued (in a limited edition, one
of the thirty plates in the book are appended. regrets to add) by the Houghton Mifflin Co., with
Smaller illustrations are interspersed in the read the title, “ Hans Breitmann's Ballads." Charles
ing matter, and a colored frontispiece shows the Godfrey Leland died while his German-American
splendors of a silk prayer-rug from Ispahan. hero was still one of the best-known characters in
With the fast-diminishing opportunity to procure
imaginative literature. His niece predicts a re-
genuine antiques in eastern rugs, Dr. Griffin's book vival of his popularity, though it may be that not
is one to study and profit by now or never.
all English-speaking readers are just now in the
Mrs. Eliza Calvert Hall's notable work of two best mood to enjoy the strong German flavor of
years ago, “A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets these admirable ballads. The present edition is of
(Little, Brown & Co.), which was commended by pleasing design, and is provided with slip-case
us upon its first appearance, is now offered, in all and box.
its original excellence of typography and beauti By no means new to her readers are the poems
ful, colored illustrations, at a greatly reduced collected in Laurence Hope's “ India's Love Lyrics,
price. Thus brought within reach of a larger | including The Garden of Kama" (Lane). In fact,
number of purchasers, it should enjoy a new lease the collection has gone through a number of edi-
of life.
tions, but not till now has it found its predestined
Unlike “ The Honest House,” already noticed by illustrator, Mr. Byam Shaw, himself a native of
us, “ Country Houses” (Doubleday) exhibits the India and thus more likely than another to have
work of a single architect, Mr. Aymar Embury, breathed in the spirit that animates the poems.
2nd, or as he writes it, after the fashion of reign- | Twenty-four richly colored plates, with smaller
ing dynasties, Aymar Embury II. Mr. Henry H. designs interspersed, fittingly illustrate the two
Saylor selects and edits the plans that are illus- ' hundred (or somewhat fewer, to be exact) love


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lyrics from Laurence Hope's facile pen. Amorous rendering in modern English of Chaucer's poetical
passion in its intensity, described with oriental works; and in that time it has evidently won its
wealth of imagery, is of course the prevailing way into favor with at least some portion of the
theme. Royal quarto in its dimensions, the vol reading public.
ume admits of the most liberal indulgence in wide Christmas without a newly illustrated edition of
margins, large type, ample illustration, and unre Dickens's “ Carol ” would hardly be Christmas at
stricted decoration, although the printed pages are all in the book-world. This year the illustrator is
rather sparingly embellished by the artist. Few Mr. Arthur I. Keller, and of his dozen full-page
more striking productions have come from the pictures eight have the true holiday appearance
press this season.
imparted by unstinted use of cheerful colors.
For the first time Thoreau's essay on "Walking,” | Smaller drawings head the five successive“ staves"
which first appeared in “The Atlantic Monthly' of the “ Christmas Carol,” and a bright binding
for June, 1862, and was soon afterward included and ornamented box help to attract attention to
in the volume entitled “Excursions," is published the book.
the book. (David McKay.)
in separate form. It makes a little book of one
HOLIDAY FICTION.
hundred pages in the Riverside Press series of lim-
ited editions. Thoreau believed that the walker is Appropriate to the season is Miss Selma Lager-
born, not made (“Ambulator nascitur, non fit”), öf's story, “ The Legend of the Sacred Image"
and his praise of pedestrianism is one of the class- (Holt), translated by Miss Velma Swanston How-
ics in its kind. Never was eloquent essay of the ard. An aged peasant couple's faith in the mir-
sort more needed than in this present age of motor aculous power of a certain crucifix in the cathedral
car madness. Back to nature and the natural at Lucca is the theme of the legend, which ends
method of locomotion, is its lesson. (Houghton.) with the granting of the old people's wish as
Already one artist's not unsuccessful attempt to devoutly expressed in prayer at the foot of the
picture to the eye the more noteworthy scenes of sacred image. The story is simply and pleasingly
"A Midsummer Night's Dream” has been noted by told in a dainty white volume that comes in a pro-
us among the more elaborately illustrated books of tecting case, the whole being of pocket size.
the season. A second essay in the same inviting Three Christmas stories by Miss Leona Dalrym-
field, on the part of Mr. W. Heath Robinson, claims | ple make their appearance this season, either as
equal attention and commendation. In a handsome new or reprinted for the occasion. “Uncle Noah's
quarto of nearly two hundred pages, his numerous Christmas Inspiration " pictures the unselfish devo-
full-page designs, colored and plain, show to excel tion of an old negro servant to his former master
lent advantage. The colored plates have each a and mistress, impoverished by the war. His
predominant tint, and appeal to the sense of beauty “inspiration procures the family a Christmas
and charm, while the black-and-white illustrations turkey and is the prelude to other even more joy-
place more emphasis on the comic element of the ous results. “Uncle Noah's Christmas Party"
poet's work. Broad margins, large type, appro introduces once more some of the characters so
priate cover design, and other details are such as agreeably depicted in the earlier book, but it is
to satisfy the æsthetic sense. Messrs. Henry Holt hardly equal to that first story in interest. The
& Co. publish the book.
party is given in a barn by the resourceful old
A reissue of Mr. Kenneth Grahame's already negro, the year after the events narrated in the
oft-reprinted story of his boyhood, “ The Golden “ Inspiration," and it is attended by sundry occur-
Age" (Lane), is justified by the charm of that rences of a glad and surprising nature.
« In the
admirable narrative, a charm felt by backward Heart of the Christmas Pines” is a pretty and
looking maturity rather than by eagerly expectant touching story of love reciprocated, with other
youth. The book is too wise, too sophisticated, too pleasing incidents thrown in for full measure. The
frank in its humorous acknowledgment of child heroine contrives to make the acquaintance of her
hood's delightful illusions, to win the confidence of future mother-in-law without revealing the pros-
the young people, tremendously serious as they are pective relationship, and is wholly pleased with
in their view of things. The illustrator of this what she thus discovers. All three books have col-
sumptuous edition of Mr. Grahame's masterpiece ored pictures and cheerful decorations, and are
is Mr. R. J. E. Moony, whose full-page drawings published by Messrs. McBride, Nast & Co.
are resplendent with the hues appropriate to such Of Christmas stories there is fortunately no lack
iridescent memories of the morning of life. The this season. “Little Merry Christmas” (Revell),
light that never was, on sea or land, illumines both by Miss Winifred Arnold, tells of the happy trans-
the narrative and its pictorial accompaniment. formation of Uncle Lemuel Perkins, alias "Grouchy
Golden ships of antique design sail over the book's Gruff,” by his fascinating little niece, Mary Chris-
broad cover, and colored borders set off the hand-tie, who also has a nickname, “Little Merry
somely printed text.
Christmas." Four scenes in the story are pictured
A new printing of the modern prose English by the artist.- In "How It Happened" (Harper),
version of Chaucer, by Professor John S. P. Tat- | by Mrs. Kate Langley Bosher, one reads how two
lock and Mr. Percy MacKaye, with illustrations lovers were parted by a mere difference of opinion,
by Mr. Warwick Goble, comes from the Macmil and brought together again for a wedding on
lan Co. in ocular demonstration of the deserved Christmas day by a bright, loving, unselfish child,
success of this readable paraphrase of a too-muchCarmencita, worthy successor in our affections to
neglected classic. Two years have passed since the the same author's Mary Cary. The book is illus-
first publication of this, the only complete, prose trated.-" The Rejuvenation of Father Christ-


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as a
mas” (Pilgrim Press), by Mr. J. Edgar Park, Confident affirmation rather than convincing
shows us the salutary change of old Santa Claus demonstration is to be found in Mr. Howard
into a younger and more useful member of society; Sutherland's little book, “ The Promise of Life"
that is, Father Christmas, with his traditional stock (Rand, McNally & Co.), a consideration of the
of shop-worn gifts, becomes Brother Christmas, question of a future existence. 66 The fact that we
preaching the doctrine of “
peace through good were alive yesterday," says the author, "and that
will ” every day in the year until Christmas eve, we enjoy to-day, should convince us of what we
when he is allowed to resume his ancient rôle and call Immortality.” And again: “How can there
bestow presents for the mere joy of giving. Of be an end to life? It is the divine mood made
course there are pictures to point the moral and manifest." Mr. Sutherland holds that “the con-
adorn the tale.— The practiced hand of Mrs. Mary sciousness of eternal life as natural law must be
Stewart Cutting turns itself readily to the telling | inborn, and . . . some are surer of it than others."
of a Christmas tale in “ The Blossoming Rod” Admitting thus the futility of attempting any
(Doubleday), the story of a father's little family proof, he nevertheless speaks with a firmness of
worries and troubles upon the approach of the faith that will produce its effect on his readers.
annual gift-giving day, and of his glad surprise in The book is beautifully printed and neatly bound.
receiving just the gift he most desired, a trout rod. The country house of Mr. and Mrs. Egerton
That it was his own money, handed out in reluctant | Castle, “ high on the southern moorlands of Sur-
driblets to his wife and children, that paid for the rey," is the theme of a pleasing volume from their
rod, gives point to the story. A colored frontis pens entitled “ Our Sentimental Garden (Lip-
piece and decorations in green embellish the book. pincott). Chat about their pet animals, their
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS.
flowers and fruits and trees, the memories and
imaginings that come to them in their “ little para-
No Christmas season is complete without a book dise on the hill,” and all sorts of whims and fan-
on happiness. This year Mr. Robert Haven cies, go to fill the two-score chapters of this sunny
Schauffler collects a number of his periodical volume, which, begun light-heartedly in days of
essays in praise of cheerfulness and enthusiasm, peace, is now sent forth in the hope that,
and adds two new ones, grouping them all under sprig of Lavender, or a Cowslip, by his pillow
the title. “ The Joyful Heart” (Houghton) and might for a moment relieve the blood-tinted vision
explaining in his Preface that the volume is “a of a stricken soldier, so, perhaps, some unquiet
guide-book to joy” and “ a manual of enthusi heart labouring under the strain of long-drawn
asm. Probably it is about as difficult to teach suspense, will find a passing relaxation, a forgot-
happiness as to teach English literature, as to ten smile," in the scenes and characters of " Our
which latter the author says, in a chapter ad Sentimental Garden.” Mr. Charles Robinson sup-
dressed to poets: “ One shudders to think of all plies eight appropriate and beautiful colored pic-
the fellowship money which is now being used to tures and innumerable dainty drawings in the text.
finance reluctant young dry-as-dusts while they What the philosophers and the poets have told
are preparing to pack still tighter the already us over and over again, and what one poet in par-
overcrowded ranks of professors of English lit ticular has well said in the words, Self-rever-
erature'- whose profession, as Mr. Gerald Stanley ence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three
Lee justly remarks, is founded on the striking alone lead life to sovereign power," is the sum and
principle that a very great book can be taught by substance of Mr. Vance Thompson's whimsical but
a very little man.” Still, there are such things as pleasing little volume, “ The Ego Book” (Dutton),
helpful hints to readers of English literature, and which he further calls “a book of selfish ideals."
some books there are that give useful suggestions But if we hold with Polonius that to be true to
to seekers after happiness; and Mr. Schauffler's others one must first be true to oneself, the seem-
volume is one of these.
ingly selfish ideal may be only the unselfish ideal
Dr. Hugh Black's contribution to this season's viewed from another side. Be on good terms with
books has the qualities that have already made him your own ego, the author repeatedly urges us, and
a favorite with those who look for moral stimulus rest assured that the world is his who masters him-
and a serious consideration of ethical questions in self. This lesson Mr. Thompson contrives to teach
their reading. Undeterred by the fact that already through clever illustration and fanciful imagery.
two works of fiction bear the title, “ The Open Calm cogency, sweet reasonableness, propitiatory
Door," he chooses that name for his thoughtful gentleness, anger-dispelling humor, and playful
volume, which considers, successively, the open nimbleness of wit are the agreeable character-
door of our unfolding existence, the laws of the istics of Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers's “ Medita-
open door (which are the law of faith and the law tions on Votes for Women” (Houghton). One
of fitness), the shut door of the past, the door great advantage of meditation over disputation is
ways of tradition, the magic door of youth, the we are not required to reach any predeter-
lure of the open door, the door of opportunity, mined conclusions. We have no nervous anxiety to
the adventure of the open door, and the last open catch any particular train of thought, as we are
door, leading from this to a future life. Apt travelling on our own feet, and are willing to put
illustration and quotation enrich the several chap up wherever the night finds us." He who meditates
ters, but Dr. Johnson would have looked a little is permitted to dwell, if he chooses, on the things
more natural if the printer had not given him a that “go without saying," and he thus assures him-
superfluous “t.” The book is one to read in as self, if not others, that they are still going. Mr.
opportunity offers. (Fleming H. Revell Co.) Crothers finds that “equal suffrage is not the first
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step in an impending revolution, but only a neces issued of Mr. John Galsworthy's story of his
sary adjustment to the results of a revolution that canine pet, Chris. First published in “The Inn
has already happened,” and that “the driving of Tranquillity," this intimate history of a dog
power of the movement for equal suffrage is not has not hitherto been procurable in separate form.
Feminism but democracy.” Entertaining and not “ Memories" is the rather inadequate title it bears,
unconvincing is the author's argument, from the but its other and more ositive qualities atone for
Bible and other authoritative sources, that the the want of character in the title. Miss Maud
“new” woman is as old as the human race. He does Earl contributes nearly thirty colored and uncol-
not profess to remove the weighty practical diffi ored pictures of our four-footed hero in various
culties in the way of woman suffrage," but he helps aspects. Chris shows himself deserving of an
to allay the anxieties of those whose pet nightmare affection little if any less warm than that accorded
takes the form of “ Votes for Women."
to Dr. John Brown's Rab, to Mr. John Muir's
Rose-lovers will enjoy the sumptuous plates in Stickeen, and to other immortal representatives of
color and half-tone found in “ The Practical Book doggish virtues. The book is a thin quarto of
of Outdoor Rose Growing for the Home Garden ” handsome design, its full-page plates being espe-
(Lippincott), prepared by Mr. George C. Thomas, cially striking. (Scribner.)
Jr. Rose-growers will find equal satisfaction in the “Reader, comfortable armchair reader, bilious
accompanying text, which furnishes adequate sug morning-train reader, have you ever posed ?" asks
gestions to the amateur regarding the ordering of Mr. W. R. Titterton in the early pages of his book,
roses, their planting and cultivation, together with “ Me as a Model” (Kennerley). It is a book of
general advice on hybridization. The author is Bohemian reminiscences, of art-student life in
himself well-known as a successful amateur rose Paris, of things that are neither fact nor fiction,"
grower. His field of experimentation has been re the author tells us, but “the golden mean between
stricted to America, and the information presented them which the conscientious writer must ever seek
in this volume has as its base the approximate to find.” He declares it is not autobiography, and
climate of the Middle Atlantic States, with ap yet hints that it may be something not altogether
pended directions for rose-growing farther north unlike autobiography, and so mystifies and tanta-
and farther south.
lizes us to his heart's content. Let us call the book
Those who regret the lack of detail with which a dish of scrambled eggs and not try to unscramble
Gospel incidents are related will greet with ap them. Verse as well as prose goes to its making,
proval Mr. C. R. Blackall's elaboration of the story and a sufficiency of French, largely interjectional
of blind Bartimeus. « The Son of Timeus and expletive, is sprinkled in italics through the
(Jacobs) mainly follows the account given in pages. Mr. Edmund Blampied does his part to our
St. Mark, and evident care has been taken to make satisfaction in three colored drawings and thirty-
the historical setting and other details as correct as seven uncolored ones, the latter being rather better
possible. As thus elaborated, the story's chief than the former. He who opens the book in quest
characters, besides Bartimeus, are his mother, of light entertainment will not be disappointed.
Hamama, his brother Nathan, his sister Rachel, a Mr. Lawrence B. Saint has had the courage to
kinsman, a rabbi, and a few others. Jericho, undertake what might be called a second "Pil-
Emmaus, and Jerusalem are the scenes of the grim's Progress” in his parable of spiritual
various incidents. Excellent drawings accompany adventure and spiritual conquest entitled “A
the narrative, and the whole is printed in brown, Knight of the Cross” (Jacobs), wherein the hero,
with decorated cover to match.
none other than Christian, makes his way, amid
The poet laureate of North Dakota, Mr. James various significant happenings, from the Lodge of
W. Foley, offers another welcome collection of his Spiritual Service to Emanuel's Land and the
hilarious and hearty verses in rural dialect, under | King's City. This undisguised imitation of Bun-
the title, “ Tales of the Trail” (Dutton). In this yan, even to the quaintly descriptive proper
“ book of western verse," as its sub-title styles it, names, inevitably invites comparison with the mas-
the author strengthens his claim to be ranked with terpiece endeared to so many readers from child-
those older poets of the West, Eugene Field and hood; and one may question the discretion while
Mr. James Whitcomb Riley. His lines have the admiring the courage of the accomplished author.
unmistakable ring of large-hearted geniality and But let each read and judge for himself. Mr.
abounding humor. Nearly four-score pieces are Saint's talents include a gift for illustrating, and
given, with admirably illustrative drawings, and this his colored plates and decorative designs give the
is how the last poem,“ The Forum,” ends:
book an inviting appearance.
“ Down to Hicks's grocery store,
This is the fitting season in which to read and
I allow we've settled more
heed the lesson of Miss Margaret Slattery's little
Burnin' questions in a night
book, “ He Took It upon
Himself (Pilgrim
Than the courts - an' done it right.
Press). The examples of Horace Mann, Dr.
Hicks, he allus keeps in touch
Barnardo, Jacob Riis, Judge Lindsey, Mr. Ernest
With the world's crowned heads an' such,
An' there's very little goes
Coulter, Miss Helen Keller, and others, besides the
On abroad but what he knows.
great example commemorated annually at this time,
are briefly but feelingly touched upon in advocacy
But he says to Treadwell Pew
of the unselfish life of usefulness to the distressed
"Who'll I charge them herrings to?!"
and downtrodden. In its pleasing form, with deli-
Dog-lovers, of whom luckily there is no lack, cate ornamentation and appropriate illustration,
will hail approvingly the handsome edition now the book is well suited to gift purposes.


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NOTES
eral of our navy yards and as president of the
Naval War College. Rising to the rank of captain
A novel by Mr. John Galsworthy entitled “ The
in 1885, he retired in 1896, and was made a rear-
Freelands” is to be published serially in “Scrib-
admiral (retired) ten years later. He acted as dele-
ner's Magazine," beginning in the January issue.
gate to the Hague Peace Conference in 1899, was
Mr. William Wallace has prepared a sequel to president of the American Historical Association in
his book, " The Threshold of Music,” which is to be 1902-03, and enjoyed the distinction of membership
entitled “ The Musical Faculty.” It is a study of in both the American Academy of Arts and Letters
the psychological aspects of music.
and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Mr. E. Alexander Powell, who has been serving
The book that first made him famous and procured
in Belgium as the war correspondent of several
him worldwide recognition as an authority in his
American newspapers, is the author of "Fighting department of study was “ The Influence of Sea
in Flanders," which Messrs. Scribner will publish Power upon History," which appeared in 1890, and
shortly.
was followed by kindred works of little less note.
Mr. Elbert Francis Baldwin is the author of a These writings gained for him the half-dozen or
new book on the war in Europe. The work, which more academic degrees conferred by Oxford, Cam-
is to be called “ The World War: How It Looks bridge, Harvard, Yale, McGill, and Columbia. He
to the Nations Involved and What It Means to Us,"
wrote biographies of Farragut and Nelson, chap-
is announced by the Macmillan Co.
ters of autobiography and reminiscence, and at
Mr. Gilbert Cannan is the author of a novel enti-
least one serious work wholly removed from the
tled “ Young Earnest,” which Messrs. D. Appleton commonly associated. We mean his book, “ The
interests and activities with which his name is
& Co. announce for immediate publication. Mr.
Compton Mackenzie's “ Sinister Street," which has
Harvest Within: Thoughts on the Life of the
Christian."
been delayed, may be expected simultaneously from
the same publishers.
A second volume of the essays of Treitschke, pre-
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
senting his theory of a world policy and of the
[The following list, containing 118 titles, includes books
duty and mission of Prussia, is announced for
received by THE DIAL since its last issue. ]
publication in January by Messrs. Putnam. This
house will also publish Mr. John Jay Chapman's
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book, Deutschland über Alles."
India's Love Lyrics: Including The Garden of
Kama. Arranged in verse by Laurence Hope
Three plays by Herr Arthur Schnitzler, “The and illustrated in color by Byam Shaw. 4to,
Lonely Way," " Interlude," and " Countess Mizzi," 158 pages. John Lane Co. $5. net.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. By William Shake-
are to be included in Volume XI. of the “Modern
speare; illustrated in color by W. Heath Robin-
Drama Series " published by Mr. Mitchell Kenner-
4to, 185 pages. Henry Holt & Co. $4. net.
Carillons of Belgium and Holland: Tower Music in
ley. Another book which may be expected at once the Low Countries. By William Gorham Rice.
from Mr. Kennerley is Mr. Sheldon Cheney's “ The
Illustrated, 8vo, 232 pages. John Lane Co.
$1.50 net.
New Movement in the Theatre."
Symphony Orchestra. By M.
A.
De Wolfe Howe. Illustrated in photogravure,
The Arya Samaj” is the title of a study of the
etc., 8vo, 280 pages. Houghton Mifflin Co. $2. net.
movement active in Northern India during the past Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observa-
tions, and Adventures. By Julian Street; with
decade for the religious and social elevation of the
pictorial sidelights by Wallace Morgan. Large
people. The author is Mr. Lajput Rai, a promi 8vo, 517 pages. Century Co. $2.50 net.
The Golden Age. By Kenneth Grahame; illustrated
nent member of the society. The book, which will in color by R. J. E. Moony. Large 8vo, 252
be published shortly by Messrs. Longmans, Green
John Lane Co. $3. net.
& Co., will have a Preface by Mr. Sidney Webb.
Country Houses. By Aymar Embury II.; selected
and edited by Henry H. Saylor. Illustrated, 4to,
“ Builder and Blunderer" is the title of a critical
135 pages. Doubleday, Page & Co. $3. net.
Tales of the Trail: A Book of Western Verse. By
study of Emperor William's character and reign by James W. Foley; illustrated by John Wolcott
Mr. George Saunders. Mr. Saunders was corre-
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$1.35 net.
spondent of the London “ Morning Post” in Berlin Me as a Model. By W. R. Titterton; illustrated in
for ten years and later correspondent of the Lon-
color, etc., by Edmund Blampied. Svo, 188 pages.
Mitchell Kennerley. $2. net.
don “ Times" in Berlin and in Paris. His book Rambles in Catholie Lands. By Michael Barrett.
will be published at an early date by Messrs. E. P.
Illustrated, 8vo, 264 pages. Benziger Brothers.
$2. net.
Dutton & Co.
A Christmas Carol. By Charles Dickens; illus-
trated in color by A. I. Keller. 8vo, 130 pages.
An authority on naval strategy, and perhaps the
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son.
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When They Were Children: Stories of the Child-
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