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Literary JWebv* and Criticism.
A Fascinating Study of Garibaldi's
Earlier Struggles.
GARIBALDI'S DEFENCE OF THE ROMAN
REPUBLIC. By George Macaulay Trevelyan.
With seven maps and numerous Illustrations.
Bvo. pp. xv, 264. Longmans, Green & Co.
The writing of this book must have been a
labor of love. It would not be possible to ac
count in any other -way for its exceptional
merit. Mr. Trevelyan, as other publications of
hit have shown, has all the qualities of the
grave — scholarship. Industry and a
faculty for cool Judgment. These qualities play
their parts -well upon the present occasion. But
added to them Is the force of an enthusiasm
that again and again makes the author posi
tively eloquent. He seems to have penetrated
to the soul of the Italian liberator, and. in
understanding him, to have been fired by a
sense of the man's lovable greatness. He
knows his hero's faults, and does not hesitate
to speak freely of the mistakes which are to
be charged against him. But he knows, also, [
how trifling the defects in Garibaldi's character
appear when that splendid figure is studied at
full length. Best of all, he has saturated him
self In the history of the Garibaldian legend, so
that he Is able to make his reader Fee just how
It wag developed. Just how this patriot slowly
but steadily imposed himself upon the Italian
Imagination until he was adored as few na
tional leaders have ever been adored. In fact,
Mr. Trevelyan writes at once with the detach
ment of the impartial student and the Insight
which one would only expect from a man who
had been Intimate with Garibaldi, and, at his
side, had lived through the events which culmi
nated In the consolidation of Italian unity. He
has drawn a remarkable portrait, strengthened
with documentary evidence and richly enlivened
with anecdote. This is the kind of historical
writing of which it can be truly Bald that II
makes better reading than you will find In most
novels.
Garibaldi was a rebel from his earliest years.
As a lad on the Mediterranean shore, his Sea
faring father strove to make a landsman of
him and strove in vain. The boy was fifteen
when, with several companions, he surrepti
tiously sailed away from Nice and his father's
hou.-e, with vague plans for reaching Genoa.
The young voyagers were overtaken off Monaco,
but for one of them at least the venture had a
happy ending. Garibaldi was sent to sea, and
in ten years he bad worked his way up from
cabin boy to captain. He had not much educa
tion to start with, and be never had the in
clination, even if be had had the time, to make
himself in the smallest degree a bookish man.
His genius was for action. and, fortunately for
him. when he was growing up in the thirties
European affairs were rapidly travelling toward
a crisis of a sort to attract his sympathies and
engage his energies. "Young Italy" had arrived
at a consciousness of itseif. and was secretly
organizing its resources, klazzini was dreaming
his first dreams and Garibaldi was all aflame
with eagerness to make those dreams realities.
He plunged with gusto into the liberal move
ment and opened the paper one day to see that
the Piedmontesc- government had condemned
him to death. He fled to South America and
there led the life of an adventurer, fighting on
land and on sea. hunting, winning a devoted
wife, and altogether savoring such experiences
8s might give [ration to a poet. Mr. Trevel
yan well says that "Garibaldi had, perhaps, the
most romantic life that history records, for it
had all the trappings as well as the essence of
romance. Though, be lived in the nineteenth
erjtnry. •' v. as yet his fortune never to take ■
■full part in the common prose life of civilized
men. and m he never understood It, though he
moved it profoundly, [ike a great wind blowing
off an unknown shore." .
V.*;.. he made up his mind to marry Anita
Bit* r. he carried her off on board his .i;.
though her father had already decided to make
her the wife ol unr.ther man. Her love puts the
last touch of romance to his career in these earli
er year?. Anita shared ixU his hardships, accom
paayinc him on the strange guerilla campaigns
v.'hloh as a soldier of fortune he made his chief
occupation. She was his joy and comfort in
those thrilling days in which he formed the
faEOUE Italian Legion of Monte Video. Even
then. es a young i lan with a wife and family,
he showed a Spartan unselfishness. Mr. Tre
velyan quotes a etoiry of this period about facts
■AScli one of ihe merchants of Monte Video
brought to the attention of the Minister of War.
In i!. house of Garibaldi, the commander of tin
Italian Legion and of the National Fleet, the rnr.n to
whori Mor.tr- Video owed its life from day to day,
r.o light warn ilt a'u-r sundown because candk-*
■were not compri^er! in Us- soldier's rations, the only
•thing Garibiiidi had to live or.. The Minister th«.r».
vpon sent, by his aide-de-camp. O. XI. Torres, a.
hundred potacconi (five hundred francs) to Garibaldi,
who, ker-r.!ntr half this «urn, .-.. . •- bark the other
half i:. order that It should be sent to the house
of a irid.iv.-, who. according to h!»n. had more need
of it. Fifty pr.Umo.ii uwo hundred and fifty franec)
«:ks tbe yrthr money that Garibaldi had from the
rp.ubiic. WbllC Ik- r'-:,iained among us his family
lived in poverty; he was never <2res?f-d differently
irom th< scldlf rf=: often lis friends had to resort
to rabterfugea to make him change IAV worn out
ciothts. He him all the inhabitants of Monte VI i- »
••Or h'.s fricn'lti; m-ver wan ;t man there more uni
versally lov-d, a:id It was only naturaL
He would ta!-:e the last pennies in the house
to buy a toy ... child. Mr. Treveiyan tells,
100. "how he appeared one day on parade with
**• golden locks close shorn, because the uni
versal and passionate adoration of him by the
ladlei of Montr- Video distressed Anita, and he
had for her relief despoiled his beauty." No
South American plaudits, however, could deafen
his ears to the call of Italy. All the time he
was in correspondence with his fellow conspira
tor at home, and in 1648, that explosive year In
the political annals of Europe, he was on his
way with other exiles to fight, if fate would per
mil it, for his native nd. There was something
•bout him that marked him out for leadership.
Anzaiii. one of bis comrades, who returned only
to <2j* at Genoa, spoke prophetic words when he
deprecated the Irritation which Garibaldi had
provoked amongst some of his friends. "Do not,"
he said, -!,.. too hard on Garibaldi; be Is a man
« JMUuy; a great part of the future of Italy
spends on him, and it will be a grave error to
abandon him." He need not have worried. By
c ttae Garibaldi, after desultory campaigning,
came to ■*•»•• Massinl in the establishment of
we Boman Republic, ne bad proved himself one
the most magnetic recruiting officers ever
«*>wn. The young men rallied round him In a
W frCnZy - When he entered Home with his
J™"* Legionaries the crowds that packed
Saw T Crled ' " He has ccme - he has come!"
If, 11 * 11 as a deliverer. Mr. Trevelyan re
«tt the description of the soldiers left by Gib
gtl£ sculptor. They looked, to him, "more
«ri to™?'"''? V ° f *«*»"• <>«t of some picture
ton?- ?r? r . Roßa than * disciplined military
They Hut they fought like antique heroes,
«»'ought a !o«ir.g battle. The Btory of the
*»rtr7n a T n H ? m a ' 1Ir " Tr *™lyan tells it is
leaTSSl;* ltS »<*Jenta of seemingly fruit
p , - «. A flood of noble blood waa
"**T*ZL r '° Umi in Vain - Italy had still
*<*» it w^ , a ' 8 ° Cffort l " I>tUSH thro be-
Mlaful £2 C ' nr ' r ** fr ° m that ctate ot cruelly
0:1 hi, £JT 01 ' la WhlCh G *«*»W found It
T^t*j^ 7 fr ,° m S ° Uth A »"^ca. Hut, as Mr.
S-C ? rly ' hOW *' lhe made to
hi **ZlZ OO t T T y ruade ln va!n - " The com -
r K r «»e«ce of Mazzinl and of
=■■*»■ him ST 1 " 118 Bayß> " was to exalt
- •*- 22 T m d " lnt ° a reßlon where »t
I?* 1 * Jh« J, VlCt ; ry ln the "^"Blve war
I^^Hc^t r* U^ rUlkln «- And I. such
TLt " - -n artl * WneM lay true -"mom.
C • -»<* when it Is wise to di. for honor
alone. If Rome had submitted again to Papal
despotism without a blow she could never have
become the capital of Italy, or only as the de
spised head of a noble family." He cites, in
support of his contention, Mazzini's own declara
tion that Rome was the natural centre of the
national unity for which he and his party were
struggling, and that it was important to at
tract the eyes and the reverence of Italians
toward her. Garibaldi may perhaps have been
at the outset more hopeful, but even when hope
was gone he fought on, and illustrated Mazzini's
policy in a manner to give 11 the fullest possible
force. His defence of Rome fixed in the hearts
of patriots the conviction that victory would
Ultimately reward th. efforts, and on the eve
of his retreat the behavior of the multitude
must have told him that In due time the pacred
cause would triumph. We must quote Mr.
Trcvelyan's account of the departure:
Garibaldi met by appointment th« soldiers who
had voluntecrrd to >me with him. The scene fixed
for the meeting was the Piazza of St. Peter's, the
greatest of the open spaces In the city, lying in the
shadow of th« most famous, church ami palace in
the world. It was filled by thousands ur>:>n thou
sands of th«» Inhabitants of Rome, come to say
ajoodby to their heroes. Tin whole space Inclosed
By Bernini's semicircular colonnade of gigantic
pill:trs seemed paved with human faces. Tl • crowd
stood packed up to the very doors of th« Vatican.
In th" middle were the troop?, scarcely able to
keep their footing, and quit.- unable to keep the!.'
order, in that tossing ocean of m<Mi and women
Restlculatlng in wild excitement to express every
form of connecting emotion. Gar II bad not yet
I'njiie, and all attention was centred on • he volun
teers who had undertaken to share his march
Mothers were trying to pull their Rons away;
youths of seventeen and eighteen w» re breaking by
force from their families and trying to hide them
selves in the ranks. Suddenly ■• roar of cheering
was heard from the Borgo. All eyes wrre turned
toward the mouth of the narrow street, where tha
waving of hats and handkerchief! showed thai It
wr.s be.
"In tl)<> midst of the swaying crowd which dl*
chartreti its- ■■'' from the Via del !:.'ri;.> onto the
Piazza., v.'c taw appeal [says Koc'.tnrin I the Mack
: feathers of Garibaldi; he waa surrounded, not by
i his staff officers (for they were Been scattered hero
and there, making efforts to reunite), but by clti
zens and women, who stormed him from all sides.
He only managed slowly and with difficulty to
reach the Egyptian obelisk, that stands in the mid
dle of the Piazza. Here ho stopped and turned his
» horse, and wli»>n his Man* had joined him. he gave
I a sign with bis hand to stop tiie cheers. After
they had been repeated with double force, there
was a dead cnlm on the square."
In that stillness after the tempest the sonorous,
thrilling voice was heard almost to the outskirts of
ihe vast croud:
"Fortune, who betrays us to-day, will smile on
us to-morrow. I am -'.:'." out from Rome. Lei
those who wish to continue the war against th*
stranger come with me. I offer neither pay. nor
quarters, nor provisions; 1 offer hunger, thirst,
forced rrarches. battles and death. Lot him who
loves his country in his heart, and not with bis
*■]■ - '■.':■ follow III"."
Fame, xrtr. mtirrU f r ir;iiic, bnttogUr r mortr, suc!i
was the off* r, and n>i more. Having so spoken and
appointed tiie Lateral] for the rendezvous of depart
ure that evening, he rode away again, us lie had
come, slowly, through the frantic and robbing
crowd Above the upturned faces of those broken
hearted men and women rose the calm, set features
of Garibaldi, resembling a perfect type of ancient
Greek (•■.!;;!>■, and 111 up with that serene and
simple regard of fortitude and faith which gave
him power to ad the feeble multitudes of mortal
m< n, as though bo were the sole descendant of
SGmo fabled, godlike race of old
To the subsequent developments In Garibaldi's
career Mr. Trevelyan gives only a few brief
chapters. His purpose In this volume is simply
to exhibit his hero's preparation, in youth and
early manhood, for the achievements which con
tributed to the founding; of modern Italy, and
to bring out in vivid relief the details of th**
defence of Rome. We value his extraordinarily
clear account of military operations and political
conditions. But most of all do we value the
picturesqueness, warmth and truth of the por
trait he has drawn of a romantic personality.
TWO SOILS IX OXE BODY.
The Story of a Woman in a Queer
Predicament.
TUB INVADER. By Margaret L. Woods. ttDO,
j.p. 315. Harper & Bl
THK Si \MESK CAT. }'\ Henrjr Mllner nideout.
Illustrated by W F. orefe. I2ino, pp. 223. Itc
< !ur<-. Phillips A: Co
THK TRUTH ABOUT THK CASE. The Kxp"
riencea ><1 M F. CSoron. ex-Chief o r the Parw
Detective Police. lMit.'d hv Albert Keyser. ti
trated bj Arthur <;. Dove, Umo ■
Philadelphia: J. B. Lipplncott Comp
The heroine of "The Invader" is cert.
sorely tri^d individual. When she first appears
nhe i.« a. pretty, young student :tt Oxford, arork
rd. but not unwilling to let her thoughts
dwell fr n\ time to time on a man who Is plainly
In love with her. At a dinner parly she bears
talk of a certain rath< r too vivacioua i at
This ought easily to be forgotten, bul i^'
win n v fri« nd tries to tide her over an attack
of hysterics by hypnotising her into slumber, the
soul of tilt- ancestress aforesaid enters the poor
child's defenceless body, and henceforth she la
embarrassed by the possession <>f two i ■< i
ttean When one "f these is in the ascendant the
other is quite unconscious of what it. «oin« on,
s.» it !s necessary for Miss Flarman to adjust
one siice of life to tbe next. s<> to say. trusting
to fat-- to cave hf-r from disaster. After she
has been married for some iitti ■ t;:r.'' ht-r other
pelf iakf-.s charge arid bewilders tb< unfortunate
husband. For weeks on end the heroine carries
on a desperate flirtation with a man who finally
proposes that she should elope with him, but
at this critical moment f>he turns upon him «■•>•<•:<
of the purest innocence, and, after gasping in
bewilderment over his insolent words, bites his
band and runs home to tell her husband how
grossly she has been Insulted. Obviously a
woman so circumstanced is bound to get gravely
entangled sooner or later, and Mrs. Woods, pur
suing her scheme to Its logical conclusion, lands*
her afflicted heroine in a situation of revolting
misery. A tragic exit is the only one possible,
and this is duly provided. The story Is told well
enough. TIM author succeeds in making a very
plausible blond of everyday realism and esoteric
mystery. But the mystery will not bear «v»
(lectlve consideration. There is a certain
amount of nonsense about "The Invader."
"The Siamese Cat" is a capital extravaganza
in which a pretty romance is interwoven with
episodes of wickedness and danger. The hero
Is a young American in the East who fulls in
love at first sight with a girl met by accident,
and then lost sight of for several months
When the two meet again they are promptly In
volved In the purchase of a Siamese cat. Thai
ought not to lead to trouble, but there are
reasons why the cat is to be transformed into
a kind of storm centre. Explanations could
easily be made by one Giles Borkman. a courier
travelling about with Mis.'. Laura H"lborro\v
and her aunt; but he, being: a villain, will throw
no light upon the mystery that only too soon
envelops the cat. On the contrary, he hovers In
the background and does all he can to make
matters worse, so that in due course Master
Owen Scarlett finds himself walking in peril of
his life. It would spoil the reader's pleasure to
give him even a hint as to the relation between
the cat and Mr. Borkman's diabolical intrigues.
All that we need say is that "The Siamese Cat
is a brief and spirited narrative, disclosing an
inventive faculty In Mr. Rldeout and, in fact, an
aptitude which Is full of promts*.
The sub-title of "The Truth About the Case,"
Mr. Keyzer's preface, and the manner ln which
the tales in the book are told, all go to suggest
that the book records episodes actually experi
enced by a veritable member of the Parisian de
tective force. Authors of detective stories are
nowadays so Ingenious, however, in putting
their work together, that we must dismiss the
question as to whether the stories of M. Goron's
exploits are true or false. It does not matter.
The main thing is that the adventures here en
countered are sufficiently dramatic to keep the
reader Interested. Dark crimes are committed,
or they are upon the verge of getting themselves
committed. Appeal is made to M. Goron. Ho
stands a while In thought. Then, following the
NEW-YOKK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY. MAY 4, 1907.
Instinct of the bloodhound— supported by a vast
experience— he lays his trap, and the guilty per-
p<-n falls Into It with neatness and dispatch.
The number of short detective stories r.ow
published is appalling. A new collection is
published almost every week. The surprising
thing is that so many of these narratives should
be so cleverly done. The present volume, for
example, is a very good specimen of this class
of fiction.
BOOKS AXD AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
What. O master collector, are you called upon
to pay for a perfect copy "f Caxton's "Golden
Legend," M 5.37 No I ss a sum than 120,000. Only
about thirty copies >>f this edition are known
and all more i r l< ss Imperfect This, it is be
lieved, Is the only perfect copy in existence. It
contains tlio legend of St. Thomas -if Canter
bury, which has been a special object of destruc
tion, being in nearly every Instance torn out
of copies of the volui
Among the literary movements of the time In
France la one which has resulted In the organi
zation of a society for studying and propagating
the work? of Alfred fie Musset It has taken
une of "Les Mussetlstes."
Byron's own copy of h'.^ "Hours of. Idleness,'*
decorated with numerous n"tcs In his own
handwriting, is the prop< rty of an Englishman
who thus far shows no disposition to send it to
market. "II <■. generally Btlpposed," says "The
Academy," "thai 'Hours of Idleness' was Byron's
ppe irance in print, but there ;ir ■ two copies
in <>f n Hny volume ol verses, addressed
to his cousin. Mif.a Margaret Parker. The author
wa« then ft schoolboy at Dr. Glennie's establish
ment -it Dulwlcb, his preparatory school for Har
row. The first copy was presented by tii* boy
to the Rev. John Becher, who remonstrated with
him mi his 'luxurlousness of coloring,' and in his
disappointment Byron ordered the whole stock
t'i bo destroyed. As mentioned, however, two
copies escaped."
This 1? a period In which the anecdote Is par
ticularly poj ular as being hrief and picturesque.
Them is probably, therefore, a genuinely appre
ciative welcome waiting for "The New Anec
dote Book" compiled by Mr. A. H. Miles, the
producer of the "One Thousand and <>:ie Anec
dotes." lie has provided little stories of every
sort, literary, social, persona!, musical, dra
matic, military, •
Among all the English writers of the .Jay none
offers a sadder example of wasted energy than
Mr. John Davidson except, perhaps, Mr.
Thomas Hardy, in the guise of a P'.»'t. sir,
Davidson seethes with Urge thoughts, a. .
nowadays write In nothing l< :-s Hum a Trilogy.
The Orst play of the three has Just appeared,
and is called "The Triumph of Mammon," in
a prose epilogue the author seta forth nil be
lief that it is it: p write great plays tor
the lOnglisii stage :it preset the theatre
b sti'.i content t'i accept the Cbrlatit n economy.
faith and morality as fundamentals. Shake
speare, In Mr. I - opinion, has shown
man under the conditions of Christ
for ail, and, therefore. "If It were only thai there
might be a oew >ir;iM.i :t would t« i necessary to
have a new cosmogony." He claims t hat he is
the first w riti r to bi Ing tn actual < bang)
English poetry. "Hitherto," ho na.-.
poetry subsists in two worlds n maU I
nn.l a spiritual world, the latter al
disallowing th>- farmer" Hil |
pure matter, and his play is written to :
strate its entire sanctity.
An American edition of Mr. B. J
book. 'The i;*-.il Blaki by M--
Clure, Phillips a Co. Mr. Kills Is tl
an .'iiMon of tlie works of William l;
Badji A. Browne, •'. Mahometai -.\'..i )i.**
spent >>>..*t of Im 11 life In ti''- Kast, thinks thai
the Egyptian of toniaj Is largely Influenced b:
tl •• :• • h (a an I ti| which bad their
origin in th<- Invasion of his country by Na
poleon H< •• a ■•■ • • book r»n "Bona
pai ;• m Egj pt and the Eg ly."
The pleasantest of iiu • Mr. K. V.
Lucas's collection <> r prose and verse "for the
." .i book called appropriately "The
FViendly Town." There are o I m. ■. tei which
haunt the memory; th-r. are 1 ten bits of
beauty upon which one comes with delighted
surprise. "Come then," the compiler quol -
from Henry Vaughan,
Come, then! and while the *,"W Icicle hanc-
At t! itch, and wlntei
B' niimme i t ua
Mi'lni noise and war of peace 1 and mirth dl
To winter and Chrlstmaj md tbe fire,
t!-,'- table and the binn, 1 i, the "midnighl
:•■■.' to music ;; ■ I the pluy,
to the tavern and the g w>d townsmen :in<l many
another subject of urban Intere i ■•< ■ barn
extracts relate. Here are two aa llv< i aa may
be tl.< firsi from old Pepys:
With my wife to th« King's House to see "The
Virgin Martyr." tin ttrai time it hath been ai-ted
a Rie:it while; and it is mighty pleasant; not that
the play Is worth much, iv.ir it Is finely acted by
iv k Marshall. Bui that which did please me be
yond anything In the whole world, was i!.> wlnd
muaique when i '■■• an eel conies down; which Is ea
sweet that it ravished me, and Indeed, In a word,
did wrap ui> my soul so thut It made me renlly
sick, just as 1 have formerly been when in love
with my wife; thai neither then nor all the evenlnj?
going home and hi home, f wns _■ ■-- to thlrk of
anything, but remeini d all night transported, *o
as I con Id not hcli >vc th:M ever ;,ny iuafqu< hath
that real command over \)<r soul of ,-i mar as this
did upon m-j; rind makes me resolve to practise
wind-tnuslquc, an c to make my wife do the like.
And here Is George Meredith on "Islet," Ins
dachshund:
Our Islet out of Helgoland, diomlsyed
From his quaint tenement quits hates and loves
There lived with us a wagging hunvirist
in thai bound's arch dwarf-legged on boxlne
gloves. •*
A Scotch comment upon the career or th^
Rev. Thomas Alexander, a popular Presbyte
rian minister i-; London and a friend of "dour
Tammas," •■■ Chelsea! quotas a letter which Car
lyle wrote to Alexander upon the question of an
Increase of stipend. With nn .; difference said
to be characteristic, Air ; umdei had neglected to
seek fair remuneration for his labor, and Carlyle
remonstrated with him. quoting, "with many re
ranis." the foHowme verse from the old Scot
tish nursery rhyme, "There was a piper had a
cow":
The cow :om I!• i •; wl 1 hr»h >r» l
Thai mm b n ■ ■' n< v >r till '.'-r;
"Oie me a pickle gruld :'i; atrae,
An' »t-ll your Win' fur siller."
A se!i<» of "Primers i>f Art," projected by
Doubleday, i'ape <t c.> ., will deal with various
branches <-f Industrial art. Thi' opening volume,
devoted to pottery, is the work of Professor K.
A. Harbor, of the Pennsylvania Museum School
of Industrial Art.
"The modern delude of printed matter" has
caused an "Atlantic" contributor to perpetrate
the following "Ballad <>t Refrain" (with apolo
gies to AiJsiin Dobson):
When moribund novelists still rehearse
Their iiien:en extinct and their passions deed;
When our shelves arc weighted by recent verse.
And our tables groan with their beaks unread;
When a mob Is waiting to nnatch the thread,
As it eplns away from the whirring brain,
Before the ink from the pen Is shed—
Then hey! tor the hero who can refrain!
When lettered knowledge becomes a curse —
That may swiftly fall on the career's head;
When tho riting floods cf tho scribes Immerse,
And our tables groan with their books unread;
When the delicate soul Is bruised and blerV
¥\<t the freed of glory, the glut of gain; R
When the eyes of the readers are dull at» .cad.
Then ..cj . to the hero «... bbj) relrulal
When writers fatten a hungry purse
With words that were happier left unsaid.
When trying their best they try us worse.
And our tables groan with their books unread;
When the guests go out from the feast unfed—
Or overfed to repletion's pain-
When reader and writer tefuse to wed.
Then hey : to the hero who can refrain!
Envoy.
When we yearn for the elemental bread.
And our tables groan with their books unread.
When the crescent mind begins to wane.
Then hey! for the hero who can refrain!
A correspondent of "Notes and Queries" in an
interesting article on Kncbworth Park, the home
of Bulwer Lytton. quotes this inscription which
runs in black letters round the frieze of the
ceiling /' idi>. Henry VIII. of the banqueting hall:
Read the Rede of this Old Roof Tree.
Here be trust safe, Opinion free.
Knightly Rierht Hand, Christian Knee:
Worth in all, Wit in some;
Laughter open. Slander dumb;
Hearth where rooted friendship* grow.
Safe ss Altar, even to Foe;
And the sparks thut upward go.
When the hearth-flame flies below,
If thy sap in these may be,
Fear no Winter, Old Roof Tree!
The fashion in which Mrs. Gladstone directed
thr- worldly conduct of her lord is illustrated in a
little anecdote told in v recent volume of Tory
reminiscences. "The statesman and hia wife
were going upstairs from the hall. In the hall
two or three housemaids w re peeping round the
corner t" gel :■ sight of the great man, and
when Mrs. Gladstone saw them she called down
to her husband, 'Bow, William, bow,' which
accordingly he f ii<i with his usual affability."
"The <'.!:.'ir'l dies, but dues not surrender" is
a much debated saying which has become the
subject of a book. Its author i.-* M. Henry
Houssaye.
Mr. Herbert Paul, In his entertaining paper
in "Putnam's Monthly" on the decadence of the
English language, remind? us that "one need not
be a professional etymologist to feel in the mar
row of one's bones that words have meanings
which it is fatal to disregard": —
"Sustain" in the sense of "suffer" I*, I sup
pose, jjust pi ylng for. or rather praying against,
though to sustain an Irreparable loss is perilously
ilk. nonsense. Bven John Bright, whose English
was usually as beautiful as H was simple, has
been known to say "transpire 1 ! when he meant
"happen." This may arpe ir .-» harmless, venial
fault, But it is capable, like man's wants, of
indefinite expansion, and I have read a paragiav%
about a p^litic^l meeting which Informed tina
world that, "as the proceedings were private, little
was known of what transpired." As "transpire"
means "leak out," obviously nothing could tran
spire without at the same time and In the same
way becoming known, Some philological history
is curiOuS l" trace. How, for example, did "phre
nomonal" come to b<» tortured Into a synonym for
"extraordinary"? To take a. technical word from
the philosophical dictionary, and scatter It. as
with a pepper castor, over the columns of a daily
paper, looks like wanton pedantry. The true »Ik
nincance of "phenomenal," from which the diph
thong often drops out. Is "manifest to the senses."
as opposed to the noumenal. "discernible by the
mind." i conjecture that Dickens' a "infant phe
nomenon" is accountable for the perversion. Dick
ens Is so great a writer that it would be almost
impious to dwell upon hi« "mutual friend," anil
similar bits of carelessness. On the other hand,
the imitators of Dickens have, much to answer for,
and cannot plead his Kt-niu* on their own behalf.
They are like tbe orator who prepared a speech
on t:io model of Burke, and resembled him only in
exclaiming with grotesque Irrelevance, "Good God,
Mr Speaker!"
"Jane Wardle" hi the prosaic pen name of a
new English novelist who has made something
of a ?»• cess even her publishers, it is said, do
v.<<\ know her real name. Her book called "Tho
Artist Temperament" is to be published here
soon.
A lately published volume ol the letters wrlt
t*n by Emile 'A<\* in hla youth shows him as a
serious person, s hard student of good litera
;..\er of poetry and of Ideals in gen
eral. N->t knowing English he road Shakespeare
in French, and while acknowledging that trans
lations were traitorous he found himself obliged
mplain of "many too erode phraeee that
>•• -I am noi prudish." said the
author of "Nana," " li ut 1 am above all a
, | love the harmony of ideas and
ulogtxe the great
V,.. cannot hut confess that truth guided the
writer's pen While remaining real par excellence,
Shakespeare did not reject the ideal. The mum
as in real life, the Idea] has its place, the tame In
hi» dramas— we alwaysse« a white vision opneita
and her poetic madness, Juliette and her pure
love.
Writing of Shakespeare's 'Digressions." espe
dally as they appear In "Hamlet," he added:—
v thousand Ini-i.lents oc:ur which poem to ■• en
tir.lv unconnected with the subject. However, were
they suppressed tln-re would remain nothing but a
cold and pale tragedy- The >■■• ; takes •' very sim
ple subject but ho turns and twists it about, und
places It in the light of all the prismatic colors.
Hence that great numln-r of «ho si-em's which,
far from Impeding the. notion, renders it greater
and elves It brilliancy. But, let not an ordinary
poet attempt to adopt -sui-h a proceeding. A Bhake-
Bneare Is necessary to co-ordinate those diverse
pieces to bind them solidly together, to make a
homogeneous whole of h»-tcroK*-neous parts, to
blend the must incongruous colors, to create a.
world out of that chaos, and to draw from It human
life with Its laughter and sob?, its blasphemies anil
prayer it* irrandeur and Us poverty, want, anil
destitution The path is narrow, and the abysm
is (it.i>- If you arc not sublime you will ! ■• diffuse
ami detestable Moivovor, with Shakespeare those
digressions ,!,, not seem to be Bought; they come
naturally, and should rather be called development.
A second volume of Zola's letters relating to
,■:.,). and artistic matters is to follow; a
third volume will contain his letters dealing with
the Dreyfus affair, many of them written during
the novelist's exile in England.
Two earl> volumes brought out by tho late
William Sharp under the name "Fiona M i -
leod" are to be reissued sh.hi b.\ Dufßeld A t*<>.
These are 'Pharais A Romance of the Isles."
a, ; 'The Bin Eat< r, and Other Talea mid
i.. Ri nds."
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In the correspondonce of Horace Walpole. I
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and "ballads, newly published for private circu
lation (wherefore I do not know that the author
may be named here). "Northamptonshire Songs
and Others." Vol. 111. The story Is that Eliza
beth, daughter of William Cavendish, the Cava
lier Duke of Newcastle, married (as no doubt
she ili.l> Monk. Duke of Albemarle, that treat
restorer of royalty. After his death she must
have lost her reason, for she vowed never to
wed any man under royal rank. She had great
possessions, so "Italph. Duke of Montagu, court
ed and married her. disguised as the Emperor
of China, and Immediately placed her in confine
ment as. a lunatic." in the attics. It Is said, of
Broughton House — •
But when the mischievous moon doth ride
High over the murmuring avenues.
She comes to her window and opens It wide.
And curses the Montagus.
A RARE UAXUSCRIPT.
From The London Times.
The "Kolntsche Zeitung" states that a rare
Chinese manuscript, brought some years ago
from Peking, has been discovered in Copen
hagen. It is a translation of the book on anat
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of anatomical drawings from the works off
Thomas Bartholin. the famous Danish anatomise
of the seventeenth century. It originated in tha
request made by the Emperor Khan*. (1662
1722) to a French priest. By" name Perennln. In
1677. that he would translate a European book
on anatomy into Chinese in order to Introduce'
Western medical science Into China. Perennia
selected Dlonls's and Eartholln's works,- and th* .
Emperor gave him ■ staff of twenty assistants, .
who took five years In producing the manuscript. ■. I
Only, three copies were made for the private; use *. -
of the Emperor.
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