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Literary J*iet&*s; and Criticism
The Memoirs of a Doctor in
*• Paris a Century Ago.
Paris. June IT
-■euvenlrs d'Un.MMedn do Paris."
Just published by Plon-Nnurrit. is one of
th* best books of its kind that have ap
peared in Fan* for a lon* **»«•<£•
toS here a rich and varied collection
c* personal observations, anecdotes
■ketches ami silhouette*, giving cear
*r*n* and impartial insight into the Me
nd society of Pan* from the reign of
Napoleon I to Napoleon 111. traversing
th ; two Restorations, the July Hoo-
Br rhv and the Republic of IS4S. The
first "chapter begins with a picturesque
description of Perigord during the Revo
lution, and th« last ends during the
brilliant days of the Second Empire, n
1563 The* author. P-sumies de la
«=lboutJe. was bora at a village in Peri
led <n,1759. He recollects being- looked
after by en old family servant, who, as
a drummer 1 .v. twelve years old. had
been present at The battle of Fontenoy.
m poumies came to Paris in ISIO. entered
the Medical School and soon received his
decree of doctor. As ■ physician he had
considerable success, and many of the
ost interesting men and women of
Paris were hi? patients. He lived in a
fin* house in the Ru« def Marais Saint-
Germain, now Rue Vismnti. whish had
te*n occupied by Racine. Adrienne Le
couvreur and Hippolyte Ciairon. He
'purchased it outright in 1537. 'M. de
Lacalprade. an eminent lawyer and
friend of De Pere and De Maiesherbes.
the advocates ho defended Louis XVI.
was one of Dr. Poumies's patients. La
calprade told him that De Seze charged
Louis XVI 25.000 francs as fee for his
defence- The King made no reply, but
afterward, whfn talking with Males*
|M|%W. he paid: "It is very dear, espe
cially for ■ pleading that displeased me
in many ways. Where does Dr. Sere ex
pect ' can find 25,000 francs?" "At my
house, sir*. M de Seze is not rich.
Thinking that he would be obliged to
quit Franc?, he appealed to your
majesty." "Ah! that is all right." ("A
la bonne heure!">. sadly ; answered the
King. Mataaharbe* • afterward handed
De f»*r^ the 25.000 francs in the King's
behalf. The bill was subsequently pre
sented to Louis XVIII. who repaid the
sum.
MenstjSJor Jaeoupy. Bishop cf Agen,
wss another patient and friend of Dr.
Poumi^s. .Taconrv. before the Revolu
tion, had been a curate at the vil
!sge of Riberac. In 1801 he returned
la Paris from exile without friends or
money. Ha heard that one of Bona
parte? generals was also' named
Jaeoupy. The curate, with a sort of
desperate hope, sought out this general
and asked him to help him. The curate
was promptly received by the general,
•who. was a jolly, good natured, rollick
ing txihmir. "Speak out; what can I do
for you?" he said. "My only claim upon
your generosity is that 1 happen to have
(M same name as yours." "Well, that
Is something. What do you want"" "I
want to get put back again as curate of
Riberac. Can you help me?" "You are
rot ambitious. Call again to-morrow."
The curate came next day and the gen
eral said. "Why in the world don't you
ask for something better than the
curacy of a small village? Why don't
you ask outright for a bishopric?"
"Why. I am merely a modest vicar. I
have no right to think of becoming a
bishop, especially as I am not qualified
for suc&_iiL.£xalted post." "Nonsense!"
answered the general; "the duties are
not difficult. I have applied already for
the bishopric of Agen for you. You will
ha- ■ it. The First Consul has promised
It." The two men of the same name, but
who were in BO way related to each
•'-- became close friends. Jacoupy.
the poor curate, was created Bishop of
A:' : He filled the place for forty
years, and the people of the country held
him in the highest esteem.
Dr. Poumies came across Zamor. the
famous negro who had been lime, dv
Barry's page, and who had been petted
fey the entire court of Louis XV. Zamor
earned his living in 1811 by giving
■writing lessors and by playing the
violin at dances and soirees at private
houses. Dr. Poumies found him bright.
amusing and ready to chat and gossip
about the lively doings at court and in
the society of Jimp, dv Barry.
The Widow Simon, the terrible ter
rr.Egrant to whose brutal care the
Dauphin had been intrusted after the
execution of Louis XVI and Marie An :
toinette. was admitted to the Hospital
lor Incurahles when Dr. Poumies was
houHr- physician there. "I attended her
c-n several occasions and saw her often,"
wrote the physician. "She was in a
frightful condition, owing to poverty,
Buffering and many diseases. . She died
in the hospital in 1«4<». All the other
Inmates of the hospital shunned her as
If she were ■ pestilence They re
proached her with cruelty to the
Dauphin, and. above all. for having
taught the young prince the worst forms
" debauchery, and for having made him
- hate his mother." Dr. Poumies relates
that Dr. Pel'.etan. who drew up the re
port en the death of the Dauphin, was
head surgeon at the Hotel Dieu when
Poumies was a subordinate there. He
thus supplies fresh evidence to prove
that the Dauphin really died during his
imprisonment when in charge of the
Widow Simon. Pelletan and his col
league, pesa«dt, were ordered by the
Convention to —if the b.dy of the
Dauphin after death. Both Pelletao nd
Desault had often seen the young prince
a« Versailles. The report established the
European
Visitors
win C&4 o>«
European Columns
of ti.
New- York Tribune
a reliable guide to the best
chops, hotels and resorts.
Consult These Columns
Before Sailing
tnd ouch valuable trine will
he *arr:d for sightseeing.
j fact that the Dauphin died of a scrofu
lous affection. due* to bad treatment,
| filthy food and unwholesome lodgings.
' PelJetan." wrote Dr. Poumies. "showed
me^fn ISI3 a* lock of the poor youth's
hair that *.ie had "Ut of: with a pair of
scissors during his examination of the
body. This souvenir was given by him
to the Duchessc d'Angoulfime (the
Dauphin's sister) during the Restora
tion." This effectually disposes of the
legend of the Dauphin's escape and sur
vival, about which so much has been
heard.,
The' a*uth/or saw the Empress Marie
Louise on , the" termed of the Tnileri?s
shortly before the birth of the King of
Rome. "Her skin was very white, with
red freckle? on the face; her hair was,
golden blond. She was a- large.' fine
V oWms woman, with timid manners, and
not by any means imposing: in her ap
pearance. She had a good face, but
without much expression. ... A woman
of the people, near me. shouted: 'Have
no fear, my art)**"* inert . everything will
go on all right! I know something
about it, for I have already had eight
children.* The Empress blushed red as
coral, and turned and bowed to the
woman who had thus addressed her.
The Kin? of Rome wag born a. few days
later, Q3 'March 20. JSII. The enthusi
asm was tremendous as the" crowds
counted the twegty-seeond discharge of
the cannon that announced that the
child was a hoy. Later, when the King
of Rome began to walk, he used fre
quently to be Eeen on the Tuileries ter
race, seated in a tiny barouche, drawn
by ,wo beautiful and peaceful sheep,
white as snow." Describing, on June 14,
1556, the baptism of the Prince Imperial,
Dr. Poumies shows ~ffiat he was im
pressed by the extraordinary magnifi
cence, but notes that "the crowd showed
considerable curiosity, but was without
enthusiasm, and there were many in
stances of jeers and mockery-"
The "Souvenirs dUn Medecin de
Paris" is well worth reading. It is
edited by Dr. Foumiea's two daughters,
Mesdames Branche and Dagoury, and
contain? many new anecdotes concern.^
Ing Napoleon. Talleyrand. Louis XV4U.
Charles X. Louis Philippe, Thiers.
Chateaubriand. Rossini. Dr. Pinel, Dr.
Dupuytren, Dr. Velpeau, Then».rd and
others. The chapters about student life
in the early years of the nineteenth cen
tury are highly amusing and edifying.
The descriptions of the various revolu
tions are admirable. The reminiscences
are written In a bright, conversational
style and have the ring of sincerity.
C. I. B.
FICTION,
Some Clever Studies of Charac
ter by John Galsworthy.
1 A MOTLEY By John Galsworthy. l2mo.
pp. xi, 2"4 Charles Scribner's Son?
! DEAD LETTERS. By Maurice Baring.
; 12mo. pp. xiii. 243. The Houghton Mifflin
Company.
! THE DEVOUREBS. By A. Viv&nti Char-
I ties. t2mo, pp. 3a G. F. Putnam's
Sons.
I THE PRUSUIT. By Frank Savile. Illus
trations by Herman Pfetfer. 1?tio. pp.
SIT. Boston: Little* Brown &. Co.
THE GARDEN AT IS. By Edgar Jepson.
With four illustrations by H. R. Boehm.
12mo. pp. 39?. The Wessels &. BUrgell
Company.
ANNE OF TREBOUL- By Marie Louise
Geetcbiu*. 12mo, pp. 295. The Century
Company.
Mr. Galsworthy's new book comes just
j in the nick of time, correcting the rather
unfortunate impression, developed by his
I recent publication. He had begun to*
j suggest that his work, for all its clever
ness, had got itself produced out of a
: formula. He had seemed to be a man
of one idea, embittered by contempla
tion of the British Philistine, and so
bent on satirizing that type as to have
i forgotten that too much of a good thing
may become a bore. In the present vol
,ume he is the same critic of humanity
I that we have known before, but the
twenty-five or thirty short pieces here
i gathered together have been well chosen
i from the mass of the author's work in
The last ten years they illustrate, not
his formula, but, we suspect, just the
ratural, spontaneous operation of his
mind. Some of these studies are very [
short indeed, covering only two or three
pages. Evidently they were not written (
with the rather nagging and somewhat
"superior" purpose which has warped
some of his writings, but with the
artist's delight in setting forth the truth.
In one sketch after another Mr. Gals
! x^rthy analyzes character, or. perhaps
we should say. vividly portrays it. leav
ing analysis to take care of itself. Here
and there the reformatory vein crops
I out, as in "The Prisoner." and all
; through the book the author makes plain
his compassionate feeling toward the
poor and worse than poor. The hard
case of forlorn humanity in the grip of
| fate is exhibited with positive power in
such stories as "Compensation," "A
Miller of Dee." "The Neighbors" and
A Woman. " The gentler note, lightly
or quizzically touched, sounds only at
longer intervals. But alike with the
tragic motive or in the sphere of com
edy. Mr Gal6v.-irthy maintains, on this
occasion, a wholccomer and sweeter tone
than we have hitherto observed in any
of his books. The volume ip neatly
named. "A Motley" well expresses the
] varied, richly colored succession of
poignantly human episodes that he un
folds. No doubt "The Man of Property" [
; and Th*» Country House" cost him i
greater and more sustained effort than j
went to the making of these shreds and j
patches, but "A Motiev" Is nevertheless I
a more engaging souvenir of hi* talent.
In his "Landmarks in Russian Litera
ture," published a month or so ago, Mr.
Maurice Baring disclosed uncommon
ability. He knew his subject, inter
preted its spirit with complete sympathy
and altogether presented the spectacle ,
of a writer at ease with his task. In
"Dead Letters" one scarcely recognizes
the same man of judgment and adroit
ness, and least of all does one identify
here the lover of literature, the sensitive
artist. Mi Baring has had the not very
original idea, of reviving old, unhappy,
far off things and battles of long ago in i
the form of imaginary correspondence, j
and has tried to freshen a worn conven- '
lion by giving to his epistles an essen
tially modern turn. He causes Clytem- j
r.e-stra. writing to .«gisthup about
Helens departure from Troy in the com- J
par.v of Paris, to close her letter m this j
fashion: "Beetra. has got whooping
cough, but she is going on as well as j
can be expected. I have no patience j
with Helen. She always was utterly j
thoughtless." Helen, in her turn, winds |
up a brief note Faying: "Please have \
seme patterns for me to choose, from. I
hope to 1.-i pack in a month." Clytem- I
teetim, again writing to j£ajisthua, ter- j
NEW-YORK DAILY TKIBC^E. SATURDAY. JUNE 25. 1910.
minatea this particular sheaf of letters
in the following manner:
1 am sending this by runner- Come bark
•directly. 1 expect Agamemnon any mo
' ment. ' The bonfires are already visible,
please bring a good-strong net and a sharp
i axe with you. I will explain when you
arrive. -I • have quite decided that half
measures are out of the question.
We dare say that Mr. Baring thought
this very witty when he wrote it, and,
met casually in the columns of the Lon
! don "Morning Post," for which all these
letters were written, his Ingenious fool
ing had a trace of fun about it. But
! this kind of newspaper joke is short
\ lived, and in a book it somehow fails to
win more than a good natured smile.
There is sprightliness, of a. sort, in the
i volume and there is a certain quite
; plausible picturesqueness. The letters
about Messelina and Nero are tolerable,
and Mr. Baring does well enough with
Cleopatra. Ovid and ■' Marcus Aurelius.
The Arthurian skit, on the other hand,
is merely deplorable in the uncouth vio
j lence that it does to poetic figures, ana
ion his Shakespearian excursions the
I author get? quite out of hand. He must
j wreak hi? foolishness on- "Lear," on
! "Macbeth" and on "Hamlet." of all mas
! terpieces in the world, and ""suggests
; nothing so much as the thick hand of
I stodginess* laid with crass impertinence
upon images of beauty. Decidedly, Mr.
I Baring would do well to stick to his
Russians, writing the literary history
that is within liis scope, and prudently
avoiding what he is pleased to regard as
exercises in imaginative, humor.'
Mrs. Chartres has written a novel of
exceptional interest. Considered merely
as a story, it has much* color and inces
sant movement to recommend it. From
England to Italy it progresses, with an
interlude at Davos, then to Monte Carlo,
to New York, to Prague, and finally all
over Europe in the wake of a child of
genius. But it starts by the side of a
cradle, and returns to it in the end.
"Th« baby opened its eyes and said, 'I
am hungry.' " That is the Icit motif of.
the book — the feeble cry whose compell
ing strength makes one gifted woman
lay aside her pen for the sake of her
child, arid which makes that child, in
her turn, forsake music at the call of
the helpless, exacting, Imperious little
life born of her own. It is the. struggle
between genius and motherhood, in
woman that Mrs. Chartres has taken for
her subject, and according to her. the
genius Is sacrificed, killed instinctively,
without hesitation, at the call of the imr
memorial voice of the race- Neither
nature nor genius will accept a divided
allegiance. It is an interesting theory,
likely to be much discussed, the more so
as it is strikingly timely and something
new in current fiction. The case of Mrs.
Browning comes to mind, of course, but
It shines out in its loneliness as an ex?
! ceptlon. The book is decidedly and un
commonly well worth reading.
In the matter of adventure we might
as well have, good measure, and that Mr.
Frank SaviJe certainly gives us in "The
Pursuit." Something happens on each
and every page; the villain has "a run
j fur his money" and so has the reader.
I A child, the heir of untold American
' millions, is the quarry. Its villanous
j father seeks to kidnap it. and finds his
1 opportunity in Tangier, whither his son,
' who is delicate, has been sent for his,
: health, on board a yacht and surrounded
|by defenders, among them being a
charming young woman. Enter an of
ficer of the British army, in garrison at
I Gibraltar. He is drawn into the centre
of the vortex of adventure and danger,
and plotting and villany, on whose outer
wave a commander of the French navy
also appears; and as minor participants
there are Arabs and the scum 'of the
Mediterranean seaports. Mention must
also be made of a master scoundrel, who
plays a game of his own within this
game. Finally nature herself takes-- a
hand at Messina, where the earthquake
settles the matter for good and all. This
general outline of the plot must suffice; |
it purposely leaves the details of crowded
incident for the reader to discover. ". ~'"
Some time ago Mr. Edgar Jepson lib
erated an attractive vein of humor in his
stories of "The Admirable Tinker" and
"Lady Noggs. Peeress" Now, in "-The
Garden at 19" he seeks to make our
flesh creep. He is almost but not quite
successful. We are fairly keen upon
finding out what ultimately is to happen
to the parcel of enthusiasts who .seek to
raise the great god Pan from his grave,
organizing their proceedings in the back
garden of a modern London house. But
Mr. Jepson is not particularly skilful in
the creation of atmosphere, where the
fantasticality of his motive makes at
mosphere of peculiar importance. There
is a flagrant unreality about his tale. A
master hand alone, to be sure, could have, ;
made this book even partly credible, but j
that is no great excuse for Mr. Jensoa.
Ordinary "larks' are more in his line.
A first book, "Anne of Trfiboul," is a
very satisfactory piece of work, in part
because the author, with evident appre
ciation of the range of her technical
equipment, has not undertaken too much.
She has not attempted too large a can
vas for her setting— a Breton fishing vil
lage—and she has not ventured too deep
ly into the analysis of the foul of her
heroine, the deformed girl, neglected by
the young men, who has her wondrous,
unexpected hour of love and happiness,
then pays the' price of another's passive
perfidy with the nobility of character of
the humble. The man is lured back bY
the girl who has flouted him. Anne will
not bind him in a loveless marriage — she
has her son and his. The tragedy of
self-denial and sacrifice, which in the
end demands even her eon. is well pro
sented; it makes appeal to the reader's
sympathy. Mrs. Goetchius has made a
good beginning. She seems to be a new
author worth "cultivating" by her pub
lisher.
MAP FEVER
Mr. William De Morgan on One
of His Enthusiasms.
Every year there is published in Lon
don, at the offices of "The Sphere" and
The Tatler." a festival souvenir of the
Printers' Pension, Almshouse and
Orphan Asylum Corporation. This
souvenir, edited by Mr. W. Hugh
Spottiswoode, one of the best known of
English printers, is called "Printers'
Pie." It la always an amusing miscel
lany, and the number for 1910— the
eighth in the series — sustains th<;
standard originally established through
the generosity of London's popular au
thors am illustrators. Barry Pain,
Robert Lens, the Duke of Argyll. Sir
Henry Lucy, W. P.»tt Ridge. Mario
Corelli and William De Morgan are
among the authors y.h.< this year con
tribute. Lawson Wood, G^prge Belcher,
Cecil Al<lin, Will Owen and W. Heath
Robinson, with eight or ten others, pro
vide plenty of pictorial fun
Mr. De Morgan's "Blunders and Pen
quakes" is an amusing little paper on
the quaint blemishes win- have crept
into ; his books, In .."Somehow Good" he
causes one of his characters to inspect,
at San Francisco, mining tools to be
used in 'the Klondyke. In the same story
he permitted himself the blundering
phrase "at Ontario." but we are glad he
made the Blip, for in talking about it he
gives us this characteristic fragment of
autobiography:
A memory of sixty-odd years ago makes
me feel hurt at the supposition that I
thought Ontario a mere town. Did you
ever- when a child, have map fever? l
mean the passion for poring over maps,
gloating over the lakes and mountains,
building imaginary towns to suit their
names, catching imaginary fish in tne
rivers, and chasing incredible wild beasts
in the forests-such foregts-my word ! It
exists, this passion, and it rose to highest
fever point with me. at ten or eleven years
of age. in connection with an enthral. lng
series of maps of America, under the
stimulus of early exp<*rienc« of Fenirnoie
Cooper and Catlin's North American Ind
ians Even now a glow of enthusiasm la
nascent in my soul when I come ' across a.
musical Indian name; and then America,
ceases to be a huge congeries of million
aires and Tammany and Trusts and nigger
lynching and minute print-a land where
one takes one's telephone to bed with one
and rings one's friends up every half.hour
of the night— and become? again the land
Columbus found, good for youth's fetterless
imagination to run riot in. And then I re
call my favorite map of All those maps,
the one with Ontario In the middle of it
such a roadless wild in the day? of their
first printing: still thick with tribes of
aborigines, now long improved out or
existence. And of all the fascinating: maps
this one was the most fascinating: so much
so that it could almost hold its own against
those of Greece and ' Asia Minor, the most
intoxicating of ail to the map maniac. But
perhaps this is nonsense to you. ana you
don't know what map madness mean?.
Mr. De Morgan is awar« of his own
voluminosity. "I left my millionth word
behind me some time ago." he gays.
CLARENCE KING
' A Brilliant Man Portrayed by an
Old Friend.
More than thirty years ago. when Mr.
Edgar Beecher Bronson was on the staff
of The. Tribune, John Hay, who was then
writing editorials for its columns, in
troduced him to the late Clarence King.
Not long afterward thft latter employed
him as his secretary, and a few years
later the two were associated on a ranch
in the West. Some memories of their
i friendship are recorded by Mr. Bronson
lin the July number of the "Century
•Magazine " They recall one of the most
brilliant and lovable character? that
have adorned American life
Every reader of that beautiful book of
I his. "Mountaineering in the Sierra Ne.
vada."«and of his little masterpiece. "The
Helmet of Mamhrino." has wondered
why he did not make many other con
tributions to literature. In answering
the old Question Mr. Bronson touches
upon one of the secrets of King's charm,
the amazing depth of his resources. "I
beUeTO," he says, "it was because of the
very wealth of his endowments, the
multiplicity of his talents and attain
ments; because of a mind so tireless
and fertile that hy the time it had
sketched one brilliant literary picture
| another was clamoring for the recorded
expression none ever got." Then, too,
for all that he had the gift of literature.
King was no ;nere literary man. Nat
' urally. it was hard for him to put his
1 pen to paper, in v-iew of the traits which.
LMr. Bronson thus describes:
! With a learnins so comprehensive and
! profound that he~ stood among the fore
tnost savanto of his generation, the hours
dearest to hini were those spent in abso
lute or semi-savagery, listening- to the
droning sons^ vf squaws about old "Winne
mucca's lodge fire; idly dreaming about v.
Piute village. -watching its primitive
ta^ke and games, garlanded in a merry
Kalakauan f£te or breasting the breakers
on a Hawaiian beach, himself as daring
and swift in the water as the lithest or
sturdiest islander of them all: vying with
the best vaqueros of Visaiia in bronco
riding contests; ■wandering through the
! corridors of the San Luis ObiepO Mis
sion witi) a bent Francis<-<jn. absorbed in
tales of .Tunipero Serra's heroism and t-ac
rinVes. and mentally reconstructing the
I stirring scenes of the ecclesiastical con
quest of California; trailing.grtzzti^s into
I their Sierran lairs and there 1 fighting and
! killing them; scaling untrpd mountain
i peak-s; listening: to the croomngs of a tur
baned black grandmother, hungry for som^
hint of voodoo mysteries — such were the
experiences he best loved.
Mr. Bronaon refers, of course, to his
j solid achievements in science, his mas
terly work as a geologist, and, in a
word, the knowledge and sagacity which
j made him one of the most practically
I useful men of his time— thaugh. para
doxically, he lacked the fortune build
ing instinct. But the best things in this
paper relate to King"9 personality, his
wit. his buoyant and effective carriage
in his everyday— bu* never prosaic — life.
Once, in a California mountain camp, an
interlocutor of his made a motion as
though to use his revolver to ill pur
pose. "King was entirely unarmpd.'hut,
standing at the moment with his Tight
hand in his trousers pocket, at the first
hostile move he stuck forward his thumb
until it looked like the muzzle of a pis
tol, and then snapped a quill toothpick
| that fortunately happened to be in the
i same pocket, the sound of which was so
much like the muffled click of a pistol
lock that his adversary promptly bolted
through the dooi." #
His friend preserves some of his epi
grams. Returning from a dinner at the
house of a tasteless plutocrat. King re
marked: "These people have bought the
scenery of society, but the play isn't
going on." On another occasion he
said: "Civilization' Why, it's a nervous
disease!" Once Mr. Bronson asked him
why he had never married. "Well, ru
tell you. " he replied. "Woman is too
one-sided— like a tossed up penny— and
I want both sides or none" Following
this Mr. Bronson recalls King in ber
serker mood, pounding to insensibility a
policeman who was needlessly clubbing
a drunken bailor in a dark alley one
morning: but the finest of these stories
relates to the tire>l man of genius on his
deathbed— tired, but with his spirit un
broken "His doctor had remarked that
perhaps the drug feffttft, recently ad
ministered, had gone to his head. "Very
likely.' King whispered. !Many a
heroine has gone to a better head than
mine is now ' " That was like Clarence
King He was as brave as he was
brilliant. All those who knew him will
be grateful to Mr! Bronson for his atftei -
tionately drawn portrait.
The late Francis Thompson was not
by any means an Inspired poet, hut he
has .his devout partisans, and they
doubtless will rejoice to hear that the
collected edition of his verses, which Mr.
Wilfrid Meynell is preparing, is to con
tain a large amount of hitherto unpub
lished material. It seems that he left a.
mass of manuscript from which the new
items will be - selected. The London
"Nation" sagely remarks that the task
of making a choice is not an easy one.
but, we are told. "Mr. M<vn.ll, who has
done so mu< h for Thompson's memory,
can be safely trusted to see that hia
reputation does not suffer by the pub
lication of crude and unfinished work."
Quite so. There, li also to be, a small
volume containing the prose essays
which Thompson himself thought worthy
of being reprinted. He contemplated
such a publication and left a Hat of the
writings he wished to be included in it.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
The biography of the late Goldwln
Smith will be written by Mr. Arnold
Haultain. who for the MM eighteen
years was hi* private secretary. Shortly
before his death Professor Smith signed
an agreement making him hia sole liter
ary executor, and put into his hands all
of the necessary manuscripts. Among
these, it appears, is a collection of remi
niscences covering the whole of the
author's lifetime and containing descrip
tions and anecdotes of many eminent
men.
Miss Murfree. better known as Charles
Egbert Craddock. has .not been heard
from in current fiction for some little
time. It is pleasant, therefore, to note
that she is contributing to "The Cen
tury" another of her stories of the Ten
nessee Mountains. It is called "The
Man in the Tree."
The Putnams are publishing in this
country the novels recently submitted
in a London competition. They have
brought out the prize winner, "A Mar
riage Under the Terror." by Patricia
Wentworth. and have just issued the
story which gained the second place.
"Vera of the Strong Heart." by Marlon
Mole.
There is to be a "Thackeray Diction
ary." uniform with the compilation pre
pared some time ago in honor of
Dickens- Mr. J. G. Mudge and Mr. M.
E Sears have put the new book to
gether. A rare bit of. Thackeray's writ
ing, by the way, ha* lately fetched 3.
good price in a London auction room-
A copy of his "Flare et Zephyr, ballet
Mythologique. par Theophile Wagstaff,"
sold for $185.
A new portrait of Mr. Henry James
has lately been painted by an English
artist. Mrs. Swynnerton. The news re»
minds us that the physiognomy of our
distinguished countryman ha? been
made fairly well known. There are
drawings of him by Mr 'Sargent and
Mr. Rothenstein. and It is not long since
M Blanche painted, his portrait. There
are also, of course, several photographs.
The thirteenth and fourteenth volumes
in the new "Memorial ' edition of the
writings of George Meredith, make a
special appeal to the reader of that nov
elist. They are devoted to 'The Egoist."
This book has worn about a* well as any
of Meredith's, and. by the same token, it;
has had particular good fortune. Far
more promptly than some of its prede
cessors, it took the right readers cap
tive, and these readers in pome thirty
odd years It has never lacked. The late
William Ernest Henley, hailing it with
something like raptur© on Its first ap
pearance, set down a good saying about
the author. "Like Shakespeare." he re
marked, "he is a man of genius who is
a clever man as well: and he seems to
prefer his cleverness to his genius"
Every one knows how truly this criti
cism applies to "The Egoist. " and every
me knows, like Henley, how perfectly
unharmed It leaves the essential bril
liance and fascination of the book. One
is sorely tempted on receiving this new
edition, so beautifully printed by the
Scribners. to abandon familiar tasks and
to re-read every one of those beguiling
pages. The plateg include a good profile
portrait from a photograph taken in.
Meredith's sixtieth year end a view of
the Surrey cottage which he made his
home during the last forty years of his
life.
Apropos of the statue of Francoig Cep
pee, which has just been unveiled near
the Invalides, many anecdotes about the
poet have, been finding their way into
prjnt. One of them, which recalls his
benevolence, describes him as the prey
of interviewers, being too good-hearted
ever to turn one away. Whenever an
evidently young reporter called who
seemed to be a beginner CoppGe, an old
journalist himseit would, ahake him
warmly by the hand and say: 'Te!l me.
my young friend, are you on salary or
on space?" If he answered the former,
the poet would talk to him for half a
minute, and then dismiss him cheerily
with. "And now I am busy," and a hand
shake. If. however, the young reporter
replied 'On space. " Ceppee would cay
at once: "Sit down there." showing him
his own writing table, "and write." and
he weuld dictate him a column inter
view.
Longmans, Green & Co. promise for
the autumn another volume in "The Po
litical History of England." In it the
subject is carried from»the accession of
Edward VI to the death of Elizabeth.
The author is Professor A. F. Pollard.
The volumes iv this series have been
published out of their historical se
quence, but with the appearance of this
one the record is made continuous to
1901. The "Political History" as a
whole traverses the annals of England
from the earliest days down to the close
of the Victorian reign
The new poem by Schiller which has
turned up in a manuscript book belong
ing to a collector in Prague, is an elegy
on the sudden and premature death af
a young Wiirt ember ef officer. Antoine
Willmaister. He was captain of the rerl
ment of which Schiller was the surgeon.
A volume which we. hope will appear
in an American edition has been put
forth under the title of "Gathered Leaves
from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge."
The editor. Miss Edith Sichel. opens it
with a short memoir of the author of
"Th.c. King with Two Faces." and tfcen
collects a number of Miss Coleridge's
stories and essays, with passages from
her letters and diaries and a fan- unpub
lished poems. Mis* Coleridge was a
charming writer, and through all that
She did one divined a still more charm-
Ing personality. A book making her bet
ter Known should surely be appreciated
by many American readers. S
Mr. G. K. Chesterton is indefatigable,
and especially is he. unwearied in tack
ling subjects en which one is scarcely
prepared to accept him as authoritative.
His latest venture ie a study of William
Blake, which is to appear in the well
known "Library of Art."
Referring to Mr. Roosevelt's Oxford
BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
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DR. HENRY VAN DYKE
Spirit of America
Tor 6*!e by alt bookseller* *
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til ALL-OUT -OF -PRINT -BOOKS'' "
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fee ray 600.000 ram buoks BAKER'S GREAT
BOOK SHOP. John Bright it.. BirmlnehMi. I
address oa "Biological Analoyies in His
tory." "The Pall Mai! Gazette" notes
that ha was th* nineteenth in the once
broken succession of Romanes lecturers
since the start by Mr Gladstone In
1802 Mr Balfour was the lecturer last
year, and before him came Canon Scott
Holland, -who succeeded the present
Chancellor of the University, Lord Cur
zon. Then, working backward the. uni
versity was addressed by Mr W. P.
Ker. Sir Ray Lankester. Sir Courtenay
Ilbert, Sir Oliver, Lodge and Mr. James
Bryce. It was in 1001 that th« hiatus
occurred, when Lord Acton did not da
liver his lecture. In 1900 Sir S. A. H.
Murray discussed "The Evolution of
English Lexicography." and the year
previous to that Sir R. C Jebb was the
Romanes lecturer, with "Human- in
Education" 83 a them*. I*l fee paid
for the lecture is £25. and the lecturer is
appointed by th« vlc«-chanc«llor of the
university. Mr. Roosevelt's lecture, by
the way, is published here in a neat
pamphlet by the Oxford University
Press.
"T. R. in Cartoons" is a paper covered
sheaf, published by A- C McClurg &
Co.. of humorous drawings ef Mr. Roose
velt by Mr. John T. McCutcheop.. He la
not precisely a brilliant draftsman, but
he contrives to make his swift, blunt
line »ay just what he means, and what
he ha? to gay is often irresistibly funny.
Mr. McCutcheon satirizes his hero. too.
with all the good humor in the world.
There is a kind of gentle friendliness at
the bottom of his droll "larks." Alto
gether this is a book of very good fool
ing.
Miss M P. "WiUcoeks left an excellent
impression in her story of The wing
less Victory." and accordingly Ameri
can reader* will be interested to see her
new novel. In this. "The Way 17 p." she
deals with the problem presented to a
man— an ironmaster— whose duty to the
state conflicts with his duty to bis wife.
Mr. Alfred Austin was recently elected
president of the Dante Society In suc
cession to Sir Theodore Martin. He gave
an address on "Byron in Italy," in the
course of which he said that of all
English poets Byron was the most cos
mopolitan, recalling that Goethe— su
preme Judge on that pomt — had declared
that no poet could be accepted as a poet
of the. highest rank who had not that
characteristic- Partly because of Byron's
perverse and mischievous habit of de
picting the less admirable side of his
own character, the impression of a good
many people concerning him. and espe
cially of hie life in Italy, was that he
was exceptionally dissolute. It must be
allowed that at the time R.e was in that
country Italy and Venice especially pre
sented abundant temptation to one of
his temperament. Byron arrived in Italy
under a sense of personal wrong, and
this caused him— .nev«r very- careful of
hie own reputation— to be more than
usually reckless. As an emotional and
intellectual poet he had left admirable
and ample testimony to the character
of the Italian race. In some of his Ital
ian poetry there was a sublimity, a
breadth, a. depth and a height that could
not be surpassed and had never since
been equalled, It had been said that
Byron was "not sufficiently intellectual,"
but, as was proper, he merged his in
tellect In his poetry— some mod
ern writers who had put intellect into
verse and asked us to accept it as poetry.
Dolf Wyllarde. the English writer, has
hitherto been known to us only through
long novels. The John Lane Company
now presents a book of "Tropical Tales"
from her pen. a collection of short
stories about life in South Africa and in.
England.
BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
ESSAYS.
EsSAYS IN FALLACY. By Andrew M*epha!l.
: 12me. vP- v '-. 353. (Longmans. Green &Co
Comprising: four essays en "The American
W©ra-M," "The Psychology at tha Suf
frage..- "The Fallacy in Education" • and
*T£» Fallacy in Trilogy. •
- FICTION.
OUT OF THE NIGHT. By Mrs. Baillie Reyn
olds. - 12mo. pp. vl. MB «The George H.
Borarj* Company. 1 )
A novel of life, love and mystery la Eng
land.
DR. THOFNBS IDEA- By John Ames Mirch
•ll. "Illustrations by Batfeur Ker. 12mo.
pp. 244. (Life Publishing Company.*
Steve Wads worth is the her* of the tale
a psychological study or a real boy and a
real man.
THE WAT UP. By M P. Wlllcocks. 12mo. pp.
403. (The Jojys Lan« Company >
This novel deals with capital and Jabor.
the claims of the Individual against those
at the state and «he rl^ht »{ a wgnaa to
her own individuality. Michael Stress, an
ironmaster, Is the central figure In tJje plot.
VERA OF THE STRONG HEART. By Marlon
Mole. I2mo. pp. Jv. 303. <G. F. Putnam
Sons.)
This is the story that was awarded sec
ond plac* in the Melrcse novel competition
recently hell In London
HISTORY.
THE CAMPAIGN* OF TRAFALGAR. By Julian
S. Corßett, LL. M . lecturer in history M
th* Royal Naval War Co!!#s*. With charts
and diagrams. &vo. pp. avj, 473. (Long
mans. Green & Co.)
A study not only of th* battle, of Trafal
gar but also of the policy and operations
which led to it. A special feature of tha
volume is th* lnelusfon of rranv charts
showing the movements! and positions of the
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EUROPE SINCE 1515. By Charles Downer
Haren, professor ot history in Smith C.-l
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xxiv. S2O tHenry Holt <£; Co.!
Presenting the. history of Europe sine* the
downfall of Napoleon and explaining the
internal development of th* various nations
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these have been vitally formative The
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the histories of Austria. Prussia. France and
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Easlind." Russia, Turkey and the Issser
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lattut— for 1909
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short verse-
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REPnJNTS.
THE EGOIST. A OuiT-^y *» Mrratitf* 1J
George Jleredr.h. la t^o v9te=» s - Ito
tratei. Sx-o. rP- "<■'• 23 4^ v! C iCha»««
Seribnar'a Sens.)
Seinj i-olnme» XIII s^i Xi v *» «>»
Memorial Edition cf tiia •fcris of *•
novelist.
HISTORY OF AMB»IC*3I POLITICS, *
Al»ian.i«r Jahnston. LL- D La*» JtMOW
In Princiton Unii-ersity. Ravlsei a* «*
• lars« ■ by T.-!!!:arn M £!oac». Fh. D,'
L H. D . professor er hiatorv la co.ar.3!»
University. Coa'Jnaed by TVir.thrcp if
Dsaiels. M A., professor in Pr:=e*t;r. r." ; :
Tsrsity. l?n:p, pp. xiv. 443. <Heary =J^
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TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY.
THE A-VTIZTAM AJO) ITS BBiPGfi- T-i
Annals or an Historic strean- By -•; ;
Ash* Hays. With seventeen ■ • -.^grawiitt
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_ Opening witb ac account of Cc *«•!
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Histories! SH'i'-ch cf zn Aty?? s^
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Felice Ferr«ro vrirJx thirty-s»* J^|
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valley cf the Roasaa era. and tho^SL
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concerning tha ' old E«a»n ralas •»
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ROOSEVELT TUSKEGEE TRUSTS^
The trustees of the Tuskogee a?*
Industrial Tnstituta in Alabarr.a. IM** *
i meeting yesterday in the !••■■ •'
General ilducatien Board and «■•*
other things added •- tha beard as tm«««
Theodore Reosevelt. Frunlc ;rua- i
ctairinan or' the board el directors of t-«
'Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. ac«J l * i
E. Mason, of Boston.
The motion to elect Mr Rooa* * r *.
trustee was made by "v;* VT. rauipfcw> ••.
Alabama, vice president of ti*-* b&anJ- sJr -.,
Roosevelt has already si?nifl*<l W* wS^"
ness to accept memberslii? or. the l^ 2 *...;
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1 To acquaint <?mpioy<?s with Ma i- 1 ?- „4
, ments In ar.d around Xew Yori Clt {lvi»
! Pennsylvania Kailroad is rur.rJn? *»
trains from various parts of tt3 ! "' sr^ c ;
New York. Yesterday a party -a»po»"
division operators and oth«>r». in & iT $ jg
J. C. Johnson, superintena^nt of r '* l ti^
w^n* through th>» station ani Pt*P*^g
ne'.s. and after Juncne-n at th* ,%*?
Hotel made an inspection of tba *" w- „
tunnels and' Sunnyside yard _^»
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