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10 DIGGING A VICTORY. Frederic ViUicrss Story of the Siege of Port Arthur. PORT ARTHUR: THREE) MONTHS WITH THE BESIEGERS. A Diurnal of Occurenta. By Frederic VilUers. With a map. two facsimile* and thirty-nve Illustrations from sketches by th« author, and photographs. Svo, pp. M*- Xjoagmaiia, Green & Co. This la the second time that Mr. Villlers baa taken part, as an observer with the Japanese, In a aiege or Port Arthur. In the Chino-Jap aztsso war the work was quicker done, and the correspondent was able to enter the city with the victorious army. At that time he beat a hasty retreat with James Creelman of the New- York World, both gentlemen feeling that their continued presence would not be agreeable to their hosts. In view of the reports they had sent to their respective newspapers of the "atroci ties" which they stated had been committed on the conquered Chinamen. Mr. Villiers's frank ness of utterance on that occasion does not seem to have been remembered against him In the present campaign, or perhaps his Japanese friends, many of whom he now met for the eeo ond time on the same ground, were glad to have him see how much better they do such things now; under how much better control are their troops, how much more humane is their treat ment of the captured, and how much more chivalrous Is their attitude toward a brave and gallant foe. At all events, he and his brothers of the press were treated with the utmost po liteness and consideration by General Nogi and Ills officers, and enjoyed facilities for watching the operations far superior to those afforded correspondents with the other Japanese armies. Is fact, Mr. VllUers appears to have been al lowed to go pretty much where be chose and to see whatever there was to be seen; the only restrictions placed upon him being that he was not allowed to leave during the early part of the siege, and that his dispatches were strictly censored. Not only bad tho Japanese progressed re markably in warfare m the years intervening between the two Investments of Port Arthur but they showed great capacity for further ad vancement from the lessons of the later siege. eplendid are the records of the heroic attacks made on the Russian defences in the early part of the author's period of observation, when the J&paneee Infantry threw themselves boldly against the fortifications only to be mowed down in sickening windrows by the machine guns of the enemy, or gained therr objective at a fright ful sacrifice. But no less splendid were their achievements when — realizing that their present foee were no undisciplined horde of Chinese to be thrown into panic by a sudden dash and a bold chow of front — they took to pick and shovel and burrowed their way by trench and parallel close up to the coveted position. Then they could deliver an attack in force, which, no leas daring, was also far more likely to be effective. Experience Is a dear teacher, and the lesson, though well, seems to have been somewhat tardily learned, and from their opponents. Mr. VUliers quotes from an interview he had with General Nogi: It is the pick and shovel that are the weapons now, as 1 am continually impressing on my troops who are rather behind in sapping and mining. I know there Is a general feeling among the men of the u*>-ri^ssr.ess of all this work. If we are to ad vance to-morrow; but the Russians are masters at the frame, and we must follow their example, '"Look," says the general, as he. points to a well worn pick leaning against the wall, "there's very little but the stump of it left. I have had this shown to the men, and have ordered them to use their picks as profitably." It Beems strange that the immense value, the absolute necessity, of intrenchmeuts under such conditions, should not have been forced upon euch thorough students of warfare as the Japanese officers, from the actions of our own troops as far back as the Civil War. Still, theory is one thing and practioe another, and the Japanese showed themselves in the end ready enough to avail themselves of every aid suggested by history and to devise new methods of their own. When the great eleven-Inch guns had been dragged with infinite labor Into po sition, their 50(f-poun<; projectiles were utilized not only for battering down the forts and bom barding the city and the shipping, but for blow- Ing huge boles in the escarpments to afford nhetter for assaulting parties. Wire entangle ments were destroyed by means of portable bombs borne on the ends of long bamboo poles, and wooden mortars carried and worked by two men formed an Important adjunct In storming a position. From these were fired at close range, ■with Email charges of powder, bombs of gun cotton, which fell inside the works and ex ploded, blinding and demoralizing the Russians while the final rush was made. The volume Is full of Incidents of dauntless heroism. In the attack on East Ban-u-San fort, fifty unwounded men, all that were left of the entire Oulchl regiment, were trapped In a deep trench, at the foot o? the glacis, which was al most filled with water and the dead bodies of their comrades. All night they stood up to their hips in the bloody mess, and all day under the scorching August sun. without food, caring for the wounded as best they could. Then Captain Bugtyaraa, who was In command, was suddenly possessed of a new Idea! He proposed to Cap tain Kabayama that a final assault must be made on the fort above. Hand grenades, with fuses attached, were hastily made and given to Tolunteers who crept slowly, on their backs, up tine steep slope, co that they might be taken for dead or wounded, should they be seen by the Russians. All reached the top In safety and actually succeeded In putting the machine gruns out of commission. Then the brave fifty, reinforced by twenty of the wounded, rushed the position. Their astounding work was 6een, reinforcements were sent forward on the Jump, to find thirty of the seventy still alive and fighting. The fort was captured, but only seventeen survivors of the Ouichi regiment re turned, and were attached "temporarily" to An Important Announcement j^^^^^s. WE SHALL PUBLISH on March 20th the new novel £{ l*y by the authors of j% ._ , « THE LAST WORD |f*&S* »| of -which the Boston Herald said: \k Htst M "No woman can read thia story without finding; some- where in it the mirror held up to her own secret hopes, feelingß, aspirations. To read it is like touring to a most brilliant, charm ing and vital woman of the deepest problems in a woman's '—Boston Herald. RETURN tA Story of the Sea Islands in 1739 By Alice MaoOo-wan &. Grace MscGowkn CooKe With erx pVctorei done In oil by C. D. Wiuiimt. SI. SO The heroine of "RETURN," Diana Chaters, is the belle of the Colonial city L. C. PAGE & COMPANY : : : : BOSTON headquarters. General Nogi assured Mr. Vil llers that he would never send them Into action again— their work had been done. But he dared not tell them so, lest they commit suicide. No wonder, with such a spirit animating the rank and file, that the victory went to Japan. Equally brave were the forces that captured the Hachl- Machi, or Turban, fort, where the attack was delivered by means of previous sapping, yet the lists of casualties in the two engagements are significant. One hundred and fifty-four fell on the Turban Hill; 15.000 was the record at East Ban-u-San. The Japanese held no monopoly of bravery. There were the eighteen indomitable Russians, driven to bay in a bombproof at this same Hachi-MachL They refused to take quarter, and did such execution with their rifles that the Japanese had "to tear the sandbaga from the traverses and trenches and throw them into the apertures of the shelter and eventually Beal the enemy up in this veritable shambles with their dead and dying." Then at East Klkwan fort, when fifty Japanese had scaled the parapet and, unsupported, had been driven out again— what there was left of them — that is what Vil liers saw: The skyilfle of the fort is broken by tall and stal wart ugurts. I see them touching to the left — a squad of Russians— as if on parade. An officer stands forward with flashing sword; he looks down the glacis. Not a movement is seen of the black dots on the slope. His work is i.ot required here. He quickly points to the P. fort below. The "Japs" have passed round and over it and axe pressing against the Chinas* wall. The officer turns his m«n half-left, and then I see a sight I shall always remember. In rhythmical order, the men, standing grandly upright, seeking no cover, take cartridge from pouch, moving each with the other like clock work, load and present, eject empty case, reload and tire. It Is a splendid piece of work, and, in my appreciation, I cry in Russian. "Karasho!" . . . The "Jap" officer by my Miie echoes it. 'ICarasho!" I look at him in astonishment. "You speak Rus sian?" "Oh. yts," he replied, "I am the Russian interpreter of the Eleventh Division. Ah! It is V6ry tine! Good men, brave fellows; but it is no good for Nippon." Distinctive of the siege of Port Arthur were the night attaaka, searchlights and star bombu, or rockets, replacing the sun. So brilliant were these military fireworks that they dimmed the moon, which appeared but "a faint slip of Bilver In the sky." These searchlights themselves proved indirectly to be cruel weapons. Ten years ago Archibald Forbes wrote an article on the impossibility of succoring the wounded under the approaching conditions of warfare. This campaign proves his opinion to have been correct. Says Mr. Villlers: The wounded after an action have to be Jeft on the field with the dead till nightfall. Even then the greatest caxe has to be taken in bringing the men to the first aid. The loss of lite in attempting to move them during the day would be appalling. Though working 1 under cover of night, no bearers can stand up to their work; they have to craw! oat-like, and must be always on the look-out for the searchlights, and when the fiendish cold, white ray steals near them they havo to feign death, lying- prone with the bodies round them. The wounded they take by the heels or shoulders and drag or push them down the glacis of the redoubt that has been the bone of contention. One thing which impressed the author was the unconcern of the natives, who, behind the lines Indeed, but well within range of the Rus sian artillery, carried on their harvesting and went about their daily tasks as if war was a too trivial Incident of life to be noticed. He gives one night's experience: Last night and through the small hours until dawn this pandemonium lasted, and was noisy enough to arouse the dead, yet of all our village I was the only one awake and watching. The ham let lay dark and silent but for the yelping of the dogs, which were not disturbed by the noise of the battle that was going on but a mile oft, but Indig nant at my ghostly appearance, when all respect able folk ought to be in bed. GLIMPSES OF HA WTHORNE A Record of His Hundredth Anni versary. THE HAWTHORNE CENTENARY CELEBRA TION at Wayside, Concord, Mass., July 4-7, 190 i. 12mo, pp. 2uS. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The hundredth anniversary of Nathaniel Haw thorne's birth was duly celebrated last summer In Concord at the only home he ever owned. The present possessor of the modest dwelling pre pared with zealous care a four days' programme of addresses, and in this pretty little volume the occasion is described and most of the addresses are printed. There was much analysis of the man's char acter and Intellect and much comment on his life. It was all Just and admiring, and It is pleasant to record this episode of true apprecia tion of a writer of Indubitable genius. A few of those who sang his praises had known him or seen him; his son contributed some sym pathetic reminiscences, and Mr. Charles Francis Adams dwelt on the romancer's place In litera ture. Most of those who had seen Hawthorne had something to cay of his shy reserve. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe had a vivid reminiscence of this shyness as exhibited In her first glimpse of him during a call on Mrs. Hawthorne. "She promised that we should see her husband. Just then a male figure descended the stairs. 'My husband," she cried, 'here are Dr. and Mrs. Howe." What we did see was a broad hat pulled down over a hidden face, and a figure that quickly vanished through an opposite door." Years after, when his life In Europe had made him less a recluse, the two authors met, and Mrs. Howe was struck by the beauty of the man's eyes, which she could "compare to nothing but tremulous sapphires." It was at this period that she said to the nov elist, apropos of his "Blithedale Romance," "Mr. Hawthorne, you were cruel to say that Zenobia would never have drowned herself if she had known how unsightly her appearance would ha% r e be*;n when found." " 'Was It not true?* he asked, with some mischief in hla look, pres ently adding, 'I had to go out in my boat to look for her.' " An old Concord neighbor, Judge Keyes, had, like cithers, reminiscences of the novelist's her mit ways. Ea=h had a boat on the river in those early days and they would often meet only to fly. in opposite directions. Hawthorne being "very charming in ppite of his shyness." "No of Charles Town, S. O, in the early 18th century, and the hero is a. young Virginian of the historic name of Marshall. like 'The Last Word," RETURN is lirst of all a love story, and chows exceptional strength in the purity and finish of ita literary style as well as in iv warmly human and spontaneous tone. RETURN is full of in tense vitality and crowded with telling characters. The authors' firm, bold handling of their subject is a notable achievement. Undoubtedly the best work yet done by JWiss MacGotvan and Mrs. Cooke NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUTE, SATURDAY, MARCH 18. 1905. person, I think," said this old acquaintance, "ever spoke with him that didn't feel that he had received something: of a blessing if he had brought out oven the trace of a smile on his handsome face." The two were accustomed to talk politics daily at the Concord reading room —something: which hardly accords with the pop ular Idea of Hawthorne. Judge Keyea records the surprising change in his friend's manner on his return from Europe. There was no shyness, no embarrassment. His ways were easy and charming; he was apparently delighted to sco the Concordians he had shunned aforetime. "BALDY" SMITH. A Gallant Soldier Portrayed by a Soldier Friend. LIFE AND SERVICES OF WILLIAM FARRAR SMITH, MAJOR GENERAL, UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS. IN THE CIVIL WAR. A Sketch by James Harrison Wilson, Major Gen eral, U. S. V. (Heroes of the Great Conflict.) 12mo. pp. 130. Wilmington: The John M. Rogers Press. To the gallery of "Heroes of the Great Con flict" an interesting pen Ad ink sketch of Major General William Farrar Smith has been contributed by a life-long friend. If General Wilson is not unfitted to produce a coldly im partial review of General Smith's military career, that task would at least have been re pugnant to him. He candidly proclaims his ad miration and affection for the man of whom he writes, and hi 3 warmth of feeling imparts an engaging quality to the narrative. But it should not be supposed that his eulogy is un discriminating. it is most commendably free from gush, and is altogether a fluent, spirited ami soldierlike performance. Tho author has ample knowledge, derived from intimate association and from a mass of material, largely private, and we think ho throws more light on some obscure episodes of the war than any of his predecessors has been able to throw. It has been a vexed question why General Smith ("Baldy," as he was affec tionately known in his day and generation) never obtained a command commensurate with the military talents which he indisputably pos sessed and the services which he is acknowl edged to have rendered. He was a highly ac complished engineer, but in his case technical proficiency in a special field was associated with those qualities which are indispensable to tho conduct of great military operations. There is much testimony of the highest competency to show that he was fitted for an independent command. He was an excellent disciplinarian, he had in a marked degree the faculty of or ganization, ho enjoyed the unbounded confidence of his men and he had energy, judgment and Initiative. In conceiving and carrying out the plan by which, communications were established between the Army of the Cumberland, shut up in Chattanooga, and its secondary base of sup plies at Bridgeport General Smith performed a service which was recognized as of inestimable value to th« Union arms. For that and other achievements he was promoted, and he was Justified in believing that greater honors and re sponsibilities would follow; but his reasonable expectation was never fulfilled. Inopportune recurrences of sickness, resulting: from an early fever which, besides being physi cally disabling, may have affected his temper, are to be considered; but General Wilson is con vinced, and cites much evidence to show, that his comrade's disappointment was chiefly due to the effect on the mind of General Grant of misrepresentations to which ho had been in duced to listen. General Smith never hesitated to condemn bluntly operations which he consid ered unwlso and to tell what he conceived to be the truth about failures which he deemed un necessary. But he did this in straightforward fashion — to tho face and not behind the back of the men whom he so severely Judged. In some Instances his plain speech to a superior mi^ht have apx>eared unmilitary, but it seems never to havo been resented. It is not difficult to be lieve, however, that General Grant may have been persuaded that he heard directly only part of what General Smith was saying, and that his strictures did not fall far short of in subordination. In any case, a career of notable achievement did not fulfil its still greater prom ise, and General Smith's devoted friends have always felt that his confinement within a com paratively narrow sphere was gravely unfort unate for the country. BROWNING'S MARRIAGE. A Friend's Description of the Poet's Romance. Among tho quotations from old letters, writ ten by early friends of Robert Browning, which are woven Into an article in "The Contemporary Review," is one penned in IS4G by Joseph Ar nold, who was in his last years an eminent judge in India. He gives therein an account of his friend's marriage, which, while quite in line with the accepted version of the biographies, is picturesque enough to be reproduced here. He pictures the despotism of the lady's father, and adda: Under the Iron rigor of this man's domestic rule she. feeble arid Invalided, had grown up to five and thirty years of ago in the most absolute and enforced seclusion from society, cultivating her mind to a wonderful amount of accomplishment. instructing herself in all languages, reading Chrj's ostom in the original Greek, and publishing- tho best metrical translation that has yet appeared of the "Prometheus Bound"; having: also found time to write three volumes of poetry, the last of which raised her name to a place second only to that of Browning and Tennyson amongst all those who are not repelled by eccentricities of external form from penetrating Into the soul and quintessential spirit of poetry that quickens the mould into which the poet has cast it. Well, this lady, bo gifted, so se cluded, so tyrannized over, fell in love with Brown ing In the spirit, before even she saw him in the flesh— plain English, loved the writer before Bhe knew the man. Imagine, you who know him. the effect which his graceful bearing, hitch demeanor and noble speech must have had on su;h a mind when she first saw the man c£ her visions. in the twilight of her darkened room. She was at once In love as a poet soul can only be, and Browning, as by contagion or electricity, was no loss from the first interview wholly In love with her. This was now some two years back; from that time his visits to her have been "constant. He, of course, wished to ask her of the father openly. "If you do," was her terrified answer, "he would certainly throw me out of the window, or lock mo up for life in a darkened room." There w:ia one thing only to be done, and that Browning did, married her without the father's knowledge, and immediately left England with her for Italy, where they are now living at Pisa In as supreme a stats of happiness as you can fancy two such people in euch a place. The old rascal father, of course, tore his beard, foamed at the mouth and performed all other feats of impotent rafeo; luckily, his wrath is absolutely Idie, for she has a email lndependenca of some £250 per annum, on which they will, of course, live prosperously. I heard from him a week back, In which he mentions you most kindly, and begged me to tell you all about him: he is a glori ous fellow. Oh, I forgot to say that the soi-disante Invalid of seven years, once emancipated from the paternal despotism, has had a wondrous revival, or rather a complete metamorphosis, walks, rides, eats ar.d drinks like a young and healthy woman; in fact. Is a healthy woman of. I bellt-ve. some five and thirty; a little old, too old for Browning, but then, one word covers all— they axe in love, who lends his own youth to everything. In the diary of Alfred Dorn»tt, who is chiefly remembered as another friend of the poet, are these entries apropos of Papa Barrett : ; Browning, happening to mention Mr. Barrett as "my sweet father-in-law," I asked him if there was any ground for the rumours that had reached every one as to his treatment of his daughter, the poetess. Ho answered, "He was. In fact, a great slave holder," (i. c.. I suppose, had slaves in the West Indies.) "and seemed to consider that every one be longing to him must bend to his will and pleasure as his slaves did." . . . Met Browning In Westbourno Grove. Talking of Alfred Barrett [Mr*. Browning's brother] he said. "His was a sad case. He was one of the best fol lows alive, but had married without his father's consent, whereupon the latter had 'cut him oft without a shilling,' leaving all hit* money, which was considerable, to tha rest of the family. His two brothers allowed him lM a year each, bo ha lived at BnupM for eoonoxny*B sake, his wiXa bslug In E&kUuo,' p BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Current Talk About Things Present and To Come. The title of Jack London's new novel, which Macmillan la to publish in May, will ba "The Game." Herman Whitaker, whose new stories of the Canadian Northwest, under the title of "The Probationer." have Just been published by the Harpers, Is keenly interested in social and economic problems. "For seven years," he said recently, "I studied biological science and phil osophy, putting in all my spare time and Sun days with my books." Mr. Whitaker is now in the wilds of Mexican jungles, trying to appeaae his nature hunger, and is continuing his social studies at the same time. In a letter Just re ceived—the mailing of which necessitated a ten hour horseback ride — he writes aa follows: These lines are written from a solitary plantation on a lonely tropical river. From where I sit I can sea alligators take the water, strange birds fly over head, birds of brilliant plumage; strange venomous insects crawl underfoot. All about, the jungle spreads its deep enormous tangle. Here human life counts for little. In one short month I have seen one man killed and two desperately wounded. Here slavery exists, the cruellest form of slavery that tho wit of man ever devised— the contract labor system. Last Sunday I joined In a man hunt, for a poor devil of a peon who had escaped from his hell. I Joined the hunt, trusting that If the man fell to any one. it mlyht be me. lie was not, however, caught. Miserable being! Without food or shelter he will falter through the jungle till starvation or some tiger makes an end. i hay.i aee<\ men Hosgeil with machete blades, and women whipped. At night they are herded in great galleries, that are surrounded with barbed wlrf en tanglemt.nts; by day, they are watched In the fields. Disease stalks among them; the death rate runs to 60 per cent. Tnese are matters of dally life here, mntters of course. No one thinks them of mo ment. But to me they are startlingly cruel, and I hope yet to turn my pen in the direction of their eatiement. Another R. L. Stevenson book is on the way! — will they ever cease? Thia volume — which Is to be called "Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific" — will contain "some new verse" by Stevenson. Mr. Arthur John stone, mentioned as a friend of the novelist dur ing the years- he spent In the Pacific islands, is the author of these recollections. Guy Boothby, tho English Colonial novelist, who died a fortnight ago at the age of thirty seven, was, from the point of view of book salt", one of the most successful of the pro ducers of sensational fiction. He was extremely "modern" in that fashion of modernity which is even now passing. "The London Chronicle" says of him: Taking his reputation a ahade more serlouely than was necessary, he experienced unaffected pleasure in relating the story of his trials and achievements for the benefit of Young England, and was probably more frequently photographed and interviewed than any other writer of the same age. His literary methods— the dictating into a phonograph and the transcribing by secretaries — were gravely communicated to his circle of ad mirers, as were also his likes and dislikes in the matter of horses and dogs. Prize doss, horses and cattle were among his chief hobbles, and his love of sport and outdoor exercise found outlets In fishing, driving, cycling and boating. He was passionately fond of the river, and in his launch, Lone Star, was a well known figure a year or two ago on the upper and middle reaches of the Thames. Mr. Boothby, who published his first story In 1594, brought out, altogether, seventeen novels. According to the figures compiled by "The Publisher's Weekly," the number of new novels and volumes of stories published In the United States In 1904 was I,CX*7, nearly two hundred more than were recorded in 1903. The number of new editions of fiction published in the same period was 814. Country livers and country lovers will welcome the publication of another volume by E. P. Powell, author of "The Country Home," which was reviewed recently in these columns. Mr. Powell's new book is entitled "The Orchard and Fruit Garden," and will be published on March 2."), by McClure, Phillips & Co.. In their Country Home Library. Here the author should be on specially congenial ground, for he is one of New- York's prize fruit farmers, and his own little fruit farm at Clinton. N. V., is a model of its kind. The book will give advice in regard to the best kinds of fruit and plants, and what are the best species to plant in different locali ties, as well as the best methods of cultivation and the best ways to avoid and combat disease* and pests likely to 'attack each fruit. Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee has written two articles on her experiences in Japan during the present war, for "The Century Magazine." The first of these, "The American Nurses in Japan," will be published in the April number. Dr. Mc- Gee was acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army during the Spanish War, the Philip pine insurrection and the Boxer campaign, serv ing directly under Surgoon General Sternberg. At the head of a band of American Red Cross nurses. Dr. McGee worked for six months last year in the hospitals of Japan. Dr. McGee Is the wife of Dr. W. J. McGee, tho anthropologist and geologist, and daughter of President Simon Newcomb, the eminent astronomer. Charles Battell Loomiß, author of "Cheerful Americans" and "More Cheerful Americans," is about to give a series of lectures and readings from his own books, and will begin operations in the West. Mr. Loomls had already been suc cessful In reading from other people's books be fore he had written any of his own, und at one period filled an engagement as an entertainer at Keith's. He found being funny three times a day more trying to his constitution than mak ing out bills for a gas company had previously proved to his conscience, and after a short sea son gave up the vaudeville stage for literature. The title of James B. Connolly's new novel will be "On Tybee Knoll," instead of "The Dredgers," as first announced. 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