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POETRY.
A SHEAF OF aWCKXT PUBLICATIONS.
PICTOniS rARMINA. By Frederic Crowninshjeld.
With Illustration* by the Author. 12mo. pp. 123.
Dodd, .Mead & Co.
BONGS OF TWO By Arthur Sherhurne Hardy.
U'm<. pp. 91 Charles Scribner a Sens.
OVERHEARD IN A GARDEN. By Oliver Her
torit With Pictures by the Author, 12mo, pp.
-.¦¦4. Charles Srrli r-s Sons.
HARVEST-TIDE. A Book of . Verses By Sir
" LV*if Morris. Km.. M. A. 12mo. pp. 168. T. Y.
Cwwell & Co.
In Mr. Crowninshield-s "Pi< toris rarmina" two
isr«aa are constantly active, and, between them,
communicate to his verse on attractive quality.
One may be identified with his profoundly artis
tic temperament, th • other with his equally deep
love c.l Italy. There are pome rather subtle pas
eapes in the book, but his best work is in lines
like the following:
1 SMoani of far-off, wall-pirt Tuscan towns.
Their tapering trees and vaporous olives dear.
Whilst scanning Massachusetts' pine-flecked
downs:
Nor could I fay which seemed to me most near.
The descriptive touch here disclosed Is even
sJMrc fruitful in the numerous sonnets in the
volume, specially in those brought together
under the general title of "Italian Sketches."
They are true "sketches," spontaneous and
vivid. The thought in this book is always seri
ous and elevated, and though the execution is
unremarkable, it i? generally smooth and clear.
We may cite the sennet on "The Empire" as
showing at one. the justice of the poet's ideas
and the lucidity of his expression at its best:
How dare we brand this polished classic Art.
a is passionless and pale, a livid light
Fiom Roman flame: as though a ghastly blight
Lay on the ardent band who would impart
It* feeling rapturous, the throb of heart
For chastened form. Its furious delicht
In calm: as if it had no well-won right
To claim of recognition Its due part!
How dare ire hound as formalists of stone
i\i!"\ai-. Davids. Perciers and their kin!
For they «*ere honest: and they, too, were blown
Amain by an afflatus genuine.
They were as fiery in their coldness pure
As hottest of us all. Their fame is sure.
Th<* sane conclusion embodied in this poem
needs to be restated now and then, and Mr.
Crowninshie'd presents it in effective form. Ii
remains to add that his illustrations are no less
agreeable than his verses.
Mr. Hardy is most successful when he is least
ambitious. The earlier pages of his volume,
which give the latter its title, "Songs of Two."
are somewhat obscure, and there is neither
beauty of phrase nor melody to make up for
the loss of light. When he takes an easily man
ageable conceit, however, and gives it an unpre
tentious envelope, he achieves something which
is tolerably graceful and suave. Here is a
sseclmi r, :
IN AN ALBUM.
Like the south-flying swallow the summer has
flown.
Like a fast-falling star, from unknown to un
known.
* Life flashes and falters and fails from our
; , sight-
Good night, friends, good night.
Like home-coming swallows that seek the old
eaves.
. Like th* buds that wait patient beneath the
1 dead leaves,
f Love shall sleep in our hearts till our hands
meet again—
Till then, friends, till then!
Mr. Herford's humor, whether in his rhymes
or in his drawings, is always quaint and gentle,
with an individual savor that is very taking.
'Overheard in a Garden" is a capital bundle of
eprightly fancies, full of artless drollery and
deft workmanship. Some of the cle\-erest pieces
deal with familiar types and traits of everyday
life, but we choose as perhaps the most char
acteristic illustration of Mr. Her fold's fun and
craft the four stanzas called "Love and Time."
Love stole Time's hour-glass one day
(It happened he was out of hearts),
And set it up beside the way.
To be a target for his darts.
At length but one of all his quiver
Remained (some glanced and some fell wide)-
He shot the last— Time paw it shiver
His glass. "What have you done?" he cried.
In vain Love pieced the broken parts.
The sand would not run true. Ala«!
Cried Time: 'Confound you and your darts!
Now I must get another glass!"
So ever since, to mark his shooting.
Love kept the glass that Time refused.
And lovers ever since, computing.
The hours with minute? have confused.
In a preface to his latest volume Sir Lewis
Morris hints that it will not be his last. Also
he. remarks that "knowing well that contempo
rary criticism of verse, favorable or otherwise, is
beMoss of much value toward fixing its perma
nent position, he can recall with satisfaction
that he has throughout endeavored to follow the
honored traditions of English poetry." He is
not conscious, he tells us, of "ever having writ
ten ft line without believing then that he had
something to say which demanded expression, or
which he could wish unwritten now." This
ought to disarm the reviewer, we suppose. But
what is one to say, nevertheless, of writing like
' that which fills "Harvest Tide" from cover to
cover?
. In murky gloom, m petulant rain.
Thick-swathed our sordid London lay.
White mists obscured the midland plain
Thro' all the drear November day.
But with swift eve. the sinking sun
Fmote the Welsh hills, and suddenly
Behold the reign of winter done.
Once more the blue, unclouded sky.
And with the dawn the Impatient light
Streams through the darkened cells of sleep
TiU lo! full noontide, broadening bright,
Brings azure sky and sapphire deep.
O joy! how beautiful a wav
My happy fate prepares for me,
"Who Journey on this perfect day
Between the mountains and the -a!
And so on Indefinitely. It is unimpeaehably
correct. The picture is always carefully drawn.
The sentiments are sound. It Is respectability
itself. But there is not a note of music any
where: there is no felicity of thought or expres
sion: there is nothing but fiat commonplace.
The moving of an Mirny's artillery and supplies
from the nearest available railway to the scene
of hostile operations has always been a difficult
mettcr. Napoleon's wagon trains were some
tines compelled to traverse such distances that
hi.* oxen died of starvation on the way. For
nearly naif a century attempts have been made
to util're for this service the traction engine, a
heavy steam locomotive adapted to running on
common highways. England has long used this
device for agricultural and other peaceful pur
poses, and seems to have befn the first nation
to employ It in war. Her earliest experiments
mere in the Crimea. Russia also tried the trac
tion engine in the conflict with Turkey in 1877
'7B. l'ur!n~ the last quarter of a century other
European powers have tested its virtues in mili
tary manoeuvres in time of peace. Even
Switzerland has fallen Into line with her neigh
bors. These and other pertinent facts are
grouped together by Lieutenant-Colonel Otfried
Layriz, of "•'• Gorman army. In a volume entitled
t'Mechanical Traction in War," and. B. Marston
has translated the book for the J. B. Lipplncott
Company. Th* subject possesses Interest for
few people outside of the armies of tho world,
but this Is a valuable treatise of its kind. Colo
ncy Layriz is satisfied that traction engines will
be most serviceable for martial purposes in
fhopp countries where they have already been
ufp<\ in other ways, because in Fuch cases at
tention will have been given to tho construction
of good roads.
THREE PSYCHOLOGISTS.
SOME LUMINOUS PAGES ON A DIFFICULT
SUBJECT.
TALKS TO TEACHERS ON PSYCHOLOGY: and
to Students on Some of Life's Ideals. By Will
iam James. 12 no, pp. xi, 301. Henry Holt
& Co.
PSYCHOLOGY AND LIFE. By Hugo MUnster
herg Professor of Psychology in Harvard Uni
tversity. 12mo, pp. xiv, CS6. Houghton, Minlin
~& Co.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOCIALISM. By Gustave
Le Bon. Bvo. pp. xv, 415. The Macmillan Com
pany.
In his talks to teachers and students Professor
James gives a good example of his skill as a
writer. Nothing clearer, simpler or more en
tertaining in the way of popular science teach
ing can be imagined, or. on the other hand,
anything: less open to the charge of superficial
ity. Here, as in all his earlier essays, he shows
that very rarest of combinations, the union of
a thorough specialist and a man of letters— a
popularizer of science who has both an exact
knowledge of his material and ability to write;
and it may be added that it Is just now of con
siderable importance that this combination of
scientific talent and a stylo appears in a psy
chologist. Whatever may be the merits of the
"new psychology"— and they are many and
great — one who keeps track of its progress can
have little doubt that it has had a depressing
effect upon the literary quality of psychological
writing. The works of the other school \yre
not, of course, always products of literary art.
but the fact that a definite connection between
the science and literature is legitimate and de
sirable has always hitherto been recognized.
This tradition the "new psychologist" seems to
have forgotten, or to despise, and the books
which he concocts in his dissecting room and
laboratory are for the most part devoid of all
Braces except that of truth. The public, at least,
owes much to Professor James for his effective
demonstration that this severance of the two
is not a necessity.
The scientific material of the 'Talks to Teach
ers.™ which occupy the greater part of the vol
ume, is elementary, and requires no special no
tice. These lectures were delivered in 1892, at
the request of the Harvard Corporation, to the
teachers of Cambridge, and they deal chiefly
with points which are of fundamental practical
importance in the teaching art. As the author
says, "they contain a minimum of what Is
deemed 'scientific' in psychology, and .are prac
tical and popular In the extreme." Of their
spirit and substance no better statement can be
given than this from the preface:
My main desire has been to make [teachers]
conceive, and, if possible, reproduce sympa
thetically In their imagination, the mental life
of their pupil as the sort of active unity which
be himself feels it to bf-. He doesn't chop him
self into distinct processes and compartments;
and it would have penetrated this deeper pur
pose of my book to make it look, when printed,
like a Baedeker's handbook of travel or a text
book of arithmetic. So far as books printed like
this book force the fluidity of facts upon the
young teacher's attention, so far I am sure they
tend to do his Intellect a service, even though
they may leave unsatisfied a craving (not alto
gether without its legitimate grounds) for more
nomenclature, headlines and subdivisions.
This service the book unquestionably renders,
and it is to be hoped that it will find its way
into the hands of all teachers, particularly of
those engaged in elementary work. Such In
sistence upon the central realities of mental life
and growth, and such scorn of psychological
pedantry, are precisely what is needed to coun
teract in their minds the disastrous effects of
the artificiality, and general woodenness of most
of the psychological textbooks upon which they
are nourished. As Professor James nays, one
may be a good psychologist without being ,-i
good teacher, but one cannot be a good teacher
without being, to a certain extent, a good psy
chologist; but this the teacher never can become
who is satisfied with the artificial analysis and
naming of mental processes, and has not ac
quired that understanding and feeling of what
Is actually going on in the pupil's mind which
these "Talks" inculcate.
In his "Psychology and Life," Professor Miin
sterlerg takes as his central theme the effect
upon our ethical and aesthetical ideals of the
mechanical theory of mental life which dom
inates modern physiological psychology. That
this theory is in principle correct; that psychol
ogy as a science must seek to bring the succes
sion and continuation of psychical events under
the law of causality, and that this can be done
only by correlating them with processes within
the physical organism, he- admits; but he denies
that from this fact the nullity of our ethical and
practical life can legitimately be deduced. Psy
chology, be says, like physics, does not deal
with or express the real, but Is "a complicated
transformation of it. worked out for special
logical purposes In the service of our life."
It is "a special abstract construction, which has
a right to consider everything from its own im
portant standpoint, but which has nothing to
assert in regard to the interpretation of our real
freedom and duty, our real values and ideals."
It is in these ethical and other values— in the
will— that the real consists, and to these the
causal and the mechanical do not apply. To at
tempt to criticize such a conception in a para
graph would be absurd. One may suggest, how
ever, that while It may. in a sense, be true, the
real matter of practical interest is whether the
existence of these values for us and their effect
iveness in us are in fact conditioned upon brain
action, and whether that existence and effective
ness can continue if brain action stops. Goodness
is doubtless eternally good and beauty eternally
beautiful, just as truth is eternally true
whether any one actually thinks it or not. But
is this eternal, supracausal and supramechan
ical reality anything more than an abstraction
*«r the living, healthy Individual?
M. Le Bon's "Psychology of Socialism" is a
general discussion of that topic rather than the
special psychological study of it which one
would expect from the title. The central
thought is the not unfamiliar one that the de
velopment and the future of socialism must dif
fer with the traditions and the mental makeup
of the several races, the Latin races being des
tined by their political training and tempera
ment to become its prey, and the Teutonic races,
for the same reason, to defeat It. The book con
tains many sound observations and witty re
marks. Occasionally, however, the author fails
to hit the mark, as, for example, when he says
of the American negroes that "their liberation
from slavery is generally regarded in the United
K"ta.tei»l as a stupendous error"!
A i.i.i; FACT.
From Notes and Queries.
In "The Property Market Review," January
2t>, is a short notice of the late Mr. J. H. Baiter,
the last proprietor of St. Chad's Well. Near
the forgotten spring were the huge dust and
cinder heaps at Battle Bridge. These were sold
to the Russians, who converted the debris into
building material for the reconstruction of Mos
cow after the historic conflagration of 181-, so
graphically illustrated by Vassill Verestchagin.
"Holy Mother, white waited Moscow," is thus
partly rebuilt from the refuse of our metropolis.
WHY, IKDEEDt
From Chambers's Journal. /
While still not much more than a baby, the
future patron of Wagner showed his critical
faculty by a reply he made to one of his tutors.
King Ludwig dabbled in poetry, among other
arts; and his grandsons were expected to honor
the royal author by the recitation of one of his
majesty's odes on the King's birthday. "Why,"
asked young Ludwig, "should I learn grand
papa's verses, which are not good, when there
are so many fine poems by Goethe, Schiller
and others?"
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A collation of short stories by "Oulda," called
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Mips Helen Hay, daughter of the .-'¦ :retary of
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inK for their object a comprehensive survey of
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and characteristics of curreni b?lles lettres.
McClure, Phillips & Co. report a steadily In
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Hou.Thion, MifMn & Co. havt Issued a neat
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Several years ajjo a short story entitle! "How
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M&gasine" th;it attracted favorable attention,
H irrison Roberts, who. with Colonel Henry
Watterson, directs the editorial policy of "The
Louisville CourU (-.Journal. ' was th<" author.
Sin<^ then he has written three novels. "If I
Were a Man" and "Hod Blood and Bine" have
appeared, and now the Serihners ar< about to
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was graduated from the University ol Virginia.
The Harpers are preparing to publish noon
translations of it number of the novel:; of
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in the world of letters Is the subject of an article
by Henry James in the current "North Ameri
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The Century Company Imparts the fact, as an
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Miss Runkle's "Helmet of Navarre." which is to
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:i ng the aristocratic and the poor whites.
"The Evolution of Immortality." that the
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of a volume from his hand that the Applt-tons
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