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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at|http : //books . google . com/| Bpaoa.a. > Har&arH CoIIese Ipiiicars MRS. ANNE E. P. SEVER, OF BOSTON, Widow of Col. James Wahren Siver, (CLuB of 1 117) rc/koy. fkj^— l&'io^- /«"?/ f I THE BOOK BUYER A REVIEW AND RECORD OF CURRENT LITERATURE VOLUME XVII [new series] AUGUST, 1898-JANUARY, 1899 NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE [COPYUGHT, 1898, »Y ChAKLBS SCRIBNBR's SoMS] trr1f o *- j: <-^ ^- ' - / / INDEX Adams, ICaude, Note and Portrait, 886 AdTentures of a Blockade Runner, The, By William Wat- Adventures of a Younger Son, The, 471 son, 478 Adventures of Captain Kettle, The, by Cutcliffe Hyne, 440 Adventures of Francois, The. by Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell, Africa in the Twentieth Century, by Henry M. Stanley, 498 Alharabra, The, by Washington Irvins, 488 American Bookman, by K. A. DeWoIre 9owe, 487, 612 American Prose, by O. R. Carpenter, 610 Among the Lindens, by Evelyn Raymonfl, 464 An Amateur Firemen, by James Otis, 4% An American Cruiser in the East, by John D. Ford, 480 An Angel in a Web, by Julian Ralph. 491 Anarchism, its History and Theonr, by E. V. Zenker, 028 An Antarctic Mystery, by Jules Verne. 406 An Awful Alphabet, by u. P. Funk, 476 An Independent Daughter, by Amy E. Blanchard, 468 Angler's Art, Rare Books on, John Northern HiUiard, 86 Anglo-Saxon Superiority, by Edmond Demolins, Review by Gtoorge Burton Adams, 194 « Annioe Wynkoop, Artist, by Adelaide L. Rouse, 478 An Obstinate Maid, by Emma von Rhoden, S81 Antigone, and Other Portraits of Women, by Paul Bour- get,4S7 Arabian Nights' Entertainments, The, Edited by Andrew Lang, 466 Aristocracy and Evolution, by W. H. Mallock, 288 Arkansaw Bear, The, by Albert Bigelow Paine, 475 Ars et Vita, by T. R. Sullivan, 61 Art of War, Tbib^ by Charles Oman, 281 884,498 As Having Nothing, by Hester C. Oaklev, 149 At Aboukir and Acre, oy O. A. Henty, 448 At You Alls' House, By James Baskett, 159 Austen, Jane, The Works of. 421, 428 Autumn Books, The. A Classified List, 121 Ave Roma Immortalis, by F. Marion Crawford. An Illus- trated Review by Russel Bturgis, 881 Aylwin, by Theodore Watts-Dunton, 486, 618 Baby Record. 470, 618 Bashful Earthquake, The, by Oliver Herford. 492 Beardsley, Aubrey, Some Personal Recollections of, by Penryhn Stanlaws, Portrait and Drawing, 212 Belle, ^ Benjamin Franklin, by Edward Robins, 098 Beowulf, the Hero of^ the Anglo-Saxons, by Zenaide A. Ragoon, 476 Beyond the Border, by Walter D. Campbell, 460 Biblei, The Holy. Polychrome Edition. 50 Bibliotaph. The, by Leon H. Vincent, 427 Big Front Door, The, by Mary F. Leonard, 459 Bird Qods, by Charles De Kay, 498 Birds that Hunt and Are Hunted, by Neltje Blanchan, 486 Bismarck, Autobiography of. 482. 581 : Dr. Busch's '' Bis- marck." 488, 691 ; " Bismarck and German Unity," by Prof. Munro Smith, 482, 691 ; The Real Bismarck, by Jules Hoche, 498, 601 Black, William,* Note, 580 Blessed are the Cross Bearers, by Dr. Robertson Nicoll, 486 Blind Brother, by Homer Greene, 477 Bobbie McDiiif, by Clinton Ross, 168 Bob. Son of Batae, by Alfred OUivant, 491 Book Bindings, Reproductions of, 674, 577 Book Covers, Artistic, Reproductions of, 186, 888 Book Plates, 581 Books Received, 70, 286, 626 Both Sides of the Border, by G. A. Henty, 444 Boys in Clover, by Penn Shirley, 477 Boys of Momnouth, The, by Everett T. Tomlinson, 409 Boys with Old Hickory, The, by Everett T. Tomlinson, 447 Buccaneers and Marooners of America, The, 471 Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coast, by Frank R. Stockton, 482 Browning, Letters of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett, 482 : Camberwell Edition of Robert Browning, 488 Burgees, Gelett Note, 12 Bums, Robert, in his Correspondence. An illustrated Review of '' Robert Bums and Mrs. Dunlop," by George McLean Harper, 18 Cable. George w.. The Works of. 422; Pictures of Home, 678, 679 ; Portrait, 579 ; Note, 678 Calif oraians. The, by Gertrude Atherton, 020 Cannon and Camera, by J C. Hemiiient, 409 Capricclos, by M. Block, 158 Captain Bonneville's Adventures, by Washington Irving, Carlyle, Thomas, Works of. Centenary Edition, 426 Carnngton. Gen. Henry B., Note and Portrait, 186 Cartocns or Our War with Spain, by Charles Nelan, 411 Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine, The, Frank R. Stockton, 484 Castle Inn, The, by Stanley J. Weyman, 486 Cathedrals of England, the, 484 Causes and C(msequenoes, by John Jay Chapman, A Review by Col. Geo. E. Waring, Jr., 289, 426 Champion of the Seventies, A, by Edith A. Baraett, 68 Chapman, John Jay, Portrait op. 277, Review of "Causes and Consequences," by Col. Geo. E. Waring, Jr., 289, 426 Charles Carleton Coffin, by Dr. Wm. E. Grlffis, 688 Charming Sally, The, James Otis, 448 Chatterbox for 1888, 477 Cheverels of Cheverel Manor, The, by Lady Newdlgate- Newdegate, 68 Child Rhymes, by James Whitcomb Riley, 474 Child's History of England, A, by Charles Dickens, 468 Child's Story of the Bible. A, 477 Chilhowee Boys in Harness, by Mrp. Sarah E. Morrison, 468 China In Transformation, by A. R. Colquhoun, 817 Christian Ideal, llie, by Dr. Rogers, 486 Christie, the King's Servant, by Mrs. O. F. Walton, 475 Clark, W. J.. Notoand Portrait, 572; Review of ''Com- mercial Cuba," 584 Clear Skies and Cloudy, by Dr. C. C, Abbott, 484 Cloister and the Hearth, The. by Charles Reade, 428 Colette, by J^tnne Schults, 428 Collections and Recollections, by G. W. E. Russell, 148 Comedies and Errors, by Henry Harland, 102 Comical Coons, by E. w. Kemble, 476 Commercial Cuba, by Wm. J. Clark. An Illustrated Re- view by Albert Shaw, 684 Complete Angler, The, by Izaak Walton, 428 Control of the Tropics, The. by Benjamin Kidd, 821 Coon Alphabet. A, by E. W. Kemble, 476 Coplev Prints, Note, 675 Cornell Stories, py James Gardner Sanderson, 2^ Corner of Spain, A, by Miriam C. Harris, 493 Corona and Cononet. oy Mrs. Mable Loomis Todd, 488 Corrine, by Mme. de 8ta61, 428 Counterpane Fairy, The, by Katherlne Pyle, 457 Count's Snuff Box, The, by George R. R. Rivers, 440 Cowmen and^ustlers. by Edward S. Ellis. 478 Cricket on the Hearth, The, b* Oharles Reade, 484 Crooked Trails, by Frederic Remington, 582 Cross in Tradition, History and Art, The, by Rev. Wm W. Seymour, 157 Cruel Side of War. The, by Katherlne P. Wormeley, 158 Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns, The, by R. H. Davis, 406, 615 Cuba, Past and Present, by Richard Davey. 110 Cyrano de Bei^erac, by Edmond Rostand, Reviewed by Charles H. Genimg, 201 INDEX C]mis the Magician, by David Beaton. 4S0 David Karum, by E. M. Westcott. 283 Davis, SRichard Harding Penrhyn Stanlaws, op. page 881. Review of the Cuban and Porto Rlcan Campaigns, 406 Day Breaketh, The, by Fannie A. Shugert, 150 Day's Worlc The, by Rudyard Kipling. An Illustrated Review, by F. C. Mortimer, 886, 49S Dear Little Marchioness, 477 Deeds that Won the Empire, by Rev. W. H. Fltchett, 52 DeForest, J. W. Note, ^. Portrait, 578 Delaney, The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs., 487 Deluge. The, by Henryk Sienklewicz. 488 Denlse andNedToodles. by Mrs. Qabrlelle Jackson, 468 Deserter and Other Stories, The, by Harold Frederic, 465 De Soto and His Men in the Land of Florida, by Grace King, 481 Determination ot Sex, The, by Dr. Leopold Schenck, 885 Dickens, Charles, Qadskill Edition of. «» Dick in the Desert, by James Otis, 477 Discharge of Electricity through Gases, by Prof. J. J. Thomson, 088 Do-Nothing Days, by C. M. Skinner, 484 Dorothy Deane. by Ellen Olney Kirk, 468 Dorothy Dot, by Elizabeth W. Timlow, 468 Down Durley Lrftne, by Vlradnia Woodward Cloud, 477 Early Italian Bindings, by 8. T. Prideaux (Illustrated) Egypt in 1898, by G. W. Steevens, 800 Easays in French Literature, by Ferdinand Brunetidre, 815 Essays on Work and Culture, by Hamilton W. Mabie, 498 Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction, by Prof. Wm. A. Dunning, 688 Establishment of Spanish Rule in America, The, by Dr. Bernard Moses, 888 Evelina^ by Frances JBumey, 486 Evel3m Innes, by George Moore^SS Fair God, The, by Gen. Lew Wallace. An Illustrated Review by Charles F. Lummis, 889 Falrport Nine, The, by Noah Brooks, 458 Fall of Santiago, The. by Thos. J. Vivian, 410 Familiar Life in Field and Forest, by F. Schuyler Mat- thews. 100 Far in the Forest, by S. Weir Mitchell, 440 Fashions in Paris, by Octave Uzanne, 417 Fighting for Favour, by W. G. Tarbet, 68 Final Proof, by R. Ottolenqui, 489 Fitch, Ciyde (Playtcright Series), Sketch, with Portrait, By Edward Fales Coward, 118 Foods and Feedings, by Sir Henry Thompson, 081 Forest Lovers, The, by Maurice Hewlet, 58 Forest of Arden, The, oy Hamilton W. Mabie, 498 Forest Orchid, A, by Ella Higginson, 64 Fortune's Tangled Skein, by Jeanette H. Walworth, 486 Four-Footed Americans, by Mabel Osgood Wright. 886 Four for a Fortune, by Albert Lee, 09 Frederic, Harold, Note and Portrait, 884; A Half Lengfth Sketch from the Life by Louise Imogen Guiney, 600 From School to Battle Field, by Capt. Charles King, 465 Frontier Hero, A, by S. T. Thurston, 458 Frontier Sketches, by Frederic Remington, 419 Fruit Of the Vine, by Dr. Andrew Murray, 488 Further Doings of Three Bold Babes, by S. Rosamond Praeger, 477 Gainsborough and His Place in English Art, by Walter Armstrong. 480 Gallops, by David Gray, 886 Gap in the Fence, The, by Harriet Louise Jerome, 474 General Histoiy of the World, A, by Victor Duruy, 484 Gentle Art of Pleasing, The, by Elizabeth Glover, 485 Gentleness of Jesus. The, by Mark T. Pearce. 486 Gterald and Geraldine, by A. G. Piympton. 477 Gilbert, W. S., The Work of, by J. K Bulloch, 566 : Por trait qpp. 566 Girl of *TO, A, by Amy E. Blanchard, 448 Gladstone : The Man, by David Williamson, 46 ; Talks with Mr. Gladstone, by Hon. Lionel A. Tollemache. 45 Godchild of Washington, A, by Katherine S. Baxter, 188 Goede vrouw of Mana-ha-ta, at Home and in Society, The, by Mrs. John King VanRensslaer, 829, 480 Golfer's Alphabet, The. by W. G. Van T. Sutphen, 416 Golflcide, The. by W^. G. Van T. Sutphen, 08 Golliwogs at the Seaside, The, by Florence Upton, 476 Good Americans, by Mrs. Burton Harrison, 491, 619 Gospel of Christ, The, by Dr. A. W. Thorold, 485 Graname, Kenneth, Note and Portrait, 287 Grant, Life and Character of Gen. U. S., by Hamlin Gar- land, 484 Gray House of the Quarries, The, by Mary H. Norris, 154 Great Love, A, by Cflara Louise Burnham. 440 Great Salt Lake Trail, The, by Col. Henry Inman and CoL W. F. Cody, 485 Green Garry, by Marienne Kirlew, 478 Greenhouse Maiiagement, by T. R. Taft, 160 Grenadier, The, by J. E. Farmer. 440 Gunner Aboard the *' Yankee," A, Anonymous, 408 Harper's Round Table for 1896, 475 Heart of Toil, The, by Octave Thanet, 487 Heart of Toil, The, by Octave Thanet, 491 Helbeck of Bannisdale, by Mrs. Humphrey Ward. 56 Her Majesty the King, by James Jeffrey Roche, 486 Her Memory, by Maarten Maartens, 489 Herald of the West, A, by J. A. Altsheler, 448 Herford, Oliver. Portrait by himself, 681. Note, 581 Heroes in Our War with Spain, by Clinton Ross, 466 Hero of Erie, The, by James Barnes, 470 Herter, Albert. A Sketch with Portrait and Illustration. A. Schade van Westrum, 81 Hester Stanley at St. Marks, by Harriet Prescott Spof • ford, 4«1 Hester Stanley's Friends, by Harriet Prescott Spofford, 464 Hewlett, Maurice, Note and Portrait, 15: The Forest Lovers, 58 Highest Andes, The, by Edward A. Fitzgerald, 488 His Little Royal Highness, by Ruth Ogden, 477 Historical Development of Modem JIurope, The, by Charles M. Andrews, 819 Historical Tales, by Charles Morris. 488 Historic Towns of New England, Edited by Rev. Lyman P. Powell, 488 History of Modem Europe, by Ferdinand Schwill, 818 History of the Netherlands, A, by Prof. Petrus Johannes Blok, 484 History of the World's Columbian Exposition. Edited by Rossiter Johnson, 084 HoUday Books, The, An Alphabetical List, 4M Hollow Tree, The, by Albert Bigelow Paine, 461 Home Life in ColonuEU Days, by Alice Morse Earle, 488 Hope, Anthony, Portrait and Note, 188 Household of the Lafayettes, The, by Edith Sickel, 140 House of Seven Gables, The, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 488 Hovey, Richard. Dramas and Lyrics. A review by Charles G. D. Roberts, 616 Howard, Blanche Willis, Note and Portrait, 886 Howells, W. D., Portrait, op. 5, 16 I am the King, by Sheppard Stevens, 440 Idylls of theKing, The, 498 Illustrators : Albert Herter, 31 ; Aubrey Beardsley, 818 ; William Nicholson 898 : W. R. Leigh, 506 Immortal Songs of Camp and Field, Edited bv Rev. Louis Albert Banks, 487 Industrial Freedom, by David Macgregor Means, 888 Ingoldsby Legends, The, 487 In a Mirror, by Mrs. G. R. Allen, 468 In Nature's Inmge, by W. J. Lincoln Adams, 485 In Old Narragansett, by Alice Morse Earle, 145 In Private Waters, by Kirk Munroe. 467 Inside of a Hundred Homes, The, by W. M. Johnson, 486 In Strange Quarters, by Edwin Hodder, 460 In the Brave Days of Old, by Ruth Hall, 457 In the Cage, by Henry James, 487 In the Forbidden Land, by A. H. Savage Landor, 484 In the Navy, by Warren Lee Goss, 445 Ionia, by Alexander Craig, 67 Island of the English, The, bvFrank Cowper, 466 Isles and Shrines of Greece, The, by Samuel J. Barrows, 159 Italy and the Italians, by Rev. Dr. Geo. B. Taylor, 481 Jane Eyre, by Charlotte BrontS, 423 Javan-fien-Seir, by Walter Kennedy, 69 Jefferson Wildrider, bv Elizabeth Glover, 486 Jeffreys, The Life of Judge, by H. B. Irving, 881 Jerusalem the Holy, by £. S. Wallace, 484 Jingle-Jangle Rhyme Book, The, 476 Joel Harford, by James Otis, 473 John Adams and Other Essays, by Dr. Mellen Chamber- lain, 488 John and Sebastian Cabot, by C. Raymond Beazley, 157 John Hancock, His Book, by Abram E. Brown, 449 John Splendid, by Neil Munro, 448 Jokai, Maurice, in His Studio, An Illustrated Sketch by Alexander Hegedus, Jr., 588 Katrina, by Ellen Douglas Deland, 456 Keats, Gwendoline, Note and Portrait, 678 King's Henchman, The, by Wm. Heniy Johnson, 60 King's Jackal, The, by R. H. Davis, 140 Krehbiel, H. £. Note and Portrait, 881 Kroimttult. byHai PembertoD. lU Labor u( Lovi., hy JullB MUKTuder. MU LakeHm AthlPilcCliib, The. b)- Kupen HUKb«i.ue Lala, Ramon Rpyps, PortreUandEeviewot ■■The Wiillp- Letich, W. It., an lUuslrated HkeVih by J, B. CuTingtao. Lire lA Lilts by Zscli. SB Life of Our Lord in Art, The, by E«U.1Ib M. Hurll. *19 Lifp'H Book or Animals. 416 Lfterory Haud(h and Homen, Amfriain Authora^ by Tho«. F. Wolfe. 813 Lilerary Seva Id EdbIwiiI. J. U . Bulloch. 41. ISI. SI^ 310, ete Lileraiy Querist, The, Roe»ilsr Jobnaoo. Tl, Ifll. 1»7, Literature of Failure, The. Clara E, LAushlln, S Little Colonial Dame, A. by AgaeB Chit ftiee. 401 Little Dame and ttie Wild Animals. The, 4^ Little Flowers of St. Franclx, The. 4S9 Little Olrl Id Old BoalOD, A, by Amanda M. Douslas. 4W Little Mold of Concord Toon. A. by UaTEHrvt Slihiey, 4M Little Mnatemieceg or (Tarlvle. Kuskln. Hacsulay, m NIcholwin. William. Illuslnit«i by Octave Uianne, OS Nicholnon, William, l^trtrsit by Hill May, 1B1, London Types. 402 NolBB from Paris M. F, Van Vorst. llfi Notes of Bare Books. E t). North, m. 893, SIS, KB Nothlna by Nonsense, by Mary Kemahan, 47+ Off to Klondyke. by (kinlon Htnbles, 45S Old ChSHter Tales, V Margant IXlBDd. An Illustrated Hevlew by Harriet Pre«cott SpolTord, 4IS OIlBywrigbta, English and A ... Clyde Fitch, by Edwaird Faies Coward. 11H: Til. Ariliur W, Plnero, by George Merriam Hyde (with Bibliography). 801 Poe. E. A. Prose Tales, Poetical Works, 438 Political Crime, by Louis ProHl. SS! Poor Richard's Almanack, by Benjamin Frankhn, 4S4 Poor Sallie and Her Christmas, by Mary D. Brine. 488 Presence of Christ, The. by Dr. A. W. Thorold. 488 .of,byS. EdwtnSotly, H^i of the Scarlet Foot, by W. Edwardo Tlrebuck, 148 Hemolra and Letters of Chancellor Kent, The. 188 Memoirs of a Rear-Admlral, hy 8. R. Franklin, 143 Memoirs of the Military Career of Jobn Shipp, 4T1 Bferedilb, George, Letters of. 11. Complete Works, tO HicbelanKeio Buonarroti. Life of, by J. A. Symonds, 423 'Mldat the Wild Carpathians, by Haurus J«kal,,'l88 MUlIary Europe, by Major Miller, Joaqii&, Nol&JW. Uillionalres, Tbe. by F. Fn ir.Oeiieral Nelson A, MilM. sa Portrait. IC- . .=■. Frankfort Moore, 140 Minute Boys of Lexington. The, by Edward Stratemeyer. MIrabeau, hy p. F. Wlllert. 141 Model Houses for Little Honey, by V. R. Price, 485 Horlah's Mourning, by Ruth McT^ery Stuart. 148 Musical Journey of Dorothy and Delia, The, by Bradley Oilman, 4TT Music Dramas of Richard Wagner, The, by Albert Lav- Hy Boyhood's Friend, Mr. Oldbuck, by Noah Bnwks. SSI My Scrap-Book of the French Revolution, by E. W. La^ imar.4S4 Myths and Legends beyond Our Borders, by M. Skinner, 4W Nation's Navy, The, Our Ships and Their Achievements, by Charles Norrta. 8SS Nature for Its Own Sake, by John C. van Dyke. 19, 438 Nelson and BIh Problem of Endlnj Proud Little Baiter. A, t>y trances t). Dimngiuun. 40H Puritans, The. by Arlo Bates, 43S Puritan Wooing, A, by Frank S. Child. 488 Puullng Pair, A. by Amy Le Feuvre, 415 Quietness and Confidence. In. by Rose Porter, 486 Rainbow's End. Alaska. The. by Mrs. A. P, Henderson. 900 Ralph. Julian. Note and Portrait. "" ■»— -■■ the Oihlde, The, b '" Iron Hand, by May ^ — 1- The. by Jules Hoohe, KKL-oiietHuuB vl the Civil War, by Ch. Red Aie, The. by 8. R. Cro-ket.t 4HU Red Lily, The, by Anatole 1 Regina : or. The Sins of the Fathers, by Hermann Suder Resting' in Love, hy Rose Porter, 438 Revenge of Liiva.'^ Helm. The, by Angusle Blondel, m Revolutionary l.ovn Slory. A, by Ellen Olney Kirk. I» Rei Waylancls I'ortnne.liy H. A. Stanley. 4M Riley, James Wlulciimb. Portrait, opp. IKI : As a Poet ol Childhood, by CLira E. Lauglilln, 181 ; Complel. Works, 433 Road to Paris, The, by B. N. Stephens. 4- d Other Stories, by Louis V Loomis, 418 Rostand, Edmi Roucfa Cut, by Chrislabel Ccderldfie. 4ni RuboiyU or Omar KUyylm. The. Edits Heron Allen. 4» RubolyU or Omar KUyylm. The. Edited by Edwud Portrait opp. psRe 89 ; Bketcb b; Bambo Book. The, by laaBc Cole. Jr., *Te Sanitary Engineering, by Wm. P. Oehard. IM "- - U ClauB on anov SboeB. by Sopble Kay. 477 ^. ._. *._. „__ 'eeph Wheeler, Santa Claus on anov SboeB. by Sopble i SantluTD Campaign. The. by Ka], Oen. >eor Sir Wolter-B Brolher. Ill, IlluBtrated. By W. L. Aa- ahattuck'a Adnnced Ru]ee.'by Harrlette R. ShatCuck. im ShiftlnK audi, by F. R. Burton. 1S8 Ships and HaveoH. by Henry Tan Dyke. 4m Rhips and Sallon. by James Barnes. 11 B Short History of Engltah Ulwature. A. by Oeorge Balnta- Short AiMtory o( the War with Spain, by Varrion Wllcoi. Blerfried, the Hero of the North, by Zenalde A. Ragozln. SlelankST A Forest Picture, by Henryk aienkleinici. 491 . Silence and Other Storlea, by Mary E. WUkhu. 14K Sliver Salvors. The, by CJeoree ManTtlle Fenn, 47Jt Blr JefTerHon Nobody, by Eflle W. Sherman, 401 Six Young Hunters, by V, Gordon Parker, 4M0 SkeU^ee and Cartoons, by C. D. Olbaon, 41S Slave to Duty, A. by Octave Thanet, 48T Soldier oF the Legion, A. by Cbarles Ledyard Norton. ityjOy 1-- i-»pe ijornroro, ino r. The. by Harle L. Van Vorat, WM .tory. The. by J. C, Femald. IBO Spaniard In Htatory, the. by J. t Spanish Reiolutlcn, The. E. H. Stroflbel. 411 Sporting Rhymes and Pictures, by Q, L. C, Booth, 4K Stanley, Henry M.. Note, 06, Portrait, Vt etories from Lowly Life, by C, M, Duppa, 477 Stories of Foreign Aulhora. «B Blories of tbe Amaricui RevoluUoo, by ETerett T. Tom- Story ol Story o( >ah Brooks. *54 a. Rector, 4fi8 tenford N. Cobb. 14fi y WanOBi), 484 by Hen^ Cabot Lodge. ', W, P. Trent, 897 n.414 i. A, by J. ScoU Clark. . The, by Prof. A. C Haddon. «e „^stO*ta,by W.O.Stoddard. 4« Suderman, Herman. Aaiimpaeol. With Portrait. By Marts L, Van Vorst, SB. SudSinan'a " Reglna," S4 Sybil's Garden or PleasaDt Beasts, by Sytil] and Kathar- ine Corbett, 477 Tales of the Eiicban(«d Islands of tbe Atlantic, by T. W. atudy of Han. Tb^ by Prof. / TennyaoD, Altreil Lord. Poetical Works. 48$ Tennyson ; His Homes, His Friends and His Work, by :^ry, 41 Terror, The. by F«lli Or*s. — Thackeray. W. U.^ Biographic^ Edition of, «a^ Three Freshmen. \>y Jeesii ~ 3- Lattice WlntlowBib ■ . on Hi vort%, 4» Chase. 4IIS )rseback. by Dr. Geo. H. Hep- Through the Earth^by Clenii: Through Unknown Thibet, by __ Thy Friend Dorothy, by Amy E. r Allen Rnine. i» s. The, by Mrs. Arthur Qaskln. !ra. The, by C. F. Holder. 479 Trimalohlo's Dinner, by Prof. H. T. Peck. US. Trooper of the Empress, A. by Clinton Boss. 86 True Benlsmln Franklin. The, by Paul LeiceMer Ford. 4» True Story of BCDJamin Franklin. Tbe. by Elbridge 8. Brooks. 4W Twenty Years After, by Aleiandre Dumas. 4SS 'Twin You and He, by Ornce Le Baron, 4H Two BIddlcut Boys, by J. 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THE LITERATURE OF FAILURE IT must have puzzled many a reader, these latter times, to know whether the literature of failure should be as- cribed to the exactions of art, or to the cowardice of artists, or to a consensus of artistic disbelief in success, especially of the altruistic sort. The old-fashioned hero used to succeed : the new-fashioned hero is addicted to dying pathetically, amid the ruins of his hopes. The latter- day man puts up as good a fight against his own or a common enemy, be it sin or want or society, as the earlier man put up against parental opposition or the foes of the king ; but we knew, of the old man, that, no matter how seemingly hopeless his valorous fight, he would win in the last chapter, while of the modern man we know that he will almost inevitably fail in the last chapter, or before. He may be of the type of Theron Ware and Bobert Elsmere, fighting unseen battles of faith, and fading into nothingness in the unequal fight ; or of the type of Emanuel Bayard or John Storm, grap- pling with the sin of the under-world, and going down in the struggle, the one in honest, manly defeat, and the other in cowardly surrender, but both to almost predestined unsuccess ; or he may be of the type of Michael Akershem, warring with society for a fair chance to live and love and labor, and losing all three coveted privileges because of his own unfitness quite as much as because society is hard on nameless descendants. But whatever the type he represents, our modern hero is seldom enough triumphant to be, for his tendency toward failure, a subject for comment. Xow, the modern hero wages moral fights, as the ancient hero, from epic times to the Bronte age, waged physical warfare, or, at most, endeavored for material success and the hand of the heroine. But whereas, aforetime, one had only to make one's hero of sufficient prowess and sufficiently personable, and then carry him through triumphs all but or altogether incredible, nowadays one must create a very giant of moral strength if one would create a conqueror, as things go. And this may be due to a preva- lent belief among fictionists that the pro- portion of persons who achieve distinct moral triumphs is an unrei^resentative proportion, or it may be due to their artistic conviction that the pathos of defeat best enlists sympathy and excites 6 THE BOOK BUYER interest, whereas success is all too fre- quently smug and uninspiring, except to those smaller soul-qualities which are commercial or in some sense covetous of acclaim or flowery ease. It is not easy to depict success and make it seem glori- ous, however naturally it offers itself for weak envy. Perhaps herein lies a solu- tion ; and either caution or cowardice suggests itself as another probability, and it is not easy in most instances to decide which of those two things hesitancy is. Certain it is, however, that writers on great moral subjects must find themselves handicapped by the hysteria with which many "small fry" find it necessary to claim or proclaim moral triumphs. The odor of the " tract," wherein drunkards are always made repentant and skinflints tender-hearted and sinners to yearn for conversion, so that the cool-headed in- dividual who knows something of drunk- ards and skinflints and sinners discredits this hysterical mendacity as utterly as the student of English society or the reader of Thackeray discredits the pen-pictures of " The Duchess " and " The Kitchen Girl's Friend " — this odor must be strong with warning in the nostrils of the writer zealous to be truthful ; and it is an undeniable and pitiful fact that, if a book is strongly affirmative, it at once lays itself open to the cheap cry of partisanship, and because partisanship has so often been bigoted and hysterical we are all afraid of it at all times and in all guises, it would seem; and in order to keep liis book from being denomi- nated a '* tract " and help it to be con- sidered a studious and unbiassed portrayal of certain conditions, the author must i not ''claim too much" for his hero. If Thereon Ware had persevered in the faith, notwithstanding the revelation of Father Forbes's insincerity, Harold Fred- eric would have been even more bitterly accused than he was, of being a Metho- dist, and unfair to Catholicism : and if Ware's destruction through simplicity had not been matched by the priest's denun- ciation for duplicity, the author would have been called a Catholic partisan, scheming to create distaste for the weak struggles of a poor Protestant parson ; in fact, Mr. Frederic was so accused, though not so vociferously as if Forbes had remained unmasked. Mrs. Ward has the courage of her convictions, but it has puzzled some readers of "A Singu- lar Life" to know why she killed poor Bayard. Surely she believes slum work can produce triumph, though it be a slow triumph and hard-bought ? And Bayard had, it seemed, the qualifications for it. Then what must one think of that fatal stone ? Was it allowed in fear of *' smug success"? Was it a promulgation that the gentle idealist viust fail in Angel Alley ? Or was it a shaft shot above either of these considerations, at the world, which slays so many of its best servants ? One wonders. That representative person, the average reader, is depressed by the literature of failure ; he seldom fails to complain of it as "pessimistic," and he almost equally seldom fails to be more or less affected by it, for though one novelist may not be a prophet, a consensus of novelists tends toward impressiveness. And yet "the average reader" must admit that he would be the first and loudest to ques- tion the literature of success. Poor Du Maurier, buoyed by a great success born of the literature of failure, essayed a story of a great success ; but who cares so much about Barty Josselin? Who waded through the complete recital of his triumphs? Who failed, too, to note the unpleasing, almost defiant, undertone of the besieged celebrity in "The Martian," and who failed to weep, or to wish he could weep, that Dii Maurier had been led to write thus ? Yet let an author tell a tale of social- ism triumphant, and it will be nip and THE BOOK BUYER tuck to see who first shall say : *' Ah, he's doubtless a socialist himself, aud you cau't belieye the propaganda of these fa- natics." Or let some such hero as Eman- uel Bayard become a source and centre of a great regenerating movement in the slums, and in addition to the multitude who are eager to explain that with such and such methods he could 7iot succeed, there will be the complacently smiling and politely incredulous throng whose shoulders will go up expressively as they say : '^ Very ideal and quite inspiring; but do you think it is practical, not to say probable ? *' It would be interesting indeed to know whether the fictionists are a timid people, or whether they are strong in their convic- tion that failure best lends itself to art ; or whether, as the general run of their readers probably believe, they are a pessi- mistic people, especially about heroes and altruism. Clara E, Laughlin. THE PROBLEM OF ENDINGS ONE of the inevitable questions about a new book is whether or not it ends well. To the author, who has suf- fered with and on account of his charac- ters more intensely than any reader can suffer, there is something amusing in this anxiety to have the old formula, ''And they all liveci happy ever afterwards,^^ re- peated at the end of every tale. A tiny honne honche of happiness is so inade- quate after some stories of sorrow that it seems almost an irony to offer it to the readers ; and yet, like children who have taken a bitter medicine, they are very likely to complain that they have had no taste of sweetness, if it is not offered to them. Whether a book is really cheerful or not depends so much more upon its substance than upon its ending that the mere inci- dent of a death, for instance, upon one of the last pages, is very trivial compared with the spirit of hope and courage or of helpless despondency which has filled the many previous pages, and this spirit de- pends upon character ; for both in books and in actual life it is character rather than circumstance or fate which gives the golden or the leaden hue to every page or every day. The common feeling that death is in- evitably sad is responsible for much of the stress which is laid upon the endings of books. That, and the belief that people who love each other can have no joy or benefit of life if they must live apart, have set up two formal and arbitrary conditions which a story must fulfil in order to be considered cheerful. The principal char- acters may go through fire and water if necessary, but they must get rid of their smoke stains and dry their costumes in time to appear alive and smiling in the final chapter ; and the hero and the hero- ine must marry each other, or, if the writer has allowed their affections to wander further afield, they must at least marry the i^eople of their choice. These, of course, are not the standards of the most thoughtful readers, and yet, like all conventionalities, they extend further than an author likes to believe. The same thing is found even when considering the novels which try to solve some problem of life. Each reader will consider the book as ending well or ill, according as it reaches his conclusion or not, and most people will judge of its usefulness according to its end. And yet, in the novels with a pur- 8 THE BOOK BUYER pose, we meet some of the most disagree- able and injurious characters who are any- where abroad in fiction. Thev are toler- ated and their misdeeds are forgiven on account of the excellent moral which they are working out, and too many readers seem blind to the fact that the real influ- ence of the book is not in the neatlv turned syllogism in which its purpose might be stated, but in the acts and characters of its people. Of course, in any discussion which con- Biders the end as separate from the body of the story, exception must be made of some of the great masterpieces of fiction, both stories with a moral purpose and those which can only be looked at from the artistic point of view. In such stories, the end is so interwoven with every fibre of the substance that the one can scarcely be spoken of without implying the other, and by their very perfection they are placed beyond the range of comments di- rected toward more ordinary work. It is impossible to think of the author of one of these books as wondering whether to end it one way or another — there could be only one way, and the whole book is but a prologue to the end: the reader may not be able to foresee it, but when he reaches it he knows that nothing else would have answered in its place. But such strong, fateful motives are few, and writers recognize that the end of most stories might have been changed with a turn of the pen. Charlotte Bronte, how- ever, is the only writer, so far as I know, who ever said as much in a story and left its finale to the choice of its readers, while Rudyard Kipling stands alone as the man who changed the ending of a story after its first edition had met the verdict of the public. Copies of that first edition of *'The Light that Failed,'' with its abrupt sad close, are probably very rare in America ; but to have read both of the versions must be the despair of those who j)in their whole faith to the final chapter of a book, just as the last page of '^ Villette '' has tantalized many people, old and young, who could not rest satisfied without knowing to a certainty whether or not M. Paul Emanuel came back safely through storm and shipwreck to Villette and Lucy Snow. Such readers are not reconciled to that single page of ambiguity by reading that happy endings had begun to seem tawdry and artificial to Charlotte Bronte in the midst of her own relentlessly bleak and sorrowful life ; they miss the pathos of her determination to indulge for once in a complete catastrophe, coming suddenly and illogically upon the heels of her romance, as it so often comes in life ; and they feel disappointed that when she finally gave up the grim pleasure of her tragedy, yielding to the persuasion of her father, who had been grim enough in his time, but who had grown sympathetic with advancing years, she did not yield unconditionally, but reserved to herself the right of leaving the end in doubt. But Charlotte Bronte knew the power of her story well enoiigh to trust it to succeed even with those who could never forgive its unsatisfactory last page; for she real- ized that in picturing life it is the balance of joy or of sorrow which sets its seal upon the story, and the mere end is sad or happy according to the place at which the story is closed. This is so absolutely true that I often amuse myself with a fanciful plan for the benefit of those who judge of a story as cheerful or not simply by its end. For such as they, why. not have every book provided with two ends ? They could not be in the same vohime, of course, but each edition could be divided in halves, one for those who *' just love a sad end- ing,'' and one for those who " can't bear anything that doesn't come out pleas- antly." Or, better still, the text of a book might be arranged to reel on and off THE BOOK BUYER 9 cylinders, and a simple mechanical con- trivance of some sort would provide trag- edy and comedy stops. The story itself, with its burden of merriment or of heart- break, with its strong, inspiring characters, or its weak and selfish ones, would still be the same; but for the benefit of those who chose the '* happiness stop " the wheels of the great structural and in- grained tragedy would not stand still at its fulfilment, but would turn on into some day of superficial peace beyond, while the lovers of sad endings would not be obliged to put a funny book down with a grudging laugh, but could wait until the machinery moved forward and brought them, if not to anything sadder, at least to the death of the character they loved best in the book. For somewhere, on one of the blank leaves at the back, death is waiting for all of us in every story ; yet it is not by its inevitable coming that we judge of our lives as hajopy or as sad. There are some things deeper than circumstance and conclusion, and they are the bearing of circumstance and the meeting of des- tiny. "A sorrowful story anil ending badly ? " wrote Mrs. Ewing. '' Nay, Jack- anapes, for the end is not yet. . . . Very sweet are the uses of prosperity, the harvests of peace and progress, the foster- ing sunshine of health and happiness, and length of days in the land. But there be things — such as Love and Honour and the Soul of Man, which cannot be bought with a price, and which do not die with death." Mary Tracy Earle, AUGUST I Clad on with glowing l)eaiity and the peace Benign of calm maturity, she stands Among her mea<.lows and her orchard-lands, And on her mellowing gardens and her trees, Out of the ripe abundance of her hands, Bestows increase And fruitfulness, as, wrapped in sunny ease, Blue-eyed and olonde she goes, Upon her bosom Summer's richest rose. II And he who follows where her footsteps lead, By hill and rock, by forest-side and stream, Shall glimpse the glory of her visible dream In flower and fruit, in rounded nut and seed : She in whose path the very shadows gleam ; Whose humblest weed Seems lovelier than June's loveliest flower, indeed, And sweeter to the smell Than ApriVs self within a rainy dell. Ill Hers is a sumptuous simplicity Within the fair Republic of her flowers, Where you may see her standing, hours on hours Breast-deep in gold, soft-holding up a bee To her hushed ear; or sitting under bowers Of greenery, A butterfly a-tilt upon her knee ; Or, lounging on her hip. Dancing a cricket on her finger-tip. — From ** Shapes and Shadows^ " poems by Madison Cawein. By permission of Mr. R. H. Russell, THE RAMBLER STILL another of the old Boston pub- lishing houses has ceased to exist under its old name. The firm of Lee & Shepard is no more, and the business which it conducted has passed into the hands of Messrs. E. Fleming & Co., the bookbinders. The founder of the firm of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Mr. H. 0. Houghton, changed in like manner from printer into publisher. The change in the affairs of the Lee & Shepard estab- lishment, therefore, has good historic precedent. This is quite as it should be, for Mr. Lee in his own person represents much of the history of Boston publishing. He was a partner in the firm of Phillips & Sampson, the first publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, when the magazine was begun. By the failure of this firm, a few years later, Ticknor & Fields came into possession not only of the Atla7itic, but of the books of Emerson and others of the great group to which he belonged. But Lee & Shepard were long afterwards the publishers of Charles Sumner^s writ- ings, and if they did not win the good graces of thousands of young readers, now middle-aged men, it is not because they lacked the constant cooperation of "Oliver Optic.'' If so many of the old names are to go, it is at least well that their undertakings are not to vanish with them. Probablv not half of the total number of books for which the war with Spain will be responsible have as yet come into existence. One of the latest ones, the Scribners announce, is " Yesterdavs in the Philippines," by Mr. Jose2)h Earle Stevens, a young Harvard graduate, who went out to Manila a few years ago to take charge of the interests of a Boston firm, and remained there two, apparently enjoyable, years. During this time he made close observations and, fortunately, took notes about the manners and cus- toms of the people, and the resources and possibilities of the islands which have re- cently become so near to Americans. AVhat he has to say is all the more read- able and no less valuable bv reason of its frank and unpretentious form. The real reason Spain fails as a colo- nizing nation is to be shown by Prof. Bernard Moses, of the University of Cali- fornia, in a volume called "The Estab- lishment of Spanish Rule in America," to be published soon by the Putnams. Comparisons between the colonial policy of England and Spain have been made before, but the prime cause for Spain's sorry and invariable failures. Professor Moses thinks, lies farther back than that, in the motives and methods of establish- ing Spanish rule in the incipient stages of exploration and colonization. Mr. Marion Crawford's next book will not be a novel, though it will have to do with Italy. His wide historical knowl- edge of the city of Rome, only a part of which has come into his novels, will ap- pear in a large comprehensive work in two volumes of three hundred pages each, which the Macmillans now have in the press. This plan might be taken as in- dicating that the novelist is through with Home as a basis of romance, though his publishers report that " Corleone," the last of the Saracinesca series, is still selling freelv. Lieutenant Peary's ship " Northward " set off northward again from the foot of Canal Street not long ago, with very few people to see him off, and almost none of THE BOOK BUYER . Fruui nt An Journal- 1 the noise and (lemoiistmtioii that usually atteud such departures. The war, which has not changed the explorer's plana in the slightest, has changed the public's standards of excitemeut. The reviving interest in George Eliot (so far as "literary" people are concerned, tor she has never lost her hold on the great religious public) will be stimulated by the publication of Lady Newdigate- Xewdegate's new book, " The Cheverels of Cheverei Manor," on which "Mr. (iilfll's Love Story" was based. "Chev- erei Manor," or Arbury Hall, which he- longed in the sixteenth century first to the Brandons and then to the great Eliza- bethan lawyer, Sir Edmund Anderson, was sold by the latter to the Xewdegate family, who came from Middlesex, Mr, Gilfil was really Sir Roger Xewdigate (who began spelling hts name with an /), and to whom George Eliot's father was a sort of riglit-hand man. When he died he bequeathed the fine old place to Mr. Francis Parker (on condition of the latter's assuming the name of Ji'ewdigate), with a reversion to a Sir, Kewdigate on condition of his adding the name of Kew- degate (with an e). The present owner, who still resides at Arbury, was once governor of Bermuda. He married the author of the present book just forty years ago. Lady Kewdigate-Newdegate (for her husband was knighted in 1894) is well known by her " Gossip from a Muniment Room," which tells the story of Mary Fyt ton. "Cheverei Manor "is the beautiful house it is to-day largely through the wise counsels of George Eliot's father. Mrs, Gitfil was Sir Rog- er's wife, Hester Munday, whose corre- spondence Lady Xewdigate-Xewdegate has freely used. A review of " The Chev- THE BOOK BUYER erels of Cheverel Manor" appeiire in another column. "The Gadfly," which hiu already reached its eleventh edition here, is the latest Biiccessfu! novel to be threatened with dramatization. "The Prisoner of Zenda," " Trilby," "Tess of the D'Ur- bervillea," "Under the Red Robe," and "A Lady of Quality " are but a few of the recent books that have been made into plays, most of which succeeded in direct ratio to the amount of change wrought in the story. The play of the "Little Min- ister" is not named here, because it was an entirely different story from the novel of that name ; and it has proved more successful than any of these. Since Mr. Gelett Burgess cast the last bright child of his pencil, L'Enfnnt Terrible, adrift in the world, to find its harbor in hearts uplifted by the Lark, another curious publication has come out of the West, like Lochinvar, Mr. W. Hearst, and the thirst for culture. This is a literary manifestation of the JapaneHC poet, Yone Noguchi, and is called llie Twilight. For purposes of comparison we reprint tiie first pages of the first num- bers of each of these picture-writings, although we entirely refuse to believe the slanderous suggestion set afloat by some envious person that there really is no such person as Yone Nognchi, and that this Japanese mystic is only a Protean form of Mr. Burgess. Such an idea is quite im- possible, for all the literary papers, includ- ing The Book Buyer, have published the portrait of Yone Xoguchi, which doesn't look at all like the portrait of Mr. Burgess. But when it comes to the pictorial side ot the two papers reproduced above, we confess there is some room for specu- lation. The Twilight's" art" [a said toho " managed "' by one M. Takahashi, whce portrait has not yet been published. And that there is something of likeness in the manner of these two draughtsmen and something queer in tlie sound of Mr. Takaliashi'a name we are not prepared to deny. But that Mr, Soguchi is only a Japanese Burgess, perish the thought ! J* Mr, George Moore is now at work upon a sequel to "Evelyn Inues," to be called "Sister Teresa." j» " Life Is Life " is the epigrammatic title of a book of siiort stories bya new autlior, a very young woman, who remains shel- tered behind tiie pseudonym "Zack." The book has just been published in Lon- don by the Blackwootls, and has received the most effusive praise from leading Eng- lish critics, including those of the Acad- emy, tlie Pall }faU Gazflle, the Saturday Revieiv, and many others. Several of the stories are Cornish tales ; a number are in dialect. "Force and concentra- tion," says one critic, " are the essential characteristics of her work," Another THE BOOK BUYER 13 recent purchasea of such iLiithors as Bret Iliirte. Oonan Doyle, Anthniiy Hope nod others in tbe first rsnk hftvinji been made, that We may be in position to serve our newspaper and magazine trieiids tit any and all titnes. July. 18H8. Brondway. New York City. [ 'sSewspaper Literatiire.] — presumably nn enthusiastic person — compares her to KmiJy Bronte. Another Bays that "Life Is Life" is not merely a book of high promise, but itself a fine performance. The American reader will be able to form his own judgment shortly, for it is now in the Scribners' The following commercial announce- ment is as perfect in form as though it were concerned with the marketing of steel rails or golf stockings, and we take pleasure in reprinting a circular at once so modest and so interesting : Editors and pitblislierswill, we trust, appreciate out purpose in brJeQy noting the (act that, Despite the influences of the war, we have con- tinued to JDveEt in all the best fiction obtainable. The last piece of work finished by Presi- dent Eliot's son, Charles Eliot, was a for- estry report upon the " Vegetation and Scenery in the Metropolitan Reservations of Boston. " This report is on the point of publication as a book by Messrs. Jjam- son, Wolffe & Co. The te.xt of the vol- ume mitst have an important vahie for specialists. For the "average person" who cares for beauty of landscape there is a fresh interest in many of the illustra- tions. These are sepia drawings of bits of woodland scenery, ingeniously arranged in such a way that the lower part of the sketch tips forward to show what the view wonid be after a judicious cutting of trees. What is done by an architect's drawing of proposed alterations in a house is here accomplished in the broad fields of nature, and the name of the profession of architecture" is justified. There have been differences of opir)ion touching the origin of ^he famous Sainr- day Club, in Boston. Dr. Holmes, who certainly ought to have known, contended that it had no real connection with ■the beginnings of the Atlantic Monthly. The question may not be of paramount im- portance, but it will probably be settled once for all in a new book to be published by Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co., of Bos- ton. This is a life of John Sullivan Dwight, by Mr. (ieorge AVillis Cooke. Besidc.'i serving as secretary of the Satur- day Club, 3Ir. Dwight was long known as the " Xestor of Music" in Boston, and in his earlier experience was a member of the Brook Farm commnnitv. All the 14 THE BOOK BUYER ]iliase3 ol Ills ;ife will be treated in Mr. Cooke'a volume, which will contain many letters, now first piiblialied, from Haw- thorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, and other friends of Mr. Dwight'a. The vol- ume can hardly fail to be an important ad- dition to the biographical annals of the "Augustan" period with which it deals. The memory of Edward Bellamy is not allowed to pass unhonored. Mr. Ilowelk has written a paper concerning him which, after appearing in the August At- lantic, will be used as the introduction to a new edition of " Looking Backward," with a portrait of Its author. Besides this, Messrs. llonghton, Mifflin & Co. will publish, in the autumn, a volume of his short stories, together with which a bio- graphical sketch of ilr. Bellamy by Mr, Sylvester Baxter will be printed. In one of Lowell's published letters he thanked Mr. Aldrich for effecting the "rescue "of a forgotten poet by means of a poem about him. Kow he has cliosen another method of bringing to the notice of readers a book which they have made the mistake of overlooking. It is called " Wishmaker's Town." Its author is Mr, William Young, of Kew Hampshire. It was published thirteen years ago in New York, and is now out of print. It is a quaintly conceived and deftly wrought series of connected poems, which well de- serve the attention they must receive when published, as they soon will be, by Messrs, Lamson, Wolffe & Co,, in a little volume for which Mr. Aldrich provides an appre- ciative introduction. J* The cover of the '* Fiction " (August) number of Scribner'a Magazine has been designed by Mr. Albert Herter, about whom, and his work, an article appears in this issue of The Book Biter, accom- panied by illustrations. This cover, whose rich colors are scarcely suggested in black and white, is one of the four designs with which Mr, Herter recently won the Scrib- ner colored-cover competition. The first one appeared on the April Scribner. The other two will be found on the October and Christmas numbers. Wo sincerely regret the exit of the Ohap Book from the field of literary newspapers. It was as bright a spirit as the Lark, and oftener kept one foot on the ground. The weekly Critic, too, will be lamented, and while its monthly issue will continue to be hailed with joy, it can scarcely be four times as good as each single number of the Critic has always been. When Gilbert annoum iar doctrine that ed the unfamil- " Hearts just us mire and fnir MsT beat in Belgrave Sf|linro As in the lowtv iiir Ot Seven Dials," THE BOOK BUYER lie expresaed a phase of the truth which the Kev. Charles F. Dole, of Jamaica Plain, is said to have set forth in a series of essays soon to be published by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co., under tho title " Lux- ury and Sacrifice." It is a doctriue worth preaching nowadays, that the possession of yachts and country places increases rather than diminishes one's opportuuities for self-sacrifice. In the July number of the London Booh- man appeared the following short sketch of the author of "The Forest Lovers," a charming novel which is likely to attract much attention : Mr. Maurice Hewlett is the eldest son .of Henr}- Gay newletl, Esq., to whose influence and (rain- ing as a scholar and mao of letters he is indebted for much of his literary skill, Mr. Hewlett was boni in 1861, and was educate at various private tK:hools. School-life was, it seems, never mueh to his taste. He cared nothing for the ordinary i-ou- tinc lessons, but spent his time reading and scrib- bling. He was quite indifferent to bis chances of an Oitord Scholarship, and ended his scbool-days without one. He has been known tosay of him- self, iu describing this period of his life, "I wasted my time, I dreamed; I tried to do things too big for me, and threw them up at tho first failure; 1 diligently pursued every false god; I don't think I was very happy, and I am sure I was very ilisa- greeable; I doubt now if I was ever a boy, exeept for a, short jieriod when by rights I should have been a man." This, however, is only Mr. Hew- lett's own opinion. Perhaps his friends may not take quite his view. Ultimately he got his share of discipline, for at eighteen or so he was sent to Loudon and set down lo a steady grind at black- letter law — a study which has been hereditary in his family ever since his great-grandfather left his Soniersetshirehomeand settled ill London. In 18B8 Mr. Hewlett married; in 1S90 he was called to the Bar. Some time afterwards he fell ill, and a lour abroad which followed awoke iu him the desire Ui write more seriously. Lecturing at Soath Kensiogton, University Col- lege, and other places upon " Media;val Thought and Art " occupied him at first. He used to re- view for the old Academy on those lines, and, in- deed, contributed to most of the weekly and moatbly reviews at various tiiucs. Hesars, J. M. Dent & Co. published his first book in 1805. It WHS ualled " Earthwork out uf Tus- cany," and was a collection of Italian studies and inventions. It is out of print at present, but there is tu be a new edition this year, with illustrations by Mr. Kerr-Lawson. That book owes most of its success to America. Some of it has received the two-odged distinction of "conveyance" by the broad-minded Mr. Mosher, of Portland, Me. In the same year the same publishers issued "The Masque of Dead Florentines," a poem, illustrated by Mr. J. D. Batten. The next book was also poetry, " Songs und Meditations," published in 1B90 by Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co. Last comes "The Forest Lovers," and as soon as possi- ble it will be followed by a book which was in- tended to precede it, ' ' Pan and tho Young Shep- herd," a blend of pastoral, fairy tale, and masque. At present Mr. Hewlett occupies the post of head of the Land Revenue Record Ofliee, to which ho was apiiointed by the Treasury two years ago. His career has not been an adventurous one; as he himself would put it, " most of a writer's ad- ventures take place in his head.'' But, quiet or stirring, the life of the author ot sucli a book as THE BOOK BUYER 17 ** The Forest Lovers" cannot be an uninteresting one. Mr. Hewlett^s latest romance is reviewed appreciatively by Miss Meriugton upon another page. For the new portrait of the author printed herewith we are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. George P. Brett, to whom it was sent by Mr. Hewlett. The two photographs of Mr. Howells, which we are able to present to our read- ers in this number, were taken very re- cently, and show two contrasting and characteristic — say attitudes, for he never poses — of this kindly master of his craft. It is now denied, on what seems to be good authority, that Mr. John Morley is to undertake the task of writing the promised biography of Mr. Gladstone. And it is reported that a '* Life *' of Lord Beaconsfield will be forthcoming from the brilliant pen of John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs. Craigie). Mr. Meredith's attitude toward his own work and, incidentally, toward his Amer- ican readers, can be seen in this character- istic letter,which he sent to the writer of an article in the Harvard Monthly some years ago, and which was published for the first time in a recent number of the Monthly : England— Box Hill, Dorking. July 22, 1887. My Dear Sir : When at the conclusion of your article on my works you say that a certain change in public taste, should it come about, will be to some ex- tent due to me, you hand me the flowering wreath I covet. For I think that all right use of life, and the one secret of life, is to pave ways for the firmer footing of those who succeed us ; and as to my works, I know them faulty, think them of worth only where they point and aid to that end. Close knowledge of our fellows, discernment of the laws of existence, these lead to great civiliza- tion. I have supposed that the novel, exposing and illustrating the natural history of man, may help us to such sustaining roadside gifts. But I have never started on a novel to pursue the theory it developed. The dominant idea in my mind took up the characters and the story midway. You say that there are few scenes. Is it so throughout ? My methoScot- land, established it more broadly by pub- lishing the Kilmarnock edition of six hundred copies. His financial and ama- tory affairs had reached such a crisis that he intended to purchase passage to Amer- ica with the profits of the book. These private diflSculties were pretty widely known in the west country, and a number of persons with pretensions to gentility, elegance, and literature felt called upon to give him advice, both as to poetry and puhli'heil In \ Willlnm Vl-(.llii $5.l». ASD Mbs. Dvsujp. CorreiponiU'nce Dodd, Meod &, Co.. ( conduct. lie could have had the patron- age of several influential families in his own region, but preferred to listen to n call from the northern Athens, in llie shape of Dr. Biacklock's assurance that a second edition could be issued in Edin- burgh. Before going thither he received a flattering letter with an order for half a dozen copies of his works from Mrs. Frances Anna Dnnlop, of Dunlop, a lady of an ancient and respectable family and of some means, who lived about fifteen miles from Biirns'a farm. She was a widow, the mother of thirteen children, and fifty-six years old at this time, Burns being twenty-seven. The death of her husband, and a severe illness following, bad left her in a depressed state of mind. THE BOOK BUYER 19 which found sudden and great relief on the reading of ** The Cotter's Saturday Night/* as she often related. She boasted blood relationship to William Wallace, and probably expressed herself in her note as under obligation to represent her ancestry in giving welcome to the new national and local poet. His reply, dated Mossgiel, November 15, 1786, is the first letter known still to exist of the famous Burns-Dunlop correspondence, which is more complete and voluminous than any other prose material connected with the poet's life. Thirty-nine letters from Burns to Mrs. Dunlop were printed in 1800 by Currie, in his " Works of Eobert Burns," and four others have found their way into print hitherto. Thirty-four more letters and five fragments of letters by Burns and ninety-seven letters by Mrs. Dunlop have lain unprinted in possession of her family, until recently they came into the hands of Mr. R. B. Adam, of Buffalo, N. Y., by whom they are copyrighted in the present edition. It is probable that only about a dozen of the letters which passed between Burns and Mrs. Dunlop are now missing. The period of their correspondence covers nearly ten years, the last letter, from Burns, being dated Julv 10, 1796, eleven davs before his death. Mr. Wallace's work is ably and fully done ; the Preface, Introduction, and Elu- cidations are all that could be desired. The volumes are handsomely printed and bound. Though much of their interest, quite unexpectedly, lies in their value as a help to understanding the spirit of the eigh- teenth century in its effect on certain portions of Scottish society, yet of course the principal reason for publishing these letters is that they throw light on the very complex character of Robert Burns. We can never know the nature of a man until we learn how he conducts himself towards at least one woman. If she be a lady, we start with one. of the unknown quantities of the equation already deter- mined, and the problem is much simpli- fied. In Burns^s case it matters a good deal what we shall think of him. He is a poet whom we love to love. And so much of our enjoyment of his poetry depends on whether we can regard him as a man essentially sound at heart ! We shall scarce love him the less for his profligacy, be- cause we can condone it in view of the temptations against which he struggled not unmanfully. With a temperament as individual and hard to control as Byron's or Shelley^s, and in circumstances nar- rower and more irritating than theirs, he maintained his integrity at least as well as they. He knew, confessed, and in the main made head against his faults. It is true he took advantage of the sentimen- talisni which was in the air that blew from France to excuse his moral shortcomings. But it is a weak-sighted criticism which sees evidence of a really confused con- science in a possible incongruity between, let us say, *' The Jolly Beggars " and '' The Cotter's Saturday Night." A prof- ligate Presbyterian generally knows, at least, the error of his ways, and Burns's intellectual clearness is in nothing so manifest as in his full appreciation of the exceeding sinfulness of sin — his own es- pecially. Taylor's *' Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin" was one of the first books that fell into his hands, and no doubt he was a capable theologian at twelve years of age. But he caught eagerly enough at the facile excuses of sentimen- talism, and it must be admitted that from his earlier letters in this collection there emanates a flavor of insinceritv, the vice least easily forgotten, and a suspicion of hypocrisy, the least quickly pardoned sin. This is especially true of those he wrote from Edinburgh. There is this to be said, however — that Mrs. Dunlop was a 20 THE BOOK BUYER stranger, forcing her friendship and en- thusiasm very eagerly upon him, at a time when he was being flattered and patron- ized within an inch of his life. There must have been some straining on his part to respond with equal fervor and with gratitude proportionate to her gen- erosity, and it is this unnatural stress that spoils the early letters. Upon his return- ing to the West and taking up with the serious cares of farming and a family, Mrs. Dunlop became less insistent and he more tractable. " Your powers of repre- hension must be great indeed," he cries, in comic self-defence against her criticisms. Much greater, however, were her powers of epistolary endurance. Her letters are three times as long as his and much more numerous, and she frequently fills half her sheet upbraiding him for his tardy answers. A curious figure, this Mrs. Dunlop, of Dunlop, and most out of line with one's notion of a Scotch gentlewoman ! To be a lady of sensibility was her ideal. To go down to posterity as the social and, for- sooth, the literary mentor of her gifted neighbor was her ambition. Her religion was of the Genevan type — not Jean Cal- vin's, but Jean Jacques Rousseau's. The religion of the heart, she called it, and had she not been a sexagenarian and for- ever occupied with the births of grand- children, there is no telling where it would have landed her. In comparison with her solicitude for Burns, the cares of a patri- archal household sat light upon her, and with pen in hand she could say, " as to forming schemes, it is a kind of castle- building that I cannot resign, as it pleases myself and does little harm .to anything else." Scolding, questioning, teasing, ad- vising, and spoiling Burns like a grand- mother, she is yet irrepressibly youthful. With all her ineffectual fire, and with all her provincial awkwardness, it is impossi- ble not to admire her buovancv, freshness, and hero-worship. She comes near pos- sessing charm, and is almost a romantic figure. Burns, for a little, seems disposed to laugh at her and make discouraging re- plies to her importunate epistles ; but at length, observing the avalanche to be un- checked, he bows his head and accepts her as his counsellor. And in so doing he acted generously, and wisely too. There is in her attitude to him an absolute free- dom from social pride which he was slow to appreciate, but grateful for in the end. She not only adopts him as a peas- ant of genius, who can learn much from a gentlewoman of her accomplishments and family rank, but accepts him as of equal social worth and superior intellect, putting up bravely with his rebuffs and indifference, partly for his sake and partly that her name may be coupled with his great name, and partly, too, from sheer romance. Burns, meanwhile, often ad- dresses her affectedly, in terms of un- necessary humility, ill concealing his vanity and pride. Perhaps he perceived that her intellectual depth was not as great, nor her polish as fine, as he at first supposed. But notwithstanding the bad taste of her *' French iness," she was sin- cere ; and a considerable amount of homely reality at last becomes apparent in her letters. Burns, too, learned in the last sad decade of his life to recognize and value true friendship, and he clung to hers at the end. She had rendered him much loyal service — pleaded with him against grossness in his poetry, favored his idea of farming, lent countenance to his improved marital state on his re- union with Jean Armour, encouraged and provoked composition, and given him many a five-pound note. Two points of more general bearing become clear to one who reads this cor- respondence thoughtfully. The first is that even Scottish life, simple and pious as it is supposed to be usually, was touched, THE BOOK BUYER 21 towards the close of the eighteenth cen- tury, by some of the most corrupting in- fluences of French philosophy and French manners. In part, of course, Burns's atti- tude towards Christianity is to be ex- plained as a natural revolt against the excessively theological character of the religious environment in which he was born. But his phraseology is oddly like that of the polite circles in pre-revolu- tionary Paris, where the language of deism had the pretentiousness and the gorgeous bad taste of all other Louis Quinze furni- ture. And from Mrs. Duulop, so virtuous, so domestic, so warm-hearted, this French cant comes with peculiar want of grace. There is a period of several years, after he began farming at Ellisland, when Burns's religious expressions (they are always fre- quent) become more heartfelt, personal, and humble. Perhaps this is because he was then making a good fight against vagrant propensities and maintaining his wife and children faithfully and credit- ably. At any rate, he falls back into the old trick of speech during the time of his disgraceful affair with Ann Park, of the Globe Inn, Dumfries. The other point to be noted is the occa- sional exuberance of language common to Burns and Mrs. Dunlop. They both pos- sess a wealth of speech, in flattery and adulation particularly, which is rather Irish than Scotch. The grandiloquence of Burns is perhaps partly due to his con- sciousness of writing to a lady of much local distinction, but he often oversteps even that mark. Mrs. Dunlop's florid pas- sages, which she perhaps thought modish, would have seemed ridiculous to an Eng- lishwoman, even in the eighteenth cen- tury. The wildest, daftest, and most high- pitched of Burns's poems is not more Celtic than some of his letters. And nothing could be more Irish, for instance, than Mrs. Dunlop's eulogy on Kerr, of the post-office, who defrauded the king's reve- nues by franking her heavy epistles to the poet : ** Without the smallest shadow of those brilliant talents that commonly dazzle me, his soul, I truly think, is the purest and the best emanation ever sprang from that God whom he worships in spirit and in truth, and whose image he reveres and cherishes in its every form and fashion ; foe to vice, but friend to man, he sees with the eye of benevolence and toleration every error but his own, if he has any, but really I think its own native goodness forever is dictating to his heart, * Be thou i^erfect, as thy Father which is in Heaven is perfect.* lie eagerly oJ)eys the precept, is the guide and guardian of indigence and youth, the comforter of age and distress, and the shield of the oppressed. Nor does he arrogate the least merit from this, but in honest simplicity of virtue believes it were impossible to do less without being the worst of creatures alive, while in fact and deed he is the most exemplary of human beings, at least the most I ever hapi)ened to see." Etc., etc. We can excuse such stuff only on the supposition that the good woman hoped Mr. Kerr would so far extend his postal irregularities as to read the letters he franked. These volumes will deepen the impres- sion that Burns's life was a painful tragedy, not because the letters are either so very sad or so very serious — they are, in the main, commonplace enough — but because they show us how little sympathy and how little real intellectual help were within reach of his eager, hungry mind, and how his rich heart died before half its treasures had been given to the world. Of all his correspondents, Mrs. Dunlop, probably, was the most useful to him, and yet her insufficiency must be apparent to every reader. We bless her for being so patient with him, so forgiving of his neglect, so untiring in her efforts to in- terest and satisfy his mind, but we wish, for his sake, she had been as great as she was kind. George McLecm Harper. A GLIMPSE OP HERMANN SUDERMANN moon hung high in the lieavtns and jionred her /ttill ptde light far over the meadoiei. All the vAUtnea on the moereicore croictu of ghiry, and from the ilim, ithite, baled birehe*. ahich honlered in endleu line» the hrond highieay, there cimt a ihimmer and gleajo, until the road, tetmling aaay into the dittanee, lott ittelf nt lait hetaeeii tlender palingi of eilrer. SUtJiee far and wide ; the long of the Mrdt had long eented. The jieace of late summer, the peo-ce of aali^ed and dying deeire, lay ocer the wide plain. Seareety the cry of im inteet broke the eilenee, and only a thy Jleld-Taoute, with ill toft whirring tall, »lul through the high, trembling grain. — From "KatzenBteg,"Cliapter 2il. IN the inartiBtio ■wildeniusB of u moilerii German city, where one is coiiataiitly more or less critical of heavy gilt decora- tionB and the absence of charm in the making of the home, it is a relief and pleasure to enter a eertaiii apartment over- looking the Friederich Memorial Church. in a quiet part of Berlin, to find one's self in the atmosphere of a place that wealth and culture have made beautiful. The taste that has sought out these treas- ures from all parts of the world, these rare hangings, these mellow, priceless paintings, these carved chests and bits of furniture black with age, these count- less objefs iTart that make the virtuoso envious, is that of a man who has himself contributeil to modern art exquisite, strong, and beautiful things: who him- self is a dramatist, novelist, and poet. Hermann Sudermann is the most impor- tant figure among the modern writers of Germany. His success has been rapid, brilliant, complete. He is not more than thirty-seven, a splendid specimen of physi- <;al and intellectual manhnod, blessed with a rare power to enjoy ; and to him has been given the boon to taste, while he lives and is young, the cup of fame. Although the tongue of disfavor and THE BOOK BUYER 23 adverse criticism has wagged bitterly against him and in certain parts of Ger- many his plays are still prohibited, al- though staunch upholders of the customs he has found narrow and soul-fettering have denounced him as a breaker of idols, an outrager of all that is pure and holy in the German home life — it suffices to read without prejudice to understand the works of this man, who is a master of the modern school. A powerful realist, with none of the morbid weaknesses of the de- generate, Hermann Sudermann treats with consummate art and delicacy that most difficult of subjects, the province of the human feelings. Nothing could be more beautiful than his conception of children. He seems to have entered into their very souls. His delineation and comprehen- sion of the child nature is rarely beauti- ful, as those who remember the little Paul in " Frau Sorge " will concede. As it is the poet who can best interpret for us the Bong of the wind and voices of the wood and field, so it is the poet whose vision sees farthest into the fairy couptry of the child's world, who shows us feelings and imaginings, capacities for suffering and enjoyment, that we might easily have ig- nored. It is a difficult thing to tell truly about children. The average writer draws them from his own standpoint. The sen- timentalist creates them falsely. We have too many of the saw-dust dolls called children in literature. A blunted senti- mentality can never comprehend them rightly, and there are few who know and understand the child, and when they speak to us of them, their words touch and delight us, and ring true as they ring sweet. Hermann Sudermann is no iconoclast, who destroys and builds not up, but a man with keen sympathies, who, quick to see human suffering and to respond to it, understands the needs of men's souls and finds for them a remedy and a release. He is indeed a satirist, but of the most whole- some sort, not railing with narrow spleen at the things he has grown to despise, nor striking in the dark, but boldly send- ing his shafts right through the sunlight straight to the given mark, where they enter deep and vibrate with the strength of the sender's hand. Hermann Sudermann has known pov- erty and struggle, and, like many another whose art and his are kin, passed his early years in surroundings uncongenial to the development of his talc^nt. His father was a brewer in a little town of East Prussia, and Hermann Sudermann was successively an apothecary's appren- tice, a university student, a tutor in a private family, a journalist on a promi- nent Berlin daily paper, until the power within him forced him to give up all other interests to that of literature. In 1890 his drama Die Ehre (Honor) was produced in Berlin, and success appeared with it and followed it. Suder- mann at once assumed an important place among the writers of the day, and men began to read the earlier novels which until then had lain scarcely han- dled on the bookstalls. Frau Sorge (Dame Care), Im Zwielichi (At Twi- light), and Katzensteg passed through countless editions, and were translated into English and French, Frau Sorge being published serially in the Revue des Deux Mondes. It is in Magda as played by Sara Bern- hardt and Eleonora Duse that we beat know Sudermann in America, and indeed Magda is his most complete and artistic drama. Hermann Sudermann himself is a strong and delightful personality. The hour spent with him in his home will always be one of the most interesting experiences of a life. He is a thorough man of the world, calm, poised, not made peculiar or unique by any of the idiosyncrasies 24 THE BOOK BUYER that are often the blight of artists. But that it is hard to escape from it and go he is marked and set apart from others away back into the past. The prepara- because of his splendid force ; his face tion of this book, the research and the and clear, deep-set eyes are fairly illumi- studies I am obliged to make for it have nated by the light of the fire within him, deeply interested me. I am sure it will and made beautiful by the world of sym- be a success." He paused as he said this, pathy and feeling they express. as if he foresaw the storm of criticism the " I am going south to-night/' he said, book should arouse and tlie ultimate vic- ^^ to Italy. I go there to be quiet and to tory, he repeated with a half smile, '^ Yes, work, and to get away from my friends, it joill be a success." A cruel thing to say, but one grows to Sudermann is gi'eatly beloved and ad- dread the inevitable knock at the door, mired by his friends. To see him is to Strange to say, in Paris, that busiest and be at once conscious of a splendid vigor biggest of places, I can be most at peace, and force ; to read his books is to be I often go there and shut myself up in startled by the delicacy, by the beauty of some little, out-of-the-way place in the the soul of this man ; it is the soul of a Latin quarter for a few weeks." poet than which there is nothing more Hermann Sudermann's last work was exquisite in the world. He has, with the a biblical drama, Johannis (or John the elect few, ** learned the lessons that Baptist). It was produced on the stage shadow and silence teach, heard the notes last winter, in Berlin, after a hot warfare that ere ever thev swell subside.'' nor against the authorities, wlio objected to has he ever been ** vassel to form of it *^on the ground of its blasphemous speech." AVe echo his cry for finer, clear dealing with sacred subjects." understanding, for loosening of fetters, In speaking of Johannis, while he was for naturalness and simplicity, for the yet at work \i\\ the manuscript, Suder- breadth of thought and action that is prog- mann said : '* We are so infected and in- ress of the spirit as well as of the mind, fluenced by the modern spirit and realism Marie L. Van Vorsf. SUDERM ANN'S " REGTNA " ALTHOUGH it was as a dramatist that -^^ Sudermann first attracted the atten- tion of Europe, the year which witnessed the triumph of Die Ehre was also the year in which appeared that tale of pathos and poetry, Fran Sorye. In 1894 Su- dermann attained international distinc- tion as a novelist with the publication of Es War, Between these came Der Katzensteg, first published in 1880, since Rbgina ; OR, The Sins of the Fathep..*. By Hermann Sudermann. Translated by Beatrice Marshall. John Lane, 12mo, SI. 50. when it has passed through about thirty editions. This is the novel which has now been translated into English under the title of Ref/ina ; or, The Sins of the Fathers. Sudermann's novels represent an almost complete break with the traditions of German novelistic literature. In Regina that sentimentality which lieretofore char- acterized German fiction has been made objective and utilized as a factor in the plot. The good little well-behaved and altogether proper German maiden is here THE BOOK BUYER 25 rendered Iropelessly ridiculous in contrast with the handsome, vigorous, faithful but sinning child of nature, Regina. The hero, with all his natural nobility, lacks the psychological insight to perceive the intrinsic superiority of this type of de- voted womanhood ; he sees lier sin only : his conventional feelings, fostered by a false education, must first be chastened by harsh experience before, too late, he un- derstands the value of the pearl which he despised. Psychological analysis, anotlier ear-mark of the national German novel, is also Sudermann^s strong point, but his ' artistic wisdom so subordinates the psycho- logical elements that to the reader is left the intellectual pleasure of discerning them. The theme of the book is less what the English sub-title would indicate than it is the struggle of the son, upon whom the sins of the father have been visited, to free himself from the unjust tyranny of their consequences. His conventional views of life render this task for him the more difficult. The colors are sombre, but Sudermann never neglects the Jirtistic reconcilement, even though . the road thereto lies through the valley of dark shadows. The tragic conclusion is obvious from the beginning, since it must be for- ever impossible that the hero should marry his father's mistress. The book ends in an atmosphere of infinite sadness, but the bitterness of the long struggle has been overcome ; the hero, like Regina, attains his full moral stature in complete self- renunciation. It is in the year 1814. Seven years be- fore, Boleslav's father, a Polish sympa- thizer, betrayed the Pomeranian troops to the French army. Regina herself was forced to show the enemy the way over the Cats' Bridge (Katzensteg). This act of treason on his father's part is the mill- stone about the neck of Boleslav. Al- though he has distinguished himself, un- der an assumed name, in the wars for freedom, when he returns, to find his father murdered and his ancestral castle burned, the whole strength of the vil- lagers' hatred is concentrated upon him as the last scion of an accursed race. In the violence of this hatred there is a forced note which suggests Corsica rather than Pomerania. It must have been this con- sideration that determined the author in his choice of a period, the local color of which, as Brandes points out, he is at no pains to preserve ; but in 1814 all the pas- sions and virtues were merged into one : a fury of patriotism possessed the people, and the unreasoning wrath with which they persecuted the patriot son of a traitor becomes at least plausible. Amid the ruins of his castle, Boleslav first meets Regina. Scantily clad, her feet and shoulders bare, she is digging his father's grave. Boleslav 's task, in accord- ance with those conventions whose validity he has never questioned, is to secure for his father Christian burial. This he is obliged to accomplish by the aid of an armed force. He then sets himself to forming plans for the restoration of his estates and the rehabilitation of his family name. Meanwhile Regina performs for him every menial office, suffering patiently every hardship with a dog-like fidelity that is due not only to hereditary attachment to the family, but to the fact that Boleslav is the first to speak a kind word to her. Dimly he becomes aware of a dangerous passion for this handsome and devoted woman, who has made herself his slave. But to him she is only an abandoned crea- ture, without shame or remorse. The memory, too, of his boyhood's love for the pure and prim little pastor's daughter rescues him from his rising passion. Ilelene is drawn with masterly reserve. She is kept well in the back- ground, for, after all, it is only Bole- slav's idea of her that dominates him. Actual contact with her priggish, insin- 26 THE BOOK BUYER cere personality unmasks the sham. Be- gina is set forth on the grand scale^ with strong, convincing lines, in splendid but unemphasized contrast to Helene. At last the fine, wholesome womanliness of Ke- gina's royal nature^ with its indomitable energy and capacity for self-effacement, becomes apparent to Boleslav. His eman- cipation has begun, but Hegina is dead ; it is only at her grave that the eternal truth of things, freed from conventions, finally dawns upon him. In the grave which she had dug for his father he now buries her, wondering why he had thought it neces- sary to place his father's body in conse- crated ground. Conquering the impulse to take his own life, he resolves to dedi- cate it to his country. His emancipation is complete. Of the many fine scenes in the book this is the finest, and, if not wholly free from lime-light effects, the situation and its psychological significance are exalted and impressive. The book is full of action. The subor- dinate characters are clearly distinguished. The grim old pastor ; the swashbuckler Felix, blustering of his honor ; his father, the sly innkeeper and pompous mayor; Regina's father, sordid, crapulous, and maudlin — all have a vivid existence. With the practised art of the story-teller, every event is carefully prepared ; only once is the reader taken by surprise, and the work has a logical coherence that carries con- victioil with it. The translation, as a whole, is good, in spite of several slips of interpretation and some lapses from good taste. The use of German forms of address, such as " Herr Lieutenant, '' etc., do not give local color; they merely introduce an irritating incon- gruity, which removes the characters fur- ther from the range of the reader's sym- pathies. Nevertheless, a laudable task has been meritoriously accomplished, and to the English - reading public has been granted one more glimpse into the rich literature of modern Germany. CharleH H. Genuyig, SEXTODECIMOS ET INFRA. Ill TORTOISE-SHELL,enamelled copper, silver, and embroidered book-covers, and books with pictures painted on the fore-edge are radical innovations upon con- ventional styles of binding, but they vary the monotony of the *' redolent crushed levant '' and gilt tops in which the main detachment of our books is arrayed, and we are happy to make room for them among the volumes which line our library walls, whose coverings are more uniformly sxU generis specimens of the book- binder's art. Some haughty old Don of a binding by Clovis Eve, or a young sprig of a Trautz-Bauzzouet, proud of its triple gilding, may object to being seen in such a motley company, but the blunt, honest Anglo-Saxon "Roger Paynes'* will cry with one accord, ''Come all vou brave wights,'' and pledge themselves offhand to eternal good-fellowship in a cup of their Master's beloved ''sack" or "barley broth." Tortoise-shell bindings edged and clasped witli silver, which, says Miss Prideaux, are a special feature of the late seven- teenth century, are probably of Dutch workmanship. The style proved popular and continued in vogue down to compara- tivelv recent times. This testudinarious THE BOOK BUYER 27 material makes a neat, light, and durable whicli the original of our reproduction book-cover, amooth, cool, and pleasant to encloses, bears the euphonious title of the touch, but it is as brittle as glass and " Rosengartlein," and we are invited to must be handled as gingerly. These tor- enter a " little garden of roses wherein are toise-shell, as well as the silver bonnd, planted beautiful morning and evening books are all of a devotional character : prayers which will be found serviceable incense -scented Hymn&ls, Prayer and for daily use, also before the celebration Church Service Books, which have been of the Mass, before and after confession banded down from parent to child with and communion ; on all holy-days and in the family laces and jewels. all times of sorrow, necessity, and weak- It ia recorded of Mevrouw Fhilipse, uess." A former owner has left within the widow of one of New York's merchant covers of the book this warm tribute to its princes, in the good old Dutch days worth: "Ce livre tres beau en lui-meme of "cocked hats and eel skin queues," est aurtout excessivement pr6cieux par sa that she possessed one of these Psalm belle reliure du XYII si^cle dont on ne books, but mark ye! clasped with yold, pourrait fournir que bien pen d'esem- which hung by a gold chain from her plaires en aussi bel ^tat." arm and swayed and fro in rhythmic measure with her stately steps, as she wended her way on the Sabbath to the newly erected Middle Dutch Church in Nas- sau Street. The "reliure," which we reproduce on the following page as sufficiently emblem- atic of this class of bindings, is upon 'Het ek der PsalmcD," printed at Amsterdam in 1777, and the book and the binding undoubtedly began the journey through life baud in hand. Kepousse and en- gravedsilver bindings. Bitch as the one pic- tured on the same page, are of German workmanship. The little Prayer Book The rose " motif" is followed not only in the delicate chisel- ling of the sides and upon the repouesfi back of this "petit bijou " of a binding, but also on the ganf- fred gilt edges, in the incised pattern of which the queen of flowers is conspicuous, The harmony between book and cover is This binding is a product of the seven- teenth century and representative of the silversmith's art as ap- plied to the covers of books before it began its decadence. These silver book-covers steadily deteriorate la both design and work- manship as they be- come more modern, uutii we reach the present day, when the . THE BOOK BUYER market its Aooded with clicu]) copies of the early productions, stamped out by mu- chinery in lots to suit pii re 1 lasers. " The whole Bookc of Psalmes collected into English meter by Tii, Stemhold, Jo. Hopkins, W. Whittiiigham and others, London, 1645," is a specimen of tlie now highly prized embroidered bindings of the seventeeutli centnry, ascribed without snfficient rhyme or reason to the Imiids of the fair inmates of the Protestant Xun- nery of Little Giddiug in Hiintiiigdon- shire, England, a religious community founded about the year 1C24 by Nicholas Ferrar, who, we are informed in his "Life"byhia brother John, entertained a bookbinders daughter of Cambridge to learn of her the skill and art of book- binding and gilding, and grew very expert at it. Several of the bindings positively known to have been executed at Little Gidding are preserved in the Itritish Musenm. They are in leatlier and vel- vet, gilt tooled, bnt not embroidered. Like many another cherished mytli, the romance which heretofore has cUing to these beautiful examples of needlework is fading away under the searchlight of his- toric truth with the colors of their silken threads. Where ignorance is bliss, why should the iconoclast continue so piti- lessly his work of image-breaking ? Painting the fore-edge of a book is a bibliopegic practice of long standing, which fell into disuse but was renewed in England about the eloscof tlielast century, principally by Edwards, a binder of Hali- fax, to whom every book with a painted fore-edge of sufficiently early date is now ascribed. The painting is done under the gilding and is invisible until the book is opened and the edges drawn slightly apart, when to tlie reader's surprise a picture in colors presents itself to view. A book witli a jjainted fore-edge is one of the few things wiiich cannot very well be repro- duced by the camera. It is seldom that one encounters so di- minutive a specimen of an Arabic MS. as THE BOOK BUYER 29 New Yei'e3 Gift presented at Court from the Lady Pai-vnla to the Lord Hioimus {commonly called little Jefferie) {Jeffrey ffiuhon) Her Slajesty's Servant, with a letter as it was penned in short hand wherein is proved Little Things are better than Great. Written by Microphilns. Printed at London by \. & J. Okes, dwelling in Litt'lo St. Bar- tholmewes 11130." The anthor is unknown. The little gem of n portrait of this celebrated dwarf, which iulorns this rarity, is engraved by John Droeshout, brother of Martin, famous as the engraver of the portrait of ijlmkeepeare in the first folios of that poet's works. The "Ixindon Almanack for the year of Christ 1706 " is a vest- pocket calendar 2^ x li -inches this dumpy little Koran, which nieiisnres only 4J X 3J inches, "written on paper within lines of gold with the first two pages illuminated in gold and colors in the original Persian binding richly ornamented with gold tooling." This is the glowing description of the maker of the cata- logue, who expatiates further upon the merits of this little volnme in this wise: -'This MS. is indeed a gem of Eastern ciJigraphy. The decora- tions, though not numerous, are in admirable taste, and the whole volume is in faultless condi- tion.'* This last attirmation must be taken "cum grano sails," although, in view of the venerable age of the book, no true bibliophile would stop to split hairs over the cjueation or to challenge the statement. Here we have another of the little books with engraved frontispieces and picture title-pages for which we confess an overweening fondness. " The THE BOOK BUYER ill size, embellished witk a folding view of the Hall at Carlton Houae, which revivcB memories of Beau Brummel aud his com- pauiou fops and beaux of the time of George IV. Tliis midget of a book ia bound in red morocco inlaid with blue ami white leather, and is luteresting as a specimen in "forma minima " of au Eng- lish eighteenth centnry mosaic binding, ex- amples of which, either large or small, are not to be picked up in every bookseller's fourpeuny bos. The " Diario Eeclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal para o anno de 1839," printed at the Royal Press, Lisbon, with which we conclude our article, is introduced because we take it to bean example of Portuguese binding, an uncommon origin in my ex- perience of a bind- ing of any artistic pretensions. It is bound in red mo- rocco, the sides or- namented with war symbols, with the arms of Spain, Braganza, and the Asturias at top. The design is ro- coco, but decora- tive and appro- priate. It is a stamped and not a tooled binding. The two score iLHiHioK. i;ie and six reproduc- tions which in this and the preceding articles we have presented to the reader furnish, we venture to believe, a fairly complete view of the little world of his own in which the bibliophile lives and moves, and also demonstrates the fact that the Art of Bookmaking can be quite satisfactorily elucidated without re- course to books of larger dimensions than "sextodecimos et infra." WiUiiim Loriu'i Andrews. CRITICISM TuE Ci'ilic eyed the sunset as the umber turned to gray. Slow fadiug iu thi' somewhat foggr weft. , To the color-cultured Critic 'twas ft very dull disfilay; " 'Tisu't half so good a sunset as was offered yesieriky 1 I woiiiler «hy." he muriniireil, as he sadly turnei] away, '■ The sunsets can't ht always at their best ! " —From •• In Tliit Our World," by CharloiU Perkins Slttson, By permission of Messrs. Small, Miiynard cf- Co. ALBERT HERTER A" MENTION HONORABLE " at the Paria ealoii U far from being an unau- spicioua beginning of the career of a young painter. Mr, Albert Herter woe this dis- tinction at the age of eighteen, with his firet exhibited picture, "La Femme de Buddha." Xor did his career stop at his first success, as is unhappily hut too often the case nowadays with young men in the free professions. ^\'e are siirroiiuded by charred sticks that went up as rockets and are content to lie quietly and to smoulder, happy in the fond delusion that they are still in their pristine splendor, illumin- ing the firmament and extinguishing the eternal stars. This sage observation ap- plies to literature as well as to painting. The former is now, a profession — a very "free" profession still, ahis I — thanks to Sir Walter Besant, whose knighthood has given all drivers of the quill a hitherto unknown feeling of respectability. Since the early days of that first reeog- Dition of his work — it is not so long ago, for he is still a very young man — Mr. Herter has constantly advanced in his chosen profession. His name and work are well and favorably known to art-lovers in "Munich, Dresden, Berlin, and the principal cities of this country. He ex- hibits with great regularity: it seems to be a foregone conclusion that his pictures are hung whenever ho sends them in. Among the rewards which his work has won elsewhere than in Paris may be men- tioned medals awarded to him at the exhibitions at Atlanta and Nashville, l^t year, and the Lippincott prize at the exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the successful painting, "Le Soir," being purchased by the donor of the prize and presented to the Society. A somewhat curious story is connected with Mr. Herter's latest success. He re- ceived a prize at the water-color exhibi- tion in this city during the past season, hut the award was withdrawn, after it had been made .public, on the plea that the winning picture had not been painted in this country. This seeming quibble was undoubtedly in accordance with the rules governing the exhibitions of the American Water-Color Society and the awarding of its prizes. One cannot help reflecting, however, that, notwithstanding the dis- appointment this action must have brought to the artist, his triumph remains un- affected. Only its outward token was taken from him : the success obtained re- mains undiminished. His work was the first choice of the jury, which did not re- 32 THE BOOK BUYER consider its decision, but merely l^ad to bow to certain regulations. AYe may now turn for a moment from the young artist's career to give a few de- tails regarding his life. Born in New York City on March 2, 1871— the date bears out our statement, made at the be- ginning of this article, that he is still a "very" young man — Albert Ilerter re- ceived his first training in art from his father, the late Christian Herter, a pupil of Puvis de Chavannes, whose reputation as a decorative painter is still green in the memory of Xew Yorkers. The youth was next intrusted to the care of Mr. Carroll Beck with, than whom, indeed, no abler teacher could be found on this side of the Atlantic. Well-grounded and fully equipped by him, Mr. Herter went to Paris, to continue his studies in the ateliers of Laurens and Cormon. He spent several years in that city, visited Germany, re- turned to this country and left it several times thereafter to make more or less pro- longed stays in the French capital. The last of these sojourns there, of four years' duration, was terminated only a few weeks ago, when Mr. -Herter dismantled his Paris studio and returned to this country to take up his permanent abode among us. As is but natural in the circumstances, his training has given Mr. Herter a mild predilection for the French school of painting. But he dislikes schools, ten- dencies, and ''isms," and prefers to remain unclassified and to work out his own salvation in his own way. He has no theories about his art, and, in a certain sense, no method. The latter he endeav- ors to adapt entirely to the subject he is painting — almost invariably figures — and he relies upon the harmony of mood and theme to aid his technical skill in produc- ing the desired result. He conscien- tiously endeavors to do the best that is in him, which, by the way, is an admirable theory and method all in one, bound to lead to the realization of the effect aimed at. He has but one tenet : he believes in hard work, and, what is far more to the point, he works hard. These two do not always go together; quite tlie contrary, for faith and good works are, unhappily, too often far apart, in all mundane en- deavor as well as in the blind groping after the perfect life. This theory and this method combined — we have succeeded, after all, in demonstrating that Mr. Her- ter has both, notwithstanding his dis- claimer— may be considered as one form of the blessed gift of taking infinite pains. Mr. Herter is undoubtedly very success- ful with his first attempts in his chosen fields. He took up illustrating as a pas- time, just as he had taken up water- colors. AVitli the latter medium he has produced some excellent work, as his ex- perience with the Water-Color Society shows. In the same spirit he took up illustrating, and. a high place was ac- corded at once and unanimously to his first attempt in this new field. His series of illustrations for the edition de luxe of Mr. Cablets '' Old Creole Days,'' published last winter, gave that attractive book an enviable place among the publications of last year's holiday season. Apart from their quaint, old-fashioned charm and artistic quality — the latter the true touch- stone wherewith work of this kind is tested — these drawings are notable for the fidelity of their local color, which is some- thing more subtle far than mere attention to detail. It was this quality especially that won the admiration of the author of the book. To be a successful realist, in all the arts, one must have a delicate fancy, a vivid imagination, without which all striving after mere exactness remains vain. Particularly is this the case with illustration, where the artist has to un- derstand the author as well as his subject. To succeed, he must not merely see the THE BOOK BUYER Gibsou, and, in a less delicntc, less ititi- occupy tlieir own little nook in tiitr world mate way, the lato (ieorgt- T)n Miiiirior ; of art jiiul K-ttera r their work bIiows what happiest of uU, lieuaiisu rarest, thi- author fffeutt! can he ohtaiiied by pcrfi-ct coUab- who can find an illustrator who is tnio oration. both to himself and to his subject, who Mr. UePter lias since taken up liis latest proves him u truer reiiHst or romanticist, pastime more seriously. Ilis first puh- as the case may be. than ho had ever hoped liahed work brought liini, as a matter of to he with the unwieldy implements of liis course, many orders: good illustrators own craft — words. Mr. and Jlrs. IVinu-ll arc comiiaratively rare. Ho will devote THE BOOK BUYER himself to this kiiiil of work (litridt; the year, iimoiig tliom lifinp Srribiier's and Biimnier that k uow full upon u:i. itiiil McChire's. the results of his activity will Iw seen Mr. Herter's work still lies ijiainly in in the magazinea iluring the eommg the future. While his achievement h are THE BOOK BUYER 35 above the average, when hia age ia taken into conai deration, they are but slight in comparison to the promise thej give of what may follow. He has aet a certain standard for himaelf in oila, water-colors, and illustration in black and white : the probability is that he will aurpasa it, and give U8 work far better than any he has done thus far. We have a fair measure of hia gifts; time alone can show the poaaibili- ties of their development. He ia serious about his art, and at the same time en- thusiastic. If he adheres to the gospel of hard work that he haa carried into practice hitherto, he will do well. Hia ultimate place among the American illus- trators of the day, if he chooses to con- tinue in that field, it is not hard to fore- tell ; and it ia not within the acope of this paper, or the province of this writer, to indulge in speculations or prophecies regarding his work in oila and water- col ora. A. Sckade van Weslrum. ARE BOOKS ON THE AXGLER'S ART fcHE moat delightful trait Kin the character of jf Charles Ltinib was liii^ passion for commending to others those hooks in which he found recreation and intellectnal profit. Xo inconsiderable portion of the slen- der income eked out by the clerk of the India Honse went for choice editions for his friends. While possessed of no particular love for the piscatorial art. Lamb was cognizant o( the charms — from tlie literary point of view — of the contemplative man's rec- reation ; and early in his career he fell under the spel! of rare old Izaak Walton. How many shillings he squan- dered on The Compleat Angler is a matter of conjecture merely ; but wc know of at least a dozen acquaint- ances to whom he presented copies en- riched by marginalia. Lamb was never tired of sounding the praises of courteous Mr. Piscator ; and he has said that " Izaak Walton hallows any page in which his reverend name appears." In a letter to his friend Coleridge, commending the book, he says, among other pleasant things, that "it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it, and Christianize every discordant passion." But he adds the sage advice : " All the scientific part you may omit in reading," Though The Compleat Angler is at once the epic and grammar of fishing, Walton is valued to-day for his literary quality rather than his piscatorial lore— as much so as when Elia haunted the bookstalls of St. Martin's Lane for early editions of the masterpiece. His book has survived tJie attrition of the years for much the same reason that Lamb's essavs are classics. They were both philosophers of the com- fortable type ; they had much in common with the thoughts and ideals of the aver- age reader. Walton's fame rests on no imposing achievement of intellectnal power or sustained elevation of stylo- and sentiment. His work is quaint and kindly, and his merits are much like those of Goldsmith, Steele, or Montaigne, and his garrulity is as ingenuous as Samuel Pepys's. There is a certain artlessuess of diction, a subtle as well as a sentimental sympathy with nature, and a gentle insight into the heart of humanity that refreshes the reader of The Compfeat Angler, and whicJi has kept it alive while more pom- pous tomes have long since been forgotten. Nature, in balancing his account, has placed it to his credit that " no fine fresh May morning " ever dawned, no bird ever sang, or blossom ever shed its fragrance in vain. And it is becange of his sane outlook on life, hia buoyancy of spirits, his love of fields and streams, his zest for wholesome pleasures, his quaint philoso- phy, that his book is read with such pleasure to-day. Few books have gone througli so many editions. It has been printed in all shapes and styles, from the unpretentious paper-bound palimpsest to the limited edition de luxe. The Compleat Angler n\>\)c&xeA in 1053. On ft May morning, Master Richard Mar- riott, little dreaming that his name would be linked for centuries as the godfather of the small brown- jerkined book, piled on his shelves the first edition of Walton's masterpiece. Few first editions fetch so high a figure. It is the prize for which all bibliomaniacs sigh. Andrew Lang has voiced his longing in rhyme : "Fair first editions, duly prized. Above them all, rocthinks, I rate The tome where Wnlton's Imnd revised His wonderful rccities for bait.'' THE BOOK BUYER 37 Eugene Field was fortunate enough to possess an early edition — though not the first — of Walton's treatise, which he apostrophized in his ^* Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac'^ as follows: ''And thou, homely little brown thing with worn leaves, yet more precious to me than all the jewels of the earth — come, let me take thee from thy shelf and hold thee lovingly in my hands and press thee tenderly to this heart of mine ! Did I not joyously possess thee for a sixpence, and have I not cherished thee full sweetly all these vears ? Mv Walton, soon must we part forever ; when I am gone say unto him who next shall have thee to his own that with his latest breath an old man blessed thee I" The first edition has been a favorite theme for the scorn of those who love it not ; and the reader insensitive to the historical or sentimental association of books would fail to find the pathos in this confession of Richard Le Gallienne : ''To keep this [a first edition of Walton's Lives] in his library the writer has undergone willingly many pri- vations, cheerfully faced hunger and cold rather than let it pass from his hand ; yet, how often when, tremulously, he has unveiled this treasure to his visit- ors, how often haa it been examined with undilating eyes, and cold, unenvious hearts ! " But if a man have no sentimental regard for foxed and dog-eared twelves, bulged and bruised octavos, or worm-drilled crowns in blistered sheepskin, there is a pecuniary side. A " fair first edition '' of T/ie Compleat Angler will make a hole in any man's bank account. If you are thinking of adding that little brown-jer- kined book to your collection, you might as well fill out a check for $2,000 — and the chances are that you will have an up- hill time getting it at that modest figure. It is not every bibliomaniac who can lure the rarest and gamiest of volumes known to collectors who angle for books. Half a century ago a " clean " copy of the first edition could be easily obtained for 1100, but since then there has been a steady ad- vance in price — in fact, there has been an increasing demand iii the United States for old books on angling and outdoor sports generally. The catalogues of the dealers in old books rate all such tomes at high prices, and they do not remain long in stock. Walton's name does not appear on the quaint title-page of the first edition. The title is engraved in script on a scroll, with a pair of dolphins above, another pair reversed below, and a bunch of fish pen- dent on either side. Below this scroll, in plain type, is the following : ** Being a discourse on fish and fishing, not unworthy the perusal of most anglers/' Then fol- lows, between two rules : Simon Peter said : " I go a-flshing "; and they said, *• We also will go with thee." John 21, 3. London, Printed by T. Maxey, for Rich. Mar- riott in St. Dunstan's Church Yard, Fleet Street, 1653. A second edition was issued in 1655. It contained several emendations. In the original edition Piscator and Viator had the dijiloofue to themselves, the latter be- ing changed to Venator, and Auceps being added to the interlocutors in the second edition, which was one-th ird larger. Many cuts were inserted and the type was larger. Five editions were issued in Walton's life- time, which must have been a balm to the heart of that honest brother of the angle. The third edition was put forth by *' Simon Gape, near the Inner Temple Gate, in Fleet streete," in 1664. Rich. Marriott's name reappears on the title-page of the fourth, a duodecimo in two volumes and containing the first of Charles Cotton's hints to anglers. The fifth edition, 1676, is of considerable interest to the collector. It contains Cotton's '' Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream," with Walton's sanctioning 38 THE BOOK BUYER Epistle and a letter to Veneble on his " Angling Improved. " This edition con- tains a quaint but modest advertisement on one of the fly-leaves, which reads : COURTEOUS READER, You may be pleased to take notice that at the Sign of the Three Trouts in St. Paul's Churchyard, on the north side, you may be jetted with all sorts of the best fishing tackle by John Margrave. The first five editions of The Compleat Angler are the ones so strenuously sought after by book collectors with bank ac- counts; but there are innumerable editions, some good, others bad and indifferent, that are eagerly picked up when fortune smiles. In 1750, seventy-four years after the gentle Piscator ''revised his wonder- ful recipes for bait," Moses Browne, a philistine, published, at Dr. Johnson's suggestion, an edition that has been an- athematized by every lover of Walton ; for the pompous Moses presumed, as he says in his preface, " to file off something of the rust and uncouthness which Time fixes on the most curious finished things." Three editions brought out by Mr. Browne were quickly sold. In 1760 a popular edition was brought out under the edi- torial supervision of Sir John Hawkins. In it Cotton and AValton are depicted as lunching under the sycamore ; the hostess who *' had lavendar-scented sheets and a dozen ballads oh the wall," and the sweet- singing milkmaid in kertle and kerchief, appear for the first time. This reprint ran through eight editions. The well- known Bagster edition — a small folio — appeared in 1808. The illustrations were reengraved from the Hawkins reprint, and there was a new sketch of the fishing house on the Dove and a view of Pike Pool. There was another Bagster edition in' 1815, embellished with new plates. These two editions are held in deep regard by collectors. The first Major edition was brought out in 1823, and it is consid- ered to this day an ideal book. In 1825 Pickering brought out a 32mo, which can be carried in the waistcoat pocket. In 1836 the same publisher issued what was undoubtedly called at that time the defini- tive edition. It was published in two im- perial octavo volumes, containing Walton, Cotton, and Veneble, with editorial notes by Sir Harris Nicholas. The illustrations were finished and artistic. The first Ameri- can edition was published in 1847 by Wiley and Putnam. In 1876 Mr. Elliot-Stock published a fac-simile reprint of the first edition, but it is not satisfactory. Last year, however, the same publisher issued a new reproduction of the first edition, w^hich is admirable in every way. It contains an introduction bv Eichard Le Gallienne. Indeed, there are no less than one hundred and fifty editions of the The Compleat An- gler, For a century and a half publishers in England and America have vied with each other for sjplendor or some unique quality. But all these books are based on the edi- tions of Hawkins, Major, and Pickering. If one had a complete set of Waltoniana he would have as valuable a history of the art of making books as could be com- piled. August is the anniversary month of Izaak Walton. He first saw the light of day on the morning of August 9, 1593, the year of Marlowe's death. There are few data regarding his life ; and this dearth of de- tails is to be regretted; for AValton was a re- markable man — even though he had never put pen to paper. Born in obscurity at Stafford, his name is a household word to- day. A Royalist in the troublesome times of the Protectorate, he was on good terms with both Roundheads and Cavaliers. A Fleet Street linen draj^er when tradesmen of every sort were despised, he became the friend and favored companion of all the noble of the land. Ho even became related THE BOOK BUYER 39 to several noble families. Educated no one knows how^ he wrote a book that has lived through the centuries, and which, in its province, has never been equalled by any subsequent writer. In these days of *' extras " and " scare-heads ** it is a relief to turn the pages of Izaak Walton's book ; to turn the thoughts from war to tangled dissertations on hooks and tackle and primitive piety; to get away from the lurid word-pictures of special correspondents and wander with courteous Mr. Piscator, to rest with him in green meadows studded with cowslips and lady-smocks, and to hear Mistress Maudlin troll some lilt that Kit Marlowe made so very many years ago. John Northerji Hilliard, NOTES OF RARE BOOKS IT is the custom of collectors and librarians to sniff at the collection of books now ensconced at Washington, in the National Library — I mean from the standpoint of the collector or antiqua- rian. The report lately issued by John Russell Young, the new librarian, shows that the library is really possessed of quite a number of valuable books. How they came there nobody knows — and the fact that they are there was known^to only a few until recently; but now it is fair to " give the devil his due." Mr. Young seems to be making every possible effort to make the library useful to the student, and it is to be hoped that at some no distant day he will add to the collection of rare books in such a way as the British Museum does to its remarkable collection. Among the rarer volumes owned by the library one might mention the following as of particular interest : Hamor's •• Virginia," 1614; Smith's " History of Virginia," 1624; Morton's "New England's Memorials," 1669; Lederer's "Virginia," 1673; Hubbard's " Troubles with the Indians," 1677 ; Penhallow's "History of the Wars of New England," 1726 ; Morton's "New English Canaan," 16S7; Eliot's Indian Bible, 1668 ; complete sets of De Bry and Hulsius* Voyages; Shakespeare's "Works," 1623, 1632, 1664, 1685 ; " Midsummer Night's Dream," 1600; Milton's "Paradise Lost," 1667; the first five editions of Walton's "Angler"; " T4ie Vi- sion of Pierce the Plowman," 1550. Of Bibles the library contains "King James's" folio edi- tion, 1611; "The Bishops' Bible," 1569, Cran- mer's version ; various editions Coverdale and Matthews' version, 1551; Luther's German ver- sion; Aitken's Bible, two volumes, Philadelphia, 1782 (the first Bible printed in this country in English); the first German edition, printed by Christopher Saner, in Germantown, in 1782. Be- sides these, there are a number of fifteenth century books, as well as many monuments of early print- ing. The library has two fine examples of Wynkyn de Worde. Among its other bibliographical treas- ures is George Washington's Bible, in three quarto volumes. This is mentioned in his will and con- tains his autograph. It is interesting to note, in passing, that Martha Washington's Bible came up for sale some years ago in Philadelphia, and is now owned in Chicago by C. F. Gunther, the confectioner. The purloining of some valuable letters belong- ing to the National Library and selling,thera in 40 THE BOOK BUYER New York drew attention to the ridiculous way such valuable treasures had been guarded in the old Congressional Library. Now they are to be catalogued, a special room devoted to them, and every facility given the student for easy access to them. The Force collection of manuscripts and histori- cal documents was presented to the library some years ago, and it forms a nucleus of what, it is to be hoped, will be the finest collection of docu- ments relating to American history owned in this country. Among other notable things given by Mr. Force were two volumes of the Journals of General Greene, from 1781-1782, in manuscript; various orderly books of the Revolution ; military journals of British officers serving in the Revolu- tionary War; records of the Virginia Company from 1621 to 1624; two autograph journals of Washington ; a copy of the Constitution of 1787, with manuscript notes by one of the Committee of Revision, etc., etc. It would seem wise that all the libraries of Wash- ington, particularly those belonging to the Gov- ernment, might form some amalgamation scheme by which they could avoid duplication of series of expensive books, and have under one roof all the books on a given subject owned by the Gov- ernment, thus facilitating the labors of the scholar. A great library is not made by a great and beau- tiful building, and it is gratifying to note a dispo- sition on the part of the committee who have the matter in charge to realize this fact. Apropos of the large sum realized for the Ash- burnham library, it is interesting to note the totals realized for some of the great sales in this century in London. The following is a partial list of the most important : Roxburghe, 1812, .€23,341 ; Sykes, 1824, £18,815 ; Hibbert, 1829, £21.560 ; Heber, 1834, £56,774; Libri, 184U-1862, £27,858; Daniel, 1864, £15,865 ; Corser, 1868-1876, £18,198; Lilly, 1871-1873, £13,080; R. Perkins, 1873, £26,- 140 '; Tite, 1874, £19,943; Laing, 1879-1881, £16,536 ; Sunderland, 1881-1883, £56,581 ; Beck- ford, 1882-1883, £73,551 ; Hamilton Palace, 1889, £15.189 (MS.) ; Thorold, 1884, £28.001 ; Jersey, 1885, £13,007; Russell, 1885-1886, £13,000; Ellis. 1885, £15,996 ; Woodhull, 1886, £11,973 ; Cran- ford, 1887-1889, £26,397 ; Gibson-Craig, 1887- 1888. £30,219. The Grolier Club has been in existence some- thing more than a decade. In that time it has issued many valuable books — adding largely to our knowledge — but not often to our pleasure. Its most recent issue is a decided contribution to literature, and is the first thing of the kind it has done. Analyzing its publications, we have (1) beautiful reprints, such as Milton's "Areopagitica"; Irving's ** Knickerbocker's His- tory of New York " ; Fitzgerald's translation of ** Omar Khayyam "; Charles Reade's ** Peg Wof- fington"; Richard de Bury's "Philobiblon" and Donne's *' Poems"; Bradford's "Laws of New York *'; " A Decree of Storre Chamber, etc." (2) Of lectures and addresses. Hoe's ** Bookbinding as a Fine Art"; Matthews' "Modern Bookbind- ing, Practically Considered *' ; De Vinne's "His- torical Printing Types." (3) Of catalogues, the most important are: "Dttrer"; "Celebrated Bibliophiles"; "Durand"; "American Book Plates"; "Lithography"; "Painted MSS. and Books," etc. (4) In pure Bibliography, of course, the first place must be given to " Catalogues of Original and Early Editions of Some of the Poeti- cal and Prose Works of English Writei's, from Langland to Wither." (5) Of original unpublished works, their output is only Curtis' " Irving," "Barons of Potomac," and "The Charles Whittinghams." Its new book, however, is a genuine contri- bution, as we have said, not only to our knowl- edge, but our pleasure. "Two Note Books of Thomas Carlvle," edited bv Charles Eliot Norton, is its title. These note books cover a period from the 28d of March, 1822, to 16th May, 1832— the first consisting of 182 12mo pages, the second of 76 pages, with 44 additional ones containing Car- lyle's memoir of James Carlvle, and 34 with daily entries, making 154 in all. These notes give vivid views of much that was going on in Car- lyle's mind during these ten eventful years, which included his marriage, the writing of "Sartor Resartus," " Life of Schiller," and many char- acteristic essays. His rapid characterizations of men and events, as depicted in this volume, are highly entertaining. The Committee on Publication announce to the members that only 387 copies can be had on hand-made paper, and three on vellum. Two portraits adorn this volume, both etched by Alfred Jones. They demonstrate, what is known to all careful students of the subject, that we have no portrait etchers of the first rank in this country. It is needless to add that this volume is exquisitely printed by De Vinne, and that Professor Norton's notes are perfect — all that could be wished for — and not too prolific. Ernest Dressel North. THE LITERARY NEWS IN ENGLAND A DULL season has been wakened up somewhat by the boycott of Mr. George Moore's novel ** Evelyn Innes" by Messrs. Smith, who control the rail- way bookstalls of England. Mudie's (though it was founded by a Dissenter) has accepted the book. But Smith's repre- sents the Church and State (the present head of the firm married a peer's daugh- ter), and stands for everything that is respectable. Mr. Moore, carefully avoid- ing the fact that he has got a very good advertisement out of Smith's prohibition, has complained, and there has been the general shrieking about the rights of the individual. Of course, Smith's has a perfect right to pronounce a taboo, if its tasters so declare. And in the case of this particular book the right will be upheld, perhaps, by many who disagree with the general principle underlying the veto. Mr. Moore has been much more ^* sexv,'' but I do not think he ever has managed to be so nasty at certain points. He feels that, as with ' * Esther Waters, " he has made for morality. But he has travelled through such a disagreeable country that the ob- ject of the journey is greatly invalidated. Catholics are up in arms against the whole theory on which he bases his convert, Evelyn Innes, who approaches operatic art through the worst emotions, and ultimatelv turns con vent- wards with a view to absorbing her tendencies to wan- der in forbidden wavs. Xevertholess, Mr. Moore has roused the keenest antici- pations of the sequel, ** Saint Theresa." Mr. Moore is a Mayo man, and is forty- one years of age. He is a bachelor, and lives in the Temple, For an Irishman he has peculiarly little of the fantasy that one associates with his race. His method is that of the blue-book, solid, severe, minute. *' Evelvn Innes,'' however, is the best piece of English he has yet turned out. The selection of Mr. Gladstone's bi- ographer is troubling the quidnuncs. Mr. John Morley is the favorite so far, for he really converted Mr. Gladstone to Home Rule, and enjoyed the veteran statesman's closest confidence. On the other hand, Lord Rosebery, the biogra- pher of his kinsman, Pitt, has a more human touch, and could write a much more i^opular book. Meantime, an enor- mous amount of ephemeral rubbish, with- in boards, has appeared. The greedy way in which it has been bought up shows how keenly people are interested in every- thing that Mr. Gladstone was and did. It would be interesting to see how Mr. Morley would approach Mr. Gladstone's intense religiousness. Somebody has sug- gested that only a syndicate of biogra- phers could do the great man justice. The volume of verse bv Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, which Mr. Lane has issued, is a verv instructive illustration of the literary gift going on from genera- tion to generation. Mr. Coleridge is the son of the Rev. Derwent Coleridge, one of the i^oet's three children, all of whom distinguished themselves in literature. Mr. Coleridge has already done good work, by editing the selections from his grandfather's notebooks, under the title '*Anima Poetie." He is now engaged on the literarv part of Mr. Murrav's edi- tion of Byron, in conjunction with !Mr. Prothero. His sister, Christabel, has written some excellent novels. The pres- ent Lord Coleridge is descended from the poet's elder brother, James, whose grandson, the well-known judge, was raised to the peerage in 1874. The death of Mr. Eric Mackay has brought much sympathy to his sister, 42 THE BOOK BUYER Miss Marie Corelli. Whatever their faults, they were absolutely devoted to one another, the one supporting the other at times to the point of being a little ridiculous. Mr. Mackay made many ene- mies by his fierce attacks on his contem- poraries. He is believed to have had a hand in writing that acidic satire, *' The Silver Domino," and his burlesque poem, '* The Little Gods of Grub Street,'* was very bitter — and in bad taste. But his death makes one forget all that. Indeed, it is difficult to see why he and his sister have been so much denounced. There are other offenders far worse than thev, who escape scot-free, because they are more astute. Mr. W. P. Ryan lost his chance when he tilted at the log-rollers, for he knows perfectly well the whole modus operandi of the gamesters. Mr. Lang dislikes them — dines with them ; and then dissects them at so much per column. The other week he went to a dinner, got up in a certain cynical spirit to honor Mr. H. D. Traill, the founder of Lifera- hire. He sat next a charming young actress during the evening. Within a few days he described his experiences of utter boredom. The log-rollers are hurt ; but they will invite Mr. Lang again to that boring board. The Women Writers, including a few ladies who write literature (and English), but a majority who can do neither, had a successful dinner in the end of June, but none of them touched on Mr. Lang's indiscretions. The country where Stevenson laid the scene of ^* Kidnapped '' is to be invaded bv a railwav, which will connect Connel Ferry, on the Callander & Oban line, and Ballachulish, a distance of five and twentv miles. It was in the neighborhood of Ballachulish that the mysterious Ap])in murder, which forms so important an in- cident in the story, took jilace. Steven- son-land was recently described by Mr. John Buchan, who differs, however, very considerably from other topographers. Mr. Buchan, by the way, has recently carried off the Newdigate Prize at Oxford for his poem on the Pilgrim Fathers, written in heroic metre. As a prelude, he has apostrophized the Adventurous Spirit of his Native Xorth. Seal on the liearts of the strong, Guerdon, thou, of the brave, To nerve the arm in the press of the throng, To cheer the dark of the grave. — Far from the heather hills, Far from the misty sea, — Little it irks where a man may fall If he falls with his heart on thee. Mr. Buchan is librarian of the Union at Oxford, where he divides the honors of literature with his countryman, ** Ben- jamin Swift.'^ Two literary memorials of considerable interest have come to light lately. One of them is a tortoise-shell case, with ivory tablets, which belonged to Milton ; the other is Shelle}^s guitar, which has come into possession of the Bodleian Library. The Milton memento was given to one Richard Lovekin, of Xantwich, by his aunt, Betty Minshall, who was the poet's third wife, and died in 1727. The Shelley guitar narrowly escaped being taken to Massachusetts, but its owner, Mr. Edward Silsbee, has handed it over to the Univer- sity which expelled Shelley. The instru- ment was the subject of the lyric, ** The keen stars were twinkling,^' and of the lines inscribed " To a Lady with a Guitar," beginning, Ariel to Miranda — Take This slave of music. It was carefully preserved by Jane Williams, who Avas tlie widow of the cap- tain who was lost with Shellev, and who afterwards married Hogg, the 2)oet's bi- ographer. It ultimately came into the possession of Mrs. Williams's grandson, who has now handed it over to Oxford, where it will be safer than the Thackeray THE BOOK BUYER 48 inkstand which was recently stolen from Mr. Leslie Stephens's house. The craze for '' literary relics " reached the height of ridiculousness the other dav, when tea- pots belonging to the Brontes and some pew doors from Ha worth Church were pompously brought to the hammer. Much more interesting is Lord Rose- beryls renovation of Ladv Stair's house in Edinburgh, associated with many Scott memories. Nobody knows what Lord Rosebery is to do with the place, although it is rumored that he may turn it into a Scott museum. This, however, might clash with Abbotsford, which, after all, is essentially the museum of Scott and his heroic struggle. Edin- burgh is full of literary associations, which the hand of the improver has not yet removed off the face of the earth. Indeed, I know no town in this country that clings so tenaciously to its yester- year. In point of the actual production of literature, the Scots capital is prac- tically nowhere now. A hundred years ago, such men as Mr. Lang would have been content to live in Edinburgh, and Mr. Buchan would probably never have gone to Oxford. Despite Kailyardism, the fact remains that the Scots tongue is vanishing ; and Professor Saintsbury^s suggestion that a lectureship in the Doric should be founded in Edinburgh seems to be put forward with the same desire as the founders of the Gaelic chair had in view when they raised a sum of money to give Celtic scholars a chance in the curricu- lum. The bald fact stares us in the face that Scotland is being very rapidly Angli- cized. The upper classes consistently deprecate the use of the dialect ; the lower classes use a form of Scots that is little better than slang. Somebody recently re- marked that the only people who would be able a quarter of a century hence to read Burns with ease would be the Scot expa- triated in London, who reverts to the more characteristic aspects of Scotland with strange enthusiasm. The death of the Doric — or rather the various types of it, for it shows great divergencies in different districts — is most marked, and most to be regretted in verse, because Scots is peculiarly suited to the purposes of the poet. Translate Burns into English, and more than half of his work becomes utterly colorless. The mere suggestion that the time has arrived for founding any such chair as Professor Saintsbury (who is an Englishman) suggests is indic- ative of the touch of decay which has come over the dialects of Scotland. At the present moment only one poet, Mr. Logie Robertson, uses the Doric with any effect in verse ; and to many Scots he is intelligible throughout only with the aid of a vocabulary. I fancy that all this is a revelation to Scots abroad, who re- main strangely unaffected by the tongues of their adopted countries. But it is nothing short of the truth. Further- more, I question very much whether the decay has yet reached the point that would induce people to put their hands in their pockets. If it were a little deader, an attempt at rescue might be made. I have alreadv referred to the tentative efforts which have been put forward to . revive the printed play. Mr. Heinemann and Mr. Lane have led the way ; and now the new firm. Messrs. Duckworth, an- nounce a whole series of foreign j)lays in translation — Maeterlinck's, Ibsen^ Sienkiewicz's, and M. Brieux's dramas being included. John Oliver Hobbes's comedy, ''The Ambassador, '' which has been very well received at the St. James's Theatre, is also to be issued in book form. All this is another indi- cation that the Puritanic spirit which tabooed the theatre, and as a conse- quence the printed i)lay, is on the wane. Whether the theatre is to become 44 THE BOOK BUYER serious, however, is anotlier matter. Personally, I doubt it. Meantime, in the theatre itself we haye bad a downpour of American and French plays. In five and twenty London theatres one night recently five French plays were being given (two in French), and no fewer than four American dramas bv American players were running, so that the much- discussed '• alliance'' has been iDractically sealed unofficially. And then there has been the American writer. Mr. Cable had an excellent time, while Mr. Geiett Bur- gess, who set the Lark soaring, has joined the ranks of London journalists, for the nonce, with his quaint humor. The whole question of copyright, which is more or less in a nebulous condition, is under the consideration of a select com- mittee of the House of Lords. The book publishers have at last *' kicked'' against the modern newspaper method of boiling down a book into a few columns of jour- naleze ; and the more influential newsi)a- pers, which pay heavily for foreign tele- grams, are battling, on their side, for the benefit of forty-eight hours' copyright. As matters stand, thev have rather a bad time. Thus, the Times may pay £1,U00 for a telegram which will be copied ver- hatim into all the ''evening" newspa- pers within an hour of its appearance. The Copyright Association wants to place literary and artistic copyright on the same basis, and to make all copyright extend forty-two years from the date of, first pub- lication. The modern schoolboy learns at an early age the uses of advertisement. The boys of Horsmonden, Kent, recently started a little magazine (produced in fac-simile manuscript) and induced several well- known writers to contribute to it. Mr. Kipling sent a trifle, and Mr. Max Beer- bohm (who has succeeded Mr. George Bernard Shaw as dramatic critic of the Saturday Review) sent a caricature of him, which will interest Kipling collectors. /. J/. Bulloch, A RETORT When Pindar sang, long, long ago The victors of the course, And in liis pride began to show How poor and tame the horse Of everv other rival bard, The crowd laughed hard. Their children, too, for centuries Approved his rugged jest ; He libeled to their blinded eyes And thus one bard distressed : ** So old and copied is his verse And never terse ! " That silent fellow feigned to die And slept in somber Egypt. The other dav a careful eve Awoke him for a rescript : Now Pindar, answer, if you please, Bakchulides ! — From ** Poems,** by Philip Decider Ooetz. By permission of Messrs. Richard O. Badger <& Co. CURRENT LITERATURE GLADSTONE : THE MAN GLADSTONE himself felt that the worst of nearly all biographies was their unvarying praisefulness. Both Gladstone : The Man and Talks with Mr, Gladstone are an amusing commentary on this remark, although in such an in- timate account as the latter the foibles, if not the faults, of so great and good a man necessarily stand out in conspicuous relief. In the first-named book the au- thor's dim religious awe dominates his judgment and even his style. '* Of course, Mr. Gladstone's humor was always of a subtle character.'' Thus, before Mr. Williamson knows it, he gives his hero in a sentence the benefit of two doubts. And in the opening chapter, whicli re- counts how '* Willie " learned to plant potatoes ai)art, and many other things, there is an air of grandfatherly benevo- lence, as where "he had noticed— ob- servant boy I " — that there seemed to be considerable waste of si)ace between the *' seeds.'' How difficult it is to pay direct compliments without an effect of patron- age, and how few peoj^le can talk natu- rally about children I Tlie other cross- sections of Gladstone's life relate to his work as am author, his oratory, his om- nivorous reading, his Hawarden friends, and his churchmanship. One has a glimpse of the venerable soul habitually giving his *' Gleanings" as a wedding pres- ent, and at a Welsh seaside resort walking hurriedly home with a large loaf of bread under each arm ; but these are about the Olaostone : The Man. By David William&on. Jam^ Bowden, 13rao, 75 cents. Talks with Mr. Gladstone, By the Hon. Lionel A. Tollemache. LongmaDB, Green & Co., 12mo, $1.25. only picturesque bits with which we are not already familiar. The final pages summarize the qualities which *' dis- tinguished the man as apart from the statesman " — his ^pertinacity, courtesy, faith, etc. Such a method is, of course, inorganic and futile. One must look elsewhere for Gladstone ** the man." After announcing that his, too, is a non- political biography, Mr. Tollemache be- comes obtuse only once, when with much pulling and buckling he saddles on his hero a capacity for epigram. He is as good a Boswell as Gladstone is a Johnson, and as is compatible with his own Homeric knowledge and position of recognized congeniality. He saw something of Gladstone between 185(5 and 1870 in Eng- land, and after an interval of twenty vears met him more familiarlv at Biar- ritz. Gladstone's observations during the earlier period are reported from memory in a single chapter of most deferential in- direct discourse. The Johnsonian ''talks" from this point are delightful. Presag- ing his friend's enterprise, Gladstone had said: ** Your memory makes you formi- dable ; but you are so good-natured that one does not feel afraid of you." The result justifies his fearlessness, for Mr. ToUemache's dialogue reproduces force- fully and vividly all that could probably have been stirred up by two concurrent spirits conceniing the greatest statesmen, orators, theologians, and writers of the century. Gladstone's interlocutor, being a man of ideas, could not keep himself as far in the background as did Boswell, or be as trivial, although we find him on one occa- sion asking (Tladstone if he ascribed his good health to the practice of masticating his food twenty times. Sometimes lie 46 THE BOOK BUYER would put up a splendid anecdote, to elicit an opinion or a reminiscence, and get only the most serious or cryptic reply. Again, to an elaborate theory as to the per-cent conduct comprised of life, Gladstone " said this was probably so, but he did not seem satisfied/' One can fancy his friend's feelings on becoming so natural a victim of a silentium oi verectindiam , or when he frankly said " that was a new idea, and he would think it over/' But Gladstone respected persistence in a view, if it was not frivolous. '^He thought Byron's ode [on the death of Napoleon] a failure, but on my demurring, he said it was certainly not equal to Manzoni's." There is a good deal of this hedging, and one somehow reveres it in Glad- stone, as an assertion of character. "When his persecutor, with a somewhat perilous candor, asked what need there was for a Day of Judgment if the righteous went immediately to Heaven, he replied, warmly: *'I really cannot answer such questions. The Almighty never took me into his confidence as to why there is to be a Day of Judgment." Despite his high resolve, the biographer cannot refrain entirely from defining Gladstone's powers and limitations, and here his insight is excellent. Touching lightly on the Disraelitish phrase, '' He was inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity," and, as hinted above, capriciously opposing the impression that few of his sentences linger in the memory, Mr. Tollemache says that his oratorical faculty generated a morbid intensity of purpose. His subtlety of reasoning came, in the popular imagination, to be associ- ated with a certain moral indirectness; to many, indeed, ^Miis vehement and, so to say. Apocalyptic use of language," which promjited him to talk with solemn dogmatism even about a piece of old cliina, implied a **want of moral perspec- tive." This is perhaps the most lucid ex- planation yet offered of why Gladstone was so grievously misunderstood. An appreciation of the ethical strain in him makes intelligible his literary opinions. " You have no right," he said, '^ to like a book better because you are in sympathy with it." He took the ^' Brown- ing societies" seriously. Scott was one of his idols, though, with Sir Henry Tay- lor, he felt that Scott's friendship for Byron indicated *^ a somewhat blunted capacity for moral indignation." This he accounted for by saying that the power of delineating character, noble as it was, tended to give such^^ objectivity " to con- duct as to '^ weaken the sense of sin. ■' His favorite stories were '^Kenilworth" and "The Bride of Lammermoor." George Eliot's novels seemed to him *'out of tune." " Daniel Deronda" he never read, and Mr. Meredith's "Diana" he was never able to finish, apparently. Macau- lay's "Lays "will live, he said. Head- mired Dryden's power of arguing in verse. He was not so enthusiastic about Jane Austen as some are. She could neither " dive nor soar." Milton's genius was a sealed mystery to him, but Shelley, he quaintly explained, "never quite broke loose from the eggshell." There are sapient remarks, too, concerning Napo- leon, Disraeli, Bright, Fox, Cobden, Peel, the Arnolds, Manning, Vaughan. Mr. Gladstone's views anent the woman ques- tion, longevity in Scotland and Ireland, and vaccination, to mention no weightier topics, are pleasantly interspersed with such facts as that he regarded bitter beer a "divine drink" (6€iov nor or), «and shrewdly closed his speech when, at three in the morning, he saw an obstreperous member of the opposition go out of the House to eat an orange. The variety and suggestiveness of the facts and opinions 2)resented, unhappily without an index, in Mr. Tollemache's little book will undoubtedly place it in THE BOOK BUYER 47 the front rank of Gladstoniana along with Mr. Bryce's penetrating estimate and the forthcoming tribute from the pen of Mr. Morley. George Merriam Hyde, CLIMATE AND HEALTH WE do not remember ever to have read a more lucid and succinct statement of the principles which under- lie medical climatology than that con- tained in the first section of Dr. S. Edwin Solly^s Handbook of Medical Climatology, After defining the terms ''weather/' " climate/' ''meteorology/' etc., in the sense in which he means to use them — a very necessary precaution when such words have both a popular and scientific application — Dr. Solly points put that earth, air, water, sunlight, temperature, and electricity are the six elements which unite in varying proportions to make up any given climate. In analyzing these factors he mentions, but does not dwell upon, the importance of a sandy or por- ous soil in promoting the general health of large aggregations of people. He shows that, other things equal, climates will be damp in proportion to their proximity to the sea or to large inland bodies of water, while climates will be dry with lighter barometric pressures as we recede from the coast and reach the higher altitudes of the mountain backbones of the great continents. Taking hot, cool, moist, and dry as his four cardinal terms, he gives us a choice of the hot moist and hot dry climates as we approach the equator, and of the cool moist and cool dry as we approach tlie poles. These, A Handbook or Medical. Clixatolooy, Embodying its Principles and Therapeatic Application, with Scientiflc Data of the Chief Health Reaorts of the World. By 8. Edwin Solly, M.D., M.R.C.S., Late President of the American Climatological ABSociatlon. With engravings and colored plates. Lea Brothers A Co., 8vo, $4.00. of course, are modified by local condi- tions, such as the shelter of mountains or valleys, and the exposure on plains or at the seashore. As a result of this part of our study, we arrive at the gen- eral conclusion that the dry climates are bracing and the moist climates relaxing ; that the drv, cool climates are the health- iest of all for those who can bear them ; that the beneficial effect of moist climates is most pronounced in cases of nervous irritability ; that cases of lung disease have their best chance of recovery in high altitudes, and cases of heart disease their best chance in places near the sea-level. Dealing with ethnological and geograph- ical considerations. Dr. Solly points out that the vital functions of the human system soon adapt themselves to any par- ticular climate, whether tropical or arctic. •He looks ujion all the races of mankind, with the exception of the Mongolian and Ethiopian, as equally calcukited to inhabit any part of the earth's surface; and not only that, but as sure to acquire all the characteristics of the aborigines of their new habitat after a residence of a few gen- erations in a new country (page 48). This is a fascinating theory, and is doubtless measurably true (especially in its medical and gastronomic aspects) if not pushed too far; but we should like to point out that there is still a considerable difference be- tween the tastes and appearance of the numerous descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers and those of the North American Indians, though both these celebrated races have now dwelt side by side for nearly three hundred years. Dr. Solly acutely points out that disorders of digestion are not naturally common in hot climates, owing, perhaps, largely to the enforced vegetarian diet in such countries, the great evils of germ or contagious diseases arising from possibly preventable imper- fections of the soil or climate (page 51). He regards the taste of natives of hot cli- 48 THE BOOK BUYER mates for hot sauces and condiments as arising from a natural desire to provide an efficient substitute for the absence of the stimulating effects of a meat diet^ and he also thinks that these hot spices may be useful in destroying the germs of conta- gious disease after they have entered the intestinal canal. Speaking more particu- larly of tuberculosis, he lays down the general law that while infection is not likely to occur in hot, moist climates, the progress of the disease, when it has once begun, is likely to be much more rapid than in other climates. If we consider all disease as a pathological growth, we shall find here an admirable example of Huxley's dictum that all growth, within vital limits, is proportional to the amount of combined warmth and moisture. Dr. Solly devotes the second section of his work to a consideration of "the ail- ments to which climatic treatment is ap- plicable or for which it is commonly used, and of the way in which the values of climates and meteorological factors influ- ence them." As is natural under the cir- cumstances, he gives up the greater part of this section to phthisis, giving it seventy- four pages, while all other diseases have to be content with only thirty-five pages. At the outset he makes a distinction, not usu- ally preserved or considered necessary, between phthisis, which he defines as a chronic lung disease accompanied by pro- gressive emaciation, and tuberculosis, which he defines as the disease due to the specific infection of the tubercle bacillus of Koch. He recites the various experiments which go to show that the tuberculous infection is found in greatest quantities in large cities or in the older noted resorts for con- sumptives; that it flourishes best when the air is impure or where ventilation is bad; that the germs iire killed in a few minutes by the direct action of sunlight; that damp ground is particularly favorable to the spread of the disease; and that un- healthy occupations, particularly those which make for the inhalation of dust, are liable to bring on tuberculosis. Then Dr. Solly leaves the path of impartiality which he has hitherto followed with suc- cess, and boldly takes a brief for high al- titudes as the chief, if not the only, rem- edy for tuberculosis. Perhaps the fact that he has been for over twenty years a prac- tising physician in Denver, Col., which has an elevation of 5,300 feet above the sea- level, gives him a natural predisposition to interpret phenomena in the light of his own experience; but the. facts alluded to on page 85, namely, that consumption is very rare among sailors in the British navy, though common among soldiers in the British army, and that the inhabitants of the Faroe, Shetland, and Hebrides islands, where cold and damp abound, are also remarkably free from the disease, deserve a more patient and thorough investigation at Dr. Solly's hands than they appear to have received. The one indisputable point in favor of high altitudes is that the effect of diminished air-pressure on the lungs is to increase the number of red-blood cor- puscles and the amount of haemoglobin in the blood, thus promoting oxygen absorp- tion with consequent greater power to digest or slough off diseased tissue in any part of the system. At the same time, knowing that nature never adds to one part without subtracting from another, we would be glad if some pathologist could point out what is lost in the body when the red-blood corpuscles are increased. Dr. Solly, when he takes his stand upon altitude as the primary factor in the cure of tuberculosis, alienates all those who believe, on the contrary, that it is the purity of the air from germs and the pres- ence in it of natural ozone which are in- dispensable. Such men will send their patients to the Adirondacks in winter, to Egypt for the pure, dry desert air, or on a long sea voyage, as seems best for them THE BOOK BUYER 49 in their general state of health, nothwith- standing Dr. Solly. We had looked forward to a perusal of the third section of Dr. Solly's work, ex- pecting to find a kind of glorified medi- cal Baedeker of the medical resorts of the entire world, giving annual, maximum, and minimum temperatures; rainfall, humid- ity, days of sunshine; soil, elevation, and general physiography. Instead of that, we have 268 pages of ordinary guide-book matter, 160 of which are devoted to the United States. This is not the worst of it; of the United States section of 1'60 pages, 118 are devoted to the Rocky Moun- tain region and the Pacific Slope region, though the States of Oregon and Wash- ington are dismissed together with half a page. Among the Eastern States, Penn- sylvania gets a page and a half, with no mention of Pike County. New Hamp- shire gets two pages and a half, of which one whole page is devoted to Bethlehem. Neither the Thousand Islands nor the Catskills are mentioned as among Xew York State's health resorts. San Anto- nio, Tex., gets a page and a quarter, while the two States of Tennessee and Arkansas together get less than a page. Outside of the United States the contrasts are even more glaring. The City of Mexico gets two pages and a half, or more than Italy and Ireland together. Baden gets just five lines; Switzerland five and a quarter pages, or only as much as Colorado Springs. All 'Europe has only forty-five pages, or six less than California, without anv mention of the Caucasus Mountains. All Asia gets a page and a quarter. Climate, soil, and elevation are usually not given, even in the case of places in the United States. In fact, as a guide book, medical or otherwise, to any part of the world except the Rocky Mountain region and the Pacific Slope of the United States, it is doubtful if the Handbook can be used with confidence. E, H. Mullin. ^'NATURE FOR ITS OWX SAKE M BY this title Professor John C. Van Dyke, of Rutgers, puts forth his **' first studies in natural appearances." It is fresh from the Scribuer press : a clearly printed book of nearly 300 duo- decimo pages, prefaced by a portrait of the good-looking man who is its author. Though there is a constant increase in the number of those who wish to make friends with nature, some people hold back because they fancy that the scientist alone can manage the introduction, and they are dismayed by his pomps, his Greek, and his dissections. Such willing, but discouraged people might better enjoy the visible world than know it, and thev will find this work useful, not as an explanation of appearances, but as a guide to them. How many of us lose wholesome pleasures and fail of useful information because of sheer blindness ! AVe look at many things, but see few. Here, then, is a man whose intention is that we shall see — a man who has watched and travelled and studied, and who points out what will make us admire and wonder, and learn, perchance. He takes a larger, more general view, than that of the scientist, his field and his method the rather suggesting Ruskin ; for his descrip- tions are those of an artist, and are given in language that has pictorial quality, albeit free from *' fine writing" — the chromo phase of literary art. 'We miss the glow and savor of the soil that make us love Gibson, Burroughs, and Thoreau; we miss the localisms of Gilbert White, until we discover that this is a book of different purpose from theirs, and we are asked to deal, not with facts or fancies, but with aspects, purely. Yet do not suppose, for an instant, that the >'ature roR Its Own Saks. By John C. Van Dyke, L.n.D. Charles Scribner's Soda, 12mo, $1.25. 50 THE BOOK BUYER author is pragmatic and lacks imagina- tion. Nature itself is so full of stimulus for the poetic impulse that Professor Van Dyke can not resist it, though he affects a modern and material view, and frowns on the idea that trees can weep or skies can smile. Poetic expression is but a matter of using the right word, the most luminous, the most terse, and he has a taste and practice that insure this usage. In Egypt the sun flings aloft great shafts of light at the dawn, and these our author proclaims as the bib- lical wings of the morning, while at other times the dust of the desert is in the air, producing sun dogs like those made by ice crystals in the atmosphere of northern countries, and these side illumi- nations he thinks to be the wings of light supporting the golden disk of the sun, that we find carved on ancient tem- ples. The sunbursts that fall through cloud gaps and light a dusty, humid air, are likened to a Jacob's ladder. We are cautioned not to be looking always for the big, spectacular things, for we lose much if we cannot find beautv in the so-called commonplace. There is a hint of scientific method in the descrip- tion of clouds, but this ordering is neces- sary if we would separate the nimbus from the cirrus. Meteorologists may, and some of them will, dispute the professor's assertion, that the tops of cumuli, the " thunder heads " or '^ heaps '' of summer, are 40,000 feet from ground. He cools the noon with a snow scene, and gives us a whiff of the strong sea in calm and storm, recalling much to every deck lounger iu his " black masts and yard- arms swinging slowly backward and for- ward across the starry heavens, the stars themselves flashing on the blue-black ocean floor." The sea is farther considered from the shore, against which it launches tremendous breakers, the Irish cliffs hav- ing been climbed for 200 feet by these inverted cataracts. There are sequent chapters on still and running Waters, with a tribute to the glories of Venice — a city that reeks with color. '* It is the hectic flush of the dying. But how very beauti- ful it is ! " We get back to nature beside the mountain lake, ruffling in the fresh winds. Our earth frame, sturdy, ''braced by its own curve " ; the rocky wrinkles that we gaze upon, awe-smitten, as mountains ; the vallevs where flowers and bees attract each other ; the inferno of the Dakota bad lands ; the windy plains ; the prairies where fires do not travel, as they used to — in the novels ; trees, bushes, grass, and lichens that dress the world in greens and grays — these are touched upon with a brief, incisive pen, and in a dignified conclusion we reach the lesson — the im- mortality of nature, its endless 'combina- tions, its exhaustless beauty, the slight- ness and vanity of human affairs. " The great peace of it ! Of what avail the struggle of races, the clashing of social systems, the ascending cry of the hu- man ! '* Charles M, Skinner, THE POLYCHROME BIBLE THREE volumes, the first fruits of this large undertaking, are completed. As to paper and typography and other external traits, they satisfy every just ex- pectation. The polychrome feature which appears in two of the volumes, that on the Judges and that on Isaiah — the volume on the Psalms is all white — occasions some surprise at the first glance, reminding one — if the Higher Critics will permit the historical reference without a demur The Holt Bible. Polychrome Edition. Jadgcs, tnuB- lated by Rev. G. F. Moore ($1.25); Psalme, traoBlated by Pro- fcMor J. Wellhaasen ($2.50); Isaiah, translated by Rev. T. E. Cheyne ($2.50). Dodd, Mead A Co., 8 volumes, 8vo. THE BOOK BUYER 51 — of the coat which the patriarch Jacob made for Joseph his son — the ''coat of many colors." The combination of scholars at home and abroad by which this extensive work is to be prepared^ embraces many names of celebrity. The editors, of whom Pro- fessor Haupt is the chief, of course are united in their general sympathy with the modern theory respecting the composite authorship of Old Testament historical books and of a part of the prophetical literature. They are fortunate in having secured the assistance of a scholar whose mastery of English and fine literary taste are well known — Mr. Horace Howard Furness. Extracts from the preface of the Authorized Version, which are pre- fixed to each volume, are interesting for their quaint style as well as for the ideas expressed. They are inserted as an antici- patory defence against prejudice and hos- tile criticism of the whole enterprise. *' Was there ever," say the authors of the Old Version, ** anything projected, that savored any way of newness or renewing, but the same endured many a storm of gainsaying or opposition ? ... As oft as we do anything of note or conse- quence, we subject ourselves to every one's censure. . . . He that meddleth with men's religion in any part, meddleth with their custom, nay, with their free- hold ; and though they find no content in that which they have, yet they cannot abide to hear of altering." I cannot fully concur with the projectors of this new edition of the Bible in the remark that the Revised Version was "an unsatisfactory compromise, which de- stroyed the charm of the older trans- lation while failing to give the reader the full results of modern research." We should agree that in the amendments in- troduced by the revisers, the English words and phrases are not very seldom less felicitous than they might have been. The appearance^ inevitable, in some de- gree, of a new piece of cloth sewed into an old garment, might have been consid- erably lessened with no detriment to the correctness of the rendering. But the Revised Version has the great merit of being formed on a vastly improved text as regards, at least, the New Testament, where textual criticism has a compara- tively open field. It is, moreover, one of the most accurate of translations from foreign languages into English. Its re- tention of the old style with its archaisms so far as they are intelligible, was not only a necessity but also a signal merit, con- sidering the laudable design to keep alive the Version — in many respects, as to Eng- lish style, incomparable — which the re- visers undertook to mend and to so pre- serve in being. All this, however, does not diminish the value of another translation which is to be altogether new, and which may be of inestimable service in the study of the Bible, and moriB or less in its use by the people. I ought not to forget to mention that the English translation of the Psalms in the Polychrome Bible is by Mr. Furness, and cannot fail to please and edify appre- ciative readers of the Psalter. It is also to be observed that the notes, which are not too copious, that are attached to these volumes, are at the same time abreast of the most advanced learning and are not obscure to minds of ordinary capacity and culture. The pictorial illustrations, moreover, which are historical and arch- aeological, shed a welcome light upon the text Professor Moore's edition of the Judges is a monument of accurate scholarship and of most elaborate painstaking. The judgment to be passed upon this great work as a whole would be premature if pronounced at present, when only a small fraction of it has been issued. It is 52 THE BOOK BUYER to be expected that its numerous j^arts will differ from each other not a little in their degree of merit. The Higher Crit- ics, not to give a verdict here upon their general ^^ standpoint/^ are certainly not all on a level as regards critical sagacity and soundness of judgment. It does not indicate, for example, the existence of the fault on which the authors of the Old Ver- sion animadvert if one fails to see the grounds for all the partitions which Pro- fessor Cheyne makes in this edition of Isaiah and is accustomed to make in other prophetical writings. This business of critical dissection, whatever may be true of its more general conclusions, has not yet reached its final stage. It would not be strange if a good many of the colors should fade out. Meantime, the Poly- chrome Bible will surely prove to be highly instructive and valuable. Georcje P. Fisher. STIRRING TALES OF BRITISH HEROES IF anyone wants a series of stirring tales of old-time warfare to read along with tlie stories of strife as told in the daily despatches from Cuba, an Eng- lish work, entitled Deeds that Won the Empire, by W. II. Fitehett, is the one to buy. For, as the title implies, the author has retold the stories of the battles that in British history have ]>een most creditable to his people ; and he has put a verve into the telling that one rarely finds in works of the kind. He begins at Cape St. Vincent, and he ends with Tra- falgar ; he tells of the Heights of Abra- ham and the Battle of Waterloo : of bloody Badajos and of Copenhagen : of Deedb That Won the Empire. Hbtoric Battle Scenes. By the Rev. W. H. Fitehett. With portraits and plans. Charles Scrihner's Sons, 8vo, $1.50. twenty-one good fights wherein British blood did, indeed, make. and save the Em- pire. It is a glorious — literally a glori- ous— record of British valorous deeds, and in the midst of it is found one story of a fight between two frigates that, if we may judge by the writer's eager interest in his tale, gives him little, if any, less satis- faction than the stories of the Nile or of Cape St. Vincent. This is the story of the Shannon and the Chesapeake off Boston light. At first glance one may wonder how it happens that this duel between two mere frigates could have helped to win the Empire ; when one recalls the fact that the Americans were fighting in those days to save their seamen from impressment by unscrupulous British naval oflficers, the wonder increases. But a careful con- sideration of the battle itself justifies Mr. Fitehett in placing it between ''the fierc- est, bloodiest and most amazing fight, in the mighty drama of the Peninsular War,'* on the one hand, and that of '' the swift- est and most brilliant '' siesre in the same war. on the other hand. It is not that the English won off Boston a brilliant victory over a crew of whom more than half were Ameri(;ans. They had a good riglit to be proud of that, and Broke deserved all the titles he got for it, but that was not what made it a victory of far-reaching effect. The really important feature of the battle was in this, that Broke there demonstrated to the somewhat thick- headed Admiralty the superiority of a crew, well-trained as marksmen, and well knit together by humane treatment, over a half-mutinous aggregation that in mod- ern sporting language would be called *'a scrub team.'' The British had relied on valor and the cat theretofore, and these had been entirely sufficient against the Latin-race crews of the dav. But with the victory of the Shannon began a change in the handling of British sailors THE BOOK BUYER 53 — a humane consideration of them as men — that raised them to a state of effi- ciency which has really helped more than any other one thing in winning and pre- serving the British Empire. Because Mr. Fitchett was wise enough to see this^ all Americans will wish that he had written a true story of the fight, instead of copying the utterly unfair one contained in Brokers "memoir/' '^ com- piled by Rev. J. G. Brighton, M.D." He says, for instance, that " a barrel of unslacked lime was prepared^' on the Chesapeake 'Ho fling into the faces of l)oarders,'' an assertion so ridiculous that only a landsman could originate or be- lieve it. Fancy one barrel of lime for jsuch a purpose, even if the Americans had been of the kind to stand on the de- fensive ! He also feels obliged to accuse the Americans of treacherously attacking Broke, but wholly ignores the charges of like nature brought by Americans against the British crew. It was a right fierce fight. The British were smarting under the loss of the Ouerriire, the Macedonian, and the Java — ^there were Guerriire men on the Shannon — while the Americans were Angered by the desertion of the English {ten per cent, in number) and the other foreigners who had been mutinous from the moment Lawrence boarded his ship. But there was at worst no more in- humanity on the American than on the British side. It is also untrue that Bos- ton harbor was then ''full of American warships. '' This matter would not, of course, be worth mentioning — American readers have long been accustomed to expect nothing else from English writers — if it were not for the fact that the writer at the end of his yarn rolls up his eyes and piously refers to the "bond woven of common blood, and speech, and political ideals ! '' However, the reader should overlook this chapter because of the interest in the other parts of the work. There is noth- ing, short of battle, like tales of valor- ous deeds to strengthen the heart, and here we have the tales. John R. Spears, THE CHEVERELS LADY NEWDEGATE, in publishing the series of family letters that contained so much of the history of Mis- tress Mary Ffytton, Elizabeth's ill-fated Maid of Honor, and her gentle sister Anne, earned the gratitude of many dis- criminating readers and made a substan- tial addition to the authentic records of the reign of the Virgin Queen. In this later volume she has once more drawn upon that rich storehouse, the Muniment room at Arbury, and has again laid her readers under an obligation. We know that Mary Anne Evans was the daughter of the Arbury bailiff, and was born upon the estate, and that when, as George Eliot, she first attracted attention as a writer of fiction in the pages of Black- wood's Magazine, her "Scenes of Cleri- cal Life " were descriptive of life in a far- away corner of Warwickshire. Much mild excitement was aroused in the county by the publication of these tales, in which every peculiarity of dress or demeanor, and every mannerism and weakness of the squire, the village doctor, and the lawyer, was touched upon in a spirit of caustic but not unkindly humor. Written keys were passed around among the neighbors, giving the real names of places and per- sons side by side with George Eliot's slightly disguised nomenclature — and among many amusing protests may be Ths Cheverels or Cheterkl Manor. By Lady New- digate-Newdegate. With iUuBtrations from family portraltB. Longmans, Green & Co., 8yo, $8.50. 54 THE BOOK BUYER remembered that of " Mr. Farquhar, the second squire of the parish/' whose pro- nounced lisp was a matter of some local celebrity and who appealed to the village doctor : " You know, Mithter M , that I never lithp exthept when my thtomach ith out of order/' In '^Mr. Gilfil's Love Story/' the most popular of the three tales that made up her first published volume, the then unknown young writer laid the scene of her pa- thetic eighteenth century romance at ^'Cheverel Manor." By the joublication of the present inter- esting collection of letters Lady Newde- gate proves beyond question that the ** Cheverel Manor " of George Eliot's ro- mance was Arbury, and that Iier Sir Chris- topher and Lady Cheverel had their proto- types in the flesh in Sir Roger Xewdigate and his second wife, Hester. The letters, which in all extend over the long period between 1719 and 1806, tell a story almost identical in every particular with the ro- mance of the little dark-eyed singer who left the great manor-house to become the mistress of the vicarage, and all the char- acters of the tale are here shown as they were in real life, though, as Lady Xewde- gate points out, in oue or two instances the novelist was neither too generous nor too just to the originals. The greater number of the letters are in the form of a journal, written by the good Lady Hester to her husband. Sir Roger Newdigate, during her twenty-four years of married life. He was, as the old song has it, '* A fine old English gentleman, one of the olden time." A polished, kindly, hale old buck, who married at sixty, doubtless drank his bottle of port like a man, served his country unob- trusively during thirty-five years in Parlia- ment, kept his coverts excellently stocked, took a keen and intelligent interest in the hay crop, and when he died had the tale of his blameless existence approx)riately rounded off in an appreciative obituary essay in the Gentleman's Magazine. *' The incomparable baronet of Arbury," said his biographer, ^^was a lover of Virtu, and an excellent classic from his early days, and made two lengthy tours on the Continent . . . the best classics, and Homer in particular, seemed as familiar to him when he was on the other side of four-score as if he had just come from Oxford or Westminster. His name lives to-day as that of the founder of the '' Xewdigate " prize for poetry at Oxford, and there is a touch of the old gentleman's kindly humor in the two conditions he exacted when the com- petition was instituted in his lifetime. The number of lines in any poem sub- mitted was not to exceed fifty, and there were to be no compliments to himself. (''If there is it will make me sick.") His wife was a fit mate for so fine a man — beautiful in a statuesque and a stately way, as we see from her portrait by Rom- ney, and warm-hearted, generous, and withal shrewdly observant, as we learn from these letters, which, often ill-spelt and faulty in syntax, have yet the charm of perfect naturalness, due to the writer's total lack of self-consciousness or pose. AVritten only for indulgent relatives, and with no thought of possible publica- tion, they naturally contain much detail that to many readers may seem trivial and tiresome — the dear lady even religiously records her experiences with the various baths and medicines with which she experimented from time to time — but they also form a mine of information for the student of eighteenth century life and manners, and it is not uninteresting to contrast the simple story told in these curious old documents with the ro- mance idealized by the genius of a great novelist. John Harrison Wagner. THE BOOK BUYER 55 "EVELYN INNES f> WHERE Thomas Hardy has rushed in, George Moore need not fear to tread. Mr. Hardy's reputation and art enabled him to weather the storm he had deliberately called up, and his unquestion- able sincerity enforced a respectful hear- ing. Mr. Moore's new book ranks him with the author of '*Tess" as an artist, and no one can read it without becoming convinced of his sincerity and seriousness. The reputation which has grown from the literary wild oats that he sowed so liberally in the days of his youth is against him, but Evelyn Lines is strong enough, alike from the literary and the philosophic point of view, to overcome this drawback, and to command for him, too, a respectful hearing. George Moore left the work of his early period behind him in '* Esther Waters"; in Evelyn Innes he enters into the full maturity of his thought and of his art. The question that is eschewed by Ameri- can novelists, and desecrated by their French brethren, has an acknowledged and firm standing in England. Perhaps it is incorrect to say that American writers of fiction shun this problem : they simply do not see it in the daily life that they ob- serve around them, because it practically does not exist. They evidently are not blind to it, nor prejudiced, when it does exist, witness the admiration of the leaders of our realistic school for Flaubert and the modern Russian writers ; and Mr. Henry James has been forced by his surroundings to take notice of it in *' What Maisie Knew," and thus to corroborate and justify both Mr. Hardy and Mr. Moore. An in- teresting study could be made of the dif- ferences in the social life abroad and here, based upon the absence of the discussion Evelyn Imnes. By George Moore. D. Appleton & Co., 12mo. $1.50. of sex problems in our own literature, and the importance given to it in the fiction of Europe. There are certain things which we in- stinctively feel to be wrong. Logic will prove this feeling to be unreasonable, and we may disregard it as such and put it aside ; but it remains, and sooner or later will clamor for a hearing. We can stun it with reasoning, or wilfully ignore it, but we cannot kill it. This is, in a few words, the thesis of Mr. Moore's story. It is a study of the struggle between instinct and intellect, but also between the spirit and the flesh, between the Church and the world. This is not a tale of a battle about candles and vestments and ingenious niceties of exegetics : it is a tragic, intensely human, delicately wrought record of a struggle that is waged within us by forces that we do not understand, but rebel against blindly, or as blindly obey. As a psychological study the book ranks high. Mr. Moore has not chosen his characters and incidents to suit himself and facilitate his task : he has taken them from life, and accepted all the complica- tions, all the interacting influences that this implied ; and what is more, they have not overpowered him. He has not tried to mould them to his purpose : he has re- corded them as they came, and only his consummate craft, his minute yet encom- passing psychological insight has carried him through and enabled him to produce a work that falls hardly short of being a masterpiece. Roman Catholicism has been considered always as essentially the religion of the Latin races, yet, strange to say, the peoples of the North make the best Roman Cath- olics— witness Ireland, Holland, and Eng- land. The Latin takes his religion very lightly : the husk of symbolism and out- ward form is all he observes ; the kernel he does not heed. Of course, this simply means that the more serious temperament 56 THE BOOK BUYER of the Northern races has fallen heir to the Hebrew's genius for religion, irrespec- tive of creed : '* The Scarlet Letter " pre- sents but the Puritan side of the problem whose Roman Catholic face is depicted by Mr. Moore. The inward moral force is the same ; the outward form differs vastly. This religious difference can be traced plainly in the literatures of Latin Europe, in Matilda Serao, in d'Annunzio, in some of the modern Spanish writers, and in the Frenchmen from Flaubert to Daudet. The progress of Huysmans's latest hero to *' La Cathedrale'^ is probably the most amazing as well as the most interest- ing evidence of the sickly inner life of the modern French dicadence. Evelyn Innes, too, is on the road to a spiritual retreat, but there is strength in her repent- ance, as there was in her sin : she is a daughter of the race to which belongs the future. Mr. Moore's interpretation of Wagner^s music as an expression of the emotions is superb, and will recommend the book to those who may not care for its central theme. Nor has he stopped here : the music of the early Church, too, has at- tracted him, and he has succeeded in I making his erudition not only intelligible, but interesting, to the layman who loves music. The book is a remarkable perform- ance throughout, one of which its author may well be proud. It treats a vast sub- ject in a way that is far more than merely adequate : Evelyn Innes — the flesh that is weak — lives in its pages ; and eo does the spirit that is strong — the spirit of re- ligion, which Emile Zola has declared to be dying. W, MRS. WARD'S TRAGEDY OF CONSCIENCE IN her latest novel Mrs. Humphry Ward returns to the religious milieu of her first success. Like ^'Robert Els- mere," HelbecJc of Bannisdale is a tragedy of conscience ; but the setting is so differ- ent that there is no suggestion of repeti- tion. Moreover, it is its elemental hu- man interest, not the fact that the theme is the conflict, in petto, between Protes- tantism and Catholicism, which gives the story its power. Mrs. Ward has before this vindicated her right to choose the sort of subject naturally appealing to her tastes and gifts. It were a preju- diced criticism which would regard the present book as in any sense a preach- ment or a bit of special pleading for the Protestant. At the end of the tale, Hel- beck, the ascetic Romanist, has the read- er's sympathy quite as much as Laura Hklbxck or Bannisdale. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. The Macmillan Co., 2 vols., 12mo, $2.00. Fountain, the child of modern science, personal freedom, and agnosticism. The tragedy of the novel inheres in the situation. It is drama of the psychologic kind, dealing with the inevitable clash of personalities drawn together by the most imperious of attractions — the love be- tween man and woman. Helbeck is an aristocrat, who dwells upon his im- poverished estate in Westmoreland and devotes himself to the Catholic cause with a singleness of purpose which con- tains elements of bigotry and grandeur, lie has stript his stately house of orna- ments to raise money for the mother- church ; he meditates eventually becom- ing a Jesuit. As his rooms grow barer, his private chapel glows more gem-like with the costly insignia of an historic faith. He is a man who gains in inten- sity at the expense of breadth. To him comes Laura with her sickly step-mother, his sister. The latter's marriage with THE BOOK BUYER 57 Laura's father, a rationalistic Cambridge scholar, took Mrs. Fountain awav from her inbred religion ; but at his death she returns to Bannisdale^ to be reconciled to her brother and die in Romanism. Laura^ hostile instinctively to the whole environ- ment and atmosphere, accompanies her only as a necessary nurse. Here are all the elements of trouble. The strong repulsion she feels at first for Helbeck resolves itself into an equally strong attraction. He, too, catinot resist her mobile charm. There results an engage- ment, destined to produce mutual misery as the sparks fly upward. The man is deemed by his Catholic friends to have taken a step inimical to the welfare of the Church. Laura has given her heart to one whose inherited manner of thought and personal spiritual experience are antagonistic to her deepest convictions — or rather intuitions. She tries to believe with him ; she cannot. She leaves Ban- nisdale and breaks the tie, but is recalled to her dying step-mother, and in the renewed association with her lover, love speaks again. But Laura's eyes become clairvoyant as she watches Augustina die, and she realizes once and for all that to enter into real intellectual and spiritual communion with the Squire of Bannis- dale is for her impossible. Thereupon she drowns herself in the river, letting it appear that the deed was accidental. In explicating this main plot, Mrs. Ward had the double task of telling a moving story of tortured hearts and of portraying typical phases of religious life. It seems to us that in both regards she succeeds to admiration. The Catholic color is extra- ordinarily well conveyed ; and the charac- ters which illustrate that form of faith and worship — Helbeck as protagonist, Augus- tina, the priests Father Leadham and Father Bowles — are clear and convincing. And the novel qua story moves inevitably to a denouement that is the natural effect of the causes set at work. Mrs. Ward has never given us more enjoyable descriptions of nature than in this book : many of them have the naturalist's ac- curacy of observation with the poet's phrasing and imaginative appreciation. There are mitigations also to the grim drama which centres in Laura and Hel- beck ; and variety of color, to save it from being a monochrome — witness the sub-plot, which involves Laura's peasant cousin. Mason, and his hopeless passion for her ; the farm scenes at the Masons', with such a good comedy figure as the cowman, Daffady ; and the dramatically presented episode of the accident in the steel-works. But the novel has ab- solutely no asides or padding : all is essential to the chief business, and that is attended to with great artistic restraint. Helbeck of Bannisdale answers the prime requisite of fiction. It furnishes enthralling reading, and it deals freshly with a motif comparatively new in cur- rent novels. It handles a genuinely dra- matic situation in a skilful way : its topic is one of the deepest and highest possible to civilized humanity. Those who object to the story for its sombre tone — desiring their fiction like their lollypops, all sweet — are not to be quarrelled with. The wish is legitimate enough, and plenty of novels gratify it. It may be remarked, never- theless, that to banish this graver, greater sort of fiction for that reason would be by implication to give the cold shoulder to the tragedy of the Greeks and the noblest plays of Shakespeare. " Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself," says Shel- ley, *'are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good.'' The question properly is not of subject, but of manner of doing and effect upon the reader, and certainly this piece of fiction has art and seizes one as the truth about one aspect of life forcefully pre- sented. Richard Burton. 58 THE BOOK BUYER 'THE FOREST LOVERS fy MR. HEWLETT has named his story well. From a title so alluring the reader expects much, nor will the reader be disappointed, so that he has a heart open to romance and to the mysterious enchantment of a forest. The t^le harks back to the days when young gentlemen with the world before them sware oaths to high God *Ho suc- cour the weak, right wrong, and serve ladies.^' Nine times did young Prosper le Gai take this vow as he watched his arms under a moon before the cross on Starning Waste, and how well he kept his affiance and how great his ultimate reward one must read to know. Unlike Sir Walter Scott, and most spin- ners of tales who have gone for their lore to the age of chivalry, Mr. Hewlett as- sumes a mediaeval garb, not only for his characters, but for their chronicler. In the main the result is admirable. Only here and there a chance phrase, perhaps 80 slight a thing as a too intimate appeal to I and You, pierces the verisimilitude with a touch of artifice, but otherwise it reads as if in direct succession to the Malory romances. Mr. Hewlett handles the old style with ease and mastery, in description no less than in dialogue. He has the connoisseur's love for rare old words, but is too true an artist to let his love lead him into sins of euphuism or l^reciosity, and while his style serves the illusion well, it has no disadvantages for the reader who is old-fashioned enough to like a story for a story's sake without hav- ing to cudgel his brains over enigmatic sentences. As for plot, there is nothing strikingly new, no figure that one has not met before, under some emblazonry or other. wandering through the gloriously bloody paths of old romance — which statement is in nowise a detraction from the story's charm. It is expected of the old songs to persist in being the old songs. Only in fin-de-siecle literature is it permitted that vice should triumph, knights fail, ladies be else than beautiful, dreams and prophecies spell untrue. Prosper le Gai rides singing toward the enchanted forest Morgraunt. Laborers stayed their reaping to listen to him, but there was nothing for them. Girls leaned at cottage doorways to watch him down the road, but there was nothing for them either. Prosper's thoughts were on adven- ture, not on the harvest, nor on love. Before the week is out he finds himself husband, so far as vows go, to Isoult la Desirous. Isoult is a pathetic little waif, who has been by turns scullery-maid to a monastery, shepherdess, goose-girl, and household drudge. Of course, in reality she is a maiden of high lineage, being the supposed-to-be-lost child and heiress of the noble Countess Hauterive. But of all this Prosper knows no more than Isoult. He only knows that this waif, whom he has rescued from a grave peril, is under the shadow of yet another, more final if less grave, for she is condemned to be hanged for a witch, unless she be mar- ried and taken from the tithing before dawn. So Prosper weds her for pity's sake, as beseems a Christian knight and English gentleman. Then comes the tale of the forest, as fresh and full of sylves- trian charm as when ** In the boyhood of the year Sir LauTicelot and Queen Guinevere llode through the coverts of the deer. i» The Forest Lovers. ARomuDCc. The Macmillan Co., 12mo, $1.25. By Maarioe Hewlett. Of course there is a sleek and scheming abbot, and of course there is a faithful page, also a wicked lady, Maulfry, who has as many disguises as Proteus, as many wiles as Vivien. Then there are the two brown wood-maidens, in scant green gar- THE BOOK BUYER 59 nients, who are half dryad and half deer. And incidentally there is Prosper's affaire du cmur with the countess, who turns out to be the mother of his wife, a family complication that one prefers to consider only possible to old romance. And, most important of all, there is the evil person, though good fighter, Galors, whose final discomfiting marks the denouement of the plot. But the nub of the story is the triumphant progress of Isoult's love for her knight and lord. In his service as his protegee, his slave, his unacknowl- edged bride, she encounters perils far more blood-curdling than Bradamant's, humiliations far more crushing than Gri- selda's. To save his credit she is nearly martyred like St. Catharine, with a black ram to do duty for a wheel. Prosper^s feeling for the waif he has rescued passes from pity to interest, from interest to wine-fed passion, and finally to a high and noble ideal love, which alone, for his own sake, the pure spirit of Isoult will «uflfer herself to take from him. The night of their strange marriage, " Lord,'' said Isoult, '*thou wilt wed me to save my soul from hell and my body from hanging ; but thou hast no love for me in thy heart, as I know very well. . . . We two will never come together except in love. Shall it not be so ? " Prosper howed to the goose-girl's simple wisdom, and when Friar Bonaccord had joined their hands, they laid themselves down to «leep on a bed of boughs and leaves, with Prosper's naked sword, Siegfried- wise, between them. That is the beginning of the tale, and when Isoult's love has been tried and Prosper's developed by all the stormy incidents of which old romance is capable the end comes in a perfect mutual under- standing of the high possibilities of ideal married love. The romance is elemental in its simplicity and beautiful with the spell of night and of the forest. ^' So in the hush that falls before dawn those two kissed and comforted each other. It was as in a field of blood that the rod of love thrust into flower at last. But the forest which had seen the graft held the flower by right, none watched their espousal save the trees and the mild faces of the stars." Marguerite Merington. '*'! CAN'T GET OUT!' CBIED THE STARLING" THERE comes from the pen of a young Italian girl of twenty-one years (a protegee of Gabriele D'Annunzio's) a novel which, for psychological insight, for dramatic intensity, and for aptness of phrase, does not fall far behind the front rank of English fiction ; and with the quality of Kassandra Vivaria as a literary artist criticism may have to deal seriously, before long. There is definite, straightforward trag- edy in Via Lucis, but the dominant tragic note is not struck in scenes of passionate action ; it is heard in the obscurer collo- quies and debates of the will, in the hesi- tations of decision and choice — the play of inner forces producing spiritual pathol- ogy. In Arduina d'Erella we have pre- sented to us a character study undertaken in the deliberate analytical fashion of Mrs. Humphry Ward. We find in her at once a Christian ascetic and a pagan Greek. Her convent training nurses in her a self- absorption and mysticism, a deadly intro- spection ; a fresh wind blowing, a corner of lovely sky, awakens in her the antique zest, the unreasoning, animal joy in exist- ence, a forgetfulness of the insufficiency of life. And the girl who, when imagina- tion tempts her, presses her hand over the sharp-spiked bracelet, worn for penance, is the girl whom the mere pressure of her Via Lvvm. By KasHandra Vivaria. Goorge H. Ricliinond & Son, 12mo, $1.50. 60 THE BOOK BUYER • lover's hand sends into an ecstatic heavi- ness of human passion^ and the remem- brance of it into a narcotic sleep. A saint or an adventuress — she might have been one or the other. She was neither. The child who dragged her mother to every toy- shop in Rome, hunting a doll whose fea- tures would match her ideal of what a doll named Theodora should express, does not change ; she develops. You find her in the thwarted philanthropist, in the dis- graced nun, in the disappointed, heart- broken woman. And when the child, hav- ing at length come upon the doll she sought, saw it dashed from her arms on to the stones by a brusque, absent-minded customer — it did but presage that the work, the faith, the passion she was to strive for in later vears would be denied her. '^ We are in the pot-and-pan stage here in Italy yet — the kitchen-fire stage — and I want a throne. One with a cushion of thorns, perhaps, but always a throne,'' Arduiua exclaimed once in her convent days ; and the contrast between a pro- found, idealistic, and noble feminine na- ture and a commonplace, shallow, lymph- atic society — this contact and conjunction of irreconcilable elements is the motif of Via Lucis. Was Arduina's fate inevitable ? After the fifty-five thousand francs received from the property of Villa Belvedere were made over by her to Santa Marta, constituting the dowry of Sister Valeria — perhaps it was. But before that? Why does the au- thor urge so undeniably the ** power of fate ''? Of course, as Jeremy Taylor says, " The luck is not in our hands, but the playing the game is.'' As to Kassandra Vivaria's ethical purpose, she furnishes a clue to it in the line of Omar Khayyam written on the title-page : "There was a door to which I found no key." Is it fair to discuss an author's selection when she shows full power to deal with it ? Perhaps not ; but why should there be contributions to the already burdensome sense of the Unattainable, from the spell of which Richter fled as from a yearning- too intense to bear ? F. L. W. THE BOOKS OF GILBERT PARKER MR. GILBERT PARKER has told many tales, and, let it be said, told most of them well. The novelist of British North America he certainly is, and his presentation — in collective editions by two publishing houses— is convincing, and shows well the place he has made and the public he has gained. In looking them over, I be- gin with the book that I believe first per- suaded his public, Pierre and His Peo- ple j which deals with a region extending *'from Quebec in the East to British Co- lumbia in the West." Pierre's maker adds, *' With a less adventurous man we should have had fewer happenings." But the happenings are none too many to establish Mr. Parker firmly as a romancer who has caught the spirit of the North- land, and of those adventurers whose blood is drawn from the two diverse and hardy civilizations and from the savage. In Pierre's case the French in him made him ** nonchalant and debonair; the In- dian in him gave him coolness and nerve. '^ He is Pretty Pierre, the keen, the dan- gerous. On his stage are many actors. There is Sergeant Fones, of whom, when he lies " wrapped close in that white frosted coverlet which man wears but The Seats op the Mighty. The Translation op a Savage. The Trs8Pab»er. The Trail op the Sword. Mrh. Falchion. D. Appleton & Co., 12mo, $1.50 & $1.25 each. When Valmond Came to Pontiac. An Adventurer OP THE North. A Romany op the Snows. Pierre and His People. A Lover's Diart. The Macmillan Com- jMUiv, 12010, $1.25 each. THE BOOK BUYER 61 once/' Private Gellatly says: ''Angels betide me, it's little we knew the great of him till he went away ; the pride and the law — ^andloveof him'' — thereby tellingthe story of the good officer in that most effi- cient service. The tales that follow are diverse, and prove that here is a writer who draws in his way like Bret Harte and Kipling in theirs. While I wonld like to say more of Pierre, there can be no lagging when there are ten books of a man before you. So dismissing the tales — which are con- tinued in An Advefiitirer of the North — When Valmond Came to Pontiac stands out distinctly from the other works. Val- mond is of the stuff of the gentleman of la Mancha ; but his posing is forced on him by his blood. For he is what he be- lieves himself pretending to be, a son of Napoleon. The scene where he wins the old sergeant — the Quixotic undertaking — the distortion of the Xapoleonic nature by the dreamer's — the good, brave heart — all these details are admirably done, and make a work where humor plays gently on gro- tesqueness, and charm, and nobility. Passing by the other longer books — but noting again that in Canada Mr. Parker is at his happiest — I come to Tlie Seats of TJie Mighty y one of the most widely read novels of its year, and to which Mr. Parker doubtless devoted the most effort. Is it invidious to add, after stating how much Pierre and Valmond please, that this novel shows effort, and lacks some- thing of spontaneity, and that it is too long ; that it invites comparison with Weyman without quite fulfilling the invi- tation ? Well, it is true that so many people have been permeated by the all- persuasive imagination of Dumas, his rapidity, his strength, that any slower method is likely to be at a disadvan- tage. I am now looking back regretfully at the other books which the limit of space compels me to treat so perfunctorily. They are written by a man who has la- bored carefully with plot and phrase, and who, for the most, has succeeded, and who has achieved a remarkable quantity of good work in an astonishingly short time. Clinton Boss. THREE POINTS OF VIEW THOUGH every year disproves the familiar statement that the com- modity of collected short stories is pass- ing or has passed out of public favor, the idea seems to have as firm a hold upon life as a good joke or a bad name. It would be a great pity if the volume of short stories itself were not a thing equally tenacious of existence ; for many of the individual tales well deserve a life longer than the brief day of a magazine ; and a great portion of the reading public would suffer an appreciable loss if it were obliged to imbibe its fiction in long draughts or not at all. For readers who care for more than the mere narrative and a ^' happy ending," a collection of short stories has an interest which per- haps does not strictly belong to an ex pede Herculem experiment, since various mem- bers beside the foot may be exposed to view ; yet it affords an interest somewhat of this sort to put together, from a writer's separate expressions of himself, his general attitude towards life and his art. Here, for example, are three collections of short stories, and it would be difficult to find anywhere stronger contrasts than those which they display, not only in their out- Abs et Vita, and Other Stories. By T. R. Sullivan. Uloetrated by Steruer. Charles Scribner's Sons, ISmo, $1.25. Tales of the Hoxe Folks in Peace and War. By Joel Chandler Harris. Houfi^hton, Mifflin & Co., 12mo, $1.50. The Qolficide, and Other Tales of the Fair Green. By W. G. Van T. Sutphen. Harper & Brothers, 12mo, illastrated, $1.00. 62 THE BOOK BUYER ward relations to one another but in all that stands behind them. The atmosphere which Mr. Sullivan's book creates is eminently that of the cos- mopolite, the sophisticated. An Ameri- can usually figures as the hero, but his accent as a rule does not betray him, be he found in Paris, Devonshire, London, or Geneva. Indeed, were it not for the re- currence of such a person, invariably a gentleman and a good fellow, there would be little to establish beyond a question the nationality of the book. As an evi- dence that it belongs to the larger world, the two stories in which no American ap- pears— upon scenes laid in Italy and Bel- gium— ^are capable of making the strongest impression of all. Where the success is less conspicuous, it seems at times as if Ars were getting a little the better of Vita; but especially in the story of *^ An Undiscovered Murder,^' a mastery and re- serve, which belong inalienably to the best art, are well employed upon a power- ful and vital theme. The single page of the book which perhaps makes the most direct human appeal is not a page of fic- tion but of verse, evidently Mr. Sullivan's own. In a previous story, *'To Her/' a similar introduction of verse into the midst of prose was made ; and in each case the author has shown so true a com- mand of a medium which all storv-tellers do not possess that one could wish to find him employing it even more frequently. The scenes into which Mr. Harris's ''Tales'' convev the reader are farther away from those of Mr. Sullivan's book than by the width of the Atlantic ; for the persons with whom he deals are at the extreme verge of tlie local and the unso- phisticated. With the single exception of the French Canadian bit, placed with the others for reasons known only to the autlior's daughter to whom the volume is dedicated, all the stories in the book have to do with Georgians before, during, and after the war. The negro, endowed with a dialect which really reduces the sounds of his voice to type, is ever present. The white man, conspicuous and obscure, speaks clearly forth from his time and place ; and Mr. Harris speaks frankly with him, using like for as if, and carry for lead or guide, with all the winning un- concern of his characters. The war itself is often made to appear less as the thing represented by a dash in polite literature — if not in General Sherman's language — than as a background for strange personal adventures, ending, perhaps too persist- ently, in matrimony. Throughout the volume there is a heartiness of good feel- ing and humor, together with a convinc- ing truth to local conditions, which pro- duces the double effect of agreeable story- telling and faithful drawing. Unlike either of these two volumes is Mr. Sutphen's book of golf stories, in that it is conspicuously a book of the hour. The persons are those of a suburb of New York, where the serious business of golf overshadows even the reality of Wall Street. The author has caught all the notes of the golfer's song, and carols them out with amusing accuracy. To this he has added a fanciful invention of incident, en- tering even the domain of dreams and of the future. For the un-golfed, it is not a book to be opened, for not a single whole page of it would be understood. A com- plete ** golfiac " might read it through at a sitting with delight ; but for the en- lightened '* immune" it is a thing from which several smiling half-hours may well be won. After all, the publishers know best to what class of readers their books will appeal, and it is not without sugges- tion to find the two advertising pages at the end of this one devoted to the works of Miss Lillian Bell and Mr. John Ken- drick Bangs. Sim ilia similibus, M. IT. SUMMER FICTION rpH AT small portion of the reading pub- A lie which is not made up of poets, potential or developed, may have its doubts as to the possibility of finding, in Tennes- see or anywhere else, a community even remotely like that which Mr. Opie Bead has described in Tlie Waters of Canty Fork, All the people whom he intro- duces, not excepting the tavern loafers and an occasional woman-killer, fairly vibrate with appreciation for both spir- itual and natural beauties, and their con- versation is as profusely ornamented with metaphors ana epigrams as their piazzas are with climbing roses. These are dis- quieting characteristics, it must be con- -- - r 111 I ' The Watebs or Cakbt Fork. By Opie Read. Baud, McXally & Co. A Chaxfiok of the Seventies. By Edith A. Barnett. Herbert S. Stone A Co., $1.60. The Man of Last Resort. By Melville Bavisson Post G. P. Patnam's Sons, $1.00. A Forest Orchid. By Ella Hlggins. The Macmillan Company, 12mo, $1.90. Torn Sails. By Allen Raine. D. Appleton Jk Co., $1.00. The Vaixey Path. By Will Allen Dromgoole. Estes A Laariat, 12mo, $1.85. The Peacemakers. By John Strange Winter. J. B. Lippincott Co., 18mo, $1.25. A Trooper of the Express. By Clinton Ross. D. Ap- pleton & Co., 12mo, $1.00. Plain Living. By Rolf Boldrewood. The Macmillan Co. Thro' Lattice Windows. By W. J. Dawson. Doable- day & McClure Co., 12mo, $1.25. Wheat in the Ear. By Alien. G. P. Putnam's Sons., $1.00. The Red Lilt. By Anatole France. Brentano's. Ionia. By Alexander Craig. E. A. Weeks Co. Fighting for Favour. By W. G. Tarbet. Henry Holt A Co. PsARCE AxERftON's WiLL. By Richard Malcolm John- ston. Way & Williams, $1.25. The A'lCAR. By Joseph Hatton. J. B. Lippincott Co., 12mo, $1.25. A Man-at-Arxs. By Clinton ScoUard. Lamson, Wolffe, A Co. The Kino's Henchxan. By William Henry Johnson. Little, Brown it, Co., 12mo, $1.60. The Revenge of Lucas Helx. By Augoste Blondel. Drezel Biddle, 12mo, 60 cents. Love and Rocks. By Laura E. Richards. Estes «fc Lauriat. A Revolutionary Love-Story. By Ellen Olney Kirk. Herbert 8. Stone A Co., 8vo, $1.25. Four for a Fortune. By Albert Lee. Harper & Brothers, 8vo, $1.25. Javan-ben-Seir. By Walker Kennedy. Frederick A. Stokes Co., 12mo, 75 cents. fessed, for the Philistine, who has no credulity for landscapes and portraits that cannot be verified bv the camera, or for quotations transferred from something else than a phonograph, by somebody who never tried to write shorthand in his life. But who cares what the Philistine believes or disbelieves ? There is a realer reality, of which he knows nothing, and Mr. Read's book is full of it. His Tennessee moantaineers are what Tennessee mountaineers ought to be, what they would be if they lived up to artistic requirements — what they are, therefore, to the artist, who alone, of the world's population, has a right to demand the world s attention while he tells it about itself. In this admirable study of his own idealized memories, the author has carefully, perhaps instinctively, avoided the revelation and emphasizing of motive which mar a recent much-lauded picture of old Kentucky; he has, too, re- frained from teaching either history or morals, tasks in which the romancer in- variably demonstrates more of ambition than or judgment ; but he has thoroughly visualized the waters and shores of Caney Fork, thoroughly vitalized the men and women, young and old, with whom he has peopled the sunny hillsides. The book is not likely to create the amount and kind of talk that result in numerous editions — and a subsequent plunge into deep oblivion — but no reader at all sensi- tive to sincerity of emotion, originality of thought, or elegance of expression will fail to find the waters of Caney Fork re- freshing. [Rand, McNally & Co.] Assurances given in prefaces are solemn things, not lightly to be questioned, how- ever remarkable may be the narratives that follow them; still, some mental strain is avoided when, as is the case with A Cliampion of the Seventies, the author who promises to tell *' a true story of life " proceeds to tell one so compatible with common, or not very uncommon, experi- ence that doubt has no excuse for sprout- ing in the reader's mind. Twenty years a^o the *'new woman,'' at least in rural England and among the class occupying a 64 THE BOOK BUYER position, intensely respectable, of course, but perhaps not quite so enjoyable, be- tween the upper ranks of productive in- dustry and the lower ones of adequately incomed idleness, must have been a social phenomenon confusing indeed, since even now, and even here, we still maintain — though with conscious insincerity — the air of contemplating her with interrogative surprise, and hedge her in with quotation marks as though she were a foreign epi- gram or a bit of slang. Tabitha Vassie, whose blossoming and untimely blighting by the cruel winds of British conservatism are recounted by Edith A. Bamett, was pathetic enough, as a ''champion,^' for she righted no wrongs and won no vic- tories. On the contrary, she starved to death, quietly and not very slowly, and neither while the process was going on nor after its completion did her eminently vii-tuous parents see any particular reason to regard poor Tabitha's ambitions and standards as safer or higher than their own miserable traditions. She and her like, however, must have accomplished something by their lives and their deaths, else such tragedies would not now seem almost as mysterious in their needlessness as they were pitiable in their apparent inutility. This particular revolt of a daughter — against her time and place, rather than against her father and mother, whose chief, or only, fault was their com- plete resignation and moderate satisfac- tion with their own surroundings — is de- scribed with sympathy and skill. Mr. Gissing would have shown more of the latter quality, less of the former ; but by avoiding the diffuseness of style that will mar the book for some readers, he would have brought it to a speedier close at some loss in depth of impression made, and at considerable loss of harmony between topic and treatment. [Herbert S. Stone &Co.] Mr. Melville Davisson Post might have put six, instead of five, short stories in Tlie Man of Last Resort had he not wasted his own and the public's time with a su- J)erfluous demonstration, fifteen pages ong, of his right to point out the imper- fection of human laws. This mistake is regrettable for two reasons — first, be- cause the five stories are of more than or- dinary merit, whence it is safe to conclude that the absence of the sixth is an appre- ciable loss ; and, second, because in vindi- cating a right which none but unwise critics can have questioned, Mr. Post has exposed himself to the derisive smiles of logicians, as well as to the angry frowns of artists. For if a desire that all loop- holes in our criminal and civil codes may be stopped up is his only justification for calling attention to existing facilities for evasion, then he has no case. The amended codes will also be the product of human minds, and other human minds will surely set them at defiance. The conflict between the makers and the vio- lators of law must go on till the end of time, and to the complaint that, in "The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason," he lent assistance to the clever rogue, Mr. Post, if he answered at all, should have said that he was a recorder, not a discoverer, of existing legal defects, and that secrets already written plain in newspapers and official reports are not taboo to the seeker after new literary material. But despite any doubts he or others may have had, Mr. Post has continued to work his rich vei^i. He shows how the payment of borrowed money may be avoided, how a will must be drawn if the testators intention dis- pleases a would-be heir, how a murderer can escape trial on convicting evidence by hastening to get himself tried and ac- quitted on evidence sure to break down, now the foreclosure ol a mortgage can be delayed for years and years ; at any rate, he shows how these and similar things have been done, and always, in small type, he gives the name and page of the sheepskin - covered authority in which skeptics can find proof of his aocuracy. People with lots of leisure may verify these citations; others will be content to note that the stories are good as stories, and will be sorry that, as Randolph Mason dies in the final one, he will be the last resort of no more desperate clients. [Gr. P. Putnam's Sons.] For absolutely perfect specimens of the short story one must go to France ; but this country produces the next best, and it is an exceedingly close next at that. Take, for instance, the ten tales by Ella Higginson, bound in covers a bit too striking, and bearing the not too happily THE BOOK BUYER 65 chosen title of A Forest Orchid. What- ever delicacy and complexity of meaning may adhere to one's conception of the true short story, these meet all of its essential requirements. They are not brief as the result of clipping or pinch- ing, but because the autnor xnows what an episode is, and can let it bud and blossom according to its nature. She looked for them on the shore of Puget Sound, where few or none have sought before, and her little collection is deserv- ing of carefullest study. In that once mysterious region by the inland sea there live, it seems, people strangely familiar, people with New Eng- land idioms, slightly modified by a pre- liminary sojourn in Kansas or Missouri, and retaining all of the New England capacity for turning life into tragedy, quiet, somewhat grotesque, but fearfully intense. The best of the tales is not that which gives the book its title, but one called "The Pity of It.'' Here is re- vealed most clearly the predominant emo- tion excited iu the reader as in the author by contemplation of these rude and remote communities — pity for the women, upon whom the harsn realities of the frontier fall with crushing effect. The men are not crushed ; they are brutalized, or some- thing like it, by the burden of hardship and loneliness. Out of these conditions, not unexpectedly but inexplicably, de- velops a grim humor that saves the situa- tion from becoming unendurably painful. These stories are as distinctly American as Maupassant's are French ; they are as obviously written from exact personal knowledge, and as human documents they are as precious. [The Macmillan Co.] Not many tales as abundantly supplied with local color distinctly and peculiarly Welsh — and with consonants ditto ditto — as is that offered under the symbolical title of Torn Sails would be required to start a leekyard worthy to take the place of the now somewhat sear and yellow, not to say weedy, kailyard. This statement would be made more confidently if it were not for a haunting consciousness in the present commentator's mind that he knows nothing whatever about the nature or habits of leeks, except that they are — or were — an admired product of the Welsh soil. It is quite possible that leeks. unlike kails and hens, are sedentary crea- tures, and do not require confinement, in which case the word *' leekyard " is rather ridiculous. Be this as it may, Mr. Allen Raine's pen pictures of Mwntseison, a little village between the sea and the moors, and of the people living there, reveal a corner of the world that might stand a large amount of literary exploit- ing. There is nothing unfamiliar, of course, in the tragedies and comedies that are acted among the modern Cymry, for love and death are everywhere the same, but an unaccustomed setting gives them an air of novelty, and the author's style is fresh and vigorous enough to complete the illusion of originality. He writes, too, with a care which the reader enjoys, almost without realizing his good fortune, until, near the end of the book, he comes across a trivial typographical error. Then, from the shock inflicted by the substi- tuted letter, he awakens to the fact that beauty of language as well as strength of emotion characterizes the unpretentious romance. [D. Appleton & Co.] Miss Dromgoole, like Mr. Kead, has tried the effect of contrasting a sophisti- cated and somewhat world-weary doctor with the unlettered residents of darkest, or at least remotest, Tennessee, but there the resemblance between The Valley Path and *'The Waters of Caney Fork' comes to instant end. Without making any concessions to the tyranny of realism. Miss Dromgoole keeps close to visible, audible, tangible nature, gives the impres- sion of having invented only the arrange- ment of her incidents, and with justifiable confidence tacitly asks literal belief in the accuracy of her eyes and ears. Obviously she brings us nearer to the mountaineers than does Mr. Read, but — well, her book is a charming example of the dialect novel, while his stands apart and resents comparison. This is not necessarily evi- dence of superiority on the one hand, or of inferiority on the other ; it is just difference, regarding which each of us^ can have his own opinion. Incidentally, chance and the publishers have combined to make **The Valley Path " an entirely satisfactory specimen of book-building, with covers, type, and form all beyond criticism, while "The Waters of Caney Fork " offends eyes even moderately sen- 66 THE BOOK BUYER y Bitive in every one of theFe particulars. [Estes & Lauriat.J The Peacemakers, latest product of John Strange Winter's industrious pen, deals with the dead centre of middle-class life in England, and presumably it will win commendation from inhabitants of the region it describes. Compunction for the hint of relief that Mr. Gissing did not write *' A Champion of the Seventies " impels the expression of regret, as equal in amount as may be, that the volume now under consideration was written by another hand than his. Its foundation idea is not only excellent, but it is one exactly adapted for the display of ruthless cynicism in view and treatment. A cer- tain Edward Gorman, the reader learns, made a domestic desert and called it peace, and religious peace at that. His wife and children camped on the dry sand till the burning monotony became unen- durable ; then the religion of peace took on for them the aspect of savage tyranny, and they moved on — and far. The tale is not ill told, but its possibilities are not all utilized, while the method of develop- ment gives one the shivers. Also, the decoration of the book's covers recalls the designs perpetuated in oilcloth for the sake of adding horror to the bathrooms of Harlem flats. [J. B. Lippincott Co.] Utter failure can point a moral well enough, but as adornment for a tale it is less and worse than naught. All novel- ists recognize this fact, and every novel must progress, through difficulties of one sort or another, to some kind of a triumph for its hero and heroine, even if it is only death on the gallows. Hence, when Mr. Clinton Ross examined Dr. Jameson's raid into the Transvaal with a view to turning it into a story of adventure, he saw immediately that it could be made useful for his purposes only by changing every negative in the newspaper and court reports into an aflBrniative, and every affirmative into a negative. That task performed, he had A Trooper of the Empress well outlined, and the introduc- tion of a pretty girl and a globe-trotting American did the rest. The book, in other words, details a ride to Johannes- burg that did not end several miles from the city limits. Of course, there will be such a ride, some day in the near future, and then Mr. Ross's lively narrative will get him enough credit as a prophet to make up for any present obloquy that he may incur as a perverter of very recent history. [D. Appleton & Co.] Sheep and sentiment are somewhat ingeniously combined in Plain Living, which the author who writes over the name of Rolf Boldrewood calls '' a bush idyll." The sentiment disappoints an expectation, more natural than reason- able, that, being of antipodean growth, it should be in a certain degree or way differ- ent from the emotions described with quite sufficient frequency by novelists to whom the word ''bush" suggests only a shrub on a lawn, but the joys and sor- rows of the sheep are characteristically Australian, and due allowance must be made, of course, for the entirely compre- hensible desire of colonials, everywhere, to emphasize the points of coincidence between '' home " and their own lives, habits, and possessions, rather than those which show divergence. The inhabitants of England's great island continent are especially sensitive to hints, however inoffensive of intention, that they are at all different from other people, and they labor diligently at the task of proving to amused outsiders that Sydney and Mel- bourne dine as late in the dav as London does. Such is their method of living down an unfortunate early history, and if Australian literature suffers therefrom more than slightly — well, there are other interests than those of literature, and it is not always pleasant to be picturesque. [The Macniillan Co.] Tliro^ Lattire Windows, by W. J. Daw- son, is an attempt — and an eminently successful one — to raise in an English village the flowers whose seed has been so generously supplied by the cultivators of Scottish kailyards. Rustic piety is ex- ploited in the now accustomed way, and whoever will may be vastly edified by the wisdom of philosophic clodhoppers and the acrimonious humor of back -alley ma- trons. Mr. Dawson has caught the knack perfectly, his short stories are good short stories, and of a surety he will have his reward. Some of us are just a trifle tired, both of ragged saints and of ragged to- THE BOOK BUYER 67 pers ; others of ns are still eager for more of them. Nobody belonging to the for- mer class will be forced to buy Mr. Daw- son's handsomely printed and beautifully bound volume, while members of the latter class will find it exactly what they want. Though without the originality of form, or the pathetic correlation of hu- man and natural phenomena, that made the appearance of *' The Story of an African Farm*' a psycho-literary event not soon to be forgotten by the more im- pressionable part of the reading public, yet Wheat in the Ear strongly recalls that remarkable work, and at least a few of us will find in it reason for classing the personality, presumably feminine, hid- ing behind the morbidly modest pseu- donym of ** Alien '' with the once equally mysterious Olive Schreiner. That this is not the authors first book is as obvious from its technical finish as from the list of names which appears on the present title-page, but certainly here must be her best work, else would the others have led before now to a raising of the veil of anonymity. The tale is one of New Zea- land ; its interest and value, however, lie wholly in the men and women to whom Ave are introduced, and there is nothing in their characters or interaction that localizes the mental happenin2:8 described. Farms nearer than Africa or New Zealand produce ambitious girls like ** Alien's" heroine, but no land has many writers able to picture the experiences of heart and soul through which such girls some- times pass with the mingled delicacy and strength, here exhibited. The theory that the^re is not a little of the autobiographical element in the book will force itself upon evervone who reads this storv of Joan Jetfries's life at scliool, and of her singu- lar matrimonial experiment, and from that theory comes no small part of the hookas vitality and all of its power. The title, unfortunately, is ingeniously ill- calculated to win general attention. [G. P. Putnam's Sons.] There are two good reasons why Anatole France should not be translated into Eng- lish. The first one is the indubitable fact that it cannot be done ; the second is the fact,equally beyond question, that it would make us blush. The impossibility, of course, is due to the radical difference be- tween French and English style, our ideas of simplicity and those of the literary Gaul being two sides of a shield extremely thick. Now, this author is a marvellous stylist, so marvellous that he has not taken the trouble to be anything else — except the most subtle of philosophers and the most erudite of historians and of bibliophiles — and, therefore, when one of his master- pieces is Englished, the result is little more than the rough wooden framework on which the great artist built a mountain of fiowers and gems. As to the impropri- ety of bringing Anatole France's books across the water, except as he wrote them, the elisions which a not always timid pub- lisher has considered it judicious to make in The Red Lily are adequate proof. It may be that these enforced prunings ac- count for the absence of the translator's name from the title-page. Judging from what remains, somebody with the artistic instinct as well as a thorough knowledge of French did the work, and naturally he did not care to be identified with that ludicrous and barbaric thing, an expur- gated edition of a perfect book. Readers unwise enough to think that it is worth while to know the plot and movement of a novel bv Anatole France should buy this book ; otfiers either have read or will read it in the original. [Brentauo's.] Mr. Alexander Craig has a recipe for cooking Utopias. Take one Himalayan valley, he says ; people it with Greeks and Dutchmen, and close the lonly road to the outside world. Then pass and stir in four laws, the first vesting all land titles in the State, the second prohibiting the inheri- tance of more than a certain amount of wealth, the third authorizing the most effective of devices for muking each crim- inal the last of his race, and the fourth extending to humanity the rules long ago adopted by stock-breeders. Set to rise for a century or two, and there you are I Mr. Craig has expanded his recipe into a well- written and fairly interesting volume, which he calls Ionia. He does not explain, or even lament, the fact that his lonians are all unendurable prigs, and he api)ar- ently fails to realize that life in Cuba under Spanish rule was, on the whole, preferable to the deadly monotony of his model nation. [E. A. Weeks Co.] 68 THE BOOK BUYER Fighting for Favour is a story of life on the Scotch coast in the sixteenth century, full of the stirring adventures "which, being all that was recorded in those days, must be accepted by us moderns as the sum total of what happened then. The author, Mr. W. G. Tarbet, presents docu- mentary evidence to prove the possibility of some of the cutting and slashing de- scribed by him, and, by keeping the rest of it well in line with his leading cases, preserves a suflSciently high average of probability. The " favour for which the hero fights is that of his employer and his emplover's daughter, and he is success- ful with both — of course. [Henry Holt &Co.J Novels, to be really orthodox, must end, not begin, with a wedding, but a discreet author like Mr. Richard Malcolm Johnston can safely enough choose for subject one of the grave problems that so often pre- sent themselves for solution after the parson has done what little he can to produce an emotional dead calm. In Fearce Amerson's Will, Mr. Johnston presents the result of such a choice, and justifies his judgment by telling a slightly melodramatic, but thoroughly human, story of old-time life in the State of Geor- gia. A bad brother wrongs a good brother by depriving him of his just share of the paternal estate, and attempts to steal his wife as well. The culmination and foil- ing of the latter plot would not thrill readers accustomed to Parisiaji literature, but it is as lurid a scene as implacably virtuous Anglo-Saxons approve of, or as the social stratum in M^hich the author was working often provides. The book is beautifully printed and bound, and Mr. Orson Lo weirs illustratiooB are faithful and helpful interpreters of the text. [Way & Williams.] There are three hundred pages, and twenty more added to make good meas- ure, in The Vicar — to mention first the feature of Mr. Joseph Hatton's latest novel that has most forcibly impressed itself upon at least one reader's mind — and the action includes both rustic and urban England and the two chief bor- oughs of the city which everybody except the makers of its charter calls Greater New York. Critics familiar with Mr. Hatton's previous work, especially those whose fervid laudations adorn the title- page of the present volume, will be able to say whether he has increased or de- creased his fame by this addition to his achievements ; one to whom his name is new can only wonder at his industry, and congratulate the public on the amount of printed matter which he allows it to get for its money. [J. B. Lippincott Co.] Whoever ventures to write what is called a romance of cape and sword, that is, to exploit again the a^es when homicide was an honored profession, and history was a record of the plots of big and little princes to get each oth^'s lands, houses, wives, and purses, tempts instant comparison with Father Dumas, and few indeed dem- onstrate that there was any pressing ne- cessity, or even a clear right, for their audacious invasion of the French giant's well-conquered realm. A Man-at-Amis ranks Mr. Clinton ScoUard amon^ the few. He did not, and will not, dethrone the creator of d'Artagnan and his three companions, but he has given us a book inspired with the true romantic spirit, one in which you can hear the blades clash, as well as see them glitter, and there is even a modest background of facts not told in every school-book to lend solidity to the fighting and love-making. Avoiding France, where, historically speak- ing, almost every foot of ground is a beaten path, Mr. Scollard went to Italy for his material, and put on paper a living frag- ment of the fourteenth century. His hero serves Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Lord of Pavia, and for a time renders ef- fective assistance to the ambitious schemes of that remarkably shrewd and successful coward. If the reader chooses, he can get from the volume an accurate idea of what was going on among the Italian States at that picturesquely horrible stage of their development ; if he does not so choose, but simply rushes through the story for the story alone, he will be, per- haps, as well rewarded. The illustrations, provided by Mr. E. W. D. Hamilton, are of really notable merit, and the book as a book is a delight to eye and hand. [Lameon, Wolffe & Co.] Temptation to recant what is said a few lines above in regard to French. THE BOOK BUYER 69 soil, as now somewhat unfertile under the romancer's cultivation, is presented by The King's Jlenehman, in which Mr. AVilliam Henry Johnson narrates the bi- ography of a gallant youth who intrigued at court and fought in the field witli Henry of Xavarre. That sprightly monarch nat- urally had sprightly servitors, and tlie memoirs of the time are mines which, thousfh Ions: and industriously worked in the past, still contain occasional nuggets for wielders of the literary pick to bring to liglit. Mr. Johnson has found not a few of them, and his story is one of well- maiutained, if not very thrilling, interest. [Little, Brown & Co.] It would take an enormous corps of translators to clip from French magazines and newspapers and turn into English all of their short stories that are as good as is The Revenge of Lucas Helm. If tlie work were well done — as well, for instance, as it has been done in the pretty little volume which some unnamed admirer of M. Auguste Blondel has persuaded a Phil- adelphia publisher to bring out — our young writers would be supplied with a multitude of trustworthy models from which to study the best methods of literary construction. But our young writers are progressing fairly well as it is, and the utility of models is questionable, anyhow. [Drexel Biddle.] For proof that there are well-con- structed short stories of home production, take Love and Rocks, by Laura E. Rich- ards. It is a summer book, with a cool green sea and a cool white gull on the cover ; you can read it on a summer afternoon, in the half hour before you get tired of keeping the hammock in motion and go to sleep ; but you will be sorry that it was not a few pages longer, and if, in your dreams, you meet the young man and young woman whose courtship the tale recounts, you will bo lucky. For they are nice and human, especially the young woman, and, asleep or awake, their acquaintance is well worth making. [Estes & Lauriat.] Another instalment of hammock liter- ature is supplied by Ellen Olney Kirk's Revolutionary Love-Story, a rapidly sketched episode in which the Tories and rebels of a Connecticut village make things as unpleasant for each other as they can. In the same volume is a second tale — *'The High Steeple of St. Chrysostom's'' — about English rustics amid peaceful scenes, but themselves not much more disposed to abide in amity than were the colonials. The author allows one of her heroes to lose his sweetheart and the other to fall from a church tower soon after his wedding, and these be cruel fates. [Herbei-t S. Stone & Co.] Mr. Albert Lee sends the heroes of Four for a Fortune to a group of islands, not very far away indeed, but vastly less familiar to the average reader than are scores of lonely atolls in the South Pacific. So far as memory serves, no other ro- mancer has made use of St. Pierre and Miquelon, though reports about them are plenty in the Department pigeon-holes at Washington, London, and Paris. Mr. Lee was on new ground, therefore, when he invaded these last remaining fragments of France's once extensive American em- pire, and is rather a pity that, instead of telling us something about the islanders, he confines his attention— and ours — to the finding and losing of a buried treasure by a party of conventionally un- conventional New Yorkers. [Harper & Brothers.] Javan-ben-Seir is an attempt, in many ways successful, to show what must have been the life and experiences of every-day people who lived in Palestine soon after the death of Solomon. The hero is a young soldier, and his adventures include fights with lions and brigands, a wild i^ce for a City of Befuge, and tlie rescue of his sweetheart from minions of the wicked Behoboani. 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EDITED BY ROSSITER JOHNSON [TO CONTRIBUTORS:— §i/«H« mmt be brief, muJtt relate to literature or author*, and mu*t be of gome general interest, Ans^wers are MUdteti, and mu»t be prer'aced with the Humbert of the questions referred to. l^terie* and aristvers, written on one fide only of the }Mi)er, should'be sent to tfte Editor of THE BOOK BUYER, Charlet Scribner't Sora, lS^-157 Fifth Avenue, Ae'w York.] 276. — Can «my of your readers give me the present name or address of the poet ** Ida Fair- field " (formerly Miss Mary Bassett) ? D. K. 277. — (1) Who is the author of "Sephora, a Hebrew Tale," edited by Rev. T. M. Harris, from the London edition (Boston, 1835) ? (2) Who is the author of the verses beginning : ** We that are held of you in narrow chains, Praisod for our beauty, through our folly raised One moment to a barren emiuence." s. c. H. 278. — Has any magazine published an article containing a picture of the grave of Constance Fenimore Woolson in Rome ? m. c. b. Harper's Magazine^ we believe. 279. — The saying, *'When a new book comes out, read an old one,'* is attributed by a recent writer to Samuel Rogers, and by another to Emer- son. Which is correct ? D. m. 280. — When I was a boy I heard a popular comic song, one stanza of which was : •' Potatoes they are small. Over there, over there! And thev eat them lops and all Over there!" Can you or any of your readers tell me who wrote it, or where the whole is to bo found? m. m. 281. — Can you tell me who is the author of these lines : •* The everlasting hills! they hedge mc round And hold me safe within this narrow vale. From all the world's great turmoil not a sound Doth penetrate these silences profound. Ah! life is paradise in this fair vale ! " A, Tl. B. Battles," began one that was to l^e completed in five volumes, but he published only two, bringing the narrative down to the fifteenth century. So far as it goes, it is quite as good as Green's — in some respects better. Dickens's ** Child's History of England " is short, but it is dull. We do not recall any other. (3) It is not correct. The title of Saadi's famous poem, in the original, is ** Ciulistan," the translation of which is "Rose-Garden." The quotation should be credited either to Saadi's ** Gulistan," or to the " Rose-Gartlen " of Saadi— preferably the latter if the quotation is in Eng- lish. 283. — I observe that a recent novel by an American author is entitled " A Golden Sorrow." Is there not another novel with exactly the same title : and what is done about the duplication in such crises. T. F. A novel with that title, bv Mrs. Cashcl Hoev, was published about twenty - five years ago. Such coincidences are common. For instance, Col. Christoi)her Pemberton, who was killed in the Franco-German War, wrote a brilliant novel entitled "The Scapegoat," which was republished in this country; and a few years ago Hnll Caine produced one with the same title. Generally, when the repetition is discovered in time, the title of one of the l)ooks is changed by agreement. In the instance just cited it was known, but as Peml)erton's story was out of print the j»ublishers made no objection to Caine's use of the title. 282. — (1) I should like to know the origin of this quotation : ** The past is nothing, and at last The future can but be the past." (2) Also, whether there is any other good short history of England than Green's. (3) Also, I have seen a quotation credited to " The Rose-Garden of Guhstan." Is that cor- rect? u. c. D. (1) The lines are froni Byron's " Parisina." (2) Professor Creasy, author of ' ' Fifteen Decisive 284. — Can you or any reader tell me who wrote ** The Adventures of Jack Halyard," and where I can obtain a copy V * w. It was written bv William S. Carddl, who lived earlv in this centurv. Posrsiblv some dealer » mm in second-hand books has a copy. 285. — Can you tell me where I can find a de- scription of the automaton chess-player ? b. n. The "Percv Anecdotes" contain a brief but satisfactory historical account of it, with a clear description. It was made by a Hungarian named 72 THE BOOK BUYER Kempelen in 1760, to please the Empress Maria Theresa, anil whs exhiljiteil ill various European countries. After Keiniiclen's death it was sold to Jl. Mielzel, who brought it to the United Sntes. Poe saw it, analyzed the problem, and deinon- slrated that it was not an automaton. His arti- cle ia included in his collected works. Sec also Daniel W. Fislie's " Book of the American Chess Congress " (18M). 28«. Will you please inform me in what book Ihc following; recitation is ? I do not know the !, but will try to give you ft synopsis; Jack, a It was published in 1803. We that it has any special value. 288. Who said "The pcrfectii conceal art '' ? We believe Swift said it of art ii oratory. 49iioi', 1 love with e he 1 her, and makes her swear bv the "Rock of Ages " that she will bo true to hini ; ho leaves on a voyage, and after his return ho gets drunk, goes' home, and fves a friend of his talking to his wife, lie thinks she is untrue, and although she is not. he will hear no explanation, and upon the impulse of the moment kills her. e. s. 287. Will you kindly tell mo what year "A Commenlsry on the I'lve Books of Moses," by the Kev, Thomas Coke, LLi, I)., of I he University of Oxford, was published? The publisher was G. Whitfield, City Road, London. Also the value of this book. L. A, K, 289. By whom and where can Ik found an old romantic story of William Shakes] «are^his mother leaching him story after story; his delivering goods at the time of aprentlemen's din- ner party and attracting the guests by the recital of tliose stories; their taking htm to London; Queen Elizabeth taking an interest in him, etc, ? ANSWERS 366. The old Gloncestershire song of "George Ridler"canbe found in " Tiie Scouring of the White Horse," by Tiioinas Hughes, page 239. Much that is worth reading, in connection with the song and the singer, is given in preceding pages. Answered aim by R. S. a. it. k. 267.— John Frederick Herring (1T95-1865). Senior Animal- Portrait Painter to t!ie Duchess of Kent, was the painter of "Pharaoli's Horses.'' b%%««^^^'%%%'%«^%%<%%«%«^^««/%%'%«%^^«^%%%'%%%'« A Byttnn of VtMm. Varieties to suit Your money back Wernicke Elastic Bookcases AR E always complete, but never finished — small enough for lo, or large enough for 10,000 books. Dust-proof, convenient and attractive, every requirement, if you're not satis- fied. Send booklet. for list of dealers and free ii^cmicke pays the freight. 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From the libretto one was able to gather that the actor had to represent a powerful gnome, who lived in the cave, and who was forging a sword for Siegfried, whom he had reared. One could tell he was a gnome by the fact that the actor walked all the time bending the knees of his trico-covered legs. This gnome, still opening his mouth in the same strange way, long con- tinued to sing or shout. The music meanwhile runs over something strange, like beginnings which are not continued and do not get finished. From the libretto one could learn that the gnome is telling himself about a ring which a giant had obtained, and which the gnome wishes to pro- cure through Siegfried's aid, while Siegfried wants a good sword, on the forging of which the gnome is occupied. After this conversation or singing to himself has gone on rather a long time, other sounds are heard in the orchestra, also like something beginning and not finishing, and an- other actor appears, with a horn shmg over his shoulder, and accompanied by a man running on all fours dressed up as a bear, whom he sets at the smith-gnome. The latter runs away without unbending the knees of his trico-covered legs. This actor with the horn represents the hero. Siegfried. The sounds which were emitted in the orchestra on the entrance of this actor were intended to repre- sent Siegfried's character and are called Sieg- fried's leitmotiv. Ami these sounds are repeated each time Siegfried appears. There is one fixed combination of sounds, or leit-motiv, for each character, and this leit-motiv is repeated every time the person whom it represents appears; and when anyone is mentioned the motiv is heard which relates to that person. Moreover, each article also has its own leit-motiv or chord. There is a motiv of the ring, a motiv of the helmet, a motiv of the apple, a motiv of fire, spear, sword^ water, etc.; and as soon as the ring, helmet, or apple is mentioned, the motiv or chord of the ring, helmet, or api)le is heard. • • . • • There is not a single melody the whole time, but THE BOOK BUYER 95 merely intertwinings of the leit-motiv of the peo- ple and things mentioned. • • • • • From an author who could compose such spuri- ous scenes, outraging all aesthetic feeling, as those which I had witnessed, there was nothing to be hoped; it may safely be decided that all that such an author can write will be bad, because he evi- dently does not know what a true work of art is. I wished to leave, but the friends I was with asked me to remain, declaring that one could not form an opinion by that one act, and that the second would be better. So I stopped for the second act. ■ ■ • • • This scene is unendurable. Of music, i.e. of art serving as a means to transmit a state of mind exiierienced by the author, there is not even a sug- gestion. There is something that is absolutely un- intelligible musically. . , . Above all, from the very beginning to the very end, and in each note, the author's purpose is so audible and visible, that one sees and hears neither Siegfried nor the birds, but only a limited, self-opinionated German of bad taste and bad style, who has a most false con- ception of poetry, and who, in the rudest and most primitive manner, wishes to transmit to me these false and mistaken conceptions of his. I somehow managed to sit out the next scene also, in which the monster appears, to the ac- companiment of his bass notes intermingled with the motiv of Siegfried; but after the fight with the morister, and all the roars, fires, and sword -wav- ings, I could stand no more of it, and escaped from the theatre with a feeling of repulsion which I cannot even now forget. What is A7'tt has much that is sen- sible and much that is amusing, but it will add little to Count Tolstoy's literary fame. He is sometimes called a '^ crank/' and though I think the word is too offen- sive to apply to any man so earnest and so distinguished, still it may be harmless to say, as I have said elsewhere, that if he is a ''crank" he is a crank that turns the right way. The amount of time that, by his own confession, he has taken in com- posing this book, which will be chiefly useful in stimulating men to discussion and controversy, would have been suffi- cient to give us more than one great work of fiction. He claims to have at last found the criterion ; let us therefore hojie that he will jieed the appeal of Tiirgenief, and that the great writer of the Russian land ''will return to distinctively literary work.'' miat is Art? is interesting as the evolu- tion of an art creed ; it is itself a worthy book as his own birthday-offering, but it ought to be only the prelude to a last outburst of genuine creation ! AVe also add our congratulations to the thou- sands that will pour in for the celebra- tion of Count Tolstoy's seventieth birth- dav. Nathan Haskell Dole. AVHY NOT ? Why not look forward far as Plato looked, And see the l>eauty of our coming life. As he saw that which might be oui*s to-day ? If his soul then could rise so far beyond The brutal average of that old time, When icy peaks of art stood sheer and high, In fat black valleys where the helot toiled ; If he from that could see so far ahead , Could forecast davs when Love and Justice both Should watch the cradle of a healthy child. And Wisdom walk with Beauty and pure Joy In all the common wavs of dailv life, Then may not we, from great heights hardly won, I Bright hills of liberty, broad plains of peace, And flower-sweet vallevs of warm human love, Still broken by the chasms of despair, Where Poverty, and Ignorance, and Sin Pollute the air of all. — why not from this Look on as Plato looked, and see the day When his Republic and our Heaven, joined. Shall make life what God meant it ? Ay, we do ! — From **Jrt this Oar World" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. By permission of Messrs. Small, yiaynard & Co. THE RAMBLER *' T ITERARY LIKINGS " is the title -L' of a volume of essays by Dr. Rich- ard Burton, which Messrs. Copeland & Day promise for autumn publication. They have also in press a work in two small vol- umes, by Mr. William F. Apthorp, '* About Music. ^' Nor are they neglecting the mak- ers of verse, for Mr. Duncan Campbell Scott has in their hands a new volume, '* Labor and the Angel, ^' and Miss Jose- phine Preston Peabody, who began win- ning attention several years ago by her poems in the Atlantic, has committed to them a volume of her collected verses, to be called ''The Wayfarers.^^ The report that James Whitcomb Riley, in collaboration with Paul Lawrence Dun- bar, is engaged in writing a comic opera is entirely without foundation. Mr. Riley will publish two books this fall, includ- ing some work which his friends be- lieve to be among the best he has done. The Homestead Edition of his works, in ten volumes, which Scribners publish among their subscription sets, will be complete with the volume issued in Sep- tember. Among the autumn publica- tions will be a newly edited volume of child verse, made up from all of Mr. Ri- lev's ten volumes, and illustrated with Iloosier pictures by an artist named Yawter who is a resident of Mr. Rilev's native town, Greenfield, Indiana, and thoroughly familiar with the local color of childhood as Mr. Riley paints it. The Bowen-Merrill Company will publish this book, and ialso '* The Golden Year/' a Riley Year Book, compiled by Miss Clara E. Laughlin. Mr. Riley has at last con- sented to this use of his writings^ and the books will be published early in the au- tumn, by the Longmans in England and the Indianapolis firm in America. With the exception of Longfellow, no American poet has said so many things which sing themselves irresistiblv into the hearts and memories of people as James Whitcomb • Riley. The poems lend themselves ad- mirably to the trying process of breaking up into fragments, and *'The Golden Year," for which title Tennyson furnished tlje suggestion, ought to enjoy high favor with all lovers of the Hoosier poet. An unfamiliar portrait of Henry M. Stanley is this one upon the opposite page, made from an old photograph in the pos- session of Mr. Walter H. Littlefield, by whose permission it is reproduced here. The owner of the original Spanish photo- graph is Mr. Henry Ruggles, of Norwich, from whose letter of information we take the story of Stanley's stage-fright in Lon- don, when lie had just returned from Livingstone in Africa : Stanley's photograph was taken in 1872 or 1873 — I forget which — while I was in Barcelona, and soon after Stanley had returned from the discov- ery of Livingstone. He had been to London, where he had been lionized to his heart's content. While there he received word from Bennett, of the Heraldy to go down to Spain and write up an account of the Carlist troubles, which were be- coming a disturbing element to the peace of the country. Barcelona being the largest city in Spain, he came directly there, and stopped for three or four weeks at the Fonda de las Cuatro NationeSy the same hotel where 1 was boarding, and where I had my consular office. Of course, I saw a good deal of him, and we were on very friendly terms with each other. It was very fas- cinating and intensely interesting to me, listen- ing to his stories of adventures and travels in his search for Livingstone, and I could see that he was a man of indomitable perseverance, a won- derful organizer, and of undoubted courage, as his travels and success testifv. You may remember that when he first got back to England he was received rather coolly by the English, as they had their doubts that he had THE BOOK BUYER 9r reall; discovered Livingstone ; but when they became convinced, by letters vhich he brought from the great trarelter and other evidences, that he had been successful in his search in the jungles of Africa, their enthusiaam knew no bounds. He gave me, one day, a vivid account of the great reception given him by the Royal Geograph- ical Society, of London, which I have never seen in "I had never," said he, " made an sildress before an audience in my life ; but I knew one would l)e expected tvota ine hero, so I went tn work and wrote out in ailvanee the speech which I was to make, and thaCi had pre[Hired with muchcare, Itwas quite long, and I com- mitted it lo memory, so that I could repeat it wiihout referring to my manuscript. When the time came for me to make my appearance I came on to the slage from a door in the rear, and was confronted by a vB^t audience. The stage was occupied by two or three score of the prominent members of tfae Royal Geographical Society, many of whom were the most distin- guished Mfanls of Eu- rope. They all rose to their feet ns I entered, and joined with the audience Id giving mc such a welcome as I never hod before and never eipeet lo have again. When the cheer- ing, which lasted several minutes, had subsided, I walked tothe front of the plat (orm to make my ad- dress. My God ! Ruggles, my speech, which I had prepared with so much care, liad all left me. t could not remember a word, I stood tliere trembling like a frightened schoolboy who had ' forgotten his piece.' A most distinguished audience, which it would be difScutt to equal, was in front of mc. It seemed as if all the royalty and nobility of Eng- land were present. In one seat I saw the familiar faces of Najmleon, Eugenie and the young prince, Gladstone, Beaconsfleld, the Prince and Prin- cess of Wales, and, in fact, I think all the royal family were there eicept the queen ; and they [From » I were aU staring me right in the face, waiting for me to go on. But 1 could not ; the words would not come. I stood there at least three minutes, which seemed hours. 1 wished I were hunting lions and elephants in mid-Africa. Soon I heard some two or three loud whispers in the rear of me, ' Go ahead, Stanley ! Go ahead, Stanley I ' And one, a little louder than the rest, ' We know yon found Livingstone.' Then, as if by magic, my speech came back ing slowly, 1 went through with it without a break." Stanley repeated to me from memory his aildress, word (orwunl, which gave evidence that he had great talent as a writer, as well as being a famous ti-avcl- ler. When he was in this country several years ago, lecturing, I met him at New London, and he asked me it 1 would not send him a copy of the photograph he had taken in Barce- lona, as he wanted one for his wife ; so I had several taken, of which you have one. It was a true likeness at the time, but he has ukcD In BBFcciumr changed so much since that time, of course, that you would hardly recognize it. The international fume of the brilliant romantic play, " Cyrano de Bergerac," turns public attention just now upon its young author, ilonsieur Edmond Ro- stand. French and English critics who have diacHsaed the merits of "Cyrano" warmly, and at length, may difEer as to the degree of literary and dramatic value in the play, but no two opinions aeem to exist regarding M. Kostand himself. lie is one of those rare sons of genius horn with a silver spoon in his mouth, whose short THE BOOK BUYER struggle for rccopiiitioii aiul early triuin])h has been free of poverty's sharp spur. His knowledge of life in iiutiiigeil by the bitterness of disiippointeil lioi^s, and he has hud no experience of '• the slings ami arrows of outrageous fortune." Woiilth, high social position, unusual personal graces, all are his by inberituiu'e. There- fore his exacting lubors and unswerving iIibyNidv, PiMil purpose in pursuit of success liave been incited by unmixed devotion to histrionic art for its own sake. He is young, is a poet, is full of the flame of genius, and has achieved the pinnacle of fame as it were at a single bound ; yet he is said to be singularly free from the foibles com- mon to many whom fortune crowns so earlv in life. ' THE BOOK BUYER Apropos of M. Roettind's intellectual endowments, the following letter from Coquelin is full of interest. The great French actor has made the success of his later years impersonating " Cyrano," and here is what he says of the play and author: live. I have workoU willi liitii seven or eig-ht moiillis. and I h»ve never wen his etiiial. He jHiK-L-^es the must iiiHrvcIlous combinaliun it dramatic qualities that it is possible to conceive. This young man has cver)'thing and knows every- tliing. I do not believe there is a play in esist- encfso aiimirahiy composed as "Cyrano." It is ns grand in its appeal to the mind as to the eye. Its Eeo[)c is lofty, yet no trivial detail is neglectetl, nnd no one could play "Cyrano" better than Ro- stand himsull. His wonderful command or speech 100 THE BOOK BUYER shows finesse and subtlety of tone with prolound depth of thought ill expression. He is a painter and a musician, he is the perfeet artist. To work with him is an enctiantinent. He unites all that is best in classic art, romantic art, and the art ol modem France, and his taste is as supreme as his talent. Here is a little of wliat I think of him. And tliat little has nothing to do with IQJ gratitude for faim. Compliments. COQUELIK, MB. WXBNEB'S BODIB Wo are glad to publish herewith, us we the author has set himself an iuteresting thiuk for the first time in an American task in depicting two young ritualistic periodical, a recent and excellent portrait clergymen in their encounter with vari- of this brilliant youngdramatist, and also ous phases of worldliiiess during anab- a photograph of Coquelin as "Cyrano," sence from their Clergy House. The book for which we are indebted to the courtesy may confidently be expected to show the of Mr. R. H. Russell. Two editions of writer at his best. In giving the book "Cyrano de Bergerac"areannounced for the name of "The Puritans." is >Ir, earlypublication, one, translated by GIfldj-s Bates following the example of the Fall Thomas (the sister-in-law of the author) River Line in naming its boats the PH- and Mary F. Guillemard, by Mr. Rus- grim and the Pun'toiif Some years ago sell, and the other,, translated by Ger- he published "The Pilgrims." So far, trude Hall, by the Doubleday & McClure however, there are no steamboats with Co. We understand that Miss Hall is also names corresponding to his other novels, arranging an acting text of the play for " The Pagans" and "The Philistines." Mr. Richard Mansfield. Jt J* Several years ago the Atlantic Monthly Two photographs reproduced herewith published an article on Ada Negri, with show Mr. Charles Dudley Warner's house translations of a few of the poems of this on Farmington Avenue, in Hartford, and remarkable Italian woman of tlie people. his library. The famous " garden " lies A fuller showing in English of what slie just beyond the house. has done is soon to be made in a book J* which Messrs. Copeland & Day will pub- In the new novel by Mr. Arlo Bates, lish. Miss A. M. \'on Blomberg. of Bos- announced for publication by Messrs, ton, has translated into English verse, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. in the autumn, which is said to have distinct beauties of THE BOOK BUYER 101 its own, many of Ada Negri's poems, which, with an account of her life and work, by the same hand, will make a book of no inconsiderable interest. Its title will be "Fate." To complete tho chronicle of the recent clianges in the business of publishing in Boston, it is necessary to tell what has be- come of the subscription books which did not pass with all the rest of the Roberts list into the hands of Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. This entire business, which Is con- siderable, is to be carried on by the new firm of Hardy, Pratt & Co., of which the two members whose names are given have long been associated with the old house of Roberts Brothers. Mr, Pratt is a grand- son of A. Bronson Alcott, jl Dr. Samuel F. Smith, the venerable author of "America," which has been sung, perhaps, more than any other song during the past six months, told an anec- dote some time ago which is recalled by the latest re- ports from Cu- ban battlefields. He said General Howard had de- scribed the sing- ing of the stir- ring hymn on battle-fields and in hospitals dur- ing the Civil War, by the wounded and dy- ing soldiers, and expressed his pleasure and pride at the re- gard in which bis lines were held. In the September Scribner, Ed- ward Marshall, the plucky correspon- dent who will be remembered as hav- ing dictated a despatch to his newspaper after the surgeon had pronounced his wound fatal, describes the singing of the hymn in the hospital after the battle at Guasimas. AVith amputation and death staring the singers in the face, he says, " The quivering, quavering chorus, punc- tuated by groans and made spasmodic by pain, trembled up from that little group of wounded Americans in the midst of the Cubanaolitude — thepluckiest, most heart- felt song that human beings ever sang." The new life of Alphonse Daudet, by his son Leon, will soon be published, both in English and in French, by Messrs. Lit- tle, Brown & Co. The " Recollections of Daudet's Ciiildhood and Youth," by his brother Ernest, will be included in the volume, of which the translator is Mr. Charles de Kay. Dr. Edward Everett Hale's papers in The 102 THE BOOK BUYER Outlook on "James Russell Lowell and His Friends " are to be brought together in a volume in the autumn, and published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The book will probably appear a little before the completion of the magazine series in December. So much of it is written from personal knowledge, and so abundantly is it embellished with unfamiliar portraits and illustrations, that it canilot fail to throw new lights upon the man whose definitive biography remains to be writ- ten, and upon the period which for a long time to come must be the most in- teresting to students of American letters. A popular uniform edition of the four books of Sienkiewicz which are best known is announced by his publishers in Boston. They have also in preparation a new volume of his short stories, to be called "Sielanka, a Forest Picture.*' An important addition to the list of authors whose works are published by Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., a list which has gained much in the recent past, is found in the name of Lafcadio Hearn,who is to publish through them a volume of essays under the title ''Exotics and Retrospec- tives.'' We take much pleasure in publishing this excellent portrait of Joaquin Miller, from a recent photograph by Waldemar Asmus. Our correspondent writes us of the poet : " He has been for some mouths in Alaska, and has now returned from the Klondike. He arrived at Seattle on the 20th of July. He came on the North American Trading and Transportation Company's steamer Roanoke, which, sailing from St. Michael's, Alaska, brought 240 passengers and about four tons of gold dust, which will be almost 12,000,000. Mr. Miller brought gold dust which will net him about |10,000. Of it he said : * The Klondike mines are certainly the richest ever found on the face of the globe, but the gold is ten- fold harder to get than in any camp I have ever been in.' Mr. Miller's latest portrait shows him as having aged but little, though the snows of many winters are whitening his lengthening beard and shortening locks. This photograph shows his most characteristic expression — eyes that ques- tion and answer directly, and brows marked more with wrinkles of thought than of age — it is the hermit-student of Oakland Heights. Mr. Miller is taking an active interest in our new possessions in the East. It may be remembered that on his return a few years ago from his long Pacific voy- age he expressed himself warmly in regard to Honolulu, and said of President Dole's govern- ment that * there had been nothing so monstrous since the Reign of Terror.' But time brings charges, and poets are seldom political prophets. The next book Mr. Miller gives the public will be inspired by a muse he found in the snow-clad Alaskan mountains, and if it equal his * Songs of the Sun-Lands,' or * Songs of the Sierras,* the verse- reading public will give it a sincere welcome." That the interest in Dickens and Dickensiana is alive in this country as well as in England is evident. A volume of sixty pages comes to The Book Buyer from Mr. E. S. Williamson of Toronto, Canada, entitled "Glimpses of Charles Dickens, and Catalogue of Dickensiana," which will form a distinct addition to the publications concerning Dickens's life and personality. The little book is tastefully printed, and has twenty-five portraits and other illustrations, including, as a frontis- piece, the statuary group by F. Edwin El well of Dickens and Little Xell, together with pictures of all the homes of Dickens, from the house at Portsea, in which the novelist was born, to Gad's Hill Place. Besides the catalogue proper, showing the result of five or six years' collecting by Mr. Williamson, the brochure contains some interesting original matter. The edition is limited to 250 numbered copies. The new volume in the Cambridge Edi- tion will include all of Tennvson, on the same fine, thin paper which made a one- volume Browning possible. Dr. Rolfe has written a biographical sketch. The Rambler, drr^'i ^s:^^-''^ EVERT-DAY LIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES TTNDER the title Yesterdays in the vJ Philippines, we find a book that should have a large circulation. The au- thor, Mr. Joseph Earle Stevens, went to Manila at the close of 18ii3 in the interest of Messrs, H. W, Peabody & Co., of Boston and Xew York, and remained there till the end of 1895, when mutterings of the com- ing storm made it advisable for that firm to withdraw. In these two years Mr. Stevens made various short excursions to the in- terior of Luzon Island, and one extended trip by sea, during which lie visited all Ctaules tkrlbnei tlie most important coast towns of the larger islands of the Philippine group. The book, illustrated with well-chosen and effective photographs by the author, will give many people new ideas of life in the islands, and, while written in hu- morous vein, does not lack hard facts suggestive of the difficulties ahead for the nation or individual who believes the Philippines are a rich plum only waiting to be plucked and cjiten. Mr. Stevens had peculiar advjintagtts for seeing and commenting fairly on the country ; and therefore the following, taken from the Introduction, may carry weight with thinking persons : THE BOOK BUYER Now thnt the Pliilippiiiea Can we run them? Are they the long-looked-for Ei Do- rado which those who have never been theresuppose? To all of which questions— even at the risk of being eollej un- patriotic—I am inclined to answer, Xo. Do wo want themf Do we want a group ot 1,400 islands, nearly 8,000 wiles from our Western shores, sweltering in the tropics, swept with ty- phoonsand shaken with eartli- (juakes? Do we want to un- dertake the responsibility of protecting those islands from the powers in Euro|)o or the East, and of standing s[>onsor for the nearly 8,000,000 native inhabitents'that speak a score of different tongues and live on anything from rice to slewed grasshoppers? Do we want the task ot civilizing this race, of opening up (he jungle, of setting up oflleials in frontier, out-of-the-way towns who won't have been thereumonth before Ihey will Do wo want them? No. Why? Because we have got enough to look after at home. Because — unlike the English- man or tlie German who, early realizing that his coun- ' ' try is loo small to support him, grows up with the feeling that ho relieve fho burden by going to the parts of the sea — our young men have room enough at home in which to exert tlieir best ener- gies without going eight or eleven thousand miles across land and water to tropic Islands in the Far East. Mr. Stevena shows conclusively, what we have half-imagined but hardly real- ized, that the Spaniards, after holding the islands for three hundred years, hiivo only touched their fringe. They control fortified coast towns — not tlio interior ; and to-day, within thirty miles of Manila itself — a city of 350,000 inhabitants — exists a race of unconquered native sav- ages. The Spaniards liave made no at- tempt at interior colonization or civiliza- tion. The Archhiahop of Manila is more powerftil than the cap tain -general, and chureJi revenues arc collected when and where the crown revenues cannot be. How deeply the monks arc interested in the religions welfare of their flock docs not appear, but judging from an experience of Mr. Stevens aiul a companion within THE BOOK BUYER a few miles of the capitiil, the ehiirch reveimes are sufficient for living purposes. Next morning, tiumlay. a hot ilusty ndc of an hour ami n halt, over a, fearful road, ciititinimlly aM-piiiiiiig, limiij-lit us lo Antipolo, n siiifiiil vil- lafTi' (■..Miiiiuu.liiig n graiiil vw«- over llie plaina rowiinl Miuiila mill the Bay l.pyoriJ. To ftii.i out whi-re nc t:imlcl gel jKHiies Co taku us ovi'r tlie roii^h ft-|iHth to [togsH Bossa, wv cnllcil at the big rimreiitii wheru live the jirlesls whci offlcintc at \\v: jrrcnt wliiti; ihuroli. whoso tower is visible from liii- capilNl. Mass was jii-l nver, liiil the stone ciirridors reverberaleii nilh loml je'Iings anke in upon u group of pndrt» playiii;^ liillianli<, drinking Ihht. snioliing cigars anil crackint; jokes ad libiliiin. They received ii? cordially, iliil not seem iiieliiieil In talk niubh on religions suhjectii, but adviseil iia where we might fliirl the necessari' horseflesh. Not so innch irn- pre-si'd with their spirituality ns wlili their loiir- lesy. we left, got three [lunies and lwr> carriers, and slarlehili|ipinc3 gonoriilly. are not so pestilential lis most of the " Straits " settlements. Although the thermometer seldom gets below Tit" Fabr.. anil one lives throughout the year in n vapor buth 9! 8(i°-H(l'' at niglit autl r ■teuu-plODBlu ID lb est enemy, taul certain typei ol the Mialarwl \ttri ely seem so common that the sufferers from tlieni often walk into the dull, drop ml > a thair am) sat. '■Got the fever again Means anolhtr \a\ off." If they can keep about the clii stagers never give up; but notices hu\ Ihermi raeleri anil <-rai-keil ice, and either go through a ternfit siege, like my friend, whose eight w(ek-i Mru^le shrunk his head so that in coiiiale^emc hi- hat touL-hed his ears, or csca[>e with a «eek ■> initia tlon. Typhoid seems also common and there is generally one member of the cokni for whom the rest are anxious, stretched out in ice Imlhf and wishing he had never seen the Philippines The iild hands— who. bi the wa\ seem to be regular sufferers from the fe^er — all "an the onU way lo be safe is to drink j leiitt tf «hl-'ket but Ro far I have found that the le" one take*, the better olT be is. The Philippines have been kept as a pet milch cow to enrich Spanish officials who have made bnaines" almost inipos eibic tn a foreigner. After gning somt amusing instances of their outrageous exactions, the author says of some bit of "shyBtering": It WHS not quite so barefaced as the swindling of the poor skippr who came over from China with a load of paving-stones for Manila's street de- partment. Ills vessel turned out seven paving- stones t(K) many, and the fine was seven hundred dollars. The foreign quarter of Manila is sepa- rate from the Spanish — the old wallcil city— and many fiircigners own country places. Soon after his arrival Mr. Ste- vens, with two friends, set np bachelor housekeeping in a suburban bungalow overlooking the great plain bordering the River Pasig, which might seem ex- travagant if he had not given an idea of his monthly bills : I have now been settled long enough in Manila to find out what it costs to live, and the general 108 THE BOOK BUYER cheapness of mon appalling tliaii I first tliDUfcht. Our hoii^ is a gocHt one, witli all tile comforts of hoini', uni is siirronniled by an ai're or two of laiiJ. We have smbles for OUT horses and outbuildings for tlie fam- ilies o( our servants. At the end of the monlh all expenditures for house- rent, food, wages, light, and sundries are posted together and divided by three, and willi ever)'- thing included m; month- ly share eomes to twenty- nine gold dollars — less than one of our American cart'W heels per dieyn. Where in the States could you rent a suburban house and lot, keep half a dozen servants, pay your meat bill, your drink bill, ■ and your rent for k-ss than a single dollar a Hay ! You can scorwly drive a (loxen blocks in a haiimin or buy a pound of Mail- lanl's for that money at home, and yet, in Manila, that one coin sheltei-s yuu from the weather, niinls- ters to the inner man, ami keeps the parlor in or- jgj. Kroin •■ Vtbltrrl.n In (bB riilllppHw:*." CupjTlglil, jm, by CUuIci eorlboefs Bon>. Our cook, for instance, * citizen moii thi uiTiiuait gets forty cents each morning to supply our table with dinner enough Stevens' sketch of him, therefore, la inter- ting, especially the closing sentence : for four people, and tor five cents extra he will decorate tho cloth with orchids and \iit peas in the soup. To think of being able to get up a six- course dinner, including usually a whole chicken, besides a roost, with vegetables, salad, dessert, fruit, aiul coffee, for such a sum seeins ridiculous I met General Blanco, Govei-nor of the Islands, tho other evening, and he seemed to enjoy the good music and good supper which one of our ]»ipular bank-inaiiagers and his wife provided for '" "'" "=-"'"^""^- some of US in the Colony on the occasion of a birth- In 1894-5 Manila was under the regime day. Jle is an elderly man, and kindly, and of General Blanco, whose name has been i^ppe^^^ m'U" i" disposition thi in everybody's month for months, and who, notwithstanding tho peace protocol signed August ISth, appears to be ratlier an "iinknowD quantity "at present. Sir. advisable for one occupying so important » position, I should think he might let s those sharp-eye"! little ministers ot h and ho appears almost loo modest, too kind- hearted, to be the ruler that he is. SufSce to say THE BOOK BUYER the general is modest in dress and modest in manner. He often walks up and down the Male- con promenade by the Ba; in the afternoon, salut- ing everyone that passes, and when the vesper bells ring out the hour of prayer from one of [be ohl churches inside the eily walls ho slops, rc- mores his tall gray stove-pipe and, as do a host of other pedestrians, bows his head. To tell the truth he has little of the Spanish aspcet about htm snd^ \i just the kind of a man one would go up and speak to on the Teutonic or Campania. In sharp contrast is he to iho Archbishop, who drives ahout behind his fine while horses and looks as keen as well -nourished. But who knows 1 Appearances are deceitful, and foolish he who Anyone imving the Philippine "beoin his bonnet '' liad better get 5[r. Stevens' book before buying his outfit, as it con- tains valuable hints about the country, its people, and its possibilities, while staj- at-honies will find it both amusing and interesting reading. F. R. G. S. I'll 10 HIT V one has walked whose prints with lime tacred dimness, shall no other follow ? ■re to fill etenial one dark throne mp nil men B[K)s(aic save the drone. — From " Potmt,'' by Philip Becker Goetz. Bi/ pern of Mesars. Bichnrd G. Badger & Co, CUBA AFTER THE WAR— ^D BEFORE WITH the close of the war against Spain we shall soon find something interesting in Cuba that is not necessarily of yesterday's date. The problem of restoring settled order to an island that has known more of crimes and insurrec- tion than of peace during the centuries that have passed since its settlement, will present resppnsibilities perhaps' graver and tasks perhaps harder than the lauding at Santiago, the march against its defend- ers, or the destruction of Cervera's fleet. Remembering that Cuba has a past at once turbulent and picturesque, there is much to learn from the lessons with which it is freighted. Mr. Davey's book deals not with the late war ; its records close with the oncoming of that conflict ; but it deals not a little with the causes of that war and still more with vital facts in the light of which any solid success in Cuban administration must now be gained. Mr. Davey knows the island as it was when Spain and her colonists wrangled always and fought periodically ; when in- dustry and trade thrived in spite of strife and gross misrule ; when the hand of the great Republic to the north as the hand of a deliverer was seen scarcely more than as a far off hope. He learned to under- stand its social life, its industrial activi- ties, its civic splendor, its irrepressible conflict between human forces not alien but kin ; and he witnessed them all with the eyes of a close observer and discrimi- nating critic. His style is at once lively, clear, precise, and pleasing. !N^ot a dull page can be found among the two hundred and eighty he has written. The book is historical in one chapter. It is descriptive of travel in another. It is now concerned with population ; now with domestic life ; CrBA Past and Present. By Richard Davey. With IllQStrationa and Maps. Charles Scribner's Sons. 8vo, $8.00. now with the negro as a free man ; now with the Anglo-Saxon as a planter. Literature, in any strict sense, the book is not ; nor is it free from error, espe- cially in names ; but it sheds light. It not only deals with the commonplace facts in a people's life, but illuminatea causes by the narration of weird and thrilling incidents. One of these relates to -a fashionable ball given Uy a woman of high rank nearly fifty years ago, with the laudable purpose of reconciling two fashionable factions in Havana. The scene that ensued is probably unmatched in the recent annals of civilized communi- ties : The consequences were ghastly. The Spanish officers and the Cuban jeunesse dor^e found them- selves suddenly and unexpectedly face to face. An unlucky jest at the expense of an old Spanish officer fired the mine, and in a moment the ball- room was in an uproar, and the scene of gaiety changed to one of combat. Ladies fainted and were trampled under foot, chandeliers fell smasli- ing to the ground, and the most awful and horrible confusion ensued. Five or six people were killed — amongst them a Spanish lady of distinction — and nearly a hundred persons were seriouslyhurt. As to the luckless hostess, she l)etook herself to Europe at the earliest possible opportunity and there remained ; but from that dav to this the incidents of the Filarmonia Ball have never l)een forgotten in Cuba. Some of the young brawl- era were arrested and certain of them — vouths belonging to the richest families in the city — were imprisoned in the Morro Castle and thence trans- ported to Ceuta, the Spanish penal station in Morocco, whence they never returned. Mr. Davey's volume leaves the reader in no doubt that the problems of government in Cuba are unlike any others we in the States have met and solved. An island that for three hundred years has been subject to laws that were made by Philip II — one that has been "governed by the sword and the crozier " — will be something THE BOOK BUYER 111 new for American officials to deal with. Considerably more than one-third of the population comprises descendants of those Andalusian and Catalonian colonists who for three hundred years have made up almost-all its people of the Caucasian race. Their descendants — the true Cubans of to-day — are physically inferior to the Spaniards ; but they have scarcely deteri- orated in an intellectual sense, which is a statement that cannot be made on behalf of the French and other people who have settled in the West Indies. Of education they have more than the Spaniards them- selves, and in the legal profession con- spicuous success has been won by many of them. A strange indifference to Spanish litera- ture has grown up among them. French and Italian novels are their favorites. As their ancestors preferred Voltaire and Rousseau to Cervantes and Calderon, so do the Cubans now prefer Zola and Gaboriau to any modern writers of Spain. Among themselves, Mr. Davey found the Cubans a peaceable people and here was a good portent for the future. They are emi- nentlv domestic and four or five families often live under one roof in a state of tranquillity. Indeed, Mr. Davey gives us ground to hope the problem with the Cubans may be easier than the problem with the negroes, who make up another third of the island's people : I am convinced the free blacks in CuV)a are bet- ter treated than their liberated brethren in the Southern States. They are more civilly handled * by the whites, who appear to me to have very lit- tle or no prejudice agaiVist them. They mingle freely with the white congi-egations in the churches, and are even allowed to walk in the various religious processions, side by side with their late owners. If the Americans ever con- quer Cuba they will have to deal with a colored population which has long been accustomed to far more courteous treatment than the Yankees are likely to vouchsafe to it. The negroes earn their living as laborers, workmen, servants, hack- ney-coach drivers, messengers, and even as musi- cians in the various towns. Some few are fairly well off. Whatever their vices may be, they are by no means ambitious, and are contented with the simplest pleasurep. . . . I fancy that half the old ball dresses in Europe find their way, after various vicissitudes, to Cuba. On a Sunday or a feast dav, the ebon ladies sallv forth in all their glory, arrayed in their sisters' cast off finery, with low necks and short sleeves. Mr. Davey cites as one of the causes of the later discontent of the Cubans, a con- dition which distinctly is neither political nor administrative. Indeed, lie did not find that in administration the Cubans had sweeping grounds of complaint, save in the matter of excessive taxation and the levying of backsheesh, which is al- most as universal as in Turkey. So far as holding office was concerned Cubans had by no means been ill-treated. He found that one-half the government em- ployees, high and low, were Cubans ; there were scores of Cuban officers in the Spanish army ; there were thirteen Cuban senators and thirty Cuban deputies in the Cortes, and the University of Havana was almost entirely in the hands of Cubans. Recent discontent he was inclined to at- tribute very largely to economic causes — causes which in all great political crises have certainly played very important parts, and why should they not in Cuba ? Marked declines have taken place in the value of Cuban products. As have all the West Indian islands, so has Cuba felt the competition of beet-root sugar. Ow- ing to the sharp competition of Asia Minor, Egypt, Europe, and the United States, the Cuban tobacco trade has been less flourishing than formerly. For over twenty years Cuba has been doing badly in trade. Taxation, meanwhile, has not declined correspondingly. It has rather become more burdensome than ever. Still another economic cause has existed : To add to the general distress came the com- pletion of the abolition of slavery, with its usual 112 THE BOOK BUYER result — the negroes refused to work. Coolies were imported, but the climate did not suit them. White labor has not been tried, for the simple reason that it is a foredoomed failure. INIasters who have had to deal with negroes all their lives are never able to manage poor whites. Hundreds of plantations have gone out of cultivation, and thousands of half savage colored folks have gone to swell the all-pervading anarchy which the Spanish government is not strong enough to suppress. Aside from, facts that have relation to present times and future problems, Mr. Davey's book contains many interesting travellers' notes that would interest the reader had there been no war and no change of Cuban rule. Here is a note he brought home from Santiago about the grave of Dr. Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician at St. Helena : Shortly after the Emperor's death he [Antom- marchi] made a tour of the world in search of « missing • brother, whom he had not seen or heard of for manv vears. Chance threw them together in the streets of Santiago, and Antommar- chi determined to take up his abode in the .same town as the only other surviving member of the family. As he had a considerable fortune, he took handsome apartments in one of the best streets of the city, set up as oculist, and received patients for eye diseases, in the treatment of which he seems to have been fairly successful. He often spoke of his illustrious patient and de- scril)ed his last houi-s. Dr. Antommarchi was a generous man and charitable to the poor ; and although he only lived a few years at Santiago, where he fell a victim to the vellow fever in 1826, he was so greatly esteemed that this monument was erected to his memory by public subscription. The friend with whom I was travelling was, like myself, an ardent admirer of Napoleon, and or- dered a magnificent wreath to be placed on the tomb of the man who closed the great Emperor's eyes, and who, like his imperial master, was des- tined to end his days on a tropical island. Another Santiago item relates to the discoverer of the Mississippi : Later in the same year [1528] Hernando de Soto arrived, accompanied by over a thousand armed men, to assume the command of the entire island. He brought with him his wife, Dona Isa- bella de Bobadilla, a ladv who was famous for her beauty and her virtues. During his cele- brated expeditions into the Americas, he left her here, in the responsible position of Governess of the island. She was the only woman who ever ruled Cuba. Her sway was beneficent and mild, but the chroniclers relate that when months and even years passed without her receiving any let- ters from her husband, she ** pined and languished, and fell into a lethargic state, so that her life was despaired of." Mr. Davey brought away from Havana tlie familiar impressions of the visitor. Ho found it, in times of peace, '* far and away the pleasantest city in the Southern Hemisphere — the most resourceful, for it has capital public librarres, museums, clubs, and theatres." He believes the island could be rendered '' fairly healthy " by ])r(>per irrigation and drainage. The near destinv of the island he seems to have believed in long before resort was had l)y this country to war. He makes interesting reference to a remark of prophesy nuide a hundred years ago by the Conde d'Aranda, the Spanish Ambas- sador at Paris : ^^ This American Republic was born a dwarf, ])ut one dav she will become a giant.'' Francis W, Hahey, DAWN Between the dark-twined sea and skv a line Of faintest blue and grey ; then dies the grey ; Blue purples ; purple trembles rose, — 'tis day : The drowsv sun wakes like thick-bcakered wine. ■From ''Poems,'' by PhUij) Becker Goetz. By permission of Messrs. Richard G. Badger & Co. %^fe CA,„I. -„ !■»!■ . WHISTLER AT WEST POIXT BY A CLASSMATE T WAS s " Second-class man " in the -^ corps of cadeta in 1851 — when Jamce Whistler entered the Mllitsry Academy at West Point. He subsetjueiitly called himself Jiimes McNeil Whistler. lie was then a slender lad of sixteen years, of striking personal appearance. His father had been graduated at AVest Point, with distinguiahed honors, many years before, had become an officer of the Corps of Engineers, TJ. S. A., and had resigned from the army to become the chief of civil engineers under the Czar of Russia. He built many of the railroads of that empire. Young Whistler's niotlier was Miss Windns, of Baltimore, a daughter of one of the oldest and most dietinguishod families of Maryland. It was said that the artist was horn at St. Petersburg. It was during his fourth, or "plebe" year, as it is called, and during the cadet encampment, that AVhistler's skill as a draughtsman first attracted general no- tice. He was fond of making pen-and-ink sketches on camp stools, on the flaps of the tents, and some very beautiful heads decorated these unconventional canvases, and he would occasionally make pen-and- ink drawings in the "autograph albums," which it was the custom, at that time, for cadets to keep. At the head of this sketch is a repro- duction of one of his original .sketclies, drawn by him in my album in 1851, to which he affixed the line, " Christmas comes but once a year." It is supposed to show a scene among cadets in bar- racks. The instructor in drawing and paint- ing at the Military Academy, during 114 THE BOOK BUYER Whistler's stay, was Professor Robert Weir, who executed the panel -picture in the rotunda qf the Capitol building at Washington, known as **The Departure of the Pilgrims, '^ for which the Govern- ment paid him ten thousand dollars. The models which cadets are required to copy when they first enter the draw- ing-class at West Point are what are known as "topographical conventional signs/* They illustrate the mode of de- picting, with pen and ink, the various topographical features of a country, such as water, hills, trees, cultivated ground, etc. In a much shorter time than seemed possible. Whistler had finished the copy of the model given to him, and his work was most exquisite, far surpassing the model itself in accuracy and beauty of execution. Professor Weir then brought from the picture gallery a large painting, containing many figures, and directed Whistler to prepare a board with drawing paper, and copy this picture upon it with pen and ink. Whistler was very near-sighted, and in making drawings he would first fix his eyes near a portion of the model, and then proceed to copy it upon his drawing board. He never drew any outline of the work he was copying. He seemed to work at random, and in this instance he displayed one of his favorite tricks, which was to draw first, say a face, from the model, then a foot, then the body, skip- ping from one part of the picture to an- other, apparently without keeping any relation of the parts. But when the pic- ture was completed, all the parts seemed to fit in together like a mosaic. And it was a complicated piece of work. This remarkable copy by Whistler was placed in the picture gallery at West Point. Professor Weir's assistant in the draw- ing class, one Lieutenant S , was ap- parently jealous of Whistler^s talent, and of the value the professor appeared to place upon his work. On one occasion Whistler was painting in water -colors from a picture representing the interior of a cathedral, with monks and nuns scat- tered about. Behind the tonsured head of one of the monks Whistler had painted a shadow ; Lieutenant S , in making his rounds of examination of the work of the students, paused at Whistler's seat, and said, very audibly : "Your work, sir, is faulty in principle. What is the meaning of that shadow ? There is none in the model, and you should know better, for by no principle of light and shade could any shadow be there. Why, there is nothing to cast it.'' Without saying a word. Whistler filled his brush, and with one sweep of it he threw a cowl over the head of the monk. He had painted the shadow first. Lieu- tenant S walked quietly away, with- out a word. West Point.cadets then took their meals in one general mess. Graduates of many years ago will recall a boarding house there, conducted by one Mrs. Thompson and familiarly known to cadets as " Mam- mie's.*' Mrs. Thompson, then an aged woman of more than ninety years, was the mother of Colonel Thompson, U.S.A., an oflUcer who had been killed by the In- dians, in "Dade's massacre,'' in Florida. She had three maiden daughters — the Misses Amelia, Kate, and Margaret — long since gone to their rest, all of them. As a means of support, this family was permitted to conduct a sqiall boarding house for cadets, where they might take their meals. Since the house was small, they could entertain but twelve, and it was a great privilege to obtain a seat at " Mammie's " table, for at that board were luxuries unobtainable at the general mess, and very dear to the palate of a growing lad. Whistler succeeded in finding a place there. The ladies were exceedingly punc- tilious— quite martinets in their require- THE BOOK BUYER 115 ments of courtesy — and the least and most involuntary infraction of their rules re- sulted in the offender being unceremoni- ously requested to leave. Whistler had somehow incurred their displeasure, and when he next came to dinner he found a note at his plate informing him that he need not come again. This was a great blow. So he put his wits to work, with a view to securing reinstatement. In the little parlor of their residence hung an oil painting, a portrait of Mrs. Thompson's son, the officer who had been killed in Dade's massacre. It was the custom for one of the Misses Thompson to conduct each cadet to this picture when he came to take his first meal, and to descant upon its merits in some such terms as these : *^This is the portrait of our brother. Colonel Thompson, who was killed in Dade's massacre. It was painted by a celebrated English artist, and is said to be a remarkable work of art, though it is not as handsome as our brother was." When Whistler first came he had, of course, gone through the same ordeal. He hit upon the following plan to se- cure his reinstatement. On the first Sat- urday afternoon after his dismissal, dur- ing the "release from quarters," he rang the bell and asked to see one of the Misses Thompson. On hearing the rustle of her dress as she descended the stairs to enter the parlor, he began a species of dumb- show in front of this picture, moving up to, and away from, the portrait of Colonel Thompson. Clasping his hands together as he gazed at it, and apparently absorbed in rapt contemplation of its beauties, he allowed his eyes to fall upon Miss Thomp- son as she entered, then cast his glance upon the floor as though detected in an impropriety, and stammered out : " Oh, please excuse me. Miss Amelia, for an ap- parently impolite act of curiosity — but you know my love for art, and when I see a great work like this, I am lost in admira- tion. Look yourself. See that wonder- ful coloring, that noble face, the beam- ing eye, the splendid countenance. Ah, pray forgive me — I did not intend any impertinence in my absorbing contem- plation of this noble work." Absurd as the story sounds in the telling, it is needless to remark that he came back to supper that evening. Whistler did not remain to graduate from the >tilitary Academy. His intellect was brilliant and his ability was unques- tioned, but he was unable to fix his mind upon mathematical studies, when all he cared for was to draw and paint. Pro- fessor Weir was inconsolable when he left the Academy. Tliomas WilsoHy U.S.A., Retired. SUMMEK-TIME AND WINTER-TIME Ix the golden noon-shine, Or in the pink of dawn ; In the silver moonshine, Or when the raoon is gone; Open eyes, or drowsy lids, 'Wake or 'most asleep, I can hear the katydids, — "Cheep! Cheep I Cheep!" ■From *' Armazindy" Poems by James Whitcomb Scribner's Sons. Only in the winter-time Do they ever stop, In the chip-and-splinter-time. When the backlogs pop, — Then it is, the kettle-lids, While the sparkles leap. Lisp like the katydids, — " Cheep ! Cheep ! Cheep ! " Riley. By permission of Messrs. Charles NOTES FROM PARIS TWO of the successful books of the moment in Paris are by women — *' Petits et Grands,'^ by Brada, and ** Jour- nees de Femme," by Madame Alphonse Daudet. '^Jonrnees de Femme " is a series of short sketches ; notes by the way. They are the impressions, from a very feminine and personal point of view, of a Frenchwoman of the old school whose atmosphere has been one of the most interesting of modern times; for the household had numbered amongst its intimate guests the two de Goncourts, Flaubert, Dumas, Victor Hugo, de Mau- passant, Turgenief, and others whose names are synonymous with literature. This household, with Alphonse Daudet for head, will scarcely see its atmosphere of interest surpassed. The book, to re- peat, is intensely feminine, and so far from being what the American woman would call " modern " in spirit that cer- tain of its sweeping statements might ir- ritate Madame Daudet's Western sis- ters. See how unsympathetic this peaceful Frenchwoman is with the agitating suffrage question. ''I may be pardoned if I take no part in the ^ Woman Ques- tion/" says Madame Daudet. 'SSince I do not understand it I cannot feel in sympathy with this question. Inde- 2)endence, the * emancipated ' career, the fitting of women to be lawyers, physicians, etc., even the white, flaring caps of the Sisters of Charity — all this appears to me to be evidence of the fancies and the am- bitions of an inactive heart ; the rest- lessness of women who have neither fireside nor children, and who do not realize that they might employ in ful- filling those gentle duties the highest faculties of which a woman's nature is capable." The first essay in the book is upon '^ The French Woman," La Femme Fran^aisey and Madame Daudet finds the all-com- prising type to be the Parisienne, who is ** neither large nor small," too blonde or too brunette. The French woman, among all the women of civilized nations, is the best proportioned, the best made ; she is the woman of her climate, of refined physiognomy, supple gesture, of simple heroism and subtle wit, of great maternal tenderness and infinite coquetry. So have Chdteaubriand, Michelet, George Sand, and Balzac painted her, this personifica- tion of the most civilized, the most intel- lectual of the races. The close of the volume, which bears the title of '^Alineas," and means line by line of daily life and thought, is a suite of souvenirs. Madame Daudet speaks with affectionate familiar- ity of Flaubert, Goncourt, and many other friends. Of Victor Hugo as well, and of him she savs : '^ I saw the decline of his sun, but how red and warm ! What a life, what memories ! IIow powerful were his ideas, drawn as thev were from all sources, spiritual, political, domestic, from the times, from the world ! I could never go into his study without this emo- tion. I felt like a worshipper in a tem- ple." At Champrosay, an ideal spot on the banks of the Seine, is the summer home of the Daudets. In these beautiful gar- dens, that sweep down to the river banks, in the elm and poplar woods, Alphonse Daudet passed the greater part of his life. There were times when his ardor for his work was so great that his bed was placed close to his writing-table, that he might be within easy reach of his writ- ing materials before Ms inspiration could be lost. At Champrosay, on the terrace where he sat and worked, morning-glories THE BOOK BUYER 117 make a trellis of white and purple. Ma- dame Daiidet in her widow's weeds is a lonely figure, and though her living chil- dren are with her, she lives in her past. **'I am arranging all the correspondence of my husband/' she said. " The publish- ers are clamoring for it ; I shall write no more for mvself until this task is accom- pi i shed." Madame Daudet is handsome, and must have been beautiful as a girl. " Thirty years," she said, with a gesture of her hand toward the gardens and the house, " thirty years of absolute companionship — c'esi tuie vie I " Goncourt passed the last days of his life with the Daudets, and two years ago died at Champrosay, surrounded by these devoted friends. '^ Journees de Femme'' closes with a tender tribute to this man, of whom Madame Daudet said : '* Nous I'avons adore." *' He was the dear rela- tion that we gave ourselves'' (she says in "Alineas " quaintly), *' a chosen relation." She then goes on to speak of his daily life with them, and closes her book as fol- lows : "After dinner, in the evenings, we would talk together, or read. Sometimes Goncourt would initiate us into his 'Journal,' then unpublished. Or he would bes: niv husband to read aloud a chapter from some novel on which he was at work. This simple life of art and friendship, of thought and taste, has gone. Nothing can bring it back, and the Irrev- ocable mqets me at every turn of these garden paths. Yes, suddenly, like a flash, this friend of twenty years passed out of our lives : at the turn of a flowery patli, as it were, one day in July that was heavy with the foreboding of a coming Btorm." Andre Theuriet is the latest member of the Academie Fran^aise, His new book, "Lys Sauvage," has been a success in spite of the fact that the realistic younger generation call him, in the slang of the Latin Quarter, demode and Vieux Pom- pier, He is a man of many books, hav- ing written more than forty novels, of which the most celebrated are ''Sous Bois," ''Tante Aur^lie," "Keine des Bois" and ''Hel6ne." Andre Theuriet belongs to the romantic school, and de- scribes with infinite pains the impossible and Vidialite fansse; but he is a true lover of nature, and his pastoral writings are delightful. He has written one piece of verse, how- ever, which will give to him always the meed of unqualified praise. His "Jean- Marie" is a little metrical play which was first presented at the Odeon. Sarah Bernhardt has added it to her repertoire, and Breitner has written a musical score for it. A few privileged guests were per- mitted to see this little work of art given in Breitner's music-rooms by the iwtors of the Odeon, Monsieur Breitner himself accompanying. Monsieur Breitner has just been made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He will be in America next winter. " Pointes Seches " (Dry Points or Etch- ings), by Adolphe Brisson, is a series of readable studies of contemporaneous lit- erary men in France. Monsieur Brisson has an original point of view, and a per- sonal way of looking at human nature ; he has drawn his characters from life, and we have in his book clear, vivid portraits of interesting people in the literary and dramatic world. This book, well trans- lated, would be a delight to Americans who do not read French, yet who are curious to know something of the intimate life and characters of the modern literary and dramatic figures in France. Among the thirty-odd portraits are those of Pierre Loti, Hector Mallot, Richepin, Daudet, d'Annunzio, Armand Sylvestre, Sarah Bernhardt, the Coquelins, etc. J/? L, van Vorst, CLYDE FITCH P BOB ABLY every one who has ever put pen to paper has at least at- tempted to write a story. Probably nine- tenths of those who have gotten as far as that have advanced even further, and in their moments of leisure have '^dashed oflf '' a play. Many of these still rest in trunks — the playwright is always sup- posed to store his effusions in trunks — others have served to interrupt the friend- ships of years — who has not suffered the exquisite agony of having a play read to him ? — and some have accumulated the dust of ages, while resting in managers' sanctums waiting a perusal. Of the thou- sand and one plays annually written, the number of those which ever get a se- rious consideration is ridiculouslv small. It is one thing to write a play, another to have it read by a manager, and still a greater thing to have it produced. If the measure of a playwright's success is to be gauged by the number of plays he has had produced, then Clyde Fitch certainly stands in the very front rank of native dramatists. Considering the length of time he has devoted to writing for the stage, he has probably completed more plays in the same time than any other author of corresjjonding importance in either this country or Europe. In the matter of success, too, he has had his full share. Perhaps if he had not hurried so much, certain plays might have been more enduring than they were. A well-known playwright has fixed the rule that one play a year is quite enough for any Avriter to turn out. He further emphasizes the rule, that when the play is completed it should be put away for a twelvemonth and then taken up for re- vision. By that time the first flush of enthusiasm is over. The eve becomes less partial, and the blemishes and mis- takes in construction, dialogue, and char- acterization stand out with a clearness that enables the writer himself to decide where the scalpel shall be applied and where tonics administered. . But unless a young author has syndicated his labors or subsidized himself, the crying demand for immediate returns precludes the possi- bility of such delay ; still, stage literature is not the only art which has suffered through the pressure of necessity. Clyde Fitch comes of old Xew England stock. Of a Hartford family, he was bom in 18G5. Williams College is his Alma Mater, and before the theatre had har- bored his first dramatic composition, Rob- erts Brothers of Boston had published his story, ** The Knighting of the Twins/' It went through two editions. A famous French author once said : *' There is always something sad in the suc- cess of a young man.'' The remark, cyn- ical as it may be, is obvious in its aj^plica- tioh. Mr. Fitch began his playwrighting career as the author of *^ Beau Brummell," which Richard Mansfield produced at the Madison Square Theatre, Xew York, in the spring of 1890. It was not only an immediate success, but it has proved an enduring one, for the comedy still occu- pies a prominent place in that actor's repertoire. There has been some consid- erable discussion as to Mr. Fitch's exact share in the composition of this piece. The primary indebtedness to Douglas Jerrold's play on the same subject, and the application of the familiar bon-mots at- tributed to the famous arbiter of fashion, call for no comment. The original pro- gramme, however, declared in black and white that Clyde Fitch wrote the play ; and on the opening night, when a delighted audience called for the author, Mr. Mans- field led Mr. Fitch before the footlights. THE BOOK BUYER The characteristic and Bucceaafiil quali- ties of that admirable picture of Georgian days have been repeated in subsequent plays by this young writer, the author- ship of which has never been disputed ; for Mr. Fitch haa a distinct and peculiar style of his own, a style distinguished for its refinement, finish, vigor, and smart- ness. " liean Brummel" was the triumph of a young man. It established a reputation for its author which was as positive as that which "Callegher" brought to Richard Harding Davis. Like that clever writer, l[r. Fitch has fortunately been able to live up to his original standard. "' Betty's Finish," which followed, a study of college days, had a lengthy run at the Boston Museum ; and " Frederic Lemaitrc," a sympathetic, graceful, and dramatic expression of an incident in the life of the great French actor, has had numerous exponents. It is still acted- "A Modern Match" was Mr. Fitch's next ambitious effort. It was produced in tliis country by Augustus I'itou's stock company, and later was presented in Ire- land by the Kendals, under the title of "Marriage, 181*2." It was a strong and virile study of modern society, with a lead- ing female r61e that was drawn with un- conventional daring and bold theatrical effect. The constrnction was deft, and the play for a time obtained a certain popular vogue. "Pamela's Prodigy," a comedy of the early Victorian period, was his next work to hold the stage. It was produced at the Court Theatre, London, by Mrs. John Wood, who herself played the lead- ing role. But the beautiful scenery, ap- pointments, and excellent cast were not sufficient to offset the sketchiness of its story, or the vague and tenuous charac- ter of its treatment. Henri Lavedan's "Prince D'Anrcc" was one of the marked successes of the Parisian dramatic season of 1892. It was a keen and biting satire on the pre- vailing shams of Gallic society and poli- tics, and Mr, Daniel Frohman, of the Lyceum Theatre, commissioned Mr. Fitch to make for him an adaptation. It was produced under the title of "An Ameri- can Duchess " ; but the peculiarly French character of its subject made it a difficult play for the comprehension of the New York theatre-goer, and the version had hut a limited rnn. Another adaptation followed. It WHS Mr. Fitch who prepared for the American stage "The Masked Ball," by Bisson. It not only served to introduce John Drew as a star, but em- phatically established Maude Adams's sta- tus as an ai:tiste, and showed that Mr, Fitch possessed tlie delicate skill of mak- ing acceptable to an American audience a Frenchy farce without destroying either its raison d'c're or its inherent humor. 120 THE BOOK BUYER Eewriting '' The Poet and the Puppets," an English skit on '*' Lady Windermere's Fan," and giving it a local significance next followed, and then came a careful and reverent adaptation of Sardou's " Mai- son Neuve," which Marie Wainwright produced under the title of '^ The Social Swim." lie next wrote *^ April Weather" for Sol Smith Kussell. It was a tailor-made play, and though the local critics did not care for it, it served its purpose well, and provided Mr. Russell with a conge- nial and popular r61e for an entire season. A bold and realistic play in one act, " Harvest," was produced under the aus- pices of the ill-fated Theatre of Arts and Letters. New York City has never had an oppor- tunity of judging of the merits of " His Grace de Grammont," an original study of the Court of Charles II, but Otis Skin- ner successfully presented it throughout the country for three years. It was every- where praised for the interest of its story and the skilful and analytical manner in which its historical characters and inci- dents were treated. Modjeska was the next to produce a play by Mr. Fitch. It was called *' Mistress Betty," and had its first performance on any stage at the Gar- rick during what that finished actress was pleased to call her final engagement in this city. It was hurriedly produced and many of the characters were slighted, but in the title r61e Mr. Fitch drew a character of rare sympathetic quality, charming spirit, and undeniable emo- tional force. The construction was ad- mirable in many particulars, and there were numerous touches in the piece which for ingenuity and delicate significance would have done credit to a 3cribe. Three adaptations then followed : "Gossip," written in collaboration with Leo Dietrichstein, from the French of Jules Claretie, produced by Mrs. Langtry ; '^ Bohemia," a spirited and amusing para- phrase of Barri^re's stage version of Mur- ger's immortal work ; and *^ The Super- fluous Husband," from the German, for E. M. and Joseph Holland, also prepared in conjunction with Mr. Dietrichstein. All three pieces were marked by fluent and sprightly dialogue, careful and sure stage technique, and a keen appreciation of dramatic effect. During the past season two more origi- nal plays from Mr. Fitches pen saw the footlights. "Nathan Hale," produced by Nat. C. Goodwin in Chicago, was declared by the critics of that city to be a dramatic effort of rare historical value ; while the brilliant success of ''The Moth and the Flame," at the Lyceum in New York, has materially advanced Mr. Fitch's reputa- tion as a keen and unprejudiced observer of social foibles and a trenchant delineator of human weakness. It is only fair to say that, for dramatic strength, incisive wit, and technical accuracy, " The Moth and the Flame," a three-act amplification of '' Harvest," was the most striking prod- uct of the past theatrical season. Mr. Fitch is now at work on two com- missions he has received for next vear ; while during the forthcoming season, W. H. Crane will add to his repertoire '' The Head of the Family," in which Mr. Dietrichstein again figures as a co-author. In his odd moments — wherever he found them in view of all this work — Mr. Fitch has written " The Wave of Life," a novel which has already gone through two edi- tions, ''Six Conversations and Some Correspondence," and " The Smart Set," which are social satires, recently published by II. S. Stone of Chicago. In view of past achievements and what is to be looked for in the immediate future, Mr. Clyde Fitch occupies a very promi- nent place among the dramatists of Amer- ica. It is something considerably more than the luck of youth which has contrib- THE BOOK BUYER 121 uted to this result. Nowadays, a suc- cessful adaptation means an almost origi- nal work. In this direction Mr. Fitch has shown a peculiar aptitude and a most discerning appreciation of what American theatre-goers want and will countenance. This fact, and a refined judgment, have also stood him in excellent stead where the work has been entirely original. His knowledge of the liant monde, his nim- ble wit, and his smartly polished dialogue give evidence that he is yet destined to write a play of American life that will so faithfully reflect modern society as it is, that this young and indefatigable writer will be eventually described as the Ameri- can Pinero. Edtoard Fales Coward, THE AUTUMN BOOKS THE following list has been prepared from advance announcements of publishers, and is necessarily incomplete, since it is impossible to make definite lists of all the autumn publications at so early a date as August 10. It gives some idea, how- ever, of the extensive preparations made by American publishers for this season, and may be taken as an omen of "better times.^' ESSAYS AND BELLES-LETTRES A Guide to the Middle English Metrical Komances. Anna Hunt Billings. (Lamson, Wolflfe&Co.) $1.50. A Short History of English Literature. George Saintsburj. (Macmillan.) Cr. 8vq. A Studv of English Prose Writers. Prof. J. Scott Clark. (Scnbners.) 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