~~- - \\ L VW THE LITERARY NEWS 01 Journal of (Current iteratnre. [NEW SERIES.] VOL. XVI. 1895. NEW YORK PUBLICATION OFFICE, 59 DUANE STREET, 1895. THE LITERARY NEWS. INDEX TO VOL. XVI. (NEW SERIES) 1895. PAGE ABBEY Shakespeare 353 Abbey s Work in the Boston Public Library 198 Abbot, W. J., Carter H. Harrison 245 About Paris, Davis 292 Actual Africa, Vincent 73 Adams, F., Child of the Age 26, 48 Addison, D. D., Lucy Larcom s Life, Letters, and Diary 80 Adventures of Captain Horn, Stockton 208 Jones, Carruth 112 yEsop, Fables 53 Afloat with the Flag, Henderson 204 Africa. See Vincent, F. After To-Morrow 213 Against Human Nature, Pool 327 Aide, H.. Elizabeth s Pretenders 290 Aims of Literary Study, Corson 71 Alden, H. M., Study of Death 343 Alger, J. G., Glimpses of the French Revolution 55 Algerian Memories, Workman 364 " Alice in Wonderland," Author of. Lit. Misc 284 Allen, A. V. G., Continuity of Christian Thought 122 Religious Progress 27 Allen, G., Story of the Plants 266 - Woman Who Did 83 Allen, J. L., A Kentucky Cardinal 23 Almayer s Folly, Conrad 268 Amateur Emigrant, Stevenson 130 Ambrosial Library 369 American Chanties, Warner 36 Economic Assoc., Papers Read at the Seventh An nual Meeting 217 Foot-Ball, Stagg 20 in Paris, Savidge 302 Institute of Christian Philosophy. Christ and the Church 281 Library Assoc., List of Books for Girls and Women 280 Steam Vessels, Stanton 333 America s Celebrities 99 Amicis, E. de, Heart of a Boy 300 Andrews, E. B., Hist, of the United States 44 Annual Amer. Catalogue, 1894 120 Anstey, F. , Lyre and Lancet 301 Appleton s Handbook of Winter Resorts 54 Apthorp, W. F., Musicians and Music-Lovers 21 Archer, T. A., and Kingsford, C. L., The Crusades. . 4 Argles, Mrs. Marg., The O Connors of Ballinahinch. 149 The Three Graces 169 Armenian Crisis in Turkey, Greene 134 Armstrong, K. L. (ed.). Little Statesman 342 Arnold, Sir E., Tenth Muse 280 Arnold, M., Function of Criticism at the Present Time 341 Art Gift-Books and Illustrated Poems 353 in Primitive Greece Mycenaean Art, Parrot 43 Arthurian Epic. Gurteen 177 As Others Saw Him 115 Ashley, W. J. . Railroad Strike of 1894 217 Ashmore, Ruth, Side-Talk with Girls 302 At the Gate of Samaria. Locke.. 34 Tuxter s, Burgin 326 Atkinson, P., Electricity for Everybody 342 Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice 118 Duologues and Scenes from Novels of 251 Austin, Jane G., Standish of Standish 354 BABINGTON, W. D., Fallacies of Race Theories 269 Bagby, A. M., Miss Traumerei 149 Bailey, Harriet P., On the Chafing-Dish 246 Bain, R. N., Hans Christian Andersen 336 Baird, H. M., The Huguenots and Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 340 Baker, F. G., Model Republic 280 Baker, Mrs. W, Pictures of Swedish Life 22 Baldry, A L., Albert Moore, His Life and Works 53 Baldwin, Mrs. Alfr., Story of a Marriage 277 Baldwin, C. S. (comp. and ed.), Specimens of Prose Description , 337 Balfour, A. J., Foundations of Belief , 122 Balfour, R. C., Central Truths and Side Issues 121 Ballade of Poets (Verse) 27*; Ballads and Songs, Davidson 106 in Prose, Hopper 144 of the Nations 360 Ballantine, H., On India s Frontier 68 Balzac, K. de, Catherine de Medici 13 PAGE Balzac, H. de, Chouans 277 Ferragus 226 Lucien de Rubempre 180 Marriage Contract 338 Start in Life 290 W ild Ass s Skin 246 Balzac s Novels 359 Bangs, J. K., Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica 142 Banishment of Jessop Blythe, Hatton 143 Baring- Gould, S., Deserts of Southern France 57 Kitty Alone 2?. Noemi 76 Barlow, Jane, End of Elfintown 53, 54 Maureen s Fairing 268 Barr, Mrs. Amelia E., Flower of Gala Water. .... 40 Barr, R., Face and the Mask 108 Barras, P. F. J N. (Comte) De, Memoirs 206 Barrett, F. John Ford, and His Helpmate 246 Justification of Andrew Lebrun 23 Set of Rogues 329 Barrie s Illustrated Editions 368 Bartlett, G. H., Water Tramps 235 Bartlett J , Concordance of Shakespeare 243 Barry, A., England s Mission to India 245 Bassett, G , Hippolyte and Golden-beak 118 Bates, Mrs. L. W., Bunch-Grass Stories 277 Battye, A. T., Ice-Bound on Kolgnev 308 Beach, D. N., How We Rose 153 Beale, Maria, Jack O Doon 74 Beaman, A. H., M. Stambuloff 308 Beattie, F. R , Radical Criticism 153 Beaumont, Mary, A Ringby Lass 309 Beazley, C. R., Henry, the Navigator 35 Bedlow, H., White 1 sar, and Other Poems 101 Beers, H. A., Ways of Yale 130 Beesly, A. H , Ballads 184 Beginning of the End 146 Beginnings of Writing, Hoffman 328 Belden, Jessie Van Z . , Fate at the Door 277 Bell, Lillian, Little Sister to the Wilderness 180 Bell, Mrs. Nancy R. E. M., Masterpieces of the Great Artists 336 Bella, E (ed.), Collection of Posters 336 Bellamy, W., Century of Charades 27 Belloc, M. A., and Shedlock, M., (eds.,) Edmond and Jules de Goncourt 53 Bemis, E. W., Relation of Labor Organizations to the Amer. Boy and Trade Instruction 57 Benson, A. C., Lyrics 152 Benson, E. F , The Judgment Books 213 Besant, Sir W., Beyond the Dreams of Avarice 112 In Deacon s Orders 232 Westminster 324 Payn, J., and others. My First Book 26 Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, Maclaren 12 Bettany, G. T., Popular Hist, of the Reformation and Modern Protestantism 122 Bevan,W. L., Sir William Petty 57 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, Besant 112 Bible Concordance, Strong 115 New Testament, Translation of the Four Gospels from the Syriac 58 Bickerdyke, L, Sea-Fishing 312 Bicknell, Anna L., Life in the Tuileries 321 Bierce, A., Black Beetles in Amber 277 Rierstadt, O. A., Library of Robert Hoe 215 Bigelow, J., Life of Samuel J. Tilden 131 Bigelow, Poultney, Borderland of Czar and Kaiser . . 5 Bicke"las, D., Tale from the yEgean 23 Billings, J. S., and Kurd, H. M., Suggestions to Hos pital Visitors. 152 Billtry. Dallas 78 Billy Bellew, Norris 231 Bird, H . E , Chess Novelties 343 Birds of Eastern North America, Chapman 167 Bishop, W. H., Garden of Eden, U. S. A 246 Bismarck, Prince, Lowe 137 Bjornson, B., Heritage of the Kurts 246 Black, Clementina, An Agitator 23 Black, J. S., Christian Consciousness 280 Blaikie. W. G., Personal Life of David Livingstone. 245 Blair, E. T., Henry of Navarre 14 Blair, Eliza N., Lisbeth Wilson 180 Blanc, Mme. The rese, Condition of Woman in the U. S 217 Blatchford, R., Merrie England 217 IV INDEX. AGE Bliss, W. D. P., Arbitration and Conciliation in In dustrial Disputes Handbook of Socialism Bloomfieid, W., Holdenhurst Hall Body-Snatcher, Stevenson Bohn-Bawerk, E. v., Ultimate Standard of Value Bok, E. W., Successward Bolles, F., Chocorua s Tenants Bolton, Mrs. Henrietta I , Madonna of St. Luke Book Bills of Narcissus, Le Gallienne Lover s Almanac for 1895, Plate Annual Books of 1 894 4 Bookworm Booth, Mrs. E. M. J. G., Gender in Satin Boothby, G., Lost Endeavor Marriage of Esther Borderland of Czar and Kaiser, Bigelow Borlase. S., Stirring Tales of Colonial Adventure ... Boscawen, W. St. C., The Bible and the Monuments. Boulger, Mrs. Dora H., An Island Princess Boulton, Helen M., Josephine Crewe Bourget, Outre Mer Bourinot, J. G., How Canada Is Governed Bouton, J. B., Uncle Sam s Church Bouvet, Marguei ite, My Lady Boyesen, H. H., Essays on Scandinavian Literature. Boynton, H. V., National Military Park Brace, Charles Loring, Life of Brainerd, T. H., Go Forth and Find Breaking a Jam Breton, F., God Forsaken Brewster, W. T. (ed.), Specimens of Narration Bridges, R., Growth of Love Bridges, R. (" Droch," #stud.), Suppressed Chapters.. Briggs, C. A., Messiah of the Apostles Gospels .. Brooklyn Ethical Assoc., Life and Conditions of Survival Brooks, N., Abraham Lincoln, and the Downfall of American Slavery How the Republic Is Governed Short Studies in Party Politics Washington in Lincoln s Time Brooks, P., Essays and Addresses Brown, Alice, Meadow-Grass Brown, H. E., Betsey Jane on Wheels Brown, Helen D., Petrie Estate Brown Studies, Hepworth Browning, R., Poetical Works in One Volume Bruce, M. W., Alaska Buckley, J M.,Travelsin Three Continents Europe, Asia, Africa Bulwer-Lytton, 5YrE. G. E. L., Last Days of Pompeii Burdette, R. J., and others, Before He Is Twenty.... Burgin.G. B , At Tuxter s Burke, U. R., Hist, of Spain Burn. R., Ancient Rome Burnham, Clara L., Miss Bagg s Secretary The Wise Woman Burstall, Sara A., Education of Girls in the U. S Burton, J. Bloundelle, The Hispaniola Plate Burwell, L. M., Girl s Life in Virginia Butler, W.. Land of the Veda Butterworth, H.. In Old New England By Thrasna River CABLE, G. W., John March, Southerner 23 Caffyn, Mrs. M. See Iota. Caine, H., The Manxman 3157 Son of Hagar 87 Call, Annie P., As a Matter of Course 57 Cambridge, Ada (pseud.}* Fidelis 163 Campbell, G., The Joneses and the Asterisks 309 Campbell, H., Brewer, R. F., a^Neville, H., Voice, Speech, and Gesture 118 Captain Antifer, Verne 368 Carleton, W., Rhymes of Our Planet. ... 302, 303 Carpenter, Mary T., In Cairo and Jerusalem 22 Carroll, E., jr., Principles and Practice of Finance. . 342 Carruth, H.. Adventures of Jones 112 Carus, P., Gospel of Buddha 58 Gary, E., George William Curtis 21 Case, W. S., Forward House 213 Castle Rackrent, Edgeworth 74 Catherine de Medici, Balzac 13 Catherwood, Mary H ., Lady of Fort St. John 23 Cause and Effect, Meirion 273 Cawein, M., Intimations of the Beautiful 217 Ce-cile 338 Cesaresca, E. M , Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 25 Chamberlain, H. R.. 6000 Tons of Gold 54 Chambers, R. W., King in Yellow 149 Chambers Gazetteer of the World 22 Chambliss, W. H., Diary; or, Society as It Really Is 341 Chandler, Mrs. Izora C., Three of Us 47 Chapman, F. M., Birds of Eastern North America... Chapman, Mary B., Lyrics of Love and Nature Chaucer, G., Complete Works Cheiro (pseud.), Language of the Hand Chicago. See How to Govern. Chiffon s Marriage, Martel de Janville. . . Child of the Age, Adams Children of Circumstance, Iota Chimmie F"adden, Townsend Choosing Summer Reading Christian State, Henron Christmas Week at Bigler s Mill, Spratt Chronicles of Count Antonio, Hope . . Uganda, Ashe Church, R. W. , Life and Letters of Dean Church Church Club of New York, Rights and Pretensions of the Roman See Churches and Castles of Mediaeval France, Larn ed. . Claflin, Mrs. Mary B., Under the Old Elms Clairmonte, Mrs. See Egerton, G. Clarence, Harte Clark, G. H., Oliver Cromwell Clark, T. M., Reminiscences Clarke, H. W., History of Tithes Clodd, R., Story of Primitive Man Clouston, W. A., Hieroglyphic Bibles Clyde, H., Pleasure Cycling Coaching Trips Out of London, Rideing Cobb, S.,/r., King s Mark Cobbe, W. R., Dr. Judas, A Portrayal of the Opium Habit ... Cobbleigh, Tomtjseud.), Gentleman Upcott s Daugh ter See Raymond, W. Cocke, J. R., Hypnotism Coffin, C. C., Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times Coignet, Captain, Narrative of Coleman, L., Church in America Coleridge, S. T., Golden Book of Coleridge Letters Colonial Cavalier, Goodwin Columbian Lunar Annual Comedy in Spasms, Iota Coming of Theodora, White Commodore s Daughters, Lie Company (Verse) Compton, H., Free Lance in a Far Land Comstock, J. H., and Botsford, Anna, Manual of the Study of Insects Conrad, Almayer s Folly Constantinople, Crawford Grosvenor Conway, Sir Wm. M., Alps from End to End Corbin, J., Elizabethan Hamlet Corelli, Marie, Silence of the Maharajah Coridon sSong Cornelison, I. A., Relation of Religion to Civil Gov ernment in the U. S Cornish, C. J., Wild England of To-Day Cornwell, W. C., Currency and Banking Law of Canada Correggio: His Life, His Friends, and His Time Corson, H , Aims of Literary Study Cory, Vivien ("Victoria Crosse"), Woman Who Did Not Cotes, Mrs. E , Story of Sonny Sahib Vernon s A unt Couch, A. T. Q. Golden Pomp Couperus, L.. Majesty Courthorpe, W. J., Hist, of Eng. Poetry Lit. Misc . Courtship of Miles Standish. Longfellow Cowan, H., Landmarks of Church History to the Reformation Crackanthorpe, H., Sentimental Studies Craddock, Charles Egbert (pseud.}, Stories by Craigie, C., Old Man s Romance AGE 167 361 120 57 226 48 8 78 178 1 10 369 ST. 2 364 53 59 135 34 322 214 148 27 200 56 185 J 73 8 7 Craigie, Mrs.. Mary. See Hobbes, J. O. Crane, S., Red Badge of Courage 326, Crawford, F. M.. Constantinople 337, Love in Idleness Mr. Isaacs... I The Ralstons. ! Sant Ilario... Creegan,C. C., and Goodnow, Mrs. Josephine A. B., Great Missionaries of the Church Crocker, U. H. , Cause of Hard Times Crockett, S. R., Bog-myrtle and Peat Galloway Herd Men of the Moss-Hags Lilac Sunbonnet Play-Actress Stickit Minister Crompton, Frances E., Messire Crowell s New Illustrated Librarv Cruger, Mrs. Julia Van R. See Gordon, Julien. 277 104 129 201 28l 280 1 68 4i 56 299. 330 230 344 251 268 ,1! 308 245 180 53 218 337 90 355 7 1 39 144 10 145 102 280 253 360 90 277 80 247 37* 363 4i 309 47 322 218 294 3 2 4 23 23 53 75 354 INDEX. PAGE 331 Cruising Among the Caribbees, Stoddard ............ Cunningham, Martha, Ballad of la Jeunesse Doree, 140, Curb, Snaffle, and Spur, Anderson .................. Curry, J. L. M., Southern States of the Amer. Union. Curse of Intellect ..................................... Curtin, J , Hero-Tales of Ireland ..................... (camp.}, Tales of the Fairies . . .................... Curtis, G. W., Literary and Social Essays. ........... Cutts, E. L., Augustine of Canterbury ............... 148 Hist, of the Chu.ch of England ................ 281 Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture, Longfellow. . . 355 DAILEY, A. H , Mollie Fancher ...................... Dallas, Mary K., Billtry ............................. Dame Prism, Mathews ............................... Dana, C. A., Art of Newspaper-Making ............. Dana, Mrs. Frances T., How to Know the Wild Flowers ......................... ................. Dana, J. C., Parsons, J., and Tandy, F. D., Public Library Handbook, Denver ........................ Dane, D., Is She Not a Woman ? ..................... D Arcy, Ella, Monochromes ......................... Darmesteter, J., Essays ...................... 183, Daudet, A. , La Petite Parpisse ....................... Daughters of the Revolution, Coffin ................. Davidson, J., Ballads and Songs ...................... Sentences and Paragraphs. ....... ............. Davidson, T., Education of the Greek People ........ Davies, H. E., Gen. Sheridan ........................ Davis, Mrs. M E. M., Under the Man-Fig ........... Davis, N. K., Elements of Inductive Logic .......... Davis, R. H , About Paris ....................... 292, Princess Aline . . ................................. Davis, Varina, A. J., Veiled Doctor .................. Dawe, W. C., Yellow and White ..................... Dawn of Civilization, Maspero ....................... Dead Man s Court, Hervey .......................... Dean, Mrs. A. (pseud.), The Grasshoppers ........... A Splendid Cousin ................................. Defoe, D., Journal of the Plague Year ............... Romances and Narratives ............. ............. De Garmo. C., Herbart and the Herbartians ......... Degeneration, Nordau .............................. De Koven, Mrs. R., Sawdust Doll ................... Deland, Mrs. Marg, Philip and His Wife ............ Dement, R. S., Ronbar .............................. Denispn, J. H., Christ s Idea of the Supernatural ---- Dennis, J. T., On the Shores of an Inland Sea ........ De Peyster, J. W., Real Napoleon Bonaparte ........ Destiny-Maker (The), (Verse) ........................ De Tabley ( Baron), Poems .......................... De Vere, Aubrey, Select! pns from Poems ............ Devil s Playground, Mackie ........................ Devine, E. T., Economic Function of Woman ....... Dickinson, Emily. Letters of ........................ Dickinson, Mary L., Temptation of Katherine Gray.. Dillingham, Lucy, Missing Chord .................... Ditchfield, P. H , Books Fatal to Their Authors ...... Dix, Gertrude, The Girl from the Farm .......... 247, Dixon, T. S. E., Francis Bacon and His Shakespeare. Doctor (The), His Wife and the Clock, Green ........ Izard, Lit. Misc .............. , ................... Dodge. Mary A., Biog. of James G Blame. ....... Dole, N. H., Hawthorn-Tree, and Other Poems ..... Donisthorpe, W., Law in a Free State ............... Donnelly, I., American People s Money .............. Donovan, M., Science of Boxing .................... Doom of the Holy City, Farmer ................... Dorr, Julia C. R., Flower of England s Face ........ Dougall. Lily, The Mermaid ....................... The Zeit-Geist ..................................... Dowden, E., New Studies in Literature ...... ...... Dowie, Menie M., Gallia ............................. Doyle, A. C., Beyond the City ....................... Mystery of Cloomber ............................. The Parasite ..................................... Round the Red Lamp ................... ......... Stark Munro Letters ........ . ..................... The White Company .............................. and others, Strange Secrets ....................... Drake, S. A., Watch-Fires of 76 ..................... Driver, S. R., Critical Commentary on Deuteronomy. Drummond, H., Greatest Thing in the World ........ Du Bois, Constance G. , Modern Pagan .............. Duff, C., The Master-Knot ... ...................... Dumas, A. , Napoleon ................................ Three Musketeers .......................... ...... Dumas Masterpieces ............................... Du Maurier, G., Society Pictures ..... ......... Dutton s Illustrated Gift-Rooks and Calendars ...... Duval, G., Romance of the Sword ................... Dyer, H., Evolution of Industry ..................... Dyer, T. F. T., Strange Pages from Family Papers . PAGE Eaton, A. W., College Requirements in Eng., En trance Examinations 86 Ebers G., In the Fire of the Forge 204 Echegaray, J., Mariana 184 Son of Don Juan 148 Echoes of the Playhouse, Robbins 297 , 360 Edgeworth, Maria, Life and Letters n Castle Rackrent 74 Ormond 338 Edwards, G. W., Riva nes of Long and Short Co- diac 338 Egerton, G. (pseud.), Discords 55 Ehrlich, A., Celebrated Pianists of the Past and Present Time 148 Eickemeyer, C., and Westcott, Lilian, Among the Pueblo Indians 337 Elia Series 360 Eliot, George (pseud.}, Complete Works 247 Silas Marner 338 Elizabeth s Pretenders, Ald 290 English Girl in Samoa, Fraser 142 Lands, Letters, and Kings, Mitchell 305 Erichsen, H., Methods of Authors 216 Eschstruth, Nataly v., The Opposite House 55 Espinasse, F., Life of Ernest Renan 180 Evans, M. A. B., Nymphs, Nixies, and Naiads 360 Extra-Illustrating ( Verse) 212 FACE and the Mask, Barr 108 Fagg, J. G., Forty Years in South China 245 Faience Library 365 Fair Women of To Day, Peck 373 Fallacies of Race Theories, Babington 269 Familiar Flowers, Mathews 170 Farmer, Lydia H., Aunt Belindy s Points of View... 215 Doom of the Holy City 363 Farrar, F: W., Life of Christ 354 Milman, H. H., and othtrs, Westminster Abbey and the Cathedrals of England 371 Year-Book 370 Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England, Love. 136 Fawcett, Millicent G., Life of Queen Victoria 213 Fenn, G. M., The Tiger Lily 181 Ferguson, H., Essays in American History 55 Four Periods in the Life of the Church 59 Ferragus, Balzac 226 Fidelis. Cambridge 163 Field, H. M., Our Western Archipelago 195 Finck, H.T., Lotos-Time in Japan 161 First of the English, Gunter 114 Fisher, Mary, Twenty-five Letters on English Au thors 273 Fitzgerald, E., Letters to Fanny Kemble 336 Flaubert, Gustave, Tarver 264 Fletcher, J. S., When Charles the First was King 338 Fletcher, R., Anatomy and Art 86 Fletcher, W. I., and Bowker, R. R., Annual Liter ary Index, 1894 120 Flower of Gala Water, Barr Flowers of Song Fly-Leaves Series Fonda, A. I., Honest Money Foote, A. R., Sound Currency and Banking System. For You (Verse) . Forbes, A , Colin Campbell 148 Ford, Jas. L., Bohemia Invaded 361 The Literary Shop 45 Ford , John, The Broken Heart 148 Ford, P. L., Honorable Peter Stirling 73 Forsyth, Jean (pseud.), Making of Mary 265, 300 Fort Frayne, King 266 Fortier, A. (comp and ed.), Louisiana Folk Tales 119 Foster, B., Pictures of Rustic Landscape 336 Foster, R. F., Whist Tactics 373 Foster s Reference Lists 84 Fothergill Jessie, Orioles Daughter 213 Fouard, C., Saint Paul and His Mission 27 Four American Universities 107 Years of Novel-Reading, Moulton 216, 269 Fowler, W. W., Summer Studies of Birds and Books. 170 Frail Children of the Air, Scudder 372 Francis, C. E., Every Day s News 213 Francis, M. E. (pseud.), Daughter of the Soil 181 Fraser, Marie. In Stevenson s Samoa 142 Frazer, J. G., Passages of the Bible Chosen for Their Literary Beauty 280 Frazer, P., Study of Documents 83 French and German books. See Recent. Freshest News 30. 60, 92. 123, 155, 254, 285, 314, 345 Freytag, G., Technique of the Drama Friend of the People, R owsell Froebel, F., Mottoes and Commentaries of "Mother Play" From Dreamland Sent, Whiting Jerusalem to Nicsea, Moxom the Black Sea, Weeks 40 37 360 90 T 53 335 164 308 374 306 362 Froude, J. A., English Seamen 183 VI INDEX. Fuller, H. B., With the Procession 194, 235 Funk, I. K., March, F. A., and Gregory, D. S. (eds.), Standard Diet, ol the Eng. Language 89 Furtwangler, A., Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture.. . nS GALBRAITH, Anna M., Hygiene and Physical Culture for Women 215 Galloway Herd, Crockett 294 Gait, J., Novels, Annals of the Parish and Ayrshire Legatees 205, 247, 304, 362 Gannett, H., Building- of a Nation 251 Gardiner, S. R., Hist, of the Commonwealth and Pro tectorate Gardner, Alice, Julian, Philosopher and Emperor... Gardner, G. E., Treasure Found a Bride Won Garrett, E. H. (camp.}, Victorian Songs Gates, Ellen M. H., Treasures of Kurium Geikie, Jas.. Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of M an Geikie, J: C., New Testament Hours 122, George, H. B.. Battles of Eng. History Gerard, Dorothea, An Arranged Marriage Gerhart, E. V., Institutes of the Christian Religion.. Giacinta s Portrait Gibbes, Emily O., Reflectionson Paul Gibbs, M. B., Military Career of Napoleon the Great Gibson, C. D., Red Men and White Gillette, K. C., Human Drift Girl s Life in Virginia, Burwell Gissing, G. , The Emancipated Eve s Ransom In the Year of Jubilee Gladstone, W: E., Lucy Robbins Thoughts from Writings of Glascock, W. H., Stories of Columbia Gleanings, Pure, Pointed, and Practical Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Hearn God s Light as It Came to Me Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham, Hobbes.. Godwin, P., Commemorative Addresses Gohre, P., Three Months in a Workshop Golden Age, Grahame H ouse, Warner Pomp, Couch Gontaut, Duchessede, Memoirs Goodloe, Abbe C., College Gins Goodwin, Maud W., Colonial Cavalier 41, Head of a Hundred Gordon, G. A., Christ of To-Day Gordon, Julien (pseud.), Poppaea A Wedding Gosse, E., In Russet and Silver Gould. J. M., a</Tucker, G. F., Federal Income Tax Gould, N., Only a Commoner Graetz, H., History of the Jews, v. 4 Graham. Mrs. Marg., C., Stories of the Foot-Hills. .. Grahame. K., Golden Age Grandma s Attic Treasures, Brine Grant, G. M., Religions of the World Grant. R., Bachelor s Christmas .... Grasshoppers (The), Dean Great Crested Flycatcher (Verse) God Pan, Machen Ice Age, Geikie Missionaries of the Church, Creegan Refusal, More Greek Studies, Pater Green, Anna K. , The Doctor, His Wife and the Clock Doctor Izard Green, J. R., Hist, of the English People Green, W. H., Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch... Greene, F. D., Armenian Crisis in Turkey Gregor, Frances, Story of Bohemia Griffis, W. E., Religions of Japan Townsend Harris, First Am. Envoy in Japan Griswold, W. M. (cotnp.), Descriptive List of Novels and Tales Dealing with Ancient History North America Grossman, Mrs. E. B., Edwin Booth Grosvenor, E. A , Constantinople Growth of the Idylls of the King, Jones Guerber, H. A., Contes et L^gendes Legends of the Rhine Myths of Northern Lands Guiney, Louise I. , Little English Gallery Gunter, A. C., First of the English Gurteen, S. H., Arthurian Epic Guyot, Y. , Tyranny of Socialism 97 22 58 IK) 311 4 VS4 ,63 53 5 237 6 US 25 309 338 343 24 338 121 58 309 55 ny - 37 367 9" 339 205 175 44 81 3-2 82 70 74 247 T2O 343 34 - 5 59 332 216 216 HABBERTON, J. \and other s\, Where Were the Boys? 278 Haedicke, P., Equalities of Para- Para 247 Haggard, H: R., Heart of the World i 7l Joan Haste 329 People of the Mist 7 Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers, Willard.. . 113 Haliburton, H., Furth in Field 184 I AGE Hall, F. J., Historical Position of the Episcopal Church 9 1 Hall, Gertrude, Foam of the Sea 247 Hall, J., Light Unto My Path 343 Hamerton s (P. G.) Books 364 Hammond, B. E., Political Institutions of the An cient Greeks 90 Hapgood, Isabel F., Russian Rambles 169 Hardwicke. H., Art of Living Long and Happily 342 Hardy, T., Mayor of Casterbridge 247 Two on a Tower 39 Harger, C. G.,/r., True Standard of Value 280 Harland, H., Gray Roses 247 Harley (pseud.}, In the Veldt 87 Harnack, A., Monasticism 154 Harraden, Beatrice, Things Will Take a Turn 87 Harris, F., Elder Conklin 24 Harris, J. C. , Uncle Remus 359 Harris, Townsend, Griffis 332 Harrison, Mrs. Constance C., Bachelor Maid 24 Errant Wooing 247 Harrison, F., Meaning of History 25 Hart, A . B., Studies in American Education 246 Harte, F. B., Bell-Kinger of Angel s 24 Clarence 322 Hartmann, E. v , Sexes Compared 251 Hartmann, S. C., Conversations with Walt Whitman. 336 Harvard College by an Oxonian, Hill 34 Harvey, W. H., Coin s Financial School 184 Up to Date 185 Money of the People 251 Tale of Two Nations ; 184 Hassall, A., Louis xiv 211; Hastings, Eliz., Experiment in Altruism 181 Hatton, J., Banishment of Jessop Blythe 143 Hawkins, Anthony H. See Hope, A. Hawley, J. G., Appendix to Trilby 278 Hawthorn-Tree and Other Poems, Dole 365 Haygood, A. G., Monk and Prince 276 Haynes, E. J., Farm House Cobweb 119 Hayward, Jane M., Bird Notes 184 Hazard, Caroline, Narragansett Ballads 26 Hazeltine, Mayo W., Lit. Misc 284 Head of a Hundred, Goodwin 232 Healy, G. P. A., Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter. 21 Hearn, L., Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan 4 Out of the East . 113 Heart of a Boy, Amicis 300 Life, Mallock 257 the World, Haggard 171 Heclawa (pseud.), In the Heart of the Bitter-Root Mountains 87 Henderson, W. J , Afloat with the Flag 204 Henry of Navarre, Blair 14 the Navigator, Beazley. 35 Henschel, A. E., Municipal Consolidation 251 Hepworth, G. H., Brown Studies 138 Herald Sermons 27 Hermann, P., Fursten Bismarck 54 Heroes of the Nations Series 363 Herrick, R., Selections from Poetry 251 Herron, G. D., The Christian State no, 122 Heysinger, I. W., Source and Mode of Solar Energy.. 121 Hichens, R. S., An Imaginative Man 294 Hiley, R. W., A Year s Sermons 91 Hill, G. B., Harvard College by an Oxonian 34 Hill, Grace L., Katharine s Yesterday 339 Hillhouse, M. L., lola, the Senator s Daughter 39 Hinds, A. B., Making of the England of Elizabeth ... 88 Hinkson, Mrs. K. T., Way of a Maid 339 Hispaniola Plate, Burton 142 Hobbes, J. O. (pseud.}, The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham 163 Hocking, J., All Men are Liars 339 Hocking, S. K., Son of Reuben 199 Hoffman, W. J., Beginnings of Writing 328, 372 Holcombe, C., The Real Chinaman 132 Holden, E. S., Mogul Emperors of Hindustan 336 Holland, C., My Japanese Wife 309 Holm, A., Hist, of Greece 55, 311 Hoist, H. v., French Revolution 56 Honorable Peter Stirling, Ford 73 Hope, A. (pseud.}, Chronicles of Count Antonio.. ... 372 Father Stafford 119 The God in the Car 24 Indiscretion of the Duchess 24 Man of Mark . 119 Sport Royal 150 Hope, A. R. (pseud.), Young Traveller s Tales 213 Hopkins, A. A., Wealth and Waste 185 Hopkins, E. W., Religions of India 281, 305 Hopkins, S. W., On a False Charge 248 Hopkins, T., Lady Bonnie s Experiment 339 Hopper, Nora, Ballads in Prose 144 Hoppin, Emily H., Under the Corsican 87 Home, C. G,, A Norse Idvl i8t Horstman, C., Yorkshire Writers 308 INDEX. Vll Hosmer, F. L., and Gannett, W. C., Thought of God in Hymns and Poems 26 Hosmer, J. K., How Thankful was Bewitched 24 Hotchkiss, C. C., In Defiance of the King 326 Houghton, Louise S. , Antipas 364 How to Govern Chicago 251 Howe, R. H., Quadragesima 122 Howells, W. C., Recollections of Life in Ohio, 1813- 1 840 120 Howells, W. D., My Literary Passions 234 Stops of Various Quills 359 Hubbard, E.. Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great 148 Charles Dickens 337 Jonathan Swift 337 Oliver Goldsmith 337 Victor Hugo 245 W. M. Thackeray 276 William Wordsworth 276 Hudson, W. H., British Birds 312 Huidekoper, R. S., The Cat 216 Hull- House Maps and Papers 153 Hume, F. W., Lone Inn 119 Third Volume 248 White Prior 278 Hunt, Violet, A Hard Woman 372 Huntington, F. D., Social Problems and the Church. 282 Huntmgton, W. R., Spiritual House 282 Hurst s Books 369 Hutton, L., Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem 166 Other Times and Other Seasons 369 Hutton, W. H., William Laud 207 Huxley, Thomas Henry 240 Evolution and Ethics 26 National Memorial to, Lit. Misc 283 Hypnotism, Its Uses and Dangers, Cocke 104 Hyslop, J. H., Elements of Ethics 57 IBSEN, H., Little Eyolf Ideas for Sale (Verse) ... lesat Nassar, Mamreov Illustrated Standard Novels Imaginative Man, Hichens In Camphor (Verse) 271, Deacon s Orders, Besant Defiance of the King, Hotchkiss Russet and Silver (Verse), Gosse Tent and Bungalow The Dozy Hours, Repplier Fire of the Forge, Ebers Heart of the Bitter-Root Mountains, Heclawa. . International Sunday- School Lessons Into the Highways and Hedges, Montre"sor lola, the Senator s Daughter, Hillhouse Iota (pseud.)) Children of Circumstance Comedy in Spasms Irving, W , The Alhambra Sketch-Book Tales of a Traveller. .. 248 357 J., W., Rights of Labor 90 Jack, A. A., Thackeray . . 280 Jack O Doon, Beale 74 Jacobs, J., Inquiry into Sources of History of Jews in Spain 120 James, G. P. R., Richelieu 363 James, H., Terminations 248 Jebb, John G., Life and Adventures of 3 Jefferies, R., Thoughts from Writings of Richard Jef- leries 3 n Jerrold, W., Electricians and Their Marvels 121 Jeune, Lady^ Lesser Questions 246 Jewel of Ynys Galon, Rhoscomyl 170 Joan Haste, Haggard 329 Johnson, L., Art of Thomas Hardy 26 Johnstone, Edith, Sunless Heart 24 Joinville, Prince de, Memoirs 54 Jones, R., Growth of Idylls of the King 79 Jordan, L., Drilby Reversed 89 Julian the Apostate, Gardner 167 Jusserand, J. J., Literary Hist. of t the English People, KAFIR Stories, Scully Kappeler, G. J., Modern American Drinks Karpeles, G., Jewish Literature Keats Poetical Works Kelley, J. P., Law of Service Kellogg, J. H., Art of Massage Kelly, E., Evolution and Efforts Kendall, May, Songs from Dreamland Kennard, Mrs. E., Wedded to Sport Kent, Barbara, House by the River 176, Kernahan, C., God and the Ant Kersey, J. A., Ethics of Literature Key to the Camphor Chest (Verse) Kidd, B., Social Evolution King, Anna E., Kitwyk Stories 330 King, C., Captain Close and Sergeant Crcesus 309- Captain Dieams 248- Story of Fort Frayne 248, 266 Under Fire 24 King, M. (ed.), How to See Boston 276 King s Diary, White 175 Stratagem, Weyman 298 Kingsley, C , Works 309 Kingsley, H., Austin Elliot and the Harveys 213 Old Margaret 278 Reginald Hetheridge and Leighton Court 301 Silcote of Silcotes 181 Works 362 Kipling, Art of 209. Kirk, Mrs. Ellen O , Story of Lawrence Garthe 15 Kitwyk Stories, King . . 330 Knapp, Adeline, One Thousand Dollars a Day 121 Knight, E. F., Rhodesia of To-Day 121 KovaleVsky, S6nya 193, 276 Kroeker, Kate F. (comp.), Century of German Lyrics.. 342 LADD, G. T., Philosophy of Mind 57 La Fayette in the American Revolution, Tower 77 Lagrange, C., The Great Pyramid, by Modern Science. 59 Lamb, C., Essays of Elia 311 Lament, A., Bright Celestials 180 Land of Tawny Beasts, Mae l 373 the Sun, Tiernan 33 Landon, M. D., Money, Gold, Silver, or Bimetallism. 251 Landor, A. H. S., Corea 118 Lane, F. H., Elementary Greek Education 277 Lanier, S., Select Poems 89 Lano, P. de, Emperor Napoleon in 341 Lansdell, H., Chinese Central Asia 118 Larcom, Lucy, Addison 80. Larned, Augusta, In Woods and Fields 89 Larned, J. N., Hist, for Ready Reference 88, 250- Larned, W. C., Churches and Castles of Mediaeval France 135. Lassie, Paull 237 Latane\ J. H., Early Relations between Maryland and Virginia 252- Latimer, Mrs. Eliz. W., England in the Nineteenth Century 25 Latin Poetry, Tyrrell 114 Laud, Archbishop, Hutton 207 Lawless, E. , Grania . . 309 Maelcho 1 1 Lawrence, E. A., Modern Missions in the East 122 Lazarus, Josephine, Spirit of Judaism 343 Lean, Mrs. F., At Heart a Rake 278. Lear, E. , Book of Nonsense 280 Nonsense Songs and Stories 46 Lease, Mrs. Mary E., Problem of Civilization Solved. 90. Lecky, W., Down at Caxton s 245 Lee, H. B., Napoleon Bonaparte 149. Lee, Mary C., A Soulless Singer i8t Le Gallienne, R., Book-Bills of Narcissus 69 Poems 263 Robert Louis Stevenson 312 Legends of Fire Island Beach, Shaw 260 the Rhine, Guerber 233 Leighton Court, Kingsley 301 Leland, C. G., Legends of Florence 278 Lemcke, G., European and American Cuisine 246 Lemon, Ida, Matthew Furth 339 Lent, Past and Present, Lilienthal 115 Leonard, D. L., Hundred Years of Missions 282 Lepelletier, E. , Madame Sans-Gene 119 Le Queux, W., Stolen Souls 361 Zoraida 262, 339, 361 Letters on Eng. Authors, Fisher 273 Lever, C. , Novels of Adventure 362 Lewes, L. , Women of Shakespeare 79 Lie, J. L. E., The Commodore s Daughters 230 Life in the Tuileries, Bicknell 321 Lilienthal, H., Lent Past and Present 91, 115 Lilith, Macdonald 33 1 Lincoln, A., Tributes from His Associates 245 and Douglas, S. A., Political Speeches and De bates 34 2 Lingua Gemmae, Sutton 145 Linton, Mrs. Eliza L. , The New Woman 119 One Too Many 24 Linton, W. J., Three Score and Ten Years 82 List of Books for Girls and Women 275 Literary History of the English People, Jusserand ... 71 Landmarks of Jerusalem, Hutton 166 Miscellany 253, 283 Shop, Ford 45 Literature of the Georgian Era, Minto 98 Little English Gallery, Guiney 4 6 Epicure 54 Huguenot, Pemberton 258 Knights and Ladies, Sangster 230 Little Rivers, Van Dyke 3 6 4 Living (Verse) 335 Vlll INDEX. Lloyd, H. D., Wealth Against Commonwealth . . , Locke, W. J., At the Gate of Samaria Lombroso, C., and Ferrero, The Female Offender . . . Long, J. D., After-Dinner and Other Speeches Long, J. L., Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo Longfellow, H. W., Courtship of Miles Standish Song of Hiawatha Longfellow, S., Hymns and Verses Longfellow, W. P. P., Cyclopaedia of Works of Archi tecture Longus, , Daphnis and Chloe Lost Endeavor, Boothby Lotos-Time in Japan, Finck Lotto, Lorenzo, Berenson Love, W. De L. ,./>., Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England 136, Love in Idleness, Crawford Lowe, C., Prince Bismarck Lowell, J. R., Last Poems Lowell, P. , Occult Japan Lowndes, A., Power of Woman Lowry, H. D., Women s Tragedies Loyson, C. H., My Last Will and Testament Lubbock, Sir J., Use of Life Luckock, H. M., History of Marriage Lucy, H. W., William E. Gladstone Ludlum, Jean K., Under Oath. Luffmann, C. B., A Vagabond in Spain Lydekker, R. (ed.), Royal Natural History Lyon, W. D., Sketch of History of Prot. Missions in China Lyre and Lancet, Anstey Lyrics of Love and Nature, Chapman Lytle, W. H., Poems AGE 36 34 218 184 57 MAARTENS, M. (pseud.}, Black-Box Murder 309 My Lady Nobody 225 MacArthur, R. S., Quick Truths in Quaint Texts 312 McCarthy, J. H., Woman of Impulse 87 McClung, D. W., Money Talks 27 MacColl, M., England s Responsibility Towards Ar menia 218 Life Here and Hereafter 91 McConnell, S. D., Sermon Stuff 122 MacCunn, John Knox 337 McDonald, D., Sweet-Scented Flowers and Fragrant Leaves 184 Macdonald, G., Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood 150 Lilith 331 McGlasson, Eva W., Ministers of Grace 24 Mach, E. , Scientific Lectures. 89 Machen, A., Great God Pan 44 Mackail, J. W., Latin Literature Mackie, J., Devil s Playground Maclaren, Ian (/>seud.) Bes de the Bonnie Brier Bush Maclay, E. S., Hist of the U. S. Navy Macleod, Fiona, Mountain Lovers Macmahon, Ella, Modern Man McManus, L., The Red Star McMaster, J. B., Hist, of the People of the U. S.,v. 4 McPherson, E., and Rhoades, H. E. (eds.), Tribune Almanac 121 Macpherson, H. A., Wortley, A. J. S., and Shand, A. I., The Pheasant 312 Macquoid, Mrs. K. S., Berris 88 Maelcho, Lawless T i Maeterlinck, M , Pe leas and Melisande 68 Maeterlinck s Plays 100 Magazine Articles 29, 52, 85, 117, 147, 179, 220, 244, 274, 307 344 Magruder, Julia, Princess Sonia 333 Majesty, Couperus 102 Making of Mary, Forsyth 265, 300 the Nation, Walker 195 Makower, S. V., Mirror of Music 310 Malcolm, D., A Fiend Incarnate 213 Mallock, W. H., Heart of Life 257 Mamreov, P. V. F., Anna F., and B. A. F., lesiit Nas- sar TO2 Manley, Louise, Southern Literature 152 Manxman, Caine 357 March mont, A. W., Parson Thring- s Secret 213 Marden, O, S , Pushing to the Front 27 Margaret (pseud.), Theatrical Sketches 21 Marriage of Esther, Boothby 174 Marryat, F., Japhet in Search of a Father 248 Midshipman Easy 360 Marsh, H., Two Seasons in Switzerland 337 Marsh, R., Mrs. Musgrave and Her Husband 278 Marshall, Emma, White King s Daughter 339 Martel de Janville, Countess de t Chiffon s Marriage.. 226 An Infatuation 310 Martin, G. H., Evolution of Mass. Public School Sys tem 86 Martyred Fool, Murray 227 Mason, Caroline A., Minister of the World 903 Mason, O. T., Origins of Invention 183 PAGE Maspero, G., Dawn of Civilization 25, 42 Massey, Susanna, God s Parable 121 Masson, D., Life of John Milton 86 Masson, F., Napoleon and the Women of His Court. 21 atHome... , 21 Master (The), Zangwill 171 Knot (The), Duff 202 Masterpieces of British Authors 297 Mathews, F. S., Familiar Flowers 170 Mathews, Margaret H., Dame Prism 141 Matter, Force, and Spirit 122 Matthews, J. Brander, Royal Marine 13 Maureen s Fairing, Barlow 268 Meade, L. T. Ste Smith, Mrs. E. T. T. Meadow Grass, Brown 233 Meirion, El inor, Cause and Effect 273 Melancholy of Stephen Allard, b mith 70 Melliar, A. F., Book of the Rose 57 Memoirs of a Minister of France, Weyman 264 Men of the Moss-Hags, Crockett 324 Mentor (fiseud.}, Never 120 Meredith, G., Tale of Chloe 103 Lit. M isc 253 Meredith s Style 242 Mermaid (The), Dougall 141 Merrill, J. E., Ideals and Institutions 218 Messire, Crompton 75 Mid Green Pastures, Esler 368 Miles, A H., (ed.,) One Thousand and One Anecdotes 184 Miller, C. H., Motherwell, W., and Key, F. S., Drei Ubersetzungen , 152 Miller, Ellen, and Whiting, Marg. C., Wild Flowers of the Northeastern States 217 Miller, J. R., Secrets of, Happy Home Life 22 Miln, Louise J., Quaint Korea 246 Milne J. R., Doctrine and Practice of the Eucharist. 312 Milton, J., L Allegro, II Penseroso 152 Minister of the World, Mason 203 Minot, H. D., Birds of New England 251 Minto, W., Literature of .the Ge >rgian Era 98 Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo, Long 135 Miss Wilkins Cha-acters (Verse) 112 Mr. B naparte of Corsica Bangs 142 Mitchell, D. G , English Lands, Letters, and Kings.. 305 Mitchell, S. W., A Madeira Party 339 Philip Vernon 213 Mitchell, W. B.. Doll <rs, or, What 280 Mivart, St. G., The Helpful Science 184 Moffett, S. E., Suggestions on Government 90 Moliere, J. B. P de, Dramatic Works 148 Mommsen. T , History of Rome 311 Money, Silas H. (pseud.), Base " Coin " Exposed 252 Money We Need, Nelson 306 Montbard, G., Land of the Sphinx 22 Montgomery, Florence, Colonel Norton 213 Monthly illustrator and Home and Country " 368 Montresor, F. F., Into the Highways and Hedges 238 The One Who Looked On 372 Moore, F. F., Sale of a Soul 327 They Call It Love 150 Moore, G., Celibates 213 Moore, J. W., American Congress 185 Moore, T., Complete Works Moran, T. F., Rise and Development of the Bicameral System in America More, P. E. (ed.), The Great Refusal Morgan, T. J., Patriotic Citizenship Morier, J., Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan. . . . Morley, H., and Griffith, W. H., Attempt Toward a History of Eng. Literature Morris, W., Wood Beyond the World 261 Morrison A., Martin Hewitt 24 Tales of Mean Streets 137 Morton, F. W., (comf>.,) Woman in Epigram 56 Mother Hubbard s Cupboard 86 Mott, E., The Old Settler, the Squire and Little Peleg 270 Moulton, Louise C., Arthur O Shaughnessy 118 Moulton R. G., (ed.), Four Years of Novel-Reading. 216, 269 Moxom, P. S., From Jerusalem to Nicsea 306, 312 Muhleman, M. L., Monetary Systems of the World... 281 Mulholland, Rosa, Banshee Castle. . 150 Mummery, A. F., My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus. 246 Municipal Government in Great Britain, Shaw 72 Murfree, Mary N. Ste Craddock, C. E. Murray, A., Holiest of All 91 Let Us Draw Nigh 282 Murray, A. S., Manual of Mythology 250 Murray, D. C., The Martyred Fool 227 Murrey, T. J., Collection of Cookery Books 246 Music Series, Ferris 372 My Books Faith Reborn Art (Verse) Le Gallienne. 263 Lady, Bouvet 7 Nobody, Maartens 225 Literary Passions, Howells 234 Sister Henrietta, Renan 322 354 185 82 281 278 216 INDEX. IX NADAL, E. S., Notes of a Professional Exile Napoleon, Dumas Decline and Fall of, Wolseley Napoleon s Military Career, Gibbs Nason, Mrs. Emma H., The Tower Natural History of Selborne, White Needham, Mrs. G. C., Woman s Ministry Needell, Mrs. J. H., Vengeance of James Vansittart.. Nelson, H. L., The Money We Need Nelson s " Oxford " Editions Nepal. See Ballantine, H. Nevinson, H. W., Neighbors of Ours New Books for the Holiday Season Studies in Literature, Dowden. Ney, Marshal, Execution of, Weston Noailles, Due de, How to Save Bimetallism Nocturne (Verse) Nodier, C., Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle Noe"mi, Baring-Gould Nonsense Songs and Stories, Lear Nordau, M., Degeneration Norman, H., People and Politics of the Far East Norris, Mary H., Lakewood Norris, W. E., Billy Bellew Despotic Lady St. Ann s Not Counting the Cost, Tasma Novels for Summer Reading Indexed A New Scheme Nymphs, Nixies, and Naiads, Evans OAKLEY, Isabella G., Simple Lessons in the Study of Nature Occult Japan, Lowell Old Angler, Prime Brick Churches of Maryland, Ridgely Maid s Club, Zangwill Settler, the Squire and Little Peleg, Mott Oliphant, Mrs. Marg. O. W., Story of a Governess. . . Two Strangers Who Was Lost and Is Found On a Copy of Shakespeare s Sonnets (Verse) India s Frontier, Ballantine the Suwanee River, Read Opium-Eating and Its Effects, Cobbe Ostrander, D., Social Growth and Stability Other Holiday Gift-Books Our Fight with Tammany, Parkhurst . . . Friends, the Rooks, Repplier Western Archipelago, Field . . Out of Due Season, Sergeant the East, Hearn .. . Outre Mer, Bourget Owen, Richard, Life .. PAGET, F., Studies in the Christian Character.... Paine, T., Writings Painting in France, Hamerton Palmer, F., Studies in Theologic Definition Underly ing the Apostles and Nicene Creeds Palmer, F. L., Wealth of Labor Palmyra and Zenobia, Wright Pancoast, H. S., Introd. to English Literature Pardee, Jean, The-Yale-Man-Up-to-Date Parker, G., Pierre and His People When Valmond Came to Pontiac Parkhurst, C. H., Our Fight with Tammany Parks, L , Theology of Phillips Brooks . Parmele, Mrs. Mary, Evolution of an Empire Parrot, G., and Chipiez, C., Hist, of Art in Primitive Greece Parsons, A. , Notes in Japan \ " Partridge, W. O., ^ong-Life of a Sculptor .". . Technique of Sculpture Paston, G., Bread-and Butter M iss ...... Study in Prejudices Pater, W., Greek Studies . . . . . Pater s P.easant Ways Paull, Mrs. Minnie E. K., Lassie ..... Paulsen, F., German Universities Payn, J., In Market Overt - Lit. Misc . Peabody, H. W., Address in Opposition to Bimetal lism Peacock, T. L., Maid Marion and Crotchet Castle ..! Peck. H. T., and Arrowsmith, R. (comf. and eds ), Roman Life in Latin Prose and Verse Pelleas and Melisande, Maeterlinck Pemberton, M., Impregnable City Little Huguenot Pembridge (pseud.}, Whist, or Bumblepuppy Pendered, Mary L., Dust and Laurels Pastoral Played Out Pendleton, L., Corona of the Nantahalas Sons of Ham People and Politics of the Far East, Norman of the Mist, Haggard AGE 337 Perkins, Mary H . , From M y Corner Perry, B., Plated City Peterson, A., Penrhyn s Pilgrimage Petite Paroisse, Daudet Petrie, W. M. F., Hist, of Egypt Phantoms of the Foot Bridge, Craddock Phelps, A., and Frink H. A., Rhetoric Phelps, Eliz. S., A Singular Life Philip and H is W T ife, Deland Philips, F. C , Question of Color Phillpotts, E. Deal with the Devil Some Every-Day Folks Photography, Artistic and Scientific, Johnson Phyfe, W. H. P., Five Thousand Words Often Mis spelled Pickard, S. T ., Life and Letters of Whittier Pictures from Dickens. of Swedish Life ,, Plarr, V. G., Men and Women of the Time Plympton, A. G., Bud of Promise Poe, E. A., Works 26, Poets on Poets, Watson Poets Bible Dogs, Richardson Poland, L., Money Pole, W., Evolution of Whist Pony Tracks, Remington Pool, Maria L. , Against Human Nature .... Poole, Fanny R., Bank of Violets Porritt, E., Break-Up of the Eng. Party System Porter, Jane, Scottish Chiefs Porter, L. H., Cycling for Health and Pleasure Porter, Rose, About Men Portland (pseud.}, (ed.), Whist Table Potts Bibles Presidents of the United States, Wilson Prevost, F., Rust of Gold Price, W. T., Charlotte Cushman William Charles Macready Prichard, Maria F., Parliamentary Usage for Wom en s Clubs Priestess Unveiled, Solovyoff Prime, W C., Among the Northern Hills 184, Primitive Man, Clodd Prince, Mrs. Helen C., Story of Christine Rochefort. Prince Zaleski, Shiel Princess Sonia, Magruder Princeton Stories, Williams Private Tinker, Winter Proem to a Victorian Anthology (Verse) Protestant Episcopal Church Congress, 1894 Hymnal, 249 27 103 " ., 214 ! I , 37 364 3 o8 339 121 140 364 374 218 265 327 217 121 354 185 374 27 40 271 53 53 106 196 200 138 1 08 333 172 327 98 59 59 250 283 249 197 66 QUATREFAGFS, A. de, The Pygmies 66 Queiros, E. de, Dragon s Tt eth 150 Quiet Stories from an Old Woman s Garden, Mc Lean 19 R. (pseud.}, (ed.}, Countess Bettina 214 Ragozin, Zenaide A., Story of Vedic India 77, 151 Raimond, C. E. (pseud.}, The New Moon 182 Ralph, J., Dixie 3 6a People We Pass 3 62 Ralstons (The), Crawford 47 Rand, B., Bibliography of Economics 252 Ransome, C., Hist, of England 34 1 Rathborne, St. G., Fair Maid of Fez 182 Raymond, G. L., Pictures in Verse 121 Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music 86 Raymond, W T ., Love and Quiet Life 25 Tryphena in Love no Read, O. P., On the Suwanee River 295 Real Chinaman, Holcombe 132 Reay, Martha, and Hackman, J., Love-Letters 276 Recent French and German Books... 28, 92, 123, 155, 186, 219, 252, 283, 314, 343 Red Badge of Courage, Crane 326 Reed, J. S., Bishop s Blue Book 154 Crozier and the Keys 154 Reference Lists, Foster 84 Reid, Christian (pseud.}. See Tiernan, Mrs F. C. Reid, S. J., Lord John Russell 276 Reintzel, Marg. (comp^), Musician s Year-Book 86 Religions of India, Hopkins Remington, F., Pony Tracks , 229, 265, Renan, E., Hist, of the People of Israel 88, 341, My Sister Henrietta Repplier, Agnes, Essays in Miniature In the Dozy Hours 26, Revolution of 1848, Saint- Amand Rhodes, Ja. F., Hist, of the U. S. from the Compro mise of 1850 Prowse, D. W , Hist, of Newfoundland Publishers Want It, Lit. Misc Pugh, E. W., Street in Suburbia Putnam, Ruth, William the Silent Pygmies (The), Quatrefages 305 362 37 1 322 259 48 292 250 INDEX. PAGE Rhoscomyl, O., Jewel of Ynys Galon 150, 170 Ricardo, D., First Six Chapters of " Principles of Po litical Economy " 90 Rich, Mrs. Helen H., Madame de Stael 245 Richard Cceur de Lion and Robin Hood 165 Richards, Mrs Laura E., Jim of Hellas 182 Riddle, A. G., Recollections of War Times 215 Rideing, W. H., In the Land of Lorna Doone 216 Ritchie, Mrs. Anne T., Chapters from Some Unwrit ten Memoirs 21 Roark, R. N., Psychology in Education 308 Robbins, A. F., Early Public Life of W. E. Gladstone. 22 Roberts, C. G. D., Canadian Guide-Book 246 Roberts, F. S., Lord, Rise of Wellington 213 Robins, E.,/r., Echoes of the Playhouse 291, 360 Robinson, C. N., Viol of Love 312 Robinson, H. P. , Men Born Equal 119 Roe, E. T., Modern Webster Diet, of the Eng. Lan guage 337 Rogers, R. C., Wind in the Clearing 27 Romanes, G. J., Mind and Motion, and Monism 311 Thoughts on Religion 154 Rood, H. E., Company Doctor 249 Ropes, J. C., First Napoleon 120 Story of the Civil War , 81 Dodge, T. A., and others, Critical Sketches of Some Federal and Confederate Commanders 245 Rossetti, Christina G., Verses 280 Round the Red Lamp, Doyle 9 Rowsell, Mary C., Friend of the People 164 Roy, N., The Horseman s Word 339 Royal Marine, Matthews 13 Ruggles, H. J., Plays of Shakespeare 121 Russell, Frances E., A Quaint Spinster 150 Russell, W. C., Good Ship Mohock 88 Honour of the Flag 279 Phantom Death 182 Russell, W. H., Great War with Russia 151 Russian Rambles, Hapgood 169 Rust of Gold, Prevost 271 SACHER-MASOCH, L. v. , Jewish Tales 25 Saint-Amand, Imbert de, Revolution of 1848 292 Saintsbury, G. E. B., Corrected Impressions 89 Sala, George Augustus 65 Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known. . . 56 Sale of a Soul, Moore 327 Saleilles, R., Development of the Present Constitu tion of France 311 Salis, Mrs. Harriet A. de, Gardening la mode 276 Saltus, E., When Dreams Come True 214 Sand s (George) Masterpieces 362 Sangster, Mrs. Marg. E., Little Knights and Ladies. 230 Sappho 342 Sargent, H. H. (ed.), Napoleon Bonaparte s First Campaign 120 Satterlee, H. Y., Creedless Gospel and the Gospel Creed 122 Savidge, E. C., The American in Paris 302 Sawtelle, Mary A. and Alice E., Olio of Verse 184 Scanlan, A. C., Dervorgilla 249 Scharf, J. T., Hist, of the Confederate States Navy. . . 56 Schauffler, A. F., Ways of Working 313 Schoenaich-Carolath (Prince), Melting Snows 182 Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire 120 Schulze-Smidt, B., Madonna of the Alps 214 Schwarz, A., The Horse ^4 Scidmore, Miss E. R., Appleton s Guide-Book to Alaska Scott, M., Tom Cringle s Log Scott, Sir Wa., Poetical Works Scripture, E. W., Thinking, Feeling, Doing Scudder, S. H., Frail Children of the Air 298, Scudder, Vida D., Life of the Spirit in the Modern Eng. Poets Scully, W. C., Kafir Stories Sea and Land, Shaler Seebohm, F., Tribal System in Wales . . . Sdgur, Philippe P. de Sergeant, Adeline, Dr. Endicott s Experiment Mistress of Quest Out of Due Season Sermon on the Mount, New Version of, Wright . .. . .. Set of Rogues, Barrett Seven Wonders of the World, Lit. Misc. . Sewell, Eliz. M., Outline Hist, of Italy Seymour, H. W., Government & Co., Limited Shakespeare, W., Glossary and Index of Characters to Shakespeare s Works Shakespeare s Heroines on the Stage, Wingate . . .289 , Works, Handy Volume Edition Shaler, N. S., Beaches and Tidal Marshes of Atlantic Coast Sea and Land Features of Coasts !!"".!!".! Sharman, H. R., Power of the Will Sharp, Evelyn, At the Relton Arms . . . Sharp, W., Vistas PAGE Shaw, A., Municipal Government in Great Britain. . . 72 Shaw, E. R., Legends of Fire Island Beach and the South Side 260 Shaw, W. A., Hist, of Currency 252 Sheldon, C. M., Crucifixion of Philip Strong 25 Sheldon, H. C., Hist, of the Christian Church 154 Shelley, P. B., Lyric Poems 312 Shelton, W. H., Man Without a Memory 150 Shiel, M. P., Prince Zaleski 108 Shields, C. W., The United Church of the United States .. 154 Shipton, Helen, The Herons 339 Shoemaker, M. M., Trans-Caspia 67 Side Talk with Girls, Ashtnore 302 Sienkiewicz, H., Children of the Soil 214 Simonds, A. B., American Song 27 Simonds, W. E., Introd. to the Study of Eng. Fiction. 26 Singular Life, Phelps 328 Smalley, G. W., Studies of Men 213 Smiles, S., Josiah Wedgword 22 Smith, Adam, Select Chapters from "Wealth of Nations " 90 Smith, Mrs. Burnett. See Swan, Annie S. Smith, Mrs. E. T. T., Soldier of Fortune 296 and Halifax, C., Stories from the Diary of a Doctor. 25 Smith, Garnet, Melancholy of Stephen Allard 70 Smith, Gold win, Oxford and Her Colleges 341 Trip to England 308 Smith, J. E. A., Poet Among the Hills -O. W. Holmes. 280 Smollett, T. G., Novels 151, 216 Soldier of Fortune, Smith , 296 Solovyoff, V. S., Modern Priestess of Isis 106 Some Good Intentions and a Blunder 181 Somerset, H. S., Land of the Muskeg 276 Son of Reuben, Hocking 199 Sonnenschein, W. S., Reader s Guide 216 Sons of Belial, Westall 300 Ham, Pendleton m Southey, R., Poems 121 Spencer, H., Weismannism Once More. 121 Sports of Long Ago 369 Sprague, F. M., Laws of Social Evolution 342 Standard Dictionary, Funk 116 Standish of Standish, Austin. 354 Stanley, H. M., My Early Travels in Amer. and Asia 180 Stanton, S. W. (com?.), American Steam Vessels 333 Stark Munro Letters, Doyle 295 Starkey, C. E. F., Verse. Translation from Classic Authors 216 Start in Life, Balzac 290 Stearns, F. P., Life of Jacppo Robusti (Tintoretto) . . 22 Stedman, E. C. (comf. ), Victorian Anthology. 366 Step, E., Wayside and Woodland Blossoms 184 Stephen, L., Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen 276 Stephens, W. R. W., Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman.., .. 213 Stevenson, Robert Louis 16 Amateur Emigrant 130 The Body-Snatcher 143 Popular Works 120 Stevenson s Posthumous Works, Lit. M isc 253 Stewart, W. C., Practical Angler 218 Stirling, A., At Daybreak 182 Stockton, F. R., Adventures of Captain Horn 208 A Chosen Few 339 Stoddard, C. A., Cruising Among the Caribbees.. .. 331 Stoker, B., Walter s Mou 310 Stokes Calendars 373 New Novels 327 Stories of the Ages 360 Story of a Governess, Oliphant 327 Babette, Stuart 15 Bessie Costrell, Ward 228 Christine Rochefort, Prince 138 Lawrence Garthe, Kirk 15 Sonny Sahib, Cotes 144 the Civil War, Ropes 81 Crusades, Archer 4 Nations Series 363 Other Wise Man, Van Dyke 369 Plants, Allen 266 Strachey, Sir E., Talk at a Country House 42 Strachey, Mrs. Jane, Poets on Poets 121 Strain, Mrs. E. H., A Man s Foes 364 Streamer, V. (comp.~), Cluster of Gems 361 Street, G. S., Episodes 120 Strong, J., Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible 115 Stuart, E., Harum-Scarum 279 Stuart. Ruth McE., Story of Babette 15 Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry, Williams.. 45 Study of Documents, Manual of, Frazer 83 Subhadra Bhikshu (com}.}, Buddhist Catechism 59 Sudermann, H., The Wish, 214 Sugarin -Off (Verse) 303 Sullivan, Sir E., Tales from Scott 182 Woman 122 Sullivan, J. W., Tenement Tales of New York 214 INDEX. XI Summer Studies of Birds and Books, Fowler Super, Mrs. Emma L., One Rich Man s Son Suppressed Chapters, Bridges Sutton, Ada L., Lingua Gemmae Swan, Annie S., Fettered Yet Free Lost Ideal Swift, J., Travels Swinburne, A. C., Felise Symonds, John Aldington Giovanni Boccaccio Syndicate Poet (Verse) TABB, J. B., Poems Taine, H. A., Les Origines de la France Contem- poraine Tale of Chloe, Meredith Tales of Adventure, Borlase Mean Streets, Morrison Talk at a Country House, Strachey Talmudic Sayings. Tarbell, Ida M., Sport Life of Napoleon Bonaparte... Tarver, J. C., Life of Flaubert Tasma (pseud?), Not Counting the Cost Tautphceus, J., At Odds Taylor, Eliza D., Little Bet Taylor, H. C. C., Two Women and a Fool Teacher and Class Technique of Sculpture, Partridge Temptation of Katherine Gray, Dickinson Ten Brink, B., Lectures on Shakespeare Ten New England Blossoms, Weed Tennyson, A., Enoch Arden Tennyson, Mary H., Cruel Dilemma Text-Books of Religious Instruction Thaxter, Celia, Letters Thayer, W. M., Aim High Turning-Points in Successful Careers ,. . . Womanhood Theatrical Sketches Thomas & Kempis Monument, Lit. Misc Thompson, F. , Sister Songs Thompson, H. M., The World and the Wrestler s Per sonality and Responsibility Thomson, Edward W Old Man Savarin Thomson, W. H., Parables and Their Home Thoughts on Religion, Romanes Three Figures in American Literature, Tyler Graces, Argles of Us, Chandler Score and Ten Years, Linton Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C., Land of the Sun Tilden, Samuel J., Bigelow Time Machine, Wells Tinseau, L. de, Forgotten Debt Tirebuck, W. E., Miss Grace of All Souls Tisdall, W. St. C., Religion of the Crescent To Jack With Regrets (Verse) Tolman, W. H., Municipal Reform Movements Tolstoy, Count L. N., Master and Man Tompkins, Eliz. K. , An Unlessoned Girl Tower, C.,/r., La Fayette in the Am. Revolution Tower (The) with Legends and Lyrics, Nason Townsend, C., Forty Witnesses to Success Townsend, E. W., Chimmie Fadden Explains Townsend, Mary A., Distaff and Spindle. . . Tracy, J. P., Shenandoah * \ . . \ Tracy, R. S., Sanitary Information for Householders Traill, H. D. (ed.}, Social England... Transition ...!...!!! Trask, Airs. Katrina, Sonnets and Lyrics .!. . . ! Travels in Three Continents, Buckley Turkestan, Shoemaker Trilbyana !". .!!!! Tryphena in Love, Raymond , Tucker, G. M., Our Common Speech. . . Turner, Ethel, Story of a Baby Twelve Bad Men, Seccombe Tyler, M. C., Three Men of Letters". . Tyrrell, R. Y., Latin Poetry ..... . . .. UNCLE Remus, Harris Underwood, F. H., Doctor Gray s Quest United States History, Andrews Upward, A., Prince of Balkestan . Use of Life, Lubbock . . VALENTINE, O., Helen Vanamee, Mrs. L. O., Two Women... Van Dyke, H., Little Rivers . . Story of the Other Wise Man Van Dyke, J. C., Text-Book of the History of Painting. Van Dyke, T. S. , Game Birds at Home . Vangny, C. de, Women of the United States . . Vedder, H. C., American Writers of To-Day. .. Vedic India, Ragozin .... ....., 359 214 44 214 44 .S! AGE go 368 10 366 356 332 1 20 73 9 1 9i 109 WAGE, H., Christianity and Agnosticism 91 Wagner, L., Manners, Customs, and Observances 120 Walford, Mrs. Lucy B., A Bubble 340 Ploughed 279 Walker, C., Outlines of Christian Theology 59 Walker, F. , Letters of a Baritone 148 Walker, F. A., General Hancock 22 Making of the Nation, 1783-1817 185, 105 Walker, H., Greater Victorian Poets. Veeder, Emily E., In the Garden Verne, J., Captain Antifer Vernon s Aunt, Cotes Victorian Anthology, Stedman Songs, Garrett Village Watch-Tower, Wiggin Villari, P., Two First Centuries of Florentine History Vincent, F., Actual Africa Vincent, M. R., Biblical Inspiration and Christ That Monster, the Higher Critic Vistas, Sharp 196 235 252 9i 249 361 371 Wallace, A., Popular Sayings Dissected 121 Wallace, L., Ben Hur (in German} ,. -10 Walsh, J. M., Tea & 3 Ward, C. O., Equilibration of Human Aptitudes and Powers of Adaptation 58 Ward, Mrs. Mary A., History of David Grieve 279 Warden, Florence (pseud.}, Kitty s Engagement 120 Spoilt Girl 3IO Warden, Gertrude, Gray Wolf s Daughter 310 Warner, A. G. , American Charities 3 6 Warner, B. E., English History in Shakespeare s Plays 26 Warner, C. D., Golden House 6 Warne s Editions of Shakespeare Watch-Fires of 76, Drake Watching the New Valet, Kent Water Tramps, Bartlett Waterloo, S., Honest Money Watkins, O. D., Holy Matrimony Watson, Augusta C., Off Lynnport Light Watson, J., Comte, Mill, and Spencer 121 Watson, W., Poets on Poets 140 Watts, H., Miguel de Cervantes . . 276 Ways of Yale, Beers t \ o Wealth Against Commonwealth, Lloyd 36 Webster s Academic Dictionary 277 Weed, C. M., Ten New England Blossoms 208 Weeks, E. L., From the Black Sea Through Persia and India 3 6 2 Weidemann, A., Ancient Egyptian Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul 2 i8 Wells, B. W., Modern German Literature 311 Wells, H. G., Select Conversations with an Uncle (now extinct) 3IO Wells, H. S., The Time Machine . . 162 Westall, W., Sons of Belial 3 oo Westminster, Besant Abbey and the Cathedrals of England, Farrar Weston, J. A., Historic Doubts as to the Execution of Marshal Ney i 39 Wetzel, W. A., Benjamin Franklin as an Economist. . 312 Weyman, S. J., From the Memoirs of a Minister of France 2 6 4 , 310 The King s Stratagem . . 208 The Snowball 340 Wharton Anne H., Colonial Days and Dames. .. . 56 What I Told Dorcas, Ireland 367 Whately, R., Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte 1 86 Wheeler, S., Ameer Abdur Rahman ... 243 When Burns was Born (Verse) 302 Whitaker, J. (ed.}, Almanack for 1895 122 White, Caroline E., Holiday in Spain and Norway... 276 White, Mrs. Eliza O., Coming of Theodora 330 Winterborough 183 White. F. H., Pupils Outline Studies in the Hist, of the U. S 308 White, G. . Natural History of Selborne 356 White, Gilbert, of Selborne 239 White, P. , Corruption 372 White, Percy (f>seud.}, A King s Diary 175 White Tsar, Bedlow 101 Whiting, Lilian, From Dreamland Sent 374 Whittier, John G., Life and Letters, Pickard TO Whittier Year-Book 370 Why Butterflies are Colored, Scudder 298 Wiggin, Mrs. Kate D., Village Watch-Tower 332 ild Flowers of America 89 Wilkes, C., Sidney Forrester 88 Willard, A. R., Sketch of Domenico Morelli 337 Willard, Frances E., A Wheel Within a Wheel 238 Willard, J. A., Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers 113 William the Silent, Prince of Orange, Putnam 197 Williams. A. M., Studies in Folk Song 45 Williams, G. F., Bullet and. Shell 279 Williams, H. G., Outlines of Psychology 280 Xll INDEX. PAGE Williams, H.W., Money and Bank Credits in the U.S. 122 Williams, J. L., Princeton Stories 172 Williams, Mrs. Talcott (ed.), Story of a Woman s Municipal Campaign 312 Wilson, Mrs. Anne C. MacLeod, After Five Years in India 246 Wilson, J. G., Presidents of the U. S 40 Wilson, R. B., Chant of a Woodland Spirit 27 Wines, F. H., Punishment and Reformation 218 Wingate, C. E. L., Shakespeare s Heroines on the Stage 289, 337 Winslow, Mrs. Catherine M. R., Readings from the Old Eng. Dramatists 217 Winsor, J., The Mississippi Basin , . . 183 Winter,!. S. (pseud.), Magnificent Young Man 279 Major s Favorite 183 Winter, W., Joseph Jefferson 53 Winthrop, Margaret, Earle 323 Wirgman, A. T., Hist, of the Eng. Church and People in South Africa 120 Wise Woman, Burnham. 328 Wisner, E., Cash vs. Coin 185 With the Procession, Fuller 194, 235 Withers, A. S., Chronicles of Border Warfare 279 Wolseley, J. G., Decline and Fall of Napoleon . 207 Woman in the Business World 122 Who Did, Allen 83 Women of Shakespeare, Lewes. 79 Wonders of Marine Life Wood, J. S., Yale Yarns Wood, Stanley, Answer to " Coin s Financial School". Wood Beyond the World, Morris Woolson, Constance F., The Front Yard, and Other Italian Stories Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Workman, W. H. and F. B., Algerian Memories World s C i assies 214 281 310 362 364 360 359 183 363 Wormeley, K. P., Translations of Balzac and Moliere. Wright, Mrs. Mary T., A Truce Wright, W., Palmyra and Zenobia Wright, W. B., Master and Men 114 YEATS, S. L., Honour of Savelli 88 Yellow Fairy-Book, Lang 20 Young, F. C., Home Carpentry for Handy Men 364 Young, F. K., and Howell, E. C., Minor Tactics of Chess 58 ZA.NGWJLL, I., The Master 171 Old Maid s Club 208 Lit. Misc 283 Zeit-Geist, Dougall 238 Zieber, E., Heraldry in America 151 Zola, E., Jacques Damour 340 Love Episode 279 Zoraida, Le Queux 262 BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. ADAMS, W. T., In the Saddle 186 Alden, Mrs. I. M., Only Ten Cents 154 Amicis, E. de, Cuore, an Italian School-Boy s Journal. 378 Ashmore, Ruth, Side Talk with Girls 313 BAMFORD, Mary E., In Editha s Days 59 Bartlett, Airs., E. B., Pleasant Days at Maplewood . .. 380 Brabourne {Lord}, Magic Oak-Tree and Prince Fil- derkin 59 Brooks, E. S., Great Men s Sons 378 Burnett, Frances H., Two Little Pilgrims Progress.. 376 Burt, Mary E. (ed}, Little Nature Studies for Little People 122 Burton, J. B., Desert Ship 313 Butterworth, H., Knight of Liberty 379 CASTLEMON, H. (pseud}, Elam Storm, the Wolfer 154 Chandler, Mrs. I. C., Three of Us 28 Child s Life of Christ 380 Church, A. J., Stories from Eng. History 28 Clarke, Rebecca S., Jimmy Boy 218 Common Things and Useful Information 123 Conant, Chara B., Miss Canary Connell, Sarah G., Little Ladies of Ellenwood Craik, Georgiana M., Bow-wow and Mew-mew Crompton, Frances E., Messire Crosby, Adelaide U., Enchanted Butterflies Cro well s Juveniles. . . I Harper s Round Table 375 Harris, J. C., Mr. Rabbit at Home 381 Hawkins, Emma D. K., Four Girls at Cottage City .. 282 Henderson, W. J., Afloat with the Flag 218 Sea- Yarns for Boys 59 Henty, G. A., Knight of the White Cross 377 Through Russian Snows 377 Tiger of Mysore 377 Hocking, S. K., Doctor Dick 313 JOHNSTON, Annie F., Joel, a Boy of Galilee 382 Jokai, M., and others, Golden Fairy-Book 59 DEAR Little Marchioness 079 Deland, Ellen D., Oakleigh Don, by Author of " Miss Toosey s Mission " Douglas, Amanda M., In Wild Rose Time Sherburne Cousins Drake, S. A., Watch-Fires of 76 Drysdale, W., Young Reporter Dutton s Juveniles . . , 375 380 123 123 218 ELLIS, E. S., Path in the Ra^ FENN, G. M., Diamond Dyke First in the Field Field, Eugene, Love-Songs of Childhood ........... 28 Foote, Mary H., Life of Christ for Young People, in Questions and Answers ............................ 375 Foster, A. J., Ampthill Towers ....................... 3 i 3 Fowler, Henrietta E., Young Pretenders ............. 282 GALL, J., Popular Science ............................ 1 Glascock, W. H., Stories of Columbia... .. 1 Goss, W. L., Jack Alden Green, Evelyn E., Eustace Marchmont" Grinnell, G. B., Story of the Indian 378 i54 379 HALL, B., Voyages and Travels ...... Hall, C. C., The Children, the Church, and the Com- munion ................................... KNOX, T. W., Hunters Three. LILLIE, Mrs. Lucy C., Alison s Adventures McCooK, H. C., Old Farm Fairies Marshall, Emma, Kensington Palace in the Days of Queen Mary n Marshall, L., Thomas Boobig Mathews, Marg. H., Dame Prism Molesworth, Mrs. Mary L., My New Home Sheila s Mystery Montgorgeuil, G., Three Apprentices of Moon Street. . More Fairy-Tales from Arabian Nights Munroe, K., At War with Pontiac Snow-Shoes and Sledges My Honey, by Author of " Miss Toosey s Mission " . . 283 219 J 54 28 219 378 377 375 380 NEHER, Bertha M., Among the Giants 282 Nelson s Juveniles 379 OTIS, Ja. (pseud}, How Tommy Saved the Barn 282 Ouida (pseud}, Niirnberg Stove 378 Oxley, J. M., In the Wilds of the West Coast 379 My Strange Rescue 313 PAULL, Mrs. Minnie E. K., Lassie 186 Pendleton, L., In the Okefenokee 377 Perry, Nora, Flock of Girls and Boys 380 Potts, J. H., Little Arthur 282 Price, Eleanor C., In the Lion s Mouth 59 Putnam s Juveniles 378 Pyle, H., Garden Behind the Moon 376 RAY, Anna C., Half a Dozen Boys 379 Raymond, Evelyn, Mushroom Cave 377 Rice, Katharine McD., Stories for all the Year 154 Roberts Juveniles 377 Rouse, Adelaide L., The Deane Girls 219 SANGSTER, Mrs. Marg. E., Little Knights and Ladies. 2*9 Scribner s Juveniles 376 Shattuck, W., Keeper of the Salamander s Order.., Smith, Mary P. W., Jolly Good Summer, Stokes Juveniles. . . 377 377 376 INDEX. PAGE Story of Joseph and His Brethren 313 Queen Esther 313 the Prophet Daniel 313 West Series 379 Susy Books 379 Swan, Annie S., Airlie s Mission 59 Stevenson, R. L., Will o the Mill 28 Stuart, Ruth McE., Story of Babette 15 TEMPLE, Crona, Princess Louise 313 Thompson, C. M., The Nimble Dollar 381 Tomlinson, E. T., Boy Soldiers of 1812 219 Three Colonial Boys 314 Tompkins, Eliz. K., An Unlessoned Girl 378 Tucker, Eliz. S., Children s Book of Dogs and Cats. . 376 Turner, Ethel, Family at Misrule 382 VARNEY, G. J., Story of Patriots Day 219 WARD, Lock & Bowden s Juveniles 382 Ware, Ella R., Three Little Lovers of Nature 282 Wesselhoeft, Lily M., Frowzle, the Runaway 377 Whishaw, F., Boris, the Bear-Hunter 314 Winchester, M. E. ( pseud.}, Double Cherry 28 Winston s Juveniles 380 YECHTOX, Barbara, The "Gentle Heart" Stories INDEX TO ADVERTISERS. American Bapt. Pub. Soc 369, 370, 372 American Educational Catalogue 95 American Typewriter Co 4th cov. x. Annual Literary Index 95 Appleton, D., & Co Ja. 2d cov., F. ad cov., Mr. 2d cov., Ap. 2d cov., My. 2d cov., 192, Jl. 2d cov., Ag. 2d cov., S. 2d cov., O. 2d cov., N. ad cov., 356, 357, 359, 379 Arena Publishing Co 126, 158 Bibliographical Publications 255 Bonner s, Rob., Sons 63, Je. 4th cov. Books for Summer Travellers .. 187,22?, 256 Cassell Publishing Co Ap. 3d cov. Century Co 320 Crowell, T. Y., & Co 32.96, 188, 317, 354, 365, 378 Gushing & Co 158 Dillingham, G. W 64 Dutton, E. P., & Co 367, 370, 382 Fenno, R. F., & Co.... 64, 96, Je. 3d cov., 287, 347, 368. 378 Fords, Howard & Hulbert 317 Ginn & Co 125 Hagemann, H. W 126 Harper & Bros 353, 359, 362, 369 Helps for Literary Workers 223 Holt, H., & Co 94, 221, 316 Home Publishing Co 62 Houghton, Mifflin & Co Ja. 3d cov., F. 4th cov., Mr. 3d cov., 128, My. 3d cov., IQI, 224, Ag. 4th cov., S. 3d cov., 318, 351, 354, 360, 365, 366, 37, 37 2 , 3 Sl Hunt & Eaton 61 Hurst, Geo. D 349, 369 International News Co 287 Ireland , John 380 Laird & Lee O. 3d cov. Library Bureau 347 Little, Brown & Co 1 59, 356, 362, 380 Longmans, Green & Co 32, Je. 2d cov l.ovell, Coryell & Co. . .64, Ap. 4th cov., My. 4th cov., Jl. 4th cov., 352 Mernam Co 62 Meyer Bros. & Co 64 Monthly Illustrator Pub. Co 368, 4th cov. x. Nelson, Thos., & Sons 363, 374, 379 Platt & Bruce 287 Pott, James, & Co 366, 367 Putnam s, G. P., Sons... .31, 61, 94. 125, 157, 189, 221, 255, 286, ^16, 346, 357, 360, 362, 363, 374, 378 Randolph, A. D. F., & Co 363,364,379 Roberts Bros... .Ja. 4th cov., F. ^d cov., Mr. 4th cov , 127, 160, 190, Jl. 3d cov., Ag. 3d cov., 288, 319, 35, 358, 359, 362, 364, 371, 374, 377, 380, 382 Routledge, Geo., & Sons, Ltd 159, 189 Russell, R. H., & Son 223 Scribner s, Chas., Sons. .348, N. 4th cov., 355, 363, 364, 376 Stokes, F. A., Co 96, S. 4th cov., O. 4th cov., N. -,d cov., 355, 361, 373, 376 Tait, J. Selvvin, & Sons 158 Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd 95, 223, 317, 362, 364, 382 Warne, F., & Co 61, 157, 286, 346, 372 Werner Co 125 Whittaker, Thos 156 Winston, J. C., & Co 371, 380 The Literarf^iU 3n tm nfer j>ou mag reabe f$em, afc tgnem, fig f 0e ftrem fce ; and tn Bummer, afc umfiram, under some 60a&te free ; anfc f0eref{f$ pass atajTf0e febtous 0otree. VOL. XVI. JANUARY, 1895. No. i Travels in Three Continents Europe, Asia, Africa. DR. J. M. BUCKLEY has travelled for years and has always made use of the new things he saw and heard among the strange inhabitants work that is the result of his journeys, brought out in very handsome shape by Messrs. Hun- & Eaton, must be warmly welcomed by all, as of strange countries, for the cheer and enlight- it will aid those who contemplate such a jour- enment of the less fortunate, kept at home by the iron chains of circumstance. In these pro tracted tours, Dr. Buckley learned by experi ence that a certain amount of information is ney to prepare for it, will refresh the recollec tion of those who preceded Dr. Buckley, and will enable such as do not expect to cross the ocean to see, while looking through his eyes, necessary to the interpretation of what is taken almost as well as with their From " Travels in Three Continents. Copyright, 1894, by Hunt & Eaton. CHARACTERISTIC VIEW OF LOURDES. in by eye and ear, and in preparing his narra tives for the stay-at-homes he has always en deavored to interweave such knowledge with the natural flow of his eloquent description. In his travels through Europe, Asia, and Africa, Dr. Buckley naturally has traversed much ground often travelled over, and almost as often described by travellers. But as he truly says, " Every traveller sees what he takes with him, and because of this I hope there will be a place for another record of travel in many of the most interesting parts of the world." The The great journey begins in New York, from which city Dr. Buckley sailed on November 21, 1888. He was accompanied by a member of the senior class in Amherst, who evidently proved that necessary ideal for a journey a congenial companion. The itinerary was from New York to London, across to Paris, through France to Spain, where the travellers first began to loiter, giving much attention to the buildings and the people of Madrid, Toledo, Cordova, Seville, and Granada. A general view is given of the bull-fights of Spain before crossing to " Afric s THE LITERARY NEWS. \Jamiary, 1895 -, ; w: From "Travels in Three Continents." Copyright, 1894, by Hunt & Eaton ISLE OF PATMOS. sunny fountains." Roaming around the north coast of Africa, they gaze upon the wondrous scenery of Morocco, Tangiers, Algiers, and their neighboring islands, and then again make for European land, and journey to the heart of civilization, and the sights history and asso ciations have made familiar from generation to generation. Marseilles, the French Riviera, Genoa, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Vesuvius and Pompeii are all commented upon, by a mind full of thoughts born of the thoughts of the greatest thinkers of all time, and a pen made sure by long years of cultured writing. Once more Africa is reached, and Egypt, Cairo, Memphis, the pyramids, the Sphinx, The bes, and the Nile come under consideration. A very clear and fair idea is given of Moham medanism while journeying towards the Holy Land. Asia is then presented in the sacred places of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jordan, Jericho and Bethany, Nazareth and modern Palestine, which give Dr. Buckley a starting-point for some very stimulating reflections on the Christian religion and its progressive work in the world. Again Europe is reached by way of Damascus, Beirut, the yEgean Islands, Smyrna, and Ephesus, until on the classic soil of Athens and Corinth, Dr. Buckley explains the Greek mind and the history of thought with which the Grecian lands are synony mous. A rapid course through Constantinople, Rou- melia, Bulgaria, Servia, Hungary, Vienna, and Paris brings the travellers to Havre, where they final ly shipped for New York on the loth of May, 1889. Not quite six months of travel, and what a vast amount of new and old knowledge is made fascinating by Dr. Buckley s fine literary methods. And made of enduring service also by a remarkably well-made index, which keeps the delightful contents get-at-able at a moment s notice. A cursory reading of this index gives a better idea of the book than pages of descrip tion. There is no padding. Dr. Buckley offers solid information in enduring shape. Nearly one hundred illustrations beautify the large, clearly printed pages. The work is sub stantially bound with typical oriental decoration, and makes a specially sumptuous book, which there is no doubt will take rank among the very most reliable of works of travel. The well- travelled paths are set in new light in this fine book. (Hunt & Eaton. $3.50.) From " Trave Copyright, 1894, by Hunt & Eatoi SCENE IN ORAN. January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. Life and Adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb. THE life of John Gladwyn Jebb reads like an invention from the fertile brain of Jules Verne, or Rudyard Kipling, or H. Rider Haggard. The latter has written a fitting introduction to this strange and varied life, which, in hair breadth escapes, ups and downs of fortune, meetings with noted men, connection with Utopian schemes, and remarkable influence of personality, far tran scends the limits of plausible im agination. Mr. Haggard had a personal acquaintance with the hero of these startling adventures which began in 1889, and ended with Mr. Jebb s death in 1893. During that time they were much thrown together, travelled exten sively in Mexico, and became warm friends. Mr. Haggard speaks with emotion of his friend s warm heart, loyal nature, truth, self-forgetfulness, "complete co lossal unselfishness," and always brave and generous instincts. John Gladwyn Jebb was an only child, born of well-to-do English parents in 1841. In 1850 he en tered school at Bonn, and in 1852 was for several years put under the care of an English rector. He learned readily and showed many and most varied gifts. His talent for drawing amounted almost to genius, and he had a voice for singing of re markable beauty. From earliest youth he showed the desire for freedom and change that formed the spirit of his life. He longed to enter the navy, but his family favored the army. As soon as his age permitted he was sent on active service in India. On the voyage to India he first became interested in hypnotism, second- sight, and spiritualism, being much thrown with those with whom the occult was business or pastime. Jebb soon left the army and went to Oxford, devoting himself to civil engineering and practical sciences of various kinds. He had an independent in come, but lost half of it in an investment in a steel gun-barrel factory at Glasgow, and in vested the rest in bad investments and insolvent banks. Penniless at twenty-six, he next tried sheep-farming in the Highlands, then ship building and drumming up trade in America for the White Star Steamship Company, then first starting its successful career. While on these American trips Mr. Jebb fell in with General Fremont, fresh from California gold-fields, and his roving mind and restless body turned eagerly to mining and big-game shooting. Coffee-planting in Brazil, treasure-hunting in Mexico, starting an Omlette Company in New York City to manufacture an article of food From "Life and Adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb. Roberts Brothers. ,, 1895, by to take the place of eggs, studying spiritualism in Boston, and esoteric Buddhism in London with Madame Blavatsky, bull-fights, the reconstruc tion of Mexico under General Diaz, all succeed each other in bewildering rush in this exciting life history. The story of Maximilian and Car- lotta and the Mexican troubles is interwoven skilfully. It is a book delightful to read and full of interesting facts regarding the last fifty years throughout the world. (Roberts. $1.25.) THE LITERARY NEWS. {January, 1895 Story of the Crusades. THE latest addition to the Story of the Nation series is a scholarly history of "The Crusades," by F. A. Archer and Charles L. Kingsford. This volume limits its survey of that vast and strange expression of the religious sentiment in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. The au thors have not embraced within the limits of their work an account of the Fourth Crusade, the Latin Empire of Constantinople, or those developments and perversions of the crusading idea which led to the so-called crusades against the Albigensians and the Emperor Frederick. It cannot be denied that the glamour and romance of crusading expeditions has often caused the practical achievements of crusaders in the East to be overlooked and underrated. Yet it is through the history of the Kingdom E From ",Story of the Crusades." Copyright, 1894, by G. P. Putnam s Sons. WALLS OF ANTIOCH. of Jerusalem that the true character and im portance of the crusades can alone be discerned. The story of that religious struggle, rich in its romance and its influence upon the history of the world, is related most instructively and elaborately in the valuable study before us. (Putnam. $1.50.) Philadelphia Press. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. THE author of these volumes is well known as the acute and sympathetic student of the varied races of the countries bordering the Mexican Gulf. His collection of "Gumbo," or mixed -dialect proverbs and descriptive sketches of the people of Louisiana and the West Indies, showed him to be the possessor of an exuberant, almost rank, vocabulary, and a literary style that suggested rather what burst forth from the wine-press than wine mellowed by time. His excursions- into distant re gions of thought resulted in in teresting, but, on the whole, unsatisfactory booklets, such as " Stray Leaves from Strange Literature," "Some Chinese Ghosts," etc. Fascinated by the comparatively new field of what may be called Shinto- Japan, he entered the country about four years ago, resolved to see those phases of Japan ese life which are fast vanish ing away. Living among a people so simple in their tastes and habits as the rural Japan ese, Mr. Hearn, who suggests the literary chameleon, has absorbed the form and color of his environment. One who has read his former writings cannot but be struck at once with the subdued coloring, the refined simplicity, which have now become his habit. The former rankness is no more. In one respect these volumes, by their contribution of knowl edge and philosophy, mark a distinct point of progress in our acquaintance through books, with the Japanese. While the Americans Brown and Hepburn first, by gram mar and lexicon, blazed the way through the Japanese lan guage, and that splendid trio of English students Satow, Aston, and Chamberlain with the helpful reinforcement of January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. From " The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser." Copyright, IS tl, by Harper & B SMUGGLERS OX THE FRONTIER. Lowder, McClatchie. Mounsey. Hawes, Gubbins, and Bramson opened Japanese chronology, history, archaeology and literature to our view, and Miss Bird a typical name amid a host of travellers spied out the land and brought back reports, it may be said that the psychological study of the Japanese has been chiefly the work of the Americans Lyman and Lowell, and, last and best of all, Mr. Hearn. One will find in these volumes descriptions of travel, w r onderful accounts of famous temples and neighborhoods, charming stories of per sonal experience, and not a fe\v pictures which, by their marvellous accuracy and sympathetic touch, recall the natural wonders of the sea-girt Islands of the Sun ; but, beyond and above those things which the skilled traveller and lit erary artist transfers to his pages, Mr. Hearn has succeeded in photographing, as it were, the Japanese soul. There seems to be something in his own physical and intellectual make-up that renders him sensitive on all sides to what is peculiar in the Japanese character. In study ing the paintings of Wirgman, La Farge, Wores, Parsons, and other artists who have seen or dreamed in Japan, one sees faithful transcripts or ideal conceptions of Japanese life. But no other artist, paint he in words or in pigments, has so thoroughly succeeded in catching and fixing those Japanese traits which are so elu sive, yet so ingrained and innate. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 v., $4.) New York Tribune. The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser. THE chapters which compose this volume have already won their way to public recogni tion in the pages of Harper s Monthly, where they have brought a new and different indict ment against Russia and her methods of govern ment. The work was intended to be a happy combination of Poultney Bigelow s pen and Frederic Remington s pencil, genial and graphic, which might leave a lasting impression of the more attractive and picturesque side of Russia. Russia, however, gave them a reception which put all this quite out of the question, and left on this written and pictured record the stamp of her decision that the world shall neither see nor know her as she is. The book is no such probing of the deep sores that afflict the State as we had from Mr. Kennan. It is a simpler chronicle of events, but no less impressive in its way, and always given in bright, lively, and rather merry style, which relieves the book of the wear and drone of solemn complaint. Rus sian impenetrability proved too much for the carrying out of our American explorers plans on the lines marked out by them in advance ; but the lines they were forced into furnished matter in abundance for a highly entertaining book. In the Prussian borderlands their ex periences were, of course, very different. There Mr. Bigelow was quite at home, especially among military people, The volume abounds in military sketches. In fact, the impression it THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 gives rather confirms the impression which has gotten abroad, that all Prussia, like Berlin, is getting militarized. Remington s illustra tions are copious, good and spirited. The pub lishers have given the book a very attractive cover, printed and manufactured in the best manner. (Harper. $2.) The Independent. The Golden House. MR. WARNER S new novel bears a close rela tionship to the studies of New York social life in fiction that other contemporary writers, including Mr. Hovvells, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Brander Matthews, Mrs. Burton Harrison, and the lady who reserves, but does not conceal, her identity under the pseudonym of Julien Gordon, have given us. The same society, the same clubs and clubmen, the same odorous and forlorn "east side," the same general tone is observed in all these works. Mr. Warner even harks back to the dance of the variety hall "artist," called Carmencita, in John Sargent s studio, which was supposed to have set " so ciety " agog, and to have given it a new kind of thrill, some years ago. Mr. Matthews has already celebrated this event in a story. The body of fiction which Mr. Warner has thus enriched derives a large measure of dignity, quite apart from its merit, which From " The Golden House." is not to be lightly dismissed, from its uniform ity of tone and thought and the likeness of its scenes and characters. This is not the result of collaboration, or, in any case, so far as we may judge, of deliberate imitation. And each New York novel of the authors named may, there fore, be taken as corroborative proof of the es sential truth to the subject of all the others. Therefore, we have already at hand a body o^ fictitious literature that will be of priceless value to the future historian for the pictures it pro vides of social customs, and the idea it gives of social spirit and commercial ways, in the me tropolis of this republic in the last years of the nineteenth century. The value of "The Golden House," as a " document" thus having been disposed of, it remains only to briefly consider it as a work of literary art. As such it is more than respecta ble. Mr. Warner is an able writer, with a com mand of wit and the power of graphic descrip tion. His plot is slight, but serviceable, and his personages are many and of varied traits. His scene encompasses all of New York that comes under the eye of fashionable folks, and some of it that is not often mentioned at dinner- tables. We refer, of course, to the crowded tenement districts of the east side, a portion of this town which one small set of writers for the periodicals is constantly holding up as its most picturesque part, and that most neglected in fic tion, while another set is diligently at work all the time translating all its grimy facts and all its odors into an endless supply of reading-matter for the polite. Mr. Warner treats of the mis ery of the New York poor with gentle sympathy and no trace of mock sentimen tality. Of the poetic charm of his episodic romance among the help ers of the poor, in which an ascetic Anglican priest and a female phy sician are involved, we cannot speak too highly, though W T C should not care to commit ourselves- to an opinion of its truth to nature, because of a lack of familiarity with the sentimental qualities of ascetic Anglicans and ladies who practice med icine. But the main drift of the story is all in famil iar channels/ : and no one Copyright, 1894, by Harper & r Brothers. CARMEN. January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. can doubt its truth. The "swell" husband, who is forced to battle along with a cold and heartless world on a beggarly yearly income of $20,000 ; the sweet, patient, charitable wife whom he neglects ; the questionable wife of the great financier, who uses this couple to get into "society," and in re turn opens a way to profitable speculation for the " swell," which leaves him penni less in the denouement; the financier, himself, who is a wonderfully impressive figure, and no more to be understood than financiers usually are ; the beautiful, dis contented spinster, and all the other per sonages at the afternoon teas and evening "functions," that Mr. Warner describes, are interesting and recognizable. Mr. Smedley s pictures add much to the interest of the story. They are charm ing pictures and apt illustrations, and each provides an excellent object lesson in deportment for people about to go into New York " society." (Harper. $2.) N. Y. Times. My Lady. " MY LADY " is a delightful story for adults, by Miss Marguerite Bouvet, who has already charmed the thousands who have read her The People of the Mist. THE best possible criticism on Mr. Rider Haggard s last story is in the dedication. He says: " I dedicate this effort of pri meval and troglodyte imagination, this record of barefaced and flagrant adven ture, to my godsons, in the hope that therein they may find some store of healthy amusement." Not one of his previous novels, not even "She," is so fraught with "troglodyte imagination" and "flagrant adventure" as " The People of the Mist." Miraculous escapes, wonderful snake-wor- Fri shipping tribes, and rubies and sap phires by the eight-pound sack are the " store of healthy amusement " provided. Noth ing but the unexpected happens in Mr. Hag gard s stories, but we cannot harden our hearts to carp at this book on the score of unreality, in gratitude for the thrilling hours of suspense caused us by the endless perils of the hero and the heroine. Whether this is really "healthy amusement" for boys we cannot decide, but all rules are relaxed in the holiday season. So writes the Boston Literary World. Rider Hag gard s charm is hard to define, but very real to the vast army of readers who hail his every word as a personal treat. Straight-laced peda gogues may reason about the dangers of his fascinations, but no amount of reasoning im pairs the fascination. All healthy, natural spirits are refreshed by Rider Haggard s ab surdities. It is good to keep an interest in just such startling adventures as he furnishes at all times. (Longmans, Green & Co. 1.25.) n " My Lady." Copyright, 1894, by A. C. McClurg & Co. CONSULTING MERE TOINETTE. favorite children s stories, " Sweet William," " Prince Tip Top," etc. It is a fine example of the power to tell a tale of tender love in. pure Saxon English. Recounting the fortunes of French refugees to England in the days of the Revolution of 93 and of Bonaparte, it affords glimpses of life both in England and France. The English nurse, who devotes her whole heart and life to the young heroine, and the young French marquis, whose love for the latter is so great and unselfish that he hides it on discovering that she loves his friend, are finely portrayed. The book is sure to increase its author s fame, both by its fascination as a story and by its simple, unaffected style. The illus trations, by Miss Helen M. Armstrong, are very dainty and appropriate, and admirably preserve the spirit of the story. Miss Marguerite Bou vet has shown talent that is an earnest of better things to come. (A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.) THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 Philip and His Wife. THE story of Philip and his wife Cecil and their sprite-like child has been so much dis cussed during its appearance in the Atlantic Monthly that it has become difficult to say any thing that has not been said and thought by many. And still the ever-recurring questions remain unanswered owing to the consummate art of the author of "John Ward, Preacher" and " The Story of a Child." What does Mrs. Deland herself think would have been the right thing for Philip and his wife to do ? Does she approve of Philip? Does she think all matri monial unhappiness should be borne without murmuring ? What did happen ? What does she intend her readers to think of her latest work ? Did she work successfully from her premises to an intended end, or did she herself become conscious of the ramification of her subject and finish abruptly because she had no helpful solution to offer to the problem which is as old as man ? The history of Philip and his wife is primarily a study of the marriage relation. A morbidly conscientious, somewhat narrow-minded man and a superficial, self ish, pleasure- and excitement-craving woman are married in their first youth. They have one child, beloved by both. By the father with an outlook to the child s future good, with plans of education, systematic training, pride of fatherhood and realization of responsi bility ; by the mother with the brute affection of the dam, the unreasonableness of exhausted or excited nerves, the vanity of motherhood, the desire for a plaything. This child becomes the constant source of disunion the only link of union. Superficial readers will readily think that the ethical significance of Mrs. Deland s book lies in the study of divorce and the atti tude towards this question of Philip Shore, his wife and their friend Roger Carey. Philip asks after estrangement from his wife : "Is not marriage without love as spiritually il legal as love without marriage is civilly ille gal?" Philip s wife asserts to Philip s friend Carey : "I believe the world would be much better off if divorce were easier. In fact, I think it s a pity people have to wait until they actually come to blows before they can sepa rate." But read more carefully the large purpose of Mrs. Deland s story is not a question of divorce or separation. It is a study in human selfish ness, shown as tellingly in the uncompromis ing, conventional virtues of the husband as in the littleness, indulgence, lack of sympathy, unrest and indifference of the wife. Philip Shore holds the most selfish opinion of the duty he owes himself to develop his high est self according to his highest ideal ; Cecil Shore is a beautiful animal, keenly alive to sensuous impressions, longing for ease and repose. While pondering separation, after a terrible scene with his wife, Philip sends for his friend, Roger Carey, a brilliant lawyer whom he wishes to consult. Then comes Mrs. Deland s cleverest work. The end is unsatis factory from a reader s standpoint. It does not seem natural that Cecil should let Philip have his child, it does not seem a finished piece of work that Mrs. Deland has left with us. But experienced thought, knowledge of life, of love, of marriage and its duties, tempta tions, responsibilities and quicksands, of man s and woman s natures and special points of view, fail to suggest an ending that will solve the many problems suggested. The minor characters are very well drawn. Mrs. Deland s work is original, strong, and full of suggestions. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) Children of Circumstance. A NOVEL of totally different kind from the average is " Children of Circumstance." Al though the writer cannot resist the feminine temptation to introduce as the principal male fig ure a rather invertebrate specimen of the sex, though the book ends without settling the final fortunes of the principal characters, and though the only important love-scene that occurs in its pages is conducted on both sides with the easy pleasantry of a dispassionate flirtation, there is plenty of powerful writing throughout. The story is mainly connected with some of the darker sides of London life, and the quixotic efforts of Margaret Dering, a girl of twenty, to reclaim the fallen women of the West End. The fact that neither the methods nor the re sults of her process could, under any circum stances, be capable of realization in actual life, need not be counted as any disparagement of the author s sincere and spirited effort to in spire a tenderer feeling towards the erring humanity whose lot she describes. The theme is, of course, by no means a new one, and Wilkie Collins "New Magdalene" will at once occur as a novel written with similar purpose ; but it may be doubted whether the trenchant satire of the latter work is to be compared for real effectiveness with the dignified pathos of " lota s " handiwork. A word must be said for the characters of the story : they are drawn with a masterly hand, and the analysis of motives and actions is conducted with an ap preciative humor which stamps the book as a worthy successor to "A Yellow Aster," the novel which first brought this author into notice. (Appleton. 50 c. ; $i.) London Academy. January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. Tales of Adventure. Round the Red Lamp. EVERY adventure-loving youth will hug this IN " Round the Red Lamp : being facts and volume to himself and hie to a corner where he fancies of medical life," Dr. Conan Doyle gives can feast undisturbed upon its contents, and a his fertile imagination free play once more, rare old feast he will have. In these days of His stories on medical life run on parallel lines adventures of the sickly- sentimental order, a volume with the right whiff and odor of excitement about it cannot be too highly praised, es pecially if it is writ ten with the pur pose of emphasiz ing virtue instead of painting vice so alluringly that evil ways have a subtle attraction. The author of these " Stirring Tales of Colonial Adven ture " signs him self " Skipp Bor- lase," and under this signature will appeal to the hearts of those boys who have already read his numerous vol umes of well-told adventures. The first tale in this collection is a fair sample of those that follow. It shows how a fa ther misjudged his two sons, one of whom was only the son of his adoption. His own son is a strong, honest, but physi- call y ugly lad, while the other is deceitfu l and treacherous in the same proportion From " Stirring Tales of Adventure." Copyright, 1894, by F. Warne & Co A MISSILE GRAZED MY SHOULDER. that he is straight of limb and beautiful. The author introduces the two lads with a telling inci dent, and continues his story to prove his with his popular adventures of a private de tective. For a reader condemned to an un broken regimen of Conan Doyle they might be considered just a little oppressive in flavor, estimation of their various characters, and especially as they add to plot and incidental in to give his readers a taste of the fruits of terest the elements of physical suffering and right and wrong, together with a genuine ad- ghastly detail. It is unnecessary to say that venture. Each of the tales supplies fuel for they will not have so many readers as the the readers imaginations, and strengthens their livelier and less pessimistic " Sherlock Holmes " impressions of the essential characteristics of series. They are almost invariably morbid ; heroism. (Warne. $1.50.) Boston Herald. and, indeed, when the author is resolutely op- 10 THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 timistic, as in "A Question of Diplomacy," he does not thereby raise the level of excitement, though he pleasantly varies the entertainment. These tales are skilful, attractive, and eminent ly suited to give relief to the mind of a reader in quest of distraction. (Appleton. $1.50.) AthentciDii. Vernon s Aunt. SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN (Mrs. Everard Cotes) has once more enjoyed herself on her native literary heath, and produced a story pure and simple, without moral or purpose, that cannot fail to delight her constantly grow ing circle of appreciative readers. Vernon s aunt is a straight-laced, conventional English lady of uncertain age, who is seized with a de sire to see her nephew, who has for years been in India. She sails away upon a ship, which becomes to her a most enjoyable resting-place before the voyage is ended. On her arrival she is met by her nephew, and there follows a delicious story of absurd misadventures, which often throw the sedate spinster into consterna tion. The author s former strong and absorb ing novel, "A Daughter of To-Day, " did not offer her the same chance to show the exuber ant humor, the happy facility in telling descrip tion which her new extravaganza again brings into play. Humor and good-natured sparkling satire are the special gifts of Mrs. Cotes, and she has again reached the inimitable charm of "A Social Departure" and " The Simple Ad ventures of a Memsahib." (Appleton. i ; pap., 50 c.) *Yom "Vernon s Aunt." Copyright, 1895, by D Appleton & Cc. I SALUTE YOU. Life and Letters of John G. Whittier. THE opening chapters in this memoir of Whittier are made especially interesting by the pictures given of New England life in the earlier part of the present century. Whittier was born in 1807, the family homestead being the East Parish of Haverhill, Mass. The characteristic features of home life in rural districts of New England had then not very much changed from what the original settlers of the country had made them. For those old enough to recall these as they may have still more or less been in their own childhood, the descriptions here found of the Whittier home will be full of interest, renewing and brighten ing memories which, under conditions so greatly changed as the present ones are may have much faded away. There is also much in this earlier narrative to illustrate the career which the author in subsequent pages details. Much of what was characteristic of the poet, in his fidelity to conviction, his horror of oppres sion, his simple yet noble and stalwart man hood were matters of heredity with him. The reader recognizes at this point of view in debtedness to the author for the full account given of the Whittier ancestry, with descrip tions of that simple and wholesome New Eng land life which, fostered in the boy, fully de veloped in the man those qualities which made him, with all his Quaker gentleness and kindli ness, so much a champion in the great moral battles of the period. Many details of Whit- tier s early life, as here given, will be new to most readers ; the difficulties overcome in securing such education as he had, the early date in his life at which attention was drawn to his superior gifts as a poet, his adventures in journalism, characteristic even there, his con secration in the cause of liberty and of reform while as yet a mere youth. Much of what be longs to the later life is made to appear in Whittier s own letters, which make up a con siderable portion of the two volumes. The biographer, however, renders important ser vice in the details given in connection with mention of notable poems and other writings as from time to time they appear, as also of Whittier s association with notable men of the period, especially leaders in the great anti- slavery struggle. Much added interest is given to the narrative by insertion of poems which, although published in Whittier s own lifetime, were not included by him in his books, as from time to time appearing. These " es- trays " are often of very peculiar biographical as well as poetical interest. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 v., $4.) Chicago Standard. January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. \ i Maelcho. THERE is no gainsaying the fact that " Mael cho " is anything but cheerful reading. The scene and time chosen Ireland circa 1580 pre clude the possibility of all hilarity in an author who has made such extensive use of State papers and contemporary documents as Miss Lawless. All the same, "Maelcho" is not lugubrious though deeply tragic, and, so far from being unendurable, is usually interesting and occa sionally fascinating. Although the story is admittedly an historical romance, we have no hesitation in saying that more may be learnt as to the relations between England and Ireland, and more information gained as to the mode of life and actual aspect of the country three hun dred years ago than in any regular his tory with which we are acquainted. But /f the amount of mere information that the book contains is, after all, only one of its minor merits. Lovers of incident will j ( | find that it abounds in thrilling even blood-curdling incidents. Lovers of the picturesque will find no lack of those vivid descriptions which bring the sounds and scents and colors of the Irish landscape into our ears and nostrils and before our eyes. Miss Lawless has the intimate knowledge of a natural ist as well as the vision of an artist, and thus the settings of From the various episodes of which her book is made up invariably add to their effectiveness. But above and beyond all, the book charms by rea son of the breadth of view, the magnanimity and the tenderness which animate the author in dealing with a theme which is always dreary and often gruesome. There is no attempt to extenuate the inherent weaknesses of the Celtic character any more than to palliate the brutal savagery of the English soldiery. "Maelcho," in this respect, is a standing rebuke to those critics who deny to women the attribute of im partiality. Finally, it may be noted that al though the narrative, as the author very ac curately describes her work, is devoid of love interest, it is full of excellent characterization. The portraits of Maelcho, a truly noble savage ; of Hugh Gaynor, the sturdy and dogged Eng lish youth ; and of Fenwick, the accomplished, ambitious, and relentless officer of fortune, are all good in their different ways. Here, in short is a moving romance in which, by means entirely legitimate, and with a wholesome avoidance of partisanship, fine writing, or sensationalism, Miss Lawless has set before us, in all its shame and agony, one of the most painful chapters in the history of Ireland. The pathos of " Gra- nia " by this author will not soon be forgotten. The same rare power is shown in this record of people suffering from strifes extending over two centuries. (Appleton. $1.50.) London Athenaeum. Vernon s Aunt." Copyright, 1895, by D. .Appleton & Co. THE SURPRISED AUNT. Maria Edgeworth s Life and Letters. THESE volumes contain the first satisfactory story of the life of a woman concerning whom decidedly erroneous notions have been enter tained. From them it is possible to learn just what sort of woman Miss Edgeworth w r as, and to understand how she came to occupy her unique position in literature. A collection of her letters was printed a short time after her death, in 1849, but its circulation was confined rigorously to those who were noted as intimate friends of the authoress. This is the first publication of her correspondence for general circulation, and through it the public will get a view of Miss Edgeworth which heretofore only her personal acquaintances have been permitted to enjoy. The one thing which stands out in boldest relief in the story of her life is that she was her father s child he dominated her life and gave direction to her literary propensities. While he lived he governed her pen, and he lived so long that by the time he died she had acquired a literary habit which had become a second na- 12 THE LITERARY NEWS, [January, 1895 ture to her. If her father had died while she was a young girl, Miss Edgeworth would have become an authoress, and undoubtedly would have become famous, for she was a bright girl, much given to story-telling and story- writing. What sort of work she would have done it is of course impossible to say, but it is clear enough that, left to herself, she would not have taken lines parallel to those along which her father led her. She might have turned out some ex tremely interesting love-stories, which would have been read eagerly to-day by those who call her "Belinda" and other highly moral stories " bread-and-buttery " books. At the time when her father assumed censorship Miss Edgeworth had it in her to achieve success in almost any line of light literature. Most of the letters are addressed to relatives. Few are written to the literary men and women w r ith whom Miss Edgeworth was on familiar terms. At the same time there are many pleas ing references to celebrities. (Houghton, Mif- flin & Co. 2 v., $4.) Mail and Express. sented has appeared in the pages of Scribner s Magazine. The volume is very handsomely brought out, and many illustrations are scat tered through the interesting text. (Scribner. $2.50.) Sea and Land. PROF. N. S. SIIALER, who holds the chair of geology in Harvard University, has written for students of nature who are not scientists a very entertaining book on the features of coasts and oceans, with special reference to the life of man. His object is to introduce to unprofes sional readers certain interesting phenomena of the sea-shore and of the depths of the ocean. In no other fields are large and important truths which are distinctly related to human in terests so readily to be traced, yet the treatises which deal with these matters are few in number and generally of a recondite character. The aim has been to sepa rate from the great body of technical knowledge concerning shores and seas those features which have value for the reason that they may serve to enlarge the read er s conception as to the meth ods of nature. As com monly observed, or as learned from text-books, these truths appear to be fragmentary, and lead to no extended notions as to the workings of the earth s machinery ; thus the student is not led to form those conceptions which it is most impor tant that he should gain. In part the matter pre- Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. THE title of this book gives little hint of the significance of the stories which make it up, but the wonder and admiration with which one closes the book testify to its fitness as an em blem of Scottish sturdiness and beauty. Unlike many short stories, which are best enjoyed when read separately, this series demands a consecutive reading for each tale, which deep ens the impression of unity created by the pictures of simplicity, piety, humor, and caution in the people of Drumtochty. It is no wonder that this new writer, " Ian Maclaren " (who is Rev. John Watson of Liverpool), has leaped into sudden fame, for the gift of the Holy Spirit is his to transmute homely deeds into shining marvels. One weary alike of characterless ser mons and the well-conned Bible may take up t his volume, attracted by the brisk opening lines ; while repelled by the dialect, he is soon From " Sea and Land." Copyright, 189i, by Charles Scribner s Sons. FISHES OF PECULIAR FORM. January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. reading new meanings into Bible texts through these stories. It would be hard to speak critically of a book so full of trust and grace, but fortunately the enjoyment of it is not marred by any lack of literary finish. It is a faithful transcript of characteristics which are fading away and which are here presented with a rare quaintness of style. The book is well gotten up, with wide margined pages and attractive drab and green binding. (Dodd, Mead & Co. 1.25.) Boston Literary World. Catherine de Medici. BALZAC S method in writing the historical novel was most precise. In the introduction to the novel now under notice his method can be followed. It is the philosophy of history, col ored, perhaps, by that period of unrest which influenced the writer. France, when this work was composed, had just gone through internal strife, and was on the eve of beginning it over again, and Honore de Balzac was immensely conservative. He dreaded the time which was to come. If an author has to throw himself into the times about which he writes, Balzac possessed that power. It was not necessary for him to excite his romantic potentiality. That was al ways forthcoming. What he did was to make himself the statesman, the noble, the man of commerce, of the sixteenth or seventeenth cen tury. He steered very ctear of religious en thusiasms. As a good Catholic, upholding the religion he believed in, Balzac cared less for it in describing Huguenot times. He hardly brings creeds into prominence. He studies the situation, and, with that prodigious acumen he possessed an acumen far above that of any romance-writer who ever lived he understands many of the underlying motives. In this book the portraits of Catherine de Medici, of Mary, Queen of Scots, and of Mary Touchet are wonderfully drawn. In contrast with the bluster of the chiefs of the many civil factions is shown the stern devotion of some of the leading Huguenots. We may care for the torrential force of a Victor Hugo in his histori cal novel, but more for the exact lights of Bal zac. You get from the modern Frenchman the truer historical picture. It is needless to say how well done is Miss Wormeley s translation, or how thoroughly she understands her text and the conception of the master romancist, and once again an American public has to thank the lady for a fuller appre ciation of Balzac. (Roberts. $1.50.) The New York Times. From "The Royal Marine.".- -Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers. "HOW S THE WATER THIS MORNING?" The Royal Marine. WHAT is a young man to do, who is not sure whether he has proposed to the girl of his heart and been accepted by her, or whether he has simply dreamed both proposal and accept ance ? This is the unpleasant predicament in w T hich Brander Matthews places his hero in this bright little idyl of Narragansett Pier. The " Royal Marine " so called from her chic yacht ing suit, ornamented with stripes and the crowned V. R. of the English navy is a lovely Kentucky girl, who promptly captures the heart of young Warren Payn, on his vacation trip to Narragansett. Their acquaintance advances auspiciously, and at last one evening, while comfortably settled with a cigar, for a doze on the bridge of the Casino, Payn meets the charm ing Miss Carroll returning from the Casino dance, pleads his suit, is accepted, and while meditating on his happiness dozes off, awaking to face the fateful question "Was it all a dream ? " The miserable uncertainty in which he lingers, his efforts to discover indirectly whether he is an accepted suitor or not, and the way in which he is at last released from his predicament, furnish material for an amusing romance of a summer s week. It is gotten up in the neat shape and dainty costume of the Harper s Little A r ovel Series which prove tempt ing at first sight. (Harper. $i.) THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 From "Henry of Navarre." Copyright, 1894, by J. B. Lippincott Co. JEANNE PRESENTING THE PRINCES. Henry of Navarre. THE value of Mr. Blair s book lies not in the original study of documents, but in the graphic view it gives of a character unique in the his tory of France. Henry iv. for freedom of speech and for the liveliness and eccentricity of his humor comes nearer to President Lincoln than any European potentate. He was a man of genius whose manners the polished world could not change. Few kings were ever better known to their subjects than Henry of Navarre. In fact, they knew him so well and became so fa miliar with him that they underrated his abili ties, and had to correct their estimate in the light of his achievements. A great many things contributed to make of this king an ex ception in the line of extremely polished and artificial personages to whom it fell to rule and gradually to ruin France. In the first place his grandfather was possessed by the fear that he could not outlive his boyhood. He was there fore sent to live in the open air, to mingle with all classes of people, to hunt and become famil iar with the life of field and forest. He became an adept in the rude and ready wit that de lighted the people. His answers were always quick and always to the purpose, but they were not expressed with the euphuistic delicacy usual at court. Long afterward his knowledge of the forests enabled him to handle troops in a way that astonished his opponents. As a possible heir to the French throne, he fell in early youth into the care of Catharine de Medici. While he imbibed some learning in Paris, the most important lesson taught him there seems to have been the almost vulpine skill with which he foiled the plots of a Court reckoned, after the massacre of St. Bartholo mew, to be the bloodiest and most unscrupulous in Europe. In the midst of an environment so perilous he seems to have put on an antic dis position. His real powers were deftly concealed under an air of folly and indifference. Here his unpolished manners stood him in good stead and he was under no temptation to be come a courtier. When he escaped from Paris and from the dangerous machinations of Catharine, it was only to become a partisan leader in a series of wars that were embittered by all the hatreds of religion, as well as the entanglements of politics. His reputation for folly had preceded him, and it took more than one victory to con vince the men of Navarre and the Protestants of France that they had one of the most re sourceful leaders known to the military annals of France or of Europe. The same inventive ness and organizing skill which made him, with the single exception of the Duke of Parma, the first soldier of his age, also led him as King of France to systematize the government in a way hitherto unknown. He might almost be said to have originated the modern plan of bureaus and departments. But without the patient Sully he never would have had the persistence to carry out his designs. He fought battles, he did not January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. carry on campaigns. That was his defect as a soldier and as a statesman. No man of his time handled troops as well on the field as he ; but no man was less tolerant than he of the strategy which defeats an enemy without fight ing, and wears him out by disappointment. The wide pages of Mr. Blair s book are pro fusely illustrated with portraits, and the volume is a worthy tribute to a man who was magnifi cently great in spite of oddities astonishing in one born in the purple. (Lippincott. $4.) N. Y. Tribune. The Story of Babette. RUTH McENERY STUART has written a charm ing romance in " The Story of Babette." It is the story of a lovely young Creole girl, stolen from her family in the confusion incident upon the Mardi-Gras carnival, and figuring afterwards, first in a gypsy camp, then as the adopted niece of a childless and wealthy old couple, in both of which conditions her beauty, combined with her gentle and lovable character, win for her devoted friends. The author has availed her self to the full of the novelist s license, and ingeniously constructed her plot to form those happy coincidences necessary to bring out tri umphant over all difficulties her charming hero ine, and harbor her safely at last beneath the roof of her afflicted parents. There is a sim- plicity^of method in the narrative which makes it appear so honest as to bear the semblance of ab solute truth in spite of such improbable happen ings as the old gypsy woman s flight at night with the almost dying Babette, closely followed by the feeble-minded Noute, by whom she is pushed, most opportunely, into an open door and almost into the arms of the benevolent doctor, who saves the child s life and adopts her. The incidental descriptions of the Mardi-Gras, of the gypsy children and Babette playing on the beach, and some of the minor characters are very good. (Harper. $1.50.) The Beacon. The Story of Lawrence Garthe. ANY one who has read Maurus Jokai s " Eyes Like the Sea," with its six-times married hero ine, will be amused to compare Bessy with Bella, the heroine of Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk s latest novel. " Bella " has only been married four times, but for absolute absence of any moral sense she will compare favorably with Bessy. Each of these heroines is endo\ved with the same charm of nature which manages to preserve an appearance of innocence and youth- fulness in spite of very doubtful experiences. Bella is very cleverly contrasted with Con stance. Constance is the most highly developed modern instance of the Puritan type. The situ ation into which Lawrence Garthe is thrown between Constance, whom he wishes to marry, and Bella, the divorced mother of his child, are powerfully handled. Of course, the story ends well, a little too well for life, but on the whole the book is worth reading, and will sus tain its author s high reputation for ability and carefulwork. (Houghton, Mifflin& Co. $1.25.) -The Literary World. From " The Story of Babette." Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers. BABETTE AND HER PLAYMATES. i6 THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 ?Ln CTlrrtt r iSontftfi Srfcifto of Current Uttrraturf. EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT. JANUARY, 1895. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. To every one of the strangely differing char acters who together have been "the reading public," for whom Robert Louis Stevenson has labored, the announcement of his death came as a personal message, bring ing a keen sense of personal loss. For days hope lingered that the telegraph had blundered. But now it is known beyond doubt or hope, that on December 3, 94, Robert Louis Stevenson was suddenly strick en with apo plexy, and scarcely twenty- four hours after lay buried on the summit of Pala Mountain, amid his dearly loved South Sea Isl and surround ings. For fifteen years Steven son s writings have been sure of readers, but "the reading public" has com- ROBERT LOUIS monlybut a vague idea of what his diligence as a whole has reached, either in number of volumes or in literary significance. His published works number close upon thirty volumes, all written in twenty years by a man who is dead at forty- four. Stevenson himself has told us in "Memories and Portraits " how he became a writer, and by unremitting labor developed his at first limited capacities. The facts are few and known to all. The son of Thomas Stevenson, the light house builder, and the grandson of Robert Stevenson, the inventor of the revolving light, he was born at Edinburgh, November 15, 1850. He was a delicate, impulsive boy, revelling in books, but without inclination for study. He was graduated at the University of Edinburgh. " Xo one," said Stevenson, " had more certifi cates and less education." From his earliest years he aspired to write, and strongly objected to his father s plans to make of him a civil en gineer. To be "merely a writer" seemed a lazy, profitless existence to his father s Scotch thrift and mechanical mind, and finally Steven son consented to compromise and study law. This, however, he found equally distasteful. At the age of twenty-three it was found nec essary that the young inv a 1 i d should seek a kinder climate, and then began those wan d e r - ings in search of health which fi nally led him to his last resting- place. By the sands of the sea, in the forests and on the mountains the young writer now began his life-work. H e taught himself to write the purest English that has been written since Charles Lamb laid down his pen. He played the "sedulous ape," he has told us, to Ruskin, Hazlitt, Sir Thomas Browne and to all the great ones of the past. He saw everything about him with an eye that absorbed every touch of beauty and noted every incon gruity and oddity, and then he described what he saw with brevity, clearness, vivacity, vivid ness, inimitable humor and originality always controlled by all-pervading grace. By hard work Stevenson made for himself a style all his own, and then used this subtle instrument to give to the world the proof that the human thought, the imagination, the love of mankind, the in tense pleasure in existence which by it he brought home to his readers, are his truest, surest claims to a lasting place in literature. STEVENSON. January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. His style was the first call to recognition, but year by year his fertility and versatility, his hoard of varied gifts of marvellous number have made his "calling and election sure," and his very last work of art, " The Ebb Tide," gave promise in directions as yet unworked in all his masterpieces. Stevenson s private and literary life have been closely connected. For ten years "the reading public" has known at almost every moment the corners of the earth in which the suffering man sought relief, and in quick succession has re ceived book after book bearing the impress of new sights and sounds and changing human and natural surroundings. Shortly after his wanderings began he met Sidney Colvin, al ways generously disposed towards young talent and with a genius at discovering it. This suc cessful author, to whom later Stevenson dedi cated his " Travels with a Donkey in the Ce- vennes," first introduced his work to the public. His first published paper appeared in the Portfolio when he was twenty-three years old, under the pen-name of L. S. Stoneven. It was called " Roads." His second, written the same winter at Mentone, whither he had been sent for his health, was entitled "Ordered South." William Ernest Henley also very early paid tribute to the great gifts of Stevenson, and helped him in many ways towards a hearing. "Will o the Mill" was his first published story, and that was written in France. The next was "A Lodging for the Night," written at the same time with the delightful " Study on Villon," afterward republished in " Familiar Studies." "The New Arabian Nights" was begun at the Burford Bridge Inn, where Mr. Stevenson had gone in order to be near George Meredith. The Arabian Nights stories were continued in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Bar- bazon, and finished at Le Monastier all with in about five months. That same year he had brought out his first volume, "An Inland Voyage." " The Pavilion on the Links " was begun in London and finished by its wandering author in Monterey, Cal. "Treasure Island " was begun at Braemar, in the Scotch highlands, and finished at Davos, in Switzerland the whole acomplished in two "bursts" of fifteen days each Mr. Stevenson s quickest piece of work. With " Treasure Island " Mr. Stevenson be came famous. It was translated into many languages, and since 1883 every reader has been eager to read all that could be got at bear ing the magic name of Robert Louis Steven son. In 1879 Stevenson travelled in the United States and took to himself an American wife, whom he had met in Paris some time before. Mrs. Stevenson had been married to Samuel C. Osborne, a rich man of San Francisco, and the circumstances of separation and remarriage with Stevenson were highly romantic. The two children remained under her care and have always been tenderly loved by their stepfather, who, in collaboration with his stepson, Lloyd Osborne, has accomplished much of his later work. Mr. Stevenson had made his trip to America in the steerage and had gone across country in an emigrant train. The adventures of this trip were recorded in articles written for Long mans 1 Magazine and the Satnrdav Rez ieia. The " Dynamiters " and " The Silverado Squatters " were the fruits of this visit among us. In 1887 he visited America and found relief for a time in the beautiful Adirondacks. In 1886 appeared the book by which Stevenson is perhaps best known among the many, the gruesome psycho logical story of " Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." It was with a view to protecting his rights in the dramatization of this work, which in Richard Mansfield s hands has been one of the greatest stage successes of the last half dozen years, that Stevenson once more came among us. Mr. George lies, who was fortunate enough to meet the author and his delightful family during this stay at Lake Saranac, describes his appearance at that time with felicitous words: Robert Louis Stevenson was a Norseman. As I first saw him in the Adirondacks seven winters ago, my first impression was that a Scandinavian stood before me. He was tall and very thin, with the extreme pallor of a life-long invalid. In his abundant light brown hair thrown behind his ears; his forehead both high and wide lighted by large eyes set far apart, as always in men of the first power of imagination; the curve of feature, the ex pression that indescribably heightened the effect of his stories as he told them with all the fire of a born actor, there was testimony to the Norse blood that has so much enriched the Scottish race. It was Mrs. Stevenson who planned a yacht ing cruise to the South Seas in search of a place where the suffering invalid could breathe and move about without pain. Almost every island was visited, and finally Stevenson found an ideal home at Apia, Samoa. The descrip tions of this home, brought from time to time by travellers who have made a pilgrimage to the shrine of the greatest romancer since Walter Scott, read like Stevenson s own word- pictures of the beautiful places he saw in dreams. Here at last his homelessness found a home, and he felt for the first time that all nature and friends could do to ease the pain he had borne all his life could be attained among the beauties of the South Sea, surrounded by the natives who, one and all, became his worship pers. With his ever ready sympathy he threw i8 THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 himself heart and soul into the study of the political conditions of his new home, and in 1892, in his "A Foot-note to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa," arraigned Germany for injustice and misrule, and pointed out the strength and weakness of its position in Samoa. Since 1888 Stevenson has inhabited Vailina, his beautiful residence built in Scotland and put up by loving hands in Apia. His health had seemed somewhat better, hemorrhages had been less frequent, and some even hoped that his later years might be free from constant pain. On Thanksgiving Day, November 29, he entertained some American friends, and on December 3 was feeling brighter, had done a long morning s work, and was enjoying his din ner, when the summons came. The press has told over and over how the natives hewed a path through the jungle and bush to the top of the mountain, how his step son and daughter accompanied the body to its resting-place 1200 feet above the sea, how the natives mourned, and how all the world mourns the premature death of Robert Louis Stevenson. We cannot but ask : " Had he more to write, or had he done his best?" Many there are who think, as Stevenson did himself, that in "Kidnapped" he reached his height, and yet " The Ebb-Tide " held a note that might have become the keynote to an entirely new order of writing. His published works are: " An In land Voyage" (1878); "Edinburgh: Pictu resque Notes" (1879); "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes " (1879); " Virginibus Puer- isque, and Other Papers" (iSSi) ; "Familiar Studies of Men and Books" (1882); "New Arabian Nights" (1882); "The Dynamiter: More New Arabian Nights " (1885, with his wife); " Treasure Island " (1883); " The Silver ado Squatters" (1883) ; "A Child s Garden of Verse" (1885); "Prince Otto "(1885); "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde " (1886); "Kidnapped: Memoirs and the Advent ures of David Balfour, etc. " (1886); "Under woods " (1887); "The Merry Men, and Other Tales" (1887); "Memoirs and Portraits" (1887); "The Black Arrow" (1888); "The Master of Ballantrae " (1889); "Ballads" (1891); "The Wrecker" (with Lloyd Osborne, 1891-92); "A Foot-note to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa" (1892); "David Balfour" (1893); "Island Nights Entertain ments " (1893); "The Ebb-Tide " (1894). Besides all this, says Mr. lies, much else was written poems, short stories, articles for magazines and newspapers, and three romances which remain unfinished. If the reader of this rare spirit finds a dull chapter here and there in his books, let him remember how good Stevenson is at his best, and further let him bear in mind that death was always imminent over him; that often when worn and weary he spurred himself to exertion that he might pro vide for those whom he would leave behind as he wished for. A memorial tribute to Stevenson was offered in a gathering of literary people under the auspices of "The Uncut Leaves," on the even ing of Friday, January 4, at Carnegie Hall, in New York City. Clarence C. Stedman was chosen chairman, and every lover of Stevenson should make sure of a copy of a paper giving his complete address on that occasion. It was a notable gathering, and many writers spoke with deep feeling of their comrade-at-letters. At this writing the note of all comment is chiefly personal. Stevenson was beloved personally and all judgment is hushed for the moment in the presence of death. Whether Stevenson s romances, almost all without heroines, will live and make him a place for all time ; or whether time will show that in his essays and desultory moralizing and philosophizing lies his enduring reputation, must remain for others to determine. The memory of the man will never fade from those who met him. As one of his friends has said : "Stevenson had all that deep fascination which attends upon a man of genius who is truly approachable. There was about him not a trace of affectation. He was easy and hearty in his greetings, and the strong fund of humor of which he was possessed made him a most delightful companion. No one ever came to know him who did not come to love him. He made every one his friend." The first volume has appeared of a final edi tion of his works, to be known as the Edinburgh edition, to be complete in thirty volumes. The Scribners will handle it in this country. His faithful friend Sidney Colville, is the editor. IN the February issue of THE LITERARY NEWS will appear a review of the general aspect of the publications of 1894, and also a list of the most important publications of the year just ended. About 5000 books were turned out by the publishers, many of course new editions of old favorites. It shall be the endeavor of THE LITERARY NEWS to direct atten tion to the very best among them those it would be well to read if one lays claim to keep ing up with the best among the latest, and those it would be wise to buy if circumstances favor such self-culture and enduring enjoy ment. The survey of the books of the year will be undertaken in a spirit of fair criticism, re gardless of generally received opinions or prej udices. The only aim will be to bring to mind the books that have the first claim to permanent life, of those published in 1894. January, 1895] *THE LITERARY NEWS. Mermatb of 1894. Curb, Snaffle, and Spur. Mr. Anderson s manual will be a useful one to those for whom it is designed. His advice seems to be sensible, at least from a civilian point of view, and the illustrations, which are taken from photographs, add immensely to the value of the little book. Riders who do not belong to the cavalry will find his advice worth remembering. (Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.) CrowelVs New Sets of Standards. In the preparation of CrowelFs A T ew Illustrated Library, it has been the aim of the publishers to produce a series of books that would meet the wants of those desiring inexpensive editions in attractive bindings, carefully edited, illustrated by the best artists, printed on good paper from clear type, and especially appropriate for holiday gifts or library use. In the pursuance of this plan no pains or expense have been spared to make this series the finest that has ever been produced at so Iowa price. (Per volume, $1.50.) Quiet Stories from an Old Woman s Garden. This book, by Alison McLean, is well named. It is made up of half a dozen stories of rural life, far from the noise and activities of trade. They have the odors of the garden and the meadow and forests, and touch the heart and make the reader wiser and better. One sel dom finds rural English life more charmingly sketched. It enlarges the human soul, and en larges its capacities to love the pure and the good and beautiful to read the chapters. What better could be said of a book? (Warne. $1.25.) The Old Brick Churches of Maryland. A six months tour among the old brick churches of Maryland has furnished material for a delight ful book, full of historic memories and remi niscences of colonial and revolutionary days. The narrative is by Helen West Ridgely, the many full-page and text illustrations are by Miss Sofie de Butts Stewart, and both author and artist have brought out to the utmost the charms and pleasures of this "pleasure-trip in quest of the old brick churches." The book is a small quarto, beautifully printed and daintily bound. (Randolph. $2.50.) International Sunday-School Lessons. "The Illustrative Notes for 1895," by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut and Robert Remington Doherty, is Mr. Hurlbut s Sunday-School Guide for the coming year, done, says The Independent, on substan tially the same plan which has brought his previous volumes into such widely extended use, with original selected comments, illustra tions literary and graphic, notes on Eastern life, and copious maps. The illustrative feat ures of the guide are more striking than ever. The hints to teachers, and the arrangement of the material for presentation and use in the school, indicate everywhere the work of an editor who is himself a good teacher. (Hunt & Eaton. $1.25.) Lorenzo Lotto. In his earlier volume, " The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance," Mr. Berenson won for himself a name as a schol arly and appreciative art critic. In his new work he makes an exhaustive study of Lotto, claiming for this painter the interest of having represented that considerable Italian minority, which at the height of the Renaissance was less in sympathy with the dominant Paganism, and therefore more inclined toward the Refor mation. The book contains thirty full-page heliotype reproductions of the most representa tive works of Lotto and his precursor, Alvise Vivarini. In addition to its value to the art student, the volume is so attractively illustrated that it is admirably suited for use as a gift- book. (Putnam. $3.50.) Twelve Bad Men. It is probably true that some people would be more interested in the "Lives of the Saints " than in the "Newgate Calendar," but the proportion would be very small. Wickedness is generally attractive, and every one knows that there is something fas cinating about a very bad man. Therefore it is unnecessary to dwell upon the interest of these "original studies of prominent scoun drels" the title of the book is its own rec ommendation. The studies are by different writers, and cover a wide range of unworthies, from " Black Bothwell," to Thomas Waine- wright, the poisoner. They are edited by Thomas Seccombe, sub-editor of the " Diction ary of National Biography," and have numerous portraits. (Putnam. $3.50.) L Abbe Daniel. The little story of "The Abbe Daniel," by Andre Theuriet, which has been exquisitely and sympathetically translated by Mrs. Nathan Haskell Dole, is one of the most delightful things in its way that has of late years been added to prose fiction. It is a very simple tale, very simply told, but it has the ind escriba- ble quality called charm, and its pathos is so tender and genuine, and its humor so spon taneous and natural, that to find its parellel one is almost obliged to go back to Goldsmith and " The Vicar." Theuriet is a poet, as Goldsmith was, and he has appreciation of human nature on its lovable side. " The Abbe Daniel " is got up in a style that makes it doubly attractive. There are a score or more of dainty illustrations after French originals, and the binding, though delicate, is very pretty. (Crowell. $i.) B rent and 1 s Publications. Brentano s cater to the leisure classes. Lovers of the stage, of music, and of games may be gratified from their list. On it may be found Eric Mackay s " Love-Letters of a Violinist," illustrated by thirty-five designs in charcoal by James Fagan ; " Princesses in Love," by Henri Pene Du Bois, also illustrated by James Fagan; and "French Folly in Maxims," in four bewitching little vol umes. A Library of Masks and Faces is the general title of a series prepared by William T. Price, which will contain biographical and critical essays on the great European and American actors and actresses. " Charles Mac- ready " and " Charlotte Cushman " are discussed in the two volumes now ready. Foster s "Whist Manual" and "Baby s Biography" may also be turned to account as Christmas gifts. Two Dainty Volumes. Mrs. Huntington Smith s admirable compilation, " Golden W T ords for Daily Counsel," is full of comforting and helpful extracts, and has met with a success which \vill surely be increased by the new edi tion illustrated with portraits of sixteen of the best known of the authors, and whose words are 20 THE LITERARY NEWS. \_fanuary, 1895 enshrined in its pages. Another tasteful gift- book is the illustrated edition of " Faber s Hymns." The author of " Hark ! Hark ! My Soul! Angelic Songs are Swelling," and of "O Paradise!" needs no introduction to religious readers. Many of Faber s hymns were specially composed for the London Oratory, which he founded, and of which he was so long the head; but they have an interest and beauty quite apart from the narrower use to which he put them, and the majority of them have been accepted by the whole Christian world without distinction of creed. The collection, which Mr. Bridgman has so sympathetically illustrated, will be found acceptable to all classes of read ers. (Crowell. Ea., $1.25.) The Yellow Fairy Book. First in our rapidly lengthening list of books of fairy and other stories published especially to meet the claims of our young people, says the London Literary World, we must certainly rank Mr. Andrew Lang s "Yellow Fairy Book," an addition to the series which is becoming as tinted as the famous coat of many colors. The continual drain on his resources has sent Mr. Lang further afield for the materials with which to build the pres ent volume, and, in consequence, there is a greater sense of originality about the contents, which have been levied from Russian, German, French, Icelandic, and Red Indian folk and fairy stories, and are, if not entirely new to us, at least comparatively so. Mr. Lang explains that he has published this book entirely for children, and so that they are pleased he does not very much care for what other people may say. "The Yellow Fairy Book" is well and copiously illustrated, and tastefully presented in a yellow binding, of course, as the .title necessitates. (Longmans, Green & Co. $2.) D. Applet on &= Co. s Miscellaneous Ptibli ca tions. Not strictly to be classed as holiday publications, but most suitable as gift-books, are "Woman s Share in Primitive Culture," by Otis Tufton Mason, the first volume of the An- thropoligical Series, edited by Frederick Starr, of the University of Chicago, which traces the in teresting period when with fire-making began the first division of labor a division of labor based upon sex the man going to the field or forest for game, while the woman at the fire side became the burden-bearer, basketmaker, weaver, potter, agriculturist, and domesticator of animals ($1.50); " In the Track of the Sun," readings from the diary of a globe-trotter, by Frederick Diodati Thompson, profusely illus trated with engravings from photographs and from drawings by Harry Fenn, of which The Outlook says: "We know of no equally convenient and handsome publication illustrat ing a journey round the world " ($6); and Pro fessor Maspero s " The Dawn of Civilization," edited by Rev. Professor Sayce, with map and nearly 500 illustrations. American Foot-Ball for Schools and Colleges. This is one of the books that fill "long-felt wants." A. A. Stagg and Henry L. Williams know the game of football as it is played to day. "Now here is a book," says the N. Y. Times, " which will make it all clear. It tells the duties and dodges of centres, guards, tack les, ends, and backs. It describes the manner in which each ought to play his position indi vidually, and it gives in plain language the theory of team plays, signals, and general foot ball tactics. But it goes further. It describes with the aid of intelligible and easily understood diagrams, sixty-nine different methods of at tack, including all the long passes and criss cross plays, which are likely to come into use again under the new rules. Any spectator at a football game, after a study of this book, ought to know where to look for clever work and to appreciate it as thoroughly as the college boys do. Football has become the national fall game of the country, and every American naturally desires to understand it. This book will give him the required aid." (Appleton. $1.25.) Flammarion s Popular Astronomy. " M. Ca- mille Flammarion is the most popular scientific writer in France. Of the present work no fewer than one hundred thousand copies were sold in a few years. It was considered of such merit that the Montyon Prize of the French Academy was awarded to it ; it has also been selected by the Minister of Education for use in the public libraries a distinction which proves that it is well suited to the general reader. The subject is treated in a very popular style, and the work is at the same time interesting and re liable. It should be found very useful by those who wish to acquire a good general knowledge of astronomy without going too deeply into the science. In translating this work I have en deavored to make as close a translation as possible, with, of course, due regard to the English idiom. I have reduced the figures given by the author to English measures. Many new illustrations have been added, and I have also given some notes with reference to recent researches and discoveries, so as to bring the work up to date." Thus writes J. Ellard Gore, who has made the translation of this edition of Flammarion s work, which the pub lishers have provided with three plates and 288 illustrations. (Appleton. $4.50.) Historical Characters of the Reign of Queen Anne. It is always pleasant and profitable, says The Nation, to study the treatment by an intelligent woman of matters that have been handled chiefly by men ; and especially is this the case when the characters and actions of women are the subjects of discussion. Even where there is no lack of sympathy and good will, men can hardly avoid judging women by masculine standards, and pronouncing an action wrong or weak because it would have been wrong or weak in a man. So, as a study of a woman by a woman, we have read with espe cial pleasure the vivid and sympathetic sketch of Queen Anne which Mrs. Oliphant here gives us. Certainly that royal lady has had rather hard measure dealt to her by writers of this century, among whom, as the greatest sinner against knowledge, Macaulay is most to blame. The extreme partisanship which so seriously viti ates his history, saw in Anne a Tory, a High- Churchwoman, and a dislike not without cause of his glorified William ; and the least of these crimes deserved no mercy, and even justified a little wresting of the truth " in the cause of the right," as Mr. Wegg puts it. Much space in the volume is devoted to Swift, Defoe, and Ad- dison. The external appearance of this very attractive volume, with all the furtherances of the printer s, engraver s, and binder s arts, is worthy of the Century Company. ($6.) January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 21 0f Current Citerattxrc, Order through your bookseller. " There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence and the purity oj any community than their general purchase of books; nor is there any one who does more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller." PROF. DUNN. ART, MUSIC, DRAMA. APTHORP, W. FOSTER. Musicians and music lovers, and other essays. Scribner. 12, $1.50. Contents: Musicians and music lovers; Johann Sebastian Bach; Additional accompaniments to Bach s and Handel s scores; Giacomo Meyer beer ; Jacques Offenbach ; Tro modern classi cists; John Sullivan Dvvight; Some thoughts on musical criticism; Music and science. FREYTAG, GUSTAV. Freytag s technique of the drama: an exposition of dramatic composition and art; an authorized tr. from the 6th Ger man ed., by Elias J. MacEwan. Griggs. 12, $1.50. An historical and philosophical exposition of dramatic composition and art, stating the gen eral principles governing the structures of plays, the creation of characters, and the rules of act ing. The qualifications of actors are clearly set forth, and attention is given to stage ar rangement. An important feature of the work is its critical examination of the plan, motive, color, characters, etc. of the principal dramas of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller, thus making it of special value to dramatic authors, critics, and students of liter ature. Dr. Freytag ranks among the first of living playwrights and novelists, and play-goers will find in the work that which must be helpful to a better appreciation of the nature and value of the drama. HEALY, G. P. A. Reminiscences of a portrait painter. McClurg. 12, $1.50. MARGARET, {pseud. ) Theatrical sketches here and there with prominent actors. Merriam Co. nar. 16, 75 c. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. BRACE, C. LORING. The life of Charles Loring Brace chiefly told in his own letters; ed. by his daughter, [Emma Brace.] Scribner. pors. 8, $2.50. The story of Mr. Brace s life may almost be said to be the history of philanthropic effort in the United States. Thirty-five years ago he first turned his attention to the youthful crim inals and outcasts of the city of New York the result being the establishment of the grand and useful organization of the Children s Aid Society, which now comprises industrial schools, night schools, lodging-houses like the News- Boys Lodgings and the Girls Lodging-House farm school for boys, summer and health homes, dressmk king and typewriting schools, a printing shop, etc. Through these, thousands of waifs and strays have been rescued, taught to earn a living, and placed in comfortable homes. The organization has furnished to many cities in this country and Europe an inspiration and a model. He was the author of " Gesta Christi," " The unknown God," " The dangerous classes of New York," etc. His daughter tells his life from his earliest years, through his correspond ence, which is held together by her comments and exposition. BROOKS, NOAH. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery. Putnam, il. 12, (Heroes of the nations ser., no. 14.) $1.50. Now added to The heroes of the nations series. First published in 1888. GARY, E. George William Curtis. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, (American men of letters.) $1.25. DUMAS, ALEX. Napoleon; from the French, by J. B. Lamer. Putnam. 12, $1.50. A brief and interesting biography of Napo leon. This is the first time it appears in the English language. GROSSMANN, Mrs. EDWINA BOOTH. Edwin Booth : recollections by his daughter, Ed- wina Booth Grossmann, and letters toherand his friends. The Century Co. pors. 8, $3. Edition deluxe, on Holland paper, $12.50 ; on Whatman paper, $25. Mrs. Grossmann s recollections cover twenty- eight pages, and describe Edwin Booth as a loving father, most tender in all his family re lations. The rest of the handsome volume is occupied with letters from Booth to his daugh ter and to others of his friends. They are simple and unaffected, and convey a more inti mate knowledge of the character of the man than could be gained from any memoir. The regular edition and the edition de luxe are illus trated with twenty artotype reproductions of portraits, trophies, etc., of the great actor, and are printed and bound in a most artistic form. HARE, A. J. C., ed. Life and letters of Maria Edgeworth. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 v., 8, $4- LINTON, W. J. Threescore and ten years; 1820 to 1890; recollections. Scribner. por. 8, $2. MASSON, FREDERIC. Napoleon and the women of his court ; from the French. Lippincott. pors. 8, $5. MASSON, FREDERIC. Napoleon at home : the daily life of the emperor at the Tuileries ; tr. bv Ja. E. Matthew. Lippincott. 2 v., 12 pi. 8, $7-50. PICKARD, S. T. Life and letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 v., pors. il. 12, $4. RITCHIE, Mrs. ANNE THACKERAY. Chapters from some unwritten memoirs. Harper. 8, $2. Reminiscences of Jasmin, Chopin, Louis Philippe, Mrs. Kemble, Madame Martin, and of Mrs. Ritchie s early home, and the many noted people that visited her father are contained in 22 THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 chapters entitled : My poet ; My musician ; My triumphal arch ; My professor of history ; My witch s caldron ; In Kensington ; To Wei mar and back ; Via Willis rooms to Chelsea ; In Villeggiatura ; Tout chemin ; Mrs. Kemble. SMILES, S. Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S.; hisper- . sonal history. Harper, por. 12, $1.50. The subject of this biography came from a distinguished family of English potters in Staf fordshire ; it was he, individually, however, that made the name of Wedgwood famous. He was born in 1730, and died 1795. In 1769 he opened new potteries at Etruria, in Stafford shire, on a large scale, and assisted by the artist Flaxman, and other artists of equal merit, turned out the celebrated Wedgwood and Bent- ley pottery. His chief artistic feat was the pro duction of an accurate copy, in clay, of the celebrated glass Portland vase. This work re lates all these incidents, with facts of his early life, etc., in Smiles popular style. STEARNS, FRANK PRESTON. Life and genius of Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto. Putnam. 12, $2.25. Jacopo Robusti, commonly called " Tinto retto," was born in Venice in 1518 and died 1594. He was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian or of any school ; his works, mostly frescoes, were made in Venice, many of them still remaining to view in the churches and palaces. A thorough life of Tintoretto in Eng lish has long been needed one that should understandingly set forth his work and his gen ius we have it here. A list of his paintings and where they are is given. ROBBINS, ALFRED F. The early public life of William Ewart Gladstone, four times prime minister. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50. Covers the first thirty years of Gladstone s life, from his birth in 1809, until 1840. There are chapters on : His father as merchant ; His father as politician ; His Eton education ; At Oxford ; The young parliamentary hand ; His relation to slavery ; His ecclesiastical devel opment ; In Peel s first ministry ; Progress in and out of Parliament ; Church and State ; Mr. Gladstone and his critics ; Educational and philanthropic endeavor ; Continued parliamen tary success ; Once more a minister. WALKER, FRANCIS A. General Hancock. Ap- pleton. 12, (Great commanders sen, no. 10.) $1.50. Contents : Birth and education ; Down to the great Rebellion ; Williamsburg to Antietarn ; Fredericksburg ; Chancellorsville ; Gettysburg the first, second, and third day; After Get tysburg ; The Wilderness first and second day ; Spottsylvania ; The salient ; The North Anna and the Totopotomy ; Cold Harbor ; Pe tersburg ; Deep Bottom ; Reams Station ; The Boydton Road ; After the war. WRIGHT, T. The life of Daniel Defoe. Ran dolph, il. 8, $3.75. DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. BAKER, Mrs. WOODS. Pictures of Swedish life; or, Svea and her children. Randolph. 8, $3-75. CARPENTER, MARY THORN. In Cairo and Jeru salem: an Easter note-book. Randolph. $1.50. 12 CHAMBERS concise gazetteer of the world; topo graphical, statistical, historical. Lippin- cott. 8, hf. leath., $2.50. MONTBARD, G. The land of the sphinx ; il. by the author. Dodd, Mead & Co. 4, $4. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. MILLER, J. R., D.D. Secrets of happy home life: what have you to do with it? Cro- well. 12, leatherette, 35 c. BURDETTE, ROB. J., BURNETT, Mrs. FRANCES HODGSON, BOK, E. W., \andothers.~] Before he is twenty: five perplexing phases of the boy question considered. Revell. 12, 75 c. Contents: The father and his boy, by Robert J. Burdette; When he decides, by Frances Hodgson Burnett; The boy in the office, by Ed ward W. Bok; His evenings and amusements, by Mrs. Burton Harrison; Looking toward a wife, by Mrs. Lyman Abbott. These articles were originally written for The Ladies Home- Journal. EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. DAVIDSON, T. The education of the Greek people and its influence on civilization. Ap- pleton. 12, (International education ser., no. 28.) $1.50. " In my recent book, Aristotle and the an cient educational ideals, I endeavored to set forth the facts of Greek education in historical order. The present brief work has an entirely different purpose which is, to show how the Greek people were gradually educated up to that stage of culture which made them the teach ers of the whole world, and what the effect of that teaching has been. Hence, education, in its narrow, pedagogic sense, is presented, but in the barest outline, while prominence is given to the different stages in the growth of the Greek polit cal, ethical, and religious conscious ness, and the effect of this upon Greek history and institutions, as well as upon the after- world." Preface. PANCOAST, H. S. An introduction to English literature. Holt. 16, $1.25. Based upon the author s " Representative English literature." He has taken the histori cal and critical of that book, omitting all the selections and notes, and has added seme two hundred pages of entirely new matter. The text has thus been nearly doubled in length, and the book, as a whole, brought within slight ly smaller limits. Teachers who do not wish to be restricted to prescribed selections will prob ably prefer this to the first-named book in teach ing English literature. PHYFE, W. H. P. Five thousand words often misspelled. Putnam. 16, 75 c. A carefully selected list of words difficult to spell, with directions for spelling and for the division of words into syllables ; with an appen dix containing the rules and list of amended spellings recommended by the Philological So ciety of London and the American Philological Society. A special feature of this list is the in sertion of proper names difficult to spell, also of words and phrases from foreign languages- January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. While Webster s International Dictionary has been adopted as the standard authority, all im portant variations in spelling given in Worces ter, Stormonth, the Century, and Standard dic tionaries are quoted. VAN DYKE, J. C. A text-book of the history of painting. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, (College histories of art.) $1.50. The object of this series of text-books is to provide concise, teachable histories of art for class-room use in schools and colleges. The main facts of history as settled by the best authorities are given. The bibliography cited at the head of each chapter will be found help ful to the reader who wishes to enter into par ticulars. At the end of each chapter are enu merated the principal extant works of an artist, school, or period, and where they may be found. This volume on painting, the first of the series, omits mention of such works in Arabic, Indian, Chinese, and Persian art as may come properly under the head of ornament a subject proposed for separate treatment. FICTION. ALLEN, J. LANE. A Kentucky cardinal: a story. Harper, il. 16, (Harper s little novels.) $i. The natural beauties of Kentucky in the year 1850 are described month by month with the art of the writer of " The blue grass region of Ken tucky." The Kentucky cardinal is a beautiful red-breasted bird, whose nesting and family life the author has watched with loving eye. A little love idyl is sketched with lightest touch among the rhapsody the author offers to nature and her songsters. BARING-GOULD, SABINE. Kitty Alone: a story of three fires. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.25. Coombe Cellar?, the pretty scene of a prettier love-story, lies in the southern part of Devon shire. Kitty Alone is the daughter of a man full of schemes for making money, visionary and unpractical, who keeps his friends in con tinual mental unrest. Her name has been given her because she seems to live within her self among her uncongenial, rough surround ings. After suffering accusation and trial through circumstantial evidence. Kitty Alone finds happiness with her faithful, joyous lover. BVRRETT, FRANK. The justification of Andrew Lebrun: a novel. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 157.)$! ; pap., 50 c. An old clcckmaker whose leisure hours have been spent in deep scientific experiments in chemistry, buys an o d house in the slums of London, to which is attached a chemical labora tory unused for one hundred years. The former owner has imposed ceitain conditions upon a buyer, all of which the old chemist fulfils. The consequences are strange and weird, and the story works up to a most exciting climax. Sus pended animation and chemical resuscitation are the secrets carefully guarded by the old deserted laboratory. BIKELAS, DEMETRIOS. Tale from the tr. by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke; with an in- trod. by H. Alonzo Huntington. McClurg. 16, $r. Eight litt e stories, originally written in mod ern Greek and now translated into English, make up this attractive little volume. M. Bikelas is, perhaps, the most popular living author in his own land; his historic tale, Loukis Laras," made so great a sensation when pub lished at Athens about fifteen years ago that it was translated into nearly every language of Europe. Of these tales some are sad, some imbued with a gentle humor cheerful rather than merry and all are pure and refined in sentiment. But their especial value lies in the realistic pictures they paint of Greek life in our own times the social customs, dress, courtship, and marriage. BLACK, CLEMENTINA. An agitator: a novel. Harper. 16, (Harper s little novels.) $i. Kit Brand, the agitator, is secretary of a labor union which has been directing a strike of English wire-workers. Kit is a single-minded man who has lost his wife and chi d and gives up all personal pleasures, his whole intelligence and strength to help his fellow-workman. Circumstantial evidence makes it appear that Kit is unfaithful to his trust, and he is impris oned and prosecuted. Some wise thoughts re garding capital and labor are interwoven. BOUVET, MARGUERITE. My lady: a story of long ago; il. by Helen Maiiland Armstrong. McClurg. 1 6, $2.50. The heart-history of a young girl, related by her old nurse. "My Lady s" girlhood is passed, and her wooing takes place in the old family chateau in Proverce. The story is set in the days of the French Empire, but the his torical interest is slight, and it is mainly a love- tale, pure and simple. CABLE, G. W. John March, southerner. Scribner. 12, $1.50. CATHERWOOD, MARY HARTWELL. The lady of Fort St. John: an historical novel. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. 16, (Riverside pap. ser.) pap., 50 c. CROCKETT, S. R. The lilac sunbonnet: a love- story. Appleton. 12, f 1.50. CROCKETT, S. R. The play-actress. Putnam. 24, $i. In a Scotch parish, a great preacher had ended a stirring mission sermon, when a yourg woman approached h : m, leading a little chi d, which she convinced him was his dead son s baby-girl. She explained that she and her sis ter, the child s mother, were "play-actresses," and on this account unfit to bring up a daughter. The aunt had carefully taught the little girl. The great preacher gees to Londcn to look up the mother, and the pathetic tale gives glimpses of the perfect self-sacrifice of sisterly love, sac rifice in a wholly hopeless cause. The great preacher hears a sermon from the heart of a " play-actress." DELAND, Mrs. MARGARET. Philip and his wife. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.25. DILLINGHAM, LUCY. The missing chord: a novel. G. W. Dillingham. 12, $1.25. Juliet Lea, the daughter of a mother devoted to social pleasure, decides to study music in Berlin before making her debut in New York society. The story tells of her life with an aunt and cousin who are surrounded by German THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 students and artists. Love comes to Juliet and changes the artistic bent of her life. She mar ries an American professor devoted to the im provement of his fellowmen. After a short year her life is once more wholly changed, and the unselfishness of her husband seems almost visionary. DOYLE, A. CONAN. Round the red lamp: being facts and fancies of medical life. 2d ed. Ap- pleton. 12, $1.50. Fifteen short stories, most of which emphasize the graver side of life. The red lamp is the usual sign of the general practitioner in Eng land. Many of these tales have medical inter est. The separate titles are: Behind the times; The first operation; A straggler of 15; The third generation; A false start; the curse of Eve; Sweethearts; A physiologist s wife; The case of Lady Lennox; A question of diplomacy; A medical document; Lot No. 249; The Los Amigos fiasco; The doctors of Hoyland; The surgeon talks. FORD, PAUL LEICESTER. The honorable Peter Stirling and what people thought of him. Holt. 12, $1.50. GORDON, JULIEN, [pseud, for Mrs. Julia Van Rensselaer Cruger.] Poppaea. Lippincott. 12, $1. HARRIS, FRANK. Elder Conklin, and other stories. Macmillan & Co. 12, $1.25. HARRISON, Mrs. CONSTANCE GARY, [Mrs. Burton Harrison.] A bachelor maid ; il. by Irving. R. Wiles. The Century Co. 12, $1.25. HARTE, BRET. The bell-ringer of Angel s, and other stories. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.25. Eight of the most recent stories of the author of " The luck of Roaring Camp," entitled: The bell-ringer of Angel s ; Johnnyboy ; Young Robin Gray ; The sheriff of Siskyon; A rose of Glenbogie; The mystery of the Hacienda; Chu Chu; My first book. HOPE, ANTHONY, [pseud, for Anthony Hope Hawkins.] The god in the car. Appleton, (App eton s town and country lib., no. 154.) 12, $i ; pap., 50 c. HOPE, ANTHONY, [pseud, for Anthony Hope Hawkins.] The indiscretion of the duchess: being a story concerning two ladies, a noble man, and a necklace, i il., 16, 75 c. HOSMER, JA. K. How Thankful was bewitched. Putnam. 12, (The Hudson lib., no. 3.) pap., 50 c. The novel is founded on an event in the his tory of Meadowboro, supposed to have oc curred in the days of Cotton Mather. An old record, dating from the time the town was a Puritan outpost, and purporting to bs written by Thankful Pumry, is authority for a singular story, which presents the remarkable incidents in the life of Thankful before and after she was taken into captivity by the French and Indians; in brief, effort is male to show that a .bell for merly cast for the Jesuits is endowed with supernatural power, and that the said bell is the cause of the strange experience chronicled. IOTA, \_pseiid. for Mrs. Mannington Caffyn.] Children of circumstance: a novel. Apple- ton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 155.) $i; pap., 50 c. JOHNSTONE, EDITH. A sunless heart. [Anon. ] Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd. 12, $1.25. KING, C. Under fire; il. by C. B. Cox. Lippin cott. 12, $1.25. KIRK, Mrs. ELLEN OLNEY, ["Henry Hayes," pseu4J\ The story of Lawrence Garthe. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, 1.25. LAWLESS, EMILY. Maelcho : a sixteenth cen tury narrative. Appleton. 12, $1.50. LINTON, Mrs. E. LYNN. The one too many. F. Tennyson Neely. 12, (Neely s interna tional lib.) $1.25. The " one too many," the delicate, pretty daughter of an ambitious widow, is given in marriage to an unmitigated prig, who spends his life educating and cramming his wife with facts in which she takes no interest As a foil to the young wife s submissive suffering, four " advanced" girls are introduced, who hold a B. A. degree and are full of plans for the regen eration of mankind. The story is chiefly laid in rural England, where the rich man lives who has bought his fair young bride. The end is tragic. LOCKE, W. J. At the gate of Samaria : a novel. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 156.) $i ; pap., 50 c. McGLAssoN, EVA WILDER. Ministers of grace: a novelette. Harper, il. 16, (Harper s lit tle novels.) $i. An old clergyman who has been asked to re sign by his congregation is prostrated by the shock, and comes to an eastern seaside resort with his daughter to recruit his shattered nerves. The hotel is full of worldly guests, and the old man suffers from their hilarity and ungodly pursuits. A successful young actress, on vacation, betrays to the old preacher how his daughter has earned the money needed to supply his many invalid needs. The old man s prejudices lead him to harshness, but in the end all is well. MACLAREN, IAN, [pseud, for Rev. John Maclaren Watson.] Beside the bonnie brier bush. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.25. MATTHEWS, JA. BRANDER. The royal marine : an idyl of Narragansett Pier. Harper. 16, (Harper s little novels.) $i. MORRISON, ARTHUR. Martin Hewitt : investi gator. Harper. 12, (Harper s Franklin sq. lib., new ser., no. 755.) pap., soc. Seven short stories describing cases in which Martin Hewitt played the part of an astute and ingenious detective. The separate titles are : The Lenton Croft robberies ; The loss of Sammy Crockett ; The case of Mr. Faggatt ; The case of the Dixon torpedo ; The Quinton jewel affair; The Stanway cameo mystery; The affair of the tortoise. NORRIS, W. E. The despotic lady. Lippin cott. T2, $1. The despotic lady is a religious reformer, the mother of a young girl with whom an incipient January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 2 5 poet has fallen madly in love. This friend, a confirmed bachelor, heir to the old Hexham title, undertakes to tame the preaching dragon, but is almost captured himself in his friendly devotion. A secret in the past of the righteous exhorter, held by the poet s father, is worked to bring about happiness for all. OLIPHANT, Mrs. MARG. O. W. Who was lost and is found : a novel. Harper. 12, $1.50. PASTON, G. A bread-and-butter miss : a sketch in outline. Harper. 12, $r. RAYMOND, WALTER, ["Tom Cobbleigh,"/jr#</.] Love and quiet life : Somerset idylls. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.25. The author of " Gentleman Upcott s daugh ter " has written another idyll of Somersetshire in the years immediately preceding the Oxford Tractarian movement. Love comes to Marian Burt in early girl hood, and with it disillusionment and sorrow then a long quiet life of upwards of three score years and ten. The father, the old, retired nonconformist minister, is a fine charac ter study. Rustic life and religious prejudices are the motives. SACHER-MASOCH, LEOPOLD v. Jewish tales ; from the French, by Harriet Lieber Cohen. McClurg. 12, $i. SHELDON, C. M. The crucifixion of Phillip Strong. McClurg. 12, $r. Philip Strongaccepted a call to become the pas tor of a fashionable church in a town of 80,000 in habitants, the richest among them being mill- owners, employing 20,000 people. Fearlessly the minister preached the duties of professing church-members to their God, their fellow-men, and themselves. His earnest purpose was to show the appointed work of a modern church professing to follow the teachings of Christ. He was morally crucified. SMITH, Mrs. ELiz.T.T.,[formerfyL. T. Meade,] and Halifax, Clifford, M.D. Stories from the diary of a doctor ; il. by A. Pearse. Lippin- cott. il. 12, $1.25. Twelve stories, presenting some cases sup posed to have come under the direct attention of a young London physician. It is claimed by their collaborating authors that several of the tales included are founded on actual experience, and that all have been written with a close ob servance to medical facts, and in accordance with the advances made in surgery during the last decade. Among the subjects are : Hyp notism and catalepsy ; My first patient ; My hypnotic patient ; Very far west ; The heir of Chartelpool ; A death certificate ; The wrong prescription ; The Horror of Studley Grange ; Ten years oblivion ; An oak coffin ; Without witnesses ; Trapped, and the Ponsonby dia monds. SWAN, ANNIE S., [Mrs. Burnett Smith.] A lost ideal. Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd. 12, $1.25. VALENTINE, OSWALD. Helen. Putnam, nar. 16, (Incognito lib., no. 5.) 50 c. WARNER, C. DUDLEY. The golden house : a novel; il. by W. T. Smedley. Harper. 12, hf. leath., $2. HISTORY. ANDREWS, E. B. History of the United States. Scribner, 2 v. , 8, $4. BLAIR, E. T. Henry of Navarre and the relig ious wars. Lippincott. 4, $4. CESARESCO, EVELYN MARTINENGO (Countess). The liberation of Italy, 1815-1870. Scribner. 8, (Events of our own time series.) $1.75. A retrospect in which are traced the princi pal factors that worked toward Italian unity. " Italy from the Battle of Lodi to the Congress of Vienna " is the subject of the first chapter. After is related the history of the Carbonari and the Society of Young Italy, Mazzini s propagan da, the accession of Charles Albert, and events leading to the election of Piusix.; the insur rection in Sicily, and the expelling of the Aus- trians from Milan and Venice; the arrival of Garibaldi and abdication of Charles Albert; the history of the House of Savoy; "The war for Lombardy," " What unity cost," " The march of the thousand," " The meeting of the waters," " Beginnings of the Italian Kingdom," " Rome or death," "The war for Venice," " The last crusade," and "Rome the capital," are the topics of the concluding chapters. Contains portraits of Garibaldi, Mazzini, Victor Emman uel, and Cavour. GARDINER, S. RAWSON. History of the Com monwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660. V. i, 1649-1651. Longmans, Green & Co. 8, $7. GONTAUT, Duchesse de. Memoirs of the Duch- esse de Gontaut, Gouvernante to the children of France during the Restoration, 1773-1836 ; from the French by Mrs. J. W. Davis. Dodd, Mead & Co. 2 v., 226 ; 252 p. pors. 8, $5 ; large-pap, ed., 2 v., full leath., net, $12. GOODWIN, MAUD WILDER. The colonial cava lier ; or, southern life before the Revolution ; il. by Harry Edwards. Lovell, Coryell Co. 12. HARRISON, F. The meaning of history, and other historical pieces. Macmillan. 8, $2.25. LATIMER, Mrs. ELIZ. WORMELEY. England in the nineteenth century. McClurg. pors. S, $2.50. A popularly and attractively written resume of English history fresh from the reign of George the Third to Queen Victoria s Jubilee year. Mrs. Latimer has made use of many family and per sonal reminiscences, thus giving many new and unpublished details and anecdotes the work being therefore less of a compilation than some of her previous books in the same line though " France in the nineteenth century," also con tained personal reminiscences. Her father, though American born, became an admiral in the English navy hence her opportunity for learning: the inside history of the English court. Queen Victoria s reign, her domestic life to the present, with her marriage, the death of the Prince Consort, and the marriages of her chil dren and grandchildren, are told in a pleasant, gossipy way. LUCKOCK, HERBERT MORTIMER (Dean}. The history of marriage, Jewish and Christian, in relation to divorce and certain forbidden de grees. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, $1.75. MACLAY, EDGAR STANTON. A history of the United States navy from 1775 to 1894; with technical revision by Roy C. Smith. In 2 v. Appleton. il. maps, diagrams, 8, $7. MASPERO, G. The dawn of civilization, (Egypt and Chaldaea;) ed. by the Rev. A. H. Sayce; tr. by M. L. McClure . Appleton. 4, $7-5O. This volume is an attempt to put together in a lucid and interesting manner all that the 26 THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895. monuments have revealed to us concerning the earliest civilization of Egypt and Chaldaea. The results of archaeological discovery, accumulated during the last thirty years or so, are of such a vast and comprehensive character that none but a master mind could marshall them in true his torical perspective. Prof. Maspero is perhaps the only man in Europe fitted by his laborious researches and great scholarship to undertake such a task, and the result of his effort will be found herein. The period dealt with covers the history of Egypt from the earliest date to the fourteenth dynasty, and that of Chaldsea during its first empire. The book is brought up to the present year, and deals with the recent dis coveries of Koptos and Dahabur. WARNER, BEVERLEY E. English history in Shakespeare s plays. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, $1.75. LITERATURE, ESSAYS, MISCELLANEOUS AND COLLECTED WORKS. BESANT, WALTER, PAYN, JA. , RUSSELL, W. 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E. An introduction to the study of English fiction. Heath. 12, $i. The English novel, as a specific form of art r arose with Richardson and Fielding between the years 1740 and 1750 ; but English fiction dates back to the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons,, and their narrative romances in verse and prose- A general resume is given of these old roman ces; those of Elizabeth s reign are grouped on a two-page schedule made by date and subject. A list of one hundred novels " which for one reason or another are worth reading " is given, including twenty continental novels. Half of the book is devoted to selections from early fic tion, including Beowulf, King Horn, Arcadia, Forbonius, and Prisceria (unabridged), Moll Flanders, Tom Jones, Pamelia, Tristram Shandy, etc. STRACHEY, Sir E. Talk at a country house: fact and fiction. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.25. MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. ADAMS, FRANCIS. A child of the age. Roberts. 16, $r. A study of the psychological development of a brilliant mind, left wholly uncontrolled by a guiding faith or the slightest regard for the feelings of otheis. Bertram Leicester tel s his own story from his first vague recollections of a neglected childhood through his school and college life, and his final practical fight for a living. Highly intellectual, passionately emo tional, dreamily introspective, wholly impulsive, his career works happiness neither for himself nor others. MORE, PAUL ELMER, ed. The great refusal: being letters of a dreamer in Gotham. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. 16, $i. SHARMAN, H. RISBOROUGH. The power of the will; or, success. Roberts. 16, 50 c. Demonstrates that by cultivating the will, strengthening it by constant and careful exer cise, a man may attain the highest success in life that is possible to his natural ability, while with an uncontrolled will no quantity of talents can bring forth desired success. 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There are fifty-seven short poems on every variety of J-anuary, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 27 subjects, thirty-two by F. L. Hosmer, and twenty-five by William C. Gannett. KENDALL, MAY. Songs from Dreamland. Longmans, Green & Co. 16, $1.75. LONGFELLOW, S. Hymns and verses. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $i. MAETERLINCK, MAURICE. Pelleas and Meli- sande : a drama in five acts ; tr. by Erving Winslow. Crowell. 16, $i. PETERSON, ARTHUR. Penrhyn s pilgrimage. Putnam. 16, $i. A journey through Japan and China described in verse. ROGERS, ROB. CAMERON. The wind in the clearing, and other poems. Putnam. 8, $1.25. A collection of short poems, variously enti tled The dancing faun," "The death of Argas," "Destiny," " Barset Wood," "To Violet," " Thackeray s birthday," etc. SIMONDS, ARTHUR B. American song : a col lection of representative American poems ; with analytical and critical studies of the writers ; with introds. and notes. Putnam. 12, $1.50. WILLIAMS, ALFRED M. Studies in folk-song and popular poetry : essays. Houghton, Mif flin & Co. 12, $1.50. WILSON, ROB. BURNS. Chant of a woodland spirit. Putnam, sq. 12, pap., $i. A poem, portions of which originally appeared in Harper s Monthly and The Century Magazine. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. CURRY, J. L. M. The southern states of the American Union considered in their relations to the constitution of the United States and to the resulting union. Putnam. 12, $1.25. McCLUNG, D. W. Money talks: some of the things it says when it speaks. The Rob. Clarke Co. il. 12, $i. Discusses the necessity for definitions; notes are not money; money per head; supply and demand; outcry in time of panic; labor neither a credit nor a fiction, but hard cash; the great fall in silver; early attempts to establish a mint, etc., etc. MARDEN, ORISON SWETT. Pushing to the front; or, success under difficulties: a book of inspi ration and encouragement to all who are struggling for self-elevation along the paths of knowledge and of duty. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. pors. 12, $1.50. Falls in the same general class with Smiles " Self-Help " and Dr. Mathews " Getting on in the world." Such chapter heads as " The man and the opportunity," " Boys and girls with no chance," " An iron will," " Possibilities in spare moments," " Round boys in square holes," " Concentrated energy," " Manners," " Enthu siasm," "The victory in defeat," etc., give a hint of the practical and helpful nature of the book. Apt and telling anecdotes, which illus trate or enforce the author s statements, are given with marvellous profusion, and serve at once to emphasize the excellent points of the book, and to make it wonderfully readable. Il lustrated with twenty-four portraits of eminent persons. TOWNSEND, C. Forty witnesses to success: talks to young men. A. D. F. 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Contents: Introduction ; Before the Christian era; From the Christian era to the council of Mas$on ; The Roman mission to England ; The first documentary statement of tithes in Eng land; Archbishop Egbert s works ; The first public lay-law for the payment of tithes ; King Ethelwulf s alleged grant of tithes; Tithe laws made by Anglo-Saxon kings ; Origin of our modern parish churches and boundaries ; The laws of Ethelred II.; The first poor law act ; Canons for payment of tithes; Appropriation of tithes to monasteries; Infeudations exemp tions from payment of tithes; Monasteries; Dis solution of monasteries ; Tithes in the city and liberties of London ; The Commutation Act of 1836; Tithes of church in Wales; Tithe Act remarks upon the act. FOUARD, CONSTANT (Abbe}. Saint Paul and his mission; tr. with the author s sanction and co operation, by G. F. X. Griffith. Longmans, Green & Co. map, 12, $2. HEPWORTH, G. H. Herald sermons. Dutton. por. 12, $r. The brief and timely sermons that have been appearing lately upon the editorial page c f the Sunday New York Herald are here collected in a. volume. LOWELL, PERCIVAL. Occult Japan; or, the way of the gods: an esoteric study of Japanese personality and possession. Houghtcn, Mif flin & Co. il. 12, $1.75- A careful study of the Shinto faith of Japan in its more unfamiliar forms and mysterious usages. It adds not a little to a philosophical explanation of hypnotism, and, indeed, of human, consciousness. 28 THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 Books for tfye |)oung. CHANDLER, Mrs. IZORA C. Three of us: Barney, Cossack, Rex; il. by the author. Hunt & Eaton, il. 12, $2 CHURCH, Rev. ALFRED J. Stories from English history from Julius Caesar to the Black Prince. Macmillan. il. 12, $i. Contains the stories of the first and second coming of Julius Caesar, King Caractacus, Boa- dicea, Vortigern, King Arthur, King Alfred, How England became Christian, How King Athelstan fought at Brunanburg, The story of King Canute, Harold the Earl, Harold the King, William, Duke of Normandy, William, King of England, Thomas a Becket, King Richard s crusade, Magna Charta, Battle of Bannockburn, The baitle of Crecy, How Calais was taken, The great battle of Poitiers, FENN, G. MANVILLE. First in the field: a story of New South Wales; il. by W. Rainey. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.50. Dominic Braydon was the son of an English doctor, who had immigrated to Australia on ac count of his health, leaving Dominic in Kent,[at school ; just as the latter was becoming very much dissatisfied, his father sends for him. Misadventures, including a perilous journey, and the incident which led his brother-in-law to refer to him as First in the field," are faith fully described in a story of constant action. FIELD, EUGENE. Love-songs of childhood. Scribner. 16, $i. Forty-two poems for children, by the author of " A little book of western verse, "etc. Bound in blue with graceful decorations in white on front cover. MARSHALL, EMMA. Kensington Palace in the days of Queen Mary n.: a story. Macmillan. por. il. 12, $1.50. The story opens in 1690, about the time of the battle of the Boyne. Queen Mary II., while awaiting the return of William HI. from Irelind, is prevailed upon to accord an audi ence to Sir Redvers Brooke, who induces her majesty to look upon his daughter Margery as a prospective lady-in-waiting. Besides the interesting incidents of Margery s career at Court, at Kensington Palace, many events of historic interest are given, notably those in which the queen is the central figure. It is claimed that attempt is made to represent this queen in a different light from that in which she is generally seen. The d Angleterre mem ories is one of the sources of historic informa tion on which the tale is founded. MOLESWORTH, Mrs. MARY LOUISE, [" Ennis Graham," pseud.~\ My new home ; il. by L. Leslie Brooke. Macmillan. 12, $i. The scene opens in the Middlemore Hills ; Helena Wingfield, an orphan, tells in a quaint and irresistible way the story of her life at Windy Gap Cottage, introducing in her narra tion the incidents that led her grandmother to leave Windy Gap for a finer London residence, and also tells why she ran away from her new home. STEVENSON, ROB. L. Will o* the mill. Joseph Knight Co. 12, (Cosy corner ser.) 50 c. An allegorical story which pictures the life of a lonely boy who lived at an old mill, situated in a remote valley between two high mountains; this lad was fated for years to watch from a distance the passing of many travellers, and finally the mill where he lives is, on account of his adopted father s greed, transformed into an inn ; then the wayfarers are brought into direct touch with him, and his opinions of life are con firmed. His views of death are realized and described in the last chapter. STUART, RUTH MCENERY. The story of Babette, a little Creole girl. Harper, il. 12, $1.50. WINCHESTER, M. E., [pseud, for M. E. What man.] A double cherry : a story. Macmil lan. il. 12, $1.25. Claude and Roy, " the double cherry," are t he sons of a proud aristocrat who has met with reverses and is earning a miserable living as a violinist in London. Claude has talent for drawing and painting, but his father insists on his spending hours learning the violin. 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Walker ; (Jan.), Symphony Illus trated by Beethoven s Fifth in C Minor, Goepp; Meaning of an Eisteddfod, Edith Brower. Cat/i. World (Jan.), Fra Angelico,* Sarah C. Flint. Century (Dec.), The Holy Family, Pict ure by Guipon; Adoration of the Shepherds, Picture by Dagnan-Bouveret; Appearance to the Shepherds, Picture by Von Uhde ; (Jan.), Mother and Sleeping Child, Picture by F. H. Tompkins; Govaert Flinck, Co!e. Chautatiquan, Painters Art in England, Townsend. Cosmo- palitan(Dzc.), Relations of Photography to Art,* Breese ; Musical Instruments of the World,* Isaac H. Hall; (Jan.), Theatrical Season in New York,* Metcalfe. Lippincotf s (Dec.), Living Pictures at the Louvre, A. N. Sanborn ; (Jan.), Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Gilbert Parker. Nine. Centiiry (Dec.), Music of Japan, Laura A. Smith. Outing (Dec.), The Japanese Theatre,* E. B. Rogers. Scribner s (Dec.), Cast Shad ows,* P. G. Hamerton ; George F. Watts,* C. Monkhouse; (Jan.), American Wood-Engravers Henry Wolf.* West. Review (Nov.), Musical Criticism and Critics, Jacob Bradford ; The Stage as an Educator, J. P. Walton. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. Century (Dec.), Francesco Crispi, (Por.), W. J. Stillman. C/iautau(/ttan(]an.), Famous Revivalists of the U. S.LippincotfsJ(Dzc.}, Some Notable Wom en of the Past, Esme Stuart. Popular Science (Dec. ),Za-loc Thompson; (Jan.), Denison Olm- sted (Por.). DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL. Atlantic (Dec.), Venice, S. V. Cole. Century (Jan.), Scenes in Canton,* O Driscoll ; Armor of old Japan,* M. S. Hunter. Chautauqttan(]a.n.}, Some Historic Landmarks of London, Gennings. Harper s (Dec.), An Arabian Day and Night,* Bigelow ; Time of the Lotus,* Parsons; Show-places of Paris,* Davis ; (Jan.), With the Hounds in France,* Sears; Fujisan,* Parsons. Nine. Cen tury (Nov.). Fruit Ranching (California), Twist. Outing (Jan.), Sledging Picnic in North China,* Alethe L. Craig. Scribner s (Jan.), A Tuscan Shrine,* Edith Wharton. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. Chautatiquan (Jan.), Aspects of Social Life in the East End of London, S. Moody. Fort. Review (Nov.), Burning Ques tions of Japan, Savage- Landor. Lippincotfs (Jan.), New Year s Days in Old New York, Fawcett. Pop. Science (Dec.}, Economic Theory of Woman s Dress, Dr. T. Veblen. Scribner s (Jan.), Art of Living Income,* Robert Grant. EDUCATIONAL. Atlantic (Jan.), Gallia Redi- viva, Cohn ; Want of Economy in the Lecture System, Trowbiidge. 6V/rj (Jan.), Festivals in Amer. Colleges for Women,* Susan G. Walker; Henrietta E. Hooker; Eliz. E. Boyd, and others. Fort. Review (Nov.), True Univer sity for London, Crackanthorpe. ^rww (Jan.), New Aid to Education; Travelling Libraries, Eastman ; Increasing Cost of Collegiate Edu cation, Thwing. North Am. Review (Dec.), Catholic School System in Rome. Monsignor Satolli. Pop. Science (Dec.), The University as a Scientific Workshop, Paulsen. FICTION. Arena (Dec.), A Woman in the Camp, Garland ; (Jan.), Drama in Tatters, Harte. Atlantic (Dec.), Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at an Eng. Country House, Strachey ; In Jackson s Administration, Lucy L. Pleasants; Christmas Angel, Harriet L. Brad ley ;(Jan.), A Singular Life, L, Eliz. S. Phelps; Joint Owners in Spain, Alice Brown; A Village Stradivarius, L, Kate D. Wiggin. Cath. World (Dec.), The Hillwood Christmas Ball, Mrs. M. E. Henry-Ruffin ; A Christmas in Cloudland,* J. J. O Shea and others ; (Jan.), Three Lives Lease, Jane Smiley. Century (Dec.), Christmas Guest, RuthMcE. Stuart; A Neighbor s Land mark, Sarah O. Jewett ; One Woman s Way, Hibbard; A Walking Delegate, Kipling ; (Jan.), Wanted A Situation, Harriet Allen ; A Lady of New York,* R. Stewart ; Their Cousin Lethy, R. M. Johnston. Chauta^^q^^an (Dec.), Evelyn Moore s Poet. I. , Grant Allen ; (Jan.), Story of an Ugly Girl, Miss E. F. Andrews. Cosmopolitan (Dec.), A Parting and a Meeting,* Howells ; On Frenchman s Bay,* Mrs. Burton Harrison; (Jan.), A Three-Stranded Yarn, W. C. Russell. Harper s (Dec.), Paola in Italy,* Gertrude Hall ; The Simpletons, I., Hardy ; People We Pass,* Ralph; The Colonel s Christ mas,* Harriet P. Spofford ; Richard and Robin, Grant ; (Jan.), Hearts Insurgent,* II., Haidy \ A War Debt. Jewett ; Princess Aline,* Davi?. Lippincott s (Dec.), Mrs. Hallam s Companion, Mrs. M. J. Holmes ; Creed of Manners, E. F, Benson ; (Jan.). Waifs of Fighting Rocks, Mcllvaine ; " Mr?. Santa Claus," Marjorie Richardson; Question of Responsibility, Imcgen Clark. Outing (Dec.), A Jamestown Romance,* Sara B. Kennedy ; The Captain s Bet,* T. S. Blackwell ;(Jan.), Winning a Christmas Bride,* A. C. Vance ; Bas Therese,* Jean P. Rudd. Overland (Jan.), Tim Slather s Ride, G. P. Hurst; Relapses of Pap, L. B. Bridgman. Scribner s (Dec.), Matrimonial Tontine Benefit Association,* Grant ; Mantle of Osiris, W. L. Palmer ; Primer of Imaginary Geography,* Brander Matthews ; (Jan.). The Amazing Mar riage,!. ,George Meredith ; Sawney s Deer-Lick,* C. D. Lanier. HISTORY. Cath. World (Jan.), Gregory the Great and the Barbarian World,* T. J. Sha- han. Century (Dec.), Old Maryland Homes and Ways,*J. W. Palmer; (Jan.), Glimpses of Lincoln in War Time, Brooks. Harper s (Jan.), Fortunes of the Bourbons * Kate M. Rowlands; New York Slave-Traders, *Janvier. Lippincott s (Jan.), Christmas Customs and Superstitions, Eliz. F. Seat. HYGIENIC AND SANITARY. Pop. Science (Dec.), Athletics for City Girls, Mary T. Bissell; (Jan.), Twenty -five Years of Preventive Medicine, Mrs. H. M. Plunkett; School-Room Ventilation as an Investment, Knight. LITERARY. Arena (Dec.), Guy de Maupas sant, TolstoT; (Jan.), Religion of Longfellow s Poetry, Savage. Atlantic (Dec.), Ghosts, Ag nes Repplier; New Criticism of Genius, Aline Gorren; Some Personal Reminiscences of Wal ter Pater, Wm. Sharp; Dr. Holmes, Scudder; (Jan.), The Author of " Quabbin " (Francis H. Underwood), Trowbridge. Cath. World (Jan.), Consecrated Mission of the Printed Word,* Marg. E. Jordan ; Tennyson and Holmes,* S. M. Miller. Chautauquan (Dec.), THE LITERARY NEWS. ^January, 1895 Some Contemporary Eng. Novelists, Jeannette L Gilder. Fort. Review (Nov.), Women s Newspapers, Evelyn March-Phillipps ; (Dec.), Robert Louis Stevenson A Critical Study, Gwynn. F0rum(Dec,), Chief Influences on My Career, Philip G. Hamerton; Reading Habits of the English People, Collier ; New Story- Tellers and the Doom of Realism, W. R. Thayer; (Jan.), Dickens Place in Literature, F. Harrison. Harper s (Dec.), Taming of the Shrew,* Comment by Lang ; (Jan.), Shake speare s Americanisms, Lodge. Lippincoti s (Jan.), With the Autocrat, F. M. B. ; Socialist Novels, Kaufmann. Nine. Century (Dec.), De cay of Bookselling, Stott. North Am. Review (Dec.), Two Great Authors Holmes, H. C. Lodge; Froude, Goldwin Smith ; (Jan.), What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us, " Mark Twain." Overland (Jan.), Stedman and Some of His British Contemporaries,* Mary J. Reid. West. Review (Nov.), Meredith s Nature Poetry, Revell; A Dominant Note of Some Recent Fic tion, Bradfield; (Dec.), Religion and Popular Literature, Hannan. MEDICAL SCIENCE. Cosmopolitan (Jan.), Pas teur,* Charcot. Fort. Review (Dec.), The Spread of Diphtheria, Robson Roose. Pop. Sci- nce (Jan.), Two Lung-Tests, F. L. Oswald. MENTAL AND MORAL. North Am. Review (Jan.), Concerning Nagging Women, Edson. Scribner s (Jan.), Mental Characteristics of the Japanese, Ladd. NATURE AND SCIENCE. Chautauquan (Dec.), The World s Debt to Astronomy, Newcomb. Pop. Science (Jan.), Ethics in Natural Law, Janes. POETRY. Arena (Dec.), Oliver Wendell Holmes, B. W. James; If Christ Should Come To-Day, J. G. Clark. Atlantic (Jan.), Alcyone, Lampman. Cath. World (Dec.}, Venite Adore- mus, O Shea. Century (Dec.), The First Word, G. P. Lathrop; How to the Singer Comes the Song, Gilder; (Jan.), To France, Florence E. Coates. Harper s (Dec.), Stops of Various Quills,* Howells ; The Coronal, Annie Fields ; Love and Death, Tadema; (Jan.), The Moth, Z. D. Underbill. Lippincotfs, Yule Charm, M. S. Paden; On Christes Day, Susie M. Best. Outing (Jan.), King Skate,* Turner. Overland, Song of the Balboa Sea, Joaquin Miller. Scrib- ner s (Dec.), McAndrew s Hymn,* Kipling; A Modern Sir Galahad, Hannah P. Kimball; An Old Sorrow, Dorothea Lummis; (Jan.), A For gotten Tale,* Doyle; The Wanderers, H. P. Spofford. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. Arena (Dec.), Well- springs and Feeders of Immorality, Flower ; Abolition of War, Vrooman; (Jan.), Lust Fos tered by Legislation, Flower; America s Shame, Symposium on the Age of Consent Laws, by Powell, Gardener, Willard, and others; Sweat ing System in Philadelphia, Adeline Knapp. Atlantic (Jan.), Survival of the American Type, Denison. Chautauquan (TJec.), Social Life in Eng. in the Nineteenth Century, Ashton ;(Jan.), Triumph of Japan, Arnold. Fort. Review (Nov.), China, Japan, and Corea, Gundry. Forum (Dec.), Death of the Czar and the Peace of Europe, Dodge ; Status and Future of the Woman-Suffrage Movement, Mary P. Jacobi ; Charity that Helps and Other Charity, Jane E. Robbins ; (Jan.), Are Our Moral Standards Shifting?, Hart; Report of the Strike Commis sion, H. P. Robinson ; Dangers in Our Presi dential Electjon System, Schouler; Anatomy of a Tenement Street, Sanborn. Harpers (Dec.), Evolution of the Country Club,* Whitney. Nine. Century (Nov.), People s Kitchens in Vienna, Edith SeL ers. North Am. Review (Dec.), Brigandage on Our Railroads, Hampton; How the Czar s Death Affects Europe, Stepniak; Meaning of the Elections, Babcock, Faulkner ; (Jan.), Problems Before the Western Farmer, Gov. of Kansas; Young Czar and His Advisers, C. Emory Smith ; Our Trade with China, W. C. Ford. Outing (Dec.), National Guard of N. Y. State,* Hardin ; Overland (Jan.), Evolution in Shipping and Ship-Building on the Pacific Coast,* I. M. Scott and others; Naval Control of Pacific Ocean,* Manson. Scribner s (Jan.), Beginnings of Amer. Parties,* Noah Brooks. SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. Lippincot? s (Jan.), Ducks of the Chesapeake, C. D. Wilson. Out ing (Dec.), Football in the South,* Miles; (Jan.), Two Tries for Turkey,* Sandys. THEOLOGY, RELIGION, AND SPECULATION. Arena (Dec.), Real Significance of the World s Parliament of Religions, Miiller. Cath. World (Jan.), Humanism of Peter, Mullaney. Chau tauquan (Dec.), A Christmas Meditation, Vin cent. Cosmopolitan (Jan.), The Young Man and the Church, E. W. Bok. Forzim (Jan.), The Labor Church, J. Trevor. Nine. Century (Dec.}, Why I Am Not an Agnostic, Mutter. Wort A Am. Review (Dec.), The Salvation Army, Briggs. Scribner s (Jan.), Salvation Army Work in the Slums, Maud B. Booth. News. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. have books of great interest and literary importance in Horace Scudder s " Childhood in Literature and Art ;" Sir Edward Strachey s "Talk at a Country House;" Rev. Dr. W. B.Wright s "Master and Men," a thoughtful book, contrasting cur rent Christianity with that of Christ ; " Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier ; " "Life, Letters, and Diary of Lucy Larcom;" "Autobiography of Frances Power Cobbe ;" "Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth ; " "Familiar Letters of Thoreau ; " "Familiar Letters of Walter Scott;" and "Pushing to the Front," by Orison Swett Marden, with portraits of famous persons. Few styles of reading are of greater educational value than good biographies of epoch-making people. LONGMANS, GREEN & Co. have just issued some very important books. " Memorials of St. James Palace," by Edgar Sheppard, is in two volumes, with eight copper plates, thirty- three full-page plates, and thirty-four illustra tions in the text ; " History of the Common wealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660," by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, of which volume i is now ready, shows all the learning and accuracy of its author, and is made valuable by fourteen fine maps ; " English History in Shakespeare s Plays," by Beverley E. Warren, has remarka ble chronologies, and a fine bibliography and well-made index ; and " From Edinburgh to the Antarctic," by W. G. Burn Murdoch, introduces readers to places known only to few travellers, and makes its varied information valuable with many illustrations and maps. January, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. ROBERTS BROTHERS have just issued "Life and Adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb," by his widow, with an introduction by Rider Haggard, which is fully noticed elsewhere; volume iv. of the " History of the People of Israel," by Ernest Renan, is ready, and "The Woman Who Did," by Grant Allen, and "Prince Zaleski," TDV M. P. Shiel, have just been added to the Kev-Note Series. " Discords," by George Eger- ton, also in that series, is a book it needs experi ence and knowledge of life to rightly understand, but a book full of vitality, thought and rare feel ing. Among the more recent books of Roberts Brothers are: "As a Matter of Course," by Anna Payson Call; a third edition of "The World Beautiful," by Lilian Whiting ; " Bal lads in Prose," by Nora Hopper; and "The Great God Pan and the Inmost Light," by Arthur Machen. D. APPLETON & Co. have just ready "The Land of the Sun," by Christian Reid, a picturesque travel romance, in which the author takes her characters from New Orleans to fas cinating Mexican cities like Guanajuato, Zaca- tecas, Aguas Calientes, Guadalajara, and of course the City of Mexico. "The Presidents of the United States," made up of contributions by John Fiske, Carl Schurz, William E. Russell, Daniel C. Gilman, Robert C.Winthrop, George Bancroft, John Hay, and others, edited by James Grant Wilson, with twenty-three steel portraits, fac-simile letters, and other illustra tions ; " Appleton s Handbook of Winter Resorts " is again revised up to date, and there are several new novels whose authors and titles promise great things. " Vernon s Aunt," by Sara Jeannette Duncan (now Mrs. Everard Cotes), is an East Indian romance, full of irre sistible fun ; "Dust and Laurels," by Mary L. Pendered, is a fine study in nineteenth century womanhood; and " The Justification of Andrew Lebrun," by Frank Barrett, and "At the Gate of Samaria," by William J. Locke, may be highly recommended. G. P. PUTNAM S SONS have in preparation a valuable and representative work by J. J. Jus- serand, entitled "A Literary History of the English People," from the earliest times to the present date. The work will be completed in three volumes, of which the first volume, cover ing from the " Earliest Times to the Renais sance," is now ready. The author of " Piers Plowman, 1363-1399," of "English Wayfaring Life in the I4th Century," and many other erudite studies in literary subjects is eminent ly fitted for his new undertaking. " The Story of Vedic India," by Z. A. Ragozin, is the new volume in The Story of the Nation Series ; and " Prince Henry (the navigator) of Portu gal " is the latest addition to The Heroes of the Nations Series. Volume ill. of H. D. Traill s great work on "Social Life in Eng land" is nearly ready, and the Putnams are also bringing out an edition of Le Gallienne s " The Book-Bills of Narcissus." The new forth coming novels are: "The Doctor, His Wife and the Clock," by Anna Katharine Green, to be issued in the Aittonvni Librarv; and "A Woman of Impulse," by Justin Huntly McCarthy, the new volume in the Hudson Library. NEW BOOKS. A Literary History of the English People, From the Earliest Times to the Present Date. By J- J- JUSSERAND, author of " English Wayfaring Life in the i4th Century," etc. To be complete in 3 vols. Part I. From the Origins to the Renaissance. 8vo, $3.50. The Story of Vedic India. By Z. A. RAGOZIN, author of " The Story of Chaldea," etc., etc. Being No. XLIV. in the " Story of the Nations" Series. Fully illus trated. I2mo, cloth, $1.50 ; half leather, gilt tops, $1.75- The Doctor, His Wife and the Clock. By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN, author of "The Leavenworth Case." Being No. 3 in the Autonym Library. Oblong 24010, cloth, 50 c. A Woman of Impulse. By JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY. Being No. 4 of the Hudson Library. i2mo, cloth, $r.oo ; paper, 50 cents. Prince Henry (the navigator) Of Portugal, and the Age of Discovery in Europe. By C. R. BEAZLEY, M. A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Being No. 12 in the " Heroes of the Nations" Series. I2mo, cloth, $1.50 ; half leather, gilt tops, $1.75. Very fully illustrated with reproductions of contem porary prints, and of many maps, coast charts, and mappe- mondes, illustrating the progress of geographical discov ery in Europe. The Book= Bills of Narcissus. , By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, author of " The Religion of a Literary Man," etc. I2mo, cloth, $1.00. Social Life in England. A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Science, Lit erature, Industry, Commerce, and Manners, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By Various Writers. Edited by H. D. TRAILL, D.C.L., Sometime Fellow of St. John s College, Oxford. To be completed in six volumes. Per vol., $3.50. (Vol. III. nearly ready.} Descriptive prospectuses of the " Story of the Nations 1 1 and the "Heroes of the Nations" and quarterly Notes" giving full descriptions of the season s publications, sent on application. G. P. PUTNAM S SONS, New York and London. 3 2 THE LITERARY NEWS. [January, 1895 NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED BY LONGOWNS, GREEN & Co, Memorials of St. James s Palace. By EDGAR SHEPPARD, M.A., Sub-Dean of H. M. Chapels Royal, etc., etc. 2 vols., large 8vo, with 8 copper plates, 33 full-page plates, and 34 illustrations in the text. Cloth, orna mental, gilt top, $10.50. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649=1660. By SAMUEL RAVVSON GARDINER, M.A. Vol. I, 1649-1651. With 14 maps. 8vo, $7.00. " Precision, lucidity, accuracy are the qualities of Dr. Gardiner s style. The impartiality, the judicial temper, which distinguish Dr. Gardiner among historians, are conspicuous in this new volume from its first page to its last." Daily News. English History in Shake- speare s Plays. By BEVERLEY E. WARNER, M.A. With chro nologies, bibliography, and index. Crown 8vo, pp. x-32i, cloth, $1.75. " Mr. Warner s book is full of suggestion gathered not merely from Shakespeare, but from the chronicles which he used and from the efforts of modern historians to re store the life of the period to which the play relates." New York Tribune. A History of Painting. By JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D., Professor of the History of Art in Rutgers College, and author of " Art for Art s Sake," etc. With frontispiece and leg illustrations in the text. Crown 8vo, $1.50. " This is a most interesting and important work. It gives in succinct and clear style the history of painting from the earliest times down to the present, and is pro fusely illustrated with good pictures of the masterpieces of all . ages. It is a most important contribution to the historical literatuie of art, and leaves little to be desired." N. O. Picayune. From Edinburgh to the Antarctic. An Artist s Notes and Sketches during the Dun dee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93. By W. G. BURN MURDOCH. With a chapter by W. S. BRUCE, Naturalist of the Barque " Balsena." With many illustrations and 2 maps. 8vo, $5.00. " This fascinating record opens up a new avenue in our experience. We are introduced to places unknown to any man of this generation, and in some cases the expedition seems to have reached portions of the globe entirely un- visited before. . . . The illustrations are all that could be wished ; they are, like the stories, full of character and life." Spectator. H. RIDER HAGGARD^S NEW NOVEL. The People of the Mist. A Tale of African Adventure. By H. RIDER HAGGARD, author of "Nada, the Lily," " Montezuma s Daughter," " She " etc. With 16 full-page illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.25. FOR SALE BY BOOKSELLERS. LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., Publishers, 15 East 16tli Street, New York. CROWELL S LIBRARY OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICS. American Charities, A Study in Philanthropy and Economics. By AMOS G. WARNER, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Social Science in the Leland Stanford, Jr., University. (Vol. IV. in Crowell s Library of Eco nomics and Politics.) i2mo, cloth,. This work will be the first exhaustive treatment of the subject. It is a careful presentation of theory and of practical experience, making it an indispensable hand book for all those who are theoretically and practically interested in charities. Volumes Previously Issued in this Series .- Yol, I, The Independent Treasury System of the United Slates, $1,50. By DAVID KINLEY, Ph.D., of the University of Illinois. Yol, II, Repudiation of State Debts in tte United States, $1,50, By WILLIAM A. SCOTT, Assistant Pro fessor of Political Economy in the University of Wisconsin. Yol, III. Socialism and Social Reform, $1,50. By RICHARD T. ELY, Ph.D., LL.D. r Professor of Political Economy, and Director of the School of Economics, Political Science and History in the University of Wisconsin. FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. NEW YORK: 46 East Mth St. THonAS Y. CROWELL & Co, BOSTON: 100 Purchase St. The Literary News JJn ttnnfer gou mog reabe f 0em, ab ignem, fig f 0e ftrem be ; anb in summer, afc umfiram, under come 60abte free ; and f0ereitf0 pass atoag f0e febtous $ofres. VOL. XVI. FEBRUARY, 1895. No. The Land of the Sun. WE close this book uncertain whether to descend to the level of figures to justify her- review it as fiction or as a record of travel, self in the eyes of Philistines, but she writes Suppose we try it first as a novel. In that case lovingly and as one thoroughly saturated with we cannot say that it is an unmixed success, an admiration for all things Mexican. Did we From " Land of the Sun. Copyright, 18 1 J4, by D. Appleton & Co. LA VIGA CANAL. The plot is of the simplest, and of the unex pected there is not a trace. . . . But there is another and a far more success ful side. Asa record of what is to be seen in Mexico it is not only very interesting, but it is told in a charmingly picturesque way. The author sets out with the determination to ad mire everything she sees, and to write lovingly of the people, and she carries out her determina tion unflinchingly. She say that she sees every thing through rose-colored glasses, but imper fectly expresses her unmeasured admiration. We can recall no such undiscriminating en thusiasm in late books of travel, and Mrs. Tiernan s statements pleasant reading though they make would have greater weight if they showed a more judicial spirit. There is noth ing statistical in her fervor and she does not say all things 1 We must make a single excep tion her dislike of the government occasion ally shows itself and in bitter words, but it is not too much to say that her views of Mexican politics are unlikely to meet with the assent of the majority of her American readers. The de feat of Maximilian has passed into history as an example of retributive justice, and no mere sentimental regret for his fate and that of Carlotta is likely to reverse the judgment the world has passed upon his attempt to found a throne in an American republic. But the book is a delightful one if we decline to look upon it as a novel and exclude the few political allu sions, for she describes Mexico in such glowing colors that it makes one long to see it as she saw it. The illustrations are a score of good half-tones. (Appleton. $1.75.) Public Opinion. 34 THE LITERARY NEWS. [February, 1895 Harvard College by an Oxonian. HARVARD men will be interested to hear what so distinguished an Oxonian as Dr. Hill has to say of the University by the Charles, although his book is meant, of course, prima rily for the instruction of those who have never seen Harvard. Dr. Hill spent several months in Cambridge, and he writes, not from the con fused impressions of a chance traveller, but out of an ample fund of knowledge. Indeed, his comprehension of the peculiar merits, as well as the peculiar faults of Harvard, is re markably subtile and acute. He gives a brief but entertaining account of its origin, history, and growth, from which his English readers will be able to correct some of the false im pressions which have gained ground about our institutions of learning. He compares it most intelligently with Oxford, and points out, with scrupulous fairness, where it is superior to the older university as well as where it is inferior. The praise he bestows will make the hearts of Harvard men glow with pride ; and they will have to acknowledge, with reg-ret, that the un favorable criticisms are equally well deserved. In fact, Dr. Hill s book is an unconscious wit ness to the desirability of the changes proposed by the late Frank Bolles, secretary to the Uni versity changes which, we understand, Presi dent Eliot in his infinite wisdom does not al together approve. One or two small errors of fact in the volume might be cited were it worth while. For example, it is hard to believe that the function of " afternoon tea " is unknown in Cambridge. (Macmillan. $2.25.) Providence Sunday journal. At the Gate of Samaria. ANOTHER of the army of emancipated women, a hater of conventional formulas, a restless seeker after the mysteries of life, appears in the heroine of "At the Gate of Samaria," by W. J. Locke. While still young, Clyde Davenant wearied of her English country home, " Durdle- ham, with its soullessness, its stagnation, its prim formulas." She had artistic tastes, and yielded to the temptation to smuggle con demned books into the house and to read them surreptitiously. It was not unnatural that such a type of the young, fearless woman hood of the day should acquire the habit of holding her head back, with the chin point ing upward, free of the throat, for the atti tude emphasizes the girl s determination to solve the "riddle of life" in her own way. It was just as natural, too, that at last she should break the chains which bound her to Durdle- ham and seek freedom from its stiff convention alities in the art life of London. Her fate was the usual one which men seem prone to inflict upon the emancipated woman in fiction. If she had not met Hammerdike, who appealed to the romantic and imaginative side of her nature, but who was at heart an utterly worthless fel low, of abundant physical prowess, but devoid alike of moral courage and of character, a less dramatic, not to say tragic, result might have attended the girl s attempt to solve the mystery of life. Her experience was indeed sad and bitter, both as a wife and as a mother. The story is told with ease and fluency. The name on the title cannot conceal the sex of the author. (Appleton. $ i ; pap., 50 c. ) The Tribune. From " Harvard College by an Oxonian." Copyright, 1894, by Macmillan & Co. THE CAMPUS. February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. Henry the Navigator. THIS volume, by C. Raymond Beazley, aims at giving an ac count, based throughout upon original sources, of the [prog ress of geographical knowledge and enterprise in Christendom throughout the Middle Ages, down to the middle or even the end of the fifteenth century, as well as a life of Prince Henry the Navigator, who brought this movement of European Expansion within sight of its greatest successes. That is, as explained in Chapter I., it has been attempted to treat explor ation as one continuous thread in the story of Christian Europe from the time of the conversion of the Empire ; and to treat the life of Prince Henry as the turning-point, the central epoch in a development of many cen turies : this life, accordingly, has been linked as closely as possible with what went before and prepared for it ; one-third of the text, at least, has been occupied with the history of the preparation of the earlier time, and the difference be tween our account of the elev enth and fifteenth century dis covery, for instance, will be found to be chiefly one of less and greater detail. This differ ence depends, of course, on the prominence in the later time of a figure of extraordinary inter est and force, who is the true hero in the drama of the geo graphical conquest of the outer world that starts from Western Christendom. The interest that centres round Henry is some what clouded by the dearth of complete knowl edge of his life ; but enough remains to make something of the picture of a hero, both of science and of action. Our subject, then, has been strictly historical, but a history in which a certain life, a certain biographical centre, becomes more and more important, till from its completed achievement we get our best outlook upon the past progress of a thousand years, on this side, and upon the future progress of those generation; which realized the next great victories of the geo graphical advance. From "Heiny the Navigator." Copyright, 1894, by G. P. Putnam s Sons. GATEWAY AT BELEM. The series of maps which illustrate this ac count give the same continuous view of the geographical development of Europe and Chris tendom down to the end of Prince Henry s age. These are, it is believed, the first English reproductions in any accessible form of several of the great chares of the Middle Ages, and taken together they will give, it is hoped, the best view of Western or Christian map-makin< before the time of Columbus that is to be found in any English book, outside the great historical atlases. Covers from Middle Ages to the Modern V orld. (Putnam. \.y_.)Ex1ractfrom Preface. THE LITERARY NEWS. {February, 1895 American Charities. WE have been reading an intensely interest ing book, entitled "American Charities; a Study in Philanthropy and Economics." Its author, Amos G. Warner, Ph.D., is a professor in the Leland Stanford University, California. Mr. Warner has done his work with great pains and caution. He is not to be reckoned a radi cal, and he seems to have no special hobby. On the contrary, he treats his subject in a quiet and scientific manner, and gives us the im pression that he is an entirely safe man to fol low. He begins his essay by a few general statements as to the way in which poverty has been regarded in times past, and shows that among most of the enlightened heathen naiions the subject was seriously discussed and meas ures taken to prevent or to remedy the evil. He then proceeds to a consideration of the causes which produce poverty, and in this part of his subject he is specially interesting. His theory is not single headed, but Hydra headed, so to speak. That is to say, he doesn t tell us that over production or low wages are the sole cause of poverty, but furnishes us with a long catalogue of the causes that have combined to create a very deplorable condition of affairs, such as heredity, environment, intoxicants, sickness, accidents which maim and disable. Best of all, he is rather optimistic, and gives us hope that in the course of a few thousand years we may reach such a social development that extreme poverty at least will be done away with, and the sufferings of the poor be reduced to a minimum. Here, for instance, is a tabulated statement which is very suggestive. The author says that it is a very interesting puzzle to find out how many, or what proportion of those people who seek for relief are really worthy of it, and this estimate, made by sifting about thirty thousand cases, is certainly very encouraging. Of these thirty thousand persons, such as we would find in the average city, a little over ten per cent, are regarded as worthy of continuous relief. Something over twenty-six per cent, are worthy of temporary relief a little help now and then to bridge over the expense of a sickness or a funeral. The most encouraging statement is that more than forty per cent, need work rather than relief, and would not ask for help if they could get steady labor. That percentage will, we believe, hold good throughout the country. Give the people plenty to do, at even decent wages, and, bar ring accidents or any unexpected emergencies, they have self-respect enough to live within their incomes, and too much pride to ask for assistance from any charitable organization. This may seem to some of our readers too optimistic a view to take of the situation, but we think not. Professor Warner s volume will bear out the statement. Last of all, we come to those who are regarded as wholly unworthy of relief, the creatures who make a profession of begging and take their chances on the side walk or at the basement door. Unfortunately, the number of these is quite large, and we are furnished with a warning that indiscriminate giving does not accomplish much good. Twenty-three per cent, nearly of our thirty thousand, or considerably over six thousand, are accounted unworthy after careful investi gation. These figures will probably represent the general average of good and bad cases in all the large cities of America. Professor Warner s chapter on the causes of degeneration, or the reasons why poverty is a necessity under our present social regime, is a calm, judicial and eminently satisfactory dis cussion of the subject. He believes, as does every one who has paid any attention to this serious matter, that greed and selfishness, or, in a word, that society is itself responsible for a tremendous amount of the crime which we are compelled to punish, and the poverty which we must needs relieve. There are also chapters on the almshouse, on the homeless poor, on dependent children, on the destitute sick, on the insane and the feeble minded, who are the wards of the community, and these are very grave chapters, suggestive, and with an element of tragedy running through them which will appeal to every thoughtful man. The book is thoroughly practical, and it ought to be read carefully, even studied, by every one who has a home of his own to main tain and who feels a certain degree of respon sibility for the condition of the unfortunate who are in his neighborhood. (Crowell. $1.75 ) N. Y. Herald. Wealth Against Commonwealth. THIS is a history, by Henry Demarest Lloyd, of the origin and growth of the richest monopoly in the world, the combination known as the Standard Oil Trust. More than sixty years ago it was known that iliuminating oil of an excellent quality could be extracted from bituminous coal; and in 1860 there were more than threescore manufactories of it in this country. In that year it was first discovered that vast deposits of rock-oil lie under the soil of Pennsylvania and adjoining States. Throughout wide districts, wherein wells were driven, the oil flowed like water. The cost was almost nothing, and in ten years the native product could be bought in any quan- February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 37 thy for ten cents a barrel. Thousands of men at once learned the simple business of distilling it for use, and refineries sprang up everywhere. It seemed that no department of human activity offered less en couragement to the spirit of monopoly than the production, refine ment, and distribution of this natural oil. Yet hardly five years passed, after the value of the great discovery became known, before a mysterious power was felt to interfere with the business in every branch, from the sinking of new wells to the final distribution of oil among consumers. The refiners were the first to suffer. Those who paid the standard prices announced by the railroads for trans portation found them selves undersold. Their business became unprofitable. Many were compelled either to close their works or to sell them at nominal prices to a combination, the only purchaser. This little group of re finers, whose home was Cleveland, were masters of every im portant line of railway by which oil could be carried from the wells to the refineries, and thence to the several great markets. They had secret contracts with these roads, en- ALBERT titling them to enor mous preferences in rates, and even to a large bonus out of the higher rates charged to other shippers. Courts and legislatures, the men and Some of the men who conceived the combi nation in question are now, by virtue of this monopoly which they have organized, princes among the millionaires of the world, with estates From " England In the Nineteenth Century. Copyright, 18P4, by A. C. MoClurp: <Sr Co. EDWARD, THE 1 RINCE CONSORT. already equal to the proudest dukedom of Eng land, and with incomes larger than those of many kings. It is the magnificence of this suc- committees of Congress, were appealed to, in- cess which impresses the imagination of him vestigations were held, every engine which pub lic opinion or the business interests of the inde pendent refiner could command was tried in at tacking these discriminations. But the result was everywhere the same. The business of re fining oil became and remains practically a complete monopoly in the hands of the Stand ard Oil Company. who reads their exploits. The robber knights of Europe took their lives in their hands when they sallied forth in pursuit of plunder, and deeds of strength and daring, inspiring, the novelist and the poet, divert the thoughts of readers from the outrageous wrongs they perpetuated and the frightful misery they inflicted. In a somewhat similar manner readers THE LITERARY NEWS. [February, 1895 of the story of the great monopoly may for a time forget the injustice and oppression, the defiance of law, and the contempt for the rights which the law is designed to protect, which have marked its whole career. They may even, for a time, be stirred to admiration of the ingenious devices, the persistent and vigorous pursuit of a fixed policy, the unremitting devotion of a num ber of conspirators to the interests of all, which have overcome the obstacles of law, morality, and public opinion, as well as those of ordinary competition, and secured to a handful of men the enjoyment and profit of one of nature s greatest gifts to mankind, almost as conclusively as if it were their creation. With this in view, it may be said that no more wonderful romance of real life has ever been written than Mr. Lloyd s book. (Harper. $2.50.) Napoleon. THE origin of the present sketch is not clear. Dumas seems to have written first a drama, and then a life in the more technical sense. The translator is right in putting the date of the From Green s " Illustrated Short History of the English People " Harper & Bros. THE " BELLEROPHON" (SHIP WHICH CARRIED NAPOLEON TO ST. HELENA). latter at an earlier year than 1868, where it is placed by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald. The sketch itself has no special importance, save as all writings about Napoleon have im portance when his life and character are taken up for fresh study and delineation. It is not certain that we are getting out of the present interest much that is truly philosophical and comprehensive in regard to this man, judgments upon whom differ so widely. The details of his life will be much better known, but it is doubt ful whether the man will be. There is here a chance for some clear mind to do a great work. Perhaps the present interest will hasten the day. We are grateful to Mr. Larner for yielding to the solicitations of his friends and giving us this translation, also for the close adherence to the original. It is a highly descriptive, nervous, brisk narrative. The translator has done his work well. (Putnam. $1.50.) Public Opinion. In the Heart of the Bitter-Root Mountains. HIGH on the western slope of the Bitter-Root Mountains of eastern Idaho, hundreds of miniature streams dash their foaming waters fresh from fields of perpetual sncw into four main forks which form the headwaters of the Clearwater River. Skirting the bases of lofty mountains, surging against the naked faces of project ing cliffs, leaping over prec ipices, and ever and anon struggling with innumer able boulders planted firmly in their beds, the roaring forks of the Clearwater River follow their sinuous courses westward. Scores of creeks and branches, draining a territory thou sands of square miles in area, add constantly to their volume. These tribu taries have for ages been eroding the solid granite. Deep gulches and canons have been formed, many miles in extent, converting the whole region into a wild, tangled mass of irregular mountain ranges and spurs, whose ragged crests and peaks tower to altitudes of four to eight thousand feet above the sea. The less precipitous slopes are cov- February ) 1 8 9 5 ] THE LITERARY NEWS. 39 ered with a dense growth of pine, fir, cedar and tamarack, while many steep hillsides with northern exposures have impenetrable thickets of pine and fir saplings. Occasionally, large rockbound areas are found, covered with moose- brush, and here and there, sometimes clinging to almost vertical hillsides and often occupying the tiny flats nestling by the sides of the tortu ous water-courses, are dense patches of brush, yielding in their season a profusion of berries. lola, the Senator s Daughter. MANNERS change, men do not, or, as Thack eray expressed it, " human nature is pretty much the same in Regent Street as in the Via Sacra." In " lola " the author, Mansfield Lovell Hillhouse, presents a picture of business classes in Rome some nineteen centuries ago, and Publius Neuvanus is the successful mer chant. Neuvanus has been first a soldier under Julius Caesar, but has known how to unite J the Heart of the Bitter-Root Mountain Copyright, 1895, by (I. P. Putnum s Sons. FROM THE RIDGE NORTH OF CAMP. This veritable wilderness, whose forests abound in game, and whose streams teem with trout, covers an area equal to that of the State of West Virginia. It can boast of not having a single permanent habitation of man, not even a wagon road. The story of the " Carlin Hunt ing Party " who sought their pleasure in these regions from September to December, 1893, is told by an enthusiast who hides under the name of Heclawa. All the illustrations in this work will be found to be accurate and reliable, hav ing been reproduced directly from photo graphs. The Indians were, of course, the orig inal explorers of this wild region, and there are, in the more accessible localities, unmistakable evidences of their early presence. They may have" had permanent villages, but the rigorous climate and the excessive snowfall to which the district is subject during the winter months probably drove them out of the mountains at that season. (Putnam. $1.50.) fighting and trading. While his comrade Brusco has been subjected to all the buffets of fortune, Neuvanus has been the lucky man. lola is the daughter of Neuvanus and has been bred in luxury. Mr. Hillhouse describes in an elaborate manner Roman interiors, and in the course of his study we have Virgil and Horace in the Forum, a banquet, the baths, the chariot race, and many other episodes. Tola is loved by the gentle youth Horus Marcius, and Horus represents a literary Roman. After many vicissitudes of fortune, lola and Horus are happy. The current of the story runs smoothly, and the writer of this classical romance has good descriptive powers. There is, however, this misfortune about the classical antiquarian romance. It is a ground which has been al most exhausted by the prolific Ebers. The ways and manners of the Roman, minutely de scribed by the indefatigable Mommsen, have .THE LITERARY NEWS. [February , 1895 little that is novel to-day. If, however, you incline too much to the romantic incidents in a novel of igoo years ago you lose the classical feeling ; or if, on the contrary, you go in too strongly for Roman or Greek antiquities, you are not in touch with human passion. Not withstanding these drawbacks, "Tola" is a well-written book, replete with erudition and of decided interest. (Putnam. $1.25.) A r . Y. Times. The Presidents of the United States. WE have Macaulay s authority for the pre sumption that a biographer is usually a literary vassal, bound by the immemorial law of his tenure to render homage and to allow the customary services to his lord, but while the estimates made by the different biographers in the book before us may in some instances be open to criticism as being founded on excessive admiration of the subject to the exclusion of carefully exercised judgment, as a rule there is a gratifying absence of undiscriminating panegyric. Such writers as Bancroft, Fiske, Schurz, Oilman, and Winthrop so well equip ped by nature and education for their tasks are unlikely to commit gross errors in this direction. The purpose for which much of the matter was prepared for Appleton s Cyclo paedia of American Biography necessarily im posed economy of space, condensation of de tails of action and entire absence of anecdote. Consequently that sort of interest which is aroused by minute personal description and picturesque elaboration will net be excited by a perusal of this volume But the instruction to be derived from twenty- three papers, the work of nineteeen writers, whose names are familiar from connection with historical researches, is invaluable. If no history can give us the whole truth, surely the lives of the twenty-three Presidents of the United States by so many hands, approaches very nearly to an accurate, connected and com plete narrative of the events of the past hundred From " The President-: of the United States." Copyright, 1894, by D. Appleton & Co. LINCOLN S FIRST HOME. years, for of these they were a part. A few in stances of apparent partisan inaccuracy occur to us, but usually a disposition to weigh evi dence carefully and to set down conclusions fairly is obvious. The biographers of General Harrison and Mr. Cleveland well as they have done their work are unavoidably weighed down by the consciousness that they are writ ing of men who are still with us. It seems to be it must of necessity be that no biography of a living person can have proper weight, for there is a certain degree of dispassion which is supposed to be unattainable by the author if he is on familiar terms with him of whom he writes, an over-estimation is usually apparent in the result of his labors. On the other hand; if it be the work of one who has no personal acquaintance with the subject of his story, he commonly errs through lack of proper material. From what we have said as to the necessary exercise of the art of compression, it may be inferred that the book is a mere mass of dates, figures and facts put together as compactly as possible. On the contrary, it makes most in teresting reading, not to the historical student alone, but to the intelligent non- specialist reader also, and if narrative is sometimes manip ulated into conformity with a purely partisan point of view, these are but spots upon the sun. If the worse is sometimes made to appear the better cause, we must place it to the account of poor, weak human nature and be grateful that we at least are above the passions and weak nesses that flesh and spirit are heir to. The volume is a handsome one of 526 pages, neatly printed and bound tastefully. The il lustrations are numerous and good the twenty- three steel portraits are unexceptionable. (Ap pleton. $3.50.) Public Opinion. The Flower of Gala Water. " THE Flower of Gala Water " is one of Mrs. Barr s most delightful novels of Scottish life and scenery. In her portrayal of Scotch char acter and manners she has no superior among contemporary writers. Her heroines are vital with love and feminine qualities, and possess an individuality which is charming. They have the freshness of youth and health, and impart to her pages their own attractiveness. Mrs. Barr s fine sentiment and vigor of conviction have ample expression in her latest novel. No one can read it without having every noble feeling vitalized and exalted. It is this moral quality which renders " The Flower of Gala Water" a book to be placed in the hands of every boy and every girl. (Bonner. $1.25 ; pap., 50 c.) February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. Love in Idleness. MR. MARION CRAWFORD is one of the most versatile of living novelists. One is never sure what to expect from him, and that alone con duces to his wide popularity. The American in him is becoming more pronounced than the Roman-American ; and there are fewer excur sions to lonely English parishes, Munich by ways, and mysterious Bohemian castles. " Love in Idleness " is a pretty little love-story : pretty in its setting, in its sentiment, in its style, and, I finds his highest achievement ; n " To Leeward and " A Roman Singer." (Macmillan. $2.) The Beacon. The Colonial Cavalier. A DELIGHTFUL sketch of the Colonial Cavalier in his home, church, state, and social relations. We are made acquainted with the whole man ; we go with him through his love-story and we see him as a husband ; his trade, his friends, , : *y From "The Flower of Gala Water. Copyright, 1894, by Robert Bonner s Sons. IN THE CONSERVATORY. may add, in its "get-up." Its format, indeed, is delightful : in size, shape, flexibility, as well as in its type and binding, no better pocket vol ume is on the market. The scene of the story is a much-frequented seaside resort, not far from New York ; the chief dramatis persona are Fanny Trehearne and Louis Lawrence. There is also a dangerous but unsuccessful rival ; and three ladies rather relentlessly depicted as lu dicrous old maids, whereas they are simply thwarted in their true vocation. The narrative is occupied with the peculiar form of flirtatious- ness affected by the heroine. Those who think "A Cigarette Maker s Romance" one of his best books, will rank " Love in Idleness" even higher than do those who, like the present writer, his foes, his amusements, his dress, are vividly brought into view. This little book of three hundred pages has condensed into most charm ing and interesting form a whole library of his torical information. The reader feels that he is looking at a picture whose values are pre served, and into which nothing has been worked to produce effects, nor omitted for the sake of prettiness. The historical student will perhaps object that Mrs. Goodwin has not by some method identified her authorities, but the gen eral reader will thank her for giving him a book which reveals in all his charm, with his vices and his virtues that too little known gentleman, " The Colonial Cavalier." (Lovell, Coryell & Co. $i.) The Otitlook. THE LITERARY NEWS. \_February, 1895 From " A Son of Hagar." Copyright, 1895, by R. F. Fenno & Co. HALL CAINE. Talk at a Country House. SIR EDWARD S. STRACHEY, Bart., who dedi cates this book to his children, is represented in the frontispiece, taken from a painting by one Henry Strachey, as a benignant-looking old gentleman, with a pointed white beard, standing in a wainscoted hall. Portraits of his ancestors, by Lely, perhaps, look down upon him, and a sagacious cat watches him from a respectful distance. He wears spectacles, and leans on a stout walking-stick ; on his head is a soft felt hat with a narrow brim and high crown, and his black frock-coat is loose and ancient. He holds in one hand a copy of a periodical, which we take to be the London Athenccum, as its page is too large for Note-s and Queries. Sir Edward s talks in a country house con sist of conversations in Somersetshire between a country squire and one Foster, whose vague personality, the reader at first infers, thinly veils the identity of Sir Edward, until he pres ently discerns that the venerable author is also the squire. Both halves of Sir Edward s ego are great readers and prodigious talkers, and their range of subjects is large and varied. Ancient England and the literary quality of "Love s Labour s Lost;" the comparative merit of the two forms of Berowne and Biron ; Ben Jonson and Persian poetry ; the Strachey family, and its old portraits ; English politics, love, and marriage ; Tennyson s poetry and his friendship with Maurice ; Camelot and the Round Table, and the arrowheaded inscriptions are only a few of the main topics, the discussion of which suggests many others. It seems that one of the chapters, the first, appeared as a magazine article in Eraser s about half a cen tury ago ; and Sir Edward has been a con tributor to the Atlantic Monthly in recent years. His little book belongs to the same order of literature as the pleasant ramblings on beaten tracks and in the by-ways of Isaac Disraeli. Such books are hardly in fashion nowadays, but they are more congenial com panions for the leisure moments of cultivated folks than many that are popular. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.)^. Y. Times. Dawn of Civilization. IN a quarto volume of nearly 800 pages ap pears an English version of the great work by Prof. G. Maspero, entitled "The Dawn of Civilization ; Egypt and Chaldea." The book has been translated by Mr. M. L. McClure, a member of the committee of the Egyptian Ex ploration Fund, and is edited by Mr. A. H. Sayce, the well-known Professor of Assyriology at Oxford. The reader scarcely needs to be re minded that Prof. Maspero s intimate acquaint ance with Egypt and its literature, and the op portunities of discovery afforded him by his position for several years as the director of the Bulak Museum, give him a unique claim to speak with authority on the history of the Nile February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 43 Valley. In the case of Babylonia and Assyria, on the other hand, he no longer speaks at first hand, but he has thoroughly studied the latest and best authorities on the subject, and has weighed their statements with the judgment which comes from an exhaustive acquaintance with a similar department of knowledge. Mr. Sayce, however, dissents from his views regarding two points, which are of considerable importance. These are the geographical situa tion of the land of Magan, which most Assyri- ologists concur in placing in the immediate vicinity of Egypt, and the historical character of the annals of Sargon of Accad, which Prof. Maspero seems inclined to regard as legendary. (Appleton. $750.) The Sun. History of Art in Primitive Greece Myce naean Art. WE find on our table a very delightful work, entitled " History of Art in Primitive Greece Mycenaean Art." It is from the French of Georges Parrot and Charles Chipiez, and is pro fusely illustrated. Although we have here two volumes of more than five hundred pages each, or a work of more than one thousand pages in all, the book is still an abridgment, as the translator says in his preface. The expense of publication was certainly very great, but we cannot help regret ting, from the point of view which a student naturally takes, that any eliminations of the original text were found necessary. It is ex plained, however, in these words : " The con ditions of the book market are not the same in Paris as they are in this country. Generally the expenses of publication of educational and scientific works are in part, if not wholly, defrayed by government. Here they fall en tirely on private enterprise, so that it has been deemed advisable to slightly abridge the text in those portion s that are somewhat tumid with padding. " We hardly see the opportu nity for using the words "tumid" and "pad ding " in a work which is remarkably lucid and thoroughly interesting in all its details, and in which the authors have for their sole object the ambition to make their book complete in all its parts. Perhaps the sale will be confined to the liter ary class, but it is a book which every man of leisure and every thoughtful business man can read with int rest and profit. There are thou sands of college graduates who are engaged in what the English despise as " trade," and who have not lost their taste for just such matters as these, and there are other thousands of men who have never been to college, but, neverthe less, love art in all its forms, and would be glad to know something of its origin. These, if they have the money to spare, will invest a few dol lars in this work, and find plenty of food for thought in its pages during the long winter From " History of the Navy." Vol. II. Copyright, 1894, by D. Appleton & Co. AT CLOSE QUARTERS, 44 THE LITERARY NEWS. ^February, 1895 evenings that are upon us. Take such prolific subjects as these, for example : the stone age in Greece, the characteristics of Mycenaean archi tecture, gates, mouldings, decorations, religious architecture, civil architecture, the architecture of house and palace, painting, pottery, glass, wood, ivory, and stone, all so well illustrated that the author s meaning is caught at a glance. What better reading can any one find than is here afforded, and about a period which seems to be almost miraculous ? It is a noble work, and great credit is due to the publishers for their costly undertaking. (Armstrong. $15; $22; $50.) N. Y. Herald. The Great God Pan. MESSRS. ROBERTS BROTHERS have lately pub lished here, in conjunction with Mr. John Lane, London, "The Great God Pan," and "The Inmost Light," two comparatively short tales by Mr. Arthur Machen, whose name is new to us, though he figures on his title page as the author of "The Chronicle of Clemendy," and the translator of " The Heptameron " and " Le Mozen de Parvenir." It is not easy to say what these tales are, for though they deal, or profess to deal, with men and women of our own day, and with events of real life, it is in such a fantastic way, and with such extraordinary results, that the impression they leave on the mind is rather that of troubled dreams than of actual or possible occurrences in any country, or condition of soci ety, of which we have knowledge. The scenes of both are apparently laid in London, but they are really laid in a populous terra incognita simi lar to that which Poe imagined as the home of his Waldemars and Lenores, and the haunt of his Conqueror Worms. The intellectual quality which the production of such things demands is imagination, the activity of which should not be regulated, but encouraged, without regard to consequences, and their most potent motive should be the elucidation of some scientific or psychological problem, no matter what one, provided it be sufficiently profound and recon dite. The transference of the soul of one per son to the body of another by hypnotism is not a bad subject, when properly and plausibly handled; and the creation of a new soul from the ashes of an old body affords a large scope for the ingenuities of pseudo chemistry and mysticism. His heroine is a beautiful woman, who ruins the souls and bodies of those over whom she casts her spells, being as good as a Suicide Club, if we may say so, to those who love her; and to whom she is Death. Something like this is, we take it, the interpretation of Mr. Machen s uncanny parable, which is too morbid to be the production of a healthy mind. (Rob erts. $ i.) Mail and Express. The Use of Life. WHEN Sir John Lubbock writes on science he writes for students ; when he writes on other things he has a special but a wider audience in view. It might be difficult to define for whom exactly "The Pleasure of Life" and "The Beauties of Nature " were intended, but there is no such doubt about the present volume. It is a gift-book, and a good one too, for the very young, for those to whom the difficulties and problems of life are mere names. Sir John Lubbock speaks of life in the most cheerful tones, and inculcates the thrifty, prudent virtues in a wholesome fashion. It is very proper that youth should be so addressed, and that they should read from an elementary text-book first, till life puts such questions to them that no such text-book will answer. To those who have had such questions put to them the complacent sen- tentiousness of this guide will sound a little flip pant and irreverent, but it cannot be meant for them. Sir John quotes from surely all the au thors dead and living in support of his downright cocksure maxims, but it is mostly by the vague generalities of his authorities he is reinforced, by such sentiments as may delight the literary or the symmetrical sense but could never be of service to a thinking mind. It is only the record of special individual experiences that can help where help is needed, and biographies of sinners contain better counsel than books of the most faultless maxims. (Macmillan. $1.25.) The Bouktnan. The History of the United States. THE excuse needed for adding to the long list another history of the United States is given by the author, E. Benjamin Andrews, in his claim to Utilize recent researches, to make the narrative continuous, to note both the political evolution of the country and its social life, to observe due proportion in the space given to the different phases of the nation s career, to present the matter in natural periods, to separate the fore-history from the history proper, and to secure such accuracy as will make these volumes a work of reference. These are large claims, but an examination of President Andrews work shows that the claims are well founded, if they be confined to the general outlines of the whole history; and even then the marvel is that there is so much of detail in the narrative and so much of color in the style, when it is considered that the whole story is confined to seven hun dred pages, though it begins with America before Columbus and comes down to 1888; in deed, to 1894 on some themes. On the whole it is heartily to be commended as sure to find and to keep a place in the world of readers, and sure also to delight and instruct them. (Scrib- ner. 2v.,$4.) N. Y. Observer. February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 45 Studies in Folk-Song and Popular Poetry. MR. ALFRED M. WILLIAMS has put together eleven essays (several of which are republished from magazines) analyzing and illustrating various phases of folk-song. The subjects are well worth the time and care they have de manded. Mr. Williams style is clear and di rect, and the result is a delightful volume which makes no claim to exhaus tive treatment, but manages to say a great deal in a short space and inclines the reader to wish for more. The chapter on American sea songs is probably the best known of these essays. In considering the ballads and popular rhymes of our Civil War, Mr. Williams notes the fact that they are not to be compared in qual ity with those which have been produced by much lighter struggles, for in stance by the Jacobite Re bellion in Scotland. No great song embodies and interprets the spirit of the nation as does Die Wacht am Rhein or the Marseillaise despite the success of such poems as Mrs. Howe s "Battle Hymn" and Gen eral Pike s lines to Dixie. Mr. Williams accounts for this by saying that the Americans are not a singing people in the bent of their genius nor are the condi tions of civilization favor able to this form of expres sion. "The newspaper has taken the place of the ballad as a means of influencing the popular mind, and poetry has passed from the people to the literary artists." Neverthe less the essayist has succeeded in finding plenty of material for an interesting and instructive paper. The many readers we trust there are many who have been fascinated by the rev elations of Roumanian poetry given by The Bard of the Dimbovitza will read with pleasure Mr. Williams comments thereon. Here, as in discussing the folk-songs of lower Brittany, Poitou, and Hungary, he gives more examples than when writing of the Scotch or English ballads, with which we are more familiar. (Houghton, Mifflin & Cc. $1.50.) Boston Liter ary World. The Literary Shop. THE prejudices, eccentricities, and autocratic rule of the magazine editor supply James L. Ford with abundant material for satirical treat ment in " The Literary Shop." Mr. Ford has a theory that American literature is practically regulated in its development by the men in From " Edwin Booth. Copyright, 18P4, by The Century Co. EDWIN BOOTH AND HIS FATHER. charge of the popular illustrated periodicals, and as these men seek primarily to gratify the tastes of the great mass of readers, the result is a literary trend that makes for mediocrity, superficiality and untruth in essence and tech nique. Fortunately, even Mr. Ford recognizes in later manifestations of magazine literature indications of a more liberal and wholesome tendency. He pays his respects to a number of the great editors, from Robert Bonner, of the old Ledger days, down to Mr. Bok, of the Ladies Home Journal, whom he designates as " the crown prince of American letters," and he describes some of the literary fads of the past and present with a wit that can hardly fail to amuse even his victims. A number of short sketches bound up in the volume deal THE LITERARY NEWS. {February, 1895 with the same theme in different ways. The reporter who falls from bohemianism, succumbs to the fascinations of afternoon tea, gets into "society" and acquires the Swelled Head seems to be the particular object of Mr. Ford s satire. He also deals effective thrusts at cur rent ideas of culture via " reading classes " and clubs. (Richmond. $1.25.) The Beacon. From "A Little English Gallery." -Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers. LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY. A Little English Gallery. THIS is one of the most delightful collections of essays published .for years. While Miss Guiney is destitute of that delicious wit and humor which make Miss Agnes Repplier s essays so unusual, Miss Guiney far surpasses Miss Repplier in the delicate^discrimination of her criticism. Where Miss Repplier loves to keep in the highroads of literature, saying keen words about the books and characters dear to us all, Miss Guiney has ajknack of discovering delightful byways in the book world, and introducing new friends to us, "whose names we already knew, but whose characters were quite unknown to us before. " A Little English Gallery " gives us a delight ful picture of George Herbert s mother, after ward Lady Danvers ; a careful and sympa thetic criticism~of Henry Vaughan s life and poetry ; and a very entertaining sketch of Samuel Johnson s friends, Topham Beauclerk and Bennet Langton. The other two essays in the volume, on Farquhar and Hazlitt, are much less interesting ; the one on Hazlitt is especially lacking in clearness and precision. The best essay is the one on Vaughan, which is fine and really masterly in its way. Miss Guiney s taste in quotation is very happy, and we cannot forbear requoting one of the char acteristic verses which she chooses from Vaughan s beautiful but too little known work: Follow the cry no more. There is An ancient way, All strewed with flowers and happiness, And fresh as May. One could wish that Miss Guiney had a more flowing style ; there is a certain congestion of ideas in her sentences which sometimes makes them difficult to follow. She is unfortunately not gifted with the limpid clearness which is one of the greatest charms in Miss Repplier s essays. Miss Guiney has a genius, however, for descriptive adjectives, and since Matthew Arnold we remember no one whose adjectives are more vividly and precisely used than Miss Guiney s. Altogether "A Little English Gal lery " deserves to occupy an honored place among American essays. (Harper. $i.) Literary World. Nonsense Songs and Stories. EDWARD LEAR S " Nonsense Songs and Stories " have just been issued in a ninth and revised edition, with additional songs and an introduction by so genial a critic and so able a litterateur as Sir E. Strachey. Sir Strachey begins with a dissertation on sense and nonsense which will be a treat to the cultured reader ; and then follows up his explanations by per sonal anecdotes and descriptions of Lear, of his many talents, his high aims and ambitions, his many disappointments and never-failing " humanness," which are touching and wholly delightful. Lear was born in 1812 and began to draw for daily bread about 1827, coloring prints, screens and fans, and also making drawings of morbid diseases for hospitals and certain phy sicians. In 1831 he obtained employment at the Zoological Society, and the following year completed a volume of colored drawings of birds on a large scale. From that time work crowded upon him, and he travelled much to make the studies for his many illustrations to now noted works of natural history. In 1846 he was called to give drawing lessons to Queen Victoria. In that year he published his first " Book of Nonsense." a collection of rhymes without sense or reason but wholly funny by reason of incongruities, contrasts and utter non sense. These rhymes and their successors have been given over to children chiefly, but no child can understand the perfection of the characters February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 47 drawn by a consummate artist, or truly appre ciate the brain rest and stimulus of the idiotic rhymes. " Alice in Wonderland " is the only thing that has touched on Mr. Lear s nonsense with real success. This new edition of " Non sense Songs and Stories " is sumptuously gotten up. To any one who does not know Mr. Lear s books a great treat is in store. (Warne. $1.25) Three of Us. BARNEY, Cossack, and Rex, three dogs of varied gifts, nourishing under varied condi tions, are the heroes of three stories, all of de cided interest. All these dogs are loved by the little and big human animals with whom they spend their ups and downs of canine life, and the genial story-teller who brings their talents and defects before her eager readers proves herself possessed of the great gift of talking to children in a manner to reach their loyal, im pulsive little hearts. She has the further gift of appealing to their observant, wondering, ap preciative eyes, and has pictured all the dogs her pen teaches them to love and pity in all their various joys and vicissitudes with a pencil equal ly practical and equally appealing to the very best in children. The publishers have made a very pretty book, designed especially for the holiday season, but good throughout the year for every boy and girl who has a birthday com ing, and a dog who is just one shade less dear than the dearest human being in the child s world. Mrs. Izora C. Chandler has ac complished a work of which she may be justly proud. (Hunt & Eaton. $2.) The Ralstons. MARION CRAWFORD S new novel, " The Ral stons," is in some ways an even more fascinating depiction of New York life than was " Kathe- rine Lauderdale," of which the later story is a direct and natural sequel. In " The Ralstons," Mr. Crawford s dramatic sense is permitted full play. The surroundings having already been sufficiently elaborated, interest is concentrated on the men and women who figure in the tale. Of New York as a city of magnificent and terrible contrasts New York in the purely material aspect one gets but slight glimpses. What one does get is a vital, vivid, wonderfully picturesque and mem orable impression of New York as the scene of human passions, fears and hopes. The char acters all have a definite part to perform, each contributes to the general advancement of the plot, and in their relations with each other they have the independence and the mutuality of influence which are always to be found where men and women mingle in formal association or close companionship. Katherine Ralston, still known to her world as Katherine Lauder dale, is the central figure, and upon her portrait the author lavishes exquisite sympathy and delicacy of feeling. It is no ideal portrait that he draws, for Katherine is not perfect ; but Mr. Crawford makes no apologies for her faults, as he does not seek to glorify her virtues. His is the artistic attitude. The best thing that can be said for "The Ralstons," in the estimation of the average reader, is that it is immensely entertaining ; once in the full swing of the narrative, one is carried on quite irresistibly to the end. The From " Three of Us." Copyright, 1894, by Hunt & Eaton. SHE COULD WEAR GOLDEN SLIPPERS. 4 8 THE LITERARY NEWS. \_February, 1895 style is throughout easy and graceful and the text abounds in wise and witty reflections on the realities of existence. As for Mr. Craw ford s humor it is charmingly indirect, spontane ous and alluring. He winds up by saying that his only object in writing " The Ralstons " was to please ; he has, however, done more ; he has made his story, consciously or not, a source of agreeable edification. It is pleasant to learn that the further fortunes of Katherine in the role of millionaire and matron are to supply the theme of another tale yet to come. (Macmil- lan. 2 v., $2.) The Beacon. A Child of the Age. ENGLISH or foreign, there is no work among those now before me which is so original as that of the late Francis Adams. "A Child of the Age " was intended as a prelude to a series of books, which should cohere on one broad, general motive. Masterpieces, Adams hoped and believed, they were to be. "A Child of the Age ", is certainly not a masterpiece; it has not even just escaped that rank. Only the most ill-balanced judgment could claim such pre-eminence for it. At most, it is original, moving, often fascinating ; a great deal, no doubt, but not all that is needful. It is also written in a disconnected, sometimes slovenly, and often grotesque fashion ; and the " blind hysterics " of this particular Child of the Age are as tiresome and unconvincing as those of the much abused Tennysonian Celt. The method of Francis Adams in this strange book is that of a realist, who has reached the ex treme of impressionism. If the story had been written with more reserve that is, if the author had more firmly held the reins of his emotion the result would have been much more impres sive. In Francis Adams we have a belated member of the Spasmodic school, ready at any page to go one better than Dobell or Alexander Smith. At times he tells, in gasps and sobs and pantings, what restrained prose would convey with far keener and more profound effect. But there are passages, episodes, one or two whole chapters, which prove that Francis Adams was a writer of remarkable achievement as well as of altogether exceptional promise. The draw back to the book is its author s evident belief in the fineness of his hero s nature. But in actual life Leicester would be an intolerable person insanely arrogant, exquisitely sentimental, and selfish almost to the extreme of brutality. If this is the new wine of the age, it leaves a bad flavor on the palate. Perhaps, however, Francis Adams did consciously imagine Leicester not merely as a brooding phantasist, but also as an ill-bred and selfish youth, redeemed by several brilliant qualities, and once or twice a noble trait. No one who reads this latest addition to the Keynotes series will fail to appreci ate the truth and delicacy of the portraiture of Rosy, the young girl who gives all to Bertram Leicester in exchange for his fugitive passion. The chapter in which is described the finale of their drama is a strongly realized and moving piece of writing. (Roberts. $i.) London Academy. In the Dozy Hours. Miss REPPLIER has added another volume of essays to her list. There are a score of them, with subjects ranging from kittens to pastels, and all marked by the sprightly touch which has become a marked characteristic of her liter ary productions. With the essayist, style is of pre-eminent importance, more so than even choice of subject, and Miss Repplier early made the humanities her elected form of literature and the light essay her special medium. We cannot recall that she has deviated from the line she has chosen, .and year by year she has per fected her style until she has earned an enviable place among the essayists of America. She has a sense of humor which is almost masculine (pace Miss Repplier), .and a sense of the ridic ulous which is probably a feminine trait, and a fluency of expression, which is also presuma bly attributed to her sex. Comparisons are odious, but Mr. Augustine Birrell sometimes comes to one s mind when reading Miss Rep- plier s work, and not to her disadvantage either. She has also a vein of good common sense which makes her papers more than mere vehicles of entertainment. . : " Aut Caesar aut Nihil" is an earnest plea for her position on the much vexed woman question. She pleads for that true dignity of womanhood which compels her to disavow any movement which sets up another standard than that estab lished for man. Where all is so excellent it is difficult to select, but we may allude to the paper on " Lectures," which is a capital hit at that desire to be considered cultured which finds its expression in attendance at lectures which are but as dust and ashes to the ambitious lis tener. For, as she says, " the necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of the day." Her il lustrations and quotations are apt at all times, and particularly so in this paper. While her essays show the marks of care they cannot be said to smell of the lamp ; they be tray the result of thoughtful reading and clever application, and as novels constitute so large a proportion of light literature, her line of work calls for especial attention. (Houghton, Mirfiin & Co. $1.25.) Public Opinion. February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 49 Sin (Eclectic iWContfjIs Hcbieto of Current ILtterature. EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT. FEBRUARY, 1895. THE BOOKS OF 1894. To GIVE the " reading public " a concise view of the literary output in the English language of an entire year, that shall be fairly represen tative of its general tendency, of its distinctive specialties and of its average quality, is an un dertaking beset with difficulties. AMERICAN BOOKS. CLASSIFICATIONS. 1893 1894 & ff. V C * 772 400 597 387 436 1 66 199 183 122 "3 204 I2 9 170 I 2O II 7 55 60 24 27 4281 t/5 11 *% W 360 3^ 45 10 38 78 !3 141 3 IO 15 21 21 15 g 5 4 5 1 853 4281 5i34 JS <u o * 573 44 442 426 3i5 i33 233 208 163 MI 140 118 116 127 118 So 42 42 10 3837 C/3 SI z _s 156 4=; 2 6 1 6 29 133 21 29 24 2 4 21 42 28 II 20 6 9 7 647 3837 4484 Law , Theology and Religion Political and Social Science Literary History and Miscellany History Physical and Mathematical Science.. Medical Science, Hygiene Description, Travel Fine Art and Illustrated Books Useful Arts Sports and Amusements Domestic and Rural Mental and Moral Philosophy Humor and Satire . . Totals .... ENGLISH BOOKS. 1894. .- -- > S&*" S O m " B ~ ri "t/j 53 c p fjj^ U CLASSIFICATIONS. V- S^ w^ a& s jS^s ^ 0"^ G c g o d 3-0 23 o3 03 <U III Fiction 37 2 97 62 Theology and Religion 184 262 Kducation and Language 330 22 90 Juvenile 261 22 61 82 Political and Social Science 8 72 Literary History and Miscellany 152 35 50 History I2 5 T 4 48 Physical and Mathematical Sci ence 76 78 Biography, Memoirs 5 3 2 79 Medical Science Hygiene i 83 Fine Art and Illustrated Books. 93 7 38 Useful Arts 46 Sports and Amusements Domestic and Rural 33 23 Mental and Moral Philosophy.. 28 4 Humor and Satire .. ^ 2821 577 1086 These lists duplicate each other inextricably, and we shall make no effort to separate the American and English books of 1894 by any national chemistry. Together they represent the contributions of a year by authors who write the English language for the inspiration, the encouragement, the instruction and the en tertainment of the " reading public." Fiction, always demanded and supplied in larger quantities than any other form of litera ture, received this year several notable additions, distinguished however more for literary work manship than for lasting interest or ethical truth. Many authors seem to have worked by contract system this year, and the work can necessarily only be classed with the more or less expert labor of the writer-tradesmen, whom practice has made perfect in the "tricks of the trade." Political and social problems, particularly the vexed questions arising from the present un natural antagonism between men and women, taking its rise chiefly in the selfishness of both men and women, have formed the keynote of the great bulk of this year s fiction. Stories ap pealing to trained, cultivated minds and written wholly to afford recreation after the real labor of life, would need no second figure in their enumeration. Woman s unrest and its cause in sex, circumscribed education and political in equality, was pointed out in hundreds of novels, which did neither their authors nor their read ers justice or credit. On the whole, when we have mentioned one dozen novels we must think hard to remember the next one that was anything more than the popular attraction of a few weeks. Things look more hopeful when we turn to work depending upon realities and authenticated facts. Several works of rare merit in subject and method were added to the literature of biography. In this field there have been many volumes during the past few years that also bore traces of the hurry, skurry, pitchfork method of contract compilation. It seems as though the writers feared the interest in their subjects would die before they could throw together the material collected by steam and telegraph and sifted almost by sleight of hand. Some really good works appeared in the department of his tory. The average of merit was high and the titles on the next page show the periods and subjects covered in the most notable books. An epidemic of Napoleonic memoirs, histories and collections of gossip marked the year. Literary criticism and books about books ap peared in several works of great merit. Good critics are needed more than all else to make the literature of England and America what it should be. A critic who knows the subject better than the author he dissects, who knows 5 THE LITERARY NEWS, \_February, 1895 at a glance what is in the volume before him We sorrow to realize that the year just ended that no other volume has covered, who judges has placed upon the long roll of the honored fearlessly but kindly and helpfully, who, regard- dead the names of Oliver Wendell Holmes, less of the author s former achievement or pres- Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, ent fame, pronounces upon his work as though it Constance Fenimore Woolson, Edmund Yates, were the first contribution of a new writer, and Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Walter Pater, Prof, who signs and stands by his decisions, is the W. D. Whitney, James Anthony Froude, Prof, literary need of the hour. Henry Morley, Prof. G. J. Romanes, Susan The great financial depression of the past Fenimore Cooper, and Jane G. Austin, two years and the questions asked more and Who is now doing the work these names more persistently day by day regarding the stand for? Who is training for it in the spirit rights of capital, the duties and responsi- they put into their work ? True literature bilities and privileges of labor, the future polit- would seem to have been robbed rather than ical, social and domestic sphere of woman, the enriched in 1894 ! possibilities and dangers of large cities, and the hundred other problems which are the outcome ~, -n -r> r +r,f*Y of natural growth or are brought about by greed, gl e geSt StltlkS f ** steam and the inherent selfishness of men and women, called out an unusually large number of BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. works dealing with social and political science. Gary, E. George William Curtis. ^.^..Houghton, M No department of writing this year contains Church, S. H. Oliver Cromwell. $ 3 Putnam , , , Cobbe. 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The unknown life of Jesus Christ. $i .50 Dillingham Winslow, Anna Green, Diary of. $1.25.. Houghton, M "Wright, J. Early Bibles of America, revised and en larged. $3 Whittaker 5 2 THE LITERARY NEWS. \_February, 1895 ARTICLES IN FEBRUARY MAGAZINES. Articles marked with an asterisk are illustrated. ARTISTIC, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Arena, Italy of the Renaissance, Flower. Atlantic, New Figures in Literature and Art, I., Daniel Chester French, Cortissoz. Century Characteristics of George Inness, Sheldon. Forum, Outlook for Decorative Art in America, Fowler. Godey s Private Picture Galleries of the United States Munger collection,* Cooper. Harper s, Art in Glasgow,* Eliz. R. Pennell ; Music in America (with portrait), Weeks. Nine. Century (Jan.), Paintings at Pompeii, Kennedy. Scribner s, Recent work of Elihu Vedder,* Brownell ; American Wood-Engravers Gustav Kruell.* BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. North Am. Review, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Lang. Scribner s, Some Old Letters, ed. by Jas. F. Dwight. West. Review (Jan.), In Memoriam Dr. John Chap man. DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL. Atlantic, Voyage in the Dark, Robinson. Century, Death of Emin Pasha,* Mohun. Chautauquan, Famous Bridges of the World, Jamison. Harper s, Down the West Coast,* Lummis ; The H yakushos Sum mer Pleasures,* Sen Katayama ; Oudeypore, the City of the Sunrise, Weeks. Scribner s t End of the Continent* (Patagonia), Spears. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. Century, People in New York,*M. G. Van Rensselaer; In the Gray Cabins of New England, Rebecca Harding Davis. C/iautauquan, Sensible View of Marriage, Lucy B. Cope. Fort. Review, Ethics of Shop ping, Ladyjeune. Nine. Century( Jan.), Women under Islam, Lucy M. J. Garnett. North Am. Review, The Matrimonial Puzzle, Boyesen. Scribner s, Art of Living the Dwelling,* Grant. West. Review, Defence of the Modern Girl, By One of them. EDUCATIONAL. Atlantic,S\*bl\t Art of Speech- Reading, Mrs. A. G. Bell. Fomm, Student- Honor and College Examinations, Stevens. Godey s, Vassar College,* Eliz. E. Boyd.JVortA Am. Review, Why We Need a National Uni versity, Newcomb. FICTION. Atlantic, Life of Nancy, Sarah Orne Jewett ; "Come Down," A. M. Ewell. Century, End of the Game, Alice Brown ; He Would A-Wooing Go, Humphrey ; The Boy, Ruth Mc.E. Stuart. Chautauquan, The Blue Bonnet, Barnard; "For the Dearest," Emily Huntington. Godey s, Bentley s " Beat,"* Lida R. McCabe ; Smoke Rings,* Frank Chaffee; In De Vorsean,* F. M. Livingston. Harper s, John Sanders, Laborer,* F. Hopkinson Smith; Merry Maid of Arcady,* Mrs. Burton Har rison; A Domestic Interior, Grace King ; Love in the Big Barracks, * Ralph. Lippincotf s , The Chapel of Ease, Harriet Riddle Davis ; Quong Lee, Lynde ; A Precedent, Alice M. Whitlock. Scribner s, Bisnaga s Madeline, Beard ; A Moral Obliquity, Lynde. HISTORY. Century, Lincoln, Chase, and Grant, Noah Brooks. Harper s, New York Colonial Privateers,* Janvier. HYGIENIC AND SANITARY. Atlantic, Physical Training in the Public Schools, O Shea. West. Review (Jan.), Struggle for Healthy Schools, Davies. LITERARY. Atlantic, Champion of the Middle Ground, Edith M. Thomas ; Celia Thaxter, Annie Fields. Century, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Annie Fields. Chautaitquan, Journalism in the Congregational and Presbyterian churches, Foster. Forum, The Great Realists and the Empty Story-Tellers, Boyesen. Godey s, Sappho The Woman and the Time,* S. M. Miller. Lippincott s , Lingo in Literature, Elam. Nine. Century (Jan.), Defoe s "Apparition of Mrs. Veal," Aitken. North Am. Review, Literature and the Eng. Book Trade, Ouida. Scribner s, James A. Froude, Birrell. West. Revieiv (Jan.), Towards the Appreciation of Emile Zola, Townshend ; William Cullen Bryant, Bradfield. MEDICAL SCIENCE. The Serum Treatment of Diphtheria, Armstrong. MENTAL AND MORAL. Arena, Dynamics of Mind, I., Henry Wood. North Am. Review, The Psychical Comedy, Minot. NATURE AND SCIENCE. Atlantic, The Frosted Pane, Roberts. Chautauquan, The World s Debt to Electricity, Trowbridge. Lippincott s, The Diamond-Back Terrapin, Fitzgerald ; A Walk in Winter, C. C. Abbott./^/. Science, Nature s Triumph, Rodway. POETRY. Atlantic, The Dancer, Ednah P. Clarke. Centiiry, The Passing of Muham- med, Edwin Arnold. Godey s, A Valentine,* Suckling. Harper s, " Vox Clamantis," Tabb. Lippincott s i With Weyman in Old France, Powell. Scribner s, A Question of Privilege, Bret Harte ; The City of Dream Rosamund Marriott-Watson. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. Arena, The Presi dent s Currency Plan, W. J. Bryan ; Penology in Europe and America, S. J. Barrows ; The New Woman of the South, Josephine K. Henry; Sexual Purity and the Double Standard, Bel- langee ; Gambling, C. H. Hamlin. Atlantic, A Study of the Mob, Boris Sidis ; Russia as a Civilizing Force in Asia, J. M. Hubbard ; Present Status of Civil Service Reform; T. Roosevelt. Century., New Weapons of the United States Army, Victor L. Mason. Chautauquan , Dr. Parkhurst and His Work, A. C. Wheeler. Fort. Review (Jan.), The Collapse of China at Sea, S. Eardley-Wilmot. Forum, Should the Government Retire from Banking? W. C. Cornwall; Why Gold is Exported, A. S. Heidel- bach ; The Social Discontent, I., Its Causes, Henry Holt ; Steps towards Government Con trol of Railroads, C. D. Wright. Godey s, Nihil ism Up to Date, Gribayedoff. Harper s, French Fighters in Africa,* P. Bigelow ; What is Gambling? John Bigelow. Lippincott s, Fate of the Farmer, Powers. Nine. Century (Jan.) Triumph of Japan, Douglas. NortJi Am. Re view, The Financial Muddle, J. S. Morton ; W. M. Springer ; H. W. Cannon ; Politics and the Farmer. Pop. Science, Symbols. Helen Zim- mern. Scribner s, Passing of the Whigs,* Noah Brooks. West. Review (Jan.), Wanted : a Newer Trade Unionism.* Stobart. THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. Arena, True Occultism, Margaret B. Peeke. Forum, Religious Study of a Baptist Town- (Westerly, R. I.), W. B. Hale. Nine. Century (Jan.), Auricular Confession and the English Church, Canon Shore. North Am. Review, The New Pulpit, H. R. Haweis. February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 53 0urt)tg of Current Citerature, Order through your bookseller. " There is no "worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence and the purity of any community than their general purchase of books; nor is there any one who does more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller." PROF. DUNN. ART, MUSIC, DRAMA. The fables of ^Esop : selected, told anew, and their history traced, by Jos. Jacobs; done into pictures by R. Heighway. Edition deluxe. Macmillan. 12, (Cranford ser.) buck ram, net, $14. BALDRY, A. LYS. Albert Moore, his life and works ; il. with 10 photogravures and about 70 other il. Macmillan. 4, $22. 50. BARLOW, JANE. The end of Elfintown ; il. by Laurence Housman. Edition de luxe. Mac millan. 8, silk, net, fg. 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Life and genius of Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto. Putnam. 12, $2.25. Jacopo Robusti, commonly called " Tintoret to," was born in Venice in 1518 and died 1594. He was one of the greatest painters of the Ve netian or of any school ; his works, mostly fres coes, were made in Venice, many of them still remaining to view in the churches and palaces. A thorough life of Tintoretto in English has long been needed one that should understandingly set forth his work and his genius we have it here, A list of his paintings and where they are is given. SWIFT, JONATHAN. Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Lemuel Gulliver ; with a preface by H . Craik ; il. by C . E. Brock. Edition de hixe. Macmillan. 8, (Cranford ser.) buckram, net, $14. WINTER, W. Life and art of Joseph Jefferson; with some account of his ancestry and of the Jefferson family of actors. Macmillan. 12, $2.25. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. BELLOC, M. A., w^Shedlock, M.,eds. 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She since has been subject to spasms and trances, has lost the sense of sight, hearing, and touch, but seems to have received a power of second sight and double and even sextuple consciousness. The book is made up of the testimony of many who have studied her case. She is still alive and her con dition remains about the same. GODWIN, PARKE. Commemorative addresses : George William Curtis, Edwin Booth, Louis Kossuth, John James Audubon, William Cullen Bryant. Harper. 12, $1.75. " It is no slight thing for the youth of the country to have heard Mr. Godwin speak of such men as he has clasped hands with. He is the last of the little group of orators to whom the public turns naturally for commemorative addresses. His memory reaches back of the middle years of the century and holds with singular tenacity the details of his intimate knowledge of the fine minds which have given to the century its value as a historic and literary period. Already the names and events that are familiar to his lips have a certain significance to us as belonging to a past order. Already the lives that are to him pulsing with vital associa tions have become to us landmarks of a time that has taken on a semblance of antiquity in comparison with the immediate and very differ ent present. " Mr. Godwin is an artist of the old school, and his portraits have that which portraits do not always have, an indisputable likeness to the sitter. Posterity may yield its admiration to very different art, but when it desires to find out how the chief people of Mr. Godwin s genera tion looked to their companions, they may go with assurance to this gallery of portraits. "- N. Y. Times. 54 THE LITERARY NEWS. [February, 1895 HERMANN, PAUL. Das leben des Fiirsten Bis marck : eine geschichte der wieder geburt der deutschen nation. Fred. Klein Co., [Julius Salomon & Co.] il. 12, $i ; pap., 50 c. Notwithstanding the numberless volumes de voted to Bismarck the author claims there is still room for a cheap biography, well printed on good paper, which, written on free soil, can tell the story of the making of the German em pire without any political coercion. He ranks Bismarck with Frederick the Great, and makes a telling comparison of the work accomplished by these heroes of two centuries. The many Germans who came to America in the midst of the events with which the author deals in excel lent German will appreciate the immense work he has put into these gleanings from the Bis marck literature which covers half a century. JEBB, Mrs. ]. GLADWYN. A strange career : life and adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb, by his widow ; with an introd. by H. Rider Haggard. Roberts, por., 12, $1.25, JOINVILLE, FRANCOIS FERDINAND PHILIPPE L. Marie D Orleans (Prince de) Memoirs (vieux souvenirs} of the Prince de Joinville ; from the French by Lady Mary Loyd ; il. from drawings by the author. Macmillan. 8, $2.25. The Prince de Joinville was the third son of Louis Philippe and was born in 1818. He was for many years in the French navy, becoming a rear-admiral in 1844. On the breaking out of our late war in 1861, he came to this country with his young son, and his nephews, the Comte de Paris and the Due de Chartres, the two latter becoming members of McClellan s staff. The present volume ends with the year 1848, the year of the revolution which deprived his father of his throne. The volume is rich in anecdote and personal reminiscences. VEDDER, H. C. American writers of to-day. Silver, Burdett & Co. 12, $1.50. Literary and biographical papers on Edmund Clarence Stedman, Francis Parkman, W. D. Howells, H. James, C. Dudley Warner, T. Bailey Aldrich, Mark Twain, Francis Marion Crawford, Frances Hodgson Burnett, C. Egbert Craddock, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Adeline D. T. Whitney, Bret Harte, E. E. Hale, E. Eg- gleston, G. Washington Cable, R. H. Stoddard, Francis R. 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The founder and disciples of a school noted chiefly for work in psychology. FICTION. BARLOW, JANE. The end of Elfintown ; il. by Laurence Housman. Macmillan. 16, $1.50. BARR, Mrs. AMELIA E. The flower of Gala Water: a novel ; il. by C. Kendrick. Bonner. 12, (The Ledger lib., no. 119.) $1.25; pap., 50 c. CHAMBERLAIN, H. R. 6000 tons of gold. Flood & Vincent. 12, $1.25. " Mr. H. R. Chamberlain has written a story of remarkable ingenuity in 6000 tons of gold. This is a consideration, in highly picturesque and interesting form, of what would happen in case a large amount of gold should suddenly be added to the currency of a nation, or of the world. It is probable that not many have thought how astounding and how disas trous the effects of such an addition would be ; certainly nobody has followed out the con sequences, in the shape of a readable and vivid story, with such an application of logic and supply of illuminative detail. The instruction that is contained in such a story is particularly valuable at this time, in view of the discussions that have been maintained regarding the free coinage of silver and the possibility of employing silver as a standard of value. 6000 tons of gold first appeared in serial form in the C/iau- tauquan, and was afterwards published anony mously in England, where it excited an unusual interest." The Sim. DOYLE, A. CONAN. The parasite : a story ; il. by Howard Pyle. Harper. 12, f i. " The parasite is another of Dr. A. Conan Doyle s capital stories having for a background the profession of which he is a member. It is a study of mesmeric and hypnotic phenomena. A February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. scholarly physician, skeptical of all save material things, is compelled to acknowledge the subtle and elusive influence of a female medium. Not withstanding her physical deformity and facial homeliness, the medium who falls in love with the doctor exerts her influence so powerfully that he is drawn to her at most unconscionable hours of the day and night. But the doctor does not yield without struggling valiantly against such despotism, and although he is a severe sufferer he is happily released in the end. The story is admirably told, and there is present in the volume that indefinable grace of style characteristic of Dr. Doyle s best work. From the same house is sent a new edition of Dr. Doyle s White Company. Many competent critics believe that no novel of recent years is more praiseworthy than this. Dr. Doyle is obviously a close student of Sir Walter Scott, and in this romance he has succeeded in re producing the heroic spirit and energy of the great Wizard of the North. At least two char acters in the White Company are drawn with the masterly strength of genius." Phila delphia Press. DOYLE, A. CONAN. The white company : a novel ; il. by G. Willis Bardwell. (New lib. ed.} Harper, il. 12, $1.75. EGERTON, G., (pseud, for Mrs. Clairmonte.) Dis cords. Roberts Bros. 16, $i. ESCHSTRUTH, NATALY v. (Baroness). The op posite house : a novel ; from the German, by Mary J. Safford ; il. by H. M. Eaton. Bon- ner. 16, (Ledger lib., no. 118.) $i ; pap., 50 c. The handsome young hero is from the mer chant class of Germans ; his father had made an immense fortune in a mill, which the son had largely squandered at the gaming-table and upon a beautiful dancer. His life breaks his mother s heart, her sudden death bringing his reckless career to a standstill. He determinf s to reform, and is upheld in his intentions by the young Baroness who lives in the " opposite house." These young people love each other, but are for a long time separated by class prej udices, and the bitter enmity of a discarded mistress and her equally unscrupulous partner in vice. MACHEN, ARTHUR. The great god Pan and The inmost light. Roberts . 16, $i.. TENDERED, MARY L. Dust and laurels: a study in nineteenth century womanhood. Apple- ton. 16, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 158.) $i; pap., 50 c. REID, CHRISTIAN, [pseud, for Mrs. Frances C. Fisher.] The land of the sun (visfas Mexi- canas}. Appleton. il. 12, $1.75. STEVENSON, ROB. L. Will o the mill. Joseph Knight Co. 12, (Cosy corner ser.) 50 c. An allegorical story which pictures the life of a lonely boy who lived at an old mill, situated in a remote valley between two high mountains; this lad was fated for years to watch from a distance the passing of many travellers, and finally the mill where he lives is, on account of his adopted father s greed transformed into an inn; then the wayfarers are brought into direct touch with him, and his opinions of life are con firmed. His views of death are realized and described in the last chapter. HISTORY. ALGER, J. G. Glimpses of ihe French Revolu tion . m>ths, ideals, and realities. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.75. Papers on general incidents or phases of the French Revolution. Under the title of "Myths" Mr. Alger disproves many sensa tional stories regarding the Reign of Terror, which have gained general credence such as leather being made out of human skins, the last supper of the Girondins, etc. "Utopias" deals with the many impracticable and visionary schemes of the time. Other chapters tell their own tale through their titles, which are : "Adoration of the Magi," "Prophetesses and Viragoes," "Children," "The revolutionary tribunal," "Women as victims," and "The prisons." ARCHER, T. A., and KINGSFORD, C. L. The crusades: the story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Putnam. il. map. 12, (The story of the nations ser., no. 43.) $1.50 ; hf. leath., $1.75. FERGUSON, H. Essays in American history. Pott. 12, $1.25. The four essays are entitled " The Quaker in New England," " The witches," " Sir Edmund Andros,"and " The loyalists." GRAETZ, H. History of the Jews. V. 4, From the rise of Kabbala (1270 C.E.) to the per manent settlement of the Marranos in Hol land (1618 C.E.) Jewish Pub. Sec. of America, 1894. 8, $3. Contents: Cultivation of the Kabbala, and proscription of science ; The first expulsion of the Jews from France, and its consequences ; The age of the Asherides and of Gersor - ides ; The black death : The age of Chasdai Crescas and Isaac Ben Shesbet ; Jewish apos tates and the disputation at Tortosa ; The Hussites progress of Jewish literature ; Capis- tiano and his persecution of the Jews ; The Jews in Italy and Germany before the expulsion from Spain ; The Inquisition in Spain ; Ex pulsion of the Jews from Spain ; Expulsion of the Jews from Navarre and Portugal ; Results of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal general view ; Reuchlin and the Talmud ; The Kabbala and Messianic fanati cism the Marranos and the Inquisition ; Striv ings of eastern Jews for unity ; The Jews in Turkey ; The Jews in Poland ; Settlement of Jews in Holland ; The Dutch Jerusalem and the Thirty Years war. HOLM, ADOLF. The history of Greece, from its commencement to the close of the in dependence of the Greek people ; authorized tr. from the German. In 4 v. V. i, Up to the end of the sixth century B.C. Macmillan. 12, $2.50. " The first volume of Dr. Holm s History, now presented (the first of four), embraces the period from beginning of Greek life to the end of the sixth century B.C. The material is well digested (the chapters being short and homogeneous in contents), the style is compact and lucid, the notes are rich and cover a wide range of cita tion, and the temper of the discussion is digni fied and confidence-inspiring. As a compendious and thorough presentation of the latest and best conclusions of archaeological, critical and THE LITERARY NEWS. \_February, 1895 logical inquiry after the realities that lie veiled in the early twilight of Greek story, this work promises to be of the highest value, and to be come a standard authority." The Watchman. HOLST, H. v. The French Revolution : tested by Mirabeau s career: twelve lectures on the history of the French Revolution, delivered at the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass. Cal- laghan. 2 v., 12, $3.50. Readers and critics are asked in a prefatory note to take this work for what it purports to be : not a book on the history of the French Revolution, but merely some lectures on it, composed principally with a view to illustrating and criticising some of its main features by the opinions and career of the foremost political genius of its first phase. V. i contains : The heritage of Louis xiv. and Louis xv. ; Paris and Versailles ; Mending the old garments with new cloth ; The Revolution before the Revolution ; Atypical family tragedy of portentous historical import; The states general ; A rudderless craft in a storm-tossed sea. V. 2 contains : The party of one man; The 5th and 6th of October, 1789, and the memoir of the isth ; The decisive defeat of the 7th of November ; Other defeats and mischievous victories ; Mirabeau and the court; The end of a unique tragedy. SCHARF, J. T. History of the Confederate states navy from its organization to the sur render of its last vessel ; its stupendous struggle with the great navy of the United States, the engagements fought in the riv ers and harbors of the south, and upon the high seas, blockade-running, first use of iron clads and torpedoes, and privateer history. 2d ed. Jos. McDonough. por. il. 4, $3.50. WHARTON, ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH. Colonial days and dames; with il. by E. S. Holloway. Lippincott. il. 12, $1.25. Interesting glimpses of social and domestic life, north and south, in colonial days, gathered from many sources, are embraced in seven chapters, entitled : Colonial days ; Women in the early settlement; A group of early poetesses; Colonial dames; Old landmarks ; Wedding and merry-making; Legend and romance. By the author of " Through colonial doorways." WILSON, JA. GRANT, ed. The presidents of the United States, 1789-1894; by J. Fiske, C. Schurz, W. E. Russell, (and others. ] Apple- ton, por. 8, $3.50. HUMOR AND SATIRE. FORD, JA. L. The literary shop, and other tales. G. H. Richmond & Co. 12, $1.25. LITERATURE, COLLECTED WORKS. BOOK-LOVER S almanac for the year 1895 ; $d year. Duprat & Co. il. 12, pap., $3; $6. Contents: Of the extra illustration of books, by W. L. Andrews ; Balzac as publisher his bitter experience, 1825-1830, by G. Ferry ; Dr. Rabelais poem, by Eugene Field ; A poet s publisher Humphrey Moseley, 1640-1659, by Beverly Chew; The decline of wood-engraving, by W. J. Linton; Ballade of rare books, by M. A. B. Evans; Recent ex-libris ; A book from the library of St. Helena; Suggestions how to bind our books, by W. Matthews. Prognostications gathered from the writings and sayings of eminent men and women during the past year accompany calendars for the twelve months. Printed on linen paper, each page encircled with a border printed in pale-green ink. CLOUSTON, W. A. Hieroglyphic Bibles, their origin and history : a hitherto unwritten chapter of bibliography ; with fac-similes of old wood-cut il. , and a new hieroglyphic Bible told in stories by F. A. Lang, with hundreds of tiny colored pictures. F. A. Stokes Co. 4, bds., $9. COLUMBIAN lunar annual for the third year of the fifth American century, [by D. G. Porter,] [1895.] The Poet Lore Co. 8, pap., 25 c. CURTIN, JEREMIAH, comp. Hero-tales of Ire land ; collected by Jeremiah Curtin. Little, Brown & Co. 12, $2. " The people of this country ought to be grateful to that accomplished American scholar, Jeremiah Curtin, for the translations from va ried and quite dissimilar foreign languages, which he has added to our literature. His ver sion of the wonderful novels of Sienkiewicz opens up to us a most interesting department of history, of which English-speaking people have hitherto been profoundly ignorant ; and his latest publication, Hero-tales of Ireland, is perhaps quite as valuable, with the added charm of a wild, delightful, primeval, Celtic imagina tion. Possibly we appreciate these stories more thoroughly from the circumstance that by an agreement with this journal, they were per sonally collected by Mr. Curtin in the least known parts of Ireland, where the peasantry still use the ancient Celtic tongue, and accord ingly first made their appearance in English in our columns. But we are sure that our readers will thank us for the information that they can now be procured in a very handsome yet con venient volume. A present more welcome than a copy of this volume could not be made to a student of folk lore." The Sun. HOPPER, NORA. Ballads in prose, (Irish le gends ;) with a title-page and cover by Walter West. Roberts, sq. 12, $1.50. LEWES, L. The women of Shakespeare ; from the German, by Helen Zimmern. Putnam. 8, $2.50. MORTON, F. W., comp. Woman in epigram flashes of wit, wisdom, and satire from the world s literature. McClurg. 16, $i. " Woman in epigram is the title of a little volume compiled by Frederick W. Morton, who sets out by declaring that woman is an enigma of the ages the world s sphinx. To one she has seemed divine; to another satanic, and he proceeds to set forth the opinions of a multitude of poets, novelists, historians, paint ers, and statesmen to show the diversity of opinion on the subject. After all he leaves the subject as he finds it. The compiler draws very freely from himself, and we are bound to say his opinions are much worthier a place in the collection than those of some other authors much better known." The Sun. PHELPS, AUSTIN, D.D., ^W^FRINK, H. A. Rhet oric, its theory and practice : " English style in public discourse." Scribner. 12, net, $1.25. SALA, G. A. Things I have seen and people I have known. Cassell. 2 v. , por. 12, $3. A collection of essays and sketches. These February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 57 subjects are : The real Thackeray ; Charles Dickens as I knew him ; Charles Dickens in Paris ; Paris fifty years ago ; Parisian streets in days of yore ; A most famous funeral ; On the rail ; Under the stars and stripes ; In a Mexican sombrero ; Usurers of the past ; " Fi Fa " and " Ca Sa " ; The fast life of the past ; Pantomimes past and present ; Operas re membered ; Songs that come back to me ; Pictures that haunt me ; Taverns that have vanished ; Dinners departed and discussed ; Cooks of my acquaintance ; Costumes of my in fancy ; Handwriting of my friends. MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. CALL, ANNIE PAYSON. As a matter of course. Roberts. 16, $i. "Mrs. Call announces that the aim of this book is to assist towards the removal of nervous irritants, which are not only the cause of much physical disease, but materially inter fere with the best possibilities of usefulness and pleasure in everyday life. She holds that 4 this sham civilization, this selfish refinement of barbarous propensities, this clashing of nervous systems instead of the clashing of weapons is largely, if not entirely, the cause of the variety and extent of nervous trouble throughout the world. It is not confined to nervous prostration ; if there is a defective spot organically the nervous irritation is almost certain to concentrate upon it. No such super ficial remedies as rest and food will effect a cure. In other words, Mrs. Call believes that the mental and nervous disorders of the age are due to the imperfection the barbarousness of modern civilization. She has a great many things to say in the line of this thought." Chicago Inter-Ocean. HYSLOP.JA. H. The elements of ethics. Scribner. 8, $2.50. LADD, G. T. Philosophy of mind : an essay in the metaphysics of psychology. Scribner. 8, $3- NATURE AND SCIENCE. BARING-GOULD, SABINE. The deserts of South ern France : an introduction to the limestone and chalk plateaux of ancient Aquitaine ; il. by S. Hutton and F. D. Bedford. Dodd, Mead & Co. 2 v. , 8, net, $8. The south-centre of France has its own history which is little known, this interesting bit of country being practically unexplored. Baring- Gould has written a history for the unlearned of a land he carefully studied and learned to love. The geologic formations, the deposits and the rude stone monuments, relics of pre historic ages, are explained for the "general reader," and the beautiful scenery, the pic turesque castles, and the quaint churches find adequate and charming description with pen and pencil. The land also abounds in historic reminiscences. In an appendix there is a list of authorities to be consulted for further in formation, covering 10 pages. CHEIRO, (psciid.} Cheiro s language of the hand : a complete practical work on the sci ences of cheirognomy and cheiromancy, con taining the system, rules, and experience of Cheiro the palmist ; il. by Theo. Dore ; re productions of famous hands taken from life. Brentano s. por. 8, $2. The anonymous author of this work claims to be both a seer and a palmist ; he reads the character from the hand, and looks into the future at the same time, for those who make him personal visits ; in the present work he writes of palmistry as a science, and offers many facts, both medical and scientific, to demonstrate that " as the hands are the servants of the system, so also all that affects the system affects them." The book is interestingly illustrated with pictures of typical hands, abnormal hands, and hands of famous people. MELLIAR, Rev. A. FOSTER. The book of the rose. Macmillan. 12, $2.75. POETRY. BRIDGES, ROB. The growth of love. T. B. Mosher. 8, (English reprint ser., no. 3.) 400 small copies, net, $1.50 ; 40 large-pap, copies, net, $5 ; 10 Japan vellum, net, f 10. LYTLE, W. HAINES. Poems. Ed. with memoir, by W. H. Venable. Robert Clarke Co. 12, $1.25. PARTRIDGE, W. ORDWAY. The song-life of a sculptor. Roberts. 16, $i. SWINBURNE, ALGERNON C. Felise : a book of lyrics chosen from the works of Algernon Charles Swinburne. T. B. Mosher. nar. 8, (Bibelot ser. , no. 4.) flex, vellum, 725 copies, net, $i ; 25 copies on Japan vellum, net, $2.50. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. BEMIS, E. W. Relation of labor organizations to the American boy and to trade instruction. Phil. Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Soc. Sci. 8, (Publications of the society.) pap., 25 c. An answer to an article published in the Century Magazine for May, 1893, inspired by the late Col. Auchmuty, which among other things said : " the American boy has no rights which organized labor is bound to respect "- "he is refused admission to nearly all trade- unions, and is boycotted if he attempts to work as a non-union man." The many interesting facts and statistics offered by the writer show that this is not an exact presentation of the case. BEVAN, WILSON LLOYD. Sir William Petty : a study in English economic literature. Amer. Economic Assoc. 8, (Publications of the society, v. 9, no. 4.) pap., 75 c. Sir William Petty was a celebrated English statistician and political economist, born in 1623 and died 1687. His chief works are : " Treatise of taxes and contributions," " Political arith metic," " Essay concerning the multiplication of mankind," "Down survey of Irish lands," etc. This monograph was prepared because the writer believed Petty deserved more atten tion than he had hitherto received. It gives a very full account of its subject s life, his writ ings, etc. A list of works used or referred to covers a page. Bibliography of the printed works of Sir William Petty (3 pages). BOHM-BAWERK, EUGEN v. The ultimate stand ard of value. Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Soc. Sci. 8, (Publications of the society, no. 128.) pap., 50 c. THE LITERARY NEWS. \_February, 1895 DEVINE, E. T. The economic function of wom an. Amer. Acad. of Poli. and Soc. Sci. 8, (Publications of the society, no. 133.) pap., 15 c. Man is largely the producer, woman the con- tsumer. The author says " to woman has fallen he task of directing how the wealth brought into the house shall be used, whether much or little shall be made of it, and what kind of wealth shall be brought. In the current theories, the importance of this latter function has been ab surdly underestimated. With a clearer recog nition of its true relation to the whole subject of wealth, there must result an increased respect on the part of economists for the industrial func tions which woman performs." GLADSTONE, W. EWART. Thoughts from the writings and speeches of W. E. Gladstone ; comp. by special permission, and edited by G. Barnett Smith. Stokes. 12, $2.50. GOHRE, PAUL, Three months in a workshop : a practical study ; from the German, by A. B. Carr : with a prefatory note by R. T. Ely. Scribner. 12, (Social science ser.) $i. Prof. Ely in his prefatory note tells the story of this volume: "The author, a theological student, perplexed by conflicting theories and reports touching the lot of the wage-earners, their habits of thought, their struggles and their aspirations, determines to become a wage-earner himself, and, donning the garb of a workman, finds employment in a large manufacturing es tablishment in industrial Saxony. He mingles for three months with his fellows, who never suppose him to be anything else than r a wage earner; he shares their life, participates in their amuse ments, attends their political meetings, and then tells what he has seen and heard with that sim plicity which is in itself literary art of a high order." The book was greeted by the wealth and culture of Germany like a revelation, and has had many excellent practical results. GOULD, J. M., and TUCKER, G. F. The federal income tax. Little, Brown & Co. 12, <?/,$!. OSTRANDER, D. Social growth and stability : a consideration of the factors of modern society and their relation to the character of the coming state. Griggs. 12, $i. A few of the subjects considered are as fol lows : Foreign and native labor; Railroads and machinery ; Over-production and commercial stagnation ; Not charity but statesmanship wanted; The brotherhood of man ; The eight-hour day ; The American people com posite ; Restricted immigration ; Free-trade in juries; Protection beneficial ; Competition the root of all evil ; The government as a common carrier; Strikes; Trusts; Christianity as a social factor; The ultimate destruction of evil ; The reading of books ; Hard work essential to suc cess. PRICHARD, MARIA FRANCES. Parliamentary usage for women s clubs and for deliberative bodies other than legislative. Robert Clarke Co. 24, leatherette, 30 c. A treatise on parliamentary practice, which fully sustains itself as a guide and book of ref erence for the club member. It is thoroughly practical its statements being so direct, concise, and clear as to be fully understood by those just initiated into club relationships ; and yet the advanced sections of the book being sufficiently comprehensive to class it as a manual for the experienced and efficient officer of any deliber ative body. SHAW, ALBERT. Municipal government in Great Britain. The Century Co. 8, $2. WARD, C. OSBORNE. The equilibration of hu man aptitudes and powers ot adaptation. National Watchman Co. 12, $1.25. The Translator to the United States Depart ment of Labor received his conceptions of the economic adjustment of differing human apti tudes from Charles Darwin, whose keen, an alytical judgment in the physical world first gave him the key to the height on which the student of conditions must stand in order to per ceive society as a panorama and reason intelli gently upon cause and effect. The volume con tains chapters on the mechanism of society, the discord of faculties, the plagiaries of genius, the piracy of aptitudes, the concord of faculties, comparative claims, etc. The author claims that a pure political government must absorb both the isolated individual and the segregated society into a great business-like universality of mutual help and progress. He looks for all progress to a conscientious use of the only wea pon for reasoning beings the ballot. WARNER, AMOS G. American charities: a study in philanthropy and economics. Crowell. 12, (Library of economics and politics, no. 4.) $1-75. SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. YOUNG, FRANKLIN K., and HOWELL, EDWIN C. The minor tactics of chess : a treatise on the deployment of the forces in obedience to stra tegic principle. Roberts. 16, $i. THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. BIBLE. New Testament. A translation of the four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinaitic palimpsest, by Agnes Smith Lewis. Macmil- lan. 12, net, $1.90. BRIGGS, C. A. D.D. The Messiah of the gospels. Scribner. 8, $2. In the autumn of 1886 " Messianic prophecy " was published as the first of a series of volumes upon the Messianic ideal. (Sec notice, P. W., "Weekly Record." Nov. 13, 86, [772.] Dr. Briggs share in the Revision Movement of the Presbyterian Church has delayed the second volume of the series which is now offered and treats of the Messianic ideas of pre-Christian Judaism and of the Messiah of the Gospels. Dr. Briggs thinks the Christian Church has looked too much upon a cross with a dead Saviour upon it. He wishes the cross to be held more as a symbol of the resurrection as well as the death, and aims to inspire all Christians with a living faith that will make them do away with all that is sad, gloomy, and sour in religion and cling to its brightness and hope. CARUS, PAUL. The gospel of Buddha : accord ing to old records. Westermann. 12, $1.50. The contents are chiefly derived from the old Buddhist canon. Many passages are copied literally from the translations of the original texts. For those who want to trace the Buddh ism of this book to its fountain-head a table of reference has been added, which indicates the main sources of various chapters and points cut the parallelisms with western thought, especially in the Christian Gospels. The book aims to February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 59 impress readers with the poeiic grandeur of Buddha s personality and to set them thinking on the religious problems of to-day. A com parison of the agreements and differences be tween the two greatest religions of the world is made in a fair philosophic spirit. CHURCH CLUB OF NEW YORK. The rights and pretensions of the Roman see : lectures de livered in 1894 under the auspices of the Church Club of New York. E. & J. B. Young & Co. 12, net, 50 c. The lectures gathered in this volume are the natural sequel of the course in 1893 on "The Six (Ecumenical Councils of the undivided Cath olic Church." Their subjects are: "St. Peter and the primacy of the Roman see," " Sardica and appeals to Rome," " Rome, Constantinople, and the rise of Papal supremacy," " The growth of the Papal supremacy and feudalism," " The Babylonian exile and the Papal schism," and " The syllabus and Papal infallibility." FERGUSON, H. Four periods in the life of the church. Pott. 12, $1.25. Four lectures delivered in Christ Church, Hartford, Ct.. in the Lent of 1892. Their titles are: The church of the first three centuries; The church of the Christian Empire ; The church of western Europe ; The Reformation in western Europe. GRIFFIS, W. ELLIOT, D.D. The religions of Japan from the dawn of history to the era of of Meiji. Scribner. 12, $2. LAGRANGE, C. The great pyramid, by modern science: an independent witness to the literal chronology of the Hebrew Bible and British Israel identity, in accordance with Briick s law of the life of nations: with a new inter pretation of the time-prophecies of Daniel and St. John from the French ; recently rev., with five new appendices by the author, and a short note by C. Piazzi Smyth. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. 12, $3. PROTESTANT Episcopal church, Congress of the. Papers, addresses and discussions atthe Sixteenth Church Congress of the United States held in Boston, November 13, 14, 15 and 16. Whittaker. 8, pap., $r. PROTESTANT Episcopal church hymnal ; rev. and enl. in accordance with the action of the general convention of the Protestant Epis copal Church in the United States of America in the year 1892; ed. by Rev. C. L. Hutchins. D. B. Updike. 4, flex, leath., $5. SUKHADRA, BHIKSHU, comp. Buddhist cate chism : an introd. to the teachings of the Buddha Gotamo ; comp. from the holy writ ings of the Southern Buddhists ; with ex planatory notes for the use of Europeans ; from the 4th German ed. Putnam. 12, $i. A concise representation by question and an swer of Buddhism according to the Ceylonese Pali manuscripts of the Tipitakum. Contains only fundamental outlines of Buddha s doctrine, all legendary, mystic, and occult additions of his teachings being omitted. Compiled for those who are seeking neither lifeless dogmas nor results of science, but a doctrine free from all dogmas and forms, in accordance with nature and her laws, embracing the highest truths, equally satisfying to mind and heart. The an swers to 174 questions embody this doctrine. A running commentary of footnotes explains the accurate meanings of the terms employed. WALKER, CORNELIUS, D.D. Outlines of Chris tian theology. Whittaker. 12, $1.50. Presents in brief outline the leading topics in a course of theological study which is sub stantially that which the writer has pursued with his classes successively during the last eighteen or twenty years in the Theological Seminary of Virginia. Cooks for tl)e JDoung. BAMFORD, MARY E. In Editha s days : a tale of religious liberty. Amer. Baptist Pub. Soc. 12, (The crown ser., no. 3.) $1.25. The story is placed in England in the reign of Henry vm., and in the low countries when they were under the rule of Charles v. and his son, Philip ii. The story deals mostly with the persecutions of the " Anabaptists." BRABOURNE (Lord], Knatchbull-Hugessen, E. H. (Lord Brabourne). The magic oak tree, and Prince Filderkin. Macmillan. 16, (Children s lib.) 75 c. HENDERSON, W. J. Sea-yarns for boys, spun by an old salt. Harper, il. 12, $1.25. About nineteen humorous stories of the sea of marvellous detail and adventure. Originally published in The Young People. JOKAI, MAURICE, SAND, GEORGE, [pseud, for Mme. A. L. A. D. Dudevant,] and Laboulaye, E. [and others.] The golden fairy-book; il. by H. A. Millar. Appleton. 8, $2. Carefully selected stories from Russian, Servian, Hungarian, French, Portuguese, and other sources. Beautifully illustrated. PRICE, ELEANOR C. In the lion s mouth: the story of two English children in France, 1789-1793. Macmillan. 12, $1.50. The two children who are thrown in the " lion s mouth " of the French Revolution are English orphans, a brother and sister, sent to France in 1789 by a wicked uncle anxious to steal their inheritance. The little village in Anjou, where they are lodged in the major s household, is soon wild with revolutionary tumult. The brother and sister cast in their lots with the " aristocrats" of the chateau, and pass bravely through imprisonment, suffering and danger to rescue at the hands of the loyal Vendeans, and ultimate safety in their English home. SWAN, ANNIES., [Mrs. Burnett Smith.] Airlie s mission ; il. by Lilian Russell. Hunt & Eaton. 12, 50 c. Airlie Keith was the daughter of a Scotchman who had labored for years in the African mission field. Although Airlie s sympathies were in Tahai, at the time of her father s death, she decided on account of her own ill- health to go to the home of Scotch relatives. The story tells of some of the changes in the Keith household, which were wrought by the presence and influence of Airlie, and dwells especially on the girl s return to her father s African work. YECHTON, BARBARA. The "gentle-heart" stories ; il. by Mary Fairman Clark. Pott. 12, $1. Binds together the children s stories of Roland Gentleheart ; By forgiving, win forgiveness ; Dorothy s temptations ; Hope Beresford s les son; Teddy s experience; Bonnie Prince Charlie. 6o THE LITERARY NEWS. [February , 1895 ALL lovers of literature will be gratified to learn that Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie intends to bring out a new edition of her father s works, with biographical and explanatory notes. R. F. FENNO & Co. have just issued " A Son of Hagar," by Hall Caine, illustrated by Albert Hencke, which is full of the old fire and subtile knowledge of human nature that make his books so delightful to the weary novel-reader. " SILK-WARP TRILBY " is the name of a pretty material to be used for next season s street and travelling costumes. It is in Jacquard effects, and in evening colors the tints are as delicate and handsome as silks costing nearly double the price. THE MERRIAM COMPANY announce as the hit of the year a parody of " Trilby " which bears the inverted name of " Billtry." Mary Kyle Dallas has cleverly taken off the characteristic features of Du Maurier s literary style, the artist has done the same for the drawings. THE HOME PUBLISHING Co. will bring out early in February a new novel by A. C. Gunter, called " The First of the English " a title that seems to indicate an historical romance, if any title can be taken as an index to any book, now adays. At all events, it is said to abound in incident and "go." ROBERT M. LINDSAY, Philadelphia, has pub lished the interesting etching by William Hole, A.R.S.A., entitled "A Canterbury Pilgrimage." The procession as described by Chaucer is led by the knight and the monk, followed by the three priests, the prioress, the chapelaine, squire, and the rest of the pilgrims. The last to issue from the gate is Chaucer himself. The group is well drawn, each figure being easily distinguished. The etching is copyrighted and makes an ap propriate ornament to the walls of the parlor or the study of a literary man or to a library. FREDERICK WARNE& Co. have some books of very pleasing contents which they offer in nice volumes. The "Quiet Stories from an Old Woman s Garden," by Allison McLean, now in the second edition, are most suitable for read ing aloud ; and the ninth edition of Edward Lear s " Nonsense Songs and Stories" has been greatly enlarged and has an introduction by Sir E. Strachey, whose exquisite literary tas te is acknowledged by his peers in the art of writing criticisms. Books full of practical hints are "The Duties of Servants" and "Waiting at Table," a practical guide by a " member of the aristocracy." ROBERT BONNER S SONS have just issued a new novel by Mrs. A. E. Barr, called " The Flower of Gala Water." Like most of her books it is a story of Scottish life and scenery, telling of the homely household duties and not un troubled love stories of a " sonsie " Scotch lass. Mrs. Barr is always pleasant and interesting in her portrayal of girl life, and she is at her best among Scottish surroundings. A new German translation recently issued by the Bonners, which still holds its own, is " The Opposite House," from the German of Nataly von Esch- struth a romantic love-story of a bourgeois hero, who loves a lady of high degree. PAUL BOURGET S new book " Outre Mer" is shortly to be issued here, in the original French. It is a brilliant description and analysis of his impressions of America, obtained chiefly at the time of the World s Fair. Interesting glimpses of M. Bourget s ideas were afforded through newspaper interviews at the time ; and his mature exposition of what he saw and thought of the United States should be not only intrinsi cally interesting, but a valuable addition to that fascinating and salutary if not always pleasant class of books in which " ithers see us." Alphonse Daudet s long-expected novel " La Petite Paroisse " is also in preparation by Meyer Bros., the publishers of " Outre Mer," and will be issued almost simultaneously. " CHIMMIE FADDEN, whose artless narratives of his experiences among the " four hundred " and out of it have brightened the columns of the New York Sun during the past year or so, has attempted to reach a wider audience. These lively tales, in which Edward Town- send so graphically pictures the characteristics and dialect of a decidedly "tough" New York City gamin, are just issued in book form by Lovell, Coryell & Co. Besides the stories re lating to the inimitable " Chimmie," the "Duchess," "Miss Fannie," and his other associates, the volume will contain Mr. Town- send s "Major Max Stories," also well known to readers of the Sun, G. W. DILLINGHAM has just ready some half- dozen new books. " Drilby Re-versed " is a travesty of Du Maurier s famous novel, by Leopold Jordan, with 60 comic illustrations by Philip and Earl Ackerman. The novels include " Lore and Law," by Esther Jacobs, called " the story of a singer s life," and presumably based on Miss Jacobs own history, as revealed a year or so since in a breach-of-promise suit in the New York courts ; "Celeste," by Elizabeth M. Sutton; " The Strange Disappearance of Eugene Comstock," by Mrs. Mary R. P. Hatch ; "Caught: a Romance of Three Days, "by George Douglas Tallman ; and "Astor," a novel by Paul Randall. Besides these there are: " Rob Rockafellow," a story told in the form of a diary the diary being that of a Boston society man ; and " The Banker and the Typewriter," a con tribution to the " comic " literature of the sub ject. HUNT & EATON have four books which, originally published for the holiday season, bid fair to hold their own among the good books of the new year. These are Prof. Buckley s " Travels in Three Continents," a delightful chronicle of intelligent and appreciative journey ing in Europe, southern and central France, Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Greece, and other famous corners of the earth; " The Land of the Vedas," personal reminiscences of India, by Rev. William Butler, who tells also the thrilling details of the great Sepoy rebellion ; " Up the Susque- hanna," a series of pleasant letters written while travelling from the Chespeake Bay to Otsego Lake and the Alleghanies, by H. C. Pardoe ; and " Three of Us : Barney, Cossack, Rex," a delightful " dog story" by Mrs. Izora C. Chand ler, whose pictures of canine life and sentiments are appreciated by grown people as well as by little folks. February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 61 NEW BOOKS. i II SCI I OF US: Barney, Cossack, Rex. By Mrs. IZORA C. CHANDLER. Illustrated by the author. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top, $2.00. " The book ought to do for the dog what Black Beauty has done for the horse. Numerous illustrations by the author add to the attractiveness of this very delightful volume. 1 The Chautauquan. UP THE SUSCtfJEHAlNNA. A series of Summer Letters from the Chesapeake Biy to Otsego Lake and the Alleghanies, embracing Historical Incidents, Le gends, Etchings of Indian Life, Geological Facts, Pen Pictures of Eminent Men, Description of the Coun try, etc. By HILES C. PARDOE. Fully illustrated. 12100, cloth, $1.00. TRAVELS IIV THREE CONTINENTS Europe, Africa, Asia. By J. M. BUCKLEY, LL.D. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, in box, $3.50. In Europe, South ern and Central France, Spain, Gibraltar, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, and parts of Hungary were visited, and are graphically described. In Africa, Mor- occa, Algeria, and Egypt are brilliantly treated, clearing up the mysteries of Egypt, by the light of modern in vestigation. The travels in Asia included a leisurely tour through Palestine, parts of Syria, Smyrna, and Ephesus, and this part of the book is illuminated by a wide knowledge of Bible events, characters, history. The book is profusely illustrated from photographs se lected with great care by the author, in order to present not only the famous, but the characteristic and pictur esque in each country. THE LAND OF THE VEDA. Being Personal Reminiscences of India, its Religions, Mythology, Prin cipal Monuments, Palaces and Mausoleums. Together with the Incidents of the Great Sepoy Rebellion. By WILLIAM BUTLHR, D.D. New and revised edition, with an additional chapter by Bishop James M. Thoburn. 8vo, cloth, $2.00. SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. HUNT & EATOX, 1 5O Fifth Avenue, - New York. Receipt Publications. A NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. Quiet Stories from an Old Woman s Garden. Silhouettes of English country life and character. By ALLISON M LEAN, author of "A Holiday in the Austrian Tyrol." With Photogravure Frontispiece. Second edition now ready. 12010, cloth, $1.25. ***Very suitable for reading aloud, or for invalids, and for mission workers, sewing circles, etc. "Touched with the quaint humor and wise fancies of one who has seen many decades come and go Each brings with it a breath of homely, peaceful things like the faint, sweet periume distilled in garden rows at twilight." Boston Transcript. BY THE AUTHOR OF "MANNERS AND RULES OF GOOD SOCIETY." The Duties of Servants, A Practical Guide to the Routine of Domestic Service, Male and Female. 12010, cloth, 60 cents. Also, uniform with the above : Waiting at Table. A Practical Guide. By "A Member of the Aristocracy." i2mo, 60 cents. A NEW EDITION (THE NINTH) IS NOW READY OF Nonsense Songs and Stories. By EDWARD LEAR, author of " The Book of Nonsense," etc. With additional Songs and Illustrations and an Introduction by Sir E. Strachey, Bart. 410, cloth, $1.25. * J )<*This edition has the second part of "Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos," a fac-simile of " The Duck and Kangaroo," and other matter now first added, besides the important and interesting introduction. For Sale by Your Bookseller. Frederick Warne & Co., N NEW BOOKS. Literary History of the Eng= lish People. By J. J. JUSSERAND, author of The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare, "etc., etc. To be completed in three volumes. Each part sold separately; octavo, cloth, $3.50. Part i. From the Earliest Times to the Period of the Renaissance. (In Press.) A Woman of Impulse. By JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY. Being No. 4 in the Hudson Library. I2mo, cloth, $1.00 ; paper, 50 cents. The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock. By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN, author of " The Leavenworth Case," " Hand and Ring," etc., etc. Being No. 3 in the Autonym Series. Oblong 241110, cloth, with Frontispiece, 50 cents. The Book=Bills of Narcissus. By RICHARD LEGALLIENNE, author of" The Re ligion of a Literary Man," "Prose Fancies," etc., etc. I2mo, cloth, with Frontispiece, similar in general style to " The Religion of a Literary Man," $1.00. Three Men of Letters. By Prof. MOSES COIT TYLER of Cornell Univer sity, author of "A History of American Literature." i2mo, cloth, gilt tops, $1.25. Includes (i) George Berkeley and his Ameri can Visit ; (2) A Great College President (Tim othy Dwight) and What he Wrote ; (3) The Literary Strivings of Mr. Joel Barlow. Voice, Speech, and Gesture. A Practical Handbook to the Elocutionary Art. By Hugh Campbell, R. F. Brewer, Henry Neville, and Clifford Harrison. With over 100 illustrations by Dargravel, Ramsay, and others. I2mo, cloth. ***Notes on new books, a quarterly bulletin, prospectuses of the Knickerbocker Nuggets, Heroes, and Stories of the Nations Series, sent on application. G. P. Putnam s Sons, NEW YORK AND LONDON. 62 THE LITERARY NEWS. {February, 1895 The Home Publishing Company, 3 EAST 14TH STREET, NEW YORK. Will Issue February 15th, The First of The English. ANOTHER GREAT NOVEL BY Archibald Clavering Gunter, Author of "Mr. Barnes of New York," "A Princess of Paris," "The King s Stockbroker," etc. Paper, 50 Cents. Cloth, $1.00 Liberal Discount to the Trade. HIT OF THE YEAR ! BILLTRY. A Parody on "TRILBY." MARY Profusely Illustrated. Paper, 50 Cents. Cloth, si.oo. \ A 7E take pleasure in calling your attention to this recent skit, which has immediately caught the public fancy. Not only has "TRILBY" been parodied but also Mr. Du Maurier s style of drawings has been caricatured most cleverly. ** BILLTRY " is a laughable burlesque from start to finish, and will prove entertaining not only to those who have read " TRILBY " but also to others. SEND YOUR ORDERS TO YOUR JOBBER, OR TO THE flERRIAfl COflPANY, 67 Fifth Avenue, New York. As " BILLTRY" is No. 21 of The Waldorf Series it is mailable as second-class matter. RECENT ISSUES IN THIS POPULAR SERIES ARE: A Little Game with Destiny. By MARIE I Two Bad Brown Eyes. By MARIE ST. ST. FELIX. FELIX. SOON TO BE PUBLISHED: Patricia. A Sequel to "Two Bad Brown Eyes." February, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. CHOICE ILLUSTRATED NOVELS. Mrs. Barr s New Novel. The Flower of Gala Water. Bv AMELIA E. BARR, author of " Girls of a Feather," "The Bow of Orange Ribbon," " Friend Olivia, 11 " The Beads of Tasmer," " The Mate of the Easter Bell, " "Mrs. Barr s Short Stories, 11 etc. Illustrated by Charles Kendrick. 12mo, 400 pages. Handsome ly bound in cloth. Uniform with " Girls of a Feath er, 11 $1.25 ; paper cover, 50 cents. " The Flower of Gala Water " is one of Mrs. Barr s most delightful novels of Scottish life and scenery. In her portrayal of Scotch character and manners she has no superior among contemporary writers. Her heroines are vital with love and feminine qualities, and possess an individuality which is charming. They have the freshness of youth and health, and impart to her pages their own attractiveness. Mrs. Barr s fine senti ment and vigor of conviction have ample expression in her latest novel. No one can read it without having every noble feeling strengthened and exalted. Girls of a Feather. By Mrs. AMELIA E. BARR, author of " The Beads of Tasmer, 1 " The Mate of the Easter Bell, 1 " " Friend Olivia," " The Household of McNeil," " A Sister to Esau, "etc. Illustrated by Meredith Nugent. 12mo, 366 pages. Handsomely bound in cloth, $1.25 ; paper cover, 50 cents. The Mate of the " Easter Bell," and Other Stories. By Mrs. AMELIA E. BARR, author of " Girls of a Feather, 11 " The Beads of Tasmer, 11 "Mrs. Barr s Short Stories," etc. Illustrated by Victor Perard. 12mo. Handsomely bound in cloth, $1.25; paper cover, 50 cents. The Beads of Tasmer. By Mrs. AMELIA E. BARR. 12mo, 395 pages. Hand somely bound in English cloth. Beautifully illus trated by Warren B. Davis. Uniform with "A Matter of Millions " and "The Forsaken Inn," by Anna Katharine Green $1.25. Mrs. Barr s Short Stories. Femmetia s Strange Experience, and Other Stories. By AMELIA E. BARR, author of " A Bow of Orange Ribbon," "The Beads of Tasmar," "Jan Tedder s Wife," etc. 12mo, 350 pages. With portrait of the author and numerous illustrations. Handsomely bound in cloth, $1.25 ; paper cover, 50 cents. Countess Obernau. After the German by JULIEN GORDON, author of "A Diplomat s Diary," etc. Illustrated by James Fagan. 12mo, 281 pages. Handsomely bound in cloth, SL 25 ; paper cover, 50 cents. A Matter of Millions. By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN. Magnificently illus trated by Victor Perard. 12mo, 482 pages. Hand somely bound in English cloth, gold stamping on cover, $1.50 ; paper cover, 50 cents. A New Novel by the Author of " In the China Sea." Two Gentlemen of Hawaii. By - SEWARD W. HOPKINS, author of " In the China Sea," etc. Illustrated by M. Colin. 12mo, 244 pages. Handsomely bound in cloth, $1.00 ; paper cover, 50 cents. A New Novel by Heimburg (Authorized Trans lation). For Another s Wrong. (AM FREMDE SCHULD.) After the German of W. HEIMBURG, author of " Miss Mischief," etc. Illustrated by James Fagan. 360 pages, 12mo. Handsomely bound in cloth, $1.25 ; paper cover, 50 cents. Miss Mischief (Mamsell Unnutz). By W. HEIMBURG. Translated from the German by Mary Stuart Smith. 12mo, 350 pages. Illustrated by Warren B. Davis. Handsomely bound in cloth, 1.50 ; paper cover, 50 cents. A Fresh German Translation. The Opposite House. After the German of NATALY VON ESCHSTRUTH, author of "A Priestess of Comedy," " A Princess of the Stage," " Her Little Highness," " Countess Dynar," etc. Illustrated by H. M. Eaton. 12mo, 282 pages. Handsomely bound in cloth, $1.00; paper cover, 50 cents. 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The Literary News Jn fmnfer j>ou mag rea&e f 0em, afc tgnem, fig ** fCreetbe ; anb tn summer, a& umfiram, unber some B^afcte free ; anb f0erettf0 pass atag f$e febt ous 0ofre6. VOL. XVI. MARCH, 1895. No. 3 Life of Mr. George Augustus Sala. WE have read Mr. Sala s "Life and Ad- Mr. Sala s formal entry into journalism was ventures" with the liveliest interest. Here at not auspicious. About 1850 he became editor last is an autobiographer who is not only and co-proprietor of Chat, a half-penny weekly, in the theoret ical "profits" of which he was kindly al lowed to par ticipate. But there were, in practice, no profits ; and, the chief own er of Chat ju diciously ab sconding, Mr. Sala and his associates found them selves " under the unpleasant necessity of fighting for the small change in the till." Mr. Sala s lane, like all others, had its turning. The decisive turn came with the close of the Crimean war, frank, but who even appears at times, in the exuberance of his candor, to bear himself a grudge. It maybe meanly urged that Mr. Sala, as an Old Journalistic Hand, is un able from long habit to ab stain from "racy" per sonalities and revelations, even at his own expense ; and that his frank ness as to the follies and es capades of his youth rings more of an unre pe n tant Master Shal low than of a broken and a contrite heart. But the great fact of frank ness remains ; From "Life of George Augustus Sala." Copyright, 1895, by Charles Scribner s Son GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. and with it goes hand-in-hand go to Russia in order to when he was commissioned by Dickens to write a series of the twin autobiographical virtue of modesty descriptive articles for Household Words. His for Mr. Sala, so far from being with monoton- forte soon became apparent. From that date ous regularity the hero of his own "Adven- on, Mr. Sala s autobiography lapses largely tures," not seldom emerges conspicuously at " the smaller end of the horn." Mr. Sala was born in 1828, at London, where his mother, widowed shortly after his birth, being whisked about geographically in a way into a perhaps unavoidably jumbled record of his adventures in one country or another as a press correspondent the reader of it was a teacher of singing, and, later, an actress. Madam Sala had a distinguished clientele, and played at the leading theatres ; but, with five young children on her hands, she had no little trouble bringing the proverbial ends together. suggesting that at times the writer must have been, like the Irishman s bird, "in two places at once." From 1856 downwards, wherever matters of an exciting nature were stirring wars or rumors of wars, coronations, politi- 66 THE LITERARY NEWS. \_March, 1895 cal murders, revolutions, exhibitions, and the like journalistically exploitable doings there was Mr. Sala in the thick of it with his pencil and notebook. Mr. Sala s book amply fulfils its author s in tent to " give the general public a definite idea of the character and the career of a working journalist in the second, third and fourth dec ades of the Victorian era." (Scribner. 2 v., 85.) The Dial. The Devil s Playground. QUITE one of the best of the batch of books sent to us this month is " The Devil s Play ground." There is a spontaneity of utterance, a freshness of style, and a wealth of vivid local coloring which leaves the reader, at the close of the book, with the conviction that the author is not only writing about people, places, and things with whose characteristics he is perfectly familiar, but that the events and adventures of his own life must have been his inspiration and inducement to put pen to paper to describe them. We have seen it stated that John Mackie has led the same kind of roving life that his hero Dick Travers went through. We cannot vouch for this as a fact, but it may well be so. The ti:ie of the book is derived from the name of a weird district called "The Devil s Playground," where "great unseemly scarred and jagged sides of chocolate-colored clay, in tersected by jet-black seams and yellow and pink, with here and there patches of alkali showing dazzling white," enclosed a valley from whose bed rose up "huge pillar-like masses of clay, like gigantic mushrooms, some perfectly round and tapered towards their sum mits, resembling sugar-loaves, so sprinkled were they by a gleaming and mica-like sub stance ; others, again, bulbous-shaped and un gainly." It is here that the culminating scene of the story is laid. Of Mr. Mackie s sense of humor we cannot say much. The buffoonery of Cousin Ned is doubtless intended to serve as a relief and a foil to the sombre thoughts and reflections of the two chief characters, but it is of a feeble sort and jars horribly. The action of the story chiefly takes place in a blizzard, where Dick and the girl of his heart, now an other man s wife, get lost. Dick finally rescues her, and the story ends satisfactorily with the hero s getting himself engaged to a rich and eminently satisfactory English.girl. But where there is so much to praise in the book as a whole we are loath to pick holes in regard to the minor parts, and we look forward with in terest to further contributions from Mr. Mackie s pen. (Stokes. 75 c.) Westminster Review. Fiom * Tlie Devil s PlayKround." Copyright, 1894, by F. A. Stokes Co. HIS SATANIC MAJESTY MAKES A MOVE. The Pygmies. THE treatise on " The Pygmies," by the late A. de Quatrefages, which in the translation by Frederick Starr forms the second volume in the Anthropological Scries, is the first systematic at tempt to determine the ethnography of the "little blacks" to show how far they confirm the beliefs and traditions of antiquity, and to determine their relation to the white and yellow races. It is to the second object that Professor de Quatrefages devoted himself chiefly in the present work, and consequently the book ap peals to other than strictly student of natural science. The preliminary chapter is concerned with an examination of the ancient beliefs re garding the pygmies as viewed in the light of modern science, and the chapters that follow deal respectively with the general history and physical characters of the Eastern pygmies ; the intellectual, moral and religious characters of the Mincopies ; the Negritos other than Mincopies ; the Negrillos or African pygmies ; and the religious beliefs of the Hottentots and Bushmen. To sum up the main conclusions to be derived from the volume, it may be said that Professor de Quatrefages succeeded in proving the real importance of the pygmies as a factor in the problem of racial development, while his comparison of their manners, customs, and mythologies is full of decided interest. The book has thirty-one illustrations after photo graphs and drawings of skulls. There is an index. (Appleton. $i.75-) The Beacon. March, 1895"] 1 HE LITERARY NEWS. From " Trans-Caspia." Copyright, 1895, by K. Clarke Company. THE MARKET AT BOKARA. Travels in Turkestan. TRANS-CASPIA is the journal of a man who started from St. Petersburg with the intention of travelling across the Trans-Caspian territory of Russia, and eventually exploring the Vale of Cashmere. He got as far as the Chinese border, and then turned back. It seems that the poor man is a dyspeptic, or at least that his doctor classes him as such. He came to such a pass that, as he viewed it, there were only two things for him to do: He could go on, and die ; or he could go home, and get well. He decided that it would be better to go home. As it is, we get the story of a tour in Turkes tan, over which Mr. Shoemaker and a friend travelled sufficiently to see its points of interest. It would not be worth while to go from here to Turkestan just for the sake of journeying through the country and writing a book about it, but as Mr. Shoemaker had been there and had made some entries in his journal about the people, the scenery, the cities, and the hard ships of his journey, it was a proper thing to publish what he had "written on the spot," and to illustrate the text with some photo graphs taken by the author. We have heard a goo d deal about Turkestan, but not so much that we may not welcome Mr. Shoemaker s sprightly descriptions and his photographic il lustrations. Mr. Shoemaker made the trip from Usin-Ada to Samarkand over the Trans-Caspian Railway, and, after reading his story of the journey, the wonder grows that such a railroad should have been built. Trains run three times a week, and cover the distance of about nine hundred miles in sixty hours. A good part of the way there is nothing to look at but a most abominable desert, across which clouds of sand are swept by winds so hot that they would be hard to bear even without their ac companiment of sand. Every now and then the trains stop while the section hands shovel the sandbanks off the track. The trains make unconscionable halts at the regular stations for no apparent cause, but the inference is drawn that the train hands postpone as long as they dare setting forth again into the hot, sultry plains. Certainly they do not stay in order to give travellers opportunity to get their meals, for the meals are furnished in dining cars. These dining cars are ordinary freight cars painted white. Benches run down the centre of the cars, and chairs are placed on either side. " The messes" are described as "something terri ble." Mr. Shoemaker says he was puzzled for a time trying to determine from what sort of animal the meat he ate came. His conclusion was that it was part of an oil tank. "What does Russia make out of a land like this?" queries the author. Answering for himself, he says: "Simply, I fancy, the building of a watchtower in the direction of India and the 68 THE LITERARY NEWS. \_March, 1895 English, with perhaps an eye to China. There is not a bit of cultivation in all the distance traversed ; no green save in patches, on which the few miserable natives cower shudder- ingly." After leaving Samarkand Mr. Shoemaker travelled in a wagon, visiting Tashkend, Kokand, Marghilan, and Osh. From Osh he made his start for the Vale of Cashmere. His travelling companion went north into the mountains to hunt. Whether he came back alive is more than Mr. Shoemaker knows he would be very glad to know that he still is living. (The Robert Clarke Co. $1.50.) N. Y. Times. Occult Japan. THIS work describes a distinct " find " by its brilliant author, Percival Lowell, during a recent sojourn in Japan, viz., of an elaborate system of possession-trance practised by one of the sects of Shinto, the ethnic faith of Japan. Introductory or sequent to this main theme are accounts of Shinto miracles, pilgrimages, " go- hei," and the Ise shrines. Much care was rightly bestowed upon tracing this curious cult to its real source, the primitive Shinto faith as dis tinguished from the imported Buddhism, and thus a distinct contribution has been made to what is at last receiving deserved attention, the ethnic faith of Japan. The treatise stands a model of keen observa tion, deep insight, and scientific analysis, while over all this rigidly scientific material and method is thrown the charm of a style that im plies the blending of scientist and poet. The abounding satire, epigram, alliteration, and metaphor would as much repay a perusal with purpose of entertainment, as its soberer merits would for instruction in an absolutely new field. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.75.) The Nation. Pelleas and Melisande. THIS is a prettily gotten out drama of the Belgian poet and dramatist, whose weird, sym bolical, but fascinating and powerful plays have excited the literary world to wonder and admira tion in the last two years. The works of this author, though always given the dramatic form, are impractical to stage representation, and, in deed, half their force and curious charm would be lost in action behind the footlights. The characters and ideas of Maeterlinck must move in the vision of the reader s strangely excited imagination to have their real significance and deep, potential value. This play, which is in three acts, is probably the greatest work of its author, and though there is in it a symbolism that each reader must attempt to interpret for himself, perhaps not always succeeding to entire satisfaction, the story has an intense, vivid, empathic vitality, veritism that is seen through the romance of the poet s fancy like a giant truth overwhelming in its awful impres- siveness. It is the story of Francesca da Rimini in other form ; but the skeleton is nothing ; it is the mysterious manner in which the author leads its personages through the maze of destiny that distinguishes Maeterlinck pre-em inently and gives him a unique place among writers. There is an infinity of pathos in this play, angry passion, consuming love, unutter able despair, yet there is not a passage of studied writing that the reader can detect, and we must infer that which most moves us. It is a wonderful work, of which much might be written with interest, but it is one of those creations that may not be described and gain no value from critical comment. The book must be read, and each one must judge of it for himself. Its interest may not be pointed out in a critique, however carefully or elaborately written, but we commend it heartily to the in telligent and poetic reader as a thing that can not fail to delight him. (Crowell. $i.) Chicago Inter-Ocean. On India s Frontier. NEPAL, the subject of these pages, the mountainous home of a recklessly brave and hardy race known as Gurkhas, ranks as the most powerful and favored of India s frontier tribe. Outside of a small, select British official class,, who have been posted there at different times by the India Government to watch after its in terests, the number of other foreigners permit, ted to visit Nepal can be counted on one s fingers, and these, during their short-licensed so journ in that territory, are under constant es pionage. No wonder, then, that Nepal is a terra incognita an unknown as well as a mysterious land to the outside world. Though nominally subservient to China, paying its tribute quintennially to the Celestial Empire, it virtually recognizes the direct supremacy of Great Britain, to which power first and fore most, in the personnel of its foreign office, ap plication must be made for any permission to enter this country s borders, declaring in detail the plan and object of the applicant s projected trip, with all particulars concerning himself ; and, even then, his request is likely to be de nied. Hence the title of the little book "On India s Frontier ; or, Nepal, the Gurkhas Mys terious Land." (Tait. $2.50.) Preface. March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 69 The Book-Bills of Narcissus. WITH all its digressions and appeals to the gentle reader, says The Saturday Review, "Mr. Le Gallienne s book is a study of character, a study of the spiritual growth and evolution of a poetic young gentleman whose many charms proved irresistible with certain bopksellers and other young persons. The portraiture is deli cately wrought. The pleasant touches of Degeneration. A COPYRIGHTED English translation of Max Nordau s great work, " Entartung," has been published under the title " Degeneration." " Briefly stated," says Richard Burton in The Critic, " Nordau s theme is the degeneracy of modern art, literature and philosophy, exampled in such men as Ibsen and Maeterlinck, Whit man and Wagner, Verlaine and Mallarme, Tol- humor or pathos, the little strokes of irony, stoi and Zola. These marked personalities he are so blended that you cannot detect any posi tive evidence of moral judgment, ^ - s - even when censure may seemed to be implied. The whole record, in short, is harmonious, and artist and work are as one. The delib erate quaintness of style, as of a new Euphaes, or a Eu- phaes with some thing of the poetic grace of the old , and a manner that is his own, is in perfect agreement with the theme." The con clusion of the re viewer is that " Mr. Le Gallienne has achieved the end he had in view. He has made the rose of Narcissus to bloom anew. " " The Book-Bills of Narcissus " ap peared in England three or four years ago and were at once appreciated by literary people, who soon exhausted a first edition. A second has fol lowed, and now we have the third, to which the author has added a new chapter, introducing a little element of humorous romance into his regards, his From " The Book-Bills of Narcissus." Copyright, 189."), by G. P. Putnam s Sons-. A POET. own phrase, as types of a degenerative p s y chosis of the epilep- toid order. This gives a hint at once of the author s or iginative impulse ; he is a disciple of Lombroso, who in his "Man of Gen ius" sought to show that from the point of view of the bio logical and psycho logical laboratory, genius and insanity if not coterminous and interchange able, were at least first-cousins. Nor dau s book is a more direct and a far wider applica tion of this idea, because he is him self a literary pro ducer and judge, i and in large degree adduces specific ex- a m p 1 e s and ana- J lyzes them. He re gards such catch words as_/z de siecle, decadent, and the like, as significant of the unwholesome, diseased nature and work of the popular makers of literature, and of the age that hails them. The German thinker s zeal for his theory carries him, at times, to ab- descriptions of the mind of a young poetic litte- surd extremes, and almost always he is one- rateur, who following out his wholly unpractical sided, unfair, and coldly unsympathetic with idiosyncrasies, is forced to sell many of the books he has collected in days of prosperity and duces. self-indulgence. These books furnish the text thetic. for dissertations on life and literature. Many of the critics have been severe with the author, but it is hard to think any critic can be so hard ened that he cannot get some delightful moments in skimming through "The Book- Bills of Narcissus " (Putnam. $i.) the real aim and spirit of the writer he tra- Nordau s mood is scientific, not aes- But while we may lay finger on the in temperance, the harshness and the illogic of " Degeneration " we should miss a lesson not to recognize that Nordau has some ground for his robust deliverances. It is significant that such a book could have been written nowadays THE LITERARY NEWb. \_March, 1895 by so able a thinker. . . . That the maker of contemporary literature and art should be handled thus roughly, studied as pathological material instead of aesthetic phenomena, will perhaps help to create an audience for whole- somer literature, and if once the demand be come imperative, we shall see less and less of this deification of the lawless, the obscene and the sensual in our latest writing. . . . Degenerates may be geniuses, but this is vastly other than to say that geniuses are degenerates. In the meantime let it not be forgotten that the healthy demand of society for wholesome art and letters will be a tremendous therapeutic agency in correcting all excess which threatens to throw those small insanities out of bal ance." (Appleton.) A Modern "Anatomy of Melancholy." IT is nearly three centuries since Robert Burton wrote his "Anatomy of Melancholy "- a work the more remarkable because it was the production of an age of hope and action rather than an age of introspection and depression. This standard text-book has now received a kind of companion in a volume which sets forth at great length, with the utmost particularity, and evidently from the standpoint of a very ample scholarship in philosophy, literature, and art, the sources, the moods, and the temper of melancholy at the end of the nine teenth century. Never before in the history of the world has melancholy received so many artistic expressions as during the present cen tury. The sadness which left its permanent impress in the fugitive lines of the Greek an thology was largely the expression of a de cadent civilization of men who were aware of the decline of civic, religious, and personal life. This century, on the other hand, has been marked by strenuous activities, by high hopes, and by immense forward impulses. Side by side, however, with the strain and stir of the century, there has been a morbid vein of thought and feeling which has shown itself again and again in men of sensitive temper like Leopardi, Leconte de Lisle, Heine, Alfred de Musset, Guy de Maupassant, Amiel, and in the work of a great number of novelists of more or less power and insight. The most complete expression of this temper and attitude which has recently been given the English-speaking world is to be found in "The Melancholy of Stephen Allard " a book re markable for its breadth of knowledge, for its power of following all the sinuosities which the melancholy mood pursues, and for its skill in conveying the general impression of futility in which the melancholy mood delights. The un known author of this book makes the complete tour of the world of purely human resource, and finds that all things are dust and ashes. He seeks by turns every source of consolation, and finds them all inadequate. He goes to science, to the philosophers, to the poets, the artists, the moralists, and the mystics, and none of them satisfy him. The book is a study in melancholy. It is a document of human nature at the end of a century which has seen so many high hopes disappointed. Nothing will ever really satisfy man but God ; and neither science, art, democracy, nor human progress in any of its features can slake the undying thirst of the human race. Yet the writer of this book has his moods of hope, and is able to quote, as expressive of his own aspiration, the noble sentence of Plato: "The true phi losopher ... is content if only he may live his earthly life pure of injustice or unright eousness, and quit the preseat scene in peace and kindliness, with bright hopes." "The Melancholy of Stephen Allard " is not a book to be read for inspiration or guidance, but it possesses deep interest for those who want to know the disease of their own time. (Mac- millan. $1.75.) The Outlook. Greek Studies. A MELANCHOLY interest attaches to the vol ume of "Greek Studies" by the late Walter Pater, prepared for the press by his friend, Charles L. Shadwell, of Oriel College, and published by Macmillan. Posthumous work always makes a special appeal, and this series of essays is thoroughly representative of the culture, the finished and beautiful style and the classic bias of the distinguished critic. But these are but specks in the ointment. The book contains nine papers, mostly dealing with Greek art and sculpture ; especially fine are the first four, in which dominant classic myths are studied, the titles, " A Study of Dionysius ; the Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew," "The Bac chanals of Euripides" (showing one phase of the Bacchus cult as used in the Greek drama), and two studies on the myth of Demeter and Persephone. The fifth, " Hippolytus Veiled," treats of the earlier, purer form of that legend, before it appears veiled in another country than Attica and in the handling of Ovid. " The Be ginnings of Greek Sculpture " furnish food for papers on the heroic age and the age of graven images, full of suggestive points ; there is one on the " Marbles of yEgina " and a final one on " The Age of Athletic Prize-Men ; A Chapter in Greek Art " as good a statement of the ex cellencies and limitations of the Greek genius working in plastic forms and with chief regard March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. to the superficies as we have ever seen. The characteristics of these mellow, charming es says are, their complex music of diction, at times the sentences becoming too involved not to tax the reader s eye and mind ; subtlety and refinement of thought and feeling and a search ing out of the underlying ideal concept in these productions of the Greeks which to the more careless attention seem coarse or meaningless. The last tract makes Pater s work dignified and noble. This, presumably his last book, is a welcome addition to classical studies. (Mac- millan. $1.75.) Hartford Daily Coiirant. make a complete whole in itself, the first telling the literary story of the English up to the Re naissance ; the second up to the accession of King Pope, the last up to our own day. The ages dur ing which the national thought expressed itself in languages which were not the national one will not be allowed to remain blank, as if, for com plete periods, the inhabitants of the island had ceased to think at all. The growing into shape of the people s genius will be studied with par ticular attention. Jusserand s delightful style is well known, and he is at his best in this work, which he tells us in the happiest way is wholly " a labor of love." (Putnam. 3 pts.) A Literary History of the English People. " MANY histories have preceded this one," says Mr. Jusserand in his preface to "A Liter ary History of the English People," and many others will follow. Such is the charm of the subject that volunteers will never be lacking to undertake this journey, so hard, so delightful, too. The portion of the great work now published covers from the Origins to the Renais sance. More has been done dur ing the last fifty years to shed light on the Ori gins than in all the rest of mod ern times. The task is an im mense one ; its charm can scarcely be ex pressed. The dead of West minster have left behind them a posterity, youth ful in its turn, and life-giving. Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke are the ancestors of many poets who have never read their works, but who have breath ed an air impreg nated with their thought. It is proposed to di vide this work into three vol umes, but each volume will The Aims of Literary Study. THROUGH the Macmillans, Prof. Hiram Cor- son.of Cornell, has just published a delightful lit tle plea for the direct study of literature as liter- ture instead of wandering all around it in studies of the times, the grammar and everything but the literature itself. We refer to " The Aims of Literary Study," a prettily printed booklet Literary History of the English People." Copyright 1895, by G. P. Putnam s Sot MEDIAEVAL LONDON. THE LITERARY NEWS. [March, 1895 whose value is in the inverse ratio of its size. Professor Corson is not impressed with the re sults produced by college training as it now is. He says that the men are not trained to read or speak. He says that on Commencement days and grand occasions the Faculties bring out the men who have the most natiiral genius for writing or speaking with some such flourish as this, " Behold, ladies and gentlemen, what we have done for these dear young men." When what they should say is: " Ladies and gentle men, these speakers are the best we have to show. They are selected not as having profited most by the training we give them (for we have no training worth mention} but for their natural aptitude." His own ideal of an elocutionary training could hardly be improved. It is based on a golden passage in Gilbert Austin s " Chi- ronomia " : "Words are to be delivered from the lips as beautiful coins newly issued from the mint, deeply and accurately impressed, per fectly finished, neatly struck by the proper or gans, distinct, in due succession, and of due weight." Right, in every letter of it. No good elocu tion can come from a half-formed, semi-mas ticated speech that issues in crushed or tone less fragments from the mouth and sounds to the ear as a page of broken type looks to the eye. Professor Corson is one of our best Shakespearian critics. He writes with sense, and grows more pithy and pointed as he ad vances. (Macmillan. $i.) 77ie Independent. Municipal Government in Great Britain. IT is difficult to overestimate the importance of the problems discussed in this volume, and while Dr. Shaw disclaims any intention of pre scribing European remedies for American dis eases, or of suggesting any degree of imita tion, or of constructing an argument, the facts presented cannot fail to open the eyes of those who have fancied that progress was foreign to English town government. Many of us have overlooked the fact that there are a number of manufacturing towns in Great Britain which have been growing almost as fast as some of our most enterprising cities, and that although large towns may be alike the world over, im proved methods have obtained with them to a much greater extent than with us. The struc ture of English municipal government, as Dr. Shaw says, possesses principles of a permanent nature, and indeed there are not nearly so many important variations in the whole range of municipal institutions from Great Britain to Southeastern Europe as in the United States. It is probably true, as he says, that one of the reasons why municipal reform proceeds so halt ingly with us is that many citizens who desire sincerely to aid in the regeneration of their town life, have formed no definite municipal ideas. To such citizens the knowledge of what has been done abroad in the last thirty years must have a marked value, even if the applica tion of some of the theories may seem inadvis able and impracticable here. The sewage problem is dealt with at length, as well as schools, libraries, parks, markets, police, baths, and other matters. The feature of taxation is but lightly touched upon with the explanation that as it is the tenant in England who pays the taxes and upon yearly assessed rental values, comparisons with American tax rates would be difficult ; but assuming that the difference is not very great, the Englishman gets more for his money than the American. The question of municipal debt has not been gone into as fully as we should have liked there are but few figures given on this impor tant point. The value of the book is enhanced by the clear, well-digested manner in which the facts are set forth. (Century Co. $2.) Public Opinion. Our Fight with Tammany. IT was natural that the successive moves in the recent campaign for good government in New York City should be reviewed by the prime mover in it, the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D.D., and in "Our Fight w r ith Tammany " the pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church gives a concise and pointed history of the whole movement, from the reorganization of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, in 1891, to the election of last November, and the conclusion of the Lexow inquiry. It is a history that should interest every patriotic American, and it is re lated in that terse, forcible manner of expres sion for which the author is famous. Dr. Parkhurst relates the circumstances that led him to accept the presidency of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, and then gives in full the memorable discourse delivered from his pulpit on February 14, 1892, which he right ly calls " the first gun of the campaign," and in which he made the most scathing analysis of Tammany s corruption that had ever before been uttered. Dr. Parkhurst arraigns fiercely the political influences that threaten to undo the results of the triumph so arduously secured, and calls on honest citizens to see to it that the fight so valiantly fought shall not prove to be an empty victory. (Scribner. $1.25.) The Beacon. March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 73 Vincent s "Actual Africa." THIS volume is a most comprehensive and entertaining one, giving, in a popular manner, accurate general informa tion concerning the Africa of the present day. Mr. Vincent not only completely circled the continent, but made many expeditions into its vast and mysterious in terior. Nearly all the capi tals and important towns (native and foreign) of the seaboard territories were inspected ; the great island of Madagascar was trav ersed ; several of the west ern archipelagoes were visited ; the peak of Tene- riffe was scaled in midwin ter ; a long excursion was made through the centre of the Boer republics and Brit ish colonies ; the Nile, Quanza, Congo, Kassai, Sankuru and Kuilu rivers were ascended the latter for the first time by a white man ; and in the very core of Africa s heart a most inter esting spot was reached the curious capital of the famous Basongo chieftain, Pania Mutembo. Everywhere that Mr. Vin cent went he used his cam era, and hence has been able to illuminate his text by upwards of one hundred handsome engravings, showing many interesting and novel sights and scenes exactly as he saw T them in the strange countries trav ersed. The story of Mr. Vincent s arduous and often dangerous journey is told in an enthusiastic, yet un affected manner, which riv ets the eager attention of the reader from beginning to end. It is more elabo rately illustrated than any book upon the subject, and contains a large map carefully corrected to date. " A new volume from Mr. Frank Vincent," says the N. V. Tribune, " is always welcome, for the reading public have learned to regard him as one of the most intelligent and observ ing of travellers." (Appleton.) The Honorable Peter Stirling. PROBABLY the complications and corruptions of political life in New York City were never From "Actual Africa. Copyripht, 1895, by D. Appleton & Co. A MOORISH SOLDIER. before made the theme of a protracted love- story, pervaded with such pure sentiment as this one by Mr. Paul Leicester Ford. Of the mismanagement and villany practised in the wards, of bossism, obstructions to reform, de lays in justice, factions, wranglings and riots, we have had more or less in fiction, but nothing 74 THE LITERARY NEWS. March, 1895 From " Jack O Doon." Copyright, 1894, by Henry Holt & Co. MERCY AND JACK. like this. Here are over four hundred pages which read like actual history of certain politi cal movements and persistent and successful work for reform, with a fine, tender love-story running pure and sweet, an undercurrent in a life openly pledged to rough partisan work and rude companionship in squalid places. For tunately, Peter Stirling is a man s hero. If a woman writer had created him, she would have been laughed at for placing her ideal so high. Mr. Ford is responsible for a very unusual but, let us believe, a possible charac ter, and having started him on his eventful career he has stood bravely by him and helped him through. In these days of disappointing novels, when it is so much the custom to leave the hero and heroine in unsatisfactory circum stances, it is pleasing to meet an author who has regard for them and sees to it that all ends happily. Many readers will care nothing for the politics, but they will enjoy the love-story. It is a good one. Peter is the kind of lover dear to the heart of the novel-reader. He was worthy the sweet singleness of devotion he re ceived, and the book, even with the tiresome politics, is very readable and very enjoyable. Mr. Ford is well known as an expert collector and editor of Americana, but his many literary friends received the announcement of a novel from his pen with liveliest curiosity. He has succeeded. (Holt. $1.50.) The Lit era ry World. The Doctor, His Wife and the Clock. ANNA KATHARINE GREEN, well known as the author of "The Leavenworth Case," is the third writer for the Antonym Library. " The Doctor, His Wife and the Clock " is a detec tive story concerned with a murder, which is not too prominent, having for its principal characters a beautiful wife devoted to a blind husband, and unwittingly concerned in the murder, and a tender-hearted but astute de tective. The story is not forced, is simply related, and has a very good and original plot for its basis. The style of the books coming out in this Antonym Library is very attractive, with its limp cloth covers, clear type and wide margins. Any one of them makes a convenient and pleasing volume for a travelling companion. (Putnam. HOC.) The Beacon. Jack O Doon. MARIA BEALE has written a story of devotion. On the Virginia coast lives Capt. Blessington, who is a kind-hearted, ignorant man, and given to much profanity. Miss Mercy is the Captain s daughter, and her aunt Polly, a narrow-minded personage devoted to tracts, scarcely knows how to manage Mercy. The girl has a foster- brother, Jack O Doon, the mate of a vessel. An artist, Abercrombie, rather fascinates Mercy. It is believed that Jack has been lost at sea, but he turns up. Mercy s heart is somewhat di vided between Abercrombie and Jack. Finally, both Jack and Abercrombie get into a quick sand, and the sailor sacrifices his life in rescu ing Abercrombie. Then Mercy ponders over this question : " Has Algie Abercrombie one quality as noble as Jack s love for me or his devotion to his fellow-men?" Having been satisfied in her own mind that Algie Abercrom bie has not these qualities, but being quite de cided that the painter wants somebody to take care of him, she agrees to console him. (Holt. 75 c.) N. Y. Times. Illustrated Standard Novels. " CASTLE RACKRENT " and "The Absentee" form the first volume of a promised series of great interest, of Illustrated Standard Novels. Just what entitles a novel to rank as a " standard" is not always easy to say, and the term needs definition. We have no difficulty to recognize the really great works, which live through all time, but there are novels " without which no gentleman s library is complete " that not only have ceased to be generally read, but that are no longer very attractive even to the professed novel-reader. Yet some of these were im mensely significant in their day and have a place not to be overlooked in the development of March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 75 modern fiction. We should say that a judicious selection of these, in chronological order, would form a series of great value, for some of the most famous novels are not now easily access ible. We do not recognize any such system atic project in the Messrs. Macmillans prospec tus, which has, however, an interest of its own. It apparently aims at the reproduction of vari ous individual novels of note, presented sepa rately, but each with a critical introduction and with illustrations by modern artists that will help to commend it anew to modern readers. Hennessy, and, best of all, "Sense and Sen sibility," illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an introduction by Austin Dobson. These are not all really " standard " novels, but they are all novels that have had a vogue and have left some kind of literary impression that has en dured. Their republication, in a form that is attractive and convenient, and at the same time inexpensive, is a distinct service that will be appreciated by many readers, and especially by those who like to own the novels that are worth reading. (Macmillan. Ea., $1.25.) Philidel- The two of Miss Edgeworth s Irish stories phia Times. chosen for the first issue of this series are of the class whose celebrity is, in some measure at least, historical. Some of Miss Edgeworth s stories are perennial, though it cannot be said that the recent revival of critical interest in her work has induced a great popular following. But "Castle Rackrent," which was one of her earliest publications, was a story with a purpose, that while it produced a prodig ious effect in its time, had the f element of transitoriness that the ! political novel always has. | " The Absentee," though it be- | longs to the same class, displays j a firmer and maturerart. With out the freshness of the earlier tale, it has wider observation and a larger grasp of human nature, and the reader will find that, while in some respects old-fash ioned, it still retains a great deal of the interest with which it was read in youth. It is a good thing to be thus tempted to read some of the old stories again, and the succeeding volumes of the series will furnish some instructive experiments in this line. We are next to have some of Captain Marryat "Ja- phet in search of a Father," illustrated by H. M. Brock, with an introduction by David Han- nay and then Michael Scott s "Tom Cringle s Log," which used to be immensely esteemed. Others on the list are "Maid Marian" and " Crotchet Castle," for which Mr. Saintsbury will furnish the introduction ; the "Annals of the Parish" of Thomas Gait ; George Borrow s " Lavengro," introduced by Mr. Birr ell; the "Adventures of Hajji Baba," Miss Edgeworth s " Ormond," Miss Ferrier s "Marriage," illustrated by Messrre. WHOEVER has read either Mrs. Crompton s charming story, "The Gentle Heritage," or "Master Bartelmy," both of which are gems amongst the literature written for children, will be eager to secure anything new from the same writer. " Messire " contains three stories. From " Messire. Copyright, 1895, by E. P. Button & Co. IT is LETTY S OWN IDEA." 7 6 THE LITERARY NEWS. [Marc/i, 1895 The first tells how a beautiful boy is entrusted by his dying father in Australia to an old soldier, who is to carry him home to England and confide him to two maiden aunts, whose only heir he is. The old ladies dismay when he appears with his strange nurse ; their at tempt to separate them and find a situation for " Brown " ; the child s love for his queer nurse and attendant, and Brown s devotion to the child, and how the separation finally came about, are all told in the author s inimitable way. The second story is a brief but exquisite sketch of how Gliick, a little German boy, started out to find the edge of the world, and travelled through fields and vineyards and pine woodlands, enjoying the wild flowers, the orchards, the nut-trees, the springs running down the hillsides, and beds of wild straw berries, until he reached the mountain-top, where he seemed to see spread out in the even ing light the whole of the world and the plains of heaven beyond. Then Uncle Peter came along and carried him home, tired but happy. The third story, " Pippo, Letty and I," is told in innocent child language by one of the little girls, Bet, and reveals brother Pippo s selfish ness and disobedience, the patient endurance of his tyranny by his two little sisters because it was just Pippo, and Pippo was their brother, and finally the righteous judgment that fell upon Pippo. They are all three charming stories, sweet and wholesome in tone, written in pure English, and pleasing to young or old. (Button., 75 c.) 7^ he Beacon. Sir Richard Owen. THE Messrs. Appleton have published a book which has been looked for since the death of the subject two years ago, " The Life of Richard Owen," by his grandson. There seems to have been an exceptionally large supply of materials for these volumes owing to the subject s habit of preserving every paper or letter that came to his hand. Of his own letters no less than 1200 remain, while more than 15,000 letters re ceived from others have been placed at the dis posal of the biographer. Moreover, both Owen and his wife were in the habit of keeping dia ries, and, although his own journal was some what disconnected, that of his wife is a full record from 1834 to 1873, not only of the im portant facts, but even of the trivial details of their joint lives. The biographer s main duty, therefore, has been that of compressing the ample information attainable regarding his sub ject s private life. Not being himself a scientist, he has wisely caused the scientific portions of this volume to be revised by Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, and he has secured from Prof. Huxley an essay on Owen s position in ana tomical science, which is the most valuable feature of the book. The subject of this biography was more than 88 years old when he died on Dec. 18, 1892, having been born at Lancaster on July 20, 1804, He was the son of a West India merchant, and received his early education at the grammar school of his native town, where one of his school-fellows was William Whewell, afterwards the well-known master of Trinity College, Cam bridge. At the age of 20 he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh, and two years later he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, after which he began life as a general practitioner. His appointment on the recommendation of Dr. Abernethy to the post of assistant curator of the Hunterian Mu seum led him to give his attention exclusively to the study of comparative anatomy. It was to comparative anatomy and paleontology that he devoted almost the whole of his scientific career, which may be said to have begun even before the publication of the "Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus" in 1832, and which did not end until iSSq. For the actual scope and pre cise worth of his work we shall refer presently to Prof. Huxley s essay, but there is no doubt that, so far as public and official recognition is concerned, no English man of science in this century has been more highly honored at home and abroad. Mr. Owen received the cross of the Legion of Honor as early as 1855, and was subsequently made a Chevalier of the Prussian Order of Merit, and a Knight of the Bath. (Appleton. 2v. $7.50.) N. Y. Sun. Noemi. MR. BARING-GOULD writes the mediaeval story, with its savagery. He selects that period when parts of France, as Guyenne, were English, and the people uncertain as to their allegiance. Sometimes they were for Henry of England, at other times for the Crown of France. The nobility were given to acts of violence, and the country was a scene of murder and rapine. Freebooters harried the land, and merchants and peasants were robbed. It was the paradise of the free companies, made up of the idle and vicious, and so no man s life was safe. Mr. Baring-Gould s principal character and heroine is Noemi. She performs some wonder ful feats, as jumping down the sides of a pre cipitous cliff, after knocking away the wooden steps. In doing that she nearly upsets Jean del Peyra, a handsome young lad, who is en gaged in whittling an arrow stock. The story is replete with action. There are many fights with burnings and stormings. (Appleton. $i; pap., 50 c.) N. Y. Times. March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 77 La Fayette in the American Revolution. IN these beautifully printed volumes Mr. Tower gives us a delightful picture of the youngest officer who ever held the commission of major-general in the Army of the United States, and the background of the picture is the no less interesting subject, the participation of France in our War of Independence. How im perfect one of these subjects would be if treated apart from the other the reader of these vol umes will appreciate, as he learns from unquestionable evidence how active La Fayette was in shaping the course of France after she *v. had declared war against England, and the confidence which the French cabinet placed in him and its willing ness to follow his advice. It is fully time that a work treating of La Fayette in the American Revolution should have been written; and, while we cannot regret the delay which has made it possible for it to be prepared with all the advantages modern research affords, it is unquestionably true that La Fayette s reputation has suffered for the want of such a work; and, besides this, it has not been creditable to this country that services so eminent as those he ren dered should not have re ceived signal recognition in the historical literature of our country. It has remained for Mr. Tower to correct this omis sion, and he has performed the self-imposed task in a way not only creditable to himself, but in one that will prove gratifying to others. His volumes show that he has spared no pains to make a thorough investigation of his subject, and that he has brought to his work a well- trained mind and a knowledge of modern languages that has enabled him to pursue his studies in original documents gathered from the-archives of France and elsewhere. He has weighed r the evidence he has collected with great fairness, and has drawn his conclusions with true historic instinct, stating them with an earnestness that carries conviction with it. He has made for himself a place in the field of let ters. (Lippincott. 2 v., $8.) The American. Vedic India. MADAME Z. A. RAGOZIN, who has made a life-long study of India, has again two books on that most interesting of lands, both designed for the Storv of the Nations Series. " The Story of Brahmanic India" has not yet left the press, but "The Story of Vedic India" is just ready for distribution. Madame Ragozin has already instructed her fascinated readers in " The Story of Chaldea," " The Story of Assyria," " The From " Vedic India Copy] ight, 1S9.">. by G. P. Putnam s Sons. FIRST INCARNATION OF VISHNU. Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia." The story of Vedic India rests upon the Vedas, the oldest writings in the world with the ex ception of the Pentateuch. These writings are supposed to have been compiled in the sixteenth century before Christ. The Hindoos hold that their Vedas are coeval with creation. The illustration shows the first incarnation of Vishnu, when he took the form of a fish in order to recover the Sacred Scriptures supposed to have been lost in the Deluge. (Putnam. $1.50.) THE LITERARY NEWS. [March, 1895 " Billtry." MRS. MARY KYLE DALLAS has had the wisdom to assure her readers that she is making fun in a kindly spirit of a book of which she is an ardent and sincere admirer. She says : " Though without the great, beautiful Trilby this absurd little Billtry would From " Billtry." Copyright, 1895, by The Merriam Co. "BILLTRY." never have been. It is simply the reverse of the question the other side of the shield the what might have been had the bachelor artists of the Parisian studios been bachelor girls of Gotham, and their model masculine, instead of feminine Billtry, in fact, instead of Trilby and even of this I did not take thought until the morsel was written." In this little squib " Billtry" has the beauti ful feet, and they are reproduced in candy and soap for various purposes to help the girl artists make money. One of these draws pigs, the other angels, and one speaks some thing that stands for Spanish, in imitation^of the generous doses of French scattered through Mr. Du Maurier s inimitable, critic-disarming story. Pictures, also " parodies," of the artist- author s drawings are used to illustrate the extravagant text. One of these is of Billtry, who loves a bottle in the possession of his wife, takes doses from the same, then stands upon his head and plays the accordion with his "beautiful toes." In it all Mrs. Kyle Dallas has only had " the simple and innocent object of making you laugh." (Merriam Co. $i; pap., 50 c.) Chimmie Fadden. MR. EDWARD W. TOWNSEND S newly pub lished book, " Chimmie Fadden, Major Max, and Other Stories," is something that is well calculated to touch the popular liking, and I predict for it a success much greater than is commonly won by publications of the same general kind. Both the "Chimmie Fadden" and the "Major Max" tales originally ap peared in the Sun, and are to be reckoned among the best of the dialect and character sketches that have ever been printed in that distinguished newspaper ; which is saying a good deal for them, for the Sun has published some famously able stories in this line. In the "Chimmie Fadden" tales there is, I suppose, a more popular element than the " Major Max conversations can boast. It is to be said that "Chimmie" is a character who will deserve his success, no matter how great it may prove to be; he is gifted in imagination and in speech, and is powerful to amuse and delight any sort of reader. At the same time the "Major Max " conversations will be found to contain for a smaller circle of readers a still greater charm. These sketches, in surprising contrast to the " Chimmie Fadden" tales, so far as their literary treatment is concerned, are models of light and amusing fancy and graceful and deft expression. Mr. Townsend, with equal facility and effectiveness, can be broad in his humor, or he can be delicate; and he can tell a story that would win approbation in the Fourth ward, or pursue a question of nice philosophy in a manner to delight the fastidious. The other tales and sketches in this volume are concerned with San Francisco and the West, and are ad mirable in various ways. I recommend the book with a clear conscience, and with some thing more than that, I have liked it myself, and I believe that others will like it. May it bring to its very able author the success that he deserves. If it succeeds according to its merits he will have no reason to complain. (Lovell, Coryell & Co. $i; pap., 50 c.)Town Topics. March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 79 The Women of Shakespeare. THE translator, who has done her work ex cellently, reminds us in her preface that we have two books on Shakespeare s women and of course both Mrs. Jameson and Lady Martin are delightful writers but points out with much reason that there is ample room for Dr. Lewes work. One is instantly prepossessed by the author s two principles, which are first of all to take Shakespeare s women in the chrono logical order from Venus of " Venus and Adonis " to Queen Catherine, and next to allow each character to grow out of her play. The details of the play are only used to develop and interpret the subjects of study, and the reader s mind therefore is not distracted, but is always kept in focus. This plan Dr. Lewes works out after the most laborious and conscientious fashion, omitting no one and doing injustice to none. No words can exaggerate the thor oughness or sanity of the book, which satisfies you on every page that the author has done his work, and there are occasional passages of genuine feeling, as in the tribute to Desde- mona s saintliness. One naturally tests such studies at critical points, and it is saying much for Dr. Lewes that his Portia is all that her ad mirers could desire, for surely she is the queen of Shakespeare s women, and his Lady Macbeth is a powerful and convincing reading that shows Doth insight and charity. Among many in stances of minute and sensible criticism is the remark that Juliet, and some of the other maid ens, knew more than was good for them, and that in consequence some of the noblest pas sages in her speech are stained. It is not pos sible in this brief review to enter into intricate critical questions, but the Shakespeare student will notice that while Dr. Lewes adopts the three periods of division, he does not apportion the plays as has been most commonly done, but throws " Two Gentlemen of Verona " and " Love s Labour s Lost " into the second period. This book supplies a distinct want, and is a valuable addition to Shakespearian literature. (Macmillan. $2.50.) "San Maclaren" in The Bookman. The Growth of the Idylls of the King. THIS scholarly monograph is another of the many indications that meet one on every side of how far the Germanization of our intellectual pursuits has gone, passing beyond the sphere of classical philology and pure science, and in vading the domain of literature. The present volume investigates the Quellen in the genuine spirit of the Herr Professor, but with a certain deftness and grace of touch and an underlying aesthetic sympathy with Tennyson s noblest work that are quite foreign to the " one, two, three " methods of his models. The design of the study is to show that Tennyson s obligations to Malory have been exaggerated by the critics ; that the poem shows a gradual but steady evolution ; and that the work itself in its final form embodies the poet s matured view of life a somewhat pesimistic view, and one far removed from the hopeful optimism of his youth, that found ex pression in the earlier idylls. In the working out of this plan Dr. Jones has gathered and arranged a mass of information as to texts, variants, revisions in manuscript, and other matters that are extremely instructive to the critical student of Tennyson ; and has shown a keen literary sense that will commend cer- 8o THE LITERARY NEWS. [Af arc/i, 1895 tain chapters of his little volume to that larger host who never think of texts, or variants, or sources, but merely accept with delight the noble creation of a great master, and thank God for it. (Lippincott. 1.50.) The Bookman, Lucy Larcom. A SWEET and noble soul passed out of this life when Lucy Larcom died. The graciousness of her nature, her well-balanced character, her aspirations for all that was uplifting to herself and helpful to others, her tenderness and mod esty and self-sacrifice could not have been understood by most of those familiar with her writings but for this revelation in her life, let- lers, and diary. The history as told in these pages, much of it in her own words, was comparatively uneventful, but it has unusual charm. All along from her childhood in a home of Puritan simplicity in Beverly to the closing scene in Boston at nearly threescore and ten it is a record of absorbing interest, showing the growth of a true, lovely, and lov able womanhood. Of the New England womanhood of the last generation, nurtured in a well-ordered house hold, subjected to privations, stuggling against obstacles, always handicapped, but borne on by a resistless determination to learn and know and possess all that was best, Lucy Larcom was a striking and admirable example. Nothing is more apparent in these pages than that she made the utmost of her life. Her judgment was excellent, her intuitions were keen, her nature was sound and healthy. She was able to give calm and wise consideration to the per plexing questions which came up in her life. She was never the sport of impulse, but there was the staying and reliable quality in her make up which must be defined in one word as prin ciple. The question most difficult to settle con cerned her spiritual experiences, convictions, and duties. This volume has been carefully, and rever ently loyally prepared by Daniel Dulany Ad- dison, who appreciated her rare qualities. The sweet, benignant face of Miss Larcom fronts the title-page. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) Boston Literary World. Stories by Charles Egbert Craddock. A NEW volume of stories by Charles Egbert Craddock will be hailed with acclamation by those who read any bright stories with pleasure, and with quiet delight by those who know how specially fine is the art of the writer of "In the Stranger People s Country." There are five stories, entitled " The Phantoms of the Foot- Bridge," " His Day in Court," " Way Down in Lonesome Cove," " The Moonshiners at Hoho- Hehee Falls," and " The Riddle of the Rocks." The illustrations are specially well done. Miss Craddock is so true a word painter that an ar tist has little to do but to make a copy from her poetic realistic text. It is always good to see the work of Miss Craddock, scattered so lavishly in the magazines, "brought to cover" in an at tractive volume. (Harper. $1.50.) The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge." Copyright, 1S95, by Harper & Brothers. THE BLACKSMITH S SHOP. March) 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 81 Ropes Story of the Civil War. IT is well known that, for upward of thirty years, Mr. John Codman Ropes of Boston has made a study of the records of the war between the States, and the first outcome of his studies, "The Army Under Pope," was generally ac cepted as proof of his qualifications for the composition of an impartial and accurate his tory of the whole contest. This work has now been undertaken, and we have now before us the first volume of "The Story of the Civil War." We may say at once that the expec tations based on the author s former narra tive will be found here fulfilled. Entirely im partial it is perhaps impossible for any con temporary observer to be; that not Thucydides himself could claim. Mr. Ropes, for his part, is convinced that the assertion made by the Southern States of a right to secede from the Union was not well grounded, and he makes no secret of his conviction on this point. But while, holding this conviction, he cannot en tirely veil his satisfaction at the triumph of the Union cause, he is at great pains to point out, both in the preface and incidentally throughout the volume, that the great mass of the Southern people believed themselves to have a right to secede, and that to this belief should be largely ascribed the unanimity, per sistency, and amazing vigor of their efforts. In his judgment, he tells us, the war should not be so depicted as to imply that the North and the South differed and quarrelled about the same things. As a matter of fact, the questions presented to men of the North were not the same as those with which their South ern contemporaries had to deal. The two par ties may justly be compared to the knights of the fable who fought over the shield which had on one side a golden and on the other a silvern face. At the very outset of this volume, the reader acquires confidence in the writer s purpose and ability to evince the largest measure of im partiality attainable, owing to the stress which he lays on the radical differences regarding the object of political allegiance, which actually existed among the representative statesmen of the country in the year 1860. Mr. Ropes says truly that "it is not possible to exaggerate the importance of these conceptions of political duty ; for they directly affected the attitude of every man toward the questions of the day. If a man held that his State was his country, it was his duty, if he proposed to be a patriotic citizen, to serve under the flag of his State." In the four volumes within which this narra tive will be comprised, no one will look to see collected all the details of the Civil War, re course for which must be had to more com prehensive histories or to that most capacious receptacle of nearly all that can be known re garding the incidents of the contest, the war records which have been published by the Federal Government. The author s design is limited to enabling the reader to obtain a gen eral view of the struggle, and to see its events in their proper order and perspective. (Put nam. $1.50.) N. Y. Sun. History of the People of the United States. THE long-awaited fourth volume of McMas- ter s great work is now ready. It opens with the war on the frontier and along the Lakes at the beginning of 1812 and ends with the inau guration of Jackson. It deals with the block ade of the coast by Great Britain, the war along the Gulf Coast, Jackson s Indian Wars, the New Orleans Campaign, tr e general con dition of the country during the war, the Presi dential election, the return of peace and its effects, the disorders of the currency after 1814, the rise of manufacturing industries, the devel opment of municipal and State governments, the growth of inter-State communication and the introduction of steamboats, the periodical literature of the time and the growth of relig ious, trade and comic papers and magazines, the movement of population westward, the admission of Missouri, the reasons for the pro- slavery sentiment, and its effects, down to 1824; the Adams Administration, and the opening of the Erie Canal and other internal improve ments. Much space is given to Socialistic movements like that of Owen, and the beginning of Mor- monism, with a general account of the effects of the development of new ideas. Professor McMaster has devoted a great deal of attention to the study of early periodical literature, and also to the mental fermentation which found expression in various Socialistic and other eccentric ways. (Appleton. vol. 4, $2.50.) N. Y. Tribune. The Great Ice Age. IT is incorrect to suppose of a book entitled "The Great Ice Age, and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man," by James Geikie, which now lies before us in its third edition, that the ordinary layman, the man of affairs, finds nothing in it to interest him, and that its value is confined to experts. There is a large class, consisting not only of those who have had the advantages of an academic education, but also of those who, without ever having enjoyed that privilege, are studious and thoughtful, whose libraries are filled with just such solid literature as this volume represents ; and to all of them this work of Professor Geikie will ap- THE LITERARY NEWS. [Marc -/i, 1895 peal with singular force. He is not merely an authority on the topic in hand, and an authority whose opinions must receive great weight, but he writes in a style that is thoroughly popular and alluring. You might think that any writer must needs be dull when talking of the glacial aspect of Greenland, or of the rock striations and groovings of Scotland, or of the glacial and post glacial deposits of England, but Professor Geikie has a peculiar charm for even the ordinary reader, and to begin a chapter on any one of these subjects is to feel the spell of his magnetic style and to become irresistibly drawn to the author until through actual weariness the work must be laid down. The part of the book which has most in terested us happens to be that in which he discusses the glacial phenomena of Northern Europe and the wonderful relics of by-gone eons which have given us a clue to the con vulsions through which the earth passed in its adolescence. Here is an extract which is full of suggestion : "Before the commencement of the glacial period Europe was in the enjoyment of a de lightful climate, certainly more genial and equable than the present. This is clearly evinced by the character of the pliocene flora, which appears to have been transitorial between that of the preceding sub-tropical miocene and the present. . . . Considerable areas which are now dryland were then underwater. Then the low grounds of Italy were still submerged, the valley of the Po forming a great arm of the sea, which likewise penetrated into the moun tain valleys of the Alps. The valley of the Arno, and Sicily, to some extent, were similarly under water, and the like was the case with the lower reaches of the Rhone and wide tracts in the maritime districts of Southwestern France. The sea also covered the south and southeast of England, and overflowed at the .same time a broad area in Belgium and a small part of Northern France. . . . " England was visited by elephants, rhinoc eroses and hippopotamuses and great herds of various kinds of deer, as well as by bears, wolves, and other carnivora." This quotation is made at random, and, in teresting as it is, it is no more so than any other paragraphs that might be chosen by chance. Professor Geikie is a wonderfully at tractive writer, and not even a boy in one of our high-schools could fail to get a com paratively clear idea of that strange and weird epoch in our earth history when there was no Gulf Stream, and when snow and ice held un disputed sway. (Appleton. $7.50.) N~ Y. Herald. The Great Refusal. THE introduction tells us that it is edited by Paul Elmer More, and that it is part of the literary remains of a scholarly young man, the identity of whom is carefully concealed, whose learning was wasted in the vapors of mysticism. Whether we are to take this literally, or whether the book was really written by the putative editor, we do not know. It is in a nebulous, epistolary form, and addressed to a lady whom he calls Lady Esther. The sub-title" Letters of a Dreamer" gives an idea of the scheme. While not characterized by marked originality of conception and thought, it bears the stamp of delicacy of touch and refinement of senti ment. There are many passages having a tender beauty, not only captivating the eye and ear, but leaving impressions as of aphorisms on the mind of the reader. There are a number of short poems, and one of several pages, which are in good taste and show considerable poetical ability. The writer has or had a good ear for rhythm and his measures flow smoothly. lie has followed the currents of his thoughts wherever they led him, and while the form is epistolary, there is much that is impersonal and not especially applicable to Lady Esther. It is a book which will bear a reading and a pick ing up again at odd times. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. i.) Three Score and Ten Years. WHAT Mr. W. J. Linton would care to say of the art he loves, and in which he is so distin guished, he probably said in " The Masters of Wood-Engraving;" it does not, at any rate, claim the lion s share in these recollections of "Three Score and Ten Years." And neither in the text, nor yet in the strong, genial old face that is the book s frontispiece, does one find quite the fanatically fierce radical that perhaps one chiefly remembers him to have been por trayed. Possessed of a passion of protest and revolt against what he considered the wrongs of a country, a race, a class, or individuals, un doubtedly he shows himself to have been ; but justice, tenderness, pity, and sense of humor are as inevitably betrayed as radicalism, and the capacity of bitter resentment and acrimony. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy says of him in " Con versations with Carlyle," referring to Carlyle s calling Linton " a well-meaning, but extremely windy creature of the Louis Blanc, George Sand, etc., species," that he was "less a French Republican of the school of George Sand and Louis Blanc than an English Republican of the school of Milton and Cromwell." March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. The book is not an autobiography, nor do the recollections define very exactly the sequence of the years, but they are interesting in their crowded desultoriness. Some of them, it is true, concern people unknown to, or perhaps displeasing to the reader ; but more are occu pied with personages in all walks of life, but es pecially in art and literature, famous, or deserv ing to be so for their qualities. They are told in language simple, graphic, with a little flavor of antiquity harmonizing with the author s por trait, and with some of the people and events he recalls. Austin Dobson dedicated to Mr. Linton "his "Thomas Bewick and his Pupils" as " Engraver and Poet, the steadfast apostle of Bewick s white line ; " and wrote on the fly leaf of the complimentary copy sent : " Not white thy graver s path alone ; May the sweet Muse with whitest stone Mark all the days to come, and still Delay thee on Parnassus Hill." (Scribner. $2.) Providence Sunday Journal. A Manual of the Study of Documents. THIS handy volume, by Persifor Frazer, will be found of great use to all persons interested in the study of penmanship and of the individ ual character of handwriting. It is a " counter feit detector," for it will enable one, after some study of its pages, to detect fraud and forgery. In addition to the old methods of research there are several new suggestions for the detection of counterfeit writing. Dr. Fra/cer suggests that the term Bibliotics is broad enough to apply to any object which it may be desired to investi gate such as parchment, wax tablets, papyrus, printing paper, stone, or any other substance capable of receiving and retaining characters. Under the head of " Grammapheny " he would include all that relates to the discovery of fraud, and under that of " Plassopheny" all that re lates to forgery. In the development of his sub ject he goes into valuable mimttia: under the head of physical examination, studying all that belongs to the manner of writing, the instrument, the fluid used, evidences of tampering, scanning under various lights, the use of magnifying in struments, the substances written upon, the composite photography of signatures, the tre mor of feebleness, illiteracy, or fraud, and the writing done by guided hands. In part second he enters into the detail of inks and their testing, the reagents used by forgers, and the method of reaction, winding up with a digest of the laws relating to the testimony of experts on hand writing. The book is very interesting, and gives the result of a lifetime of study of this impcrtant specialty. Apart from its curious interest as a flower growing in one nook of the garden of lit erature, it is an exceedingly useful manual for all persons to whom the detection of fraud and the establishment of truth is a question of su preme practical interest. The book is very well printed and illustrated and has a good index. (Lippincott. $2.) Boston Literary World. The Woman Who Did. IT is a pity that so remarkable a book should bear a title which savors a little of the cheap catchiness of posters, advertisements and par odies. Grant Allen has done much excellent work since he began to write some twenty years ago. He combines scientific accuracy and imagi nation and poetry in rare degree. His special field is natural science, and evolution has been the branch to which he has devoted many vol umes. His logical powers are trained and he reasons clearly, proving all statements step by step from any premises he accepts or invents as the bases of his treatises and stories. He tells us that this little volume has been written wholly to please himself , and every line shows how exacting has been his demand upon himself to produce a work that should remain a pleasure to him. The story is slight. A girl born in the con ventional atmosphere that surrounds the high dignitaries of the Established Church has gradu ated from Girton, and enters life full of the noblest enthusiasm to help her sister women free themselves from conventional bonds and live a pure, self-sacrificing life, using all their highest powers and capacities to advance the true cause of woman and make her the true, in spiring helpmate of man, kept up to his highest ideal by her strength and purity. She believes that the present laws and customs of marriage are degrading to the woman and irk some and unnatural to the man. Almost imme diately upon leaving college she meets a man who understands the purity of motive and the self-sacrificing purpose that underlie her start ling plans and theories. Many conversations present the man s, the woman s and the conven tional views of the institution of marriage. After long deliberation the young people agree to live their lives according to the girl s theories. The consequences of this decision, leading to the tragic climax, are told with rare insight into the eternal opposition of the un changing forces of nature and the constantly changing forces of social conditions. The woman leads a martyr s life, and from her near est and dearest meets only with condemnation. (Roberts. $i.) 8 4 THE LITERARY NEWS. \_March, 1895 t Itanj Sin Eclectic JUlontfjIs DU&teto of (E/urrrnt ILfterature. EDITED BY A. H. LE YPOL D T. MARCH, 1895- W. E. FOSTER S REFERENCE LISTS. THE librarian of the Providence Public Li brary, Mr. William E. Foster, is among the few that are " called " as well as "chosen" to their profession. He recognizes the true educational purpose of a library for which the people pay, and the responsibility which rests upon its li brarian to instruct his townsmen what treasures they may procure with their tax-money, and how far-reaching may be the mental and moral, the political and social results of an intelligent and systematic use of the literary property on which they have a claim as good citizens. Mr. Foster is a man of broad interests, fully abreast with his day, and he knows the value of exact information in dealing with the ques tions of the hour, as presented to large masses of men from day to day in a press nominally free, but influenced consciously or unconscious ly, or controlled autocratically by party, power or money. To make aimless readers thinkers, and to give vitality and purpose to undirected ambitions and idiosyncrasies, or vague desires, has been this earnest librarian s ideal for many years an ideal to which he has sacrificed all personal ambition, and for which he has done work requiring gifts and training that no money can buy. Filled with youthful enthusiasm, Mr. Foster fifteen years ago began to make up " Reference Lists " for the u&e of the readers of the Provi dence Public Library, calling attention to the works and periodicals contained in the library bearing upon the important questions of the day, or the heroes of the hour in war, politics, or literature. Some kindred spirits hailed Mr. Foster s plan with delight, and he was encour aged to> print his lists (which had until then only been written and put up within the walls of the library) so that they might prove of use in other libraries, and also guide and remind read ers privileged to buy books. After four years of struggle, from 1880 to 1884, Mr. Foster found it impossible to get his great undertaking upon a basis warranting the expense of proper help, and still more impossible to do all the work him self added to the onerous duties of superin tending a growing library; and the " Reference Lists " could not any more be made public. But Mr. Foster s enthusiasm still lives, and he sees more and more the great need of such a work as he offers. Perhaps, too, he hopes that in a decade readers may have become conscious of such need, and he once more offers his " Ref erence Lists," at the trifling cost of 50 cents a year. Every month he covers three subjects. The January issue gave information on Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Corean War, and Buddh ism; February s lists referred to Robert Louis Stevenson, Municipal government, and German literature. No one who hss not seen these lists can un derstand their great importance. A better guide to bookbuying it would be hard to find- READERS would do well to ponder some thoughts condensed from a lecture given many years ago by Mr. W. E. Foster upon the right selection of books and the right methods of reading: A. 77/i? right selection of books, (i) Person al adaptation should guide us. (2) Our read ing should have a tendency towards symmet rical development ; it should not be exclusively technical, nor exclusively general. (3) We should begin where we are interested. An in vestigation of a subject will lead from that into other fields. It may be objected that this re quires a suggestive habit of mind. But a sug gestive habit of mind is not born in any man[?], and it may be acquired by any man. Let once a beginning be made, and the further we go the surer we are of recognizing some familiar event or topic ; the dread of unfamiliarity van ishes after we have taken the first few steps. (4) There must be discrimination in our read ing ; aimlessness is one of the worst evils. B. Right methods of reading, (i) Definiteness of purpose is as necessary here as in the selec tion. We must have a clear idea of just what we wish to get out of each book. (2) System, a scientific adjustment of means to ends. (3) We must read in a comparative way. It is not safe to judge any question apart from its rela tions. The reader must take a survey of the whole field before beginning at any one point. (4) In using reference lists it is not necessary to read every book and every chapter referred to. We must select what on the whole would best serve our purpose. We are not to ignore our interest, however some one book might particularly attract the attention of some one reader. The plan of reading by a reference list does not apply to all books. Imagine a man going through Milton or Shakespeare in this ruthless manner ! The plan applies to the works of " the literature of knowledge." " The literature of power " needs a different treatment. Books which have an organic unity, following out a central subject or thought, must be read as a whole. (5) We should review our reading at times. March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. ARTICLES IN MARCH MAGAZINES. Articles marked with an asterisk are illustrated. ARTISTIC, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Century, Eugene Ysaye;* Jean Carries, Sculptor and Potter.* Fort. Review (Feb.), Note on Ibsen s " Little Eyolf," The Editor. Forum, A Week in New York Theatres, Speed. Harper s, The American Academy at Rome,* Cortissoz. Scribner s, American Wood-Engravers F. S. King;* Orchestral Conducting and Conductors, Apthorp. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. Atlantic, William Dwight Whitney, Lanman. Cath. World, Sir John Thompson, McKenna. C/iau- tauquan, Chauncey M. Depew, Morris. Nine. Centtiry (Feb.), Reminiscences of Christina Rossetti. Watts. Popular Science, Thomas Nuttall (For.). DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL. Cath. World, Pictures on the Galway Coast,* Marguerite Moore. Century, Beyond the Adriatic,* Harriet W. Preston. Chantauqiian, Underground Railway in London, Daniel! Harper s, The Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem,* Hutton ; Industrial Region of Northern Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia,* Ralph. Lippincotfs, Glimpse of Cuba, Reeve. McClures, An Ocean Flyer ; * An Alpine Pass on Ski,* Doyle. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. Lippincotfs, Furs in Russia, Isabel F. Hapgood ; A Question of Cos tume, W. D. McCrackan. North Am. Review, Nagging Women, Lady Somerset, Marion Har- land, Harriet P. Spofford. Pop. Science, The Mother in Woman s Advancement, Mrs. Burton Smith. Scribners, Art of Living House- Furnishing and the Commissariat,* Grant. EDUCATIONAL. Atlantic, Direction of Educa tion, Shaler. Cath. World, Scope of Public School Education, Spalding. Harper s, New York Common Schools, Olin. A T inc. Century (Feb.), Language vs. Literature at Oxford, Collins. Pop. Science, Scientific Method in Board Schools, Armstrong; Biological Work in Secondary Schools, McClatchie. FICTION. Atlantic, The Seats of the Mighty, I., Gilbert Parker; Gridou s Pity, I., Grace H. Peirce. Cath. World, A Modern Iconoclast, Spellissy. Century, A Vital Question, Hibbard; The Hard Trigger,* Edwards. Harpers, A Californian, Geraldine Bonner; The Second Missouri Compromise,* Wister; Fame s Little Day,* Sarah O. Jewett; An Every-Day Affair, Olga Flinch. Lippincotfs, A Tame Surrender, Charles King; Luck of the Atkinses, Margaret B. Yeates; Fulfilment, Eliz. K. Carter. Mc- Clure s, Lord of Chateau Noir, Doyle; La Tous- saint,* Weyman; A Blizzard,* Mrs. E. V. Wil son. Scribner s, Circle in the Water, I., How- ells; Hughey, Macknight ; Revenge,* Abbe C. Goodloe. HISTORY. Century, Two War-Times Con ventions, Noah Brooks. Scribners, History of the Last Quarter-Century in the United States,* I., E. B. Andrews; When Slavery Went Out of Politics,* Noah Brooks. West. Review (Feb.), Historical Lessons from American Archaeology, Hewitt. INDUSTRIAL. Pop. Science, Copper, Steel, and Bank Note Engraving,* Dickinson; An Old Industry (Indigo-Making), Mary H. Leon ard; Bookbinding, Sanderson. LITERARY. Atlantic, Secret of the Roman cOracles, Lanciani ; Some Confessions of a Novel-Writer, Trowbridge ; A Pupil of Hypa- tia, Harriet W. Preston and Louise Dodge. Cath. World, A Prince of Scribblers (Horace Walpole), Rossman. Century, Cheating at Letters, Bunner. Fort. Review (Feb.), Novels of Hall Caine, Saintsbury. Forum, Charlotte Bronte s Place in Literature, Harrison ; The Two Eternal Types in Fiction, Mabie. Lip- pincott s, The Artist s Compensations, Lawton. McChtre s, F. M. Crawford A Conversa tion,* Bridges. North Am. Review, Mark Twain and Paul Bourget, Max O Rell. Scrib- ner s, Thoreau s Poems of Nature, Sanborn. MEDICAL SCIENCE. - - Chautauquan, The World s Debt to Medicine, J. S. Billings. Forum, Anti-Toxine Treatment of Diphtheria, L. Emmett Holt. McClure s, Diphtheria Anti- Toxine Its Production,* W. H. Park; New Treatment of Diphtheria,* H. M. Biggs. MENTAL AND MORAL. Cath. World, Hypnot ism (Charcot), Seton. Nine. Century (Feb.), Social Evolution, Kidd. North Am. Review, What Psychical Research has Accomplished, Podmore. NATURE AND SCIENCE. Century, Hermann von Helmholtz (For.), Martin; Hoise Market,* Merwin. Harpers, Heredity, Mivart. Lip- pincott s, Story of the Gravels, Bashore. Pop. Science, Scientific Work of Tyndall, Lord Ray- leigh; Beginnings of Agriculture, Bourdeau. Scribner s, Bedding-Plants,* Parsons. POETRY. Atlantic, Evening in Salisbury Close, Scollard; At the Granite Gate, Carman. Century, Summers, Josephine H. Nicholls. Harper s, The Ascending Magdalen,* Minna C. Smith; A Singer Awaiting an Answer, Mar guerite Merington; Like the Good God, Mar- rion Wilcox; Society, Howells. Lippincotfs, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Burton. Nine. Centttry (Feb.), A New Year s Eve (Christina Rossetti), Swinburne. Scrilner s, Three Son nets, Fullerton; Land-Locked, Going; The Last Prayer, Campbell. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. Atlantic, Immigra tion and Naturalization, Everett; Some Words on the Ethics of Co-operative Production, Lud- low. Banker s, Credit of the U. S. Govern ment; How Much has the Country Lost by Low Prices of Products?; World s Wool Situaticn, North; History of Bank Currency, Gilman. Century, Blackmail as a Heritage, Buel. C/iau- tauquan, New Reign in Russia, Yarros. Forum, Business World vs. the Politicians, Eckels; Our Blundering Policy, Lodge; What Would I Do with the Tariff?, Carnegie; Is the Income Tax Constitutional?, Seligman; The Social Dis content, Holt. Harper s, Trial Trip of a Cruiser,* Sicard. Nine. Century (Feb.), Is Bi- metalism a Delusion?, Tuck. North Am. Re view, Is an Extra Session Needed ?, Tracey, Storer, Patterson and Cousins; Two Years of Democratic Diplomacy, Davis; Must We Have the Cat-c-Nine Tails?, Gerry; Future of Silver, Bland. West. Review (Feb.), Betting and Gam bling. THEOLOGY, RELIGION, AND SPECULATION. Fort. Review (Feb.), Ancestor Worship in Chir a, Gundry.McCIure s, The Lord s Day, Glad stone. Nine. Century (Feb.), Auricular Con fession and the Church of England, Canon Carter. North Am. Review, The Old Pulpit and the New, Bhp. Foss. West. Review, (Feb.), Free Thought, Agnosticism, Skepticism, Dewey. THE LITERARY NEWS. [Marc/;, 1895 of Current Citerature. Order through your bookseller. " There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence and the purity of any community than their general purchase of books; nor is there any one who does more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller" PROF. DUNN- Church, Rochester. $th ed. Scrantom, Wet- more & Co. 8, pap.. 50 c. Recipes for soups, fish, vegetables, bread,. in poetry aim musii; , iu K ciu C i wiiu uiusu. *= . , . d f desserts, cake, pickles, a representative art : two essays m compara- ^ alaHs P heverairps . sw i Pta Ptr . tive aesthetics. Putnam. 8 , $1.75. ART, MUSIC, DRAMA. RAYMOND, G. LANSING. Rhyhtm and harmony in poetry and music ; together with music as beverages REINTZEL, MARG., comp. The musician s year book. Button. 16, $i. Appropriate readings for every day in the year selected from the sayings of celebrated musicians and renowned authors. Mozart, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Weber, and Schu mann are some of the musicians represented. Among the authors are Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, George Eliot, Goethe, Thompson, and many others. FLETCHER, ROB., M.D. Anatomy and art : the annual address read before the Philosoph ical Society of Washington, December 12, 1894. Judd & Detweiler. 8, pap., n. p. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. MASSON, D. Life of John Milton, narrated in connection with the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of his time. Macmillan. 8, 14-50. SALA, G. A. The life and adventures of George Augustus Sala, written by himself. Scrib- ner. 2 v., por. 8, $5. DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. BALLA.NTINE, H. On India s frontier ; or, Nepal, the Gurkhas mysterious land. J. Sel- win Tait & Sons, map, il. 12, $2.50. SHOEMAKER, M. M. Trans-Caspia; the sealed provinces of the czar. The Robert Clarke Co. por. il. 12, $1.50. "Mr. Shoemaker has before written some very interesting volumes of travel and Trans- Caspia is still another. He sees well and describes admirably. The journey led through the ordinarily sealed provinces of the Czar and about which little has been known from Amer ican tourists. Starting from St. Petersburg, the journey led over the Dariel Pass, to Tiflis, to Baku, and the oil regions of the Caspian. From there to the plains of Turkistan. and the Desert of the Black Sands ; Bokhara, Samarcand, over the steppes to Tashkend. ancient Kokand, Ash, through Paradise to the deserts of China, through the deserted cities of the Turkoman, to Trebizond and Stamboul. The story is ad mirably told, and the beautifully clear print and striking illustrations add to the enjoyment of the book." Chicago Inter-Ocean. VINCENT, FRANK. Actual Africa ; or, the com ing continent. A tour of exploration. With map and 105 full-page illustrations. 8. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. MOTHER HUBBARD S cupboard: recipes collected by the Young Ladies Society, First Baptist EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. DE GARMO, C. Herbart and the Herbartians. Scribner. 12, (Great educators ser.) net, $i. EATON, Rev. ARTHUR WENTWORTH. College requirements in Engl sh entrance examina tions (Examination papers for 1893 and 1894). zdser. Ginn. 12, net, 1.20. MARTIN, G. H. The evolution of the Massa chusetts public school system: a historical sketch. Appleton. 12, (International edu cation ser., no. 29.) $1.50. This is only a sketch a study, not a history of education in Massachusetts. It aims to show the evolutionary character of the public- school history of the state, and to point out the lines along which the development has run,, and the relation throughout to the social envi ronment. Incidentally, it serves to illustrate the slow, wavering, irregular way by which the people under popular governments work out their own social progress. The material was originally given as lectures with the titles: The early legislation its principles and precedents; Schools before the Revolution; The district school and the academy; Horace Mann and 1 the revival of education; The modern school system; The modern school. Author is Super visor of Public Schools, Boston, Mass. PAULSEN, F. The German universities: their character and historical development; author ized tr. by E: Delevan Perry, with an introd. by Nicholas Murray Butler. Macmillan. 12, $2. " The work, which originally appeared as a part of the elaborate report sent by the German government with its educational exhibit to the World s Fair at Chicago, is of the very first importance to promoters of the higher educa tion here in America, where the disposition to assimilate the best features of German univer sity methods is noteworthy. Professor Paulsc n shows clearly how the unified atmosphere of the German universities has promoted solidar ity of interests, made possib e a free inter change of advantages; and by giving members of different faculties frequent opportunities for pursuing their work under the most favorable auspices, has tended to form a veritable aris tocracy of intellect as a counterbalancing force in the social organism against the domi nation of hereditary influences and the materi alism of wealth. A thoughtful and suggestive introduction on the relation of German univer sities to the problems of higher education irk the United States, by Professor N. M. Butler, is a noteworthy feature of the volume. The March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. translator has added a few serviceable foot notes for the benefit of readers not acquainted with German university customs. Appendices contain useful statistics and a bibliography. "- The Beacon. FICTION. ALLEN, GRANT. The woman who did. Rob erts. 16, $i. BARING-GOULD, SABINE. Noemi. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 160.) $r; pap., 50 c. Aquitaine, in France, in the stormy days of the raids of the Free Companies in the fifteenth century, is the scene of a dramatic historical ro mance. Noemi is the supposed daughter of the robber chief Le Gros Guillem and has a noble nature, which her environment of crime and bloodshed has not destroyed; her father s horrible reprisals of the poor and oppressed are witnessed by her with deep ind gnation. She endeavors to prevent them, and is aided in her efforts by Jean Del Peyra, whom she loves. BEALE, MARIA. Jack O Doon: a novel. Holt. i 11. nar. 16, buckram, 75 c. CATNE. HALL. A son of Hagar; il. by Albert Hencke. R. F. Fenno & Co., 112 5th Av enue, por. 12, $i. The same scene is used here Cumberland. England- as in " The shadow of a crime." The hero is the opposite of the hero of that story. Hall Caine says in his preface: "In this novel the aim has been to penetrate into the soul of a bad man, and to lay bare the processes by which he is tempted to fall." The temptation is a woman whom two brothers love to win her from his brother Paul, Hugh Ritson does not hesitate at a crime. He finds his opportunity in the misfortunes and sins of his mother, who has brought an illegitimate child into the world. The manners and customs of the Cumbrian peasants are realistically presented. COBB, SYLVANUS.yr. The king s mark : a novel. Bonner. 12, (Popular ser., no. 57.) pap., 25 c. The story is founded on an episode of his tory. Frederick the Great, for diplomat : c and humane reasons, is supposed to play the part of a student, and marks the arm of a newly born infant with a Latin cross; this infant, FeoJor Von Allendorf. the hero of the story, later wins the heart of his sovereign by frus trating the plot of some Saxon rebels, and by outwitting a diplomat of rank. The policy of Frederick the Great in regard to his proposed invasion of Saxony is seen, as is also Saxony s position in regard to the crown. The character caste is mostly composed of famous historic personages who lived about 1756. COTES. Mrs. EVERARD. [Sara Jeanette Dun can.] Vernon s aunt: being the Oriental ex periences of MHS Lavinia Moffat; il. by Hal Hurst. Appleton. 12, $1.25. COUPERUS, Lours. Maje?ty. A novel. Trans lated by A. Teixeira de Ma .tos and Ernest Dowson. Appleton. 12. CRAWFORD, F. MARION. The Ralstons. Mac- millan. buckram, 16, $2. DEMENT, R. S. Ronbar: a counterfeit pre sentiment. G. W. Dillingham. 12, $1.50. Richard Ronbar, who is pictured in the open ing chapters as a well-known figure in New York literary and social circles, conceiving a desire to go west, settles in Colorado, where he unfolds to two trusted associates a prospectus of what he calls independent free silver coinage. They agreeing to help him carry out his plan, have a remarkable experience, which is given in a story that introduces some facts in the history of silver coin countries, notably the United States, and which refers to the repeal of the Sherman act, deals with the question of relative values, and finally states individual theories about unlimited coinage. DOYLE, A. CONAN. Beyond the city. E. A. Weeks & Co. 12. (Enterprise ser., no. 8.) pap., 25 c. Two maiden ladies living " beyond the city " of London rent some of their land to a builder, who puts up three villas. The novel tells the story of the people who become tenants of these cottages, the most important of whom is a handsome widow who works for the emanci pation of women and teaches her young girl. EDGEWORIH, MARIA. Castle Rackrent and The absentee; with introd. bv Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Macmillan. 12, (Illustrated stand ard novels, no. i.) $1.25. GREEN, ANNA KATHARINE, [Noiv Mrs. C. Rohlfs.] The doctor, his wife, and the clock. Putnam, nar. 12, (Autonym lib., no. 3.) 50 c. HARLEY, (pseud.} In the veldt. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, pap., 50 c. Stories and sporting sketches with the scene in South Africa. HARRADEN, BEATRICE. Things will take a turn, and other stories. Rand, McNally. 12, (G obe lib., v. i, no. 159.) pap., 25 c. Contains a so " The umbrella-mender " and " An idyll of London." HECLAWA. \_pseiid. for A. L. Artman Himmel- wright.] In the heart of the Bitter-Root Mountains: the story of the Carlin hunting party, September-December, 1893. Putnam, map, il. 12, $1.50. HOPPIN, EMILY HOWLAND. Under the Corsi- can. J. Selwin Tait & Sons. 12, fi. LUDLUM, JEAN KATE. Under oath: an Adi rondack story. Bonner. 12, (Popular ser.,. no. 58.) pap., 25 c. While Allan Mansfield is riding along a lone ly mountain pass, he is mysteriously kidnapped, and as unexpectedly and mysteriously re leased, through the intercession of a strarge woman, who first imposes on Allan the solemn oath of secrecy as to this incident in his life. Her reasons are evident later, when all the characters in the novel are seen in a striking and sensational situation, when she is induced to reveal her own tragic history. MCCARTHY, JUSTIN HUNTLEY. A woman of impulse. Putnam. 12, (Hudson lib., no. 4,} $r; pap., 50 c. The hero is a literary man and a Liberal; he had set forth his creed in the " Cry for liberty," that a few critics considered a great book. His whole career is changed by a chance meeting with a beautiful girl in the British Museum, with whom he is permitted to become ac quainted, and to whom he loses his hf art. To tell the story of this "woman of impulse" would be to give away the secrt t of the author s THE LITERARY NEWS. \March, 1895 plot, which is fresh and novel, and full of sur prise?. MACKIE, J. The Devil s playground: a story of the wild northwest. F. A. Stokes Co. il. 16, buckram, 75 c. MACQUOID, Mrs. KATHARINE S. BERRIS. Unit ed States Book Co. 12, (Lakewood ser., no. 2.) pap., 50 c. NEVINSON, H. W. Neighbors of ours: slum stories of London. Holt. i il. nar. 16, (Buckram ser.) buckram, 75 c. Contents : Old Parky; An aristocrat of labor; The "St. George" of Rochester; Mrs. Simon s baby; Sissero s return; LittyScotty; A man of genius; In the spring; Father Cris mas; Only an accident. " There is no close connection between the stories, but the people are all of the same class and the same manner of living. The frankness and rude wit with wh ch the women bandy opinions is one of the amusing features of a book which runs the gamut of human emotion?. A reading is well repaid, whether the object be diversion or a desire for information, and the dialect is easily mastered. Didacticism is en tirely absent, yet a moral or two crops out, not the less impressive for being couched in the vernacular of the Tower Hamlets." Public Opinion. PAYN, JA. In Market Overt: a novel. Lip- pincott Co. 12, (Lippincott s select novels, no. 165.) $i; pap., 50 c. " In Market Overt is James Payn s most recent novel. The story of the book is, briefly, as follows: John Barton, an Oxford under graduate, saves young Lord Trevor from drowning. The nobleman s gratitude not only helps his preserver out of the financial diffi culties which compass a young man when trying to pay his own way through a uni versity, but follows him later when Barton undertakes to act as a tutor to the nobleman s sons. Barton marries, has two handsome daughters and opens a school at Leadon. In time a favorite pupil ruins the village belle, and John Barton s downfall follows. Of course his fortunes mend, but the book should be read to discover just how." Kate Field s Washington. RUSSELL, W. CLARK. The good ship Mohock. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and coun try lib., no. 159.) $i; pap., 50 c. " Mr. Clark Russell s ability to discover new situations at sea is equalled only by the re markable appearance of verisimilitude which he contrives to impart to incidents wholly improb able. Nothing could be more unlikely than this story of The Good Ship Mohock but that is a conclusion which comes to one some time after reading the book. It never suggests it self while the stirring pages are before the reader. Perhaps it would not be easy to find anything which would be a greater tribute to Mr. Russell s art than this; but it is inevitable that a reviewer should again express the fa miliar surprise that this author succeeds so well in bringing before the mental vision of the read er such vivid pictures of ships and their handling with so small a parade of technicalities. It would be a very easy matter to give an outlne of the plot of this book and show how the well-laid plan came to grief through an unfort unate meeting with a suspicious cruiser, but that would be unfair to the author, to the pub lishers, and to the reader, who, if he loves sea pictures and forecastle stories, cannot do belter than to read this yarn." N. Y. Times. WILKES, CLEMENT. Sidney Forrester. H. W. Hagemann. 12, (Castleton s ser., no. i.) pap., 50 c. Sidney Forrester was the son of a New Ycrk girl and a sea captain; soon after his birth, his father went away on a cruise, during which his vessel was reputed lost. Sidney s mother finally dying of grief, he is adopted by a wealthy, but penurious grandmother. The story deals with his life in her house, the interest centring in a plot of his Uncle Ambrose to defraud him of his birthright. YEATS, S. LEVETT. The honour of Savelli: a romance. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 16.) $i; pap., 50 c. HISTORY. HINDS, ALLEN B. The making of the England cf Elizabeth. Macmillan. 12, net, 90 c. LARNED, JOSEPHUS NELSON. History for ready reference from the best historians, biogra phers and specialists; their own words in a complete system of history; for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing for both readers and students the better and newer literature of history in the English language; with historical maps by Alan C. Reiley. In 5 v. V. 4, Nicrea to Tunis. C. A. Nichols Co. maps, 4, $5; buckram, $6; shp., $6; hf. mor., $7.50. The subjects to which the largest space is given in this volume are: North Carolina, 5 p.; Ohio, 5 p.; Papacy, 64 p.; Pennsylvania, 7 p.; Printing and the press, 20 p. ; Rome, 96 p. ; Rus sia, 32 p.; Scandinavian states, 19 p.; Scotland, 42 p.; Slavery, 20 p.; Social movements, 26 p. ; Spain, 44 p.; Tariff legislation, 25 p. Contains maps of Central Europe (1556), Eastern Europe^ (1768), Roman Empire (A. D. 116), Europe (A.D 565), Eastern Europe and Central Europe in* 1715; four development maps of Spain, gth, nth, I2th, and isth centuries; also a logical outline in colors of Roman history and chrono logical tables ninth and tenth centuries. RENAN, ERNEST. History of the people of Israel from the rule of the Persians to that of the Greeks. [In 5 v. V. 4.] Roberts Bros. 8, $2.50. Books 7 and 8 are contained in this volume relating to " Judea under Persian rule " and " The Jews under Greek Dominion." Some of the subjects of the chapters are as follows : Re-establishment of divine worship at Jerusa lem new laws of ritual; The end of the house of David; The triumph of the high-priest over the Nasi; Levitical additions to the Torah; Legendary story of Ezra; The final consolida tion of the Tcrah; The last gleams of prophe cy; The Samaritans; What the Jews borrowed from Persia; The decadence of Jewish litera ture; The Greek translation of the Penta teuch; Literature of the Alexandrine Jews; Jesus, son of Sorach; The persecution of An- tiochus; The evident necessity of rewards in a future life; The Book of Daniel; Princely rule of Judas Maccabeus. TOWER, CHARLEMAGNE, jr. The Marquis de La Fayette in the American Revolution; with 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 89 some account of the attitude of France toward the War of Independence. Lippin- cott. 2v., $8. HUMOR AND SATIRE. DALLAS, MARY KYLE. Billtry. The Merriam Co. il. 12, (Waldorf ser., no. 21.) pap., 50 c. A parody of Du Maurier s " Trilby." JORDAN, LEOPOLD. Drilby reversed; il. by Philip and Earle Ackerman. G. W. Dilling- ham. unp. 12, pap., 50 c. A burlesque of Du Maurier s "Trilby" in a"hyme. TOWNSEND, E. W. Chimmie Fadden, Major Max, and other stories. Lovell, Coryell & Co. 12, (Illustrated ser., no. 24.) $i; pap., 50 c. t " Chimmie Fadden " is a New York newsboy, who enters the employment of a rich family as footman, as a reward for a service rendered the young lady of the house; he tells his expe rience, which is unique and amusing, in the "slang" of the Bowery in a succession of chapters, entitled : Chimmie Fadden makes friends; Chimmie enters polite society ; Meets the Duchess; Observes club life; Mr. Fadden s political experience; Chimmie Fadden in court, tc. The " Major Max " stories take the reader into a higher stratum of society. Both series .appeared in the New York Sun. LITERATURE, MISCELLANEOUS AND COL LECTED WORKS. BOOKWORM (The): jf/i series: an illustrated treasury of old-time literature. A. C. Arm strong & Son. il. 8, $3. BOOK-PLATE annual and armorial year book, 1895. Macmillan. 4, (Ex-libris ser.), net, $1.75- CORSON, HIRAM. The aims of literary study. Macmillan. 18, 75 c. ,FUNK, I. K., D.D., MARCH, FRANCIS A., GREG ORY, DAN. S., D.D. eds. A standard diction ary of the English language upon original plans, designed to give, in complete and ac curate statement, in the light of the most re cent advances in knowledge and in the readi est form for popular use, the meaning, orthog raphy, pronunciation, and etymology of all the words and the idiomatic phrases in the speech and literature of the English-speaking people?, prepared by more than two hundred -specialists and other scholars under the super vision of I. K. Funk. Two-volume ed. V. 2. Funk & Wagnalls Co. 48, (for two vol umes,) rus. subs., 15; or complete in i v., See notice, "Weekly Record," P. W., Dec. 3. *93 [ II 44] f whole work. JONES, R. The growth of the Idylls of the king. Lippincott. 12, $1.50. .LE GALLIENNE, R. The book-bills of Narcis sus; an account rendered by R. Le Gallienne; with a frontispiece by Rob. Fowler. Putnam. i ih 12, $i. PATER, WALTER H. Greek studies; a series of essays: prepared for the press by C. L. Shad- well. Macmillan. 12, $1.75. JSAINTSBURY, G. E. BATSMAN. Corrected im pressions: essays on Victorian writers. Dodd, Mead & Co. por. 16, $1.25. SMITH, GARNET. The melancholy of Stephen Allard: a private diary; ed. by Garnet Smith. Macmillan. 12, $1.75. TEN BRINK, BERNHARD. Five lectures on Shakespeare; tr. by Julia Franklin. Holt. 12, $1.25. They are entitled : The poet and the man ; The chronology of Shakespeare s works ; Shakespeare as dramatist ; Shakespeare as a comic poet; Shakespeare as tragic writer. TYLER, MOSES COIT. Three men of letters. Putnam. 12, $1.25. Three monographs: "George Berkeley and his American visit " refers to the eminent An glican clergyman who came to this country in 1729; "A great college president and what he wrote" has for its subject Timothy Dvvight, one of the first presidents of Yale College ; the third paper is called " The literary strivings of Mr. Joel Barlow" discusses another writer of revolutionary days. Contains a list of books and other printed documents, Qited in these papers, with places and dates of publication. WARNER, BEVERLEY E. English history in Shakespeare s plays. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, $1.75. NATURE AND SCIENCE. MACH, ERNST. Popular scientific lectures ; tr. by T, J. McCormack. The Open Court Pub. Co. il. 12, $i. Titles of the lectures: The forms of liquids ; The fibres of corti; On the causes of harmony; On the velocity of light ; Why has man two eyes? On symmetry; On the fundamental con cepts of static electricity ; On the principle of the conservation of energy; On the economical na ture of physical inquiry ; On transformation and adaptation in scientific thought ; On the principle of comparison in physics; On the rela tive educational value of the classics and the mathematico-physical sciences. MELLIAR, Rev. A. FOSTER. The book of the rose. Macmillan. 12, $2.75. WILD flowers of America : flowers of every state in the American Union, by a corps of special artists and botanists. G. H. Buck & Co. col. pi. obi. 12, $3-50; $5- POETRY. LANIER, SIDNEY. Select poems; ed. with an introd. , notes and bibliography, by Morgan Galloway, jr. Scribner. por. 16, net, $i. LARNED, Miss AUGUSTA. In woods and fields. Putnam. 16, $r. A collection of poems. TABS. JOHN B. Poems. 2d edition. Copeland & Day. iS, $i. "Father Tabb writes sonnets in which com pression, lucidity, correctness of form and melody of phrasing are all well attained. It is seldom that one meets in contemporary verse with a volume in which the artistic quali ties and refinement of idea are so definitely manifest as they are in FatherTabb s Poem?. " The Beacon. " It should be added that the publishers have made a very tasteful volume of Father Tabb s poems, the wide margins giving a most at tractive appearance to the clearly printed pagee." N. Y. Times. 9 o THE LITERARY NEWS. \March, 1895, TRASK, Mrs. KATRINA, [Mrs. Spencer Trask.] Sonnets and lyrics. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. 12, $i. VEEDER, EMILY ELIZ. In the garden, and other poems. Lippincott. 16, $i. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. CORNWALL, W. C. The currency and the banking law of the Dominion of Canada, considered with reference to currency re form in the United States. Putnam, sq. 8, pap., 75 c. The first part of this pamphlet, entitled " Canadian banking system its growth and present operation," embraces the substance of an address delivered at the American Bankers Convention, New Orleans, Nov. 12, 1891. It caused American bankers to examine the Ca nadian currency system, and so favorably have they been impressed with it, that at their con vention at Baltimore in September of 94, its main features were reproduced in what is called the ".Baltimore plan" of currency re form. The Banking Act of Canada is given entire in the second part of the book. FONDA, ARTHUR I. Honest money. Macmil- lan. diagram, 12, $i. Points out the faults of our present currency system, as well as the merits and defects of the various changes that have been proposed for its betterment, and outlines a system which, the author thinks, seems to meet the require ments and to correct existing faults. Chapters on: Value and the standard of value; Money; Existing monetary systems; Stability of gold and silver values; Criticism of some gold standard arguments; Foreign commerce; Money in the United States; A new monetary system; Merits and objections considered. GUYOT, YVES. The tyranny of socialism ; ed., with an introd., by J. H. Levy. Scribner. 12, (Social s:i. ser.) $i. J., W. The rights of labor: an inquiry as to the relation of employer and employed. C. H. Kerr &: Co. 12, 25 c. An anonymous work by a young lawyer of Chicago, whose name is for the present with held. He explains the present status of em ployer and employee before the law, with clearness and precision, and then goes on to advocate a specific reform in the law that would secure to the workmen a share in the product. HAMMOND, BASIL E. The political institutions of the ancient Greeks. Macmillan. 8, net, $1.25. LEASE, Mrs. MARY ELIZ. The problem of civ ilization solved. Laird & Lee. por. 12, (Library of choice fiction, no. 2.) pap., 50 c. Mrs. Lease, of Kansas City, is a populist leader and lecturer; she points out in this vol ume the great evils that menace our civilization in chapters called, " The riddle of the sphinx," " The foes and evils of civilization," "Anarchy the offspring of monopoly," " Over-popula tion," "Militarism," "The nationalization of the races," etc. Her remedies are set forth in chapters entitled " Colonization of the tropics," " Government ownership of railroads and tele graphs," " Resources and transportation to the tropics," etc. MOFFETT, S. E. Suggestions on government. Rand, McNallv & Co. 12, $i; pap., 50 c. The writer points out that our executive ad ministration local, state, and national is in efficient. " It is in the hands of political pro fessionals, who are necessarily administrative amateurs. Devoting their chief attention to the science of politics, they are naturally unable to go deeply into the science of government." The first requisite of reform he holds to be the close contact between the individual citizen and: the agents his vote has summoned to conduct public affairs. The "boss" system must be abolished. OSTRANDER, D. Social growth and stability: a consideration of the factors of modern society and their relation to the character of the com ing state. S. C. Griggs & Co. 12, $>r. A few of the subjects considered are as fol lows: Foreign and native labor; Railroads and machinery ; Over-production and commercial stagnation ; Not charity but statesmanship wanted ; The brotherhood of man ; The eight- hour day; The American people composite; Restricted immigration ; Free-trade injuries ; Protection beneficial ; Competition the root of all evil; The government as a common carrier ; Strikes; Trusts; Christianity as a social factor; The ultimate destruction of evil ; The reading, of books; Hard work essential to success. PALMER, FRANK LOOMIS. The wealth of labor. The Baker & Taylor Co. 12, $i. Contents: The necessity of a new statement; Exchange in primitive communities; The ex perimental exchanges of a student of Bastiat in- these primitive communities ; Maintaining the profit of exchange ; Various systems that dis tribute and equalize the profits of labor ; The consideration of capital and capitalization be fore a final deduction can be made ; Exchange able value in a community determined by the cost of labor to obtain in production ; Deduc tions; Opinion. PARKHURST, C. H., D.D. Our fight with Tam many. Scribner. 12, $1.25. RICARDO, D. The first six chapters of "The Principles of political economy," etc. Mac millan. 12, (Economic classics.) flex, cl., 75 c. SMITH, ADAM, Select chapters and passages from " The wealth of nations." Macmillan. 12, (Economic classics, ed. by W. J. Ashley) 75 c. THEOLOGY. RELIGION AND SPECULATION. COWAN, H., D.D. Landmarks of church his tory to the Reformation. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. 24, (Guild text-books.) pap., 30 c. Author is Professor of Church History in the University of Aberdeen. His method is chron ological and he combines severe accuracy with a concise, but readable and untechnical text. He singles out the chief events in ecclesiastical history during sixteen hundred years and makes clear their causes and effects. An excellent ar rangement of type brings out the important and less important facts, and a series of foot-notes point out and explain difficulties. Short bibli ography, " Some books on church history" (2 pages). GERHART, EMANUEL V., D.D. Institutes of the Christian religion ; with an introd. by Philip Schaff, D.D. In 2 v. V. 2. Funk & Wag- nails Co. 8, $3. The first vo ume was published in 1891, by A. C. Armstrong & Son. The present volume contains five books dealing with; Anthropology, or, doctrine on the Adamic race ; Christolrgy^ March, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 91 or, doctrine on Jesus Christ; Pneumatology, or, doctrine on the Holy Spirit; Soteriology, or, the doctrine on personal salvation; Eschatology, or, doctrine on the last things. The author is pro fessor of systematic and practical theology in Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pa. GRANT, G. M., D.D. Religions of the world in relation to Christianity. A. D. F. Ran dolph & Co. 24, (Guild text-books.) pap., 30 c. The author is the principal of Queen s Uni versity, Canada. He believes "that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and that his religion is the absolute religion. Therefore he believes it to be right and wise to call attention to the excellent features of Confucianism, Hin- dooism, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism rather than to their defects. HALL, Rev. FRANCIS J. The historical position of the Episcopal church; published under the auspices of the Chicago Clericus. Young Churchman Co. 12, net, 50 c. ; pap., 20 c. A paper read before the Church History Club of the Divinity School (Baptist), of the Univer sity of Chicago, Dec. n, 1894: and before the Chicago Clericus (Episcopal), Dec. 17, 1894. HILEY, R. W., D.D. A year s sermons; based upon some of the scriptures appointed for each Sunday morning. In 2 v. V. i, Janu ary to June. V. 2, July to December. Long mans, Green & Co. 12, ea., $2. (Corr. price.} LILIENTHAL, HERMANN. Lent past and pres ent: a study of the primitive origin of Lent, its purpose and usages; with an introd. by J. Williams, D.D. Whittaker. 12, 75 c. The lectures here printed were delivered as sermons on the Sunday mornings of last Lent to the author s congregation in Wethersfield, Ct. Their titles are: The primitive origin of Lent; the primitive purpose of Lent; Lenten observances; Fasting; Holy Week. M.vcCoLL, MALCOLM, (Canon.} Life here and hereafter: sermons preached in Ripon Ca thedral and elsewhere. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, $2.25. MAMREOV, PETER v. F. , ANNA F., and B. A. F. lesat Nassar: the story of the life of Jesus the Nazirene. Sunrise Pub. Co. sq.i2, $2. This story of the life of Jesus the Nazarene is given in an altogether novel form. While founded on strictly Christian and Jewish secu lar and ecclesiastical histories, as also on tradi tions and legends of oriental and occidental na tions, the personages who figure in the tale are presented as every-day mortals. The authors are Russians who were born in Jerusalem and lived many years in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, and had exceptional advantages for research. There is, strictly speaking, no fiction in the story the persons introduced being either his torical or legendary. Quotations are given in an appendix from the historical and other works on which each chapter of the story is founded. There is also a description of the re ligious, social, and political condition of the Jews, Romans, Egyptians, and Parthians, and their relations to each other. MURRAY, Rev. ANDREW. The holiest of all: an exposition of the epistle to the Hebrews. A. D. F. Rando ph & Co. 8, net, $2. "When first I undertook the preparation of this exposition in Dutch for the Christian peo ple am nig whom I labor," Dr. Murray says in his preface, " it was under a deep conviction that the epistle just contained the instruction they needed. In reproducing it in English this impression has been confirmed, and it is as if nothing could be written more exactly suited to the state of the whole church of Christ in the present day. ... In every possible way it sets before us the truth that it is only the full and perfect knowledge of what Christ is and does for us that can bring us to a full and per fect Christian life." PERKINS, MARY H., [" Dorcas Hicks," pseud.] From my corner; looking at life in sunshine and shadow. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. nar. 16, 50 c. Helpful papers; a few of the titles are: Wrong at the start; From the back seat; Those few swe et words; A paradox of Saint Peter; Se cret things; Are your windows washed ? Tired eyes; Infirmities; Suffer them to come unto Me; etc. VJNCENT, MARVIN R., D.D. Biblical inspira tion and Christ. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. 12, pap., 25 c. A large part of this pamphlet was published in the New World of March, 1893. Theauthor dwells in detail upon the distinction between Revelation and Scripture; giving the Bible its place as " a record, a medium, a revelation of divine revelation interpenetrated with human elements." He warns thatscholasticdescriptions and definitions of inspiration lead nowhere, but " if we begin with the spirit of Jesus we do not need these." " If the personal Christ can be appre hended, so also can the inspiration of cripture asan expression of his divine and human personality." VINCENT, MARVIN R., D.D. That monster* the higher critic. A. D. F. Randolph & Co sq. 12, pap., 25 c. A plea for the " Higher critic " to supple ment the " Textual critic." The writer thinks ignorant piety and intelligent criticism are op posed on utterly false premises and to false is sues. He explains what the learned critic should do as an interpreter of Scripture, and disapproves strongly of deferring matters in volving scholarship to the vote of church dig nitaries whose only claim is piety and posi tion in a special church. He speaks fearlessly and is evidently against those who condemned Dr. Briggs and Dr. Smith. He thinks the idea is being fostered that the higher criticism is a dangerous monster. WAGE, H., D.D. Christianity and Agnosti cism: reviews of some recent attacks on the Christian faith. Whittaker. 8, $2.50. 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It will consist of the famous " Lost Stories " of Mr. Meredith, without which, Mr. J. M. Barrie has said, no edition of his works can pretend to be complete. With portrait of the author and view of his residence at Box Hill. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.50. They will have ready about March 2oth, an Edition de Luxe of the above volume, limited to 250 copies, beautifully printed on hand-made paper, and artistically bound, half-parchment. Price, during March, $7.50 net; after that, subject to an increase in price. 15 East i2tli Street, New York. * Now Ready. & Annual Literary Index, 1894, complements the "Annual American Catalogue" of books published in 1894, by indexing (i) a: tides in periodicals published in 1894; (2) essays and book-chap ters in composite books of 1894; (3) authors of periodical .articles and essays; (4) special bibliographies of 1894; (5) authors deceased in 1894, and, in its special featurts, supplements "Poo e s Index to Periodical Literature, 1887- V," and the "A.L. A. 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Besides the usual array of book advertisements, reviews, an nouncements and literary notes, it contains a well-di gested catalogue of educational works, arranged under their respective subjects, with the pi ices and publishers names attached. An idea of the completeness and mag nitude of this catalogue may be formed from the facts that the topics in the subject-index number 170, and that there are no less than 120 houses whose publications are thus classified. The catalogue itself covers twenty-nine double-column large octavo pages. The value of such a list for ready reference can hardly be overestimated. The bookseller can turn to it to find by whom a given book is published, and its price ; the teacher or school officer can see just what books are within his reach on any partic ular branch ; and the miscellaneous book-collector has here every facility for making selections for his library on any educational subject. All who are interested in school- books ought to preserve this catalogue as a vade mecTim." Christian Union. P. O. Box 043, NEW YORK. Published by THE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, 28 ELM STREET, NEW YORK. 9 6 THE LITERARY NEWS. [March, 1895 JUST P UBLISHJED : NASSAR: THE STORY OF THE LIFE OF JESUS THE NAZARENE. By PETER v. F. MAMREOV, the Oriental Lecturer, ANNA F. MAMREOV, and B. A. F. MAMREOV. One vol., large sq. I2mo, 710 pages. Copyright, 1894. Cloth, gilt, price $2.co. For sale toy all booksellers. SUNRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY, I 15 Nassau St., New York. London (Eng.) Agency: GAY & BIRD, 5 Chandos St NOW READY. MADAME SA NS- G&NE, BY VICTORIEH SARDOU. The original American translation. i2mo, paper, 25 cents ; i2mo, paper, illus trated edition, 50 cents. A SON OF HA GAR, BY HALL CAINE. Illustrated by ALBERT HENCKE. 12010, paper, 50 cents; i2mo, cloth, 1.00. FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. R F. FENNO & COMPANY, 112 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Ten Notable Books on Economics and Sociology. 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His Responsibilities and Privileges. By EDWARD PORRITT. 12010, $1.75. For Sale by all Booksellers. THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 100 Purchase St., BOSTON. 46 E. 14th St., N. Y. A new series of important copyrighted novels, of convenient size, in colored buckram binding,, tastefully stamped in silver, and at a very mod erate price. Each contains four full-page illus trations after original designs by well-known, artists. THE DEVIL S PLAYGROUND. By JOHN MACKIE. A stirring story of adventure in the wild northwest. "We congratulate the author on his descriptive poiver- and force excellent and graphic pictures? WHITE HALL REVIEW. THE FACE AND THE MASK. A remarkable collection of short stories by ROBERT BARR~ There are few better writers of short stories in the world than Mr. Barr, and this is a collection of the best of the- sketches which have made him famous. IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS. By ROBERT BARR. An interesting story with a New York newspaper cor respondent as its hero. " A readable and clever story." The Sun. " Every one mu t read this book." Chicago Herald. FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, 27 and 29 West 231! St., New Yorb, The Literary News 3n tmnfer j>ou maj> reabe f 0em, afc tgnem, fig f e ffrest be ; anb tn summer, afc umfiram, unber some 6$afcie tree ; anb f0eretif0 pass ata f0e fe^tous 0ofre6. VOL. XVI. APRIL, 1895. No. 4 A New Biography of Gladstone. HENRY W. LUCY, who has written " The had unusual opportunities of studying the sub- Right Honorable W. E. Gladstone a Study ject." Mr. Lucy wrote a sketch of Gladstone in from Life," has off and on for twenty years taken 1880, which was brought out in this country i n Harper s Half -Hour Series ; and in his large work, enti tled "The Diary of Two Parlia ments," pub lished in Lon don in 1886, notes of Gladstone s speeches from the gal lery of the House of Commons. He says in his* preface : " The obvi ous difficulty of writing within the limits of this volume a sketch of the career of Mr. Gladstone is the supera bundance of material. The task is akin to that of a builder having had placed at his disposal ma terials for a palace, with instructions to erect a cot- tage resi- dence, leav ing out noth ing essential to the larger plan. I have been content, rapidly to sketch, in ch ronologi- cal order, the main course of a phenomenally busy life, enriching the narrative wherever pos sible \vith autobiographical scraps to be found in the library of Mr. Gladstone s public speeches, supplementing it by personal notes made over a period of twenty years, during which I have From " The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone." Copyright, 1895, by Roberts Bros. W. E. GLADSTONE. in t h e second volume treat- e d of the " Gladstone Parliament, iSSo- 1885." Mr. Lucy will also be remembered as the author of " Gideon Fleyce," a n epoch -mak ing political novel pub lished in 1882. His style is de lightful and his subject the great scholar- statesman of Europe, four times Pre mier of the leading na tion of the world is of inexhausti ble interest. The book deals wholly with the public career of Gladstone, but is full of little personal touches, giving a fair and vivid pict ure of his individuality. An excellent digest of one of the most important periods of European and world history. (Roberts. Si. 25.) 9 8 THE LITERARY NEWS. {April, 1895 The Literature of the Georgian Era AN essay in literary history which has been recently published by the Harpers may be cor dially commended as a text book to American high schools and colleges. We refer to " The Literature of the Georgian Era," by the late William Minto, Professor of English Literature and Logic in the University of Aberdeen. In a treatise on logic, inductive and deductive, which the author contributed some years ago to the series of university manuals, he laid great stress upon the superiority of inductive over deductive reasoning, and he has faithfully practised what he preached in the lectures which make up the book before us. His studies differ from much work of the kind in being historical before they are critical ; he has not begun by saturating his mind with what others have said upon the subject, but has gone straight to the authors themselves about whom he intended to discourse, and has read their writings thorough ly before expressing an opinion on them. By the simple expedient of refraining from speaking of any book until he had read it, he has suc ceeded in imparting a refreshing originality to his own composition. The general effect of his lectures is, first, to stimulate the reader to follow the lecturer s example and verify assertions for himself, and, secondly, to give him the assur ance that, should he do this, he is likely to find that many current conceptions are unfounded. Thus, as regards the poetry of the Georgian era, Mr. Minto undertakes to refute a number of prevailing misconceptions; for instance, the supposed tyranny of Pope, the revolutionizing of poetry attributed to Cowper.and the alleged lack of artistic education on the part of Burns. Almost equally striking and suggestive are the lecturer s references to the various masters of English prose fiction, from Richardson and Fielding to Scott and Bulwer. (Harper. $1.50.) T/ie Sun. John Addington Symonds. EVERY one remembers Carlyle s saying that, if the life of any man were recounted with ab solute veracity, it would be of surpassing in terest from the light it would throw upon the human soul. There has been many an attempt, not counting Rousseau s, to answer the hard condition of unflinching truth-telling. The latest, and one of the most striking, is made in a biography of John Addington Symonds, compiled from his papers and correspondence by Horatio F. Brown. This book is con structed on a plan which, so far as we know, is new. It is biographical in form, but auto biographical in substance. The subject, in deed, left an autobiography and a diary as well as a great quantity of letters addressed to inti mate friends. These materials are woven into a consecutive narrative, the source of each par ticular paragraph being indicated in a foot note, and without any break in the text. By this arrangement the readableness of the vol ume is singularly enhanced. To the question why the autobiography was not printed sep arately, the compiler answers by quoting a re mark made by Symonds himself, that "auto biographies, written with a purpose, are likely to want atmosphere. A man, when he sits down to give an account of his own life from the point of view of art, or passion, or of a par ticular action, is apt to make it appear as though he were nothing but an artist, nothing but a lover, or that the action he seeks to ex plain was the principal event in his existence. The report has to be supplemented in order that a true portrait may be. painted." Mr. Brown adds on his own account that autobiog raphies being written at one period of life in evitably convey the tone of that period; they are not contemporaneous evidence, and are, therefore, of inferior value to diaries and let ters. The latter portray the man more truly at each moment, and progressively from moment to moment. Especial stress is properly laid upon the choice of materials and method of arrangement in the case of the biography of such a man as Symonds, which depends for its interest upon psychological development. He was a man of means, and travelled for the sake of his health, or for the accumulation of knowl edge; but his journeys were not of the kind which led to external adventures. On the other hand, for a biography of the psychologi cal order, the material is as rich and varied as the temperament of the man who created it. This is, in truth, an extraordinary book as re gards the rigor of self-scrutiny, and the frank ness of self-disclosure. (Scribner. 2 v., $12.50.) The Sun. PROEM TO A VICTORIAN ANTHOLOGY. ENGLAND ! since Shakspere died no loftier day For thee than lights herewith a century s goal Nor statelier exit of heroic soul Conjoined with soul heroic nor a lay Excelling theirs who made renowned thy sway Even as they heard the billows which outroll Thine ancient sea, and left their joy and do e In song, and on the strand their mantles gray. Star-rayed with fame thine Abbey windows loom Above his dust, whom the Venetian barge Bore to the main ; who passed the twofold marge To slumber in thy keeping : yet make room For the great Laurifer, whose chanting large And sweet shall last until our tongue s far doom. EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, in the Century (March). April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS, 99 America s Celebrities. PHOTOGRAPHS of well-known people have a peculiar attraction to most of us; we have, or think we have, a better notion of the person ality of a speaker, writer or statesman if we know whether he is tall or short, dark or light, bearded or smooth-shaven if we can, in fact, form an idea of his personal as well as his men tal individuality. Some two hundred and fifty of the best-known men and women of America are thus brought before us in the handsome folio volume of portraits and biographical sketches, entitled "America s Greatest Men and Women." It is essentially a picture gallery of the present, including, with but two or three exceptions among them Frederick Douglass- only persons now living. The portraits are not restricted to a single field, as literature or science. They include men of public affairs statesmen, lawyers, writers, sculptors, soldiers, poets, clergymen, inventors, and men who have won " celebrity " by wealth or business activity. Among the writers, especially, whose " counter feit presentments " are here set forth, are W. D. Howells, Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, Charles A. Dana, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Capt. King, T. W. Higginson, Mrs. South worth, Kate Field, "Gath," G. W. Cable, Lew Wallace, " Octave T h a n e t , " Richard Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, James Whit- comb Riley and E. C. Stedman. The por traits are process " cuts, printed on smooth, heavy paper, each portrait taking a page and being set in a broad, cream-colored border. Appended to every portrait is a short biographical sketch, summarizing the chief events in the life of its subject. The book is tastefully bound in heavy dull blue can vas, simply stamped in gilt. It is a book news paper readers will find useful in verifying points occurring in dis cussions of the news of the hour. (Conkey. $4.) THE DESTINY-MAKER. SHK came ; and I who lingered there, I saw that she was very fair ; And. with my sighs that pride suppress d, There rose a trembling wish for rest. But I, who had resolv d to be The maker of my destiny, I turned me to my task and wrought, And so forgot the passing thought. She paused, and I who question d there, I heard she was as good as fair ; And in my soul a still small voice Enjom d me not to check my choice. But I, who had resolved to be The maker of my destiny, I bade the gentle guardian down And tried to think about renown. She left ; and I who wander, fear There s nothing more to see or hear; Those walls that ward my paradise Are very high, nor open twice. And I, who had resolved to be The maker of my destiny, Can only wait without the gate And sit and sigh " Too late ! too late ! " P rom Raymond s " Pictures in Verse." 1 (Putnam. 75 c.) From " Pictures in Verse. Copyrig-ht, 1895, by G. P. Putnam s Sons. THE DESTINY-MAKER. 100 THE LITERARY NEWS. [April, 1895 Opium Eating and Its Effects. BECAUSE Samuel Coleridge wrote " Kubla Khan " in an opium trance, and because Thomas De Quincey has told us in a classic of English literature of the delights of visiting Covent Garden under the sublime intoxication of the poppy plant, we may, perhaps, have lost sight of the baneful influence of the drug which caused these masterpieces to come into being. If we have we may certainly be restored to more perfect sight if we look through the eyes of Mr. William Rosse Cobbe, who, in a volume entitled " Dr. Judas, a Portrayal of the Opium Habit," gives with great frankness of confes sion and considerable purity of diction a record of his own experiences with the drug. Indeed, one entire chapter of Mr. Cobbe s book, and many parts of other chapters, are de voted to showing that De Quincey was not only wrong in some of his statements, but distinctly unjustified in what he wrote, because he threw around the opium habit a halo of literary beauty, which has tempted many to destruction. Horn under hereditary conditions which made him a nervous and easily irritated lad ; being in constant peril through the war ; harassed by religious doubts, and finally entering the minis try (foolishly, he says) and then taking up the profession of journalism, Mr. Cobbe easily drifted into a state where some stimulant seemed to be necessary. Suffice it to say that opium became that stimulant and that for years he was its slave. His deliverance from its thralldom caused this book to be written, and the recentness of the deliverance is what makes the book so interesting. That which will probably attract to it the attention of the unscientific reader more than anything else are the chapters devoted to the effect of the drug, especially those describing the hallucinations that follow a long-continued indulgence in it. And here it must be noticed as peculiarly interesting that Mr. Cobbe, not withstanding his criticism of De Quincey, seems to have experienced the same adventures in his dreams. That he describes them in much the same language does not mean that he is guilty of plagiarism, but that the poppy blooms red wherever it grows, and that after all De Quincey knew what opium did even if he seemed to idealize it. It would take too long to tell of the things that can be seen and heard by the opium victim, which are told of in this book, but it will cer tainly surprise many to learn that there are in the United States, according to Mr. Cobbe, up wards of two million victims of enslaving drugs, entirely exclusive of alcohol. Several instances are given where even De Quincey s enormous doses have been surpassed. The Englishman s largest daily dose was 320 grains of opium in the form of laudanum. The author mentions a resident of Southern Illinois, who consumed 1072 grains a day ; another in the same State who contented himself with 1685 grains, and, finally, another whose daily consumption amounted to 2345 grains. Scarcely touching upon the scientific features of the habit, this book is still full of such an intimate knowledge of what can be called a dis ease that it should be a valuable addition to medical literature. At the same time it is general enough in its scope, and brilliant enough in its language, to make it entertaining to the ordinary reader. (Griggs. $1.50.) CJiicago Times. Maeterlinck s Plays. MAETERLINCK cannot claim greater fame on this side of the Atlantic than has been given him by allusion in newspapers or the books of other authors. As one of that school which is styled the Decadent, and which appears to in clude nearly all who write what may shock Mrs. Grundy, his foreign reputation has been made. "Symbolical" is the self-chosen title by which it prefers to be known, and its claim is that it concerns itself chiefly with people, and that in many cases it conceives even inani mate things as having a fictitious kind of perso nality. If this does not convey a clear idea of the character of the works it produces, its ad mirers must be blamed who have chosen so to describe it. If they had gone farther, and said that their school evinced a marked preference for the morbid and dismal, it would have more clearly defined its trend. Maeterlinck may be selected as a type of the cult. Just why he should have been called the Flemish Shakespeare, as he has been by some of his adulators, is not clear, as there appears to be absolutely nothing on which to base a resemblance, however faint, and it is time wasted to seek for similitudes. . . . There is a certain charm to his work which it would be difficult to define. It lies more in his subject extended beyond reasonable bounds though his situations often are and in that attraction which allusions to the unseen and the tread of invisible feet have for all readers of drama. This feature is beloved of Maeterlinck and is omnipresent even when it is not entirely intelli gible. M. Maeterlinck discriminates very del icately. The King in " The Princess Maleine " is very different from the King in "The Sev en Sisters," and both differ from the King in " Pelleas and Melisande." As to the value of the characters, opinions may differ ; but the power of conceiving and drawing is conspicuous. Published in the Green Tree Library. (Stone & Kimball. $1.25.) Public Opinion. April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 101 From "The White Tsar. The White Tsar, and Other Poems. UNDER this title J. Selwin Tait & Sons have brought out a very handsome volume of poems, of which the one that gives the title sings of the joys and sorrows that come into the life of a white bear in the frozen North. Henry Bed- low has written the graphic words and J. Steeple Davis has made the pictures. The paper is thick and printed only on one side, with limitless margins, and the first appearance of the book is distinctly of holiday nature. Copyright, 1895, by J. Selwin Tait & Sons. The poem which accompanies the illustration we have chosen gives an idea of the author s enthusiastic style: Morn s frankincense etherially faint ; The sweet contention of the birds in song, The Oriole s anthem and the Swallow s plaint, The Thrush, the Laureate of the Choral throng. The Constellations glory and the Moon s, Studding the sapphire vastness of the skies ; The salt-sea freshness of the sandy dunes, The thrill and pathos of Immensities. (Tait. $3-50.) 102 THE LITERARY NEWS. \_April, 1895 lesat Nassar. WE happen to have on our table at the pres ent moment a bulky volume of over seven hundred pages, which we have carefully exam ined, and which seems to us to contain a great deal which will both interest and in struct the reader. It is entitled " lesat Nassar; the Story of the Life of Jesus, the Nazarene." Its authors are two brothers and a sister Peter V. F. Mamreov, Anna F. Mamreov, and B. A. F. Mamreov, and it is from the press of the Sunrise Publishing Company, of New York. The treatment of the subject in hand is from a very novel standpoint. While it is radical in many parts, in other parts it is exceedingly conservative. The authors regard Jesus as a pure-minded, unselfish Hebrew, and they ad mit but little of the supernatural into their narrative. Still, the general tone of the book is wholly reverent, and they repeat the story of the resurrection, for example, with faith in all its details, accompanying it with a recital of the many legends which have naturally gath ered about the career of so singular a being as Jesus. These authors were born in Jerusalem, of Russian parents, and were brought up in the strictest faith. While pursuing their studies they enjoyed exceptional advantages, because they were in possession of a firman from the Sultan of Turkey. The prestige thus afforded gave them opportunities not usually accorded. One of them held some relation to the United Stales Consulate at Jerusalem, and another was with the Palestine Exploration Society, whose headquarters were in that city. We suspect that the book must be taken with a large grain of salt, and yet we readily admit that we have read it with a considerable de gree of pleasure. The motives which prompted the authors to write this biography were of the highest, and there is no attempt in any part of it to discredit the main facts as they have been generally accepted. On the contrary, these facts are surrounded with such a cloud of legends and quotations from a thousand and one ancient writers that the reader becomes fas cinated, even though he is also somewhat con fused. The biography opens with an account of the direct ancestors of Jesus, and this leads to a long, possibly an unnecessarily long, descrip tion of the manners and customs prevailing at the time of Jesus birth, all of which is cer tainly valuable. The whole story is in some respects novel and will appeal to a certain large class of readers. At any rate, it will certainly interest them, and there is no reason why it should have any in fluence to lessen their faith in the historic Jesus. As we have before intimated, we do not accept the volume without a large number of doubts, but, at the same time, it is a contribution to the literature of an important subject, and as such it has a place in every well-furnished li brary. (Sunrise Pub. Co. $2.) N. Y. Herald. Majesty. THERE have been many workers among novelists in the field of royal portraiture, but it may be safely stated that few of those who have essayed this dubious path have achieved more striking results than M. Couperus. " Majesty is an extraordinarily vivid romanceof autocratic imperialism, and the main aim of the book is so legitimate, and its treatment so sympathetic and artistic, that it is to be regretted that the author should have adopted the portrait form at all. The striking but superficial resemblance between the leading characters of the story and those of more than one reigning imperial house, will, no doubt, prove a bait to readers hungry for personalities ; but the real merits of the book its dramatic intensity and powerful characterization are entirely independent of this factitious interest. Foremost amongst the dramatis per some is the Crown Prince Othomar, a truly tragic figure, with noble instincts hampered by a delicate constitution, a Hamlet- like irresoluteness of purpose, and hedged round on every side by Procrustean etiquette. The contrast between him and his bluff sailor cousin, Prince Herman of Gothland, and his devotion for his mother, the empress (a woman whose natural warmth of heart has been numbed and paralyzed by the atmosphere of terror and melancholy which girds the throne), are drawn with great skill, and in the latter case with exquisite tenderness. M. Couperus does not merely turn the search-light of his analysis on the domestic life of the Caesars of to-day : he paints them also in their relations with courtiers and advisers ; in their rare moments of contact with the masses ; hurrying fever ishly from function to function ; strange, frozen, lonely figures, oppressed, in the words of the empress, with " the immeasurable melancholy of being rulers." The effect of the whole book is greatly heightened by M. Couperus artistic use of contrast and his sense of humor. The letter of the little ten-year-old Prince Berengar, describing to his brother the ceremony of his appointment as a Knight of St. Ladislas, is not only charming in itself, but it forms a most admirable anticlimax to the pas sionate love scene which has gone before. It only remains to be added that the translation has been executed creditably rather than brilliantly. (Appleton. $1.50.) The Academy. April, 1895! THE LITERARY NEWS. 103 La Petite Paroisse. THE new novel by Alphonse Daudet, " La Petite Paroisse," shows the same exquisite feeling and touch as the earlier works of the master, with little diminution of strength. The artist still enjoys his powers of vision and expression; the analyst retains his skill and precision; the story-teller still has the charm and attrac tion of old. What is per haps more marked is the profound sympathy of Daudet for all suffering, and the in tense desire he feels to raise and brighten. He is an op timist in " La Petite Paro isse," and his kindlv touch gives even C h a r 1 e x i s and the old duke redeem ing features here and there. The book recalls " Mme. Bov- ary " in some respects. The two he roines have much in com mon at first; D a u d e t s does not sink as low, and is finally re stored and pardoned. The story is a simple one, the fall and redemption of a mar ried woman, tyrannized over by a despotic, nar row-minded mother-in-law. It is told with all the wondrous grace and poetry which are Dau- det s special gifts, in that sunny French of which he possesses the secret, full of delicate sugges- tiveness of tint and color. No more than "Mme. Bovary " does it make sin alluring, but it lacks, happily, the cruel impassibility and bitter vividness of Flaubert s famous book. (Meyer. $ i . ) The Nation . From " The Tale of Chloe." GEORGE MEREDITH. The Tale of Chloe. POSSIBLY Mr. Meredith would long ere this have contrived to republish " The Tale of Chloe" had he thought very highly of its two companions that help to swell it into a volume. The first story is a gem, as perfect in its kind as anything he has written. To read it is to feel at once aggrieved it was not ours long ago, and delight ed it has been kept back for our present enjoy ment. It is not easy to be grate ful for the two oth ers. " The House on the Beach " is dull and imp robable. " The Case of General O pie" is rather funny, but it is a hobbledehoy farce. Both are extreme instances of Mr. Mere- dith s habit, in which on ly Carl vie surpassed him, of rid ing a joke to death. The first story begins in a tone of gentle satire, with quaint reflections on amorous dukes in gen eral, and a particular description, fiom his own lips, of the early matrimonial delights of the elderly duke who married the milkmaid, and who, loving her to distraction, has been persuaded to expose her to the perils of the Wells that she may have the amusement she craves and the experience she lacks. The story never loses the tone of high-bred comedy save when it takes you be hind the scenes with Chloe, Chloe who had given fortune and family and all for love, and missed it. She is one of Mr. Meredith s chosen Copyright, 1895, by Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd. 104 THE LITERARY NEWS. {April, 1895 ladies, very loving, much-enduring, smiling for all her wounds, gentle, decorous, distin guished. The milkmaid duchess, too, so healthy, so vain, so selfish, so good-natured and blunt, is a triumph, especially in the scene where she re turns, reckless and excited, after losing her money at the tables. The whole story delights and stimulates, but the best it does is to give us Chloe, the gentle, the generous, the trusting, and the far-seeing, for a friend. (Ward, Lock & Bowden. $1.50.) The Bookman. Thoughts on Religion. THE Open Court Publishing Company of Chicago have put forth a small volume entitled "Thoughts on Religion," by the late George John Romanes, edited by Charles Gore, Canon of Westminster. It is well known that Mr. Romanes was one of the most zealous and conspicuous among the English disciples of Darwin. This fact of itself would attract readers. What renders the book before us even more interesting is the additional fact that, in 1878, Mr. Romanes published an anonymous work with a wholly skeptical con clusion, entitled "A Candid Examination of Theism," by Physicus. In that volume he ex pressed the conviction that we have no alterna tive but to conclude that the hypothesis of mind in nature is now logically proved to be as certainly superfluous as the very basis of all science is certainly true. "There can," he said, "no longer be any more doubt that the existence of a God is wholly unnecessary to explain any of the phenomena of the uni verse, than there is that if I leave go of my pen it will fall upon the table." At what date the intellect of this scientist began to react from the conclusion of the " Candid Examina tion " the editor is unable to say; but, after a period of ten years, in his Rede lecture of 1885, his attitude towards religion was observed to be much changed. This lecture on Mind and Motion consisted of a severe criticism of the materialistic account of mind. During the re maining years of his life his intellect was con tinuously and increasingly active on the prob lems of metaphysics and theology. At his death, in the early summer of 1894, he left among his papers a collection of notes for a work which he was intending to write on the fundamental questions of religion. It is these notes, together with two unpublished essays on the influence of science upon religion, which have been placed before us in this volume. The main position which he aimed to establish was this: Scientific ratiocination cannot find adequate grounds for belief in God; but the pure agnostic that is to say, the agnostic whose mind is open and unwarped by prejudice or antecedent assumption must : recognize that God may have revealed Himself by other means than that of scientific ratiocination. As religion is for the whole man, so all human faculties may be required to seek after God and find Him through emotions and experi ences of an extra-rational kind. The pure agnostic must be prepared to welcome evidence of all sorts. Such is the position which Mr. Romanes aimed to show was tenable. (Open Court Publishing Co. $1.25.) The Sun. The Uses and Dangers of Hypnotism. A POPULAR exposition of the methods of hypnotism may not be without its disadvan tages, but popular interest in the subject is so intense and so general that attempts to bring its details within the range of the average reader were sure to be made. On the whole, it is a matter for congratulation that the self- elected task of preparing the first popular manual on the subject in this country should have fallen upon a person so competent and discreet as Dr. James R. Cocke shows himself to be in his volume on " Hypnotism: How it is done ; Its uses and dangers." Dr. Cocke is moderately successful in avoiding technicalities, and he succeeds very well in fulfilling the con ditions indicated by his title. He gives at the outset little or no space to the historical side of his subject, but enters at once upon a dis cussion of the phenomena of hypnotism, its effect upon the special senses, the possibilities of auto-hypnosis, the detection of attempted simulation of the hypnotic state, the dangers attending the practice of hypnotism, its effects upon the lower animals, and its curative power. It is to this last-mentioned phase of the subject that Dr. Cocke devotes most space. He describes the method of applying hyp notism in disease, indicates its possible useful ness and limitations in surgery, and has in structive chapters on the value of therapeutic suggestion in the treatment of dipsomania, the drug habits, illusions, functional and organic disease in general, and that protean malady known as neurasthenia, or nervous exhaus tion. The French experiments in the trans ference of sensation are briefly outlined, the relation of hypnotism to normal sleep is ex amined, and a chapter is given to the allied topics of telepathy, thought transference and mind reading. An account of the various theories of hypnotism, a sketch of its history,, and a bibliography containing something over two hundred and fifty titles, with an excellent index, complete the volume. (Arena Pub. Co. $1.50.) The Beacon. April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. I0 5 Napoleon s Military Career. THIS is a handsomely printed book, and more than usually spirited in illustration. Few artists succeed so well in war pictures that em phasize the text so pointedly as the artist in these pages. The volume makes up 514 pages. It can scarcely be spoken of as a military his tory of Napoleon, but a rare collection of historical, personal and anecdotal collection of the great soldier, presented in picturesque style. The world loves a hero, and it never seems to tire in recounting and listening to the story of the life of the man who held all Europe at his saddle-bow and dictated and shaped the this son of a poor Corsican gentleman, who, as his greatest biographer has said of him, played in the world the parts of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and Charlemagne. " This is undoubtedly a truth. Bonaparte was the military genius which the world studies to day with as profound an interest as it did a lifetime ago. Military men still look with wonder and admiration upon the tactics of Na poleon, and study his evolutions. War has been greatly changed by modern inventions, but " the tactics" of war are the same to-day as then. It takes genius in a commander to win battles, even when aided by Gatling guns From " Napoleon s Military Career. Copyright, 1895, by Werner & NAPOLEON ON THE HEIGHTS AT LIGNY. policies of the very islands of the seas. Speak ing of the present revival of Napoleonic litera ture for there is such just now Mr. Mont gomery B. Gibbs says : " The revival of interest in the career of the man who for fifteen years had been the glory of France has in no way caused the hasty writ ing, or publication, of this anecdotal military history. It is the result of years of study, and represents not only a careful reading of those authorities which all must have access to who would write intelligently of the subject, but also of the more recent volumes which have ap peared from time to time, each having some thing new to reveal concerning the seemingly inexhaustible fund of information pertaining to and all improvements in fire-arms. Mr. Gibbs, in his book, seeks to introduce the man to his readers by his pen pictures, and succeeds ad mirably. The anecdotes and incidents of a life when not in the presence of a great emergency are the best criterion to judge of men correctly. Napoleon was great in his minutiae as well as in the larger events in which great results were reached. It is neither overdone in praise and adulation nor rugged with unnecessary criti cism. The time has passed when any admirer can make of Napoleon a faultless hero, and our author makes no attempt to do so. The lover of military literature will find the chap ters of this new Napoleon book charming. (Werner. $1.25.) Chicago Inter-Ocean. io6 THE LITERARY NEWS. [April, 1895 Ballads and Songs. JOHN DAVIDSON is prodigal of every divine gift, pouring out untold treasures from his ce lestial cornucopia. Fancy and imagination, wit and humor, fun and epigram, characterization and creation and observation, insight and phi losophy, passion and emotion and sincerity all .are his. Nothing is lacking from that long cata logue by which Imlac convinced Rasselas that it was impossible to be a poet. He will turn you a metaphor as deftly as any Elizabethan drama tist, and wields as rich a vocabulary. Nature he loves, and next to nature, man, if one may adapt Landor. And all these glorious gifts have found vent in the most diverse artistic or inartistic shapes novels, dramas, eclogues, ballads, Reisebilder some written for the market, but the bulk in defiance of it. Of these products of a somewhat riotous genius, only a few have the hall-mark of perfection some pieces about music-halls, a sheaf of ballads, a bundle of songs, a set of eclogues; but they are already quite enough baggage to go down to posterity with. And it is significant that all Mr. Davidson s chief successes are won when he surrenders himself to the inspiration of the modern. . . . This is the work that we need. {Copeland & Day. $1.50.) /. Zangwill, in the Cosniopolita n . From " Four American Universities." Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers. HAMILTON HALL, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. A Priestess Unveiled. THERE are Theosophists who venerate the memory of Madame Blavatsky with unimpaired devotion, although the fraud of her pretensions to be regarded as a performer or exhibitor of miracles has been proved to the satisfaction of all reasonable men and women. The Psychical Society, after careful investigation, condemned her as an arch impostor; and now this book, a translation from a Russian original, tells us how Mr. Solovyoff, a countryman of the High Priestess of Theosophy, arrived at a similar conclusion by carrying out an independent in quiry of his own. He played a part which few men would find congenial, for he watched and waited, acting as a spy on a woman who re garded him as a friend. But though we may not unreservedly admire Mr. Solovyoff as re vealed in his own book, it is impossible to re fuse admiration to the skill with which he tells his story. The most important chapters of the book, so far as relates to the question of Madame Bla- vatsky s good faith, are those which record the oral and written admissions she made to Mr. Solovyoff and the letters she wrote to Mr. Aksakoff, a Russian editor. These prove con clusively that Madame Blavatsky was a spirit ualist in America (a fact she latterly denied) before she became a Prophetess of Theosophy in Europe and Asia, and that she invented her " Mahatmas " at a comparatively late period in her career. The traffic of Madame Blavatsky and her fellow-spiritualists in America - yv with the Unseen World does not ap pear to have been at all times a paying business. We may conclude by heartily recom mending "A Modern Priestess of Isis " to all who have a taste for /, biography or are fond of a story. They will find in Mr. SolovyofFs pages a vivid picture of an extraor dinary woman who, stained though her life s record was by systematic fraud and de ception, was endowed with many attractive qualities and possessed a wonderful ly magnetic power of fas cination. And they will be carried away by a narrative which, while substantially true, has all the charm of fiction. (Longmans, Green & Co.} Alec McMillan, in the London Literary World. April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 107 From " Four American Universities." Copyright, 1895, hy Harper & Brothers. NEW LIBRARY OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. Four American Universities. HARVARD, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia are the four American universities that are de scribed and illustrated in this handsome vol ume. They form, indeed, a noble group, repre sentative of the highest development of Ameri can education, and emphasizing the intimate re lation between the growth of national character and that of individual character. Each of these universities is the subject of a separate essay, and each is brought still more clearly before the reader by excellent illustrations. Prof. Charles Eliot Norton finds in Harvard a theme on which he can discourse con amore ; the chronicler of Yale is Arthur T. Hadley ; Prof. W. M. Sloane writes of Princeton; and Columbia is described by Brander Matthews. The articles, while affording sufficiently comprehensive views of the historical development of the universities, aim especially to present an idea of the more intangible "atmosphere" of each the person ality of the college, so to speak. So well has this aim been carried out that the reader, while realizing the unity of purpose common to all, is at the same time impressed with the intrinsic individuality of each. The illustrations are good and abundant. There are folding " birds- eye views " of each university, and views of representative interiors, of individual buildings, and surrounding grounds are scattered lavishly through the text. Here is Harvard College in 1739 three gaunt and barn-like structures set about an open square strange contrast to the noble colony of to-day, embowered in its park- like grounds. The seals of the various uni versities are shown; there is the "old fence" of Yale; the silver medal of King s College (now Columbia); and plans of the fine new buildings with which Columbia proposes to crown River side Heights. Artistically the volume is attrac tive and interesting. As an exposition of the highest educational standards of America it is of still deeper interest. Such a view as is here afforded of the part the American university plays in American life make the words of George William Curtis seem truly prophetic, when he said: " When I say that the American college is now required to train American citi zens, I do not mean that it is to abdicate its highest possible function, which is not to impart knowledge, but to stimulate that intellectual and moral power of which I speak. It is a poor education, believe me, that gives accuracy in grammar instead of a love of letters ; that leaves us master of the integral calculus and slaves of sordid spirit and mean ambition. When I say that it is to train Americans, I mean not only that it is to be a gnome of the earth, but also a good genius of the higher sphere. With one hand it shall lead the young American to the secrets of material skill; it shall equip him to enter into the fullest trade with all the world ; but with the other it shall lead him to lofty thought. The college shall teach him the secret and meth ods of material success ; but above it all, it shall admonish him that man does not live by bread alone, and that the things which are eter nal are unseen." (Harper. $3.50.) io8 THE LITERARY NEWS. {April, 1895 From "The Face and the Mask. Copyright, 1895, by F. A. Stokes Company. "ARE YOU INJURED?" Prince Zaleski. PRINCE ZALESKI, whose remarkable exploits are chronicled by M. P. Shiel in the three stories put together under that title, is a sort of sub limated Sherlock Holmes. The prince is a Russian, dwells in solitude in a lonely, half- ruined palace, and there, surrounded by mis cellaneous relics of antiquity and occult litera ture, gives himself up to study and meditation. He refuses to contaminate his mind by reading the newspapers, but keeps the run of what is going on in the world by the very convenient faculty of intuition. To him comes in perplexity one of the ordinary race of man and begs for light on certain criminal mysteries. The cir cumstances attending the death of an English nobleman, the theft of a marvellous Persian jewel, and the work of the secret society which has doomed a large portion of humanity to death, are the three special problems to which Prince Zaleski is invited to give his attention, and each of these problems he solves with an attendant exuberance of philosophic speculation which cannot fail to impress profoundly the conven tional non-metaphysical mind. Mr. Shiel has certainly produced three stories of quite un usual merit, as far as the use of the element of mystery is concerned. . . . The theory ad vanced by Prince Zaleski in the tale of the So ciety of Sparta is one that has some little socio logical significance. The prince contends that in times gone by, war has been the destroyer of the greatest and most prosperous states, be cause, through this agency, the very flower of their manhood has been prematurely annihi lated; but in modern times, he urges, an effect far more destructive and sure is involved in the progress of medical science, because now nature is cheated on the other side, and the weak and sickly are kept alive. Whatever one may think of the scientific value of such literature as " Prince Zaleski," one cannot deny that Mr. Shiel has succeeded in giving a new flavor to the romance of mystery and terror. (Roberts. 8 1.) The Beacon. The Face and the Mask. TWENTY-EOUR short stories by Robert Barr are collected in the pretty volume entitled " The Face and the Mask." It is a little diffi cult at first to understand just why this title should have been chosen. Facing the table of contents of the book is a statue with two faces standing on a pedestal, and at the side of it ap pears the following explanatory dialogue: T/ie Personal Conductor: "It is a statue of no importance whatever." The Personally Conducted: "Yes, but what does it mean ? " The Personal Conductor .- " I don t suppose it means anything in particular. It is not by any well-known artist, and the guide-books say nothing about it." The Personally Conducted: "Perhaps the sculptor intended to typify life; the tragic face representing one side of existence and the comic mask another." The Personal Conductor : " Very likely. This way to the Louvre, if you please." All is action in the stories written by the au thor of "In the Midst of Alarms," "The Steamer Chair," and other bright tales that come to mind, which have charmed his readers during the past few years. The publishers have 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. brought out the book in their pretty Twen tieth Century Series. The illustrations are by A. Hencke. The one we have chosen illus trates " The Predicament of De Plonville," a specially characteristic tale showing the au thor s dramatic ability and his fund of spark ling humor at their very best. (Stokes. 75 c.) The Technique of Sculpture. THE chief object in the publication of this book has been to offer a practical as well as a theoretical knowledge of sculpture. Sugges tions have been made that may prove useful even to advanced students, although the author had in mind, mainly, the thought of furnishing a guide to beginners. A brief account has been given of the history of sculpture from pre historic times, in order that the student might know how sculpture came to be, what the world has produced in this art, and what principles have guided the great masters. The author has been led to undertake the work because of the many questions asked him regarding the technique of his art. Many still think that a sculptor, when he wishes to pro duce a statue, obtains a block of marble, and carves directly from the stone. The whole process, from the working of the clay to the final execution in bronze and marble, has been gone over, sketches have been made espe cially for this book, designed to illustrate the difficult processes which it is next to impossible to describe by word alone. It is be lieved that these sketches will be of great value to the lay reader as well as to the professional stu dent. The drawings were made with great care and especially for this work by Charles M. Sheldon and Vesper L. George. Much more might have been written, but brevity has been aimed at, so that the book produced might be easily handled. The author has drawn from every source pos sible. The data and facts contained have been gathered from many men and books and tested by actual experience. It is hoped that the work may not only fulfil its designed mission, and be helpful to the student who has to work alone, but that it may lead to a more definite and sympathetic understanding and appreciation of the great, calm, and enduring art of sculpture. (Ginn. $1.10.) - From the Preface, Vistas. *V~ VISTAS, by William Sharp, comes to u^, in the oddly designed green binding x>f,t,he Green Tree Library, a book which is quite as lawless ly free from all that savors of the conventional. It is a group of sketches for the most part dra matic in form and wholly dramatic in concep tion and spirit. What aim there is cannot well be explained. The author says that he cannot, and naturally his readers will have to be satis fied with the poetic imagery and the yearnings after the unseen, without endeavoring to analyze motives very closely. The author has a well-rounded gift of word-painting, and uses it very effectively, especially in environment de scription. The dialogue is often strong, being untrammelled by any fear of breaking through the laws of usage. But cui bono? (Stone & Kimball. Si 25 ) Public Opinion. From "Technique of Sculpture." Copyright, 1895, by Giiin & Co. THE FINISHER AT WORK. no THE LITERARY NEWS. [April, 1895 Tryphena in Love. IT is almost as good as a trip to Somerset shire to read " Tryphena in Love." The story comes like a breath of fresh air from wooded hills and ripe harvest fields. Somersetshire, indeed, is Mr. Walter Raymond s " native heath," as he proved a year or so ago, when " Gentleman Upcott s Daughter" and " Young Sam and Sabina " first introduced us to that pleasant region of homeliness and rustic shrewd ness. But " Tryphena in Love " far excels his previous work, though it, too, is a village pasto ral. The story is set in the little hamlet of Stow, in an old farm-house that was once a lordly manor. Here, in the historic " chamber where the king hid " lies, year after year, John Petti- grew, only child of energetic Aunt Joshua Pettigrew, an invalid, dreamy, full of poetic fancies, with an uncomprehended longing for books and the refinements of life. Here, too, is Tryphena a very queen of curds and cream his devoted comrade and slave, whose devo tion is but the sign of a deeper sentiment of which she herself is hardly conscious. The " chamber where the king hid " is the goal of many curious tourists, and among the visitors is one whose coming changes all the quiet life at Manor Farm. She is young, wealthy, im pulsive, and, touched by the mental loneliness of the invalid lad, opens to him a new world of books, refinement and culture, and awakens a passionate and hopeless love. How it all comes out the reader must discover. There is pathos as well as pleasure in the discovery, but on the whole, the smiles have the best of it throughout the story, which is a very April mixture. It is appropriately issued in a new series, the Iris "that gracious thing made up of tears and light," is daintily bound in pale-gray green, and illustrated with graceful drawings, by I. W. West. (Macmillan. 75 c.) From " Tryphena in Love." Topyright, 1895, by Macniil- lan & Co. The Christian State. THE present era of industrial and political unrest naturally calls out many advocates and prophets of a new dispensation, and among these none seem to be more aggressive and sincere than the expositors of what is known as Christian socialism. Of the latter, Prof. George D. Herron, who holds the chair of ap plied Christianity at Grinnell College, Iowa, holds a prominent place. His commencement oration at the University of Nebraska, last June, in which he made a scathing arraign ment of American society and pointed out the necessity of definite and harmonious action on the part of all the Christian sects if the country were to be saved from violence, has attracted not a little attention in the columns of the press, and, as the author claims, has been sadly mis interpreted and misrepresented. In a course of six lectures on "The Christian State: a politi cal vision of Christ," lectures originally deliv ered in churches of various American cities, he has undertaken to set forth his views more at length and in detail. Professor Herron s belief is that the American people are under a nation al conviction of sin and that they are not only in need, but in search of political redemption, and he holds that the only hope of this is in a revival of both faith and works inspired by the literal teachings of the Sermon on the Mount as a basis not alone of religious work, but of civil and industrial action. In other words, the author looks to co-operation governed by a Christianized state as the only practical way out of our present difficulties. If Professor Herron s book shall result in stirring up the churches to a realization of the fact that their only hope of a continued hold upon the people is in forgetting differences of creed and working together in perfect unanimity for the promotion of the spirit of brotherhood, it will have ac complished a very desirable task. (Crowell. 7 5 c . ) Th e Be a con . April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. in A Girl s Life in Virginia. THIS girl s life was lived before the war, and the author dedicates this memoir of its pleas ures to her nieces, "who," she says, "will find in English and American publi cations such expressions applied to their ancestors as cruel slave owners, inhuman wretches, Southern taskmasters, deal ers in human souls, etc. From these they will naturally recoil with horror. My own life would have been embittered had I be lieved myself to be descended from such monsters, and that those who come after us may know the truth, I wish to leave a record of plantation life as it was. The truth may thus be preserved among a few, and merited praise may be awarded to noble men and virtuous women who have passed away." Letitia M. Burwell s reading must have been circumscribed, indeed, if she thinks that it is only in her book of happy rem iniscences that a true picture has appeared of that Southern civili zation, so full of prose and cul ture and high thinking, with which so many of us have been so familiar in our younger days. Virginia is dear to all the world, and, as the years grow more since the war, she takes her old place in the right perspective, and her history is studied for its lessons of heroism and its poetry thought by those to whom there should be no North, no South, except as a necessary geographical dis tinction. The book is enthusiastically written, and has sixteen full-page illustrations by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas. (Stokes. 1.50.) laid in Georgia, some ten or fifteen years after the war and the negro help again was specially studied under the new conditions of freedom; and his thoroughly delightful young people s The Sons of Ham. A BOOK to provoke discussion and criticism is " The Sons of Ham," by Louis Pendleton, the author of " The Wedding Garment," a tale of the life to come, published last year, which showed imagination and originality of plan. His latest volume, however, is more devoted to the subject of several earlier books, namely, Southern life and Southern prejudices and idiosyncrasies." In "Bewitched" Mr. Pendleton told a story of Florida in which there were some excellent studies of colored servants and of a "Voodoo" woman; " In the Wire Grass" was From "A Girl s Life in Virginia." Copyright, 1895, by F. A. Stokes Co. " I DON T WANT BE FREE NO MORE." story of "King Tom and the Runaways " de scribed the dangers and vicissitudes of life in the Georgia swamps. Mr. Pendleton writes of the South as one who knows the little-visited local ities and seizes unerringly upon the local weak nesses. He shows earnest study, too, of the social and domestic conditions brought about by the emancipation of an ignorant, superstitious people totally unaccustomed to self-control. A thread of love-story connects a series of events tending toward the solution of the negro prob lem. The best suggestion offered is to send them all back to Africa. The book is not di dactic and the " purpose " is veiled by Mr. Pendleton s practised art as a novel-writer. Many will rise against the gloomy view presented of the colored people, but the author seems to have logic and right in his judgment on the facts imagined to make his dramatic story. (Roberts. $i.) I 12 THE LITERARY NEWS. [April, 1895 Beyond the Dreams of Avarice. MR. BESANT is not the first novelist who has taken for his theme the influence exerted on an average nature by accession, or contemplated accession, to untold wealth. Yet he may be congratulated on the fresh and original way in which he has handled a well-worn motive, and the point and cogency with which he has rein forced the teachings of the anti-plutocratic moralists from Job downwards. " Beyond the Dreams of Avarice " is a romance of intestacy, and possesses the great merit that there is noth ing intrinsically improbable in any of the cir cumstances of the case. It is, in short, a story which might very well come to be reproduced on the stage of real life, and many of the gro tesque and pathetic episodes in which it abounds would then inevitably find their counterpart in fact. Nothing is better in the book than the skill with which the author traces the gradual inroads of the auri sacra fames on the character of his hero. The heroine is certainly one of the most attractive types of womanhood that Mr. Besant has ever conceived, the various claimants are happily contrasted and cleverly drawn, and the attitude of the press in the matter is described with not a little quiet humor and good-natured satire. In point of style Mr. Besant leaves a good deal to be desired in his present venture; but if his manner lacks dis tinction, it is at least free from the vices of af fectation or extravagance. (Harper. $1.50.) 7 he Athenceum. ing from the hen-house door to the under brush about two hundred yards distant." It is Jones double-header stories which are so effective. Think of the ability of the in ventor of the Morning Star Milker, operated "by the motion of the cow s jaw in chewing her cud." Would seedmen this coming spring be good enough to place on their illustrat ed catalogues a brief mention of " The Jones Ne Plus Ultra Effervescent Watermelon with a faucet in the stem end ? " Cold storage houses might do a good business in hibernating bears, sending these fat creatures neatly done up in their original hollow-log packages to- England. Mr. Hayden Carruth writes in the sincerest manner the most extraordinary of bounces. (Harper. $i.) N. Y. Times. The Adventures of Jones. THE veracious Jones, who never gave a false coloring to anything, here modestly narrates his adventures. Whether Jackson Peters believed him or not has noth ing to do with the question, for evidently Jackson Peters was jealous, and had he been given a free flight to his fancy, could have rivalled Jones. But Jones always insisted on having the floor, and he kept it, and is likely to keep it against all comers. The truthful Munchausen, the ingenious M. de Crac, must withdraw chap- fallen. There is one element these old raconteurs did not possess and that was scientific knowledge. It was true that the notes of the Baron s bugle were frozen up in the winter and thawed out in the summer, but that is a child-like idea when com pared to Jones comprehension of the use of the Edison phonograph. That instrument gave forth a stentorian "Scat!" when there was observed 4 a long gray streak of wild-cat reach- MISS WIL KINS CHARACTERS. No queenly rose she stops to cull, Nor lilies richly dight ; , But wayside flowers, common, dull, That seem to shrink from sight. No lordly knights nor ladies fair Within her world abide ; But homespun women, awkward men, Who live in life s aside. One touch of her consummate art, And lo ! a romance where We thought was sordid commonplace And trivial round of care : The drudge a heroine becomes, With heart of withered hopes ; The son of toil a hero true, As through the dark he gropes. What scent from old-time gardens blows Across our hurried strife ! What pathos here ! what humor there ! Commingled to the life. ALICE ELIZABETH SAWTELLE in The Literary World. From " The Adv of Jones." Cowriijlit, 1895, by Harper & Brothers. JONES INSPECTS THE IMPROVED WHITED SEPULCHRE. April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. Out of the East. MR. HEARN says that five years of intimate association with the Japanese have given him the power to see them unmagnified by the po etic glamour which an almost boundless admi ration for the land and the people raised before his eyes during the first half of his life in the Orient. That may be so, but he has certain ly lost none of the power evidenced in his " Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan " to make his readers see through that same early glamour the scenes he describes and the men whose very souls he apparently makes manifest. " Out of the East " is a work of less magnificent proportions than its predecessor, but in it are numberless passages of a beauty quite as great as that which characterized the most notable parts of that remarkable book, while deeper appreciation and keener insight, as regards the great problems Japan is now forcing upon the West for solution, reveal the effect on the writer of added opportunities for observation and study. None of his enthusiasm or of his ability to inspire enthusiasm has departed, but now he shows the meaning of things as well as their picturesque beauty, and corrects not only many of the mistaken judgments that have been formed by others, but a few of his own. With all his added seriousness of view, how ever, and notwithstanding the distinctly greater practical value his work now has, it is still upon the marvellous simplicity of his style, at once vigorous and delicate, that most emphasis must be laid. He can clothe an old legend in new words as well as any man living. The phrases he uses have the beauty he finds in tales told at twilight by people who make no distinction between myth and history, for whom ghosts and the gods are as real as the Emperor or his Admirals. With equal perfection, and not less beautifully, does Mr. Hearn describe the happenings of life in the houses and streets around him, the doings of priests and soldiers, the games of children, and the suicide of lovers, the habits of men who dig in the rice-fields, and those of the little white fish that live in wells. And, really, it is because Mr. Hearn can do so near to infinitely well these things so infi nitely difficult, and not because he can explain why Japan will conquer China, that he is a great man and a genius. The description of scenery, therefore, and the narration of simple stories about the Japan ese who lived of old or who live to-day are by far the most precious parts of his books. This " Out of the East " is rich with such treasures. This volume was not finished until the pres ent war with China was well under way. Ku- mamoto, the town where Mr. Hearn lived and taught in a Government school, was full of young soldiers making ready for embarkation. He describes them as filled with the very ecstasy of patriotic fervor. To fight for Japan and to die for it in case of slightest need were con suming ambitions in every mind. No thought of personal glory mingled with this devotion to the fatherland and the Emperor. So far they have been victorious. Mr. Hearn hopes and believes that China will soon be in their power, but he has studied the people of that older realm, and recognizes in them immeasurable potentialities. To tell the end is impossible, and the end will not be reached when Japan and China are again at peace. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) N. Y. Times. Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers. IT is not often that one comes across a volume of reminiscences so thoroughly entertaining as that of Joseph A. Willard, clerk of the Superior Court of this commonwealth, who has gathered up the stories, anecdotes and scenes incident to "Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers." The book partakes to certain extent of the nature of an autobiography, for the first two chapters contain a very interesting sketch of the author s ancestry and early life. Mr. Willard was a pupil of James Freeman Clarke, when the latter was teaching school in Cambridge; he remembers being one of the school children who in 1824 welcomed Lafayette; he sat as a boy under the preaching of the Rev. Abiel Holmes; and he recalls commencements at Har vard that were the occasion of three-day fights between gamblers and roughs which resulted in many black eyes; but as the author says, there were no serious disasters, for even foot ball was played in those days without slugging. The greater part of his recollections, how ever, as the title indicates, relate to the Suffolk bar, and on this theme he is delightfully varied and amusing. All the eminent legal lights from the days of Lemuel Shaw down to the present time come within the range of Mr. Willard s memories, and concerning each of them he has some piquant anecdote or incident to relate. Not only the members of the bar, but those who held judicial honors, get many a keen thrust from Mr. Willard, who has a very lively sense of humor, and however effective his satire, is never ill-natured. One or two examples of Mr. Willard s good things may be given. " I was present (he says) when an attorney used some new recondite word. Judge Wilde said : What is that word, what does that mean ? I haven t heard it before. Counsel : Please your honor, Mr. Webster has got out a new dic tionary with ten thousand new words in it. Judge Wilde : Mercy on us ! I hope Choate won t get hold of it. " On one occasion after a jury was empanelled THE LITERARY NEWS. [April, 1895 in the Supreme Judicial Court, Judge Shaw cast his eye around and found there were only eleven men. He said : Mr. Officer, find the twelfth man. Some time elapsed, when the officer came in and the judge said, Have you found him, Mr. Officer? No, your honor. Where is he ? said the judge. I don t know, sir; he s dead. "A certain person was nominated for the office of judge of the Court of Common Pleas. A lawyer to whom the fact was mentioned, said : I didn t see it in the morning papers. Oh, was the reply; did you look under the head of accidents ? "When Mr. Barnes was taken ill, it was re lated that the doctor who felt of his pulse and feet, in response to Mr. Barnes question as to how he was getting along said: Oh, Mr. Barnes, you are doing very well; no person ever died with such warm feet as you have. Oh yes, there was one, squeaked Barnes. Who? asked the doctor. John Rogers, said Barnes." Mr. Willard s book abounds in quotable pas sages, too long for citation here. As a contribu tion to the literature of the Suffolk bar it will long be read and referred to, and as an example of attractive literature it appeals strongly, not only to the legal fraternity, but to the general public. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) The Beacon. The First of the English. THERE is plenty of "go " in this new story from the ready pen of A. C. Gunter. It is set in the midst of the stormy days when the Netherlands struggled under the tyranny of Philip of Spain, and when Alva and his fierce soldiers made the Low Countries a land of blood and slaughter. The first chapter opens with a sea fight, when a Spanish pleasure galley is captured by the stout little English privateersman Dover Lass, commanded by Cap tain Guy , Stanhope Chester, "the first of the English." This sobriquet has been bestowed upon Captain Chester by the people of the Netherlands, in recognition of his being the first of his nation sent as a secret agent by Queen Elizabeth to help Holland in her strug gle for independence. One of the prisoners in the captured galley is the daughter of Alva. Of course, Chester falls in love with her, and vows to win her, while at the same time he will outwit ihe plans of the fierce duke. Equally, of course, he is successful both in love and war. The situation, it will be seen, is a very pretty one, affording scope for plenty of fighting, love- making, battle, blood and glory. Mr. Gunter has not neglected his chances, and he conducts the reader through a breathless succession of exciting episodes to the final orthodox conclu sion wherein all true novel-readers find exceed ing joy. The tone of the book is thoroughly healthy, and the climax satisfactory. (Home Pub. Co. 50 c.) Latin Poetry. THE Percy Turnbull Foundation at Johns Hopkins has given to the world another volume which forms a fit companion to Professor Jebb s book on "Greek Poetry." Such books are sure to find a wide welcome ; for they are signs of the coming emancipation of the classics from the thraldom of philology. Professor Tyrrell loves the Latin poets for their own sake, as weM as for the opportunities of textual emenda tion which they afford. He has a very attrac tive style, and his frank refusal to subscribe to some traditional opinions adds interest to the lectures. For instance, he is an out-and-out heretic when he discusses Horace. It is delightful to find a distinguished scholar confirming one s own private opinion that Horace is a masterly artist but not a creative poet. Many readers will be surprised to learn how largely the Sa tires and Epistles are borrowed, both as to form and material, from Lucilius, of whose works only fragments have come down to us. It is well known that the Odes are closely imi tated from Greek models. But as a polished versifier and maker of brilliant phrases, Pro fessor Tyrrell gives Horace all the honor that the most ardent admirer could ask. There are many interesting things said about Virgil ; famous lines are discussed, Virgil is compared with Homer, and some very just remarks are offered in criticism of recent translations of the yEneid. Two of the most interesting chapters in the book are those on Lucretius and Catullus, two authors not very generally read by college undergraduates, but among the greatest of the Latin poets. We shall be surprised if this book does not send many a reader to those dusty upper shelves where his Horace and Virgil have lain since college days, to renew the charm of their im mortal syllables. As Professor Tyrrell happily says: "At a verse from the JEneid, the sun goes back for us on the dial ; our boyhood is recreated, and returns to us for a moment like a visitant from a happy dreamland." (Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. $i.) Public Opinion. A New Version of the Sermon on the Mount. THE title of this admirable book by William Burnett Wright is well suited to the matter of which it treats. Its plan is unique and very ingenious. In the opening chapter the author deals with " Puzzles," which are presented to plain men as they contemplate the most conspicuous characteristics which distinguish Christendom from heathendom. The second chapter deals with "A Fertile Source of Puz zles," namely, the regarding of the Epistles, April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. especially those of Paul, as inspired com mentaries upon the Gospels. Then follow chapters devoted to an exposition of each of the Beatitudes the poor in spirit, the mourners, the meek, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers. After each exposition a character-sketch of some person who seemed to the author to furnish an il lustration of the truth presented is given, to help the reader see the Saviour more nearly as He is, by looking at each of those qualities which He manifested in perfection as it shines obscurely through some one of His disciples. With reference to the expositions of the Be atitudes, it must be said that many of the thoughts are new, fresh, and occasionally even startling. The author states his conception of Christ s thought clearly, concisely and cogently. No one can possibly mistake his meaning. The writer believes thoroughly in the necessity of individual regeneration and personal right eousness as the sole condition of a changed environment. Altogether this volume is a worthy and distinct contribution to current re ligious thought, and will be welcomed by hosts of readers. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1.25.) The Watchman. As Others Saw Him. WHAT did the Scribes and Pharisees know and think of Jesus ? For nearly nineteen cen turies all Christendom has lamented the bigo try, blindness and cruelty of those who caused or consented to His death. Would it not be exceedingly interesting to know just how He seemed to a learned, thoughtful, patriotic, de vout Jew of His day ? A writer, whose name is withheld, has attempted to reproduce for us the attitude and views of such a man, in a small book with the above title. It purports to be written by a Scribe at Alexandria, about twenty-five years after the Crucifixion. He was in Jerusalem during the public life of Jesus, and was a member of the Sanhedrim which de livered Him to death. He endeavors to repre sent how the Jews, of different classes, were impressed when Jesus drove the money changers from the Temple, taught in the syna gogue at Jerusalem, tested the rich young man, forgave the woman taken in adultery, baffled His questioners, made His triumphal entry into the city, alienated the people by His refusal to lead a revolt against the Roman power, was examined by the Sanhedrim, con demned by Pilate and crucified. The book is profoundly reverent, is written with great clearness and literary charm, and cannot fail to interest very many thoughtful readers. (Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) Mail and Express. Strong s Bible Concordance. " THE Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible," by James Strong, S.T.D., is a bulky quarto volume of 1809 pages, and is not merely a con cordance, but an admirable library of the Bible as well. It shows every word of the text of the common English version of the Canonical books, and every occurrence of each word in regular order, together with a comparative con cordance of the authorized and revised versions, including the American variations. There is an appendix giving a complete list of the occur rence of forty-seven unimportant words, such as a, as, in, etc. Following that are a concise dictionary of the words in the Hebrew Bible, with their renderings in the authorized English version, a table showing the places where the Hebrew and the English Bibles differ in the division of chapters and verse, and a concise dictionary of the \vords in the Greek testament, with their renderings in the authorized English version. The whole volume is a splendid example of profound scholarship r and patient research, and will very much enhance the already great reputation of Dr. Strong. Without making any invidious comparisons, it may be safely said that in completeness, simplicity and accuracy it is excelled by no concordance in the language. (Hunt & Eaton. 6.) A". Y. Tribune. Lent, Past and Present. THIS handy little book is a charming combi nation of fine scholarship, clear literary presen tation, and devout and reasonable spirit. The author has made a careful investigation of au thorities, and shows with reasonable certainty the origin of this memorial institution at the beginning of the second century. From a num ber of days, gradually increasing to a fortnight, the term of observance was gradually extended to thirty-six days, and next to forty. It was originally intended as a season of mourning for the death and burial of the Saviour, but gradu ally the custom was made enriching and influ ential because of deeper meanings which were read or infused into it. The author, Hermann Lilienthal, M.A., temperately and wisely dis cusses the subject of fasting, refusing to lay down any definite hard-and-fast rules, while heartily believing that fasting is but a specirl application of the higher principle of abstinence. He discusses Holy Week with a temper and richness of erudition and withal a simplicity of style that will, we think, win to the observance of Lent many who are not members of the de nomination of the author, which is the Protes tant Episcopal. (Whittaker. 75 c.) Boston Literary World. n6 THE LITERARY NEWS. {April, 1895 Sn (Edectic $JConti)Ii Bebteto of Current literature, EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT. APRIL. 1895. THE STANDARD DICTIONARY. THE second volume of "The Standard Dic tionary " completes a monumental work of which the publishers may well be proud and for which the whole writing fraternity owes them gratitude. It must be a matter of pecul iar gratification to them that so great an under taking has been brought to completion in five short years. The amount of thought, energy, endurance, and perseverance, condensed into those years can only be faintly imagined by those who have in a small way been through similar trials in the compiling of catalogues, book-lists, indexes, etc. A virtuoso can be truly estimated only by one who has struggled with the same difficulties he sees overcome with such artistic ease. The editor-in-chief of this compact, model dictionary is the Rev. Dr. I. K. Funk, the con sulting editor, Prof. F. A. March, the mana ging editor, the Rev. D. S. Gregory, and they have been assisted by nearly 200 specialists in various departments. The great difficulty in the courageous enterprise of preparing a dic tionary so immediately to follow " The Cen tury Dictionary" has been the deciding what could advantageously be left out of that collec tion of words in use in the English language, so that the work in preparation should have the great advantage of less bulk, and at the same time should contain new words and terms, that study, comparison and daily use had proved needed in a work, intended to be first and fore most thoroughly adapted for constant daily use. We shall not endeavor to compare " The Stand ard Dictionary" with its predecessors as re gards abstract worth. Every dictionary, con scientiously made by those who have fitted themselves for the work by the study of all the material the work of others has brought to gether, must add its quota of improvement and of additional usefulness. "All can raise the flower now, for all have got the seed " may truthfully be said of dictionaries. In 1755 Dr. Johnson compiled his great work which brought upon him the greatest adulation, the severest criticism that any dictionary is ever likely to meet with. This monumental work that he hewed from the rough, with implements in vented during his slow progress, recorded 2886 words under the letter A. Since then, Worces- ter s Dictionary has entered 6983 words under the first letter of the alphabet; " Stormonth s Dictionary," 4692; "Webster s International Dictionary," 8358 ; "The Century Dictionary," 15,621," and "The Standard Dictionary," 19,736. The full number of vocabulary terms in these dictionaries for the entire alphabet is as follows: Johnson, 45,000; Stormonth, 50,000; Worcester, 105,000; Webster (International), 125,000; Cen tury (six volumes, complete), 225,000; Standard (by actual count), 301,865, exclusive of the ap pendix, which contains 47,468 entries. Nearly 150 years of discoveries, inventions, enterprises, political upheavals, psychological speculations, religious differences, international commerce, international travel, and the daily widening interests of an increasing population, with a higher average of intelligence and grow ing advantages of education, have introduced an army of words into the English language. Another advantage of tire latest dictionary lies in the fact that if a word has two or more meanings the most common meaning is given first. That is, preference has been given to the " order of usage " over what is termed the "historical order." The aim has been to re move everything that stands between the vocab ulary word and the meaning most generally sought after by the average reader, and in this way enable him to get the information desired with ease and certainty. The obsolescent and obsolete meanings and the etymology are given last. Another very interesting feature is the table under notable words. Thus under "constella tion " Professor Simon Newcomb has given the names and locations of all the constellations ; under "man" is Professor D. G. Brinton s classification of the races of mankind based upon ethnological grounds; under "measure" are given the names of upwards of Soo different measures, the country in which they are used, the class (liquid, dry, etc.), national equivalents, United States and British equivalents, and met ric equivalents ; under "order" are the names of the orders of chivalry, the country, when founded, and the reputed founder. The amount of learning, quickness of per ception and skill in classification displayed in this feature of the dictionary calls for new de light and admiration with every new success in finding so much information made so get-at- able. All this erudition can be had in one volume at $12, in good binding, or in two volumes at $15, a price which puts the dictionary within the means of a large majority of the writing fraternity. April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 117 MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Articles marked -with an asterisk are illustrated. ARTISTIC, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Atlantic, Macbeth, John F. Kirk. Centiiry, Madame Rejane (For.), Justin H. M Carthy; Ferdinand Bol,* Cole ; Bernhard Stavenhagen (For.), Henry T. Finck. Fort. Review ( March), Acting, Henry Irving ; Venetian Art at the New Gallery, Claude Phillips. Lippincotfs, Grand Opera, Mme. Nellie Melba; Hiram Powers in Wash ington. Nine. Century (March), Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Charles Robin son ; Maurice Maeterlinck, Richard Hovey; Chinese drama, George Adams. Scribners, Four Easter Pictures, Drawn by Smedley, Lynch, Abbey, and Weeks; Amer. Wood-En gravers, William B. Closson.* BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE. Atlantic, Talk Over Autographs, I., George B. Hill.- Chautauqiian, Florence Nightingale, Harriet E. Banning. Forum, Studies of Notable Men: Lord Rosebery, Justin M Carthy. Popular Science, Lardner Vanuxem (For.). DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL. Chatauquan, Great Tunnels of the World, Robert Jamison; Small est Republic in the World* (San Marino), John L. Hurst. Harper s, Our National Capital,* Julian Ralph; Paris in Mourning,* R. H.Davis; Venice in Easter,* Arthur Symons; Autumn in Japan,* Alfred Parsons. DOMESTIC [AND SOCIAL. Lippin coifs, Cheap Living in Paris, Alvan F. Sanborn; Woman s Lot in Persia, Wolf von Schierbrand; Evolu tion of Table Manners, Lee J. Vance. EDUCATIONAL. Atlantic, Expressive Power of English Sounds, Albert H. Tolman ; Basis of Our Educational System, James J. Green- ough. Century, Religious Teaching in the Public Schools, Lyman Abbott. Forum, Women in European Universities, Alice Zimmern. Harper s, Recent Progress in the Public Schools, W. T. Harris. Scribner s, Art of Living Edu cation, Robert Grant. FICTION. Atlantic, Dumb Foxglove, Annie T. Slosson. Centurv, Search for an Ancestor, Mrs. R. A. Pryor; A Faithful Failure, G. I. Putnam; An Innocent Offender,* Alice Turner. Chautauquan, Sellin Ole Master, Martha Young. Harper s, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc,* L, Louis De Conte; Study Num ber Three,* Harriet L. Bradley ; Cordelia s Night of Romance,* Julian Ralph; Balance of Power, Maurice Thompson. Lippincotfs, Alain of Halfdene, Anna Robeson Brown; At the Hop- Pole Inn, Edith E. Bigelow; "The House with the Paint Wore Off," Marjorie Richardson; The Defendant Speaks, Genie H. Rosenfield. Scribner s, In Northern Waters, T. C. Evans; " La Belle Helene," Abbe C. Goodloe; Question in Art, R. W. Herrick. HISTORY. Centiiry, Paul Jones,* Molly E. Sea well. Nine. Century (March), The Builder of the Round Towers, Hon. Emily Lawless. Scribner s, Prince Charles Stuart,* Andrew Lang; Who Won the Battle of New Orleans ? West. Review (March), Evolution of Modern Society in its Historical Aspects, R. D. Melville; History as Told in the Arabian Nights, J. F. Hewitt. LITERARY. Atlantic, Louis Stevenson, C. T. Copeland. Fort. Review (March), Two Modern Poets (William Watson and John Davidson), H. D. Traill ; Stephane Mallarme, Frederic Carrel. Forztm, Healthy Tone for Amer. Literature, Richard Burton. Lippincotfs, Bucolic Journal ism of the West, Mary E. Stickney. West. Review (March), Tyranny of the Modern Novel, D. F. Hannigan. MEDICAL SCIENCE. North Amer.Reviezv, The Physician and the Social Question, PaulGibier. Popular Science, Communicated Insanity, Charles W. Pilgrim. MENTAL AND MORAL. Nine. Century (March), Written Gesture, John Holt Schooling. Popular Science, Some Curiosities of Thinking, M. A. Starr; Personal Equation in Human Truth, R. P. Halleck. NATURE AND SCIENCE. Atlantic, Flower Lore of New England Children, Alice M. Earle. Popular Science, Some of the "Outliers " Among Birds, R. F. Shufeldt. POETRY. At la ntic, While the Robins Sang, J. R. Taylor; In Memoriam Stevenson, Owen Wister. Century, Resurrection, Maurice F. Egan; Robert Louis Stevenson; In Tesla s La boratory, Robert U. Johnson; Love Conquers Death. Florence E. Coates. Harper s, "O Traveller by L T naccustomed Ways," Louise C. Moulton; Romance, Orrin C. Stevens; Awaken ing, Margaret E, Sangster. Lippincotfs, Melba, Champion Bissell; My Tormentor, Robert Beverley Hale. Scribners, Luke xviii. n. An Easter Hymn,* Henry McCarter ; To a Greek Victory, Pitts Duffield; The Compass, Edith M. Thomas. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. Chautauquan, Meth ods of Studying Society, Albion W. Small; Labor Bureaus: Conversation with the U. S. Commissioner of Labor, Herbert Johnston. Fort. Review (March), Presidents and Politics in France, A. Filon; The Crisis in Newfoundland, William Greswell. Forum, Real "Quintes sence of Socialism," W. H. Mallock; Battle of Standards and the Fall of Prices, Edward At kinson; Is Sound Finance Possible under Pop ular Government ?; Study of Beggars and Their Lodgings, Alvan F. Sanborn. Hat per s, Club Life Among Outcasts,* Josiah Flynt. North Amer. Review, A Last Tribute, Ex-Speaker Reed; Future of the Torpedo in War, P. H. Colomb; Two Years of American Diplomacy, George Gray; Growing Greatness of the Pacific, by the Hawaiian Minister; Outlook for Parlia mentary Government, Hannis Taylor . Popular Science, The Successor of the Railway, Apple- ton Morgan. THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. Cat/i. World, Musings of a Missionary, Walter Elliott; Inerrancy of Scripture in Light of the Encyclical. P. J. Cormican. Century, Social Problem of Church Unity, F. H. Wines and C. W. Shields (Open Letters). Nine. Century (March), What is Church Authority ?, T. Teign- mouth Shore ; Mr. Balfour s Attack on Agnos ticism, T. H. Huxley. North Amer. Review, Position of Judaism, I. Zangwill; A Word About the " New Pulpit," C. Ernest Smith (Notes and Comments). West. Review (March), The Bible in the Schools, Walter Lloyd. n8 THE LITERARY NEWS. 1895 of Current Citerature. Order through your bookseller. 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" The truth is that Mr. Savage-Landor went to Corea with the qualifications of an artist rather than with those of an historical student and a scientist. It is the vivid report of his eyes and ears that is chiefly valuable." N. Y. Sun. Chinese Central Asia: a Scribner. 2 v., map, il. LANSDELL, H., D.D. ride to little Tibet. 8, $5. VINCENT, FRANK. Actual Africa ; or, the ccm- ing continent. Appleton 105 full-page illus trations, 8, $5. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. BAILEY, HARRIET P. On the chafing-dish: a word for Sunday night teas. \_New ed.~\ G. W. Dillingham. 12, pap., 50 c. EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, ETC. IRVING, WASHINGTON. The Alhambra. Stu dents ed.; for the use of instructors and stu dents of English literature, and of reading classes; ed., with an introduction and notes by Arthur Marvin. Putnam. 12, $i. PECK, H. T., and ARROWSMITH, R., comps, ana eds. Roman life in Latin prose and verse. Am. B k. Co. il. 12, $1.50. A very attractive Latin reading-book, interest ing in itself and admirably adapted for use in classes. It contains characteristic extracts from poets and prose writers and a variety of popular songs, inscriptions and fragments that are particularly illustrative of Roman life. The annotations are judicious and the whole make up of the book is excellent. FICTION. AUSTEN, JANE. Pride and prejudice ; with a preface by G. Saintsbury, and il. by Hugh Thomson. Edition de luxe. Macmillan. 12, (Cranford ser.) net, $18. BASSETT, G. Hippolyte and Golden-beak: two stories. Harper. (Harper s American story tellers ser. 12, $1.25. The first story deals with a Parisian valet, who plays an interesting part in the adventures April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 119 that befell his master and himself at Monte Carlo; a pretty woman makes a real hero of Htppolyte, whose story is told by his master. 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Contents: Bk. i, "The origins," has chap ters on : Britannia ; The Germanic invasion ; The national poetry of the Anglo-Saxons ; Christian literature and prose literature of the Anglo-Saxons ; Bk. 2, "The French invasion," includes Battle literature in the French lan guage under the Norman and Angevin kings \ Latin ; Literature in the English language ; Bk. 3, "England and the English," treats of The new nation ; Chaucer ; The group of poets ; April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 121 William Langland and his visions ; Prose in the fourteenth century ; The theatre ; The end of the Middle Ages. MINTO, W. The literature of the Georgian era; ed. with a biographical introd. by W. Knight. Harper. 12, $1.50. POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Works ; newly coll. and ed., with memoir, introd., and notes, by Ed mund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry. In 10 v. V. I, 2 and 3. Stone & Kimball. il. 12, ea. t $1.50. RUGGLES, H. J. The plays of Shakespeare founded on literary forms. 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SULLIVAN, Sir E. Woman: the predominant partner. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, 40 c. TOLMAN, W. HOWE. Municipal reform move ments in the United States; with an intro ductory chapter by C. H. Parkhurst. Revell. 12, $1. WHITAKER, Jos., ed. An almanack for 1895: containing an account of astronomical and other phenomena, information respecting the government, finances, population, commerce, and general statistics of the British empire throughout the world; with some notice of other countries. Imported by Scribner. 12, hf. leath., $i. WILLIAMS, H. W. Money and bank credits in the United States. American Acad. of Politi cal and Social Science. 8, (Publications of the society, no. 139.) pap., 25 c. In the brief space of this paper there has been no attempt to exhaust the subject of currency and banking, but only to outline a development of the present system which would supply some of its deficiencies and remedy some of its de fects. 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His message is not one of division, but of union; not one of destruction, but of construction. He would not destroy what is, but would pour into it a stimulant and a potency for more intense and unremitting righteousness." Midland Monthly. HOWE, REGINALD HEBER, D.D. Quadragesi ma; or, thoughts for each day in Lent. Whit- taker. 12, net, $r. Bible texts, prose and poetical selections and reflections by the author, for each day in Lent. LAWRENCE, E. A., D.D. Modern missions in the East, their methods, successes, and limi tations; with an introd. by E. T. Eaton, D.D. Harper. 12, $1.75. The substance of this volume was first pre sented in the form of lectures in Andover Theo logical Seminary, on the Hyde Foundation, and subsequently in Yale Divinity School and Beloit College. The contents are based upon a twenty months missionary journey around the world with the express purpose of studying the mis sion work of various denominations. Dr. Law rence hopes the work may serve as a text-book for those who wish to look into the science of missions. McCoNNELL, S. D., D.D. Sermon stuff, id series. Whittaker. 12, $i. Sixty-five outlines of sermons, for the use of preachers, by the rector of St. Stephen s Church, Phila. MATTER, force, and spirit; or, scientific evi dence of a supreme intelligence. Putnam. 12, $r. PAGET, FRANCIS, D.D. Studies in the Chris tian character: sermons with an introductory essay. Longmans, Green & Co., 12, $1.75. SATTERLEE, H. Y., D.D. A creedless gospel and the Gospel creed. Scribner. 8, $2. "The author set out with the intention of writing a short article on the Apostles Creed, but the work grew insensibly on his hands as days and months passed by, until it attained the proportions of this volume. It should be added that the book has not been written for iinbelievers. Its sole object is to help in con forming the faith of the faithful: to point out and bring back to the memory of nineteenth century Christians the standard of belief and of life which was set before New Testament Chris tians by Christ himself and the apostles whom he trained." Preface. Dr. Satterlee is rector of Calvary Church, New York City. Books for ll)e j) onng. BURT, MARY, E., ed. Little nature studies for little people, from the essays of John Bur roughs; an introd. to the study of science and nature for primary grades ; ed. by Mary E. Burt. Ginn. sq. 12, bds., 36 c. Intended as a primary text-book in science April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 123 and reading; the motive is to introduce teacher and pupil to a mutual love for the woods and fields, to the study of animals and plants, to the observation of real things in life, and to the methods of a true naturalist. It isadapted from the essays of John Burroughs. COMMON things and useful information. 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" The Sherburne cousins is the third volume of that readable series of books for the young that delineate the characters making up a bright, intelligent circle of friends in a typical Southern home. The scenes of the history are laid in Europe and this country and the interest deepens as its personages assume the responsibilities of their more mature life. The author, Amanda M. Douglas, tells of the say ings and actions of the various characters in their new relations to one another, with care ful regard to actual life, and as a story on sound character building there is no better series of books than these for young people." The Out look. FOSTER, ALBEN J. Ampthill Towers. Nelson. 12, 80 c. GALL, J. Popular science. Nelson, il. 16, (Royal handbooks of general knowledge.) soc. HALL, BASIL. Voyages and travels of Captain Basil Hall, R. N. Nelson. 8, $2. TEMPLE, CORNA. Princess Louise : a tale of the Stuarts. Nelson. 12, 60 c. Antoine, C. riennes RECENT FRENCH FRENCH. 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GINN & Co. have in preparation " An Intro duction to the Study of Literary Criticism," by Charles Mills Gayley, Professor of English Literature in the University of California, and Fred. Newton Scott, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan. The two volumes, "Poetics and the Drama" and " Literary Types " (other than the drama), will be ready in the fall. BLISS, SANDS & FOSTER, London, are about to publish S. R. Crockett s new volume, " Stories Relative to the Ancient Province of Galloway," which will contain some of the author s work produced between 1889 and 1894, and allowed to accumulate. It is to form a special volume of over five hundred pages, and will show the author in every phase of his varied talent as in ventor of stories ranging from the idyllic to the grimly tragic. T. Y. CROWELL & Co. have nearly ready a 124 THE LITERARY NEWS. \_April, 1895 book on " Shakespeare s Heroines," by Charles E. L. Wingate, whose design has been to give a sketch of the impersonations of the leading characters in Shakespeare s tragedies and come dies by noted players, from the days of their first production under Shakespeare s personal supervision down to the present time. Numer ous anecdotes will illustrate the characteristics of the players and the serious and amusing features of their interpretations. H. W. HAGEMANN has begun the issue of a pretty series to be known as TJie Castleton Se ries by the publication of a novel entitled Sidney Forrester," an unusual story, written by Clem ent Wilkes. It is a quiet, modest love-story, surely a thing "devoutly to be wished" by those who have absorbed much of the lurid, un wholesome fiction of the present hour. It is to be hoped that this series will be kept pure and clean as is the book with which it starts. Woman ly women and chivalrous men are much needed as heroines and heroes of fiction. DODD, MEAD & Co. will publish shortly a new novel entitled " The Impregnable City," by Max Pemberton, who has been a successful journalist and editor, but has recently severed his connection with Chums and other journalis tic work to devote himself entirely to literature. He will edit a new series to be issued by Cas- sell & Co. akin to the Pseudonym. Prof. James Schouler has so far revised and rewritten the first two volumes of his " History of the United States under the Constitution," published by Dodd, Mead & Co., as to necessitate the mak ing of new plates. The remaining volumes have also been revised preparatory to printing a new edition of this popular work, which will be issued in April, with the addition of maps. Professor Schouler s final volume on the Civil War, completing his original plan, is now in active preparation. LOVELL, CORYELL & Co. announce an Au thorized Royalty Edition of Rudyard Kipling s works, complete in six uniform volumes, and including "Departmental Ditties, Barrack- Room Ballads, and other verses, " " Plain Tales from the Hills," " Soldiers Three and In Black and White," " The Phantom Rickshaw and Wee Willie Winkie," "The Light that Failed," "Story of the Gadsbys and Under the Deodars," " Mine Own People and The Courtship of Di nah Shadd." These are sold in the set or sep arately, and in cloth or paper. KipMng s " In dian Tales" comprising "Plain Tales from the Hills," " Soldiers Three," and " The Phan tom Rickshaw" may also be had in a single large volume. They have in preparation a fine Easter Edition of Farrar s "Life of Christ," handsomely bound, printed on light cream- tinted paper," with photogravure frontispiece and illuminated title-page; and have also just ready an Easter Edition, in white vellum, of Dr. Cunningham Geikie s " Life and Words of Christ." G. P. 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Special attention is called to the first volume of Jusserand s great work on "The Literary History of English People," which covers the vast subject from the Origins to the Renaissance. It is fascinatingly written and finely illustrated. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co. have just ready a new volume by Charles Carleton Coffin, en titled "The Daughters of the Revolution," in which the author sets forth the influence of the women in the struggle of the colonies to attain their independence; "The Story of Christine Rochefort," by Helen Choate Prince, a novel in which the leading motive is anarchism; and " Chocorua s Tenants,," by Frank Bolles, a vol ume of poems that will be particularly welcome to those to whom Chocorua and the region thereabout have become in some pleasant de gree enchanted ground through the admirable descriptions of their varied beauty and the charm of their forest inhabitants in the writings of Mr. Frank Bolles. Shortly will be issued a new edition of Minot s " Land Birds and Game Birds of New England"; "St. Augustine of Canterbury," by Rev. E. L. Cutts, a new vol ume in the series of English Leaders of Religion, also, " The United States Internal Revenue Tax System," comprising all internal revenue laws now in force as amended by the act of August 28, 1894, etc., including a history of the devel opment of the internal revenue tax system since the foundation of the Government, by Charles Wesley Eldridge. D. ArrLETON & Co. have some books calcu lated to make covetousness rule in the heart of every book-lover. The fourth volume of Mc- Master s " History of the People of the United States" has long been expected, and will be eagerly added to the three already on the shelf. "Degeneration," by Prof. Max Nordau, trans lated from the second edition of the German work, while presenting a scathing criticism of the decadent art of the day, as shown in the representative arts, in music and in literature, so carefully explains the author s position, by quotation and description, that it offers the reader an all-round-the-world look at the cre ative genius of the closing century. "Actual Africa," by Frank Vincent, is full from one to the other of its handsome covers of accurately compiled facts gathered on the spot and put forth in convincing language and decorative pictures; " The Story of the Stars," by George F. Chambers ; " Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden," by F. Schuyler Mathews, and "The Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America," by Frank M. 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(Sold separately.) Part I., " From the Origins to the Renaissance." With frontispiece in photogravure. 8vo, pp. xxii., 545, $3.50. "We welcome this book as the work of a sympa thetic and gifted scholar. . . . We may say, with out contradiction, that the marvellous story of our literature in its vital connection with the origin and growth of the English people has never been treated with a greater union of conscientious research, minute scholarship, pleasantness of humor, picturesqueness of style, and sympathetic intimacy." London Daily Chronicle. *** Notes on New Book s, a quarterly bulletin, pro spectuses of the Knickerbocker Nuggets. Heroes, and Stories of the Nations Series sent on application. Q. P. PUTNAM S SONS, New York and London. 126 THE LITERARY NEWS. \_April, 1895 A VALUABLE REFERENCE BOOK. JUST PUBLISHED: HYPNOTISM: How It is Done, Its Uses and Dangers. By JAMES R. COCKE, M.D. Cloth, extra, $1.5O. A good idea of the thorough scope of the work is given in the Table of Contents. The work is divided into chapters dealing with facts and leading up to theories and conclusions. I. A Definition of Hypnotism and Allied Terms, together with Considerations of what the Hypnotic Condition Is. II. The Effect of Hypnotism upon the Special Senses. III. Auto-Hyp notism. IV. How to Detect the Attempted Simulation of the Hypnotic Slate. V. The Dangers attending the Practice of Hypnotism. VI. Hypnotism in the Lower Animals. VII. The Curative Power of Hypnotism. VIII. Method of Applying Hypnotism in Disease. IX. Hypnotism in Surgery. X. The Value of Hypnotism and Tnerapeutic Suggest on in the Cure of Dipsomania (Chronic Drunkenness), Morphio- Mania (Morphine Habit), and other Drug Habits. XI. Hypno tism as a cure for Illusions and Hallucinations. XII. The Application of Hypnotism to Func tional and Organic Disease in General. XIII. Neurasthenia. XIV. Transference of Sensation by Means of a Magnet. XV. The Relation of Sleep and its Accompanying Dreams to the Phenomera of Hypnotism, and the Hallucinations in that State. XVI. Telepathy, Thought-Transference, Mind-Reading. I. Introduction and General Considerations in Part II. II. Theories of Hypnotism. III. A Condensed Sketch of the History of Hypnotism. IV. Bibliography. Dr. Cocke is a careful, and certainly an honest, experimentalist. He ought to know something about the subject, for he says : " I have hypnotized about one thousand three hundred and fifty people. The greater part of these were Americans, some negroes, quite a number French, a few Germans, and a few of the northern races, such as Danes, Russians, etc." New York Herald. " The author is to be congratulated on his good fortune in succeeding so admirably in accomplishing his object." New England Medical Gazette. "Dr. James R. Cocke treats this interesting subject very fully. The work is probably the best on the subject that has appeared in the English language." Indianapolis Journal. "One of the most interesting features of the volume is its treatment of hypnotism as a remedial agent." Boston A dvertiser. " There is an entertaining chapter on Telepathy and mind-reading, and, in fact, many other facts and theories of more than ordinary value." Boston Traveller. There are many curious facts in the book, the result of personal observation, upon the effects of hypnotism on. inebriety, the morphine habit, nervous diseases, hallucinations, and many functional and some organic diseases. ARENA PUBLISHING COMPANY, Boston, Mass, The Annual Literary Index, EDITED BY W. I. FLETCHER and R. R. BOWKER, ivith the co-operation of members of the American Li brary Association and of the Library Journal staff. THE ANNUAL LITERARY INDEX for 1893 com plements the " Annual American Catalogue" of books published in 1893 by indexing (i) articles in periodicals published in 1893 ; (2) essays and book-chapters in composite books of 1893 ; (3) authors of periodical articles and essays ; (4) special bibliographies of 1893 ; (5) authors de ceased in 1893. The two volumes together make a complete record of the literary product of the year. The volume includes also the features of the " Co operative Index to Periodicals," originally a monthly supplement to the Library Journal, then extended into a quarterly in an enlarged form, and later issued as an annual volume. One vol., cloth, $3.50. THE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, P. O. Box 943. 28 ELM STREET (Near Duane), NEW YOKK. CASTLETON SERIES, NO 1. Sidney Forrester, By CLEHENT WILKES. "An Unusual Story." 1 vol., 12mo, Cloth, $1.00; - Paper, 50 cents. Read Some of the PRESS CRITICISMS: "The author has a story to tell and tells it very well."- N. Y. Morning Advertiser. " It is a strange story of the fickleness of life. Sidney Forrester, the hero, is a noble character." San Francis co Monitor. " Enterta ; ning, and affords good wholesome reading." Troy Daily Times. "Cleverly told. 1 - N. Y. Recorder. " Is a very good story." The Minneapolis Journal. "The story is perfectly pure and clean." The Man chester Union, N. H. " There is a pathetic naturalness that should commend the book to child-lovers." Jersey City Evening Journal. " An interesting story." Boston Times. "A quiet, modest love-story. The hero of the book is not too good to be human, and not too wicked for good people to lay the book aside. "A 7 ". Y. World. " A well-told and popular story." Dulnique Herald. To those readers of current literature who require the more powerful condiment of sensationalism, Sidney Forrester can scarcely commend itself, but to such as have been gifted by nature with keen sympathies, whose finer feelings have been kept alive through contact with the rugged side of life, and who can find pleasure in earnest endeavoring, this book will doubtless appeal. FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. H. W. HAGEMANN 160 Fifth Avenue, York. April, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS, 127 RECENT SUCCESSFUL BOOKS. THIRD EDITION. THE WOMAN WHO DID. By GRANT ALLEN. Keynotes Series. American copyright edition. i6mo, cloth, $1.00. " A very remarkable story, which in a coarser hand than its refined and gifted author s could never have been effectively told, for such a hand could not have sustained the purity of motive, nor have portrayed the noble, irre proachable character of Herminia Barton." Boston Home Journal. " The story is a strong one, very strong, and teaches a lesson that no one has a right to step aside from the moral path laid out by religion, the law, and society." Boston Times. "Interesting, and at times intense and powerful." Buffalo Commercial. " No one can doubt the sincerity of the author." Woman s Journal. The Sons of Ham. A Tale of the New South. By Louis PENDLE- TON, author of "The Wedding Garment," " In the Wire-Grass," etc. I2mo, cloth, $1.50. A powerful and striking novel, dealing with the social problems as seen through Southern eyes. Ballads in Prose. By NORA HOPPER. With a title-page and cover by Walter West. American copyright edi tion. Square I2mo, cloth, $[.50. " Has opened up a valuable phase of folk-lore." Churchman. Prince Zaleski. By M. P. SHIEL. Keynotes Series. American copyright edition. i6mo, cloth, $1.00. Prince Zaleski s deductions are more intricate and deep than those of the late Sherlock Holmes, and of more ab sorbing interest. Discords. By GEORGE EGERTON, author of "Keynotes." American copyright edition. i6mo, cloth, $1.00. "The vitality of the stories is remarkable." Balti more American. MOLIERE S DRAMATIC WORKS. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Vol. III. " Les Femmes Savantes," " La Malade Imaginaire." I2mo, leather back, $1.50. A Child of the Age. A Novel. By FRANCIS ADAMS. With title- page designed by Aubrey Beardsley. Key notes Series. American copyright edition. i6mo, cloth, $i.co. "A book of remarkable power." Courier. The Great God Pan and the Inmost Light. By ARTHUR MACHEN. American copyright edition. i6mo, cloth, $1.00. "Possesses a strange charm." Baltimore American. The Son of Don Juan. An Original Drama in Three Acts. By Jos ECHEGARAY. Translated by James Graham. With etched portrait of the author by Don B. Maura. i6mo, cloth, $r.oo. As a Matter of Course. By ANNIE PAYSON CALL, author of "Power Through Repose." i6mo, cloth, $1.00. " Says a great many sensible things." Outlook. The Minor Tactics of Chess. A Treatise on the Deployment of the Forces in Obedience to Strategic Principle. By FRANK LIN K. YOUNG and EDWIN C. HOWELL. Il lustrated. i6mo, cloth, $1.00. " Shows deep and careful thought." Chicago Journal. The Right Honorable Will iam E. Gladstone. A Study from Life, By HENRY W. LUCY. With portrait. I2mo, cloth, $1.25. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN GLADWYN JEBB. By his Widow. With a portrait and an introduction by Haggard. i2mo, cloth, $1.25. " Pages which will hold their readers fast to the very end." Graphic. Exciting to a degree." Black and White. Full of breathless interest." Times. NEW EDITION. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON S POPULAR WORKS. Five volumes. Uniform in size and binding. i6mo, cloth, in box, $5.co. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. An Inland Voyage. The Silverado Squatters. Treasure Island. Prince Otto. AT ALL BOOKSTORES. ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON. 128 THE LITERARY NEWS. [April, 1895 HODGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, 4 Park Street, Boston; u East iyth Street, New York. The Daughters of the Revolution. By CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN, author of " The Boys of 76," " The Drum-Beat of the Nation," etc. With many illustrations. In decorative binding, i vol., crown 8vo, $1.50. The following paragraphs from the preface will indicate the character of the book, and will surely pique the curiosity of many to see a historical romance in which the charm of the story is equalled by the variety, freshness, and validity of its historical information : " No period in the history of our country surpasses in interest that immediately preceding and including the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Many volumes have been written settirg forth the patriotism and heroism of the fathers of the Republic, but the devotion of the mothers and daughters has received far less attention. This volume is designed, therefore, to portray in some degree their influence in the struggle of the Colonies to attain their independence. The narration of events takes the form of a story a slight thread of romance being employed, rather than didactic narrative, to more vividly picture the scenes and the parts performed by the actors in the great historic drama." The Story of Christine Rochefort. By HELEN CHOATE PRINCE. With artistic cover design, i vol., i6mo, $1.25. This novel, by a granddaughter of Rufus Choate, is likely to attract much attention, both for the author s sake and the great interest of the subject. Anarchism is a leading motive in it, hardly less than the love-story which runs through it. The scene is Blois, a provincial town in France, and the principal characters are a manufacturer, who is the object of the hatred of the operatives because he has money, and they have not ; his wife Christine, a fine, sympathetic, true- hearted woman; an Anarchist, who has many attractive qualities, and as a matter of principle promotes a strike among the operatives ; and the parish priest, who is sagacious, conservative, and a peacemaker. It is an interesting story, and a good deal more ; and in view of the restlessness pervading the industrial world, it is a very timely story, which may be commended to a wide reading. Sweet Clover. By CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM, author of " Next Door," " Dr. Latimer," "Miss Bagg s Secretary," etc. Eighth Thou sand. i6mo, $1.25. " Mrs. Burnham has laid the scene of her pleasant, pure-toned romance among the glories of the White City. It is delightful to have them reanimated in such a vivid manner." Literary World. George William Curtis. By EDWARD GARY. In " American Men of Letters " Series. With portrait. Second Edition. 1 6mo, $1.25. "In it the history of the ideal life of a knightly gentleman and a great citizen is given with delicate discrimination. ... It will en noble the character of every young man who reads it." Mtthodist Review. Philip and His Wife. By Mrs. DELAND, author of " John Ward, Preacher," " Sidney," " The Old Gar den," "Little Tommy Dove," "The Story of a Child." Eighth Thousand. i6mo, $1.25. " An interesting and absorbing romance. . . . Margaret Deland is not only a thoughtful and philosophical student of life, but she has the power of literary phrase, and her novel is one of those rare creations in our slipshcd era of a story as well written as it is interesting." Lon don Telegraph. A Century of Charades. By WILLIAM BELLAMY. A hundred orig inal charades, ingenious in conception, and worked out with remarkable skill. Fifth Thousand. i8mo, $1.00. " The cleverest work of its kind known to English literature." HENRY A. CLAPP, in Bos ton Advertiser. FOR SALE BY YOUR BOOKSELLER. The Literar News n totnfer jjou mag reabe tfytm, afc tgnetn, fig * anfc f0ereftf0 ffremfce ; and m Bummer, ab umfiram, under some 6$abte free atoag f$e febious 0ofre6. VOL. XVI. MAY, 1895. No. 5 Daughters of the Revolution, 1769-1776. No period in the history of our country sur passes in interest that immediately preceding and including the beginning of the Revolution ary War. Many volumes have set forth the patriotism and heroism of the fathers and sons of the old Co lonial days and of the be ginnings o f the great Republic, but the devo tion of the mothers and daughters of that day has received far less tribute. Their influ ence and part in the strug gle of the Colonies for freedom is now set forth by Charles Carleton Cof fin in a vol ume entitled " Daughters of the Revo- 1 u t i o n and their Times," which, under the form of romance, presents the events, scenes, incidents and spirit of the Col onists at the beginning of the Revolution. The period was characterized by sublime en thusiasm, self-sacrifice and devotion, not only shown by the American patriots, but by the loy alists, who conscientiously adhered to the Eng lish Crown. The sacrifices and sufferings of these loyalists have been generally overlooked, but the author has done them justice in his descrip- by ELIZABETH MORTON WARREN. tions of the siege of Boston and the agony of the hour when the adherents of King George found themselves confronted with the appalling fact that they must become aliens, exiles and wan derers, leav ing behind all their posses sions and es tates thehour when there came a sun dering of ten der ties and the breaking of hearts, a period in which fam ilies were di vided, par ents adher ing to the king, sons and daugh ters giving their allegi ance to Lib erty. Many of the charac ters intro duced are im aginary, but they all stand as types of characte r which really existed, and the events in which they take their part are strictly conformed to historic fact. The Boston Gazette says: " Mr. Charles Carle- ton Coffin s Daughters of the Revolution will undoubtedly please the children and grand children of those who, a generation ago, en joyed the Carleton war correspondence. It is a story of Boston in the days immediately pre ceding the Revolution, and describes the con dition of the town and marks the contrast be- Mifflm & 130 THE LITERARY NEWS. [May, 1895 tvveen the British soldiery and the Colonists. It is not to be denied that the story is somewhat partisan, but it does not profess to be una dorned history, and young readers are not so competent to judge historical values that it is judicious to paint the shadows of the past too accurately." The book is bound in buckram and well illus trated. The historic houses are from recent photographs. The portrait of Mrs. Joseph Warren, which we show, forms the frontis piece. It is owned by the proprietors of " The Memorial History of Boston." (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.) The Amateur Emigrant. A MELANCHOLY interest invests everything that appears with the name of the lamented Stevenson. This little volume, containing his experiences from the time when he embarked on the emigrant ship as second-cabin passenger till his arrival in New York, is vital with the author s individuality. It seems a fit introduc tion to the man, as well as to the varied jour- neyings, voyages and adventures with which his name is associated. The Stevenson char acteristics, the originality, perception, exquisite fitness of language, piquancy, adaptability, vigor and freshness all are manifest here. How alert were his senses ! How clear his in sight ! How pervasive his sympathies ! And how human he was ! How much he made of life, and what treasures in knowledge of char acter he gained where men less observing would have found nothing ! All these qualities and gifts come into exer cise even when the persons Stevenson meets are stowaways or outcasts from civilization, as were some he came in contact with on the voyage. He gathered information from the most unlikely sources, and found good talkers among common kind of men perhaps he had the faculty to draw out the best they had to give. At any rate, he could avail himself of it and crystallize the thoughts so that his readers cannot resist the attraction. The great literary artist and born story-teller appears in every chapter. The experiences in New York City were unfortunate and perhaps should be taken with a grain of allowance, giving that metrop olis the benefit of the doubt. (Stone & Kim- ball. $1.25.) Boston Literary World. From " Ways of Yale." Copyright, 1895, by Henry Holt & Co. IT CROWED REPEATEDLY. The Ways of Yale. CONSULE PLANCO. IN Plancus days, when life was slow, We dwelt within the Old Brick Row Before Durfee or Welch was built, Or gilded youths in Vanderbilt Looked down upon the mob below. Then Freshmen did not use to go Most every evening to the show ; Quite inexpensive was our gilt In Plancus days. We had no football then, you know ; All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, No gore was shed, no ink was spilt, No poet got upon his stilt To write these frenchified rondeaux, In Plancus days. HENRY A. BEERS, the clever author of "A Suburban Pastoral," has gathered up a neat little volume of reminiscences which he calls " The Ways of Yale." He lets an undergradu ate of the class of 69 make a comparison of student life in the sixties and in the nineties, which is full of humor and also of instructive thought. Poems are scattered through the little book, now pathetic, now irresistibly comic, which add not a little to its charm. Much of the life described is the college life of chums, sports, crammings and studies of any great college, but there are certain character istics that are peculiar to Yale life, and \ ale students and Yale alumni will take special de light in the author s chattings. (Holt. 75 c.) May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. Life of Samuel J. Tilden. IT is usually the lot of the biographer to be concerns of self-government. Thus, in many charged with having written a tribute to the ways, the time is auspicious for a fair, sober merits of his subject rather than a record of and judicious consideration of the character of his failings, as well as his virtues. It is not one of the most notable figures in our political probable that Mr. John Bigelow, whose life of life. Whatever may be the final judgment Samuel J. Til- den is to-day published by the Harpers, will escape the fate of his predeces sors in this par ticular field of literature. So large a portion of Mr. Tilden s life was, how ever, of a public character, and so many of his acts a matter of record, that his biography, of necessity, par takes much of the nature of history, and has to defend its im- partiality the prestige of com monly accepted facts. Almost twenty years have softened the asperity of the partisan con- troversy over the events which gave Mr. Tilden a notori ety unique in the history of this country. Many of the actors in the great polit ical struggle of the winter of 1876-77 have passed away, and to those who remain, its issues are long dead. right, 1 SAMUEL JONES TILDEN, Cira upon Samuel J. Tilden, it should never be forgot ten that he did not plunge the country into civ il war at a time when many men feared he would, and excited par tisans urgedhim to go to Wash ington and take the oath of of fice^ step which would almost certainly have caused blood shed. Natural justice, the jus tice of time and events, demands, that analysis of motives should not reach the point of depriv ing a man of the credit of doing a good action, or failing to do a bad one, because it is assumed that he lacked cour age to do other wise. Whatever may have been the motive, the good and its re sults remain. The literary reputation of Mr. Bigelow and the knowledge of his life-long friendship with Mr. Tilden have caused the work i, by Harpei 1874. The bitterness engendered by it has died a nat- he has finished to be looked for with interest and ural death, and time s perspective has almost expectation for several years. It had been gen- correctd the inaccuracies of mental vision in- erally understood that Mr. Tilden confided tohim separable from party bias. Partisanship has in a great measure ceased the task of telling the full story of his life and put him in possession of such facts and papers to be the fashion of the hour. Economic and as were necessary. The work could hardly have financial questions, along lines not coincident been placed in better hands. Acquainted with with those of the two great parties, occupy the the subject of his labors since he was his fellow attention of the people in national affairs, as do law student, and bound to him by ties of affec- municipal problems in the more closely related tionate respect and esteem, Mr. Bigelow has 132 THE LITERARY NEWS. [May, 1895 that intimate knowledge of the personality of Mr. Tilden requisite to the correct weighing of motives and the proper and authoritative inter pretation of actions. An additional qualifica tion is the judicial turn of mind, the result of a lifetime at the bar, which so greatly aids in the calm, dispassionate statement of a case. Mr. Bigelow has most interestingly displayed this quality throughout his book. The trained lawyer has been constantly invoked to restrain the hot partisanship of the friend. . Mr. Bigelow has included in each of the two octavo volumes of 400 pages, which com. prise his work, a voluminous appendix con taining full extracts from many of Mr. Tilden s State papers, copies of telegrams, correspon dence and addresses relating to the work of the Electoral Commission, the genealogy of the Tilden family, list of the eight hundred books read by Mr. Tilden during the last four years of his life and much other interesting matter. (Harper. 2 v., 6.) N. Y. Commercial Adver tiser. The Real Chinaman. OF course every American who has been privileged to spend some time in China is now more or less anxious to tell about it. There has been quite a flood of literature of this kind. The Real Chinaman." Copyright, 1895, by DodcJ, Mead & Co. LI HUNG CHANG. Some of the books sent forth are the merest trash ; others possess an abiding value. It is facts that are wanted, not theories. The people of the United States are abundantly willing to think well of the Chinese, if they can find just reason for so doing. The national prejudice is chiefly confined to those of limited intelligence. At the same time there is a well-defined deter mination that America shall not be Oriental ized ; in other words, that the customs of China shall not be transplanted to this conti nent ; and this for good and sufficient reasons. It is all right for intelligent travellers to pre sent a clear account of what they have seen and heard. Chester Holcombe, the author of this book, was for some years interpreter, and later Secretary of the American Legation, and for a time Acting Minister of the United States at Pekin. Therefore, he must have had ex ceptional opportunities for obtaining correct in formation. He seems to have his own opinion of Chinese history, as generally presented on this side of the world, and in order that there may be no misunderstanding with his readers, he frankly says : " This volume is neither a defence, apology, criticism, nor panegyric. It is rather an ex planation. It attempts to give a few of the results of many years of residence among the Chinese, in the course of which the author was brought into close and familiar relations with all classes of the people, in nearly every section of the Empire. In it an effort is made to describe and explain some of the more prom inent factors in the national life, and to show why some of their ways, so odd to us, are natural to them. Facts are dealt with rather than opinions. The book represents an effort to outline, with a few broad sweeps of the pen, the Chinaman as he is." The illustrations, from photographs, give a bird s-eye view of Chinese life. The book is without sensationalism. It is a plain and evi dently truthful narrative, and its pages are not marred like those of some recent books treating of the people of the East. Still, some of the peculiar ways of the Chinese are subjects of discussion in a manner not altogether agree able. The average traveller seems to think it incumbent upon him to show the dark side of the picture, no matter what the effect upon his readers. (Dodd, Mead & Co. $2.) Philadel phia Telegraph. People and Politics of the Far East. MR. NORMAN S book is on a much larger scale than Mr. Curzon s recent work, " Problems of the Far East " and there is delightful and re freshing contrast between the two. Mr. Cur- zon represents the traditions of Tory England, May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 33 and his suggestions and prophecies hover on justifies Japan in her course in Corea, for he the verge of Jingoism. Furthermore, his brill- shows that Japan, besides bringing the penin- iant work is already, in all probability, anti- sular state into the circle of civilized nations, is quated, because the Corea which he described the creator of her trade and incipient industries. From "People and Politics of tiie F;ir Ea>t." AT KO-SI-CHANG : THE KING OF SIAM AND THE SECOND (TEEN. and partly imagined exists no more, while it is evident that there is to be a China, hereafter, very different from that pictured in the old books. Mr. Norman takes what we imagine to be the Liberal or more rational view of British foreign politics, for he actually believes that it is possible for England and Russia to be friends. From first to last he has exposed the inherent weakness of China, even to demonstrating that there is no such thing as China in the sense of a political entity. He exults with delight in the fact that the Japanese war has done what nothing else has been able to do made known the truth about this colossal sham. His admira tion for Japan borders almost on the sentimen tal. Mr. Norman thinks that he knows well what the terms of the peace settlement between Japan and China will be. China is a morass of abomination that needs to be, in the interests of humanity and civilization, partitioned, drained, filled up, and its malaria destroyed by planting abundantly the eucalyptus trees of British sol diers, forts and custom-houses. Mr. Norman The five chap ers devoted to Siam give what we believe to be the best discussion of the ac tual situation to-day. The criticism of the ac tion of France is searching and the indictment is tremendous, but we cannot see that Mr. Nor man has in the least exaggerated the facts. . . . In conclusion, he sums up his work in " An Eastern Horoscope," calling attention to the fact " that powerful and jealous nations are plot ting for our inheritance." He sees the most hopeful portent in the declaration of a Liberal Prime Minister that " the party of a small Eng land, of a shrunk England, of a degraded Eng land, of a neutral England, of a submissive England, has died." It is but sheer justice to call attention to the excellent book-making and editing, and to the four maps and the threescore illustrations, the latter excellently selected and reproduced from original photographs. The literary arrange ment and proportion and the well-made index commend this book, which is of the first order of literary merit. (Scribner. 84.) Tlie Notion. 34 THE LITERARY NEWS. [May, 1895 The Armenian Crisis in Turkey. A TIMELY contribution to our knowledge re garding Armenia and the recent massacres there is a book just issued by Mr. Frederick Davis Greene, for several years a resident in that country. The book is entitled " The Armenian Crisis in Turkey." It has an introduc tion by the Rev. Dr. Josiah Strong; following comes evidence of the atrocities, the genuineness of which is certified by Governor Greenhalge, Miss Willard, Mr. Will iam Lloyd Garri son, Mrs. Liver- more, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, President Walker, ex-Governor Russell, and other well-known persons. The book is supplemented by a valuable appendix containing important letters from General Lew Wallace, Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, and others, added Crisis in Turkey." Putnam s Sons. Copyright, 1895, by G. P. ARMENIAN GIRLS OF VAN. From "Armenian Crisis in Turkey." Copyright, 1895, by G. P. Putnam s Sons. IRREGULAR " TURKISH SOLDIER. to which is a valuable bibliography of Ai- menian history, literature, topography, and of Mohammedanism. Mr. Greene was for nearly four years a missionary of the American Board in Van, the centre of Armenia. Hav ing now resigned his connection with the Board, he writes as the representative of no society, and is connected with none. It is easy for any one in casually taking up this volume to say that it is some what hysterically written ; it is cer tainly true that the treatment is not only hasty but partial, and is at the expense of literary form. The sympathizer with humanity, however, the civilizer and the Christian, cannot read the book through (any more than he can that equally stirring and also recently published volume, Professor Errera s on the Jews in Russia) without feeling that a race capable of as high achievement as has re cently been shown by the Bulgarians, since their emancipation from a like slavery, has been in fact ground in the dust under the heel of the cruel Turk. The part of the book entitled " A Chapter of Horrors " is almost beyond belief The massacre of last September is, of course, the main and burning theme of the writer. The setting, however, which is given to the picture is, first, information about Turkish Armenia, the physical aspects, inhabitants, and adminis tration of the country, and, secondly, a con sideration of some of the factors which enter into the solution of this phase of the Eastern question. Of these factors the culminating one is the Treaty of Berlin in general, and the action (or rather inaction) of Great Britain in particular. Mr. Greene s opinion is, naturally enough, that the only treatment for the "sick man " is a surgical one. To make this opinion the stronger he appends a chapter on previous acts of Turkish tragedy the massacres of the Greeks in 1822, of the Nestorians in 1850, of the Syrians in 1860, of the Cretans in 1867, of the Bulgarians in 1876, of the Yezidis in 1892, and now of the Armenians in 1894. The book has twenty illustrations and an excellent map. A timely publication, fitted to give needed in formation to general readers. (Putnam. s?i ; pap., 60 c.) The Outlook. May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 35 Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo. MR. JOHN LUTHER LONG gives us a capital love-story, taking us out into fresh fields and pastures new. The scene is laid in the Eastern capital on the banks of the Sumida. The lover is a secretary of the United States Legation, and the young lady is Miss Sakura, whose father, with a name which we may translate Ancient Daddy, is lord of the Mikado s kitchen. Miss Cherry Blossom has been educated in America, and has learned just enough of our social life to make her dangerous or unhappy in Japan ; for, despite all the professions of civilization of the New Japanese, the factor of individualism, so prominent in countries we call civilized, was very nearly next to unknown and is only just beginning to emerge in the Japan of Meiji. The story is told by means of conversation, and the clever author has un doubtedly had sufficient experience of the wom an s world in Japan to get the Japano-English pronunciation per fectly. The local color is also cor- , rect in minute de tails, and there is not too much gore in the story, though one or two corpses are duly deposited on the soil of the land of the holy gods. Af ter properly evad ing or judiciously conforming to Japanese proced ure, the young American gets on board the outward bound steamer, and to the native detective or Japa nese naval officer Mr. Holley gives assurance of the non-existence of the person inquir ed for, while he introduces "Mr. and Mrs. Holley, citizens of the United States." The story is capi tally told ; but evi dently the author, who has been so true to the mi nutest detail of Japanese life, ideals and c u s - toms, did not watch his printer and confreres for on the very title-page, right under the author s name, is the unmistakable cheap cast type-cut, which represents a nondescript being, who as to fan and umbrella might possibly pass for a native of Nippon, but who in coat, petticoat, trousers and thick, flat-soled shoes turned up at the end is an unmitigated China man. Alas, too, for Yamato Damashii when the American printer gets hold of it ! (Lippin- cott. $1.25.) Boston Literary World. Churches and Castles of Mediaeval France. THIS book is a record of a traveller s impres sions of the great monuments of France. The author hopes it may bring other travellers to see the wonderful churches and castles he de scribes. It is easy for the student to gain infor mation about these historic buildings, but, nev ertheless, it may be of some use to tell what effect they produce upon one who does not wish From "Churches: el Castles of Mediaeval France. Copyright, 1895, by Charles Scribner s Sons. THE CATHEDRAL OF AMIENS. i 3 6 THE LITERARY NEWS. [May, 1895 to study deeply into all their history and the minute details of the building of them but who does love their beauty and cares about the place they hold in the history of the French people. To one who loves Gothic architecture there are few cathedrals more interesting than the cathe dral of Amiens, of which we show an illustra tion. It was built in 1220 to 1288 the sixty-eight years work of the two bishops Everard, who founded it, and Godfrey, who carried it to completion and consecrated it. The author quotes freely from many writers on art, notably Ruskin, and his o\vn comments show taste, study and enthusiasm, tempered by strong re ligious feeling. Among the historic monu ments pictured are the cathedrals of Tours, Keauvais, Chartres, Bourges, Rheims, the Church of St. Etienne du Mont, Notre Dame de Poitiers, St. Denis, etc. And among the ancient castles are the Chateaux of Henry of Navarre, of Langeais, of Chaumont, of Chi- non, etc. No better book can be found to take upon a summer run through France. (Scrib- ner. $1.50-) The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England. THERE still may be found in the remoter parts of New England a few persons who ob serve fast days and the Thanksgiving Days as they were observed in the Colonial times and in the early decades of the Republic. These few persons believe, as the Fathers believed, that if the crops are good, the country is prosperous, the public health satisfactory, all these things have been ordered specially to indicate that the Great Ruler of the universe is pleased with the people. They also believe that sickness, drought, freshets, fires, storms, and everything else that is disagreeable and hard to bear are manifesta tions of God s displeasure. If a man loses his wife, they say he has been sinful and the Lord has taken away his helpmate in order to re mind him of his responsibility to a higher power than any on earth. If a herd of cows, in its ignorance of the laws of nature, assembles beneath a tree in the pasture in order to escape the downpour and falls dead in a heap when the lightning comes, these same good people tell us that the man who owned the cows had " wandered from the sight of the Lord." As Mr. Love puts it: They (the Pilgrim Fathers) found no place for the discipline of chastening love. Regard ing all dire happenings as punishments and all blessings as approvals, they seem to have thought that their moral status before God was thus written out in events. They connected every calamity or deliverance with their pres ent sin or virtue. As the former had a par ticular voice of warning and the latter a testi mony of forgiveness, every event approached them with its shadow before and its sunshine afterwards, to be recognized by fasting and thanksgiving. Mr. Love makes no plea for the restoration of the spirit with which the Fathers kept their fasts ; his purpose is to exhibit what that spirit was, and how it weakened with advancing years. He thinks that "pious purpose, preserving courage, and honest faith of these good men" are " as worthy of regard as their oaken chests, spinning-wheels, and warming-pans." (Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. $3.) /V. Y. Times. From " Hawaii s Loui Copyright, 1895, by G. P. Putnam s Sons. THE THEATRICAL KING. May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. Prince Bismarck. THE short life of " Prince Bismarck," by Charles Lowe, M.A., is an excellent piece of literary work. The sketch is based on the " His torical Biography" of the German ex-chancellor, pub lished by the same author ten years ago, but he has made use of much fresh material and has brought the narrative down to the reconciliation between Bis marck and the Emperor in January, 1894. Mr. Lowe tells the whole story in twelve chapters, first out lining concisely Bismarck s life as student and squire, and then going on to relate his services as a parlia mentarian, in the German Diet, as ambassador, in the wars with Denmark and Austria, in the formation of the North German Confed eration, in the war with France, as peace-maker of Europe, in the struggle with the Vatican, and as "Major- Domo of the Reich," the narrative concluding w r ith a picturesque chapter headed "A Fall Like Luci fer s." Mr. Lowe has the art of narrating events in a natural and logical way, and through this whole history of the development of united Germany he makes the personality of Bismarck the dominant factor. In relating the differences between the German and the ex-chancellor, Mr. Lowe conveys the impression that Wilhelm n. has behaved throughout the whole affair with a great deal of consideration and magnanimity an impres sion which those familiar with the public acts and deeds of his youthful majesty will find it hard to accept without some modification. The portrait which forms the frontispiece is indica tive of Bismarck s character. *(Roberts. $1.25.) The Beacon. From " Lowe s Prin Tales of Mean Streets. ARTHUR MORRISON S "Tales of Mean Streets" deals with life and scenes in the East End of London, and in their quiet and assured realism, their firm grasp of character, their un forced dramatic intensity and skilful command of dialect, show literary ability of a very high order ; it is perhaps needless to add that the Bismarck." Copyright, 189."), by Roberts Brothers. PRINCE BISMARCK. revelations they give of the depths of the Lon don slums is vivid and poignant. One need only read a page of any of these stories to see that the author is no mere dilettante or ran dom " slummer," but a man who has lived in timately among the people he portrays, and who knows alike their good qualities as well as their weaknesses. Mr. Morrison has not only a sense of pathos and of tragedy, but the sense of humor also (is it possible to have one with out the other ?) and his stories unfold them selves in a simple and natural way, starting out with no artificial situations and leading up to no predetermined climax, but making in each instance a complete picture, a cross section, as it w r ere, through strata of human existence which the English writer of fiction has as yet barely touched. Perhaps the strongest of these "Tales of Mean Streets" are those making up the trilogy entitled " Lizerunt." Certainly, the promise held forth in " Tales of Mean Streets " is enough to justify in sympathetic readers an eager anticipation of any other writings that may come from the same pen. (Roberts. $i.) The Beacon. THE LITERARY NEWS. [May, 1895 From " Brown Studies." Copyright, 1895, by E. P. Dutton LET ME THINK A MOMENT. Brown Studies. No American writer of the day seems to be better qualified than the Rev. George H. Hep- worth to touch the minds and hearts of the people on themes connected with the religion of every-day life. To Mr. Hepworth religion is not a metaphysical abstraction or a manifesta tion of sentiment ; it is a personal state or con dition, and implies health of body and sane and wholesome ways of living and thinking. This author s latest volume, " Brown Studies ; or, Camp Fires and Morals," sets forth his views on a background of wild wood experiences, through which a charming thread of romance runs. The first chapter takes the reader straight into the heart of the Adirondacks, and introduces him to the attractions of camp-life and to several delightful woodland characters. Amid the scenes and the surroundings thus brought to view, the author takes up such topics as "Do Flowers have Souls?" " Logs and Love," " Families in Boxes," "Mistakes in Marriage," "A Man s World," "Why do we Marry?" etc. What the author really does in the course of this delightfully unconven tional narrative is to discuss that ever new and ever old problem of the relations of men and women, with a sincerity of motive, a reverence and candor, that to young readers especially ought to be very helpful. There is not a word of cant or sentimentality in the whole vol ume ; the tonic influences of uncontam- inated nature are in it, and it is full of the generous impulse to make people better and wiser. (Dutton. 1.25.) J /ie Beacon, - Story of Christine Rochefort. " THIS is an unusual story," says the Boston Literary World,, "to be the first attempt of a young writer, for, if we mistake not, Mrs. Helen Choate Prince makes in it her debut before the reading world. It is a story of Blois in our end of the nineteenth century ; the charac ters are in part working-people, and the problems dealt with are those vexed and difficult ones which concern manufac turing economics and the socialistic agi tation. The story ends happily, and throughout exhibits a sweetness and elevation of tone which is in charming contrast to the generality of modern novels. Its theme is unusual, and the grace and delicacy with which it is worked out are more unusual still." cCo. "Anarchism is treated in its pages," says the Boston Literary Gazette, "in a masterful and yet impartial way that commands attention. The sufferings of the poor are not concealed; neither are the trials and tribulations of the rich. Life is painted as it is, with the cares that come to every class, high or low care which neither revo lution nor anarchism can relieve. The enthu siastic, honest, theoretical reformer is shown in these pages, as well as the blatant humbug who lives upon the workingman by describing the imaginary relief for all the woes of human ity that would come from deeds of violence. In contrast to these we have the parish priest who goes about unostentatiously doing good. The heroine is an intellectual but weak, vis ionary woman, who is led astray by the elo quence of a man whom she admires, and she is not in sympathy* with her husband, a worthy manufacturer, until she has been tried in the furnace of keen mental suffering. The French provincial town of Blois is the scene of the May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. principal incidents of the novel, which intro duces an exciting uprising of the working- people. The story is one of our own time, which cannot fail to excite discussion and lead to good results, and it is intensely interesting from cover to cover." " The Story of Christine Rochefort, by Helen Choate Prince," says the Portland Tran script, "is one of a number of novels ap pearing at just this time, which deal with the subject of organized labor and its attitude tow ards capital. It may also be said at once that it is one of the best of the romances built about that theme, for this reason, that it really does show forth the truth of how little the Socialists are prepared for the power they clamor after, how slight is often their sense of responsibility, how reckless and ungoverned their impulses and passions. Yet the country is full of true sym pathy and understanding, its heart beats for and with the rank and file of the people, as, indeed, to what else should a God-given heart respond ?" " While we think that the author has failed," says Public Opinion, "to fully interpret her obviously high conception of the character of De Martel, there remains a story of much interest, excellently planned and well written, with a moral evolved which in these troublous times is of value." (Houghton, Mif- flin & Co.) Augustine, and at the age of thirteen he began the study of law at the office of the notary of his native village. He soon yearned for the excitement and glories of a military life, and after braving untold hardships to attain his ambition he enlisted in the army in his nine teenth year. His career is known to all stu dents of history. It is said Wellington dreaded him more than any general Napoleon ever sent to meet him. The point of history on which Mr. Weston casts doubt is the fact that Marshal Ney was executed for disloyalty to the Bourbon King in 1815. In Part n. Mr. Weston gives his varied rea sons for believing that Peter S. Ney, who died at Hickory, North Carolina, in 1846, was the hero whom Wellington failed to save from the wrath of the king whom he could have influ enced to spare him. This part begins with a long array of incidents received as historical upon which time has thrown doubt. It is full of interest. Mr. Weston writes with vivid en thusiasm and his style is exhilarating. The publishers have made a very sumptuous book of this exceptionally attractive and sug- Marshal Ney and History. JAMES A. WESTON, Rector of the Church of the Ascension, at Hickory, a small town of North Carolina, has just written a very interesting book entitled " His toric Doubts as to the Execution of Marshal Ney." Mr. Weston divides his work into two parts. In Part I. he gives the life of Marshal Ney as we all know it from the pages of a vast litera ture in almost every language. In copious foot-notes Mr. Wes ton gives his authorities for his torical statements and quotes with discretion from the best known writers upon that most fascinating of periods the day of Napoleon the General, the Emperor, the deposed exile. Marshal Ney was born at Saar- Louis, about twenty-six miles from Metz, on the loth of Janu ary, 1769. He was carefully educated by the monks of St. From " Marshal Xey." Copyright, 1895, by Thomas Whittaker. MARSHAL NEY. (Engraved by H. R. Cook, 1817.) 140 THE L1TERAR\ NEWS. [May, 1895 gestive material. It is gotten up with the simplicity and richness of an enduring scientific work. Many portraits, fac-similes of handwrit ing, edicts and decrees signed by great names of the past add to the value and attractiveness of the pages. It is something new and it is put into the very best, shape. (Whittaker. 83.) From " La Jeuuesse Dorer." Copyright. 18y5, by dishing THE OLD WORLD FOR HER GOES SIGHING. Poets on Poets. MR. WILLIAM WATSON is the best contempo rary illustration of the skill arid insight with which poets sometimes comment on their kins men, for nobody has said better things in briefer compass about Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron and some other modern poets, than Mr. Watson. It was a happy thought to collect in one volume the criticisms of poets on poetry, confining the selection, in this case, to the writers of English verse. Mrs. Richard Strachey, who acts as the editor of " Poets on Poets," finds that the in stinct for criticism is so widely distributed that she is able to quote from almost every great English poet except Marlowe and Shakespeare. She also discovers that, on the whole, the judgment of the poets agrees substantially with the judgment which readers have pronounced. This volume has an essential and permanent value because it presents the judgment, not of a body of men who look at verse in a critical temper, but the work of men inspired by the creative spirit, whose point of view is therefore essentially different from that of the man of distinctively critical temper. (Scribner. $1.25.) The Outlook. ON A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE S SONNETS. THIS is the holy missal Shakespeare wrote, For friends to ponder when they grieve alone ; Within these collects his great heart would note Its joy and fear, its ecstasy and moan ; Our strength and weakness each was felt by him : He yearned and shrank, rejoiced and hoped and bled, Nor ever will his sacred song be dim Though he himself, the Friend of Friends, is dead. Then, on sad evenings when you think of me, Or when the morn seems blithe, yet I not near, Open this book and read, and I shall be The meter murmuring at your bended ear : I cannot write my love with Shakespeare s art, But the same burden weighs upon my heart. (Stone & Kimball. $1.25.) From "In Russet and Sit TO JACK WITH REGRETS. TO-MORKOW you ll hear that I m married To wealth, a smart title, and gout ! And I try to imagine your feelings, And your face, when you tirst find it out. Perhaps YOU will in\vardly curse me, And wish that all women be hurled To eternal perdition, and mutter, " To be sure it s the way of the world." Perhaps you may reel and grow dizzy, Or only feel weary and numb, While your eyes will grow dim, cold and stony, And your lips become ashen and dumb. Or do only the heroes of romance, Behave in this womanish way ? While the men of the latter-day century, But indifference stolid portray ? Well, be it one way or the other, Repressed or proclaimed "de haute voix" Try to think of my present position, And believe I was left without " choi.i-." Of course it s a very old story- Has happened so often before Yet it doesn t quite alter the suffering, Or make the wrung heart feel less sore. Remember, whatever may happen, How gross be the lie I must live, All the past was at least true and blameless So you ve nothing in that to forgive. For surely I was not to blame, that The future I could not foresee, Or that life is not just what we will it, Or that fate has bee i stronger than me. (Cushiag. $1.50.) From Martha Cunningham s " Jcu- nesse Dor tie . " May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 141 The Mermaid. FROM L. Dougall one has come to expect a novel of marked originality in motive and con ception and of acute philosophical insight in the depiction of character, and the expectation is not disappointed in this author s latest story, " The Mermaid." The opening scenes are laid on Prince Edward Island and the leading character is Caius Simpson, a farmer s son, who receives a good education and by force of circumstances, rather than by special ambition, adopts the medical profession. He is a youth of unusual mental ability, as far as the assimi lation of knowledge is concerned, but the crea tive faculty has been denied him, and his character at critical moments is apt to show in firmity of will. Into his life comes a strange thread of romance, for as he is walking the shore one day he spies a creature that to all appearance is a mermaid of the traditional type, and in his pursuit of the mystery in which this adventure involves him he meets with many singular experiences. Later on the scene changes to one of the Isles St. Magdalen, where an epidemic of diphtheria has broken out among the fishing population, and Caius, summoned by a message, cannot refuse to give the sufferers much-needed profes sional aid. The romance begun with the discovery of the mermaid is con tinued under these new conditions, and the mystery deepens, only to be solved at last in a confession of love that for many a day brings more of sorrow than of joy. The story is throughout strong and harmonious in coloring, though abounding in vivid contrasts, and all the characters, from the bewitching and illusive Josephine to the sardonic O Shea, are genuine flesh and blood. Miss Dougall in all her novels has dis played a knowledge of masculine character that is really wonderful in range and profundity, and partic ularly so in a woman writer. "The Mermaid " is a novel so far out of the ordinary run of fiction, and so thoroughly artistic in every line, ^1 that it is sure to find a hearty wel- H come from the select few, if not from ; the sensation-loving many. And in : this, her latest story, the sensational, or rather excitingly romantic, element is made telling use of ; the reader s curiosity is kept on edge and satis fied. (Appleton. $i; pap., 50 c.) 7 "he Beacon. Dame Prism. THIS is a new story for young people, by Miss Margaret H. Mathews, the author of " Dr. Gilbert s Daughters." It is a very un usual circumstance for an author who has written a popular work to wait over ten years before bringing out another book. Miss Math ews, however, has published no book since her first one, which had such an astonishing success. The plot of " Dame Prism " is original and exceedingly interesting. A family of children are suddenly thrown upon their own resources, without friends or money. They get permission to live in a railway car, and the book tells how they make a pretty home there, and fight their way to independence. A delightful and help ful story for children, with sixteen half-tone engravings, after original designs by Miss Elizabeth S. Tucker It has a green linen cover with the title daintily stamped in gold and red ink, and with a figure of one of the little hero ines in gold. (Stokes. 81.50.) From "Dame Prism." Copyright, 1895, by F. A. Stokes Co. 142 THE LITERARY NEWS. [May, 1895, Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica. " IT is the testimony of all who knew him in his infancy that Napoleon was a good child. He was obedient and respectful to his mother, and sometimes at night, when, on account of some indigestible quality of his food, or other cause, it was necessary for his father to make a series of forced marches up and down the spa cious nursery in the beautiful home at Ajaccio, holding the infant warrior in his arms, certain premonitions of his son s future career dawned upon the parent mind. His anguish was voiced in commanding tones; his wails, like his subse quent addresses to his soldiers, were short, sharp, clear and decisive, nor would he brook the slightest halt in these midnight marches until the difficulties which stood in his path had been overcome." In these words the world obtains a glimpse of Napoleon s early career which never was brought to view before. And for them an eager public is indebted to Mr. John Kendrick Bangs, who includes them in " Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica." As may be imagined, the volume is a burlesque his tory of the "Little Corpo ral," and while it is not a brilliant bit of humorous literature, still it is pleasant ly written. Unfortunately, it abounds in puns, some good, others indifferent, and yet others which were better unused. But there is no question as to the book s selling qualities. Coming, as it does, when all the world and his wife is saturated with serious history regard- l\f & !iC ing Na P oleon " Mr - Bona - parte of Corsica" is timely. Then, Mr. McVickar lav ishly has illustrated it with drawings really clever ; the Messrs. Harper have pro vided the volume with cost- \j ly and elegant dress. (Har per. $i.)Afai/ ana Express. The Hispaniola Plate. " THE HISPANIOLA PLATE" suggests "Treas ure Island"; and Mr. Bloundelle-Burton would probably not object to be styled a disciple of the late Mr. R. L. Stevenson in style as well as in choice of subject and plot. All the same, he has written a strong and fascinating story ; and in making 1893 the sequel to 1693, and giving us a second Crafer, and a second Alder- ly, has proved that he is by no means lacking in inventive power. But the masterful Phips who figures in the first treasure-hunt is, indeed^ a hero after Stevenson s own heart, although without blackguardism. He revels in difficul ties ; and when it falls to him, as it does twice within this book, to quell a mutiny, he literally rises to the occasion in a manner which shows that he had the making, if not of a Nelson, certainly of a Benbow, in him. It must be ad mitted, however, that the treasure-hunting "business" in the latter part of the book, when the second Crafer, the descendant of Phips comrade in arms, appears on the scene, is artificial and melodramatic ; that the death by the teeth of sharks of the second Joseph Alderly though being a murderer and a drunkard he richly deserves such a fate is lamentably conventional ; and that the " In Arcady " passages between the younger Crafer and the sister of Joseph Alderly lack inspira tion of the Lucy Desborough sort. Mr. Bloun delle-Burton, however, has created Phips, and that is a sufficient achievement for one book. (Cassell. $ i.) The Academy. Fro,., " Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica." Copyright, 1S95- * Harper & Br. NAPOLEON S HEAD-GEAR. An English Girl in Samoa. A SOJOURN of three months or so " In Stev enson s Samoa" is described in an animated and graceful way by Marie Fraser. The author and her friend took a house on the heights back of Apia and were close neighbors of the Stevensons, of whom they saw a great deal. Robert Louis Stevenson himself, under his Samoan appellation of " Tusitala," figures charmingly in the narrative as the kindly host, the adored protector and friend of the natives, and the industrious, unaffected writer of tales. Miss Fraser writes with discretion and good taste of the happy months in which she was practically an inmate of the Stevenson family, and by those who cherish the mem ory of the great author who has recently gone silent these recollec tions will be warmly cherished. The book is a record of delight fully unconventional experiences, of amusing trials with native ser vants, and of frequent festivities in the way of birthday or holiday May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. gatherings, or excursions through the beauti ful Samoan scenery. Miss Fraser finds much that is attractive to say of the Samoans, who, when they are not depraved by contact with the villainous South Sea traders, seem to have most fascinating qualities. The picture which the author presents of life in Samoa is charming enough to attract many travellers to that favored country. Her style is easy and unpretentious and not lacking in a certain artlessness. She evidently takes par donable pride in quoting frequently the title by which her Samoan friends and dependents knew her, " Matalanumoana," or, in English, " The fair young stranger with blue eyes from over the seas." It is fair to suppose that exist ence in Samoa, even under most favorable con ditions, is not an unalloyed dream of bliss, but Miss Fraser very rightly emphasizes its delights, and touches briefly, if at all, upon the shadows in the picture. The book has a rough ly engraved frontispiece, in which Mr. Steven son and Miss Fraser are prominent figures. There is a brief laudatory preface by James Payn. (Macmillan. Soc.) The Beacon. The Banishment of Jessop Blythe. IT is a far cry from Russia to the Peak of Derbyshire, and no greater contrast could be devised, both in character and setting, than that between one of Mr. Joseph Hatton s Nihilist ro mances and his new story, " The Banishment of Jessop Blythe." The romance is set amongst a community of rope-makers who work in " God s Factory," a cavern in the High Peak, named so reverently rather than profanely, and have been free tenants of the Dukes of Devonshire over two hundred years. They are ruled by seven masters, one of whom is the Jessop Blythe of the title, a ne er-do-well, who is ban ished by his companions, as the story opens, for his drinking and shiftless habits. In spite of his prominence in the title, he has only a fitful interest in the story, the real interest be ing centred in his daughter, Adser, a splendid specimen of Derbyshire young womanhood; the fiery young Welshman who has been nominated to a mastership by Blythe, and Geoffrey Lath- kill, a gentleman with an interesting personality and Adser s lover. Above this we are inclined to set the vividly descriptive account of this strange rope-making community and its mar vellous factory and surroundings. Occasion ally Mr. Hatton allows a suggestion of the guide-book to creep into his descriptions, but more often he is fresh and forcible in his de lineations of nature s handiwork. Quibbling is hardly a fair return for so delightful a story, and we may pass it by, along with the masterly touches with which Mr. Hatton sketches in his characters and their surroundings, to the im- Wr""" ^ " "" " ti*. *i,.< M(w Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica." Copyright, : Harper & Brothers. MURAT MADE A FLYING-WEDGE. pressive scene which banishes Jessop Blythe from the home of his boyhood. . . . " The Ban ishment of Jessop Blythe" displays some art, more than a little power of observation and de lineation, and a breezy freshness that carries the reader by storm. It is, in fact, an excellent story, healthy and well conceived, and worked out in the stirring, vigorous style that charac terizes Mr. Hatton s romances, whether they are set in the wilds of Russia or amidst the hills and dales of an English landscape. (Lip- pincott. 1 ; pap. , 50 c. ) London Literary World. The Body-Snatcher. THE MERRIAM COMPANY has lately published in its pretty miniature " Violet Series, "a collec tion of short stories by well-known writers, " The Body-Snatcher," by Robert Louis Steven son. We have no recollection of ever having seen this story among the acknowledged writ ings of Mr. Stevenson; so we suppose he forgot its existence or did not care to preserve it. Judging from internal evidence, we should say it was one of his earliest productions, his choice of the subject which it handles showing a cer tain immaturity of judgment on his part, and a wilful determination to offend the susceptibili ties of readers by his repulsive realism. It 144 THE LITERARY NEWS. [May, 1895 possesses a kind of interest and social value as the depiction of a horrible habit that prevailed in the England of sixty or seventy years ago, and filled the minds of the ignorant with super stitious apprehensions; Burke, Hare and other body-snatchers of the period, real or supposi titious, disputing the palm of popularity as bogies with Bony, as they saw him in the shop windows in the caricatures of Gilroy and Hone, and as they miscreated him in their stolid Brit ish imagination. There is an element in this story which was native to the genius of De Quincey, over which all monstrous crimes ex erted a strange fascination, as most of his readers will remember. There is power, but of a disagreeable, uncanny sort, in "The Body- Snatcher." It is always interesting for critics to get at all the work of an author, but the general read er gains little of such a book. <(Merriam Co 40 c.) From " The Story of Sonny Sahib." Copyright, 1895, by D. Appleton & Co. IN INDIAN GARB. Ballads in Prose. Miss NORA HOPPER S " Ballads in Prose " is one of the most charming results of the Irish literary revival. The "Ballads" are ghost stories, legends, fairy-tales, all the manifold varieties of popular fiction and superstition fill ing the very air of Ireland, and they alternate with lovely songs, ripples of poetry that seem to have made themselves so cunning in their workmanship. In prose pieces almost without exception, the note is cruelty, the fanciful, un imaginative cruelty which darkens the dreams of a people which has supped full of horrors. Two of the stories, "Aonan na Righ " and " The Gifts of Aodh and Una," are worthy of Mr. Kipling, and indeed all of Miss Hopper s work is more like his than like that of any living au thor. The peculiar grace and fluency of her verse suggest his to the memory, and the monstrous formless horror that broods over her heathen stories recalls the atmosphere of those Indian tales in which he brings 1 .,, the dread realities of Eastern - %--) life before the happier West. If Miss Hopper continue as she has begun, she need fear no rival, not even the Hon. Emily Law less. (Roberts. $1.50.) Boston Pilot. The Story of Sonny Sahib. ONCE more Mrs. Everard Cotes, with whom we feel more at ease when we think of her as our amusing, delightful entertainer, Miss Sara Jeannette Duncan, has looked over her collection of Indian reminiscences and put a few of her treas ured nuggets into a pretty little volume under the title "The Story of Sonny Sa hib." Poor little Sonny was born while his mother was sepa rated from all her people after the horrors of the In dian mutiny at Cawnpore. Her husband, a great Eng lish soldier, did not even hear of the birth of the little desolate baby. Kind natives forgot all their hatred of English tyrants at the first look of his baby eyes, and he was as care fully protected as if his parents had lived. Indian life and a baby s place in Indian .homes are described with all the author s genial humor and love of her kind. The illustrations are full of life and character and specially good. A charming book fo r the vacation satchel. (Appleton. $i.) May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 45 From " Lingua Gemmae." Copyright, 1894, by The Mernam Co. Lingua Gemmae. As there is a language of flowers, so there is one of gems. In the pretty volume under notice, Ada L. Sutton has made the effort to give " a clear, con cise and comprehensive 1 a n - guage of gems, and to illustrate the subjects with appropriate lit erary selections." There are stones appropriate to the months, and you may learn that if you were born in April you are entitled to such congratulations as only a dia mond will confer. January would be a com paratively inexpensive month in case a lover made a gift, for then a garnet would suffice, whereas the necessary accompaniments of a young lady born in May would be an emerald, or if born in July, a ruby. Possibly the super stition about the opal will never pass away, though Mrs. Sutton says that to October be longs this changeable stone. Precious stones convey, in part, a certain potency irrespective, of course, of their size or quality. To wear a ruby endows you with courage and success in a dangerous crisis. Sport a sapphire and you will be endowed with constancy. We might all be faithful provid ing we wore the topaz in sufficient quantity, and be wealthy by means of the turquois. No use is there for the fountain of perpetual youth. Carry about with you a beryl, and then ever lasting youth will be yottts. Beware, however, of the young person who has a predilection for amber. Even the man who smokes a pipe with an amber mouthpiece should be cautious, be cause this resinous mineral inclines the wearer to disdain. A nagging wife, a cantankerous husband need not call on Ur. Edson or Marion Harland to suggest a cure ; all that would be necessary would be for them to wear onyx, for that enforces conjugal felicity. (Merriam Co. $1.50.) N. Y. Times. The Golden Pomp. FLITTING, like the busy bee, over the flower ing clover-field of English lyric poetry, Mr. Quiller Couch has gathered rich store of honey. His harvest bears the mysterious label of " The Golden Pomp." The riddle is solved on the title-page by the motto from Ovid, "Aurea pompa venit." In a preface that whets the reader s appetite, the chronicler of the Delec table Duchy defines a lyric as " a short poem essentially melodious in rhythm and structure treating summarily of a single thought, feel ing, or situation." The selections, 361 in num ber, are arranged according to kinship of sub ject rather than chronologically. Shakespeare leads off with " Hark, Hark, the Lark," and other gushes of lyric joy at the advent of spring follow. " The Love Call," an anonymous The- ocritan duet between Phyllida and Corydon, is perfect in its artful simplicity. We cannot resist the temptation to quote a stanza: Pkyllida : Here are cherries ripe for my Corydon ; Eat them for my sake. Corydon : Here s my oaten pipe, my lovely one, Sport for thee to make. Pliyllida : Here are ;hreads, my t:ue love, fine a? silk, To knit thee, to knit thee, A pair of stockings white as milk. Corydon : Here are reeds, my true love, fine and neat, To make thee, to make thee, A bonnet to withstand the heat. Lately, we believe, Mr. J. M. Barrie has been spending a good deal of time at Fowey with Mr. Couch. Are we right in assuming that the author of "My Lady Nicotine" suggested the inclusion of Robert Wisdome s A RELIGIOUS USE OF TAKING TOBACCO. The Indian weed withered quite Green at morn, cut down at nigh Shows thy decay ; all flesh is hay; Thus think, then drink tobacco. And when the smoke ascends on high, Think thou beholds the vanity Of worldly stuff ; gone with a puff : Thus think, then drink tobacco But when the pipe grows foul within Think of thy soul defiled with sin, And that the fire doth it require : Thus think, then drink tobacco. The ashes that are left behind May serve to put thee still in mind That unto dust return thou must : Thus think, then drink tobacco. We imagine the modern smoker prefers to ru minate over more cheerful things. Forty pages of notes are models of what notes ought to be throwing much light on recondite allusions, parallels and sources. (Lippincott. $2.) Lon don Literary World. 146 THE LITERARY NEWS. 1895 Itanj Bras. Eclectic IJSlontfjIs Hebieto of Current literature, KWTF.D BY A. H. LEYPOLDT. MAY, THE BEGINNING OF THE END. THE recent exposure and the prompt appre hension of the leader, if not the originator, of a particularly noxious school of moral perver sion in literature, art and social conditions awaken the hope that they may result in a healthy reaction against the public exhibition of the intellectual and moral disease which dur ing the past few years has been growing more and more dangerous and shameless. We fear the subtle moral poison which Mr. Wilde and his followers have helped to inject into our literature and art has taken such hold upon a large part of the public that its effects cannot be suddenly shut off and hidden from sight; but doubtless the malady will now be recognized as disease instead of as "origi nality," " higher culture," "art for art s sake," "the expanding of individuality," etc., all through the long list, of which even the vo cabulary is loathsome to a healthy man, and of which the literature is synonymous with bore dom. The symptoms of this disease idleness, unrest, discontent, selfishness, craving for noto riety will, we hope, be more carefully watched and their causes treated by those who have kept themselves clear of the pestilence, and who may still be able to direct the misguided emotions of their fellow-beings. Max Nordau s book on " Degeneration" has been published in English just at a time when its perhaps rather sweeping statements may help to make clear the nature of this degener acy that seems to be the present curse of peo ple tempted to fads and ego-mania by the leisure that should be a privilege, and an incen tive to profitable aspiration. In this book Mr. Nordau devotes several pages to Oscar Wilde, whom he considers as a type of the special kind of degeneration that is a disease recognized by alienists, whose victims should be watched and confined permanently that they may not injure their fellow-mortals. Oscar Wilde himself has stated in his "Intentions," that " even a color sense is more important in the development of the individual than a sense of right and wrong." He has contended that no check of convention ality or fitness or morality should be put upon the imagination of the artist in color, sculpture or letters. Max Nordau comments upon this that " there is a candor which is wholly inad missible. The artist may be criminal by or ganic disposition. We do not permit homicidal maniacs, incendiaries, thieves and vagabonds to expand their individualities in crime, and just as little should we permit the degenerate artist to expand his individuality in immoral works of art and literature." For the past few years we have been flooded with works of imagination, chiefly novels, that have testified to such lack of control in the au thor s nature. Some of these books have shown artistic literary technique that seemed to give them a right to exist, but the great mass of these books have had their source in an hys terical craving for notoriety. Sound common sense, natural instincts, healthy men and women, normal social conditions, have been almost wholly lost sight of. There has been a malevolent mania for contradiction, an ego- maniacal recklessness, an hysterical longing to make a sensation justified by no exalted aim, serving no apparent purpose whatever. The disciples of this school, setting aside all idea of beauty, have strained affer striking sub jects and harrowing details. Morbid condi tions of mind and body especially have been so popular as to lead the American Medico-Surgi cal Journal, in a recent issue, to remark sar castically that "as yet there exists no novel of the ear, no drama of the digestive organs, no romance of the kidneys, no pastels of the intes tines. Blindness, idiocy, simple mania with delusions, visions and bright lights of hys teria and epilepsy, have each in turn served the modern writer of fiction. Later, it is not unreasonable to expect that several ailments in one book may further the general interest of the twentieth-century romance, when each de partment of pathology shall have its own spe cial novel." All this is bad enough when well done, but when cheaply imitated it reaches the very lowest form of nastiness. The public, unfortunately, has been inocu lated with the poison of degeneracy, and its de mand for more and more of these stories, false to every principle of truth and decency, has brought into the market a host of writers that we should like to see as effectually put out of sight as we hope the notorious English aesthete will be. Publishers should discourage authors who bring these wares to them for publication, and all healthy men and women should be as much ashamed to be in the company of such books as to be in the company of the shameless men and more shameless women they describe. We trust in Mr. Nordau s prediction that time will surely banish this self-limited disease. He has had his book reviewed by many critics, among them W. D. Howells, who disagrees with many of his views. We wish all would read "Degeneracy" for themselves, and form their own conclusions, and do their part to wards bringing about reform in this direction. May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Articles marked with an asterisk ,tre illustrated. ARTISTIC, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Atlantic, A Standard Theatre, T. R. Sullivan ; Some Notes on the Art of John La Farge, Cecilia Waern. Cath. World, Genius of Leonardo da Vinci,* O Shea. Cent^^ry, Rubinstein, McAr- thur. Chautanquan. German Drama, Whit man. Fort. Review (Apr.), Landscape at the National Gallery, John Brett. Godeys, Artists in their Studios,* W. A. Cooper ; Music in America Ethelbert Nevin, Hughes ; The Museum of the Prado,* Cortissoz. Nine. C .nturv (Apr.), Plays of Thomas Heywood, Swinburne. Scribner s, Wood-Engravers Stephane Pannemaker;* French Posters and Book Covers,* Arsene Alexandre. West. Re view (Apr.), Shakespeare and a Municipal Theatre, Dillon. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE. Chautau quan, Gen. Zachary Taylor, R. D. St. John. Forum. Prince Bismarck, T. A. Dodge. Lippin cotfs, A Young Corean Rebel (Soh Kwang Pom), Haddo Gordon. Pop. Science, The Illustrious Boerhaave, W. T. Lusk (For.). DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL. Atlantic, Christmas Shopping at Assuan, Agnes Repplier. Cath. World, Corner of Arcadie,* M. A. Taggart ; Bit of the Old World in the New, H. A. Adams; Glimpses of Italy, * E. C. Foster. Godeys, How to Go to Europe for Three Hundred Dollars,* J. A. Locke. Harper s, In Sunny Mississippi, J. Ralph ; Some Wanderings in Japan,* A. Parsons. McChires, Gaston Tissandier, the Balloonist,* R. H. Sherard. Outing, The Paris of China (Pekin), Annetta J. Halliday-Antona. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. Chautauquan, Fash ions of the Nineteenth Century, Alice M. Earle. West. Review (Apr.), Evolution of the Sex, A. G. P. Sykes. EDUCATIONAL. Cath. World, Centenary of Maynooth College,* G. McDermot. Godeys, Bryn Mawr College,* Madeline V. Abbott. McChire s, A Prairie College* (Knox), Madame Blanc. North Am. Review, Elementary Educa tion, W. T. Harris. FICTION. Atlantic, A Faithful Failure, Eliza O. White. Calh. World, Le Pere Philippe, Mary B. O Reilly; Sae s Lamp, F. A. Doughty. Century, The Princess Sonia,* I., Julia Magru- der ; Lucinda,* L. E. Mitchell ; Two Shad owy Rivals. R. M. Johnston; Regret, Kate Cho pin. Chautauquan, Story of Fidelity, Eleanor Lambec. Godey s, Modern Sympathy,* Eleanor Waddle; An Unsettled Account, *M. Orde ; The Sphinx,* F. C. Williams. Harper s, La Tinaja Bonita,* O. Wister ; By Hook or Crook,* R. Grant ; Dutch Kitty s White Slippers,* J. Ralph. Lippincotfs, The Lady of Las Cruces, Christian Reid ; Odds on the Gun ; Martha s Headstone, Edith Brower. McClure s, What She Could, Ian Maclaren ; A Game Postponed, Gertrude Smith. Outing, Chestnuts with a History, Margaret B. Rudd ; Old Uncle Van- derveer, E. Fawcett. Scribner s, Story of Bessie Costrell, I., Mrs. H. Ward ; A Short Study in Evolution, Abbe C. Goodloe. HISTORY. Atlantic, Dr. Rush and Gen. Washington, P. L. Ford. Chautaiiquan, Queer Customs of the City of London, J. C. Thorn- ley. Lippincotfs, Effacing the Frontier, W. T. Larned. McClure s, The Second Funeral of Napoleon,* Ida M. Tarbell. Pop. Science, Ar chaeology in Denmark,* F. Starr. INDUSTRIAL Lippincotfs, On a Shad-Float, D. B. Fitzgerald. Pop. Science, Office of Lux ury, P. L. Beaulieu ; Woman as an Inventor and Manufacturer.* LITERARY. Atlantic, Leconte de Lisle, P. T. Lafleur. Chautauquan, Some Curiosities of Scottish Literature, W. W. Smith ; Journalism in the Protestant Episcopal Church, G. A. Car- stensen. Fort. Review (Apr.), Literary Degen erates, Janet E. Hogarth. forum, The Govern ment as a Great Publisher, A. R. Spofford Lippincotfs, An Artist s Habitat, W. T. Lin- ton. McGwire s, Journalism, C. A. Dana. North Am. Review, Glimpses of Charles Dick ens, C. Dickens, the younger. West Review (Apr.), Arthur Schopenhauer, M. Todhunter ; Poetry of Christina G. Rossetti, Alice Law. NATURE AND SCIENCE. Atlantic, Mars, L, At mosphere, P. Lowell ; A Week on Walden s Ridge, L, B. Torrey; Tramps with an Enthu siast, Olive T. Miller. Century, Conquest of Arid America,* W. E. Smythe. Godeys, The Angora Cat,* R. K. James. Lippincotfs, High Fliers and Low Fliers, W. Warren Brown ; The Menu of Mankind, C. D. Wilson. North Am. Review, Progress of Meteorology, F. Waldo ; Latest News of Mars, E. S. Holden (Notes and Comments). Pop. Science, An Old Natural ist* (Conrad Gesner), W. K. Brooks ; Work of the Naturalist in the World, C. S. Minot ; Race Mixture and National Character, L. R. Harley. Scribner s, Will the Electric Motor Supersede the Steam Locomotive ? J. Wetzler. POETRY. Cath. World, Agnes of Dunbar, Lilian A. B. Taylor. Century, Unanswered, C. B. Going; A Norse Child s Requiem, B. Car man ; Land of Lost Hopes, Edith M. Thomas. Harper s, Grass and Flowers, J. V. Cheney. Scribner s, Fool s Gold, Edith M. Thomas ; The Wind, Munkittrick ; Into the Dark, Winter. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. Atlantic, Political Depravity of the Fathers, J. B. McMaster. Century, A Chapter of Municipal Folly, A. C. Bernheim. Fort. Review (Apr.), Historical As pect of the Monetary Question, A. Del Mar ; China Problem and Its Solution, E. T. C. Wer ner. Foriim, Canadian and American Sys tems of Government, J. G. Bourinot ; Future of the Great Arid West, E. V. Smalley ; Coming Equality of Opportunity, C. D. Wright. Har per s, Men s Work Among Women, B. Morgan. McClures, Tammany, E. J. Edwards. Nine. Century (Apr.), Some American Impressions and Comparisons, Elizabeth L. Banks. North Am. Review, Our Situation as Viewed from Without, Goldwin Smith ; Russia and England, A. Vam- bery ; Income Tax : Decision of the Supreme Court, G. S. Boutwell ; Future of Japan, Japa nese Minister. Scribner s, Art of Living Occu pation,* R. Grant. SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. Forum, Can We Revive the Olympic Games? P. Shorey. Out ing, Fitting Out for a Cruise, A. J. Kenealy ; Oxford in the Eights Week, Evelyn Burnblum. Scribner s, Golf,* H. E. Howland. THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. Nine. Century (Apr.), Foundations of Belief, Martineau ; What Is Church Authority? Car ter. North Am. Review, The Preacher and His Province, Gibbons ; Judaism and L T nitarian- ism, Harris (Notes and Comments). Pop. Science, Kidd on "Social Evolution," Le Sueur. 148 THE LITERARY NEWS. [May, 1895 0urt)eg of Current Citerature. Order through your bookseller. " There is no "worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence and the purity of any community than their general purchase of books; nor is there any one who does more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller." PROF. DUNN. ART, MUSIC, DRAMA. BOLTON, Mrs. ^ HENRIETTA IRVING. The Ma donna of St. Luke : the story of a portrait; with an introductory letter by Daniel Hun- tingcon. Putnam. 12, $1.25. All that is known about the portraits of the Virgin Mary which tradiiion tells us were paint ed by the Evangelist St. Luke is included in this little volume. The most venerated of these portraits is that preserved in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, and the book opens with an account of the miraculous cir cumstances attending the foundation of that ba silica. In four sections the author writes of St. Luke as a painter, narrates the history of the Madonna in the Borghese Chapel, shows the influence of the portrait upon art, and describes a score of paintings and sculptures commonly attributed to St. Luke. The illustrations are chiefly from paintings by old masters. ECHEGARAY, JosE. The son of Don Juan: an original drama in three acts; tr. by Ja. Graham. Roberts, por. 16, $i. " Echegaray is the Spanish Ibsen. He has more fire and more of the old spirit of romance than the Norwegian pessimist, but he can be just as commonplace and cold-blooded when he chooses to be, and he is quite as brilliant an example of degeneration, in Dr. Max Nordau s application of that woid. In this unpleasant but powerful study of social and physical dis ease he is avowedly a follower of Ibsen. The work was suggested by a reading of Ibsen s play we know as Ghosts. The play is neither so simple nor so strong as Ghosts, but Eche garay has a sense of humor which the prophet of Norway seems to totally lack. A sense of humor in this kind of a work is as incongruous, however, as laughter at the dissecting-table. Mr. Graham provides an informing sketch of the career of Echegaray, who is sixty-three years old, and a native of Madrid ; a mathemati cian, and a linguist; commenced dramatist at the age of forty-two (the age at which his Don Juan married), and has written fifty savory pieces. In his translation Mr. Graham clings peristently to Spanish idioms." N. Y. Times. EHRLICH, A. Celebrated pianists of the past and present time: a collection of 116 biogra phies. Scribner. pors. 8, $3. FORD, J. The broken heart; ed., with notes and introduction, by Clinton Scollard. Holt. 16, (English readings ser.) bds.,4o c. " Possibly 1632 or 1633 is the date of John Ford s masterpiece, The broken heart. Born in 1586, Ford died in 1640, and he lived in what Mr. Scollard appropriately terms the period of dramatic decline. On The broken heart Charles Lamb bestowed unstinted praise. It was the catastrophe in the play that Lamb thought was so grand, so solemn, and so sur prising. Swinburne, too, of latter-day critics, eulogizes the play. Other tragic poems have closed as grandly, with as much or more of moral and poetic force ; none, I think, with such solemn power of spectacular and spiritual effect combined. The volume, in neat form, with its careful editing, is a valuable addition to that collection the publishers designate as 1 English readings. " N. Y. Times. MOLIERE, J. BAPT. P. DE. Dramatic works; tr. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. In 6 v. V. 3, Les femmes savantes; Le malade ima- ginaire. Roberts. 12, hf. rus., $1.50. Moliere s object in Les femmes savantes is to laugh at female pedantry; it is considered one of his best plays, and was first acted at the Theatre du Palais-Royal, March n, 1672. Le malade imaginaire was the last play Moliere wrote; it is a comedy dealing with the lovecf life and the fear of death. A sketch of the Hotel de Rambouillet introduces the first play. WALKER, FRANCIS. Letters of a baritone. Scribner. 12, $1.25. These letters, "written from ^Florence and covering a period of a year and a half, not only give a detailed narrative of the experiences of a young American student of the art of singing, but picture also with sympathy other phases of art life in Italy, and reveal many glimpses, full of charm and color, of the people themselves, their manners, customs, and ways of thought. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. CLARK, T. M. (Bfi.) Reminiscences. Whiita- ker. por. 12, $1.20. These reminiscences of the learned and genial Bishop of Rhode Island are brimful of good stories. His review of men and things runs back more than sixty years. CUTTS, E. L., D.D. Augustine of Canterbury. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, (English lead ers of religion ser.) $1. The career of the first archbishop of Canter bury at the close of the sixth century, when Ethelbert was king of Kent, is narrated in effective style, his sagacious methods and re markable success are fitly described. Contains a chronological table, a pedigree of the kings of Kent, a pedigree of the Frank kings, and a table of bishops. FORBES, ARCHIBALD. Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde. Macmillan. 12, (English men of action ser.) flex. cl. , 60 c. ; bds. , 75 c. HUBBARD, ELBERT. Little journeys to the homes of good men and great. Putnam. Published monthly, 50 cts. per year. Single copies, 5 ct?. Already issued : George Eliot, Thomas Caryle,. John Ruskin, W. E. Gladstone. May, 1895] 7 HE LITERARY NEWS 149 LEE, H. BOYLE. Napoleon Bonaparte : the story of the soldier, the ruler, the prisoner of state : from the history of the past and present centuries. Warne. il/i2, 75 c. LOWE, C. Prince Bismarck. Roberts Bros, por. 12, $1.25. LUCY, H. W. The Right Honorable W. E. Gladstone : a story from life. Roberts, por. 12, $1.25. DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. BURWELL, LETITIA M. A girl s life in Virginia before the war; il. by W. A. McCullough and [ules Turcas. F. A. Stokes Co. il. 12, 1.50. The lady who wrote this sketch belongs to one of the best known and oldest families of the south, and speaks of her subject with author ity. She gives a very delightful picture of life on an old-fashioned plantation before the war, where slaves were treated with the greatest care and kindness. ERASER, MARIE. In Stevenson s Samoa. Mac- millan. i il. 12, 80 c. HOLCOMBE, CHESTER. The real Chinaman. Dodd, Mead & Co. il. 12, $2. LARNED, WALTER CRANSTON. Churches and castles of mediaeval France. Scribner. il. 3, $1.50. NORMAN, H. The peoples and politics of the far East ; travels and studies in the British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam, and Malaya. Scribner. maps, por. il. 8, $4. FICTION. I ARGLES, MRS. MARY, ["The Duchess, "pseud., noiv Mrs. Hungerford.] The O Connors of Ballinahinch. United States Book Co. 12, (Lakewood sen, no. 6.) pap., 50 c. BAGBY, ALBERT MORRIS. Miss Traumerei : a Weimar idyl. Albert Morris Bagby. 12, $1.50. Weimar, during the closing years of the life of Franz Liszt, is described with sympathy. The classes held by Liszt for the pianists of the world, in which they played before one another and received the criticism of the master, furnish most of the events. Many of the masterpieces of Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt are played by the various artists and described in detail. The hero and heroine are Americans, she a piano virtuosa, he a marvellous tenor. BARR, ROB. The face and the mask ; il. by A. Hencke. F. A. Stokes Co. 16, buckram, 75 c. Twenty-four short stories, by the author of In the midst of alarms." BRAINERD, T. H. Go forth and find. Cassell. nar. 12, (Unknown lib., no. 36.) 50 c. An .old-fashioned love-tale, laid chiefly on the seacoast of Southern California. The characters are few. A married couple, the man s friend, the woman s sister spend a glorious summer full of musical interests. The friend is compos ing a new musical poem on Tristram and Yseult. That men are made or marred by women is the leading thought. BURNHAM, CLARA LOUISE. Miss Bagg s secre tary : a West Point romance. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 16, (Riverside pap. ser., no. 67.) pap., 50 c. BURTON, J. BLOUNDELLE. The Hispaniola plate (1683-1893). Cassell Pub. Co. 12, $i. CHAMBERS, ROB. W. The king in yellow. F. Tennyson Neely. nar. 16, (Neely s prismatic lib.) 75 c. " The repairer of reputations," " The mask," " The court of the dragon," and "The yellow sign," the four opening stories, relate chiefly lo " The king in yellow," and are fantastic and gruesome. The other stories have their scene in the Quartier Latin, Paris, and are named : " The demoiselle D Ys," " The prophets para dise," "The street of the four winds," "The street of the first shell," " The street of our lady of the fields " and " Rue Barree." By the author of "In the quarter." COFFIN, C. CARLETON. Daughters of the Revo lution and their times, 1769-1776: an histori cal romance. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. por. map, il. 12, $1.50. DAVIS, R. HARDING. The Princess Aline ; il. by C. D. Gibscn. Harper. 12, $1.25. The hero is a portrait painter strangely sus ceptible to the charms of the beautiful sex, even when presented in painting or photograph. He succumbs to the fascination of a newspaper por trait of the Princess Aline, the sister of a little German duke of a smaller German Duchy, and immediately leaves America and chases around the cities of Europe in quest of his lady-love. The details of this search and the story of the woman who finally makes a lasting impression make a humorous novelette. "It is all very bright and pleasing." N. Y. Times. DEFOE, DAN. Romances and narratives ; ed. by G. A. Aitken ; il. by J. B. Yeats. In 16 v. V. I, The surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe. V. 2, The farther adventuies of Robinson Crusoe. V. 3, The serious reflec tions of Robinson Crusoe. Macmillan. 3 v. , il. por. 8, $3 ; limited ed., 3 v., $5. DOUGALL, Miss LILY. The mermaid: a love- tale. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 163.) $i ; pap., 50 c. DOYLE. A. CONAN. The mystery of Cloomber. R. F. Fenno & Co. i2 T $i ; pap., 50 c. Cloomber Hall was a lonely, uninhabited house, on a Scotch estate within sight of the Irish Sea. All at once an English officer, who has seen service in India, and has a distinguished record, moves into it, with his wife and two children. He erects a high board fence all around the estate, and shows, by many other eccentricities, that he lives in constant terror of a sudden and violent death. The story unravels the mystery. Buddhists and East Indians play a part in a vivid, strange narrative. GARDNER, G. E. A treasure found a bride won : a novel ; il. by M. Colin. \_Aho\ The swamp secret. Bonner. 12, (Ledger lib., no. 122.) $i ; pap., 50 c. The search for a buried treasure on an unin habited island of the southern seas, with the dangers and adventures connected with it, is the THE LITERARY NEWS. \_May, 1895 subject of the first story. " The swamp secret " is the story of frontier revenge, visited upon a fascinating horse thief. GERARD, DOROTHEA. An arranged marriage. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 164.) $i ; pap., 50 c. The efforts of a self-made Englishman of great wealth to get into society is the leading motive. Finding that his dearly acquired estate and his display of riches fail to catch his country neigh bors, he concludes that rank and connections may, and these he determines to obtain through his young daughter. Visiting a health resort in Southern Tyrol near the border of Italy, he meets by accident an impoverished Italian prin cess, who has an only son, an officer in the Austrian army. The old people plot to marry their young people, exchanging wealth for a title. The unexpected behavior of the principals in the arranged marriage is a fresh and unconven tional element. HATTON, Jos. The banishment of Jessop Blythe: a novel. Lippincott. 12, (Lippin- cott select novels, no. 167.) $r; pap., 50 c. HOPE, ANTHONY, \_pseud. for Anthony Hope Hawkins.] Sport royal, and other stories. Holt. il. nar. 12, (Buckram ser.) buckram, 75 c. Contents: Sport royal; A tragedy in outline; A malapropos parent; How they stopped the run; A little joke; A guardian of morality; Not a bad deal; Middleton s model; My astral body; The Nebraska loadstone; A successful rehearsal. " Perhaps in Sport royal may be found the germ of that clever romance of Mr. Anthony Hope s The prisoner of Zenda. With ma- turer powers, in the latter story the author has expanded incidents and accentuated characters. What Mr. Hope has is a Dumas way of conceiv ing things, given clearly with action, and a snap with a click to his dialogue. It s the go in Anthony Hope which is so taking." N. Y. Times. LINTON, Mrs. ELIZA LYNN. The new woman ; In haste and at leisure. The Merriam Co. 12, $1.50. LONG, T. LUTHER. Miss Cherry-Blossom of Tokyo. Lippincott. 12, $1.25. MACDONALD. G. Annals of a quiet neighbor hood. \_Ne^v ed.~\ Harper. 12, (Harper s Franklin sq. lib. , new ser., no. 759.) pap., 50 c. MOORE, FRANK FRANKFORT. They call it love. Lippincott. 12, (Lippincott s select novels, no. 168.) $i; pap., 50 c. Two English girls having spent their lives in acquiring knowledge begin to feel their lives empty of living interests. Miss Cosway is the daughter of a man who has spenthis life writing a history of the second century. After writing essays that have ranked her with the third Wrangler at Oxford she feels it her mission 10 demonstrate to the world that the higher educa tion of woman is responsible for the decay of marriage. Her friend s life is almost wrecked by the lessons she has learned in studying the laws of hered ty. An American spinster sup plies the comic elements. The book is perhaps intended as a parody on the popular novels of the day. MORRISON, ARTHUR. Tales of mean streets. Roberts. 12, $i. An intrcduction by James MacArthur to the American edition gives soixe facts relative to Arthur Morrison. His first sketch, "A street," appeared in Macmillan s Magazine in Oct. of 1891; it attracted a gocd deal of attention and was the incentive to this series of short stories and studies describing London East End life with all its miserable sin, poverty and degradation. Mr. Morrison s material was gathered as secre tary of an old Charity Trust. " Lizerunt," " Squire Napper," " Without visible means," " Three rounds," " A poor stick," are a few of the titles. MULHOLLAND, ROSA, Banshee Castle ; il. by J. H. Bacon, Scribner. 12, $1.50. NODIER, C. Trilby, the fairy of Argyle: tr. [from the French], with introduction, by Nathan Haskell Dole. ist ed. Estes & Lauriat. sq. 12, 50 c. NODIER, C. Trilby, the fairy of Argyle; from the French, by Minna Caroline Smith. Lam- son, Wolffe & Co. sq. 16, bds.. 500. TENDERED, MARY L. A pastoral played out. Cassell. 12, $i. The author of " Dust and laurels" has here imagined a heroine in strong contrast to the advanced woman of her former story. Gylda Mariold is a beautiful, healthy country girl, who in deference to her lover s theories con sents to live with him without a legal or religious ceremony. Driven by debts, this lover marries a Russian princess. Gylda in no manner blames her lover. She leads a wholly noble life and in the end again gives herself to this lover after the princess has become a theosophist and decided that Gylda will make a better wife for her remarkable husband. PRINCE, HELEN CHOATE. The story of Chris tine Rochefort. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.25. QUEIROS, EGA DE. Dragon s teeth : a novel ; from the Portuguese, by Mary J. Serrano. Houghion, Mifflin & Co. 16, (Riverside pap. ser., extra no. 67.) pap., 50 c. RHOSCOMYL, OWEN. The jewel of Ynys Galon; being a hitherto unpiinted chapter in the his tory of the sea rovers. Longmans, Green & Co. il. 12, $1.25. Seven generations before the story opens, the dying Morgan Dhu, a dreaded pirate whose stronghold was the island of Ynys Galon, off the mainland of Wales, called his twenty-one stalwart sens about him and gave them instruc tions for the guarding of the Jewel of Ynvs Galon. This jewel had been the front-piece in the turban of the Sultan of Algieis and had been brought home with other trophies, among them the favorite slave of the Sultan. The writer is supposed to have deciphered the sensational, blood-thirsty tale from two manu scripts, rescued from the flames and both badly damaged. RUSSELL, FRANCES E. A quaint spinster. Rob erts. 16, 60 c. SHELTON, W. H. A man without a memory, and other stories. Scribner. 16, $i. Contents : A man without a memory ; The May, 1895] THE LI TERAR Y NE IV S. wedding journey of Mrs. Zaintree (born Green- leaf) ; Uncle Obadiah s Uncle Billy ; The miss ing evidence in " The people vs. Dangerking " ; "The demented ones"; The horses that re sponded; "Lights out! Liz beth Rachael"; The widow of the general; The adventures of certain prisoners. SMOLLETT, TOBIAS G. Novels; il. by G. Cruik- shank; with short memoir and bibliography. V. i, Roderick Random. V. 2 and 3, Peregrine Pickle. Macmillan. 8, (Bonn s lib.) net, ea., $i. STEVENSON, ROB. L. The body-snatcher. The Merriam Co. il. sq. 24, (Merriam s violet ser. , no. 2.) 40 c. TINSEAU, LEON DE. A forgotten debt, (Dette oubliee ;) from the French, by Florence Belk- nap Gilmour. Authorized ed. Lippincott. 12, $i. " M. Leon de Tinseau, in depicting Grenoble and the de Bernar family, shows yuu what is provincial life with its dead monotony. Mile. Chantal de Monestier is a girl of a noble family, for in Savoy there is an aristocracy dating back from the remotest past. But Mademoi selle had no money, and so she was brought up in a convent. She became an honest, pious young woman, with the most fixed perceptions of what was right or wrong, and with a will of her own. " The scene shifts to America, and in his description of Western life, the author shows how vivid must have been his impressions. As Americans, we should feel highly flattered with such views, social or other, as the author takes of us." N. Y. Times. TRACY, J. P. Shenandoah : a story of Sheridan s great ride. Novelist Pub. Co. 12, (War ser., v. i, no. i.) pap., 25 c. HISTORY. DYER. T. F. THTSELTON. Strange pages from family papers. Dodd, Mead & Co. il. 12, 81.50. From the histories of the great families of Great Britain are taken the remarkable and ro mantic incidents and episode gathered together under the following headings: Fatal curses, the screaming skull; eccentric vows; strange ban quets ; mysterious rooms ; indelible blood stains; curious secrets; the dead hand; devil compacts; family death omens; weird posses sions; romance of disguise; extraordinary dis appearances ; honored hearts ; romance of wealth; lucky accidents; fatal passion. LOVE, W. DE Loss, jr. The fast and thanks giving days of New England. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. il. fac-simile, 12, $3. An historical study. The author describes the holy seasons of the church, from the time of Gregory the Great; reviews the efforts of Separatists and some Conformists to compro mise on the Feafts of Christ; Fasts and Thanks giving Days in England; and Fasts of the Exiles (in Holland). He gives an account of the Harvest Festival at Plymouth in 1621; of the Fasts and Feasts of New Netherland; the Autumn Thanksgiving Day and the Annual Spring Fast; Fasts occasioned by witchcraft, Indian and other wars, earthquakes, etc.; the Good Friday Fast in Connecticut, and the Political Fast in Massachusetts, etc., etc. MCMASTER, J. BACH. A history of the people of the United Siates trom the Revolution to the Civil War. In 6 v. V. 4. Appleton. 12, $2.50. The fourth volume opens with the repeal of the British Orders in Courcil and the close of the armistice concluded just before the surren der of Hull, and takes up the story of the second war for independence. The chapter called " The return of peace " ends the story of the war, and gives with great fulness an ac count of the treaty-making at Ghent. At this point a new era opens in our history. The war is over, the foreign complications which dis tracted the country since 1793 no longer trouble it, and the people begin to turn their attention to domestic affairs. The remainder of the vol ume therefore treats ot our economic history. "The disorders of the currency " is a chapter in our annals which has never before been told. Chapters in political reforms, the Mis souri Compromise, and the hard times of 1819 and 1820 complete the volume, which is illus trated with many diagrams and maps in outline and in color. PAINE, T. The writings of Thomas Paine, coll. and ed. by Moncure Daniel Conway. In 4 v. V. 3, 1791-1804. Putnam. 8, $2.50. Contents: Letters to the authors of Le Re pub- licain, to the Abbe Sieyes, to Onslow Cranley, to Jefferson, Dantan, George Washington and others; and essays and other documents, ^ome of the essays are : On the propriety of bringing Louis xvi. to trial ; Reasons for preserving the life of Louis Capet ; Shall Louis xvi. have res pite? Dissertation on first principles of gov ernment ; The decline and fall of the English syst m of finance ; Forgetfulness ; Agrarian justice. RAGOZIN, ZENAIDE A. The story of Vedic India, as embodied principally in the Rig- Veda. Putnam. 12, (The story of the nations ser., no 44.) il. map, 1.50 ; hf. leath., $1.75. The present volume, as originally planned, was to have included the post-Ved c or Brah- manic period, and to have borne the title of " Story of Vedic and Brahmanic India." The overwhelming mass of material made it im possible to keep to the original plan hence two works in place of one. "The Story of Brahmanic India " will follow this immediately, and will embrace the results attained by the study of the Atharva-Veda, the Brahmanas, the Upanishads, the Laws, and a synopsis at least of the great epics. Contains a list (4 pages) of works consulted. RUSSELL, W. HOWARD. The great war with Russia ; the invasion of the Crimea : a per sonal retrospect of the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, and of the winter of 1854-55, etc. Routledge. 12, $2. WIRGMAN, A. THFO. The history of the Eng lish chutch and people in South Africa. Long mans, Green & Co. 12, $1.25. ZIEBER, EUGENE. Heraldry in America. L p- pincott. 4, $10 ; full tky. mor., $15. THE LITERACY NEWS. 1895 HUMOR AND SATIRE. BANGS, J. KENDRICK. The idiot. Harper, il. 1 6 $i. The young man who enlivened Mrs. Smithers boarding-house breakfast-table with his sallies of wit and humor in "Coffee and repartee," and called by his friends the " idiot," is again the centre of interest. He discusses a wide range of topics in the pres ent volume, ranging from the superiority of canal-boats over boarding-houses to the poetry of Swinburne, and from the undesirability of actors as boarders to journalism as a fine art and architecture as a system of charity. Hap pily, The Idiot has now taken to himself a wife, and hereafter he will not be permitted to do all the talking." N. Y. Times. LITERATURE, MISCELLANEOUS AND COL LECTED WORKS. BOYESEN, HJALMAR HjORTH. Essays on Scan dinavian literature. Scribner. 12, $1.50. Seven essays ; the subjects are : Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Alexander Kielland. Jonas Lie, Hans Christian And rsen, Contemporary Danish lit erature, Georg Brandes and Esaias Tegner. GURTEEN, S. HUMPHREYS. The Arthurian epic, a comparative study of the Cambrian, Breton, and Anglo-Norman versions of the story, and Tennyson s " Idylls of the king." Putnam. 12, $2. HEPWORTH, G. H. Brown studies ; or, camp- fires and morals. Button, il. 12, $1.25. KERSEY, J. A. Ethics of literature. Marion, Ind., published by the author, J. A. Kersey. Bowen-Merrill Co. 8, $2. A frank and unconventional estimate of some of the great writers of the world in religion, philosophy, politics, poetry, history, etc. The author believes if there was more independence of thought and judgment, many writers who are now world-famous as great geniuses would sink into obscurity. He applies his searching meth ods of criticism to such works as Butler s " Anal ogy," Drummond s " Natural law in the spirit ual world," " Paradise lost," Pope s " Essay en man," Carlyle s writings, Emerson s writings, Bryant s poems, " Faust," and many others. MANLEY, LOUISE. Southern literature, from 1579-1895 ; a comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms, for the use of schools and the general reader ; cont. an ap pendix with a full list of southern authors. Johnson Pub. Co. il. 12, $1.50. Arranged in chronological order, beginning with Captain John Smith, the first writer of Vir ginia, and ending with Madison Cawein. NORDAU, MAX. Degeneration; tr. from the 2d ed. of the German work. Appleton. 8, $3-50. SYMONDS, J. ADDINGTON. Giovanni Boccaccio as man and author. Scribner. 8, $2. POETRY. BENSON, ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER. Lyrics. Mac- millan. 8, $1.75. COUCH, ARTHUR T. QUILLER, [" Q," pseud. ] comp. The golden pomp: a procession of English lyrics from Surrey to Shirley. Lip- pincott. 12, $2. These 361 lyrics represent Sir Rob. Ayton, T. Champion, W. Drummond of Hawthornden, Herrick, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, and other less known Elizabethan poets. They are not arranged " in their birthday order," as the ccm- piler s aim has been " not to instruct but merely to please." Following this rule, he has taken first, only the best lyrics of the period, and second arranged this garland, asfar as possible, "so that each flower should do its best by its neighbors, either as a foil or by reflection of its color in thought and style." Notes, about 40 pages. Index of first lines. Index of writers. CUNNINGHAM, MARTHA. The ballad of la jeu- nesse doree, and other verses; il. by A. Palmer Cooper. Gushing & Co. sq. 12, $1.50. DE TABLEY, J. BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN [Baron De Tabley.] Poems, dramatic and lyrical, id ser. Macmillan. S, $2. MILLER, CINCINNATUS HINER, [" Joaquin Mil ler,"] Motherwell, W., and Key, Francis Scott. Drei iibersetzungen aus dem Engli- schen von E. Leyh. Gushing & Co. 16, pap., 25 c. Translations into German of Joaquin Miller s " Arizonian," W. Motherwell s " Jeanie Morri son," and Francis Scott Key s Star Spangled Banner." MILTON, J. L Allegro, II Penseroso, and other poems ; with a biographical sketch, introd., an essay on the reading of Milton, and notes; includes " Lycidas " and " Comus " all of Milton that is required for admission to any American college. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 16, (Riverside lit. ser., no. 72.) pap., net, 15 c. TENNYSON, ALFRED (Lord.} Enoch Arden, and other poems; with a biographical sketch and notes. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 16, (River side lit. ser. no. 73.) pap., net, 15 c. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. BILLINGS, J. S , M.D., 0m/HuRD, H. M., M.D. Suggestions to hospital and asylum visitors ; with an introd. by S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. Lippincott. 16, 50 c. For the use of laymen engaged in managing or inspecting charitable institutions. Meant to train them in observation in questions of cook ing, dietetics, ventilation, medical and surgical cleanliness, etc. BROOKS, NOAH. How the republic is governed. Scribner. 16, 75 c. Describes the various branches of the national and state governments in chapters entitled : The federal constitution ; Government of the U. S.; Of the Congress ; The executive depart ment of government ; The judiciary ; National and state rights ; Naturalization ; Presidential electors; The territories ; Treason ; Tariffs and custcm-houses ; The Indians ; Public lands ; Sub-treasuries, mints, etc.; Patents and copy rights ; Pensions and the right of suffrage. Contains also the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the U. S. May, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. BROOKS, NOAH. Short studies in party politics. Scribner. por. il. 12, $1.25. Contents: Some first things in American poli tics; The passing of the Whigs ; When slavery went out of politics ; The party platforms of sixty years. Illustrated with 27 portraits of the presidents and other American statesmen. FOOTE, ALLEN RIPLEY. A sound currency and banking system, how it may be secured. Putnam. 12, (Questions of ihe day, no. 82.) 75 c. "A properly appointed monetary commission can devise a sound currency and banking sys tem that will remove the cause of financial panics," says the author in his preface. To assist in securing the appointment of such a commission and as a help to a right understand ing of the importance, aim and direction of the work it should do, the papers contained in this book were written. Their titles are : A plea for a sound currency and banking system ; How shall a sound currency and banking system be established?; Is it a safe time to repeal the national tax on state bank currency?; The United States Treasury must cease doing a banking business ; Record of the United States Treasury as a bank issue controlled by political exigencies ; Gold redemption by the United States Treasury. GREENE, F. D. The Armenian crisis in Tur key; the massacre of 1894, its antecedents and significance, with a consideration of some of the factors which enter into the solution of this phase of the Eastern question; with in- trod. by the Rev. Josiah Strong. Putnam, maps, por. il. 12, $i; pap., 60 c. HULL-HOUSE maps and papers: a presentation of nationalities and wages in a congested dis trict of Chicago ; with comments and essays on problems growing out of the social condi tions, by residents of Hull-House, a social settlement, at 335 South Halsted St., Chicago, 111. Crowell. maps, diagrams, il. 8, (Cro- well s lib. of economics and politics, v. 5.) $2.50 ; Special ed., with mounted maps, $3.50. Contents: Prefatory note, by Jane Addams; No. r, Map notes and comments, by Agnes Sin clair Holbrook; No. 2, The sweating system, by Florence Kelley; No. 3, Wage-earning children, by Florence Kelley and Alzina P. Stevens; No. 4, Receipts and expenditures of cloakmakers in Chicago, by Isabel Eaton; No. 5, The Chicago Ghetto, by C. Zeublin; No. 6, The Bohemian people in Chicago, by Josefa Humpal Zeman; No. 7, Remarks upon the Ita ! ian colony in Chi cago, by Alessandro Mastro-Valerio; No. 8, The Cook County charities, by Julia C. Lathrop; No. 9, Art and labor, by Ellen Gates Starr; No. 10, The settlement as a factor in the labor move ment, by Jane Addams; Appendix, Hull-House, a social settlement. KELLY, EDMOND. Evolution and efforts, and their relation to religion and politics. Apple- ton. 12, $1.25. The author, who has been prominent in the movement for municipal reform in New York, aims to show in this work that the evolution of to-day is differentiated from the evolution which preceded the advent of man, by the factor of conscious effort ; that man, by virtue of his faculty of conscious effort, is no longer the product of evolution but the master of it; that the chief ally of this faculty is religion, and its mcst fruitful though as jet neglected field is politics; that an alliance between religion ard politics is essen tial to progress in thestiuggle of humanity with evil and with pain; and that this alliance n.ust practise the gospel of effort and not that of laissez-faire. KIDD, B. Social evolution. A T ew cd., with anew preface. Macmillan. 12, pap., 25 c. VARIGNY, C. DE. The women of the United States; from the French by Arabella Ward. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.25. The results of a Fret chman s recent observa tion of the American woman. Papers that orig inally appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes. He opens his study with reflections upcn woman s part at the beginning of American colonization, the different elements among the colonists, the Puritans and cavaliers, the Amer ican women at the commencement of the nine teenth century, etc. Then he notes the "over- masteringinfluence of American women," dilates upon their rights and privileges, flotations, love and marriage; The legislation lor the protection of women and its abuse; Breach of promise cases, American married women and Amer can morals; Marriage and divoice in the United States; Money in American society, etc. SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. POLE, W. The evolution of whist: a study of the progressive changes which the game has passed through from its origin to the present time. Longmans, Green & Co. 12, $1.50. The author, an authority on the subject, di vides his book into four parts. Pt. r, The primitive era, 1500 to 1730, embraces the early history of whist and an account of the primi tive game. Pt. 2 is, The eia of Hoyle, 1730 to 1860. Pt. 3 discusses The philosophical game, from 1860 onwards. Pt. 4 is devoted to latter- day improvements and includes four pages on " American whist literature." Appendices con tain some model whist hands of early date, the Constitution of the American Whis t League, the American laws of whist, etc. WILLARD, FRANCES ELIZ. A wheel within a wheel: how I learned to ride the bicycle; with some reflections by the way. Revell. pors. 16, 50 c. THEOLOGY. RELIGION AND SPECULATION. BEACH, D. NELSON. How we rose. Roberts. 16, 60 c. An imaginary picture of life after death; two women who have just died tell of the mysteries that are made plain to them. BEAT-TIE, Rev. FRANCIS R. Radical criticism: an exposition and examination of the radical critical theory concerning the literature and religious system of the Old Testament scrip tures; introd. by W. W. Moore, D.D. Revell. 12, $1.50. BRIGGS, C. A., D.D. The Messiah of the apostles. Scribner. 8, $3, The third of a series of volumes begun with " Messianic prophecy " in 1886, and continued in " The messiah of the gospels" in 1894. It THE LITERARY NEWS. \_May, 1895 may be considered as the author s interpreta tion of the New Testament as regards the es sential doctrines of Christianity. It considers the messianic idea of the Jews in the first Chris tian century, the messianic conception of the primitive Jewish Christians, and the evolution of the messianic doctrine of Paul. A fresh study is given of the Book of Revelation, the whole concluding with a summary in syste matic presentation of the christology of the apostles. GOD S light as it came tome. Roberts. 16, $i. The writer narrates her experience in the hope " that it may possibly lead others to some understanding of the reason and necessity of all the suffering and turbulence, both physical and mental, that hold and overpower humanity to day." HARNACK, ADOLF, D.D. Monasticism : its ideals and its history ; tr. by Rev. C. R. Gil- lett, with a preface by Arthur C. Giffert, D ,D. Christian Literature Co. 12, 50 c. REED, Rev. J. SANDERS. The bishop s blue book. Pott. 12, $i. REED, Rev. J. SANDERS. The crozier and the keys; a companion volume to "The bishop s blue book." Pott. 12, $1.50. ROMANES, G. J. Thoughts on religion; ed. by C. Gore. Open Court Pub. Co. 12, $1.25. Some unfinished notes on religion and two un published essavs on " The influence of science upon religion," written by Romanes in 1889. The notes were handed, at the request of the late scientist, to his friend Mr. C. Gore, the Canon of Westminster, a representative of ec clesiastical dogmatism. Mr. Gore derided to publish these notes with his own editorial com ments and the unpublished essays in the present form, because they all showed an increasing tendency towards belief, on the part of Prof. Romanes, and a desire to overcome the objec tions made by science. SHELDON, H. C. History of the Christian church. Crowell. 5 v., 8, per set, $10. SHIELDS, C. WOODRUFF. The united church of the United States. Scribner. 8, $2.50. A collection of essays. The first, "The united churches of the United States," appeared in the Century Magazine of 1885 The others are entitled : Denominational views of church unity; The four articles of church unity; De nominational views of the quadrilateral; The quadrilateral standard among the denomina tions; The historic episcopate and the three church polities; The historic Presbyterate and the historic Episcopate; The historic liturgy and the historic churches; The sociological question of church unity. The author is a professor in Princeton University. TALMUD ( Thi). Talmudic sayings: selected and arr. under appropriate heads, by Rev. H. Cohen. The Bloch Pub. and Print. Co. 12, ?o c.; bds., 35 c. About one hundred maxims, proverb 5 ; and sayings from the Talmud, under topical head ings. THOMSON, W. H., M.D. The parables and their home: the parables by the lake. Har per, i il. 12, $1.25, " In his book on The parables by the lake, recently published by Harper & Brothers, Dr. W. H. Thomson has shown himself not only thoroughly familiar with the geography, man ners and customs of the Holy Land, but also a man of deep religious conviction, and clear, logical mind. He holds the degrees of M.D. and LL.D. and is a professor in the University Medical College, New York. His childhood was spent in Palestine, his lather, Rev. William McClure Thomson, D.D., having been a mis sionary there for forty-five years. " The book includes sections on the parables of the sower, the seed growing secretly, the tares, the draw net, the mustard seed, the leaven, the hid treasure, the pearl and the householder s treasure. The style throughout is concise and pure in diction, and the reader s attention is held from beginning to end." Mail and Express. Books for ll)e Doling. ALDEN, Mrs. ISABELLA. M., [" Pansy," pseud.] Only ten cents. Lothiop Pub. Co. il. 12, (Pctusy bocks.) $1.50. Mrs. Beldon, an extremely poor woman, who wished to gratify her little daughter, expended ten cents in purchasing a cardboaid motto, " Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God," which is finally worked in cross-stitch and sent to a Southern mission school for the Christmas tree. This humble gift eventually falls into the hands of a poor child, and becomes a means of effecting the wonderful reforms de scribed. CASTLEMON, HARRY, [psettd. for C. A. Fosdick.] Elam Storm the wolfer; or. the lost nugget. Porter & Coates. il. 12, (Lucky Tom ser.) $1.25. An army paymaster and a certain Elam Storm, having started with three equipped government wagons for Grayson, are attacked on the route by highwaymen; when scouts are sent to succor the men of the expedition the only survivor ap parently is Elam Storm, junior, a boy of fifteen. This lad insistently maintains that his father had in his possession a nugget of gold which he de clares his intention of tracing. The story gives his adventures as a wolfer and oiher experiences which are the result of his wonderful quest. GREEN, EVELYN EVERETT. Eustace March- mont: a friend of the people. A. I. Bradley & Co. il. 12, $1.25. Eustace Marchmont. a young Englishman, who had acquired socialistic views through a residence in Germany, comes to Penarvnn, Wales, where he soon has a large following among the laboring classes ready for revolt. The story tells of the political revolution which is the result of his advent, and gives the details of his romantic love-story. The time is about 1835. MATHEWS, MARGARET HARRIET. Dame Prism: a story for girls; il. by Eliz. S. Tucker. F. A. Stokes Co. 12, $1.50. RICE, KATHARINE MCDOWELL. Stories for all the year, for boys and girls; il. by W. St. Tohn Harper. F. A. Stokes Co. il.pl. 12* it. 50. May, 1895], THE LITERARY NEWS. RECENT FRENCH AND GERMAN BOOKS. Allier, R. La philosophic d Ernest Renan. Rib. de Phil, contemp Art Roe, Sous L Etendard Barante, Baron de. Souvenirs. Vol.5 Bergeret et Fragonard. Journal inddit d un voy age en Italic, 1773-74. 8 Bourget, Paul. Outre Mer : Notes sur 1 Ame- rique. 2 vols Breton, J. Notes d un eUudiant Fran9ais en Alle- magne Broglie, Due de. La paix d Aix-La-Chapelle Bruiiet, L. La France & Madagascar, 1815-1895.. Chantelauze, R. Louis xvn : son enfance, sa prison, et sa mort Clemenceau, G. La Mele"e sociale D Avenel. 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Full of breathless interest." Times. NEW EDITION. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON S POPULAR WORKS. Five volumes. Uniform in size and binding. i6mo, cloth, in box, $5.00. Travels with a Donkey In the Cevennes. An Inland The Silverado Squatters. Treasure Island. AT ALL BOOKSTORES. Voyage. Prince Otto. ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON. The Literary News 3n f#tnfer gou mag reabe t $em, aJ> tgnem, fij> f $e fireside ; anb m summer, ab umBram, unber some 60abte free anb f0erettf0 pass ataj> f^ febtous ^otx>res. VOL. XVI. JUNE, 1895. No. 6. Lotos-Time in Japan. WE have from Charles Scribner s Sons an every-day experiences he would probably have entertaining addition to the long list of recent in Japan. At the present time interest in the books on Japan. This volume, entitled "Lotos- people and civilization of Japan is almost uni- niij From Finck is-Tinu- in .T:ipa Copyright, 1895, by Charles S< Time in Japan," by Henry T. Finck, the well- versal, yet the first European who described it known traveller and musical critic, is designed lived only two centuries ago, and from that to present a few realistic and unbiased sketches time until about forty years ago it remained from life and nature, and to exhibit to the hermetically sealed to the rest of the world, reader and possible tourist specimens of the Japan still preserves many mediaeval customs, 162 THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1895 the contrast and clash of which with the im ported elements of our Occidental civilization produce a multitude of picturesque phenomena that will continue to fascinate and tempt authors and artists for many years to come. This work appears to us a scholarly and brief presentation of the principal points in which Japanese civili zation is superior to our own. The author be lieves that with us there is too marked a ten dency to estimate Japanese civilization from a purely material and military point of view. On the other hand, there can be no doubt that this gifted people have as much to teach us in many things as we have to offer them. Japanese civil ization, it is claimed, is based on altruism; ours on egotism. Here are some of the elements in their civilization in the possession of which Mr. Finck affirms they manifest their superiority over all the world: In cleanliness and in sin cere appreciation of art and nature, in manners and social culture, contempt for the display of wealth, kindness to animals, patriotism, the behavior of crowds and criminals, the attitude of parents and children towards one another and in the rational enjoyment of life, Mr. Finck says that the Japanese are superior to all other nations. The volume is not devoted to philosophical reflections and economic and From Wells " Time Machine." Copyright, 1895, by Henry Holt & Co. THE WHITE SPHINX. ethical comparisons. The greater portion of it is descriptive of those characteristics of the country with which only the patient and leisure ly traveller comes into contact. Most interest ing accounts are given of Yokohama, its clubs, young beggars, Oriental Bowery life, its bund and bluff and its women. This delightful chat runs through all the really instructive chapters of the entertaining work, and makes it a body of narrative worthy of wide and careful read ing. The book is profusely illustrated with clear and sympathetic drawings. (Scribner. $1.75. ) Ph ila delph ia Press . The Time Machine. THE latest addition to the Buckram series is " The Time Machine, an Invention," a whimsi cal fantasy, by H. S. Wells. It is a brightly written little book, gruesome at times, flippant now and again, but unflagging in interest. One cannot lay it down unfinished! The Man who Made the Time Machine was a scientist and inventor. He had a theory, which he argued with much subtlety, that time is a spatial dimension. Clearly, he argued, any real body must have extension in four directions; it must have length, breadth, thickness, and duration. There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of space, except that one s consciousness moves along it. Acting on this theory, the Time Traveller de vised a machine on which he could travel through time as freely as a rifle-ball travels through space. Then he set out on his journey. On his return he told what things had befallen him, and his adventures had been strange be yond belief. He had started at full speed through a twinkling succession of darkness and light; in intermittent darkness he saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full; the jerking sun became a streak of fire as he sped along the "fourth dimension "- Time. He paused in a far future of the Golden Age. It was the year 802701 A.D. He was in a land of brilliant foliage and strange flowers, but a land of huge ruins and unused palaces. Little people out of futurity gathered about him. They were slight creatures, perhaps four feet high, clad in tunics and sandals. They were beautiful, graceful, indescribably frail. Their intelligence was that of five-year-old chil dren. Humanity upon the wane! A brilliant little book, but no synopsis can give an idea of the graphic and peculiar pow er of the story. Paradoxical, of course, but the paradox is clever and worked out neatly. You can t afford to miss " The Time Machine." (Holt. 75 c.) N. Y. Commercial Advertiser June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 163 The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wicken- ham. THE Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wicken- ham " is the oddly named novel which "John Oliver Hobbes " has put forth, and all the odder because his lordship has very little to do with the story. It may have been the vengeance of the gods which made Warre marry a woman with a his tory, the hor rible reality of which came upon him with stunning force only a few minutes too late, but it looks more like the folly of one of the mortals and the vicious- n e ss of an other. Anne is a startling co nception and Warre is an admirably drawn study. Therearebut few of the many who produce sket ches \vho are capable of sustained ef fort, but this strangely powerful story never flags. It has a tragicbeau- ty which nev er descends to the level of melodrama, it is bright with the incisive touches and cynical wit which the read ing public has already learned to attach to this author s work, and it is as far removed from the commonplace as can be desired. (Appleton. 1.50.) Public Opinion. From "The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenlmm.". .Copyright, 1895, by D. Appleton & Co. JOHN OLIVER HOBBES (MRS. CRAIGIE). Fidelis. Ax abnormally ugly child forms the centre of interest in Miss Ada Cambridge s striking story of "Fidelis." His monkey face and squat figure make him the butt of his play fellows and the abomination of his mother, and it is not until he has realized that in brain power he is as far in advance of his fellows as he is behind them in appearance that life be gins to be tolerable for him. The period of his early years, in which he is a lonely and ill-used brat, is fully and tellingly described, and forms the most satisfactory portion of the story. For when Caliban has recognized his own genius, one naturally expects him to live up to the dis covery. Instead of doing so, his courage fails at a critical moment, and hishesitation costs him the loss of the sweetest joys of life for many a wea ry year. Out of the school of adversity in which he has been reared theau- thor brings him forth a man of rare tenderness of heart. In the cause of the oppress ed and suf fering he is chivalrous to the point of Quixotism. The absence of bitterness in his soul against a world that in his early years treated him so churl ishly is so re in a r k a ble, under the cir cumstances, that one can only conclude that the author has discovered something analogous to it in some character that has served as Adam s prototype. As a rule the public has not appre ciated in the manner deserved the finished work Ada Cambridge has put into her stories. She has written much more than any author should who wishes to remain always upon the highest level of the ability with which he has been gifted, but she has produced nothing that is not worthy to be read. She has a sunny way of looking at life and her books do good. , Hidden among the incidents of the plot are many sug gestive thoughts upon English rule in foreign lands. (Appleton. pap.,5oc.) London Liter- arv World. THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1895 From KowsellV "A Friend of the People." Copyright IS Jo, by F. A. Stokes Co. CITIZEN ROBESPIERRE. Outre Mer. " OUTRE MER " gives the impression of being written too soon, before the "shocks" and "sensations" had resolved themselves into more definite and permanent shape. It is, in deed, a series of notes and sketches with con clusions come to and judgments formed that one cannot always agree with. But it is a sin gularly interesting work in that it comes from a trained and practised observer, who sees and notes things which most of us, with untrained minds, merely glance at and straightway forget. Americans rebel at being pictured as M. Bour- get pictures them, but it is well to remember that as they appear, so they are to him and in a less degree to the average foreigner. It must be allowed, on the other hand, that the French observer is at times under the influence of a theory, formed too easily, and to which, un consciously, he seeks to adapt some part of what he notes. Yet there is deep truth in Bourget s description of much that marks American life and character, the crudity in certain matters, the love of display, the garish- ness, the feverishness, the restlessness. These traits it is unpleasant to be reminded of, espe cially by a master in the art of torturing analysis. Of the translation it can be said that it is above the average and reads easily, only occasionally calling up a smile or causing a knitting of the brows. In these days of mis representations of foreign tongues this is much to be thankful for. (Scribner. 1.75.) The Nation. The Friend of the People. Tins is a story of mistaken identity. The plot is laid in Paris at the time of the French Revolution, and the author describes many stirring scenes peculiar to the reign and down fall of Louis xvi. Gervais Bouchard puts on a priest s garb, and, by deceiving his dying mother, receives her confession. Gervais thus learns that his father was not the peasant Bouchard, but the Marquis de Ravignac. Gervais also finds later on that he is the very image of the young Marquis de Ravignac, who has succeeded to the family title and estates. Gervais, having enjoyed his own way, puts the Marquis out of the way and quietly takes possession of everything that belonged to him. The Marquis, on the day he is married atVersail- les to a young ward of Queen Marie Antoinette, is summoned to Soissons to quell a riot. Ger vais takes care that the Marquis does not get back to Paris. The Marquis falls a victim to the plots against him, and is carried away and locked up. Gervais steps into the Marquis s shoes, and every one takes him to be the real Marquis, except the young Marquise. She detects the sham at once, and hides herself away. The Queen, who had been very fond of the real Marquis, receives Gervais at the Court, and though he talks in a very coarse way, she does not discover the imposition. Gervais, having been given his own way in everything, a large proportion of the story is required to explain how the genuine Marquis de Ravignac regains his name and his wife. Gervais, besides playing the role of Marquis, also writes for one of the papers of the people. He ingratiates himself in the favor of Robes pierre by renouncing his stolen title and assum ing the name of Citizen Crassus. The real Marquis de Ravignac escapes in the meanwhile, and returns to Paris, where he is again thrown into prison. Here he meets his wife, who has been imprisoned through the intrigues of Gervais. The Marquis is con demned to die, because he fails to give a satis factory account of himself. Just as Gervais becomes confident that he is safe from discovery, the story of the fraud reaches Robespierre, who frees the Marquis and his wife. Gervais is saved from the guillotine by his mistress, who stabs him to death. (Stokes. 1.50.) N. Y. Times. June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 165 Richard Coeur de Lion and Robin Hood. THEY had ridden together for some distance now to place his back against an oak, and when the quick eye of the jester caught sight defend himself with his sword. The felon of some men in armor concealed in a brake not far from where they were. Almost immediately after three arrows were discharged from the suspected spot, one of which glanced off the visor of the Black Knight. " Let us close with them said the knight, and he rode straight to the thicket. He was met by six or seven men-at-arms, who ran against him with their lances at full career. Three of the weapons struck against him, and splintered with as little effect as if they had been driven against a tower of steel. The attacking party then drew their swords and assailed him on every side. But many as they were to one they had met their match; and a man reeled and fell at every blow delivered by the Black Knight. His oppo nents, desperate as they were, now bore back from his deadly blows, and it seemed as if the terror of his single strength was about to gain the battle against such odds when a knight in blue armor, who had kept himself behind the other assailants, spurr ed forward with his lance, and taking aim, not at the rider but at the steed, wounded the noble animal mor tally. " That was a felon stroke!" exclaimed the Black Knight, as the horse fell to the earth, bearing his rider along with him. "Shame on ye, false cowards! " exclaimed he in the blue harness ; " Do ye fly from the empty blast of a horn blown by a jester ? " Animated by his words, they attacked the Black Knight anew, From Dowden s " Tales from Scott." knight, who had taken another spear, watch ing the moment when his formidable antago nist was most closely pressed, galloped against him in hopes to nail him with his lance against the tree; but Wamba, springing forward in good time, checked the fatal career of the Blue Knight, by ham-stringing his horse with a stroke of his sword; and horse and man went heavily to the ground. Almost immediatelv after, a band of veomen, Roberts Brothers. whose best refuge was THE FLIGHT FROM TORQUILSTONE CASTLE. i66 TffE LITERARY NEWS. \June, 1895 Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers. GARDEN OF OETHSEMANE. headed by Locksley, broke forth from the glade, who, joining manfully in the fray, soon disposed of the ruffians, all of whom lay on the spot dead, or mortally wounded. The visor of the Blue Knight, who lay under his wounded steed, was now opened, and the features of Waldemar Fitzurse were disclosed. "Stand back, my masters," said the Black Knight to those about him ; " I would speak with this man alone. And now, Waldemar Fitzurse, say me the truth ; confess who set thee on this traitorous deed." " Richard," answered the fallen knight, " it was thy father s son." Richard s eyes sparkled with indignation, but his better nature overcame it. " Take thy life unasked," he said; "but, on this condition, that in three days thou shalt leave England, and that thou wilt never mention the name of John of Anjou as connected with thy felony." Then, turning to where the yeomen stood apart, he said, " Let this knight have a steed, Locks- ley, and let him depart unharmed. I hou bearest an English heart, and must needs obey me. I am Richard of England ! " At these words the yeomen kneeled down be fore him, tendering their allegiance, while they implored pardon for their offences. " Rise, my friends," said Richard. "Your misdemeanors have been atoned by the loyal services you rendered my distressed subjects before the walls of Torquilstone, and the rescue you have this day afforded your sovereign. Arise, my liegemen, and be good subjects in future. And thou, brave Locksley " " Call me no longer Locksley, my liege," said the outlaw ; " I am Robin Hood, of Sherwood Forest." (Roberts.) From Sullivan s "Tales from Scott. 1 Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem. THE City of Jerusalem will become better understood and more interesting to all who read this carefully written book by Mr. Hutton. He has done for Jerusalem what he had already accomplished for the relatively modern cities of London and Edinburgh in his " Literary Land marks of London " and " Literary Landmarks of Edinburgh." The present task has met with an unpretentious and reverential treat ment. Mr. Hutton had a definite object in view. He found, he says, when visiting Jerusalem, that there was no book from which visitors could get conveniently such information as they desired to have at hand in going about the city. Mr. Hutton, therefore, decided to prepare a little book that could be carried about in the pocket to meet this need. He has not compiled a guide-book, but he has composed a literary work that gives information in an effec tive manner. The book does not contain wearisome dis cussions as to the correctness of the traditions that ascribe certain events to certain localities. It simply describes the points of interest in and about Jerusalem in a style free from any touch of pedantry. Mr. Hutton finds Jerusalem a mountain city, around the outside of whose walls one can walk in an hour. Its houses are mean and squalid ; its streets are dirty and narrow; com merce is dead; everything is solemn and severe; even the children do not play. Yet these very conditions, in the light of its literature, make the city impressive. At the wailing wall of the Jews, accepted as a part of the actual wall of the temple, Mr. Hutton saw the Jews every day bewailing the desolation that has come on June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 167 the city, and adding to their lamentations prayers for its restoration to power. From the wailing wall he follows along the ways that Jesus must have gone, and visits the Mount of Olives, where the olive trees grow as of old, and declares that to him Jerusalem is most fascinating of all cities. He found not far away the sheep pastures, and saw, by chance, a shepherd bearing a lamb in his arms. By many tender touches, Mr. Hutton, in picturing the churches, tombs and streets of Jerusalem, the town of Bethlehem, and other historical places near by, brings constantly before the mind the impressive figure of Jesus Himself. The literary landmarks of the Old Testament also have their fair share of attention. The fascination of Jerusalem, Mr. Hutton de clares, he was unable to dispel by any rationalis tic reasoning. In speaking of the Via Dolorosa, he says : " It maybe all tradition and all false, but to a man brought up upon the teachings of the New Testament, as accepted by a good father and a good mother, it was awfully real. And I believed it all." Full-page illustrations made by Frank V. Du Mond, who visited Jerusalem last year to ob tain them, add greatly to the value of the book. (Harper. 75 c.) Julian the Apostate. ONE of the most admirable of the volumes included in the Heroes of the Nations series is entitled "Julian, Philosopher and Emperor," by Alice Gardner, lecturer and associate of Newnham College, Cambridge. To the author was entrusted a most difficult subject, and but few English scholars could have treated it with more thoroughness, skill and discrimination. She has given us in the space at her command a distinct and vivid conception of the complex personality of the imperial reactionist against Christianity, and in some remarkable chapters she has expounded the nature of his philo sophical and theological views which seem to have been a compound of neoplatonism and mithraicism. She has, moreover, enabled the reader to reconstruct, in imagination, the envi ronment in which Julian and his contempora ries lived, their personal appearance and dress, the most striking places where they dwelt, and the scenes in which they habitually moved. The book contains many illustrations, largely derived from contemporary art, including es pecially the ivory diptychs, portraits, and coins of the period. The Heroes of the Nations series now number thirteen volumes, covering some of the formative periods of the world s history and proving conclusively that when the time is ripe, the right man will enevitably appear. (Putnam. $1.50; hf. mor., $1.75.) The Sun. Handbook of Birds. A POPULAR but authoritative book on birds has been needed for so long that a warm wel come awaits the " Handbook of Birds of East ern North America," by Frank M. Chapman, of the American Museum of Ornithology. This book, which is most profusely illustrated with pictures from nature, contains keys to the species and descriptions of the plumage, nests, etc., of all birds found east of the Mississippi, and most of those in the extreme West. The author s position has enabled him to learn the special requirements of amateurs and beginners, and the problem of identification, either in the field or study, is reduced to its simplest form. Advance sheets of the book have been read by Prof. Allen, editor of r fhe Auk, Olive Thorne Miller, Bradford Torrey, and other ornitholo gists, who have welcomed and recommended the work to all amateurs and students. The pub lishers issue a pocket as well as a library edition. (Appleton. $3; $3.50.) Brooklyn Times. From Gardner s " Julian " Copyright, iiam s Sons. by G. P. Put- ) i68 THE LITERARY NEWS. 1895 Letters of Celia Thaxter. introduction notes that no attempt has been "LETTERS of Celia Thaxter," edited by her previously made to publish a collection of Cole- friends Annie Fields and Rose Lamb, is one of ridge s letters, mentions the works in which a the most charming illustrations of character few have appeared, and gives particulars as to that a reader could wish for. It makes every the abundance of those still unprinted. " A sympathetic person long to have known the wri- complete edition," he says, "must await the ter of the letters, and that is even more the real coming of the milder day, a renewed long- art of letter-writ ing than Sam Wel- ler s dictum that the true art is to excite a wish for more of the same kind. We have that feeling also in reading Mrs. Thaxter s letters, and so delightful are these glimpses of a lovely nature that perhaps in time her editors may give us a sec ond series. The simplicity, suffering on the part of the old enemy, the lit- e r a r y public. " We do not appre hend the early ad vent of any such infliction, for such it would be if the epistles here given are the best of all. They are not des titute of occasion al "profound touches of the human heart," as the editor says, but he also frank ly admits that Coleridge as a let ter-writer had no style, writing to his friends as if he were talking to them, and letting his periods take care of them- selves. . . . For one who seriously studies pie in New England these among other con- Coleridge as a character, however, these vol- siderations make this a really notable book, umes are a valuable supplement to Mr. James with a meaning and a flavor all its own. Dykes Campbell s admirable biography. The (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.) Philadelphia letters are arranged chronologically (the editor earn- estness, and wholesome vitali ty of Celia Thax ter, the very strik- i n g presentment she makes of the Isles of Shoal, where she lived so long, her in timate relations with the most distinguished peo- "Letters of Celia Thaxter. Copyright, 1895, by Houghton, Mifflin MRS. THAXTER AT HER PAINTING-TABLE (lS()2). Evening Telegraph. Coleridge s Letters. rarely appearing save in footnotes), with the personal reference rather than with a view to showing the development of his literary genius. It is the study of the abnormal that EXTERNALLY these two volumes of Cole- they facilitate, of "a great tomorroiucr" as ridge s letters are very attractive, and if, as one Coleridge said of De Quincey and himself naturally supposes, they have been manufac- almost incapable of doing anything to- tured here in America for the English market day, his will paralyzed by the opium habit as well as our own there is no reason to fear of many years standing, his mental grasp an unfavorable opinion of their mechanical enfeebled, and the splendid promise of his merits. In all respects they do great credit to glorious youth but slightly fulfilled. The the Riverside Press. For the series of por- "wretched vice" was tempered by the lov- traits of the Coleridges and their friends, ing care of James Gillman and his wife in especially those of the poet himself and that child of genius, Hartley Coleridge, all readers of the "Ancient Mariner" will be grateful. the Highgate home, whose "patience must have been inexhaustible, their loyalty unim peachable, their love indestructible." The vol umes will doubtless occupy a secure place on Mr. Ernest Coleridge has performed his edi- the biographic shelf. (Houghton, Mifflin & torial duties with industry and modesty. His Co. 2v.,$6.) The Boston Literary World. June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 1 69 Russian Rambles. IT is a useful as well as attractive book which Isabelle F. Hapgood has given us under the name of "Russian Rambles." The author s purpose is to describe the common incidents of every-day life in Russia which, in this country, are either not known at all, or grotesquely misunderstood. It is true enough that people frequently go to Russia with the deliberate ex pectation and intention of seeing queer things. Their general idea seems to be that they will find in the Czar s[dominions the Russia of Ivan the Terrible. As the reality is decidedly tame in comparison, they feel bound to supply the missing spice. The author tells us that she was informed that she must abuse Russia if she wished to be popular in the United States. That is a mistake, and we are glad that she did not allow herself to be influenced by this absurd admonition. There is no European people for which intelligent Americans, familiar with the history of their own coun try, have more sympathy, or to which they recognize so large an indebtment. In three memorable crises Russia has rendered a great service to the American republic. Among the thirteen chapters of this* volume, we have read with especial interest that which de scribes a visit to the country home of Count Tolstoi. The author is not one of those who are accus tomed to call the great Russian writer crazy " or " not quite right in the head," and so on. She re gards him simply as a man with a hobby or controlling idea. His idea happens to be one which, even if we admit that it ought to be gen erally adopted, must be recognized as difficult of adoption. It is an uncomfortable theory of self-de nial, which very few people like to have preached to them in any form. Nor can it be denied that the expositions of his theory lack clearness; this circumstance seems to constitute the sole foundation for the reports of his mental aber rations. The author of this book found him on personal acquaint ance to be a remarkably earnest and winning man, although he did not deliberately do or say any thing to attract one. (Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.) The Sun. The Three Graces. " THE Duchess " has really outdone herself in " The Three Graces." A breezier, more thor oughly agreeable novel than this is seldom en countered. Indeed, "The Duchess" at her best needs fear no comparison with current fictionists, and "The Three Graces" has everything in it to win popularity character, humor, plot, and incident. It is an Irish story, with a group of lovely women, and an irascible old squire, conceived on the truest lines of comedy. It may be described as a tale of in trigue, but of intrigue so innocent that no one can take harm from it. "The Duchess" al ways introduces a thoroughly wholesome, hon est, lovable girl, and Janet of this novel is one of the most charming she has given us. (Lip- pincott.) Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. Froi Three Graces. Copyright, 1F95, by J. B. Lippincott Co. JANET. THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1895 Summer Studies of Birds and Books. OVER and over again a reviewer has to re peat about the same phrase : the delight felt when a book of this kind comes across his way. History, politics, economic problems, fiction, may give their momentary zest, but true restfulness and honest enjoyment come when he reads of birds and nature and listens to the singing of the winged vocalists as Mr. Warde Fowler describes them. Many of these chapters have been read in the United States, and numerous quotations have been made from them, as they appeared originally in Macmillaris Magazine, but it is all the better to have them together, and in part rewritten and arranged. One admirable study in this volume has for title " Aristotle on Birds." The old Greek may have blundered at times, but nevertheless he knew much. It does seem probable that Aristotle wrote the greater part of his book on natural history in the beginning of his life, before he had given himself up " to the higher influences of philos ophy." Aristotle told about the migration of birds. M. de Quatrefages copied what he said as to the migration of the storks in his history of the pigmies, and Aristotle, as far as the birds were concerned, was correct. Aristotle said birds hibernated or were torpid in winter, and Gilbert White thought nearly the same thing. Aristotle, as a true Greek, loved music, and so he may be forgiven for ex alting the nightingale, the cock bird singing, as he says, " fifteen days and nights without stop ping." It is a pretty thing the Greek natural ist tells of the parent bird teaching its little ones how to become songsters, for he believed that birds had a distinct language of their own. "Nothing is to me more astonishing," writes Mr. Fowler, "in the whole history of thought and knowledge, than that the man who wrote the Ethics and Politics should have been capa ble of putting together such a work. It argues a richness of mind, a variety of interest, a uni versality of thirst for knowledge, with which we have very little acquaintance in this coun try." Some of us have grieved with the author over the loss of his fox-terrier Billy, his faith ful and plucky companion for so many years. Billy suddenly disappeared in his old days, held captive, may be, in a drain, where there was perhaps only the scent of his enemy, the fox. Billy s life was a noble one, and he was indeed an honor to Oxford, and the memoir to this old friend is as pretty a chapter on a four- footed friend as you may ever read. (Mac- millan. $1.50.) Familiar Flowers. " FAMILIAR Flowers of Field and Garden" is the title of a new popular book on flowers, which seems to have profited by the omissions and errors of preceding essays in this direction. It appears that the author, Mr. F. Schuyler Mathews, is a botanist and artist, as well as a writer, and his drawings have a peculiar value. Some special points of his attractive book are the illustrations of the connections between garden and wild flowers, and an elaborate de scriptive index showing at a glance the botanical names, seasons, and habitats of the familiar flowers. (Appleton.) Brooklyn Times. by D. Appleton & Co. TALL MEADOW-RUE. Jewel of Ynys Galon. TALES of adventure where the slaughter of man is a prominent feature are on the increase. This time it is a Welsh story of pirates, of car nage, of barbarities, which the writer, Owen Rhoscomyl, seems to find enjoyment in nar rating. "The Jewel of Ynys Galon" is dedi cated to boys who have had intentions of becom ing bloodthirsty pirates, to men who have had dreams of becoming fabulously rich by discover ing hoarded treasure, and to all who are roused by a "tale of tall fights and reckless adven ture." No others will care to read it, and such would do better to let it alone. (Longmans, Green. $1.25.) Boston Literary World. June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 171 The Master. MARK the name of Isaac Zangwill, for it is one which is sure to be high on the roll of Eng lish novelists, if it is not already there. Mr. known as the basin of Minas that valley near Annapolis on the Intercolonial railway between Halifax and St. John is the place selected by Mr. Zangwill for the opening scene of the novel THE ETERNAL MONOTONE OF THE SEA. Zangwill is a Jew, and he is at no time more frank and enjoyable than when he is wriiing about his race, as in such books as " The King of Schnorrers " and in "The Children of the Ghetto." But he is too broad for any single race or sect; and his latest story, which is published in this country by the Harpers, is meant for the world. The volume is a bulky one, which may frighten the dilettante reader ; but he who begins " The Master " will find a charm which will lure him through adventures which are lifelike and full of human interest. One suspects a large element of autobiog raphy in The Master " ; and this lends it a rare fascination. One praises the novel because (above other reasons) one believes that it has the power of character building because it holds lofty ideals of character before its readers, particularly young men. This it does by ex amples, not by preaching for preaching in a novelist is as unpardonable as romancing in a preacher. One must confess surprise a pleasurable sur prise, which is largely personal at finding Mr. Zangwill is familiar with that little corner of Canada which Longfellow made famous in his poem of " Evangeline." Acadia otherwise of " The Master." It is easy to see from "Evangeline" that Longfellow never lived in Acadia, but it is impossible to believe that Mr. Zangwill did not at some time walk the dikes and see the "bore" rushing along the thirsty river-bed. Although to-day one of London s foremost literarians it is likely that Mr. Zang will was once as genuine a son of the " blue- nose " country as is Bliss Carman, whose "Low Tide on Grand Pre " is precious to all Acadia s English-speaking sons. It is a strong and en during book. (Harper. $1.75.) Chicago Trib- Heart of the World. " HEART of the World " is a novel of the usual Rider Haggard type. Of course Mr. Haggard s novels do not come within the range of literary criticism. But a great many people read them, watch for them as they do for the postman s visit. Indeed, fiction of this sort illiterate, in artistic, ludicrous, fatuous plays a very impor tant part in the lives of many people. They find in it the cnly form of intellectual excitement which can compete with that aroused by the average melodrama. Here are strange adven tures and wonderful heroisms, and they happen, 172 THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1895. mark you, to every-day folk, who might be walk ing Broadway instead of scaling the Mountains of the Moon. This is the whole trick of fiction From Haggard s " Heart of the World. of the Haggard sort. " Heart of the World "is neither better nor worse than its predecessors. The scene is laid in Mexico. The story rehear ses the adventures of an athletic Englishman who loves and weds an Indian princess. There are marvellous descriptions of the " City of the Heart," a mysterious town hemmed in by swamps and unknown mountains ; there are priestcraft and brigandage and villainy and love galore; indeed, there are all the usual in gredients of Haggard fiction, dire disaster, dan gers untold, hair-breadth escapes, etc. Those who like that sort of thing have a rare pleasure in store. (Longmans, Green & Co.) Com mercial Advertiser. Princeton Stories. JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS, the author, is a re cent graduate, only three* years out. What he has depicted is the Prince ton man of to-day abso lutely "up-to-date," as he would say. It is not the man you would think you met if you were to spend a few days there, but it is the Princeton man as his fellows know him. When you have read Mr. Williams stories you will realize that the Princeton man is not of one type, but of a score of types that, indeed, he is as va ried and complex as most other men. What every Princeton man will feel when he reads these stories is that here is the spirit of the campus-life as he knew it; here is the evanescent charm, the touch of poetry and sentiment that pervades a thousand un- poetic and rather reserved young men. You will find here the good-fellowship depicted without any rant about it. These men have a way of hiding their deep est sentiments under a man ner that is often brusque, and clothed in language that is eccentric to say the least. But they have a way of do ing the right, the generous thing without any parade. There isn t a prig in these stories, and there are mighty few in Princeton. That type of man can t thrive in a healthy commu nity that enjoys ridicule and is not over-cautious in hurting tender feelings. The outsider will be impressed with the fact that Princeton, by very reason of being a large college in a small town, has developed its own peculiarly academic life, independent of any city influence. It is a college permeated with traditions, characters and quaint associations; and they are all reflected in these stories that are well written and well constructed, judged from the standard of good American short- story writing. The book ought to find many readers among the sisters, cousins, and aunts of students of Princeton. (Scribner. $i.) Droch in Life. nans. Green & Co. June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. Coaching Trips Out of London. LONDON is like a smoky pearl set in a circle of emeralds. Once out of it, though the escape is slow, and patience is needed, we come upon the England we dream of over the drawings of Abbey and Hugh Thomson the England of <l The Quiet Life," of fat meadows, flowing ver dure, tiled and thatched cottages, mossy, drip ping millwheels, hawthorn hedges, inviting inns, and spacious parks, where the beeches and oak throw out rounded, drooping volumes of foliage, that have the soft density of an ex halation, and where the cuckoo, lark, and nightingale are fearless visitors. Because London is so environed with beauty, and the roads are good, the coaches thrive; and of the many pleasures of the season, there is nothing to compare with the trips they make, leaving town in the morning, and, with two ex ceptions, returning in the afternoon. Let it be said, with due respect to the mem ory of Mr. Barnum, that "the greatest show on earth" is London, and one of its prettiest " features " is the departure of the coaches from Northumberland Avenue. A smartly dressed crowd is there to see it. Preceded by the musi cal winding of horns, which rise above the noise of cabs, buses and carriages, the coaches turn into the magnificent avenue from the Embankment, or from Tra falgar Square, where the foun tains are playing over the flanks and manes of Landseer s lions, and Nelson stands on the foretop of his own monument. They are party-colored, and lettered on the boot and on the panels with the names of the towns and villages they pass through. There is an inside, of course ; but the blinds are down, for nobody ever wants to be inside. Outside there are seats for thir teen, including the box-seat, the privileged position, for which a larger fare is charged. The coachman, in a long drab jean, or box-cloth, driving-coat reaching to his ankles, overlooks it all, with the eye of the skipper of a double topsail ship when the pilot leaves him and the wind freshens on the bar. A score of details are on his mind ; he must see that the bridles, or head stalls, do not pinch the horses ears ; that the bits are not too high, or too low, in their mouths ; that bearing- reins, cruppers, pole-chains, and pole-pieces, are adjusted so as to be neither too tight nor too loose ; that the pads are well stuffed, and fitted close to their backs; that the traces are of the right length, and that the pole-hooks are down- \vard. The old mail-coaches ceased running with the advent of the railways in 1840, and, out of twenty-seven in service up to that year, not one was left. "Few people are aware," says Lord Algernon St. Maur, " of the misery caused by railways to innkeepers, coachmen, guards, post-boys, ostlers, and horse-keepers, as it all came to pass so suddenly." Had profit been the only consideration, the coaches would never have reappeared ; but there had grown up in England many enthusi astic amateurs, who found delight in driving a four-in-hand, and they revived, for their own pleasure, \vhat could no longer be a money- making venture. (T. Y. Crowell.) F, om " 7;z the Land of Lorna Doone" From Weed s " Ten New England Blossoms." Copyright, 1895, by Houston, Mifflin & Co/ A BLOSSOM OF ALL LANDS. 174 THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1895 The Marriage of Esther. THE Marriage of Esther," by Guy Boothby, is not a common book, although it deals with common, very common people, such as a gen eration or two ago made the bulk of the population of Australia, New Zealand and other English colonies, to which thousands who left their country for their country s good found their way, some because they were trans ported thither by the home government, and others because they had exhausted the forbear ance and the resources of their relatives and friends, and had nowhere else to go. It is the story of two Englishmen English gentlemen, let us say, though the fact was not apparent at first who were down on their luck among the crowd of roughs, convicts, murderers and what not, on Thursday Island, wherever that was, ragged, penniless, friendless and desperate; the story of their curious liking for each other, and what came of it when they obtained em ployment from the daughter of a pearl fisher man, between whom and one of them love soon grew up, and from this love the adventurous and tragically happy end; for, of course, the heroine, Esther, married the man of her choice, or what would be the sense of the title? It is a vigorous picture of half-barbaric life, with its difficulties and dangers, its criminality and its manliness, and the frank, strong woman hood of Esther, who is as vital and real as one of Charles Reade s women. It is not a story to be analyzed in a few lines, either as a record of reckless colonial life, or as a delineation of character; but to be read at a sitting, which is- not difficult, its movement is so rapid and its spirit so human and hearty. (Appleton. pap., 50 c.) Jllail and Express. The Curse of Intellect. BRIEFLY told, this is the story of a monkey who is taught to think, talk, and write by a man of enormous will-power ; the result is that the monkey is so disgusted with the misery en tailed on him by intellect that he kills his teacher and commits suicide himself. The con ception does not seem to us altogether novel ; but the monkey s pessimistic view of his posi tion is cleverly exposed, and is perhaps, under the circumstances, natural, for there is a great deal of truth in Kenan s remark that " un etat qui donnerait le plus grand bonheur possible aux individus serait probablement, au point de vue des nobles poursuites de 1 humanite, un etat de profond abaissement," and the monkey would be the more qualified to judge from his previous experience of the debased condition. There is a certain amount of cheap satire in the book at the expense of the tame poet, the society woman, and so on ; but there is enough incident to make the story well worth half an hour s reading. (Roberts. 81.) 7 /ie From Glascock s " Stories of Columbia. Copyright, 1891, by D. Appk-ton & Co. A MODERN REAPER AND HARVESTER. June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. From Belles " Chocorua s Tenants." Copyright, 1895, by Houghton, Miffliu & Co. "TREES WHOSE LEAVES ARE SHED IN AUTUMN." The Great Crested Flycatcher. WESTWARD of Chocorua water Stands an ancient apple orchard, Overhung by lofty maples, Bearing scars of many sappings; Warm and sunny is the orchaid, Plenty are its acid apples. In its hollows squirrels nestle, In its branches birds assemble. Titmice love this orchard s hollows, Caverns in its trunks and branches Make them warm and cosey nestings, Safely hidden from the blue jay. Here the deer eyed flying-squirrel, Mice and bluebirds, swallows, adders, Find in turn their favorite havens; Here, as well, a har>h voiced tyrant Makes his home within a cavern. In this ill-assorted rubbish Four or five strange eggs are hidden; They are tinted like the matted Leaves and grasses, hair and feathers; From their larger end descending Countless slender rays or streakings Seek the point, \vhile in beginning They are blended in a tangle. What can be the explanation Of this bird s persistent fancy ? Why through countless generations Have they sought for cast-off snake skins To adorn or guard their nestings In the hollow of the tree-trunks ? Do the mouse, the snake, and squirrel Fear a scrap of harmless snake skin ? Wild and wary is this tyrant, Harsh his screaming, angry whistle, Strange his comings and his goings, Strange his likings and his hatings; Round about Chocorua water He has found the haunts he fancies, But in many another valley None have ever heard his clamor. He is one that shuns the winter, Knows no home where snowflakes flutter. - Insect wings proclaim his coming, Insect death foretells his go.ng, With the arbutus he enters, With the goldenrod he passes, Hither Jrom the south in Maytime, Thither with the equinoctial. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) From Belles Chocorud s Tenants" The King s Diary. IT appears from the pompous " foreword " of the editor that this little volume is the first of CasseWs Pocket Library, and if the series maintains the promise of its first fruits it will be a notable addition to the novel-reader s bookshelves. There is hardly anything but praise to be given to this remarkable story. It is brilliantly written, and is full of the pleasant satire which comes from a genial but penetrat ing observation of life. It is a study primarily of one of those clever literary men with a twist in their nature which utterly incapacitates them from achieving any successful work. He is thoroughly unpractical and thoroughly lovable, but is a burden to all his worthy and wealthy relatives, and becomes a trial even to his charm ing and matter-of-fact wife. There is not one of the characters whom one might not have been talking and living with, so admirably are they realized by the author, and it would be difficult to single out any one for especial praise. Perhaps, after the writer of the diary himself, the best is the sleek father-in-law who had the habit of " rubbing theback of his left hand with the palm of his right, as though tickled by an invisible straw," and who had "the air of a man who has not adapted himself to suit his environment, but altered it to suit his own pecul iar convenience "; but all are good. The only criticism we would venture on is that the catas trophe at the end is hardly inevitable enough ; the man had the germs of madness in him, but the hansom cab accident is clumsy. (Cas- sell. 50 c.) The Athenaum. THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1895 Watching the New Valet. " UGH ! It looks haunted, that house by the river. I wonder who lives there ! It seems the very place for a murder, or one of those dread ful houses where wicked people throw poor, insane relatives to die, unknown and uncared for," she thought, preparing to turn her back upon it, when suddenly she stopped, interested. Surely she knew that figure coming so guarded ly and stealthily down the path ! She waited until the man came within a few steps of her, then she stepped from the shadow of the tree where she had been idly leaning, and faced him in her uncompromising, school girl fashion. " What were you doing in that house ? You don t live there, do you?" she asked, sternly. Yes, Bebe had not been mistaken. She was looking straight into the apologetic, restless eyes of the new valet. "Oh, mademoiselle, you startle me!" he gasped, removing his hat from his oiled hair, his mustache curving upward in a craven smile. "What have you been doing down there? Were you not told to wait in the servants quar ters for Mr. Raritan ? " she demanded for Bebe had been accustomed to authority all her spoiled life, and could look as cool and com manding as a young princess upon occa sions. " True, mademoiselle," shrugged the new servant. " But ze maison was ver hot. I went to take a walk; I remembered zat ol pless zare. Once a fren of mine a poor, sickly young Englishman, leeve zare. I strolled up ze walk for ze remembrance sake of ze time when we used to smoke in zee little garden." " H m ! You must have lived a long time in this country," sniffed Bebe, suspiciously. " That must have been years and years ago." "Only two years, mademoiselle two short years since my fren live there poor fellow Zee house ees damp. Eet kill him; I know eet. But advice he would not take." "Well, you d better go back ! Mr. Raritan won t like to be kept waiting;" and her clear, proud eyes watched him half contemptuously as he minced out of sight. " There s something uncanny about that little Frenchman. He s like a monkey. I hope Sid will send him about his business," she thought, and then without another look at the house by the river, that was destined to play such a strange part in the fortune of her life, she turned down another road. (Bonner. pap. 50 c.) From Kent s "That House by the River." From Kent s " That House by the River." Copyright, 1895, by Robert Boimer s Sons. " I WANT A WORD WITH YOU." June, 1895] THE LITEXAKY NEWS. 177 In Russet and Silver. WITH his accustomed charm of touch and tender quaintness of thought, Mr. Edmund Gosse wooes our attention to a fresh volume, whose attractive name is suggested and re peated in its binding. There are not many fresh things left to be said in the world, and human emotion repeats and rerepeats itself century by century ; the most that any poet can hope to achieve is to voice the reiterated thought in a new tone and with a fresh ca dence, and this Mr. Gosse most happily does. The Arthurian Epic. MR. S. HUMPHREYS GURTEEN, graduate of the University of Cambridge, has written " The Arthurian Epic. A Comparative Study of the Cambrian, Breton and Anglo-Saxon Versions of the Story." This is the second or third book upon the subject that we have read since the death of Lord Tennyson, the supposed emi nence of whom, as the Laureate of King Ar thur and the Knights of the Round Table, and the delight that he had afforded his thousands of readers in the " Idyls of the King," was the chief motive of their production. They contained nothing that was not already known to scholars interested in the Arthurian legend in its various forms in the balladry and romantic prose of Welsh and Breton singers and writers, and in the early English historical narratives, but much that had not come within the knowledge of the average reader of English literature, for whom their materials were recast in a popular form the belief of the writers being that this admiring but unlearned person might like to know, in reading the " Idyls of the King," what portions, if any, were due to the invention of Lord Tennyson, and what portions were derived from Malory s " Morte d Arthur," Lady Guest s " Mabinogen," or other and earlier sources. Mr. Gurteen has read, and written enough to supply the reasonable curiosity of Lord Tenny son s readers; and, knowing in advance much that he would be sure to write, and ought to write, in order to elucidate his author, we have read his book with a certain amount of pleasure if not to our entire satisfaction. He has not convinced us that much which is beyond doubt has yet been discovered in re the origin, or ori gins, of the Arthurian legend, which has, we feel sure, no real historical basis to rest upon; and he has not convinced us that the parts of this legend have any, the least Epical signifi cance. For, reading it either as a narrative of the adventures of Merlin and Vivvien, the ad venture of Sir Galahad in quest of the Holy Grail, the impassioned, guilty love of Launcelot and Guinevere, or, as an idealization of the personality and mission of King Arthur him self, it is, at least, a collection of episodes which were not meant to be, and which cannot be, gathered into and moulded into an Epic. If any body could have found, or could have made, an Epic of the Arthurian legend, it was Lord Tennyson, who, ambitious as he was, and great poet as he was, could only use its materials in an idyllic form in the " Idyls of the King." Mr. Gurteen s criticisms of Lord Tennyson s use of his matter is temerarious in the extreme. Still, he has written a book which was needed for popular reading, and which Tennysonians ought to place on their shelves beside other commentaries on their favorite author. (Put nam. $2. ) Mail and Express. The Handy Volume Shakespeare. MORE than a quarter of a century ago the writer decided to give all brides by whom such a gift would be appreciated a set of Shake speare, and many letters from happy girls are at hand acknowledging the intense satisfaction this one among their few or many wedding gifts had given them. Following the fashion of the hour, sets of Shakespeare are gotten up more and more gorgeously, and no jeweller manufactures more beautiful cases for the gems he sends to please a bride than are now provided for these literary jewels. The Handy Volume edition of "Shakespeare s Works," in thirteen volumes, maybe had in cloth, in Vene tian, in imitation seal, Alsatian, Persian and in watered silk of every shade, and for every new device in binding there is a box to match. It has been a great wedding season and we hope some of the friends of brides have thought of books when offering gifts. Every one of these books tempts you to touch it, to hold it just a little while, to turn over its clear ly printed pages, to handle its thin but opaque paper, to fit it back once more in the little space it has left among its pretty fellow vol umes. And who can ever handle a volume of Shakespeare without reading just a few pages and being lost in surprise that so many dearly loved quotations are found in one man s writ ings ? (Routledge. per set, $7.50; $21.) 178 THE LITERARY NEWS. \.f lae < 1895 fitrrartj Knobel (E.), Guide to names of all wild-growing trees and shrubs of New England, pap., net, $oz....Whidden Language of flowers, $1.50 Warne tt (Eclectfc fSContfjIi Bebieto of Current literature. McDonald (D ), Sweet-scented flowers and fragrant EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT. B^th^ $1.75; $2.25 Appleton JUNE, 1895. Miller (Olive Thome), Our home pets, $1.25.... Harper Minot (H D.), Land birds and game birds of New Eng- CHOOSING SUMMER READING. Murra^ WHEN every trunk and closet has been ran- Caribbees, $2 Scribner sacked, and all the momentous questions have Parkhurst (H. E.), The birds calendar, net, *^^ been decided as to what will do and not do for Porter (J. H.), Wild beasts, $2 Scribner another summer; when all the new things have ^^deSgef^r.^ been bought, and changed, and sewed, and Prime (W. C.), Among the northern hills, $\.... Harper fitted, and packed, most women and girls are Russell (T.), Meteorology, net, $ 4 Macmillan too tired to care what is put into the very small Sargent (C. S.), Notes on the forest flora of ^pan ^7.5. space generally left for books. We shall wait The silva of North America, v. 7 , net, $25. . . ... Houghton, M before giving a list of novels and books of Shaler (N. S.), Sea and land features of coasts and description, until the hard work of getting oceans, $2.50 Scribner , , , Sorauer (P.), Treatise on the physiology of plants, $3. houses shut up, and resting-places found, and Longmans, G travel accomplished, has been forgotten; then Step (E.), Wayside and woodland blossoms..f 2 . 5 o^r, XT . Torrev (Bradford), A Florida sketch-book, $1.25. we hope to let the LITERARY NEWS call attention Houghton, M to some of the books "that every one should Warne s library of natural history, in 36 nos., nos. i read," because every one is reading them. But Weed ^C. M^ T^ New England blossoms kno^be" most summer travellers have special interests insect visitors, $1.25 Houghton, M in connection with which they decide the mo- Whitcomb (Ida P.), A bunch of wild flowers for the children, soc Randolph mentous question of where to go for the sum- whiting (M. C.) and Miller (E.), Wild flowers of the mer of 1895. As far as these interests are northeastern states, net, $4.50 Putnam , i , .. .., "Willcox (M. A.), Pocket guide to the common land concerned with sports and pastimes, or with birds of New England, <r^, 6oc Lee & S hobbies of gardening, studying astronomy, bot- "Willis (O. R.), A practical flora, $1.50 Amer. B k Co anizing, watching or catching birds, etc., we Wright (Mabel Osgood) Bird craft: a field-book of two hundred song, game, and water birds, $3... .Macmillan wish to assist their choice, for only a few of _ The friendship of na ture, 75 c. ; edition de luxe, net, these will be needed for every traveller, and $3 Macmillan every bag and trunk must make room for one or Wonders of marine life, foe Appleton more. Next month we shall give a list of nov- OUTDOOR SPORTS* AND EXERCISE. els for days when outdoor books are only an Allen and Sachtleben, Across Asia on a bicycle, $1.50. aggravation. Anderson (E. L.), Curb, snaffle, and spur, $1.50 * BOOKS ON NA TURE. Little, B .,, ... ~ , ~, . . . , .,,. Bingham (N. W.), jr.,ed. Book of athletics and out- Abbott(C. C.), The birds about us, $2 Ltppincott of-door sports, $1.50 Lothrop Bolles (Frank), From Blomidon to Smoky, $1.25. Boardman (S. L.), Handbook of the turf, $i..O.Judd Co Burroughs (J.) Riverby, ,,, 5 .. Chambers (G. F), The story of the stars, yxAffl.** Pleasure-cycling. $. .............. Llttl., B Chapman (F. M.), Handbook of birds of eastern v ij ^ North America, $3.; $3.50 ..................... Appleton Flannery (Jerome), American cricket annuaHfor 1895, ^^ Dana, (Mrs. W. S.), Accordingto season, 7S c..Scrzbner ] In ihVveldV, papV, s oc. . .Z^a J, G Keene H,, The boy s own guide to fishing,*,,. Eha (pseud.}, A naturalist on the prowl, $3 .... Scribner Lee (Ja P ), Go i fin America, $i ................ Dodd, M Emmons (S. F.) Geological guide-book for an excur- Longmans (C . J.) and Walrond (H.), Archery, ((Bad- s.onto the Rocky Mountains, $1.50 .............. 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S. and Kerner and Oliver s Natural history of plants, 2 v., Canada, pap., 2 5 c. ...... .Forest and Stream Pub Co net . $ 7 . 50 ............................ . ..... . ..... ..Holt Sampson (C. A.), Strength, $i ; pap., $oc...Rand, McN Keyser(L.S.), Jn bird land, $1.25 .......... McClurf Stagg (A. A.) and Williams _ (H. L.), A scientific and TT ^ i /n- v -ru w J,,, -JJ practical treatise on American football, rev. to date. Knobel (E.), The beetles, net, soc.. .......... Whidden | t 25 ...................................... ____ Appleton Day butterflies and duskflyers of New England, net, Sullivan (Sir E.) and Brassey (Lord), Yachting, 2 v. ^oc ............................................ Whidden (Badminton lib.), $7; $10 .................... Little, B - Ferns and evergreens of New England, pap., net, 5 oc. Vaux (C. B.), Canoeing, pap., ioc ............. Spaldin Whidden "Whitney (C. W.), A sporting pilgrimage, $3.50. Harper June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 179 MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Articles marked with an asterisk are illustrated. ARTISTIC, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Century, Comedie Franaiseat Orange,* Janvier. C/iau- tauquan, Richard Wagner, Mrs. E. W. Hub- bard. Fort. Review (May), " King Arthur " on the stage, R. W. Bond ; Bach Festival, H. H. Statham. Lippincott, Tyranny of the Pictorial, Fairfield. Nine. Century (May), Mr. Irving on the Art? of Acting, " Ouida." North Am. Re view, Nordau s Theory of Degeneration A Painter s View, Kenyon Cox ; A Musician s Re tort, Anton Seidl. Scribner, American Wood- Engravers Frank French.* BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE. Chautau- quan, Charles A. Dana, Morris. Fort. Re-view (May), Sophie Kovalevsky, Carter. Nine. Cen tury (May), A Love Episode in Mazzini s Life, Mile. Melegari. Pop. Science, Timothy Abbott Conrad, C. C. Abbott (For.). West. Review (May), Charles Bradlaugh, Waterer. DESCRIPTION, TRAVEL. Atlantic, Pilgrimage to the Great Buddhist Sanctuary of North China, Rockhill ; In the Twilight of the Gods, Hearn. Century, Discovery of Glacier Bay,* Muir. Harper $, House Boating in China,* Ralph ; The Grand Prix and Other Prizes,* Davis ; Rome in Africa,* Sharp. Pop. Science, Two-Ocean Pass,* Evermann ; Journeying in Madagascar,* Vincent. Scribner s, Chicago Before the Fire, After the Fire, and To-Day,* Stone. DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL. New England, Ar tistic Domestic Architecture in America,* Fer- ree. North A?n. Review, Modern Woman and Marriage, Eliz. Bisland (Notes and Comments). West. Review (May), Some Modern Ideas about Marriage, E. M. S. EDUCATIONAL. Atlantic, Vocal Culture in its Relation to Literary Culture, Prof. Corson. Forum, Rational Correction of School Studies, Rice ; An American Educational System in Fact, Powell ; Why the American Voice is Bad, Osgood. New England, Roxbury Latin School, De Normandie. FICTION. Atlantic, Rosita, Ellen Mackubin ; Through the Windows : Two Glimpses of a Man s Life, F. E. Lester. Century, On a Side Track,* Mary Hallock Foote ; The Lady of Lucerne, F. Hopkinson Smith ; The Gentleman in the Barrel, C. B. Fernald. Chautauquan, Mademoiselle Clemence, Pouvillon. Harper s, What the Madre Would Not Have,* Meyers ; A Miracle, M. E. M. Davis. Lippin coifs, Battle of Salamanca, Galdos ; " As a Day in June," May D. Hatch ; Beset in Aravaipa Canon, Thom son. Scribner s The Genius of Bowlder Bluff, Abbe C. Goodloe ; "The Gentleman from Hu ron," Hibbard ; A Co-operative Courtship, An nie S. Winston. HISTORY. Fort. Review (May), Prince Bis marck and Prussian Monarchy, Dawson. Harper s, A Frontier Fight,* Gen. Forsyth. Nine. Century (May), Joan of Arc, Mrs. South- wood Hill; The False Pucelle, Lang. West. Re.view (May), Her Majesty s Treasury, C. E. D. Black. LITERARY. Atlantic, Some Reminiscences of Christina Rossetti, Sharp. Cath. World, Words worth, His Home and Work, Oleron ; Downfall of Zolaism, Lcky. .Century, New Public Li brary in Boston : Its Artistic Aspects, Mrs. S. Van Rensselaer ; Its Ideals and Working Conditions, Lindsay Swift Forum, Mr. Kipling s Work, so Far, Bishop ; The Great Libraries of the U. S., Putnam. Harper s, First Impressions of Liter ary New York,* Howells. Lippincott s , Galdos and His Novels, Ogden ; Thoreau, Abbott. North Am. Review, As to Age-End Literature, Hazeltine. MENTAL AND MORAL. Pop. Science Psychol ogy of Woman, Patrick. NATURE AND SCIENCE. Harper s, A Familiar Guest* (Wasps), Gibson. Pop. Science, Irri tability and Movement in Plants,* Mac- Dougal. POETRY. Atlantic, A Japanese Sword-Song, Mary S. Hunter. Cath. World, The Pentecost, Burke; Dawn, Conway. Century, A Business Transaction,* Roche; The Poet s Day, R. W. Gilder; " Time Brings Roses," Boner. Chau tauquan, Ballad of the Eastern Woman, Bur ton. Harper s, Orisons, Louise I. Guiney; Why Should We Care? J. V. Cheney. Scribner s, Sorrento, Hay; Benevolence, Mrs. J. T. Fields; Edge of Claremont Hill, Van Dyke. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. Century, Tribula tions of a Cheerful Giver, Howells; Two Tramps in England, Flynt. Chautauquan, How the Poor Live in Paris, Preston. Fort. Review (May), Factory Legislation for Women, Miss March-Phillipps ; Mr. Peel and His Predecessors, Traill. Forum, Growth of Am. Nationality, Walker; Free-Silver Argument, Harvey; Gro tesque Fallacies of Free Silver, Warner; Studies of Notable Men Joseph Chamberlain, M Car- thy; Are We Degenerating? Dana. Harper s, The New Czar and What We May Expect from Him,Borges. Lippincotfs, Improving the Com mon Roads, Speed; The Referendum and the Senate; McCrackan. North Am. Review, Power and Wealth of the United States, Mulhall; A Cable Post, Heaton; Military Lessons of the Chino- Japanese War, Sec y of the Navy; The Silver Question: Germany s Attitude as to a Bi-Metallic Union, Von Mirbach; Silver Stand ard in Mexico, Mexican Minister. Pop. Science, Decline in Railway Charges, Newcomb. West. Review (May), International Agreements and the Sufferers in War, King; Ought Capital Pun ishment to be Abolished ? Vicars. SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. Harpers, Golf, Old and New, Lang. Nine. Century (May), A May-Queen Festival (with Letters from Ruskin), Faunthorpe. Scribner s, The Bicycle, Wheel of To-Day,* Hubert; Woman and the Bicycle, Marguerite Merington; Social Side of Bicy cling,* J. B. Townsend ; A Doctor s View of Bicycling,* J. W. Roosevelt. THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. Cath. World, Father Hecker and the Establish ing of the Poor Clares in the U. S., Hedges; Dr. Heber Newton on the Resurrection, Searle. Century, The New Old Testament, Newman Smyth. Nine. Century (May), True and False Notions of Prayer, Pearson. West. Review (May), Foundations of Belief, Todhunter ; Crisis in Free Thought, Dewey. i8o THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1895 Suroeg of Current Citerature. Order through your bookseller." There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence and the purity of any community than their general purchase of books; nor is there any one who does more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller ." PROF. DUNN. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. BIGKLOW, J. The life of Samuel J. Tilden. Harper, pors. il., 8, $6. COLERIDGE, S. TAYLOR. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; ed. by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 2 v., pors. 8, $6. DAVIES, H. E. General Sheridan. Appleton. por. maps, 12, (Great commanders ser. , no. n.) $1.50. General Davies, the author of this volume, served with distinction under Sheridan in the Army of the Potomac. ESPINASSE, FRANCIS. Life of Ernest Renan ; [with] bibliography of Renan, by J. P. Ander son. Scribner. 8, (Great writers.) $i. HUTTON, Rev. W. HOLDEN. William Laud. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, (English leaders of religion ser.) f i. THAXTER, Mrs. CELIA. Letters of Celia Thax- ter ; ed. by her friends A. F. and R. L. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. por., 12, $1.50. DESCRIPTION, GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ETC. BOURGET, PAUL. Outre-mer ; impressions of America. Scribner. 12, $1.75. FINCK, H. T. Lotos-time in Japan. Scribner. il. 8, $1.75- FRASER, MARIE. In Stevenson s Samoa. Mac- millan & Co. il. 16, 80 c. HAPGOOD, ISABEL-FLORENCE. Russian rambles. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.50. LAMONT, ARCHIBALD. [" John Coming China man, " pseud.~\ Bright Celestials ; the China man at home and abroad. Putnam. 12, $2.40. STANLEY, H. M. My early travels and adven tures in America and Asia. Scribner. 2 v. pors., $2. VINCENT, FRANK. Actual Africa ; or, the com ing continent : a tour of exploration. Ap pleton. pors. il. map, 8, $5. FICTION. BALZAC, HONOR DE. Lucien de Rubempre ; tr. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Rob erts. 12, hf. mor., $1.50. BELL, LILIAN. A little sister to the wilderness. Stone Kimball. 16, $1.25. " Description and characterization are both good, and the spiritual issues of the situation are drawn out with a fine sense of relative values. The dialect is something of a stumbling-block, but the writer has a conscience (as her prefa tory note upon this subject shows), and it would hardly be reasonable to expect phonetics of more standard type from her mountaineers. Miss Bell has told a story that deserves atten tion, and the sincerity of her workmanship is undoubted." The Dial. BLAIR, ELIZA NELSON, [Mrs. H. W. Blair.] Lisbeth Wilson : a daughter of New Hamp shire hills. Lee & Shepard. 12, $1.50. The story deals with the New Hampshire of a generation ago, with its homely scenes and plain, sternly conscientious people. The hero ine, Lisbeth Wilson, and her lover are separated by her father, onaccount of a difference in relig ious belief, their troubled courtship making a most interesting story. A very good picture is given of the time, and the habits, customs, manners, opinions, controversies, etc., of the people. BOOTHBY, GUY. A lest endeavor. Macmillan, (Iris lib.) 75 c. BOOTHBY, GUY. The marriage of Esther. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 166 ) $i; pap., 50 c. " This story of two friends in Australia has comparatively little of the local coloring which we should expect from a writer like Mr. Guy Boothby, who has published a book of his trav els in that far-off country, and there is an atmosphere of unreality about the characters that is even less conducive to the illusion of verity. We meet the friends first at the bar of a hotel, where one is drunk and the other fights for him. They have lest money, friends and reputation, and are at the lowest ebb of respec tability. The story tells of their reinstatement to places of trust, of the love-story of one and the self-sacrifice of the other, and this with cer tain complications that add to the interest of the story." Boston Literary World. CAMBRIDGE, ADA, [pseud, for Mrs. Cross.] Fidelis: a novel. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 167.) $i; pap., 50 c. COMPTON, HERBERT. A free lance in a far land: being an account of the singular for tunes of Selwyn Fyveways, of Fyveways Hall, in the County of Gloucester, Esquire: for seven years an adventurer in the kingdoms of Hindostan; the same abridged from the orig inal papers and journals of Mr. Fyveways and certain traditions in his family. Cassell. 12, $1. An historical romance dealing with the prac tices of the East India Company some hundred years ago and with the opportunities which Hindostan offered to foreign adventurers in the days between the break-up of the Mogul and the full establishment of the English Em pire. The " free lance " is the son of a Roman Catholic baronet and Protestant mother, which fact lies at the bottom of the many adventures which he recounts. CORELLI, MARIE. The silence of the Mahara jah. Merriam Co. 24, (Merriam s violet ser.) 40 c. June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 181 COTES, Mrs. EVERARD, [Sara Jeannette Duncan.] The story of Sonny Sahib. Appleton. il. 12, $1. CRAWFORD, F. MARION. Sant Ilario. Mac- millan. 12, (Macmillan s novelists lib., no. 2.) pap., 50 c. CROCKETT, S. R. Bog-myrtle and peat: being tales chiefly of Galloway, gathered from the years 1889-1895. Appleton. 12, $1.50. "These shorter studies in Scotch character and manners have all the charm and humor of Mr. S. R. Crockett s longer tales. They are ex tremely varied in scene and touch; some are gay and some are grave, but all are delightful in their several ways. The back of beyont has something of the flavor of The raiders ; Across the March dyke betrays the hand which wrote A lilac sunbonnet ; The col- leging of Simon Glegg and The minister s loon are as good as anything in The stickit minister ; while The glistering beaches has a fairy quality all its own and altogether charm ing. Mr. Crockett is surely very high up in the list of modern story writers." Boston Liter ary World. CURSE (The) of intellect. Roberts. 16, fi. A monkey as large as a man, rescued from his forest home by Reuben Power, a Cambridge man, of unusual intelligence, and taught to think and speak and conduct himstlf like a human being, is the central figure. Power, who is hopelessly sceptical and pessimistic, makes the " beast " his companion. A slight romance is woven around them. The chief point is the 41 beast s " opinions of men, and the comparisons he makes between his former state of ignorance and his present one of knowledge. He attributes all the vices and weaknesses of mankind to " the curse of intellect." DANE, DAN. Is she not a woman? or, ven geance is mine. Cassell. 12, (Union sq. lib., no. 2.) pap., 50 c. DAVIS, Mrs. M. E. M. Under the man-fig. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.25. KOVEN, Mrs. REGINALD DE. A sawdust doll. Stone Kimball. 16, (Peacock lib.) $1.25. Du Bois, CONSTANCE GODDARD. A modern pagan : a novel. Merriam Co. 12, $1.50. DUVAL, G. The romance of the sword: a Na poleonic novel; tr. by Mary J. Safford. Mer riam Co. 12", $1.50. The sword was given by Catherine n. , of Rus sia, to theComte d Artois, brother of Louis xvi., who sold it to a London Jew. It was rescued and given to Napoleon by a dying nobleman. The oft told tale of Napoleon s marriage wiih Josephine and her sinful extravagance and self ishness is the basis of a story in which this sword influenced many events that brought glory to Napoleon and victory to France. FENN, G. MANVILLE. The tiger lily: a story of a woman. Cassell. 12, $i. FRANCIS, M. E. \_pseud. for Mrs. Francis Blun- dell, formerly Miss M. E. Sweetman.] A daughter of the soil : a novel. Harper. 12", $1.25. FULLER, H. B., [" Stanton Page," psettd. ] With the procession: a novel. Harper. 12, $1.25. GISSING, G. Eve s ransom: a novel. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 165.) $i; pap., 50 c. A sweet girl s face in a photograph album at tracts the hero. An old creditor of this hero s father has just given him a sum of money to clear up some old rather "shady" business transac tions. Hilliard starts for London, and meets Eve, the original of the picture. She is a super ficial girl, leading a careless, even shameful life. Hilliard befriends her in an honorable manner, and after six months sees her marry his friend, to whom she has lied and who knows her charac ter. HASTINGS, ELIZ. An experiment in altruism. Macmillan. 12, 75 c. A woman of forty feels she has earned the right to devote herself to mission work in the slums of a great city. Here she meets a woman doctor and an altruist, who is enthusiastically devoted to righting a social system he considered wholly wrong. A young girl of twenty-four and her little orphan godchild, Jean, play leading parts in a sketchy story, showing up the weak ness of college settlements and of amateur mis sion work in the slums. HOBBES, J. OLIVER, \_pseud. for Mrs. Craigie.] Some good intentions and a blunder. Mer riam Co. 24, (Merriam s violet ser., no. 4.) 40 c. HOBBES, J. OLIVER, [psettd. for Mrs. Mary Cra gie.] The gods, some mortals, and Lord Wickenham. Appleton. por. 12, $1.50. HORNE, CALVAN GALE. A Norse idyl. The Robert Clarke Co. il. sq. 8, $1.50. KENT, BARBARA. The house by the river: a novel; il. by Warren B. Davis. [Also} The children s crusade. Bonner. 12, (Ledger lib., no. 123.) $i; pap., 5oc. KINGSLEY, H. The Hillyars and the Burtons: a story of two families. New ed.> with a note on old Chelsea church, by Clement Shorter ; il. by Herbert Railton. Ward, Lock & Bow- den, Ltd. il. 8, $1.25. KINGSLEY, H. Silcote of Silcotes. New ed. Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd. il. 8, $1.25. LEE, MARY CATHERINE. A soulless singer. Houghtou, Mifflin & Co. 12, $1.25. "Victoria Montagn is an exceedingly self-satis fied young lady. Having a good voice, she deter mines that she will become the great concert singer. She does sing quite correctly, but the audience does not feel the magnetic thrill. Coming home, she consults a distinguished singing master and wants to know why the audience is indifferent. The master says, Mees Montagu, it is not Elsa, it is not Marguerite who sings. It is Mees Montagu. In other words, Miss Montagu has no soul, Then the musical young lady in cleaning her gloves burns her hands so fearfully that she has ever afterwards to conceal them. How she finds a musical and other soul is then explained. The musical novel is full of high aspirations, and the author concludes A Soulless Singer by the triumph of Mees Victoria Montagu s Er- nani Involami. " N. Y Times. LOWRY, H. D. Women s tragedies. Roberts. 16, (keynote ser.) $i. Sixteen short stories: The torque; The great 182 THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1895 Ko-ko; The man in the room; The widow s history; The christening; A child s tragedy; Mamie s dream; The good-for-naught; Beauty s lover; The wise women; The sisters; The for mer age; four stories entitled A Pagan dream ; The last Pagan ; The grey wolf ; The coward. NORRIS, W. E. St. Ann s. Cassell. 12, $i. PEMBERTON, MAX. The impregnable city : a romance. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $[.25. The impregnable city is supposed to be under the waters of the Western Pacific. In 1880 an Austrian nobleman made the acquaintance of Count Tolstoi and was seized with the idea of providing a city of refuge for men and women who had come under the ban of courts and governments for their devotion to humanity. A young physician, who is taken to this city from London to relieve the sufferings of a young girl subject to trances, tells the highly romantic story. PENDLETON, L. Corona of the Nantahalas: a romance. Merriam Co. p. il. nar. 16, 75 c. The Nantahalas were inhabitants of the North Carolina mountains in the early seventies. Corona was a little girl rescued from a madman in the woods by a rough farmer who reared her as his own, and for years Corona s only com panion was the farmer s deaf and dumb son. A school-teacher happening that way, in two years taught Corona to know and love the Greek classics. To her the characters were real, and the descriptions of her life, her thoughts and actions are poetic and idyllic. Love came to her early and the end clears up the mystery of her parentage and early history. RAIMOND, C. E. (pseud.} The new moon. Appleton. 12, $r. " One of the three important characters that influence the action of this exciting story has an inveterate penchant towards auguries, portents, and premonitions. She is plunged into despair when her husband spills the salt, and the first sight of the new moon through glass occasions her a nervous shock that appears to threaten her sanity if not her life. In vivid contrast with this victim of childish terrors is a well-drawn charac ter of the typical healthy girl, courageous and vigorous in mind and body, possessing good prac tical ability, yet withal tender-hearted and high- principled. The man whose fate is so strangely influenced by these two opposite types of womanhood is a physician, and it is in his person that the story is related. The author relies for success on a certain enthralling quality in the writing that carries his reader along towards a denouement which it is impossible to forecast." London Literary World. RATHBORNE, ST. GEORGE. The fair maid of Fez : a novel. Home Book Co. il. 16, 5oc. " Opens and closes in New York, but the bur den of the narrative recites the deeds of a young and spirited American who, to recover some fam ily documents of importance in the possession of a renegade countryman, who has become Grand Vizier of the Sultan of Morocco, proceeds to Northern Africa, and with the help of a trusty and resourceful son of the desert makes his way to Fez, leads an attack on the palace of the Moorish Sultan s lieutenant, gains the object of his search and fights his way again out of the country, having meanwhile had a love adven ture of romantic interest and won dear experi ence of Arab recklessness of life and Moorish knavery." Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. RICHARDS, Mrs. LAURA E. Jim of Hellas; or, in durance vile. [And} Bethesda Pool. Estes & Lauriat. 12, 50 c. Two little romances of the New England coast. The first tells how " Jim of Hellas," a shipwrecked Greek sailor, won the heart of a middle-aged New England woman; the second story, " The troubling of Bethesda Pool," brings together two elderly lovers and satisfactorily concludes the troubled courtship of two young lovers. ROWSELL, Miss MARY C. The friend of the people: a tale of the reign of terror; il. by A. Hencke and Jos. M. Gleeson. F. A. Stokes Co. 12, $1.50. RUSSELL, W. CLARK. The phantom death, and other stories ; il. by F. A. Carter. F. A. Stokes Co. i il. nar. 16, 75 c. Contents: The phantom death; Broker s bay; The lazarette of the Huntress; A memory of the Pacific; "So unnecessary;" The major s commission ; A nightmare of the doldrums ; "Try for her in fifty;" The "Chiliman s tragedy;" The secret of the dead mate; The transport Palestine. " Mr. Russell has no rival in the line of ma rine fiction." Mail and Express. SCHOENAICH - CAROIATH (Prince}. Melting snows; tr. into English by Margaret Symonds. Dodd, Mead & Co. 12, $1.25. " One of the prettiest of modern Geiman sto ries, has been put into an excellent English ver sion by Miss Margaret Symonds, daughter of the talented art writer John Addington Symonds, whose recent death was such a loss to literature* Miss Symonds appears to have inherited the literary gifts of her father in no small measure. The book which she has translated as Melting snows treats of the awakening of the soul in a spirit of the frankest romanticism. While the story is tragic it is not motbid. The catastrophe of the lives of the lovers is completed not in death but in a sentence for life life which mourns lost love and interrupted friendship, but which rises to the sober fulfilment of every day duty. Melting snows is a novel of value " Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. SCOTT, MICHAEL. Tom Cringle s log ; il. by J. A. Symington, with an introd. by Mow- bray Morris. Macmillan. 12, (Illustrated standard novels ser.) $[.25. STIRLING. A. At daybreak : a novel. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. 16, (Riverside pap. ser., extra, no. 68.) pap., 50 c. SUDERMANN, HERMANN. The wish : a novel; tr. by Lily Henkel ; with a biographical introd. by Eliz. Lee. Appleton. 12, $i. SULLIVAN, Sir E. Tales from Scott ; with an introd. by E. Dowden. Roberts, il. 12, $i. TAYLOR, H. C. CHATFIELD. Two women and a fool : [a novel;] il. by C. D. Gibson. Stone & Kimball. 16, buckram, $1.50. TRANSITION : a novel; by the author of "A su perfluous woman." Lippincott. 12, $1.25. The story of a Girton graduate, who leaves. college expecting a life of ease and culture. To her disappointment she discovers that her June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 183 father, the rector of an excellent living, has views, which she calls socialistic, against ac cepting the tithes collected from his parish ; as he has pledged himself to a life of poverty, his daughter seeks and obtains the position of head mistress of a London school. Chance leads her in London among a group of Social ists, cultured, unselfish men, deeply in earnest one of them being, to her surprise, the man she most admires. The experience she goes through and the change it effects in her opin ions is recorded. VANAMEE, Mrs. LIDA OSTROM. Two women ; or, over the hills and far away, Merriam Co, nar. 16, 75 c. WELLS, H. S. The time machine : an inven tion. Holt, i 11. nar. 16, (Buckram ser.) 75 c. WHITE, ELIZA ORNE. Winterborough. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. 16, (Riverside pap. ser., no. 68.) pap., 50 c. WINTER, J. STRANGE, [fseud. for Mrs. H. E. V. Stannard.] The major s favorite : a novel. J. Selwin Tait & Sons. nar. 16, 75 c. "A slight but excellent story, excellently well told." London Literary World. WRIGHT, Mrs. MARY TAPPAN. A truce, and other stories. Scribner. 16, $i. Contents: A truce; "As haggards of the rock;" "A portion of the tempest;" From Macedonia ; Deep as first love ; A fragment of a p ay, with a chorus. ZANGWILL, I. The master : a novel. Harper, il. 12, $1.75. HISTORY. BARBAS, PAULpRANgois J. N. Comte. Memoirs of Barras, member of the Directorate ; ed. with introduction, prefaces and appendices by George Duruy. In 4 v. V. i, The ancient regime and the revolution ; V. 2, Directorate up to the i8th Fructidor ; tr. by C. E, Roche. Harper. 8, per vol. , $3. 75. FROUDE, J. ANTHONY. English seamen in the sixteenth century : lectures delivered at Ox ford, Easter terms 1893-94. Scribner. 8, $1.75- Nine lectures entitled : The sea cradle of the Reformation ; John Hawkins and the African slave trade ; Sir John Hawkins and Philip the Second ; Drake s voyage round the world ; Parties in the state ; The great expedition to the West Indies ; Attack on Cadiz ; Sailing of the Armada ; Defeat of the Armada. " The book is one which cannot fail to prove delightful reading to every English-speaking man, no matter in what part of the globe he may be found." Providence Sunday Journal. GARDNER, ALICE. Julian, philosopher and em peror, and the last struggle of Paganism against Christianity. Putnam. il. 12, (Heroes of the nations ser., no. 13.) $1.50; hf. mor., $1.75. PETRIE, W. M. FLINDERS. A history of Egypt. V.- i, From the earliest times to the xvith dynasty. Scribner. il. 12, $2.25. PUTNAM, RUTH. William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the moderate man of the xvith cen tury : the story of his life as told in his own letters, in those of his friends and his ene mies, and from official documents. Putnam. 400 p. il. 16, 2 v., $3.75. SEGUR, PHILIPPE DE (Count.} An aide-de-camp of Napoleon : memoirs of General Count de Segur of the French Academy, 1800-1812 ; rev. by his grandson, Count L. De Segur; tr. by H. A. Patchett-Martin. Appleton. por. 12, $2. WINSOR, JUSTIN. The Mississippi basin : the struggle in America between England and France, 1697-1763 ; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 8, maps, $4. This volume takes up the story of American exploration where Dr. Winsor left it in his " Cartier to Frontenac." It traces the counter movements of the English and French in ad venture, trade and war, for the possession of the Mississippi valley, showing how such move ments were directed on geographical lines. The narrative covers the interval from the Treaty of Ryswich (1697) to the Peace of Paris (1763), and is illustrated at every stage by fac similes of contemporary maps. Full index. INDUSTRIAL. DYER, H. The evolution of industry. Mac- millan. 12, $1.50. MASON, OTIS T. The origins of invention: a study of industry among primitive peoples. Scribner. il. 12, (Contemporary science ser.) $1.25. " We are so prone to believe that all the blessings which we now enjoy are the fruit of our modern civilization that it is well for us to be reminded once in a while that our ancestors and other primitive peoples were by no means so obtuse or brutish as many of us ignorantly suppose them to have been. A book which will tend to remove erroneous impressions on this point has just been imported by Charles Scribner s Sons. It is entitled The origins of inventions: A study of industry among primitive peoples, and is the work of Olis T. Mason, A.M., Ph.D. In it the author, with the aid of several curious and interesting illustrations, gives the early history of several inventions, which are now of the first importance. Thus he tells us much about the invention of tools and mechanical devices, of the primitive uses of fire, of early stone working, of the potter s art, of primitive travel and transportation, and of the art of war in days that knew not bullet proof armor and smokeless powder. His book is, in fact, a storehouse of curious facts concern ing primitive peoples, and will, consequently, be found extremely useful by all who are inter ested in the history of the development of arts and industries." N. Y. Herald. WALSH, Jos. M. Tea, its history and mystery. \$d ed.\ Published by the author, Jos. M. Walsh, il. 12, leatherette, $2. Contents: Early history and introduction; Geographical distribution; Botanical character istics and form; Cultivation and preparation; Commercial classification and description; Adul teration and detection; Arts of testing, blending and preparing; Chemical and medicinal proper ties; World s production and consumption; Tea-culture, a probable American industry. LITERATURE, MISCELLANEOUS AND COL LECTED WORKS. DARMESTETER, JA. Selected essays of James 1 84 THE LITERARY NEWS. [June, 1895 Darmesteter; irom the French by Helen B- Jastrow; ed., with an introd. memoir, by J. Morris Jastrow, jr. Houghton, Mifflin Co. por. 12, $1.50. Contents: The religions of the future ; The prophets of Israel; Afghan life in Afghan songs; Race and tradition; Ernest Renan; An essay on the history of the Jews; The Supreme God in the Indo-European Mythology. Dar mesteter was one of the foremost scholars of France, especially in the domain of religion and Oriental research. HALIBURTON, HUGH. Furth in field: a volume of essays on the life, language, and literature of old Scotland. Putnam. 12, $2. HUTTON, LAURENCE. Literary landmarks of Jerusalem. Harper, il, 12, 75 c. KARPELES, GUSTAV. Jewish literature and other -essays. The Jewish Pub. Soc. of America. 12, $1.25. Contents: A glance at Jewish literature; The Talmud; The Jew in the history of civilization; Women in Jewish literature; Moses Maimonides; Jewish troubadours and minnesingers; Humor and love in Jewish poetry; The Jewish stage; The Jew s quest in Africa; A Jewish king in Po land; Jewish society in the time of Mendelssohn; Leopold Zunz; Heinrich Heine and Judaism; The music of the synagogue. LONG, J. D. After-dinner and other speeches. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 8, $1.25. MILES, ALFRED H., ed. One thousand and one anecdotes. Whittaker. 12, $1.50. " Of Mr. Miles collection as a whole one may -say that it contains little that is not really good and a great deal that is excellent. As a volume for occasional reading in moments of leisure or as an antidote to attacks of the blues, it offers very manifest advantages. A by no means minor attraction of the volume is to be found in the clear and handsome typography which has been given to it by the publishers." The Beacon, SCUDDER, Miss VIDA DuTTON. The life of the spirit in the modern English poets. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. 8, $1.75. MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. .MIVART, ST. GEORGE. The helpful science. Harper. 12, $1.25, A plea for metaphysics as opposed to sensism and various other fashionable theories, and is one of the many works inevitably destined to appear in the reaction against unbelief. It is characterized by an appearance of simplicity, leading the sceptical reader from admission to admission until he finds himself committed to belief in various things of which he has been loftily contemptuous. Having brought him to this point, the author shows him that he has mistaken self-conceit for real originality, and leaves him with the consoling farewell that the man who depends too much is not only foolish, but dangerous, and that it is through love, the 1 charity "of the King James version of the New Testament, that we reach the truest analogy possible for us with the ultimate creative purpose of the Divine First Cause. NATURE AND SCIENCE. CHAPMAN, FRANK M. Handbook of birds of Eastern North America. Appleton. il. 16, leath., $3.50. DANA, Mrs. FRANCES THEODORA, [Mrs. W. Starr Dana.] How to know the wild flowers: a guide to the names, haunts and habits of our common wild flowers; il. by Marion Satterlee. t w] rev. and enl. ed. Scribner. 12, net, 1.75- This enlarged edition contains fifty-two new plates half as many again as can be found in former editions with the result that in all one hundred and sixty-four American wild flowers are pictured. Sixty or more new flower descrip tions are added, raising the number of flowers described to nearly five hundred. HAYWARD, JANE MARY. Bird notes; ed. by Emma Hubbard; with fifteen il. from drawings by G. E. Lodge. Longmans, Green & Co. 16, $1.75. Notes made from personal observation of the habits and appearance of various English birds. MCDONALD, DONALD. Sweet-scented flowers and fragrant leaves; interesting associations gathered from many sources, with notes on their history and utility; with introd. by W. Robinson. Scribner. 16 pi. 12, net, $1.50. PRIME, W. COOPER. Among the northern hills. Harper. 16, $i. An out-of-door book rich in sketches of nature, by the author of "Along new England roads." There are twenty chapters on a variety of kin dred subjects, as: The primeval forest; A trout stream ; An up-country artist ; Beyond; An old angler; Doughnuts and tobacco ; John Ledyard; An Easter long ago; An old-time Christmas; Along at Thanksgiving; etc. SCHWARZ, A. The horse: its external and in ternal organization ; rev. and ed. by G. Flem ing. Whittaker. il. obi. 12, bds.,. net, 75 c. An illustrated representation and brief descrip tion of the horse, dedicated to lovers and owners of horses, and designed for the instruction of non-commissioned officers and volunteers in cavalry regiments. The drawings are partly from nature and partly from illustrations in Leyh and Frank s" Anatomy." STEP, E. Wayside and woodland blossoms: a pocket-guide to British wild flowers; for the country rambler; with col. figures of 156 species of flowers, black and white pis. of 22 of the lesser-known trees, and clear descrip tions of 400 species of flowers. Warne. 12, $2.50. WEED, CLARENCE MOORES. Ten New England blossoms and their insect visitors. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. il. 12, $1.25. POETRY. BEESLY, A. H. Ballads and other verse. Longmans, Green & Co. 16, $1.75. BOLLES, FRANK. Chocorua s tenants. Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. il. 12, $i. ECHEGARAY, JOSE. Mariana ; an original drama in three acts and an epilogue ; tr. by Ja. Graham. Roberts, por. 16, $i. GATES, ELLEN M. H. The treasures of Kuri- um. Putnam. 12, $i. A collection of short poems. SAWTELLE, MARY ANNA and ALICE ELIZ. An olio of verse. Putnam. 16, 75 c. Many of these poems appeared in the columns of the Boston Literary World and The Trans cript of Boston. June, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 185 POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. DONISTHORPE, WORDSWORTH. Law in a free state. Macmillan. 12, $2. Addressed to the large body of English so cialists who " inconsistently appeal to socialism for the attainment of certain ends which at first sight seem to be unattainable under a regime of freedom." Questions of libel, of cruelty to ani mals, of copyright, of adulteration, of the rela tion of the sexes, of rights over land, of nuisance and many others Mr. Donisthorpe considers difficult to solve straight off on the principle of equal liberty. He discusses questions, how ever, from his point of view quite dispassion ately, showing where the socialistic principle must be applied to them. GILLETTE, KING C. The human drift. The Humboldt Pub. Co. por. il. 8, (Twentieth Century lib., no. 59.) pap., 50 c. Outlines the plan of a new civilization and its consummation ; the chief factor in its ac complishment is the doing away with competi tion and the establishment of material equality. This is to be arrived at by a United Stock Com pany, organized by the people and for the peo ple, with a nominal capital of one thousand million dollars, to gradually absorb ard finally control production and distribution, such com pany having in view the destruction of all trib utary industries of the present system which do not contribute or are not necessary to the pro duction and distribution of the necessities of life. HARVEY, W. H. [" Coin," pseud. } A tale of two nations. Coin Publishing Co. 12, (Coin s financial ser., v. i, no. 4.)$! ; pap., 50 c. ; popular ed., pap., 25 c. A love story that gives, the author says, " the history of demonetization and depicts the evil spirit and influences that have worked the destruction of American prosperity." HARVEY, W. H., ["Coin," pseud. } Coin s financial school. Coin Publishing Co. por. il. 12, (Coin s financial ser., v. I, no. 3.) f i; pap., 50 c. ; popular ed. t pap., 25 c. Advocates the free and unlimited coinage of silver by the United States, without internation al agreement. "Coin " attributes all the recent financial troubles to what he calls the demoneti zation of silver. The information and statistics given form a history of silver; they are offered in the form of lectures, the speaker often being interrupted by pupils of his school with puzzling questions, which he answers freely. HARVEY, W. H., ["Coin," pseud. } Coin s financial school up to date. Coin Publishing Co. por. il. 12, (Coin s financial ser., v. 2, no. 6. ) $i ; pap. , 50 c. ; popular ed. , pap. , 25 c. ^ In this volume " Coin s " acts and utterances since his "school" was taught in Chicago are chronicled, bringing the subject discussed down to date. It is an answer to " Coin s " critics and contains new information. The larger part of the work is in the form of interviews with prominent writers, journalists and publ c men, who "question many of Coin s former statements on the silver question, and receive from him further light on the subject. HOPKINS, ALPHONSO A. Wealth and waste: the principles of political economy in their application to the present problems of labor, law, and the liquor traffic. Funk & Wagralls Co. 12, $i. The leading topics considered are: Economy and labor; Wealth and its distribution; Con sumption and waste; Relation and duty of au thority; Harmony of social forces; and Political ways and means. Designed for popular reading and also as a text-book. A list of questions is given with each chapter. MOORE, Jos. WEST. The American Congress: a history of national legislation and political events, 1774-1895. Harper. 8, $3. The history begins with ihe Continental Con gress and its prominent men narrates very clearly the proceedings in the formation of the nation and the establishment of the government under the Constitution and then goes on steadily to tell of all the notable legislative and political transactions in the growth and develop ment of the American Republic up to the pres ent time. The book contains many bright sketches of character, has interesting accounts of all the political parties, and abounds in pleas ing incidents, anecdotes, and personalities. It also contains important state-papers, famous speeches and debates, and other matter valuable for reference, MORAN, T. FRANCIS. The rise and develop ment of the bicameral system in America. Johns Hopkins Press. 8, (Johns Hopkins Univ. studies, I3th ser., no. 5.) pap., ro c. WALKER, FRANCIS A. The making of the na tion, 1783-1817; with maps and appendices. Scribnen 12, (American history ser.) $1.25. The topics relating to this period having special chapters are : The Confederation, 1783- 87; The constitutional convention of 1787; The constitution as submitted to the people; Ratifi cation and the inauguration of the government; Washington s first and second terms; The ad ministration of John Adams ; Jefferson s first and second terms; The controversy with Eng land; The war of 1812-15; The civil events of Madison s administration. Appendices contain the electoral vote in detail, 1789-1816; Popula tion of the first four censuses, etc., and the Cabinets of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. A bibliography of the period covers WISNER, E. Cash vs. coin: an answer to " Coin s financial school." Kerr & Co. 12, 25 c. " Charley Cash," a baggageman on a South ern railroad, happened to be in Chicago when Coin s school was in progress, and accidentally discovered that Coin s success in meeting all his opponents was due to hypnotism. Cash armed himself against this by a charge of electricity, and a debate between the twochampions resulted in the complete overthrow of the " 16 to i " argument. Following the short story are other arguments against the free silver theories of " Coin." SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS. CLYDE, HENRY. Pleasure cycling. Little, Brown & Co. 16, $i. PORTER, LUTHER H. Cycling for health and pleasure: an indispensable guide to the suc cessful use of the wheel. Dodd, Mead & Co. 1 6, $i. 1 86 THE LITERARY NEWS. [/unc, 1895 THEOLOGY, RELIGION AND SPECULATION. WHATELY, R,, D.D. Historic doubts relative to Napoleon Buonaparte. Putnam. 12, 75 c. " Ttiis work first v appeared in the year 1819 and attracted wide and serious attention. Its pur pose is to show that the arguments employed to disprove the historic Christ may be used to disprove the existence of any conspicuous figure in human annals. We are all more or less dis turbed by the difficulty in determining what to believe. The distinguished author endeavored to frame some canons which may furnish a standard for determining what evidence is to be received by a sound system of logic." Phila delphia Press. Socks for itye ffioung. ADAMS, W.T., [" Oliver Optic, "pseud.] In the saddle. Lee & Shepard. 11. 12, (The blue and the gray on land ser., no. 2.) $1.50. Many of the characters prominent in Brother against brother," the preceding volume of the series, reappear in this volume. The real mili tary operations of the war now begin, and the residents of the section where the scene is laid the southern part of Kentucky see and feel the terrors and anxieties of civil war. 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Kovalevsky, an ex- traordinary combination of feminine nature with an intellect having some what of mascu line force, " but yet a woman " to the end; a combination of ambition, of skill and success in exact science and in literature of passion and passing happi ness, and the bitterest disap pointment with life. Sorbya (or So phia), with the long wedded name which it takes 48 hours to memorize, was born in 1850 and won almost a European fame in her spe cial field. She became Profess or of Mathematics and Lecturer in the Univer sity of Stockholm. After a career certainly most romantic, though made grimly and bitterly so through her own disastrous temperament, Sonya died in 1891. Her story now appears in a composite, interesting volume, translated from the Russian and the Swedish, which con tains her own " Recollections of Childhood," and a biography by her intimate friend, the the Duchess of Cajanello. The " Recollections" are bright, but not ex- From "Sonya Kovnlevsky." C> SONYA K< traordinary. They have the same introspec- tiveness and intense attention to self shown with more mastery and detail in Tolstoi s "Childhood" and "Youth," or, more hysteric ally, in poor Marie Bashkirtseff s autobiography. The biography by Countess Cajanello is really far more interesting and valuable, because it shows us the de veloped woman Sonya as she was and as she thought she was. 1 1 i s a "subjective" and sympathet ic, not a critical *gjf sketch. ftL^gijjP Inorder to secure indepen dence, Sonya left her father s house and made a " nihilistic " or fictitious mar riage with a stu- dent named Kovalevsky ; a ; matter of form / only, the two not living as man and wife, but each remaining free to study and work separately or together. This was when she was 18, and she plunged deep into math ematics at St. Petersburg, Heidelberg, and in England. Kovalevsky, although not obliged by their agreement to do so, gave her a quite ideal love, paid her minute attention, and al lowed himself to be burdened by her with all sons of petty cares. She, of course, accepted this readily. Known, from her childish physi ognomy, as " the little sparrow," she was small and slender, had a round face, and short, curly chestnut hair, and very mobile features. " Her eyes were sometimes bright and dancing, some- pyright, 1895, by The Century Co VALEVSKY. 194 THE LITERARY NEWS. 1895 times dreamy and full of melancholy. Her whole expression was a mixture of childish in nocence and deep thought." But while she also fancied she loved him ideally, she could not learn to respect his indi viduality or let him alone. "She had a curious liking for ideal and exaggerated friendships. She wanted to have without giving aught in return. . . . She required, too, what she loved, and thought to gain by force what would have been given to her spontaneously had it not been demanded. . . . She also needed to have some one near her who would never leave her and who was interested in all that interested her self; but she made life unbearable to all who lived with her." The remark which follows is extremely per tinent and suggestive: " She was herself too restless, too ill-balanced in temperament, to be satisfied with such lov ing companionship, although it was her ideal." The reality of marriage and motherhood and fame brought with them a taste for luxury. To gain money Sonya went into speculations and dragged her husband into them. They turned out badly, but she had implanted the speculative mania in her husband s simple, studious mind, and he continued to follow it when he had been appointed Professor of Pale ontology at Moscow. Then Sonya also be came jealous of him, without cause, decided to desert him, carrying her little daughter with her, and to resume her studies elsewhere. A very natural result followed. Her hus band, Kovalcvsky, who had first given her an ideal protection and practical devotion, without any sort of return on her part, and then had merged all his affections in her and in theirchild. and had been drawn into the maelstrom of Speculation by her, killed himself. Of course, her friends said that this was due to madness, caused by pecuniary troubles. It was one of Kovalevsky s mistakes, perhaps, that, being dead, he was unable to state the truth of the matter. Though capable of exquisite tenderness, she had an iron will, that did not scruple to wound or crush those whom she loved, and who loved her most, if they stood between her and any aim of hers for an instant. Further, while de manding "illimitable love" from others, she would give only a limited one in return. The Countess Cajanello discovered as much even in friendship with this gifted being. Says the countess: "She wished to have such full pos- n of the person of whom she was fond that it almost excluded the possibility of indi vidual life in that other person. "She was continually in want of stimulus. She desired dramatic interests in life, and was ever hungering for high-wrought mental de lights. She hated with all her heart the gray monotony of every-day life." Bad training, or lack of genuine training, on the part of her parents, and false ideals of daily life and love in her own mind seem to me the causes of that mingled success and failure which make of Sonya Kovalevsky a luminous wreck. She is a most interesting character study, and a warning to good women of the way they should not follow if they would be wise. All that she achieved in demonstrating woman s intellectual power could have been done without injuring or destroying other lives and blighting her own. Her biographer presents her not as an exception to, but as a proof of, the rule that the life of the heart is the most important, not only for women, but for the whole of the hu man race. The publication of Sonya Kovalev sky s story, as instilling this truth, ought to have a lasting value. (The Century Co. $1.75.) X. Y. Herald. With the Procession. MR. FULLER S muse being urban, it is again of Chicago that he writes. We are taken among the wealthy, but the Marshall family have not attempted to keep up with the procession. It is the old-maid daughter a nobly planned wom an y,-ho unwittingly is the cause of the aban donment of the old homestead, as they name it, although its antiquity is not far-reaching. Although there are many players on the stage, there are but three which are elaborated to any considerable degree Jane, her brother Trues- dale, and Mrs. Bates, the woman of many mill ions. An excellent piece of description is Mrs. Bates humorous exhibition of the splendors of her house. Truesdale s criticisms on the ways of his native Chicago are quite as entertaining when they have a sound foundation as when they are the mere ebullitions of youthful ego tism. There is no established promenade to suit his cultivated taste; no cafes, or at least none of the kind that he prefers; and the first nights at the theatres have no value to a person of his discernment and intelligence. He is an adolescent person who has travelled in Europe, much to his mental and moral disadvantage returning with a contempt for the grocery busi ness, in which his father has amassed his mill ions. Cecilia Ingles hovers around the story, but to no use that we can see. The love story is an undercurrent which is not altogether suc cessful. Mr. Fuller is not only a close observer but a graphic chronicler, as his "Cliff Dwellers" showed, but his last book is better than his first. Americans in growing cities will be charmed with it. (Harper. ^i.2 z ) Public Opinion. July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. Making of the Nation. THIS book follows works by Prof. Fisher and Prof. Sloane, in a series of four, which is to be completed in one by Prof. Burgess on the sixty years following 1817. From President Walker s position and known ability something valuable was to be expected; yet his pronounced views on the currency question excited a tremor on first opening his pages. It is eminently satis factory to be able to say that no such visions intervene to injure the tone of this book, in all of his views, and perhaps with those he most cherishes, we cannot hesitate to commend this book as marked by a pure and lively style, a sound but chastened patriotism, and a recog nition at once scholarly and practical of that transcendent idea, the "commonwealth of na tions." (Scribner. 81.25.) .V. )*. Evening Post. Our Western Archipelago. THE summer days are come, and we must go somewhere. Europe is an old story. Why From Field s "Our Western Archipelago. C.ipy riirht . 1S; ">. by Charles Serilmer s Sons. BAY OK CHI I. CAT. every way worthy of a scholar, a teacher and a publicist. Of late more space has been given by histori ans to the first generation after the adoption of the constitution, which their precursors had neglected. This manual, which by its size dep recates comparis -n with the histories of Adams and McMaster, yields to no book yet published for suggestiveness and penetration. As is natural in one of President Walker s former occupation, he has much to say of the early censuses of the country, and the signifi cance of the statistics then ascertained ; and his book is provided with useful tables, maps, bib liography and index. Without agreeing with not turn to the West and see a little more of our own continent ? But one cannot go alone. Even an old traveller does not like to set out on a solitary pilgrimage. But there is a choice in companions and he will have no old fogy but himself. To go to the other extreme he takes the youngest of his household to brighten him up when he is a little dull, and to warm his heart when it is a little cold. So age and youth set out together. And now that he comes to tell the story, he would have all his listeners young in heart, if not in years, loving the sunshine, and looking up to the deep blue sky. (Scribner. $2.) Introduction to Dr. Field s " Our }\ cstfrn Archipelago" 196 THE LITERARY NEWS. {July, 1895 The Watch Fires of 76. AN historical story that is neither stiff nor hackneyed is furnished by Samuel Adams Drake in " The Watch Fires of 76," in which From "Watch Fires of 76." Copyright, 1895, by Lee & Shepard. a group of veterans, by the tavern fire, tell of the events in which they participated in the Revolutionary war. They give free rein to the expression of their opinions regarding those above them. The accuracy of the author in his other books vouches for the correctness of his statements in this volume, and he has certainly, in this story, presented a stirring series of nar ratives of military adventures, in which impor tant information goes hand in hand with spirit ed entertainment. (Lee & Shepard. $i 25.) Boston Gazette, An Old Angler. Ax old man, wading in the shallow edge of the stream, stepping with caution, but firmly, came into view, his eye fixed steadily on the pool, and as full of light and brightness as a boy s eye. He knew what he was about, that was plain enough. He did not look up for some time, but when his glance caught the horses and buckboard, and met mine, he nodded cheerily, but quietly held to his work. It is quite as pleasant to see a fish handsomely taken as to take one yourself. He held his rod in the right hand, well up, and the bend away down to the butt spoke of a weighty fish. The first few rushes had been controlled before the an gler came in sight, and now the trout was hang ing low down in the water, and swinging slowly from side to side of the pool. Passing his rod to the left hand, he began to use the reel, with judgment, and the fish came nearer. Then he rushed, and the fingers left the reel to run, and the rod bowed a little down to the stream to ease the strain, and I saw his finger press on the line against the rod below the reel to make it drag more heavily. So the fish did not go into the swift water below the pool, bat yielding to the persuasion of the rod, turned and gave it up. In less than five minutes he lay on the green grass, and I weighed him a plump three pounds; and then I looked up to meet the smiling face of the old angler. " The boy says he is learning to take trout. I fancy he couldn t have a better teacher." "Well, I ought to know how to take them here. I ve fished this river every spring nigh on to seventy years." " You began it young." " Not so very young. I m eighty-one, and I ve caught trout since I was seven years old." There was a keen pleasure in talking to an ex perienced angler of this sort, and we talked as cheerily as anglers love to talk. He told me a great many things worth remembering about the habits of the fish in that river. For the habits of trout, like those of men, are different in differ ent localities. Hence it is that books of in struction, and rules about flies for certain sea sons, and written ways of fishing are of small account. My experienced friend took no stock in the imitation theory. " Sometimes," he said , " but not often in this water, a trout takes a fly because it looks like a fly of the season; but mostly, I think, they are tempted by the va riety which is offered them in something alive and eatable which they haven t tasted before. A trout is a greedy eater. In the freshets he crowds his stomach with sticks and stones and everything which goes along in the thick water." Surely, it would have gladdened the soul of Izaak to meet this lover of the gentle art. For after I had cast in vain over the pool and wasted my energies for naught, as he sent his flies down under the overhanging bank, where I had been with mine a dozen times, up came that other trout to the golden hackle, and, taking it, was taken. We passed the day together along the banks of the stream, going for an hour to his home near by for dinner, and coming out afterwards to talk rather than fish by the side of the water. My friend was a very gentle old man. How could one be otherwise \vho had been for seven ty years a lover of the most refining of all arts ! (Harper. $i.) From Prime s " Among t/ie- Northcrn Hills" July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 197 William the Silent, Prince of Orange. WILLIAM the Silent, Prince of Orange, was a distinctive character, cast in a peculiar period of history. He was in thought and desire centuries ahead of the possibilities of his time, and had to contend with ideas among those he served that were as difficult to overcome as were the forces of the Spanish Crown, with which his life was spent in doing battle. Had he been able to effect a proper appreciation of his work among those for whom it was done, and obtain a con federation and coalition of the provinces for which he staked his life and his all at any of a number of times dur ing his twenty-five years of faithful endeavor, he would have freed them from Span ish domination. That which he accomplished was of little moment when compared with that which he might have ac complished had he received such support as he was just ly entitled to from those who were to reap the benefits of his work. Many volumes have been written of him and his time, and yet it is doubtful if any have been found to be more readable and accurate than will be those of Ruth Put nam. Her book shows a vast amount of intelligent research among original documents and an unbiased, thoughtful, discriminating study of the histories of her subject. The works of Motley and others that she has drawn upon to a slight extent have been care fully compared with original documents, some of which they had access to, and many of which she has for the first time placed in an intelligible form before Eng lish readers. She has reached certain conclu sions that do not entirely agree with those reached by former historians of this, the most interesting character of his century, and has made them manifest. To obtain her material and prepare herself for her work, she visited and made original research at Orange, Dillenburg, Breda, and other places directly connected with his career, and searched the libraries of the British Museum, the royal libraries of the Hague, and Brussels, and others where trustworthy infor mation could be obtained. In this way she has had access to his correspondence in various lan guages, in the nature of letters and docu- From " William y G. P. Pi ments, and hundreds of letters and documents written during his time, in connection with affairs in which he was the central figure. She has thus been able to familiarize herself with his motives and follow them through his actions, and also has discovered those of his contemporaries who wrote and spoke eulogis- tically or with opprobrium. His friendships were not many and his confidences still fewer. The few that are instanced show a lovaltv and 198 THE LITERARY NEWS. 1895 devotion to him and his cause that are in strik ing contrast to the many who professed friend ship only to sell their influence and knowledge of his affairs to his enemies. The author s work is confined as nearly as possible to the personality of the Prince of Orange and his individual actions. (Putnam. 2v., $4.) N. Y. Times. E. A. Abbey s Work in the Boston Public Library. E. A. AHHEY S most characteristic work is acknowledged to be the illustration of classic literary subjects. He was chosen as the de signer and painter of the prize for the main hall of the great Boston Public Library. He chose the story of the Holy Grail for his theme. Many have wondered why this special subject should have been deemed most fitting for such purpose. Mr. Abbey explains his idea in the following words, taken from a description of his work, with reproductions, just issued by R. H. Russell & Son : " Thus the Grail story has been the great fountain of Christian romance, and the Arthu rian legend, the peculiar gift of the British race to the world s literature, refined and sub tilized by the courtly poets of Provence and the German Minnesingers, further Christian ized by the monks, who took over for the church the tales they could not bring the peo- E. A. Abbey s " The Qnpst of the Holy Grail." Copyright, by Russell & Son. pie to forget, is the source of all imaginative writing, the most distinctive feature of modern literature. The English language has no ro mance but leads from it; its stories lie, though unrecognized, in the hearts of the English peo ple, in the nursery tales of our children, in all Christian legend down to the most trivial superstition, like that of thirteen at table. For but two great central stories lie at the root of modern literature, the Nibelungen myth, Teutonic, which is essentially Pagan ; the Arthurian myth, Celtic, which early became Christian ; and, therefore, both from social fact and from historic pride, the Grail story is pecu liarly fitted to be the subject of the decoration of a great library, built by a people of British race, and in a room dedicated not to science or the classics alone, but to fiction, poetry, ro mance to the reading of the people." (Russell, bds., $1.25.) Memoirs of General Count de Segur. " THE de Segurs, essentially gens de Tepee, were distinguished as soldiers early in the last century. In addition to their prowess with the sword," says the N. Y. Times, " they were diplomatists, and had a strong literary turn. The father of Count Philippe Paul de Segur, of these memoirs, served under Ro- chambeau in our Revolutionary struggle, and was ambassador to Russia in 1784. So, by heredity, at least, the aide-de-camp of Napo leon followed the ways of his ancestors. Born in 1780, Philippe Paul lived a long life, dying in 1873. After his death, his History, Me moirs, and Miscellania appeared, and the book is valuable as containing the Count s rem iniscences of Napoleon. The lattei are sepa rately embodied in this volume which is a most entertaining and interesting work." This volume forms a natural companion or pendant to the "Memoirs of the Baron de Meneval." The Count de Segur s military ca reer began in 1800. He was made a general in 1812 and took part in all the wars of the Em pire as a member of Napoleon s staff or the com mander of a select corps. Hohenlinden, mis sions to Denmark and Spain, the execution of the Due d Enghien, the preparations for the in vasion of England, Austerlitz, Ulm, Jena, Ber lin, Spain, and the intrigues of Fouche and Bernadotte, are among the subjects of his chapters treated with the advantages of per sonal knowledge, and, in the earlier pages, of intimate information due to his father s asso ciations and position. The historical value of the memoirs is obvious, and their interest is enhanced by the author s graphic and lucid style. (Appleton. $2.) July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 199 A Son of Reuben. WHEN they got into the lighted street, he said "good-night" very quietly, and turning swift ly on his heel, began to retrace his steps. She walked on very leisurely, thinking of the pleasant afternoon she had spent. Hugh Sut- cliffe had interested her from their first meet ing. He was no ordinary operative ; a thorough man of the people, and yet standing head and shoulders above his order ; faithful to his own kith and kin, and yet having little sympathy with them ; never seeking the society of those in a higher social position than himself, and yet unable to associate with those of his own class. Hence he had been driven to dwell apart and alone. He had found com panionship in books, and recreation in study. His hobby had been mechan ics; and one of his inven tions had been stolen, while he had been saving sufficient money to take out a patent. Such a life- story as his could not fail to interest a woman of such large sympathies as Grace Marsden. Nor could she keep out of her sympathy a measure of admiration. The man was so patient, so brave, so persevering; so good to his invalid parents and brother; so helpful in every good work ; so ready to sacrifice himself for the good of others. Indeed, from every point of view the man was to be admired. While thousands of young fel lows were loafing about waiting for something to turn up, he was trying to turn up something for himself. And in her heart she hoped and prayed that he would succeed. When she got to her room that night, her thoughts recurred to him again. The portrait of her lover was before her handsome, smiling, and splendidly posed. But what had he be yond his looks ? It was as though a voice spoke the question close to her ear. He was handsome, well-educated, respectably connected, with a prospect of sharing his father s wealth when the old man died. But what had he apart from this? What treasure had he in himself? What could he do if left to shift for himself ? Had he ever earned anything in his life? Was he ever likely to do so? She turned away her eyes at length with a little sigh. " I wish he had a few of Hugh Sut- cliffe s excellencies," she said, half aloud ; and then she blushed and sighed again. (Warne. $1.25.) From Hacking s " Son of Reuben" From Hocking s " Son of Retihei SHE MADE AS SWEET A PICTURE OF ENGLISH COULD DESIRE. Frederick Warne & Cr WOMANHOOD AS ANY ONE 200 THE LITERARY NEWS. [July, 1895 NARROW AD/E, OR PICK. BURWELL, CAMBRIDGE. Primitive Man. IN the popularization of science no more effective work has been done than that which has been undertaken by the projector of The Library of Useful Stories, now in course of pub lication by the Appletons. This is a series of little books which are to deal with various branches of knowledge, and to treat each sub ject in clear and concise language, as free as possible from technical words and phrases. Each book will be complete in itself, and will be the work of some writer of authority within WAR AXE, NOCTKA SOUND. the province surveyed. The aim of the series is to present the leading facts of science and history in an interesting form, yet without sac rificing accuracy to picturesqueness of treat ment. We add that the price will be from The illustrations on this page are from Clodd s " Primi tive Man." Copyright, 1895, by D. Appleton & Co. thirty cents to forty cents a volume; that is to say, these little books will be within the reach of all persons who wish to make, at all events a beginning of self-education. In the example before us, "The Story of Primitive Man," by Edward Clodd, we have in a compendious form the results of the latest in vestigation into the early history of the human race. The author, who is the president of the Folk-Lore Society, is a well known English an thropologist, and entirely competent to present an up-to-date summary of the extremely inter esting subject which he has undertaken to ex pound. We do not, of course, mean to say that some of his deductions may not be re garded as disputable by some authorities in anthropology, or even that the trustworthiness of his data may not be, in some instances, im peached. In the present state of our knowl edge regarding the evolution of man, it is inevitable that differences of opinion should be encountered with relation to the outcome of the researches thus far made. We imagine, however, that no candid person will deny that Mr. Clodd has come as near as any one at the present time is likely to come to an authentic exposition of all the infor mation hitherto gained regard ing the earlier stages in the evolution of mankind as dis tinguished from the anthro poid apes. The list of books given at the end of this little volume fulfils the twofold purpose of indicating the authorities who have been consulted in its preparation, and of telling the reader where fuller information on the several subjects dealt with is to be found. ton. 40 c.) The Sun. (Apple- NARROW ADZE, OR PICK. July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 201 Narrative of Captain Coignet. " THE Narrative of Captain Coignet (Soldier Theatrical Sketches. THE anonymous author seems thoroughly an of the Empire), 1776-1850," purports to come fait in theatrical gossip, and is an amusing ra- f rom a soldier unknown to fame, who discharged his duty well, and without rising high did rise to a captaincy from the ranks, survived all the chances of war, and lived on into the piping times of peace. This volume is edited from the original manuscript by Lore- dan Larchey, who vouches for it as a genuine original, and it is translated by Mrs. M. Carey. We see no rea son to question its origin as the personal narrative of a very intelligent soldier who made his way up from the ranks, and being gifted with a firm and vivid memory, afterwards, wrote down his recollections, except that it is a kind of book that might easily be forged. The book has no value for matters of strategy or on the larger questions of diplomacy or campaigning, and the merit of it is that Captain Coignet made no single attempt to write about things that lay out of his range. Inside his range he was a capital ob server, and there was much to see and write about. It is not all camp gossip that he gives us, though there may be some. In the main, it is the story of an honest soldier who used his eyes and was a story-teller of the first order. The story is not free from the brutal realism of war, but it has the intense interest of snapshot pictures, true and vivid as far as they go. In side of these limits he is a first-rate story-teller who has strange luck in seeing the thing which ought to be seen, though it might not amount to much in a his tory. He was at Waterloo, holding the rank of captain, and has plenty of incidents to report, but nothing important as illustrating the com bat. The interesting features of the book are its minor descriptions. These are written by one who knows and by a trained writer. The book is a valuable addition to Napoleana, of which it seems the reading public cannot have enough. (Crowell. $1.50.) The Outlook. conteur. The little volume contains a medley of bright and characteristic anecdotes of the leading stars of " the profession," as well as of the many lesser luminaries. There are stories of Wallack to whose memorv the book is ded- A Norse Idyll." Copyright, 1891, by Trie A DAUGHTER OF THE NORTH. bert Clarke C< icated Edwin Booth, Louis James, Henry Ir ving, Richard Mansfield, " Adonis " Dixey, and many others whose names are household words to playgoers. Nor are these reminiscences and sketches always honeyed. The writer has a sharp pen, and does not hesitate to unveil little foibles, amusing bits of self-esteem, and other lapses of human nature all of which makes the book piquant and interesting read ing. (The Merriam Co. 75 c.) 202 THE LITERARY NEWS. [July, 1895 The Master-Knot. THE old device of telling a story in letters is resorted to with great effect by Conover Duff. Two men and a woman write these letters, and the characters of the writers are shown forth Master-Knot . Copyright 1895, by Henry Holt & Co. RACING THROUGH THE PARK. in their different ways of seeing, describing and judging the same objects and circumstances. Both men love the charming heroine, and she, in her whole-hearted way, loves both. At last her higher nature leads her to choose the most unselfish. A note of sadness runs through the little pages, although many are brightened by fine touches of humor. (Holt. 75 c.) on, "that for a sum which I confess seems large, Peter, these artificial limbs may be pro cured in the North. I am at present in corre spondence with a firm in Philadelphia. In fact, I am negotiating for a second-hand limb"- " Second-hand! " gasped Newall. " Second-hand," repeated Miss Kizzy firmly. " The limb which corresponds to Liberty Thornham s proportions, was made, it appears, for a drum-major who lost his limb in a battle during our war, I do not know what battle, for I regret to say that the drum-major was in the Yankee army. I feel that I ought to offer an apology to the people of Thornham for hav ing decided upon buying if the money can be raised a limb which has been worn by one of our enemies. But being second-hand (for the drum-major, they inform me, returned it after using it about a year) being second-hand, I get it at half-price." "How much money have you on hand?" Newall asked, taking out his purse. " The fund, Peter, amounts as yet to only a few dollars," she returned. " But several people have promised to subscribe, and there will be mite-meetings, in Mrs. Alsbury s yard and else where, for the benefit of the fund. Were it not for the unavoidable expense of Monshur dee Jollyboys trip I could do more myself. Liberty has been informed of this movement. But of course we do not wish Olive to know as yet," she added anxiously. "You are a good woman, Keziah," Newall said, doubling his subscription, which he could ill afford at the moment, " and if ever a man in this world has done his duty, that man is Lib Thornham." Madame de Jolibois went away radiant. The fund under her indefatigable generalship grew; but it grew slowly. Sixty dollars was a large sum to raise for such a purpose; and it was a full year before the drum-major s leg came, consigned to Madame de Jolibois. Long before this Liberty had contrived a pair of crutches strong enough to bear his immense weight. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) From "Under the Man-Fig." Negotiating for a Second-hand Leg. MEANWHILE there was quite a little flutter among Liberty s white friends, for his patient and unselfish devotion to his former owner in his misfortunes had won him many. This was no less than a project, originaiing with Madame de Jolibois. to buy him an artificial leg. " One in the very latest style, Miss Kizzy explained to Newall, sitting in his office. " I learned from Sarah Hunter, whose uncle-in-law lost his limb at the battle of Shiloh," she went Master and Man. TOLSTOY S "Master and Man" is not much more than a sketch, but it is crowded with those characteristic touches which mark his literary work. His ever-present attention to Russian local customs and minute detail has not become vapid, and he leads up to the sub lime sacrifice the master makes for the man in the simple t yet most unexpected fashion. Mr. Howells has an appreciative introduction, and A. Hulme Beaman makes the translation. (Appleton. 75 c.) Public Opinion. 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 203 Suppressed Chapters. THERE are several kinds of cleverness in "Suppressed Chapters and other Bookish- ness," by Robert Bridges, but they are not so easy to define as to enjoy, for they are not sharply defined, they are occasionally inter- blended, and they demand for their perfect understanding a more intimate acquaintance with the fiction of to-day than most of their readers are likely to have. They are in a cer tain sense what the title, "Suppressed Chap ters," would suggest to the literary mind, imi tations or burlesques of popular authors ; but they are more than that, for this burlesque in tention is not only perceived but enforced by the critical spirit in which it is presented, and which exposes the "seamy side " of its origi nals. The critical suggestions which underlie these "Suppressed Chapters" are of a finer quality than the Chapters themselves, which pale their ineffectual light before Thackeray s " Prize Novelists " or the burlesques in Bayard Taylor s " Echo Club." Mr. Bridges aims his shafts at smaller deer than the victims of the American poet, or the English novelist, the first of the seven being Mr. Anthony Hope, the second Mr. Du Maurier, the third Mr. Richard Le Gallienne, the fourth Heinrich Ibsen, the fifth Mr. George Egerton, the sixth Mr. John Kendrick Bangs, the seventh Mr. Edward S. Martin. If any of these gentlemen have a right to feel aggrieved instead of complimented, it is Mr. Bangs, whose humor is characterized as the "Idiot Brand." Other authors who are chaffed by Mr. Bridges, in later portions of his vol ume, are Mr. Kipling, Mme. Sarah Grand, Mrs. W. K. Clifford and Mr. Bridges himself, in his penname of " Droch," and, in brief no tices of their novels, Mr. Meredith, Mr. Hall Caine, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Hope, Miss Harraden, Mr. Crawford, Miss Wilkins and Mr. Steven son. For just what it is, a collection of light trifles, critical, suggestive, humorous, this little volume of Mr. Bridges is of a kind that is sure to be read, once it is taken in hand, and to be reread, in portions at least, in one s leisure moments. (Scribner. $1.25.) Mail and Ex press. A Minister of the World. STEPHEN CASTLE, installed in the little New England pastorate of Thornton, is perfectly satisfied with his surroundings, until meeting Miss Loring, from New York, he imbibes new ideas. He finally accepts a call to a fashion able New York church, and his action thereafter is interesting chiefly on account of the contrasts which it offers to his former methods. The story first appeared in 77/6 Ladies Home Jour, a/, where it attracted much attention. The author is Caroline Atwater Mason, author of " A Titled Maiden," " A Loyal Heart," etc. The picture shows the first love-making of the young clergy man. (Randolph. 75 c.) From " A Minister of the World. Copyright, 1895, by A. D. F. Randolph & Ci "A KIND OF INVISIBLE AFFINITY BETWEEN US." 204 THE LITERARY NEWS. [July, 1895 " PULL, LADS, 1TLL ! " Copyright, J895, by Harper & Brother Afloat With the Flag. A GOOD, healthy story, attractively written, full of stirring incident and adventure, Mr. Henderson s book will doubtless find many en thusiastic readers. The difficulty in writing for boys is to keep alive their interest, and at the same time to give them something for a little serious reflection. The author has suc ceeded admirably in this, for the lad who can read the description of Admiral Benham s manly protection of the American merchant man in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro and not have his patriotism appealed to, must be diffi cult to move. Life on a man-of war, with routine, the duties of officers and men, the handling of the ship and its guns, the clearing of the deck for action, and the suspense and anxiety preceding an attack, all these are told very vividly and with an intimate knowledge of naval matters that could only come from much experience. In point of fact, Mr. Henderson himself is an officer in the New York Naval Reserve, and has been a keen student of naval affairs for some years. He has also written a text-book on navigation, and in general is thoroughly equipped to talk on the subject. The young sailors are fine, manly fellows, in love with their profession, and their life aboard the Detroit has a very alluring side. There are pleasant descriptions of midocean, dancing sunlight, fresh salty breezes, and ship bowling over lively seas; or pictures of beautiful har bors with background of smiling tropical vege tation and soft summer skies. Indeed, Mr. Henderson never lets the interest flag all the way through his work. (Harper. $1.25.) N. Y. Times. In the Fire of the Forge. PROFESSOR GEORG EBERS works the mine he has dug " for all it is worth." He has shown the shrewdest judgment in this popularizing of the archaic. Having devised a new thing, he has been wise enough, just as Scott and Dickens and the other markedly successful novelists were, to build up and up on that assured foundation, and not to fritter away his force on a dozen modes. Nothing better can happen an author than to be identified with a certain line of work accepted everywhere as his very own, with no one to share or divide it. This is Professor Ebers good fortune fortune established, however, by his own labor and discretion. " In the Fire of the Forge," translated from the German by Mary J. Staf ford, is a book in the well-known manner, the author s ingenuity being this time exercised in a reproduction of the life and manners of Nu- remburg in the thirteenth century. It is, by so much, easier reading than the Romances of Ancient Egypt and Greece, though still, per haps, too "old-fashioned" to suit the average reader-in-a-hurry. But there is another if smaller class of leisurely people who read for profit who will deeply relish this book. (Appleton. 2 v., pap., So c. ; $1.50.) Philadel phia Telegraph. July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 205 Gait s Novels. IT would be amusing to compare the lists of standard English fiction which a dozen or so of well-seasoned novel readers would prepare. By the callow devourers of stories of the present day the wide diversity of taste would be appre ciated, but they would be surprised to come across so many titles unknown to them. Stand ard though they may be styled, editions a-many though they may have passed through, while their merits have saved them from utter obliv ion, they nevertheless have been thrust aside in the onward rush. John Gait is but little more than a name to the present generation. We question whether more than a very few of such lists would con tain any of his works. And yet the "Annals of the Parish" is the ancestor in direct line of the Scottish stories which within a few years have taken such a strong hold upon popular favor. His Rev. Micah Balwhidder is a de lightful creation; a man without marked eccen tricities, without vanity and yet with a certain quality of innocent egotism, true to his calling and yet with a keen eye to the main chance. His three marriages are so comically devoid of all sentiment that when the end comes we are surprised to hear his aspiration to meet on high "the long-departed sheep of his flock, especially the first and second Mrs. Bal- whidders." While the Vicar of Wakefield cannot be said to be exactly his prototype, Gait avowedly hoped to achieve in him what Goldsmith had done for England in his Dr. Primrose. But the Scotch parson is in no sense an imita tion of the Englishman. Both were simple-minded, well- meaning men, with a slight infusion of egotism, but there the resemblance ended. Gait s genius is especially adapted to such a work as the "Annals," and he does not suffer by comparison with his latter-day successors. His humor is without travesty, and he never yielded to the temptation to overdo the pa thos. Although the "Ayr shire Legatees" is in the epistolary form which is usu ally so objectionable, there is a thread of narrative con necting the letters which is adroitly managed. Charles E. Brock s 40 illus trations are capital, and Mr. Ainger s introduction is a good example of blended biography and criti cism. We cannot too heartily commend these volumes to the admirers of Mr. Crockett and "Ian Maclaren" Watson. (Macmillan; Rob erts. 8 v., ea., $1.25.) Public Opinion. The Grasshoppers. THE heroine is the daughter of a German mother of domestic old-fashioned notions, who has married an Englishman after a term as governess in English families. This daughter at first insists upon going to college and doing all manner of strange things in the way of dress and breaches of conventionalities. A loss of fortune brings this interesting family to a small German town, and German domestic life and characteristic customs are described with accuracy and humor. Indeed the story will seem inimitably funny to those who have spent any part of their lives among homespun Ger mans. The heroine with love as teacher gives up her " new woman " fad and settles down to be a charming old-fashioned piece of woman hood of the kind which in sists upon the right to share all burdens. (Stokes. i.) From The Grasshoppers. Copyright, 1895, by Frederick A. Stokes Cc "HOW DO MEN MAKE A LIVING, DICK?" 206 THE LITERARY NEWS. [July, 1895 Memoirs of Barras. THE two great volumes of the " Memoirs of Barras, "edited by Mr. George Duruff and trans lated by Mr. C. E. Roche, afford one of the strangest of all the strange revelat Copyright, 1895 TWO OUTCASTS. tain of his revelations, ingenuously indicating in what chapters they may be found, but other writers have forestalled them, and it is not as a chronicle of scandal, but as an historian of civic disturbance, of war, and of revolu tion that Barras will be most valued. He hated Bonaparte so thoroughly that if he hated him alone, the volume of his malice would be held as conclusive evi dence against the Corsican, for it would seem impossible that a structure so huge should not have strong foundations ; but he also hated Talleyrand, Robes pierre, every one who at any moment thwarted or outshone him. In short, he was one of the worst products of the Revolution. His demerits by no means lessen the value of his work. Making due allowance for his peculiarities, one may learn much from him, for he stood behind the scenes for many a year, he had no scruples as to methods of ac quiring knowledge, and reticence is un known to him. The mirror is a little distorted, but it reflects everything, and these two volumes, ending with the eighteenth Fruclidor, will but make readers more eager for the remaining two. They are very handsome books, illustrated with portraits of Robespierre, Dnnton, Barras and Josephine, and with maps and plans, and knowledge of their contents is essential to the study of France in the years following the down fall of the monarchy. (Harper. 3.75.) Boston Gazette. &Co. quent upon the publication of the memoirs of his time. Talleyrand never forgot himself throughout his careful pages; Barras simulta neously forgets himself and remembers him self. Dignity he has none, and only a poor semblance of nobility of spirit. No one is too petty and contemptible for his envy; none too high to be spattered by his obloquy. At rare intervals he utters a kind word, but invariably follows it with phrases of contempt. Never theless, he impresses the reader as one who tells what he regards as the simple truth. His style, as it appeared in his original manuscript before edited by M. Rousselin de Saint-Albin, was that of Flora Finching, inconsequent, in coherent, but leaving nothing of the writer s feelings and nature unrevealed. The correc tions, judging from parallel passages published by the editor, have changed nothing but the rhetoric, and have left the expression of the real Barras entirely intact. The editor s pref ace professes a deal of virtuous horror for cer- A Lost Endeavor. THREE books from the pen of Guy Boothby have come out within the last few months. The latest, "A Lost Endeavor," appears in the Iris Series of Macmillan & Co. It is a delight fully printed little volume, with illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Very little of the ordinary literary gossip has gone the rounds concerning Mr. Boothby. Perhaps it is only necessary to know that he can write a good novel. The locale of all his stories which one has seen is Thursday Island, "that quaint and but little- known land spot, peering up out of the green seas that separate New Guinea from the most northerly coastline of Australia." There, among pearlers, "beach combers" and the refuse of the old civilizations, the author works out his problems of love and life. Indeed, Mr. Boothby has a measure of Rob ert Louis Stevenson s deft skill in telling a story, as you shall see. (Macmillan. 75 c.) IV. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 895] THE LITERACY NEWS. 207 Decline and Fall of Napoleon. THE various sections into which " The Decline and Fall of Napoleon" is divided are: "The Campaign of 1812," " The Campaign of 1813, "The Campaign of 1814," "The Hundred Days," and "Waterloo." It will thus be seen that the task which Viscount Wolseley set before him self was the treatment of those four years which may be described as the most important of the century. As these chapters are reprints from T/ie Pall Mall Magazine, we do not know whether the author had set him bounds which he might not pass, or whether the rather too brief review of the events leading up to the final overthrow of Napoleon is the result of an unimpeded choice. From time to time we have made it clear that those whose hobby is length are no favorites of ours, but, on the other hand, we like to see a notable subject fully discussed, and we are inclined to think that this is one of the books that should be longer. This very mild grumble delivered, we have only admira tion left for Viscount Wolseiey s behavior with in his limits. His meaning is always plain, and sometimes, roused by his stirring sub ject, he approaches closely to a really brilliant exposition. His book contains one or two things which are serious blemishes. In one instance a general is represented as engaged in the campaign of 1812 who at that tin e had been dead for a dozen years. This is clearly a matter for the Psychical Researchers. Again, the discredited story of Wellington s ride to Wavre on the evening before the battle of Waterloo is discussed. We had thought that cock-and-bull story was dead once and for all. These are by no means all the faults which it is possi ble to advance against "The Decline and Fall of Napoleon," but as the list of vices would be very small when compared with that containing the virtues, there is no need to insist very much upon the author s shortcomings. It is only necessary to add that this is the first volume of " The Pall Mall Library " in which are to appear those articles and short stories from The Pall Mall Magazine which are deemed worthy of salva tion in book form. This vol ume promises much for the series. (Roberts. $1.25.) London Literary World. Archbishop Laud. ALMOST everybody who has written a biog raphy or a biographical sketch of Archbishop Laud has found it necessary to disapprove of some things he did, and to criticise with more or less severity the spirit he displayed towards those who were disinclined to fall in with his churchly notions. Most of Laud s biographers have said, in substance, that he was altogether too strict in his religion ; that he attached un due importance to small matters ; that he was impolitic in his treatment of the non-conform ists, and provoked them so that it was quite certain that, if they should come to hold the upper hand, they would take their revenge. Some of the biographers have said worse than this of Laud, rating him as narrow-minded, cold-blooded, domineering, cruel, and express ing the opinion that, according to the standards of his time, he deserved his punishment death on the scaffold. Mr. Hutton takes his stand neither with the extremely adverse critics nor with those who have undertaken to judge Laud fairly he con siders Laud in all essential respects a perfect man. Practically, it is pure panegyric that he has written. The faults he discovers in Laud are inconsequential, and have no reference to the mooted questions relating to the Archbish op s policy and acts as a churchman and a minister of state. He offers his book "as an attempt justly and historically to estimate the character of the great man, to whose pure, con scientious and steadfast soul the Church of England ow r es so much." It is impossible not Appleton s Canadian Guide-Buok. Copyright, 1895, by D. Appleton & Co. OLD FIREPLACE AT ENTRY ISLAND. 208 THE LITERARY NEWS. 1895 to recall that the man thus spoken of is the man who had men s ears cropped, their noses slit, and their foreheads branded, to say nothing of fines and imprisonments, simply because they preferred their ways of worshipping God to those of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. Hutton gives us to understand that he approves of everything Laud did as a member of the Star Chamber. It seems to be a fact that his was the con trolling mind in the Star Chamber, and that he was the one in all England most set upon main taining the supremacy of the English Church. The Puritans knew more about Laud than Mr. Hutton can know, and the bare fact that they hated him because he had persistently perse cuted them is an answer to Mr Hutton s asser tion, "He sat with other judges," and the argu ment it carries, that he had no more responsi bility for the acts of the chamber than any one of the other Judges. (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $i.) N. Y. Times. Adventures of Captain Horn. MR. STOCKTON S new volume, "The Adven tures of Captain Horn," has been on sale sev eral days, and already the booksellers have greatly reduced their piles thereof. It has made an instantaneous success a success which has been equalled by no other long story of this fanciful writer, wide as has been his audience in the past. It is unlike anything he has ever produced before, and the sustained m/ n f --; power of the romance is remarkable. Wild and impossible as are the adventures constantly occurring, following one another with unceas ing rapidity, leaping from San Francisco to Peru, thence to Maine, and to Paris and Ger many and back again, one is impressed with their truth while reading them. It hardly need be said that characters, scenes and inci dents are of that peculiar originality which has given Mr. Stockton a position unique among story-tellers. (Scribner. $1.50.) Boston Lit erary World. Ten New England Blossoms. ONE of the prettiest out-of-door books of the season is Clarence Moore Weed s "Ten New England Blossoms and Their Insect Visitors." This volume will be read with special interest in New England, but many of the flowers which it describes are found elsewhere, and the book is so entertaining and so instructive that it will command attention even where the particular flowers which it describes are unknown. The book is unusual in the fact that it not only de scribes the Mayflower, the spring-beauty, the Jack-in-the-pulpit, and other New England flowers, but also the insects which are particu larly drawn to them, and which, in one way or another, are associated with their growth and the dissemination of their seed. The volume is very attractive in its making, and contains a number of well-printed illustrations. (Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.) The Outlook. From " The Old Maid s Club." Copyright, 1895, by Lovell, Coryell & "IS THAT THE UNIFORM OF THE OLD MAID S CLUB?" Zangwill s The Old Maid s Club. THE Old Maid s Club was founded by Lillie Dulcimer at the age of seventeen. According to its conditions of membership, every can didate must be under twenty-five, beautiful, and wealthy, and must have re fused at least one offer of marriage. Its by-laws re quired the members to look upon all men as brothers, not to keep domestic pets, not to have less than one birthday a year, to abjure medicine, art classes, and Catholicism, never to speak to a curate, not to wear curls, caps, etc., and also added a number of general recommendations. The his tory of this club is facetious ly told and brightly illus trated. (Lovell, Coryell. $1.25; pap., 50 c.) July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 209* K itonrq fln (Eclectic Ufilontfjls Hefcteto of Current ^Literature, EDITED BY A. H. LEYPOLDT. JULY, 1895. THE ART OF RUDYARD KIPLING.* SOME six years since, there appeared in India " a sort of book, a long oblong docket, wire stitched, to imitate a D. O. Government envelope, printed on one side only, bound in brown paper, and secured with red tape," in which were gathered a sheaf of verses that had from time to time filled an odd corner in one of the Indian journals. Thus were " Depart mental Ditties " born into the world, precursors of the astonishing array of stories and lyrics that are now set before us as the "complete works " of a man who half a dozen years ago was absolutely unknown in literature. When a writer has attained the dignity of a " new, uniform edition " it may be taken for granted that he is no longer " new " he has won his spurs and proved himself an accepted knight of the pen. The rapidity with which Mr. Kipling has attained this dignity, the very swiftness and brilliancy of his literary career, have detracted from a just estimate of his work. He has dazzled the eyes of the public, and the public while it enjoys the new sensa tion, dislikes to take such dazzlement serious ly, as something more than a device for its temporary amusement. Now, the art of Rudyard Kipling, to be judged fairly, must be taken seriously. He is no retailer of marvels and horrors ; no jug gler with scenes made to " take " as some have said. Still less is he bound by the canons and traditions of his art. But he is, in the judg ment of those who have followed his work from its beginning, one of the great writers of these our own days ; a writer who, if he never * New uniform edition of the prose tales of Rudyard Kipling 6 vols. i. Plain Tales from the Hills ; 2. Life s Handicap, being Stories of Mine Own People; 3. Sol diers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White ; . Under the Deodars, The Phantom Rickshaw, Wee Willi: Winkie ; 5. The Light that Failed ; 6. The Naulahka, by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier. Also Ballads and Barrack-room Ballads. (New York: Macmillan. $1.25 per vol.) Rudyard Kipling s Works. Authorized Royalty Edi tion. Uniformly bound in 7 vols. 12010, cloth, gilt top, per vol., $1.25. V. i, Departmental Ditties, Barrack Room Ballads and other verses. 2, Plain Tales from the Hills. 3, Soldiers Three and In Black and White. 4, The Phantom Rickshaw and Wee Willie Winkie. 5, The Light That Failed. 6, Story of the Gadsbys, and Under the Deodars. 7, Mine Own People, including The Court ing of Dinah Shadd, etc. With a critical introduction by Henry James. (Lovell, Coryell.) produced another line, could rest enduring claims to fame upon these six volumes of his " prose tales," and the three others not in cluded in the "new uniform edition" the "Bal lads," "Many Inventions" and the "Jungle Book." To know his spell fully the reader must be long to that company of fortunate people who have not lost their faith in romance, and who be lieve that all things in heaven and earth are not yet known to our philosophy. For Romance is a true goddess, and Rudyard Kipling is one of her anointed. In the face of this statement it seems paradoxical to say that the dominant quality of Kipling s work is its reality. But it is the reality of true romance not the realism of fiction the absolute, quiet certainty that these things have happened, and that they must have happened and could have happened in no other way than that set forth by the romancer. Kipling s readers may wonder at his tales ; they cannot doubt. His highest art is the absolute verisimilitude with which he invests the weird and the marvellous. "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes" to the city of the living dead ; the horrors of the contest with the Silver Man, in "The Mark of the Beast" ; the supernatural mystery of "At the End of the Passage" and "The Phantom Rickshaw," these and many more fairly take away one s breath with their daring and their strangeness; yet they bear the unmistakable stamp of verity. We dismiss our reason, and simply say, "I know that these things hap pened." Equalling, perhaps surpassing, this faculty of making fiction fact, is the knowledge of human nature that pervades Kipling s books. The secret of this knowledge is not far to seek. He gives it to us when he says: " I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine, The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. " Was there aught that I did not share, In vigil or toil or ease. One joy or woe that I did not know, Dear hearts across the seas ? " It is just that. He has known them all the joy and ease, the vigil, toil and woe ; and with that knowledge he can say, " God be thanked whate er comes after, I have lived and toiled with Men." And he shows us men indeed- Men neither all good, nor all bad ; but very human. Men strong, yet weak ; fiercely brave, yet subject to wild fears ; capable of sublime self-saciifice, and of utter failure. Throughout his books there come again and again glimpses of his knowledge of and insight into the springs of human action. Take the 210 THE LITERARY NEWS. YJuly, 1895 awful night when Dick Heldar wrestles with his blindness in " The Light that Failed " ; or the scene in " Thrown Away," where the grim deception is evolved that shall screen the mem ory of The Boy from shame ; or, in a less de gree, the scene where Aurelius McGoggin, stricken with aphasia, says blindly: " But I can t understand it. I am quite sane ; but I can t be sure of my own mind, it seems ray own memory. I can t understand it it was my own mind and memory ! " Perhaps in none of his tales is this knowledge of mankind better shown than in " The Story of the Gadsbys." In the eight short scenes, of less than a dozen pages each, that make up the story, we have love, life, the shadow of death, joy, despair, the sadness of failure, compressed, as it were, into an absolute "human document." "The Story of the Gadsbys" has never won approval in Philistia ; but it is Life, as life is lived. Woman does not rank with man in Kipling s tales, for the reason, frankly acknowledged, that he knows little of her. The few women that he has given us are perfect of their type ; but the type, though a large one, is by no means the noblest. It is the type of which Mrs. Hauksbee is the representative at one end of the line and Maisie the shallow, utter ly selfish heroine of " The Light that Failed " at the other. To be sure, we have Minnie Threegan, who might have developed into a woman s woman ; and Ameera, the sweet and truly lovely heroine of "Without Benefit of Clergy," one of the most perfect of pathetic histories. Mr. Kipling gives us not only real tales of real men and women, but he gives them to us in English that is a joy and a revelation. His work is never marred by sloppiness or careless ness of finish. His tales are made up of crys tallized sentences that in their turn are com posed of words chosen and fitted as are the stones for a mosaics. Yet the whole effect is so simple that it its delusive. He does not tell the story; the story tells itself, in lightning- flash phrases- that pass from the mind, leaving in their place a picture. Take the brief sentence describing the thunder-storm in " False Dawn ": " The wind seemed to be picking up the earth and pitching it to leeward in great heaps; and the heat beat up from the ground like the heat of the Day of Judgment." Could anything be more effective, or more simple at first sight? Of his humor it is superfluous to speak. It is conceded that the literature of mirth is per manently enriched by such stories as "The Taking of Lungtungpen," " The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney " and "My Lord the Ele phant " tales that are unsurpassed for fun, for verve and force ; \vhile there are few of his stories that are not lightened by gleams of dry, quaint humor, sometimes so blended with grim tragedy as to be awesome to a degree. Pessimism is the fault most frequently charged to Kipling ; and in a measure justly. His cynicism and pessimism are the expres sion of a strong nature, alive with sympathy for and understanding of suffering, and feel ing its impotence to set right a world that is out of joint. He sees too clearly the seamy side of life the failures, the heartaches, the unfulfilled hopes and the daily struggles and he finds no remedy. The fatalism of the East has laid its spell upon him. He can but say " Kis met." Life must be lived ; only a craven will shirk its duties and its responsibilities; but the battle must be fought sternly alone, with the blind hope that if there be a Divinity that shapes our ends It will pity and under stand. As was to be expected, Kipling is essentially a man s man. Few women care for him or appreciate him. His virility, his pes simism, his lack of any "doxy," his calm dis regard of convention, set him without the pale of feminine approval. His men are too pro fane; his women too fond of admiration, and with him love is but one of the many emotions of life. It is impossible within the limits of this sketch even to touch upon the distinctive feat ures of Kipling s individual works. They may be roughly grouped into soldier stories, stories of Anglo-Indian society life, stories of native life, novels, ballads, beast stories, and miscella neous tales. Of these, the soldier stories have won the most immediate fame, as was inevita ble from their entire freshness and novelty. "Soldiers Three" accomplished that amazing feat, the opening of a new vein in fiction. There is no question that the " Three Musket eers " of " the Widdy " have won immortality as surely as did their forerunners who served in past centuries under His Majesty of France. Learoyd, the impassive ; Ortheris, the irre pressible ; Mulvaney inimitable, never-to-be- forgotten "Krishna Mulvaney" to know them is to love them, and to admit them into immediate and intimate friendship. Thomas Atkins is no longer a machine in a red uniform he is a man and a brother. Let him speak for himself: " We aren t no thin red eroes, nor we aren t no black guards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An if sometimes our conduck isn t all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don t grow into plaster saints." If Mr. Kipling had done no more than create "Soldiers Three" he would have earned the July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 211 gratitude of posterity; for in their company we 3Coueis for SuttttttCt have heard tales and seen sights to make us laugh, to make us weep, to set our pulses beat- Allen (J. L.), A Kentucky cardinal, $i Harper ing and our hearts throbbing, to bring before us Balzac, Catharine de Medici, $1.50 Roberts in living reality some of the manifold phases Lucien de Rubempre", $i. 5 o Roberts of a life of which we knew nothing. Barrett (F.), Justification of Andrew Lebrun, $i ; pap., T . . 5 c Appleton It is^as a short-story writer that Kipling is Bell (L.), A little sister to the w,lderness, $,.25. pre-eminent. In this multitude of short stories . Stone &&gt; K Besant (W.), Beyond the dreams of avarice, $1.50. the uniform degree of excellence is astonish- Harper ing. Allaregood; some are better ; some are Bishop (W. H.), A pound of cure, $i Scribner Black (C.), An agitator, $i Harper best-as to the latter no two critics agree , Black (W.), Highland cousins, $x. 7S Harper toto. From the flirtatiousness of " The Rescue Blair (E. N.), Lisbeth Wilson, $1.50 Lee & S of Pluffles " to the tragedy of " Thrown Away," Boothby (G.), A lost endeavour, 75 c Macmillan the grim pathos Of "The Man Who Was," or ~ The marriage of Esther, $i ; pap., 5 oc AppletoH the gripping horror of "At the End of the Pas- ^^^ ^^^^^^ C< """ Burton (J. B.), The Hispaniola plate, $i Cassell sage, there is a wide field in which to choose, Caine(H.), The deemster, pap., 50 c Weeks were choice possible. But it is not; the only The Manxman, $1.50 Appleton thing is to read them all and be duly thankful. Cambridge (A.), Fidelis, $i ; pap., 5 oc Appleton < TV, T ;^v,i- tv.o<- TT \\~A\f v f. i Catherwood (Mrs. M. H .), The chase of Saint Castin The Light that Failed, Kipling s first novel, (short St0 ries), $1.25 Houghton is presented in the Macmillan edition its final Chambers (R. W.), The king in yellow, 75 c Neely shape without the orthodox " happy ending" Clark (F. T.), On Cloud Mountain, $i Harper that marred the first edition. It is now, we are Coffln (C C) Dau S hters of lhe Revolution ^ 5 ^ M told, given as it was originally planned by its Colmore (G.), A daughter of music, $i ; pap., soc. writer, and it is immeasurably the gainer there- Cotes (Mrs. E.), The story of Sonny Sahib, ^.A^pplttol. by, although the bitter sadness of the tale is fair- Vernon s aunt, $1.25 Appleton ly haunting in its intensity. In "The Light Couperus (L.), Majesty, $1.50 Appleton , ^ -, , . ^, XT 11 Craddock (C. E.), The phantoms of the foot-bridge that Failed, as in The Naulahka," written in (short stories), $i. 5 o Harper conjunction with Wolcott Balestier, Kipling has Crawford (F. M.), Love in idleness, $2 Macmillan not reached his highest level; but both books ~~ Katharine Lauderdale, 2 v., $2 Macmillan , , . . j 1 MT The Ralstons, 2 v., $2 Macmillan bear his impress and abound in brilliant touches Crockett (S . R-)> Bo g-myrtle and peat ; tales of Gallo- and striking episodes witness the scenes fol- way,$t. 5 o Appleton lowing Heldar s blindness, his ride to his death - The lilac sunbonnet, $1.50 Appleton across the desert, and Tarvin s night journey ^jESSfe i" to the Gye Mukh, in " The Naulahka." Davis (^. M. E. M.), Under the man-fig, $1.25. Of Kipling as a poet it is impossible to speak; Houghton, M D Arcy(E.), Monochromes (Keynotes ser. ),$i.. Roberts there are no limits to time there are defi- Dean (Jl/r*. A.), The grasshoppers, $i Stokes nite limits to space. Suffice it to say that his Lesser s daughter, soc Putnam verse is as good, if not better, than his prose. Deland (Mrs. M.), Philip and his wife, $1.25. He is a born balladist. Whether he gives us Dix (Gertrude), The girl from the farm (Keynotes ser.), light songs of fun and flirtation, rhymes of [ Roberts , , .. i 11 i T Don, a story by the author of " Miss Toosey s mission," cynical philosophy, or ballads that stir ones $ t Roberts blood, his verse has ever a lilt and a swing that Dostoievsky, Poor folk, $i Roberts mark it as his own. Let those who doubt his Dou g a11 < L -), The mermaid, $i ; pap., S oc Appleton , . r. i i j <rri- o The zeit-geist, ysc Appleton claim to the laurel read "The Song of the Doy i e (A . CO, Round the red lamp (short stories). $1.50. Women," "Christmas in India," "Danny Appleton Deever," " Manda.ay," "The Ballad of East ^^5%-ZZ. and West," " The King s Jest," and that beauti- Appleton ful conception, " Evarra." Egerton (G.), Discords (Keynotes ser.), $i Roberts The many phases of the art of Rudyard Kip- Farr < Florence > The dandn ^ faun (Keynotes ser^ ling cannot be appreciated in a cursory reading Foote (M. 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C.), Story of Christine Rochefort, $1.25. This book from which I tore a plate Houghton, M To " extra-illustrate " another. July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 213 0urt)eg of Current Citerature, Order through your bookseller. " There is no worthier or surer pledge of the intelligence and the purity of any community than their general purchase of books; nor is there any one who does more to further the attainment and possession of these qualities than a good bookseller" PROF. DUNN. BIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. FAWCETT, MILLICENT GARRETT. Life of her majesty, Queen Victoria. Roberts. 12, $1.25. ROBERTS, F. SLEIGH (Lord}. The rise of Wel lington. Roberts. 12, (Pall Mall Gazette Magazine lib.) $i. 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Appleton. 12, (Apple- ton s town and country lib., no. 168.) $i ; pap., 50 c. MOORE, G. Celibates : a novel. Macmillan. 12, $1.50. Three stories entitled Mildred Lawson ; John Norton ; and Agnes Lahens. NEEDELL, Mrs. J. Hodder. The vengeance of James Vansittart. Appleton. 12, (Appleton s town and country lib., no. 169.) $i ; pap., 50 c. 214 THE LITERARY NEWS. [July, 1895 OLIPHANT, Mrs. MARG. O. W. Two strangers. Fenno. 12, (Autonym lib.) 75 c. PHILIPS, F. C. A question of color. Stokes. nar. 16, (Bijou ser.) Buckram, 50 c. " It is with difficulty that one accepts the prin cipal situation in A question of color. A beautiful young girl who has the world before her, and is engaged to a fine fellow who adores her, is represented as listening to the addresses of a negro. It is true that she did once tell her lover that she was not at all a nice girl, and that he would some day be surprised to find how different she was from what he thought her to be ; but this avowal makes as little impres sion on the reader as it did on him. The situa tion once accepted, Mr. Philips has produced a very telling picture. Jan Umgazi, though he could still recall dimly the naked savages and mud " kraals " of his youth, is thoroughly Euro pean in every feeling, and his anguish of mind, marvellous resignation, and self-control touch the reader very closely." The Academy. PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. A deal with the devil. Warne. 12, $i. R., (psetid.,} ed. The Countess Bettina : the history of an innocent scandal. Putnam. 12, 5o c. SALTUS, EDGAR. When dreams come true : a story of emotional life. The Transatlantic Pub. Co. 12, pap., 50 c. " The romance is a delightful one, told by an artist in his best style ; and it is a thing that one may place not only with impunity but with pleasure among the best books on one s library table." Phila. Press. SCHULZE-SMIDT, B. A madonna of the Alps ; from the German, by Nathan Haskell Dole. Little, Brown & Co. 16, $1.25. A young German student earned a scholar ship entitling him to three years art study in Italy, proceeds there by way of the Alps. He makes a companion of his guide who finally in vites him to rest a few days in his mountain chalet. The madonna of the Alps is the wife of this guide about whom there hangs a mystery, finally solved by an old priest who is a very original character. SERGEANT, ADELINE. Dr. Endicott s experi ment. Cassell Pub. Co. nar. 12, (The un known lib., no. 38.) 50 c. SIENKIEWICZ, H. Children of the soil ; from the Polish, by Jeremiah Curtin. Little, Brown & Co. 12, $2. STOCKTON, FRANK R. The adventures of Cap tain Horn. Scribner. 12, $1.50. " Those readers must be jaded indeed whose nerves do not jump under the excitement of Mr. Stockton s new story. The Adventures of Captain Horn is imaginative in a double sense; it shows enormous invention, and it quivers with emotional fancy playing about a subject of never-ending interest. That subject is treas ure-trove, and many as are the romances of varying kind that have been founded on it, Mr. Stockton has invented anew approach." Phila delphia Telegraph. SUDERMANN, HERMANN. The wish : a novel ; tr. by Lily Henkel ; with a biographical introd. by Eliz. Lee. Appleton. 12, $r. " A study of Sudermann s Wish will be es sential for those who are following the ten dencies and manifestations of the literature of the day. Simply as a figure in the contempo rary literary life of Germany, Sudermann s im portance is ranked with that of Kipiing or Bar- rie in England, or Ibsen in the north. 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The book is good literature, and de serves to have a permanent place in the library." Boston Gazette. UPWARD. ALLEN. The Prince of Balkistan. Lippincott. 12, (Lippincott s select novels, no. 170.) $i; pap., 50 c. The terrible rather than the touching is the author s forte. Russians, Nihilists, massacres, etc. Prince Bismarck, Gladstone, the Princess of Wales, etc., appear under fictitious names. WHITE, PERCY, (pseud.} A king s diary. Cas sell Pub. Co. nar. 12, (Cassell s unknown lib.) 50 c. WILLIAMS, JESSE LYNCH. Pinceton stories. Scribner. 16, $r. Contents : The winning of the care; The mad ness of Poler Stacy ; The hazing of Valliant ; Hero worship; The responsibility of Lawrence; Fixing that freshman ; The scrub quarter-back; When girls come to Princeton; The little tutor; College men ; The man that led the class. WOOD, J. SEYMOUR. Ya e yarns : sketches of life at Yale University. Putnam. 12, $r. Contents : One on the governor ; The old fence; In the political cauldron; " Little Jack " Horner s pie ; With the Dwight Hall heelers ; The "dwarfs" from the last cruise of the " Nancy Brig" ; Old Sleuth s level head ; Nat Hale of 73 ; The dawn tea ; The great Spring field game ; In the toils of the enemv; An hyp notic seance ; A violent enemy ; " Chums over in Old South " ; Commencement, by the author of " Gramercy Park" ; An old beau, etc. HISTORY. BARRAS, PAUL FRANCOIS J. N. (Comte] DE. Memoirs of Barras, member of the Director ate ; ed. with a general introd., prefaces and appendices, by G. Duroy. In 4 v. V. i and 2 ; tr. by C. E. Roche. Harper, pors., fac-similes, plans, 8, ea., $3.75. CLARK, G. H., D.D. Oliver Cromwell ; with an introd. by C. Dudley Warner, and il. from old paintings and prints. \Newissue^\ Har per. 12, $1.25. July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. CLODD, E. The story of primitive man. Ap- pleton. 16, (Library of useful stories.) 40 c. The President of the Folk-Lore Society, a recognized authority, here states in language as free as possible from technical terms the results of the latest investigations into the early history of the human race. A large num ber of illustrations bring out the distinguishing characteristics of the ancient stone age, the newer stone age and the age of metals. A selected book-list of two pages gives authorities and suggests supplementary reading. Full index. COIGNET, JEAN-ROCH. The narrative of Cap tain Coignet (soldier of the empire), 1776- 1850 ; ed., from the original ms., by Loredan Larchey : from the French, by Mrs. M. Carey. \_New popular ed.~\ Crowell. 12, fac-simile, $1.50. GREGOR, FRANCES. The story of Bohemia. Cranston & Curts. 12, $1.50. The historical account of the land of Bohemia reaches back to B.C. 400. From earliest times its people have had a love of freedom that has made them suffer all things in their steady opposition to civil and ecclesiasticaloppression. The writer tells in popular style of the battles fought against popes, kings and emperors to the present day. John Huss, one of the great leaders of Reformation, came from Bohemia, and his history occupies many pages. HASSALL, ARTHUR. Louis xiv. and the zenith of the French monarchy. Putnam. 12, (Heroes of the nations ser., no. 14.) $1.50; hf. mor., $1.75. The author s reasons for including Louis xiv. in this series are given in the following para graph : "As a man he may not have been great, but a great king he certainly was, and the age in which he lived and which bears his name was a great age. Whatever claim he may bear to the title of hero must be based upon the determination and courage shown dur ing the last fourteen years of his reign. . . . Few periods in the reign of any European mon arch present more striking examples of real patriotism and heroism than will be found in the history of the great king of France during the years from 1707 to 1713. A list of authorities is given of about a page. PUTNAM, RUTH. William the Silent, Prince of Orange ; the moderate man of the six teenth century ; the story of his life as told by his own letters from those of his friends and enemies and from official documents. Putnam. 12, $3.75. RIDDLE, ALBERT GALLATIN. Recollections of war times : reminiscences of men and events in Washington, 1860-65. Putnam. 8, $2. 50. Mr. Riddle was a member of the House of Representatives from the igth District, Ohio, during the historical 37th Congress, which con vened with Lincoln s first administration. He adds from personal observation many new de tails relative to the men and events of the period. Some of the subjects of his forty-seven chapters are : Washington in 1861 ; Lincoln s inauguration ; The fall of Sumter ; The histor ical congresses ; Bull Run ; After the battle ; Maryland s efforts to secede ; The war financial measures ; Emancipation ; Democracy in the House, etc., etc. WOLSELEY, Jos. GARNET (Viscount.} The de cline and fall of Napoleon. Roberts. 12, (Pall Mall Magazine lib.) $1.25. HUMOR AND SATIRE. FARMER, LYDIA HOYT. Aunt Belindy s points of view and a modern Mrs. Malaprop : char acter sketches. Metriam Co. 16, 75 c. Aunt Belinda and Mrs. Malaprop discuss women s clubs, summer boarders, dinner par ties, balls, receptions, woman s suffrage, the opera, the World s Fair, servants, and many other things. Aunt Belinda and her husband Ebenezer argue the woman question from all sides. Written in Yankee dialect and full of suggestions on the questions of the day, worded with wit and good-natured humor. TOWNSEND, E. Chimmie Fadden explains, Major Max expounds. Lovell, Coryell. 12, $i ; pap., 50 c. More sketches in the vein of " Chimmie Fad- den, Major Max and other stories," which has met with large sale. The present stories have appeared either in the N. Y. Sun or the San Francisco Argonaut, with the exception of Mr. Fannie Hallowell, a story of 27 pages, which appears in this volume for the first t tne. HYGIENIC AND SANITARY. GALBRAITH, ANNA M., M.D. Hygiene ard physical culture for women. Dodd, Mead. 12, $1. LITERARY MISCELLANY, COLLECTED WORKS, ETC. BIERSTADT, O. A. The library of Robert Hce: a contribution to the history of bibliophilism in America; with no il. taken from ms. ard books in the collection. Duprat. 8,w^/,$i5. BRIDGES, ROB., [" Droch," fseud.] Suppressed chapters and other bookishness. Scribner, 12, $1.25, In a perfectly good-natured and irresistibly humorous manner the writer of " Overheard in Arcady " reviews another year of epoch-making writers. The successful books of iSg4are either parodied or criticised with suggestive sarcasm. Du Maurier, Le Gallienne, George Egerton, John Kendrick Bangs, Barrie, Anthony Hope, Meredith, Kipling, Crockett, Crawford, Chailes Dana Gibson, and A. B. Frost are among the favorites selected for the witty remarks of " Droch." DANA, C. A. The art of newspaper making: three lectures. Appleton. 16, $i. The separate titles of the lectures are " The modern American newspaper," " The profes sion of journalism," and " The making of a newspaper man." "The veteran editor of the Sun dees more than state the principles on which he has worked out an illustrious career in journalism; he dis courses entertainingly on many of the things about which the public knows little and im agines much. He tells how well reporters are paid, and what makes a good managing editor, and how the news is gathered and set up, and what it costs to establish and maintain a daily paper in a city like New York. A survey of the different departmentsof journalism, in which Mr. Dana drops some judicious observations, is one feature of a book of unusual value." N. Y. Mail and Express. 216 THE LITERARY NEWS. [July, 1895 DITCHFIELD, P. H. Books fatal to their au thors. Armstrong. 16, (Book lover s lib.), $1.25. Describes nearly two hundred works which caused their authors to be persecuted for heresy, laxity of morals, rebellion against authority, etc., or caused them so much hard work and so much censure that iheir health was undermined and their career ruined. The greater number of these books deal with theology and religion, and many of them belong to the stormy period of the Reformation. The author has classified the books by subjects instead of following a chronological plan. An index under names of authors is supplied. A scheme for a building under the auspices of the Royal Literary Fund to be a home for aged authors is sketched with enthusiasm. ERICHSEN, HUGO, M.D. Methods of authors. The Writer Pub. Co. 12, $i. Much of the material for ihis book was gathered directly from the authors themselves or taken from authentic sources. It is divided into chapters, entitled : Eccentricities in com position ; Care in literary production ; Speed in writing ; Influence upon writers of time and place : Writing under difficulties ; Aids to in spiration ; Favorite habits of work ; Goethe, Dickens, Schiller, and Scott ; Burning midnight oil ; Literary partnership ; Anonymity in au thorship ; System in novel-writing ; Traits of musical composers ; The hygiene of writing ; and A humorist s regimen. GRISWOLD, W. M., comp. A descriptive list of novels and tales dealing with the history of North America. Griswold. 8, $i. The second part of " Historical novels," the first being devoted to novels of ancient life. A list, the titles being followed by descriptive ex tracts taken from the literary columns of lead ing papers. GRISWOLD, W. M. , comp. A descriptive list of novels and tales dealing with ancient history. Pt. i, Ancient life. Griswold. pap., 8, 50 c. A list of about 125 novels and tales relating to ancient life, followed by full descriptive notices taken from leading literary papers. A useful reference work on the same lines as Mr. Griswold s " Novels of American country life," " American city life," " Romantic novels," " International novels," etc, MORLEY, H., and GRIFFITH, W. HALL. An at tempt towards a history of English literature. Vols. 10, ii, Shakespeare and His Time: under Elizabeth; under James I. Cassell. 12, ea., $1.50. MOULTON, R. G., ed. Four years of novel-read ing: an account of an experiment in popular izing the study of fiction; ed., with an introd., by R. G. Moulton. Heath. 12, 50 c. In the introduction the Professor of Litera ture in English in the Chicago University regards fiction as an art, and claims that taste in fiction needs training. This training has been tried in Backworth, a little mining village of Northumberland (England), for four years. The secretary for the " Classical Novel-Reading Union" there formed gives his report of four years of novel-reading. Then follow articles on " Why is Charles Dickens a more famous nov elist than Charles Reade?" by Miss Ellen Cumpston; " The character of Clara Middleton ((Meredith s " The egoist"), by Joseph Fairney; "The ideal of asceticism" (Gerard in "The cloister and the hearth"), by Rev. C. G. Hall; and " Character development in Rorr.ola, " by Thomas Dawson. RIDEING, W. H. In the lard of Lorna Doone and other pleasurable excursions in England. Crowell. j6, $r. The author of " Thackeray s London " groups his descriptions of English scenery and English characteristics under the titles " In the land of Lorna Doone" (Exrroor); " In Cornwall with an umbrella"; Coaching out of London "; "A bit of the Yorkshire coast"; "Amy Robsart, Ker- ilworth, and Warwich " (Warwick). Mr. Ride- ing shows judgment in his selection of scenes famous in history and romance. SMOLLETT, TOBIAS. Works; ed. by G. Saints- bury. In 12 v. V. 1-3, The adventures of Roderick Random. Lippincott. il. by Frank Richards. 16, ea., $i. The principles of editing adopted in this issue of Smol ett are the same as those which the ed itor applied in his presentations of Fielding and Sterne. No annotation is attempted, and the text is reprinted from the standard version. The text has, however, been carefully read throughout to guard against those slips which sometimes hold their ground in frequently re printed matter. These three volumes are the first of a twelve-volume edition to be completed in six months. Subscriptions received for com plete sets only. SONNENSCHEIN, W. SWAN. A reader s guide to contemporary literature: being the first sup plement to The best books" ; a reader s guide to the choice of the best available bcoks (about 50,000) in every department of sc erce, art and Jiterature, with the dates of the first and last editions and the price, size, and pub lisher s name of each book. Putnam. 4, $7-50. Originally designed to form a first supp ement to the second edition of " The best books." The compiler s intent ion was to furnish five yearly sup plements on the original plan of inclusiveness and exclusiveness. He has found it impossible to form a " personal acquaintance" with the more important new bcoks, and has been forced to make " a mere record of practically all new pub lications in book form which seemed to have last ing value and to present the general consensus of opinion of the most trustworthy scientific re views." Among these best books are found some " bad " books by well-known authors, but their quality is indicated and warning given. The work supplies the American and English publishers names and gives the Amer can and English prices; where a series of books deals with the same or kindred subjects, it is inserted collectively as well as separately under author and title; a complete index under authors and subjects guides to entries under classes; and a list of British publishers and learned societies with full addresses makes the work valuable for all booksellers. The first edition appeared in England in 1887. STARKEY, CYRIL E. F. Verse translations from classic authors. Longmans, G. 12, $1.75. NATURE AND SCIENCE. FOWLER, W. WARDE. Summer studies of birds and books. Macmillan. 12, $1.75. Contents : Getting ready; To the Engstlen Alp July, 1895] THE LITERARY NEWS. 217 once more; Among the birds in Wales; The marsh warbler in Oxfordshire and Switzerland; A chapter on wagtails; On the songs of birds; Aristotle on birds; Gilbert White of Selborne; Bindon Hill; Billy, a memoir of an old friend; Departing birds, an epilogue. HUIDEKOPER, RUSH SHiPPEN, M.D. The cat: a guide to the classification and varieties of cats, and a short treatise upon their care, dis ease, and treatment. Appleton. 16, $r. Contains a bibliography (i p.). This is a practical book, embodying the re sults of observation, experience, and intimate knowledge as a veterinary surgeon, and it will be of immediate value to all who are interested in the subject. LYDEKKER, R., ed. The royal natural history. Warne. 8, (Warne s lib. of natural history, in 36 nos., v. i, no. i.) stibs., pap., 50 c. The first number of a new natural history, with two richly colored plates, and a number of text and page illustrations in black and white drawn from life ; to be published fortnightly. No. i contains chapters on the general charac teristics of mammals ; the man-like apes ; Chim panzees ; Gorillas ; Orang-Utan ; Old-world monkeys, and baboons, their structure and dis tribution, habits, haunts, etc. Mr. Lydekker has been for some years in the front rank of English naturalists. He is the responsible ed itor and chief contributor. MILLER, ELLEN, and WHITING, MARGARET CHRISTINE. Wild flowers of the noitheast- ern states ; being three hundred and eight individuals common to the northeastern United States, drawn and described from life. Putnam. 4, $4.50. Specially designed to make the acquaintance of flowers more easy to non-scientific folk. Numberless traits of race habit and personal traits of growth to which unlearned observers attach significance are given, and life-size pic tures of the flowers have been made by the compilers to simplify their recognition. The floral families have been arranged in the order employed in " Gray s manual." There are sep arate indexes of the scientific and the common names. In every instance the description of the flower faces its pen and ink representation. POETRY AND DRAMA. CAWEIN, MADISON. Intimations of the beauti ful, and poems. Putnam. 12, $1.50. POOLE, FANNY RUNNELLS. A bank of violets : verses. Putnam. 12, $1.25. About forty short poems, classified under the headings " Partly fancy," "Among friends," and " Faith." Neatly bound in green with vio let border line and bunch of violets on front cover. TOWNSEND, MARY ASHLEY. Distaff and spindle: sonnets. Lippincotr. 12, $1.50. Sixty-nine sonnets full of noble, helpful thoughts on inspiring ideals and daily duties, most musically worded. Thesonnets are print ed on -rough paper with uncut edges and the book is bound in smooth cloth with cover design of distaff and spindle. WINSLOW, Mrs. CATHERINE MARY REIGNOLDS, [Mrs. Erving Winslow.] Readings from the old English dramatists ; with notes. Lee & Shepard. 2 v., 12, $1.75. Designed to illustrate the stages in the prrg- ress of English dramatic literature. The first period includes the masques and miracles of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The second period dwells chiefly on Marlowe, with speci mens from Lyly, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher. The author then passes to the early Stuart drama, including Webster, Massinger, and Ford ; and for the Restoration period Far- quhar s Inconstant is given. The eighteenth century includes Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A large number of care fully selected scenes frcm the above typical authors are presented, with Mrs. Winslow s comments on the authors, scenes, and charac ters. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL. AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION. Five papers read at the seventh annual meeting, Colum bia College, December 27-29, 1894. Macmil- lan. 8, (Publications of the society, v. 9, nos. 5-6.) 75 c. Contents : The modern appeal to legal forces in economic life, by J. B. Clark ; The Chicago strike, by Carroll D. Wright ; The irregularity of employment, by Davis R. Devvey ; 1 he pa pal encyclical on labor, by J. Graham Brooks ; Population and capital, by Arthur T. Hadley. ASHLEY, W. J. The railroad strike of 1894: the statements of the Pullman Company and the Report of the Commission ; with an an alysis of the issues, and a brief bibliography. The Church Social Union. 8, (Publications of the society, ser. B, no. i.) pap., loc. The main purpose of the Church Social Union is to stimulate and assist careful study of the present industrial situation. Th ; s is the first issue of series B. The bibliography of the rail road strike of 1894 (3 p.) is the compilat on of Francis Watts Lee, of the Boston Public Library. Mr. Ashley is professor of economic history in Harvard University. BLANC, Mme. TH&RESE, [" Theodore Bentzon," fseud."\ The condition of woman in the United States : a traveller s notes ; tr. by Abbey Langdon Alger. Roberts. 12, $1.25. 11 The author sees both the successes and fail ures of women in their work. The women s clubs and colleges, the value and the dangers of co-education, women s labors among the poor, for the negroes, in industrial schools and in the home all receive her attention. She made her study of the average woman as she is found in the home of modest means, in the workshop, managing charities and teaching school. With a feminine insight superior to race barriers she judges the character of women and the nature of their work in this country. Passing over ex ternals, she analyzes, and she exhibits all that remarkable work of women for the development of one another, and for bettering the rroral and physical condition of the race, which is done quietly, which is so much with us a matter of course that we do not often stop to think how remarkable it is or how much pood it has done. But for the visitor from abroad it possesses ex treme significance." IV. Y. Tribune. BLATCHFORD, ROB., [" Nunquam," pseud.] Merrie England : a plain exposition of social ism, what it is and what it is not. Common wealth Co. 12, (Commonwealth lib., no. i.) pap., 10 c. The author s remedy for the various evils the 218 THE LITERARY NEWS. [July, 1895 working-classes are enduring is socialism not anarchy but socialism as now understood and expounded by the best writers. He devotes a series of chapters to commending it and answer ing the arguments of anti-socialists such as Herbert Spencer, Charles Bradlaugh, and John Morley. He also has much to say on the nar row and unbeautiful and joyless lives of the poor, of the greed of trusts and monopolies, of the growing concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, the rights of the individual, etc., etc. Popularly written. CORNELISON, I. A. The relation of religion to civil government in the United States of America : a state without a church, but not without a religion. Putnam. 8, $2. " Even those who cannot agree with Mr, Cor- nelison in the views he enunciates will find his book a valuable one, owing to the mass of use ful and undoubtedly accurate information which he has taken so much pains to arrange in con venient shape for ready reference. It is cer tainly a valuable addition to the literature of Church and State." N. Y. Commercial Adver tiser. CROCKER, URTEL H. The cause of hard times. Little, Brown. 16, 50 c. KELLEY, JA. P. The law of service : a study in Christian altruism. Putnam. 12, 75 c. LOMBROSO, C/ESAR, and FERRERO, W. The female offender, with an introduction by W. Douglas Morrison. Appleton. 12, (Crimi nology ser.) $1.50. In " The female offender" we see the man ner in which Lombroso applies the anthropo logical method. He examines whether, and to what extent, the female criminal differs from the average woman in bodily and mental char acteristics. As a result of this examination he arrives at many interesting conclusions as to the personal or individual conditions which are calculated to turn women into offenders against criminal law. " Intended for the scholar and scientist whose interest will vitalize the formidable array of statistics." The Examiner. MAcCoLL, Rev. MALCOLM (Canon.) England s responsibility towards Armenia. Longmans, G. 8, pap., 75 c. MERRILL, J. ERNEST. Ideals and institutions: their parallel development ; a thesis present ed at the University of Minnesota for the degree of doctor of philosophy. Hartford, Hartford Seminary Press. 8, pap., $i. Contains a list of authorities (2 p.). NOAILLES, Diic de. How to save bimetallism. Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Soc. Sci. 8, (Publica tions of the society, no. 140.) pap., 15 c. A contribution to the silver question. The remedy suggested by the author is to adopt a parallel and independent bimetallism. Let each metal have its own value based on the weight of the coins either in gold or in silver without any proportion or ratio. POLAND, LAWRENCE. Money : an essay read before the Xavier Lyceum, April 4, 1895. Clarke. 12, pap., 25 c. Defines money, and shows what its functions are, etc, ; the larger part of the essay is devoted to bimetallism, and how it may be successfully established. Points out the evils of fre