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The Orleans Civil War Collection

Some American Sketches of French Scenes Frank Wkitenkampf

French Studies Among American

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most notable of all the gifts of books It was during these years that he undertook THEreceived by the American Library in the great historical work which his participation Paris during the past year —indeed, the in the Civil War had inspired. The collections most notable received in the history of the made in the course of his work, now deposited Library, was the collection of transcripts, books, in the American Library, include 14 volumes maps, and pictures made by Louis Philippe of transcripts of letters and telegrams and d'Orleans, Comte de Paris, in the preparation 41 packages of transcripts of military orders and of his monumental "Histoire de la Guerre Civile reports, all probably from War Department en Amerique", presented by the present Due records ; also reports of court martial proceedings, d'Orleans. and 172 volumes of regimentl histories. The Comte de Paris, who died in England The results of «his studies were embodied in in 1894, was the grandson of Louis Philippe. the "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique", After the Revolution of 1848 he left France to published between 1876 and 1890 in seven live in Germany and England, later travelling volumes. A translation of the work by M. in Europe and the East, and taking part in L. F. Tasistro, edited by Henry Coppee and the Civil War in the United States on the staff J. P. Nicholson, was published by John C. of MacClellan. He served in the siege of Winston between 1875 and 1888 in four volumes. New York, and was present at the action of Volume Four of this translation contains Volume Williamsburg, later accompanying his chief in Seven of the French edition, and so much of the battle of Fair Oaks, and being personally the eighth volume as was contained in the MS engaged in the battle of Gaines Mill. When which the author carried with him when he difficulties arose between France and the United was banished from France. States on account of the affairs of Mexico, the Comte withdrew from the American army, His son Philippe, the present Due d'Orleans, and returned to Europe. donor of the collection, forced also by the Exile In 1864 he married his cousin, Isabelle, Law of 1886 to live abroad, studied at Sandhurst, daughter of the Due of Montpensier, and and afterwards served in India under the British returning to France in 1871 threw in his lot Commander-in-Chief, afterwards Lord Roberts. with the Royalist Party. He was refused per In 1890 he presented himself in Paris to fulfill mission to serve in the Franco-Prussian war, his military duties. There he was arrested and and in 1886 he was forced once more to leaVe condemned to two years imprisonment at France under the decree forbidding the country Clarivaux, but was liberated by President Carnot to the direct heirs of families descended from the after a few months of nominal imprisonment. royal line. This decree was inspired by the In 1894, on the death of his father he became marriage of the Comte's eldest daughter with the representative of the traditional monarchy the son of the King of Portugal, a marriage in France, and like his father took a leading which greatly alarmed the French Republican part in the activities of his party. He himself Party. He lived henceforth in England, waging has travelled widely and has published two an open war against the Republic of France, accounts of his travels, "Une croisiere au and writing upon economic and political subjects. Spitzberg" and "A travers la Banquise".

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292 Some American Sketches of French Scenes Frank Weitenkampf

The editors are indebted to the author for permission to reprint the following from the revised edition f his "American Graphic Art", published by the Macmillan Company in 1924.

American etchers of city views and lithographic crayon. George C. Aid attracted OFlandscape, Osgood and Winslow have by the problem of sunlight simmering on hot been interested in Paris, while others stones and on vibrating water, offered five have lived mostly or altogether abroad, working different .impressions of the cool arches of the under foreign influence, and choosing foreign Pont Neuf in Paris and the houses beyond, subjects. in the quivering light of a summer day. His Among them E. L. Warner, with a delicate Location de Voitures a Bras contrasts in its sense of quaint oldworld beauties. The grocery, and old mill, at Montreuil-sur-Mer, disclosed to him their hidden charm. Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, a Canadian, interprets locality in a personal manner which, as Wedmore has pointed out, is neither eccentric nor commonplace. He changed fromthe precision and elaboration of his earlier plates to the freer manner of these Thames and Venetian subjects, and Lauterb- runnen, "one of the few pictures that realize the vastness of the mountains... Space, sweep, grand eur, rudeness and power are found in this remarkable plate, which also is beautifully obedient to the canons of the art." Herman A. Webster, delighting in out-of-the-way quarters of NOTRE DAME by Louis Orr. old French towns wit h sun-baked Courtety of Marcel Guiot, 4, 1{u* Volnty. walls and mysterious shadows in dark corners, has felt the stern charm of vigorous handling with the airy grace of the Meryon, yet goes on his own way. In some Hotel de Cltmy, with its vine-crowned wall of his plates, definite sureness is linked with a and the slate-covered sloping roofs beyond. certain severity, in others there is a richness which Louis Orr, brilliant, with a sweeping, even in some original drawings becomes a lusciousness redundant gesture, "loves the picturesque", as that makes one regret that he has not tried the Clement Janin says, "and at .need creates it".

293 massing his lines with what W. H. Downes "with a flexible formality that accords with the calls "a fine sense of monumental effect.'' spirit of France". {Catherine Kimball draws Roi Partridge sees a Seine bridge from the without frills, with a dry soberness that has its standpoint of Dancing Water, dancing in broad subtleties of honest observation. Where shall bands of line that weave a pattern without one stop in recounting etched proof of the attraction of Paris? Thomas R. Congdon saw and placed St. Etienne du Mont with solidity of mass and richness of shadow. Frank M. and Caroline H. Armington and Adelaide Vose Congdon see the picturesque somewhat objectively and so present it in clear language.

Where these artists have shown the structural aspect of Paris, the life of the city has attracted Lester G. Hornby, seen as a picture in which houses and streets and people form a characteristic ensemble, recorded with gayety and a light yet precise indication. That gives us such a delightful bit of alley life as Passage de la petite Boucherie, full of rich shadows and bright sunlight.

Mr. Ernest C. Peixotto's work as artist and author has been devoted largely to a description of Spanish America, beginning with "Romantic California", published in 1910, sup plemented by "Our Hispanic South west" and "Pacific Shores from Panama", both published in 1916,

the spire of notre dame and by "Through Spain and Portugal", by Alonzo e. Webb. published three years ago.

Courtesy of Marcel Guiot, 4. fiat Volney. His earliest publication, however, losing limpidity. Alonzo E. Webb began to wasarecordoftravelinFrance.entitled.'Through attract mention in Maris about 1921 with the French Provinces". This was published Sainte Chapelle and other plates. Robert F. in 1909. Ten years later he published "The Logan interprets French villages and French American Front" a record of his experiences architecture, as the New York Times finds, in the War.

294 THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE

by F. M. Armington. Courtesy of Marcel Guiot. 4, 'Rue Volney-

Of "The Evolution of French Canada", by "Drums", by James Boyd, a story of colonial Professor J. C. Bracq (Macrnillan), Stephen America is described by Harry Hansen as the best Leacock says, "I think it is one of the best things book on its period since Hergesheimer's "The that has been done in our Canadian history '. Three Black rennys". In an article on Arthur Machcn in the New Of Mrs. Witt, a character in D. H. Lawrence's York Bookman for July, John Gunther describes latest book "St. Mawr", the New York Evening his "Hieroglyphics" as the most charming and Post Literary Review says, "In Mrs. Witt, Mr. readable of books. Lawrence has invented a character as remarkable At the recent meeting of the American Library and enthralling as any he has ever invented". Association in Seattle, Charles J. Finger, author Professor George Burton Adams of Yale Uni of "Tales from Silver Lands" was awarded the versity, whose death was recently reported, was Newbery medal for the most distinguished contri the author of "The Growth of the French Nation", bution to literature for children made by an Amer published in 1896. His later studies related to ican writer during the past year. English history, especially that of the 13th The "Home Book of Modern Verse", edited by century. Burton E. Stevenson, published by Henry Holt The following volumes have been added to & Co., is a supplement to his "Home Book of "Our Debt to Greece and Rome" series, published Verse", and includes the most representative by Marshall Jones Company, Boston : "Homer English and American poems of the present and His Influence", by John A. Scott ; "Aristo century. The book is dedicated to the Library phanes, His Plays and "His Influence", by Louis Overseas Fellowship, the members of which were E. Lord ; "Aristotolianism", by John Leofric associated with Mr. Stevenson in Library War Stocks ; and "Ancient and Modern Rome", by Service in France. Senator*: Rodolfo Lanciani.

295 French Studies among American Doctoral Dissertations

following bibliography of French Cushing, M. P. Baron d'Holbach : a study THEstudies among American doctoral disser of eighteenth century radicalism in France. tations is intended as a supplement to New York. 1914. Columbia University. the bibliography of "American Studies among 1914. 108 p. French Doctoral Theses'!, published in the Lamb, W. W. The syntax of the Heptameron. January issue of Ex Libris. It is based upon New York. 1914. New York University. the "List of American Doctoral Dissertations," 1911. 178 p. published by the Library of Congress since 1912. STODDARD, T. L. The French Revolution in This record shows that from the year 1914 San Domingo. Boston and New York. to 1923 inclusive, 3676 dissertations were 19.14. Harvard University. 1.914. 410 p. published, of which 81, or 2.2, per cent related Blossom, F. A. La Composition de Salammbo to French subjects. This was an average of d'apres la correspondence de Flaubert about ten for each of the ten years. (1887-62), avec un essai chronologique des Of the entire number published between 1913 lettres. Baltimore, 1915. Johns Hopkins and 1923, 51 related to language and literature, University. 1914. 54 p. 28 to history and 5 to philosophy, two of the latter relating to Bergson. Of the first class, Coleman, A. Flaubert's literary developement Fou, half related to modern literature, four dealing in the light of his Memoires d'un with Flaubert, and three with Balzac. Novembre and Education sentimentale of Baltimore. 1915. Fifteen different universities are recorded as (version 1845). Johns Hopkins University. 1913. 31 p. contributing to these studies, Columbia Uni versity contributing 36, the University of Young, C. E. The marriage question in the Chicago 10, the University of Pennsylvania 8, modern French drama. Madison. 1915. Johns Hopkins and Bryn Mawr each 6, Cornell, University of Wisconsin. 1915. 93 p. Princeton, the University of Illinois, and the ELLERY, EloiSE. Brissot de Warville ; a study University of Wisconsin each three, and the in the history of the French Revolution. others each one. Boston and New York. 1915. Cornell The following is a list of these dissertations University. 1902. 528 p. arranged in chronological order : GREGORY, Allene. The French Revolution and the English novel. New York and Hopkins, Annette B. The Influence of Wace London. 1913. Radcliffe College. 1915. on the Arthurian Romances of Crestien 337 p. de Troies. Menasha. 1913. University of Chicago. 1912. 155 p. Smith, R. M. Froissart and the English Fischer, W. P. The Literary Relations between Chronicle Play. New York. 1915. La Fontaine and the "Astree" of Honore Columbia University. 1915. 156 p. d'Urfe. Philadelphia. 1913. University of Falnestock, Edith. A study of the sources Pennsylvania. 1913. 103 p. and composition of the old French Lai Phillips, P. C. The West in the diplomacy d'Haveloc. Jamaica. 1915. Bryn Mawr of the American Revolution. Champaign. College. 1915. 1913. University of Illinois. 1913. 247p. Cahall, R. Du Bois. The sovereign council SANDISON, Helen E. The "Chanson d'Aven- of New France ; a study in Canadian consti ture" in Middle English. Bryn Mawr. tutional history. New York. 1915. Colum 1913. Bryn Mawr College. 1913. 152 p. bia University. 1915. SAIT, Mrs. Una M. The ethical implication Haxo, H. E. Denis Piramus : "La vie Seint of Bergson's philosophy. New York. 1914. Edmunt" (12th century). Chicago. 1915. Columbia University. 1914. 183 p. University of Chicago. 1913. 57 p.

296 Barney, Winifred S. Corneille's comedies as Kahn, LlNA. Metaphysics of the supernatural a mirror of contemporary events and of as illustrated by Descartes. New York. the theories of French polite society in 1918. Columbia University. 1916. the first half of the seventeenth century. Vaeth, J. A. Tirant lo Blanch; a study of Canaan, N. H. 1916. Syracuse Univer its authorship, principal sources, and histo sity. 1916. 65 p. rical setting. New York. Columbia Uni Mitchell, Julia P. St. Jean de Crevecceur. versity. 1917. 169 p. New 1916. York. Columbia University. BoWEN, R. P. The novels of Ferdinand Fabre, 1916. 362 P. including an account of his life and a ALLISON, J. M. S. Church and state in the discussion of his position in literature. reign of Louis Philippe. Princeton. 1916. Boston. 1918. Cornell University. 1916. Princeton University. 1914. 178 p. 138 p. CoRWlN, E. S. French policy and the American Hamilton, A. Sources of the religious element alliance of 1778. Princeton. 1916. Uni in Flaubert's Salammbo. Baltimore. 1918. versity of Pennsylvania. 1905. 430 p. John Hopkins University. 1914. 32 p. Kurz, H. drama European characters in French GARRETT, M. B. The French colonial question of the eighteenth century. New York. 1789-91 ; dealings of the Constituent assem 1916. Columbia University. 1916.329 p. bly with problems arising from the revo LuKER, B. F. The use of the infinitive instead lution in the West Indies. Ann Arbor. of a finite verb in French. New York. 1918. Cornell University. 1910. 167 p. 1916. Columbia University. 1916. 113 p. Kelly, A. W. French Protestantism 1559- Fischer, Lizette A. The mystic vision in the 1562. Baltimore. 1918. Johns Hopkins Grail legend and in the Divine Comedy. University. 1916. 186 p. New York. 1917. Columbia University. Fundenburg, G. B. Feudal France in the 1916. 148 p. French Epic, a study of feudal French Peckham, G. W. Logic of Bergson's philo institutions in history and poetry. Prin sophy. New York. 1917. Columbia ceton. 1918. University of Chicago. University. 1916. 68 p. 42 p. Schifeley, W. H. Brieux and contemporary Le Due, Alma de Lande. Gontier Col and French society. Putnam. 1917. Univer the French pre-renaissance. New York. sity of Pennsylvania. 1914. 436 p. 1918. Columbia University. 103 p. PlRAZZlNI, Agide. Influence of Italy on the SwANN, H. French terminologies in the literary career of Alphonse de Lamartine. J. making ; studies in conscious contributions New York. 1917. Columbia University to the vocabulary. New York. 1918. Press. Columbia University. 1917. 160 p. Columbia University. 1918. 250 p. PATZER, 0. Eustache Deschamps as a commen tator upon the events of his time. Madison. House, R.I T. L'Ordene de chevalerie ; an 1917. University of Wisconsin. 1907. Old French poem, text with introduction and notes. Chicago. 1918. University of Curtis, E. N. The French assembly of 1848 1917. 69 p. and American constitutional doctrines. Chicago. New York. 1917. Columbia University. Bruce, H. L. Voltaire on the English stage. 1917. 359 p. Berkeley. 1918. (Reprint of theses sub 1915 University.) 152 p. Wood, Mary M. The spirit of protest in mitted to Yale Old French literature. New York. 1917. Hardy, C. 0. The negro question in the French Columbia University. 1917. 201 p. Revolution. Menasha. 1919. University Dunn, W. E. Spanish and French rivalry in of Chicago. 1916. 91 p. the Gulf region of the United States, Melvin, Frank E. Napoleon's navigation 1678-1702; the beginnings of Texas and system ; a study of trade control during the Pensacola. Austin, Tex. Columbia Uni continental blockade. New York. 1919. versity. 1917. 238 p. University of Pennsylvania. 1913. 449. Harvitt, Helene J. Eustorg de Beaulieu, a Hastings, W. S. The drama of Honore disciple of Marot, 1495 ?— 1552. Lancaster, de Balzac. Menasha. 1920. Johns Hop 1918. Columbia University. 1913. 164 p. kins University. 1919. 14 p.

297 RlDDELL. AGNES R. Flaubert and Maupassart : Havens, G R. The Abbe Prevost and English a literary relationship. Chicaeo. 1920. ltfTcture. Baltrrore. 1921. Johns Hop Univers:ty of Chicago. 1916. 120 p. kins University. 1917. 26 p. Parker, W. The Paris Bourse and French Nussbaum, F. L. Commercial policy in the finance, with reference to organized specu-, French Revolution ; a study of the career lation in New York. 1920. Columbia of G. J. A. Ducher. (Washington. 1923.) Univfrsrty. 1920. 117 Universty of Pennsylvania. 1915. 388 p. p. Collins, KlNG, Helen M. Les do'-trines litteraires de R. W. Catholicism and the second la Quotidienne, 1814-30. Durham. 1920. French Republic, 1848-52. New York. Bryn Mawr College. 1917. 1923. Columbia University. 1923. 361 p. Andison, G. The affirmative particles in Atkinson, G. The extra ordinary voyage in J. French. (Toronto.) 1923. Columbia Uni French lterature before 1700. New versity. 1923. 104 p. York. 1920. Columbia University. 1920. Lowe, Lawrence F. H. Gerard de Nevers, 192 p. a study of the prose version of the Roman ToWLES, 0. Prepositional phrases of asseve de la Violette. Princeton. 1923. Prin ration and adjuration in Old and Middle ceton University. 1923. 72 p. French. Easton, Pa. 1920. Bryn Mawr Clarke, J. A. Le laie Bible, a poem of the College. 1919. 47 p. fourteenth century, with introduction, Dawson, J. C. Toulouse in the renaissance ; notes and glossary. New York. 1923. the Floral games ; university and student Columbia University. 1923. 150 p. life; Etienne Dolet (1532-34). Pt. 1. the Pugh, A. R. Michelet and his ideas on social floral games of Toulouse. New York. reform. New York. 1923." I Columbia 1921. Columbia University. 1921. 87 p. University. 1923. 243 p. Krappe, A. H. Alliteration in the Chanson Emmanuel, C. W. The charities of St. Vincent de Roland and in the Carmen de prodicione de Paul ; an evaluation of his ideas, prin Guenonis. Easton, Pa. 1921. University ciples and methods. Washington. 1923. of Chicago. 1919. 82 p. Catholic University of America. 1923.

' Emile Henriot's Aricie Brun" is being translated The memoirs of Leon Daudet are being trans into English by Henry Longan Stuart, and willl lated into English by Arthur K. Griggs and will be published by B. W. Huebsch. be published by the Dial Publishing Company.

The prize offered by the English Poetry Review Mr. H. C. Chatfield-Taylor's "Cities of Many for the best poem on Edgar Allan Poe has been Men" is to be published by Houghton, Mifflin awarded to Edwin Markham. The poem is & Co. in the autumn. It is devoted to reminis published in the New York Times Book Review cences of life in London, Paris, New York, and for June 7th. Chicago.

Of "The Causes of Industrial Unrest", by John A. Four letters written by Mrs. Whitman (Poe's Fitch (Harper), Ordway Tead says, "In all proba Helen), are published in the Yale Review for bility no abler statement on the causes of industrial July. They establish no sensational facts about unrest will appear in the current decade. It the separation of Poe and Mrs. Whitman, but do promises to he one of the classics of American cast further light on the story and give a vivid industrial literature." picture of the individuals concerned.

The new edition of the "History of the Fabian In an editorial occasioned by the death of Mr. Society", by Edward R. Pease (Allen & Unwin), A. C. Benson, late master of Magdalen College, is a reprint of the edition of 1916 with the addition the Times says that he won fewer readers for his of a supplementary chapter giving the history subtle exercises in the biographer's art than for of the Society from 1916 to the present. This two collections of essays, 'The Upton Letters", includes the revision of the Basis, or test of admis and "From a College Window". "These have sion to the Society, and the progress of its teaching always provoked rather than pleased the critical in and through the Labor Party in England. intelligence."

298 THE FIRST FRENCH BOOK ON CANADA ship which was carrying it from a bookseller's in Hamburg to America.

Monsieur A. Leo Leymarie, Correspondent There are three MSS of this work in the for the Canadian Institute, in an address given Bibliotheque Nationale. The first, richly bound,

before the International Congress of Librarians, with the arms of Charles IX, was formerly in held in Paris in 1923, gave an account of what is, the royal library at Fontaihebleau. The second,

perhaps, the first French book on Canada. backed in red leather, came from the library of of la of This was the narrative Jacques Cartier's Philibert de Mare, a scholar Bourgogne.

second voyage to Canada in 1535 written by The third is bound in red leather, with the

himself, and printed in 1545 by Ponce Roffet, arms of Louis XV.

'dit Faucheur*, and Antoine Le Clerc, Brothers, In 1863 a reproduction of the London copy of Cartier's narrative was made, similar in every

detail to the edition of Ponce Roffet. This reprint was edited by Monsieur d'Avezac, and by published Tross in Paris. $*> Brief rccit,& , fuccinrte narration de la nauiga- TRANSLATIONS OF M. LOUIS FABULET tion kicte esyfies deCanada,Ho-

The following list of M. Fabulet's translations

chelape & iaguenay & aulres, auet from the English shows how much he has

mcurs.langaige, & ce- particulierM done to introduce English literature to French runonics d« habitant d'iccilesiforc readers.

delegable i vtoir. Lord Byron, Cain. Reider. 1923.

Mf* Aucc priuitege. OnUivali tv'n fifcconifiKiertnUgrui' ', ftlltin t4tt' ,CT'"1' "n ""if1* wftrtlvnrZ < f nftigntit Ufa iefrite.fur Pen Rofti 0&

Fnwheur,©- Antbo«i« It Cltrtj'rt ' + ( (•

THE FIRST FRENCH BOOK ON CANADA.

at theirjpress in the rue Neuve Notre Dame in

Paris, at the sign of the "Escu de France".

It bears the title "Brief recit, et succinte narration

de la nauigation faicte es ysles de Canada, Hochelage et Saguenay et autres, auec parti- culieres meurs, langaige et ceremonies des

habitans d'icelles : fort delectable a veoir," and

consists of some forty-eight pages in octavo.

Only two copies of this edition are known to in be in existence to day, one the British Museum, in and^one the Municipal Library of Rouen. in A third copy wasjost at sea 1851 with the M. FABULET.

299 Hewlett, Maurice. d'Imray. Le Chat Maltais. Actions et Réactions Le Cahier de la Reine. Eugene Fasquelle edit. (En collaboration avec A. Austin- Jackson). Sur (En collaboration avec A. Austin-Thierry) le Mur de la Ville. Sa Majesté le Roi. Du W. B. Maxwell, Cran! {Mercure de France edit.) Les Gardiens de la Flamme. Plon-Nourrit et Histoire Comme Ca. Charles Delagrave edit. Cie, edit. (En collaboration avec Robert d'Humieres). Kipling, Rudyard Thoreau, Henry David. Le Livre de la Jungle. Le Second Livre Walden. Nouvelle Revue Française edit. de la Jungle. La Plus belle Histoire du Monde. Whitman, Walt. L'Homme qui voulut être roi. Les Bâtisseurs Œuvres Choisies. Nouvelle Revue Française edit. de Ponts. Kim. Capitaines Courageux (En col (En collaboration avec Jules Laforgue, André laboration avec Ch. Fountaine- Walker). Lettres Gide, Valéry-Larbaud, Jean Schlumberger, du Japon. L'Histoire des Gadsby. Le Retour Francis Viélé-Gri ffin).

THE BRIDGE AT CHATEAU-THIERRY Immediately after the German evacuation in 1918. From Ernest Peixotto's The American Front". Courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons.

Mr. Ernest C. Peixotto's work as artist and Spain and Portugal", published three years ago. author has been devoted largely to a description of His earliest publication, however, was a Spanish America, beginning with "Romantic Cali record of travel in France, entitled, "Through fornia", published in 1910, supplemented by "Our the French Provinces". This was published in Hispanic Southwest" and "Pacific Shores from 1909. Ten years later he published "The Ameri Panama'.both published in 191 6, and by "Through can Front", a record of his experiences in the War.

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The article in Ex Lihrh for June, "entitled the reviewer is better prepared to assess the "The Paris of the 'Tale of Two Cities' should value of their work than anyone else ; assum have been credited to Mr. Robert Edward ing too that he has the time to properly dis Annin, author of "Woodrow Wilson ; a Char charge these duties, should the critical process acter Study". then stop? * It cannot, first because reviewers do not agree, and then because however capable the The report of the American Library for June reviewer may be of telling what place a new shows gifts of books amounting to 248. Among book has in the literature of a subject or among the donors were Mrs. M. K. Petri, Mrs. McLaren, books of its class, when it comes to applied and Mr. Simons. The total number of sub criticism his limitations are obvious ; he may scribers registered was 300. This included the be able to determine the value of a book, but Dick, following new members : Mrs. L. B. he cannot always indicate its use. Major C. H. Howell, Monsieur de Luze, Mrs. A middleman —a critical middleman is needed, Elizabeth Mygatt, and Mrs. Thurston. and his services are the more practical because The book circulation for the month was instead of being general in character his crit 10,020, or 16 per cent more than during the icism is specific, and instead of talking about corresponding month last year. the book he gives it to you. There may be a certain sanctity about printed criticism, but Literary More Criticism and Better, there is an unquestionable value in the criticism An Open Letter to Mr. Ernest Boyd which expresses itself not in fine words but in My dear Mr. Boyd : well considered acts. Literary criticism is not Your comments on the activities of La Societe an end in itself ; its end is the production and Sekwana in the Independent for May 30 have use of better books, and the latter is hardly just been brought to my attention. They less important than the former. lead me to wonder whether you are not seeking I should like to see booksellers and librarians for the literary reviewer a monopoly of critical more critical rather than less ; I should like to duties which others should share. see them criticised not for being critical, but Assuming that next to the author and publisher for not being critical enough.

301 When I read the above over I find that I Chauffier : L'Epervier ; Jacques Bainville : Le have been argumentative. What I really want 18 Brumaire ; Lucien Dubech : Les Chefs de file is not to argue the matter but to get at the facts de la Jeune generation ; Ch. Langlois : La Vie en France au Moyen-Age ; Andre Bellesort : Essai with regard to it. The question of book selec sur Voltaire ; Louis Bertrand : Perbal ; tion, and particularly the selection of books in Jean P. de Nolhac : La creation de Versailles ; Victor foreign languages, should, it seems, to me Giraud : Le Christianisme de Chateaubriand. receive more consideration. For the month of July, the following books are Very truly yours, chosen : W. Dawson Johnston. Henri Beraud : Au Capucin Gourmand ; Alexandre Arnoux : Suite Variee ; Henri Longnon : French Book Selection La Nouvelle Helene ; Jacques d'Arnoux : Paroles For the month of June the Literary Committee d'un Revenant; Andre Beaunier : Vie amoureuse of the "Sociiti Sekwana" of Paris chose the following de Julie de Lespinasse; Pierre Quint : Marcel books as the best in its opinion : Proust ; Georges Lecomte : Albert Besnard ; Ernest Jean-Richard Bloch : La Nuit kurde ; J. Kessel Seillicie : Alexandre Vinet ; Henri Davignon : et H. Iswolsky : Les Rois aveugles ; Louis-Martin Un penitent de Fumes.

The second edition of the "Special Libraries are inclined to believe that this is the finest novel Directory", compiled by May Wilson, Librarian of the American" Revolution which has yet been of the Merchants' Association of New York, and written published by the Special Libraries Association, The Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania has voted 195 Broadway, New York, contains the names and to bestow the Huguenot Cross on C. addresses of 975 libraries devoted to agriculture, Mr M. Sublette, author of Cockerel", industry, business, art, education, history, science "The Scarlet and other special subjects, together with descrip because it describes with such power the Huguenot emigration to America. This novel was awarded tive notes indicating in what subjects each library the Charles Boardman Hawes prize for the best specializes. "No other compilation has ever adventure story of the same general character as brought together in one place *so many highly "The published by Little, specialized sources of information", the preface Mutineers". It is Brown & Co. says.

"The Foreign in ; a study by In an article on Thomas Hardy in Harher's Student America the Commission on of in Magazine for July, Ernest Boyd declares that Survey foreign students the United States of America", conducted under the "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and "Jude the Obscure" auspices of the Friendly Relations Committees of were the two great novels of the nineties, with the and Y.W.C.A., and edited by W. R. "Esther Waters" a third of equal merit. Y.M.C.A. Wheeler and others, has been published by the Professor David Eugene Smith of Teachers Association Press, in 1892, it says, there were College, New York City, has published through more foreign students in Germany than in any Les Presses Universitaires de France a brochure other country, 22 per cent of whom were American. entitled, "Historical-Mathematical Paris", which Today the United States has the largest enrollment will interest not only mathematicians but other of foreign students, there being more than 8,000 lovers of Paris. in the colleges alone ; and among European nations France has taken the place of Germany. In 1892, The best fiction which has come out of America for example, there were 4 15 American students in since 0. Henry, according to E. V. Lucas, is Fanny ; Germany today there are between six and seven Hurst's "Lummox". hundred in France.

"Diplomatic relations between the United Slates The Nineteenth Century for August contains and Mexico under Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1910", is some hitherto unpublished letters of David Hume, the title of a monograph by Miss Pauline S. Relyea, two of which were written from Paris. published in the Smith College Studies in History, volume 10, number 1. Sherwood Anderson's "The Story Teller 'sStory ", (Huebsch), is described by the New York Evening Of James Boyd's "Drums" (Scribner's), the Post Book Review as "As new and fresh a contri New York Evening Post Literary Review says, "We bution to literature as any book we know".

302 Book Reviews

The Causes of Industrial Unrest, by John A. heroic age of New England ; Mrs. Burrage, the Fitch. New York and London. Harper & eternal New York hostess ; Gilbert Osmond, the Brothers. 1924. 424 pages. Italianate American. There are scarcely half a dozen figures in American fiction to be placed The author's point of view in this remarkable beside them", Mr. Brooks declares. study of American industrial conditions is well Among these characters, however, it is those indicated in his preface to the book. "I do not who are seeking an escape from the New World regard unrest or struggle as undesirable in them to the old, that interest Mr. James most, and it is selves", he says. "On the contrary, their existence this aspect of his work as a novelist, more than any is evidence of the state of health that is the mark other, that interests Mr. Brooks. The romantic of a dynamic society. It is not unrest that need vision of the Old World that exists in the American concern us, but rather that the channels for expres heart, the drama of the emigre in search of the — sion of unrest shall be open and unobstructed arts of life this, he says, is Mr. James's natural The remedy for the evils of trades unionism does domain. He possesses it as truly as Balzac posses not lie in the destruction of unions any more than sed the Paris of the Restoration. political evils are to be cured by the destruction "But", he adds, "the characters in his early of government ". novels are not as a rule quite sure of what they In the quarter century 1881-1906 there were an want in Europe, though they all exist for the sake average of 1470 strikes a year ; in the period 1916 of getting there. What they are sure of is that to 1921, an average of 3,343. In his discussion they want to escape from America — and that they of this increase Mr. Fitch deals first with the never do escape.' economic conditions which foster industrial unrest ; second, struggle between capital and labor ; with the The Letters of Archie Butt, Personal Aide to third, with the relation of the government to the President Roosevelt. New York. Double- struggle ; and, fourth, with the more deeply day, Page & Co. 1924. 395 pages. fundamental causes tending to make the struggle universal and permanent. The charm of Major Archibald W. Butt to those Of the four parts, the third, and particularly of us whose privilege it was to know him was the chapter on the relation of the courts to labor, unquestioned. Is it therefore surprising that his is of greatest interest. In regard to this Mr. Fitch letters of Washington official life, during the last is of the opinion that there is a strong and growing winter of Theodore Roosevelt's last administration, body of judicial opinion favourable to the aspira are as charming as their author? The present tions of labor, but that in spite of this the unjust series, which it is hoped will be followed by others and unjustifiable decisions which have sometimes concerning the Tatt administration up to the been made by the courts exert a greater influence moment of the Titanic disaster in which Archie in determining attitude of labour towards the the Butt lost his life, seethes with real historic interest courts than do the other decisions. as well as with that degree of wholesome, non- malicious Washington gossip, which a gentleman The Pilgrimage of Henry James, by Van Wyck to the manner born and bred might well leave Brooks. New York. E.P. Dutton & Co. as a legacy to an always interested posterity. 1925. 170 pages. 1 here are anecdotes of the Koosevtlts and their guests, both at the White House and at Sagamore — Henry James was the first novelist in the dis Hill, there are tales of diplomatic life and customs tinctively American line of our day, Mr. Brooks the latter irksome and futile to a degree, it seems — says; the first to challenge the herd instinct, to and there are opinions and thoughts and cxprtssions, reveal the inadequacy of our social life, to present that are not only captivating, but which make one the flight of the highly personalized human being realize what a splendid type of man and son was in the primitive community. Archie Butt. "Christopher Newman remains for all time the Mr. L. h . Abbott has written an introduction wistful American business man who spends his to tne volume, to which he has also added some life hankering after the fine things he has missed. singularly superfluous "editings', yet the lttttrs Daisy Miller's character, predicament, life, and themselves form a presentation which no editing death are the story of a whole phase of the social has been able to injure to any appreciable exttnt. history of America. Dr. Sloper, that perfect Several pictures and a valuable maex lonn pait embodiment of the respectability of old Nevv York ; of this attiactive book of levcatiuns. Miss Birdseye, the symbol of the aftermath oi the flits holm

303 Lives and Times : Four Informal American Beginning with the advent of Andrew Jackson Biographies, by Meade Minnigerode. New and Major Jack Downing, she describes successively York. G. P. Putam's Sons. 1925. 215 the Bigelow Papers, of the ante-Bellum period, Bill pages. Arp and Petroleum V. Nasby representing respecti vely the South and the North during the sixties, Mr. Minnegerode styles his four biographies Artemus Ward and Josh Billings, and among informal, and they are. None of them is about humorists of the present day, Mr. Dooley, Abe people of vital importance, but the author has the Martin, and Potash and Perlmutter. Each of these, gift of making them seem more significant than according to her thesis, are successive incarnations they are, and all four stories form good reading. of Uncle Sam, the unlettered philosopher. The biography of General William Eaton is "Only American letters," she asserts, "can show written with verve, and the casual student of so large, so persistent, and so significant a body of American history will be surprised at some of the political and social satires, of comic writing and of events on the Barbary coast a century and a quarter sententiae for which the man of the people is the ago. Sometimes General Eaton seems too enter spokesman" ; and among all American humorists taining to be quite true, but the author gives events of this class Lowell the Northerner, and Charles and dates in a manner which indicates his deep Henry Smith the author of Bill Arp, the Southerner, knowledge of what he offers his readers. stand first. The remaining three biographies deal with Stephen Jumel, merchant ; Theodosia Burr, pro digy ; and E. C. Genet, citizen. An Untitled Story, by Donn Byrne. London. Marguerite Holm Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 156 pages.

There is an elusiveness about this book, a rarity Some Contemporary Americans, by Percy H. of spirit and substance which it is difficult for the Boynton. University of Chicago Press. 1925. critic to catch in his cunning web. Its spirit 289 pages. burns with all the clear purity of a slim, taper candle— yet one can see within the twisting, Some two-thirds of these essays were first pub writhing thing, that lies at last a little charred, lished in the English Journal, and in their present bitter wick in a breath of quiet smoke. In sub form are certain to interest all students of American stance it has the happy touch of the true romanticist, contemporary literature. The best among them

who, is, despite what the age may say, your only relates to Booth Tarkington, of whom the writer true realist. One does not ask, "Can this thing says "Since the Dickens' triumphs of two genera

be?", one merely accepts it. The quaint quality tions ago Tom Sawyer has been the only boy to of of its Irish brogue has none the conscious stage gain a celebrity as general as that of Mr. Tarking- of craft of a Yeats, nor the careful art a Synge, ton's two proteges of eleven and seventeen."

and the story has a sureness of psychology, with Chapters are devoted also to Cabell, the most

none of the psychologist's obvious properties. The talked of romantic novelist in the country, among

writer has perhaps unconsciously succeeded in whose books "The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck" — that burning quest of every artist to be a little and "The Cream of the Jest" seem the most different from all the rest. important, and to Dreiser the most relentless

J. A. L. Shercliff among American realists. Among poets Robinson and Frost receive first consideration. "Captain Craig" is described as Thunderstorm, by G. B. Stern. London. Chap the key poem to the former's philosophy, and the man & Hall. 1925. 224 pages. latter is said to have been, next to Masefield and Masters, the most popular poet in recent years a a Given a house upon hillside, overhanging in point of view of American sales. Masters dazzling Italian sea, four inconsequent and wholly "Spoon River Anthology", Professor Boynton human English people, and crowning triumph, declares, in the first years after publication was the the deliciously fantastic figures of Vanna and the most read and most talked of volume of poetry fat Ettor , who are both bond and free, servant that had ever been written in America. of and ruler in this paradise fruit and flower and of sun, who could not weave at least a tale charm?

Crackerbox Philosophers in American Humor Not only has Miss Stern given us a charming

AND Satire, by Jennette Tandy. New York. book, but one full of laughter, for the thunderstorm Columbia University Press. 1925. 181 pages. soon passes. Her delightful, elfin humour, and

her happiness of colouring make this story an Dr. Tandy has written a book of even greater excellent companion for a brief, workless afternoon. interest than Dr. Chittick's "Thomas Chandler

Haliburton". J. A. L. Shercliff

304 Study William Mason: A in 18th Century year 1754. It is greatly to be regretted that it was Cu:.ture, by John W. Draper. New York not allowed to Beer to complete his exhaustive University Press. 1924. 397 pages. history of the British colonial policy. But that which he has written has been done with thorough This thoroughly academic work was in its first ness, accuracy, and impartiality.

accepted by York University is, form New for the The present book as its subtitle indicates, a degree of M.A. After fiveyears further elaboration tribute to Beer's work, which was checked by an

it was accepted by Harvard University in partial untimely death. It comprises two parts. The is fulfilment of the requirements for doctor's degree, first a series of biographical contributions by and now, after a total of ten years' research it is Colonel House, Charles M. Andrews, A. E. Zim- published. mern, W. H. Shepardson, and James T. Shotwell,

scholars, is Although Mason is known today, even to The second composed of appreciations. only as thefriend and biographer of Thomas Gray, W. Garfield there was hardly a writer of his time, Professor Draper observes, whose poems ran through so The Best Short Stories of 1923-24 and the many editions during his lifetime, and appeared Yearbook of the French Short Story, not only in French but in German and Italian

edited by Richard Eaton. Boston. Small, translations, and there is no literary man of the

Maynard & Co. 1924. 462 pages. period, except Dr. Johnson, Horace Walpole. and perhaps Gray and Gowper, about whom there is Sometimes we are forced to make shift with the more detailed information. second-best, and a translation, however excellent, "This mass of material, scattered through is never quite the original in spirit and substance. hundreds of volumes, many of them rare and most For those to whom French literature is accessible of them obscure to the general reader at least, has only in translation this collection is perhaps as been collected ; its authenticity weighed ; the good a second-best as any, though one wonders fragments, often drawn from widely diverse origins, if it is entirely representative of the best among have been articulated part to part, and the results, contemporary French short stories. Short sketches, freely interwoven with the ipissima verba of the often excellent in their psychology, one or two with original, have been set forth in the text of the that touch of delicate fantasy which one expects present study." from such writers as the Countess de Noailles and Among chapters of special interest are those Paul Gcraldy, and sombre pictures of the terrors entitled, Garden", Dramas", "The English "Mason's of human suffering there are, but somehow one "Mason's Satires", and "Mason's Relations to misses here the more simple realism of a de Mau Music and the Pictorial Arts". — of passant and above all here is no fountain sparkling laughtor at which to quench one's thirst.

George Louis Beer : A Tribute to his Life The indexes and bibliographies at the end of the and Work in the Making of History and book should prove both interesting and useful. Moulding Opinion.

the of Public New J. A. L. Shercliff. York. The Macmillan Co. 1924. 164 pages.

Symons : A Arthur critical study, by T. Earle Economist, historian, and publicist, George Welby. London. A. M. Philpot. 1925. Beer is and be remembered as a Louis will scholar 1 48 pages. who rendered an invaluable contribution to colonial history. Beer devoted a large portion of Mr. Symons may be for most people the writer of his life to the study of the origins of the British certain songs which are equalled only by those

colonial system, and he mastered that field as had of Robert Bridges among his contemporaries. no American before. After a long and exhaustive Such for example, as that with the lines research in the London archives, he issued several "Her eyes say Yes, her lips say No, volumes. The first appeared in 1907, entitled Ah, Tell me, Love, when she denies

"British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765". This work Shall I believe the lips or eyes?"

was epoch-making. Besides being a revelation of But while some of these earlier poems, parti the conditions in the colonies, such as the British cularly "London Nights", Mr. Welby says, contain

Government saw them, during and immediately the most novel part of his contribution to English

following the Seven Years' War, it constituted an poetry, it is in "Amoris Victima" and later poems

extremely valuable contribution to the understand that he has given us some of the subtlest dissections

ing of the causes of the American Revolution. of love that have ever been written, poems com In 1908 Beer issued another volume, entitled "The parable with Constant's "Adolphe", the treatise ; of Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1680". Stendhal, and the work of Donne and Patmore

As a continuation of this, four years later two and his poetic tragedy, "The Harvesters", is the

volumes more appeared covering the period to the most important single achievement of his career.

305 It is, however, Symons's critical work, and land. Colours with him are subdued, and sounds particularly his essays on literature which interest are mellow, and to him the weeds that

Mr. Welby most, for to him Symons is the finest "Shout upon the morning air

critic of his generation. His "Introduction to Until the flowers are dumb",

the Study of Browning", for example, is still the are rank and insolent intruders upon the peace of best preparation for the reading that poet, of the "gentle-born" grass that covers the land. is is His essay on Aubrey Beardsley described as He at his most tranquil in the lyric "Rain a the acutest and most carefully just thing ever Crow", and in "To Child With Eyes' he reveals

written about that artist, and his essay on Beethoven his charm in most fantastic and delightful fashion. noblest, has been the profoundest and L pronounced J. A. Shercliff

thing ever written in English about the great musician. Spiritual and Political Revolutions in Islam,

by Felix Valyi. London. Kegan Paul,

Trench, Trubner & Co. 1925. 236 pages. Vagabonding Through Changing Germany, by Harry A. Frank. New York. 1925. The — This book consists of three essays, "The Century Co. 358 pages. Turkish Revolution and the Future of Islam",

"The Problem of Egypt", and "Russian Asia "You want to get into Germany?" queried the Minor". Legation, with .elevated eyebrows/ "Well, all

The profound beauty of the movement which we can say is, God bless you!" But nevertheless

produced Mustafa Kemal in the Musulman Mr. Frank left the happy orderliness of Holland, is world and Gandhi in India, the author and after much seeming submission to official says, not yet understood Europe, nor, indeed, the by dignity, and pocketing of even his "penny dreadful"

fact that the whole of Asia and Islam are united conscience, succeeded in making his way through

with and Angora in their struggle against that changing countryside. Turkey the Western Powers. This misunderstanding, he of There is little of the spice adventure which

believes, is largely due to the prc*Rus'sian and, "A Vagabond Journey Around the World" gives

— since the fall of Czarism, the pro-Greek policy us, indeed, this vagabondage is for the most

of the British, and particularly of the Liberal ; by a part, train, with return journey by aeroplane Party. of yet, nevertheless, as a first-hand picture past-

In view of her Asiatic interests, the author urges, war Germany it is interesting. Great Britain should have become the mediator He shows a hungry Germany— more hungry, — between Christianity and Islam, rather than the perhaps, than some of us like to realize d Germany of champion of either, and the Christians the divided against itself, and suspicious of all the

Near East instead of becoming revolutionaries, of world. It is not the Germany legend and tale should have allied themselves with the reform that he describes, but a country where everything

party in Turkey. is "ersatz", and where, in the occupied area the

The chapter on "The Problem of Egypt" con iron rule of Prussian militarism has unwillingly of tains a translation the Resume of bowed its head before the coming of the Army of Egyptian

aspirations drawn up December 14, 1918, a docu Occupation, and the carefree "doughboy".

ment comparable in importance to the National Only in the chapter, "On the Road in Bavaria"

Pact of Angora. The Egyptian question, the of do we recapture some of the charm pre-war of author explains, is a the Sudan, Germany, where the quiet, slow-witted countrymen partly question where the Nile dams expose Egypt to danger, smoked long-stemmed porcelain pipes in little if of not to death, and partly a question the Suez rustic inns, and where the Bavarian beer is still of by canal, the neutralization which is demanded sweet and cool-tasting to the wanderer. the Egyptian Nationalists.

J. A. L. Shercliff Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna

Spring by Thunder and Other Pofms, Mark Roosevelt Cowles, 1870-1918. New York, Van Doren, New York. Thomas Seltzer. London. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1924. 1924. 69 pages. 323 pages.

Mr. has, of of is Van Doren perhaps, fewer the 'It may be that 'the voice the people the of subtle modern complexes which afflict his kind voice of God' in fifty-one cases out a hundred," of of than many this generation poets. Here and Roosevelt says to his sister in one of these letters, in is a there his work there sudden, quiet beauty, "but, in the remaining forty -nine", he adds, of a and underneath stirs palpitating warmth life. "it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, ; The land sings to him where his verse moves or what is still worse, the voice of a fool.

with beauty it answers the call of nature, and He gave expression to this same feeling about it is it of where quiet has the calm still, fallow the low average of the average man when he entered

306 of of Harvard College in 1876. At that time he wrote, of the life and achievements one the rare

"It is astonishing how few fellows have come here gentlemen who has been a candidate for the Pres with any idea of getting an education." His idency of the United States. Yielding to the of own average for the first three years of his course false and sentimental idea democracy in vogue

was 82 per cent, and his standing in his class the world over, the writer makes a rather feeble nineteenth. and unconvincing effort to portray Mr. Davis as of It was at Harvard that his acquaintance with a "child the peepul". He follows his hero Henry Cabot Lodge began ; and it is of the home through childhood days at Clarksburg, West of the Lodges that he says in a letter written Virginia, college and professorial years at Wash

some ten years later, "It is the only place outside ington and Lee University : his life as junior of of the family that I really care to visit," and it member Davis & Davis, lawyers, and his entry is to Lodge himself that he refers in a letter dated into national and international life. Woodrow

April 30, 1900, saying "The dear old goose actually Wilson met Mr. Davis for the first time in 1912, regards me as a presidential possibility of the at once recognised his sterling worth, and, when future." It was at this time that he wrote to the occasion arose, named him first Solicitor Lodge and Piatt announcing that he desired to General, and then Ambassador to the Court retain the office of Governor and did not wish of St. James. The chapter on Mr. Davis's service in to join McKinley on the Presidential ticket. London is especially interesting. II of One might quote interesting bits from other Part the book is devoted to excerpts from a letters, but it is better that the reader should his speeches and opinions, and survey of his find them for himself. philosophy. Paul Rockwell. John, Viscount Morley : An appreciation AND SOME REMINISCENCES, by H. Morgan. John The Isles of Fear : the truth about the Phil London. John Murray. 1924. 215 pages. ippines, by Katharine Mayo. New York.

These reminiscences of Morley, already published Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1925. 372 pages. in part in the Quarterly Review, Nineteenth Cen of A number books have been written about tury, and other magazines, are a sympathetic and the Philippine Islands, two of the most recent and discriminating review of his career as writer and

best known being the new edition of "The Philip politician, and an invaluable supplement to his

pines, Past and Present", by Dean Worcester, own "Recollections". and 'The Corner Stone of Philippine Indepen The essay on "Compromise", General Morgan dence", by Francis Burton Harrison. Although says, is to his works as the keystone of the arch, these two authors had but Utile else in common, and Morley himself thought it the most serious they did both write their books as incidental of his own writings, though he preferred his to their residence in the country. Miss Mayo, "Cromwell". General Morgan, however, puts however, went to the Islands for the special purpose his "Life of Cobden" 'first. "It is", he says,

of writing a book and had the opportunity of "one of the best biographies in the language". viewing the field with the open and receptive And his biographies of Diderot, Voltaire and of mind the newcomer. Every source of infor Rousseau, he declares, are, and probably will mation, all important records and files were made remain, the most penetrating, the most sympa available to her, and Americans and Filipinos thetic, and the best informed studies of their representing all branches of service and all classes subjects in the English language. by of society, were interviewed her with the frank Morley's opinion of politicans and of political purpose of securing first-hand information. events is also of interest. The three outstanding Though it is not believed that the main purpose figures in nineteenth century history besides of in writing "The Isles Fear" was to present a Gladstone, whom, of course, he regarded as a strong case against independence, the book does man apart, were Disraeli, Bismarck, and Cavour. undoubtedly stand as a forceful argument against The Treaty of Versailles, he thought, meant

granting the much discussed freedom and as a not peace but simply the cessation of war, and the severe indictment of the people who are struggling League of Nations he called "a mirage, and an for it. To readers unfamiliar with the Philippine old one", though when asked about the Covenant Islands the arguments are conclusive and must it, he said, "I have not read and I don't intend to deeply influence their opinions ; to those familiar read it. It's not worth the paper it's written on". with them, the arguments are equally conclusive,

but there remains a regret that the author has not JOHN W. Davis, by Theodore A. Huntley. New given a little more credit where credit seems to

York. Duffield & Co. 1924. 295 pages be due. of Campaign literature, but not the worst of its Some Miss Mayo's criticisms are indeed

kind. Mr. Huntley gives a very readable account severe, and must be traced to one-sided and not

307 entirely friendly "informers". For instance, the Youmans is called "the most dynamic force of in paragraph concerning the Philippines General in the advancement scientific thought Ame Hospital seems hardly just to anyone familiar rica". He secured for Appleton, among • other

with that fine institution, which has for some books, Darwin's "Origin of Species", upon the

years beeni under complete Filipino control. publication of which, Mr. Overton says, hundreds

Miss Mayo observed, absorbed and faithfully of threatening letters were received, and one of it, recorded the picture as she saw and she has the most distinguished clergymen in America

taken the greatest pains to secure information wrote the head of the firm that he would be punished in from all sources, both for and against indepen this world and in the world to come.

dence, but nevertheless, she has found but little The most popular of their books, on the other s to commend in the Islands. hand, appears to have been Noah Webster of A reader may well reflect upon the wisdom Elementary Spelling Book, of which, Mr. Overton judging by results alone, without making allowances says, "No other book in the English language, of in for the good will and whole-hearted efforts the with the single exception of the Bible, can any

people, simply because these fail to meet the way approach the remarkable sales record of the of requirements American teachers and leaders. Webster Speller in its hundred or more years of '

There must be something to commend in a country popularity. a in in to which so many Americans have gone spirit The publication of books the Spanish language

of venture and where they have remained in a for sale in Latin-American countries was also a

spirit of service. "Old Timers", mission workers, feature of their business. In 1867 these numbered and educators have made places for themselves nearly fifty titles.

which is securely based on American understanding and Filipino appreciation. Poets of America, by Clement Wood. New Alice Fitzgerald York. E.P. Dutton&Co. 1925. 392 pages.

essay a The Enigma of Rabelais : an in inter "Up to few years ago," the author says, any

pretation, by A. F. Chappell. Cambridge. general census of American critical opinion as

The University Press. 1924. 196 pages. to the six leading poets would in all probability have named Robinson, Frost, Sandburg, Lindsay, of Thi. author of this study of Rabelais' writings Masters and Amy Lowell." In place the last

holds that it is impossible to look upon then; either two he would to-day substitute John Hall Wheelock

as an expression of Protestant thought or as the and Rose O'Neill. a is effort of a physician to amuse his patients. Instead While the book devoted largely to description, of of it is necessary to study them with a threefold with illustrative extracts, the work these it : division in mind "Pantagruel" and "Gargantua", poets and their contemporaries, contains five of the work of his immaturity, the utterances the introductory chapters on Poe, Whitman, Sidney : student and monk ; secondly the "Tiers Livre" Lanier, Adah Isaacs Menken "a forgotten

and "Quart Livre", the work of his mature years Deborah", and Emily Dickinson, "the shrinking ; of and of a man the world and thirdly the "Quint seer' .

Livre", which, composed at various times, appeared Among contemporary writers it includes also

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MONTHLY SELECTION A ; Asa Subscriber to the "Sekwana Selections" , you will read the books that should be read : you will be Comprises the IlVC best works selected from all the sure to receive upon its appearance the novel talked of various lands of general literature : novels, theatre, without having had the trouble to find it or to wait for social, political, philosophical subjects, history, memoirs, it... You will avoid the purchase of a worthless book souvenirs, poetry, travels, humor, etc.;. and is most happily arranged to insure, in a general way, the bought at hazard. You will possess a French library of intellectual contact with modern French letters. the very best and kept regularly up to date.

MONTHLY SELECTION B SUBSCRIPTION BLANK Detach and to OR SELECTION OF NOVELS : address the "SOCIETE SEKWANA" 58, Boulevard Ratpail — PARIS Includes the three best novels of adventure, Please accept mv subscription to : historical, humoristic, etc... it is best suited to those A*. -Monthly t who look to reading only for amusement. Sekwana Selection (5 volumes per month) France and '", Foreign • French Colonies 3 months $ 7 Frs. • 50 130 These selections are made by a competent 6 months t 14 00 Frs 250 •12 months $27 Reading Committee composed nf the following eminent 00 Frs. 480 personalities : B*. -Selection of Sekwana novels : [J volumes per month) France and RENfi BOYLESVE. for Foreign French • Colonies 3 months 4.60 Frs HENRY BORDEAUX. • f 80 6 months S 8.80 Frs 155 JOSEPH BEDIER.' •|2 months $17 00 Frs. 305 HENRI ROBERT. The above volumes will be stnt post paid to my Former Dcait of the Order of Attorneys, resid ncc by registered mail each month All of the French Academy ; Enclosed herewith the sum of POL NEVEIJX. of the Goncouit Academy ; JACQUES BAINVILL.E. ADDRESS : PIE«RE LYAUI>.Y. M HENRY MASS1S. Street ANDRE MAUROIS, FORTUNAT STROWSKI, City Professeur at the Sorbonne, Stale PAUL VALERY. Signature

In addition, the Committe draws up a MONTHLY Strike off items that do not applr LIST of all the works presenting a real value for their of the volumes sent merit, irtercst in the matter, or information. The Paris selling price varies literary subject 10, — from Krs. 6 7r>to the average being Krs ~.5o. Taking this list is sent with each service of the MONTHLY into account transportation cost, it "ill be seen that SELECTIONS A and B. the above rates hardly equal the selling price in laris |

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