PPLBHBNT TO THE AOADSMT 1 14 Jaly, 1900 i

CONTENTS OF VOLUME LVIII.

PAOB

■ ■ • • • ■

REVIEWS.

Abbott*! (Dr. Bvelra) Hittorvof Greece

Aberdeen's (Ooanteei of) edftum of The Inter*

fuUu)n€d Congress of Women 108

Affleek*t (WilliBm) tnmalation of Oodet'e Intro-

duetion to the New TeMamemt 79

Aldeieail't (Lieaft.-OoL} Pink and Scarlet 488

Alereiwler'a (Dr. P. T.) Darwin and Darwinism ... 9BB Arbuthaot'B (F. F.) The Mysteries of Ohronologff .. 184

Ababa's iflWiam) America To-daif 900

tnadatioa of Ibsen's When

We Dead Awaken 807

••• ■•• •■• •»• • •• • ■ I

Amold-Fofter'a (H. O.) Our Great City; or,

Ijondon, the Heart of the JCmpht 612

Arnold'e (Tlioniefl) Passages tn fi Wandering Life . 861

A^be'e (B. Oliver) Besieged by the Boers 384

Atkiee'8 (J. B.) The Reiief of Lady smith 884

B«4en-Powell'8 (Bt. Uol.£ a B.) Aids to Scouting 187 »i9!i^y*B {J. V.)9akaeBiOt English Elegies 8

BeiUfe-Gitohmea's (Mr.) Sport and Life 185

Bubo's (Louis A.) edition of Verne's Le Tour du

Monde en Qnaire-vingts Jours F6

BarinrOOD]d*B (8.) In a Quiet Village 447

Barnes's (Dr. W. B.) The rambridge Bible for

Schools: Chronicles 56

Barr'H (Bobert) Th^ fnchanging l->ntt 812

Btftholonew's (J. G.) edxttonof The Iloyal Atias

of England ami Wales 5U

BeeeUag'B (Bey. H. G.) editioa of The Poftlcni

Works of John Milton ..882

Bellow's (dSlatae) Paris 549

Benaett^S (Biefaaid) Two Million Civilian Soldiers

of the Queen 168

Bent^s (Theodon sad Mm.) Sovuhern A rabia ... 290 Bentlers (Bev. W. Bolmsa) ISoneenny on the t ongo ... ... ... .„ ... ,„ ... ,,, ,.. ,,^ 48B

Bey's (A. F. Inglott) Dictionary of EHglish

i/omonum* , „ 81

Bhldloss's (Herold) A Wide DowUnion 106

BiireU's (Aognstine) Collected Essays 149

Bishop's (MXL LB.) The. Yangtse VaUry and oeyona ••« ... ... ... •.. „, ,,, .,, ,,. ,,, 80

Black's (William) Xarratite of Crimes m the Medi- terranean •■« ,.* M« ••• ••• M* ••• •*• (M 8B6

Black's Guide to London and its Environs a2

Blind, Matkilde, The Poetical Works of 478

Bhttfs (Besinald) Historicol Handbook to the

Parish of Chelsea 6S9

Boer War, The History of the 801,884

Homm^MjOexxmei) Lavengro 287

BoviB's (Be?. Jobn H ) Satives under the Trans-

vaal Flag ... „ ... 140

Bovd's (Harj Stoait) Our Stolen Summer 408

grinton'sjBelwyn) Correggio 888

Brown's (Dr. John) I'uritan Preaching in England, 804 {BMx6ld) War with the Boers SSS

Binihl's (Laden Levy) Modem Philosophy in France ... ... ,.. ... ... ... ... ... ,,,

BkTinker's (Lieat-CoL H. M. 1.) Boer War, 1898<

aWW... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ,,, ... ... 14U

BOrnr's (GottfiEkd AagnM) /.«iior<> 504

Bmleigh's (Benaet) The Katal Campaign 96R

*^ ' I'S CUAylftSbA) The Passion Play

(Bir tUehard F.) The Kastdah of H^Ji

■ •• • ■ ■

AbdA Alr-Yasdi ... Buy's (J.B.) editian of Gibbon's Decline oud Fall

of the Roman Emipire 488

Bldj^'S (damuel) Shakespeare's Sonuete 18

(Bowaid Ckosby) ScotiamPs Jttaned

^*Z.P^m ••? ••• ••• ••• "■ ••• ••• ••• ••. ... ni m

Ciddiek's (Helen) A White Woman in Cmtral Ajrtea ... ... ... ... ... ,,, ,,, ... ., ,,, 144

Ostod's (John) The Fundamental Ideas of Chris- "anny ... ..■ ... .. ... ... ... ,, ,, xSSl

Osllow's (E.) From King Orry to Queen Victoria ... 12 Old London Taverns 188

I's (Dr. Colin) The First Three Gospels in

Vw* ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... f^ ,,j Yy

LITERATURE.

BSYJEWS—eonUnued,

FAOI

12a 318

Oufyle's OL M. and A J.) Hugh Ixttimer

Csrpeaters (J. K| edi ion of Soldier Songs

(Bdward) Tlie Story of Eros and Psyche

from Apuleiu$f and the First Book of the Iliad of

MMOfet^r ••• ••« «s« aa« ••• ••■ ••■ ••• eee •■■ Ot^S

CasselVs Guide to London 612

Csatiglione's (Coimt Boldassare) The Book of the

K/Ourtter ... , ... ,,. .., „. ... I8a

* ChambetB*s(8traeey)" T^lb^XAor/^viVziw ... 619 Ghailes'B (Dr. B H.) Critical History <\f a Future

Life in Israel Judaism and in Christianity 946

Ghastian's (F. W.) The Caroline Islands 866

Ghnrchiirs (Winston Spencer) London to Lady-

snuthf yflA Pretoria ,. ... ... 484

Churk's Willis) Old Priands at Cambridge ... 164

Clodd's ^wx^) Grant Allen 647

Oobbold's CKslph P.) /nn«nnM< ^Wa 18i

Coleridge's (Bmest Hartley) editian of Byron's

Collingwood's ( W. O.) The Life of John Buskin ... S88 (Toilet's (Collet Dobeon) Taxes on Knowledge ... 8 9 Gonybeaie's (Bdwaid) Alfred and the Chroniclers 262

(}oone]l'8(F. Nofxeys) A>ir goWerai^A^ 12

Constaniinoplej BrAsafOndthe Troad^ Handbook for

Iravellers iNm. ... ••• .m ... ... .. ... ... 629

Conway's (Moneoie D.) Solomon and Solomomic

Ijtterature .. ... ... m. ... ••• 270

Cooke's (C. Kinloob) Memoir of Princess Mary

Adelaide^ Duehese of Teck 148

Chok*s Historical and Literary Map of London .^ 611 Coolidse's ( W. A. B.) e ition of Jhnbcs's Tr^tpels

Through the Alps ^ 629

Cornishes (F. Wane) Amiti>v*i<e// 810

Corson's (Oiram) .in Introduction to John Milton 88

Cowper, The Letters of 849

Gmmp'^s (a G.) editton of The History of the Life

of I'homas JOwood 161

Catbbertson's (W.) By Shore and Wood 168

Cayillier-Fleiiry's .-< n 0W4an« Z>iAry 489

Dale's (T. F.) Hiding, Driving, and Kindreti

CVOT*9 •■• ••• ••• ••• ••■ ••■ aa* ••• •■« «•■ Jl^D

D'Annmudo's (Gabriels) TAe Dead City 464

D'Arey's (Rev. Cb«rlee F ) Idealism and Theology 79 Oearmer's (Ferey) Highways and Byways in

Normanay ... ... ... ... 487

De Balsac's (Honor^) Uttore to Madame Honori de

i*WM*CIC ••■ •■• ••■ ••■ ••• ••• ••• •■• a«« ««« 4flO

D« Conbertin's (Baron Pierre) Franoe Since 18U 683 De lisle's (Kdwin) editian of PoteeU's Life and

Letters of Amtbrose Pkiliippe de Lisle 189

DeDiker's(J.) rA«J7acefo/Jtfaii 104

Derbyshire Campaign Series, The 268

Deverenx's (Bof) Sidelights on South Africa 104

De y<»fi^s (ViooBte B. M.) Cofurs Hussee 66

DIaon's (Charlea) .4men^ the Birds in Nortkem

O^'wC^ •»■ ■•• •«• •■• ••• ••• aae ••• see ••

-(W. Scaxtk) The Sport of Kimg»

. _ , _ ••• ... eRs

Doweon's (Bmest) Decorations, in Verse and Prose SK Drew's (Maty nanoes) trsnalsHon of The

Passion-Ptag of Ober-Ammergam 288

Drommond sad Berry's Charles A. Berry, D.D, :

a Jaemoir ... ... ««« ... ... , 48

Donne's (F. P.) Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of his

(jou^rymen ... ... m ... ... ... ... ... ... 1V8

Dyde's (S. W.) trsnsiation of The Thratetusof

tiato ... ■•• ... ... ... ... .. 00

Isrle's (Alios Mbise) Child Life tn Cf^o,wti Da^* 101 Edgar's (Dr. E. M'Glieyne) Th^ Genius of Prot^-st^

antism 444

Bdwarda's (Nerille) TA/ Transvaal in War etnd

*iPOCC «•• •■« ••« ••• mmm »•• ••« ••• ••• •■• VOO

Ellis ft Godlei's editin of Ifota Authologia

Oxoniensis 189

Mnenon's (Bdwin) P^ys*s Ghost 262

Baan-BmKb's (A.) edition of Honsfaye's 181$:

WW CwnvwiOv •■• ••• ••■ ••• ••• mn% •#• ••• ••• O^XI

** Bnopean Lttecators, Pinloda of " 881

REVIEWS— <om4mi«imI.

PAOB

Farrar's (Dean) The Life of Lives. \ Farther

Studies in the Life of Christ 486

FhioUaea'B (tfary McNeil) Ou< of the Kest 166

TwhBt*s{J.R) FinUmdandthe Tzars 104

Fitchett's (W. H.) How England Saved Europe ... 49

FitsGersld^s (B. A.) The Highest Andes IQ

Fbunmarion'b (Osnille) The Vnknown 606

flemiag's (Dr. D. Hay) edition of Dr. MitcheU's

Scottish ll' formation 880

Forbes's (Js^nes D.) Travels Through the Alps ... 629 f^ltheringham's (Jamss) Wontsworth*s ** Prelude "

as a Stuiiy of Education ... 66

Fkechette^S (Louis) Christmas in French Canada ... 184

French & Osbom's A/^m^nfary ^4 Z^eAm 90

Funek-Bietano's (ftenta) Legends of the Bastdle... 19 Famess's (HonMS Howard) edition of "Macb

Ado Aboat Nothing " 828

Qoga^*B (Jobn) Among the Man-Eaiers 222

Gmmer's (George B.) tnmelation of Cicero De

^ 'JjRC^^A ••« ••• «■• ••• •■• •«• •■• •■• ••• •■■ OW

(8 E.) Th^ First Dutch War ... 871

Gardner's (Prof. Perey) Explomtio Etangelicn ... 210 Gasquet's ( Piaacis Aiden) The Eve of the Reformat tif>n • ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4f

(Neddie's (John) Romaulic Edinburgh ... .. ... 428

Ghicksteln's tS. M.) Queen or Presitlentf An In- dictment of Paul Kruger 268

Glide's (JoKo) Life of Edward FitzGernld 827

Godct's (Dr. F ) Introduction to the AVic Tentawtent 79

Gwst's (flaiold B.) The Earl of Beaconsfield 164

Gower, John, The Complete Works of 180

Graat-DaiTs (Sir M. £ ) yt»tesfnnn a Diary ... 228

(irrece. Handbook for Tnt tellers in 50

Greg's (Walter Wilson) List of English Plays If ritten btfore 1648 ... m. ... ... ... 888

QTthk*B{J.'i!.) Dramatir Critirimn 144

Groser'S (Horace G.) Field- Marshal Loni Iiolp*rt9 801 Godeman's (Alfred) selections ol Ijatin Literature

of the Empire , 60

GlUnbiU'S iBer. J.) The Morals of Suicide 812

Gwynn's (Stephen) edition of The ode« of Horace:

Hook 1 \ » ... ... ... ... .•• ..* ••• .•• Ow

Hagan's (Dr. J. F.) The Life and Works of Dante

^*1 ifffni^l^i %tm ••• •« ••■ •>■ •■• ••• see ••• 4r

Hannah's (J. CJ Bistonf of Eastern A^ia 4SB

Hardy's (Ber. m. J.) Mr. Thomas Atkins^ 804

Barknef 8 ft Motley's Introduction to the Theory of Analytic Functions ... ... •., ••• .*• 60

I'S (frank) How to Beat the lUnr «.. m« ... 140 I'S (ftederic) Tenny/*im, Punkin, Mdl^and

other Literan/ Extiiuatts 87

— ^■^— (J. A.) First Sl^ps in Earth Kuowlfdye 58

Hanptmann's (Geihart) The Hunkm lieii 448

Hayes's (Captsin) A moug Hors*n in li'uii.tia , 184

(M. H ) Among HorsfA in South Africa ,,, 869

Henderson ft Parker's Intnxinctiim to Annitfticai

\jneni istry ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .*• .•• flV

Henley's ( W. £.) editaoa of CastigUoae's Book of

the ( ourtier ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• 182

Herfoid's .C. H.) translation of Ibsen's Lf>vf's

I ttw^ay ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... o*i

Heweti'a (iarah) A'wMM »{.« dm/ ('/-'/ N( »«'/■< 581

Hime's (Ucnst-OoL Henry W. L.) Lucion the

Syrian Satirist ... ... ••• ... 106

Hobson'B (J. A.) l^he War in South Africa 163

Hoby's (Sir Thomas) tnnshitkm of OsstiglioM's

BiHik of the Courtier 182

Holland's (Bernard) edition of The Poews of

George Cnthhe ... ... 811

Hollingshead's (J<dm) Acetmhug to My I.ighfs m* 106

Holmes's (T. Bfcp) Co sot's Conquest of iiaml ... 1(10

(EAmdA) Whntitt Pi>etr*jf ... ^ ...199

VojfVn^^ ^on,) Songs of thr Morning 200

Hort^s (Dt. Fenton John Anthony) Village Ser-

mons in Outline Hoasman's (Laurence) P>*e HoQSsaye's (Henry) 1815 : Water'oo

•«• —4

•■• ■•• *e>

•• i •«■

444

... 108

... fit's

CONTENTS OF VOL. LVIII.

fBlTPPLBMBNT TO THIS AOADEMt. L . 14 July, 1900.

REV lEWS—coHfinited.

Pi.6B

Habert*B (Philip O.) The Stage ok a Career 487

Hodsoa'sfW. W.) Nature in DownUiiul 610

Hunt's (Williain) The Kttglish Church (607-106)) 13 Iboen's (Henrik) When We Dead Avoaken ...' ... 807

. ... 687

ik) When We Dead Awaken ■— jA>vt * Comedy

•■• ■•■

Inge's (Dr. William Balph) OhriHtinn MyBtkhm... 79 Innes'H (Arthur B.) Cmnnier ami the He/ormatUnt

• in England ... 444

Israel's (Josef) J!^in 106

Jack's (AdoInhQi Alfred) rA« /'riMCt; 921

Jtpp^s (Dr. AlfiTandffir H.) Our Comwon Cuckoo^

and other Ouekoot and Parasitical Birds 80

JefTerson's (Bobert L.) A New Ride to Khiva .. 31

JekylPs (Gcotoude) //om« and Garden 184

Jerome*! (Jerome K.) ITiree Men on the Bummel •., 406

JvnDM*B (FimJuB ) IC^olution ...- 854

Keane*8 (A. H.) The Bo r 8tate$y Land, and PeopU 801

Keith's mr. O. S.) ri«a for a Simpler IJ/i 206

KellT'e (B ) Government or Human KvolHtion ... 408 Keleey's (Fkaaois W.) tranalation of Hau's

* Irfll^Jolf «■« •■• s«« mm* ••• ••• ■*■ ••• ••■ ••■ A£m

Kent, Eastf Guide to 612

King's (L. W.) Babylonian lUligion and Mythology 141

(Bolton) IHetory of Italian Unity 360

KingdeT'i (Georae H.; Sotee on Sport and Travel 8W Kinnf ar's gifted) To Madder Biver with Methuen IGS'

Kipling's (Buiyard) /'VotM 5^a eo iff^a 219

Koll man's (Lient. Fliul) Victoria Nyanm 106

Lake*, Knaliah, &»iie to the 612

Lane's (CSarles Henry) All about Doge 668

lAng's (Andrew) History of Scotland from t\e

Roman Oeoipation 404

Lavf without I^tcyera. By Two BarriBters-at-Liw 268

Laycock, Samuel, OoUe^ed Writings o/ 809

Lazare's (Jules) Gems of Modem French Poetry .. 66 Le Bon's (Onstave) The Psychology of Socialism 368

Lees's (J. A.) PtfaJkff and Pi««5 106

Le Gallienne's (Bidiaid) The WorMpper of the

Image 141

• ■ Budyard Kipling : A

wfflvSCrivMn ^^% a«* •■• ■•• ■•■ ••• ■■• >•■ ••« 49*

• Travels in England ... 610

Ldand's (Charles Godfrey) The rffpublished

Legends 6f VirgU 119

Lilly's (William Samuel) Firsi Pr.nciples tn

x^JvUICw •«« ■•• ••• 4k, ••« »«c tflt ••■ ••« ««■ X^KI

Litchfield's (Frederick) Pottery and Porcelain ... 146 Lloyd's (A. B.) Jn DwarJ Land and CaniiiStal sJonnM^y • ... ... •«« ••• .•• ••• ••• ••• .*• oSt

Lommel's (Eugene) Experimental Physics 60

I/ywdl's (James BosseU} Impressions of Spain ... 184 Lyster's (A. ■ ) Mathematical Facts awl Formula! 00 Maoaulai'fl (O. C.) edition of Oower's French

WW Ofn-*f ••• ••• ■•• «•• ••• ■•■ •«■ aaa XC^I

Haekennal'-s (Dr. Alexander) Haunts and Homes

of the Pilgrim Fathers 272

MaoUnnon's (James) History ofKdwanlih*' Third 862 ICadeod's (Fiona) The Divine Adventure ; lona^ dc 443 Mac^ierjon's (Hector) Herbert Spencer ... 424

Kalian's (Oapt. Alftrod T.) Lessons of the War

with Spain, d'C 407

Major « Speight's Stories from the Xorthnn Sagas 66 Major's (Thomas) Leaves' from a S^iuaHers Soto-

%r\}QK • ■ • fl m% ••# ••• ••« ••• ••• ••■ ••• •■■ OOO

Mallock'B (W. H.) Doctrine and Doctrinal Di«rujf

''Crl «•« ««• «aa a«a ««« ^^a ••■ ■•• • •« ••• ■■« 09(r

Mann's (Arthur Bmile) translation of Houssaye's

IBIS: Waterloo ... 606

Msstetman's (C F. G.) Tennyson as a Bdiyious

Matheaon AMayle's //<imp5/ra/f Jfin'/n; lOS

Mathew's (John) Kaglehawkand Croic 206

Man's (Axu:u8t> /'<>»/>fi7.- iVjf />'/r rinr; J/7 182

Maurice's (Major-General) Tht Framt^German

wf''s ••• ••■ •■• ■•# ■•• •■ •«■ ■•• ■•• ••• OA

Mellowa's (Bmma Salisbury) The Story of FugUsh Literature 183

Meltzer's ((Tbailes Henry) truisUtion of Hkupt- mMTili'B Tht Sunken Itrf I ...448

Meyncll's (Mth ) Jo'm ItuAkin -168

MiWa (EustftceH.) y/c»»/ ^' /.^'//« /V/;/o/«,^y ... 66 Mitchell's (Dr. Alexandi-r F.) Thf Scottii>h

H'fonniUloH 3,10

Molitre, Quivres Coinplet'S dr 2-11)

Molteno's (P. A.) Lift a„>l Times of Sir John

Charlfx MtHt'no 406

MonorieiTH (Hope) edition of Black's Guid» to

London and its Environs 612

Moore's (George) The Bcndisg of the Bough: a

V "9ncu^ * *_* *** *** '*' *"* *■* *** *■• *■• *■■ ^ ^o

Mon-Ah's (Herbert) edition of The Littrary Year

Book, 1900 ... ., 802

Moule's (Dr- Handley C. G.) Kphesiin Studies 444

Mnlrhsad's (J. F.) Tlte Ijand of CoutrastM 81

Monro's (Bobert) Ilambhsand Studies i* BoMnla,

Ileisrgovina, and Dalmttia 629

Murray^B (Dr. James A. H.) AVh* Fugliyh

Dictionary 4.S

(Gilbert) Andromache 329

Muzzey's (1>a>id SayiUe) The lii>*e of th Xeu-

Testament 414

Myers's (G. W.) translation of liommel's Kxpni-

menial Physics 60

Navillc's (Prof. B.) The i'fmsvaal QutMum 14(»

"Senn^B 7ne Making (if Furope 65

Neve's (Dr. Arthur) /Vc/M/ASYU/ A'rt •.7, ;«;,• 105

Nevinson's (H. W.) Iwlysmith: Vf Diary 0/ a

O 'rwC ••• ••• ••• «aa •■• ••• ••* ••« «■• *lOl

Ninet'a (Marguerite) My ri,st FrencJi Book 5?

yorthumherltnd, History of 272

Offlond's (T. S.) Th' liomnntic Triumph , 881

O'Neill's (Moira) Souqs nfthr Gknn of Antrim ... 181 Orsi's (P/of. Pietro) M,uhrn Italy ... 31a

REVIBWS-c^M^iiittdd.

rioi

Osbom's (E. B.) Greater Canada 468

Osborne's (Oliver) In the iMnd of the Boers 140

Owen's (B. C Ever Aid) Selections from Tennyson* s

£^0^0%*^ •« ••■ »«ff ••0 «•■ »«■ «aa «■» ««« ««■ 00

Ptiris, Guide to ... „ 518

Exhibition 618

Parry's (I). H.) Thf Death or Glory Boys 168

PA^ton'a (George) Mrs. Delano {Mary Granville) 888 Pearse's (H. M. B.) Four Months Besieged : the

Storu of La/lysmilh 484

Pelisner 8 (Bogdne) edition of Da VogQe's Cofurs

P^mberton'fl (P. Edgar) The Kendalt 818

Percival's (A. 8.) Optics: a Manual for Stml*-nt* ... 60 Perowne's (^en. T. T.) edition of The Cambridge

Bible for Sdiools : Proverbs 61

PhibWs '(Miss) Visit it the Russians in Central

^IkV'U •«• ■■* •■• ••• !•• ••* ••• ••■ • k • ••• A^ff'

•Ph''lip*s Handy Volume Atlas of London ...611

Pike s (Oliver G ) In Bird-land with Fiell- Glasses and Camera ^ 558

FInnington's (Edward) Sir David Wilkis 804

Vi\aMti*Bi^.lSL) Unierlttsn Laws and Lieii's ... 64

Potocki's (Joieph) ^por( m A>ma^7<ira/< 125

Prior's (Edward 8.) History of Gothic AH in

^*9l^l€tH€^ .^^ ,,a .«» «,, «,, ,fa ,,, ,,, ,9a .,, JmM

Pro Ohristo et Kcclesia „ 444

" Pttnch," An Fvcning with 637

PuToelrs (Bdmund Sheridan) Life, and Letters of

Ambrose Phillippsde Lide 189

Quiller-Gouch's (A. T.) Historical Tales from

Shakespeare ... ... 148

Backham's (H ) edition of The Prometheus Bound

of ^ntchylus.t, ... „ ,,, ... 66

Ralph's (Julian) 7V>ii;arr25 P/-e<orui ... 868

Bamaay's (Prof. W. M.) Historical Commentary on

St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians 3S4

Band's (Theodore H.) edition of A Treasury of

Canadian Verse 555

Beeves's (William Pember) The Long White Cloud 82 Bcbertson's (JohnM ) An Introiuction to English

AfnitiCS ... ... ... ... ,,, ,,, ... ... ,,, ,,, OmJ

Bobinson's (Oanon) Nigeria 164

-(WilfrilC.) Bruges: an HistoriealShtch 406

Bosooe & Clergue's George Sehcyn : His Letters and "•S Ij\JC.,% ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ,,, ... wo

Bossbsry's (Lord) /S/V i?o&rW A^l 82

Bosuetti^s (Dants Gabriel) translation of Burger's

■*^*"«r#'' ••< •* • • ••• •■• ■•■ ••• ••• *•■ ■•■ IR^B

Boose's (W. H. I>.) Demonstrations in Cfrcek

Iambic Verse 60

Bules. Hightr (Mathematios) 60

Rosbforth's (G. McNeil) Carlo CtivtlU 818

Byland's (Frederick) edition of Pope*e *' Rape of

• fC J-dV^K ••■ ••■ «• ••* ««■ ««» «a« • ■• «ai

Sabatier's (Paul; elition of Traclatusde Indulge^tia

S, Maria de P»rtinnculn 488

Bayoe's (Prof. A. H.) Babylonians and AMsyrivtt 141

Schooliog's (J. Holt) A Peep int) ■' Punch " 687

Schudkburgh's (E^'elyn S.) translation of The

Lett' rs of Cicero 7

Seaman's (Owen) /a (7ap am/ .B«a5 «• 11

Sedffwiok's (Lieut-Ool.) l^e Advance of Knoip-

i^i»ffC m- mU9 ••• >■• ••■ ••■ •■• «•«

Sense's (Bev. P. G.) A Free Inquiry into the Origin of the Fourth Gospel ' „ ^ 79

Seton's (MoDsignor) Jla (>M /''amt/.v 682

Sherwood's (Bev. W.'R.) Oxford Rowing 688

Shore's (Arabella) First and Last Poems ... ^ 406 Skeat's (Prof. Welter WiUiam). Vafay Magic .. 908

— — 37ie Chaucer Canon 425

Smith's (Gold win) The United Kingdom: a Politi-

cal History ... 81

(A. H.) Village Life in China 144

(Alice Dsw) The Diary of a Dreamer ... 447

(Justin H.) The Troubadours at Home ... 467

Boames's (Laura) Introduction to English, French,

and German Phonetics 66

Speocer's (Edward) The Great Gams 864

Starbuok's (B. D.) The Paychtdogy of Reiigion ... 162

St.Aiigustmr^ The Confession^ tf 628

titeb])iD{;'s (Williim) edition of Charles Henry

I't%rs<m : Memorials of Himself , his Wife, and

his Friends 650

8teevcn»'« (O W.) From Cape Town to lAtdysmith 187 Stephen's (Katharine) French History for Schools 66 Stevens m's (F. 8.) Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of

Lincoln . .".. 261

" Story of the Nations " Series 818

8tn?et*H 'G. B.) The TrlaU of the Bantocks 353

Sullivan'tf ^James F.) Queer-Side Stories 165

SutdiiTe's ^Halliwell) By Moor and Fell 22.3

Swifi's (Lindsay) Brook Farm 616

Symons'H (Arthur) ITie Symbolist Movement in

Literature ... 247

••• .•>

Imagee 0/ Good and Evil 416

translation of D'Annunzio's

J The Dead City 464

Taylor's (Beniamia) 5toryy/o^y ,351

Tliomi)8on's (Robert) Tfie Gnrdcner*s Assiitant ... 483 Thorold's (Algar) F say in Aid of the Better

Appreciation of Catholic Mysticism 808

Thorp'a ;Fmnk Hall) OuU\h<'s of Industrial

Kftftfit-^fi^/ ••• ••• ••« ••■ ■•■ ••• •«■ ••• aaa UV

Timmins's (H. ThornhiU) Nooks and Corners of

Shroi'shir*" 272

Tod's '^A. H.' Charlerhouse... , -148

Traill's (H. D.) The New Lncian 179

I TrateJ, Sjfrt, and Adventure, Pictures of. By

"The Old Pioneer" 125

Tylur's (Louis) Fcfow Wayfarers ... .' 143

• Underbill's (John Garrett} Spanish Lilerature in

the England of the Tudors... ., ^105

BEVIEWS— CO A/mMM<.

PAGE

Verity's (A. W.) edition of Shakespeare's ** As

J OU JaXke, It ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 09

Verne's (Jules) Le Tour du Moide en Quttri-

vingte Jours ... ... 56

Victor's (Prof. Wilbelm) editUm of Soamea's

Englinh, French, and German Phonetics 66

Vincmt's (Dr. Mtrtin B.) History of the Textual

Criticism ft f the New Testamsnt ...

Von Eji'smberg's (Moritz) Memoirs of the Baroness

Cecile de Courtot ,. . 888

W4liaz3Wiki's (K.) History of Russian Literature 967 Walker's (James) Introiuction to Physical

C/hemitt^y ... ... ... oO

Wallace & Smith's (Jeorge Buchanan 110

Wwe'u (TPtLhisin) Ettueation'a Beform 64

Waroer s (G. T.) Brief Survey of British History 66

V.Y.) Criekdin Many Olimet 4^

Warren's (Henry) How to De U with your Banker 448 Watsoi's (WiQiam) edition of Thompson's

Gar'len*r*s Auistant •« 48^

Waugh's (Arthur) Robert Browning 668

^ellt's (H. G ) 37(4 Tiste Machine 636

The War of the Worlds 686

The Wheels of Chance 485

— — Love and Mr. Lewisham 685

Walton's (P/of. J.) The Logical Bases of EducUion 64 Wh*eb-r*8 (Mrs. Crosby H.) Misnions in Eden . 882 White's (CaioUne A.) Sweit Hampntead and its

^{ssoctations 661

W?40*e Who at the War 201

Wide World Adventure ... 449

Wilkios's (W. H.) edition of Lady Bnrioa'a The

Passiou'I'tay ... 888

■ The Love of an Uncrowned i^ueen 396

Willooek's (John) Sir '7'homas Ft^tihart of

yromartte ... ... •• ... ... Xvm

Wilson's (ff. W.) The DownfaU of Spain ... .,. 270

Willson*s (Beokles) The Great Company 887

Without a God " 160

Wood's (Ciharles W.) In the Valley of t'te Rhone 356 Woolbem 's (George) Wild Fden 150

Woodward's (W. H.) The Fxpansion of the

British Empire £6

Wormrtley's (Katharine Prescjtt) translation of

Letters to Mme Honori de Balzac .. ... 4"^

Wor«fold's (W. BasiIi The Rtdt-mptioH of Egypt SO

Wright's (M. E. 8.) Rhymen (Hd and Sew 871

Wurtsburg's (0. A) selections of Readings in

,fohn /in.ik'u^s *' Fors f'lavigera^*... ... ... ... 66

Wye, Guidt to th>' 612

Wyeth's (John A.) An American General 278

Wylly's (Msj jr H. C.) The XCVth Regiment in the

yf ' • "• " « ■ • ■ • ■ •■• ••■ ••■ •■• ••« ■•• «•• XOO

Wynn's (Bev. Walter; The Apostle PauVs Reply

to Lord Halifax 79

Yeats's iW. B.) A Book of Irish Verse 285

Yorkshire, a Pi-(urcsfiue Jlistory of. , ... 618

Zangwill's (Israel) They that Walk in Darkness 99 Zurbriggen's (MatUas) From the Alps to the

A a /Cf « C «P «•• ■■■ •■• ■■« ••• aav as» ««« ^%^ »•« A V

3»

FICTION.

Barry's (Dr. WiQiam) Arden MassiUr

(John D.) The Aerob<tt

Bird's (li.) /xio-7'i the Celestial 806

BramaVs (Ernest) The Wallet of Kai-Lung ... 814

Brooke's (Emma) The Engrafted Rose 273

Buchanan's (Bobert) Andrcmeda: an Idyll of the

Great Rircr ... 864

Burgin's (G. B.) 7y,e Tiyer's Claw 606

Burnett's (Fnmoes Hodgson) /n Connection with

the de WUlytighhy Claim . 88

Gapes's (Bernard) From Door to Hoor 499

Oaatle's (Agnes and Egerton) The Bath Comedy 419

Chtmbers's iR. W.) Thp Cambric Mask 878

Ghatterton's (Q. G.) The Anytl of thmce 688

Churchill's (Winston Spencer) Savrola: a Tale

of the Hevoluton in Laurania 185

Oobb's (Thomas) The Jndyment of Helen 60

— — — — Scruples ^ 278

Connor's (Balph) The Sky-Pilot ^, 888

Ooraish's (J. F.) Sour Grapes 88^

(Jrane's (Stephen) J f^fc ^'"/•wc*' 13

Crockett's (8. B.) Jo^ln of the Swoni Hand.., ... 633 De 8oissoD8' (8 C ) traiutUtion of Bodziewlez*s

Aniina Vi/is 460

Dickinson's (Evelyn.) Ilfart-t Importunate 606

Drnmmond'8 (Himilton) A Man of his Age ... 819 Dudeney's (Mrs. Henry B.) Folly Corner ... 186 Bver/ey's ( Wynton) The Dean of I/arrrndale ...889

Grier's (Sydney C.) The Kiuyn of t/u Eom 4C»9

Hamilton's (Bernard) .1 A'v for a Kimfdom ... 88 Hardr't) (Francis H.) To the. ihnliug i,f'thf Sea 668 Harlanl'H (Henry) 7V« Cardinal !> Snuff-Box ... 489 Hayes's (F. W.) .1 Kn,t Sj,nrc ... 469

Howells's (W. D) Th-ir Silnr Wedding Journty 805 Hyne'S (.Cutalilfe) Further Advfntnns of Capta'H

t\rlTlf .,, ... ,,. ... ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,, ,,j

Lichbald's .A. V.) Princess Feather

Johnstone's Miry) By <»rdtrojthe Compmy

King's (K. DoukI"^) '/-^'^'^

Lefroy's (Ell i Napier; J'/if Man*s Cans*

hioke't^ {yriMxnra J.) The White Dove

Lorimer's(Norma) 3/(>/y Jn/<

MuDonUd's (Ronald) The Sword of the King MacIlwAine's (Herbert C.) Fate thv'FiddUr ... "MAKon&lAllg'B Parson Kelly

Mathers's (Helen) i3<;c^/ .„

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fi(TPt>LnM«Kf TO THB AOADBinrn 14 July, 1900. J

CONTENTS OF VOL. LVIII.

FICTION— e<m(iattMi.

VAOE

^Uthew*! (Fnucik) One Queen Triumphunt ... ^ 106

M' A.nliiy*8 (AUtn) TV /?Ayin«r 355

lCooie*B (FrAnkfort) N^H G-voynn, ComfAian hbi

OuSd».*a The Watfrf 0/ J'Aiera 818

Pnzley B (Francis LtvalllD) Maitinnd of Oorhzia 291 BaWBon't (Mra. Btepncy) A Liidy of the Ueqe^cy .. 469 Bcdzie\ncz*B (Mary*) Anma Vilia: A Tali of the

Great. Siberian St fppf. ...450

Bhifll's (M. P.) CoM £'/«<'Z ... 84

SbiptoirB (Helen) The Strong God Circumstance ... 88)

BSSbacnA' Bf^.lj.) The EncluMier 34

Botdiffe'B (Halliwell) Shameless Wayne ..125

TBTkingtOiTB (Booth) The Gentleman from Indiana 469

Tolstoy's (Leo) Jiesurreetion 224

Tynaa B (Katharine) She Walks in Be%uty ... ... 106

WatB0n*8 (H. B. Haxriott) The Princess Xenia .. m

• Thf liehel 291

Wedmore'B (Frederiok) TJie Collapse of the Ptnitent 4i9

Weyman's (Sttxdey) ^f>/)/i(« 409

"Whitens (Percy) The Jn/attmlion o/the Countess ... 60 Wilaon's (Mir. J. Qlenny) Two SHmmers 866

SUPPLEMENTS.

Competition

Eluoalnnal

Spring Annoanoements l^uri.t

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3)7-3«

61-6

285-234

507-514

ARTICLES.

Alt, Descriptive ••• ... *

** Anthors. Disappearing "

Balzac li^tters Contnvecsy, The

Bible, Tinkeriog The

Blind's (Iffathilde) Poetry

Book of the Winter Season, The

Bookman, A Fervent ... m* •.• »»* •••

Books-/ " Crowned " : Awards for 1899

— — Aboat places

for Chiidren^The Best Hiudred

— — Within Books

Oanadian Muse, The

Comedy or Faice ? (" She Stoops to Conquer ")

Crane) Stephen

Critic. The Amateur : On the Abuse of Dialect

... 36

... 817

... 391

... 4S1

... 478

... 127

... 149

... 63

... 509

... 107

... 615

... 666

.. 109

... 16

... 491

l%e Topomphy of Beading .. Inkhom Terms

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Superfine Engllih . How I Think of Bladanore

Buskin on War ... ... ••

An Articulate Colonr

A Han and His Work ... ^

**Pm[^ Woffington"

. The Style-lCaker'B Style

JL ■KAiiy OX Blftll .«> ••• ••» .•• ■•■ ■•■ •■• •«•

^ Commendatory Vevses

, A Book that Held Me

Dismal Fiction ...

*' Dainty Kdftioni," Doubts Abaut

** Drudgory," A Pysdigree of

XagletiThe:

I. M. Bofttuid, Suah, andPirls

n. Whidi-tbe King of Bome, or Master

A^UuuwjO 1 ■■ ••■ ••• ••• ■•• ••• ••• ••• •••

Bspariment, a Famous

Farringd^nSf The, The Author of

Fiction, The, of Popular Magazines

, HiHtorical, The Craze for, in America ...

Hardy, Thomas : sn Bnthusiaam

Hovey, Riohar J, The late

Huzlei^ The Rise of

IndesjBspurgatoriusof Words, An

Irish UtsraryMovement, The

Journalism, The Revolution in

Kipling, Mr., and Mark Twain

Teenier, Sidney

L%ureatd*s Satire, A

i^Ub, A liicerary ... ... ... ,,. ... ... ... ...

lAbraiy, The Idesd Circulating

Literature, A Gap in

Maeterlinck, The A.B C. of

Magazines, Popular, The Fiction of

Martioeau, James

Meredith, <3eorge, and his Critics

Fferis Letters IGU, 183, 886, 418» 492

Pluses, Books about 609

Preacher, A Grc%t ^.Dr. Joseph Parker)...

AcncA Book*. Two

Puritan Drama ...

Pym. 0. P.

87 87 87 87 8B 89 198 12S 128 168 168 SOS 209 SO) 817 658

256

266 616 411 167 276

ac8

886 815 371 835 207 887 147 462 277

85 169 471 167

65 883

Rabelais, The Words of

** ReminisoeDC«8.'* The Vogue of

Ruskin, Th? Making of

, The Prose Style of

SchoUrs, 7h(\ and the Poet : a Parable... Spencer, Herbert, A Birthday Tribute to Steevens, Oeorgc Wairington

895 687

317

293

451

452

319

ARTICLES— cofi<f»f<«d.

Stsvenson Lacks In

Text-Bodks, School, The Choice of

Twaio, Mark, and Mr. Kipling

Unfinished

Unknown, A Noyeliit of the

Words, An Index Bxpurgatorius of Writing, Made

TfllNOS BEES-coHtinued.

riOB .. S9i

.. 63 .. 237 .. 187 .. 535 .. 371 .. 15

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Africa, South, An Inquiry from A riel*H Press Cutting Agency . .

Arnold's School Series^

Balzac

Barrie's (.T. M.) natter Dead

'* Beagle.'* The Etymology of

Blind, Mathilde

Book-Titles ...

*'Bnlka largely"

*• Cog" and "Mich"

Oonnell'sfF. N.) IJow Soldiers Fiyht

Cuckoo, Tne Decident

•* Curate's Eyes " Epigram, The DowBOQ, Brnett

"Drift"

"Eggs, Her Sky-blue"

EUot, Cieorge, at Richmond

" Esquire." The Appellation

Explanation, Personal (Anthony C. Deane) ...

Fiction, The Supremacy of...

Flowers, The Chaatity of

Heine's Ghrave

JbKea*B Love's Comedy

Italian Affirmative, Tho . . . Johnson, Dr., The Thunder of Journalism, A Revolution in ... Lang, Mr. Andrew, on Fiction ...

Liwstm, Henry

Lcttres d VEtmngire

Lever, "Disappearing" ..

Maeterlinck and the Contemporary R^viexc

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... 49 i, 617 " Puuch, Mr." : A Protest : An American View 668

Rhythm, Quintuple 88

Ruskin on War ... ... 129

Shakespeare in Fiction ^ 414

Spanish Translations 68,88.110,115

*' Stevenson Looks In " :)37

Stevenson's Beginnings ...189, 809, 837

"Style, Contemporary" and "B.H." 18

Titie to a Title, The ...498

Urquhart, Sir Thomas 164>

veivet. Soft as ... ... ... ... ... ... 453

WatMm'B (^0 Fuable on the.Boer War ... 116, 149

wishart, ueorge ... n. ... • ••• ••• 873

Word, The Missing 896, 818, 389, 878, 884, 414,

484, 45i

Woids Worth Reviving 110, 116

, SB^Ush Obaolete 888

, Index BxpurgatoriuB of 483

Worsfold's (W. fi.) The Redemption of Egypt ... 63

THINGS SEEN.

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Critidsm, The Lower ...

Dog, The ...

Door, At the ...

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Fiower, The

Guard, The

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Imperialism

Juggernaut

Lenon, The

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Mongrel, The

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Solomon's Seal Sower, The ..• Toy-8hd|i, In a Volunteer, The War Time, In ... Well Deck, From the Window, Lighted, The. . .

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... 867

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667

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POETRY,

•ee see

fl*e •••

686 816

Arri\'al, The New

Autumn, Invocation to

Bronte, Anne and Emily, VerHcs by 386

(3ouple, Married, For the Bookplate of a 498

Dawn, The Moekiog ». ...869

DobsOQ, Mr. Austin, Verses to 347

felegy, A Fine : " Death of Arnold Toynbee " ... 867 Hi^^'B (Thomas) "The Souls of the Slain" ... 863

TUic Jaoet ... niuslon

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In Memoriam : B. H. M. S 870

MaUock's (W. H.) " Concerning the Nature of

xQUlgB ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... lit

Phillips's (Stephen) "A Man" , 116

^^ageuy, xne ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... oo

Wind a!&d City ■,. ... 472

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... 176 ... 176

THE LITERARY WEEK.

Academy of Lettei^, Russian ..

of Immortals, American ...

Access, Open, Battle of, in the library World ... 244 Allen's (James Lane) Story "The T^vo Gentle-

iHWli ••• •«« »«fl --• •«« ••« mm9 ess ••• ••• ^^V

Apocrypha, Difficulty of obtaining the 304

Archer, Mr. William, on the Mauser Bidlet 116

Argyle, The Duke of, as a Writer and Pdet 346

Arnold's (Sir Edwin) Article on Qpring 461

" Authors. Disappearing " 846,877,325

Authors, The Society of 419

Baden-Powell's (Maj.-Sen.) The DoumfaU of

' r^Si\p"n .«• ««a •■« «»« ••« ««« 9, a B,, 9»a ••• Oi*

Bellamy, Mr., and Mr. Edwin Markham, Parallel

OOvWwUJI *•• ••• ••« ••« %•% ••• ••■ ••• aae ■ ■ • Jl A I

BishopBgate In-Mtitute library 881

Black (William) Memorial, The ... 2S8

Blackmore, Mr. R. D., Beminiscencee of 76

"BwiiM^ f'onst»lationsof FhUoaophy 400

Booh-Iiuyer's Summary of Tianaattantio Ltten^

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Book-Plates Stolen from Harvard Univenity

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Production, StatiBtloB of^or 1899 ... :.. 86

Reviewfaig ; A Chicago writer on 461

Boohs, Favourite, in Ameriea... ... 6, 886, 888, 401

Boirow, Fragment by Mr. Lowtriaon on 879

, Gharacter-flketch of ^ 400

Bow]m*b (MiaB)Charloae Leyland .. 489

Brahmin. The Young, and Mr. W. B. Yeata ... 894

British Museum, Catakwuing at the

Annual Report (1899-1900) ... 648

, "Supgrfloous'' liteiatae at

wMP •■• ••■ •■■ ••• ••• «•■ ••• ••■ «•• •■• ««fl OSV

Brod lick's (Hon. O. C.) Memories €usd Impressicns 816 Bronte, Anne and Emily, Poetioal FbwerB of.

Compared ... ... 826

, Mr., Letter by, to Mrs. Gaakdl 881

Barton's (Sir Bichard) Poem : Kasidah ^ Hdji

Aftta AUYnzdi 491

Cable'K(Mr.Oeorire)yenei: "TheNewArriral" 686

Ctflyle Letteis, The New 864

Censarahip, Russian, of English Books 84

Churchill, Mr. Winston : " OurB " and " ThOn " 2 } Glodd'B (Mr. Edward) Memoir of Mr. (Haat

^^en ... ... ... ... ..1 ... ... ... ... ... vctv

ColliuM^B (Ghurton) edition of the Earlg Poems of

Al/rtd, Lortl Trunyson 440

respecting ., , ^ ^. 84

,Mai^ Twain on 294

Ooralli's (Miss) Work outeide the limitB of

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life in London ...

Cowperiana, Unpablished

Crane, Mr. Stephen, A Critical Esiay on Croiland'8 (T. W. H.) Humorous Odes... Da/;/ A'riTii Prize Competition Daly's (Mr. Augustin) Books, Sale of ... Daudet. Alidionae, Statue to

"Decadence" of Style

Dedications 23,835,880,480,488,001

D nn-n'l ri'J-h' Atlr>rtisn', The ,^ ...845

*J>^"P?;^V^"»*?>'™P*«d8P«^Mngof 516

Donnellv, Mr., and Shakespeare 546

Dooley, Mr., on the War Expert 218

, on the Paris Eihibition 421

Dorkug.KtuJiv'l'of ^ 6|6

Dowson, Mr. Ernest Christopher, Career of

. „ 176, 400, 480 AVAud^Pu/.^ and Eaglish Fiction 97

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BAwvUa^u (H. Satheilaod) Ftrsoual Jiecolleelion* 440

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Elioi» George, Tietter bf, to Dr. Alexander Main 381 Slflinoie, raakesMeie'B Ghflioe of, in '^Hamlel" 166 " R^entoy " BhaieipeMe, The ^ 626

Irii Ai^Jt^ TWanuMi iti ... ... ... 544

FitsOenia, Bdward, KoCct for a BibUognyhr of

245, i64

,aaaHogt .. 402

Pletohar, Mr. A. E , on " The Ideal Newspaper" 844 Voihce, Mr. Archibald, as a War Correspondent

886, 286 Fnnoe, M. Anatole. The litcnry Ohaiaeter of

460, MO Fnatr'B (Mifs Oiaoe) " Tan'olocioa Tale " ... 9H Fkeytiiff*s (Hen OnstiT) Advioe to Wou'd*be XHOTeuBce ••• ... ..■ ... ••• .•• ••• •.. ••• <•

CMrtin, Thomaa, Mr. Laonnoe Binyon's Btadj of 380 Giarisg. Mr. George, Miaa FindUtri's Tribute to 400

Oodkin,Mr. B.LL,andhi8Czitie4 25

Oosioout Academy, The 420

Gwynn, Mr. StqineB, on Anthony TroUope 44

, on the Tramiog of Children 381

Hardy's (Thonuw) " The Bonis of the Slain *' ... 263 Haopbnann's (Crarhart) Flay "Sohlnok nad

Janoh

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(Gerhaii) Personal Appearance

BUU W iraK^ •*• •■! ••■ ••• ••■ ••• •■• ••■ tXf4

H«nley. Mr. W. E.. on the Beadieg Public 166

Hindu Proverbial Philosophy 137

HtatorJeal M88. Commissbn, The 4

Hough's (Mr. B.) Article on ** The West, and

Censln literary Dirooverits " 97

Howells, Mr W. D., on the Art of the Novel ... 600

Hayuans (M J. K ), Betirement of 77

Ibsen's Attitude defined by Prof. Herford 880

Inlemational Art Kotes 216

/fit, new Fkench Magasine 420

Uah Literary Theatre Society 156

— — Movement, The 244

Irring's (Washington) Inspiration for " Bip Van

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James, Mr. Henry, on Bobert L. Stevenson's

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JonmalielBwhosoirflredintheBoerWar 489

KUgsiey. Hiss ... .•• ... •.• ••• eTV

Kipling, Mr., and lb. Bobert Buchanan 4

— — — — , and the Aattoaa/ Oh/trrutr 441

Knspp'a (Prof) edition of George Borrow's

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Kruger, President, and his chosen Psalm

LadygmUh Lyre^ The

Lambkin Bev. Mr., Educational Views of

Laog'sCMr.) "Bignof the8hip"

Law-salt. Btraage literary, at fiome

'* Libraries, TraveUing*'

Lfbmry, Girenlating. Who invented it /

literature ss She is Poshed in America

literary Woik, Unnropitious Times for

London Topographical Bodefar

Maeterlinck on ' ' The Evolution of Mysterv " ... Mafeking. The Poet Laureate's Stanzas Ccuebrat-

iof the Belief of 488

Magazines, School 266

Mannis and Headlam's Pray^ rn from the P(trtn 24 Mallock's (Mr. W. H.) Versiflcation of Lucretius 96 — ^— ^~— New Wo A on Science and

XaOU^aOB •• ••• ••■ ■•• ■•• •■■ ••• ••■ •*• ••• 200

MW*Mfflft"* Vgif T.iKi»ATy ,^ ^^^ 390

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Markham, Mr. Edwin, and Mr. Bellamy, Parallel

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MlUer, Mr. A. H., on the Omar Khayyam Cult ... 601

Misqnotstiooa, Common. A list of 001

Mivart,Pr. St. George, Career of 284

Moli^re,Quotatioiis from, in Use in England ... 246 Moore's (Mr. George) Firewell of London as a f^Btte os Arc ... ..a ... ... ... lO

CONTENTS OF VOL. LVIII.

r StTPPLEKENT TO THE ACABBMT, L 14 July, 1900.

THE LITEBABY WEEK--coM^tfiflie<f .

PAOB

Moore's (Mr. George) Pliper on Xto^Iish Fiction 808 Murray's (Gilbert) Orkrinal Hay : "Andromache " 848

AVtr Liberal Jifxnno The 643

Novel, American ffistorical. The 894

——, The "Powerful" 488

Titles, The Clashing of 649

Novelists' Mistakes in Dealing with Foreign

Novels, Tl&e Best Twenty of the Lsst Ten Years 879 Paiii Bxhibitioa, Cdlleetian of Britiah Books at... 266

Paul's (Mr. Howard) Defence of Maoaulay 2S4

POaoock's (Wadham) Story of the Inter-UniversUy

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Pension Fund for A,uthocs. Proposed 8, 176

Persian literature. Modem 686

PUlUps's (Stephen) Poem on the Boer War 116

Beading of Paolo and Fntmceaea 9b

Prison Librarians. The Dutl*s of 46

Baleigh's (Mr. Walter) Addmss on ** The Study

of AJt in a k£odem Univtitsity " 26

Bawosley's (Canon) ItaUadxo/tke War 264

Beputations, literary. Shortest and Uncertainty

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Bostand's (Bdmond) Home Sarroun4iogB

Boyal Literary Fund. The

Buskin Union. The

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Scott's Proof-sheeU of ItfdgaunUfi

Shamrock to be Worn by Iri>h Soldiers

**S<gn of the Cross, The," Effect of, on iti

Audiences • ... 6

Snowdrift Lubriosnt for Bngineers and Quota- tions from Sbakespevre 80S

Souldiers ('at^chiiinr^ Thf 186

Spsnith Poem, Translation of 116,461

Speight's (£. O.) Tkf New BngllA Poetry Book ... 186 Bpelliog, Changed, Adopted by Chicago Uni- versity 117, 401

Steevens, Mr- G. W., Beminiioenoes of ... 76, 176, 816

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; , When He Joined the Daily

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Street's (0. S ) Article on ''Sheridan and Mr.

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SjmboUsm, Literary, Mr. Arthur Bymoos on ... 196

T^nka, The Japanese 167

Teonyion and ImpeTialism 866

Tire buck. Mr., an Appreciation cf 97

Tit-Bit Literature, Oiowih and Solidification of 217

Tolstoy ontioised by Verestchagin 481

Tram's (H. D.) '* The Unflinching Realist " ... 96

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Traosvaal War, Poems on the 116, 116, 166

Trollope's (Anthony) Novels 96

Tntin's (J. R.) edition of Richard Craahaw's

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Yale Sh%keR>eaTe, The ... 216

Wallace Collection in Hertford House 523

Walton, Izsak. Facsimile of the Writii^ of ... 157

War Verse, The Weskneas of 217

War CctfreqKudents who fell in the Soudan

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Ward's (Mr« Humphrv) Intr eduction to Bmily

Bronte's Wttthrrlug HfighLf 166

Watson's (Mr. William) Parable on the Boer

VVBa*** >■• ••• «•• ••• sa« ••• ««« «•• X&Oy A44/

Wigan, The Free Public Library of 600

Words, Old, worth Reviving 116

Yeatfl's (Mr. ) ** The Shadowy Waters " 440

"Yellow Peril, The" ^ 499

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RuHkin, Mr. John

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f>rofessor an opportunity of renewing acquaintance with a ady who has been haunting the hotel grounds. That is the bare outline of the plot.

In opening the new Free Library at Acton, on Wednes- day, Mr. Choate, in a delightful speech, explained to his hearers how " travelling libraries " are worked in America. These libraries, each consisting of one hundred books, are sent round to outiying villages and into remote districts where stationary libraries do not exist. Mr. Choate added that he did not know whether any parts of Great Britain were so remote as to need such an institution, but he commended the utility of the system. Undoubtedly there are remote parts in England (some within thirty miles of London) which need the travelling library. What is more, some get it. Travelling libraries for English villages were organised six years ago by Mr. Stead, and have been made successful and self-supporting. Nor did Mr. Stead claim originalisty for his idea. Such libraries had already an existence in Hampshire and Yorkshire.

Are We in the Twentieth Century?

Oh, ask me not, one thing is plain :

To-day I see the sun. But on my tomb will beat the rain

When men count Twenty -one !

Mr. Bernard Shaw apropoH the spelling of page 16: "Why am common English right please ? I refrain from cally forced on me in giving trouble. But I character of a man is in

sends us this genial remonstrance a certain name in his article, on I denied by the Academy the to spell Shakespear's name as I striking out the final e so tyranni- the proof because I shrink from protest all the same. The whole the way he spells Shakespear."

As to the merits of the play which amazed and delighted Sussex last week we must be silent. Nor are we allowed to mention the actors and actresses by name or to criticise their performance. But we have permission to print a facsimile of the first page of the programme, giving the title of the play and the names of the authors. It was called

Tft£ aftOST.

Written by

Mr. Hbnry James, Mr. Robert Barr,

Mr. Gborge Gissing, Mr. Rider Haggard,

Mr. Joseph Conrad, Mr. H. B. Marriott-

Watson, Mr, H G. Wells, Mr. Edwin Pugh,

Mr. a. £. W. Mason and

Mr. Stephen Crane.

The play was in two acts: *'I. Empty Boom in Brede Place " ; ** II. Same as Before." The text of *» The Ghost " will never be printed.

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Mrs. M. L. Gvttnn^s Birthday Book, just published by Messrs. Methuen, unfortunately does not appear to be free from error. Last week we quoted four lines from Chaucer that Mrs. Owynn has printed upon her title- page. The quotation, which our printer copied exactly as it is printed in the Birthday Book, has drawn the following remonstrance from Prof. Skeat :

'^May I be allowed to draw attention to a quotation from Chaucer given in the Academy, December 30, 1899, at p. 760 ? It appeared in the following form, as a quota- tion from some compilation :

Oat of the olde fieldes, as men sayeth, Cometh all this new come from yere to yere ; And out of olde bookes, in good faithe, Cometh all this new science that men lere.

It seems piteous that such fine lines should be so sur- prisingly misspelt. It would seem that Middle English is an uimiown umguage; no one would dream of Seating Latin or Greek or German after this sort. It is marvellous, moreover, how anyone could imagine that such lines can scan. The utterly shocking errors, ruining the metre, occur in the use of ^ new ' for l£e dissyllabic newe ; * come ' for the monosyllabic com ; ' yere ' for the monosyllabic yew in the former of the two instances ; * faithe ' for the monosyl- labic faith (better feith) ; and again, the form * new ' for newe, in the last line. Besides these, 'fieldes* should be fildeSj and ' sayeth ' should be mUK And it must be borne in mind that * Cometh ' represents ComHhy a monosyllable. One thing to which Englishmen look forward with longing hope is the advent of a time when Middle English spelling shall be understood and duly respected.''

Ws must say that we sympathise with Mrs. Gwynn. Her Birthday-Book, which is by far the handsomest that we have seen, would not, we imagine, have been sent by any editor to Prof. Skeat for review. But because we used her Chaucerian motto to adorn a blank space, and because the text of that motto is not a good text, Mrs. Gwynn comes under the displeasure of the greatest living authority on Chaucer. The moral seems to be that compilers of Birthday Books should look to their Middle English.

It is a convenient provision of Nature that a hen, when she has laid an e^^^ clucks — thereby informing the world that ishe has laid an q^^, A disposition to cluck, or, to use his own phrase, '* advertise a little," would, .in Mr. Q. S. Street's opinion, add to the usef ubiess of the His- torical MSS. Commission. Mr. Street has reason to feel a little sore about the Commission's humility. A while a^o he read with some excitement a paragraph announcing that a large number of George Selwyn's Letters to the fifth Earl of Carlisle had been discovered at Castle Howard and would shortly be published. Mr. Street, being an authority on Selwyn, wrote in haste to the publisher for an advance copy of this book. He got it, and he tells his readers in the January Blackwood i '^ I was congratulating myself on the business-like promptitude with which my inevitable article would appear, when lo ! I heard that these new letters and many others besides had been published by the Historical MSS. Commission more than a year ago." A splendid e^^ had been laid by the Commission and Mr. Street had not heard of it.

The suggestion Mr. Street now makes, that the His- torical MSS. Commission should issue its publications in a less official* looking form, in volumes easier to handle, and printed on better paper, that it should advertise, and send out paragraphs to ^^ impenetrable editors," is doubt- less only a part of his fun. Let the Commission do this, and we foresee a demand for illustrations and fancy bindings and gay prefaces. Moreover, the vigilant expert

would then have no chance. Mr. Street overlooked a prize for a year, but, after all, he received his advance copy of Mr. Eoscoe's and Miss Clergue's book, and is first in the field (the magazine field) with his criticism.

The scruples which sensitive people felt in reading the Browning love letters have not been so acute in the case of Eobert Louis Stevenson's letters. Yet the two publica- tions must finally be cited together — doubtless along with others — in determining the rights of the dead and the duties of biographers. The world was glad — more than glad — to have these books. But we are not wholly out of sympathy with the writer in Macmillan who questions whether Stevenson's letters have not been too hastily and prodigally given to the world. Such misgivings are not inconsistent with a keen enjoyment of the gift, and a willingness to use it when given. As the writer points out, Stevenson has been dead only five years, and '^ he did not write those letters for the eye of whomsoever chooses to buy the book." At all events a new tradition has been started under which the dead are likely to be treated with as much freedom by biographers as the living already are by the gossi^pers of the press. The disturbing question is, Where will it end ?

Mr. Bobert Buchanan's onslaught on Mr. Kipling in the December number of the Contemporary Review has brought forth a reply, in the same quarter, from Sir Walter Besant. Mr. Buchanan, it will be remembered, suggested that Mr. Kipling was a literary hooligan, who is leading this generation away from the humanitarian teaching of forty years ago. The term '^ hooligan " was most offen- sive, and we are not surprised that Sir Walter Besant's knightly solicitude for the digpiity of literature has been stirred to its depths. His reply to Mr. Buchanan takes the form of a confession of his own love for the writings of Mr. Kipling, in (^hom he sees a fine ^' enthusiasm for humanity."

Always, in every character, he presents a man : not an actor : a man with the passioas, emotions, weaknesses and instincts of humanity. It is perhaps one of the Soldiers Three : or it is the Man who went into the moontaius be- cause he would be a King : or the man who sat in the lonely lighthouse till he saw streaks : always the real man whom the reader sees beoeath the uniform and behind the drink and the blackguardism. It is the humanity in the writer which makes his voice tremulous at times with un- spoken pity and silent sympathy : it is t>ie tremor of his voice which touches the heart of his audience.

Of course neither Mr. Buchanan's attack nor Sir Walter Besant's defence belong to the domain of cool literary criticism. Indeed, it seems to us that Sir Walter mis- understands the case when he treats it as an abhorrent attack of one author on another author. At bottom the quarrel is political rather than literary. Mr. Buchanan sees in Mr. Kipling a misleader of the nation, and in that character he attacks him with the rancour and fury which are still not wholly banished from political controversy. No doubt the literary element is bound up with the social. Still, Mr. Buchanan did not storm and rage on a question of style, or a school of fiction, or a point of academics ; he made it a question of social politics and of religion — subjects on whioh strong feeling is natural. Mr. Buchanan may be wrong, but we have no doubt that he is sincere, and we are sure that he is courageous.

Mr. Herbert Spencer has addressed a letter to the Westminster Gazette denying that Mr. Hector Macpherson's forthcoming monograph on himself has passed under Ms eye. Mr. Spencer writes :

In one of your issues last week was a paragraph re- ferring to a preceding statement which had been made concerning Mr. Hector Macpheraon^s monograph on ray

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works. Apparently the statement was that I had seen all the sheets of Mr. Macpherson's work before they went to press, and in the paragraph named it was said that this statement was incorrect. The rectification is an inadequate one. Incorrect may mean partially true but not wholly true — may mean that I have seen some proofs but not all. Instead of being called incorrect the statement should have been called entirely false. I have not seen, and I have declined to see, a single page of Mr. Macpherson's work in proof, in MS., or in any other shape.

conyerse is not always experienced. Quo Vadis^ David Marum, and When Knighthood teas in jp/otr^haye "boomed*' in America ; they haye not '^ boomed " here.

A FEW years ago dialogue, as a literary form, became distinctly popular, and one reputation at least was founded on its practice. It was a fleeting fashion ; but fashions trayel, and the present home of Dialogue appears to be — Natal ! A young British officer was endeayouring, a few weeks ago, to signal from General Buller's camp to Lady- smith, but he sopn found that his messages were being read and answered by Boers. Thereupon the following conyersation took place :

Katal. Who are you ?

Boers. The Boyal Irish Fusiliers.

N. What is the Number of your r* giment ?

B. I am Corporal Stevens, 18th Hussars.

N. What are you doing ?

B. Ladysmith was taken last night; I escaped.

N. You are Boers, aren't you ?

B. Tes, and you're English. Where is Buller P

N. I don't know. Where is Joubert ?

B. He has gone to Pretoria with General White as prisoner.

N. How is old Kruger ?

B. All right, thank you.

N. Why won't you wait for us? We have p?enty of cold steel for you, and our 100 rounds are getting rather heavy. Grd help you if you do.

B. Yes, He is sure to.

" A smart dialogue with a grim ending " says a contem- porary. A grim dialogue with a smart ending would also describe it. Smart, however, is too poor a word to apply to the final Boer repartee, and it must be confessed that the dialogue is marred by the British officer's explicit bellicoseness : but what a document !

A CURIOUS index to popular reading-taste in America is found in the May - to - December Cumulative Book Index, containing a dassified list of American books published in that interyal. From this it appears that the three writers most in vogue among readers and critics — as judged by mere number of publications — ^are

1. Kipling.

2. Shakespeare.

3. Omar Khayyam.

It is also gravely stated that though " it is manifestly unfair to Kipling to compare such a collection of authors as the Bible with him alone, yet the entries under * Bible ' are scarcely a third more in number." We infer that even here Mr. Kipling is '^ creeping up."

The six ''best selling" books in the States an,d Canada during December are named in the order of demand by the American Bookman :

Janice Meredith, By Leicester Ford. Richard (JurveL By Winston Churchill. When Knighthood was in Flower, By E. Caskoden. David Harum, By E. N. Westcott. Via Orucis, By Marion Crawford.

Air, Dooley in the Hearts of his Countrymen, By F. P. Dunne.

Of these books, three — Nos. 2, 3, and 4 — survive from the BookmanU September list. It is stated that Mr. E. Caskoden's novel. When Knighthood was in Flower ^ is in its 150th thousand. This is another illustration of the fact that whereas the large sale of a book in England is generally accompanied by a large sale in America, the

'' A OALLus periodical " was the term applied recently by Harper's Weekly to our own quarterly Anglo-Saxon Review, Thereupon one of its readers applied for a definition of ''gallus." Gallus is but old gallows writ decent, and it means '' reckless, dashing, showy." Pro- moted from the hangman's yocabulary, it is still no better than slang. The Weekly quotes this snatch of an old song :

He was a gallus boy, boys, and he was mighty fine,

And he used to drive a mule team on the Denver City line.

The Weekly further expounds the word by saying : ** If we should speak of District- Attorney Asa Bird Garainer as a gallus jurist it would probably be an appropriate use of the word." And now we expect a letter asking us: " Who is District- Attorney Asa Bird Gardiner ? "

Mr. Walter H. Page, formerly editor of the Atlantic Monthly, has become a partner in the S. S. McGlure Company of New York, and will devote himself to the literary work of the firm. Mr. J. L. Thompson, Mr. Henry W. Lanier fson of the late Sidney Lanier), and Mr. 8. A. Everitt, will all be admitted into partnership. Mr. James MacArthur, formerly editor of the Bookman, will represent the house in London. The name of the company, it is expected, will be changed eventually to Doubledaj, Page & Co.

The first number of the International Monthly, issued by the Macmillan Co., of New York, contains five articles, the place of honour being given to Mr. Edouard Hod, who writes on ** Later Evolutions of French Criticism." In size the magazine is somewhat smaller than the Nineteenth Century, and the price is 25 cents. The editor is Mr. F. A. llichardson, of Vermont, who is assisted by an Advisory Board '* composed of one person in America, representing eacli of the twelve departments of contem- porary thought with which the magazine deals, who has to co-operate and associate with him one person residing in France, one in England, and one in Germany." The International Monthly will not languish for lack of advice.

The new and enlarged series of Punch, with its extra pages, its story by Mr. Conan Doyle, its full-page pictures, its clean type and good paper, makes an attractiye miscellany. AU the contributions are now signed with initials, even down to a brief notice of a reference book which is signed by Mr. Lucy. Mr. Seaman contributes some capital parodies. But the supply of ''fill column jokes " must have run very short when Mr. Punch was obliged to use this ''Sad Case": "An eminent literary man, who for many years had invariably used quills, found himself without a single one ; and so, in order to gain his livelihood by the sale of various articles, he was reduced to steel pens ! ! "

A Church Qatette interviewer has been talking to Mr. Wilson Barrett about the effect of the " Sign of the Cross " on its audiences. Said the interviewer :

" Bumours reached the outer world on the first presen- tation of wonderful ' conversions ' wrought by its means. Do the ' conversions ' still continue ? *'

** Yes. Letters still keep pouring in upon us. Only a few days ago we had a letter from a disting^uished Parsee telling us that the ' Sig^ of the Cross ' had given him quite a difiFerent conception of Christianity from the one he used to have. A clergyman, after telling us that he had never seen such a play in his life, winds up by saying : ' I have been preaching for twenty years, but I never preached such a sermon as you did to us the night before.' "

The replies of the distinguished Parsee and the clergyman

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were certainly guarded. This evangelical play-acting reminds us of Defoe's satire on an alliance between Cbnrcli and Stage in his day: "Peggy Hughes sings, Monsieur Eamadon plays, Miss Santlow dances, Monsieur Cherrier teaches, and all for the Church ! Here's heavenly doings ! Here's harmony ! Your singing Psalms is hurdy- gurdy to this Music ; and all your preaching- Actors are Fools to these."

Mfads and Mands is the title of a new illustrated art magazine, to be published monthly at the price of sixpence. The scheme the editor proposes is ambitious.

To the January number of the JVarth American Revieio Mr. Henry James will contribute an article on the Letters of K. L. Stevenson, and Mr. Edmund Gosse a character study of Sir Eedvers Buller.

On Saturday evening a dinner was given to Mr. Hugh Chisholm, on the occasion of his retirement from the editorship of the St. Jameg'^s Gautte, A large number c.f Mr. Chisholm's friends and well-wishers were present, including seven editors, three artists, two publishers, and the staff of the St. Jameses Gautte. The chair was taken by Mr. Edmund Gosse, and the vice-chair by Mr. Theodore A. Cook, the new editor of the St. James's, who has the distinction of being the only editor who has rowed for his University in an Oxford and Cambridge boat-race.

The sixty-first anniversary festival of the News- vendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution will take place at the Whitehall Eooms, on May 22. Mr, C. Arthur Pearson will preside.

Bibliographical.

PERHArs the most notable of the " new departures " made by Mr. Punch this week is the initialling of most of the matter he prints. I think this a good move, because I believe it will attract to the ** Fleet-street jester" a good deal of talent which hitherto, probably, has been with- held from him. Mr. Punch has never been unwilling — at any rate, of late years — to let his young men reveal their identity and proclaim their work ; witness, for example, Mr. Warham St. Leger's Ballads from '' Punch,'^ issued in 1890 ; Mr, Punch's Music Hall Songs and Dramas, by Mr. Anstey (1892) ; Mr. Punch's Prize Novels, by Mr. Lehmann (1892 also), and so forth. Several other living writers, notably Mr. Seaman, have been allowed to identify themselves publicly with their contributions to Punch. In the same way with the pictorial artists. We had Mr. Heed's Prehistoric Peeps in book form in 1896, and Mr. Phil May's Songs and their Singers in 1898. On the volumes of cartoons by Tenniel and sketches by Du Maurier-to go no further back— I need not dwell. In truth, Mr. Punch has for some time been accumulating rapidly the material for an inevitable Bibliography.

For reasons of my own, I have not yet read any of the "notices" of Mr. Phillips's Pao/a and France »ca, and I do not know, therefore, whether any comparison has been instituted between it and Leigh Hunt's rhymed narrative on the same subject, published in 1816 under the title of The Story of Rimini. As a matter of fact, no comparison is possible, for Hunt's "poem " is written in the so-called easy, but actually slipshod, fashion which that well-meaning bard affected in such cases. The Story of Pitniniis Mvell known to all literary students ; it is not so familiar a fact

that a play on the subject of the famous love-story was written by the American G. H. Boker, and duly in- cluded in a volume of his Plays and Poems published in 1856. Moreover, Francesca di Rimini, as Boker called his work, was duly enacted in America in 1857, and revived there in 1882 and 1883. I have not read Boker'splay, but it would be interesting to compare it with Mr. Phillips's, which, I feel sure, need not shrink from the comparison.

Says a correspondent, writing from Edgbaston, Birming- ham : "On page 199 of Stevenson's Letters, Vol. I., reference is made to Penn's Fruits of Solitude. Stevenson sends a copy to Mr, H. F. Brown, with this remark : * If ever in all my "human conduct" I have done a better thing to any fellow- creature than handing on to you this sweet, dignified, and wholesome book, I know I shall hear of it on the last day. To write a book like this were im- possible; at least one can hand it on — with a wrench — one to another.' Can you tell me, through your Biblio- graphical page, if this book has been reprinted here ? If not, can you get a publisher to take the hint ? " To this I may reply, that Penn's Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims has been published more than once in England. The latest edition I can trace was one issued by Messrs. J. Clarke & Co. in 1886, at the small price of one shilling. Whether this, or the previous edition by Messrs. Groombridge (1881), is still in print I cannot say. Should the book really be out of print, it would be worth somebody's while, I think, to resuscitate it.

By way of supplement to what I wrote last week about a new and revised edition of Mr. Swinburne's poems, I may remind those of my contemporaries who have suggested a one-volume Selection from those poems, that such an anthology is already in existence — that which was pub- lished by Messrs. Chatto & Windus in 1887. I have some ground for thinking that this selection was made by the poet himself, or, at any rate, approved by him. To me — and, I should think, to most of his admirers — it was any- thing but an adequate work. Selections from a man's poetry should not be made by the man himself ; he will choose according to personal preference, not according to the varied character of his output. Were I Messrs. Chatto & Windus I should try to get Mr. Swinburne's consent to the publication of an anthology of his verse, put together by an independent authority. Such a volume, really well done — with an eye to the tastes and distastes of the general public — would havp been, and would still bo, I believe, a popular success.

The first biographer of Lord Beaconsfield (if I remember rightly) was Mr. T. P. O'Connor, who published his some- what personal attack on the unfortunate statesman (if my memor}' serves me) during his subject's lifetime. Then there was that portentously dull Public Life of Beacons- field by Mr. Francis Hitchman, a sort of antidote to which (one may say) was produced by Mr. P. W. Clay den under the title of England under Beaconsfeld. In 1881 came a little Life by Edward Walford, and the critical Study by George Brand es. After that, the topic lapsed till 1888, when Mr. T. E. Kebbel issued a sympathetic monograph on the Tory leader. Two years later came the admirably- written, but nevertheless unsatisfactory, memoir by J. A; Froude. Now we are told to expect in a few days yet another memoir, from the pen of Mr. Harold Gorst. For my part, I think the best account of Disraeli is that which he gave of himself in his Home Letters and Letters to his Sifter, covering the ground between 1830 and 1852.

We are promised a collection of literary extracts, advo- cating toleration in religious matters, to which the compiler has given the title of The JJl'der View. It is not a bad title, and is certainly none the worse for recalling that of a little book written by Dr. Samuel Cox and published in 1883 — The Larger Hope. This was a sequel to Sahator Mundi, by the same author, both being written in the interests of what was then called **Universalism."

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The Glory that was Rome.

The Letters of Cicero, Translated into English by Eveljn S. Shuckburgb, M.A. 4 vols. Vols. I. and II. (George Bell & Sons.)

Mr. Shuckbukgh has done a great service in giving to English readers the wholly admirable translation of Cicero's Letters, of which the first two volumes are now before us. To say it is scholarly would be inadequate. It is that and something more than that ; it is an excellent piece of literary work. Fidelity to the original is com- bined with easy, idiomalic English in a really remarkable degree. He accomplishes the feat of making us forget that we are reading a translation. It is brilliant work.

It was time we should have a good translation of these letters. They are, perhaps, the most interesting letters in the world. They draw the curtain which hides from us the intimate life of antiquity, and show us breathing Home — not the mere Rome of history, but a Rome which touches us as men. Here you have the people who con- quered the world laughing, chatting, quarrelling, litigating, money- making, and behaving just as we behave. You hear the hum of the Forum, the latest gossip, the latest politics. You rub elbows with men of old renown ; with Cato, the morally inflexible and very much of a prig ; with LucuUus, the conqueror of Alithridates, but yet more cele- brated for his dinners, a fine specimen of the patrician ; nay, you come close to Ctosar and Pompey themselves. And the penetrating, urbane, cultivated, irresolute man who wrote them — greatest of Rome's orators and perhaps greatest of her prose-writers — is always chatty, observant, winning and human.

Thus you have delightful human little glimpses of domesticity, touching in these stern old Romans. A large portion of tiie letters are to the orator's old friend Atticus, and are full of allusions to his wife and his daughter — a child of twelve when the letters begin. Tullia is her name, but he uses generally the tender and musical diminutive, Tulliola. Atticus forgets to send her a pro- mised present, and Cicero writes :

My pet Tulliola claims your present, and duns me as your security. I am resolved, however, to disown the obligation rather than pay up for you.

Turn another page and you find a sneer at Pompey's arbitrary ways and militarism. '^ I don't like his wlute boots and leggings." Turn yet again, and you come on a letter of advice to his brother as pro-consiU, which might have been written to an English Governor-General.

Towards the middle of the second volume the corre- spondence is streaked by the red line of the great Civil War between Cresar and Pompey ; and Cicero appears as a war- correspondent. These ** letters from the seat of war " would be valuable in any age, but in that age are price- less, for there is nothing like them in antiquity. One of the great crises of the world is unconsciously depicted for us by the greatest writer of his day. The tribunes, expelled from the Senate, had fled to Crosar's camp on the Gallic border, and invoked his protection. The Senate had launched a decree against lum ; he had directed a menacing letter to the Senate and had crossed the famous Rubicon. It was the situation in the Transvaal The Roman loyalists had been pushing matters to a fight, and when it came Crosar overran Italy. Pompey's great plan, about which heads in Rome had been mysteriously wagging, proved to be non-existent. He left Rome, with the Senate and the consuls, to raise levies and prepare the defence of Italy ; but the loyalists found themselves scattered and shut up in the Italian towns where they were captured in detachments. Pompey himself retreated to the sea-coast of Apulia, whence he ultimately fled to Greece, and the Senate with him. Most living and

modem is Cicero's picture, from day to day, of the 6on- stemation and uncertainty during those opening weeks; when Ciosar was on the march, and everyone waiting for the development of Pompey's plans, Cicero is fiul of hesitation. He believes that C»)sar will turn out a monster of cruelty, and talks about him as some of us talked about the Boers at the outset. On the other h^nd, he realised before the rest of the loyalists that Pompey was a fraud, and had no idea of defending Italy. Thus he begins when the Senate has thrown down the gauntlet, and he is quitting Rome to take over the defence of the Capuan district — knowing only that Csosar is on the march. He wrote to his dear Atticus, who quietly stays in the city to look after his private a£Eairs : .

I don't know, by heaven, what to do, now or in the future : such is the agitation into which I am thrown by the infatuation of our party's most insane decision. . . . What plan our Enceus (Pompey) has adopted oris adoptinf^ I don't know ; as yet he is cooped up in the towns and in a state of lethargy. If he makes a stand in Italy, we shall all be together ; if he abandons it, I sball have to reconsider the matter. Up to now, unless I am out of my senses, his proceedings are all fatuous and rash.

Two days later he breaks forth again, in a breathingly vivid picture of ancient Italy on the eve of invasion :

What in the world does it mean ? What is going on ? I am quite in the dark. '* We are in occupation of Cingu- lum," says nomeone ; '' we have lost Ancona "; '* Labienus has abandoned CeBsar." Are we talkiog of an imperatur of the Roman people or of a Hannibal? Madman! Miserable wretch, that has never seen even a shadow of virtue I And he says he is doing all this to '* support his honour ! " How can there be any honour where there is no moral right? Can it be morally right to have an army without commission from the State ? To seize cities abandoned by one's fellow citizens as a means of attack- ing one's own country? To be contriving abolition of debts, restoration of exiles, hundreds of other crimes ?

Which Ca}3ar was perfectly guiltless of contriving. But Cicero is on his best oratorical platform for the moment, and very much frightened besides. He calms himself with a little philosophy, of the right Stoic pattern, and goes on :

In the name of fortune, what do you think of Pompey's plan ? I mean in abandoning the city P For / am at a loss to explain it. Nothing, again, could be more irrational. Do you mean to abandon the city ? Then you would have done the same if the Qauls were upon us. ** The Republic," says he, ** does not depend on brick and ^mortar." No, but it does depend on altars and hearths. . . . On the other hand, I gather from the indignation in the miminpiaj and the conversation of those whom I meet, that this plan is likely to prove successful in a way. There is an extraordinary outcry at the city being without magis- trates or senate. In fact, there is a wonderfully strong feeHng at Pompey's being in flight. Indeed, the point of view is quite changed ; people are now for making no concessions to Cnesar. Expound to me what all this means.

It certainly meant that '^ concessions" no longer mattered, since C»>sar was coming to take them. But how swift he came they did not yet know, these good loyalists of Rome, though tJiey were getting painfully conscious how alow was their own leader. You can see, in this letter, the agitated groups gossipping in the streets and in the market-place — that open- air dub -room of ancient Italy — the catching at news and the questioning of couriers. You can feel the shock throughout Italy, when it was known that Rome was abandoned to the rebel soldier from Gaul. Three days later he is still waiting for news, and growing more doubtful of Pompey :

You ask me to be sure to let you know what Pompey is doing : I don't think he knows himself ; certainly cone of us do. I saw the consul Lentullus at Formifo on the twenty-first ; I have seen Libo. Nothing but terror and uncertainty everywhere ! Pompey is on the road to

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Larinum; for there are some cohorts there, as also at Luceria and Teanum, and in the rest of Apulia. After that, nobody knows whether he means to make a stand anywhere, or to cross the sea. If he stays in Italy, I am afraid he cannot have a dependable army : but if he ^oes away, where I am to go or stay, or what I am to do, I don't know. For the man whose fury you dread will, I think, spare no form^of brutality : nor will the suspension of business, nor the departure of senate and magistrates, nor the closing of the treasury, cause him to pause. But all this, as you say, we shall know before long. ... It is all but certain that Labienus has abandoned him. . . . For myself, I am convinced that it is true. Pray, though you say you confine yourself to the limits of your own house, do give me a sketch of the city. Is Pompey missed ? Is there any appearance of 'a feeling against CsBiar? What is your opinion as to Terentia and TuUia ? Should they stay in Bome, or join me, or seek some place of safety?

Such is the terror inspired by the march of the ogre from Gaul. Cicero was soon to learn that Pompey, not Ceesar, was the man whose cruelty was to be feared. The desertion of CsBsar's great lieutenant, Labienus, is a gleam of hope to him :

Labienus [he writes] I regard as a demigod There has been no political stroke this long time past more brilliant. . . . For us, however, where shall we be able to raise our heads, or when ? How utterly iocapable our general is you yourself observe . . . and how devoid of any plau of campaign the facts are witness. . . . Everyone agrees that he is in a state of abject alarm and agitation. . . . His whole hope rests on the two legions somewhat treacherously obtained. . . . For as yet, indeed, those whom he is enlisting are men reluctant to serve, and averse from fighting.

But Pompey was not so panic-stricken, perhaps, as Cicero sweepingly asserts. He had '' 'eard the East a- calling/' and he could ** 'eed nothing else.'' He was eager to get away to the scene of his early glories, and rouse the kings of the East against Italy, as Cicero soon came to penetrate. He had thrown a detachment into Corfinium, the Kimberley or Maf eking of the campaign ; but he made no effort to relievo it. Cicero has a gleam of hope that Cresar will accept terms; Labienus has assured Pompey that his ex-leader*s army is weak, and Pompey, in much better spirits, writes that he will soon have a kurge army. But very quickly Cicero discovers that the peace proposals were a blind, that Caesar has not halted a moment, and that he is rushing on the heels of the scattered and retreat- ing loyalist detachments. City after city he has taken. Again poor Cicero rails at Pompey. Caosar he can scarce bear to name, it is always ** he " or " that man."

I can see that there is not a foot of ground in Italy which is not in his power. About Pompey I know nothing, and I think he will be caught unless he has already embarked. What incredible rapidity ! Whereas our general !

From Corfinium, Domitius Ahenobarbus cries for help — Shakespeare's *^ strong Enobarbe," but a poor enough ruffian in history. The next day comes word of the final blow, and Cicero sums up the inglorious campaign in dis- gusted language.

What a disgraceful, and for that reason what a miserable thing. He had fostered Ctvsar, and then all of a sudden had beguu to be afraid of him ; he had declined any terms of peace ; he had made no preparations for war ; he had abandoned the city ; he had .lost Piceuum by his own fault ; he had blocked himself up in Apulia ; he was pre- paring to go to Greece ; he was going to leave us without a word, entirely uninformed of a movement on his part so important and unprecedented. Lo and behold, there is suddenly sprung on us a letter from Domitius to him. But our hero, biddiug a long good-bye to honour, takes himself to Brundisium, while Domitius, they say, and those with him, on hearing of this, surrendered.

It is a just indictment, m about a month and a half Pompey had lost Italy, and embarked for Greece. How differently from cold history does it all read in these letters, palpitating with the passion of a partisan and a contemporary, lit up by the little personal details which give actuality to the drama! If history were properly written, these letters would be more copiously quoted than they are.

A Book of Tears.

English Elegies, ("Bodley Anthologies.") Edited by J. C. Bailey. (Lane. 5s.)

Mb. Bailey has woven a mortuary chaplet of elegiac verse, and ofifers it with a preface wherein he discusses, not merely the history of the elegy in England, but also, with both thoughtf ulness and erudition, the precise nature and essence of this particular genre of poetry. Like most words in the vocabulary of criticism, the term *' elegy " has been used in a variety of more or less related senses, which can hardly be brought within the boundaries of a common definition. Two attempts at such a definition Mr. Bailey quotes as at least approximately just. One is that of Coleridge : '^ Elegy is the form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. It may treat of any subject, but it must treat of no subject for itself, but always and exclu- sively with reference to the poet himself." The other is due to Shenstone : *' Elegy in its true and genuine accepta- tion includes a tender and querulous idea, and so long as this is sustained it admits of a variety of subjects." And he adds that the subject of an elegy must be '^ treated so as to diffuse a pleasing melancholy." We do not think Mr. Bailey is much in love with either of these definitions. Certainly we are not. From one point of view they are too wide. They are applicable to elegiac poetry as a whole, while elegy, nowadays at least, generally bears a narrower connotation than elegiac. From another point of view they are too narrow, for the Elegiae of Ovid's AmoreSf and the ^' Elegies " into which Marlowe translated these, and the *' Elegies " of Donne and others, to which they served as models, are by no means always * ' tender and querulous," and not invariably even ** reflective." Some of them are expanded epigrams ; others are narra- tives of gay and gallant adventures. On the whole, it seems better to maintain the distinction between Elegy cuid Elegiac, and to confine the former to the notion of lament. Mr. Bailey gives yet another formal definition, which regards Elegy as ^'that form of poetry in which anything is described as at once desirable and not present." Even this is not quite satisfactory: to please us the closing words should be, instead of ^^ not present," '' no longer present." The notion of desiderium, or longing for what has been and is no more, is surely essential. Fitz- Gerald writes :

Ah, Love ! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things Entire, Would we not shatter it to bits — and then Be-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire ?

This satisfies the definition just quoted, Omar's ideal is '^ at once desirable and not present." But clearly it is not elegy. Let us then insist on desiderium^ and define elegy, if a definition is wanted, as **that form of lyric in which the dominant mood is the yearning for that which hiis been and is not." This definition allows a certain range of subject for elegy. It may include, if not, as Mr. Bailey suggests, laments for unrequited or unhappy love, at least complaints over absent or faithless or forgotten love. It may include the lament of the exile for the mother country, of the townsman perforce for the meadows of his child- hood. Actually, of course, the subject is, nine times out of ten, death, and from this one class of funeral elegies,

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the whole of Mr. Bailey's own admirable collection is drawn. He says truly tiiat the material for choice was ample:

My difficulty throughout has been not where to find matter for insertion, but how to find room for it. We English have time out of mind been a grave people, apt more than others to meditate on the transitoriness of human things, and in tb^ midst of life to let our thoughts move in the direction of death. And our poets, from An^lo-Saxon times to our own, have in this matter been no ill representatives of the natioual character.

Mr. Bailey's choice amid so much wealth is a judicious and catholic one. His knowledge of the earlier writers is wide, and he has been fortunate enough to obtain leave to reprint much beautiful modem work which is still copyright. He has, for example, Arnold's '^Thyrsis" and ** Geist's Grave " ; Lefroy's " Quem Di Diligent " ; several elegies by Mr. Swinburne, including the '* Ave atque Yale " upon Baudelaire, and the '^ Lines upon Walter Savage Landor " ; three by Mr. Bridges, of which one is the magnificent ''Eleffyon a Lady, whom Grief for the Death of her Betrothed Killed " ; Mrs. Meynell's '' To the Beloved Dead " ; Mr. Watson's '' Lachrymse Musarum," which nobly stands the test of historic comparison; and Mr. Le GalUenne's *' Robert Louis Stevenson."

Naturally, no two anthologists ever make the same selection, which is the excuse for multiplying antholojries ; and while we could dispense with a few of Mr. BaUey's gatherings, there are some half-dozen poems which we could never have brought ourselves to exclude. Side by side with Drummond of Hawthomden's lines ''To Sir William Alexander " we would have had the same writer's '' Lament of Damon," with its exquisite couplet :

Bud doth the rose and daisy, winter done, But we, once dead, no more do see the sun.

We would have had the charming scene in Ben Jonson's '' Sad Shepherd," where iEglamour laments for Earine :

Earine, Who had her very beinff and her name. With the first knots or buddings of the spring, Bora with the primrose or the violet, Or earliest roses blown.

From a later age we would have had Gharlee Lamb's "Hester" and, perhaps, "The Old Familiar Paces." And, finally, if Mr. Mackail would have permitted it, we would have had his beautiful poem " On the Death of Arnold Toynbee." We fancy this is not so well known as it deserves to be, but we count it second only to Mr. Bridges's '' Elegy on a Lady " among the regrets of these latter days. Two stanzas we must find room for here :

Even in this English clime The same sweet cry no circling seas can drown, In melancholy cadence rose to swell Some dirge of Lycidas or Astrophel, When lovely souls and pure before their time Into the dusk went down.

These Earth, the bounteous nurse, Hath long ago lapped in deep peace divine. Lips that made musical their old-world woe Themselves have gone to silence long ago, And left a weaker voice and wearier verse, O royal soul, for thine.

The first of these stanzas might serve as a motto to such a collection as Mr. Bailey's.

And now a final word of reproach. Mr. Bailey's book is, unfortunately, a chaos. The elegies are not arranged chronologically^ on the whole, the best method where the subject-matter of an anthology does not itself suggest any marked divisions. Nor are they, so far as we can ascer- tain, arranged in accordance with any other principle whatever.

The Man Dante.

The Life and Works of BanU Alighieri. By J. F. Hagan, D.D. (Longmans.)

Yet one more of the many aids to the study of Dante which pour in a yearly increasing tide from the press. In the present case it deserves special commendation ; not only because it is scholarly and thorough (for that is a quality happily not rare among Dante studies at this day), but for its unusual completeness as a survey of its subject. It consists of two parts. The first is a biography of Dante, as full as our limited knowledge of him will allow ; the second is devoted to a detailed analysis of the JDivine Comedyy together with the Vita Nuova and the prose works of Dante. The reader has thus, in a single volume, every- thing required to assist him in making we acquaintance of the great Florentine.

The greatest of Italy's writers was bom in Florence in 1265 ; in that thirteenth century when the life of Italy, poetical, artistic, and political, was rising like a young tree, and the Tusccui which he was to g^ve supremacy above all Italian dialects was plastic and waiting for a supreme sbaper. His father, Foloo Alighieri, was a professor of jurisprudence in Florence ; and Uie family, though old and noble, held only a moderate position in the city. The vexy family of his mother, Bella, is unknown, and both his parents died while he was still young. His name, Dante, is an abbreviation of Durante. His parents' death left him under the guardianship and tuition of Brunetto Latini — ^a notable event for little Dante. Brunetto was not only a distinguished citizen, but one of the most learned men of his day. He unquestionably laid the foundations of that encyclopeedic knowledge which is as marked a feature in the Divine Comedy as it is in Paradise Lost. The time was yet to come when a great poet might win his way to the Muses with '* little Latin and less Greek" — or what ponderous old pedantic Ben considered little Latin, though it might be recKoned by us a tolerable ha'porth. Not con- tent, moreover, with studying at Padua and Bologna, Dante '^ finished" at Paris, principally for the sake of philosophy and theology, as a young Englishman nowadays might finish at a German university. It was a wonderfully thorough education, the like of which no young man of fashion would dream of nowadays. But then it was possible to aim at universal knowledge, and pretty nearly to attain it. Besides his studies in what we should call science and general knowledge, his special knowledge of the arts and letters, Dante was as thorough a master as any cleric of the received philosophy and theology of the day — a fact of which his readers obtain painiul and laborious assurance.

But no pedant was the future poet. The first thing on his return from Paris he fought at Campaldino for his native Florence against Arezzo. It was not the cause in which he was ultimately to suffer so much, for the Florentine army was Guelphic. Already, when he was but nine years old, he had begun that other discipline of love. Then, at a May party in the house of the Portinari, whither he went with his father, he met the little daughter of the house, Beatrice, one year younger than himself^ and fell soleinnly and precociously in love with her. Such is the stoiy; and it is like enough with a child of his temperament. Back in Florence from the wars, Dante begaii the life of a brilliant young poet and politician. His associates, such as Guido Cavalcanti, his fellow-pupil with Brunetto, and his elder and predecessor in poetical fame, Cino da Pistoia, and Lapo Gianni, were all ultra* Ghibellines ; poet and Ghibellme, indeed, were almost synonymous : and so it was inevitable he should take sides against the popular party of the Guelphs for which he had fought at Oampiudino. The belief that the salvation of Florence and Italy lay in the submission of the country to the German emperors became the fixed creed of hia

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life, and his abilities gradually made him conspicuous among the Ghibcilline party.

Meanwhile he had met and renewed his passion for Beatrice Portinari ; but it did not prosper. There are signs that young Dante, like young Shakespeare or young Donne, led rather a wild life ; and once, at least, Beatrice refused to salute him in the street. To crown matters, she finally married another ; but still the platonic passion con- tinued and was recorded in the immortal Vita Nuova ; where the foundation may be love but the edifice is certainly allegory. At last she died young ; and after an interval of mourning he married another lady, Gemma Donati — of whom we only know that he wrote no poetry about her. The same inference has been drawn as in the case of Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway. And we are bound to say that when a poet's wife never by any chance gets into his writings, while another woman most con- spicuously does, it looks as if one has the right to infer.

Nor were the great Florentine's politics more successful than his love matters. Poetry was the only mistress that smiled upon his suit. That during those years he must have stamped his personality upon his fellow-citizens as some- thing more than a rising and somewhat laz-living poet is clear by the great catastrophe of his life. He had come to be recognised as a force in the turbulent afPairs of Florence — a fatal distinction. Better for him had he, like his predecessor, Guido Guinicelli, been known as a mere maker of songs, which all parties might admire. For there was struggle in Florence : the Ghibellines drove out the Guelphs, and reigned supreme in a Pyrrhic triumph — as it proved. The government of the city was eorganised on Ghibelline lines, and Dante was placed at ^ts head. Dante, the poet, ruler of Florence ! It is an extraordinary tribute to the man's versatile faculty and commanding character. Poet rulers there have been before and since, but not ruler poets. That is, there have been rulers — ^kings and others — who were poets of some dis- tinction, but not poets who rose to be rulers. Victor Hugo made a poor thing of it as a parliamentarian. One has only to look at Dante's iron face to see the stufE of rule in him ; but his companions were men of weaker stufip. It was imperative that an envoy should go to plead their cause with the Pope. There was no one whom Dante could trust to go but himself. There was no one he could trust to leave behind but himself. Painfully misdoubting what would happen among his loggerhead fellows if he were away, he yet (in an evil hour for his cause and himself) decided to leave Florence on the embassy. While he was in Home came the counter revolution in Florence. The Ghibelline leaders were expelled, decree of banishment was pronounced against the absent arch-Ghibelline — soon to be tho arch-poet— and a price set on his head. The interesting experiment of the ruler-poet came to a pre- mature end.

Then began the famous wanderings of Dante. From the castle of one little Ghibelline war-lord to another the sombre and now ageing exile drifted, bearing his wrongs in his bosom and immortality in his pocket ; for during this enforced absence from politics and family he fell back upon the composition of the Divine Comedy. We should doubtless have had it none the less had he stayed in Florence; but many persons of very good family might have escaped hell. To Paris again he wandered, and, coming back, had a gleam of hope. For Henry of Luxem- burg was elected Emperor of Germany, and forthwith revived the pretensions of his predecessors by invading Itedy. Lombardy at Milan gave him submission and the Iron Crown, but Florence stood out ; and Dante exultingly beckoned his vengeance upon the haughty city. But the Luxemburger marched on to Eome, fortune turned against him, and when he returned to besiege Florence his army melted away before the pestilence. He retreated to die, broken-hearted ; and all was over with the poet. Of Dante's residence and bickerings with Cem Grande at Verona

you may read in Rossetti's fine poem.. There, too, you may read a splenlidly poetised account of his answer to the insulting amnesty which Florence offered him, on con- dition that he should pay the fine, and undergo the public ignominy of the coiners pardoned by custom on St. John Baptist's Day. The offer was made known to him by a Florentine Franciscan ; and his actual letter is sternly grand enough, without the added magic of Rossetti's numbers. Thus the close of it runs :

A Flor. Monk.

** No, good father ! That is not the way for me to return. But should a way be found by yourself or others that shall not take from Daute*s fame and honour, be sure that I shall follow it. Should no such way be found by which I can enter Florence, then its gates I shall never pass. And what P Shall I not see wherever I turn the bright rays of the sun and of the stars? Can I not everywhere under heaven speculate on the sweetest truths of life without submitting myself to the people of Florence, stripped of my glory and covered with ignominy ? Not even bread shall fail me."

With Guido Novello, Lord of Ravenna, Dante found a final asylum. There he completed his days and the great poem, the gradual publication of which had already made him famous. As he had been exiled during one embassy, it was his fate to die after another. On his return from an embassy he had undertaken to Venice for Guido, he caught a fever and expired. The last portion of his poem was only found and published after his death. So Florence kept her living poet an exile to the last. And ever since she has been vainly striving to recover from Ravenna his dead bones. Which thing, is it not an allegory of the world's treatment of its poets ? That is what we know of the life of one of the world's greatest poets — a story sad, terse, dignified, and worthy of the man.

The Hero as Mountaineer.

The Highest Andes : a Record of the First Ascent of Aeon- cagua and Tupungato in Argentina^ and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys, By E. A. FitzGerald. (Methuen. 30s. net )

From the Alps to the Andes, being the Autobiography of a Mountain Guide, By Mattias Zurbriggen. (Fisher Ilnwin.)

Ever since Falstaff — himself no hero — reviled "the cankers of a calm world and a long peace," it has been the custom with certain philosophers to look on war as the most fertile breeder of the heroic virtues and to cloak its savagery with sentiment. To such thinkers Mr. Fitz- Gerald's long struggle in the service of science with the elemental forces of nature, if it appear heroic at all, will appear but a heroism of the lower order, but to such as have no love for the hot-blooded heroisms of the bayonet and yet believe endurance and courage to be the basal virtues, this story of the conquest of Aconcagua will be of high inspiration. It is not a record of mountaineering in the ordinary sense ; to ice and rock-craft there is little explicit reference ; the arch-enemy is not the mountain, but the atmosphere, and the issue of the assault depends less on axe and rope than on temperament.

Aconcagua rises twenty- three thousand and eighty feet above the sea, and Mr. FitzGerald's highest camp — where he spent, on and off, many weeks — was only some four thousand feet from the summit, yet the circumambient air of that last three-quarters of a mile presented a more for- midable obstacle than ho had ever before encountered. The assault on this invisible barrier by tho handful of intrepid men that formed his party — falling back exhausted time after time, yet for ever hurling themselves against it as in some forlorn hope — is an epic in action. Three of

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them at last pressed through — first the chief guide, Mattias Zurbriggen, then Mr. Stuart Vines, the geologist of the expedition, with the g^ide Nicola — but the leader himself had finally to abandon the attempt, an heroic yictor never- theless, though disappointed in lus supreme ambition.

The effect of these high altitudes upon the individual explorers is described in the book witn much detail, but perhaps nothing else will convey to the man in the plains such a forcible impression of the physical havoc they caused as the following homely comparison. ** Nobody can conceive/' writes Mr. FitzGerald, '^ unless he has tried to work under similar conditions, the feeling of utter lassitude that overtakes one. I have heard people com- plain of the same sort of feelings from acute sea-sickness. ' Having suffered badly from that malady myself, I can say that a man could go about and cheerfully do his work while suffering from the worst attack of sea-sickness far more readily Uian he could take his pocket-handkerchief out to blow his nose at an altitude of 19,000 feet." Add to this that there were times when some of the men — all hardened mountaineers — ** sat down, and absolutely cried, great tears rolling down their faces, simply because of the cold," and that*' the stoutest-hearted man " Zurbriggen ever knew *' wept bitterly," because he had broken a bottle of wine, and we shall have some slight notion of the transformation to be effected by rarified air.

In one sense the most absorbing chapters in the book are those in which Mr. Vines describes his ascent. Who will not be glad that he has attempted to describe what lay before him as he stood on the highest point jet reached by man ? Of the view to the west he says :

No lens or pen can depict the view on the Chilian side. I looked dowQ the great arete, past the western peak of 1 he mountain to ri&rht and left, ovf r ranges that dwindled in height as they neared the coast, to where, a hundred miles away, the blue expanse of the Pacific glittered in the evening sun. [He had left the camp at 8.30, and reached the summit at o.] Far down to the south, and fifty leagues away to the north, stretched the vast blue line. The sun lay low on the horizon, and the whole surface of the ocean between the point of vision and the sun wai sufiPased with a blood-red glow. The shimmering of the light on the water could be distinctly seen.

He stayed more than an hour on the top, and then, as he began the descent,

the sun [he tells ns], a great ball of blood-red fire in a cloudless sky, was dipping into the waters of the Pacific. Bapidly it sank, and disappeared from view. Tet, as if still straggling for supremacy with the fast-approachins night, an after-glow of surpassing beauty spread over land and sea in a series of magnificent changes of colour. The mighty expanse of water from north to south, together with the sky above it, was suffused with a fiery red glow. While the red in the sky remained, tbe waters, through a variety of intermediate shades of colouring, turned slo^y to purple and then to blue. And yet we were not in darkness, for with the sun's departure the risen moon bad declared itself with wondrous brightness, penetrating the thin atmosphere and flooding everything with its colder light. The effect produced by such a combination of brilliant moonlight and glorious sunset was beautiful beyond words. For daring half-an-hour that wonderful glow rested on the horizon of the Pacific — a great red line of subdued fire suspended in mid-air, the darkness that had fallen Uke a pall on sea and land beneath severing its connexion with the earth.

But the most important part of Mr. FitzOerald's work was the exploration of the environing country, and in that he met with the fullest measure of success. His labours, indeed, have materially added to our knowledge of that out-of-the-way part of the world — its topography, its geology, its fauna and fiora, and (it may be added) its manners and customs. The record, moreover, possesses the additional interest of robust adventure ; and whether we are triangulating in the Horcones valley with Mr. FitzGerald ; volcano-hunting in Southern Chili with Mr.

Vines ; crossing the Cumbre Pass (12,800 feet), with revolvers and half a ton of precious baggage, in the teeth of an appalling blizzard, with Mr. Lightbody ; or collecting specimens in the wastes of Inca or the vineyards of Lujan with Mr. Gt)sse, we are sure of a '^crowded hour of glorioiis life."

The expedition started from Southampton with eighty tons of luggage ; lasted seven months ; included five Swiss glides and an innumerable host of native carriers ; cost we know not how many thousands ; ended in serious illness for many of the party ; and was, withal, a notable achievement. And the booK that enshrines the record is in all respects worthy. With its elaborate appendices, its excellent maps, and its numerous illustrations — many of rare beauty — it is even a greater material triumph than the same writer's previous volume on the Alps of New Zealand.

Mr. Zurbriggen is, by common consent, the finest ex- ploring g^ide the world has yet produced. Bom in 1 856, m the heart of the high Alps, it was not till 1 880 that, driven from pillar ta post in the valleys by an innate rest- lessness, he determined to devote his life to the mastery of the great mountains. Since then he has made conquest after conquest — all detailed in the present volume — ^not only in his own Switzerland, but in the Himalayas, in New Zealand, and in the Andes, where, as Mr. Fitz- Gerald has just shown us, it was he who first set foot on the hitherto untrodden summit of Aconcagua.

The life-history of such a man, told in the rough, spon- taneous eloquence of his native tongue by hut or bivouac- fire on the crag of some great peak, would flood the soul of the fortunate listener with many emotions, whereas the same thing on paper, in the elaborated idiom of transla- tion, with embellishments and enlargements by the trans- lator, stuck between conventional covers and besprinkled with illustrations sometimes uncalled for and sometimes unworthy, loses a large part of its most characteristic quality and scarcely reveals a personality.

And so it comes to pass that the writer of this auto- biography lives more truly in other men's books than in his own, not because he tells his tale clumsily or incom- pletely— though there is a marked reticence on many of the matters that go to make up a man — but because it is not the real man who is telling it. The book, judiciously edited, should have revealed an unconscious hero ; it shows us instead a good fellow and a skilful climber, with a constitution of iron, an indefatigable energy, a passion for adventure, a touch of piety, and a liking for bottled beer and a clear. But this is not Mr. Zurbriggen's fault ; it is the faiut of his friends. The book, nevertheless, will be attractive to many ae being the first attempt of any g^ide to give an account of himself and his doings in print, and as containing a record of mountain-adventure that few climbers — and certainly no guide — could match.

Mr. Seaman's New Volume.

In Cap and Bells, By Ovren Seaman. (Lane. 3s. 6d.)

Well-meaning, educated readers say of Mr. Seaman's verse that it is ** not unworthy of Calverley," that *'he is on Calverley 's level," that he is *' almost as good as Calverley." It is, perhaps, a blunder to make the com- parison, but as it is made bo frequently, everyone interested in good work is driven, in the first instance, to approach Mr. Seaman from that particular standpoint, and every just mind is soon forced to admit, with ail admira- tion for Calverley and without the least disparagement of his gifts, that, as a parodist and in technique, Mr. Seaman is Calverley's superior. Some, preferring generous before sardonic humour, would even maintain that the second comer is the better wit. The amusement to be found in

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Calverlej is certainly, for the most part, embittering. There may be laughter, but there is little true gaiety in his verse, ^s parodies, again, are ingenious, yet they are rarely sympathetic. Take, for instance, his parody of Browning — **The Cock and the Bull." It is stupidly funny. Browning's intellect is never once taken into account: he wrote every way except foolishly, and to burlesque his manner where he himself, as m certain portions of ''The Bing and the Book,'' is taking some elbow-room at the expense of dull dogs shows a want of criticcd perception. And so ''The Cock and the Bull" misses its mark. This is not the case with Mr. Sea- man's " Hesigpnation " — ^a dramatic study after the same master. Here the subject is seen as Browning might have seen it, and it is treated with the irony which no one commanded more often than Browning himself. Other parodies in Mr. Seamen's new volume are wonderful examples of this difficult art : the Stephen Phillips, the Alfred Austin, the Watts-Dunton, and the George Meredith are faultless. And, further, not one of these distinguished writers would find anything ofiPensive or ill-bred, or, worse still, imknowing in these remarkably skilful pro- ductions.

Mr. Seaman has imitated, in each case, with a poet's appreciation, the treatment and the musical tone, but he employs, in the subject-matter, his own observations and his own ideas. Calverley, on the other hand, lacked imagination, or what is sometimes called the instinct for beauty. He wrote as a man of the world, not as a poet, not ds an artist. His verse is correct enough, and it looks well on the page. Poetry, however, is for the ear and voice, not for the eye. There must be sound and feeling as well as sense. These indispensable characteristics are never absent in Mr. Seaman's brilliant work. Calverley's lines are often tortured, curiously harsh, and difficult to speak — common effects among parodists who catch the time and not the tune of a poet's literary style. He was also an uncompromising realist : sentimentality, we may believe, irritated, bored, perplexed him; he had, as one says, " no patience with it," and was consumed by an anxiety to get the first laugh — ^an uneasy, fatal habit among English authors of this generation. Mr. Seaman, less self-conscious, and therefore much stronger, writes with the straightforward ease of those who, acutely susceptible to what is droll, have not sacrificed every high faculty and ideal to that relatively small side in human affairs. There are many modem minds who are capable of seeking for the humorous aspect of the Agony in Gethsemane. Mr. Seaman possesses the great quality of discrimination, and his new volume is much more than a collection of extraordinarily clever poems and burlesques. It is a chivalrous book — a book with what may be called " a whole soul." And lest any one with the fear of chivalry before his eyes should suspect that a " whole soul " is not racy, let us hasten to add that it is the best company possible, and English in the most gallant sense.

Other New Books.

Fbom Kino Orky to Quesn Victoria.

By E. Callow.

" This is not a guide-book," says Mr. Callow. It is not. It is such a popular history of the Isle of Man as may well satisfy the thirst for information of the summer visitor to that delectable isle when he has exhausted the g^ide-book. It should lie upon the table of every hotel coffee-room and every lodging-house parlour in Douglas. Mr. Callow has no pretentions to be a scientific historian, but he has gathered his material with care, and has put it together in a readable and anecdotal form. Those who regard the Isle of Man as a sort of ancestral estate belong- ing to Mr. Hall Caine will be surprised to learn that he is

not, to the best of our belief, so much as mentioned in the volume. The King Orry who appears in the titie was a Norse Viking who conquered the Celtic inhabitants of the island in the tenth century, set up a dynasty, and, if tradition may be credited, founded the representative House of Keys upon Tynwald Hill. To this day Man, unlike its greater Celtic neighbour, possesses Home Bule. It is an independent unit in the British Empire ; the Queen of Great Britain is also Lady of Man. In the thirteenth century Hakon Hakonson of Norway was defeated by Alexander III. of Scotland, and Man became an appanage of the Scottish Crown. Edward I., and after him Edward III., conquered it, and it was held with the title of king by divers noblemen and Court favourites. Ulti- mately Henry IV. granted it for an annual tribute of a cast of falcons to Sir John Stanley. From him sprang the Earls of Derby who remained until 1504 " kings," and until the eighteenth century "lords," of Man. Then it passed through the distaff line to the Dukes of Athol, who ruled it ill and selfishly. In 1765 it was sold to the British Crown for £70,000 down and certain annuities. But the final claims of these ducal " horseleeches" — ^it is Mr. Callow's word— were only settled, in 1 829, by a payment of £400,000 more. (Elliot Stock.)

How Soldiers Fight.

By F. Noxeeys Coxnbll.

The popular taste appears to demand books of the drum-and-trumpet order just at present. Wherefore Mr. F. Norreys Connell has felt called upon to put forth a volume in which he essays to describe the duties which the various branches of the Army are called upon to perform, and the feelings of the soldiers who perform them. Mr. Connell as a writer of stories we know, and have been able to commend ; but we have not been able to discover that Mr. Connell has any special knowledge of warfare, or any claim to rank as an authority on the doings and the feelings of soldiers. It is true that he exhibits an en- thusiasm for " blugginess" ; and in reading his book there came back to our memory some lines from some dreadful stanzas that were current about twenty years ago :

O ain't it a jolly lark,

A-outtin* of the throats

Of them Boer blokes,

An' wadin' through blood in the dark !

Bloodshed may be necessary, but it is not for us who sit at home to take pleasure in the contemplation of it. Thus does Mr. Connell counsel the private of the line :

Of the tactics of infantry there is no end, but there are some simple rules for the individual foot-soldier to re- member when lost in the chaos of battle. If you cannot bayonet your enemy, shoot him ; if he goes away, aim at the base of his spine. But do not let your attention be distracted from business by the consideration that other people are making a mark of you. It is your duty to kill the nighest possible number of those opposed to you, not to save your own skin.

Such counsel as this is not likely to reach the infantry soldier, and it leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth of the civilian reader. (Jcunes Bowden. 3s. 6d.)

Legends of the Bastille. By Frantz Funck-Bretano.

In this merciful, researchful age the worst men and the worst institutions of the past stand a good chance of receiving justice or, at the least, a coat of whitewash. M. Funck-Bretano sets himself to demolish those legends which represent the Bastille of the eighteenth century as the abode of disease and tortures. We are no longer to believe in iron cages, underground dungeons flooded by the Seine, toads, lizards, rats, scant furniture, clanking chains, Cimmerian darkness, and unknown accusations. These are the dreams of melodrama, and the prison was a desirable residence. Each prisoner had a large room, adequately furnished, and he could add to the furniture.

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He could procure whatever clothing he needed, and could even indulge his fads. Paris was ransacked to find *'a dress of white silk spotted with green flowers/' for a lady named Sauve, and when the gaolers could find only a white dress with green stripes theirs was the dejection ! Gk>od flres blazed, pens and books were in plenty, and there were concerts in the prisoners' rooms and in the governors' rooms. Prisoners could pursue their hobbies, or they could walk on the platxorm of the fortress and watch the crowds on the boulevard.

As for Latude and his tales — pooh! He never stood waist deep in water ; on the contrary, he was removed to a better cell when the floods arose. When he complained of rheumatism furs were provided for him, and when he wanted a dressing-gown of '' red-striped calamanco " it was obtained. His Memoirs are ''a tissue of calumnies and lies," and it is pointed out that this man, who alleged that he had sufiPered torture and exposure for thirty-flve years, was active and gay at seventy-flve, and died at eighty. There is, of course, no doubt that the extra- vagance of the French devolution infected its memories and legends, and that not all these have been corrected by later historians. M. Funck-Bretano's defence of the Bastille is a striking one, and is supported by documents, but that it will prevail against the forces of settled tradition is doubtful. Tradition says that the Bastille was a *' hell of living men," and that it was taken by storm. M. Funck- Bretano says it was a comfortable hotel, and that it was entered in a quarter of an hour. Tradition quotes the poets, M. Funck-Bretano prefers contemporary records. An interesting book, with an introduction from the pen of M. Victorien Sardou. (Downey. 6s.)

Thb English Chubch (597-1066).

By William Hunt, M.A.

This is the first instalment of a somewhat comprehensive undertaking, a complete History of the English Church on a scale considerably larger than any other modem work — for modem histories, civil or ecclesiastical, are generally little more than Introductions and Outiines — and incor- porating the results of recent research. The task is obviously one too great for any single scholar of these degenerate days, and it has been divided into seven periods and put into the hands of seven men. Mr. Hunt's share reaches from the coming of Augustine to the Norman Conquest, and among the names of writers to whom later sections are assigned we notice those of such com- petent historians as Canon Capes and Dr. Gairdner. The general editors are the Dean of Winchester and Mr. Hunt himself. In order, we suppose, to avoid controversy other than historical, it appears to be intended that the work should close with the eighteenth century. Mr. Hunt adds to real learning an adequate narrative style, and we especially commend the judicial and scholarly temper in which he approaches his theme. He says of the volume :

While it is written from the standpoint of a member of the Church of England, it has not been my design either to advocate the principles of a party, or even to exalt the Church. Whether the fact that the Church held certain beliefs and enjoined certain practices a thousand and more years ago is any reason why it should do the like now is not for me to say. Everything recorded here has been inserted either because it seemed to me necessary to my narrative or interesting in itself. It ha9 been my earnest wish to present a thorousbly tnithfid picture of the Church during this period, and not to misrepresent anything. No c%use seems the better for the art of the special pleader, still less for disingenuousness. Nor would the interests of the Church, even if they could be saved by such methods, be so sacred to me as historic truth.

We are a littie surprised, in view of the scale and import- ance of this history — " the first attempt," says Mr. Hunt, *'to write a continuous History of the English Church before the Norman Conquest with any deg^ree of fulness " — that Mr. Hunt has not thought it desirable to give full

references to the authorities for his statements in foot- notes. Instead of this, he only g^ves a brief general lisl of authorities at the end — why not the beginning ?— of eveiy chapter. (Maomillan. 5s. net. )

Shakespeabe's Sonnets.

By Samuel Butler.

We had thought — shall we say, hoped ? — ^to have heard the last of the Sonnets for some time. But Mr. Butler comes late and eager into the field, with an elaborate introduction, footnotes, a reprint of the Quarto text, and all the rest of it. Mindful of a recent volume in which Mr. Butier tried to prove that Nausicaa, of all people, wrote the Odyssey, we were quite prepared to find him ascribing the Sonnets to Queen Elizabeth, or Lettice Devereux, or Mary Fitton herself. On the contrary, witii the exception of a slight tendency to indulge in the some- what dangerous pastime of re-arranging the order of the Sonnets, he faces the problem in a thoroughly sober and scholarly mood. We have not space to discuss his views in full, but the volume is one which no serious student can afford to neglect. J^riefiy, Mr. Butler is neither a Herbertian nor a Southamptonian. He tilts indifferently at Mr. Archer and Mr. Sidney Lee. But he takes the common-sense view that the '^ Mr. W. H. " of the preface was the person to whom the Sonnets were written, and he thinks, chiefly on the ground of the italicised Hews in Sonnet 20, that the initials conceal some unidentified Will Hews probably of obscure social standing. It may be so. In any case, we think that few scholars will follow Mr. Butier in the belief that the Sonnets were literally the work of Shakespeare's *^ pupil pen," and were written between 1585 and 1588. (Longmans.)

Letts's Dlabies.

We have received a parcel of these well-known publica- tions, the merits of which are too well known to need statement. But LeMs Diary No. 8, which is in a con- venient octavo size and gives a page to each day of this year, strikes us as an excellent type of diary for the literary man. (Cassell & Co.)

Fiction.

Active Service. By Stephen Crane. (Heinemann. 6s.)

The hero of this novel is the editor of the Sunday edition of a New York paper, Eufus Coleman, a down-East Yankee of the most resourceful and clear-headed type. Coleman faUs in love with Marjory Wainright, daughter of a college professor. The professor declines the young man as a son-in-law, and then, his daughter proving obstinate, takes her and his wife to Greece, with a party of young students. Kufus follows as correspondent of his paper, and there follows also a divette named Nora Black, who has something more than a preference for the great young Sunday editor. The presence of all the characters in Ghreece can only be explained by the fact that Mr. Crane has spent some time in Greeoe as a war-correspondent, and must have a large quantity of descriptive stuff to '^ work off." Otherwise it has no significance. Mr. Crane makes of the Turko-Qreek war a rather effective background to a romantic love- tale with a ''happy" conclusion. The book is full of those feats of description for which the author is famous — some of them really excellent, others nothing but trickeries in which a certain effect is obtained by applying to men the epithets of things and to things the epithets of men. But let us admit that Mr. Crane can handle the epithet and the simile with surprising, almost miraculous dexterity. The best chapter in the book is that in which is set forth the strenu- ous life of the sixteenth floor of the New York Eclipse

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building. It is a piece of sheer impudent vivacity, the end justifying the means. If it had not succeeded it would have been obviously crude ; but it does succeed, and the sixteenth floor of the Eclipse building lives for you as in a biograph.

A large part of the book is occupied with the American University student, of whom Mr. Crane presents several varieties in what one of his characters calls a '' calcium light." These persons are not wholly fascinating; their passion for slaog amouots to a disease — a disease which has communicated itself to Mr. Crane. If a slang phrase will roughly serve his turn he never hesitates to use it. The students' conversations have picturesqueness :

In the corridor, one of the students said offensively to Peter Tounley :

*' Say, how in hell did you find out all this so early P "

Peter's reply was amiable in tone.

** You are a damned bleatinic little kid, and you make a holy show of yourself before Mr. Gordner. There's where you stand. Didn't you see that he turned us out because he didn't know but what you were going to blubber or something? You are a sucking-pig, and if you want to know how I find out things, go and a^k the Delphic Oracle, you blind ass."

** You'd better look out, or you m%y get a punch in the

t >»

eye

**You take one punch in the general direction of my eye, me son," said Peter cheerfully, "and I'll distribute your remains over this hotel in a way th«t will cause your friends years of trouble to collect you. Instead of antici- pating an attack upon my eye. you had much better be eDgsged in improving your mind, which is not at present a fit machine to cope with exciting situations. There's Coke I Hello, Coke, heard the news ^ Well, Marjory Wain Wright and Bufus Coleman are engaged. Straight H Certainly ! Go ask the minister."

On the whole, Active Service is a little below Mr. Crane's best. It is mannered, and the mannerisms of a writer with methods so audacious and novel as Mr. Crane's are apt to irritate. But it quite deserves to be called a remarkable book.

Princess Feather, By A. C. Inchbold. (Hutchinson & Co. 6s.)

Mr. Incubold (if, indeed, it be a man ; but we are by no moans sure) has written a novel of peasant life on the Sussex shore at the end of the eighteenth century. His heroine, Elizabeth, sprang originally from the Foundling HospitEil. She was carefully brought up, and arrived at the status of a lady's maid. Pretty, clever, refined, reliable and good, she was a valuable pearl among lady's maids. One day she went with her mistress to stay at a country house. She there saw a sheep-shearing festival, and fell in love with the braggart but picturesque Michael Tagg, captain of sheep-shearers. She married him. Thence- forward her history is one of sorrow and declension. Michael was a smuggler and a bully — masterful, drunken, immoral, bestial — in fact, we suppose, an average eighteenth century peasant husband. In vain Elizabeth exercised amiability, obedience, and conscientious en- deavour to please. He knocked hor down with a single blow. She found herself a peasant's wife. Mr. Inchbold 's concern is to make us feel what it was to be a peasant's wife in years before the battle of Trafalgar. He succeeds. The picture is sinister, but it convinces. Imagination has been put into this promising book. It is a book dominated by a sincere effort after truth — both dark truth and light. The realism is relentless, but it is a fine, selective sort of realism too. The difficult Sussex dialect is handled with skill, and the author has a pastoral, open-air sense of things which enables him to build up round his characters a genuine atmosphere of England's green and England's sea. In short, Princeis Feather^ no doubt a first atteiupt,

may be called rather notable, since it has strength, colour, and a broad, just outlook. Some of the scenes possess a memorable stringency. The most dramatic is that of the wife auction (marking the lowest point of Elizabeth's fall), where the once prim and proud lady's maid is sold by her husband to a soldier for five sovereigns. We should like to quote from it, but a short extract would be inadequate. The psychology of the soldier and the subsequent pas- sages between the soldier and Elizabeth are well and subtly done. They disclose a talent at once ingenious and agile, and, above all, honest with itself and its subject. That is the leading characteristic of this novel : a simple, unaffected intention to be real. On the whole, the style is the least satisfactory feature of the story. The author is too much inclined (as Schopenhauer puts it) ** to think in phrases" — the worn-out stock-phrases which may have been fresh centuries ago — instead of constructing his sentences word by word.

Notes on Novels.

[These notes on thf week^s Fiction are not necessarily final.

Reviews of a selection will follow. ^^

The L\dy from Nowhere.

By Fergus Hume.

The author of The Mystery of a Hamom Cab again takes a murder as his theme. It occurs in a Lmdon suburb, the victim being an eccentric young lady who — to quote her landlady — " dined off a chop and potatoes, and dressed in silk and lace to eat them." Eyeing her room, with its violent yellow tone and gorgeous furniture, the detective Gebb rubs his hands : ** By the sight of|it, this is going to be a romantic case." (Chatto & Windus. 6s.)

A Pure Child-Face.

By E. S. Padmore.

A didactic story in paper covers. The period is laid in the early days of Christianity, and the priest of the Sun has much to say. There are fairies and converts. The last sentence points the moral : " Better the Paradise of fools than the Gehenna of a sated soul." (Simpkin Marshall. Is.)

While the Lotus is Closed.

By Michael Grant

A love->tory with a background of wealth and titles and country life. The heroine ** walked slowly across the lawn, the frou-frou of her skirts keeping time to the soft throb of the Blue Hungarian Band." (H. J. Drane. 3s. 6d.)

She Stands Alone.

By Mark Ashton

The central character in this story is Pilate's wife, '* the Maid of Athens," who is treated in her character of pleader for Christ during His tried before Pilate. The story may be said to be written round the text " Have thou nothing to do with that just Man." Part of the novel is laid in Britain. *' * The great Julius has maligned Britain,' she observed. . . . *It is not nearly so savage a country as I anticipated, and as to the barbarous natives who gave him such a rough reception, where are they hidden, centurion y ' " (Hutchinson. 6s.)

The Kingdom of a Heart.

By Effie Adelaide Rowlands.

A love-story of great length and many incidents, in which two sisters are the heroines. Tragedy, intrigues, secrets, and mistakes pass away. Then ** Rachel's old audacious look danced in her eyes," and Anne ** will le an ideal Rector's wife." The story ends on baby-socks ; ** Baby likes the pink ones best." (Routledge. 63 )

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denin^ towards the misty hiUs that rise heyond the creaming valleys and the hanging woods. The east burns into fiery rose ; a tiny wreath of cloud floating above a blaok mass of foliage changes hue and shape, and floats away, still chaug^u^.

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Made Writing.

Travellers for Ever is the title borne by a dainty little book of '^ fantasies and sketches" written by Mr. L. Cope Comford, and just published by Mr. Nutt. Mr. Comford has recently written a very creditable study of the life and achievemont of Kobert Louis Stevenson. It is evident that he owes something of his style and vocabu- lary to Stevenson, something also of these to Mr. Henley ; but we do not wish to make a point of this. The point we are led to make — after reading these essays not once, nor twice, but several times — is that Mr. Comford is very typical of a multitude of young writers to whom a St. Paul, in the dawn of a new century, might say in gentle but convincing tones : ''I perceive that in all things ye are too styleful." Paul would say " styleful" — unpleasing word — because it would carry his meaning. He would not say: *'I perceive that in all things ye are too careful of style " ; that is impossible in young writers. Style in excess is the evil — style conceived as the root instead of the flower. The fault, no doubt, leans to virtue's side ; but just now it frequently is found leaning at an angle that demands correction. It does so in Mr. Corn- ford's essays.

Mr. Cornford's theme is the open road, that leads from cities into the fields and woods. It is a theme on which every man has leave to write, the condition is that he shall write well. In the limited sense that he writes care- fully, and with a curious search for fit and musical words, Mr. Comford does write well. It is, indeed, ** evidently manifest," to use a phrase of his own, that Mr. Comford has spent whole afternoons in making and pruning his style. Yet by his style — we are sorry to say — he is con- demned. Everywhere it suggests things read, rather than things seen or felt. It is curious that in seven essays eulogising the country he hardly ever names a tree, bird, or plant. He writes — as might any of the "horde of sedentary persons " with whom he peoples London — of ** fir-woods," ** old-grown woods," " shores alive with wild fowl," " bird-voices," ** pollarded willows," " leviathan beeches," and "virginal birches." Once he names the hollow clapper of the cuckoo — a phrase that could be learned from a cuckoo-clock — but when "a bird in the thicket flutes a solo," we are not told what bird ; and the " strange broken speech of the wild fowl, that sometimes sounds like words," is attributed to no species. Indeed, definiteness is the last quality of these polished but peri- phrastic essays. Landscapes are lost in adjective and metaphor. Thus :

All tbe eastern sky is glowing amber ; westward, riding high, the moon stares from the empyrean of cold azure washf d with silver, a disc of polished brass. Wreaths of mist fill the valleys, like fleeces of carded wool. The far, lusty clarion of chanticleer rings through the hushed expectancy. The east bums redder, melting into the blue, paling the brassy moon. The icy air grows warmer, and breathes an odour of gra«s and flowers. A grey continent of cloud, leaning from the western sky, flashes here and there with igneous flakes of red, and, yawning into cavernous deeps, slowly breaks in pieces, and drifts, red-

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We are afraid that the impression floats away We quote another passage :

Out of the city the wayfarer follows the road ; the road which runs up sheer into the lifting sky and leaps tfab hill, and, winding through shaughs and blowing meadows, leads past ancient churches grey with lichen and over shining water, trending always to the sea. Across the azure bloom of the summer champaisn sweep vast shadows chasing gleams of silver light, until the sun goes down into his country of the sunset beyond the purple hUls. Down the road, to the music of beating hoofs and tinkling bells, roll the harvest wains loaded high with wealth of sheaves; follows, heavy with toil, the train of bronzed labourers. Upon a dark bank, high above the road, stands a peasant woman holding a child in her arms, encircled and magically illumined by the western radiance.

This is Nature seen in engravings. The style cries for substance, for personality — all that makes style a virtue. To call the country alluring is not to make it so. You may write of "the jolly wind," "ribbons of running water," the " haunting, eager wind," and the ** amorous braverv of the spring"; you may swear that the land " smells of fairies," and point to "the long silhouette of a town rising beyond the golden pastures of a lucent sky "; you may distinguish the colour of the sea as " lilac," and declare that old beeches are "writhen like fossil serpents"; you may speak of " a gaudy chime of bells " ; and you may set these phrases in shapely sentences and paragraphs — still it may be naught. For to communicate only words, not things, or to communicate more words than substance, is to fail. Style is not the art of finding beautiful words and arranging them well; it is the art of fitting words to things, and arranging both well. Many pitfalls await the young author who thinks of words before things. He borrows unusual words from one model, or a few models, and the result is that in trying to bejewel his vocabulary he narrows it. Mr. Comford uses words like "scanted," "brash," "hebetude," " wried," "immo- bile," "purview," "writhen," "ceiled," "scission" and " lure " (as a noun). It is made a point by many young writers to bring such words into use. Against that we have little to say, provided the words are come by rightly. But a writer should not try to tickle his readers by a word which he has not by processes of thought truly made his own. What we notice in Mr. Cornford's booK is that the presence of unusual words does not give him a large vocabulary. His repetitions are many. On one page he writes: " You shall hear the tramp of ancient armies ring upon the ribs of earth "; on another, " the weapon digged from the adamant ribs of earth." A "white plume of smoke" is emitted, on p. 24, by a railway train, and on p. 36 a "level plume of smoke" floats from an outward-bound steamer. On p. 32 we have the " valiant sun," on p. 63 the " valiant stars." On p. 24 "the lusty clarion of chanticleer shatters the still- ness"; and on p. 50 "the far lusty clarion of chanticleer rings through the hushed expectancy." Twice or thrico is the sky "lucent," and twice we have "the myriad wheels of circumstance." These repetitions, occurring in about fifty small pages, betray the dominance of words over things, and thn dominance of a model over words. And here it may be said that the writer who takes Mr. Stevenson or Mr. Henley as his master makes a cardinal error : instead of contemplating these, who are two, he should study their models, who are many. Instead of imitating their writing, he should emulate their reading.

Nothing wearies like the excess of style over matter. For in such cases the disproportion is not all : the matter is sure to want quality as well as (quantity. The thought seems caught out of the air. It is delicately worded, but

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it is of no account. It is pretty, but it is not true. Mr. Comford will have it that the lovers of the open road are elect. He draws tenebrous pictures of city life, of the town's *' poisonous wilderness," its ^'sour gloom," and of the multitude who *' out their staves into shopmen's yards, and settle down to fatten peaceably in villas." He sees nothing between ''the immemorial, elemental life of man, and civilisation's buckram parody." The " horrible shrill city " is to be flown. The town-dweller is admonished thus:

You read, vaguely, in the newspapers of the Army and the Navy, the ColoDies, and the Agricultural Interest, it is true ; n^vertiieless, you shall come to believe in time that the District Bailway circumscribes the habitable world; and you go contentedly to and fro, like tame pheasants in a ring-fence preserve. But the drop of savage blood still throbs in some of vou ; and, although Esau may com- promise with Jacob (for substantial reasons), he still refuses ultimate aUiance with his smooth-faced Idnsmen in ^e black coat and varnished boots.

This is what we may term " made " writing. It answers to no large essential facts. Need we point out that Uie wearer of varnished boots is no tame town pheasant, but a shooter of pheasants. Need we point out that the desire to see the country, and at last to live in die country, is the ruling passion of Londoners. What is suburban life but a tribute to the countiy ? Every London suburb is a leaf straining to the light. Has Mr. Comford seen a chrysan- themum show at &e People's Palace ? Has he attended a bulb auction in Poultry? or met the Spring in the Strand ? A writer is not obliged to write all truths about his subject, but he must have a saving sense of them. And nothing obscures that sense more than a pre- dominance of the wish to write over the wish to think.

We have examined Mr. Comford's book with un- usual keenness because we believe that he means to challenge criticism on his style, and because that style seems to afford a good object of inquiry at the present time. If it had fewer virtues we shoiild have found fewer faults. Mr. Comford has acquired a great deal of crafts- manship : his sentences as sentences, and his paragraphs as paragraphs, are very well turned ; he has the t^te for words. But .

How Long Should Copyright

Last ?

Afn Bernard Shawns Views,

In our issue of December 2 we printed a number of replies which we had received from authors to the questions : Is Perpetual Copyright in books desirable ? and. If not, how long should Copi^right last ? To these questions Mr. Bernard Shaw replied as follows :

The proposal of perpetual copyright is a piece of rapa- cious impudence. Would it benefit anybody if the heirs of John Bunyfin were now wallowing idly in royalties on The Pilgrim*8 Prof/resa instead of working honestly for their living ?

Gonsideriog that an inventor who enriches the world is granted patent rights for fourteen years only, it is not dear why an author, who possibly debauches it, should get from thirty to over one hundred years' copjrright. The pi^sent term is too long, except in a very few speciid cases, for which extension should be granted on application to the courts. If the descendants of authors want copyrights, they can earn them by writing books.

In our issue of last week we printed the views of Mr. Herbert Thring, secretary of the Society of Authors, who concluded his remarks as follows :

It appears to me extraordinary that none of your con- tributors have taken into account the fact that neither the pubhc nor the author's descendants reap the benefit, but the publishers.

Bo I understand that it is the general opinion of literary men that the profits arising from the judicious administra- tion of Uterary property should belong to the pubhsher, rather than the author's representative or the public ?

Mr. Shaw now sends us the following rejoinder :

''Mr. Herbert Thring is mistaken in concluding that the point he raises has escaped my consideration. What is of more importance, he is also mistaken in supposing that a publisher can make anything out of a copyright of which he has no monopoly. The entire works of Shakespeare can be purchased for sixpence less than Mr. Pinero's worst single play, because the publisher pays nothing for Shakespeare's work and can charge notning for it. If he attempted to nut a penny on to me price on Shakespeare's account his eoition could instantly be under- sold to that amount by his competitors, who have the same access to Shakespeare as he. I can take a copy of ' Hamlet ' into a jobbing printer's to-morrow and get it reprinted as cheaply as I oould an equal quantity of copy onering rewards for lost dogs. Dent may charge me eighteenpence for 'Hamlet,' Cassell threepence for it^ and DicKs a penny; but what I pay them for is the design of the book, the printing, the paper, the binding, the size, the copyright illustrations, the editorial notes, not for Shakespeare. Him I get for nothing. '

Mr. Thring, nevertheless, thinks that a copyright which has become common property by the expiration of its monopoly is not really a national possession. In a sense, he is right. The Englishman who never buys a copy of Shakespeare's works, never reads one, and never goes to the theatre, may contend that he has never got anything by his share of the national inheritance of Shakespeare's P^enius, and that the readers and playgoers have used that inheritance without sharing it with him. He may claim that the Government should levy a royalty on all copies sold, and apply the proceeds to the general benefit in relief of taxation or otherwise. Similarly a Londoner who never goes into Hyde Park may contend that, to enable him to share its benefits with those who do go into it, a charge should be made for admission, and the proceeds devoted to the reduction of London rates. Or a bedridden ratepayer might demand that the street should be made a turnpike, so that the actual users should pay an equivalent^ for the wear and tear of the pavement into a common *fund for the benefit of the bedridden and the active alike.

The answer to these perfectly logical proposals is, first, that their adoption would be so exceedingly inconvenient and costly if carried out consistently in every department of life, that they would make society physically impossible, whereas the existing communistic methods work fairly well. And second, that it is not true that the actual first- hand users of an institution are the sole or chief bene* ficiaries. Take the case of the British Museum Library and Keading-room. Is it a place kept up by the nation for the benefit of the readers ? No : as we authors and journalists and literary hacks know to our cost, it is a place which benefits the nation through the labour (often miserably underpaid, and largely gratuitous) of those who work there. Take again the case of railways. They benefit everybody, but only on condition that a certain number of people face the discomfort and risk of travelling by them. Hence, when other Socialists have advocated free railway travelling, I, better advised, have advocated payment of railway travellers, a juster and more popular reform.

Mr. Thring, then, need not fear that the copyrights which have lapsed into the common stock benefit only the publishers who make use of them. On the contrary, the real difficulty is to induce publishers to touch them and face the competition that follows success with them. They prefer the monopoly of copyright. When I was a boy t^e American publishers vied ydik ^aeh other in

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briogiiig out editious of the latest works of our English novelists, who cried Thieves and Pirates with all their might. What was the result? The American public read all our leading works of fiction for a few cents, to their g^eat benefit and to ours (since it was thus that they learnt to love literature) ; but the publishers were brought to the verge of ruin. To-day, when they ask me for new copyright matter, I tell them that a million words of my best writing lie at the disposal of every publisher in America ; but they prefer to pay a royalty for a monopoly, and they are right. If we turn to the stage, we find that Sir Henry Irving, instead of pouring royalties into the pockets of Sardou, Pinero, Jones, and Ghrundy, has availed himself of the national property in Shakespeare. With what residt? That he tells us that the non-oopyright system has left him £100,000 to the bad. He is now glad to call in Sardou and pay him heavy royalties. It is a mistake to suppose that either publishers or managers profit by free books and plays. To them, monopoly is always worth the royalty it costs.

May I, in conclusion, say publicly what Mr. Thring knows privately : namely, that I am not one of those literary blacklegs who are not ashamed to earn a few disgraceful shillings by reviling the Authors' Society, and belittling the work which will make Sir Walter Besant famous, not as a mere author — that might happen to anybody — but as a great Trade Union secretary. Only, I have fought from the first against the clamour of the author for a perpetual literary property, and against the argument that if other men are allowed to quarter their descendants idly on the labour of future generations, why shouldn't we ? Even if the claim were honest, and the argument worthy, what chance has either of acceptance in an age of increasing death duties, of jealous public limiting of concessions to electric lighting and tramway companies, of a general revolt of the public conscience against perpetual pensioners of all sorts ? In this matter Sir Walter has the notions of 1860, and Mr. Lang those of 1870. ' It is now 1900 — time for my ideas to have a turn. Mr. Nutt, I grant, is up to date: he faces the choice between the attitude of the Socialist and the attitude of the Struggle-for-Lifer, but does not give any reason why the Struggle-for-Lifers who are not authors should tax their posterity for the benefit of a seventeenth Dake of Besant or Marquis of Shaw. Perpetual copyright is an Alna8char*s dream, all the less worth troubling about in view of the fact that the copyrights most in need of help from the Society of Authors have a natural life — inex- tensible by any legal device whatever— of from twenty- four hours to eighteen months.

G. Bernard Shaw."

Things Seen.

The Lower Criticism.

The Beadle was a bland, elderly, sententious man, with a taste for wisdom, and a paternal interest in the shrubs and flowers of the Public Garden under his charge.

As my homeward route at the dose of every working- day took me through his garden, a casual friendship grew up between us. We always exchanged greetings, which now and again expanded into conversation, as on one December evening when the trees stood out black and bare against the flying clouds. On that night the windows of the church at the comer of the garden were alight, and the frosty air was filled with melody.

'* Choir practising, I suppose ? "

The Beadle nodded, and tilted his bland face a couple of inches nearer the heavens. ''It does one good to (tand outside and hear them rolling the psalm to wintry skies," he said. ** I don't go to church now. I've given up goin^ to church. My wife goes to church, but women don t think the same way as men."

He was silent for a minute, gazing at the sky.

" Perhaps she's right," he continued ; " but I don't see how a man can go to church if he doesn't believe the Bible's all true. Do you, sir ? "

I gave a small, non-committal cough.

The singing ceased.

'' Well, it's tea-time,'* he said ; and as we paced along the asphalte path he inquired if I had seen the new Bible Dictionary. Without waiting for my answer, he continued: ''It's a wonderful book. A gentleman, a great barrister living over there in the Inn, lent me the first volume. It goes from A to D, and plays havoc — great havoc, sir — with the Bible. It's queer reading for a Ohristian woman, so I keep it locked up, out of the way of my wife. It's no gpood upsetting one's womenfolk. They haven't got the same brams like us.". He clutched my arm and lowered his bland face to mine : " 'Tisn't only the Old Testament they play havoc with. There's a German professor says that the Star of Bethlehem shines only in the legend, and — and — ^his voice sank to a whisper — they don't even let St. Paul alone. But I must keep it from the missis. It don't do, sir, to upset women."

By this time we had reached the lodge. He pushed open the door, disclosing a bright room with the cloth laid for tea. In a low chair bv the fire sat an old lady, with an open book upon her xnees. She smiled upon her husband and greeted me pleasantly.

" I was getting anxious about you, William, dear."

" I've been having a bit of a talk with this gentleman," said William.

"And what have you been talking about?" asked the old lady.

William looked uncomfortable : " It's not the kind of talk that you would want to hear, Mary."

She glanced up quickly at her husband. There was such divination in the look — such a kind, reproachful comprehension shone on her wrinkled face — that I was moved to say : " Your husband has been regretting that he can no longer go to church because — because the higher criticism has made such havoc with the Bible that he can no longer accept its infallibility."

" Dear William ! " said the- old laay, and she took her husband's hand. " Dear William ! "

She did not speak for a minuter— she only looked at him, as one might look at a forgiven child.

" Dear William," she said, " I knew what was troubling you, and I knew that you was trying to spare me. Oh, William, 'tisn't what men have said or written that's given me peace all my days and happiness now that I'm an old woman. If every line of the Bible was proved to be false, if aU the learned men in the world came to the door and told me I was an old goose, it wouldn't make no difference. Dear William, it's what I know that makes me happy and sure — so sure. Nobody can teach me, and nobody can take it away from me, William, dear." And then she read aloud this from the book upon her knee :

" I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care."

All Real.

He was a big man, and a veritable red-neck. Looking at him as he sat next me at the long counter of a London restaurant, I surmised thus: — An office in the City, a house at Crouch End, a wife and four children, a good deal of smoking and billiards, a good deal of sleep and tubbing. Yet this formidable Englishman had propped before him a well-thumbed copy of Short Stariei, a penny weekly publication. While he was cutting his stewed steak and conveying it to his mouth his eye never left the frivolous page leaning against the water-jug.

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The contradiction betvreen the man whose back sloped away like a mountain side and the frail penny literature which interested him more than his food fascinated me. Long he munched and read, and long I was conscious of his tall silk hat tilted back, and his staring forward gaze at the paper. A colophon on the page showed that the story was ending. My curiosity was great. At last he started, summoned the waiter, and counted out his money. Meanwhile I was able by an efiPort to gather the conclu- sion of the story which had held him. This is what I read in difficult glances :

'' On the Gbeen Boom couch lay Nanine; on one side stood Lord Borrodaile, Harold Methuen on the other. . . .

She opened her eyes. There bending over her stood her mother and Harold Methuen, hand in hand.

She raised herself. ' The cue, prompter ; quick, the cue.'

Harold bent over. . . . ' I love you, I love you.'

She rubbed her eyes. * Yes, cue, love.'

* I love you with all my heart.' ' Curtain, quick, curtain.'

* No, dearest, this . . . beginning of the act.'

She looked . . . dazed way, . . . recognition came.

* Not acting, . . . real, all real. Oh, I . . . happy

now:

T » »'

Correspondence.

"E. H." and ** Contemporary Style."

Sir, — Could you not bestow a New Year's boon on the majority of your readers by spiking " E. H.'s " gun, or taking away his breech-block, and so putting an end to his pedantic effusion on a subject already fairly well under- stood by many educated persons ? He does not appear to note the difference between a report written against time and calculated to convey an idea of the situation to eager and anxious readers, and Count Tolstoy's MS. — which makes one long to be his typewriter !

Now if you oould persuade " E. H." to send his lucubra- tions to the prisoners at Pretoria, history would be repeated, and no doubt the prisoners would be charmed. On May 2, 1818, Mr. William Cobbett wrote a dedication to his Grammar, of which the following is a portion : — "To Mr. Benbow, shoemaker, of Manchester. Dear Sir, — When, in the month of August, 1817, you were shut up in an English Dungeon by order of Lord Sidmouth, without any of the rules or forms prescribed by law of the land ; without having been confronted with your accusers ; without having been informed of the charge against you ; while you were thus suffering under the fangs of absolute power, I did myself the honour to address you, from this place, two Letters on Unglish Grammar^ and in those letters I stated to you my intention of publishing a book on that subject."

How delighted Mr. Benbow must have been ! I am told a prisoner will read anything.

Well, in the course of Mr. Cobbett's work, he quotes startling errors from Dr. Johnson's writings in the Rambler, It is quite evident the Doctor either emended his writing till he forgot his subject, or else thought quicker than he could write. The majority of books are marred by stilted grammatical (?) sentences, which delight reviewers, but stop all action. Fancy you and I on the top of a fire- escape pausing to consider our Addison ! " Get on, or let me," would be about our form; we should wait till afterwards to note the "lurid glow," and **the myriad, wind-swept sparks falling in showers like a labyrinthine firmament." May we never try. A happy new year. — I am, &c.. Eyre Hussey.

Bromsberrow, Ledbury: Jan. 3, 1900.

["Fancy you and I on the top of a fire-escape." By fancy Mr. Hussey means imagine or suppose. In any case, the word is an active transitive verb, and should have governed the accusative. — ^E. H.}

Our Weekly Prize Competitions.

Result of No. 15 (New Series).

Last week we offered a prize of one ^neft for the best set of mottoes to be placed over the doors of (a) a dininfif-room, Qi) a masio-room, (0) a library, and (fi) a bedroom. The mottoes were to be ohoeeo from English authora and none were to exceed two lines in leDgbh.

A not naexpected feature of the mottoes sent to uh is that almost every set oontalns at least one happy BUflrgestion. Not a few sets oontain three good mottoes bat break down in the fourth.

The best complete set of mottoes oomes from Mr. Bomell Payne, 78, Wimpole-street, Oavendish-aquare, W., to whom a cheque for one guinea has becm sent. Mr. Payne's set is as follows :

Dining -ROOM.

*' Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both." Shakespeare.

MUBIC-ROOK.

" Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears.*' Shakespeare.

Library.

" Come and take choioe of all my library."

Shakespeare, Bed-room.

" O sleep ! it is a gentle thin?. Beloved from pole to pole ! '* Coleridge.

Among other sets a^e these :

Dining room.

" Across the walnuts and the wine." Tennyson. Music-room.

" The world is too much with us." Wordsworth, Library.

" The rest is silence." Shakespeare.

Bbdroom.

•' He giveth His beloved sleep." The Bible.

G. D., Horley, Surrey.

Dining-room.

" Be merry, masters, while ye may. For men much quicker pass away."

W. Morris.

Music room.

'* From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began."

Dryden,

Library.

" The assembled souls of all that men held wise."

Leigh Hunt.

Bed-room.

" For worst and best Right good is re^t." William Morris.

M. A. C, Cambridge.

DiNIXG-ROOM.

" Kissing don't last ; cookery do." Meredith.

Music-room.

" Here will we sit, and let the sounds of mufric Creep iu our ears." Shakespfare.

Library.

'' Her<3 are books, if we have brains to resd them."

Thomiis Carlyle.

Bed- ROOM.

" Let still Silence trew nisrht watches keepe. That sacred peace may in assurance rayne."

Spenser. E. U., Campden Hill, W.

Dining-room.

*" Now, good dig&«tion wait on appetite, And health on both ! " Shakepp?are.

Music room.

*' God has a few of us whom He whippers in the ear ; The rest may reason and welcome : 'tis we musicians know."

R. Browning. Library.

" 0 blessed Letters, that combine in one All ages past, and make One live with All ! **

S. Daniel. Bed room.

" He giveth His beloved sleep." The Bible.

M. A. W., Watford.

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Prize Competition No, i6 (New Series).

Thib week we pet oar readers an exercise in ingenious versification. A little booklet, entitled More AnagrarM^ by " Some Minor Poets/* jnst issued by Messrs. Spottiswoode, contains 100 examples of the application of the anagram to rhyme. For example :

My Mnse, who often to treat

Of trifles, now has persevered To tell of him, whoee fearless fleet

Once the haughty Spaniard's beard.

By bold , in daring age,

Drake his name on history's page.

And again :

Macbeth, by all his

forsaken,

^Rm

Died fighting rather than be taken ; With less to fear and hopes more sb'ght Did to the fight

le first of these verses is completed by arranging the letters D-E-I-G-N-S in four ways to fill tiie four blanks. The verse then reads:

My Muse, who often deigns to treat

Of trifies, now has persevered To tell of him, whose fearless fleet

Once singed the haughty Spaniard's beard. By bold design^ in daring age, Drake signed his name on history's page.

Similarly, the second verse i? completed by arranging the letters T-H-A-N-E-S as Thane*, Athens, and hasten.

We offer a guinea for the best anagram-verse of this kind.

The subject of the verse must have a literary flavour.

The key-words must be supplied to us, and these should be w^ritten below the verse, not inserted in the blanks.

The pith and quality of the resulting anagram- verse will be our main consideration in awarding the prize.

BULIB.

Answers, addressed '^Literaiy Competition, The Aoadbmt, 43 Ohanoerv-lane, W.O.,'* must reach us not later than the first post ot Tuesday, January 9. Each answer must be accompanied by the coupon to be found in the first column of p. 20 or it can- not enter into oompetitlon. Competitors sefnding more than one Attempt at solution must accompany each attempt with a separate ooupon ; otherwise the first only will be oonsidered. We wish to impress on oompetitors that the task of examining replies is mudi fadlitated when one side only of the paper is written upon. It is also important that names and addresses should always be given : we cannot consider anonymous answers.

OuB Spscial Pbizb Gompstitions. {For particulars see inside page of cover,) Beceived this week : J. D.

New Books Received.

\Th$s6 notes on some of the New Books of the week are preliminary to Reviews that may follow. '\

By August Mau. a translation of Herr

PoMPEn: It8 Lipb aitd Art.

The present work is in no sense Man's earlier and numerous oontributions to the subject. The plan of the book falls naturally into several divisions, the first of which recounts the early history of the cit^ and its destruc- tion. A larg^ portion is devoted to a description of the excava- tions which have been made, and the various buildings, public and private, which have been uncovered. Ten full-page j^oto- gravures, and more than two hundred " half-tone '' engravings are provided, and the book is in aU other ways handsomely equipped. (Macmillaa. 258. net.)

DABwm AND Darwikism. Bt p. T. Alexansbb.

A clearly written and manifestly rinoeie critioiam of many of Darwin's positions. Mr. Alexander acknowledges "the master's " wonderful gifts of observation, but like some other

critics — distrusts his conclusions. Only certain lines of inquiry are opened in this book, of which the " argument " is stated very succinctly under eleven heads. The au&or's first point is to endeavour to show that the Origin of Species, in its main character, was superseded by the Descent of Man, The misuse of the word instmct, bv Darwin and his disciples, is another of Mr. Alexander's tnemes. (Bale, Sons A Danielsson. 78. 6d. net.)

Pulpit Poiwts from Latest

LiTBRATUBE. By J. F. B. TcnJOfO.

'* Illustrations are necessary to a preacher, and a large proportion of them should be fresh." Accordingly Mr. Tin- nng has made tbis collection of short extracts from the books of 1898, touching on all manner of pulpit topics, as : '* Apathy," " 0£&cial Corruption," <' Meeting Death," ** A True Gentle- man," « Marriage Without Love,^' « Night Befuges," &c. It is his hope to issue such a volume yearly. (Hodder A Stoughton. 5s.)

Life and Happiness. By Augusts Mabot.

A practical unpretending little book of advice about the care of Body, Mind, and Soul, by one who, finding himself strong and happy, wishes to see his readers similarly blessed. This personal tone distinguishes the book from most budgets of advice. (Eegan PauL 28. 6d. net.)

OSBERN

AND

URSYNE

A drama in three acts.

JOHN OLIVER HOBBES.

PRESS NOTICES.

" The work before us reveals a sustained nobility of stvle And this short

essay in dramatic verse can only add fresh proof of the tine catholicity of her genius.*'— OwiH Sbaxav, in the Morning Pott, Nov., 1899.

"There is a play l^ John Oliver Hobbes in verse, which, soleom and pathetic as it is, is quite as admirable.... ..as her lighter prose."

Scotsman, July S, 1899.

'* This is a striking poetical play writun partly in rhymed dialoffae. partly

in blank verse, and partly in prose There is reaU poetry in the play, and it

has more than beauty enou|irh to make it please any lover of pieiry who takes it np."^SeoUman, Kov. 11, 1899.

" John Oliver Hobbes*s new vooture is a tragedy, and in some sense a stronflT one. It is good to read and might easily be adipted for the stage. It has the merit of concentration, and, if carefully mounred and skilfully acted, would produce powerful effects. Its plot is one which might hsve inspired

.Cschylus or Shakespeare to produce a great play It is a powerful play,

and is full of striking lines and passages. Wt ether it is put upon the stage or not, it may be said with truth that the suthor has achieved a soocess that has in It some of the elements of greatness."— O/m^oio Herald, Nov. 11, 1889.

'"Osbem and Ur^yne,* a drama in three acts in verse, seems to us very beautiful and melodious."— Z>(ifi|f ChronieU, June 80, 1899.

" In 'Osbem and Ursyne ' the theme is dramatic, the handling imagina- tive and powerful."— William Abckbb, in the DaiVy Chronicie, Nov., 1899.

" Written partly in blank and partly in rhymed verse, with an occasional subsidence into proee, 'Osbem and Ursyne' contains pretty passages and some

striking ones One is stirred by the keynote of the droma'-a love great

enough to make a woman kill her beloved for his good, and a love great enough to enable a man to commit murder to save his sweetheart from a taint."

Outiook, Nov. 11, 1899.

"John Oliver Hobbes'a blank verse Anglo-Saxon play. ' Osbem and Ur^me,*

has subtlety. It is also lofty and poetical In reading it yon cannot help

feeling tha*. she understands the principles of tragedy."— Ummw, July S9, 1899.

"Mrs. Craigie's play both in bilk and literary merit is the moetr im- portant contribution to the * Anglo- 9axon.' "^Standard, Juno SO, 1899.

" The play ia a very fine piece of dramatic literature, in which all the clear* ness of viskm and insight into motive which crystiilises into narkling epigram in this author's novels, has been used to form poeiic periods which are neither artifleial nor unduly stilted. Some of the latsages are almost Shakesperian, and will easily bear comparison with extract from Rostand's 'Cyrano.' Considerable knowledge of stage technique Is also manifest throughout, and it is evident thtt lira. Craigie has devoted considerable time and used the results of copious study in the construction of the J^ar."

BrooUwn BagU, Nov. i9, 1889.

JOHN L^By The Bodley He id, Vigo Street, London.