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A Sbt&f of New Storits, Long and
Short.
m~*trtK ISLAND. By A. T. Quiller-Couch. 12mo.
T Vl V'l. Charles Bcrlbner's Sons.
•^jvTVHILRTri^D. By Eden Phlllpotts. 12mo,
■pp. i" M ''•- - Phillips & Co.
»r-mKK ADAM. By Jack London. Illustrated by
rhsrle« Livingston Bull. 12mo. pp. vil. 242. The
lUcb Company. • -
_„. WHITE DAUKNESS. AND OTHER STO-
K^IES OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST. By Law-
m *r" llntt. Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover
»nd Cyrus Cuneo. 12mo. pp. 308. The Outing
publishing Company.
-,, P - HEWITT: INVESTIGATOR. By Arthur
•jj"-'- Illustrated. I2mo, n>. 216. Harper &
Bros.
jjr, Quiller-Couch has the art of wilting ro
nc# ... i n which young people and their elders
4JJI bfth 1« come Interested. "Poison Island"
jKfht almost l>e called a boy's lx.ok, yet we
•fcould be sorry for the older reader who found
Ij t u ;i. On the other baud, the older reader
«ill be etnick by «omelhiug about this talc
which imlffht escape ihe average youngster.
♦ptis is its- rough resemblance to "Treasure
Jiland" It is not that "Q" has borrowed any
tfcing from Stevenson in the matter of plot; In
fact, to Ik:s Inventlap enough and to spare. It
ti rather that the br^ad scheme of the book.
tnd its atmosphere, bring back recollections of
the earlier romance. Tiie author has been, to
this extent, audacious. In seeking to rival Ste
venson on bis own ground, and that the ground
en which his predecessor achieved one of his
l^j, .-. . triumphs, he has Invited troublesome
comparisons. For one thing, are constrained
to r.oie that he has not presented in this vol-
IKne characters quite hi interesting in them
eelvcs as are some at least of the characters In
Ctfvcr.ron's book. The narrative is not bo well
knit, ri:hpr, ar.tl the action is less breathlessly
cumulative. But with this matter of "Treas
ure Js'.ar.d" put hehind him the reader may be
pi of a delightful hour in the company of
•Q's" strangely assorted band of adventurers.
Two or three of them we seem to have met
fcefore among the Cornish folk whose humors
the author has long loved to celebrate. Mr.
Jack Rogers, the Impulsive, manly squire, is
fair.ilinr; fo Is his domineering but tender heart
ed friend, Lydla Belcher, and as for Miss Plln-
Urinon, we well remember her, and rejoice to
meet her again— a sometimes austere but gen
«rally ■ Dtinsental lady, with a gift for drop
ping tut verse. It takes a long time for these
peof!e. with a few others, to come to the true
fcusineFs of the tale, the search for . treasure.
*«jt patience is worth while, inasmuch as "Q"
flip up the interval with divers mysteries in
volving half a dozen picturesque or quaint
tyyes. He deals out Incident, too, with a gen
erous hand, bringing In murder and the like in
tfs* most artless fashion, to keep the comedy
gioir.g. And finally the treasure hunters are
Veil launched upon the voyage to Poison Isl
and, Miss Pllnlimmon serving as laureate on
the way. -Here is an extract from her descrip
tive ; .em:
"VVe sailed for Kingston In the "Townshend" packet.
The day auspicious waF. md calm the heavens:
jCot so the pcene on board— oh. what a racket".
And everything on deck apparently at sixes ana
Xlallbags and passengers mixed up In ever}' dlrec-
The latter engaged with their relatives in fond
farewells; _»•„_
On throne hand the faltering accents of affection,
On the other the ur.polisht seamen emitting ye.is.
With criticisms of a Custom House official.
Whose action for some reason they resented as
prejudicial.
At length the last farewell Is said.
The anchor tripped, the gangway clear a:
*T\>t« "■ p. m. ere past lennls Head
Forth to tn' unfathomable d»ep '•'■« steer"d.
The bosun piped <he wore a manly beard):
And whiie th" attentive crew the braces trtanJ d
Cailuding to the chip's), and while from observation
I*. . coast receded. we with eyes bedlmm d
Indulged in feelinjrs natural to the situation.
jUti"nl My. Albion! t>o called from the hue
Thy cliffs wosr by the Straits of Dover—
Thouph darker in this ntigbherhood— etlll adieu!
Albion adieu! I fee| myself a rover.
•Thy sons instinctively take to the water.
And so will I. albeit but a da-Jghter.
"0" does not write all the time in the spirit
t)f Uses* lines. There are serious moments In
•'Polfon Island." and, indeed, .ere are certain
passages In the book which are touched with
genuine feeling. Eut mostly the work is light
In hand, it Is brisk hnd amusing. Down to the
last chapter, in which an amazing adventure is
BVBfsjM to ■ still more amazlhg end. the reader
Is kept in a sympathetic mood.
Just ns we think of Stevenson in taking up
•'Poison Island." so we think of Hardy in tak
ing up "The Whirlwind." Here. too. the author
exhibits some audacity. Every reader of Hardy
rememlrtTs the superb description of Egdon
Jl<"ath with which "The Return of the Native"
Is opened, and the Imaginative way in which the
great landscape is Invested with a human in
terest. "The Whirlwind" has a similar opening,
efcnilar. but a long way off. Mr. Phillpotts Is
rot, like Hardy, a master of creative art. He
fc»s nothing like the depth or the breadth of his
fa:nous contemporary. But again we find our
•elves dismissing an unpteasisss comparison and
fettling down to the enjoyment of a story for
• hat it is worth. This book contains the evl-
Ceocei of very thoughtful and bold study of
Character. The author is sm-nthenlng his
grasp upon human nature, and exposes truths
relating to it without having recourse to any
€>t th"BA melodramatic expedients upon which
be has latterly seemed disposed to rely. The
fcrrcinc is another type of Dartmoor woman
linod. It is true that she discloses. like som-i
«thcr heroines In books by Mr. Phillpotts, In
tellectual qualities difficult to reconcile with her
rusticity, and accordingly she threatens, from
time to time, to move a little out of the picture.
JVtunauiy, her genuine traits bring her back
fcgain and again, as that In the long run she is
sufficiently plausible. Especially natural does
ehe wem In her relations to the three men whose
hearts she engages. She is married to one of
these lovers so early in the narrative that tragic
Cevtloproents are expected as a matter of course.
There would* be little senre, from the point of
View of the story teller, in uniting Sara Jane
Fri^ri'l and Daniel Bnendon m soon, if the two
Jnen who are left to look on at the swift cul
tiination bf her romance were not destined to
bover around her and intrude upon her peace
m mind.
i!r. Phillpotts carries his heroine toward the
exit:* at a steady pace, and yet with something
«* the deliberation that is fitting to a drama
ecactfd as close to nature «n one of the most
pastoral parts of England. It is not the way of
the peasants on Dartmoor to move In their ac
customed paths with excessive celerity. Life
•oee forward slowly, even under the stress of
•motion, and the minds of men and women adapt
ttemse-:-. c-s to changed conditions reluctantly
tea even painful!* Hence, the disturbance of
•Vandcn's happlnew Is brought about by events
••vir-g th« gravest elsnlficance yet never devel
•■teg Into turbulence until too moment of catas
*»Phe Inexorably arrives. Every step In the
Movement Is natural and human. Mr. Phlllpotta
■as sever written a novel better in construc
••o or more eino-re. and. we may add. his prin
cipal personages nave never been more interest
•« than upon this occasion. The subsidiary llg
■*«•. on t. other hand, have less than the r
*njai charm. His garrulous peasants, who have
•**n been original and amusing, are now grown
•SBtwh&t conventional, and their talk Is pretty
ttli.
, •Ull another new book coir.es before us to re
**•• tho'tghts of an old one. Perhaps Mr. Lon
<«> *ould have written "Before Adam" wheth
• Mr. Kipling had written his jungle stories or
••*; but as we follow ths supposltlous narrator
c * tWs mia of primeval man we cannot help re-
t '=ttrs tliat t.% would be a thousand times more
*■'•*> -JiiDlnf If ealy bo spoks with Uas volos
of Mowgli. v When that inimitable wanderer tells
us of wild life and of the beasts who are his
friends, he carries instant conviction. We be
lieve In his world, as though we had ourselves
travelled through the forest with Baloo the
brown bear, with Baghe»ra the black panther
and with Kaa, the one merely lovable serpent
the world has ever known. But Mr London's
young man who dreams dreams, and; In the
course of them, lives over again his life in the
Mid-Pleistocene period, does not for -the frac
tion of a second persuade us to place the slight
est confidence in what he has to say. His
struggle for existence Is plainly a factitious af
fair, developed by Mr. London with some nar
rative skill, but never made really credible. A
few grimly dramatic episodes in the tale scarce
ly atore for the Improbability and unpleasant
ness of the book as a whole. "Before Adam"
strikes us as a four dr force that has not come
off.
Mr. Lawrence Uott's short stories, in th^,
volume called "The White Parkin ss." are so
tersely written, so rapid In movement and so
/simple in their appeal that we can well afford
to forgive the bits of French-Canadian dialect
freely scattered through them. The people in
these stories are genuine, friendly souls, artless
in their emotions and direct In their actions.
Always the author has a Rood situation in which
to involve his characters, and without overdoing
the backprounds he draws from the bleak
Northwest, he contrives to make them play a
fresh. Invißoratlnp part in Ms work. "The
White Darkness" is a good collection of human
anecdotes, set forth with spirit and admirable
craftsmanship.
"Martin Hewitt: Investigator" Is a book of
detective stories having not an atom of dis
tinction, but possessing, instead, all of the
qualities of ingenuity and surprise which are
necessary to fair success in this branch of popu
lar fiction. Mr. Morrison takes a little more
time to the spinning of his yarns than is oulte
legitimate. Otherwise he does very well, waking
the reader's interest and holding It until each
of the problems attacked is comfortably solved.
OLD LOSDOX.
Its Municipal Organization and It*
Religion.
fttBDMEVAL UONDON. VoL IT. Ecclesjsjrtieal. By
Sir Walter Besant. Illustrated tto, pp. IX.
The- MacmJila::
The second volume issued under the title "Med
ieval London," In the series Included in Sir
"Walter Besant's splendid "Survey of London."
is in text and illustration no less admirable than
Its predecessors. Part I is devoted to the for
mation of the Commune, to the wresting from
the Plantagenet kings of the city's right? to be
come a municipality governing itself. It wns
not a movement originating altogether within
her own boundaries; the rich Flemish trading
towns, beside which she was then insignificant
enough, had set her the example of successful
Insistence upon civic liberties. Her road was
beset with difficulties; it was marked by battle,
murder and sudden death, by tragedies of cru
elty and of thwarted patriotism. A host of
sturdy pilgrims on that thorny way, a host of
dramatic Incidents, are described by Besant with
the realism that only a man of Imagination can
compass. The whole story Is full of vivid human
Interest. Witness that curious scene In 12^,
when during the Barons' War. Henry 111. being
a prisoner, was made to hold a court at St.
Paul's.
Thither came Thomas FitzThomas, Mayor of
London, and the aldermen to swear fealty to
his majesty. "Then." says the old chronicle,
"those who were present might see a thing
wondrous and unheard of in thin age; for the
most wretched Mayor, when taking the oath,
dared to utter words so rash as these, saying
unto h!s lordship the King, in presence of the
people: *My lord, bo long an unto us you will be
a good lord and king we will be faithful and
duteous unto you.' " Most wretched Mayor.
Indeed. King Henry did not forget the martly
attitude of the city's ruler. When the wheel of
fortune turned with the defeat and death of Da
Montfort the King dealt forcibly with his uti
dutlful city «.f London, and promptly clapped
into prison the Mayor who had sworn a "limit* <1
loyalty." What became of him? It is recorded
that FitzThomas was never seen more in life or
death — he simply vanished from the e-arth.
Tn the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries re
ligion was the tiling most evident on the sur
face of London life. The churches were every
where, their bells were ringlirg all day long,
"one could not escape the sight of the green
churchyard, the trees standing over the grave.->
and the little church among them." Sir Walter
estlmntes that a full quarter of the city was
occupied by the religious houses and the places
they owned; arid there was a vast army of ec
clesiastics. One foot that marked the enormous
power of the Chur< h was that at her bidding
the whole nation, from the King downward, re
nounced meat for a fourth part of the whole
year. Every citizen who paid an annual rent
of twenty shillings gave to the Church two shil
lings and slxi»ence a year, and others gave in
like proportion. In return she sought to rule his
life, and if he became n malefactor she gave
him sanctuary.
Sanctuary war actually sought by multitudes, but
traitors, Jews, infidels, and those who had com
mitted sacrilege were not received. In Dunham
Cathedral two men slept every night In the Galilee
Chapel to admit any fugitive who might ring the
bell or lift the knocker. Nay, sanctuary was
actually converted Into a city of refug* by the set
ting apart of a measured space, the whole of which
was to be considered sanctuary. At H^xam, where
four roads met In the middle of the town, a cross
was set up on every one of the roads to show
where sanctuary began. At Rlpon and at Beverley
a circle with a radius of a mile was the limit of
sanctuary. At St. MartlrTs-le-Grand the Precinct
was actually laid down and Jealously defended. It
Included many streets, and the area Is now almost
entirely covered by the buildings of the General
PostonVe. At Westminster the who «• precinct of
the abbey, church, monastery buildings, close,
cloister*, and gardens were sacred ground.
For many years this right of sanctuary was
maintained In London, though it was now and
again violated by desperate men. In Wat
Tyler's rebellion, for example, his followers
dragged from the altar at St. Martin's the tax
collectors who had fled rtilther for safety. On
another occasion certain fugitives who had
taken refuge there were seized by force by the
sheriffs and taken to Newgate, only to be re
leased when the matter was brought up in the
Btar Chamber. Clever scoundrels made, use of
the outer precincts of a sanctuary to manufact
ure counterfeit plate and Jewels therein. The
dean, refusing to the Goldsmiths' CoVnpany the
right to inspect these workshops, Invited its
representatives, as a matter of courtesy, to
come in and inspect the work. He was present
himself and ordered all bad work to be de
stroyed. In the case of one of Jack Cade's as
sociates thrj dean triumphed over the King, who
demanded the traitor. But the ecclesiastic had
to promise that he would not allow the may
to commit any more treason. As time went on
the privilege of sanctuary was more and more
abused. Fugitives formed themselves into prcj
atory bands, returning to the safety of the pre
cinct after attacking and robblr^v citizens. Re
strictions on the privilege were imposed, it was
not until the last years of the seventeenth cea
tury that the rights of sanctuary were abol
ished.
Ths chapters devoted to the monastic houses,
hospitals and colleges of London are full o{
picturesque and curious details. The strangest
story of all is that of the Knights Templars—
straightway the name brings back the stirring
NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SATURDAY. MABCH S IM7.
scenes of "Ivanhoe." The order was so rich that
It rivalled In possessions and In power a mod
ern magnate of finance. It was practically a
regiment of brave men who were equipped and
enriched that it might fight the Saracen Instead
of other princes and nobles, who had begun to
lose interest in the affair of crusading. By the
fourteenth century there Was no longer any
possibility of a crusade. The Holy Land was
no longer accessible, all tiie fortified ports held
by the knights had fallen. They still drev.
thelr Rroat revenues in England and did noth
ing in return for these <;r tor the extraordinary
privileges and immunities which bad been be
stowed upon th< me very unpop
ular, and the public mind was prepared to ac
cept without pity the persecution instituted by
Edward the Second at the requesi of his father
in-law, Philippe le Be! of France, and of Clement
the Fifth. Sir Walter points out that no evi
dence has ever been recorded in support <>f the
chares of heres; .\\ living brought
against the Templars, that n<> good Mason Is
known for the terrible enmity of King Philippe
—an enmity which found vent In 'lie terrible
cruelties practised upon the Templars In Paris.
The enormous wealth of the order, which was
taken from them, was noi seized either by Pope
or King— it wont to the rival order, the Knlghtfl
Hospitallers. Here Is >>n.> of the great mysteries
"f history. The Templars were thrown Into
prison in London and th.r,'. a.< In France and
Spain, torture was applied to them. They dis
ctatmed any heretical Intention's, and the author
iiMti'3 thut all mention of the five charges
brought by King Philippe was avoided by the
prosecutors. The Templars were thereupon
publicly reconciled to the Church:
All but William da Moray, the Master. Ho tiled
In prison of a i>r..ki:i heart. At thr same time in
Aragon, Portugal, Tarragona and Germany, tlie
order, though examined under torture, was pro
nounced Innocent of the charges brought i.gainst
it. it was s:uil. lons afterward, thai with hts
dyins hr.'iuli . : .. .. jj r ! Pope
nnri kjiik to !■,!•■: : . i tii before the Judgment seat
of God. Both ol them died the year after, Every
body, it la -.-• ■;■ irted, and it vraa belt" v .1. coi
with th* trials ami the cruelties came to a mis
erable end. Th< wretched man who Invented i!>»
charges. Bquin Je Plorlan, was hanged for some
new crimi And as for !!:•■ agonising death <>f
Bdward the Second, men whispered that tars an.l
thus had it le< m don< unto him in return t f> r his
treatment of the Templars. The voice, of th€
pie Is difficult to hear In the flrst decade of the
fourteenth century, otherwise one would like to
ight of th«- Introduction of
torture as a j' d I ment. For until these
torture was unknown in England- To be
tried, to \• ■ hanged, to have the hand struck off,
!■■ be branded, th the people understood,
but torture they did not understand. Say, bo Ig
norant were they of the art and method of torture
n were sent for to Instruct the
executioners. Torture was alwaya regarded not
only by the English people generally, but by the
judges an<l lawyers, with a shrinking and horror
Continent, where
continw i t'> torture prisoners until well Into the
eighteenth
The Illustrations, nearly all of which are de
rived from old prints or Illuminated MSB., arc
valuable accompi nimenta of the text. Y>t we
would gladly dispense with th< m i" some future
edition of the work If that <»dltion were, for the
sake of convent nee and comfort, made nnaller
than the ; . It is difficult for the
general reader to handle or to house l ks so
bulky as these, and to that general reader Sir
Walter Elegant's historical sketches of the great
English city undoubtedly •■■;
DEACON BRODIE.
The Original of Stevenson's "Dr.
JekyU and Mr. Hyde."
From The Dundee Advertiser.
The strange story of the double life led by
William Brodle, Deacon of the Wrights In Edin
burgh, exercised a peculiar fascination over K.
1.. Steven So early as 1864 Stevenson pre
pared the draft of a play, which was privately
printed In 1880, and performed at Bradford In
1882, and afterward at Aberdeen, London^ Mont
real, Quebec Toronto, Philadelphia^ Boston and
New York. In 1802 M was revived -and published
by Stevenson and Henley, and again In 1897: and
It Is thus evident that the novelist was held In
thrall by this curious social tragedy, Indeed,
It has been plausibly suggested that the life of
Brodle gave to Stevenson hla flrsl hint for tho
Jekyll-Hydc mystery. Brodle's career has called
forth a fairly large amount of literature, chiefly
reports of his trial, and traditions regarding his
career In Edinburgh. Now that "The Trial of
Deacon Brodle" has been added to the series of
"Scottish Notable Trials" it Is possible for tho
reader to have not only an authentlo record of
the proceedings In the Court of Justiciary, but
also a succinct narrative of Brodlo'a life, and
also some documents not. hitherto published.
The book has been carefully compiled and edited
by William Roughead, Writer to tho Signet, who
has supplied the Introduction and numerous In
teresting note*. William Brodie was the son of
Francis Brodle, a prosperous cabinetmaker In
Edinburgh, who was several tijn.s Deacon of the
Incorporation of Wrights, and a member of the
Town Council. William, the eldest son, was born
In September. 1741. and served his apprentice
ship with his father, ultimately succeeding In
17K2 to fj fl busln. ><?•*. He was chosen Deacon
of the Wrights on four occasions and had a s*';it
at the Town Council In virtue of that office Evi
dently he was held in high esteem by bis fellow
citizens, and took a leading part In municipal
affairs; but all this time he was leading a double
life of the most peculiar kind. Cockflghting and
(rambling with dice were his chief amusements
In the evenings, when he bad laid aside his gar
ment of respectability. He was unmarried, and
his sister kepi house for him; yet without tho
knowledge of ills family he maintained two mis
tresses, who had five children to him, so secret
ly that this was only discovered at Ills trial.
Anno Grant resided In Cant's Close, nod her
relation with William Brodie must have been
long continued, for she had borne three children
to him. the eldest, Cecil, being a girl of twelve
nt the time of his trial. To Anne Grant he ad
dressed one of the letters written after his ( --
cape from Scotland, by which he was traced and
brought to Justice, Jean Watt, by whom he had
-two boys, lived in Llbberton's Wynd. close to his
own house, and was the principal witness to the
alibi attempted to be set up for him at the trial.
Each of the» women wan presumably ignorant
of the other's existence, and the Deacons con
nection with both appears to have been unknown
to his family and friends.
In July, IT^i. Brodle became acquainted with
George Smith, an English hawker, who had
settle.l as a grocer at Edinburgh. Smith had
b -en a locksmith in Birmingham, and was an
adept at making skeleton ktys. In company
with two other reprobates, Andrew Atnslie and
John Brown, several daring burglaries were
accomplished by Smith, and it Is likely that
Brodle was concerned in some of these. At
least there cannot be any reasonable doubt that
the Deacon assisted In the robbery of the Ex
cise Office, In Edinburgh, on March f>, 17SS.
The burglars were disturbed In their operations
and fled, having only secured about £16, which
was divided among the four. On March S Alns
lle and Smith were apprehended, and Brodie,
fearing to bo Implicated, fled on the following
morning to London, where he- lay In hiding till
March •_'.'; He then took a ship ostensibly for
Leith, but ho had bribed the captain to take
him to Ostend. and thither he was carried. Be
for- leaving »he ship he wrote three letters to
Edinburgh friends, which he Intrusted to a fel
low passenger, John Geddes. to be delivered.
The suspicions of Geddes had been aroused; he
opened the letters, and then gave them to th«
Sheriff, and with the clew they afforded Brodle
was tracked and apprehended at Amsterdam
before he could carry out his plan of sailing for
New York. He was brought back, and he and
Smith were put on trial at the Justiciary Court
on August 27. 1788, charged with housebreak-
Ing. The Judges were the Lord Justice Clerk
(Braxfleld) and Lords Halles, Esgrove, Stone
field and Swinton. Brodle was defended by tho
famous Henry Ersklno, Dean of Faculty, and
Charles Hay (afterward Lord Newton), while
Smith's leading counsel was John Clerk (after
ward Lord Eldln). In those days the Court* sat
continuously without adjournment. The trial
began at 0 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and
was not finished till about '2 p. m. on the fol
lowing day. Tho jury unanimously found Brodie
and Smith guilty, and they were sentenced to
be hanged, which sentence was carried out on
October 1. A tradition was Ion? current In
Edinburgh that Brodle's body was taken hur
riedly away from the scaffold and resuscitated,
and It was stated that he afterward was seen
In Paris, but this story Is apocryphr.l. "
VNCOXBCIOUB Hf/SIOR.
From The London Tribune.
It is a curious fact that the Scripture le6sun is
invariably tho occasion for the greatest display
of Juvenile wit. Here, for Instance. Is a delight
ful example of infantile ingenuity:
Down in Hampshire a curate was Riving a
Borlpture lesson on Joseph and his brethren. He
asked the boys why Joseph said. "See that ye
fall not out by the way." A boy from a neigh
boring village, used to riding about the farm,
replied. " "Cause they had no tailboard to the
cart."
Xo less amusing is the following:
When asked for the reply of Naaman the
leper to the command to wish seven times in
the Jordan, a hoy gave the answer as "Is thy
servant a dog that he should do this thing?"
BOOKS AXD AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come.
General O. O. Howard's autobiography will
be published next autumn. Many pages will
be devoted to his experiences during the Civi!
War.
Mr. Charles Crawford in a new volume of
"Collectanea" gives the result of six years'
study of the "Bacon-Shakespeare Question." It
was wasted time, but we may add that he of
fers a serious refutation of the Baconian argu
ments, proving that Bacon's supporters are ill
acquainted not only with tho mass of Eliza
bethan literature, but also with the work of
Bacon himself.
Miss Marjorle Bowen, author of "Th« Viper
of Milan," has temporarily deserted Italy for
Scotland, and has written In a book entitled
"The Glen of Weeping" a story dealing With
the massacre of Glencoe.
A recently published book on "The Parish
Clerk" is full of queer and amusing anecdotes
of the holders of an office which has now al
most passed away In England. Some rather
painful details of decadence concern the care
of church records by latter day clerks. Valua
ble documents and complete registers from
Saxon times were th? treasures of one ancient
Suffolk church, and historical students have
been horrified to discover that nearly all are
gone. It is stated that a parish clerk, In show
ing the old church to visitors, was accustomed
to present them with a parchment leaf from 'an
old register as a memento of tho visit. In other
churches, it Is added, the registers were cut up
to serve as tho back 3of copybooks, to use in
wrapping up parcels In a village shop owned by
th'> clerk, and, In one case, for ■.singeing a goose."
Here is an epitaph actually cut on the grave
stone of one lone: departed parish clerk:
The life of this clerk was Just threescore and ten.
Nearly half of which tune he had sung out Amen.
In Ms youth he had married, like other young men.
But his wife died on« day— *.. lie chanted Amen.
A second he took— she departed— what then?
He married and burled a third with Amen.
Thus hli joys and his sorrows were treble, but then
HI- voice w.i.i deep bass as he sung ".it. Amen.
On the horn lie could blow as well as most men.
So his horn was exalted to blowing Amen. ■
Hut he lost all his wind after threescore and ten.
And here with three wives he waits till again
The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen.
Hero Is a story of the last century:
At the Church of Btratfleldsaye, where the Duke
of Wellington was a regular attendant, a at ranger
was preaching : and the verger, when he ended,
came up tho stairs, ■ ned the pulpit door a little
way, slammed It to, and then opened It wide for
the preacher to go out. The clergyman asked In
the vestry why had shut the door again while
opening it. and the verger said, "We always do
that, sir, to wake the duke."
"Mr. Bames, American." is the tit!" of tho
sequel to "Mr. Barnes, of Now York." which
I>. dd, Mead & Co. are about to publish. The first
part of Mr. Barnes's story has carried the name
of its author. A. C. Gunter, into many lands, for
his book has been translated into nearly all
modern languages.
An admirer of the late poet Gftosus CarducM
calls the Italian "a modern papan. a blend at
■ nnd Baudelaire, with a preponderance of
the latter" Carduccl's "Hymn to Pntnn" he be
lieves to have been somewhat modelled after
Barudelalre's "IJtanles to Satan." Fot "Satan."
In both poems, real "th.' modern spirit of un
rest, rationalism and hvimanttarlnnlsm."
Whrit railroads have done for Mrds and
beasts is entertainingly told in the late C. J.
Cornish's book, 'Animal Artisans." These
creatures have found fcOt only tho safety of the
railroad cuttings but provision for their wants
in hard seasons:
When I>r. Vaughn Cornish was on the, Canadian
prairies studying tho forms of snow and snow
waves . . he observed that the railroad had
entirely altered tfte habits of the wolves In tho
winter. ... A transcontinental train Is like «<
shlj> Rating and drinking must «o on nt regular
hours The pnxsen«ers consume three solid meals a
day: the bluck cooks -..I waiters have theirs also;
and' plenty of spare food, bones, bread and trim
nitrnr* la thrown overboard. In the cold, gray dawn
the hungry coyotes, their tails tucked between their
shaking legs, "may be Been Rtandinß in the snow,
with their short ear? i>rl'-ked up like an anxious
terrier's, waiting to see what the morning's "clear
up" of th« cars v.ill cause to be thrown out of the
windows for deserving prairie dwellers.
Mr. Henry James's working methods are thus
described by his publishers:
Mr James dictates! !!<■ dlctatea only the first
draft however, and b? doea thla slowly, and his
ixy afterward puts the draft into typewrit
ing with unusually wide Bpacea between the lines.
■ (..written draff Is then k over by Mr.
James, with pen and ink. with Infinite care. Every
word is weighed; every thought Is pondere
• . elaborate, to Interpolate, to add new
beaut
Slowly the fabric grows under his lovlne; car*:
slowly the sentence* and phraaea take on the Anal
aspect toward which h.- has been working
tfhen it la all to his satisfaction aa an artistic
literary workman does hi r"'i"mlt it t.> go out to
irorld.
Those who have painfully and wtatlifully la
bored to extract th>» meanins: from Mr. James's
latest lucubrations will appreciate the story of
one who besought the author to explain the
exact meaning of a certain passage. "Where
upon Mi"- James responded, with cold gravity,
that if the passage as it stood, which repre
sented his careful and studied thought, did not
explain itself to the man's mind, he div not iVlSlll
It advisable or worth while to enter Into any
verbal discussion of it."
"The Making: of the Crlmlna'" (the Mnomillan
Company), by Charles E. B. IhISSaH and L M.
niKby. appeals to that Interest* shown by all
civilized countries to-day tn the problem of
Juvenile^ ami adult criminals, which has been
productive of much good, but hns unfortunately
distracted attention from the equally serious
question of the criminal youth. Young children
and old offenders have h*en studied and fairly
well cared for: boys at the threshold of manhood,
though, have not been handled as a special
class, but are usually treated as adults and pun
ished accordingly. The authors of this book be
lieve that this practice constitutes tho most lam
entable feature of modern reformative systems.
The evil, though, is most glaring In England,
where crude vagrancy laws make begging,
sleeping out, unlicensed peddling and errand
running misdemeanors punishable by imprison
ment in tho common Jail.
The writers have adduced significant statistics
and Information concerning reformatory laws In
various countries. They draw comparisons,
many and Invidious, between English medieval
ism and the enlightened though still unperfect
ed practices and statutes of the United States.
Hungary and Germany. The first aim of the
volume seems to be that of arousing English
men to reform. The sociological student will
find nothing new In these pages, but may well
benefit by the large collection and purposive ar
rangement of statistics and laws. A long ap
pendix contains the reformatory statutes of
France. Germany. Holland. Hungary. Canada,
Victoria and New York State, together with spe
cial reports of commissioners on various meth
ods.
Mr. W. G. Rawllnson published his well known
work on Turner's "Liber Studiorum" nearly
thirty years ago. In the mean time be has ac
cumulated much new information on the aub-
Ject. and this he has used in the preparation of
a revised edition, which has Just beeiwjssued by
the Macmillan Company.
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