8 Literary J^et&)s and Criticism The Enchantments of Digging in the Soil of Antiquity. ACC3DS.VTS of AX ANTIQUARY S LIFE. By I>. O. Hogarth. With forty illustrations from photographs taken by the author and his companions. Svo, pp. x. 175. The Macaiillan Com pany. Mr. Hogarth baa a record of splendid achievements in archaeological research, but he writes with a winning modesty. E« writes also with the enkindling ardor of a. man whose twenty-odd years of professional experience cannot discount the romantic appeal mafic by tbe soil of antiquity. In a. charming introductory essay, wherein he offers what he calls the apology of an apprentice, he tells how he was better known at Oxford for a gamester in a small way than for anything else, and he relates much of his success In digging to the gambler's instinct. At any rate, your true archaeol ogist Is, In the very nature of things. a votary of chance. He plods through week? and months of appalling drudgery, but always he Is sustained by the hope that the next thrust of the spade may turn over an Incomparable prize. Speaking of his laboirs among Egyptian tombs, Mr. Ho garth has this vivid passage: I have dug for twenty years and ret next, foot after th© sexton's in very many an cient sepulchres; but I still feel, as at first, the flutter of poignant hope that the tr.mb : may be virgin, and an indescribable thrill ; ■at th* sight of grave furniture undisturbed tince thousands Sf years. There lie the n •veriinp on Its hfao, If it nappens to be r.^nfiy la there not excitement in Mr. Ho garth's pursuit? Even in thcee quite Informal chapters, which touch but lightly on a few of the Fallent episodes IB Hi career, he Is a* Interesting as any novelist. The fact Is traceable in pert to th* character of his life work and In part to his temperament. Evidently he Is a born wanderer, and. Into the bar gain, a connoisseur of the beauty of nature. The book is full cf brief. fleet ing sketches of lovely scenes, sketches •which take us Into the very heart of the classical scene. Of deep interest, too. are his note? on native men and women, always intro duced with a delicate feeling for the background nsralnst which the latter •^•»re observed. He found the finest types among the modern Hellenes at Caetellorlzo. in L.yc.ia. "There you will find Praxltelean heads In the flesh," he says, "find th«» oval face, with brows spread broad and low beneath clustering hazel hair. Gray-brown almond eyes lie wide, deep, long and liquid; noses stand forth straight and faultless"; upper lips end chins are *hort, and mouths mobile and fine." They showed him . one of their schools, occupied by fifty maidens, "each fit to bear Athena's peplus." but with Incoherent thanks he and his com rades miserably fled. "Who were we,'.' he asks, "that we should patronize a choir of goddesses?" He adds, however, that there are signs in the formation of the L#vci?.n skull, as in other physical traits, of racial deterioration, and some ■f the best. because most illuminating, Of his Cretan pages are those in which he characterizes the decadent children cf a once supreme civilization. Mr. Ho garth's curiously searching sympathy for humankind, aided by his scientific knowledge, gives peculiar authority to Observations of his like the following: Th* peasant Greek Is neither brute- nor butterfly: but this be is — a man who is es sentially Inert, a man born physically out r.orn. The whole race, as it seems to me. 5» E'-ffcrir.g from overwearinsss. It lived fa*t In the forefront of mankind very long a.*ro and now is far gone In years; and in It* home you feel that you have passed Into th« Fhafiotr of what has been, into an air In which men would rather be than do. . . . Simple though the Zakriotes were. they rhoTi-ed often in their talk that they knew themselves well enough to be pre occupied with thiF very question of their racial decay. Why. they were forever asictnjr me, had the Greeks fallen out of that front rank In which the schoolmaster told them they once marched? How came th* Barbarians of Europe to be now. na tion for nation and man for man, bo su perior to the once Chosen Race? He does not labor these matters, and, lcdeeS, they crop out only in the most casual fashion, but they do a good deal to heighten the general interest of his book. He tells us also something about Turkish life, and in his Lycian chapter paints a touching picture of the little ■village of Dembr*. once known as Myra. On a day that harmless little place got itself "measured." by order of the Porte. That meant that a commission of three officials set about measuring the village, •with a view to r«vid justing Its contribu tion to the Imperial Exchequer, and. un til their report was accepted and the final notification of assessment was ordered, no buildings or lands could be touched. Two years passed and nothing was done. "The village was frozen as by a spell" and it practically ceased to exist. There are other incidents of a kindred sort which it would be Interesting to " travel embodied in this book. It was during the military disturbances : :. Crete a dozen years ago that he visited Cnossn«j for tha firM time and developed his dream of digging some day in the Palace of MfWOS. I:; a fascinating chanter he relates his adventures, long after ward, when be went to Ihe Island with Arthur Evans, and st last came to close quarters with a site of tremendous po tentialities. Hin account of the explora tion of th« cave supposed to be the birth place of the Father God of Crete is too long to be produced here and too thrill- Ing to be spoiled by fragmentary cita tion. It was a discovery of extraordt rnry significance. Innumerable objects were found. On one occasion, for about four hours, the diggers came upon at least on* object a minute. Mr. Hogarth has two other fascinating explorations to describe, one of the great Artem:«.ium a* Ephesus and one among the tombs behind Bfait in Egypt- He Is unmlstak £»>ly the scholar, on both occasions, bat. aa we have indicated, he writes through out this volume out of sheer joy In a vocation having its dramatic tide, and it is not by any means the antiquarian alone who will value his delightful nar ratives. It is the iayman. and the lay man of Imajjinatior. to whom he also addresses himself- The book is full of good UlUßtratiors, some of which, like the photographs of th« great theatre of Aspendus. the b?st preserved of all Roman structures of the kind, are of quite oxopptional interest. But even without his pictures Mr. Hogarth would make us see the land of antiquity and feel its winds asrainst our faces. WIVES AND__HUSBANDS Two Novelists on the Modern Marriage Problem. TONYS WIFE. By George Gibbs. Illus trated by the author. 12mo. pp. 311. D. Appleton Si Co. RTT'DIFS IN WIVES. By Belloc 8 YSinSe.. smo. pp. 31S. Mitchell K«n nerley. In these advanced days of the mar riape problem novel Mr. Gibbs's "Tony's Wife" may well be called conservative. Xone of the characters takes himself or herself too seriously— which is the first symptom of the "Higher Law'— and their sound principles are not attributed to them by the author for the sake of being bowled over as narrow prejudices. They are average people all, sane and likable, who stumble unwittingly into a muddle which no amount of foresight or worldly wisdom could probably have fcTerted in the beginning. Environment, which, after all. is beginning to be one of disintegrating conditions and theories, shapes their lives, as it does that of all of us, and youth can but follow the im petus given. Tony's wife was not the ■*vif> for him; neither was he the right hueband for her. As a matter of fact, both were too young, unprepared for marriage. But the boy gave up his nec essary years of study in Europe to take up illustrating, and the girl, fond of pleasure, got tired of the monotony of their existence. Hence her imprudent but Innocent philandering with another man. She lacked as yet the sense of her husband"* dignity in her keeping, or of her own, and friends had the ques tionable wisdom of talking to him about her doings. Thus, the evil was brought about by meddling, and the author's only way out is an improving deathbed scene. The characters are well drawn, there 1b life and movement in the setting, in both/ country and city; one reads with pleas ure and interest to the end. Th*> inevitable thing to say about Mrs. LOlildfi'si "Studies in Wives," the thing Which hag very likely already been said, and is certain to be said again, is that they might as well be called "Studies in Husbands." In most of them, in fact, the wife is suggested by and reflected in the husband, a clever technical proceed ing whose difficulties the author masters with signal success. More curious still is the fact that the best story of the six. •Mr Jarvice's Wife," Introduces neither her nor her husband in propria persona, yet ever keeps them, and her mo6t of all, in the centre, from the point of view of the third angle of a familiar and de plorable aveometrlco-matrirnonial figure complicated by a crime. "According to Meredith" — an allusion to ten-year mar riage contracts — ia, rather. "According to Ibsen" in its cutting of the knot by Vfoleflt death, and in its feminine psy chology, for whose purpose. BO doubt, it is a Scandinavian woman who is the herein* 5 , the only foreigner in the book, unless we choose to consider the Irish ndr^?s cf "Shameful Behavior" a for tifutt, ton. as. no doubt, she is in the matter of temperament amoftg all these English pfr.plp Unlike a general cup tf-m. the book does not open with the best of v-hat it contains. The husband of "ftllli— "n Opportunity" is a sorry cad, v.ho marries a young, unformed woman for her money, and then humiliates her before his bei«t friend. Mrs. Lowndes glimpses the limits which children im pose upon the "rights of the individual," and in this her fiction is a wholesome reaction. She is. however, a realist, who has no moral to teach, merely tendencies of life to pMnt out. THE SPORTSMAN LOVER Some Adventures in the Air and Other Perilous Places. DAXBUF.T RODD, AVIATOR. By Fred erick Palmer. Illustrated. 12010, pp. , M. Charles Scrifcner's Sons. THE SKYMAN. By Henry Kitchen Web ster. lUußtrated by Dan Smith. I2mo. pp. 844. The Century Company. MR. CARTERST A\T> OTHERS. By David Gray. Eight illustrations by Under wood, Douglas, Crawford, Blinks, Wat son. Llnson and WenzelL I6mo, pp. 215. The Century Company. \Te are still in the experimental stage of aerial fiction, with the solution of the question whether our latest conquest will add a new, a truly original, realm to romance still in the future. The mo tor car has proved a disappointment in this respect, and so has the motor boat, both of these means of speedy locomo tion having: suggested to our novelists nothing beyond a highwayman In an automobile instead of on a horse, a pirate with a dynamo instead of squared yards, and a new variety of travel fiction. Even wireless has failed thus far to Inspire romanticism worthily: the first great romance of C Q D was written by real life. It may well be that the aeroplane, now that it is a reality, will prove no more fertile In suggestion than the other ultra-modern methods of communica tion have been; perhaps the real thrill of aerial travel lay in its Improbability in the days of Jules Verne and the latter day writers of Utopias. Kipling made the most of the subject In the days, still so recent, when it was in its infancy. So, unless an unexpected genius of the asr arrives in our fiction, we shall prob ably have to content ourselves with ab ductions and elopements via the upper regions, criminals skulking In the air lanes, wrecks and rescues, trips to the poles, and guidebook fiction, with the old material In modified conditions. All this is suggested by Mr. Palmer's stories of "Danbury Jtodd," the master aviator. They are capital stories, with plenty of action In them, crisply told, employing with" much Ingenuity the possibilities of the flying machine, but the unexpected is not a (salient part of their interest. Perhaps it never can be after a specula tion has turned into a reality. The real Interest of the book is the human one, for Danbury Rodd is a powerful fijrure, the real coming conqueror of the air. The flying apparatus of Mr. Webster's "Skyman 1 i* only a cleverly employed tr.inor lever in the complicated plot of a Eton,' whose scene is the Arctlr> a.nd whose leading characters are a young NEW-YORK DAILY TRTBUXE, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910. m-in and a young woman learning to depend upon each other and to love each other nmid deprivation and danger in the twilight of the north. An incident of army service in the. Philippines, the v wrecking of an Arctic expedition and an Arctic whaler, a ledge of gold, wholesale murder, and a yacht pecking the van ithed explorer — these are the crowded preliminaries of the main part of the tale, which is only concerned with the two In a hut, amid snow and ice and darkness and unseen dangers from a prowler, tho murderer of many, who, In the moment of his success, is face to face with failure, left behind when the yacht is driven out to sea by a storm, and cannot return through the gathering Ice. The romance of isolation, of direct confrontation with life in it 9 most prim itive form, of the courage and ingenuity it awakens, still holds Its delights. Mr. "Webster has constructed his plot with Infinite care Rnd ingenious attention to detail; he makes provision long in ad vance for every turn in the fortunes of his characters, so that the hand of thn deus ex machina never is disturbingly visible, and the result is a most satisfac tory romance of danger, fortitude and l«*/e. Mr. Gray delighted a lerge number of readers some ten years ago with his clever, humorous bundles of tales of the life, the manners and diversions of an American hunting set, "Gallops" and "Gallops 2." not a small part of the do light being due to hie amusing apprecia tion of the subtle influence which con stant association with horseflesh has upon the ethics and the point of view of men and women, as well as upon their dress and talk. "Mr. Carteret and Others" contains six new tales by Mr. Gray, collected from the pages of the magazines in which they first appeared. The first three are hunting stories, but the scene Is laid in England, and— well, they are not altogether up to the mark of their American predecessors; it would perhaps be juster to cay that their in terest does not lie so directly in the sport Itself. To take three American Indians from Buffalo Bill's show to an English rr.eet is not, however, a bad idea; it suggests a contrast in which the white American is made to stand curiously closer to the aborigines in understanding and sympathy than to the English cousins. Of the remaining three tales one deals with a divorce scandal started in a club and nipped in the bud by Mr. Carteret. who has some of tho attributes of Van Bibber; the second is an ingenious golf stofy, and the third has its scene laid in a Japanese shrine, where an American student hears the call of his own people after ten years of placid contemplation of Oriental philosophy. ARNOLD BENNETT Defends the Bourgeois Against The Arrogant Artist. From The London Daily Chronicle. I have recently bean listening to im passioned painters on the subject [of the Rckeby Venus]. I was talking to a typical impassioned painter about it the other day in the third greatest art city of the world, Florence. (Let me inter ject that I do not count London and Paris as the first and second, but Rome and Venice.) This excellent and serious painter was a Hungarian. He spoke no English, and his French was limited; but he knew the National Gallery and the discussed picture and the particulars of the controversy. He held, like me, that the picture was very disappointing as a masterpiece. He did not care a bilberry whether it was by Velasquez or whether it wasn't. But he had a great deal of energy for the scorning of the public — of the bourgeois. His violence did me good, by reminding me of ray youth. To listen to him you -.would, imagine that the bourgeois were a gang of criminals, that the bourgeois had com mitted a horrible offence in their attitude toward art. "The bourgeois." he eaid, "understood nothing of art! Nothing! In no Country! And never will!" "Picture galleries," he said, "are abso lutely wasted on the bourgeois!" Being of a pacific disposition and anxious to rise at 0 o'clock the next morning. I basely pretended to agree with him. ■ But I was far from agreeing with him. If I had had a defensive revolver in my pocket and had been minded to sit up all night I should have asked him to define what he meant by the word "bourgeois." And when he had defined his bourgeois I should have offered to bring forward some specimen of a hu man being who. according to his defini tion, was neither a bourgeois nor an artist. For you cannot draw a line that will divide the bourgeois from the artist. Most artists will admit that they ar.e bourgeois somewhere, but very few will admit that the bourgeois is artistic somewhere, which is illogical; it is more than illogical, it is absurd. My friend's axe-like posltiveness recalled some of the statements of that singular bour geois, John Ruskin. which in the 80s used to be accepted with awe as the grand utterances of eternal wisdom. For instance, In his annoying remarks on Florence. Ruskin chooses a email fresco by Giotto, about four feet wide, and. after describing it. says: "If you can be pleased with this, you can see Florence. But if not — by all means amuse yourself there, if you find it amusing, ..as long as you like; you can never see it." So there you are! If you don't thrill to this particular fresco, you are, 90 far as all Florence Is concerned, a hopeless and crass bourgeois! Of course, this kind of testing is merely fatuous. It serves no purpose except to excite healthy laughter in the breast of com mon sense. Nevertheless, it is essen tially fhe kind of test that artists are continually applying to the non-creative person in art. Artists themselves would, and con stantly do, fail to pass such tests ap plied by each other. Thus my Hungarian could easily have convicted me of being a bourgeois toward paintings, as I could by similar methods have convicted him of b^lng a bourgeois toward literature. But if he fancied that he was going to rule me out of the Influence of the Na tional Gallery he was mistaken. And It would be useless for him to say that an artist cannot be bourgeois, for the reason that if you really understand one art you understand all. The great est nonsense that I have ever heard about painting and about literature was talked by musicians. I have known ad mirable writers who loathed music. And I have known painters, and plenty of them, who could live quite happily amid atrocious wall papers that would have made William Morris take to his bed. When It comes to tho appreciation of art, either everybody la bourgeois, or no body is. Let artists take their choice of the alternatives. In one sense Whistler was right when he said that in no age had there been an artistic public. But Wagner was much more right when he said to the man who confessed his tech nical Ignorance of music, "My dear fel low, you're the very person I write- my operas for." Wagiier stated a profound truth of BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS. THE NUN By Rene Bazin $1.00 The nor'l of the. day in Enclanrt and Franco. RARE BOOKS & PRINTS IN EUROPE. ii A LL-OUT -OF - PRINT - BOOKS" Jl\ WRITB ME: can get you any book «v« published on any subject. The most expert book finder extant. When In England call and «cc my ftOO.OOO rare books. BAKERS GREAT BOOK SHOP. John Bright «U BlrmlPSham, * [ universal application in art. As a fact, ! if the artist does not appeal to common 1 mm. to whom does he appeal? Are ar | tists to live, artistically, by taking in I each other's washing? If the aim of the artist is not to reveal beauty to some body who is incapable of seeing beauty for himself, what Is his aim? These questions answer themselves, end their answers richly demonstrate that the ar tist's disdain of the- public is ri'l!culou3 in its arrogance. If, indeed, there is an absolute wall between the artist and th* public, then the artist Is engaged in the most futile vocation that the idle wit of man ever Invented. If a sincere artist-held truly that the public has no comprehension of art, ..no would be ashamed and alarmed when he found himself becoming popular. Where us the notorious fact is that even the most sincere artists are delighted by popularity. Absolute proofs that their disdain is simple boyish petulance! The Other day I met a sincere artist (a paint er) whom I had not eeSn for several years. In the interval ho had become popular; be was painting as well as ever. Previously he had formed one of a little group of public . disdainers in Paris. He Inquired about the group. "I suppose," he said, with magnificent condescension. "I suppose they're still busily engaged in being failures." Not much disdain of the public here! Toy may call this human nature. It is. I have never been able to sit quiet and hear the innocent and good-natured public vituperated. And I never will. I admit that to stand in the National Gal lery, for instance, and listen to the re marks of the public is an affrighting experience for an arti3t unskilled in the ways of the public mind. That is his Own fault. He ought to learn that the public expresses itself as a rule badly, and that (like artists) it does not in stantly chatter about that which it feel 3 most deeply. He ought to learn that the influence of art is seldom immediate, and is never to, be measured by any yet de vised method .Of calculation. He ought to learn not to expect too much for his pains. He is only one man. If he thrills one other man for one minute, that Is something. v I do not believe that any individual ever went Into a gallery of fine pictures and really looked at them— and came out again the same individual. Such a belief would be grossly unscientific. Therefore, when I see a crowd of people gazing for initials in a corner. I «ay, "It is well!" Consciously or unconsciously they will acquire something beyond Initials. BOOKS AND AUTHORS Current Talk of Things Present and to Come. Byron loved a bit of mischievous mys tification, and an amusing illustration of this fact is to he found In the new Instalment of Lord Broughton's me moirs. The poet's friend Klnhaird re ceived, when all was over at Misso lcnghi, a letter from Mr. Barry, an ex cellent but not particularly brilliant banker at Genoa. "You will excuse me," wrote this good man. "for mentioning to you rather a singular request that Lord ; Byron made me when he was on the point of galling. The eccentricities of a man of genius may, I hope, be men tioned to a friend, Valued by him as you j were, without giving offence or appear ing childish or impertinent. He had kept for a long time three common geese, for which he told me he had a sort of affection, and particularly de- ; sired that I would take care of them, a3 it was his wish to have them at some future time, it being his Intention to keep them as long as he or they lived. I will send them to England, if you please." The after life of the geesa is not revealed to us. "Now here," says Lord Broughton. in recording the story, "is a plain case of mystification which suc ceeded with the worthy Barry." There is a glimpse of the contradic tory nature of this man of genius in Broughton's note • on ' the arrival of Byron's body at Gravesend. "I re mained on board," he says, "and con tinued leaning on the coffin, which I had now covered with a lid and the ship flag. I felt an inclination to take a last look at my friend, but I could not, and I walked away and then I came back ] again and rested on the coffin. Lord Byron's large Newfoundland dog was lying at my feet. I wished I was as un conscious of % my loss as he was. At in tervals Fletcher talked to me of his master. He told me that he had said he loved me better than any man on earth, and yet had never passed twenty four hours without quarrelling with me." "Dogs and Men" is the title of a book on the character of doge which that clever essayist, Mr. Henry C. Merwin, I has written and which the Houghton j Mifflin Company is about to bring out. j It is described as the result of close ob servation for many years and as paying tribute to the sense of humor of dogs, their courtesy, their knowledge of right and wrong, their love for men and other Interesting traits. 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