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The Supposed Shakespeare Manuscript

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news of an important Shake "Leave out insurrection and cause thereof, ALTHOUGHspearian discovery, no less than three at your own perills." autograph pages in an unpublished A few efforts were ineffectually made to "tone dramatic work— has been sent broad-cast through down" the objectionable passages, but it was the press, no journalist to my knowledge has the subject itself which could not be tolerated explained in what the discovery actually consists, in officialdom and the drama was eventually nor given the reasons which go with it for leading consigned to oblivion. the principal authorities to declare that the scene There it remained until 1844, when Alexander in question can be attributed positively to the Dyce, one of Shakespeare's most conscientious same authorship as Hamlet. editors, went through this section of manuscripts A brief statement of the case and a critical and being thoroughly conversant with the examination of certain parallels between this penmanship of the Stratford signatures, observed play of Sir Thomas More and Shakespeare's that a scene of Sir Thomas More (the one which historical dramas, may however enable each describes the May Day riot) was in the same reader to form an independant conclusion as handwriting. to the value of this new document, which is by In those pre-Baconian days such an announce no means new. ment hardly caused a ripple of curiosity. Shake The Book of Sir Thomas More, to use the origin speare had written so many "Comedies, Histories, al old English form of the title, has lain for some and Tragedies" over his own signature that it three centuries in the Harleian collection among seemed superfluous to dig up one more detached papers which the Elizabethan censor, Edmund scene merely because it was "authentic hand Tilney, refused to authorize for production. made".

His reason appears obvious : praise of the great So the manuscript after being carefully tran English Chancellor executed for upholding the scribed by Dyce was shelved for thirty-seven integrity of his faith could hardly have been more years, at the end of which period it was pleasing to Henry VIII daughter, and the again examined by an eminent man of letters, representation of a bread-riot in London during Richard Simpson, and again pronounced genuine. hard times, seemed a dangerous suggestion for Simpson, however, was an ardent Catholic, and any theater to stage. At any rate, we find the inclined to believe that Shakespeare's sympathies censor scribbling on the fly-leaf : lay with the religious party for which Sir Thomas

291 More died and to which Lord Southampton, of the MSS. concords exactly with the description Shakespeare's declared patron, belonged. His given by Shakespeare's fellow actors of the article "are there any extant manuscripts in original "copy" furnished them by the poet.

Shakespeare's handwriting?" therefore, simply "His mind and hand went together ; and what revived discussion of the categorical declaration he thought he uttered with that easiness that made by Shakespeare's first biographer : "'He we have scarcely received from him a blot upon dyed a Papist" and as this theme has always his papers." been it soon ended, and the document unpopular, According to the custom prevalent about 1590, was once more laid to sleep. the play was a patch-work collaboration entrusted " Official silence however has now been brought by the theater to professional hack-writers" to an end. In view of the attempts to prove wherein each author treated the portion best that the "Stratfordian" was nothing but a fitted to his special aptitudes. The four other clown or an almost illiterate pawn-broker whose handwritings are easily identified as belonging alleged work was done by Bacon, Lord Derby, to the censor himself, to Anthony Munday — Lord Rutland or Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford ("the best constructor of plots" according to what a clever pawn-broker he must have been, Francis Meres) Thomas Dekker and Thomas by the way, to keep these noble noses so constant Heywood. These latter were lifelong admirers ly on the grindstone for the glory of Shakespeare, of Shakespeare, acknowledged by Heywood as — of Stratford it was decided that the time their artistic superior, u) There is good had come to have these old papers scientifically reason to suppose that they were several times and authoritatively investigated. The manu associated in collaboration of this kind before script was accordingly turned over to the leading Shakespeare's name was known in the foremost experts in different lines of research and sub rank, for we find them bracketted together by mitted to close scrutiny from five different John Webster who speaks of "The right happy view-ponts ; graphological, historical, literary, and copious industry of M. Shakespeare, M. philological and philisophic. Decker and M. Heywood, wishing that what I Sir Edmund Maunde-Thompson furnishes a write may be read by their light." complete study of the handwriting with facsimiles. However this may be, the most difficult scene He has shown that all the capital and small in the play was given to Shakespeare, who was letters which are common to the 147 lines of obliged to show the citizens' legitimate grievances, text and to the Shakespeare signatures in will their unreasonable violence and the oratorical and leases, are formed identically in the same talent of More, who, just at the psychological manner, and that the intense peculiarity of moment, turned the crowd from their sanguinary Shakespeare's writing is only to be parallelled purpose, and became afterwards an impassioned in the sharply accused personality observed in the penmanship of the "May-day" scene. In short Mr. Pollard, Dr. Greg, R. W. Chambers and (I). Heywood, speaking of his translation of Helen and Mr. Dover- Wilson agree with the expert graph Paris being mistakenly attributed to Shakespeare says "Acknow ologist and their precursors of fifty and seventy ledge my lines unworthy of his patronage". Later, in an amusing review of the authors who never succeeded in being years ago, in declaring that William Shakespeare known, except by their nickname, includes Shakespeare with of Stratford was unquestionably the writer and the best : composer of the text investigated. Marlowe, renowned for his rare art and wit Could ne'er attain beyond the name of Kit ; The scene bears the marks of rapid impromptu Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting quill writing ; the few corrections and crossings out Commanded mirth or passion, was but Will ; And famous Jonson, though his learned pen are done currante calammo and the appearance Was dipped in Castaly, is still but Sen."

292 advocate with the king for the ringleader's It is just the attitude found elsewhere in Shake ; pardon. Shakespeare, it should be remembered, speare toward mob-rule : humorous compre had already succeeded in putting immense life hension and sympathy for the honest workingl and vigor into the Jack Cade riot scenes in the man ; horror and detestation of tyrannica- old play of Henry VI, which his company had brute-force. newly furnished up to the delight of play-goers. We shall see presently how he again used similar material in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus.

But before arguing along these lines it is necessary to establish once for all that it was actually Shakespeare's company that had the hardihood to submit such a subversive drama as Sir Thomas More to the authorities. This can be done with evidence furnished by the text itself ; for the stage directions read : "Enter T. Gooddall, as a messanger" and the records thow that the comedian of this name belonged so Lord Strange's men for whom Shakespeare worked, according to the expression of a jealous rival as "An absolute Johannes Factotum".

Let us glance over the 111 May Day scene, a miniature drama in itself, with the militant "Doll" as heroine, John Lincoln, a modest man of the people as hero and victim. Both are convinced that the high cost of living is due to French and Flemsih skilled labor and believe that if they do not wish to "see butter at eleven pence a pound they must cut foreign throats or at least force all aliens back across the chan MANUSCRIPT OF THE DRAMA OF SIR THOMAS MORE nel." hi in the handwriting of Shakespeare. From "Shakespeare's The difficult episode is treated by the young Handwriting", by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, playwright with consummate art. The specta Oxford, The Clarendon Press, l'J16. tor's sympathies are first captured by Doll and " her army only to be swayed back, like the mob Sir Thomas More's speech begins : Friends itself, by the eloquent pleading of Sheriff More. Masters Countrymen'' — Is it not significant how close this comes to the famous opening of Mark Anthony's oration? The interruptions of the (I). The author, who, just at this time, was getting his rioters are identical with the shouts of the poem» printed in the French house of Thomas Vautrollier, populace against Brutuas and Coriolanus and the where Richard Field his old Stratford neighbor was employed as apprentice, could hardly be expected to show ferocious whole passage abounds with parallels in style anti-foreign sentiment. and structure with the more celebrated Roman It is interesting to note here that as the Roman Populace Rhymed couplets with desire Coriolanus' exile in order to "buy corn at their own dramas. are interspersed price so in this drama Doll and Lincoln decide to chase the blank-verse in liberal proportion characteristic foreigners home in order to prevent prices in London from manner, going higher. of the poet's early and the scene concludes

293 — with a stanza where More laments Lincoln's Let us look a little further : untimely death in a way which is almost worthy ''You shall perceive how horrible a shape of Portia ; regretting that such a monstrous Your innovation bears, first 'tis a sin shaken affront to the majesty of law should have Which th'apostle did forwarn us of Justice and Mercy out of their accustomed Urging obedience to authority And t'were no error if I told you all sejenity to wreak swift chastisement. You were in arms 'gainst God — In doing this, Oh desperate as you are! ''Oh God that Mercy, whose majestic brow Wash your foul minds with tears and those same Should be unwrinkled, and that awful Justice [hands Which looketh through a veil of sufferance Upon the frailty of the multitude Should, with the clamors of outrageous wrongs That you like rebels lift against the peace and wakened thus to punishment." Lift up for peace, and your unreverent knees Be stirred —- Make them your feet to kneel to be forgiven ! You'll put down strangers kill them, out their More's harangue leads through the same [throats Possess their houses and lead the majesty of law to a conclusion identical with that of reasoning [in lien . Coriolanus expressed in the same half line : To slip him like a hound "Would feed on one another" although one orator is represented as loving the people whom This metaphor of the hound which is suddenly he deems "misguided", the other as openly let slip and cheered on its prey, appears again in despising them. Coriolanus where Titus Lartius is described as holding Corioli until the word "Rome" is 'lAlas, poor things, what is it you have got More : given : Although we grant you get the thing [you seek!' "Even as a fawning grey-hound, in a leash removing of the strangers — Citizen : "Marry, the To let him slip at will [which cannot but choose but much advantage the poor handycrafts [of the city!' Verbal concordances between these lines and that More : "Grant them removed and grant the well known dramas are striking : who but [this your noise Shakespeare would use such an expression as Had chid down all the majesty of England. Imagine that you see the wretched self-reason and self-right, would couple the [strangers epithet stale with custom, speak of unreverent Their babies at their backs, with their as he does else [poor luggage knees, call suffering sufferance Plodding to th'ports with costs of trans where twenty-six times, or make a verb out of portation the noun shark, a daring usage which is repeated And that you sit as kings in your desires in Hamlet? Can we read More's description Authority quite silenced by your brawl And you in ruff of your opinion clothed of the insolence of success : - You What had you got? I'll tell you! "And you in ruff of your opinion clothed"— [had taught without being reminded of Hamlet : How insolence and strong hand should [prevail "Dressed in a little brief authority" —or fail and How order should be quelled, by to see an analogy between More's diatribe on [this pattern. mob-violence, Not one of you should live an aged man. For other ruffians as their fancies wrought self-same hand self-reasons and With It Coriolanus, after insulting the crowd as "disentious [self-right (1). rogues" who dare have an opinion of their own, on public Would shark on you, and men like matters, and who, like the sick are always craving what would fishes do them the most harm, concludes that without the senate [rav'nous ' Would feed on one another. which keeps them in awe they all "would feed on one another.

294 "Oh power ! what art thou in a madman's eyes "Thereof comes the proverb 'Blessing on " Thou maks't the plodding idiot bloody-wise !" your heart you brew good ale'," with a score and the curse pronounced on love as a breeder of like utterances, might lead to this perfectly of trouble in Venus and Adonis ; legitimate conclusion : "If Shakespeare actually "It shall be raging-mad and silly-mild wrote this scene it should contain reference to "Make the young old, the old become a child." proverbs in general and several particular Certain commentators, surprised at Shake examples of them." speare's unusual verb "to jet" which he uses for As a matter of fact neither reference nor "treat insolently" in Cymbeline and Titus Andro- example are lacking. nicus have been moved to declare the expression When John Lincoln, the leader of the riot, is a probable misprint. Here we find the term about to die we find him exclaiming : repeated and the meaning confirmed. Lincoln "This the old proverb now complete doth declares : make "It is hard that Englishmen's patience must "That Lincoln should be hanged for London's thus be jetted on by strangers." sake" And we read in Andronicus': The clown gets off an English version of "How dangerous it is to jet upon a prince's "C'est le premier pas qui coute" — "The first right." stretch is the worst methinks". The Earl of We now come to the crowning piece of Surrey, speaking of a Frenchman who, after corroborative evidence : Among certain charac luring away a London goldsmith's wife, sends teristics there is no trait more distinctive of her husband a bill for her board and lodging, Shakespeare's style than his constant use — remarks ironically : —

an ill almost abuse of the proverbial aphorism f'He's bested that lends a well-paced horse

or popular saying. All his early comedies "Unto a man that will not find him meat."

borrowed, is bristle with truisms original and More declares when he made Chancellor : "I domestic and foreign. More than thirty are now must sleep in court, sound sleep forbear

taken from John Florio's First and Second Fruits "The chamberlain tp state is public care" where the author declares : and he terminates the passage leading to the

"Proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the denouement with the following sage reflection : purities, the elegancies —as the commonest, "My lord, farewell, new days beget new tides

so the commendablest phrases of a language ; "Life turns 'bout fate, then to the grave it to use them is a grace, to understand them a slides." good." As for Doll, when the poor girl's turn comes Shakespeare undoubtedly shared this opinion. to mount the scaffold, she attemps to comfort

Numberless references to the wisdom and force her husband with the assurance that in paying of such epigrams are to be observed in his God the debt which they owe him, all earthly entire work. debts will be acquitted. Now this thought

"Fast bind fast find, a proverb never stale in figures in Florio's "Golden sayings" and Shake of thrifty mind" speare also makes use it again in Henry VI, when "Like the poor cat in the adage" Feeble the Tailor, who has been pressed into

"I am proverb 'd with a grandsire's phrase" military service cries :

"They sighed forth proverbs" "I care not! a man can die but once—we all a "Any such proverb so little kin to the purpose" owe God death and he that dies this year is "I will cap that proverb with 'There's flattery quit for the next." " in friendship* Thus three folio pages are found to contain

295 'dedicating his work to this half a dozen epigrammatic sayings and one the author was — that is to say which is borrowed from Florio's collections. brilliant young man of letters between 1590 and 1598. Consequently such Just the proportion we would have expected to here noticed, in an authentic Shakespearian work of an abundant use of them as has been find — early date— 1593 at latest an early period. tends to confirm the ascribe For the poet's proverb-mood belonged espe which Mr. Pollard and his collaborators scene, in the drama of cially to those years when, profoundly influenced to the "Ill-May-Day" riot by Lord Southampton and his Italian professor, Sir Thomas More.

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The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth, by Frederick With the ardour of a knight-errant Mr. Cham Chamberlin. London. The Bodley Head Ltd. berlin espouses Elizabeth's cause against the

New York. Dodd Mead & Co. 1923. 324 pages. Queen of Scots and shares all her jealous suspicions against England's ally, France. This leads him

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Life of Queen Elizabeth", has made another scholar and critic is bound to deplore. notable contribution to historical research. The Longworth Chambrun real documentary value of this new work makes us deeply regret that it should have been composed without any regard to chronological sequence Madame Adam, by Winifred Stephens. London.

and so to speak "hind side before". Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1923. 235 pages. In seeking literary effect through climax, the

author has arranged to lead up gradually to the The charmingly written biography of a clever most striking sayings so that there is no sequence and intensely patriotic French woman. Marrying of thought or purpose in the book. Treated very young, Madame Adam immediately left her differently we might nave had a remarkable human native village for Paris where thanks to her many document, the picture of a gifted and original talents and good education her flaming ambition young woman, poisoned by indiscriminate flattery soon made its way. of In and gradually transformed into a captious old f an extraordinarily short space time she — is, tyrant. As it this unselected mass of evidence created a successful "salon" a rare achievement. — leads to nothing but confusion, unless the reader To her doors flocked politicians, savants, poets ; it is a of and great deal to demand the average all the celebrities of the time and many of them — : student possesses sufficient historical knowledge celebrities of all times Renan, Flaubert, Lamar-

to place each saying in its psychological relation tine, Alfred de Vigny, Thiers, Gambetta, Saint- to the Queen's bloom, ripeness and decay. Simon... while George Sand was her most intimate

Thus we find certain groups beginning with friend. And mind you, a salon of those days a a of pouting exclamations middle-aged sovereign of stirring unrest and intrigue was more than in "I in crossed love, would give a million to have social gathering, it was the nucleus which my frog (the Due d'Alencon) swimming in the powerful groups were formed. in Thames rather than the dark waters of the Madame Adam passionately lived through the of a Netherlands", continuing with flash senile dark episodes of 1848, valiantly endured the terrible in in of anger against the new spirit wakening England, Siege of Paris 1870; finally she was there

to end with the really magnificent saying of her her ripe old age to turn an undaunted frcnt to — vigorous militant youth, "Thank God I am the last great German invasion. But never, I endued with such qualities that if were turned even when things were at their dreariest, never , I out of the realm in my petticoat were able to did this dauntless woman, this "Grande Francaise

live in any place in Christendom." as she has been called, lose faith in the eventual

But Mr. Chamberlain loves his subject too triumph of her beloved Patrie. — much to make any invidious distinctions, for Small wonder that the women of France pay him at least, "age never withered" Queen Elizabeth scant attention to suffrage, they are too busy for s and she never became either a doting old woman that. Accomplished women of Madame Adam

nor an unapproachable tyrant. Hero-worship in a type influenced the elite, even when their books

biographer may be a quality, in an editor and did not reach the larger circles : the petite bour-

compiler it is a serious failing. He chronicles geoise runs the small hotels and shops, and hus ill a in the sovereign's tempered reply to parliamentary bands : the peasant works the fields alongside — — delegation asking for liberty of speech, "Wit of her mate and yet all these women find plenty

and speech are calculated to do harm and your of time to devote to their children. The French of liberty speech extends no farther than 'Ay woman is pre-eminently domestic. "— and No* with the same admiration that he Of course there are some others ; butterflies, shows toward her admirable early commentary perhaps. Butterflies certainly have their place, on government when she remarked, that she for 'what"' would our summer days be without

had learned the duty of a monarch because, before them? Still they weigh scarcely more than their

rising to power, she had!been herself a subject flitting wings.

and a prisoner. George G. Fleurot

299 The Autobiography of T. Jefferson Coolidge, very early in the game, at the age of twenty-three - 183 1 1920. Boston & New York. Houghton years, when he prepared his application for a : Mifflin & Co. 1923. 311 pages. job with these words "As Pitt said, I am guilty ' of of the damnable crime being a Young Man. Mr. Coolidge had a long and interesting life This procured him the desired position and might

of which he kept faithful account in his journal, well serve as a model for aspiring youth, reminding

from which this book has been transcribed. Every one of Barrie's "Sentimental Tommy", who where he occupied posts of dignity : Bank and answered some twenty advertisements for different Railroad Director, Ambassador to France, Joint jobs at once, claiming perfect fitness for each

High Commissioner on Canadian difficulties. and-closing every letter with- the fetching argument : is, The year of his Ambassadorship to France, "Where the heart there is the treasure also".

1892, unfortunately coincided with the Panama The young reporter made use of equal audacity , Canal turmoil, on which Mr. Coolidge gives when in quest of a "story thereby gaining ad us some most interesting notes. mittance to social precincts which the news- Mr. Coolidge was an observant and extensive gatherer rarely enters. He even foregathered traveller and took note everywhere of political and with royalty on several state occasions without financial conditions as he found them. On perusing knowledge on royalty's part, however, that the

these pages we find the names of the many promi young man in top hat and frock coat was a humble

nent people with whom he was brought in contact. reporter and not a foreign diplomat or other Even this bare outline of a distinguished life distinguished guest. But these were only begin makes interesting reading ; an outline, mind you, nings. From the time that he scored his first

that fills this voluminous work, and one could great triumph in the exposure of the impostor, but wish it less cursory. Dr. Cook, who was being acclaimed simultaneously

George G. Fleurot in Denmark as the discoverer of the North Pole,

to the thrilling days of the Great War, he neglected

Adventures in Journalism, by Philip Gibbs. no opportunity to record events of current interest or of permanent historical value. London. W. Heinemann, Ltd. 1923. 336 The lively

descriptions of his experiences, together with pages.

his portrayal and anecdote of the many prominent

men with whom he in contact, only Sir Philip Gibbs is one of those fortunate writers came not

makes a book which contains no who can be reminiscent without garrulity and dull page from

cover to cover, but also reveals a most can tell of past achievement without a trace of engaging personality. egotism or self-consciousness. He does not, Seeger it is true, hide his light under a bushel, but neither C. L.

does he flaunt it, nor attempt to dazzle the beholder. There are several reasons for this. Sometimes Vistas, by Walter C. Stevens. New York. Men- he ascribes his success to luck and at other good teith Book Co. 1922. 129 pages.

times he tempers it with a good joke at his own is expense. Thus he continues to carry the impression This an unusual book, consisting as it does

that he, the mature journalist of acknowledged partly of reminiscences of life during the war in fame and ability, is standing off and regarding Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, and partly of with mixed amusement and approbation, a young of pictures the St. Lawrence, the Berkshire reporter and newspaper correspondent named Hills, and Manhattan.

Philip Gibbs, who, in spite of his short stature, - Among the more interesting French sketches in of his frequent lapses the way proper attire are "A War Time Cafe Chantant", and a second

and not infrequent mistakes of judgment, manages on St. Michel and its mummies. It was the in by hook or by crook to turn up the right place clocher St. Michel that the citizens of Bordeaux

at the right moment to get an important piece used to call the most beautiful steeple in all the

of news. This quality of detachment, it may world. of is in be said, falls little short genius and makes The modern dance discussed a colloquy personal reminiscences charming whereas they with the Grand Monarque and les petits chiens also, a of of in might otherwise offend. And what store and their manner life the Paris of today. — — incident, humorous, tragic, instructive, is con

tained in these pages! Some Newspapers and Newspapermen, by Oswald

S^The various stages of a successful journalistic Garrison Villard. New York. Alfred A. Knopf. career have a flavor of romance. 'L'audace, 1923. 345 pages. tou/ours de l'audace" is indispensable and must be supplemented by an indomitable perseverance, This is a lively, informative, up-to-date, critical a a keen 'perception and flair for- news. The discussion of the news- value, the editorial and first of these qualities was evidenced by the author commercial policies, and the financial strength

300 of some of America's leading dailies, by the editor Older, Henry Watterson, Edwin L. Codkin, of The Nation, who believes that our participation William Lloyd Garrison, and the James Gordon in the War was a "fatal blunder", and that "our Bennetts. Constitution is outgrown, our scheme of govern Paul Scott Mowrer ment hopelessly antiquated and inefficient, our Congressional system as if planned to exclude The Tragedy of Central Europe, by Ellis Ash- the best minds of the country '. mead-Bartlett C.B.E. London. Butterworth. Villard's thesis is that American journalism Mr. 1923. 320 pages. today is in rapid decadence, owing to its material ism, commercialisation, its of its lack high "jour This book of fluent narrative and vivid description ideals", which, nalistic such as those to Mr. Villard by the well-known British war-correspondent, devoted explains, his family has been for the last is devoted chiefly to a fascinating eye-witness hundred and five years. An appendix lists nine account of Hungary's tragic adventure in commun cities, of 100,000 no over population having morning ism in 1919, and is not without permanent histor newspaper, and thirty-nine having but one, these ical interest. Not only was Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, latter such names as Detroit, St. Louis, including by gallant conduct modestly related, able- to assist Dayton, Minneapolis, Seattle, New Orleans. several unfortunate Hungarians to escape, but The principal hope of arresting the "Retrogres he played a more than minor role in the counter sion" is seen by the author in two journalistic revolutionary intrigues, principally in Vienna, experiments : the Minnesota Star, organ of the which aided eventually in the overthrow of the socialist Non-Partisan League, which is owned '"red" regime ; and the first-hand information bv 6,250 share-holders and has a circulation of which he brought to Paris perhaps influenced 53,850 : and the Vorwarts, "a co-operative, money- some of the decisions of the Peace Conference. making, Yiddish-language newspaper, whose edi The numerous small personal adventures of tors, though Jews, are American to the core", the author are interspersed with quick pen-pictures which has 200,000 circulation, which can swing of various individuals encountered, from Lloyd 65,000 votes, whose property is worth a million George and Count Apponyi to Bela Kun, the dollars, whose profits are divided among the "red' dictator, and Prof. Browne, the Wilsonian exponents of the cause it supports, and which "observer" in Budapest. A communist, Mr. generally, in Mr. Villard's opinion, outshines Ashmead-Bartlett concludes, is "one who has all other New York newspapers. nothing to share with the rest of the community", The author's favorite newspaper is the Man and bolshevism is "the enslavement of the many chester Guardian. In America, he sees, as the by the few". "'most liberal English-language daily," the New Politically, the author's sympathies seem to York, World, which, nevertheless, is a "creature be all with Hungary and Austria, as against Czecho of compromise". He praises also the two Balti slovakia, Roumania, Jugo-Slavia and Poland. He more Suns, and the Christian Science Monitor, has been much impressed both by the sufferings but for the other newspapers which he studies of the Austrian and Hungarian peoples, which he has very little sympathy. The New York he pictures movingly, and by the traditional Times, whose net profits in 1922 were $2,500,000, friendship of Hungary for Britain. He even, "has rendered a genuine public service in increasing at one time, transmitted to Lloyd George that the volume of news, and especially of foreign Hungary would like to become a self-governing news", but it is a "class newspaper", it panders dominion within the British Empire! The down- to the vulgar rich, and has been guilty, says the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire he considers author, of distorting news about Russia. nothing less than a catastrophe, while the peace The Munsey newspapers,, adressed to the treaties, ignoring, he thinks, racial and economic "contented, prosperous bourgeoisie" are "safe, realities, are founded on a "false and rotten found sane, and intellectually undistinguished". The ation". Austria he believes to be incurable,

Philadelphia Public Ledger is without originality and the whole of Central and Eastern Europe is, or distinction," and without a soul. The "middle- he says, in so highly unstable a condition that class liberal Kansas City Star is a "waning regroupings are inevitable, though the ministrations

luminary". The Chicago Tribune, of the League of Nations and the establishment ' ^prosperous _ though "brazen", brutal", "inaccurate", "gene of a common currency for foreign trade would he rally cynical, reactionary, militaristic and jingo", useful palliatives.

is "far superior to its Hearst rival". In the Hearst The reunion of Austria with Germany is "almost ; press, with twenty newspapers and a total circula certain" Czechoslovakia's position is "precarious", J tion of over three million, whose net profits in 1922 and a new partition of Poland "almost inevitable". were over $12,000,000, Mr. Villard sees nearly Germany and Russia, he foresees, will unite to everything that is worst in American journalism. ^ overrun this whole eastern region ; neither France

sketches of ; The book concludes with Freemont ^nor Britain will move to prevent them then

^01 Germany and Russia will fall to fighting over us at a period when the dignity of the nation the spoils, and this will be the real struggle for is at stake. supremacy. The return of the Turks to Europe "I believe that there are not enough loans has convinced states like Hungary that they can possible to induce those charged by law depend only on war for their eventual restoration. to maintain that dignity to permit it to be The only good thing which the author can say lessened." for the Turkish victory is that it tends to keep Russia away from Constantinople, where Britain Equally humiliating to the American people does not want Russia to be. And the only good was the wanton attack on Vera Cruz early in 1914, thing about the present political situation is found which caused the exodus of thousands of industrious to be that it tends to turn Germany's ambitions Americans and the loss of their livelihood and eastward, thus leaving France relatively secure. property, without, however, procuring the salute The whole book is interesting, but the descriptive to the flag which was the avowed object of that and narrative portions are more convincing than act of invasion. the political portions. Personally, I share neither But Mr. Beals, while he condemns the Washing Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett's optimism as to Franco- ton policy, has no sympathy for the Americans German relations, nor his pessimism as to the who suffered therefrom, together with the Mexicans so-called "new" states of Central and Eastern themselves. According to him the great majority Europe. of Americans in Mexico went there "because Paul Scott Mowrer they could not stay in their own country or because they wanted to get rich quick... Nowhere else Mexico : An Interpretation, by Carleton Beals. in the world is one so ashamed of his countrymen." New York. B. W. Huebsch Inc. 1923. 280 He remembers distinctly how a prominent American pages. burst into a shop in Mexico City and shouted : "Yuh got any chewing gum?" The reader The author announces in his preface that he wonders a little that Mr. Beals is disturbed by so visited Mexico in August 1918, and stayed two typical an example of current American "as she years. With some notable exceptions the results is spoke". We venture to say that no less than of his personal observations during that period ten thousand sovereign Americans from Maine are valuable, including a sympathetic study of to Texas asked for their favorite brands of chewing the Mexican Indians, — their faults and their gum yesterday in these very words. We believe, virtues, among which he emphasizes very properly too, that not one of the ten thousand has any their skill in handicraft, their innate courtesy, objection to "getting rich quick". But let one of love of music, color and poetry, their idealism these Babbitts have sufficient spunk to go to Mexico and preference for natural beauty over modern to better himself and he is represented as an adven industrial clap-trap. turer, a parvenu, and a plunderer of the Mexican He arraigns the stupid policy of the United Indian. In reality the Americans in Mexico States Government during the Huerta administra reflect the virtues and faults of their countrymen tions, which reached its climax when Mr. Lind at home and they have the advantage of a somewhat committed the blunder of offering a loan if Huerta broader outlook for having seen something outside would resign, thereby exposing the American of their native towns. Many have been known Government to the most stinging rebuke that to learn good manners from the Mexicans and it ever suffered. The politely insolent reply even to abandon the use of chewing gum. in which Huerta's Foreign Secretary, Federico And Mr. Beals does not like to hear them talk Gamboa, declined Mr. Lind's proposal is worth of the "good old Diaz days". Well, why shouldn't quoting : they? It cannot be gainsaid that those were good days as compared with any period of Mexican "Permit me, Mr. Confidential Agent, not history from Aztec times until 1884, and there is, a to reply for the time being to the significant at least, room for fair difference of opinion offer in which the Government of the United as compared with the period from 1912 to 1924,

States insinuates that it will recommend to during which there has been at no time a complete

American bankers the immediate extension restoration of peace and order. It is the fashion of a loan which will permit us, among other nowadays to abuse that great patriot, Porfirio Diaz,

things, to cover the innumerable urgent to represent him as a bloody tyrant and to scoff expenses required by the progressive pacifi at his achievements because he failed to work in cation of the country ; for in the terms in a miraculous change customs which had prevailed

which it is couched, it appears rather to be in his country for centuries and because he believed a an attractive antecedent proposal to the end that population containing millions of illiterate that, moved by petty interests, we should and childlike Indians was not ripe for real demo

renounce a right which incontrovertibly upholds cracy. They were, on the whole, happier and more under his rule than they have ever That was the achievement of women's education. Erosperouseen, before or since, and were given opportunity In 1800 no college admitted women and there to follow their humble pursuits in peace. were not even high schools for girls. It took As for the "nefarious savagery" with which a full century to give women this mental pre Mr. Beals asserts that Americans treated their paredness which entailed the vote for women. peons and servants during the Diaz regime, it This episodic history of how woman suffrage is sufficient to say that he cites as authority John was obtained in America leads to the conclusion Kenneth Turner's "Barbarous Mexico", — than that women's education is the only right key which no more false, sensational and malicious to the precincts of women's political action. story was ever written. As a rule there has been Pierre Denoyers no employer in Mexico, whether individual or corporation, fairer or more considerate of the Essays in European and Oriental Literature, rights and comforts of the industrial or domestic by Lafcadio Hearn. Arranged and edited worker than the American. by Albert Mordell. London. Wm. Heine- It is a pity that the author's preference for one mann Ltd. 1923. 339 pages. sort of government over another led him to mar an otherwise instructive book by misstatement Diving through the deep waters of the Confes of facts taken on hearsay. A hope, whether sional Library, Mr. Mordell has rescued these justified or not, that Mexico is gradually working pearls, buried in the files of the New Orleans out its salvation, is shared by all who wish well Times-Democrat of 1883-87. to that marvellously rich and beautiful country To all lovers of Lafcadio Hearn — that earnest but it does not warrant, nor does it necessitate, quester of beauty and nobility, that profound, misrepresentation of the progress achieved during erudite master of one of the most exquisite styles thirty years of peace and good order under the that have ever graced English l'terature, a man wise guidance or Porhrio Diaz. the beauty of whose soul far out-weighed the Charles L. Seeger physical defects that he so deplored — to all of us therefore, this is a find of considerable importance. Woman Suffrage and Politics, by Carrie Chapman These short papers, short, alas, sheer commer Catt and Nettie Rogers Schuler. New York. by cial necessity, cover a multitude of subjects : Scribner's. 1923. 504 pages. it is extraordinary what learning and true criticism Woman suffrage is not always coincident with each little essay contains. The following observa democracy, in the political sense of the word. For tion illustrates his curious power of education. years the United States was a model of democracy In speaking of Senart's essay on Buddhism, Hearn to European countries. Yet, it was not till 1920 remarks r that the 19th amendment to the Constitution "The very exquisiteness of the legend in its granted the American women the right to vote : most perfect form seems to him proof of the 26 other countries had given the right to their enormous period required for its artistic and — women while America delayed. philosophical evolution just as the wondious No prejudice similar to those in Latin countries metallic color of the humming-bird's plumage prevailed against women. In New Jersey, tax- proclaims it perhaps the most ancient of all existing paying women had been granted the vote by the species of birds on the American continent." constitution of July 2, 1776. This right was Truly this book comes to us like the unexpected confirmed by legislative enactments later on, last utterance of a voice that seemed forever hushed. until 1807 when the vote was taken from them C. G. F. because they had not supported the right candidates in the election. Inward Ho, by Christopher Morley. New York. But it is of recent date only that Women in Doubleday, Page and Co. 158 pages. America were ready for a political role. A century ago a legal capitas deminulio handicapped them. This undeniably is a well, one might add a They were "dead in law". If they offended their "preciously", written book : a book filled with the husbands, they might be punished legally. An fragments of speculation, the medley of fancies utterly changed statute in civil law and in society that sometimes visit one just before waking — was necessary before a political role could duly fancies that seem to lead to nowhere. If we find be trusted to women. That was done by degrees. it difficult to unravel the adumbrations of our Anti-Slavery and Anti-Liquor movements led own brains, what about another s? women to come forth from their seclusion to take Mr. Morley has a lot to say about poets ; they part in public affairs. They were greeted by would appear to be quite another race, so much men's antagonism and contempt at first. They so that one wonders how many arms and legs finally won over the men because they proved they possess, while convinced that they often equals intellectually. must have quite large heads.

303 Mr. Morley is a fervent worshipper at the These and other observations on Story-telling, shrine of Walt Whitman, concerning whom he the illustrators of children's books, the juvenile says some very fine things. He tells us of all production in Italy, etc. make Miss Moore's great writers, two only are commonly spoken "New Roads" interesting to travel on for all lovers of by their Christian names : Ben Jonson and of childhood and children's literature. Walt Whitman. As to the former, one certainly C. Huchet has heard of "rare Ben Jonson", and maybe of "rare Ben", but it shocks the old-fashioned sense of reverence to think of alluding to Walt Buried Caesars : essays in literary appreciation, Whitman as plain "Walt" — as Mr. Morley prefers by Vincent Starrett. Chicago Covici-McGee. to do. 1923. 244 pages. The author calls our attention to the fact that he appends a number of blank pages to the end These interesting essays, first published in of the book (for epithets probably) : this seems Reedy' s Mirror the Freeman, the Sewanee Review a far better scheme than the current practice of and other magazines, describe the literary work scattering them throughout. of Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, James Branch George^G. Fleurot Cabell and other less famous writers of our time. Bierce 's greatest book, Mr. Starrett says, is the collection of short stories, entitled "In the Midst New Childhood, Roads to by Anne Carroll Moore of Life", and of these he calls particular attention York, New Doran. 1923. 209 pages. to "A Horseman in the Sky", "A Son of the Gods" and "Chickamauga". No systematic study of the new era in children's Stephen Crane's most famous book, "The Red literature nor of children's libraries the movement Badge of Courage", he thinks may be compared will be study found in this book : serious underlies with the work of his master, Bierce, but not as the work, but the reader is given only the results some critics have suggested with Tolstoi's "Sebas- of research and experience, so that the book can topol" and Zola's "La Debacle", neither of which be read for sheer pleasure. Still, for those inter have the poetical qualities of Crane's story. It ested in children's literature it is a valuable reference is in Crane s short stories, however, that he discovers book. his finest work, particularly "The Open Boat", The book is full of much information and inter "Wounds in the Rain", and "The Monster". : of esting observations the production children's Cabell's great books, he declares, are "The literature in America during the last three years Cream of the Jest", "Bevond Life", and "Jurgen' ; and of Children's Libraries the development the and in the last, he says, Cabell has given the world European countries are movement in among a book to stand among the supreme works of the major subjects dealt with. literature, with "Pantagruel", "Pickwick", "Don Even when selecting only the very best children's Quixote", and "The Queen Pedauque". books recently published in America, the list would be a long one. The publishing of children's books is organized in America as nowhere else, The Lure of Monte Carlo, by Mrs. C.N.William and great writers and artists there do not think son. London. Mills & Boon. 1924. 189 it beneath them to write or illustrate books for pages. children. The difficulty of choosing from the large collection One might write an article, if an article were of "best books" is faced by Miss Moore in a pleasant necessary, on the lure of books by Mr. and Mrs. chapter on books that were to be taken to Alaska. Williamson. In fact, however, an article is unne Among the privileged authors we may quote : cessary ; they speak for themselves. The present Grimm, Lofting, Lewis Carroll, Boutet de Monvel, book is as interesting as the others which the Abjornsen and Margery Williams. two authors have written either jointly or separately, Picturesque pages are devoted to the development whether it recites the traditions of the place, of the library movement in France. An account describes the picturesque places in its neigh of. the work of the Comite des Regions Devastees borhood, or discusses the life which has made shows the popularity of the libraries opened in Monte Carlo famous. the Aisne. Had she gone a little farther on "the Mrs. Williamson agrees with others in the new road" Miss Moore would have encountered opinion that April is adorable" on the Riviera, a library entirely devoted to children, "L'Heure and May is either "equally so, or better' ; but Joyeuse" of Brussels, and she might have heard while the "Season" ends with Easter there is a that another such library was to be opened shortly "Secret Season" extending from April to December in Paris, due to the generosity of an American which she feels should be more generally enjoyed, organization, the Book Committee on Children s and will be as soon as the "Hinterland" of Monte Libraries. Carlo and the coast is discovered, Saint Agnes,

304 for example, or Gorbio, made famous by Durandy's times it is a forgotten old abbey clinging to a preci"- "l'Ane de Gorbio", or Roquebrune, where the pitous hillside with crumbling glories that tells

August Passion Play is given. a pathetic story. At every fete and foire he stops The author devotes two chapters to tales of the to make merry with Catalan and Bethmalaise, tables and systems of play including such elemen Ossaloise and Basque. ' tary questions as how to get a ticket of admission Seldom has any land come into print under to the tables, and if a heavy loser how to secure happier conditions than these ministered to by is, a viatique, that permission to leave the place two such unusually capable pens, the one of author

with his bills unpaid. She also takes care to the other of artist. in indicate the Suicides' Table. In her command of words, her ability to make her reader sense all she portrays, the author

gives evidences of distinct literary ability, while the artist's charming illustrations tell stories Ambling Through Acadia, by Charles Hanson that need no further interpretation. Towne. 111. by W. E. Heitland. New York. Long may their united efforts continue! The Century Co. 1923. 250 pages. M. L. L.

Being the entertaining account of a spring

ramble through Nova Scotia, in pursuit, as the In the Organ Lofts of Paris, by Frederic B. Sti- It author says, of apple blossoms. could be used of ven, Professor of Music and Director of as a guide-book, much as are the books E. V.

the School of Music, University of Illinois.

Lucas, as it is filled with all sorts of useful and Boston. The Stratford Co. 1923. 75 pages.

amusing information. It is consistently charming

until the author slips into verse, which is painful.

The illustrations really illustrate, but they make The author of "In the Organ Lofts of Paris" a one realize how far the French are in advance has produced charming little volume. The a of America in such matters. No one will read musical opportunities he enjoyed while student in

a vivid, the book without a desire to make similar excur Paris left romantic impressions with

sion. him, the recording and transmission of which,

J.B. is apparently the chief object of his book. The reader, upon finishing Mr. Stiven's seventy-five pages will no doubt be inspired to himself make

an effort to visit the organ lofts of Paris, and obtain Hill Towns of the Pyrenees, by Amy Oakley. Illustrations by Thornton Oakley. New York. at first hand a notion of their poetic attractiveness and atmospheric appeal, so feelingly communicated by this writer. The Century Company. 1923. 449 pages. "Organ Lofts" also contains passages of lively

It is a land of contrasts, this land half French, description and information well worth having,

half Spanish, dominated by the majestic Pyrenees : as for example, the notes on the blowing apparatus a a land of vivid images and lusty language, land of ; of the church Saint Eustache the description where towering peaks draw ever closer mantles of the organ and bellows of the Eglise Saint-Gervais snow, blue with the whiteness of undefiled where and the paragraphs with reference to the nine age old forests hide in their pungent depths bear members of the Couperin family who successively and boar, while in the lowlands are sleepy valleys ; held the post of organist there the historical golden with mustard and buckwheat. outline of the famous French pipe-organ builder, By many and devious means does the author Cavaille-Coll, and so on, not to forget Marie

travel, auto, tram, by by by foot. There are Antoinette's organ, seen by Mr. Stiven at Saint- aromatic rides through pine forests, there are Sulpice, and where indeed it continues on view climbs to delight the most ardent mountaineer, today ! pushing up through asphodel and gentian to ^ If one were to find fault with "Organ Lofts", of stand breathless at a far flung world glittering it would be that the writer did not bring to his ice-fields and glaciers. work still greater emotional wealth and profusion

Journeying ever westward to the Bay of Biscay of of details, in the doing which he might have he stops now at some sleepy village where ancient made a really important contribution to the limited battlements still surround the dizzily perched literature about this little-known, but fascinating a chateau or drop over a narrow pass to find hot it phase of the Parisian musical world. As stands, little village of old Spain, returning again to France it is not a very distinguished or notable document, to discover remote valleys where shepherds of but remains in the realm as hinted above, simply

muffled in hooded cloaks flaunt purple sashes pleasant, sometimes instructive reading.

in the breezes, and sabots take on Eastern tendencies with turned up toe and studded brasses. Some Irving Schwerke

305 American Artists, by Royal Cortissoz. New combination of perseverance, knowledge and nat York and London. Charles Scribner's Sons. ural shrewdness. 1923. 363 pages. Arnold had the finest Tennysons and Stevensons which money, patience and good luck could secure, The well known art editor of the New York and many priceless relics of Charles Lamb, Cole Tribune has little sympathy for Post-Impressionism, ridge, Wordsworth, Browning, Thackeray, and — Futurism, Cubism, etc. what he calls Ellis Island Dickens. Nor did he disdain the great Georgians, art, and, therefore, has less influence upon the as all admirers of Pope, Richardson, Dr. Johnson work of the artists of to-day than he should have. and Sterne will discover on perusing his recollec Those, however, for whom art is life rather tions. than a living will enjoy thoroughly these essays I may confidently declare that no sincere lover of on the history of American art, particularly on the English literature can afford to dispense with a Hudson River school of painting, the American thorough study of Arnold's "Ventures in Book- Academy in Rome, New York as an art center, Collecting". Speaking for myself, I have gleaned and the Freer Gallery. Winslow Homer, who from his pages more novel and valuable items was with Inness the most prominent among painters of information than from any other volume that of the Hudson River school, he describes as the has passed through my hands in the last year. most intensely American painter of his time. Seymour de Ricci But nowhere is the author's intimate acquaint ance with the history of American Art shown better than in his frequent references to the influence A History of Ornament Renaissance and Mo of French teaching upon American art, from the dern, by Professor A. D. F. Hamlin. New time of the naturalistic and romanticist painters York. The Century Co. 1923. 521 pages. of 1830, and later of Courbet and Monet, to the Illustrated. present day. Professor Hamlin treats of ornament as a whole Ventures in Book Collecting, by William Harris in architecture, woodwork, metalwork, ceramics Arnold. New York & London. Charles and textiles, country by country, first during Scribner's Sons. 1923. 356 pages. the Renaissance, then during modern times. This is a rational and most welcome handling Greater even than the pleasure of collecting of the subject. In spite of countless volumes is the joy, for most collectors, of speaking about written on its various phases, this material has their treasures. When the collection is a library, seemed to many a maze of little related facts. with a liberal admixture of autograph letters With a rare combination of scientific exactitude and manuscripts, when, in addition, the story and keen artistic sensibility the author shows teller is himself a writer of the most pleasing that in all decorative art there is a general recurrence qualities, I can conceive no more fascinating of the same motives though they are modified evenings than those I could spend in his company. in each country by a common variable, the racial I have not had the good fortune to meet in the or national peculiarity of the people. This con flesh the late Mr. William Harris Arnold ; but trolling idea Professor Hamlin first developed thanks to his "Ventures in Book-Collecting" in his preceding volume, "A History of Ornament I can thoroughly enjoy the pleasure of meeting Ancient and Medieval", to which this book, him in the spirit. though complete in itself, is a worthy sequel. Many are the tales of treasure-trove enfolded Inspired by Roman examples, the Italians between the covers of his book : many are the of the Renaissance did not directly copy ancient unpublished letters by famous British and American motives except in their sixteenth-century repro authors which the collector has transcribed for ductions of forms, which they had never wholly our benefit. Occasionally I could not help feeling ceased to use. To understand the variations that he was flinging in our face his unfailing luck of French style it is necessary to grasp the signifi in unearthing the scarcest volumes, much as cance of two conflicting tendencies, the Gallic, a great violin-player might taunt us with a tune full of originality and vitality, and the Latin re to the words "Imitate me if you can ; try if you strained and of inherent taste. "The Germans ', dare!" But a learned friend in Buffalo, whose the author says, "were consummate engravers, kind-hearted assistance has helped Arnold's book always more successful in decorative line than through the press, informs me that I was badly in decorative mass", but the picturesque and mistaken : that no collector more modest, more amusing germanesque character of the English retiring, more diffident of his own good fortune, Renaissance largely disappeared after the return less likely to overestimate his effo.rts or even to of Inigo Jones from Italy. The European conten brag about them ever lived than William Harris tion that American art should be wholly new and Arnold ; that his so-called luck was a felicitous original Professor Hamlin points .out as unjust

306 since this ignores the fact that Americans are a girdle to the footlights to speak the lines or the of European people though transplanted to a non- prologues "Gallantry". But in the midst

European environment. of this he must return to his old pranks. To In spite of the author's statement that the art tell the truth we enjoyed "Jurgen", but one Jurgen nouveau movement in the United States anticipated is quite enough. Had there been any doubt that in Europe, the space given to American art of the fact in his mind heretofore, Mr. Cabell in the three chapters devoted to modern times may, should at last be convinced when all the criticisms to the non-American public, seem disproportionate. of "The High Place" sound like the advertising is, of It however, the most interesting part of the book. circulars a newly-opened summer resort. By is Here Professor Hamlin treats of a little known birth Mr. Cabell a rebel and he should remain

art whose development he has not only himself one by varying his tricks unless he is ready for watched attentively, hut to which he has most the back shelves with Mr. Howells and the Concord ably contributed. group. Jeannette Dyer Spencer Jackson Moore

High Place, The by James. Branch Cabell. New The Bond Triumphant, by Gordon Hill Grahame

York. Robert McBride & Co. 1923. Toronto. Hodder & Stoughton. 1923. 321 pages. (Canadian Prize Novel.) Mr. Cabell's new novel, ''The High Place", is of an attenuation the Jurgen saga. The year Briefly stated, the story of "The Bond Trium is 1724. Philippe d'Orleans, Petit-Fils de France, phant" is that of two young lovers in the Canada of rules the destinies the volatile nation, while du of 1661 -'63, complicated by the intrigues between in Deffand the midst of a charmed circle emits Church and State, and between the colonies and

epigrams which, unfortunately for Mr. Cabell, the mother-country with which those of us who have already been anglicized by Lytton Strachey. have read Parkman and the Jesuit Relations are

Florian, the hero of "The High Place", is the cloudily familiar, and set against that back-ground of of lineal descendant Jurgen, Duke Logrus of pioneer hardships and constant conflict with of and Emperor Noumaria. Likewise he reigns the savages which is peculiar to our continent, — in Poictisme and wanders off one day perhaps a romantic tradition as stalwart as the Crusades. — a a following the family traditions into wood The average critic not Canadian, if he be

whither he drives a bargain, climbs to rarefied honest, will confess to some uncertainty about

heights, slaughters manifold dragons, wins his •the several values of the Jesuits, the Sulpitiens, coveted bride and brings her home to Bellegarde and the Recollet fathers, and their attitude toward

only to discover more evidence of beauty than one another and toward the French military gov ; brains. Thus runs the ingenious tale. But what ernors of the province we are willing to take

you were not prepared for is that Florian the Mr. Grahame's word for them, since not one of innocent and beguiling, with an uncommon respect us, off-hand, could disprove itl When it comes

for Holy Hoprig and all the doctrines of Mother to the Indians and the love-story, we tread known

Church, actually poisoned Orleans in his cabinet. ground, but we are not so base as to betray either This little practical joke on the Regent was part him or his prospective readers by going into details it of the original bargain, seems, and it certainly that would expose the plot.

brings relief to the Paris-American reader bewil "The Bond Triumphant" is one of those essays in dered and fatigued from blind wanderings in fiction wherein the author's sincerity of purpose

literary and mythological bypaths. and respect for his art fairly balance a professional

After Rabelaisian terminology and Biblical equipment not always adequate. It would be

distortions, sallies into this century and with an easy matter to pick flaws in some of Mr. Gra ; drawals from that, there is a genuine pleasure hame's periods not infrequently his English '. when we come upon the familiar "Porte Maillot hits a nice mean between that of the moving-

It is as though the author had run up a signal picture titles, and the samples of elegant writing

with an arrow on it and the words : "Direction offered by McGuffey's Reader to a Victorian

Etoile". No doubt the aimless rambling of generation. Bulwer-Lytton and G. P. R. James

"The High Place" is necessary to create the only wrote that way all the time, Sir Walter and Fenimore in of of atmosphere which Manuels and Jurgens and Cooper at least part the time ; and most us if, ; a Florians can thrive but returning to it after would share fault with these men like Mr. Gra

the revised edition of "Gallantry" leaves us with hame, we could also share their undenied gift • a distinctly unfavorable impression. for telling a story.

Mr. Cabell is at home among the Wordlings. In these days it does no harm to remember

The daintiness, wit and polish of his vignettes that a novel, first of all, is not an exercise in literary is a it a made us feel that he had summoned Mrs. Brace- style, not sermon, nor forensic, nor a

307 psychological study, nor a piece of propaganda ; chosen to write about is a very real and vital problem first of all, a novel is a novel, and that is a point to her, and it is interesting to speculate whether upon which the author of "The Bond Triumphant" the subtly socialistic atmosphere with which the is very sound, and which he never allows himself book is impregnated is calculated or unconscious. to forget. His romance is authentic romance, Psychology, more than socialism, however, is his sense of proportion and of climax is most the main theme ; heretofore, among women writers just, and about the adventure and the horror May Sinclair has been considered as the master incident to such a tale, there is both persuasion of this field, — the psychological novel — but she and a manly choice. should now look well to her laurels. Of the characteriztions it may be said that, M. R. as in every work of this genre, the hero and heroine have the defect of their quality ; they are too much the hero and heroine to be anything alse. And Undertow, by Henry K. Marks. Harper and perhaps the villains are a little too villainous and Brothers. New York. 1923. 337 pages. the comic relief a little^ too obvious. But de Laval is a convincing arid well-executed portrait of one of the most difficult characters possible to A falsehood, to be first-class, must more than conceive or delineate, the honest fanatic. There half convince the fabricator himself. And a is a kind of crooked rightness about him ; he is narrative cannot carry conviction unless the feels narrow and sublime ; in his worst exhibitions author the relative truth of his invention it, stare, a cool, of bigotry he is never ignoble, and we somehow and can meet our as he tells with respect him, perhaps because we are never in unflinching gaze. In "Undertow" one might doubt about him. That the author should have say that the author's eyes become shifty. That mean, however, are grasped and managed to convey qualities so con does not that there not excellent

; but, tradictory and subtle is a real triumph. passages throughout the book unfortunately,

the reader is held more by the extravagance of Mary S. Watts action than by the artistry with which it is told.

In treatment the book is reminiscent of Sherwood A Reversion to Type, by E. M. Delafield. New Anderson, D. H. Lawrence, Frank Swinnerton, of of York. The Macmillan Co. 1923. 395 pages. a little 0. Henry and largely the old dime —all rather loosely amalgamated, —

This is Miss Delafield's fifth novel, and without Eaper-back,ut holding our attention in spite of it. ; a doubt, her best. It deals in a very sane, intelligent It is a close-up of an American family father, ; manner with the problem of degeneracy which mother, two daughters and a son typical, perhaps, is the result of intermarrying in the old English as to numbers, but not, thank goodness, as to

county aristocracy, a group of society chiefly conduct. The father is an unusually brutal man, notable for its intolerance and class-prejudice. the mother an extraordinarily cringing woman Here we have the blackest sheep, inevitably referred and the son an inordinately weak and repulsive

to by his relatives as "Poor Jim," of an ultra conser boy. There is no saccharine optimism here, vative family, who has, from their point of view, but never was vice less attractive. In the first

married beneath him ; whereas, the infusion chapters the boy develops, in addition to his of new red blood, though "common", is in reality other vicious tendencies, an insatiable fondness the saving grace of this decadent line. The for narcotics, —even steals from his loose-moralled

characters are admirably true to their unfortunate sister to procure them The sister, because of

types. There is no exaggeration, no hysteria, her relations with a lover, known to the boy,

both of which lamentable traits many of this young is unable to do anything about it. Here the father generation of authors are prone to, particularly figures prominently by throwing his son's shoulder

so if the subject matter be at all Freudian. out of joint, his attitude toward the younger daughter

Miss Delafield's manner of presentation is at adds greatly to the color of the plot, and the story

once impassioned and dispassionate, intense and comes to a dramatic end with a flourish of brass. lucid, tenuous and direct. Above all is it under standing and broad minded. The topi: she has John Blomshield

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