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LITERARY NEWS
? CRITICISM A
Some New Chapters Written by
"Vathek" Beckford.
THE EPISODES OF VATHEK. By Will?
iam Bcckford Translated by Sir Frank
T. Marzials. With an Introduction by
1-twIb Melville. Frontispiece. 8vo, pp.
xxxl, 127. Philadelphia: The J. B. Lip
plncott Company.
There was much that was in one way
or another surprlalng about William
Beckford, of Fonthlll, much that was
reeerved and even secretive, and It le
a '. ..riiingly quite In keeping with the
history ..f that eighteenth century ec?
centric that the world should receive
only at this late day a kind of suppl??
ment to his literary masterpiece. It
quite yielding to the spell which the
author seeks to work. There are mo?
ments when the old magic la revived,
moments of pictorial power. Take, for
example, the scene confronting the
Princess Zulkais when she seeks her
destiny in the halls of Kblls'
I awoke In a transport of courage and
resolution, seized the taper, and began,
?without hesitation, to ascend the sla*r7*->
with the braren banister. The ?t-*P9
seemed to multiply beneath my feet: but
my resolution never faltered; and, at last,
I reached a chamber, square ana im?
mensely spacious, and paved with a mar?
ble that was of flesh color, and marked as
with the veins and arteries of the human
body. The walls of this place of terror
were hidden by huge piles of carpets of a
thousand kinds, and a thousand hues, and
these moved slowly to and fro, aa n
painfully 3tlrred by human creatures
stifling beneath their weight. All around
wir.i.JAM BB?KFOBD.
ricin ? portrait In 'The Episodes of Vathek "*?
was brought to light by Mr. Melvl
when he was working upon his hk
raphy of Reckford, published not lo
ago. At that time he was permitted
examine < ertatn chestP of papers
Hamilton Palace, and among these d<
uments he found, in manuscript, t
Episodes written for "Vathek" whi
were supposed to have been lost. Th
were In FlOlKJO, Th? Duke of Ham
ton authorized their translation a:
publication. Sir Frank T. Marzlals p
the{** into English, and we now ha
them in a han'Jsomely printed hook,
the ba?-k of which the French origina
ore. given. This makes an odd and 1
terestlng addition to that store
Beckfordiana whloh the connoisseur
letters will always regard with spec!
sympathy.
Beckford touches the Imagination b
cause thore was in him something
the artist. He might be not mere
eccentric, but veritably bizarre; 1
might be exasperating, but he cou
not be dull He cared for the thlni
of the mind He cared for beauty.
he was not a great man he possesse
at all events, a streak of genius, at
for that reason, if for no other, crlt
ct?m will always have a weakness f.
him. Mr. Melville, In his introductk
to this volume, draws upon his author
correspondence to show once more tl
contrast between Beckford's actu?
labors over "Vathek" and the leger
that he wrote the tale in three da*.
end two nights He may have thi
improvised the body of the work, bi
having ence fixed upon a scheme r
developed Its details with an extraoi
dlnary eollcltude for what he conceive
to be artistic perfection. 'I oonfes
myself a friend to discriminations 1
everything," he writes to Henley, th
clergyman to whom he had intrustt?
hla fable for translation, and it Is pial
that he was tireless with the file, i
was not merely his di< tioii, either, th?
gave him trouble. His was the ambt
tlon of the creative artist and thoug
it seems strange to consider the authc
of "Vathek" as an amateur of char
acter In had, as a matter of fact,
?trong desire to strike a Just balanc
betefeen his people and their actloni
"1 have always thought Nouronlhar to.
severely punished," he says, "and If
knew how conveniently, would add i
crime or two to her share." Verlslm
llitude worried him mightily.
In the composition of these new Epl
sodes he well harmonized the eubstdl
ery fabrics of his Imagination with thi
main struoture of "Vethek." They art
In the same rich, fantastic vein, full ol
color, full of Oriental glamour. An
they, taken by themselves, full of In?
terest? There the answer may not be
eo confident. The first of the Episodes,
end the best of them, "The Story ol
Prince Alael," Is finnly knit, and de?
velops a fairly effective succession of
Incidents. The hero's slow but sure de?
scent Into ever darker depths of evil
excites some curiosity, though It la not
precisely thrilling. Ae In the "Vathek"
that we know, Beckford loves to make
our flesh creep with Incredible horrors.
"You must." says the Mage to the
Prince, "cause the religion of Zoroaster
to be received In your dominions, raze
the Mosques to the ground, erect Halls
of Fire in their stead, and, finally, sac?
rifice without pity all whom you can?
not convert to the true faith." In
the eequel we wallow in earthquake
and eclipse. Yet the experience ,is
mora piquant than Impressive. Perhaps
one would have to take up "Vathek"
again and read these Episodes with It
in order to get from the latter their
fulleet effect of exotic mystery. As it
lg, one reada the new pages without
were ranged black chests, whose steel pad?
locks seemed encrusted with blond . ,
In such descriptions we have the true
Bckfordian touch, and passages like
th? foregoing aro strewn through the
Episodes with ?II his lordly magnifi?
cence. He could write. Behind the
glowing textures of "Vethek" and the
present tales there lies th? Infinitely
more opulent stuff of the "Arabian
Nights." Beckford's Imagination rested
heavily, of course, upon his Oriental
precedent. But he was. we repeat, the
man of letters, the artist, and hence
these excursions of his into the do?
main of faery have a curious substance,
a curious validity. Mr. Melville, mak?
ing his hook a distinctly handsome
affnir, puts it before us, not inappro?
priately, in the spirit of the holidays.
It will he read for ron.antlc entertain?
ment. Also It will be read, and pre?
served, for what It adds to our knowl?
edge of a rare personality in English
literature.
a
THE PORTRAIT MEDAL
Some Famous Bronzes of the
Italian Renaissance.
?PORTRAIT MEDAI.9 OF ITALIAN
ART1BTS OP THE RENAISSANCE.
Illustrated and deRoribed, with an Intro?
ductory Essav on the Italian Medal by
F. O. Hill 4to. pp. xvll, ?2 The Mao
mlllan Company
Everything that promises to foster
1 the cult of the medal Is to be hailed
; with rejoicing More than one Amerl
! can sculptor has interested himself In
i the making of medals and has done so
j to good purpose, but It can hardly be
I said that these efforts have met with
tthe niaeepiead appreciation they de?
serve. Nor have we been vouchsafed
overmuch literature on the subject.
i It in about eight years since Mrs.
I Hamilton's translation of Fahriczy's
"Italian Medals" was published In this
country. With all the more heartiness
therefore do we greet Mr. G. F. Hill's
well written and, by the way. luxuri?
ously made volume, which ought to give
a decided fillip to the taste of American
collectors and students. Mr. Hill goes
straight to one of the most vital aspects
of ht? subject when, following Fubriciy,
he reminds us that the medals served
exactly that purpose which was near?
est to the heart of the Italian of the
Renaissance, "and that was the ex?
pression of his virtu, the glorification
of his personality.*' The Renaissance
medal is not a dead specimen, to be put
away In e cabinet like a dried plant or
a stone. It Is a record of Ufe and char?
acter and, by the name token, a mas?
terpiece of plastic art.
In this enthusiastic essay Mr. Hill
first traverses the history and charac?
ter of his subject and then describes
some seventy medals. It was a good
Idea to choose only those which are
portraits of artists, thus e^'lne a
special coherency, a special outline, to
the work. The artists commemorated
are not all, as It happens, men of the
highest rank, but the list Includes such
salient figures as Michael Angelo,
Brwniante, Alhertl, Titian, Bansovlno
and Vasarl. The medals are repro?
duced In colotype, both obverse and re?
verse being shown, and among the
illustrations there arc also Included, for
purposes of comparison, famous por?
traits in sculpture and in painting.
The frontispiece, a remarkably good
plate Jn colors, shows us that beautiful
?jnrtralt at Antwerp In which Memling
painted Nlccolo dl Forzore Splnelli
holding a medal in his hand. It Is a
charming book. Mr. Hill Is as schol?
arly and wise ae be le ardent Me
writeB, of course, with most guf
about Plsanello, but he does full Ji
tice to his other medallists, and
fact, shows how rich and fascinating
field the collector has before "him. 1
ought to gain readers here and
ought to stimulate some of them
bidding in the auction rooms of Pai
and London when, as happens only t
seldom, a handful of these precious bl
of bronze comes under the hammer
A WOMAN'S ESSAYS
Social and Literary Studies <
Mrs. Andrew Lang.
MEN, WOMEN' AND MINXES. By aft
Andrew Lang. 8vo, pp. W2. Longman
Green A Co.
Mrs. Lang's essays are pleasant an
they are wise. Her perceptions ei
quick and true, her conclusions Jua
she has sound culture and much <
humor. Her subjects are chosen wit
a sense of that picturesque human lr
terest which most promptly appeals t
the reader of to-day. If she writes c
books. It Is generally from the amusln
point of view of morals and manners
her social studies are made vtvldl
entertaining with anecdote and per
sonal description. If she deals with th
trials of the wife of a literary mar
there is a comic and rueful aimospher
of reality In her pages. No wonder
she declares, that literary ladles an
proverbially somewhat short in thel
tempers. If a wife, like her httabaad
she says, "occasionally has n fancy fn
'dabbling in literature.' then ever
word she writes (a.i long as It is wort!
anything at all) will be ascribed di
rectly or Indirectly to her husband II
matters nothing if the subjects shi
chooses are those of which he Is en?
tirely Ignorant; It Is to no avail thai
her name, and not his, appears en tht
title page of the book; It Is he and noi
the who will obtain all the credit and
all the praise."
In her paper on minxes she gives her?
self to a lively disquisition on the
French and English representatives of
the role. It Is In novels that she find?
bat type.? In England H Is Thu? k
eray's Blanche Aniory and Miss Ais
ten's Isabella Thorpe; in Fraive It la
tivp's BIJi'U ami Arlane 'Meet people
would conclude that Be? k) Sharp wan
eminently a niltix; our e?-sa> ist ho]<u?
that she was In reality a -*r?iit ??*-.? 1
more of an adventuraH on th? around
that a minx set?, entirely by calcula?
tion. ?Ahiie an advontureea i? aome
times moved by impulse, "and is most
? ommonly and to a large extent the
prey of ?lri-umstaiv c?-.'* if ?- cannot
quite concede the value of Mrs. I-ang's
arguments as to Becky w?. must a.irrnt
that they are Interesting. What me
mlnxe?'' th? reader may ask. Here Is
Mrs. Langs answer-a good specimen
of her writing:
The> cultivate ? irfac?. emotion? a? part
of their stock In trad?-, "n the ?.un? prin?
ciple as the t,nr.|.?f h?,,itt?,| people ar?
moat eatslly m>'v?-d hi .? pta) Tbe) aie
practical and far?-*en,K and d>> nothing
Without careful calculation, they have a
paenlon f..r notoriety and are Moeaseed
with a burning desire to rjiafer Ultra
cnmnrndt*. Th-y ha?.? no Inter ?-ut In In?
tellectual pursuit? for their own sake,
hut only value them a? a weans for IboW?
lng off. they are as Irnapable of lo\e as
they are of gratitude or of any fixed
**-r.liment that <Io*h ti?.t tend to th?lr own
advantage. 1 he, minx In erud for the
Sheer love of cruelty, ?nd ?h? recel- ||
rnystery. even when ?tralghtforwertl
methods would serve her turn a? w?-ll.
Her ambitions are of the earth earth'..
and begin and end with money and power
While her conversation is ?ure to work
round to heraelf In the long run, h?,.t
ever remote the starting point tna
patently be It la nee?d|ess to add that
mlnxe? have no humor, or most probably
they would never h?ve become mlnxe?;
for humor la a sense of the relativ? pro
portions of thing?, snd mlnxe? take them
BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS. | BOOKS AND PUBLICATION!.
THEM/_RSHAL
MARY
RAYMOND
SHIPMAN
.ANDREWS
A New Novel
by the Author of THE PeiFECT TsiBLTI
Lofty in theme, ?tren-f in plot,
ideal in letting', marked by a literary
GuaJity far above the avenge, The
Marshal take? it* place among the
works of fiction that will live longer
than an hour, a day, or a ?easoti.
?Pittjiurjk Ladder
Picturo by LaUatgnt At all BtokstlUrt $1.35 art Tig Btibt-Mitrill Ce., Pit?.
thought Puritanism, which was In
! Intellectual form simply Calvinism.
vealed unmistakable signs of obsol
nees in the very age of its ascendan
Following Dr. Gardiner, Canon H
son finds a further "failure" In Pi
tanlsm In that It attempted to lmj
on a nation the moral standard o
religious community, not scrupling
employ the crudest coercion in the
terest of its artificial and impra?
cable morality. These exceptions be
taken, the author gives us a series
studhs tending to deepen the impr
slon of Indebtedness to the Purlt
temper for the lasting benefits
brought to English life, and tending
expose the fatuity of a policy hy whl
the National Church could alienate
many of her noblest sons.
? in the relation of Puritanism to t
sects Canon Henson points out th
during the Commonwealth the Pu:
tans were not r-lesente^s, and that t
number of sectaries was not egregioi
If modern dissent may be traced
the sectaries of the Commonwealth,
far as the theories of Its organlzAtl?'
and Its attitude toward the Establish?
church are concerned, its presej
str'ing hold on the middle classes I
England and Its av-ldance of tha ei
travagant featuree of its denomins
11..nul pr< g-iiltors are derived froi
tbe Puritana, who by a caiamitnu
blunder were extruded from the na
tl.unl system at the Restoration. 1
?as the A?t of Uniformity. May If
1088, that made Non- onf >rmlste q*J
of some two thousand Puritan Incum
bentl The ect required subecrli-tiot
to a declaration which no cons? len
Uoua Puritan could make. As T>r. Hen
son explains
If. a* area most commonly th** case, h*
had receive?] tils ministry from other thar
,1 hand?, he could only retain hit
I-nei!,-?. by submit tin* himself for re
ordlnatVn ?ni th i? puMlci-. branding
bis nrlgltinl ordination ?? Invalid and
tasting a si ?r upon ail hla ministration?
Nc man of genuine piety eeuld lend htj*a?
self to a pr?,'? dur* so profane . . Th?
'icilms of the At of I'nlfortnlty were
r.ot ejected from rhe National church for
disobedience to th? Trayer Book, but for
refusing t?. lay guilt upon their con?
s'-, enees by uttering ?n evident falsehood.
? nd for refusing to acqulea?? In a sacri?
legious for??
Th? transition from Nonconformity
to dissent or separation was brouabt
about bv circumstances which cor
talril'- argued In the eje-ct-'d ministers
better motives than those of schismatic
self-assertion. Peignant examples from
the narrative of Richard Baxter er?
adduced to confirm the impreaatoo of
their high-minded devotion to aptrituel
lntere?ts nnd to the need? </f the poor
In I?-*ndon at the time of the plague
and of the fire. To the memory of
I Baxter, the saint of Puritanism and
~>_
ANDRE-. rOHCO.
(From an Illustration In "Portrait Medals of Italian Artists of th? R?uala?_.a__.")
selve? seriously end ?re at one? the aetor?
and audienees of ?very play.
This Is the minx at her mlnxlest.
Those lees thoroughgoing In vulgar sel?
fishness ?tr. at th. tarn* time less In?
terest ln*g.
THE PURITAN
A Candid Study of His Virtues
and Defects.
PURITANISM IN FIN?LA ND By II
Hensley Ilenson, I?. I>, <"an<?n and Sub
Dean of WY-itnilnater. l.riio, pp. vlll.
2SH. Tli?- George H. Doran Company.
The ejectment from their benefices
of about two thousand clergymen In
HV12 ha? been made, this year, a sub?
ject of especial commemoration by
those who regard themselves as the
religious representatives of the Purl
tan victims in the event. Canon Heti
son would Join with Nonconformists In
a tribute to the remembrance of men
who suffered tho meanest persecution
which Christian history records, and
he tempers his praise in such wise as
to show that at more than one stage
of Its power Puritanism had defects
to which one may not be blind. As
the religious principle of the popular
resistance to the autocratic system,
which Charles 11 and Archbishop Laud
embodied, It gained the acceptance of i
the most virile sections of the people; |
but as a coherent ayatem of life and
fit? most Illustrious exronent, Canon
Ilenson has devoted a thankful yet dls
I cernlnir chai ter in this vigorous and
awakening book. He is, by the way.
| lectartBf on his subject at the Union
Theological flemlnary next Monday
and Wednesday evenings.
B ? ?
LONDON GLIMPSES
Many Activities and Many
Celebrities.
A CHRONICL1 OF FKIF.NDHHir. By
Luther Mundsy. Illustrated. 8vo. pp.
xl. -.'T.. The Frederick A. Stokes Com?
pany.
Mr. Munday, who v\ai born In Horn
ei.-i.-t?ihiie, in 18,r>7, bus been a rolling
stone, and, In the process of rolling,
has gained many friendships, seen
m:iny thing!*, and gathered a goodly
store of reminiscence and anecdote.
Gunner's mate, choir singer ft St.
| Paul's, public vocalist for one profes?
sional appeurance, tea planter In Cey
! Ion, organizer of London clubs, Illus?
trator and sculptor, occasional drama?
tist, theatrical manager and director
of theatres, he deals In these pages
with a list of acquaintances as long as
Homer's catalogue of the ships, but
infinitely more interesting and enter?
taining. Artists, authors, actors, poli?
ticians, church dignitaries, publicists?
royelt* UselX?crowd bis peg-as. e_ai ai
most shoulder each other for room ai
a paragraph to themselves. He dwel
with none of them overlong, for spai
must be found also for generalization
especially where the field of the mot
em theatre is concerned. Still, ane<
dotes abound.
The vista of London's intellectual an
artistic life, mostly in its hours of n
laxatlon. begins In the 70's of the lai
century. Whistler rubs shoulders wit
Sir Henry Irving, Guida with Sara
Bernhardt, lords and ladles?a gren
many of them -with common clay th?
built Its own fortunes. Mrs. Braddo
and her able son, Labouchere and Ma
Beerbohm, Dr. Garnett I and Osea
Wilde, Hamilton Aid? and Beerbohr,
Tree, Sir George Edwardea and Au
gustin Dely?why continue to enu
merate the men and women of all c
whom Mr. Munday haa something t
say, often something worth remember
lng? Thoee Interested may find her
also a list of actreesee who have mar
ried into the peerage, or the text o
the license issued by the Lord Cham
berlaln on the recommendation of th
much discussed end abused Britlsl
Censor of Plays:
It having been represented to M? 9}
the Examiner of All Theatrical Enter
talnment? that a typewritten copy, en
tlth'd "The Assignation," being a Comedy
3 acts, tloes not In its general tend
ency contain anything Immoral or other
wise, Improper for the stage. I. the Lor
?'hamberlaln of HIS MAJESTY'S House
bold do. by virtue of my Office and lr
pursuance of the Ac? of Parliament Ii
that case provided. Allow the Perform
an. e of me ?aid typed copy at youi
Theatre with the exception of all Wordi
and Passage-? which are epeolned by th?
Examiner in the Indorsement of th!.
License and without any further varia
tlons whatsoever.
The Illustrations are a special featur?
of the book. They consist of drawings
signed by many famous artists, and of
facsimiles of autograph letters signed
with names no less famous In many
other flelda of Intellectual and artiste
endeavor.
"1?V?NJU/T
Another Batch of Holiday Books
for Young* Readere.
The girl at col'ege. in camp, on her
travels- everywhere but at home?is
becoming so overwhelmingly numerous
In Juvenile literature that thia s?tason'a
stories of her In her relations with the
family circle deserve first mention. To
he sure, there are amona* these books
one or two which deal rather wltb tbe
search for a home, wltb the girl, and
even the child, alone aad lonely in the
wide, wide world, but, since all's well
that ends well, they belong in reality
to the category. Do not childhood and
youth have a right to the happy aad
tng, ao lnarttstlcally dear to so many
of their elders?
"Betty-Blde-at-Home" (Holt) wae
really Just "dying" to return to college,
when death overtook the head of the
family, and closest economy became its
watchword. So Betty stayed home to
keep house with mother?an art and
science, by the way, which she. In her
undergraduate pride, had looked down
upon as the simplest and easiest of
professions. Nay, more, Betty found
a aimple way of adding to the family
exchequer, and in the end attained her
ambition, that of authorship. No
doubt her financial reward was great.
It always is?In books. A plea-ant.
well-written story, of course, since the
name on its title-page is that of Beu
iah Marie Dix.-Betty's father was a
country physician; so is the parent In
"Nancy Porter's Opportunity," by Ma?
rion James Taggart (Page). Betty'i
father was killed In an accident;
Nancy's Is disabled In another. He
loses his eyesight, and Nancy becomes
his assistant, his "doetorette," his eye?
sight, and his constant companion. In
BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS. I BOOKS AND PUBLICATION?.
Mary Johnston's
CEASE FIRING
As Miss Johnston chose for the title of her
first novel of the War between the States "The
Long Roll." the call to action, so for the second
and last she has chosen the command "Cease
Firing." In imaginative power, vividness, and
impressiveness the book is even greater than '
'The Long Roll," which the critics agreed in
styling "the greatest war novel ever written."
Throughout the book General Lee is the
dominant figure, as Jackson was in the former
work, and although the story, following his?
tory, must close with the defeat of the South,
it ends, nevertheless, with a fine and sane note
of hopeful looking-forward to the future.
CEASE FIRING
Illustrated in color by N. C. Wyeth.
At all bookstores. $1.40 net.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO.
-*Skiid By "-poli
The Critics :|3?i|
?. Chicago Record-Herald His earnest pur- ? J& ti^vQih
pose is of the very fiber of hia work * * a sweet 1 jJljM^>&3?
end fine love story * * it is sweet-splrlted, wise, 1 j'jS[^i_TB
full of ripened thought and feeling * * it is a UJPr ** ,
noble and wholesome book. _. f'__fl5-55*^32^3
?9 Boston Qloba?This is the gentle story of the ?CE 5 ? '
love of s man and s woman in which the vigor
of "That Printer of Udell's," the kindliness of "The Shepherd of
the Hills," the power of " Dan Matthews" and the grace of Barbara
Worth" are all woven into a strain more delicate and more beau?
tiful than this great writer has ever before penned.
t_ Memphis News Scimitar?A really great book * * you feel better,
you feel refreshed, and you feel a desire to drop to your knees and
thank Almighty God for such a book and for permitting you to read it.
THEIR YESTERDAYS
By the Same Author
THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH
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1
the end these two find happiness, the
docto- in her, she In the young medico
who is to succeed to her father's prac
1 tice. The eentlment of this story la
I wholesome and appealing
Nancy WOM sweet sixteen, and Betty
waa, one ?uiaumes, two or three years
older ?Sow for some younger girls.
The heroine of Ellen Douglas Deland's
'The Fortune? of Ph?be" tAppleton)
was eleven when she started in search
of her uncle and a new home in Bos?
ton, her adopted mother In tbe New
Hampshire mountains having died.
The change is a great one, and sudden,
from the rustic simplicity of her old
environment to the social complexity of
Stockton, where the ?ntele is at last lo?
cated on Christmas morning. But there
remains the question of Ph?be's Iden?
tity to be solved.?-"'Nobody's Rose"
(Lotbrop, Lee ?a Sbepard) was the vic?
tim of a socially Ul-uaaorted marriage.
First her mother died, then her father,
whereupon she became a waif of the
slums until a professional medium took
her in, and taught her to Impersonate
spirit angel children. Madame was ex?
posed and disappeared, and Rosey
again became a waif of the streets.
This is only the beginning of her ad?
ventures, as told by Adele E. Thomp?
son. A public Institution was bcr next
refuge, whence she was taken by a
farmer's wife, ?ho ill treated her until
.??he ren away. Of cour-s?. Rose car?
ried the strawberry mark hidden some?
where about her; kind people discov?
ered it, and ber troubles were ended.
Girls of twelve will find the tale much
to their liking.
"Nora-Square-Accounts," by Fanny
Lee McKlnney (Appleton> ?as a "little
mother" to her younger brothers, for
her fatiier was an absent-minded in?
ventor. They travelled from Atlantic
City to Madison Square Garden ex?
hibiting the inventor's patented Im?
proved flatlron, and then a wicked cor?
poration stole the invention. The In?
ventor lost his all. Invested In the vent?
ure, and they fell upon evil days, in?
deed But it is always darkest Just be?
fore dawn; the head of the wicked cor?
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