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10 CHINA. nUOMI I VIEW OF THE EASTERN PROBLEM. THE PAR EAST. ITS HISTORY AND ITS QUESTION. By Alexis Krausse. . With eight maps and five plans. Octavo, pp. xvi, 372. E. P. Dutton & Co. I Mr. Krausse, throughout the bulk of his work, treating of the dealing of European Powers and the United States with China in the last ten years, evidently has in his own mind ¦ dear understanding of the two propositions, i hat China, Is destined to pass through the suc cessive stages of partition into "spheres of in fluence" and protectorates, ending with dismem berment and appropriation by the foreigners; and that, in the great international scramble for Chinese territory now in progress. Russia is and must Inevitably remain the antagonist of Great Britain, whose allies are and must he the United States and Japan. Portugal and Spain, which were almost the first to attempt com munication with the great unknown Far East, he dismisses with few words early in his nar rative, devoting a much larger share of atten tion to the process by which Russia, consistent ly aggressive from the first, and taking ad vantage of every embarrassment in which Brit ish enterprise involved China, obtained slice after slice of territory, until in 1858, Just when Europe thought the Czar checked In his am bitions by the event of the Crimean war, the Treaty of Aigun added to his Asiatic dominion a territory eight times as large as Great Britain and Ireland. This Russian triumph came at a time when Great Britain, after more than half a century of stubborn effort, military and diplo matic, had gained little more than a dawning ¦understanding of the great truth that to make a treaty with China was one thing and to se cure the fulfilment of its provisions quite an other. As early as the reign of Charles II the opium trade of the English with Canton had been established, and in 1767 the import amounted to 1.000 chests, averaging (1,000 a piece. Things seem to have gone on smoothly enough in this quarter until 1834, when th i British Government placed the Interests of its subjects resident at Canton under the care of a superintendent, and then began the troubles which culminated in the opium war of 1840. The Treaty of Nan-King, in 1842, "marks," in Mr. Krausse's opinion, "the first step In the opening up of China to Western Intercourse." Nevertheless, it also marked the beginning of a, struggle between China and Great Britain, which only subsided Into something like peace after the destruction of the Summer Palace, in 1860. The Tai-Plng rebellion, affording the British an opportunity to be useful to the Chi nese Emperor, did something to promote the success of subsequent British negotiations. The author considers "The Awakening of Ja pan" and "Unclosed Corea" of enough impor tance to be given each a separate chapter. Un der the former head he traces Russo-Japanese relations from the year 1780. the beginning of those negotiations by Alexander I which led up to the visit, years later, of two Russian war ves k eels to Kushunkotan and the sack of that town. I "An inscription was left on the temple to the effect that if the Japanese should change their minds and wish to trade with Siberia, they might send a message to Iturup; but if they refused to treat with the Russians, the northern arts of Japan would be attacked and ravaged." The Japanese had not changed their minds by the next year, and the threat was made good. Full Justice Is done to the work of the United States and of Commodore Perry, of which a good account Is given in an evidently friendly ppirit. The climax of Mr. Krausse's book, however, is its last chapter, in which, he surveys the actual prospect in the Far East. "Although, by a mutual understanding among the Powers," he rays, "the existing developments In the Celestial § Empire are not regarded as constituting a state of war, the situation daring the siege of the legations can only be ; summarized as an at tempt on the part of the Chinese to rid them selves of the presence of the hated foreigner, and. far from being on friendly terms with the rest of humanity. China may be said to be at war with civilization." The end of this war will, of course, be the triumph of civilization. but this author has grave misgivings as to how England will fare in the division of the spoils. So long as the British public remains content to retain incompetence at the helm of State, so long will the ship of empire be mismanaged - It Is the custom of a certain class of people to regard the utterance of any unpleasant truth as the act of an alarmist, an alarmist in the sense of a person who talks nonsense, which may be safely disregarded. If a publicist draws attention to an unfriendly act on the part of Russia be is branded as a Russophobe, and as such treated with disdain. If he ventures to query the proclaimed superiority of our fleet, his question, instead of being answered, is pointed at in derision. But. braving such derision. Mr. Krausse closes his last chapter with this gloomy warning to Englishmen: The prospect in the Far East is clouded. Its ¦ultimate outcome must, by dint of the working of the forces I have discussed, be partition and absorption, until the whole of the map becomes reconstituted. The lion's share must go to Rus sia. Of that there can be no question. . . . Corea as a national entity is doomed. The only question is whether it will fall to Russia or Ja pan, and it remains only to be seen whether England will at the eleventh hour pull herself together and strive to save the Tang-tse Valley as her share of the spoil, or whether she will, by a continuation of her past and present tac tics. allow herself to be elbowed out of Central China even as she has been out of Manchuria and is about to be out of the North. Such is the outcome of the situation, such is the prob lem to be solved. The prospect is not a pleas ant one. but there is yet time to divert it, if only ¦sj bestir ourselves and act before it is too late. ¦ . THE P.KAhEOIW MAP. ITS RELATION T" THK KAKLY T< '!¦<;¦. - HA THY Or NEW YORK CITY. JAMES I.VNi: SURVEY. Or. as It is more rorr.monly known. THE BRADFORD MAP. A Plan of the City of New- York at the Time of the Granting; of the Montgomery Charter, In '17211 An Appendix to an Account of the Same * Compiled in int. By William Lorlng Andrews. 12mo. pp. * Dodd. Mead & Co. I The immediate cause of the publication of this little monograph was a statement by Dr. John F'ske In one of h's'books i.Mr, Andrews curiously omits to state which one !n his reference to volume and page, though It turns out to be "Dutch and Quaker Colonies"), regarding the Lyna map of New-York City. Dr. Flake, In this unlucky- paragraph, and in the plate which he incorporates in his book, has mistaken a repro duction or that map, known as the Bradford map, for the original, and has given wider cur rency to dr. already current error as to the date, calling it IT2S instead of 1731. Now, the original map Is excessively rare; only two copies of it are known to Mr. Andrew? to exist, of which one is l:, his own possession. The other was given to the New-York Historical Society in 1&07. On the other hand, reproductions of it are common. Mr. Andrews enumerates nine, of which some have been multiplied in great num bers for advertising purposes. In a matter so important' a* determining' the early topography of the first city of the New World, absolute ac curacy is highly desirable, and, following the spirit. of the motto he puts at the front of his book, "Truth is the highest thing that man may keep/ Mr. Andrew* wrote to Dr. Fiske. pointing out his error To this note h - had. at the date ' of publication, on!;, the answer of "a silence , which- we are told la sometimes more- eloquent than words. -1 This sii. •:-;¦-" on th* pin : ' historian seems to have prompted the writing of this little book, which is a charming addition to the cartographical lore of pre-revolutionary times. Mr. Andrews takes occasion to remark upon the rarity of early American engraving In general. Not more than three or four impressions exist of any such engraving executed before the middle of the eighteenth century, of which he gives sev eral striking examples. Not even the German xylographie prints of the fifteenth century ex ceed in rarity these incunabula. For this reason the reports which come at intervals from vari ous sources of the finding of original Bradford maps have in them an element of ludicrousnesd to students of Mr. Andrews's seriousness. This seriousness is an admirable check on the work of others who deal more largely with historical matters. Mr. Andrews has made out his case, to all appearances, but we do not understand that he throws any further discredit on the valuable historical work of Dr. Fiske. THE LECTVRE PLATFUHM. RECOLLECTIONS OF SOME OF ITS CELEBRITIES. ECCENTRICITIES OF GENIUS. Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage. By Major J. B. Pond. Octavo, pp. xxvi, 564. G. W. DilUngham Company. Major Pond seems to have known most of the men and women who have appeared within the last generation upon the lecture platform— to the lecture platform, notwithstanding the decay of that once all pervading institution, most who have won distinction, particularly yin letters, are still irresistibly drawn. An impor tant factor in drawing many of them has been apparently Major Pond's persuasion, which few have been able to resist. Those who have, have had to refuse his acquaintance, courteously, like Kipling, who wrote him that he might lecture "as soon as I had two mortgages on my house, a lien on the horses, and a bill of sale on the furniture and writers' cramp in both hands; but at present I'm busy and content to go on with the regular writing business." Or. like Spur geon. they have repulsed him with more decision than cordiality. Major Pond has packed this large volume full of his reminiscences, written in a kindly and appreciative spirit. He began his experience as manager with Ann Eliza. Brig ham Young's nineteenth wife, whose recitals of the inwardness of Mormonism had great public effect in the early seventies: and his activity Is not yet ended. Nowadays people lecture because they have become prominent In other ways; but in the golden age of the lyceum platform, of which Major Pond gives an entertaining sketch at the close of his volume, there were lecturers who won their fame thus and by nothing else. Such were Gough and Phillips and Mrs. Llvermore. The first two, with Beecher, the author calls the greatest of lecturers; and of these Phillips held his pre-eminence the longest— from IN4."> to his death, nearly forty years afterward. Gough, however, was the most popular with the largest number of plain people. Beecher was almost equally so, with a higher Influence. Phillips spoke for a cause, and not for the money It brought him. Says Major Pond: One morning Mr. Phillips came into our office to get his list of appointments. I said: "Mr. Phillips, we have an open date. Spring field offers $250 for it. Natick wants it. but they can pay only $75." "What's the population of the two towns?" asked Mr. Phillips. We looked it up, and gave him the census re port of each town. "Natick offers more in proportion to the num ber of inhabitants than Springfield. Let Natick have it," he said. It is a curious fact that many experienced lecturers have had stage fright that they never could get rid of. Gough Is a case In point. He never broke down, and never failed to capture his audience, says Major Pond: Yet he always had a mild sort of stage fright, which never went off until he began to speak. To get time to master this fright was the reason why he always insisted on being "introduced" to his audiences before he spoke, and he so in sisted even in places where the absurd custom had been abandoned for years. The humorous lecturer appears to have a harder time of It than any other. Every human who attempts to make a whole evening of fun finds It irksome, and Major Pond quotes "Bill" Nye's experience: The audience would fairly bubble over with laughter until every fun liking muscle of their faces relaxed and left one sombre, wet blanket all over the assembly: and there they had to sit and the humorist had to proceed to the end of the programme without a response. Even Mark Twain found It so, until he "took a running mate" and interspersed pathos by introducing George W. Cable In a Joint enter tainment. Mark Twain's aversion to the plat form, however, is pronounced, and Major Pond quotes a letter from him in which he says: "I do not expect to see the platform again until the wolf commands. Honest people do not go robbing the public on the platform, except when they are in debt." It is fortunate for the pleas ure of many people that this is not the uni versal opinion. Major Pond's relations have ex tended as far as from P. T. Barnum to Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was his fortune to nego tiate with Emerson in his old age to lecture in the Old South Church, In Boston, for the fund to save that historic building from demolition. He tells the pathetic story of the lecture, the last Emerson ever delivered, thus: As he began reading his lecture the audience was very attentive. After a few moments he lost his place, and his granddaughter, sitting in the front row of seats, gently stepped toward him and reminded him that he was lecturing. He saw at once that he was wandering, and, with the most charming, characteristic, apolo getic bow, be resumed his place — an Incident that seemed to affect the audience more than anything else that could possibly have occurred. A few moments later he took a piece of manu script in his hand and, turning around with it, laid it on a side table. Just then one of the audience said to me (I think it was Mrs. Livermore or Mrs. Howe), "Please have the audience pass right out," and, rushing up to Mr. Emerson, said. "Thank you so much for that delightful lecture"; then, turn- Ing around, waved the audience to go out. He probably had been speaking about fifteen min utes. The audience passed out, many of them in tears. It was one of the most pathetic sights I ever witnessed. Few present day readers will easily figure to themselves Barnum • as a lecturer and under another's management; but Major Pond had much experience with him. lie was to give twenty temperance lectures for $2,000 and ex penses, and in his management of expenses he was the most prudently economical man the manager has ever known. "It made no differ ence to him who paid the expenses; If they were unnecessary he didn't want them Incurred." The same rigid economy ruled all his dealings. There is constant entertainment to be found In turning over these pleasantly written and un pretentious pages with their sheaf of curious characteristics of many prominent men and -women. We read of Sir Edwin Arnold's pro digious memory — he could repeat perfectly any poem he once heard, and one evening he offered, if given the first line of any scene in Shakes peare at random, to continue with the rest of it. and fulfilled the test, saying afterward that he could recite the whole of Shakespeare from be ginning to end. When he visited Walt Whit man, he spent an hour and a half quoting the "good gray poet's" verses to him from memory. We are Interested in Mr Gladstone's interest in Major Pond's stories of Western frontier life, and to hear that, having asked him to break fast, the statesman had a stenographer sta tioned behind a screen to take down his narra XEW-YOKK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATTTCDAY. JANUARY 5. 1901. tive, drawn out by "Mr. Gladstone's fascinating way of doing things." And we are entertained with a great fund of interesting and character istic anecdotes about Henry Ward Beecher, with whom Major Pond had his longest and most intimate relations as manager. ' ,~" ROOKS AM) AUTHORS. CURRENT TALK OF THTXHS mRSENT \X!> T<~i POMK A friendly critic of "Deacon Bradbury." Edwin Asa Dixs novel of New-England Iff", has at tempted to make a point by showing that thf> Incident of Charlie Bradbury's writing to hi? mother under cover of letters remailed through the postmaster of another city is impossible. because the postal regulations directly forbid a postmaster thus to remail a letter with out indorsing on it the name of the place from which it was sent to him. Mr. Dix is not to bp bo caught, however, and points out that this regulation did not go into effect till 1879, while the events described in "Deacon nradbury" arp supposed to take place in 1871. Albert Diirer*s sixteen engravings representing the Apocalypse are regarded ;ts MbMsbS Hm IMb4 remarkable works of the great IfsjVCMhMI ar tist. W. B. Scott in his book "Albert DUrer; His Life and Works" says that they are "tfcsj most wonderful for invention as well as the most bizarre and naive of all the creations of Christian art." This series will be made acces sible to DUrer's admirers In a set of fac-slmiles that R. H. Russell is about to publish In a volume, with accompanying text which affords a description of them, chosen from the Revela tion of St. John. Mr. Fltz Roy Carrlngton will supply an Introduction. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. expect to add the twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth volumes to their convenient "English Readings" series this month. They will be. first. "Selec tions from Pope," edited by Dr. E. B. Reed, of Yale, containing representative pieces by an au thor better known nowadays by reputation than from reading, together with a selection from his letters. Then there will be Burkes "Speech on Conciliation with America." edited by D. V. Thompson, of New-Tork, and. third, a selection from Swift's pro«e works, including "The Battle of the Books." "The Modest Proposal." "The Abolishing of Christianity." some of "The Dra pier's Letters." and parts of "The Tale of a Tub." edited by Professor Frederick Prescott, of Cornell University. "I have just strongly recommended for pub lication a book of which the manuscript was the worst that can come to a publisher's office," said a man influential in the councils of a great New- York house the other day. "so I don't think you can say that I am Influenced unfavorably by bad manuscript. But If It has no effect on the Judgment, it has a jtreat deal on the pa tlenc-p. mental equilibrium and general happiness of the reader, as every one may Imagine. No, typewrit ton manuscript I should not prefer to any other. I should rather have, most of all. a moderate sized, good handwriting, written in black ink on white paper of medium size, not bound or stitched together. Typewriting is apt to be rather faint, even If the abomination is not committed of pending In a carbon copy. Thon. very few authors can use the typewriter without endless and exasperating errors—re dundant letters and all sorts of wrong spelling, omitted words, words wrongly cancelled when a change was made, lines left out or overlapping the edge of the paper, and all the other annoy ing peculiarities of the typewriter in unprofes sional hands. "A very fine handwriting Is also objectionable, except where— as In the case of a book that we recently published, the author has made every thing almost as plain and well formed as in print— a most rare phenomenon. We object to having manuscript bound, because for various reasons it is often desirable to use only a part of It at a time, and It must be torn apart for the printer, anyway. I will not speak of the manuscript held together by pink ribbons— l will almoßt take back what I said in the beginning. and admit that that might be the cause of prejudice against the writer. Finally, there are hands so bad that it Is the labor of minutes to decipher each word: manuscripts that have to be copied by the reader in careful collaboration with a typewriter, and then compared with the original manuscript with the help of a third person. I needn't say that such consideration is extended only to manuscripts of men whose work is very much desired." It is flttlnjf that a negro should write the au thoritative book on the American negro; that Is what the Macmillan Company believe has been done by the Hon. William Hannibal Thomas in "The American Negro: What He Was. What H*» Is and What He May Become." which they will publish by the middle of the month. Mr. Thomas is now a lawyer of Everett. Mass.; he served with distinction in the Civil War, and afterward was a member of the Routh Carolina legislature durlne: the Reconstruction period. Trained in theology and law, he became a suc cessful practitioner in the South Carolina courts, and afterward f-stablixhed himself In Massa chusetts. It is asserted that no such complete and detailed Information exists elsewhere than in this new book about the American negro, hits physical and mental qualifications and capnH ties, his vices and crimes, his religtoun beliefs, his possibilities as an economic and political factor in American life. Mr. Thomas frankly concedes the negro's inferiority and convincingly controverts the adequacy of the reformatory agencies already instituted, but also forcibly in dicates how the mental, moral, social. Industrial and political elevation of the negro may ration ally be achieved. A discussion of this sort is bound to nerve a high purpose in these days when, the vehemence of passion is being relaxed on both sides. Edward Dowden has written a book on Eng lish literature of the seventeenth century. which the Holts are about to publish under the title of "Puritan and Anglican." In It Mr. Dow den treats of "Puritanism and English Lltera- Sir Thomas Browne. Hooker, Herbert. Vaughan, Milton, Jeremy Taylor, Baxter, Bun yan. Butler, "The Transition to the Eighteenth Century." etc. He is said to have given a vivid personal tone to the book through his frequent use of the thoughts and phrases of the authors discussed. The Rev. Morgan Dix published the first vol ume of his "History of Trinity Church" some time ago, which Interested the corporation of the Church so greatly that it has taken up the book and given it its official assistance in fur nishing material from its records, etc. The sec ond volume will now shortly ai , .hi- ffcosa ti,. press of G. P. Putnam's Sons. If any doubt th.- importance f i n ,. ,, ilr , n i H ye.i I:, Ani.-ri.a-, history l.y the Scotch- Irish families who have settled here they «ni i,,. speedily undeceived by contemplating the two large volumes comprising charl. « Manna's hook '•Scotch-Irish Families In America" The hook is genealogical In Us arrangem-nt. but the «u thor also taken up the work nnd Influence of the descendants of the families described— they in clude McKlnley and Bryan, for Instance, and a large number of the most prominent generals ..n both r.des in the Civil War. to go no further. Mr. Har.na who writes it. I* the Xnflonal Bank Kxamtner r r X -u - York Judge Lacombe. of the iTnlt-d States Circuit Docks anb publications. The Most Popular Book in (America. EBEN HOLDEN By IRVING BACHELLER OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN 30 DAYS 12mo. gold lettered on red cloth, silt top, $1.50 At All Bookttort* LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY, Boston Court, in denying Rudyard Kipling's motion for an injunction against a New- York firm, as re cently noted in The Tribune, made the following remarks that bear upon the matter of reprint ing uncopyrlghted books: Boldly stated, the proposition is that an author whose mental productions, prose, verse and title, have been given to the world by publication without copyright, so that any one is free to reprint and sell the whole or any part Of them, may nevertheless regulate the manner in which such reprinted matter may be grouped and en titled, and may restrain any application of the title he selected otherwise than as he used or uses it. ... It would seem that the measure or relief which authors may obtain against unauthorized publication of their works must be found in the copyright statutes which, whon availed of, are an abundant protection against such publication. Motion denied. That the Germans are looking to American literature more and more for new works In an unconventional style 'hag several times recently had illustration.' It is again shown by the pub lication by a Leipslc firm of a German transla tion of Ernest Seton-Thompson's "Wild Ani mals I Have Known." The translator, in what would be a preface In an English book, but Is placed In what Mark Twain would doubtless consider a characteristically German position at the end of this volume, calls these stories charming;, worthy to stand side by side with the works of Bret Harte. Kipling: and Anderson, but complains of the difficulty of translating them on account of the technical phraseology, the Americanisms and the concepts foreign to the German mind that recur in them. The reader of German books will be struck with the strong influence of American bookmaktnc shown in the appearance of the German edition, which Is far removed from the usual style of the Ger man publishing houses. The plates of the half. tone pictures and of the quaint, trite marginal drawings used in the American edition were sent over by the American publishers, the Messrs. Scrlbner. and the German publishers have shown ingenuity enough to spread on the inside of the covers the little wolf footprint that Mr. Seton-Thompson baa adopted for a sign manual. The translator apparently found his troubles with the American Idiom beginning with the title, for he has not attempted to put that Into German, though It seems as if he might have done so without greatly troubling the imaginations of his readers. He has con tented himself with a German title that means "Bingo, and Other Animal Stories." A check for a .very substantial amount was received by the Scrlbners for the German, rights to print a limited number of this translation. It was Indorsed over to Mr Seton-Thompson in time for him to get It on New Year's Day, and In acknowledging it he wrote: "I cordially ap prove of this method of opening the new cen tury." .inn\ PAVL. TO THE! ASSEMBLED AUTHORS AT THK A! - THORS' CMJB. WATCH NIOHT. DE CEMBER SI. UOS-ltOl. [At th* Authors' Club on Watch Night Professor Calvin Thorns*, of th« club council and also of Columbia Coil's*, read the following Unas addressed to his fellow members by diaries Henry Webb, without revealing the Identity of the author.] Oh, watchers of th» Authors' Club. Why do ye keep Watch Night— Unless because to keep things close Ye must of needs be tight? I've seen the New Year come -ah, no! We'll number not the times: And Just as oft the Old Year go. Rung out by Christmas chimes. I've »at in these sepulchral rooms < Andrew Carnegie gave. And listened to th«» funny thing* Till -I felt very grave. I've seen the younger members smoke Pipes far beyond their ears; I've heard a speaker perorate. And thanks were blent with tear*. I've seen our liberal members bow. Or. rather, crook a knee. To ask why this is always thus— And love and beer not free. !.o: in the Van a reverend. Who now at Princeton teaches, V But, pulpit In or pulpit out. None e'er complain he preaches. Our Poet — dearest of the dear. With eyes bo blue and true— Who. if you smooth htm the wrong way. Makes all around him blue; Dear lad! he's far and far away. .Searching Bermuda's beach For the smooth stones Demosthenes Found aids to fluent speech. . ". For realists I look In vain. Not one Is really here. Perhaps elsewhere they Tolstoi pledge In anarchistic beer. . But cheer our stalwart skipper In A Horn of his own brew. With a tiger for the -Lady- One for th» Tiger, too! And skoal to dear old Abbey. Who on a Phaeton dotes. And keeps to feed bis Pegasus A store of hay and oats. • And— well, but hero It's well to pause; Experience proclaims That In an Authors' Parliament „ One shouldn't mention names; I'"or with one great name mentioned, ana A greater one left out, •' '.-'v.' " Two men'aro sure to be aggrieved - An. l which l!..- worne. I doubt. Rut, hither, minions, .-sir a cup, I know, not what it be; But since ii has a Scotchy prnfll, ; We'll call it "barley bree." ; . . 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