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Semi-Monthly Journal of
Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information
VOLUME XXIX.
JULY i TO DECEMBER 16, 1900
CHICAGO THE DIAL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
1900
INDEX TO VOLUME XXIX.
PAG I
AMERICAN HISTORIAN, MEMOIRS OF AN 259
AMERICAN HISTORY, TRANSITION PERIOD IN Francis Wayland Shepardson . 94
AMERICAN LITERATURE, TENDENCIES OF, IN THE CLOSING
QUARTER OF THE CENTURY Charles Leonard Moore . . . 295
AMERICAN LITERATURE, THREE CENTURIES OK 485
AMERICAN POLITICIAN, A GREAT B. A. Hinsdale 117
AMERICAN VERSE, A JENTURY OF 257
ANIMALS, MENTAL PROCESSES OF C. C. Nutting 169
BALZAC, HONORE DE Louis J. Block 417
BIBLE STUDENTS, NEW TOOLS FOR Ira M. Price 357
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG, 1900 432, 505
BOOKS OF THE FALL SEASON OF 1900 167
CHINA AND THE CHINESE Wallace Rice 71
CHINA. LATEST BOOKS ON Wallace Rice 305
CIVIL WAR, MR. FISKE ON THE James Oscar Pierce .... 49
COLONIAL TIMES AND MANNERS, RECORDS OF 415
CONTINENTAL LITERATURE, A YEAR OF 65, 89
CROMWELL, MORLEY'S AND ROOSEVELT'S 29&
DEMOCRACY AND EMPIRE James Oscar Pierce . . . . 174
EDUCATION, RECENT BOOKS ON B. A. Hinsdale, A. S- Whitney 97
EDUCATION, SECONDARY AND HIGHER, A YEAR'S PROGRESS IN B. A. Hinsdale 43
EVOLUTION, GREAT APOSTLE OF Charles A. Kofoid .... 349
FICTION, RECENT Wm. Morton Payne 21, 124, 306, 496
GENTLE READER, THE 413
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS, 1900 424, 499
HOWELLS'S MEMORIES 490
HUMAN SPECIES, STUDIES OF THE Frederick Starr 96
I-NovEL, CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF Katharine Merrill .... 11
ITALY, SOUTHERN, RULERS OF Josiah Renick Smith . . . 352
LITERARY CONSCIENCE, A QUESTION OF 115
MANIFEST DESTINY, A CHILD OF Edward E. Hale, Jr. . . . 354
MARTINEAU, JAMES : A STUDY 222
MEXICAN INDIANS, AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ALBUM OK .... Merton L. Miller 52
MIND, ARCHITECTURE OF THE 217
MONT BLANC MOUNTAINEERING 171
MOORS, EMPIRE OF THE Ira M. Price 51
MULLER, FREDERICK MAX 345
NATURE BY DOWN AND PAVE Sara A. Hubbard .... 120
NEW ENGLAND, A GREAT LADY OF Mary Augusta Scott . . . . 261
NIETZSCHE AND HIS PHILOSOPHY Sigmund Zeisler 219
PAGEANTRY OF LIFE • Lewis Worthington Smith . . 495
PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE Franklin H. Head .... 420
PHILIPPINE QUESTION PER SE Wallace Rice 422
PHILOSOPHY, MODERN, HISTORY OF Paul Shorey 225
POETRY, RECENT William Morton Payne . . . 229
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND, Two GREAT H. M. Stanley 93
REIGN OF TERROR, A DAUGHTER OF THE Josiah Renick Smith . . . 228
RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION, SCOPE OF John Bascom 76
ROLAND, MADAME, GIRLHOOD MEMORIES OK Josiah Renick Smith . . . 303
ROMAN ART, DEVELOPMENT OF Edward E. Hale, Jr. . . . 421
RUSKIN, THREE BOOKS ABOUT William Morton Payne . . . 264
SCHOOL, A GREAT, BEGINNINGS OF B. A. Hinsdale 301
SHAKESPEARE OR BALZAC : WHICH is GREATER ? .... Hiram M. Stanley .... 347
SHAKESPEARE, Two AMERICAN STUDENTS OF Melville B. Anderson . . . 492
SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Two . J. 0. P. . 356
INDEX.
111.
SOUTHWESTERN PIONEER, A .... TAXATION AND GOVERNMENT, STUDIES IN TEXAS, ROMANTIC HISTORY OF ... THEOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY ....
THINGS OUT OP DOORS
TRAVEL, SOME RECENT BOOKS OF . . TRAVELS BY LAND AND SEA .... WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY .... WHEAT PROBLEM, THE WORLD'S . . . WORKING PEOPLE OF AMERICA
PAO«
Chas. F. Lummis .... 172 Max West .... 176
Walter F. McCaleb James Oscar Pierce Wallace Rice
E. T. Peters . John J. Holden
122 74 19
267 15
293
266 50
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FALL BOOKS, 1900 . . . BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING, CLASSIFIED LIST OF
BRIEFER MENTION
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
NOTES
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS
LISTS OF NEW BOOKS .
183, 237
30
. . .29, 56, 80, 102, 133, 182, 236, 272, 311, 362
... 25, 53, 78, 100, 129, 179, 233, 270, 309, 358
29, 56, 81, 103, 133, 182, 236, 273, 312, 362, 439, 508
31, 82, 134, 240, 313, 440
... 31, 57, 82, 134, 240, 273, 313, 364, 440, 509
AUTHORS AND TITLES OF BOOKS REVIEWED.
Abbott, Charles C. In Nature's Realm . 19, 502 Abbott, Evelyn. History of Greece, Part III. . 237 Adams, C. K. British Orations, new edition . . 363 Adams, H. B. Educational Work in Baltimore . 98
Adams, John, Story of 129
Addis, W. E. Deuteronomical Writers . . . 234 Adney, Tappan. The Klondike Stampede . . 17 Alden, Raymond M. Art of Debate .... 237 Allen, Charles. Bacon-Shakespeare Question . 28
Allen, Grant. Paris 500
Allen, James Lane. A Kentucky Cardinal, and
Aftermath, illustrated by Hugh Thomson . . 500 Allen, James Lane. The Reign of Law ... 21 Altsheler, Joseph A. In Circling Camps . . . 307 American Art Exhibit at Paris, 1900, Catalogue of 56
American Wit and Humor 504
Among the Flowers, and Among the Birds . . 504 Andersen's Fairy Tales, illus. by Hans Tegner . 436 Andrews, S. J. William Watson Andrews . . 131
April Baby's Book of Tunes 506
Arabian Nights, illus. by T. H. Robinson . . . 507 Archibald, Mrs. George. Joel Dorman Steele . 132 Arnold, Sarah L. How to Teach Reading . . 99 Atherton, Gertrude. Senator North .... 126 Attwood, F. G. Attwood's Pictures . . . .501 Austin, Alfred. Spring and Autumn in Ireland . 269 Babcock, M. D. Calendar for 1901 . . . .505
Bailey, L. H. Botany 508
Bailey, L. H. Cyclopaedia of Horticulture, Vol. II. 180 Ballard, E. G. Liberty, Independence, and Self-
Government 423
Bancroft, Frederick. Life of Seward . . . .117 Banks, Charles E. A Child of the Sun . . . 433 Barbour, Ralph. For Honor of the School . . 505 Barrett, C. R. Short Story Writing, new edition 273
Barrie, J. M. Tommy and Grizel 308
Barry, Fanny. Soap Bubble Stories .... 438
Barry, William. Arden Massiter 24
Barton, W. E. The Prairie Schooner .... 434 Bascom, John. Growth of Nationality .... 100 Baum, L. Frank. A New Wonderland . . . 436 Baum, L. Frank. Wonderful Wizard of Oz . . 436 Baylor, Frances C. A Georgian Bungalow . . 435 Beard, D. C. Jack of All Trades 434
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Beard, D. C. Outdoor Handy Book . . . .434
Bell, Lilian. As Seen by Me 27
Benson, E. F. The Princess Sophia . . . .127 Besant, Sir Walter. The Alabaster Box ... 309 Best, George A. Home of Santa Claus . . . 507 Betts, Craven L. A Garland of Sonnets . . . 232 Bicknell, Frank M. The Bicycle Highwaymen . 434
Blackmar, F. W. Economics 439
Blackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone, illus. by Johnson 429 Blanchard, Amy E. Dimple Dallas .... 506 Blanchard, Amy E. Her Very Best .... 435 Blumeutritt, Ferdinand. The Philippines . . . 422 Boden, G. W., and d'Almeida, W. B. Wonder
Stories from Herodotus 436
Bodley, J. E. C. France, one-volume edition . 273 Bolton, F. E. Secondary School System of Germany 99 Bonehill, Ralph. For Liberty of Texas . . . 505 Bonehill, Ralph. The Young Bandmaster . . 433
Bookman Classics 436, 504
Booth, W. S. Notes for Guidance of Authors . 273 Bo-Peep, a Treasury for the Little Ones . . . 507 Borrow, George, Works of, Lane's edition . . . 362
Bowker, R. R. The Arts of Life 235
Bradby, H. C. Rugby 93
Brady, Cyrus T. American Fights and Fighters . 361 Brady, C. T. Commodore Paul Jones .... 361 Brady, C. T. Recollections of a Missionary . . 271
Brady, C. T. Reuben James 505
Brady, C. T. Stephen Decatur 182
Brady, C. T. The Grip of Honor 307
Brereton, F. S. In the King's Service . . . 432 Brereton, F. S. With Rifle and Bayonet . . . 433 Bridgman, L. J. Mother Wild Goose .... 438
Brinkerhoff, Roeliff. Recollections of a Lifetime 130 Brooks, Amy. Randy's Summer . . . . . . 435
Brooks, E. S. Century Book of American Colonies 432 Brooks, E. S. In Defense of the Flag .... 433
Brooks, E. S. Story of the Nineteenth Century . 27 Brooks, E. S. The Godson of Lafayette . . . 433 Brooks, Sarah W. The Search of Ceres . . .232 Bronson, W. C. American Literature .... 363
Brown, Annie C. Fireside Battles 437
Brown, Caroline. Knights in Fustian .... 24 Browne, G. Waldo. The Young Gunbearer . . 506
IV.
INDEX.
Browning, Mrs., Poems of, " Cambridge " edition 312 Browning's Pippa Passes, illus. by M. Armstrong . 502 Brownings, the, Beautiful Thoughts from . . . 505 Bruneken, Ernest. North American Forests . . 100 Buehler, Huber G. Modern English Grammar . 237
Buell, A. C. Paul Jones 310
Burgess, Gelett. Goops 437
Burroughs, John. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers 360 Bury, J. B. Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Vol. VII. 236
Bury, J. B. History of Greece 439
Butler, A. G. The Choice of Achilles .... 229 Butler, H. C. Scotland's Ruined Abbeys, new ed. 508
Butler, T. E. Nanny 437
Butterworth, Hezekiah. In Days of Jefferson . 505 Butterworth, H. Travellers' Tales of South Africa 505 Byers, S. H. M. Twenty Years in Europe . . 102 Caddick, Helen. White Woman in Central Africa 269 Caffyn, Mrs. Mannington. The Minx .... 127 Caldwell, H. W. American History . . . .133 Canton, William. Reign of King Herla . . . 435 Carlyle's French Revolution, illustrated edition . 56 Carpenter, Frank G. South America .... 269 Carpenter, G. R. Elements of Rhetoric . . . 312 Carpenter, J. W. A Visit to Santa Claus . . . 438 Carryl, G. W. Mother Goose for Grown-Ups . 504
Carter, C. F. The Wedding Day 429
Carus, Paul. Eros and Psyche 430
Carus, Paul. Whence and Whither ? . . . . 236
Gary, Elizabeth L. The Rossettis 426
Castle, Agnes and Egerton. The Bath Comedy . 24
Castle, Egerton. Consequences 307
Century Classics 363
Chalmers, Thomas. Economy of Large Towns . 78 Chambers, Robert W. The Cambric Mask . . 22 Chambers, Robert W. The Conspirators ... 22 Champlin, J. D. Young Folks' Cyclopaedia, 3d ed. 57 Chapman, Frank M. Bird Studies with a Camera 21 Chapman, Frederic. Proverbs Improved . . . 437 Chapman, Katharine E. A Fairy Night's Dream 435 Chapman, S. J. Local Government and State Aid 178 Cheever, Harriet A. Little American Girl in India 438 Cheever, Harriet A. Ted's Little Dear . . . 437 Child, F. S. The Little Dreamer's Adventure . 437
Chinese Empire, Past and Present 71
Charles, Louis. Fortune Hunters of the Philippines 506
Chatterbox for 1900 438
C hoi mondeley, Mary. Diana Tempest, new edition 56
" Chord, The," Number V 439
Church, A. J. Helmet and Spear 436
Clark, G. Orr. The Moon Babies 438
Clarke, J. C. C. Man and his Divine Father . . 77 Clement, Clara E. Heroines of Bible in Art . . 429 Clews, Henry. Wall Street Point of View . . 311 Clowes, W. L. The Royal Navy, Vol. V. ... 358
Cobbold, Ralph P. Innermost Asia 15
Coe, George A. The Spiritual Life 77
Colby, F. M. International Year Book, 1899 . 29 Coleridge, E. H. Byron's Poems, Vol. III. . . 131
Coloma, Luis. Currita 128
Colquhoun, A. R. Overland to China .... 72 Colquhoun, A. R. Russia against India . . . 305
Conner, J. E. Uncle Sam Abroad 102
"Connor, Ralph." Black Rock, and The Sky
Pilot, illus. by Louis Rhead 431
Con way, W. M. The Alps, new edition . . -312 Cook, F. A. Through the First Antarctic Night . 267
Cook, Joel. America 500
Cooper, J. Fenimore. Ned Myers 237
PACK
Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, illus. by Brock . 503 Cope, E. D. Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes . 363 Corbin and Going. Urchins of the Sea .... 438 Cornford, L. Cope. Robert Louis Stevenson . . 53 Costello, F. H. A Tar of the Old School . . . 434 Costello, Louisa L. Rose Garden of Persia, new ed. 362 Coubertin, Pierre de. France since 1814 ... 79 Coues, Elliott. On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer 172
Counsel upon the Reading of Books 361
Cowham, Hilda. Fiddlesticks 438
Craigie, Mrs. Robert Orange 497
Craik, Mrs. John Halifax, in " Illustrated Ro- mances " series 431
Crane, Elizabeth G. Sylva 233
Crane, Walter. Picture Books, large size re-issue 507 Crawford, F. Marion. Rulers of the South . . 352 Crawshaw, W. H. Literary Interpretation of Life 78 Crockett, S. R. Joan of the Sword Hand . . .127 Crockett, S. R. The Isle of the Winds . . 127
Cromwell, J. H. The American Business Woman 181 Crookes, Sir William. The Wheat Problem . . 266 Gust, Lionel. History of Eton College .... 235 Dana, Mrs. W. S. How to Know the Wild Flowers W Daniels, W. M. Elements of Public Finance . . 177 Daskam, Josephine D. Sister's Vocation . . . 506 Daudet's Works, Library edition . 103,133,311,439 David, Psalms of, illus. by Louis Rhead . . . 501 Davidson, Thomas. History of Education . . . 181 Davie, Oliver. Art of Taxidermy, new edition . 236
Day's Work Series 508
Dearmer, P. Highways and Byways in Normandy 55 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, illus. by brothers Rhead 436 De Forest, Katherine. Paris as It Is . . . . 56
Deniker, J. Races of Man 96
De Vinne, T. L. Plain Printing Types . . . .272 Dewey, John. The School and Society .... 98
Dickens's Works, "Temple" edition 425
Dickens's Christmas Carol, and Cricket on the
Hearth, illus. by F. S. Coburn 428
Dickson, W. B. Psalms of Soul 504
Dilke, Lady. French Architects and Sculptors of
the XVIIIth Century 499
Dillingham, Frances B. Christmas -Tree Scholar 437
Dithmar, E. A. John Drew 427
Dodgson, C. L. Alice books, illus. by Blanche
McManus, one-volume edition 436
Doherty, W. B. You and Your Doctor . . . 270 Dole, Nathan Haskell. Burns's Poems .... 273 Douglas, Amanda M. Almost as Good as a Boy 435
Douglas, Langtou. Fra Angelico 425
Douglas, Robert K. History of China .... 2& Drake, S. A. Old Landmarks of Boston, revised ed. 362 Drake, S. A. Myths and Fables of To- Day . . 182 Drysdale, William. The Treasury Club . . . 434 Du Bois, Patterson. Point of Contact in Teaching 272 Du Chaillu, Paul. World of the Great Forest . 434 Dudeney, Mrs. Henry. Folly Corner .... 127 Dugmore, A. Radclyffe. Bird Homes .... 20 Dumas, A. Valois Romances, Crowell's edition . 312 Dunn, Byron A. Battling for Atlanta .... 433 Dye, Eva E. McLoughlin and Old Oregon . . 270 Eardley-Wilmot, S. Our Fleet To-Day . . .101 Earle, Alice M. Stage-Coach and Tavern Days . 426 Echerolles, Mme. des. Reign of Terror . . . 228 Edwardes, Charles. Jones the Mysterious . . 434 Edwards, H. Sutherland. Personal Recollections 130 Eickemeyer, Rudolph, Jr. Down South . . . 430 Eickemeyer, R., Jr. In and Out of the Nursery . 438
INDEX.
v.
PAGE
Ellet, Elizabeth F. Women of the Revolution . 503
Elliott, Sarah B. Sam Houston 311
Elizabeth and her German Garden, and The Soli- tary Summer, Holiday editions 431
Elizabeth and her German Garden, revised ed. 133, 312 Elson, H. W. Side Lights on American History 80 Elson, Louis C. Shakespeare in Music .... 501
Ethics and Religion 76
Exhibition Paris, 1900 57
Farnham, Charles H. Life of Francis Parkmau 259 Farrar, F. W. Life of Christ in Art . . . . 359
Farwell, Abbie. Book of Saints 436
Faust, K. I. Campaigning in the Philippines . . 54 Fellows-Johnson, Annie. Story of Dago . . . 506 Fellows-Johnson, A. Little Colonel's House Party 506 Field, Eugene. Temptation of Friar Gonsol . . 502 Fields, J.T. Yesterdays with Authors, Holiday ed. 428 Finnemore, J. Fairy Stories from Little Mountain 435 Finck, H. T. Primitive Love and Love-Stories . 25
Firth, Charles. Oliver Cromwell 53
Fiske, H. S. Battle of Manila Bay 231
Fiske, John. Mississippi Valley in Civil War . 49 Fitch, Sir Joshua. Educational Aims and Methods 98 FitzGerald's Ruba'iya't, illus. by Florence Lundborg 502 FitzGerald's Rubdij fit, "Naishapur" edition . . 363 FitzGerald, S. J. A. Stories of Famous Songs . 426 Florenz, Karl. Scenes du Theatre Japonais . .272 Flournoy, Th. From India to Mars .... 179
Flowers of Parnassus 363
Folkmar, D. Lemons d'AnthropologiePhilosophique 29 Ford, P. L. Wanted, a Match-Maker .... 427
Fore! Life's Book for Golfers 504
Forrester, Izola L. Girls of Bonnie Castle . . 506 Fox, Frances M. Farmer Brown and the Birds . 437 Frazer, J. G. Pausanias and Other Sketches . 56
Fraser, W. A. Mooswa 436
Fricker, Karl. The Antarctic Regions .... 269
Frisbie, W. A. The Bandit Mouse 438
Frost, W. H. Fairies and Folk of Ireland . . 435 Furness, H. H. Variorum Shakespeare, Vol. XII. 494 Fyles, Franklin. Theatre and Its People . . . 359 Gaboriau, Emile, Novels of, new edition . . . 236 Garlanda, Federica. Guglielmo Shakespeare . . 236
Garrett, E. H. The Pilgrim Shore 504
Gates, Lewis E. Studies and Appreciations . . 438
Gem Classics 431
George, Henry, Jr. Life of Henry George . . 358
Gibson, C. D. Americans 425
Giddiugs, F. H. Democracy and Empire . . .174 Gilbert, G. H. Student's Life of Jesus, new ed. 357 Gilder, Jeannette L. Autobiography of a Tomboy 435 Gilder, R. W. Five Books of Song, revised ed. 236 Gladden, W. How Much Is Left of Old Doctrines ? 77 Glasgow, Ellen. The Voice of the People . . 23 Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, illus. by E. A.
Abbey, new edition 504
Gollancz, Israel. Larger Temple Shakespeare 81, 439 Gollancz, Israel. Temple Classics 56, 273, 311, 507 Gomme, G. L. Princess's Story Book .... 432 Goodwin, Maud W. Head of a Hundred, illus. ed. 431
Gordon, H. R. Red Jacket 433
Gosse, Edmund. Penn's Fruits of Solitude . . 75 Gossett, Adelaide L. J. Lullaby s and Baby Songs 437 Gould, A. W. Mother Nature's Children . . . 437 Goulston, Therese. Loving Imprints .... 431
Grant, Robert. Unleavened Bread 125
Grant-Schaefer, G. A. Pretty Picture Songs . 438 Greene, Sarah P. McL. Vesty, Holiday edition . 503
Greenslet, Ferris. Joseph Glanvill 133
Gregory, Eliot. Ways of Men 80
Grinnell, G. B. Jack among the Indians . . . 434
Gusman, Pierre. Pompeii 499
Hale, Edward E. Emerson 55
Hall, T. C. Social Meaning of Modern Religious
Movements 76
Hall, T. W. Heroes of Our Revolution . . . 433 Halleck, R. P. History of English Literature . 129 Hartmann, Sadakichi. Shakespeare in Art . . 501
Hamer, S. H. Animal Land 507
Hamer, S. H. The Jungle School 507
Hamilton, M. Dishonor of Frank Scott . . . 308 Hamlin, Myra S. Nan's Chicopee Children . . 437 Hancock, W. Irving. Aguinaldo's Hostage . . 433 Hannah, I. C. Brief History of Eastern Asia . 306 Harlan, Esther. Story of a Little Beech Tree . 437 Harland, Marion. Literary Hearthstones, 2d series 428 Harrington, J. W. The Jumping Kangaroo . . 436 Harrison, Frederic. Meaning of History, revised ed. 312 Hartshorne, Grace. In Sweetness of Childhood . 431
Hay, Helen. Little Boy Book 438
Hayes, Frederick W. A Kent Squire .... 127 Headland, Isaac T. Chinese Mother Goose . . 437 Heath's Home and School Classics . . . 273, 508 Henderson and Woodhull. Elements of Physics . 362 Henderson, E. F. Side Lights on English History 80 Henty, G. A. In the Hands of Cave-Dwellers . 506
Henty, G. A. In the Irish Brigade 432
Henty, G. A. Out with Garibaldi 432
Henty, G. A. With Buller in Natal . . . .433 Herford, C. H. Ibsen's Love's Comedy . . . 272 Herford, Oliver. Overheard in a Garden . . . 504
Herrick, Robert. The Web of Life 124
Hill, Joseph A. The English Income Tax . .178 Hinkson, H. A. The King's Deputy .... 497
Historic Towns of Southern States 360
Hoadley, G. A. Brief Course in General Physics 362 Hoffding, H. History of Modern Philosophy . . 225 Holland, Clive. Marcelle of the Quarter . . . 308 Hollander, J. H. Studies in State Taxation . . 178 Holls, F. W. Peace Conference at The Hague . 420 Home, Andrew. Story of a School Conspiracy . 434 Horridge, Frank. Lives of Great Italians . . 182
Hovey, Carl. Stonewall Jackson 311
Howe, D. W. The Puritan Republic .... 74
Howe, Edward. Advanced Elementary Science 99 Howells,W.D. Literary Friends and Acquaintance 490 Howes, H. F. Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene 312 Hudson, W. H. Nature in Downland .... 120
Hughes, Rupert. Contemporary Am. Composers 502 Hume, Martin A. S. Modern Spain .... 179
Humphrey, Maud. Children of the Revolution . 438 Huntington, F. D. Personal Religious Life . . 77 Hutton, R. E. The Crown of Christ .... 77
Huxley, Leonard. Life of T. H. Huxley . . . 349 Hyde, H. M. The Animal Alphabet . . . .436
lies, George. Flame, Electricity, and Camera . 27 Illustrated English Poems ........ 81
Ingersoll, Ernest. Nature's Calendar .... 19
Irving, W. Knickerbocker's History of New York,
illus. by Maxfield Parrish 427
"Israfel." Ivory Apes and Peacocks .... 18
Iverach, James. Theism 76
Jackson, A. W. James Martineau 222
Jackson, Gabrielle. Pretty Polly Perkins . . 435 Jackson, Helen H. Ramona, "Monterey" ed. 425 Jagger, Thomas A. Personality of Truth . . 77
VI.
INDEX.
James, Henry. Daisy Miller, illus. by McVickar 431 James, H. Little Tour in France, illus. by Pennell 427 Jenks, Tudor. Boy's Book of Exploration . . 434 Jevons, Thomas S. The Living Past .... 230
Jewish Year Book for 1900 312
Johnson, Clifton. Along French Byways . . . 428 Johnson, C. F. English and American Literature 129 Johnson, E. G. Memoirs of Madame Roland . 303 Johnson, Margaret. What Did the Black Cat Do? 507 Johnson, W. H. The World's Discoverers . . 434 Johnston, Henry. Storming of Stony Point . .181 Johnston, Mary. To Have and to Hold ... 23
Jokai, Maurus. The Baron's Sons 128
Jones, Mary C. European Travel for Women . 132 Jordan, D. S., and Kellogg, V. L. Animal Life 273 Kaisenberg, M. von. Courtot Memoirs . . . 101 Keeler, Charles A. Bird Notes Afield .... 20 Keeler, Harriet L. Our Native Trees .... 20 Kellogg and Reed. High School Grammar . . 81 Kellogg, Frank E. Boy Duck- Hunters . . . 506 Kendall, E. K. Source Book of English History 439
Ker, W. P. Essays of Dryden 132
Killikelly, Sarah H. Curious Questions, Vol. III. 182 Kingsley,Charles. Water Babies, illus. by G.Wright 436 Knackfuss, H. Albrecht Diirer, English edition 430 Knapp, W. I. Works of George Borrow . . . 362 LaFontaine, Rachel A. Evangelists in Classic Art 430
Lahee, Henry C. Famous Pianists 502
Lang, Andrew. Grey Fairy Book 435
Lang, Andrew. History of Scotland, Vol. I. . . 309 Lang, Andrew. Prince Charles Edward . . . 424
Lamed, J. N. History of England 236
Lazarus, M. Ethics of Judaism 132
Lee, Guy Carleton. Historical Jurisprudence . 130 Lee, G. C. Source-Book of English History . . 312
Lee, G. C. World's Orators 439
Le Gallienne, Richard. Travels in England . . 18 Leonard, Mary. Half a Dozen Thinking Caps . 437 Lesly, Susan I. Recollections of My Mother . 261 Lever, C. Song of Vagabond Huntsman . . . 504 Lewis, E. H. Specimen Forms of Discourse . . 81
Leys, John A. The Black Terror 126
Liberty Poems 130
Lillie, Arthur. Croquet up to Date 79
Little Folks' Illustrated Annual for 1900 . . .507 Lloyd, J. U. Stringtown on the Pike .... 498 Locke, William J. The White Dove .... 24 Loomis, Charles B. Yankee Enchantments . . 434 Lounsberry, Alice. Guide to the Trees ... 20 Lounsbury, T. R. Chaucer's Works .... 273 Loveman, Robert. A Book of Verses .... 231
Lover's Library 428
Lummis, C. F. Land of Sunshine, Vol. XII. . 183 Lusk, Hugh H. Our Foes at Home .... 178 Mabie, H. W. William Shakespeare .... 492 MacCunn, John. The Making of Character . . 99 MacDonell, A. A. History of Sanskrit Literature 102
MacEwen, A. R. The Erskines 133
Macleod, Mary. Book of King Arthur . . . 507 MacManus, Seumas. Donegal Fairy Stories . . 435 Macpherson, Hector. Spencer and Spencerism . 132 Macy, M. L., and Norris, H.W. General Physiology 312 Mahan, A. T. The War in South Africa . . .501 Markham, Edwin. Man with the Hoe, illus. by Pyle 429 Markham, Edwin. Man with the Hoe, " Lark " ed. 504 Malan, A. H. More Famous Homes of Great Britain 424 Mann, Rufus. The Prelude and the Play . . . 124 Mausford, C. J. Bully, Fag, and Hero . . 506
Marvin, F. S., Mayor, R. J. C., and Stawell, F. M.
Adventures of Odysseus 436
Mathews, F. S. Writing Table of 20th Century 28 Matthews, Brander. The Action and the Word . 125 Maury, Max. Paris and the Exposition ... 29 May, Sophie. Jimmy, Lucy, and All .... 437
McCarthy, Eugene. Familiar Fish 131
McClure, A. K. Our Presidents 55
McCulloch, Hugh. Men and Measures, new ed. 237 McMaster, J. B. History of People of the United
States, Vol. V 94
Meade, Mrs. L. T. A Plucky Girl 506
Meade, Mrs. L. T. Miss Nonentity 435
Meakin, Budgett. The Moorish Empire ... 51 Merrick, E. M. With a Palette in Eastern Palaces 18 Merrill, William P. Faith and Sight .... 76
Meynell, Alice. John Ruskin 264
Miles, Austin. About My Father's Business . . 28 Miller, F. I., and Nelson, J. R. Dido .... 271
Miller, Joaquin. True Bear Stories 436
Mitchell, S. Weir. The Wager 231
Molesworth, Mrs. The House that Grew . . . 435
Molesworth, Mrs. Three Witches 506
Montague, Irving. Things I Have Seen in War 26 Montgomery, T. H. University of Pennsylvania 301
Mora, James J. Animals of ^Esop 507
Morley, John. Oliver Cromwell 298
Morley, Margaret W. Down North and Up Along 17 Morris's Pre-Raphaelite Ballads, illus. by O'Kane 429 Morrison, Carrie E. Pixie and Elaine Stories . 436 Morrison, H. S. Adventures of a Boy Reporter . 433 Morse, L. B. The Road to Nowhere . . . .436 Mathews, C. E. Annals of Mont Blanc . . .171 Munro, H. H. Rise of the Russian Empire . . 310 Munroe, Kirk. Brethren of the Coast .... 433 Munroe, Kirk. Under the Great Bear .... 434
Myers, Philip Van Ness. Rome 133
Myrtle, J. H., and Rigby, R. Mother Goose Cooked 438
Neilson, Harry B. Droll Doings 438
Nesbit, E. Book of Dragons 507
Newcomb, Simon. His Wisdom the Defender . 499 Newell, L. C. Experimental Chemistry . . . 312
Newmarch, Rosa. Tchaikovsky 359
Nixon, Mary F. God, the King, my Brother . 307 Noble, Edmund. Russia and the Russians . . 359
Ober, F. A. Storied West Indies 312
O'Connor, E. Scott. Motifs 430
Omar and Rubaiydt, Book of 430
Omond, T. S. The Romantic Triumph . . .181 Opdyke, G. H. World's Best Proverbs . . .430 Oppenheim, Nathan. Care of the Child in Health 54
Opper, F. Folks in Funnyville 504
Orsi, Pietro. Italy 233
Osborn, E. B. Greater Canada 269
Ostrander, Fannie E. Baby Goose 438
Otis, James. Aunt Hannah and Seth .... 435
Otis, James. Boston Boys of 1775 432
Otis, James. Fighting for the Empire .... 433 Otis, James. The Armed Ship America . . . 433 Otis, James. The Lobster Catchers .... 434 Otis, James. With Preble at Tripoli .... 433
Oxford Bible, two-version edition 439
Page, T. N. Old Gentleman in the Black Stock,
illus. by Christy 430
Paine, Levi L. Evolution of Trinitarianism . . 76 Painter, F. V. N. History of English Literature 129 Palgrave, R. H. I. Dictionary of Political Econ- omy, Vol. Ill 180
INDEX.
VII.
Parkin, G. R. Life of Edward Thring, new edition 29 Parkinan, F. Oregon Trail, illus. by Remington 429
Parry, Edward A. Don Quixote 507
Partridge, W. O. Angel of Clay 22
Patch, Kate W. Old Lady and Young Laddie . 506 Peacock, Virginia T. Famous American Belles . 500 Peck, Harry Thurston. Greystone and Porphyry 230
Pemberton, Max. Fe"o 127
Pemberton, Max. Footsteps of a Throne . . . 498 Pennington, Edward. Sir David Wilkie . . .133
Perkins, James Breck. Richelieu 234
Peters, M. C. Wit and Wisdom of the Talmud . 363 Phelps, W. L. Thackeray's English Humourists 312 Philipson, D., and Grossman, L. Selected Writ- ings of Isaac M. Wise 133
Plehn, Carl C. Introduction to Public Finance . 272 Places I Have Visited ......... 236
Pool, Maria Louise. Chums 506
Pollard, A. W. Library of English Classics
21, 29, 81, 236, 273, 361
Pollard, Evelyn. Birds of My Parish .... 360 Porter, Charlotte, and Clarke, Helen A. Browning
Study Programmes 29
Porter and Clarke. Mrs. Browning's Works . . 502 Porter, Jane. Scottish Chiefs, illus. by Robinson 431 Pott, William H. Stories from Dreamland . . 437
Potter, Margaret H. Uncanonized 306
Powell, F. York. XXIV. Quatrains from Omar 236 Praeger, S. Rosamond. Little Twin Dragons . 438 Pratt, Ella F. The Play Lady . . . . . .437
Pratt, William. State and the Church .... 76
Pullan, Leighton. Book of Common Prayer . . 76 Putnam's Knickerbocker Literature Series . . . 508 Putnam's Library of Standard Literature . . . 363 Parker, W. Gordon. Rival Boy Sportsmen . . 434
Plympton, A. G. A Child of Glee 435
Pyle, Katharine. The Christmas Angel • . . 436
Ragozin, Zenaide A. Salammbo 508
Ray, Anna C. Playground Toni ...... 435
Ray, Anna C. Phebe: Her Profession . . . , 435
Raymond, Evelyn. Divided Skates 437
Raymond, Evelyn. Reels and Spindles . . . 435
Raymond, Evelyn. The Sun Maid 433
Reade, Charles. Cloister and the Hearth, illus.
by W. M. Johnson, new edition 431
Reed, Helen L. Brenda 435
Reid, Sydney. Josey and the Chipmunk . . . 436
Reinsch, Paul S. World Politics 270
Reynolds-Ball, E. A. Paris in its Splendor . . 501 Rhees, Rush. Life of Jesus of Nazareth . . . 357 Rhoades, Lilian I. Story of Philadelphia . . . 100 Rhys, Ernest. Lord Leighton, third edition . . 264
Richards, Laura E. For Tommy 506
Richards, Laura E. Rita 506
Richards, Laura E. Snow White ...... 437
Riggs, J. S. History of Jewish People . . . 357 Rittenhouse, Jessie B. The Rubaiyat .... 363
Riverside Aldine Classics 362
Robbins, W. L. An Essay toward Faith ... 77
Roberts, Morley. Lord Linlithgow 497
Roberts, Morley. The Fugitives 497
Robertson, J. M. Shaftesbury's Characteristics . 363 Robins, E. Twelve Great Actors and Actresses . 427 Robins, Edward. WTith Washington in Braddock's
Campaign 505
Robins, E. P. Lotze's Theory of Knowledge . . 81 Robinson, Edith. Little Puritan's First Christmas 432 Roe, Nora A. M. Two Little Street Singers . . 437
MM
Roosevelt, Theodore. Oliver Cromwell . . . 298
Rostand, Edmond. L'Aiglon 354
Rouse, W. H.D. Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 500 Rowland and Ames. Elements of Physics . . 439 Rowlands, Walter. Among Great Masters in Music,
and Among Great Masters in Literature . . 428 Royce, Josiah. Conception of Immortality . . 77 Ruiz, L. A. Cuban-American Tratado Analitico 29 Russell, W. Clark. The Pretty Polly . . . .434 Russell's Souvenirs of Popular Plays .... 508
Sage, William. Robert Tournay 125
Saint- Amand, Imbert de. Napoleon III. at Height
of his Power 361
Saint-Germain, C. de. Practice of Palmistry . . 28 Saunders, Marshall. For his Country .... 506 Savory, Isabel. A Sportswoman in India . . . 268 Sayre, Theodore B. Son of Carleycroft . . . 497
Scidmore, Eliza R. China 71
Scollard, Clinton. Ballads of American Bravery 439
Scott, Clement. Ellen Terry 427
Scott's Ivanhoe, in " Illustrated Romances " series 431 Scruggs, W. L. Colombia and Venezuela . . 356 Sears, E. H. Political Growth in 19th Century . 54 Sedgefield, W. J. King Alfred's Boethius . . 132
Seeley, Levi. History of Education 99*
Seton-Thompson, Ernest. Wild Animal Play . 436 Seton-Thompson, Grace G. A Woman Tenderfoot 361 Sewall, Alice A. Ballad of the Prince .... 437 Sewall, Frank. Kant's Dreams of a Spirit-Seer . 81 Shakespeare's As You Like It, illus. by Low . . 426
Sheehan, P. A. My New Curate 308
Sheldon, W. L. Ethical Sunday School ... 98 Shelton, Jane De F. The Salt-Box House . . 309- Shepard, Morgan. Observations of Jay . . . 436 Sherman, L. A. Tennyson's Princess .... 81
Shirley, Penn. Boy Donald 437
Shuckburgh, Evelyn. Letters of Cicero, Vol. III. 236 Sidney, Margaret. Adventures of Joel Pepper . 437 Sienkiewicz, H. Judgment of Peter and Paul . 505 Sienkiewlcz, H. Knights of the Cross .... 128
Silberrad, Una L. Lady of Dreams 497
Simmons, W. E. The Nicaragua Canal . . . 102 Singleton, Adam. Froissart's Chronicles ... 56 Singleton, Esther. Wonders of Nature ... . 503 Sizeranne, R. de la. Ruskin and Religion of Beauty 265 Skinner, Charles M. Flowers in the Pave . . . 121 Sleight, Charles Lee. The Water People . . . 506 Smith, Arthur H. Village Life in China ... 73 Smith, D. E. Teaching of Elementary Mathematics 97
Smith, F. E. International Law 508
Smith, Gertrude. Roggie and Reggie Stories . 507 Smith, Gertrude. The Booboo Book .... 437 Smith, Helen E. Colonial Days and Ways . . 415 Smith, Mary P. W. Young and Old Puritans of
Hatfield 432
Smith, Minna C. Mary Paget 23
Smith, W. Anderson. Temperate Chili ... 16 Smyth, G. M., and others. The Crisis in China . 306 Smyth, Herbert W. Greek Melic Poets ... 102 Snyder and Palmer. Problems in Physics . . 508
Songs for the City of God 273
Spahr, Charles B. America's Working People . 50
Spalding, Bishop. Opportunity 131
Speer, Robert E. The Situation in China . . . 305 Spence, H. D. M. White Robe of Churches . . 80
Spence, Walter. Back to Christ 77
Spielmann, M. H. John Ruskin 265
Star Series of English Classics 310
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INDEX.
Starr, Frederick. Indians of Southern Mexico . 52
Stead, William T. The Crucifixion 57
Stedman, Arthur. Works of Melville, new edition 362 Stednmn, E. C. An American Anthology . . . 257
Steel, Flora A. Hosts of the Lord 496
Stephens, R. N. Philip Winwood 307
Stevenson, R. L. Child's Garden of Verses, illus.
by E. Marr and M. H. Squire 436
Stevenson, R. L. Treasure Island, illus. by Paget 436 St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas . . . 438 Stoddard, W. O. Ned, Son of Webb .... 434 Strang, L. C. Celebrated Comedians .... 503 Strang, L. C. Prirna Donnas and Soubrettes . . 503 Stratemeyer, Edward. Between Boer and Briton 433 Stratemeyer, Edward. On to Pekin .... 505 Stratemeyer, Edward. True to Himself . . . 434 Stronach, Alice. A Newnham Friendship . . . 435 Sunday Reading for the Young, 1901 .... 438 Sutton, Adah L. Mr. Bunny: His Book . . .438 Sweet, John. American Public Schools ... 99 Swett, Sophie. Littlest One of the Browns . . 438 Symonds, J. A. Shakespeare's Predecessors, new ed. 363 Tappan, Eva M. In Days of Alfred the Great . 432 Tarr, R. S., and McMurry, F. M. North America 80 Taylor, A. N. Law in Relation to Physicians . 311
Taylor, Edward R. Moods 232
Taylor, M. Imlay. Cobbler of Nimes .... 498 Taylor, M. Imlay. House of the Wizard ... 24 Taylor, M. Imlay. The Cardinal's Musketeer . 24
Temple Primers 29, 312, 439, 508
Tennyson's In Memoriam, " Bankside Press "ed. . 428 Thompson, A. R. Gold Seeking on Dalton Trail 434
Thumb-Nail Series 429
Thwaites, R. G. Stories of the Badger State . 182
Tod, A. H. Charterhouse 94
Todd, Mabel L. Steele's Astronomy . . . .103 Tomlinson, E. T. House-Boat on St. Lawrence . 432 Tomlinson, E. T. In Hands of the Red Coats . 433
Tom's Boy 437
Trent, W. P. Verses 232
Trent, W. P. Works of Balzac 417
True, John P. Scouting for Washington . . . 433 Turknett, Flora L. Esther in Maine .... 506 Turnbull, Mrs. L. Golden Book of Venice . . 498 Tutin, J. R. Concordance to FitzGerald's Omar 3*33 Tyler, L. G. Cradle of the Republic .... 180 Tytler, Sarah. Queen Charlotte's Maidens . . 432
United States in 19th Century 439
Urrny, William S. Christ Came Again ... 77 Upton, Florence. Golliwogg's Polar Adventures 438 Vance, A. T. The Real David Harum . . . .311 Valde*s, A. Palacio. Joy of Captain Ribot . . 128 Van Dyke, Henry. The Toiling of Felix . . . 230
PA OK
Vincent, Leon H. Hotel de Rambouillet ... 79 Waddell, L. A. Among the Himalayas, new ed. 312 Waliszewski, K. History of Russian Literature . 102
Wallace, Mrs. Some Oxford Pets 235
Ward, John. Pyramids and Progress .... 16 Ward, Mrs. Humphry. Eleanor .... 426, 496 Warner, Francis. Nervous System of the Child 99 Warner, Hannah. More Bunny Stories . . . 438 Waters, Robert. Flashes of Wit and Humor . 80 Watson, H. B. Marriott. Chloris of the Island . 497 Watson, H. B. Marriott. The Rebel . . . .126 Webster, George S. The Friendly Year . . . 503 Webster, W. F. English Composition .... 182 Webster's International Dictionary, revised ed. . 360
Weed, G. L. Life of St. John 507
Weeden, Howard. Songs of the Old South . . 431 Wells, D. A. Theory and Practice of Taxation . 176 Welsh, Herbert. The Other Man's Country . . 423 Welton, J. Logical Basis of Education ... 99 Wendell, Barrett. Literary History of America 485 Wesselhoeft, Lily F. Doris and her Dog . . . 438 Westcott, E. N. David Harum, illustrated ed. . 427
Westminster Biographies 57
Weyman, Stanley J. Sophia 25
Wharton, Edith. The Touchstone 126
What Is Worth While series 272, 363
Whibley, Charles. Pageantry of Life .... 495 Whibley, Charles. Works of Rabelais .... 55 White, Eliza O. Ednah and her Brothers . . . 437
White, Percy. The West End 308
Whiteing, Richard. Paris of To-Day .... 425 Whitman, Sydney. Conversations with Bismarck 271 Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass, McKay's ed. . 182
Wickhoff, Franz. Roman Art 421
Wiggin, Kate D. Penelope's Experiences, illus.
by Brock 426
Wilcox, W. D. Rockies of Canada, new edition 268 Wildman, Rounsevelle. China's Open Door . . 306 Willcox, W. F., and Newcomb, H. T. Census Plans 81 Williams, Emery L. Alphabet of Indians . . . 434 Williams, Eustace. The Substitute Quarter-Back 505 Williams, Sarah. Through the Year with Birds
and Poets 430
Wilson, R. R. Rambles in Colonial Byways . . 501
Wilson, William H. Rafnaland 499
Wolfe, Theodore F. Literary Rambles . . .429
Women of the Bible 502
Wood, C. W. In the Valley of the Rhone . . 16 Wood, James. Nutall Encyclopaedia .... 273 Woods Holl Biological Lectures, 1899 .... 235
Worrall, Walter. Bacon's Essayes 500
Wooten, D. G. Comprehensive History of Texas 122 Wright, Mabel O. Dream Fox Story Book . . 435
MISCELLANEOUS.
American Publishers' Association, Formation of . 81
Appleton & Co., Reorganization of 133
Bibliographical Institute Wanted. Aksel O. S.
Josephson 48
Chamberlain, Mellen, Death of 57
Christmas Poetry, Recent. Margaret Steele
Anderson • 487
Critic Criticized, A. Clifford Mitchell, M.D. . . 489
Davidson, Thomas, Death of 237
Dolby, George, Death of 362
" Easy Chair " of Harper's Magazine, Revival of . 273 Endowments, Dangers and Drawbacks in. Elmer
L. Kenyan 47
English Literature, Projected Important History of 355 English People, Who are the ? Alfred Nutt . . 70
Hinsdale, B. A., Death of 508
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature . 133 « La Forza d'un Bel Volto." Sonnet by M. B. A. 117
Madison (Wis.) Library, The New 294
Monthly Review, The 183, 312
New Liberal Review, The 81
Oxford English Dictionary, Note on 182
Poets, American and English. George S. Hellman 297
Ridpath, John Clark, Death of 103
Shakespeare as a Duty. Melville B. Anderson . 488 Warner, C. D., as an Editor. L 348
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TRAVELS BY LAND AND SEA. E. G. J. . . 15 Cobbold's Innermost Asia. — Ward's Pyramids and Progress. — Wood's In the Valley of the Rhone. — Smith's Temperate Chile. — Adney's The Klondike Stampede. — Miss Morley's Down North and Up Along. — Merrick's With a Palette in Eastern Palaces. — Le Gallienne's Travels in England. — "Israfel's" Ivory Apes and Peacocks.
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— Miss Keeler's Our Native Trees. — Keeler's Bird Notes Afield. — Dugmore's Bird Homes. — Chapman's Bird Studies with a Camera.
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne ... 21 Allen's The Reign of Law. — Partridge's The Angel of Clay. — Chambers's The Cambric Mask. — Chambers's The Conspirators. — Miss Johnston's To Have and To Hold. — Miss Smith's Mary Paget. — Miss Glasgow's The Voice of the People. — Miss Brown's Knights in Fustian. — Barry's Arden Massiter. — Miss Taylor's The House of the Wizard.
— Miss Taylor's The Cardinal's Musketeer. — Locke's The White Dove. — Mr. and Mrs. Castle's The Bath Comedy. — Weyman's Sophia.
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Primitive love and love-stories. — The earth as a battle-field. — The story of China as a nation. — "Catering to the sky-line." — The 19th century as we might wish it to be. — The progress of modern science. — A cyclopaedia of correspondence and her- aldry. — A lawyer's notes on Bacon-Shakespeare.— Palmistry, with modern adaptations. — The plaint of a disquieted Christian. — A barren philosophy of Anthropology.
BRIEFER MENTION 29
NOTES 29
ONE HUNPRED BOOKS FOR SUMMER READ- ING 30
( A select list of some recent publications. )
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS ..... 31 LIST OF NEW BOOKS 31
CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE I-NOVEL.
A German novelist and critic, Spielhagen, has called the attention of students of the novel to certain characteristics that seem to distin- guish narratives related in the first person from those told in the third person. The novel of the first person he has called, with the facility of his language in the coining of tech- nical terms, der Ich- Roman, the I-novel ; and the phrase is apt enough, perhaps, to excuse an attempt to include it in English critical term- inology. Though Spielhagen applies the word especially to an autobiographical novel, many of his remarks have an application to the struc- ture of narrative of the first person that is generic. The autobiographical quality, indeed, must in any case be relative ; and it is my pur- pose to study on Spielhagen's lines a few novels that are not autobiographical.
Yet if an autobiographical novel is cast in the first person, its directness of form makes it seem to most readers more lifelike and con- vincing. It gains thereby an added degree of personal closeness. Directness, therefore, and a resulting capacity for intensity are the qualities first remarked as belonging to the I-structure. How inherent these are may be proved by the great difference in the nature of some of the novels that the I-form helps to vitalize. From Stevenson's " Treasure Island " to Kingsley's " Alton Locke " and to Bronte's " Jane Eyre " is a far cry ; none of these is in any large sense autobiographical, yet they all possess an unusual degree of vividness. They are representatives of three distinct classes, — the story of adventure, the tract-novel, and the novel of passion. Each of these kinds, if well written, is likely to be intense, but for different reasons. The story of adventure of the type of Stevenson's is intense through the excitement aroused by following the incidents. The tract- novel, written with the express purpose of set- ting forth the author's ideas on moral or public questions, is likely to be intense through the writer's earnestness of feeling and purpose. And the novel of passion, if it really succeeds in delineating some great primary emotion, is thereby certain to be intense.
Now this intensity in the nature of the ma-
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terial is at once aided by the first-person form of discourse. The form agrees with the spirit it clothes. The truth of this analysis receives some proof by the absence, in the three novels mentioned, of diversity of characterization and multiplicity of interests. " Treasure Island " shows little breadth of characterization, though it reveals some vivid figures ; and its interest is single. " Alton Locke " has a gifted tailor for a hero, and is concerned with portraying him as a tailor and a workman. Conditions, rather than people, are pictured and characterized, and these conditions are strictly limited both in extent and time. Compared with " Marcella," for example, which is less distinctly a tract- novel, " Alton Locke " has a much more con- fined range of interest and characterization. " Jane Eyre " is remarkable for its narrow range, for its singleness of effect. Two per- sons, two only, stand out in high relief from a background offering little variety of scenery, personage, or incident. We pass far into the hearts of those two, and that suffices. " The Vicar of Wakefield," also an I-novel and one not closely autobiographical, has again not much diversity of character, incident, or con- dition. This novel is the history of a group rather than of one ; but of strictly narrative material it contains little not directly connected with this immortal group. None of these novels attempts to give the life of a community, none of them possesses epic fulness ; none of them accomplishes an equally full, just, and lively delineation of several personages, such as is found in many third- person novels. They contrast markedly in this particular with " Middlemarch," for example, with its complex plot, its skilful portrayal of diverse character, and its varied background ; or, again with Meredith's "Egoist," where, though a relatively small company of persons is studied, and the background is slight, we yet find subtle and elaborate analysis of one after another of the chief figures. To such work as this the I-form is not adapted.
The reason for this is that the I-form com- pels a certain unity or singleness of structure because of the structural importance of the narrator. The whole story must, of course, pass through the mind of the I-narrator ; he must be present everywhere, and in a way ab- sorb everything into himself. Unity of material is indeed not required ; for this structural unity dependent on the narrator is so inherent that it can hold together a great diversity of mate- rial. This is why in a story of adventure of
the picaresque type, in which there is little logical connection between incidents and slight study of character, there is nevertheless one kind of structural unity : — the unity, namely, of a biography. But in such stories concen- tration or intensity of feeling is impossible. " Roderick Random," here used as representa- tive of this type, shows life from many points of view, and has a varied background. Yet everything is seen superficially, and is sub- jected to the demands of the hero in his role of adventurer. In fact, the I-novel of the single- narrator type cannot, or at least does not, as the third-person form may, include both breadth and intensity. Dickens's " Copperfield " and " Great Expectations " (of the novels here studied) most nearly succeed in doing this. And yet the quality of these I-novels is not essentially different from that of Dickens's other stories, and it is not the quality (it lacks, indeed, the element of intensity) of either " The Egoist," " Jane Eyre," or " Treasure Island." Looked at from this point of view, Dickens's I-novels are more akin to " Roderick Random."
This structural importance of the narrator is certainly one of the most noteworthy charac- teristics of the I-novel. The narrator always remains the structural centre, even if he is by no means the most interesting personage. In a story like " Cranford," where the narrator scarcely claims the reader's attention, he yet remains the connecting link or the motive power of a whole group, furnishing — so far as there is any — the logic of their appearances and behavior.
But if the I-form can partially unify diver- sity and reinforce intensity, it yet has also special off-setting difficulties. The problem of legitimacy, of rendering natural the narrator's knowledge and ignorance, his presence and his absence, his acting and his not acting, is not easy of solution. The difficulty peculiar to the I-form lies in the fact that the narrator is a double personage. Logically, he of course rep- resents the author, yet he is also a figure in the story. As author he is bound — if the novel is to have the higher artistic effects of which narrative is capable — to prepare the reader for what is to come. Being the pivot on which the structure turns, he rather than the other personages must carry the chief bur- den of this preparation. Yet as one of the figures in the story, the narrator must himself not see what it is too early for him to see ; and even after he has the knowledge that would
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naturally lead to action, he must not act before the proper time. He must be a transparent medium through which the reader may dimly behold the future, himself remaining passive, unresisting, and unperceiving ; nevertheless, he is supposed to be endowed with the usual de- gree of intelligence and activity. This is the crux of the I-form. How shall this double personality be maintained with lifelikeness ? How solve the problem that demands from the narrator enlightenment of the reader and at the same time blindness or inaction in himself? The magnitude of the problem of legitimacy is apparent when a master like Stevenson re- sorts to such a trick as that on which " Treas- ure Island " hinges, — the boy-hero, with no malice prepense, climbing into 'a nearly empty apple-barrel and falling asleep ; to be oppor- tunely waked to hear the treachery of the ship's crew. The hero's knowledge of what occurs on the island — aside from what happens to him- self, which is far more important — is legiti- mated by making him an eaves-dropper. Indeed, eaves-dropping or accidental overhear- ing is a device used in nearly every one of the novels here studied. Accident is, of course, an easy mode of legitimation. It necessarily plays some part in any picture of life, but the reader dislikes the too frequent or the too opportune accident. " Roderick Random," for example, uses chance so abundantly and so unskilfully as fairly to arouse resentment. The problem of legitimacy here, as in other similar stories, chiefly concerns the sudden changes of fortune undergone by the hero ; and these are due, not to his character, but to a stroke of good or ill luck. " The Vicar of Wake- field " shows especially the difficulty of bring- ing the persons together ; a difficulty naturally greater after the narrator is in prison, where he is nevertheless to meet all the others. Nor is the problem well solved in " Jane Eyre." Here the preparation of the reader is directly and seriously at variance with the needed ignorance of the heroine. How can Jane come so near the lunatic as she does, and witness so much of the results of frensy, without divining the truth ? Her ignorance is legitimated, but hardly adequately, by Rochester's preliminary order to withhold all knowledge of the crazy woman from the governess, and later by his personal care to silence any suspicions she has. Scrutiny of the plot reveals other improbabilities ; but of this novel the incidents and the plot, though single and strong in places, are swallowed up in the intensity with which the author presents
the themes of love, separation, and reunion. To her the presenting means must have been a minor matter. The novels analyzed seem to show that the I-structure is especially effective in a story built upon adventure or upon some masterful passion or personality. In these cases the problem of legitimacy, while always obstinate, no doubt, is nevertheless capable of a somewhat satisfactory solution because of the dominance of the narrator-hero, or because of the limited range of interests necessary to suc- cess. Obviously the novels of Dickens do not belong wholly to either of these classes or to the type represented by " Roderick Random." They seem to be organized according to no rule or pattern, are often carelessly organized and extended beyond due bounds. With all their complexity one expects the problem of legiti- mation in " David Copperfield " and " Great Expectations " to assume unusual proportions. But Dickens is helped by the very looseness of his structure. Neither of these novels has a scenic plot-centre — a scene that brings all the personages together in a confusion or a combi- nation of interests. The heroes are accordingly never obliged to meet many of the persons at once, and the connection of scene with scene is made largely by their own voluntary acts. Moreover, in the structure of the stories there are some ragged ends. If the legitimation, therefore, is not uncommonly difficult in these long and intricate I-novels, this is chiefly be- cause Dickens evades it, as he does also in his third-person novels.
One other difference in the structure of the two forms of narrative is noticeable. It con- sists in the treatment accorded author's com- ment.
Author's comment is a term applied to what- ever departs from pure narrative by way either of generalization from individual instances, of direct address to the reader, or of expression of feeling not dramatized in some personage, but seen to be the author's own. In the third- person novel such reflection or appeal is re- garded by some critics as not properly a part of the story. However apt it may be, or pleasant to the reader, from the standpoint of narrative structure it is declared to be an excrescence, because it is not objectified in the thoughts and acts of the personages but re- mains separate and abstract. In any piece of fiction, comment closely approaches logically the narrative of thoughts much used in modern novels as a means of character-analysis. Log- ically, this narrative of thoughts is in part the
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author's comment upon the character he is portraying; but structurally it holds a different relation to the work from that of the comment defined above, because it is objectified and individualized, and is thus truly incorporated with the narrative. Now the peculiarity of the I-form is that it objectifies and incorporates all comment by making it the direct utterance of the I-narrator. Critics who object to com- ment in the third-person form must admit that in I-narrative it gains the structural right of entrance, because the narrator is present in his own story and has full liberty to relate either his deeds or his thoughts. In the I-novel, accordingly, the relation between narrative of thoughts and author's comment in the strict sense is sometimes so close as to make the dif- ference almost indistinguishable. The differ- ence lies, however, so far as it may be perceived at all, in the fact of generalization. Author's comment becomes objectified, indeed, to the extent that it is uttered by the I-narrator ; but yet it is only half dramatized, it may still serve the author's philanthropic or homiletic purpose, it still stops the narrative of events ; it is gen- eralized, and thus it has the value of an essay or a sermon. If the comment, however, springs really from the thoughtful habit of mind in the author, the statements just made presup- pose some identity between the author and the hypothetical narrator. And this fact points to what seems to be actually the case, that in I-novels wherein there is but slight spiritual relationship to the author — in stories he has told for the sake of spinning a yarn — not much comment is recognizable as author's reflection. Stevenson's stories are an instance. But in all I-novels where there is close relationship be- tween the author and the narrator, comment may be expected and its legitimacy fully granted.
Nevertheless, the structural incorporation thus of author's comment is a two - edged weapon. Though greater freedom is thereby allowed the author to reflect on life, to discuss moral or public questions, than could be easily admitted in a third-person novel, yet this same freedom tempts him to pass beyond the bounds of liveliness or of naturalness. He is tempted, if he has at heart some great question, to make the I-narrator the mouthpiece of his anxieties and his plans to such an extent that the novel becomes a tract, a servant of the age without permanent artistic value. This is true of " Alton Locke." Or, the author is tempted to overlay the narrative with such an amount of observation and reflection, part of which may
be inconsistent with the person uttering it, that the novel loses its dramatic interest without being recompensed by the logical fulness and consistency of a treatise. This is illustrated by Besant's novel " Dorothy Wallis." The I-nar- rator becomes in such cases as these, so far as he is a fictitious personage, a victim of the author's zeal for humanity, and is immolated on the altar of progress.
Possibly few things furnish a better test of the character of a novelist's gift than the fre- quency of his comment and the nature of the things he says. " Jane Eyre," though it has scattered addresses to the reader, is uncom- monly free from reflection as a thing apart from the body of the story. The nature of the work is almost purely narrative. Dickens's I-novels show the same slightness of reflection as on the whole is usual in his works. His gift is not in the direction of thought. The same may be said of Smollett. On the other hand, Kingsley's book, overloaded with com- ment and not ballasted by a dramatic plot, proves him a moralist and a preacher quite as readily as do his sermons or his fondness for quoting Carlyle. " The Vicar of Wakefield," perhaps the most truly genial of any of these books, is after all weighted with no small amount of eighteenth century sententiousness. One or two chapters are entirely filled with abstract essays, curiously legitimated by being delivered as sermons by the Vicar. A similar device is used by Kingsley. To Sterne, of course, one turns for examples par excellence of comment ; since, indeed, the comment in some sense vitalizes his work. But in this as in other things " Tristram Shandy " illustrates not the ordinary workings of the I-structure ; rather only some of its peculiarities exaggerated into fantastic oddity. Hence, after all, it may be said that though I-narrative doubtless in theory allows comment, none of the novels here an- alyzed, except the two mentioned, makes much undue use of the liberty ; and the remark sug- gests itself that even an I-novel is an uncertain vehicle for social or philosophical disquisition.
Other characteristics and other forms of I-narrative must be studied before positive conclusions can be reached concerning its na- ture ; perhaps, however, enough has here been done to show that the I-form adapts itself with remarkable ease either to material intense and concentrated in feeling, or to material which, subordinating emotion, is flowing and compre- hensive in incident.
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TRAVELS BY LAND AND SEA.*
Information about the Pamir region of Cen- tral Asia — that once terra incognita to the north of the Hindu-Kush range poetically known as the Roof of the World — is now ac- cessible in a number of good books written from different political view-points. The re- gion is a rather tempting one to the explorer and the sportsman ; but perhaps its chief in- terest just now lies in the fact that it marks the point where the jurisdictions of three Em- pires, the British, the Russian, and the Chi- nese, meet in rivalry — although the China- man does not seem to count for much there as a competitor.
The latest literary traveller in this debatable land of high plateau and towering peak is Mr. Ralph P. Cobbold, who records his experiences and impressions, and gives vent to some very decided opinions, in a handsome volume of 350 odd pages entitled " Innermost Asia." Mr. Cobbold's book is ostensibly and essen- tially a story of travel and sport in the Pamirs ; but, as a Briton of the strenuous type and an ex-officer in the army to boot, he does not let slip the opportunity to dilate vigorously on the political questions connected with the country he visited. It is due to Mr. Cobbold to say that a portion of the country he saw has never before been viewed by an Englishman, and that his enforced detention by Russian officials at an outlying post gave him an exceptional op- portunity for studying Russian administrative methods in newly annexed territory. These methods are partly exemplified in the following incident :
* INNERMOST ASIA : Travel and Sport in the Pamirs. By Ralph P. Cobbold. Illustrated. New York : Charles Scrib- ner's Sons.
PYRAMIDS AND PROGRESS: Sketches from Egypt. By John Ward, F.S.A.; with introduction by Rev. Professor Sayce. Illustrated. New York : E. & J. B Young & Co.
IN THE VALLEY OP THE RHONE. By Charles W. Wood, F.R.G.S. Illustrated. New York : The Macmillan Co.
TEMPERATE CHILE : A Progressive Spain. By W. Ander- son Smith. With frontispiece. New York : The Macmillan Co.
THE KLONDIKE STAMPEDE. By Tappan Adney. Illus- trated. New York : Harper & Brothers.
DOWN NORTH AND UP ALONG. By Margaret Warner Morley. Illustrated. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
WITH A PALETTE IN EASTERN PALACES. By E. M. Mer- rick. Illustrated. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons.
TRAVELS IN ENGLAND. By Richard Le Gallienne. Illus- trated. New York : John Lane.
IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS. By " Israfel." New York : A. Weasels Co.
" One day I had an interesting opportunity of seeing how the Russian conquerors treat their subject races. I happened to be at the Consulate when an Andijani merchant called on some business, and was promptly invited to enter. He was treated as an honored guest ; the Russian officers chatted with him on terms of inti- macy, and to watch him seated in the Consul's private room as he partook of tea and fruit one would have supposed him to be a cherished friend. The following morning I observed the same merchant making a hur- ried exit through the Consulate gates, his progress be- ing skilfully accelerated by the whips of the Cossacks. From inquiries I gathered that the merchant had done something of which the Consul-General did not approve, or had failed to do something which Petrovsky wished him to do."
Nor do the Russian proconsuls, as it seems, hesitate to resort to extreme measures of com- pulsion with Chinese officials, even where the latter are, with the Russians, in joint control of the district. For instance, at Kashgar, the resident mandarin, or Taotai, proving stubborn on some small point of disagreement, it was arranged to lure him into the Consulate under the pretence of treating him to a Russian vapor bath. A treat of a very different order, how- ever, was in store for the learned Confucian and representative of the Dragon Throne. It was arranged that while the great man was en- joying his ablutions he was to be seized by four stout Cossacks and soundly whipped until his mind was open to a rational, or Russian, view of the point in dispute. Thus, as Prince Ukhtomsky beautifully says, is the advance of Holy Russia in the Orient inspired by her motto, " Power lies not in strength, but in love."
It was on September 13, 1897, that Mr. Cobbold set out from Srinagar, by the military road through Gilgit and Hunza, on his long- planned visit to the Pamirs. After an inter- esting and adventurous two-months' journey he reached Kashgar, where a rather protracted stay furnished him material for a pleasant chapter. Vierny, nearly five hundred miles distant, was the next considerable halting- point, and here the author enjoyed a tiger- hunt. We say enjoyed, although at one time the tables were very near being turned on Mr. Cobbold, the reader being wrought up to a pleasing pitch of uncertainty as to whether in the end it was going to be the gentleman or the tiger. From Vierny Mr. Cobbold returned to Kashgar, where he obtained a permit to visit the Russian Pamirs. This privilege led to an arduous journey and some trying adven- tures, as well as to an object-lesson in the methods of Russian officials, who detained Mr. Cobbold for some time as a prisoner on parole, in spite of his permit and his sacrosanct quality
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as a British subject. Freed from the clutches of his polite and hospitable but inexorable captors (who seem to have regarded him as a possible spy), Mr. Cobbold resumed his jour- ney in no sentimental mood, and on July 7 crossed the Chinese frontier, of which he says : " I confess that at this part of my journey I felt par- ticularly radiant. I had realized my ambition to visit the mighty Oxus in that part of its course which is quite unknown to Englishmen. I had crossed the dis- trict of Roshan, and visited the unknown region of Shighnan, which had been closed to Europeans ever since they had been under Muscovite dominion. I had crossed the Panja and visited the outermost stronghold of Afghan power at Kala Bar Fanja, and I had seen the inside of the two most outlying Russian strongholds in innermost Asia, and I realized that the hardships I had met with had not been endured in vain."
Mr. Cobbold's book will be found both en- tertaining and instructive, and must, we think, take rank as a standard work of reference on the subject. Those who scout its political views must admit the value of its descriptions. It is handsomely illustrated and well provided with maps.
Mr. John Ward's charmingly illustrated volume of travel-sketches from Egypt, entitled "Pyramids and Progress," seems almost an ideal book for the use of tourists looking Nile- wards who wish to make the most of the jour- ney in the way of both pleasure and profit. As Professor Sayce observes, in his thoughtful Introduction, the traveller who would learn all that a voyage up the Nile can teach him must have the seeing eye and the hearing ear, and possess, moreover, the understanding mind; and it is for such that Mr. Ward's book is written. Mr. Ward has not written as an an- tiquarian merely. In his descriptions, infor- mation as to the vestiges of ancient Egyptian civilizations is judiciously mingled with infor- mation as to the Egypt of to-day, the land of nascent progress in which Lord Cromer and his staff of administrators and engineers are working so many wonders. The great works of irrigation now in progress, the enormous barrages and reservoirs destined to regulate the flow, check the waste, and double the area of fertilization of the Nile, are fully described. Mr. Ward's scholarly and concise book is a model one of its kind, and may be cordially recommended to the intelligent tourist, and to the reader in quest of general information.
Reading Mr. Charles W. Wood's chatty and enthusiastic account of his tour " In the Valley of the Rhone" is nearly as good as making the trip one's self — rather better, in-
deed, in some regards and for not a few tem- peraments. As Schopenhauer says, the ex- pression " to enjoy one's self at Paris " instead of " to enjoy Paris " is a profoundly accurate one. At all events, Mr. Wood clearly has the capacity for having an immensely good time, as every page of his book attests. For an F.R.G.S., he seems a rather sentimental trav- eller, and has not, we think, wholly neglected the immortal model of the historian of Father Lorenzo and the caged starling. But the sug- gestion of a model is slight and unobtrusive ; and of good set description and nuggets of ac- tual information in the guide-book way there is no lack. Mr. Wood's starting-point was Mon- treux, in the upper, or Swiss, Rhone valley ; and his itinerary for this region embraced the best towns of the cantons of Vaud and Valais — Territet, Caux, Chillon, Sion, St. Maurice, Martigny, Orsieres, Liddes, Geneva. The St. Bernard Hospice was visited, of course. The lower or French valley was "done" in leisurely fashion. From Lyons a delightful excursion by train and diligence was made to the Au- vergne district. Aries was made the rallying- point for a series of delightful jaunts, and Mr. Wood does not omit the customary tribute to the fair Arlesiennes.
" Fair women ? They are indeed fair women. We had long heard of the charm of the Arldsiennes. but our imagination fell short of the truth. We never an- ticipated such a galaxy of beauty — beauty of a noble and splendid type. They are said to have retained the old Roman type of the earlier centuries, and apparently it is so. In no other way can one explain the phenom- enon — for it is nothing less than a wonder."
A trip to Aries is evidently well worth while. Les Baux, Mont Major, St. Remy, La Ca- margue, St. Gilles, Aignes-Mortes, Avignon, Villeneuve, St. Peray, Vienne, were visited and explored, with pleasant results. In short, Mr. Wood's book is an exceptionally lively and readable one, with a due savor of litera- ture and scholarship, and an element of decided interest and charm in the eighty-eight artistic drawings that enrich it.
In Mr. W. Anderson Smith's " Temperate Chile " will be found a rather severely critical yet friendly and impartial account of that en- ergetic and combative little state, its people, politics, resources, customs, and geographical features. The book is soberly written, and with a view to the instruction rather than en- tertainment of the reader, being filled with solid information and carefully drawn conclu- sions. Mr. Smith evidently believes in the
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future prosperity and political stability of Chile, though things are at present in a rather raw and inchoate condition. Intemperance is common, and homicides are shockingly frequent.
" When a large bottle of very strong and fiery alco- holic spirit can be bought for about sixpence, and living is otherwise cheap, the natural consequence is a large consumption. . . . Scarcely a day passes in Santiago without two or three murders; and it is commonly as- serted and believed that 1,500 to 1,800 men are annu- ally victims of violence between Valparaiso and San- tiago."
Chile is as yet but nominally republican, many of the old semi-aristocratic or oligarchic au- thorities and abuses having, in point of fact, survived the Revolution, and a more or less vicious and ignorant priesthood still blights the minds and morals of the people.
" In place of a fresh new republican tree we have a weak republican graft on the old oligarchy, that re- mains still largely in evidence. The wealth seized from Peru has aggravated rather than relieved the situation. It has increased the number of parasites removed from the possible workers in the more beneficial paths of in- dustry and commerce. Like a hive of bees that has robbed its neighbor, Chile is in danger of becoming a nation of professional thieves, rather than steady devel- opers of its undoubtedly valuable resources. ... A restraining and modifying influence is, however, ap- parent in all the growing centres of population. The educated and struggling middle class is increasing at a far greater ratio than the lower, with which insanitary surroundings and ways of life, aided by the knife and aguardiente, wage continual and effective war. The public press is outspoken and increasingly liberal, edu- cation advancing on sound lines, and every act of gov- ernment criticized keenly and discussed with heat in every bar and cafe."
Those in need of solid information as to Chile's present condition and her outlook should not neglect Mr. Smith's book. It has an index and a good map.
On June 16, 1897, the steamer " Excelsior," of the Alaska Commercial Company, steamed to her dock near the foot of Market Street, San Francisco ; and that night the wires flashed over the country the news that a part of her cargo was $750,000 in gold-dust, an earnest of what was going to prove the richest " strike " in all American mining history. On June 17, another boat, the " Portland," reached Seattle, bringing 8800,000 more of what newspaper economists and stump orators call the " yellow metal "; and the Coast was presently " gold crazy " once more. The rush to the Klondike began. On the 28th of July Messrs. Harper & Brothers of New York commissioned a corre- spondent to go to Dawson to procure news and pictures of the gold-fields. Mr. Tappan Adney was the one chosen for the work ; and on July
30 he started for the West, specially equipped with one year's photographic outfit. Arrived at the scene of operations, Mr. Adney plunged manfully into the thick of the fray, doing at the Klondike as the Klondikers did, and study- ing in all its phases the life at the new Eldo- rado. The literary and pictorial result of his expedition is embodied in a comely volume of nearly five hundred pages, entitled "The Klon- dike Stampede." It is a racy and graphic book, full of hints and counsels for the tyro, in which one may view through the eyes of a keen observer the Klondike drama in its pecu- liar phases. Social life, we learn, adorned and softened by the presence of the fair sex, was not lacking at Dawson. Indeed, there was a good deal of it. It centred at a dance-hall known as " Pete's," the fashionable Almack's of the place. Its presiding genius, after "Pete" himself, was the "caller-off," a strenu- ous and voluble young man whose function it was to keep the fun going, and, incidentally, the whiskey flowing. Bashful " gents " with the wall-flower habit were urged into action, and economical "gents" were shamed into bursts of prodigality. When the music struck up, the exhorter began :
" ' Come on boys — you can all waltz — let's have a nice, long, juicy waltz;' and then, when three or four couples had taken the floor . . . the fun began. . . . Hardly had the dancers stopped before the caller-off, upon whose skill in keeping the dances going depended the profits of the house, began again in his loud voice, coaxing, imploring — ' Come on boys,' or, < Grab a lady, boys, V have a nice quadrille.' And so it went on all night, one hundred and twenty-five dances being not unusual before daylight appeared through the frosted panes."
"Grabbing" a lady involved treating her at the bar after the dance was over ; and so, with whiskey at a dollar a drink and champagne at forty dollars a bottle, the "pokes," or gold- sacks, of the miners grew lean rapidly, while the coffers of "Pete" waxed fat. Mr. Adney's vivacious book gives a satisfactory view of the Klondike movement of 1897-98, and the pic- tures are as good as the text.
Miss Margaret W. Morley's fresh and ex- hilarating account of her leisurely summer jaunt in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island deserves a more graceful title than "Down North and Up Along." Miss Morley visited in turn Digby, Grand Pre, Blomidon, Part- ridge Island, Halifax, Baddeck, Englishtown, Igonish, etc., and she paints what she saw in a style that is refreshingly straightforward and unaffected. Miss Morley has the sense of
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humor, as the following picture of " Tommy Atkins," as seen at Halifax, may attest:
" Their presence is decorative, but individually these soldiers are not very impressive. Many of them are certainly round-shouldered; and with their bright red coats and tiny round caps perched on an angle of the head and held in place by straps under the chin, they look so irresistibly like the long-tailed gentleman who sits on the hand-organ and doffs his cap for pennies, that it is difficult to contemplate them with the respect due to their glorious calling."
So much for the units of the historic " thin red line." Miss Morley's book is a capital one with which to while away the sultry hours of a summer holiday.
Miss E. M. Merrick is a London artist, and portraits are her specialty ; but she has made some creditable excursions into the field of genre painting, in the illustrative or narrative English style. While still a student at the Koyal Academy, Miss Merrick made a trip to Egypt; and there, though mainly on pleasure bent, she found time to secure and begin sev- eral commissions, notably portraits of the Khedivia and of Mr. H. M. Stanley. These successes turned Miss Merrick's thoughts to the Orient as a promising field of operations ; and a professional foray into India followed. The memories of these expeditions are now printed in a pretty little volume entitled "With a Palette in Eastern Palaces," which has a cer- tain special descriptive value owing to the fact that its author, in her capacity of portrait- painter, was often permitted to penetrate into places that are closed to most tourists — in- deed, to all masculine visitors whomsoever. The book presents many lively pictures of East Indian society and manners, native and exotic ; and it is written with true feminine vivacity. It contains some interesting reproductions of por- traits painted in the East by the author ; but quite the most attractive thing in it is the frontispiece portrait of Miss Merrick herself. While in Egypt, Miss Merrick met some American tourists.
" I remember one remarking to me when I was feel- ing rather seedy at Assouan, ' Wai, you do look like a worm. Guess Egypt don't suit you. You'll go home in a box likely.' American expressions sound very funny to our ears."
We should think so. American readers will regret that Miss Merrick fails to say what section of this country the expressions quoted are native to.
" Ivory Apes and Peacocks " is the suffi- ciently bizarre title of a sheaf of East Indian travel-pictures by that pleasantly fantastical
essayist and virtuoso of irridescent phrases, " Israfel." To the travel-pictures are added a half-dozen rhapsodic little papers on themes musical and literary — " The Musical Critic," " Rudyard Kipling," " Music and Literature," etc. Other titles are, " Peninsular and Ori- ental," " Bombay," " Agra," « The Taj Ma- hal," "Delhi," "Benares," "Calcutta," and so on. " Israfel " is essentially a stylist, an executant of brilliant verbal fantasias ; and we are not to look to him for statistics, or for a British tax-payer's views on the Indian budget. He has a curious trick of wilful bathos, of checking a flight of parti-colored words with a homely and even a relatively vulgar allusion. A rhapsody on the Taj Mahal is thus cut short by the memory of the grateful effect of a glass of whiskey on a chilly night :
"I went to see the Taj by moonlight (oh! the trite- ness of the phrase!) — a full moon. The night was such a one as you might spend ' with Saadi in the gar- den,' breathless and tropical, the flower scents rose as incense straight to Heaven, the gleaming tanks were sheets of shadowy silver, and musical with frogs. The Taj shone, peerless as a swan on a lake, in the sky of dusky amethyst, a palace of pearl pierced by soft, un- fathomable glooms. ... I cannot express the Un- reality, the Ideality, of the Taj that night. Standing but a few paces from its ghostly loveliness, I felt that it was a vision, impalpable, unattainable ; I thought of « Epipsychidion,' I thought of Heine's « Ewig verlor'nes LiebJ I thought of the whiskey-peg I should have when I got home — for the night was a cold one."
Asked to describe the Taj Mahal, the author's uncle said that it was " a very nice place." Perhaps he would have reserved his enthusi- asm for the whiskey-peg. Readers who care for " Israfel " at all will like this his latest volume very much.
We have read with much relish the seven- teen papers contained in Mr. Richard Le Gal- lienne's pretty volume entitled " Travels in England," and shall certainly re-read some of them — the specially pleasant ones on Win- terslow and Stratford, for example. Mr. Le Gallienne went to Winterslow as to the one time home — or lair, one may say — of Hazlitt ; and he went to Stratford to see Madame Bernhardt play "Hamlet." These facts mark the drift and tenor of the two papers. Other places visited were Selborne, Winchester, Sarum, Stonehenge, Avebury, Lechlade, Kelmscott, Cirencester, the Cotswold's. Let us add that the season was summer, and Mr. Le Gallienne travelled a-wheel. Mr. Herbert Railton's half- dozen dainty drawings harmonize nicely with the general character of this sprightly and pretty book. E. G. J.
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THINGS OUT OF DOORS.*
" By the time July is well started," observes the gentle author of " Friends Worth Know- ing," in his newer work, " Nature's Calendar," " the rains have ceased, the woods are deep in the shadow of completed leafage and growing twigs, the soil is dry and is throwing out an increasing crop of curious agarics, and walking in the dusty roads or open uplands is unpleas- ant. Naturally enough, then, we turn in our rambles towards the watercourses and seek to read the ' books in the running brooks.' " Mr. Ingersoll does not say, as he could have said, that the opening of July is the very crown and summit of the year ; nor could he have known that this year of grace, 1900, finds it a most exceptional time for seeing the outdoor world at its very best, abundant and early rains and moderate temperatures having given promise of a July that does not need to have its face washed for the dust upon it.
It is truly a time and a season in which to observe the real beauties of this earth of ours, so far removed from the political turmoil in which that country is about to plunge. Nor should we, unless we know them thoroughly, neglect the lessons that are to be gained from so charming an assortment of books as have been provided for summer instruction and en- tertainment. " Nature's Calendar " is a book for the year, containing on its broad pages " a slender rivulet of text " of much charm and pertinency, while beside and under it is a space of white marked for every day of the year, whereon notes may be made to supplement the observations of the author. But it is a calen- dar in another sense as well, for at the end of each of the months is set forth such a summary of the habits of live things, birds, reptiles, fishes, and insects, that the least observant can load himself with hints to make obvious and familiar at least a part of a world before invis-
* NATURE'S CALENDAR. By Ernest Ingersoll. New York : Harper & Brothers.
IN NATURE'S REALM. By Dr. Charles C. Abbott. Tren- ton, N. J.: Albert Brandt.
How TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS. By Mrs. William Starr Dana. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons.
A GUIDE TO THE TREES. By Alice Lounsberry. New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company.
OUR NATIVE TREES. By Harriet L. Keeler. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons.
BIRD NOTES AFIELD. By Charles A. Eeeler. San Fran- cisco : D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard.
BIRD HOMES. By A. Radclyffe Dugmore. New York : Doubleday & McClure Co.
BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA. By Frank M. Chapman. New York : D. Appleton & Co.
ible. By way of final grace to a book in the best of taste in all its essentials, twelve repro- ductions of as many photographs by Mr. Clar- ence Lown afford typical views of fields, forests, and rivers.
Beautifully printed on paper which leaves one vexed that glazed surfaces have ever been tolerated, with nearly a hundred illustrations by Mr. Oliver Kemp to interpret the thought in another medium, Dr. Charles C. Abbott's " In Nature's Realm " is a book to be treas- ured. Serenely philosophical, keenly observant, intellectually suggestive, the placid marshalling of the less obvious facts of nature, with their gentle spiritual interpretation from Dr. Ab- bott's pen to make us all human together, is a real triumph of literature. He discusses, to take one example from scores, " My Point of View," and his breadth is made ours if we read him aright when he says :
" I am what I am to nature, not what another, from his point of view, judges I should be. I am a part of nature and nature is a part of me. Tear us apart, and nature is robbed and I am ruined. Hence the futility of attempting radical changes; for nations and coun- tries and climates have their peculiar points of view, and the Christianized pagan is still but a pagan Chris- tianized. His idol may be a fraud, but it will never cease to be his idol. The outward sign of respect may be withheld, but the inward feeling of regard can never die. Who has seen the world with another's eyes? There is a cuttle-fish that can blacken the waters about it until the animal disappears, but the water is water still, and the animal is only hidden, not changed nor annihilated. The oak does not ask the elm to change its leaves, nor roses red taunt the violets because they are blue, — why then seek to change my point of view and blur the landscape that to me is beautiful and so a joy forever ? The intensity of a personality that dwarfs others is more likely to prove a curse than a blessing. My limited individuality has its place and is not benefitted by shifting it from its bearings. Nature is a better director than man in this regard."
There is much more of this delightful and hu- mane philanthropy, which contrasts so abruptly with the turmoil and warfare of the world — due chiefly, it may be remarked, to the fact that we are not satisfied with burghers as burghers, Filipinos as Filipinos, or Mongols as Mongols, but are madly seeking to make them British, or American, or Caucasian, as the case may be. When the world has learned, like Dr. Abbott, that a man's point of view is his own, and that he is accountable for it to God alone, we shall all of us be in a fair way of being civilized, instead of merely thinking our- selves so.
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notice at this time, since the new edition an- nounces itself the fifty-sixth thousand. It dif- fers from its predecessors by the inclusion of forty-eight colored plates after the water-color sketches by Miss Elsie Louise Shaw, uncolored pictures of the same flowers contained in for- mer editions being omitted here, and almost as many new ones being added from the faithful flower portraits of Miss Marion Satterlee. The text stands as it did seven years ago, and the book in its present form leaves little to be de- sired.
Miss Alice Lounsberry's " Guide to the Trees " and Mrs. Harriet L. Keeler's " Our Native Trees " differ chiefly in the personal equation of the two writers. Both give, with all the fulness desirable, the means whereby component members of American forests can be distinguished one from another, and their names ascertained with the least amount of trouble. In addition to this groundwork, which includes a complete description of the tree in all its details, — bark, leaves, flowers, and fruit, — Miss Lounsberry's book contains a great number of colored and black-and-white pictures and diagrams made by Mrs. Ellis Rowan, and a brief introduction by Dr. N. L. Britton. Mrs. Keeler's work is illustrated by reproductions of photographs direct from na- ture, most of them of leaves and fruit, but with many drawings of details. It is a work which is less formal than the other, and with more of the literary quality. Quite as instructive, it sets forth the technicalities in popular language, while the photographs of leaves serve a better purpose in the process of identification. Either of the books is a desirable addition to the library.
Mr. Charles A. Keeler is already well known for his delightful writings after the manner of a Californian Thoreau, and "Bird Notes Afield " will enhance his reputation both as a man of letters and of science. He deals with the birds of the Pacific coast more particularly, and his statement of the differences and re- semblances of these with the feathered folk of regions nearer the rising sun makes very de- lightful reading. Many of his studies have been made in the vicinity of Berkeley, for which the pleasant book of Miss Eva V. Car- lin, published more than a year ago, serves as an introduction. He tells of the domestic life of the hummingbird, as follows :
"If you have the good fortune to have discovered an unfinished nest, you may observe the mother bird's methods of work. She settles upon it and rounds it
with her breast. Seemingly with difficulty the head is raised and the long, slender beak arranges here and there a bit of lichen, bark, or cobweb in its proper place on the outside. Thus she works until the compact little structure of softest thistledown, covered on the outside with small fragments of moss, lichen, bark, and similar materials, is ready to receive the invariable two white eggs. In due course of time the most helpless young imaginable are hatched, to be tended with unremitting care. They soon grow so large that their diminutive home can scarcely contain them until, at last, from the sheer physical necessity of overcrowded quarters, they are forced to essay a flight. Wonderful, indeed, is the domestic life of these smallest of birds, in whose minute frame is compacted so much of intelligence and passion — so much that we fondly claim as human."
In abrupt contrast with this may be taken the paper on "Patrolling the Beach," in which nature in her most ferocious aspect, after a storm at sea, is followed in her work of devas- tation. The book, which is most alluringly designed, concludes with a key whereby the various birds of California may be differenti- ated and identified, the arrangement being such that no scientific knowledge is required for its use.
" Bird Homes," by Mr. Radclyffe Dugmore, is such a book as every lover of birds must welcome, since it really admits the reader into the privacy of their family life. It is, more- over, an eloquent plea for acquaintance with our tiny neighbors as the best means of pre- serving them from the cruelties which make us ashamed of the name of human. One or two of the instances Mr. Dugmore cites are quite too harrowing for repetition here. But such a paragraph as this is worth taking to heart :
" I think any woman who had seen a mother-thrush on the nest, with her anxious, wild little eyes looking out in fear of the intruder, could never again wear a stuffed bird as a hat ornament, to be used for a short month or two and then thrown away. For herein lies, perhaps, the chief cause of the partial extermination of our birds, both those that are sombre in color (for they can be dyed to any desired shade) and those that are by nature of brilliant hues. And who gains by this cruel sacrifice to a heartless fashion save the dealers ? "
A similar warning is addressed to the boy who begins an egg collection. Instructions are given which will enable the eggs to be taken without inflicting the birds with calamity, but a still stronger argument is made for observing the conduct of the young when hatched. It is to descriptions of this sort, admirably illus- trated by instantaneous photographs in repro- duction of the birds, old and young, in various stages of home building and family rearing, that the book is chiefly devoted ; and no better argument for the use of a camera instead of a
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gun could be desired than these very pictures. Emerson's lines are his text :
" Have you numbered all the birds of the wood,
Without a gun ? Have you loved the wild rose —
And left it on its stalk ? 0 be my friend, and teach me to be thine."
Not only does the book abound in photographic reproductions, many of them in color, but there are several plates of eggs which will give the reader most of the advantages of a collection without the possibility of inflicting misery upon the small friends whom self-interest no less than humanity urges us to protect. Mr. Dugmore is to be congratulated on the execution of his gentle and pious task.
Of even greater interest than the book just noticed is Mr. F. M. Chapman's pleasant narrative of " Bird Studies with a Camera." Mr. Chapman is the first American to discern the advantages which the exceedingly clever book of the Messrs. Kearton, " Wild Life at Home," held out to those happy folk who are amateurs in both photography and ornithology. Though his book is not so ambitious as his disciple's, it covers more ground, and ground of another sort, without being quite so detailed. The two works, taken together, will form a course both elementary and advanced in the pleasant application of the two sciences of which it treats. Mr. Chapman has been along the Atlantic coast and to the islands in the St. Lawrence in search of subjects, and he dis- courses on pelicans and plovers with the ease which Mr. Dugmore bestows on bobolinks and blackbirds. Nests and eggs play their part with both, and so do the facts about lenses and hyposulphites ; Mr. Chapman being more spe- cific in respect to the latter.
So ends a charming task, most amiably suited to the crowning season of the year. Insects and flowers, butterflies and roses, birds and trees, fields and rivers, these are surely among the loveliest things on earth.
WALLACE RICE.
WE have already noticed the first six volumes of the " Library of English Classics " published by the Mac- millan Co. Three additional volumes of this series con- tain Boswell's "Life of Johnson," reprinted from the edition prepared by Mr. Mowbray Morris for the " Globe " series of the same publishers. Beyond two or three pages of bibliography, this edition has no special apparatus; it is simply a reprint, in an altogether digni- fied and acceptable form, of the most interesting of all literary biographies. The very low price at which the volumes of this " Library " are offered to the public should find for them exceptional favor in the eyes of pur- chasers.
RECEXT FICTION.*
Those readers to whom " The Choir Invisible " came as a revelation of strength allied with tender- ness, of spiritual beauty made one with the beauty of the visible world, have been eagerly awaiting further work from the pen of Mr. James Lane Allen. Mr. Allen takes his time about writing, and two years have gone to the composition of his new book, " The Reign of Law." We are thus as- sured in advance of his usual careful workmanship, and we open his new volume with the most pleas- urable anticipations. These anticipations are not doomed to disappointment, for the work, considered primarily as a piece of literature, proves to be sat- isfying in a high degree. Those who care less for the graces of style and for the exhibition of elevated emotions than they care for a story apart from these adjuncts, will perhaps suffer some slight disappoint- ment when they discover that " The Reign of Law" is little more than an account of the struggles of an untutored country lad to win his spiritual emanci- pation. He is presented as an extremely sympa- thetic figure, but the story of his life has few inci- dents save those which are connected with his endeavor to secure an education, and with his eager quest for the higher forms of truth. All sorts of obstacles confront him as his mind gropes toward the light, and his spiritual freedom is gained at a great price. Living in an atmosphere of sectarian- ism and narrow religious bigotry, he finds his way unaided to the high intellectual plane of the great modern thinkers who have so transformed our primitive conceptions of the relation between man and the universe. The dogmatic influences which would impede his growth to full intellectual stature are successfully resisted, and be works out in his
* THE REIGN OF LAW. A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields. By James Lane Allen. New York : The Macmillan Co.
THE ANGEL OF CLAY. By William Ordway Partridge. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons.
THE CAMBRIC MASK. A Romance. By Robert W. Cham- bers. New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co.
THE CONSPIRATORS. A Romance. By Robert W. Chambers. New York : Harper & Brothers.
To HAVE AND TO HOLD. By Mary Johnston. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
MARY PAGET : A Romance of Old Bermuda. By Minna Caroline Smith. New York : The Macmillan Co.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. By Ellen Glasgow. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
KNIGHTS IN FUSTIAN : A War Time Story of Indiana. By Caroline Brown. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
ARDEN MASSITKR. By Dr. William Barry. New York : The Century Co.
THE HOUSE OF THE WIZARD. By M. Imlay Taylor. Chi- cago : A. C. McClurg & Co.
THE CARDINAL'S MUSKETEER. By M. Imlay Taylor. Chicago : A. C. McClurg & Co.
THE WHITE DOVE. By William J. Locke. New York : John Lane.
THE BATH COMEDY. By Agnes and Egerton Castle. New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co.
SOPHIA. A Romance. By Stanley J. Weyman. New York : Longmans, Green, & Co.
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own experience that sublime conception of the reign of law which has been the chief philosophical achievement of our age, and which dwarfs all the theological counsels, darkened by words without knowledge, of the past. Those who can match in their own experience the intellectual struggles of this youth will understand the author's purpose ; for those who cannot bring to their reading as much as they take from it, " The Reign of Law " will be a sealed book. That it should become widely popular we do not deem probable; its interest is too special for that, and its direct appeal is made to the audience that is never a large one in any age. The gospel of easy comfortable acceptance of what- ever ideas are held by those around us, the gospel which is content to exalt for worship the idols of our own particular tribe or forum is more wide- spread in its influence than the gospel of those rare and strenuous spirits to whom Mr. Allen's hero be- longs. To such lives there always attaches the pathos of loneliness, of the sympathy that yearns for a response but does not find it, and this aspect of the struggle is presented with deep poignancy by Mr. Allen. The scene of the story is laid in Ken- tucky, in the sixties, and it is described as " A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields." This must be men- tioned, because the processes connected with the cultivation of hemp play an important part in the narrative. The landscape is colored by the vivid green of the hemp, its fragrance fills the air, and the soul of the hero is strong as with the strength of its fibre. In fact, hemp plays the part of a Leitmotiv, if there be such a thing in fiction, throughout the book, and, if the symbolism of its use appears somewhat labored in the earlier chap- ters, the writer in the end compels us to accept it as an essential part of his artistic scheme. We fancy that we do not err in ascribing to Mr. Allen himself that "Song of the Hemp" which is intro- duced near the end, and credited to "A minor Kentucky writer." It is an exquisite piece of verse, and we must find room for one of the four stanzas.
" Oh, dim, dim autumn days of sobbing rain
When on the fields the ripened hemp is spread
And woods are brown. No land, no land like this for mortal pain
When Love stands weeping by the sweet, sweet bed For Love cut down."
Mr. Allen is half a poet even in his prose, and the transition to and from these verses is accom- plished without a jar. It is by his poetic charm that he has won our hearts, by that, and by his in- tense realization of some of our deepest moods, of some of our most spiritual aspirations.
It is difficult to say anything in praise of " An Angel of Clay." Mr. Partridge is an excellent sculptor, but a poor writer of fiction. He has no control whatever over his medium, and words re- fuse to do his artistic bidding. He has produced a series of the veriest lay figures in this novel; all of them use the same stiff and unnatural forms of speech, and not one of them has a spark of vitality.
He has a message of fine idealism to deliver — a message that he has delivered successfully in marble and in bronze — that he might deliver successfully in the form of the essay; but his attempt to set it forth in a work of fiction is a hopeless failure. If the reader will forego the expectation of finding a story in this book, and be content to view it as a series of thoughtful disquisitions upon art and life, he will not, however, go wholly unrewarded.
Mr. Chambers has so unusual a gift for romantic fiction that it is a pity he does not take greater pains with his work. The two stories which he has recently published are in a way exasperating, be- cause, good as they are, they might have been very much better. The reckless fashion of slinging his materials together, and relying upon his vigor and poetic exuberance for an effect, seems to be grow- ing upon this brilliant writer. Such slapdash methods of composition as are exemplified in " The Cambric Mask " and " The Conspirators " betoken a sad neglect of the writer's opportunities, and make the reader extremely impatient. Both the stories are interesting, as a matter of course — Mr. Chambers always contrives to be that — but neither of them gives us the satisfaction that we get from reasonably finished work. " The Cambric Mask " is a story of rural New York, and derives its inter- est from the attempt of a gang of whitecaps to intimidate and drive away from the region a gen- tleman who has come thither for the innocent pur- pose of entomological research. His entomology is not the cause of offense, but the fact that the land which he occupies has suddenly acquired great commercial value, and the other fact that he takes a too obvious interest in the impossible village beauty who figures as the heroine. When aroused to a sense of the dangers that threaten him, the hero turns out to be anything but the peaceable naturalist for whom he is taken. Being an old West Pointer, his fighting instincts are aroused, his strategy proves equal to his courage, and he routs his enemies in the most approved melodramatic fashion. Incidentally, he wins the impossible hero- ine, after her drunken, and in another sense impos- sible, father has been conveniently disposed of, and the romance ends in the conventional way. " The Conspirators " takes us to a very different field of action. The scene is the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and the period some imagined future time when the German Emperor is upon the point of annexing the territory that seems to lie defense- less within his grasp. His plans are thwarted, partly by the unexpected vigor with which Holland opposes the scheme, and partly by the fact that the United States, in its new character as a world power, takes a hand in the affair. The hero is an exaggerated young American, having a diplomatic appointment in the Duchy, and getting into all sorts of scrapes and entanglements. There are really two heroines, one of them being the fictitious and picquant countess whom the hero sets himself to win, the other being no less a personage than the
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actual Queen of Holland, for the audacity of the writer goes so far as to make him invent a romantic attachment between the fair Wilhelmina and a prince of the German Empire. The book gives us a really charming picture of Luxembourg, both the drowsy capital and its wild surroundings, and nature, as viewed by the poetic imagination of the writer, counts for no small part of the interest of the story.
The extent to which women are of late taking possession of the field of historical fiction must seem somewhat alarming to writers of the sterner sex. That women should vie with them in the de- lineation of sentiment and passion seems natural enough, but that women should also seek to vie with them in tales of battle and adventure seems at first sight an unwarrantable intrusion upon the natural prerogative of man. But the fact must be faced that women are taking more and more to the work of historical romance, and that some of them, at least, are doing the work in a highly successful manner. It is a little late to be speaking about " To Have and to Hold," Miss Mary Johnston's second novel, for the work attracted widespread attention when its first chapters appeared serially a year ago, and the completed book has been in the hands of readers for a number of weeks. But the book is so exceptionally good, and its great popular success so well deserved, that in giving it a few words of belated praise we have no fear of being taken to task for recalling attention to a forgotten book. Like Miss Johnston's "Prisoners of Hope," the new romance is a tale of colonial Virginia, and interest is divided between the natural conditions of life in the colony and its relations with the mother country. Miss Johnston has a pretty inven- tion and an even prettier style. Exciting adventures and hairbreadth escapes follow one another in be- wildering succession, and the attention is ever alert. Crafty Indians and picturesque villains share the interest of the story with hero and heroine. There is even a pirate crew, a shipwreck, and a desert island. Of hero and heroine we may say that both are of the type dear to romantic souls ; the one is strong, resourceful, and courageous, the other is alternately haughty and tender, and always ador- ably feminine. Over the whole romance there is a slight cast of melodrama, and there is dis- played a little less of originality than in the story which first attracted readers to Miss Johnston. In both books her knowledge of Indian ways is re- markable, and her understanding of Indian charac- ter has a degree of subtlety which even surpasses what we find in Cooper. And in both books the reader will linger longest over the many lovely pages which describe the Virginian wilds, the hills, the rivers, and the solemn solitudes of the forest. In this aspect of her work, Miss Johnston is almost comparable with Miss Murfree, but fails to attain to quite the spiritual elevation of that writer in her contemplation of nature. With Miss Johnston, the natural surroundings are always accessories of the
narrative ; with Miss Murfree, on the other hand, they are invested with a life and meaning of their own.
" Mary Paget," by Miss Minna Caroline Smith, is a slight and amateurish romance of Bermuda in the days when Englishmen first settled in the Sum- mer Islands, and when the tales of returning mar- iners fired the imagination of Shakespeare, and became transmuted into the " rich and strange " poetry of " The Tempest." Miss Smith is auda- cious enough to introduce the poet himself into her story, the scene of which remains in England until we are half way through the book. Her romance is in no way forceful, but it is written in a pleasing manner, and it seems to be based upon a careful study of the pertinent historical materials.
It is with modern rather than with colonial Vir- ginia that "The Voice of the People," by Miss Ellen Glasgow, is concerned. This is Miss Glas- gow's third novel, and it is thus far distinctly her best. Beginning with a charming description of an old Virginian town, which has been left side- tracked in the march of modern civilization, and is none the less interesting for that, we are at once introduced to the hero, an unprepossessing child of humble parentage, who has the intellectual instinct, and who is determined to raise himself above the level of his surroundings. The book is essentially the story of this child's career, as he painfully ac- quires an education, becomes a successful lawyer, enters politics, and is chosen Governor of the Com- monwealth. He illustrates that type of American manhood of which Lincoln is the great historical exemplar, and of which Mr. Ford's Peter Stirling is a striking example in fiction, the type of sturdy honesty and downright manliness which our country is still capable of illustrating from time to time, and without which our prospects would indeed be hope- less. There are numerous minor characters in this book, carefully studied and agreeably diversified, who add materially to the interest, but the figure of Nicholas Burr rises predominant above them all, and it is with his personal fortunes that we have chiefly to do. In the end, the story rises to the height of tragedy, and the hero, now Governor of the State, sacrifices his life in defending the honor of the Commonwealth. A negro has been guilty of a nameless crime, and a lynching party has been organized. The governor comes unexpectedly upon the scene of action, opposes the lawless fury of the mob, and, before he has been recognized, is mor- tally wounded by a shot. "And he died for a damned brute," is the comment of a bystander when the sobered mob learns what it has done. But even in the most brutish of that mob there must have been some dim recognition, in the lesson thus sharply brought home to them, of the shame of their assault upon the majesty of law, and of the noble cause for which their victim had given his life. Shocking as was the murder, it was less shocking and less permanently demoralizing than the success of their lawless undertaking would have been. In
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describing this scene, the author rises to the true dignity of the situation, and leaves a deep impres- sion upon the minds of her readers. We have to thank her for a strong book, and for a message of practical idealism which cannot be weighed too seriously.
An interesting subject and honest workmanship combined are sufficient to make a good book, if not exactly a strong one. This is what we are offered by Miss Caroline Brown's " Knights in Fustian," a story of Indiana in the time of the Civil War. The secret organization of the Knights of the Golden Circle forms the theme of this very readable story, which is based upon a careful study of the ramifi- cations of their conspiracy, and of the thwarting of their plans by the firmness and vigilance of the great War Governor of the State. Although Gov- ernor Morton does not figure largely in person, he is, in a sense, the real hero of this book, which is essen- tially a tribute to his masterful management of the difficulty occasioned by the treasonable conspiracy in question. The writer truthfully says that " we of a later generation can hardly credit the extent of the organization, and the heinousness of its aims, which included crime and the disruption of the Union." As a description of this interesting epi- sode in the history of the war the book is distinctly successful, and to the interest of this theme private interests are subordinated, although the story itself is not without a certain amount of action and of skilful characterization.
Readers of " The New Antigone " and " The Two Standards," having discovered that a Catholic priest may be as good a novelist as anybody else, will turn to " Arden Massiter," Dr. Barry's third work of fiction, with something like enthusiastic anticipation. Nor will they be disappointed, for the new novel is the best of the three, one of the best novels, in fact, that have appeared for many a day. It is not such a novel of tendency as its pre- decessors were ; it is rather a brilliant picture of life in modern Italy, dramatic in manner rather than reflective, straightforward rather than discursive, and intensely interesting from first to last. The variety of its interest is such as to appeal to many tastes. Those who ask for nothing more than a story will find one of the most thrilling sort, a story of subterranean Italy, with its brigands, anarchists, and Camorristi, a story of adventure and intrigue, a story of conspiracies and abductions and romantic passions. Those who ask more of a book than this will find their account likewise. They will find vivid and artistic delineations of character, im- pressive dramatic situations, that sense of the his- torical past which is a product of the ripest culture, and that insight into contemporaneous conditions which betokens close and intelligent observation. And all these things find expression in a style so admirable, so distinctly the writer's own, so terse and direct when occasion requires, so measured and poetical when opportunity permits, that interest in the mere story is everywhere accompanied by the
feeling that the book is much more than a story, that it belongs to a high and rare order of litera- ture.
Miss M. Imlay Taylor is the author of a growing series of historical novels in which, whether she takes for her subject imperial Russia or revolution- ary America, the England of Thomas Cromwell or the France of Cardinal Richelieu, she succeeds in combining entertainment with a reasonable modicum of instruction. Her manner is facile, she has an instinct for effective points, and she constructs a plot with no little skill. Her latest novels are " The House of the Wizard " and " The Cardinal's Mus- keteer." The former deals with the court of Henry VIII., and introduces the luckless figure of Anne Boleyn and the sinister figure of the Lord Privy Seal. It is a pretty romance, provided with a courtly hero and a pert heroine of the customary types. In "The Cardinal's Musketeer," Miss Taylor has chosen an overworked historical period, and has contrived to tell a story of considerable sustained interest and a certain delicate charm. The con- spiracy of Cinq Mars is the indirect subject of the narrative, although that luckless personage is kept in the background. The great Cardinal appears, however, upon several occasions, but he is too evi- dently a lay figure to be impressive. The musketeer- hero is no dashing Gascon of the Artagnan type, but simply a gentleman who performs his part cred- itably, and proves equal to a number of difficult situations. His devotion wins the customary re- ward, and there is the usual sentimental and happy ending.
Mr. William J. Locke is a novelist whose stories are always welcome. Their workmanship is neat, and they agreeably portray modern English society in its superficial aspects, occasionally also striking some deep chord of human feeling. In "The White Dove " we have a story of strictly private interest, concerned with two or three peculiarly strong and lovable characters, and with some others whose wickedness provides the necessary foil. It is a story of the shadow of past sins falling upon young lives and well-nigh marring them forever. It has the defect of a somewhat exaggerated senti- mental ism, and a stern moralist might object to the leniency with which the offenders are dismissed. "0 white dove of the pity divine" is the motto upon the title page, and serves to explain the name given to the book. "Pardon's the word for all" might have been added as a supplementary motto, for the spirit of forgiveness hovers over the closing pages, and even the villain is made to share in the writer's largess. Mr. Locke's style is for the most part direct and simple, but glows at times with a poetic touch, and leaves a pleasant impression.
In writing " The Bath Comedy," Mr. and Mrs. Castle have again collaborated, as they did in " The Pride of Jennico." The result is one of the most delicious pieces of light literature which it has often been our good fortune to read. It is a story of Bath in the latter half of the eighteenth century,
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the year not too precisely defined. " A sufficient reason for reticence in the matter of exact date will be found in the unfortunate predicament of the then Bishop of Bath and Wells ; undoubtedly a most mortifying episode in the life of an invariably dig- nified Divine." As there were several Bishops of Bath and Wells during the period concerned, no cause for scandal is given. This episode, amusing as it is, figures as only one of a long series packed into the few days which the story covers. As inci- dent follows upon incident, each touched with the very spirit of comedy, the delight of the reader grows apace, and he feels that he would gladly re- main in such company for an indefinite period. The artful minx who provides the story with all its complication is so fascinating a study in femininity that we cannot feel very harshly toward her, although a severe moralist would find her conduct highly reprehensible. The book offers so many surprising developments, and is so bubbling with mirth, that we are reluctant to think that we shall know the heroine no longer. As far as the story has a serious side, it is to be found in the note of passion that occasionally makes itself heard, and in the faithful study which it presents of the language and manners of English fashionable life over a hundred years ago.
Mr. Weyman, in the search for material fit for his purposes as a novelist, seems to have abandoned Continental themes for good, and to have settled upon the English historical past as the best field for the display of his ingenuity. This material is less romantic than the other, but he is more intimately acquainted with it, and his later novels upon En- glish themes have more reality than his earlier novels upon French ones. The habit of the romancer still clings to him, and his invention is as fresh as ever, but it is impossible to claim for the period in which he has elected to work of late the same sort and degree of interest afforded by the period of his first books. With the best will in the world, one cannot find the England of the later Stuarts as satisfactory a subject for romantic exploration as the France of Henry IV. and of Richelieu. Mr. Weyman's latest story is entitled " Sophia," and is a tale of the years of Queen Anne. The interest is strictly social and private, political history having little to do with the occurrences described. The heroine is a wayward young woman, sought for her fortune by a villainous Irish adventurer, and saved from his persecution by an English gentleman of mature years, whose grave sincerity she at first despises, but who in the end wins her affection. The story has much variety of both incident and character, and leads through one desperate adventure after another to a conclusion that is satisfactory to everybody who deserves to be satisfied. The plot is of a nature to strain the probabilities, and there is a melodramatic accumu- lation of horrors, but the narrative is at least saved from prolixity, and holds the interest of the reader unabated. WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
We believe few persons will ever Primitive lore read through Mr. H. T. Finck's
and love-stories. , ° . , . -^ ,
ponderous volume of u Primitive Love and Love-Stories " (Scribner). Not that the author's style is unattractive, or his subject in itself uninteresting ; but it is dreary work to plod through eight hundred pages of ugly print, for what might have been better said in two hundred. Mr. Finck's contention is that the ancients, and the modern men who in savage life keep up ancient conditions, did not and do not experience the passion of romantic love. In other words, romantic love is of recent development and is found only in the upper stage of culture — civilization. The author begins with an analysis of the emotion, in which he finds just fourteen ingredients — no more, no less. These ingredients are conveniently and neatly divided into two groups, of just seven each. There are seven egoistic ingredients — individual preference, monop- olism, jealousy, coyness, hyperbole, mixed moods, and pride ; there are seven altruistic ingredients — sympathy, affection, gallantry, self-sacrifice, adora- tion, purity, admiration of personal beauty. The ancients, savages, barbarians, even the Orientals, may have sensual love with the seven egoistic ingre- dients ; but only modern civilized white men have real romantic love, with the lately developed seven altruistic ingredients. And, alas, but few modern civilized white men have experienced this supreme emotion. Such is Mr. Finck's theme, drawn out through eight hundred pages, illogical, repetitious, tiresome. He assumes that anthropologists gener- ally assert that all human beings have fully devel- oped love of the romantic type, and always have had. He then proceeds to demonstrate their errors. Probably few anthropologists would now, or ever, deny Mr. Finck's fundamental thought, that love is a growth and a development. In demonstrating his claim, Mr. Finck follows highly unsatisfactory methods. Starting by asserting the absolute un- trustworthiness of certain authors, he quotes them in his own support when it suits him. Passages are quoted in support of his contention at one point, which are absolutely opposed to conclusions which he draws elsewhere. Insisting on literal accuracy as the part of all others, he himself is careless in reference and statement. Thus, he quotes Charles A. Leland and Lewis A. Morgan, and refers (un- kindly) in a footnote to J. S. Wood : these names are all wrong. He states that Lewis H. Morgan lived many years among the Iroquois, and that he knew more about the Iroquois than anyone else : both false statements. Usually these would be small matters to criticize, but they become glaring blun- ders considering Mr. Finck's merciless demands upon others. Mr. Finck waxes sarcastic at the ex- pense of the barbarians whose " love " but shortly outlasts the loss or death of the loved woman ; he is ever severe with people who " love " more than
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The earth as a battle-field.
one at a time. Plainly, consistency demands that he considers romantic love as single and life-long. How surprising, then, that he insists upon telling us more than once that he has been (romantically) in love several times. Mr. Finck has been an indus- trious reader, and has really gathered a great mass of material. Had he been scientific in method, and constructive instead of bitterly and partisanly de- structive, he might have rendered a real service to science and made a more interesting book, which should attempt to trace the growth and development of the love sentiment from its low savage beginnings up to its most beautiful culmination. We regret that he has missed such an opportunity.
War is just now the all-absorbing topic, and rumors of wars to come fill the air — a sorry sequel to the Czar's Peace Congress, that promised so much and would seem to have achieved so little either in the sphere of events or in the public mind. South Africa is lit with battle-flames in a contest so savage that the losses on one side must soon equal the total forces of the other ; our own country is engaged in the bloody subjugation of far distant islands in the ironically- named Pacific ; France has a new score to settle with Perfidious Albion, and boasts ominously that she was " never before so strong as now "; relations between Russia and Japan are in a state of most dangerously unstable equilibrium ; a great conflagration seems imminent in China ; German interests are growing apace in revolution-ridden South America ; and Senator Lodge is well to the fore at Washington. That war has suddenly developed a new horror, in the battle-songs of Mr. Alfred Austen, gives no pause to the belligerent humor of the times. In Anglo-Saxondom, the voice of the man of peace is drowned by the strident clamor of Kipling and his kind. To adapt the famous phrase of Abbe" Sieyes in the Reign of Terror, of what avail is the glass of wine of moderate civilized men like Mr. John Morley amid such a torrent of brandy? Man, after all, appears to be, as Palmerston cynically said, by na- ture " a fighting and quarrelling animal," and must have his fill of battle and slaughter regularly every three or four decades. Never at any previous pe- riod of the world's history has that senseless, savage thing, race hatred, been so rife and so actively dis- seminated. Books reflecting the turn of the popular mind, all sorts and conditions of war-books, thrive and multiply. Some of them, by gilding and glori- fying war, pour oil on the flame, and actively fur- ther the work of Satan's agents in the newspapers ; others, of a more truthful and literal sort, by paint- ing honestly the true face of war, with its squalor, ugliness, and infernal horror and brutality, make for peace, and render service to God and man. But reports of slaughter the world must have, now that the business is going on so briskly and with such promise of increase in the near future ; and the war-correspondent is having his day. Not to be altogether out of it, in the matter of making hay
The story of China
a* a nation.
while the sun shines, older war-correspondents, who can tell of past wars now fading into relatively an- cient history, are bestirring themselves and raking over the embers of memory for matters of old expe- rience still worth recounting. A writer of this sort, and one with a turn for the picturesque, the senti- mental, and the melodramatic, is Mr. Irving Montague, for many years war artist and corre- spondent of the " Illustrated London News." Mr. Montague now issues a readable little book of sketches (most of them with the short-story flavor) drawn from his recollections of the Franco-German and Russo-Turkish wars, the Spanish civil wars, and the days of the Paris Commune, and collectively entitled " Things I Have Seen in War " (Wessels) . Some of the titles are : " An Encounter with Kurds," " Rescued by the Red Cross," " Round About the Redoubts, Plevna," " Osman's Last Stand," " A Harem En Dfehabiltt" "Woman's Influence at the Front," etc. The sketches are sufficiently spirited, and there are sixteen illustrations by the author.
To write a history of China appro- priate for the " Stories of the Na-
tiong „ gerie8 (putnam) woul(J geem
a difficult task in condensation and elimination. Yet Mr. Robert K. Douglas has accomplished this feat in a surprisingly entertaining fashion, for he has so combined interesting incidents with the names of men and places absolutely unfamiliar to American ears as to enlighten the reader and hold his attention. Probably the English reader, by reason of greater familiarity with Chinese politics and history, will find less to interest him in this work than will the American ; but for the latter the author has rendered a real service in his delin- eation of Chinese government and diplomacy, and more than all in his characterization of Chinese methods of thought and feeling. The history of China can by no possibility be condensed satisfac- torily into such small compass. The author him- self has recognized this, and has wisely chosen to confine himself to stating the main points of his story in such order as to preserve the historical se- quence, while national Chinese characteristics, as exemplified when in contact with various foreign civilizations, are dwelt upon in some detail. The most positive impression received is that of the intense pride and sense of superiority with which the Chinese authorities regard all ideas and customs foreign to their own conception of life. This is not merely an intolerance of Western ideas, but an ab- solute contempt for them, as manifestations of an inferior civilization, — a contempt based upon the belief that the nations of the earth are glad to do homage to the government of China, and that China's intellectual development surpasses that of all other countries. This point of view seems, and really is, incomprehensible to the citizen of a mod- ern nation ; for, well as he thinks he understands the Chinese mind, he cannot realize the Chinese indifference to governmental corruption, lethargy,
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and incapability. The inability of peoples of di- verse methods of thought to understand each other is here, as always, a cause of frequent trouble, and after recounting diplomatic attempts toward the reasonable settlement of various disputes Mr. Douglas emphatically asserts that the only success- ful method of dealing with China, for a country at variance with that power, is to reach a conclusion based on just, not selfish, principles, and then to use force if necessary in putting that conclusion into effect. Just now, when the " open door " in China is being so constantly exploited, it is a little surprising that the author should fail to enlarge upon the merits or demerits of that policy, or fail to assume the prophetic tone. Happily, however, he has confined himself to history, and his work closes with a brief account of the war with Japan. The book has many illustrations, excellent in them- selves, but having no particular connection with
the text.
" Breezy " is doubtless the review- er's inevitable word for Lilian Bell's little volume of impressions of for- eign lands, entitled "As Seen by Me" (Harper), and the " breeziness " sometimes reaches the ty- phonic pitch. In the course of her perigrinations abroad, the author visited London, Paris, Moscow, Rome, Cairo, Constantinople, Athens, etc., and her account of how the effete Old World impressed her is at least refreshingly candid. For the rest, the quality of the book may be indicated by the follow- ing passage from it, which is prompted by Miss Bell's mortification at the relatively sober dress worn by our official representatives abroad : " Jef- fersonian simplicity ! How I despise it ! Thomas Jefferson, I believe, was the first populist. We had had gentlemen for Presidents before him, but he was the first one who rooted for votes with the common by catering to the gutter instead of to the skyline, and the tail end of his policy is to be seen in the mortifying appearance of our highest offi- cials and representatives. Hinc illce lachrymce! ... I have worked myself into such a towering rage over this subject that there is no getting down to earth gracefully or gradually. I have not pol- ished off the matter by any manner of means. I have only just started in, but a row of stars will cool me off." (A row of cooling asterisks follows). Miss Bell's giddy little book is not without a cer- tain cleverness, but cannot in candor be said to " cater to the skyline."
The wth century W.e like the beginning of Mr. Bl- ow we might bridge S. Brooks's " Story of the Nineteenth Century" (Lothrop) better than its close. He wrote too soon for the crowning enormity of European aggression in China, but he went far enough to have been able to draw a striking analogy between the glories of the French Revolution going out in Napoleonic imperialism, and the glories of the latter-day Democracy which he lauds so highly dimming and degrading them-
selves with wars of exploitation and conquest in the Philippines, or South Africa, or the province of Tientsin, as the case may be. At least there was no shadowy pretence of philanthropy or civilization a century ago, and wars of conquest were wars, not benevolences. We learn from Mr. Brooks that on November 24, 1899, "Aguinaldo's Philippine re- volt [was] overthrown," a pleasant bit of news which we are puzzled to account for either as be- lated or prophetic. His closing lines inform us that the Nineteenth Century " steps grandly in the ad- vance as the flower and pride of all the centuries since Christ came to Bethlehem, and taught men that Golden Rule which, after nineteen hundred years of slow and sullen schooling, is to become the motive and creator of the great things which the new century holds in store for man."
" A. lovelier faith their happier crown ; But history laughs and weeps it down,"
sings Mr. William Watson ; and while we cannot but envy Mr. Brooks the robustness of his ethical digestion, we cannot agree that he is doing his readers a service in twisting the facts of recent years into a support for the Golden Rule as distin- guished from the rule of gold. The American seems to be getting possessed of the thought that the way to remedy national faults is to turn away the head lest they be seen.
Given an interest in science, it would
be d!fficf J0 'magine a more,at-
tractive book than " Flame, Elec- tricity, and the Camera " ( Doubleday & McClure Company). And if the reader brings to the book no prepossessions in favor of scientific knowledge, it is almost impossible to conceive of his carrying away none with him after reading it. The salient feature of the work is the description of applied science from the first time when man was able to command fire as a servant down to the present era of varied wonders, each more amazing than the last. Those who were born in time to have their daguerreotypes taken (and Mr. lies reminds us that Miss Draper, whose face was the first to be portrayed by the com- bined use of sunlight and chemicals, is still living) have a certain advantage over their juniors in this very feeling of wonder ; not being born to it after the manner of the younger generation, successive discoveries are not taken as matters of course — indeed, there be those of us to whom the telephone is not quite real, and the phonograph uncanny. But to all, young or old, this book must make its appeal. Albeit science has lent much of its best effort to the horrible art of destruction known as war, it affords the best argument for peace, if only that our civilization may live long enough to avail itself of the countless benefits of which nothing but savage and barbarous greed can now deprive us. In addition to all that appears on the surface of Mr. Iles's work, there is a pervasive argument which proves that every new step forward in the way of increased resources reacts and interacts
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upon the whole body of science in granting another point of view, and so fairly forcing still another step by which the process is to be repeated.
A cyclopedia of Persons who are fastidious about correspondence their stationery, and especially those and heraldry. wno affect heraldic blazonry thereon, will do well to consult Mr. F. Schuyler Mathews's pretty and carefully prepared little manual entitled « The Writing Table of the Twentieth Century " (Brentano's). The book forms an elementary ac- count of heraldry (especially designed for the needs of American readers), art, engraving, and the estab- lished forms for correspondence, and contains over three hundred illustrations by the author, which include the armorial bearings and devices of over five hundred Colonial American families. Those who choose to decorate their note-paper, etc., with these old-world symbolic insignia should remember that nothing is more vulgar and ludicrous in the eyes of the initiated than solecisms and improprieties in the use of them. The question whether or no the use of them at all in democratic America be a solecism we do not care to discuss just now. But, at all events, if they are to be used they should be used correctly and with strict regard to prescribed heraldic form, and only by those whose clear and demonstrable hereditary right it is to do so. A " bogus " coat-of- arms means a " bogus " man ; and there is surely no more pitiful spectacle of the kind in the world than an American thus fraudulently posing as a scion of the feudal aristocracy of Europe — adding, as it were, the guilt of apostasy to the meanness of petty larceny. After a general introduction discussing pro and con the propriety of bearing a coat-of-arms in America, Mr. Mathews proceeds to treat in detail of the principles and insignia of heraldry, of visiting cards, cards of invitation, wedding invita- tions and announcements, bookplates, monograms, dies, seals, etc., and, lastly, of writing papers. The book is tastefully illustrated, and should form a helpful and graceful adjunct to the home writing- table.
Without conceding that the Bacon- ian theorv of the authorship of the B™on-Shake*peare. Shakespearean dramas has ever at- tained the importance which warrants much serious discussion, it is pleasant to observe that Mr. Charles Allen has written an interesting book in his " Notes on the Bacon-Shakespeare Question" (Houghton). Himself a lawyer, the author performs a service in clearing away the doubts which former legal com- mentators have raised in respect of Shakespeare's legal attainments — not, indeed, by denying them, but rather by extolling them to a point where the uninstructed could point the finger and say, "No one but a lawyer could have known this ; Shake- speare was not a lawyer ; ergo, Bacon wrote it." Mr. Allen shows, quite conclusively, that the poet was as often wrong as right in his use of legal terms and ideas, and that he nowhere displays more knowledge of the law than a man of property,
A lawyer's notes on
Palmistry, with modern
adaptations.
such as he, would ordinarily display. By cleverly reversing the process just noted, the author easily proves the plays to contain such a knowledge of stage-craft and play-acting as Bacon could not have acquired without a complete overthrow of the facts in his biography, saying in effect, "No one but an actor-manager could have known this ; Bacon was not an actor-manager; ergo, Shakespeare wrote it." The book evinces careful and intelligent reading, and is evidently a work of love — a typical work, in fact, for a highly cultured lawyer to take up by way of avocation.
" ^ sufficeth to know," quoth Mon- taigne, " that Mars his place lodgeth
jn the mi(jdle of th<J hands triangle .
that of Venus in the Thumme ; and Mercuries in the little finger ; And when a womans naturall line is open, and closes not at angle with the vital, it evidently denotes that she will not be very chast." But it means nothing of the sort in " The Practice of Palmistry for Professional Purposes and Scien- tific Students" (Laird & Lee), for the compiler, M. le Comte C. de Saint-Germain, graduate of the University of France in both letters and law though he be, has no fortunes of that sort to evolve, having suited his ancient art to the exigencies of Anglo- Saxon conventions. His work is most inclusive, even to the point of containing a plate from Fer- rier's great work on brain functions in the earlier part, and another from somebody's phrenology in the later. It contains 1,254 original illustrations besides, and is certainly set forth in sufficient detail to tell any sort of fortune which is not too uncon- ventional for modern discussion. That it fills a public want cannot be doubted, for it would appear that America is perfectly capable of suiting its popular science to its popular politics, discussing astrology and protection, palmistry and imperial- ism, with an intense sobriety which augurs volumes for the strenuous life. As Montaigne remarks in another place, "the higher the ape climbs, the longer his tail appears."
The plaint of The unpretentious little book by Mr. o disquieted Austin Miles entitled " About My
Christen. Father's Business" (The Mersbon
Company) is the story of a preacher who made a desperate attempt to serve God and Mammon, and has in it much about a strike and the aspirations of the laboring classes. Artless to the last degree in any literary sense, the very naivete of the narrative tempts the reader on and on, until the conclusion — quite as artless as the rest — is reached. And when reached it will be apparent that the author is very much in earnest, and takes to heart the thought that there is so little place made for the poor in churches which are preparing a way for the rich without the use of the needle's eye. Many earnest men have observed with sadness the difference between the Christian life set forth in the New Testament and the one led by professing Christians in the modern commercial world : the difference appears radical in
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Mr. Miles'a book, where simple and undoubting faith plays an alluring and noble part. To a cer- tain extent, " About My Father's Business " will be called disquieting. _
Daniel Folkmar's Lemons d'Anthro- poloffiephilosophique(Pa.ris: Schlei- Antkropoiogy. cner Frere8) j8 incoherent in matter,
and in treatment slipshod. The author claims that in it " Ethics is reduced to a scientific prevision "; he attempts " to show that positivism, determinism, and even materialism, furnish a sufficient basis for an adequate system of morals." He endeavors to syn- thesize the results of contributory sciences, and to indicate new and important work for the specialists to do in their respective fields. He has clearly not digested the results of work in any of these " con- tributory sciences," and often betrays painful igno- rance of their most simple materials. Always promising to go more profoundly, in another chap- ter, into subjects lightly touched in his treatment, he never really develops any thought. We have rarely to deal with a book so uninteresting, indefi- nite, and barren.
BRIEFER MENTION.
The J. B. Lippincott Co. publish "The Cuban- American Tratado Analitico y Clave de Vocalizacion y Pronunciacion del Idioma Ingle's," by Seilor Lorenzo A. Ruiz. It is essentially a word-book classified under the several vowels of the English language — that is, under each vowel there is given an alphabetical arrange- ment, extending to several pages, of the words which contain tbat vowel, and their equivalents in Spanish. This expedient seems to us of doubtful value, as it re- quires the student to look up a word, not by the initial letter, but by the principal vowel. It is only fair to add, however, that the work is intended for a lesson-book rather than for a dictionary.
" The International Year Book " for 1899, edited by Professor Frank Moore Colby, is published by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. This is the second annual publi- cation of the work, a fact which seems to argue that the volume of last year proved successful. There are nearly nine hundred pages and many illustrations, the latter including a dozen or more well-executed maps. The articles are not signed, but the names of the chief contributors are published. As a work of reference for subjects of contemporaneous interest, this year book is invaluable for such persons as editors and teachers, as well as for readers of all sorts who wish to keep well- informed.
Miss Carla Wenckebach has condensed the colossal historical romance, " Ein Kampf urn Rom," by Herr Felix Dahn, into a small volume for school use. Other German texts are " Aus Meinem Konigreich," tales by "Carmen Sylva," edited by Dr. Wilhelm Bernhardt; Keller's " Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe," edited by Dr. W. A. Adams; and Zschokke's " Das Wirtshaus zu Cransac," edited by Professor E. S. Joynes. A recent French text is Gautier's " Jettatura," edited by Dr. A. Schinz. All these books are published by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.
NOTES.
The "Captivi" of Plautus, edited by Mr. G. E. Barber, is a college text published by Messrs. B. H. Sanborn & Co.
The " World's Congress Addresses " of Mr. Charles Carroll Bonney are issued by the Open Court Publish- ing Co. as a number of " The Religion of Science Li- brary."
The " Haworth" edition of the Bronte sisters (Har- per) is now rounded out by the publication of Mrs. GaskelFs " Life of Charlotte Bronte," with an editorial introduction by Mr. Clement K. Shorter.
The amusing " Georgie " stories, contributed by Mr. S. E. Kiser to the columns of the Chicago " Times- Herald " during the last few months, are now issued in book-form by Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co.
"The Great Stone of Sardis" and "The Girl at Cobhurst " are the latest additions to the new library edition of Mr. F. R. Stockton's writings, now being published by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
"Bride Roses" and "Room Forty-five," by Mr. W. D. Howells, are two additions to the author's series of farces. Each of them makes a neat booklet with the imprint of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
One of the most attractive school editions of Scott's " Ivanhoe " is that lately issued by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. The volume is edited by Mr. Porter L. Mc- Clintock, and contains several illustrations by Mr. C. E. Brock.
Carlyle's " French Revolution " makes two volumes in the new " Library of English Classics," now in course of publication by the Messrs. Macmillan. Mr. A. W. Pollard is the editor of these, as of the other volumes of the series.
The " Iliad " of Messrs. Lang, Leaf, and Myers, and the " Odyssey " of Messrs. Butcher and Lang, both in English prose, as we hardly need to state, are repub- lished by the Macmillan Co. in inexpensive new editions for the use of students.
" The History of Language," by Mr. Henry Sweet, and " A History of South Africa," by Mr. W. Basil Worsfold, are two " Temple Primers," in addition to those of which we recently acknowledged the receipt. The Macmillan Co. are the publishers.
A new edition, in one volume, of the " Life, Diary, and Letters of Edward Thring " by Mr. George R. Parkin, is published by the Macmillan Co. With the exception of a few minor omissions the text of this cheaper edition is identical with that of the two- volume work issued some time ago.
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Ash-Heap, the 8175,000,000, Lessons of. W. J. Boies. Forum.
Australian Constitution, New. H. H. Lusk. Rev. of Rev.
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Boer as a Soldier. T. F. Millard. Scribner.
Bryan, William Jennings. C. R. Spahr. Review of Reviews.
Bubonic Plague, The. Cyrus Edson. International.
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