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Literary JVebvs and Criticism
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and Other American*.
TOrmt OP IVORY. A Novel. By Osr
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THE HOUSE OF THE WIIISPERIICO
I'IVKK By Anna Katharine 4ireen.
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II ought on MURtn OoiuiMuiy.
The scene upon which the curtain rises
la Mr.- Athcrton'a romantic drama la
cne well :'.ct«d to engage the read
•fi interest. She places It in the Munich
of mad King I..u6wig— not yet so mad as
to be placed under rrrtralnt, but fully
launched upon that life of e«>lltu3e, ex
travagance and Intense absorption in th«
inutile of Wagner which made 'him a
positively fantastic figure. The heroine
of "Tower of Ivory" is an American
linger, prised by the King for the ex
traordinary pen i us she shows in th« In
terpretation of the works of his adored
composer. We hear much of her char
acter end exploits as an artist, for both
are, of course, cioseiy related to fh*
movement of the story, hut for a time at
least we are almost indifferent to the de
velopment of Margarcthe Styr's affairs.
to -■uiW-d are aw ly the author's de
lightfully atmospheric picture of the old
H«»v*u» 1-^1 capital, her revival 4 its social
colnr and movement and her animated
portraits of men and women who are
obviously characteristic type?. Decided
ly the background counts in this book.
As for the Btt»ry Itself, it is one of rather
curious interest. on»» recalling the stuff
:i. vhich the late Marlon Crawford dealt.
and w»n.eth:r.g of his mood, though in
her conception of character and in her
manner Mrs. Atborton Is a very differ
ent writer.
Jlcr'plot, baldly stated, WoUld MMD to
be EimpUcity Itself. John Ordham Is a
young Englishman of good birth who In
the course of his preparations for a dlp
tomat curecr finds astC studying a
little, and dawdling a great deal, in
Munich. He heroines intimate with Mar
fEarcth**. who ordinarily k»t ps herself to
horsolf, and in the moan time various
ladle* including his mother, try to get
him comfortably married The Finger,
too, lass her share in leading him into
the paths of matrimony and success, but
presently when he has been safely united
to his prrtty American hclr«-ss he wearies
of her and in the reaction turns again
to his operatic friend. Clearly, this Is
• simple tale of philandering. Msf«es ss>
Injr. lovo. disillusionment and lawless
fiasrioii.. The plot is conventional in the
• Ktr. mi But Mr Atherton does her
lust t.. rva.de the rres^ure of her fa
miliar Plage properties, tnd wreaks her
tw>lf with Kusto upon the jH.rtraiture of
1,, i two „,].• . i>ersonaFes. With th<
unman, it must l»e confessed, fhe has lit
tle luck. In painting Marparothc Btyr
Kite follows. n<» d"uht -.oossMssusly. the
hackneyed lines of ••tr.usical" fiction, in
llmt she attrll.ute* to the tsinger pretty
r early sajMVSMtural urtistic powers. We
v.niid«r why the imvi lists who go to the
iiperalic Ktage for their heroines always
Ignore the. fact th.i th. «r« at ..s era of
i«.-ttial life are pretty \\<U known to most
nadirs, with the n-sutt that even the
most cnthujsiartio of th«- latter uv |»er-
X«rtty well aware of the limitations itn
l«wed by nature. niM«» peiiius itself. No
liuninn creature *>ver Rang as the prinid
<|onna of fiction is wont to ''■• and
hen.-c a iNirtetit like Marganthe St\r
«!.ks M«jt mi much as ttegin to commence
t«» prrjiare to cany conviction. The
lndy'f ca»e is in n<» wise imjiroved. either.
Toy tlic candid revelation she ultimately
makes of an utmost Incn-dlhly lurid past.
Through this effort to achieve oripinality
Mrs. Atherton only makes h«r Intmnlna
lijy loquaeioUH heroin.- seem more than
ever a ligure of fustian. Hut with John
Ordham eh*" strikes a truer note.
"If. «l a v.ry intjM.riant point, Hie alsi
striken a falne .*ie. it Is not. i»erhai>s. a
matter «.f cr^.it <-on*f -quern*-. Mr. ««rd
ham. vh.ise Intellectual re^»un-«i are
'imrpctu.illy Ihuis emphasised, does not
for a numient persuades us lhat he has
«ny largrr allouance *,T hrains than >«»u
* \IH-iX jisi a matt.r of counte in thr aver
age. quit.- undiiaiuguifitrd >x»uth. Ills
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described but which otherwise we mast
take upon faith, and. saoreovar. In Ord
han's emmo tha validity of hi? claim to
the kited of importance asaH-fit to him
i by the author does not really concern us.
It la true that we wish there were more
in htm to Justify the admiration we are
j told of his inspiring la the people he
meets, but. on the other nan.l. our In
! terest la him lies la a side of his career
with which qualities of mind have next
to nothing to do. His one poignant ap
| peal Is that of the pampered young aris
tocrat. selfish, indolent, helpless, but
possessed of a lovable personality, who,
from the cradle to tha crave. Is "taken
care of" by others than himself. la this
character of Insinuating youthfulnees
and charm Ordhant amuses and. into the
bargain, steadily holds our attention.
The very pink of haughtiness, ha Is nev
ertheless egregiously "managed" by hi*
woman folk, and we look on—with per
haps a little satirical scorn In our inter
est—at proceedings which carry him
along like a stick drifting with the tide.
The figure, we fear, comes with only too
cruet an aptnessr to th& lips. Mr. Ord*
ham Is. indeed, something of a stick,
something of a prig, and one proof of
this comes In the moment of his final
choice. This leaves us unstirred. He
does not really make the hisneeW,
as a being of flesh and blood. The hand
of Mrs. Atherton is visible, pulling the
strings. But very neatly she pulls them,
with the practised novelist's feeling for
the effective denouement. Though we
may not be taken out of ourselves by
•Tower of Ivory." **"• *—* '*• wlth • C * T
tain lulling appreciation and read on en
tertained to the end.
Anna Katharine Green Is a "depend
i able" writer of the kind of action in
which the mysterious commission of a
crime throws seemingly fatal suspicion
upon the wrong person. In "The House
of the Whispering Pines" she show* all
nt the adroitness which long sgo. In "The
Leavenworth Case." established her re
pute. Her opening' scene Is good. It is
'aid In tSu. house of a country dub. sup
l«aed to he empty and locked, when It Is
\islted one winter's night by the sup
posititious narrator. Having gained an
entrance, he observes, to his astonish
ment, the exit of the woman he loves,
and a moment later, upstairs, he finds
the dead body of her sister, to whom he
had engaged himself to be married.
Who killed Miss Cumberland? We know
that her faithless lover Is Innocent, but
we can see also that he is the person
naturally to be suspected. Since he is
willing to eg to Jail rather than tell of
the third person In the house on the
tragic night, the arm of the law la un
mistakably destined to grope about
thro a maddening tangle. The
author Is ingenious. Page after pane we
turn, and the book Is practically finished
'.. f..|. we begin to guess the truth. Per
haps It is hardly fair to say that we
guff ait then. It is put before us. rather.
with startling suddenness. The reader
i with a taste for detective stories win In
! this book be well rewarded. '
Mrs. Martin has again made a praise
! worthy excursion Into the field of Perm
; sylvania Dutch character, wherein as an
t expositor she la thoroughly at home and
; quite alone. Again she dwells upon the
I hard money greed and domestic tyranny
■ of th.- men and the slavish meekness of
: their drudging women folk. Her skilful
: ..s. of thfir quaint dialect gives a singu-
I I.Mr vitality and vividness to the story.
s4MM incidents are simple and obvious
enough. It is a theme of domesticities.
. susatthing approaching a mild drama of
'.m»oin. dustpan and dishcloth. A Perm
; sylvaala Dutchman of brilliant "powers.
. the eldest son whom a stingy farmer
i has consented to educate, becomes a sue
, • «-?t>ful doctor in a great metropolitan
' hospital There he falls in love with a
patient, an accomplished girl of gentle
1 t.r>-e<linr from the. South, and she re
! spends to his ardor. A prosperous prac
] ti< c in his native village, opens before the
| young man; the pair marry at once, and
[ th. m ttl<' down In a sordid environ*
I tnrnt whi^h is strange, indeed, in the
; ryes of the bride, whose life has been
sheltered and care free. The doctor has
, i •< « n brought up to regard women as
, tKvessarily the servitors of man. and
j vhil*' in his urban life he has learned to
iirpreciatc the charm of feminine reflne
: nirnt and Intellect, he sit ill seen no rea
• s«.n why his wife should not do all th«»
v«>rk «.f his house, rough and otherwise.
; i.l thus enable him to nave money as
M:\V-VORK DAILY TRTBINK. SATI HDAV, MAHUI 10. 1r» 1 o
LI» fath?r does.. What ts.the conscien
1 tious girl, iniu^ed to such tasks and cIH-
Icats In frame, to do? it Is a homely
problem which threatens to enfl In dlr«
dl?ai-ter. "Will the man born of general
tlons of saaaters and dradsjara forget hl^
mounting hoard and cherish the fading
young creaturo fcesi-jw Mail V.'IU the
adoring mifa be stirred to rebellion?
Tfea working out of this domestic »<t m
tion Is amusing and characteristically
feminine.
A pretty little love story is "The God
parents." a story fragrant with the
; freshness of the forest and with that
other freshness of genuine feeling. To a
\ woman of the ▼■arid, untrammelled by
any tie of relationship and about to sail
for one of her many selfishly pleasant
summers In Europe, comes a vigorous,
high minded. Imperious man of affairs,
j who by sheer force of. will brings bar
back to shore as the gangplank la with
, drawn. The orphan godson of the two.
j a child whose very existence Jane had
I nearly forgotten, la in dancer through
j the weakness and wickedness of his
{ nearest relatives, and John Is deter
. mined that Jane shall help him to rescue
I the youngster. They have not met since
I their first association as godparents on
| Billy's christening day. and the self-
I centred maiden of «hirty-tw& resents nt
the moment the dictation of the practi
cal bachelor of thirty-eight. How ha
rouses her womanly pity for poor Billy
| and her sense of duty; how they fare
I fotth^trlth^her elderly --French^aald for
the mountain town, where the child Is
growing: up untamed; how. when he runs
away Into the woods, they follow, and
after many days of happy camp life win
the Interest and affection of the little
fugitive, who studies them from his htd
ij« place— this la told with much ani
mation and with engaging sentiment.
What happens to the hearts o: Jane and
John while they are busied about this
altruistic errand furnishes, of course.
the real point of the story— the reader
must settle for himself that highly
agreeable question.
"The Professional Aunt" Is a charming
>oung person, one full of humor, with a j
sharp eye for the weaknesses of poor !
human nature, but with a tender heart !
that means tolerance and forgiveness. '
She Is aunt to two contrasting families ,
ot nephews and nieces to whom she Is !
perennially usefuL as the professional
aunt aim-ays Is. in the direction of treats.
presents and convenient guardianship
There Is scope for Incident In the fact
that while one sister-in-law is winsome,
unselfish and clover, the other Is obtuse {
and mean, and desirous only of availing
herself of the services and the pocket
book of the pretty aunt. The unpreten
tious story has many . neat If brief
sketches of character and motive.
mh ri( KincK.
A Fine Topical Edition of the
Famous Paper*.
THE Pt»«THrMOrS PAPER* OF THR
PH'KWICK CL.l'B. My Charles Wok
en*. Topical edition, extra illustrated
and annotated by C Van Noorden. Two
volumes. tve. pp. 480-HO. Charles
Scrtbner's Bons.
Before thes* two big volumes burst
upon our delighted vision we should
have said that nothing could mak* these
[ immortal Ps|>ers more beguiling, that no
thrills could be added to those with
which we encounter the great Samuel
Pickwick. Esq . with his Tittlebats, his
cherubic smile and his heart-warming
gaiter? — but we must acknowledge
' tliat n«w hegulleiuent and new thrills
are our?. This« Topical Rdition gives u%
the work s*t forth In comfortably larg*.
clear type, with th« forty-three original
| illustrations, as comically ugly and ill
, drawn, but fondly cherished all the same.
I Then on page after page comes a wealth
i of additional pictures — pictures of orig
inals of characters, and places, scenes
1 and Incident*, with curious topical al
lusions, references and analogies and
facsimiles which we owe to the industry
and enthu«ia«ra in collecting of Mr. Van
Noorden. He has undoubtedly succeeded
; in his effort to produce an edition of the
! book forming a more or less complete
topical commentary upon the Knajliah life
, and character of the time. Here is the
England of IMT. the y«-ar in which the
novelist **>t th* opening of his story, with
its < ustoms. its traditions and it? land
mark?, which will soon survive only In
page* like tacam Kvery available source
has bv«-n ransacked, and the result is
en Inently creditable to collector and
publisher, further interesting additions
are t" be found tn the original announce
! ment of th* vork. the dedication of the
1 original edition, the prefaces, addresses
and suppressed notes, etc.. reprinted from
the "Victoria" Kdition with th* notes by
Mr « hurled Plumptre Johnson.
In the pleasant introduction vontrib
' uted by Mr. Van Xoorden are to be
found >arious details us to the customs
\ of that far-off time and not* <• on the real
personage* who served as models to the
novellM. \V»- know that Sergeant Horn
pas vi as the prototype of Busfuz. but the
statement af Kompai'n *on that tlje f«m
11." mther prided themselve* on the as
sociation is something as new to us as
is that blustering advocate* portrait
here reprodu. c.l The author tells us
thai Bu?fus"s public methods were not
carried into private life. There he was
BS sincerely Hke.i that when he died in
comparathe poverty, the Bar Society
settled a competence on his family. As
for Mr. JajsUe* liazelee. the original of
Mr. JuMi<e Htanlelgh -whose temper
•bordered an the irritable and brooked
not contradiction ' -it is recalled that the
echo of liickens's satire was so loud
that the man retired from the bench
shortly after th« publication of the chap
ter describing the Plckwiek-Bardell trial
scene. Most of the buildings associated
with that famous episode, by the way,
have perished, the courtroom at Guild
hall being the only survival.
The moral pocket handkerchiefs—
them." says the Inimitable Bam Weller.
"as hangs up in the Uneii drsper's shops
with beggar petitions and all that 'art
upon 'cm"— were not to be found by the
editor, tboug.i he has been searching for
them in a!l out-of-the-way corners for
the last trn rears. Perhaps there are
no longer shepherd* of the Htlgglns type
demanding these useful objects on which
were blended select tales with woodcuts
The latest reference to them is offered
by "Notes and Queries." a contributor
reporting that the horrors of Intem
perance were forcibly Impressed upon his
youthful mind by the pictures and text
or one of these handkerchiefs purchased
in IMI It Is doubtful If they were
available many year* after that date.
One of the rare illustrations provided t»y
the editor is of the "iiotlWt machine"
mentioned In Ham's valentine to the
pretty houaemald. the instrument In
vented in lfea. for th« making of sil
houettes. Another illustration which .a
very rare doss away with tha hitherto
m* >lrable pusale of the |U micro
scopes. "Tea, I have a pair of eyes."
«ny« Santo Busfus. "and that's Just It.
If they woa a pair o' patent double
million •' — gsifjlii' gas microscopes of
hextra power, p'raps I might be able to
at* throat* a night o* stairs and a d«*nl
door: , but twin' .only eyes, you see. mx
vision's " limited." Dlckenslan cnthusl
asts sought for years to discover what
these mlCr-cneop^s mlsrht be— lt was left
for Mr. Van Noorden to come upon an
Old handbill, printed In 1887. of a -Splen
did Exhibition** of an oxy-hydrog^n cits
' lantern with a microscope attachment—
| a thin? which, was. In some sort, the
i modern mack* lantern. It was an Instru
ment, proclaims the exhibitor, "by which
the most minute and beautiful objects of
nature 'are splendidly projected on an
Immense Disc pleasing, brilliant and
distinct,"
1 We heartily commend this edition to
all lovers of Mr. Pickwick and all stu
dents of the life of the early nineteenth
century. Through exaggeration and
caricature the young Dickens steadily
grasped realities, and from this point of
view as well as from many others th«
book Is precious. As for Mr. Pickwick,
let us leave him as we see him In the
last chapter, on Mr. Hnodgrass's wed
ding day. "his countenance lighted up
with smiles which the heart of no man.
woman or child could resist— himself the
happiest of the group: shaking hands
over and over again with the same peo
ple, and when his own hands were not so
employed, rubbing them with pleasure,
turning round In a different direction at
every fresh expression of gratification or
curiosity, and inspiring everybody with
his looks of gladness and delight." The
gods give • the* Joy, Samuel Pickwick.
Esq.! We do not envy the reader whose
Intellectuals are too superior to allow
him to find pleasure In the good man's
adventures.
Till: SEMtXOLES.
I It nival of the Plea for
Their Welfare.
THE SKMIKOLES OP FLORIDA. B.
Minnie Moor* - Willson lilurtrateil.
tSmo.. pp. 213. Moffat. Tard ft ♦'•>■
This is a new edition of a fervid plea
for the Bemlnole*. which was first pub
lished sixteen yoars ago. The author has
enlarged the original book and added the
illustrations, with the assistance of
Mestrs. C. B. Reynolds and E. W. Hls
ted. In response to the demand for it
"which seems to come Insistently from
every hand." Mr. Edward 8. Martin
provides a "foreword." in which he mod
erately observes that "not much appar
ently can be done for this home-keeping
remnant of the Florida aborigines, but ir
Is help and a protection to them that
their continuing presence in Florida and
the conditions of their life there should
be known to the rest of the Americans,
and especially to those who go to Florida
or are concerned with the development
of that state " It is. indeed, not difficult
to surmise that this new edition at this
particular moment is due to the progress
of that very development.
The history of the Seminoles «>f the
Everglades Is not one to which white
America can look back with (tide at
cause for self -congratulation. It is part,
and a dark and bloody part, of the CSaV
tury of Dishonor. Mrs. Moore-Willson
tells the story from first to last with
burning indignation, and with vivid con
trasts of black and white, or. Is be exact,
of red and white. She is a truly feminine
partisan. Her sketches of the life and
manners and i ustoms and virtues of the
Seminoles of to-day are full of eatsr ami
interest. It Is rather unexpected, by the
way. to learn from her that while it In
generally believed that the tribe is dying
off and can last bat a few years longer
it has in reality shown a marked in
crease In numbers "during the last ten
years." In 1880. by a< tual count, they
numbered LW: to-day" (1. c. appar
ently, at thA time of the first publication
or this book. I*96>. "they number nearly
000." The author gives no later statis
tics in this edition, which appears to
have been but slightly revised.
One doubts if the Seminoles' use of the
word Jak-rry, for «Jod. evidently the He
brew Jrkfttah or Yakreh, points of neces
sity, via Mcxi- o. Yuratan and the Aztr-rs.
a. toss Asia to ancient Palestine and
Kgypt. as the suthor suggests. Is it not
far more likely, ss a matter of fact, that
the word was introduced into th«- ln<l
lans" vocabulary by ttome religious run
away negio slave? And. speaking ».f th.
negro and his connection with the S«mi
noles. it may not be without interest Is
quote the following:
A character holding a position unparal
leled In Uncle Sam's domain Is Manual'
the negro slave, belonging to Tallahassee's
family. She. is a fulUMooded ne^ress. with
thick lips, broad flat noMe and kinky hair
which Is tied In little) plaits with the
proverbial string of the Rout hern negr«.
Hannah is the last vestige of Beminoln
slavery the one great subject of warfare
seventy-live years ago between the Setin
nnle* and the Southern planters, aad upon
which, truly aiieakliiß. wus bused the
•"Seven Years* War." Hannah does the
work of the family, and. though asM in
klndlv treated, yet a certain cuntempt is
felt for her. for Hannah is an enta ln.t>i
la negro), and to the haughty Heminole a
negro I" the lowest of human creatures.
Tallahassee is dead, but we are not
told what has become of Hannah, who
thus tardily haw fame thrust upon her.
The author pleads throughout for pro
tection of the Setnnixle in his last foot
hold on the soil of his fathers, and for
his gradual Introduction to our civiliza
tion, which alone can Rave him from ulti
mate extinction Hut his preference is
for "being let alone."
HOOKS AXD AUTHORS.
Talk of Thing* Pratent and
to Come.
It is in suburban New York that Mr.
Winston Churchill has laid sjsMl af the
scenes of his new novel. "A M.xhru
Chronicle." It is said that the most im
portant character is the heroine The
book Is to appear on March .*{•».
It is related in a recently puhh.h i
letter, wr tten long ago by Lewes. :hm
George Eliot was asked by Pri; eras
Louise if she believed in the Inferiority
of women. "I think." said Hux!««y. who
was present, "that Mrs LMMg rather
teaches the Inferiority of men "
A new volume of poems from tie i»on
of young Mr. Alfred Noyes is announced
by the F. A. Stok> m Company. It is •>»
bear the title of "The Knthant><l Islum!
and Other Poems."
A copy of the first edition of Robert
lirtrtne's "Groats-worth of Witte," one or
the rarest of books In this edition, has
Just come Into the possession of the
Ilrltlsh Mus; ••urn. It was In this volume
that old Gret-ne published tiiu nttack on
Hhakeapearts "Yes. trust them not for
there la an upstart Crow, beautified
with our feathers, that with his tygtr's
--- - Aim him 11 Mt>^ ■»»- — afci ■■ laaT 1
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«•! human life and varied character delineation,
identified and consistent with those environ
ments, produces a book which is the quintessence
of former endeavors. Such a book, if its artistic
presentation be in keeping with its theme and
characters, usually amounts to a masterpiece,
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Isar. the music world, the musical idosyncrasies
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blanke verse as the best of you: and .*?*•- ;
in* an absolute "Johannes fac totum/ la '
In Mi own conceit M..- on*ly Shake-scene i
in a Countrey."
There are two Sh;ik^si>»-;ires In Eng
land who do not claim to be descendants
of Gentle Will, but are certain that in
their veins runs the blood of the poet's
grandfather. These are the Rev. John
Howard Shakespeare, the secretary of
the Baptist Union, and hi* son William.
The elder man said the other day that
he was the first of his family to be born
away from Stratford-on-Avon, and add
ed: "All my ancestors, from my father
as far back as I have been able to uj,
were either Stratford-on-Avon men or
lived In the neighboring parishes. includ
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was. as you know, the home of Shake
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may have some bearing on the affair hi
that a small bequest or Rift that was to
be presented a good number of years
ago to the nearest surviving relative of
Shakespeare was given, after some in
vestigation, to my father." Mr. John
Shakespeare's son. "Will." is said to have
poetic tendencies and to be able to turn
a rhyme with ease.
Mistral, the Provencal poet, is prepar- j
Ing to publish a. new volume of verse.
but is in no hurry about it. He pro
poses to tail it " Lis OuUvatlos"— "The j
»liv« (.lathering."
A <••!'> of the rare first issue of ** Altec j
in Wonderland brought at a London I
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copy. In the original red Hath, with Ten- [
nlel's illustrations, is dated l i;r.. Its ■
rarity* is due t.. the fact that for typo- j
graphical reasons the earliest issue with ]
the IS**", title page was withdrawn from ;
circulation. Tenniel. By the way. who i
lately passed his ninetieth birthday,
shares with only one other person. Mr.
Henry Silver, the distinction of b»in.^ a .
survivor of the group who. in the lust j
century, sat about '•Punch's" famous j
•Table." * :
Mr. Anhrr Rackaass'i ><•!.. r baa)
ru-\r JFSW ;
" Kin*. "
Mr. 11. «V \V» I,h s neA !..H.U. •Th Hs*
tory af Mr. l'>>ilv. is sssssssj *«">n fr<>m
the press af l>uffle!.i g <
The veneraM^ Dr. FurnTvall recounted
in a recent address some details of tls*
history of the r. at English dictionary
which Is slowly approaching completion.
He complained «>f th.- neglect of English
as a subject of historic study, and noted
that while at Harvard there were tlurty
flve teachers of English, at oxford ami
Cambridge they had two, one of them
badly paid. The English, he said, were
the inheritors of on«» of the finest lan
guages, "which would be the ruling
tongue of the world." He added:
There was little known al>oui the history
el it till we began. In Uutl You know how
our great Dictionary started. In X'Hfm
tn-r. I%>*. Treiu-h wrote us a rajier >'ii ihe
duty of maklns a su;»iilnn. Nt to the «li«-
luHlHnes of Johnson an. l Hi •hard.-on. '!••' -
bert Coleridge, a grandson of til- poet,
came forward and said, "1 .should like to
take part in tlit.s." '?'•>*• question vaa who
was to work with him. 1 refusal abso
lutely, on which Watts.- who was head of
the book department in the British Museum,
reminded me that 1 was secretary of tit*
society, hihl that if I was a.skeit to a* a
thing it was mv duty to <1o it. so we began.
We V. . II! <>•! for about a your and a half.
and then I -ai.i. rPeopl« Who want a word
wit] first look at JobßCon ami then at Uich
arifson and then at ours. Why not amalga
mate it and have one dii-tlonary?" 1 ■ sss
munleated my idea to Trench. Me aid, "'ll
is a xery ih>.» idea it yon can tarry it out.
but 1 ■!•• not think you can." So we went
on collecting words. Nobody would come
forward ami take lip the dictionary until
Maemillan -til. "If you van put'it intr»
four \"hisi.e> I »ill." Wo all said it would
have to be in eight or ten volume*. We
bad as tti»« first volume out in IS'.U. We
got a line suliscrii'tioti for it. The neeond
j.art **>oh thr«e v.-ur> to lirinj: out. Sub
scriptions Iml ho,;. in dropping off. and Ox
ford wa> losing heavily. We could not go
much ■ ii 1 ' I because we hud to >tra!: - .
English literature Ihrnrcli a >!*>ve la gel
tl'e first ap:»t*:irn rices ».f v word. Its history
and v. lien It tttrd. and to get all the \a:ioir
shade* of it"»ariitig. Is was a trwtm rwious
Job. We got .••\rrtl ntillion.s of slip* and
over a thousand contributor?, and we have
put a sreat de;.l into this • ictlo»:irv wnirh
is i » ally ttie first in the world. Kvtrybody
who la using \\.>rds really tniKht to know
Komethlns of the words he uses. If ■»•
had only started with three editors the
i. ok would have been tut now. oxford
umiti'il to be e<'on<:mit'al and pay lor •;:•
dictionary out of tin- pro.U.s of the liihles.
Science men wanted th»- pruflts for scientific
research. The book i.s i>. i.ii.T. end will
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and bring it out up to date every three
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Ulcka, fellow *and lute lecturer of
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