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LITERARY CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
A Philosopher on Philosophy and Life?The Ca
reer of a Great Modernist?Letters of
Brandes, Nietzsche and Strindberg.
THOUGHT AND FEELING. j
THK TOKE OF P1TT. ' (I/Ordlni
B) Jullen Benda Transluted b) <
,.;. i>. Henr) Holt a
Ca
France, lika thla country, Uke all I
reat of the clvlllaed world, for that
matter, haa its one aupreana >.k ?>f
the year. II aeed not be a
though aometlmea it is; it need i
?i.tion. aa generally it la wlth ua. (,f
len It bi a alender voiume of verae,
? book of eaay and a<
? tble pblloa | " '?>" itfi
repute, i's vogue, is created by the
Intelli ? ailta ol the
country, and epread, aa a matt<
lashion. >> IVirisiaii aoclety, ever seek
ing aoma new thing. It bacotnea for
moment part of the pretty cultu
i,.i poae of thi aalona of the French
capltal, and thence apreada to the
provlncea, Not to know the book, not
to he ai-ie t-> daacuaa it more or less
batelhgently, lf not at tirst hand. then
at least at the aocond hand of the re
ara la to confeaa one'a scif not
"dans le mouvement."
M. Jullen Benda'a "L'Ordlnatlon" is.
lndeed, a aetioua plece of flction to
e attalned this coveted place among
French books during the current year.
That It haa done BO la one more evl
denre of the real authority exerted by
Fren< h crlticlam, and of the genulne
cult of CUltura that BUrvrvea ln France
notwlthstandin* many and lncreaslnp;
lnfluen.es to weaken lt. The cult may
be partly faahlon, partly pose, tut its
results are powerful ln the rlght di
re tlon, none the hss. M. Benda is a
phllosopher, a stern, unbencllng phi
losopher of an older type. to whom M
Pergsson and all his works, them
felves the Frencb VOgua of an tarlier
year. are nnathema. And th's ls a
phllosophlcal novel; atill more, ,a novel
ahout a pblloaopher.
Plctlon is now apcepted, with bardry
a dtaaanthlg volce left. as the easiest
vehicle for the rendy dissemtnation of
theories and ideas. the preaehing of
all kinds of "isms" and "ologies." It
has Ita advantagea a3 an accelerator
of popular thought; lt also has ita ob
vious Fhortromings, for, bowever con
adantloua the novallst may be, he
oannot >>ut tako advantage of the lati
turto glven him by the flrtional form?
and llctlon may he legitimately more
as well as les? Ftranso than truth.
Moreover, your noveliat, unless he he
a >:??? i, has his preconcelved cndlng.
his q E. i>. tha- muat he raached ?t
all com. Ueme much faulty loglc,
much false taachlng and some occa
sional dislngenuousness.
Th< ? vatinns. how
ever. not appUcable to m. Benda'a
atory, which |i are plece of work.
Only, he, too, haa his theory t.. provc
ln a tictional way?the theory that
human life, wlth its affcetions and Joya
and BUhTerlnaja, is Ftron^cr than ?
ence by and for the intellect alone -
ihat the call of life to th man wlll in
evltably be far atronger than that ,.f
pbllooophy. Bo far, so good. The
theBis hardly needs proof to the ave.r
age non-phlloaophlcal man or woman.
but In undertaklng to prove it.
the less, the autbor has fallen -
| to the requ,rements of the novel form.
He aeeurea ua that his protagonlst ls a
thinker of the highest endowment, a
man destlned by hia Intellectual equlp
ment to make pure reason Mr only. all
sufflclng love ln life. But ln the work
Ing out cf the character. this cc ?
tlon Of lt ls not adhered to, for th?s
phlloeopher's me.asure to lnsure Iho
peace renutred for his Intellectual pur
aulta is only a haif meaaure, a compro
mlse, ln whlch feelinrr, the diaturblng
emotlrnal Influences of life, shall not
he totally denled, but only baffled by
a marrlage of convenlenoa ln the portal,
arhUa be nhall llve ln the sanctum of
hia home alone. Not so Hpinoza. or
Kant, the thinkers with whom, one ln
?fers, M. Penda would have us COmpare
Ha own bnaginary pblloaopher. They
<ild not compromlse, they pald the cost
of the purely InteUectual life which
called them Imperlously, and whli h no
doubt rewarded them for their devotlon
far beyond our emmon understandlni?.
In fact, they eeem to have pald the eoil
unconsdously, never reaUalng the <\
latence of the alternattve, much
the value of what they mlsscd tn <\
t-hange for their aboolute Intelli I
freedom. They were aa tru'.v ' or
dalned" as is M. Benda'a bero by his
devlatlon froaa phlloaophy through
human pity and buman h>i a to faith.
In t!ie arorklng OUt cf the novel, th^n,
thla man prove* to be of differcnt
calibre from that the autbor would
bave ua believe him to ba. He ls not
of the small numher of predestined
thinkers to whom the pursnlt of Bb~
stract thought is all in all ln life. The
posslldlitlfs are there, no dOttbt, but
he has his vulnernble. his very human
ly vulnerable polnl from the tirst. He
experlments with a half-way meaaure,
and at the proper moment lifn upaeta
the bnperfeel equlllbrlum. His real
"ordination" does not begin tHl then.
AYhat the autbor rcally BBeaam I
theiefora. ia not the retattva strcnKiii
of life and philosophy, hut the degroe
Of thla man's devotlon to ahatract
thought.
Stlll. aa has Just been aald, "The
Toke of Pity" ls a rcmarkahle plece of
work. worthy of.Jtha attentlon of ae
nous readers ln this cou Ury?in all
eountrlea?aa well as ln France. For,
lf |C Benda is a phllosopher. he also
knows the human heart. He lo a paj -
chologlst in the hest sense of that
hackneyed word ns it is applled to
noveiists. Ltttle more potgaant in its
convincing atmpUdty haa been wrltten
ln many a dajr Oma the openmg epi
eode of thia Btory, with Ua acmpaa
alonate, reverently riellcate analysis of
the love, the happlness, the grOWUBg
torture Of a Hinijde woman who aees
the krver who ia all ^he has to make
exlatence bearabia to her grow lndif
ferent, callous, Impatlent of her devo?
tlon untll he leavea her alone heslde
the ruJns of the altar ahe haa erected
to his worahlp. Ita aahea leath
t:in.n ber heart Om need nol bc a
phlloaopher to read thla exceptlonal
book tndeed, it is for thoae who
far more than for thoae who think.
And if the Btory of the phl
marriage and converelon through pa
rental reallzatlon of the eufferlnfi nf
bild (i ?a nol rea< h the level ol
thal early eplaodc of whal meana llfe
and deatb to a woman, bul to the man
lj im Infatuation mlataken for
love, thal one eplaodc alonc makea
i.k \\ orth whlle. it tella an old
.; , ,.. er new bei auae ever re
. ,i. bul it tella it m a way that
will make it llnger ln the memory with
ttnder compaealon.
GEORGE TYRRELL
Life, Writings and Work of a
Famous Modernist.
AUTOBIOORAPHY AND LIFE OF
OEOROE TYRRELL. ln two volumee.
Volume i. Autoblograph) ofOeorgeTyr
ed. wltl
. ,\i 11 Petri . Volume 11. Llfe
ol George Tyrrell from IBW to 1909. By
M. D Pi :?? Illuatrated. Bvo, pr?. avi,
\i . . iongaoai a i Ireen a Co,
Flfteen . ears ago Father Tyrrell ha I
rome to te conaplcuoua among Bnglhih
jjoeulta aa a wrlter and .-!-? ;ikor. and,
whether addreaaring undergraduatea at
lOxford or aervlng as dlrector nt re
treats, ho was provlng hlmeelf B help
er of many In the hfe of the bouL As
i for his writings, it is nol tOO mui h tO
laay that to numeroua prleata nnd lay
[man In the Engllah-apeakinf world the
i ibUcatlon of his eaaaya, "Nova et
Vetera" and "Hard Baytnge," conatl
tuted b aptrltual landmark. Whal In
| the eyt-a of cultlvated Cathollca gava
! to the volumee thelr chlef worth ?.is
I the blcnding of elements nol ala
I found together: Intellectual gei i
I phlloaophlcal penetratlon, fervor of aa
cetlo devotion and fellcltoua uttei
"bordered wltb the pale edgc of I
Theae booka and thelr a
'? brouggt the autlior into ? : lencc
1 with many prleeta and other frli
lunaeen, to whose Uiqulrli
1 agemc-nts he reapondi I with the heart
! Ineea of a man endowed with a i
jcioua faculty for frlendahlp. if now
end again In the Jeault'a d<
| there aoundcd an Intrepld n<>te abow
llng that hc welcomed the notlon that
,.ne could hoid to the Cathollo veritiea
'and he at the .same tlm< ward
Iwhatever of new trutb the new . ,
mlght have to teach, the author's ven
aomeneaa d:d not at the first Ktand
in the way of obtalning tha offl
Iimpiimatur. Not with- any axactneaa
could be ha%e been called thelr epok.-s
man, yet his fcllow Jeauita aeemed lu
take a fraternal prlde in th? eff.
naaa of his labors. Indeed, thelr
Btrong irifluenco avalled, ln tho ?
learller daya, to protect hlm agalnat
i annoylng Inhlbltlona from Rome,
i With the paaanhf of time Oorge Tyr?
rell was to make the dlscovcry that,
[ln devoting the atrength of his daya
ito the eervlce of the Bociety of Jeaus,
he had, t> > he phraeed It, "embarked
on the wrong ahlp"; wlale, on thob
hia auperlora In the order were
! to flnd that their patlence had Ita
jt.rm. By February of 1906 the boad
'had been broken. Father Tyrrell dled
July 16, 1909, and to hla ? di
burlal in tonsecrated ground. Of
j the volumea before ua, the Brat gi
; ua the jepuit's acrount of hlmeelf up
to his (ortletb year. In the aecond ?>??
have Mise Fetre-a COmpetenl and uu
deratandlni bleajraphy dealing with
actlvitiea of the later perlod an>l trao
lng the expanslon of his pbllooopby.
Tyrrell'a father, a yournajlat, for a
?whiic Irlah correapondant of "Thc
London Times," had died before
George'a i.irth. whlch occurred in Feo
ruary, 1*111. There were three chll
dren and only a small anrrilty, but tbe
widow managed to g?-t a falrly good
Bcboollng for the two boya The o
brother died ln early manhood. Aa a
famlly the Tyrrella were Proteataate,
members of the tben rocently di eetab.
liehed Church, a aectlon of the Angll
can communion fo Purltan, not to aay
I Calvlnietlc, ln temper thal b moderate
' Higb Church man and rltuallst llk<- Dr.
Maturla was an apparltlon In the Dub
i lin laraeL with a whlmalcal way
? | '-ie?s perhaps never eomnately ln
labeyance, and douhtiess with a degrec
of boneet preferenca, Tyrrell aa a lad
laed a Hlgb AngUcaniam agalnat
wbat he deemed b more aatnbre caat
of chiirrhmanship. to flnd hhnself at
I eighteen ponderlng whetl.tr to one
WhO fleadred to *erve the Idea] lnt.-r
'estg of mankind the Catholic church
dld not afford a wider BOOpe than tbe
Church of England could offer. it waa
'his frlend Robert Dolllng, aoon to
lachleve a name as an Anglo-Cathoila
I prleata who counaelled Tyrrell to sp- n I
some time in London among menabera
I of varioua rellgioua ordera In >?? ? 11?
: vommunions before taking a flnal Btep,
Fdval'a "Jeaultea," a perfervld c i
of the Bodety, had been of Influence
in turnlng the youth'a mlnd toward an
order whlch he felt to t?- commltted
with a milltant encrgy to the cauae of
Cathollctam and Falth.i There waa no
?earchlng "f hearl before an in>
tervlea with Father Chrlatla abruptly
marked the partlng of the waya Mis
confeaakm being duly made, and his
receptlon aeoompllahed, the youth waa
'.. -I Wbat he thought Of doing with
hlmaelf, Bhyly he ventured on aaylng
that he had onoa thought of prieathood,
and Father christie prosnptly gai a the
convati enc^mragamenl As it ep
paarad In TyrrelTa rentfnlaeeneee:
He waa nol ahoeked al mr audadty, aa
i : :..i antldpated he would ba I
, erc my nottoaa of i be pi Ii
.i.'iiv i ia booka, u..<t i thought
t likely that i ?? .) be
I an Ineupcrabla Impedlmenl Not al all;|
wtiM i thlnklng ol thi aw ilai ..r tiie:
! regular itate? VVell, rathei ot tbe n
And of any partlcular order? \Vell,
al) of the Bociety oi Noth
ing Blmpler; I waa tu have a note of ln- \
ictlon to Father Porter nnd lo ?> I ?
...... i
tart to f'"t"
1
i ;? ? ved. and i n turni a
. hall a J. -"it.
with the i xceptli n of a ?" ata>
?.'.. tbe Medlten in< n. the no
i trainlng waa api nl al Man
ii.. R< ? hampti n, at BI ?a
? l at st. Beuno'a, In N th
Walea, \ hi re i "harli nl and Hi r
Thurati n a'ere fello'w atudi nta and
ti |i n-is. Bi tw< en the . ompli tlon of th.'
laatic atudiea al Stonyhural and
... naenl ol the ti'. otogtcal
? st. Beuno'a there waa a
the
? Malta, wl ' ? rr("
ted hlmaelf to thc el< m< at
aee. F llowing i la ordli ition
:. ln 1891, he waa al flral occupled
ln vialtlng mlaslona, and he had a atn
. earof fruitful and bapp) parochlal
life among the poi r of a Law aahlrc
town, Bt. Helen'a. lt waa wlth un
rebjm . ince thal he rellnqulahed
parlah ministry to i the
dutlea >.f the chair of phlloaophy In
st. Mary'a Hall. Btonyhurat. Bai
i were paaaed ln his new - "
. nd ha ? as then, In 1896, aenl t.. Lon?
don to join the al ?? rltera al Farm
i treet. Bj this time hia growlng pow?
era ,.,> an ? apoaltor ol i ?ath llc truth
v., re comlng t< havi re< ognltion, and
now thal he was leaa reatricted ln his
arrangcmenta his aomewhal voracloua
intellect waa finding pobulum more to
Ita llking. Bome early eaaaya won for
him the acquaintance, whlch waa to
laaue ln a atlmulatlng and aunny
:, . ndahlp, of thc Ri man Cathollc
.:: Ban n Friedrieh von H |
eonei rning whom Miaa Petn
that he had won bla falth in the eweal
of hia brow; at bome ln man)
of knowledge, bul a profound bellever
in the ?!,(. church, a mlnd thal m
truth al any prli B, bul api r<
I of legitlmate aubmlaali n. Under
1 auch klndly guldarn a Oeorgc Tyrrell
studied thc eontinental Cathollc wrlt
. .s, Blondi i and LaberthonnMre, an I
| he was |.. rauaded to learn Oerman ao
' thal he mlghl gel al the tt.cn untrani
treai i of R idolf E u ki n. Tha
! wicki i on< e ? pen, hi fo md I
Wernle, Johannea W<
- Schweltaer ? Ithln hia rea h
i . rtaln inwai d lueatloning a. 1.o
Ing more BCUtC and Insisleiii, \
i,., ping pacc wlth Fathei TyrrelPa
a/idening Infl ?? n ? Hia wlthdrawal
from Ihe i rofi aa ?i ihlp
h .,i been due to opli i
Euea a
. Ihorl
ty, St Th..ma- Aqutnaa. The M
?; i.. o Mll. aiming
;,t a return to the pui ea of
Thon
idgmenl been made a d< id
fh the oi of
ln a iuii - be aaw nol 01 ?? l ?
her of ? ? "
. and In
but a g ' ' ' '"'1
:
nal irally, thal is to i ??
\ d
nment waa ln atore foi
when ln '
tlnixed l ii ??' orklni
whl h had eni
;.:,] , x- ted the vowa of h
The need oi el u tli Itj and
datlon to the i ham ? at a
world waa I ? '?'
moved Igi " ' "
(0 tha ' itlam ol th< rellglo
ordi rs . f bla ?!.-. . t.m elve ol a nea
i be
, atlcil atlon, ei i n to
? .,., , ot ol i rln< Ipli or rblht.
i. it ./ any merc tradltlon, cuatom or
poaltlve enactmenl i the WHV
..f man'a , reater aplrltual goo l \\
temptlng ln tha world
' ? pply ;i laborloual) prepi i
ratue to tha mental and moi tl
Ii 0f tha daj, ;. I k ? Ing lh? ' l
f auch efforta to placate thc moi
. ? n mlnd ' h orga Tj rn ll'a
i thal thc aplrll < f the founder had
? , | nvlctlon i' ? ?
ihat formed the aubje tl of long corn
?pondeni e between the jeeull an I
[ auperlora, ln whlch r? I 'or dla
mlaaal waa < rged Tl I
i ather Tyrrell mel thc fatc of l
who would argue wlth the Pope only
the more i loaely Indentlllea hlm
hn < onti mporai l< i ln the < !bun I
i . aaro, Alfred Lola)
many another who, themselvea C
olic to the heart'a core, bi llei ad In the
perfectlblllty of tba Church ln hi r hu?
man aapect. Tyrrell ln hia moal paa
aionate book, "MedleavallBm." had aald
,n re] I) to (lardlnal M< rcler:
My falth In tl la, In Ita i
? i bllnd aa your o? n lt 'i
j.,ut oi mi\ taith In h ? i ?'? >? proa
? ? . aei in n< I
v.i.t.l "Cathollc" la mual. to u.\ eara, anJ
ummon befon. Ihe outati etched,
all-embradi ^ ?<'? i of 1 llm a ho d)ed foi
, the wbole oi bla tei i ai um.
Deprived of the aacramenta untll he
. should r< tracl aome modernlal utt< i
ther Tyrrell auffered as only
the loyal may auffer. ln his dylng
| boura frlenda ln the prleathood were
with hlm lo glve abaolutlon, and thc
cruclfla was fraquentl) beld to his llpa,
bul pennlaalon to accord hlm Chrlatlan
i. f , Cathollc burlal was refuaed bj
tbe authorltlea Abbd Menri Bremond
recited prayera and gave a brlef ad
dresa al the graveaidc In Btorrlngton
parlah churchyard, whereupon, three
daya later, the Biahop of Bouthwark
I wlred to the prior of Btorrlngton, "Do
nol allow B mond to aay maaa
I Whether after readlng the r">ignant
atory of hia life at.d death one mual
witbhold aympathy from th.- attempt,
whlcb Qeorge Tyrrell'a career iiiu
minea, to pul new wlne Into <>id bottlca,
there can he no dOUbt that we ha\>
h^re a large-hearted and chlvalroua
?ervanl of ihe Church, one of th<? ".-.? i -
apending chlldren of the dawn and of
i ihriat'a ampler da)."
THE ROGER BACON CENTENARY
The relelng or a fund for the pubiica
tloa of Roger Bacon'a works wlll be tbe
moat Importanl paii of tbe propoeed
. omim moratioii of th' aeventh cen
tenary of bia blrth naxt yaar. Ti." flral
volume of the edition whlcb ia now in
the praaa arlll contaln Ba. on'g bltherto
unpuhlislied trcallse on the paeudo*
Arlatotelian, "Becrel im Becretorum(M
edlted by Mr. Robert Btaele. The eri
tlon of a atatue In hiH bonor al i ixford
and the publlcation of a memwiial \>>i
ume dcaling wiih \arlous aapecta of his
work are also contcmplated
NIETZSCHE-STRINDBERG
lAnd George Brandes-A Bundle
of Letters
"Th.. Engliah Revlew" flnlehed in it*
july laaue the pubUcatlon of the eor
reapondence carrled on by Oaorge
; Brandea and Frledrlch Nietaache dur
ling th?- year 1888, whoaa cloee broughl
tbe flnal downbreak of the Qerman
philoaopher'a mind By b welcome co
i in idence, tbe Auguat "North Amerl
Ican Revli w" adcta to theae curloualy
Intereetlng lettera the brtef wajreapon
den< e ex< banged betwi en Nleti
and Btrlndberg. whom the greal Dan
jsh crltlc had brought Into eplatolary
relal lona,
or theae lettera, thoae wrltten by
Brandea ere the moel Intereetlng,
Btamped as they are with th.- InctetVO
qualit) of his btilliant well balanced
mind. He was th" diacoverer of
Nietaache ba Northern Europe; he ln
troduced him. by meana of lei
and artlclea, to Hie Bcandlnavlan In
telligenxla. H- waa forcibly atruck by
the cloae analogiea between Nletaache'a
and Btrlndberg'a Ideaa and vlewa In
lOctober, lsss. he wrou.- t<. th.- German
philoeophi r thal he had glven a copy
j of on.- of his booka t.> the Bwedleh
: dramatiat "a true genlua, bul " Ilttle
mad." Btrlndberg, after having read
Nietaache, declared: "it bi aatonlablng
Ihow much there acema t.> be In this
Nietxa he tbal i mlgbt have wrltten."
and Nietaache wrote t.. him. after hav?
ing peruaed "The Father," thal he was
aatonlahed "beyond all meaaure t" flnd
a work in whlch mj own conceptlon
..f \o\ ?? war u iih regard to its m<
and Ita fundamental lawa, nothlng leaa
than tlie fundamental war ..f the ?
had bei n expreaaed in so aplendld a
manner." Brandea, in anotber note to
Nietaache, characterlaea Btrlndberg
with ail the clear aanlty of his crltlcal
facult): "Can you Imagine that Btrlnd?
berg abhora bla wife paychlcally, but
cannot phyalcally abandon herT**
Througboul thla correapondence the
Qerman phlloaopher, whlle grateful for
the aervlce rendered him bj Brandea,
[and acknowledging the Intellectual
klnahip <>r Btrtadberg, i* contlnnally
cupied with his own y^.rks and
th.-ir diaaemlnatlon througboul the
m ith hbi own ii"
t..oi,'ht in Btrlndberg, who was then In
Parta, a tranalator of hla books into
French, and thna enumerated hui and
thelr Burpaaslng vlrtuea:
Betng, u i am, the rnoet Independent
and pcrhapa the atl rit ln ou
u,,:,l to-day, one doomed - the fulfll
,.? ?, 0f a tremendoua taak. . . in
my ??Zarathuetra' i hava attalnedi a
rectlon ln the Oerroan bwiage ?"'
equalled hltherto by any other Oe
??i--,,.. Homo" contalna abaol
unheard ol thlnga, and, II I may aay - ?
y rltten ln thc language of a worw cora
li.ander.
in Brandea*a lettera to Nietaache one
. ? time and agaln upon aome clever
or profound pronouncement, aa the oc
.., demanda. < ?f ibaen he aaya: MAa
b peraonallty he wlll be aure to inter
eal you He la unfortunately not
man equaJ to whal he is ns a poet"
BJdrnaon haa "ln his last phaae be
come a mere vulgar lay praacher."
Btrauaa, the author of "The Llfe of
jeeua," "waa and alwaya remalned the
pupll of the TQblngen clerlcal eollega."
?The Caae of vVagner" leada to occa
?ional mualcal referencee. And whal
could be more aetute than thla ob 11
vation concernlng Paacal: "i, too, love
|.;,?. cjut i ?? ...... iy all for thi Jeaulta
agalnat Paacal [In the 'Provlnclalea*].
Clever men of the world, they i
right; h<> dld nol underatand them, but
they have underatood him. and?what
b maateratroke of Impudence and aa
tuteneaa the] edited his Trovlnd
wltb not.es. The beat editlon ls that of
the Jeaulta."
a maaterly analyala of Doatolevaky
the man and the wrlter, la two brief
paragrapha, ls yet unfortunately too
long for quotatlon here.
Nletxache'a bul letter to Btrlndberg
. wrltten under the Bhadow of his
a| proachlng Inaai
Ifou wiu reeekvc an anawer tn
atory ln duc courae ll aounda llke ??
ahol i have commandi d a roj al ho
at Rome i w isii t.. ordei a
I'nii! wa ni. et agaln! Foi wc ahall ment
again.
1 !.- ^?-alo enndltlon. Dlvor .
NIETZBOHE '.' 1AF
S'r.nd'iertr's anaWOT was ev.-ry !>tt as
reni
j icareet Doctor: "1 v. III, I ?
Not wlthoul perturbatlon dld i recdvc
vinir letter, and I tbank you 'or It.
"More i Ightly wlll tho ? niua,
if tbou will i ot alwa ?
the i. nor, ? "??' ?
t? f,,r.- the al n m, c Ing 1
?
ln tha mean time -all hall t
Ad;
BTRIND1
ith?? I- st. the higheat God).
SOME RECENT FRENCH BOOKS
M cTEstournellea de Constant on America?M. d<* Se
gur'fl } listory of thr Fall of the Monarrhy?
Octave Mirbcau's "Dingo."
Parls. Jul Is 1 I '<?: n? Who "ln I
Durinj ;' . .r \ is'.ts to I
toi d'Eal * de ' tonatani
: re mllea and i
towna ti.ar. ?nv other contemporary
foi ? Indeed, very fea
h of
Btat ?
Ten -h
Parliament, wl Baa |
' .... fi ? ? ? tled ' Lea
? Lll 'II.! .?? M
mand Colln). The tir;t half of
work led ,.???.
. ..? large clt?
? rt| Bouth, Eaal
The aeci ' I ? ' ?'
ll . ? ?? , r '
nfroi
Tha
laking ai. rtia ol aerver. !!?? h ia
taken hia taak more than has
.v Ith many of his i ;? I
i ? aldea of tha Japaneee
. ? ,
new polnta to I ngl |Teal
...... ? ? md < ommi rclal con
llon. Thc bi iral loan ayatcm, In
whlch Myron Herrlck, the Amerlcan
Ambaaaador In Pai
. warmlj ? The au
ihor. who has original vlewa on the
femlnlal movemenl ln the Cnlted
tea, drawa edlfylng compariai na I ?
twaen auffragettea ln I riglai I and
??? the advantaga i '
the latter. M. d'Eatournellea has i ro
?.! ?ii aaceedlngly readable and not
-i tatf oi lh) pli ture of our coun
? ?, n i ci ntrywimen In almoal
all thi ?- lhi Ir .1. ly life
"Loula XVI et \e ker" la tl e tlti?
of the aecond rolume of th>- Marqula de
ctegur'a "I..- Couchant de la M?>nar
? .'The Wana of tha Monan b) ">.
the tirst volume of whlch, "Loula XVI
;.i rurgot," appeared three yeara ago>
Ujth of these bOOka, publiahed by Cal
iiiunii Levy, are fuii ?.f Intcreal for'
n readera becauee they as l \ ??
fr< h and Impartlal Inabjhta into ih ?
icai motlvea for French Interventlon
in behalf of the Amerlcan cdonica.
Thc Klng, Turgot, Nei ker, and ? a] ?
Queen Marle Antotnette, were
oppoeed to PYance'a takitiK parl in the
war. But the MinlsUr of Mailne, Sn
line, had Intruated a roung navai offi
cer, Co te de Keraalnt, arlth a aecret
miaaion to atudy the reaourcea of ih.>
revolted cotonlea and tha peraonal
rharai tera of the laadcra of the \v?r
for Independence.
In ; ahie report, dated December
L'-i, 1771. the Cmnte de Keraatni con
cluded thal it waa "abaoiutely necee
aar; foi France to tak>- part in the
Anierlcai war, f..r the trlpte reaaona
of honor, nathmal eecorlty and ma
terlal Intereat." French apathy would,
he expiained, resuit ln Brltbrb Buprem
.. from which France never could
recover, and if France did not BBlBe
the opportunlty aho would never ba
abla lo make w?r agaln, and iniKht as
well burn her ahlpg and dlaband her
armlee.
Aiu) it the samc time Benjamln
Frankl n arrlved al Havre to Joln ln
Patia bla two coUeafcuee, Arthur Lei
and Silas l?eane. The Prlllsh Aml.m
aador ln Parha, Lord Btormont, forth
nrlth called upon Vergennea the Min
later of POretgn Affabra, and aald: "Th
day thal Franklln, the rebel cblef, aei
foot ln l'arls, I shall Qtdl 1'iam e wlth
oul aven dernandtng a paaaportt" Vei
gennea, rather tmbaji leeed, repHed: "i
bave aenl a meaaang11 ta Havre to re
quaat the puid Franklin not to rnme to
l'arls, bul lf, aa la poeelble, the mcs
aenger arrlvee too late. i cainnot atreteh
ootnptacency s? iar as ta aapel thn
said Frankiin from the eapltaL" The
anlmoalty of Lord aHonnont larreaaad
the popuhtrity of Franklln, I** and
Ure, with no pi i a thelr halr, nnd
i with thi r modi I ? irlng.
thc republ in aual
omplel
? Parlaian B rl
war.: .
? ? ? ree Ami r
;. . ... ?
?-'.!?? I. , ;
\ i omte da '?
? ..
Mon
lorth
nce of tl:-- ordera
of the M feellng
pltch of
::. ? ; ' Loula XVI '?' :
' and et ? n Necker hlmeelf, ? l< Idi d I
I eoon afl
? .,. were
. tl ? !
treaty of alllance betweei ' i ? end
' the I'nit- I Btatea fo ed i:
i il t urned his back on l i d
Noal imbai r in
London. parl
latter
? Ign, and how, al tl
LtionoftheQui
I by
' the -
and 1 ??? ?
'. thi r with the gra<
novel. The book contalna an ej ent
iductli n of the i ortrall of 3
by Du] ' ? the |
i. Mme, di
noa in the gallery of the ? !hht<
; ? I ?
I ..ia- e ifirbeau'a "' Dli
one of hla beet I >aru in ref i
Australian Cania idng.. as tha
pure deacendani of the prlmltl ?
of wlld doga. M Mlrbeau waa
nate cn.oiKh to obtaln a flne BDI clm n
of thla anlmal and brought II up n
hla llttle country placc neai i 'ont*.
aome twenty mllee dlatanl from Parta
idngo aoon became the terror <>f the
Inhabltanta of tha departmenl ofBelne
et-oise. He lald wa te the poultry
tarma, . xti rminated ducka and
devoured turkeya end annibilated thc
gami He ahoa ed no n or lawa
or aocial cuatoras, bul had a hlgh raoral
Btandard of his own. ii.- bated bypoc
rlay, i anl and anol bei >, i >ingo" la
the medlum by whlch the author ? f
? i... Jardln dei Buppllcea" anal)
ronventlonallty and vanlty of the
French aoclet) of to-day, very mucb
as Voltalre uaed his "Huron" t<. lay
barc the artlflce and chlcanery thal
prevalled ln Ihe polite world of the
elghteenth century Dlngo had a mar
j velloua lnsight into human nature, 11
1 naarly kllled a dlahonaal notary, hi
n . nt< d the dupltcll y of hla maa
fumlly and kllled the pel lamb of
da ighter of a .-hun aavant Hla fld I
ity to his mlatreaa, hla traglc purauii
of i atag al tha head of ? pack of
hounda and hla pathetlC death form
thrilllng paaaagea In thla crlap llttle
paychologlcal novel Dlngo is the an
titheabi of Anatola Francc'a civlllaed
frleky Partabin poodle, Rlquet, the per
, nlflcatlon of akeptlcal b*ony and dla
daln. Dlngo. (" Bhort, la the canlne ex?
-? .-1 of rugged, pruneval feroclty of
? .o brought Into contacl with twen
antury ch lliaation.
!? rance Vb anta," thi lateal work
'?i lel ii motaux, of the Fri m h
and pre id.-nt of the cora
,i ' rance-Ametrique," tracea In a
i ii way tha re* Ii al and da
lopi of Frenoh publle aplrll and
patrl ? .ni that orlglnated in the rjer
mai manlfeatatlona al Tangler and
Ag ir. and comclded wltb ih" croa
ti. f the commlttee "Franea Amerl
qi .," whlch baa aaaumed domlnatihg
;.oiortions with lha Preeldency of m.
Raymond Polncara, Tbe aucceaa ai
ready attalned by the group of Amerl
cana and Frenchmen, who, since UMiy,
bave done so much t<. make France and
the United Btatea bettec known bo aach
other, has encouraged M Hanotaua to
! old oul bopee that before very kmg a
practical o ntrw-e aort of "Amerlcan
Houae" may be eatabttahed in Parle aa
i Pan-American bome, where Amerl?
can Btudente, bualneaa man, artlata and
othera may meet, and as beadquartera
for the gatberlng and dlaaemlnatlon of
Informatlon. The booh will proveatlm
iilaiitiK and of practical aervlce to all
on both aldea of.the Athmtle who have
at hearl ihe development of deeper and
broader relatlona between the two re
publii s. '' L H
?-??
AUGUST MAGAZINES
Fiction and Travel?On "Look
ing Literary."
SCRIBNER'S.
There are aeven ah6rt atorlea in the
mldaummer i-'i tlon Number of "Scrlb
ner's." Of theae, "Bonnle-Boy'a Peo
j s u Connolly, and "Thc
Blrd In the Buah," by Katherlne F.
<;. rould, di ai. In an approprlata a< naa,
with related aubjecta, the one wlth
e of country, obacure, Blendarly
pald, but of the utmost Unportance,
veraua tbe temptatlon of large aaJary
ln business; the other, with an oppor
tinity of dlstlngUlBhad public service
.,! t.. a man who, hrllliant though
be be, has failed in the materiai sense
of the word. But he has glven hoet
t.. fortune, and muet dodine for
the aake of lns alUnff.cblkt Both
| ?.. dlatlnctlon of thought und
feellng and treatment Emlnently wall
a reading Ih VarnoB Lae'a "An
Kngllah Wrlter*a Notea on iZngland"
Through "thlnga of the paat"?Oxford,
mtr . a country house. a cathe
dra! towcr ahe Interprcta tiie England
,f io-day to an lmuginary foreign vis
ltor. And. apeaklng of foni^n vtaltore,
lally of Amerlcana abroad, thep
(J (, ? ,,f Vlew of this number
gy for bul a BdentlUfl ex
planation of th. ae Ami rlcana who baad
i ..t tl : t" s ['
thla anonymoua wrlter.
t.-ii ti; that the braln wearlea and
. . omes actually atiacked by
I 0tM n i fal ? ? if ^ 's
i for to.. long ai a time into con
the aame l
.,.,,,. tourlat goea to Eurppe
.a.-ans eo gl
(?wn co in
not mean a i ? [ '??".
? ?'f tanill
muat
ange the ; I W ,>r
:
Thla wrlter is of the oplnlon, how
?. notwlthatandlng the con
. rowlng unlformlty of our riv
we are uwaker.ii.g te the fact
ita of ln
moal 4ina
ATLANTIC M0NTHLY.
?:l '. .1 .
Moody, edlU i by Danial Qragory Ma
? '? : ? ? ' '
ln tl of tl 'Al ?:"
? publlca
form aeei The
? maelf to have been a
t ia a ? loat art,
? arm of the bund'e here
aneoue, un
: a ni. st attracttve
Bvldently
written wlthout any aftertboughl of
? ? .- i
blng
upon a gn of s-ii i
ad artlcle by Ellen
n . itlon f. r Motherb.I" to
. the Ttl inlc,"
? ? ? ? !,,. iter marlner who
ri maln bi - and a ho
- ? , ? ? on many
. . pei M< re lif<' i
rewa a III nol mend
matti rvea md he rah*
curio - : i the I gai al
in England al leaat, of the atafl cap
? blg Unera now can
to the commander. Qatnallel
? ,rd adda a capital "C<
Portr - n his atudy of
t Toomba, a flghti r i ura and
r was marrad all
i,iM ufe i,.. "lea defauta de s.s iiual
lte?." Alezander Black wrltea antus
ibject of "Looking Liter
and, in identall). on the- dlatllu*
whlch the pi ra i ?'? ? : pearance of
ln general ao often producea
l? th< Ii ? ? J "He doi l not look
Hterar] " 11 ?' Btock phraae.
Tennyaon and Byron looked llke poeta;
?.i : ? and Brj ant But:
? ? .:;,! not I ' llisist
? lOUld look llke a
. her M.?x afUller haa nol aald
i . ? lerg; man mu t look itk.- a
I ? the i iltltude, jou may
. ::' go on matcblng the mark to
The danger ala B) ? waa
iti.it .larde . 1 a Byionlc collar
,.'??-! h) pera ma \\ I o were
I, murh h ss |.,..>ts i r
i al Parnaaalan tofl of anj Borl Natuce
w'.'.i havi Ita Joka and man wlll connlve
l;' no one could be so great aa Webater
looked, I have no doubl that no one could
be bo trana"eiulentl) literary as aoma
i'f the uOUntei ;? 11 have ? i ?? eeded in
LORD JOHNS LITTLE GIFT.
From Thc London Exi
'ihe following amualng atory is miied
from n minlature portrail [by O. W. K.
Kuaaell] of Joaeph Hume, a "Radlcal of
the di epeel dye." He was a member of
a committee which Inquired into the
aaktrlea of Minlatera of Btate, which, In
Humi 's oplnlon, were groaaly exceaaive:
"The Rral wltneaa called was th>
Prlme Mlnlater Lord John Fluaaell, and
a'hen Hume pul the quaatlon, 'Do you
thlnk thal the Flral Lord of the Treaa
.i . la overpald?' Lord John replled:
'Well, all i .an aay la thal 1 am not at
all a ri.-ii man. but, tiii i was Prlme
Inever was ln debt' Thbj
!??, i . reated aome aenaatlon, and Lord
.) hn'a eldeal brother, the Duke of Bed
ford Immediately placed t 1<?.imk? t,. his
eredll at Meaara Vere'a bank ii chooae
th ii noble namc from the Brltiah peer
age becauae i mean t.? convey that
Lord John'e bank had aoclal ronnec
? the higheat). At the following
i hriatmaa Lord John was paylng a
vlalt to his brother al Woburn Abbey,
and the duke, who had recelved n>> ac>
Igment Of his glft, asked: 'Well,
Johnny, doea your accounl booh look
any better this qdarter? And Johnny
replled: l never look at it. Meaara,
Vere'a clerke ar.- all young gentlemen,
and the) make so man) mlatakea In
their arithmetlc that it is no good look
Ing al their ngurea.1 This haa alwaya
Btruch HU as one of the (|uaintest in-?
itanci s of non aeauiuir." I
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
The French Hevolutlonary rerorda
nre far from being exhatisted M. Le.
notre's fasanating books. stlll coming
from the preaa, bear testimony to that.
NOW we may note the approaehlng
publlcatlon of a book by Mr. \v. j
DUIon contalning much new materiai
aboul Marat, the glrl who murdereii
hlm her nama, the author aaya waa
not Chartotte, but Marta de Corday
and the Qirondtng,
Wonderful Escapades.
"Wonderful Bacapadea hy Amcri
cana" is tha tltle of a book whlch Mr.
Wllllara Htone Booth has wrtttaaj for
young people. The text la made up of
dramatic accounta of deeperate ad
venturea, ranglng from Indlaa and
Colonktl tltnea down to thoae of our
own day.
A Llttle Cold Truth.
Amerlcan prajgeg of Mr. AJfgaaJ
i poema have been so ab irdl)
overdone thal it is rather p
than otherwlae to come upon thla paa
aaga In a revlew puMlahed ln "The
London Athenaeum": "The impree*
slon we get of Mr. Noy.-s's Kllgabath
ans ls that they are o\er-a\sare of the
vlvaclty, dlgnlty and daring of them
aelvea and th>:r s> t, and are so atu
dioiisly engaged in clapptng one an
other on the back thal th--y have no
i leteure to ba coUoctod, and to aee
thtngs in thelr natural oolors and pro
ns."
i Borrow and Fitzgerald.
One wrho v as a boy at Loweetoft
Iwhen <;>"iK" Borrow and Bdwari
Fltggerald, both old men, Uved in the
netghborhood, has lately set down hia
remlnlecencea of them. The two
queerly dressed grand old gentlemen
were to the lads of the placo ol.Jecta
of vague dread and f-ar; Borrow they
knew as "the Oypey Man" and Fitz
gerald as "Old Tum Tum," the cmner
of the lugger Meum and Tuum. Hor
row, we are told, "used to prowl at
nightfall tn a slouched hat and cloak
bunched round his shoulders. paeuaj
up and down tha roads and lanea
. . . and often In the company of
the membera of that num^rous gypay
lamlly. the Lees." The wrlter ? i n
? ludea thus: "I have sten tt Btatal
aomewbere that Fltzgerald i nd Bor?
row were not friendly. I kaow I have
feen tlu-m together often, and I have
a vlvld recollectlon of one day on the
North Denea, at Lowoatoft, aeeing
I Borrow fastening Fit/gerald's battered
i..id taii hat tu iiis bead ?-ith a auge
bandana handkerchlef after it had
twlce bkrwn off."
! Eugene Aram a Trial.
(".?ntemporary reporta of the trlal of
E igene Aram for a murder made fam
. i in poetry, tl tlon and drama are
I to he abnoet all untrnatworthy
' and Iraperfect PartlcuJarly Intereet
ing. therefore. wlll be a forthcommg
volume ln whlch tbe>caae haa aaa
recoi from unrubUahad do .
Iments in the Record office. The evl
e, Including some Btranga ra
tlona, graatly a:reng:h^na the case
agalnat Aram
1 An Experi nent in Democacy,
(Vhat ls deecrtbed aa tho atory of aa
experlment in fundamental democracy
j has heen wrltten by Mr. Bouck v.
. author of "The ('all of the Carpei
j u wlll le pubUabed bj 11
iPage A Co, |n the autumn under tha
tltle of "The Mlxlng: Wbat the H -
' port Nelshbors Did."
Mra. Thrale and Americans.
Mra, Thrale?Dr. Johaoon'fl
hostess and indulrent ftiend wrote n
har later years un autobloffraphy in
, fIx volumee. This baa never beea
! prlnted ln Its tumbrtdged form. tho'igli
? tho copio'is gelactlong
I Hayward ahouid have prca
{cream ot it. Edltora do not a
[think a'.ike, bowever, and it ma:
that the new volume of Beteetlone
win favor. Hera, by tbe way, ls *
llttle renectlon whlch the Uvely ladr
Imade at MUaa ln ITSBl "The Ameri?
cans have got a trlck of travelUhf, I
It is very foollsh in fheir go\-rn
ment to auffer "em. They wfll get
d."
The American Drama.
To trace t'ue growth of a r.-.'. e
drama on Auien"an BOtl 1ms been the
effort of rrofaaaor Rlchard Burton in
his book, "Th" N.-w Am.rican 1'rami."
whlch Crowall will btiag cit In Set
tember.
BOOKS RECEIVED.
ART.
THK NBfW BPIRIT IN DRAMA bKD ART.
1;. 14 ;. .v . nrtai U th llluatrati ? ln
B Mii whlta Bj B
pp x iro M Kcnneetey.)
BIOGRAPHY.
Uti.t.lAM BtORRU l - l*ereeaalj
lU Bj trthar Compton-Rtrkatt
?? im ? > k it runi - 1
:-. m ipiaca portrall - ? H
;: p !??:?
WTLLJAal BRKBBT HEKI.BT. By I* r?P*
1 ornford. Wltb a frontlapleea portiaa
frotu ?? photograph taken Bt v. rtblaa ;1
laaa 1 ?? Mr w n Blalkla IBn* *
Tha Houfhton Mlfflln company.)
HISTORY.
ANCIENT HI8TORT Bi Hutten v'/'?
| D.. rr^t-n^r M <*' fV-P *' ?'?" ?JJU
?,ra?ka T*n I'.itvIrM end nm^tfii i '"? ?
ti..n riftj thrca mapa h- I plena '-,I,U
pp xx\lll. 6fi.% .!> C Meaiti * ' " '
\ tastbecb TN r?i?< al ?lew la ^?* **
h-.nian ufc Tbe aapecte of hlai *y ^*f *"
of aapectal fi?nlflran,? ln modera tnou?o?
are ){i\.'n promlaenta_^^^?
BOOKS AND PUBLICATlONb. _
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Bj JSROMR l? TBAt l BO.
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I ri 11 tt< ?! raWe to tbe |y-?
raaae, ter aovlce <?' aapert, ba aaaarjawa
11 plarer.
BtaB net: po?lpalrt B-l"..
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HENRY VAN DYKE'S
THE INKNOWN QLANTITY
A Book of Romance and Some Half
Told Talea
RARE BOOKS A PRINTS IN EUROP^
M A LL-OliT-OF-FRINT-BOOKS^
a\ WHI1K MK: oai. c?( yoi anv book*
puti.hrl on ony aubjf.t. Tn? n,0,t,,?,*594
Sook fln^r .Ktaot. When ln Ei|il?i;d c^
BOOK SHOP. John BrUht at.. Blrminfham.