FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE BOOK FILE Good-Bye My Fancy Book reviews. Box 20 Folder 9 Includes A. MS. notation by Horace Traubel.[*1699*] 1891 21 May Review of 'Good-Bye My Fancy', with Marginalia. A. MS. (60 x 21 1/2 cm.) Written in pencil [*by Horace Traubel*] in the margin of p. 4 of the Boston Transcript for 21 May 1891, with lines and arrows pointing to an untitled, unsigned review in the editorial sections of Good-Bye My Fancy, 13 words: 1st ed'n. In 2d ed. this sentence was cut out by some ed. (The review begins: 'Cutting the leaves of advance sheets of another nosegay-bunch of prose and verse by Walt Whitman, we find many bits that will be relished by those who come to his pages for the first time. By far the strongest poem in this good-by collection (named, if fact, "Good bye My Fancy") is "To the Sunset Breeze," which was printed in the Transcript not long ago.' The sentence Whitman refers to follows the above: 'It makes one gasp to know that this superb piece of mystic and sublimated emotion was (over)[*1699A*] rejected by the editor of Harper's Monthly as being "a mere improvisation," as if any lyric were not an improvisation.')DAY, MAY 21, 1891. 3 SATURDAY TRANSCRIPT 16 Pages - $1.50 a Year. Summer Resorts. MASSACHUSETTS. HOTEL PRESTON, Beach Bluff, Mass. This house is superbly situated. Standing on a bluff [?]hich rises abruptly from a magnificent beach, it com-[?] nds fine ocean and inland views. It will be the aim [?]he proprietor to furnish this season a table and ser- equal to that of any summer hotel in the country. L. T. Damon will be at the office of Mr. Jones, 142 (formerly 62) Boylston Street, [?]esdays from 3 to 5 P. M., and on Fridays to 6 P. M., and will be glad to make ar- [?]ments for rooms for the coming summer. [?]ess all communications to L. T. DAMON, [?]on Hall, Cambridge, Mass. Send for [?]r containing heliotype views of the ThSTu13t ap 30 HERED ROCK HOUSE Ocean St., Lynn, Mass. IS NOW OPEN. The most desirable and conveniently located resort on the North Shore. Large rooms; spacious closets, gas and hot and cold water on every floor; all modern [?]mprovements; excellent bathing facilities; stable ac- [?]ommodations upon the premises. Special terms until July 1, and for the season. Apply at the house, or to A. P. PEABODY, 65 Franklin street, Boston, Mass. TuThS12t my 5 CLIFTON, MASS. Clifton House. On North Shore of Massachusetts Bay; is 35 minutes from Boston, has fine, extensive lawns, groves and garden; surf bathing within 50 yards; vicinity uoted for fine drives and scenery; a most desirable resort during the summer months. Will open June 20. For further particulars apply to WARE & ROSE, Proprietors, Clifton, Mass. TuThS39t my 5 The Crowninshield, Clifton, Mass. The house is delightfully situated in the midst of fifty acres of fields and orchards, half-way between Swampscott and Marblehead Neck; will open June 1. Plan of house may be seen from 10 to 12 A. M. daily 83 Pinckney Street, Boston. F. C. CLARK, Lessee. STuTh6t¶ my 9 Pigeon Cove, Mass. OCEAN VIEW HOUSE. This Seashore Hotel is one of the finest on the New England coast. It is situated at the entrance of the beautiful grove and cottage city of Ocean View, very near the end of the Cape, and in close proximity to "The Springs." The sea view is unsurpassed. Coaches connect with every train to and from Rockport, Salem and Boston. The drives here are among the finest in the world. Address MRS. SARAH A. LOUGEE. TuWThFStc my 12 MASSAPOAG LAKE HOTEL, Sharon, Mass. OPEN FROM MAY TO OCTOBER. The proprietor can be seen daily from 11 to 1 o'clock at office of the Boston Home Journal, 403 Washington street. He will also take pleasure in calling upon those desiring it. New illustrated circular mailed on application. A. PARK BOYCE & CO., Proprietors. tc ap 11 MAGNOLIA, MASS. THE MAGNOLIA, Just completed and elegantly furnished (200 rooms), heated by steam, lighted by electric light, elevator, hot and cold salt water baths. Will open for guests June 15. Address F. E. FARMER, Manager. tc my 7 Brookfield House, Brookfield, Mass., Two hours from Boston. This hotel is situated in a picturesque region, with fine drives and good opportunity for boating, fishing and driving; convenient to lake and steamboat; mineral spring short distance from the house; house has been thoroughly renovated. Families and others desiring summer board, with good accommodations and table at moderate prices, can make satisfactory arrangements by applying to J. B. GASS, Prop., or G. B. APPLETON, 304 Washington street, or Hon. S. P. TENNEY 7 1/2 Beacon street, or WM. H. KNIGHT, 97 Court street. TuThS12t my 19 THE PEMBERTON, Windmill Point, Hull, Mass. After May 1, one of the managers may be found at the hotel daily by parties desiring to select rooms. Address for particulars GASKILL & BROOKS, Managers, 10 Tremont street, Boston. Steamers leave Rowe's Wharf 10 A. M., 2.15 P. M. Returning 12.50 and 4.05 P. M. daily. STuThtc ap 4 OCEAN HOUSE, SWAMPSCOTT, MASS. The Leading Resort near Boston. OPENS JUNE 18. MARCELLUS W. CARTER, Proprietor. 1t&STuTh38t ap 3 HOTEL BARRE, BARRE, MASS. This new and deservedly popular summer resort i now open for its third season under the same management as last year. For circulars please address GEO. BANCROFT, Manager. tc my 4 ROCKLAND HOUSE. NANTASKET BEACH, MASS. Under New Management, Will open Saturday, June 20, 1891. House thoroughly renovated and in first-class condition. Elevator and all modern improvements. A good orchestra for concerts and dancing. For circulars and terms address E. STANTON. Proprietor, ap 25 STuTh36t Hotel Berkeley, Boston, Mass. WEST CHOP, MARTHA'S VINEYARD. The delightful inn known as "THE CEDARS" will open JUNE 1. Applications for season may be made at No. 15 St. James avenue, Boston. STuTh13t my 2 THE PRESCOTT, SWAMPSCOTT BEACH, Now open. Delightfully situated on the North Shore, easy of access to Boston. Hotel service and a fine table. MRS. F. H. GOULD, Lynn, Mass. ThSTu13t my 14 MAGNOLIA STREET. DORCHESTER. HOOPER ESTATE, At which fine pleasant rooms can be had, with board; high grounds, beautiful shade trees, and tennis grounds; strictly first class; five minutes to steam and horse cars; rooms can be seen at any time. TuThSTu my 19 The Nanepashment, MARBLEHEAD NECK, Opens June 15. Apply at 486 Columbus avenue, Boston. AMMI BROWN, proprietor. ThSTute ap 23 BEACH BLUFF, MASS. The Elms has country and seashore attractions; extensive grass lawns for tennis and other games; beautiful elm trees; pure water and good drainage; near depot. Apply at or address as above. 12t my 16 Devereux Mansion, Marblehead, Mass., Will open June 15. Inquire at 355 Boylston st., Boston, from 3 to 5. Mrs. BARROWS. Stable accommodations ThSMte my 7 MT. HERMON, MASS. Maple Lawn Farmhouse. Located near river and mountains, beautiful scenery, roomy piazzas, large, shady lawn, good rooms, pleasant drives, good boat; fresh berries, fruit, vegetables and milk from farm; teams boarded. Also a furnished cottage to rent with board. Could make it pleasant for a few families for the season. H. L. HAYDEN. ThSTu6t my 14 CLIFTON HEIGHTS. Seven-room furnished cottage, near Ocean Hotel, for JUNE; price, $50. Address F. S. T., Transcript Office. 5t my 19 MAINE. S. W. HARBOR, MT. DESERT, ME. ISLAND HOUSE. Situated on south side of the island; is being put in the best order; open for boarders June 15th. Terms moderate. Send for circular. H. H. CLARK, Prop'r. TuThS26t my 5 SARGENTVILLE, MAINE. Summer boarders wanted. Good rooms, fine view of ocean, good fishing in bay and lake; row boats free. Box 5. E. H. HERRICK. 26t my 14 SATURDAY TRANSCRIPT 16 Pages - $1.50 a Year. Summer Resorts. MAINE, OTTAWA HOUSE, Cushing's Island, Casco Bay, Portland, Me. One of the best Hotels on Maine's rockbound coast. Over 200 rooms; bathing, yachting and fishing; views of ocean, bay, islands and city combine to make this a perfect seaside resort. Apply early. THE ATKINSON CO., Proprietors. B. C. GIBSON, Manager. SEVERAL FIRST-CLASS SEASIDE COTTAGES for sale or rent, convenient to Hotel and Beaches, are now ready for occupancy. meals furnished by Hotel to all who prefer. Illustrated pamphlets free. DESIRABLE BUILDING SITES secured on application to FRANCIS CUSHING, Cushing's Island, Maine. ThSTu12t my 7 HOTEL POCAHONTAS Gerrish Island, Kittery Point, Me. H. A. COBB, Manager. Extreme eastern entrance Portsmouth harbor. Harbor and ocean combined. Finely situated building lots for sale STuTh24t my 2 OGUNQUIT, ME. CLIFF HOUSE. BALD HEAD. Open June 15. Situated on high cliff, about 100 feet above water; best of ocean view. Write for circulars and terms. my 11 26t E. T. WEARE. LAKE VIEW HOUSE. Pleasantly situated on northwest side of Sebago Lake, Me.; nice piazza, shade trees, good hunting and fishing; new steam launch, sail and row boats, horses and carriages. A. K. P. WARD, North Sebago, Me. 12t¶ my 20 WATERFORD, MAINE. LAKE HOUSE. Furnishes large rooms, good table, at moderate prices. Address E. M. DUDLEY, Prop. STuTh12t¶ my 9 BETHEL, ME. Persons wishing to obtain board for the summer can be accommodated at the Elms Hotel, situated in the lovely village of Bethel Hill, Maine. This house will be run in first-class order; rooms large and airy; pure mountain spring water; perfect drainage; fine livery connected; free carriage to all trains. For terms and particulars apply to my 2 STuTh9t¶ I. B. GERRISH. LIMERICK HOUSE, Limerick, Me. Fine drives, scenery unsurpassed, trout brooks plenty; good livery in connection. Terms from $5 to $8 per week. Write for particulars. S. E. GRANT, Limerick, Me. TuTh6t¶ my 19 SEBAGO, ME. Summer board at Highland Ridge; pleasant drives and fine mountain scenery; beautiful location, piazza, shade trees, plenty of milk, eggs and berries. J. H. LOMBARD, Maple Farm. TuThS¶ my 19 KITTERY POINT, ME., THE CHAMPERNOWNE. New house, all modern improvements; overlooks ocean; good boating, bathing and fishing. Terms liberal. HORACE MITCHELL, JR., Prop'r. STuTHtc ap 25 YORK VILLAGE, ME. OAKLAND FARM. Fine location, seashore and country; one of the most desirable resorts for families; cool and shady groves; terms resonable; railroad station on the farm. G. L. PAYNE STuTh11t¶ my 9 NEW HAMPSHIRE. ISLES OF SHOALS. APPLEDORE HOUSE. OPENS JUNE 18. Steamer Oceanic makes three trips daily from Portsmouth, N. H., connecting with all trains of Concord and Boston & Maine R. R. Close cannections with 9.30 A. M. and 3.15 P. M. trains from Boston. The magnificent sea-going steamer John Brooks leaves Snow's Arch Wharf. Atlantic avenue. Boston, daily for the Oceanic, Isles of Shoals, at 9.20 A. M., returning at 3 P. M. Fare 75c each way. Passengers bound for Appledore by the line taken Steam Ferry at Oceanic. my 19 TuThS39t LAIGHTON BROTHERS. WHITE MOUNTAINS, N. H. BREEZY HILL HOUSE. Location unsurpassed. Within easy access of the mountains, and commands fine views in all directions; beautiful drives and shady walks; table excellent; steam heat; open fires; electric bells, etc.; good livery and farm connected. For descriptive circulars address, until June 20, F. A. FERNALD, Manager, 9 Rutland square, Boston. WELLS & WOOLSON, Proprietors, Lisbon, N. H. STuTh13t my 16 THE WAUMBEK, JEFFERSON, N. H. Finest location in the White Mountains. Open July, August and September. Steam heat, elevator and all modern improvements. Address, until June 1st, PLUMER & PORTER, Lauren House, Lakewood, New Jersey. ThSTute my 7 THE WHITE MOUNTAIN ECHO COMMENCES ITS 14TH SEASON ON JULY 3, 1891. This handsome and old established summer journal is unsurpassed as a medium for the insertion of advertisements appealing to high class patrons. For terms, address BETHLEHEM, N. H. StuTh26t my 9 JACKSON, N. H. THE IRON MOUNTAIN HOUSE will open June 1. Special inducements to early visitors; exceptionally fine table and service the best; open fires, bathrooms, livery, telephone; June and July are the best months for fishing; best city references,For terms and diagaam of house, address W. A. MESERVE, Manager. tc ap17 PITTSFIELD, N. H. GRAND VIEW. High altitude, mountain scenery, beautiful drives; 40 rooms, 300 feet piazza, abounding in shade trees, large playground, 50 rods from highway, good table, livery stable, swings, bowling alley, lawn especially prepared for croquet and tennis, boating, etc.; 10 minutes' walk from depot; city reference; extra trains for summer travel. Sanitary arrangements perfect. F. E. SANBORN, Proprietor, Box 300. TuThStc my 19 Lake Winnipiseogee. Centre Harbor, N. H. MOULTON HOUSE. Kept especially as a summer boarding-house, with the best of accommodations; fine spring water; church, telegraph and post office near the house; three minutes' walk to the lakes; good livery; lawn tennis and croquet. Special rates for June and September, or for the season. S. F. EMERY, Proprietor. ThSTu12t my21 CAMPTON, N. H. A few summer boarders at farmhouse in Campton, N. H., situated on high land, commanding delightful views of mountain and valley; pleasant, quiet and healthful location; plenty of milk, eggs, fruit and vegetables from this well-kept farm; one mile from Livermore Falls, P. V. R. R. Address Post Office Box 78, West Medford, Mass. ThS4t my21 JACKSON, N. H. JACKSON FALLS HOUSE. Open June 1. Perfect drainage; electric bells, bathroom; music; house heated by hot water system. Good trout fishing in June. Reduction for June and after Sept. 15. TRICKEY BROS. TuThStc my5 WASHINGTON, N. H. 1300 Feet Above the Sea. THE LOVELL HOUSE. Enlarged, improved and newly furnished, will be more attractive this year than ever; terms reasonable; send for circulars. J. T. GOODWIN, Owner. 29t my18 NORTH WOODSTOCK, N. H. RUSSELL HOUSE. Pleasantly located, surrounded by beautiful scenery; large airy rooms; large piazza; good board at reasonable rates for small or large parties. GEORGE F. RUSSELL. ThS26t my7 Webster, N. H. OAKLAND FARM HOUSE. High location, magnificent mountain scenery, large, pleasant rooms, large piazza, shaded lawn, splendid drives; best of reference. Send for circular. Daily mail. Address JOHN A. FLANDERS. TuThS12t¶ my19 INTERVALE, N. H. THE PEQUAWKET, Improved and now open. Special terms for June and October. Good rooms; beautiful scenery; pure spring water; fine drainage; open fires an attraction. Good livery connected with the house. Address MRS. H. A. VICKERY. STuThtc my 16 VUE DE L'EAU, On Winnesquam Heights, Laconia, N. H., Overlooking the lake; excellent mountain views; boating, fishing; first class in every respect. Open June 1. my 16 STuTH13t C. C. WEEKS, Proprietor. LISBON, N. H. -HILLSIDE HOME. City residents seeking a retreat for the summer at moderate rates, will here find pure mountain air, delightful scenery, first-class board and good accommodations. Singers, musicians and lovers of music preferred. Address E. KNIGHT. TuTHStc my 19 HILLSIDE FARM. Good board and pleasant rooms at a quiet farmhouse. F. H. FLANDERS, East Andover, N. H. TuThS26t¶ my 15 JACKSON, N. H. GLENDON COTTAGE open June 1; house new last year; modern improvements; fine views, fishing and driving; reduced rates for Jun 2nd and September; write for circular. my 12 TuThS26t B. M. FERNALD. TWIN MOUNTAIN, N. H. The Riverside is again open for permanent and transient guests; special rates for spring and autumn months; write for circular. F. B. ROSEBROOK. TuThS65t my 19 HENNIKER, N. H. W. D. DAVIS, steward at Profile House 25 years, will open his house in Henniker July 6. Terms, circulars, address W. D. DAVIS, Henniker, N. H. STuTh39t¶ my16 SATURDAY TRANSCRIPT 16 Pages - $1.50 a Year. Summer Resorts. NEW HAMPSHITE. ISLES OF SHOALS. OCEANIC HOTEL. O. L. FRISBEE - - Proprietor. This famous resort will open June 13 and close Oct. 1. The finest located hotel on the Atlantic coast. Its charming climate, its perfect drainage, combined with all modern improvements, make this the ideal summer resort of the country. Good bathing. Fishing and boating unsurpassed. Send for terms and illustrated pamphlet to the proprietor. ROUTES TO THE ISLES OF SHOALS. The swift and commodious steamer OCEANIC leaves Portsmouth, N. H., three times daily, connecting with all trains on the Concord and Boston & M, R. R., East. ern Division; close connections with the 9.30 A. M. and 3.15 P. M. trains week days, 9.00 A. M. train Sundays from Boston. Baggage checked through both ways and delivered free. The palatial steamer JOHN BROOKS will leave Snow's Arch wharf daily at 9.20 A. M., arriving at the Shoals at 12.50 P. M. Fare 75 cents each way. Baggage checked free. STuTh13t my 2 Lower Bartlett, N. H. EAST BRANCH HOUSE AND COTTAGES, Opens June 15; perfect system of drainage; pure spring water; fine trout fishing within a few rods of the house; write for prices. PITMAN BROD., Props. 26t my19 HAMPTON, N. H. SEASHORE AND COUNTRY. Parties desiring board during the season commencing June 1 can be accommodated at one of the pleasantest places in Hampton, N. H.; 1 1/2 miles from beach; large and airy rooms, spacious verandas, fine shade trees, croquet ground, etc.; terms reasonable; best of Boston references. Address Box 17 ThSTutc my 14 INTERVALE, N. H. PENDEXTER MANSION AND COTTAGE are open for permanent and transient guests. Special rates for May, June, Oct. MRS. C. C. PENDEXTER. STuTh13t¶ my 16 JACKSON, N. H. GRAY'S INN AND COTTAGES Best location of any hotel in Jackson. Special rates for June; hot-water heat in halls; best of city references. Write for circular. C. W. GRAY, Prop'r. STuTh43t Inh 28 THE LODGE. An Annex of the Forest Hills Hotel, FRANCONIA, N. H., Opens for guests May 1. Open fires and furnace heat in all rooms. PRIEST & DUDLEY, Proprietors. 2m ap 13 BLAIR'S HOUSE, Campton, N.H., near Blair's Station, Pemigewasset Valley. Drives and scenery unsurpassed. New wide covered piazza over 100 feet long just added. Can refer to many Boston parties. Send for circular. J. C. BLAIR, Blair P. O., N. H. 26t my 15 Lebanon, N. H. Chiron Spring House Reopens June 1. Mineral water unsurpassed for dyspeptics, favorite summer resort for tourists, 40 acres of land in connection, fine lawns, tennis courts and croquet grounds; terms $8 to $10; circulars furnished. Address SIDNEY ROBERTS. ThSMW12t¶ my 14. VERMONT. HIGHGATE SPRINGS, VT. Franklin House and Cottages. Open June to October. Farm and Dairy connected. Lakeside Cottage. On Lake Champlain. Open June to October, Good fishing and boating. my 8 52t JUDSON L. SCOTT, Proprietor. WINDSOR, VT. SUMMER BOARDERS WANTED. For particulars and terms address A. L. KENDALL, Box 154. STuThS¶ my 16 GUILDFORD, VT. Rooms in large farmhouse, on lovely hillside,1/2 mile from mineral spring; broad piazzas, fine scenery and drives, shade, fruit and farm products. Address MRS. EDWARD THURBER, W. Brattleboro, Vt. ThSW¶ my 21 ROYALTON, VT. Summer boarders wanted in a private family; good board, pleasant rooms, beautiful scenery, in a quiet, healthy village, five minutes' walk from depot. Box 82, Royalton, Vt. ThSTu7t¶ my 21 VERMONT. Lake Dunmore House and cottages; delightfully situated in the heart of the Green Mountains; under entirely new management. Write for illustrated pamphlet. COXE & HACK, Salisbury, Vt. STuTh26t ap 18 RHODE ISLAND. TOWER HILL HOTEL, Narragansett Heights, Narraganset Pier, R. I. The most complete summer resort in the United States. Telegraph, electric bells, gas. Opens June 27. Furnished cottages to let. H. L. SCRANTON. STuTh12t my 16 NEW YORK. HOTEL KAATERSKILL, CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, N. Y. OPENS SATURDAY, JUNE 27. RATES REDUCED FRO JULY. For circulars and information call or address P. O'CONNOR, Grand Hotel, Broadway and 31st street, New York City. STuTh26t my 16 ADIRONDACKS. CHILDWOOD PARK HOUSE AND COTTAGES, On Lake Massawepie, Childwold Park. SECOND SEASON. One of the most beautiful and healthful locations in the North Woods. The hunting and the fishing positively unsurpassed. Hotel and cottages new, with modern improvements. Illustrated book, with map and full particulars, mailed upon application. WM. F. INGOLD, Manager, Boston Office, 22 Pemberton square. STuThtc my 9 CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT. FORT WILLIAM HENRY HOTEL LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. Open June 18, 1891. New York Office in the "Grenoble," 57th St. and 7th Av. Management and organization of Hotel PONCE DE LEON, St. Augustine, Fla. O. D. SEAVEY, Manager. Souvenir book of the Lake sent on application. 26t my 8 Sharon Springs, N. Y. PAVILION HOTEL, OPEN JUNE 15. European Applications of Sulphur Water Inhalation, Pulverization, Baths and Douches FOR Rheumatism, Catarrh, and Skin Diseases. Pamphlets, list of houses, and prices gratis. JOHN H. GARDNER & SONS. TuThS26t ap28 The WESTPORT INN, WESTPORT, ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN, N. Y. A well-appointed house; superb view of lake and mountains; boating, fishing and fine drives; stages to the Adirondacks. MRS. O. C. DANIELL, Manager. TuthS22t ap 14 NEW JERSEY. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. THE ALL-YEAR HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORT BY THE SEA, HOTEL BRIGHTON. OPEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. fe 17 TuThS39t F. W. HEMSLEY & SON. BOSTON Weekly Transcript PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. A Specimen Copy Speaks for Itself. 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ADVERTISERS will find it to their advantage, in securing proper display and classification, to send in their orders for Saturday as early as possible. ANOTHER EFFORT to defeat the legislation prohibiting the bond-investment companies was beaten in the Senate yesterday afternoon. Great pressure had been brought to bear upon senators to have the Wardwell bill recommitted, on the plea that three Massachusetts concerns were not heard before the committee. But this motion was lost by a vote of 14 to 10. Senator Coveney, supported by Senators Haggerty and Gilman, then moved to amend the bill by striking out the fifth section entirely, as recommended repeatedly by the Transcript. This motion was carried with only one dissenting voice, and the bill passed to be engrossed by a unanimous vote. This leaves the matter in the best possible shape. All persons are prohibited from engaging in the swindling business. IT appears that President Harrison would not see Quay who so magniloquently announced that he had come to visit the President and inform him on what terms he would allow Mr. Harrison to be renominated next year. All this was to be done at an interview on Monday. The "boss" sent a messenger to arrange for the conference, who was told in effect the the President was too busy to talk with him now, but if he could come round next week or some later time he would be granted an interview. Quay packed his gripsack and left for Philadelphia. This looks decidedly like a snub of the Pennysylvania senator by President Harrison. It is to be hoped that this is the beginning of the end of Mr. Quay's prominence in the management of the Republican party. THE MUNICIPAL LIGHTING BILL, as it had finally passed the House, cannot be considered a very radical measure, inasmuch as it does little more than recognize the validity of the principle that municipalities have the inherent right to furnish themselves with gas and electricity as well as with water or sewerage. The bill is so drawn that is is hardly possible for Boston or any other city to take advantage of it's concessions, but then few had supposed that any of the larger cities - certainly not Boston - were ready to go into the lighting business just at present. The bill will give the authority which several communities of limited extent have been praying for, and is therefore, perhaps, sufficient for the time being. If municipal lighting should prove successful in the towns which will be the pioneers in the enterprise, then it will be easy and inevitable before many years to frame a new statute especially applicable to cities. The bill has to go back to the Senate, and it may be there amended into new shape, but the probablity is that it will be enacted substantially in its present form. A PROMINENT BOSTON BANKER when asked to what he attributed so many failures of men who have always stood high in business circles and have been regarded as masters of their business, said recently that their misfortunes were usually to be traced to their ambitions to be considered financiers which led them to go into speculative enterprises with high-sounding titles. This banker had in mind the example of a gentleman who, after making a great fortune in a business which he had thoroughly mastered in all its details from apprentice up to proprietor, was on his way to losing his welath when he died borne down by the weight of enterprises which had no merit in them but which gave him titles in return for large sums of cash. A man who thoroughly understands the shoe and leather business, the butter trade, or copper, lead, iron, flour and provisions, and has grown wealthy as a result of his understanding, may not be any better prepared to manage the finances of a railroad or steamship line than his hublest employee. Some of these mean who lose money by not sticking to their lasts go into losing enterprises, becauses they have such an overweening belief in their power to succedd where others have failed; vanity sends them in, and pride keeps them in until the doomed corporation has swallowed up all the profits of a paying factory, or quarry, or grocery. If the schedules of many failed business firms were carefully studied it would, we believe, be found that no inconsiderable proportion owed their misfortunes to the employment of money made in a business their members thoroughly understood in enterprises which were foreign to all their experience and education. GUARDING IMMIGRATION. Secretary Foster is going to carry his investigetion of the immigration problem into Europe. He will send a special commission abroad to find out to what extent foreigh powers are shipping off their paupers and criminals to America and to report what measures should be taken to correct this nefarious practice and to bring steamship lines to a realizing sense of their responsiblity to the laws of the United States. It is to be hoped that the commission will bring together in a shape that will make it a basis for legislation a record of the practice of many European governments in not pressing indictments, on the understanding tthat the party indicted shall forthwith emigrate to the United States. The files of foreign papers might be consulted with advantage by the commission. The minor European papers, those issued in the second-class cities, and which publis Police Court proceedings in detail, afford plenty of evidence of the connivance of magistrates in using the United States as a big Botany Bay. An irish provincial paper of recent date publishes without comment the disposition of a case of petty larceny in the Coleraine District court, in which the complaint was laid on file on the assurance of the prisoner's family that he should be shipped to America, at their expense, within four weeks. In this case the prisoner was a lad who had stolen hens. Hen stealing is not usually regarded a crime of the deepest dye, and a boy who steals hens in Ireland may grow up in the United States a conservative citizen, strongly in favor of a vigorous enforcement of laws for the protection of poultry. But the principle underlying the disposition of this case is none the less objectionable because the offence did not exceed petty larceny. Nor do all European governments limit their practice of deporting offenders to the United States to pilfering youngsters. There was recently arrested in Vienna a swindler of noble birth, one of the numerous princes of the house of Lichtenstein. The case was so clear against him that his noble kinsmen urged him to throw himself on the mercy of the court and declare his willingness to go to the United Stated if sentence were suspended. At latest advices the court had not rendered its decision on this application for mercy. That the application should ever have been made shows that the Austrian view of the United States is very much like the Coleraine view. Secretary Blaine has recently called the German Government;s attention to the conduct of the municipal authorities of Stanzach in releasing a felon on condition that he should come to the United States, they paying his passage. As the law stands now our immigration inspectors have full power to turn back felons, petty pilferers and genteel swindlers when they land on these shores. What is now wanted is such a system of inspection abroad as shall prevent their embarking for this country. Senator Morrill of Vermont says that his idea of regulation is that no emigrant should be permitted to embark for this country until he has proven to the American consul at the port of sailing his fitness in every way. It will be remembered that the Transcript has urged that the possession of a consular certificate that the immigrant has not been charged with crime, and is not a pauper, should be a prerequisite for landing at our ports. A NEW CONFESSION. The air is thick with heresy trials and rumors of dissatisfied conservatism. The seventh chapter of Matthew itself would be attacked if it were uttered as an absolute confession of faith by certain progressive preachers today. Imagine a candidate for a position as theological professor saying, unchallenged, - I believe in judging no man, and believe that I shall not be judged. I believe that as long as any of us has the tiniest sort of a beam in his own eye he has no right to "take notice" if he thinks he beholds a mote in his brother's eye. I believe that whatsoever I would should be done unto me is exactly the thing I ought to do unto other men; and - I don't believe that heresy trials are all the law and the prophets. CUTTING the leaves of advance sheets of another nosegay-bunch of prose and verse by Walt Whitman, we find many bits that will be relished by those who come to his pages for the first time. By far the strongest poem in this good-by collection (named, in fact, "Good-bye My Fancy") is "To the Sunset Breeze," which was printed in the Transcript not long ago. It makes one gasp to know that this superb piece of mystic and sublimated emotion was rejected by the editor of Harper's Monthly as being "a mere improvisation," as if any lyric were not an improvisation. As for the old readers of Whitman, they will not find much up to the mark of old days, perhaps, in this "annex," but yet it is rooted in touching memories, and cannot be spared, even were it only for such humorous bits as that in which the author describes himeself as "each successive fortnight getting stuffer and stuck deeper, much like some hard-cased, dilapidated, grim, ancient shellfish or time-bang'd conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive), cast up high and dry on the shore sands." HARVARD helps on the federaton of the world by giving Mr. Uariaki Kozaki of Japan a place on the commencement programme this year. A negro for class orator last year was a good preface for this. by the time the Annex becomes one of the colleges of the university we may expect to hear of a Chilean for historian, and an Iceland girl for poet at Fair Harvard, - not before the beginning of the twentieth century , that. JOTTINGS. .... The outlook in the coke region is very dark. .... The English salt trust is in a bad way and may go to pieces, because it was too fresh. .... Dallas, Tex., was shaken up by the explosion of a powder magazine Sunday afternoon. Dallas wants it distinctly understood that it was the greatest explosion that occurred in any city in the country that day. .... The bagging committee of the South Carolina Alliance claim to have bagged the jute mean who have come to the farmers' terms. .... Said a discouraged dweller in a brick block, "There is scarlet fever in the nest house to me, and that's not the worst, wither, for the family the other side has bought a parrot." .... If those people, professionals and others, who are continually prophesying as to the course of events, financially, would keep quiet for a short time, there would be far less disturbance in the money market. .... Notwithstanding the cold weather and frosts in Delaware, the prospects are that the State will have a peach crop of fully 6,000,000 baskets. .... If ishing with purse seines were made illegal in Newport or Bar Harbor waters, there might be more chance for romantic lovematches at those resorts this summer. .... something being said about a "service of deconsecration" to be performed at the Church of Messiah, before the building shall pass into the hands of the Jewish congregation who have bought it, an Episcopaliam wants to know where the text and ritual of that service can be found. .... It is a truly Bostonian and philosophical cobbler who said to the interviewer who asked him what he thinks of the idea of an elevated railroad: "My opinion may not be worth as much as that of the florist beyond who has many people visiting his grounds at all times but it will set the world on fire as quick as his and it will be noticed by Mr. Whitney of the West End Company juast as quick as the opinions of many other people. I think they ought to run a car once every six hours, and bwtween times everybody should walk - it would help my business. I cobble for a livelihood. If we get the elevated that will end me then, I will get only half the business that i get now." SUMMER RESORT NOTES. Mr. N. Gould of Newton, N. H., annou the opening of the twelfth season at Go Hill in that pleasant and healthful town the delights of country life and a pleasant home. All the varied amusements of the sum Nantasket Beach can be enjoyed by tho secure rooms at the Park House. For lars address Mrs. Chapin, No. 64 Mount street. The Bald Pate, at Georgetown, Mass., a old colonial house, is now open for summ guests. Georgetown is one of the most attractive towns in Massachusetts, and is but one hour's ride from Boston. N. N. Spofford, manager. Gray's Inn and cottages at Jackson, N. H., are now ready to receive summer guests. As is well known Jackson is one of the most popular points for tourists in the White Mountain region. Circulars will be sent on application to the proprietor, C. W. Gray. The extremely cold weather makes the fishing very poor at Rangeley. Very few fish have been taken. Two inches of snow fell on Buck Hill Sunday Morning. Senator Frye and General Sewall arrived Monday evening on their way to the Mooselucmaguntic Lake. A most excellent locality for a quiet and restful summer vacation is Hinsdale, N. H. Chestnut Hill Farm in this town is located on high ground, affording fine views, pleasant walks and drives. Pure running water and first-class country fare. Miss Janette Bascom manager. Mrs. Harrison contradicts the report that she has sold her cottage at Cape May. She says she will take up her residence there for the summer as soon as she can complete the necessary arrangements. She expects to be there about the first of June. The President will probably follow a few days later. Prout's Neck is one of the most picturesque points on the Maine coast, and the Southgate House, with its open fires, excellent table, surf bating, boating and fishing, offers superior inducements to those who intend to visit this part of the Pine Tree State. Mr. J. M. Kaler, the proprietor, will send circulars upon application. The executive committee of the New Hampshire Veterans' Association held a largely attended meeting at Weirs, Wednesday, and made the initial arrangements for the coming annual reunion. It was voted to name the encampment in honor of the late General Henry W. Fuller of Boston. The programme for the reunion is a very extensive and attractive one. The town of Plymouth, Mass., is an idea place for a summer residence, and Manomet Bluffs is one of the most attractive points in that town. The Simes House offers to guests large rooms, with closets and fireplaces, first-class table; bath houses, boating and fishing. Address H. A. White, 189 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., or W. H. Hawley, 400 Washington street, Boston. The Maine Fish Commissioners have about 100,000 young land-locked salmon at Sebago and Rangeley, which they will distribute. The clubs have bred about 300,000 trout at Rangeley and Lake Auburn, which have about all been planted. At Orland the United States have some 150,000 young salmon, sea and land locked, and these will be turned into State waters. They are grown until about a year old before being liberated. Within the past few years Wellesley Hills ha come into prominence as an exclusive summer resort, with none of the features of more popular resorts so objectionable to those who seek rest and quiet rather than excitement. The Bon Air (formerly the Heckle mansion) is on high and dry land, near beautiful groves, and is fitted with all modern conveniences. Mr. Alfred W. Laighton, the proprietor, can be seen daily, from 11 to 1, at the Everett Piano Company rooms, 180 Tremont street. The Rockland House, Nantasket Beach opened for the season Wednesday. It is situated on high round commanding extensive ocean view; all modern appointments; gas, elevator, steam heat; pure water and perfect drainage; bathrooms, steam laundry; billiard hall, music and ball room; orchestral music; telegraph office; fully equipped stable; surf and still water bathing, boating and fishing; beautiful drives and walks; tennis courts and ball ground; hourly trains and boats from Boston. E. Stanton, proprietor. A special despatch from Cape May announces that President Harrison has disposed of his cottage there. Mr. Baine's illness, and the fact that the secretary of state will take an early vacation, will doubtless keep President Harrison in Washington until July, when it is though that he may pay Secretary laine a visit at Bar Harbor. Where the President's family will go for the season has not yet been decided, but there has been some talk at the White Hosue of spending June and possibly July at Deer Park, where the family spent the summer of 1889. ------------------------------------ POETRY AND BEEF. ----- The visit of Mr. Stedman to Chicago for the purpose of giving lectures on poetry was made the occasion of distinguished literary festivities. Chicago dearly loves a lord of culture, and is fond of showing her appreciation of one whenever she can get hold of one. It was too bad but very amusing of Eugene Field to burlesque this fondness by announcing the order of procession of the parade (arranged by the "Robert Browning Benevolont and Patriotic Association of Cook County" to escort the famous guest from the railway station the morning of his arrival. Here is the order of processions: Twenty police officers afoot. The grand marshal, horseback, accompanied by ten male members of the Twentieth Century Club, also horseback. Mr. Stedman in a landau drawn by four horses, two black and two white. The Twentieth Century Club in carriages. A brass band afoot. The Robert Browning Club in Frank Parmelee's 'busses. The Homer clubs afoot, preceded by a fife and drum corps and a real Greek philosopher, attired in a tunic. Another brass band. A beautiful young woman playing the guitar, symbolizing Apollo and his lute, in a car drawn by nine milk-white stallions, impersonating the muses. Two hundred Chicago poets afoot. The Chicago Literary Club in carriages. A splendid gilded chariot bearing Gunther's Shakspeare autograph and Mr. Ellsworth's first printed book. Another brass band. Magnificent advertising of Armour & Co., illustrating the progress of civilization. The Fishbladder Brigade and the Blue Island Avenue Shelley Club. The fire department. Another brass band. Citizens in carriages, afoot and horseback. Advertising cars and wagons. The line of march will be an extensive one, taking in the packing-houses and other notable points. At Mr. Armour's interesting professional establishment the process of slaughtering will be illustrated for the delectation of the honored guest, after which an appropriate poem will be read by Decatur Jones, president of the Lake View Elite Club. Then Mr. Arnour will entertain a select few at a champagne luncheon in a scalding-room. ------------------------------------ THE HOUSE OF DETENTION. ----- To the Editor of the Transcript: The apartments of the chief matron at the House of Detention, and the business and reception room from which they are reached by an easy flight of stairs, are fine, it is true, as may also be said of the entrance from Somerset street--a marked improvement upon the original structure, against which ladies from various organizations, who had anxiously labored for the employment of police matrons and for improved conditions for arrested women under their charge expostulated with architect, building commissioners and Board of Police. With these apartments ends all semblance to a house of detention. The construction of the ill-conceived and shaped quarters for the [*Review of*] [*"Goodbye, my fancy" p. 114*] The Critic ELEVENTH YEAR. {VOL. XVI., NO. 401, NEW SERIES.} THE CRITIC, NO. 498. 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Literature Washington's Writings * MORE THAN two years have passed since the first volume of Mr. Ford's edition of Washington's writings was noticed in these columns (April 6, 1889); and we are now in possession of the tenth. From the days of his youth and the days when he was winning his spurs as a man of capacity in fighting battles against French and Indians, the record has gone forward through Washington's marriage and settlement at Mount Vernon, through the beginnings of the war with England, the tremendous obstacles which he had to overcome as commander of the 'rebels,' the victories he won here and there, the final surrender at Yorktown, the articles of peace and the return of Washington to the home he loved on the banks of the Potomac. Here, with his own broad acres smiling all about him, here within his own four walls and beneath his own roof, the hero of this new Western world at last is seen comfortably settled and writing to Lafayette his determination to 'move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.' And yet before him still lay his whole career as President! Few of the letters that Washington wrote to Mrs. Washington have survived to our day. Probably their correspondence was not extensive. They seldom were separated long. Even while the war was in progress, wife and husband for long periods were together in camp. When a log-hut served the commander as his dining-room at Valley Forge, Mrs. Washington shared the frugal meals of her husband in those homely surroundings. In one of the earliest of these volumes are printed two of the letters that Washington wrote to his wife. At the date of one, she had been married to him only a short time; at the date of the other, she was about to become his bride. Washington addressed her as 'one whose life is now inseparable from mine,' and assured her that his thoughts had been 'continually going to you as to another self.' To a relative he wrote in those first Mount Vernon days that he hoped to 'find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced amidst a wide and bustling world.' His early correspondence gives no hint of ambition outside the fields and forests that were his own. Records of the weather, the health of his Negroes, work on the farm, and dealings with his neighbors, absorbed his energies and gave employment to his eminently practical genius. No man could count the cost of things better than Washington, none was ever more certain to undertake only those things which strong good sense approved. By his marriage, Washington had become a rich man; but he was rich in acres, not in ready cash. When the crops failed, or when his pay for crops was slow to come in, he was often in the state which modern men call 'hard up.' We find in this correspondence a letter from a friend asking for a loan from Washington of £400. He found himself obliged to decline doing the friend that service. He inclosed him his last statement from a London house which showed him largely in debt. * The Writings of George Washington. Edited by Washington C. Ford. 14 vols. Vol. II. to X. 1758-1785. $5 per vol. G. P. Putnam's Sons. He assured his friend that this account 'upon my honor and the faith of a Christian is a true one, and transmitted to me with the additional aggravation of a hint at the largeness of it.' The London gentleman's hint did not sit lightly on Washington's spirit. In one of these volumes is printed the reply he sent. After telling the Englishman what his condition was and what he could do, he proposed, if the Englishman was not satisfied, to find a method 'that will at once discharge the debt and effectually remove me from all further mention of it.' He assured him that it was 'but an irksome thing to a free mind to be always hampered by debt.' The independence shown in this letter was quite worthy of the man who was soon to unsheath his sword at Cambridge and faithfully to wear its scabbard until the humbled foemen sailed away from the harbor of New York. On leaving Mount Vernon Washington's directions to his agent, Lund Washington, were to 'let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go hungry away.' And yet the careful man of business was to be seen–even in his generosity. He specified the amount to be expended annually in charity, and the agent was to observe 'the greatest economy and frugality, as I suppose you know that I do not get a farthing for my services here more than my expenses.' Throughout the War he was continually harassed for want of satisfactory reports from his estate. What his crops were, what his receipts and his expenditures, he rarely learned. One report came to him at Valley Forge; another just after the surrender of Cornwallis; but these appear to be all that he was able to obtain. Matters finally got to be in such a bad way on the estates that to his brother John he declared, at the close of the War, that at one time he was 'hardly able to keep his estate from sale.' He had a partner in a Western mill named Simpson, and reports reached him that Simpson had made fine profits out of that mill. It was the best paying mill beyond the mountains, and yet his own returns gave no such indications. To partner Simpson the Commander-in-Chief, now released from his responsibilities and back once more in Virginia, wrote the substance of these reports, and then declared that 'something very handsome from that quarter' was expected by him. He hoped Mr. Simpson was able to give a report showing that 'something more than your own emolument was intended by the partnership.' Another man who received one of Washington's sharp business letters was a neighbor in Virginia named Robert Alexander. Mr. Alexander had agreed to sell Washington a certain piece of land which Washington much wanted. Mrs. Alexander interfered–at least that was her husband's story; but Washington thought 'any gentleman possessed of but a very moderate degree of influence with his wife might, in the course of five or six years, have prevailed upon her to do an act of justice in fulfilling his bargains.' Washington was especially disposed to take this view 'as the inducement which you thought would have a powerful operation on Mrs. Alexander, namely, the birth of a child, has been doubled and tripled.' These are the letters that show the fine business abilities that Washington possessed. Those which show his noble patriotism are far more numerous in these ten volumes. His letter to the dissatisfied Gen. Thomas, urging him to reconsider his determination to retire, breathes the finest spirit. His declaration that 'every post ought to be deemed honorable in which a man can serve his country' occurs in this epistle. Much else occurs there to show that the patriotism of Washington was of the purest character known in his time, and that it was not only pure but patient. Early in the War he was beset with harassing things, unknown elsewhere in history in the conduct of a great struggle. And yet the allusions he makes to his embarrassments and his critics ('chimney-corner heroes,' he calls the latter) are made in private letters to his intimate friends. With the world in general he bears these things uncomplainingly, for he knows the harm complaints made in public would do the cause.114 The Critic Number 401 Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, in his biography of Washington, has made vigorous answer to the assertion that, in the Revolution, 'an English commoner vanquished an English king' ; these letters are in themselves an answer that is unanswerable. The difference between Washington and the great bulk of those who fought for the liberties of these shores was that he possessed an estate of broad and fertile lands, whereas the others were mainly poor farmers and poor tradesmen. In their patriotism there was no such distinction between him and them; in their Americanism there was none. There is no sign in all this correspondence that Washington had any special love for England. There is no sign that he shared in Franklin's regard for 'that fine and noble China vase, the British Empire.' Men of later times have talked of Lincoln as 'the typical American,' as if he were the first that rose to the highest station here. They should read -- for there is obvious need of it -- these stately and beautiful octavos and learn, that with all his lands, Washington was no English commoner at war with the soldiers of an English king. He was an American born and bred, and an American who was irreconcilable first and last. Indeed, his earliest letters during the War show that he was an uncompromising American when many of those around him were perhaps not even Americans. The quality of that part of them extending from neck to coccyx was 'werry onsartin.' ----------------- "Good-Bye, my Fancy!"* The GREEKS put in their graves an image of Hermes the psychopomps to convey the spirit over into the land of shades. 'Good-bye, my Fancy!' is Walt Whitman's Hermes-image to convey his parting salutations to the afterworld. In its sixty-six pages we have a medley and motley of prose and verse like what the countryman calls the rich 'strippings' of the cow's milk, the last and oiliest, the most nutritious and creamiest of the lacteal fountain. A few things here have been published before. The Critic's readers have tasted and enjoyed the uncloying 'Old Man's Rejoinder,' 'For Queen Victoria's Birthday,' 'The Pallid Wreath' and 'Unassail'd Reown' ; but the bulk of the book -- its stem, stalk and flower --- is new to the public and has not before tempted the intellectual palate. and germ of the divine energy --- a camaraderie as close and as kind as that which clasped hamadryad and enclosing oak together. Death, which inspires so many of these beautiful irregular lines, looms up magical and benign before a mind simply wondering, not abashed --- the 'eidólon-yacht' of his soul ready to put forth on its mirage-haunted seas with utmost trustfulness. Whitman's beliefs come out singularly strong and triumphant here and there among the creed-leaves of the book : beliefs in future personality, identity, immortality, a merciful and loving God, progress, consciousness : he peoples that dim world with these, and it becomes immediately lustrous. These brave beliefs ring almost gayly through 'An Ended Day,' 'The Pallid Wreath,' 'My 71st Year,' 'Shakespeare-Bacon's Cipher,' and other protests against materialism, often as beautifully expressed as Tennyson's or Whittier's vital faith. Indeed, the whole book is a book of 'last words' from dying lips sealing a life that has been blameless. There is no sound of lamentation or Job-cry in it, pervaded as it is with bright, broad optimism, the grace of benignant utterance, the egoism of a healthy and gracious child. Almost the only querulous note is the plaintive reference to rejected MSS. sent in to the 'great magazines.' The generous recognition of Tennyson and Ruskin and the other English and American admirers has offset this, and kept the paralyzed author from real want. The last twenty pages or so are full of Pascal-like pensées grouped in paragraphs, vividly poetic, many of them, with Whitmanesque threads and colorations running all through. Such are 'A Death-Banquet,' 'Some Laggards Yet,' 'Splinters,' 'Health,' 'Crossing from Jersey City,' 'An Engineer's Obituary' (his brother), and the 'Old-Age Jottings.' Histrionic New York of thirty or forty years ago reappears delightfully in 'Old Actors, Singers, Shows, etc.'----a tell-tale bead of personal recollections in which the author suspends a votive offering before each vanished image and lingering voice, all quaintly carved in his own rich involved English. Much ruddy philosophy courses through these recollections---healthy love of the drama, love of a beautiful voice, love of Shakespeare and the great artists---of Alboni and Jenny Lind and Fanny Kemble and fine reading. The author turns the kodak on himself and reveals each inner sanctuary of his moral and physical nature. Now in his seventy-third year, he is as fresh and piquant as ever, as devoted to his great 'America,' his ideal Democracy, his poetic theories as he was in 1855, when he began jotting down his revolutionary memoranda. And at the forefront of it all looks out a portrait---profile rounded like the arch of the full moon, nebulous, Ossianlike, but striking in its filmy vagueness. -------------- Mme. Bazan's "Wedding-Trip"* THE NAME of Emilia Pardo Bazan is already familiar to us through 'A Christian Woman.' 'A Wedding-Trip' bears trace of the same hand and has touches of the same inspiration and insight. The central figure, as before, is a woman, and the moral intention of the book is worked out along her lines of through and feeling. But as a whole the story is disappointing. It is an episode rather than a novel, and offers no actual solution or denouement. The plot is of the simplest. A newly-married but somewhat ill-assorted pair start on their wedding-trip. The groom descends at one of the stations and is left behind by the train. The bride, forced to proceed on her journey alone, makes the acquaintance of a stranger, who inevitably proves more interesting than the husband. The jealousy of the latter is aroused, and the young wife finally returns, alone and broken-hearted, to her father's home. Meagre as is the plot, it is overcharged with detail and description, and the incidents seem forced and extravagant. The leading idea of the book is the saving power of faith, and its ultimate conquest ------ *A Wedding-Trip. By Emilia Pardo Bazan. Translated by Mary J. Serrano, $1. Cassell Publishing Co. September 5 1891 The Critic 115 over the doubts and despair of materialism---a conclusion, however, to which Mme. Bazan gives forcible and dramatic statement rather than logical and convincing demonstration. There are striking and suggestive passages. 'Do you indeed believe in nothing?---in nothing?' she asks. * * * 'I believe in evil,' he answers. 'In evil, that surrounds and envelops us on all sides from the cradle to the grave; that never leaves us ; in evil, that makes of the earth a vast battle-field where no being can live but by the death and the suffering of other beings ; in evil, which is the pivot on which the world turns and the very mainspring of life.' 'It would seem them, according to what you say, that you pay to the devil the worship you refuse to God' 'Worship? no! Shall I worship the iniquitous power, that, concealed in darkness, works for the general woe? To fight, to fight against it is what I desire, now and always. You call this power the devil : I call it evil, universal suffering. I know how alone it may be vanquished.' 'By faith and good works,' exclaimed the young girl. 'By dying,' he answered. And again, when he is tempting her to fly with him, he asks her for whose sake she resists. 'For God's sake,' she answers. 'But your God is angry with you,' he urges; 'you offended Him by loving me; you offended Him by continuing to love me; by coming here you have affended Him still more deeply,' 'Though I stood on the brink of perdition, though I were sinking in the flames of hell, my God is ready to save and to pardon me, if my will be turned to Him. Now, now, I will ask Him to save me.' We are carried by the passion and glow, but we realize that the true difficulty has not been met. Mme. Bazan does not give us the key to this invincible faith; she does not put us into possession of that spiritual kingdom where the powers of darkness cannot prevail. But in spite of defects, she is a writer of rare and strong individuality. Spanish to the core, with traditions and prejudices born into the blood and an environment and conditions to which we are not accustomed, it requires, on our part, something of a mental and even moral effort at times to sympathize, or thoroughly to understand her point of view. Her real genius seems to consist in a certain revelation of soul---a certain spiritual growth and fulfilling in circumstances where we should least look for it. She has a masculine grasp of life, but, at the same time, it is the feminine side that triumphantly asserts itself, the women's nature that is always justified. Whether of not Mme. Bazan will ever be popular with an American public is an open question, but what would greatly add to her influence and lasting fame would be a better standard of taste, and more artistic perception and reserve. ------- "New China and Old"* Is CHINA always to be the land of blue dragons and Old Canton, fossil institutions and dried up faiths, girl infanticide and sceptical mandarinism? Are the yellow rivers perpetually to flow there in and out of 350,000,000 of yellow people, without ever witnessing a change or seeing a wrinkle altered? The present dynasty, with its ugly Tatar cue, is older than the English Hanoverian dynasty by the distance between 1646-7 and 1714; and yet in these 230 years not a sparrow has fallen to the ground, not a hair's breadth of Confucianism has yielded to the unceasingly impinging Taoism and Buddhism by which it is encompassed. The yellow rivers flow on; the vivid rice-fields luxuriate in their fruitful inundations; the pagodas rise on every hill; the gods grin in every temple; and stringent custom, instead of growing placid with immemorial age, tightens like the garrote round the throte of China. The national physiognomy, perpetually gazing on itself as in 350,000,000 yellow mirrors, has petrified into a Mongol type recognizable all over the earth; the ancestral village, where everybody is akin to his neighbor by ties of blood, flourishes amain; the cemeteries are fuller, more numerous, and more sacred than ever; and the Flowery Kingdom grows flowers forever of one hue. ------ *New China and Old. Personal recollections and Observations of Thirty Years, By Archdeacon A. E. Moule. $2.50. Chas Scribner's Sons. 'His Eternity' was the title of address of some of the late Roman Emperors. 'The Unchanging' would fittingly describe the perpetuity of institutions in China. And yet---a change has come. Archdeacon Moule in this interesting book notices certain atoms of Chinese life in motion: it is no longer absolutely statuesque, immobile, arrested; an undercurrent of change has set in even in the thirty years he has been a missionary there; China stirs and turns in her sleep -- not wide-awake like Japan (now afflicted with positive insomnia), but stirring and turning like an invalid in an opium-dream, comatose but conscious, dreaming but preparing for action. Her millions cannot understand each other in their dialect jabberings, but the wonderful Chinese writing-system, known to all intelligent Mongolians, enables the Pekin Government to communicate with its people; and Pekin is a kind of eye-hole and ear-hole which keeps in touch and sight with the European word: vibrations of this faraway world reach the Chinese nerves and tremble along its complicated system: Europe is no longer an abode of 'devils' to the 'almond-eyed Oriental'; it has become a word that tingles like an electric quiver on the Chinese sensorium, a tonic, a stimulus, an exhilaration. Great cities and provinces, once as hermetically sealed as the occult book of Hermes Trismegistus, have thrown wide their dragon-portals: Chinses diplomacy courts the European powers; Chinese fleets are built and officered on the Clyde -- though foreign commanders in the native navy are just now in disfavor; Chinese banking-houses are in sympathy with London; Chinese guns are from Krupp's factory; and the starving Chinese myriads submit in famine times to be fed by Western philanthropy. Many of these significant facts come out in the course if this thoughtful book, which is full of acute observations on the customs, habits, religions and politics of the Middle Kingdom. Christianity has eaten at last into the anaemic heart of China and is filling it with new and rich arterial currents, Those stagnant populations, so long motionless in the Buddhist sun, suddenly show themselves alive with feeling and sensation; men and women virtually entombed alive are beginning to palpitate under the touch of the Gospel; a new life is oozing imperceptible in as the waters of some mighty Mississippi or Amazon ooze through the contracting levees: commerce, Christianity, the busy missionary, the defatiguable engineer, the commis voyageur and the tourist are unlocking door after door; and perhaps one may soon see the amazing ND TERRIVLE PHENOMENON WHICH Lord Wolseley predicts -- a resurrected China. -------- Herbert Spencer's "Justice"* THIS WORK is intended to form the fourth part of Mr. Spencer's 'Principles of Ethics," of which only the first part, dealing with the data of ethics, has hitherto been published. The justice of which Mr. Spencer treats is merely legal justice and nor the moral virtue which the Greeks designated by that name. His formula of justice, indeed, is one of the leading principles of the English law, and is stated by him in these words:-- 'Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal liberties of any other man' (pg. 46). This is an excellent rule as far as it goes; but is is rather a definition of liberty than of justice, and there are many universally recognized cases of justice which is cannot by any stretching be made to include. Mr. Spender deduces from it most of those rights of adult persons which as recognized and sanctioned by law, such as the right to life and to liberty, the right to freedom of movement, the right to own and dispose of property, etc.; and the chapters in which this deduction is made are among the most interesting in the book. But when he comes to the rights of children and the duties that grown people owe to them, he finds the formula of no value, and so he takes refuge in the theory that there is 'a fundamental distinction between the ethics of the family -------- *Justice. By Herbert Spencer. $1.25. D. Appleton & Co.116 The Critic Number 401 and the ethics of the State' (p. 167). That morality should be one thing in the family and another in the State is contrary to the very idea of morality, and it is obvious that a formula of justice which does not cover all cases is not the true one. Mr. Spencer tells us that children are entitled to protection and support in order that the species may be preserved. But why is one under obligation to preserve the species? and what is the source of that obligation? Mr. Spencer has nowhere told us, and certainly the preservation of the species cannot be deemed the supreme end of moral action. The concluding chapters of the book are devoted to the question, which Mr. Spencer has so often discussed before, of the proper limits of State action. He lays down the principle that the State has no right to do anything but maintain justice, and that whenever it does more than this, it is guilty of injustice towards some of its own citizens. His views on this point are well-known, and he has not added anything to them in this book. -------- Boutmy's "Studies in Constitutional Law"* WE NOTICED lately a work by M. Boutmy on the English Constitution, and we are glad to receive another volume from his able pen. It has a different translator, and contains an introduction by Mr. A. V. Dicey, together with footnotes from the same hand which will be helpful to the reader. The book consists of three essays, the first dealing with the Constitution of England and the second with that of the United States, both being treated in such a way as to bring out their points of difference with the Constitution of France; while the third essay treats of the source of three Constitutions and the originating authorities that brought them into being. In dealing with the English Constitution, its historical origin and the unwritten character of many of its most important provisions are of course the points most strongly insisted on, as offering the greatest contrast to the Constitution of France. When he takes up the American Constitution, however, the point on which the author dwells the most is its federal character, a point which he thinks is too little understood in France, where the prevalence of a centralized government has made it difficult for students to comprehend such a system as ours. M. Boutmy insists on the fact that the States are the fundamental element in our political system, and the creators of the Federal Union itself, and he presents the relations between the State and the Federal authorities in a very clear light. He dwells at some length on the difficulties arising from the division of powers between the different departments of the Federal Government itself, and shows how these difficulties are obviated in practice. He fails, as it seems to us, to duly appreciate the functions of the judiciary, and we can by no means agree with the remark which he makes in his preface that the question of secession is not yet closed, and that the Union may sometime split up into three or four fragments. Nevertheless, he has written an able work, and one that will be of service to the people of all three of the countries with whose Constitutions it deals. -------- Theological and Religious Works 'PEACE AND ITS HINDRANCES,' by Bishop Ashton Oxenden, is another of the pieces of literary flattery which Prof. Drummond has received. The former Lord Bishop of Montreal takes up the same theme that the Free Church of Scotland layman has handled in this 'Pax Vobiscum,' and expatiates upon other phases of it. Curiously enough, although mentioning Dummond's brochure in the preface, he does not mention the author's name. Bishop Oxenden has written many edifying little pamphlets and volumes which have attained a marvellous circulation. Thus his tract on Confirmation is in its 717th thousand! The brochure under consideration will not add to his reputation. It is, however, excellent Sunday reading, and is the product of a devout mind. It sets forth clearly the way of peace and the reason why all do not tread it! (35 cts. Longmans, Green & Co.) - 'THE FIRST THING IN THE WORLD; OR, THE PRIMACY OF FAITH,' by Dr. A. J. Gordon, ---- *Studies in Constitutional Law: France, England, the United States. By Emile Boutmy. Trans. by E. M. Dicey. $1.75. Macmillan & Co. and "Hope: The Last Thing in the World," by Dr. Arthur P. Pierson, are the titles of two sermons obviously suggested by Prof. Drummond's tracts, and published in 'chaste' paper covers. They are probably fair specimens of their author's pulpit preparations. Both contain ingenious uses of Scripture, and are infused with an evangelical spirit. The palm must, however, be accorded to Dr. Gordon for freshness and point. (20 cts. each. F. H. Revell Co.) - 'THE FIGHT OF FAITH and the Cost of Character' is the title of two characteristic talks to young men, by Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, issued by the same publishers, in the same style and at the same price. The mention of the name suffices to describe the little pamphlet. Dr. Cuyler is always incisive, uncompromising and orthodox. He reprints as an appendix Dr. Charles Mackay's beautiful poem, 'The Ivy and the Light,' and boldly alters the last verse so as to make 'the poem descriptive of Jesus Christ as the true "light of the world."' We commend his course in announcing what he has done in the way of alteration. Few hymn-doctors are so honest. -------- 'ECCLESIASTICAL LIBERTY,' ' being the defence of the Rev. Howard MacQueary before the Ecclesiastical Court of the Episcopal Church, in Northern Ohio, against the charges of heresy,' delivered at Cleveland on Jan. 7, 1891, will be read with interest by those who follow such trials, and the occasion was memorable enough to make it worthy of the immortality of print. (United States Book Co.) - 'CALENDAR AND CHART, Illustrating the Years, Periods and Events as Recorded in the Life of our Lord, in Their Chronological Order,' by George P. Perry, consists of a series of spiral rings upon which the events of the Messiah's life are inscribed. The innermost have upon them the few incidents of His birth and youth; then come eighteen eloquent unmarked rings and then three, differently colored, to mark the years of His ministry. Upon a separate diagram are the events of the Passion. The whole makes a really useful as well as ingenious article which will be helpful to all students of Christ's life, whether young or old. (75cts. Hunt & Eaton.) - 'THE FAITH THAT MAKES FAITHFUL' consists of eight sermons by William C. Gannet and Jenkin Lloyd Jones. In view of the fact that this little book is now in its fifteenth thousand, there is small call for an appreciative notice. The authors are Unitarians. They make little use of the Bible, even for texts, and still less of the name of Jesus Christ. (50 cts. C. H. Kerr & Co.) - REV. A. SCHULTZE, President of the Moravian Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Pa., has prepared a very useful little book entitled 'The Books of the Bible Briefly Analyzed.' We are glad to see that it is now in its fifth edition. (20 cts. J. B. Lippincott Co.) - 'THE CHURCH AND POVERTY,' by John Brisben Walker, is the reprint of a lecture by the editor of The Cosmopolitan Magazine. The Church meant is the Roman Catholic Church - a communion which has always had much persistent and cheerless poverty in it. (10 cts.) ------ 'MIND IS MATTER; or, The substance of the Soul,' by William Hemstreet, is an attempt 'to popularize, by scientific methods, by gradual and legitimate analogies, and form facts we all agree about, the theory that the soul is a material, self-continuing substance, not an idea-abstraction; that it operates beyond the body, and is, like all other ultimate substances, immortal, and the subject of material laws. On the materiality of electricity stands or falls the immortality of the soul. Within ten years this will be universally accepted.' ($1. Fowler & Wells Co.) - 'THE BIBLE VERIFIED,' by the Rev. Andrew W. Archibald, is a volume of sermons which the author was encouraged to print by Prof. Geo E. Day and the late Prof. R. B. Welch. He is a fair-minded man and not afraid to meet difficulties in Scripture fairly. No wonder the book, so modest in style and yet so practical, passes in six weeks into a second edition. It is to be commended to those seeking a popular, inexpensive manual on what are called 'Bible difficulties.' (75 cts. Presbyterian Board of Publication.) - 'STUMBLING-BLOCKS Removed from the Word of God,' by Arthur T. Pierson, is a more pretentious little book than the former and more uncompromising in its tone, but is an attempt to go over much the same ground. (50 cts. Baker & Taylor Co.) - AS 'TYPES OF Ethical Theory,' by Dr. James Martineau, has already been reviewed in these columns, we merely call attention to this third edition. ($2.60. Macmillan & Co.) --------- 'THE PSALMS: BOOK I.,' edited by Prof. Kirkpatrick of Cambridge, and 'The Epistles to the Thessalonians,' by Prof. Findlay of the Wesleyan College, Headingley, are two recent issues of the admirable Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, edited by Dr. J. J. L. Perowne, recently appointed Bishop of Worcester. Much valuable space would have been saved if the Revised Version had been frankly taken as a basis. (Macmillan & Co.) -------- September 5 1891 The Critic 117 LEVITICUS and Numbers,' by Dr. Daniel Steele, and 'Deuteronomy,' by Dr. John W. Lindsay, form Vol. II of Whedon's Commentary on the Old Testament. The preface declares that this is a model volume. Leviticus is studied as 'the record of a system of religion which, typical in its wholeness, passed over in fulfilled form into the Christian dispensation'; Numbers is 'equally relieved of its cold historical form,' while in Deuteronomy the historical element is recognized, and 'its fitness in the last Mosaic period of Israel' pointed out. The volume contains many shabby illustrations. ($2. Hunt & Eaton.) - 'INTERDENOMINATIONAL Sermons,' a series of 'sermons delivered in the Old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City, by prominent ministers of different denominations,' and edited by Dr. Wellesley W. Bowdish, is practically, although not intentionally, a contribution towards Church Union. ($1.25. Hunt & Eaton.) - 'THE BROAD Church; or, What is Coming,' by the Rev. H. R. Haweis, is an attempt to show that the Broad Church is right in putting upon fundamental doctrines of the Church of England a construction contrary to that of the authorized teachers. It cannot be denied that Mr. Haweis has made a vigorous book. (United States Book Co.) ------ 'THE GOSPEL of Spiritual Insight,' by Dr. Chas. F. Deems, is a series of studies in the Gospel of St. John. The International Sunday-school Lessons for the last half of this year being on this Gospel, the issue of these sermons is timely. The author assumes on the part of his hearers implicit belief in the genuineness and authenticity of this Gospel; nor does he enter into criticism. His immediate object is edification. It is therefore not as a treatise, nor even as a commentary, but as a series of devotional readings in the Gospel, that the book must be taken, and as such it is successful. The discourses are separately designated and then divided into paragraphs, each with an appropriate heading. The book is unpretentious, simple and interesting. ($1.50. W. B. Ketcham.) - 'MOFFATT'S EDITION of the Gospel According to St. Mark,' by R. J. Wood, is a small book with large claims. The fact that Mr. Wood made the preceding volume on Matthew proves that his work is satisfactory to publishers, who propose, apparently, to go through the whole New Testament after the same fashion. The present volume is, according to the preface, fitted to give the student not only a sound knowledge of the text and its meaning, but a comprehensive grasp of the many details necessary for a thorough mastery of the whole Gospel. Much space would have been saved if the Revised Version had been boldly taken for text. As it is the A. V. is the text and it is constantly corrected by the R. V. (London: Moffatt & Paige.) - 'THE SACRAMENT of the Lord's Supper,' by the Rev. E. J. Birch, Hon. Canon of Peterborough, is a simple but vigorous tractate against the doctrine of the Real Presence. (35 cts. Longmans, Green & Co.) ------ Magazine Notes A VERY fine wood-cut of Thomas Bailey Aldrich and an appreciative notice of his poetry written by Mr. Frank Dempster Sherman will be found in the September [[italicized]] Century. [[/italicized]] Mr. Sherman quotes liberally, and with happy effect. Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pennell's article on 'Play in Provence' introduces us to the quaint old town of Martigues, where the painter, Ziem has pitched his studio. Of Mr. Pennell's illustrations, those which are least like Whistler are the best. The various series, which take up so much of the magazine, are well sustained. Mr. Kennan's account of 'A Winter Journey through Siberia' is a most interesting bit of personal narrative. In the Californian series is Col. A. C. Ferris's account of a trip [[italicized]] via [[/italicized]] Mexico in 1849. Francia and Ghirlandajo are treated of in the series of 'Italian Old Masters.' Mr. Seth Low tells how to govern a city; Mr. H. Tyrrell (in rhyme) how to make Bouillabaisse; and Mr. R. K. Munkittrick (in rhyme, also) sets forth the ingredients usually to be found in a first book of poetry. The two poems and the essay, between them, will suggest many thoughts to the thoughtful. Take just a few words at random: 'Aldermen as a Board of Directors.' 'Garlic,' 'De Profundis,' 'Home Rule for Cities,' 'Fish,' 'De Gustibus.' Mr. Abbey's highly dramatic illustrations to 'Much Ado about Nothing,' in Harper's for September, introduce, very agreeably, Mr. Lang's censures on the plot and conduct of the play. The plot does not hold water; it requires moral impossibilities from the characters; yet is is a good acting play. Beatrice's wit has 'no more point or edge than a bludgeon.' The New York Chamber of Commerce, its work and its members, are described by Mr. Richard Wheatley. 'Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins' are mostly invitations to dinner. They speak of a 'frolicultural cauliflower,' of gin punch, and 'pork with sage and inions.' 'Peter Ibbetson' has got so far as to develop the fine art of dreaming and to murder his uncle. 'Glimpses of Western Architecture,' the present article being the second of two on Chicago, might be called 'Lessons in the Mis-use of the Arch.' F. Hopkinson Smith gives in type and in pictures his impressions of Constantinople, the best of which might be matched any evening on our Golden horn, the East River. The domes and the minarets look like Dickens's 'inions' - some of them sprouting. Mr. Smith's pages present, among other things, a very vivid account of an afternoon with the howling dervishes. The 'Adventures Among Books' of Mr. Andrew Lang in the September Scribner's have not led him far afield nor into strange company, as might, perhaps, be expected. He has fallen in with Scott and Homer, Cock Robin and Midshipman Easy, and has enjoyed their society - as who has not? Mr. Felix Moscheles portrays with pen and pencil 'Browning's Asola' and his life there, the little room off the back kitchen where he wrote, his view through the windows of his neighbor's house, and tell, on the authority of the postmaster, how much the manuscript of 'Asolando' weighed (four hundred and fifty grammes) and the amount of the postage thereon (seventy centimes). Josiah Royce presents some 'Present Ideals of American University Life' which seem to show that the undergraduate is no longer 'in it.' The object of the university is to make advanced scholars, and only incidentally to provide the mass of students with 'discipline' and a smattering of useful or ornamental knowledge. 'A China Hunter in New England' gives pictures of many curiously patterned plates. 'The City of the Sacred Bo-tree' describes the ancient capital of Ceylon, and pictures its ruined dagobas and palaces, and its great fig-tree, two thousand, one hundred and thirty years old. Mr. Isaac Besht Bendavid warmly controverts Mr. Goldwin Smith's peculiar views on the Jewish question in The North American Review for September. The Russian persecution he believes to be due principally to a political motive. The Jews keeping up an intimate connection with their co-religionists in Germany were troublesome to the anti-German, Pan-Slavic party. Peasants' grievances against Jewish speculators and Jewish smuggling in the border provinces are given as secondary reasons. The coming famine and the obvious need of lessening by as many as possible the number of mouths to be fed are not mentioned; but, as an answer to Mr. Goldwin Smith's onslaught, the article is very interesting. 'A Famous Naval Exploit,' that of Lieut. Cushing in blowing up the Albemarle, is related in a letter from the late Admiral Porter to Gen. James Grant Wilson. Prest. C. P. Huntington makes 'A Plea for Railway Consolidation.' Ouida writes of dogs and their troublesome affections; Clara Morris of actors and actresses and their arduous studies. Drs. Hammond, Crothers, Carpenter and Edson all say 'yes' to the query 'Is Drunkenness Curable?'; but not by drugs, they add, or not by drugs alone. O. F. Adams denounces 'Our Dreadful American Manners'; and the Rev. John Miller the forty-professor college. Rudyard Kipling's story in the September Atlantic, 'A Disturber of Traffic, is as strange, and almost as good, as anything he has written. It is the tale of a monomaniac in charge of a lighthouse on a little frequented strait in the Dutch East Indies. 'Speech as a Barrier between Man and Beast,' by E. P. Evans, is a denial that the 'barrier' is insuperable. The author, a thorough-going evolutionist, sharply criticises the assertions to the contrary of Max Muller and others. John Fiske recounts the history of the intercourse between 'Europe and Cathay' down to the period when, shut off from the land route by the Turkish conquests in Western Asia, Europe began to dream of a western, watery way to the Indies. 'At the Market of the Dead' is a picturesque account of the great 'feast of lanterns,' the Japanese All Souls' Eve, by Lafcadio Hearn. The reader of Alice Brown's 'The Quest of a Cup' should read with this month's [[italicized]] Harper's [[/italicized]] open before him at Mr. Besant's 'London Plantagenet.' It is through Plantagenet London that the author takes us, with the company, for part of the way, of Goldsmith and Washington Irving. The cup she is in quest of is one described by the latter, and [[italicized]] perhaps [[/italicized]] was drunk out of by Shakespeare. George Wilson, an English painter of pre-Raphaelite tendencies, who died about a year ago, is the subject of the opening article in the August English Illustrated Magazine. He was a persistent reader of Keats and Shelley, as is shown by the pictures and studies chosen for reproduction. Tewkesbury Abbey is illustrated by C. Alfreda Channer and its history retold by the Very Rev. H. D. M. Spence. A collection of political caricatures from Punch show us Sir Robert Peel as the Artful Dodger, Lord John Russel as Oliver Twist, and other statesmen and notables masquerading as characters out of Dickens. 'Old Landmarks,' by Dewey Bates, with pictures by the author, relates to cottages and hedgerows. Some excellent character studies by Ellen Gertrude Cohen show the Russian-Jewish exile as he arrives in London, coming from Courland, Kiev or Charkow, from the Caucasus or Moscow.118 The Critic Number 401 Shakespeariana EDITED BY DR. W. J. ROLFE, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Shakespeare's Second Son-in-law.— A New Hampshire correspondent asks for the correct pronunciation of Quiney, the name of the young man who married Judith, the poet's second daughter. It is pronounced Quin-ny, not Quī-ny, as people are generally inclined to give it. The question reminds me that in Mr. Winter's 'Gray Days and Gold,' which was lately noticed in these columns, he refers twice (pp. 141, 142) to ' Richard Quiney, the wine-dealer,' as having married Judith. Tom had a brother Richard, who became a grocer, and his father's name was Richard. The latter, like his father Adrian before him, was a mercer; 'persons of that occupation then dealing, at least in Warwickshire,' as Halliwell-Phillips informs us, 'not only in silk and cloth, but in such miscellaneous articles as ginger, sugar, and red-lead.' Richard Quiney the elder is of interest from the fact that a letter of his to the poet is the only fragment of Shakespeare's personal correspondence that has come down to us. Not a shred of any of his own letters has been preserved, and the only one addressed to him that has been found is this from Richard Quiney, written in 1598, asking the loan of thirty pounds. The epistle, of which Halliwell-Phillips gives a fac-simile, begins thus :— Loveinge contreyman, I am bolde of yow, as of a ffrende, craveinge yowr helpe with xxx.ll. vppon Mr. Bushells and my securytee, of Mr. Myttons with me. Mr. Rosswell is not come to London as yeate, and I have especiale cawse. You shall ffrende me muche in helpeing me out of all the debettes I owe in London, I thancke God, and muche quiet my mynde, which wolde nott be indebeted. . . . Yow shall nether loase creddytt nor monney by me, the Lorde wyllinge. . . . The Lorde be with yow and with vs all, Amen! from the Bell in Carter Lane, the 25 October, 1598. It is signed 'Yowrs in all Kyndenes, Ryc. Quyney.' The original is preserved at the Shakespeare house in Stratford. Tom Quiney (concerning whom see much authentic information in William Black's 'Judith Shakespeare') was nearly four years younger than Judith. He was only about eleven years old when his father wrote the letter just quoted. He appears to have been better educated than the average tradesman of the time, being acquainted with French, which he quotes in an account delivered to the Stratford Corporation in 1623; and an expert penman. His signatures are models of caligraphy, and the flourishes appended to them are marvellously elaborate. Like Shakespeare and most men of that day, he knew how to spell his name in more ways than one. In three signatures to the account I have mentioned, it appears as Quyneye, Quyney, and Conoy. A few months after his marriage Tom Quiney took a house on the High Street of Stratford, at the corner of Bridge Street, which was ' known as the Cage,' and it is true that he is first heard of as a vintner. He appears to have been prosperous in business for some years, and in 1617 was elected a burgess. In 1621-1623 he was chamberlain, having been continued in the office for a second term. Later he began to go down hill, and in 1630 retired from the town council. The same year I grieve to say that he was fined for swearing, and for encouraging tipplers in his shop. In the record of the town receipts we read: — 'item, of Mr. Quiny for swearing is. od.; item, of Mr. Quiny for suffering townsmen to tippell in his houss, is.od.'. After struggling with adverse fortune for some years, he removed about 1652 to London, where his brother Richard was gaining wealth in the grocery line. He probably died there a few years afterwards, having outlived his three sons. The eldest, Shakespeare, died in his babyhood. In the register for Stratford burials for 1617 we read :—' May 8, Shakespeare, sonne to Thomas Queene.' Richard and Thomas died in their early manhood. Their mother attained to the ripe age of seventy-seven, dying in 1662. The Cage—so called, it is said, because it had been used as a prison—is still standing, though, after many repairs and alterations, nothing is left of the ancient building except a few beams supporting the floor over the cellar. Of the small house on the west side of the High Street, near Wood Street, where Tom lived before he removed to the Cage, 'much of the interior, with its massive beams, oaken floors, and square joists, remains structurally as it must have been in his day,' according to Halliwell-Phillips, though the front of the building has been modernized. — Dr. Furness's 'New Variorum' Shakespeare.— While we sincerely respect the services of these eighteenth-century commentators, we must add that their work was chiefly of the Dryasdust kind. It needed to be supplemented and completed by another order of critics, of whom Coleridge is by far the greatest; while a host of others, among whom we will only name Goethe, Schlegel, Hazlitt, and Mrs. Jameson, appeared about the same time, or followed in his steps. And for this new criticism— call it aesthetic, or transcendental, or ideal—the New Variorum of Mr. Furness undertakes to do the same work as the Old Variorum has done for the earlier criticism. But Mr. Furness has done more than supply an ample selection from these new criticisms, English, German, and French. Like the wise householder, he brings out old as well as new stories of learning and criticism, giving us the most important notes of the editions of Reed and Malone, and also the additions which have been made during the last sixty or seventy years to that kind of criticism, alongside of the new criticism which he specially undertakes to supply. . . . The details of the play are commented on and explained in each page by footnotes of the old and new commentators, and of the editor himself, so far as space allows, while the longer discussions and dissertations are carried to the appendix. Some of these dissertations are by the editor himself, and are full of learning and of original thought; some are long extracts from English critics of various kinds; and some from German writers, translated into excellent English by the editor's father, as he gracefully records. The appendices contain full accounts of all that is known of the sources from which Shakespeare derived his plots. . . . We trust that the learned and able editor will long continue his work. It is not only the best, but a really adequate critical apparatus which is indispensable to every one who enters on a real critical study of Shakespeare. —The Spectator. — Boston Letter A PRETTY, gentle face looks up from the proof illustrations of a book soon to be put before the public by Little, Brown & Co., and as one gazes upon the intellectual features he sees a reason for the personal charm exerted by this lady of the days of Louis XIV. When the ' Princesse de Cléves ' was published in 1678, the beginning of a new era in romance was detected, and the effect of the book was remarkable. Mme. de la Fayette, in fact, won the half of her celebrity by its publication; her attachment for M. de la Rochefoucauld—who, as she said, taught her wisdom, but who, in return, was reformed in heart by her—gained the other half of her pathetic fame. In England the publishers of a century ago re-published the noted work, but America has never as yet placed an edition before its public. Thomas Sergeant Perry is at work upon the translation, Jules Garnier has finished the illustrations, and the University Press will print the book. This ensures an excellent production. It is a curious fact that exactly two years to a day after the 'Princesse de Cléves' was published M. de la Rochefoucauld passed away. Mme. de la Fayette, although her health was wretched when she wrote its dreamy story, lived fifteen years longer, suffering with physical pain but enjoying the mental pleasure of seeing her book the talk of society in the salon and in the street, the subject of grave essays and the foundation of a tragedy for the theatre. It was noted afterwards that its sad ending was in harmony with her own thoughts during this critical period. She had married Comte de la Fayette twenty-three years before, but he soon disappeared from her life and her romance with Rochefoucauld became almost as interesting as her book. The characters of the story, people of the court of Henry II., are pronounced by Dunlop true to history. Another old-time book to be issued by Little, Brown & Co. is Nuttall's Ornithology. Of that work the first edition was published in 1835, and there has been none since. Mr. Montague Chamberlain, editor of The Ornithological Club and formerly associate editor of The Auk, has prepared this new edition, and his plan has been to simplify its terms so that the 'general reader' can enjoy the descriptions, and to add the discoveries of later years, correcting, of course, Nuttall's errors. Mr. Chamberlain's published catalogues of birds and his magazine articles have shown by their thoroughness his delight in work of this nature. I understand that Mr. Edwin Lasseter Bynner's new book, which will appear this fall, is to contain the following short stories, the first one giving the title to the book:—'The Chase of the Meteor,' 'Jammer's Ghost,' 'The Extra Train,' 'The Discontented Dowager,' 'Hercules Jack,' 'Our Special Artist,' 'The Tramp's Dinner-Party,' 'Black-Beard's Last Struggle' and 'A Cruise in a Soap-Bubble.' I wonder what has become of the play which Mr.Bynner and Robert Grant wrote some time ago. I don't remember ever having seen it mentioned that these Boston authors had collaborated on a dramatic work, but I am pretty certain that it had attained such shape as to lead manager Frohman of the New York Lyceum Theatre to enter upon negotiations for its use. Why those negotiations fell through, I do not know. Possibly the drama will turn up when the new Free Theatre is established for the benefit of American writers. I hope, however, it will not be thus buried in the future. September 5 1891 The Critic 119 A number of philosophical and religious books are to come from Boston this winter. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are apparently at present more interested in the historical, but yet their list shows two works of the philosophical cast—'What is Reality,' by the Rev. Francis H. Johnson, and 'The Being of God as Unity and Trinity,' by Prof. P. H. Steentra of Cambridge. Roberts Bros. issue 'The Crisis in Morals,' a criticism of Mr. Spencer, by the Rev. James T. Bixby; the parochial addresses of the late Rev. Dr. Hedge of Harvard; and a collection of the late Rev. Henry W. Foote's sermons, under the title of 'The Lord's Prayer.' Mr. Foote was not as well-known outside of Boston as Dr. Hedge was, but his sermons had many admirers and he himself was held in high personal esteem. He was a Harvard man, of the class of 1858 (the class of Prof. George A. Wentworth, the well-known compiler of mathematical text-books, and of Dr. John Homans), and was identified in his pulpit career with the famous old King's Chapel of Boston. By his marriage, five years after graduating, with Miss Frances E. Eliot, sister of Pres. Eliot of Harvard, Mr. Foote became connected with the most prominent families of New England—the Lymans, Otises, Appletons, Shaws and others. His death occurred but a few years ago. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's birthday, his eighty-second, was passed in the usual happy manner last Saturday. Dr. Holmes is at his summer home at Beverly, and enjoys good health with never failing good spirits. From his publishers and personal friends come bouquets and wreaths, while letters and telegrams of congratulations were innumerable. John G. Whittier telegraphed 'Love and warm congratulations from thy old friend'; George William Curtis, the Hon. E. J. Phelps and Prof. Charles Eliot Norton united in a message of 'love, honor and congratulations' from Ashfield; and George W. Childs sent his 'heartiest good will and best loving wishes,' very happily adding, 'the world has been so much the better for your birth.' Many a friend entirely unknown to the poet but claiming acquaintance through familiarity with his writings sent appreciative words; while other friends, of personal standing, called during the day to offer verbal congratulations. It was a very pleasant day, pleasantly remembered. BOSTON, September 1, 1891 CHARLES E. L. WINGATE --------- The Lounger The Critic's EXPOSURE of the young man who passed himself off on credulous Americans as a brother of Mr. Walter Besant had the effect of stopping his depredations upon the literary guild, and turning him off to prey upon the representatives of other professions. Sir Morell Mackenzie has received a letter from Mr. A. P. Gordon Cumming, in which the latter informs the eminent 'medicine man' of his son's appearance at Sykesville, en route to New York after a disastrous experience on the stage in Australia. And one of Sir Morell's veritable sons, who is an actor and manager, and calls himself H. H. Morell, without the Mackenzie, writes to the Spirit of the Times from London that he himself is the only son of his father who is connected with the theatrical profession, and that his only brother is a physician. Mr. Morell is Miss Fortescue's manager. The Dramatic Mirror also has exposed his swindling double. — WE WERE SITTING out on the front piazza the other afternoon, waiting for a sudden shower to cease, when the conversation, by chance, turned upon curios and relics of departed notabilities. 'This is rather an interesting souvenir,' said a young lady, taking her watch from her pocket and holding before our eyes a charm that was attached to it by a short chain. At first glance I thought it was a tennis prize, the young lady being a champion player of that game; but on a closer examination I saw that it was an antique of some sort. It was a dark blue stone, oval in shape, about an inch and a half long, and covered with hieroglyphics. It was a handsome thing, and would have delighted an antiquarian as much on account of its beauty as for its apparent antiquity. 'What do you suppose it is?' inquired the young lady. We rubbed our foreheads and thought. 'Pharaoh's signet-ring?' said one. 'A charm from Washington's watch-fob?' suggested another. 'You would never guess,' replied the owner, 'so I will tell you. It is,'— and she dangled it before our inquiring eyes—'it is the stone on which Napoleon Bonaparte cut his first teeth!' Before any of the rest of us had time to recover from the shock of this announcement, a practical minded member of the party asked, pointing to the hieroglyphics, 'And are those the prints of his teeth?' On closer inspection they appeared to be Arabic characters. 'Are you sure that the stone is really what you say?' asked a doubting Thomas. 'Perfectly,' replied the young lady. 'It was given to my mother by Joseph Bonaparte, when he lived at Bordentown; and he told her that the baby, Napoleon, when he was just beginning to "take notice," clutched at the stone which his mother wore on a chain around her neck, and was so determined to have it that she took it from her own neck and put it around his, and he used it to bite on until all his little teeth had come through.' It would be interesting to have the inscription on the stone interpreted to see if it was at all applicable to the career of the baby who learned to bite on its hard surface. — AT DINNER in New York, a day or two later, I told this anecdote to a well-known young author and editor, who said that it reminded him of a story that he had just heard from the lips of a much travelled woman of his acquaintance. The lady bought in Germany a ring bearing the inscription 'A quelle heure?' Some time afterwards, in another German capital, in a curio shop, her attention was attracted by a ring closely resembling the one she wore. On examination she found engraved upon it the face of a clock, whose hands indicated five minutes before twelve; and with this the legend 'L'heure est venue.' Naturally enough she bought it, and my friend had seen the two rings in her possession. He has a great knack at writing short stories, and I tell him that here is too good a chance to let slip. — APROPOS of rings and other keepsakes, I find this item of news telegraphed from Washington to the daily papers of Sept. I. A young merchant of this city sent to his fiancée in London a valuable engagement-ring. Seeing fit to break her engagement, the young lady returned it. When it was delivered to him he was told that there was $46 duty due on it. He paid under protest, and appealed to the Treasury Department for relief, explaining that the ring was of domestic manufacture. Assistant Secretary Crounse has informed the Collector of Customs at New York that the duty may be refunded, provided he is satisfied that the ring is of domestic manufacture, 'and was not improved in condition or increased in value while abroad.' The jilted merchant is prepared to swear that the ring has not appreciated in value since he sent it to London— at least, that its value to him is no greater than it was! — A LITTLE PAMPHLET on oratory, by one of the most famous of English 'pulpit orators,' has been brought out by Hunt & Eaton, and in introducing it the Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley writes:— A number of years since we advertised as one of the special attractions of The Christian Advocate that we would publish a treatise upon Oratory by one of the most distinguished public speakers who had flourished during the present century. It was then our intention to publish the same without the name of the author, and to request such of our readers as might by interested to do so to send us their conjectures as to the person who composed it. For reasons deemed sufficient the publication of the treatise was postponed. Having recently brought it out in a Supplement to The Christian Advocate, the published propose to issue the same in book form. Its author is the Rev. John Wesley. It is just as well the conundrum was never put to the readers of the Advocate. 'The present century' is the nineteenth,—and Wesley died in 1791! — 'ON JULY 5. 1841, the first excursion train arranged by Mr. Thomas Cook ran from Leicester to Longboro,' and on July 22, 1891, the firm of Thomas Cook & Son celebrated the fifty years of business it has personally conducted so prosperously and to such large proportions. I have never been a 'Cookie'—have never travelled with a party of 'Cook's tourists,' nor by myself on a ticket procured through the agency of Messrs. Cook, so I feel no delicacy about calling attention to the well-cooked dinner ('Banquet,' the circular calls it) at which the achievements of the house were celebrated. The affair came off at the Hôtel Métropole, some 300 covers being laid. What made the occasion noteworthy was the distinction of the guests who accepted the firm's invitation to attend the jubilee, and of those absentees who sent greetings and regrets. The presentees (to coin a convenient word) included Their Royal and Serene Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Henry of Battenberg and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Duke of Sutherland, Sir John Gorst, Sir Henry Austin Layard, Sir Edwin Arnold, Dr. W. H. ('Bull Run') Russell, Sir John Pender, Sir Edward Watkin, Sir Henry Rawlinson, Sir Redvers Buller, Admiral Gough, and sundry other Generals, Admirals, noblemen, baronets, knights and gentlemen; to say nothing of his Excellency Aziz Izzet Bey, sent as a special representative by the Khedive of Egypt, with the Order of the Osmanieh for Mr. John Cook and that of the Medjidieh for each of his three sons. The Khedive expressed his gratitude to Mr. Cook for making Egypt known to the outer world; and Sir John Gorst (to toast 'the House of Commons') bore testimony to the services of the firm in conducting Mahommedan pilgrims through India. Regrets came from the Duke of Rutland;120 The Critic Number 401 from Lord Wolseley, who testified to the invaluable services of the firm to the army in Egypt in 1884-85 ; and from Mr. Gladstone, who pronounced the Cooks 'public benefactors. ' It was a great day for the family and firm. The publisher of the projected volume 'A Woman of the Century,' Mr. C. W. Moulton of Buffalo, writes to me that what I said of that book on Aug. 22 is sure to cause an 'erroneous impression.' A printed list of a hundred names accompanies his letter. It is 'List a Prominent Women to be Included' in the book and he declares that 'the standard will be kept on a par' with these names. Some of these names are very distinguished ; others are entirely unknown to me and I venture to say to the general public, and as List A. comprehends nearly all the most famous of American women's names, including those of the book's editors, Miss Frances E. Willard and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore (Mrs. Stowe being the most notable omission), It will obviously be impossible to keep the standard of the whole book 'on a par with the names printed in that list.' The work is bound to contain several hundred nobodies, whose presumptive willingness to pay $20 for a copy of the book is their chief claim to mention in its pages. Mr. Moulton says that his object is 'to make the work a standard reference book.' If that were his only object, he would drop at least 750 names from his lists. The real object of a book calling itself 'A Woman of the Century' (a misleading title, as I have said before) is to catch pennies- or in this case, double-eagles ; and the publisher of The Magazine of American Poetry is an adept in the art of throwing salt upon the tails of literary birds. Mr. Moulton assures me, by the way, that 'the authors do not pay' to appear in his magazine, 'but the furnish the entire material for the study.' it is said that there are three million volumes of unsold novels lying on the shelves on the Paris publishers, and that the number increases every day. What to do with these unsold and apparently unsalable books is a problem. It is proposed by some one that they should be distributed at county fairs as prizes for children, instead of gingerbread or Scripture texts. The innocent country people were greatly pleased with this proposition, and quite eager to accept it ; but the more Prefect of Police interfered and stopped the distribution ; not however, until some volumes had been given away. It is hoped that the local Sunday-schools will put in their best work in this neighborhood before the seed already sown has bourgeoned and born fruit. "The Dancing Girl" Mr. H. A. Jones's four-act play 'The Dancing Girl,' which was one of the great successes of the season in London last winter, and which was produced by Daniel Froham at the Lyceum Theatre last Monday evening, is neither so strong nor so brilliant as it was declared to be by some of the English critics, but it is a piece of far more than oridanry merit, with several extremely effective scenes, and a specific design which is followed cleverly , logically and dramatically for three acts, until a striking climax has been reached, and is then flung aside for the sake of the conventional happy ending, which is about as absurd in this particular case as it is possible for it to be. There can be doubt that Mr. Jones began his play with the two-fold intention of presenting two studies from the life, and enforcing a moral closely akin to that which declares that the wages of sin is death. In the end, however, he had not the courage to abide by the conclusions arising out of his sense of artistic property to that managerial bogy falsely described as popular taste. The spendthrift hero is no new figure in either comedy or melodrama, but in the Duke of Guisebury there is a distinct flavor of originality. He is by no means a fool, so far as mere intellectual capacity is concerned, and he is many degrees removed from the ordinary stage profligate, who is simply a fleshly blackguard. He has drained the cup of dissipation to the dregs and has reached an advanced stage of cynical indifference and lassitude, when some faint survival of a conscience is stirred within him by the blunt charge that he is guilty of the death of the seamen who perished because he had failed to fulfil his promise to build a breakwater in the harbor of his Island of Endillion. He pledges himself anew to complete the work, but abandons himself again to the fruitless pursuit of pleasure and dalliance with his mistress the dancing-girl, daughter of one of his oldest tenants, until his fortune is entirely exhausted, and the fishermen, unable to make a living at Endillion, sail on an Arctic expedition in which they are all lost. The news of this calamity fills him with remorse, and he resolves to lead a better life. As a first step he proposes to make his mistress his wife, but the girl, much as she covets his title, is too shrewd and selfish to share his poverty and unhesitatingly rejects him. Then, in desperation, he decides to have one more revel in his ancestral home, and kill himself afterward. He assembles all the friends yet remaining to him, and the festivities are at their height when the old father of the dancing-girl, who has been searching for her as Peggotty searched for Em'ly, breaks in among the guests, confronts his erring child in the moment of her brightest triumph and invokes the curse of heaven upon her head. The guests, horrifies at the scandal, depart in haste, and Guisebury alone in his deserted mansion has raised the poison to his lops, when his hand is stayed by a crippled girl whose life he had saved many years before. This is a very fine situation, and is a perfectly legitimate and logical climax. It is a pity that the play does not end here, for the fourth act, in which universal happiness is reestablished by most violent and puerile devices, is weak beyond expression. For the first three acts, however, in spite of some transparent faults both of device and construction, the modern playgoer may well be thankful. The piece is fairly well played, but Mr. Sothern has not strength enough, or experience enough, to interpret a part so full of subtle and deep emotion as that of the duke, and Miss Harned is equally overweighted in the character of the dancing Delilah, although she has the one great requisite of beauty. Both she and Mr. Sothern, however, acted with great care and intelligence and avoided absolute failure. The general performance was received very favorably. ------ Certain Amenities of Daily Journalism TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:- Newspaper readers may be amused by the highly seasoned personalities frequently flung back and forth between the editor of The Evening Post and the London correspondent of the Tribune; but they cannot but be surprised at the degree of taste exhibited, in view of the reputation for high tone in the former journal and the always majestic bearing of the London correspondent. In this interchange of compliments he of The Evening Post is easily the more light-hearted; he has little of the other's venom, and gives his 'rubs' gaily; such, for instance, as covert intimations of flunkeyism and toadyism; and the climax seems to be reached when the redoubtable London correspondent is dubbed 'the Norfolk Squire.' As to what dreadful intimation lurks in the seemingly innocent epithet, the general public is left in profound ignorance; but the effect upon the recipient is as that of a red shawl waved before a bull. He becomes wild-he strikes out blindly; any missile at hand is brought into service-the shovel, the tongs and the poker! Only the other day, after some remarks on what he considers the sham and the vulgarity of 'General' Booth's methods and attitude (this, on occasion of that leader's spectacular departure for the Southern Hemisphere), 'G. W. S.' proceeds with what is apparently the main purpose of his letter-namely, to enlighten the world regarding Mr. Booth's 'chief coadjutor in the Salvation War' in America. Both, he avers, are 'the enemies of refinement: the champions of those traits of character to which refinement is most opposed.' And we are informed that 'this great and good man [Mr. Booth] is to be engaged with the other great and good man in preaching the Religion of Vulgarity'! Who is this 'other' of the twin leaders of the Salvation Army-who but Mr. Godkin of The Evening Post, as he explicitly tells us? He even suggests that perhaps he ought to say 'Major' Godkin! One is not a little bewildered by this startling parallel. But the cumulative and crushing rhetoric of 'G. W. S.' is always capped by his denouncing his antagonist as an 'emigrant'; or, to vary the form with alliterative irony, as the 'eminent emigrant.' It does not seem to me that Mr. Godkin can be held as blameworthy for not having been born on American soil and wrapped in the Stars and Stripes for his first garment. His offence is certainly venial in comparison with the delinquency of his parents. It is their sin visited upon his head; and to taunt him with the fact is a little too much like gibing at a cripple or a blind man. Does 'G. W. S.,' in the fervor of his righteous wrath against Free Trade and Home Rule (and The Evening Post has been so fool-hardy as to venture some views of its own on these questions),- does he forget, if he has ever read, the story of the forty-two mocking children and the two she-bears? Elisha, in the scarcity of infallible hair-restoratives during Israel's prophetic age, was not to blame for his baldness. Perhaps, with Mr. Godkin, it is the grief of his life that he was not born in Printing-House Square; but he is not to blame for it; and is it quite safe for Mr. Smalley (and so near as he is, too, to the London 'Zoo'!) to so recklessly flout and jeer him for his misfortune? In fact, the real criminal, as I have already intimated, is Mr. Godkin122 The Critic Number 401 ssued in 1862; in 1864 the Macmillans brought out 'Fireside Travels,' and in 1870 'Among My Books.' In 1871 Sampson Low & Co. included 'My Study Windows' in their American copyright series. After this there was a long break, till Mr. Lowell went to England; and then his new books--Democracy, and Other Addresses' (1887) and 'Political Essays' (1888) bore the Macmillan imprint. The same firm have just finished issuing the final edition of his works in ten volumes; and in the autumn they will issue a complete one-volume edition of Lowell's poems, uniform with their one-volume editions of Tennyson, Wordsworth and Shelley, with an introduction by Judge Thomas Hughes. Mr. Theodore Watts begins a two-page characterization of Mr. Lowell in The Athenoeum of Aug. 22 with this sonnet, 'To England and America':-- Ye twain who long forgot your brotherhood And those far fountains whence, through ages hoary, Your fathers drew whate'er ye have for glory, Your English speech, your dower of English blood-- Ye ask to-day, in sorrow's holiest mood, When all save love seems film most transitory, 'How shall we honor him whose noble story Hallows the footprints were our Lowell stood?' Your hands be joined--those fratricidal hands, Once trembling each to seize a brother's throat: How shell ye honour him whose spirit stands Between you still? Keep love's bright sails afloat, For Lowell's sake, where once ye strove and smote On those wide waters that divide your strands. Dr. Thomas W. Parsons contributes to the Boston Post these lines on his departed fellow-winger:-- Quale allodetta che in aere si spazia Prima cantando, e poi tace, contenta Dell' ultima dolcezza che la sazia. Dante, XX. 'Paradiso.' Like as the lark that soaring higher and higher Singeth awhile, then stops as 'twere content With his last sweetness, having filled desire, So paused our bard. Not for his force was spent, Nor that a string was loosened in his lyre; But, having said his best and done his best, He could not better what was given before, And threescore years and ten demanding rest Whispered, They want thee on the other shore! And now he walks amid the learned throng, Haply with Him who was the sixth of those Who towered above the multitude in song, Or by the side of Geoffrey Chaucer goes, Who shall remember with his wonted smile How James found music in his antique style; But we'll not mingle fancies with our sorrow, Nor from his own imagination borrow. Holmes, who is left us, best could speak his praise, Who knew his heart so well and loved his lays, And whom Heaven crowns with greater length of days. 'Who shall fill the gaps left by Longfellow, Emerson, and Lowell not to mention that of our own Durant their ? and taken; but not one of the young cubs stirred. Mr. Lowell quietly rose and insisted upon the woman taking his seat. One, at least, of those freshmen has never forgotten the rebuke. A COUNTRY RECTOR. STOCKBRIDGE, MASS., Aug. 14, 1891. SOME ENGLISH ESTIMATES WHILE STILL YOUNG he had heard Poe--certainly no mean judge of the situation--proclaim in decisive tone the art of criticism to be the crying want of American literature. Hosea Biglow appears to have been moved by this cry in the wilderness. 'Some philosophers say that a faculty's granted the moment it's proved to be thoroughly wanted.' Mr. Lowell amply justified the theory of those philosophers, as in the fulness of time he proved his title clear to the first place among American critics. Had he contributed no more to literature than those two volumes of charming and luminous critical essays, 'Among My Books' and 'My Study Windows,' Mr. Lowell's position in English literature would still be high and assured. It was Mr. Lowell's lot, however, to excel equally as a writer of verse and of criticism, as a public speaker on the platform and at all social functions. The grace of his style and the felicity of his matter were remarkably exemplified in his commemorative addresses, on occasions when the illustrious dead were honored.--The Saturday Review. Naturally, such a man made a mark by his speeches; and happy was the audience, at the unveiling of a monument or at a literary dinner, that had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Lowell. Seldom in England, where this kind of speaking is not cultivated as an art, have we witnessed such a perfect union of self-possession, sense, and salt. The speech on Henry Fielding, the speech in which he compared the sound of London to 'the roaring loom of time,' the address on Democracy--to mention but a few--will not be easily forgotten. Nor will those who had the privilege of experiencing it, in however slight a degree, forget the sweet affectionateness which, in spite of an occasional irritability and oversensitiveness, was at the root of Mr. Lowell's character. Corrupt politicians disliked him and feared the barbed arrows of his indignant wit; but he goes to the grave mourned by all that is best in America, and he takes with him the heartfelt regard, as well as the admiration, of this elder branch of our common English race.--London Times. We question whether the death of Mr. James Russell Lowell will be felt even in the United States more keenly than it is felt in England. Whether as a poet, or as a critic, or as a statesman, the loss is as serious to his countrymen on this side of the Atlantic as to his countrymen on the other. During the years in which he was American Minister here, he rendered the greatest services in drawing the two countries nearer to each other, and he rendered them with that frankness, simplicity, and refinement of manner which has given rise to the remark that the most cultivated Americans seem to be incapable of that official pride and self-importance which so often destroys the charm of European diplomatists, and September 5, 1891 The Critic 123 He was a charming writer, and a truly delightful person. He was a master of the English language, both in prose and in poetry, and his most famous work, 'The Biglow Papers,' is the most striking combination of wit and humor which has enriched British literature since the appearance of 'Hudibras.' Mr. Lowell was an admirable speaker, and there have been few better talkers. He had an endless flow of anecdote, and his power of repartee was truly marvellous. Few men have died of late years who have taken with him to the grave so large an amount of rare and precious attainments and learning.--Truth. Mr. Lowell's death makes a great gap in many associations; but Englishmen will think of him first, perhaps, not as the accomplished man-of-letters, but as a representative of the best type of American citizenship, of a patriot who was never blind to the defects of his country, as a public man who made the culture of kindness between two great nations, allied by blood and speech, no small part of his life. * * * By the quality and extent of his scholarship, Mr. Lowell was distinguished among his compeers. By the dignity and urbanity with which he discharged his duties as an official representative of his country, he won the respect of all classes of Englishmen. His gift of speech, persuasive, picturesque, always exhaling the essence of delicate thought and observation, was not the least welcome expression of a rare personality. He represented that development of the New England mind in which the hard shell of Puritanism is penetrated by the glow of a healthier experience, and by a sympathetic vision 'without which all doctrine is chaff.'--London Speaker. No man who ever held the post [of American Minister] in England was more influential in it for his own country's profit, while none ever did so much to make the two countries realize the meaning of those common phrases, 'the English-speaking peoples' and 'the fellow countrymen of Shakespeare and of Milton.' That alone is an enormous merit. It would be difficult to overestimate the advantage to millions of us in having men like Lowell and Phelps representing America here, and men like Lowell andPhelps (we can find no better names) representing England on the other side of the Atlantic.--The Anti-Jacobin. He was a patriotic American; but he found it easy to be, at the same time, a believer in England; and, in a word, a friend of Englishmen. This kindly regard was, in the fullest measure, reciprocated. No native-born Briton was ever more welcome to our assemblies than the charming and genial Minister who, it is true, represented at Whitehall the views of the Washington State Department, but whose more gracious function was to act as plenipotentiary amongst us for all that was best and brightest in American society. It is for his fellow-citizens to appreciate the debt they owe him from his skilful diplomacy and there is little fear that his talents in this department will be questioned merely because the nation to which he was accredited could hardly manage to remind itself that there was any less pleasing relation to be regarded than that of delighted hosts and most acceptable guest.--London Standard. Mme. Millet now lives across the village street in a house which ought to have been Millet's, and would have been, were a great man's abode oftener fitted to himself than it is. Shut away from the street by a high wall, and with a roomy studio and hothouse on the grounds, Mme. Millet's residence is the ideal of an artist's home. The great roof is brown of tile, green with houseleek, yellow with moss. Roses clamber between the square windows and trees are grouped as no little distance or stand singly about. An old garden and orchard stretch behind the house to the limits of the plain, so that Mme. Millet can stand on her own land and see the landscape of the angelus widening out to the horizon. With that object she, or her sons for her, bought the property. One son, who resembles his father somewhat, paints very creditably, and another, a very handsome fellow, is an architect. One of Millet's younger brothers is a sculptor and lives in Boston. The family still owns a number of oils and charcoals by Millet, the most interesting being a drawing of himself. They have also some works by Diaz, but the du Hamels, who have the old place, are singularly rich in small canvases by Diaz and own some Millets also. * * * Charles de Kay. Current Criticism 'ON THE STUDY OF TENNYSON.'--But, after all, if you really care to know and love a poet, I must commend you to the simple and old-fashioned plan of reading him. Nothing can take the place of that. And with Tennyson, believe me, you will not find this plan difficult. It is not an adventure for which you will need great preparation or many confederates. You may safely undertake it alone and for pleasure. Here and there, especially in 'The Princess,' there are hard places where good notes will help you. And perhaps with a few poems, notably with 'In Memoriam,' one needs an analysis or commentary. But in the main Tennyson is a clear poet, and therefore a delightful one. The only book which is indispensable for understanding him is that thick, green volume which bears on its back the title 'The Works of Tennyson.' Get a copy of this book for your very own--and if you are wise,my dear young lady, you will get one that is not too fine for you to mark on the margin, and if you have a tender conscience you will get one that has not been pirated,--take it with you into a quiet place, among the mountains, or on the seashore, or by your fireside, and read it with a free mind and a fresh heart. Read not as if you were preparing for an examination or getting ready to make an index, but read for the sake of seeing what the poet has seen, and feeling what he has felt, and knowing what he has thought--read the book not for idle pastime, but for noble pleasure; not for dry knowledge, but for living wisdom. And if you read thus, I am sure it will do for you what Dr. Johnson said that every good, great book ought to do--it will help you to enjoy life and teach you to endure it.--Dr. Henry van Dyke, in The Century. THACKERAY'S DAUGHTER ON HIS BIOGRAPHERS.--My father's life lasted from July 18, 1811, to the early morning of Christmas Eve, 1863. It was but two-thirds of a life if one should count by dates alone. He remembered India; he lived in Germany and 124 The Critic Number 401 'Pascal has one answer—"Believe." Moliére has another—"Observe." Thackeray's answer is, "Be good and enjoy."' And this indeed, seems to be the story of all my father's life.—Mrs. Ritchie, in The Illustrated London News. — Notes Our Boston Letter this week gives some account of the celebration of Dr. Holmes eighty-second birthday, at his summer home at Beverly Farms, near Boston, last Saturday. He had been to Boston the previous day, and early in the after on Saturday. The Auto-Judge and Mrs. Holmes. He had been to Boston the previous day; and early in the afternoon, on Saturday, he walked down to the station with an old friend, receiving the greetings of the residents along the way with a pleasant smile. He rode back in his simple rockaway as though he were a vigorous man of business in middle life home from the city. A large number of friends called in the afternoon and the Doctor closed the day with the customary drive. He reads his mail every day, dictates and writes at times his own correspondence, and is now busily engaged in editing the edition of his poems which is to come from the press this fall. His early morning hours are devoted to work. On coming home from his daily drive, late in the afternoon, he enjoys back-log studies, and the glow of a wood fire in the open fireplace. He thus bids defiance to the damp, heavy August mists rolling in across his lawn from the sea at nightfall. 'To note the keen eye, the quick, elastic step, the erect form, and realize how trenchant a pen he still wields,' writes a Boston journalist, 'no one would suspect him of more than two-thirds that number of years' (eighty-two). He complains only of failing eyesight. —The Athenæum reviews in its issue of Aug. 22 Theodore Roosevelt's 'New York' and Henry Cabot Lodge's 'Boston.' Of the latter work it says:—' The historical development of Boston is faithfully set forth by Mr. Lodge. Where he fails is in giving a picture of modern Boston from the intellectual point of view. If this part of the story were fully told it would have to be admitted that Boston has ceased to be the centre of literary activity it once was, and that New York has gained what Boston has lost.' —Harper & Bros. are preparing for the holidays an illustrated edition of Gen. Lew Wallace's popular novel, 'Ben Hur.' The work of making these illustrations, under the supervision of Mr. Charles Parsons, has been going on for months. As there will be upwards of three thousand in the book this is not surprising. Historical accuracy as well as artistic merit has been aimed at, and the Astor Library has been the headquarters of a staff of artists and designers ever since the work has begun. — An édition de luxe of Carlyle's 'French Revolution' is in the press of Porter & Coates of Philadelphia. Another luxurious edition of a worthy book will be that of Austin Dobson's 'Walpole,' which Dodd, Mead & Co. have in press. —'One Woman's Way' is the title of the novel by Edmund Pendleton which D. Appleton & Co. are about to publish. —A new volume of short stories by Mrs. Rode Terry Cooke announced by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., will bear the title of ' Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills.' —Mr. Palmer Cox's 'Brownies' will henceforth disport themselves nowhere but in the pages of The Ladies' Home Journal. Mrs. Beecher's reminiscenses of her husband will be begun in the October number of the Journal. —Prof. A. S. Hardy, the novelist, has written a memoir of Joseph Hardy Neesima, a Japanese protégé of Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, the author's parents, who, when educated by them, returned to Japan as a missionary, and founded a university which has aided greatly in the progress of his country. —Frau Charlotte Embden-Heine, who is still hale and hearty in spite of her advanced age, intends publishing the letters addressed to her brother, Heinrich Heine. —At the Brooklyn Library, in the reading-room on the ground floor, a literary reference department is soon to be opened, which will be accessible at all reasonable hours to the members of the Library, who can help themselves to the works on the shelves without going through the formality of filling out a blank and waiting for an attendant to serve them. —The recent legacy of $50,000 left to the Providence Public Library by John Wilson Smith has brought the possibility of a new and adequate library building nearer than it has ever been before. —A list of the ages of American celebrities, still running the rounds of the press, persists in making the Creator of 'Uncle Remus' sixty-three years old, notwithstanding the fact that he wont be forty-three till Dec. 9. The list omits Mr. Lowell, Mr. Whittier, and Dr. Holmes, but makes up for the omission by including Will Carlton, W. B. Howells, Joseph Medid and Edgar Saltes. —'One of the most communicative among Lord Tennyson's neighbors,' says the London Telegraph, 'is the village barber, who, like most of his kind, adapts himself to many trades and callings. This tonsorial artist is also in demand at entertainments for the display of his talent as a conjuror. On a certain occasion he was invited to give an exhibition before Tennyson and a small party of guests, and he tells with supreme satisfaction how he puzzled the great poet by one of his feats of prestidigitation. It seems that he counted out ten shillings into Lord Tennyson's hand, telling him to hold them tightly. But a few minutes afterward, when he required the money again, there were only eight shillings. The look of astonishment on his lordship's face was indescribable, while the laughter of the other guests at the situation was unmistakably hearty. In this hilarity, it is needless to say, the poet most good-temperedly joined.' — The Free Parliament [All communications must be accompanied with the name and address of the correspondent, not necessarily for publication. Correspondents answering or referring to any question are requested to give the number of the question for convenience of reference.] QUESTIONS 1633.—I should like to know something about Ada Cambridge, the author of that cleverly book, 'The Three Miss Kings,' published in their Town and Country Series by the Appletons. Can you give some account of her? CHESTERFIELD, MASS. B. — 1634.—Who is the 'Pierre' intended in this passage from Canto IV. of 'Childe Harold':— I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs. * * * Ours is a trophy which will not decay With the Rialto: Shylock and the Moor And Pierre cannot be swept or worn away. There does not seem to be any Shakespearean Pierre intimately connected with Venice. NICE, FRANCE. W.H.B. — ANSWERS 1630.—The poem is 'The Quest of Sir Bertrand,' by R.H. Dominichetti. It is published, with other poems, by W.H. Allen & Co. of London. Mr. Dominichetti is of the pre-Raphaelite school. He is strong and musical, and has a touch of Dantean inspiration. His book has been received with marked favor in England. The only magazine to which he has contributed of late is the Ave Maria. NOTRE DAME, IND. D.E.H. — 1631.—In re Thomas Lake Harris, address Mr. J. Cuming Walter, in care of The Pall Mall Gazette, or Mr. Arthur Cuthbert, in care of the Standard, London. 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