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' B & THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 4. 1897 23 LATEST «AS ITHERS SEE US.” | AMERICA ND AMERICANS—From a French Pomt of View. New ) ork Sons For sale in this Ciiy by William Doxey, Chacles Scribner’s ’ Valace Hotel. Price §1 25, Once again, through the act of a mysterious Providence and the enterprise of a New York publishing-house, we are enabled to view our- selves in a full-length mirror prepared for our use by a stranger within our gates. Scarcely recovered, ia fact stil} convalescent, from .a severe attack of Haweisetis, we are once more reduced toa condition in some re- cts similar by this prophet crying “Woe! in the accenis of a veritable Solomon Our author professes to have written his book in respoase to the urgent solicitations of American friends. The notes from which his Work has been prepared are those such as any observant foreigner would make while on & tour of the United States. He assures us that no malice is intended. since there was naught but kindness received by bim during his two vist's to these shores. Albeit he evidently sees iar less to admire in our institutions than dia either of his countrymen, Blouet or Bourget, and even less than the pessimistic Haweis. He is apparently a man who has ular note of the small things of n pa life. He is well traveled and conmanty makes reference tolife in London, in Berlin and in his ¢ Paris. He compliments us on one hand and unmercifully beratas us on the other. He launches forth into denunciations and indulges in visions and prophectes. His final conciusion is ex- pressed in the idea that the American yeople sre a nation of contradictions. Thus he arrives at New York barbor; he is ceived at toe landing by a villainously | attired aud mannered omnibus-driver, who charges him 15 francs for a twe-mile drive £na 1 franc for each extra plece of luggage he carries. The coscnman does not possess the suaviter in modo of the Freuch cocher. Terri- ble! Afreuz!! But there are compensations. “You are ushered into the room engaged for | you at the hotel in Fifth avenue. In a mo- | ment the wharf, the hurly-buriy are forgotten. There are flowers on the table; thero is & | bathroom done in tiles; there are soft car and beautiful rugs, tasteful iurniture, the Figaro, Revue des Deux Mondesand Le Petit Journal cut and on your tal Our Frenchman’s first impression is prob- derived irom corporation rule as made est in a wretched public service., The are overcrowded and ths sign not displayed. Machinery is man cable-cars “Complet” is used to whatis to him an 1incredible extent. “Everything requiring nicety of mechanical means, ev g that can be done by steam or elegiricity or gas, or by harnessiug the | powers of nature, is done well—sometimes superiatively wel!—while anything demand- ing perso ice or the training, discipiine and cc men and women scting as ra high or low capacity, is nly, carelessly, irresponsibly, and sense of honorable allegiance to & master. So democratic &re we that we permit our equalities 10 show themselves even in our raiiway travel. The peripatetic trainboy is permitted to mainiaina stend ins Pullman ca d trainboy stributes literature and bonbons without regard to the needs of his ats. Thus elderly gentlemen receive packages of chewing-gum, matrons copies of sporting journals; editions of Zola or Paul de | Kock are presented to young girls; nurses | with infants are given apples or nuts and | candy, for which the children cry when the | embryo merchant returns to collect them. | Our traveler marvels that tha good American public stands this treatment under corporate | rule. In France, he says, “Such infringe- mentsof the rightsof the people to personal comfort and personal dignity if persisted in would result in revolution, and in London one day of it would fill the next day’s newspapers | th izdignant protests and 1n & week’s time e matter would be under the control of the | ice.” clie e instance quoted we catch a first | seof the author’s facuity for generaliz- | seems ange'to the initiated that he, parently well-travelled man, should be aware of the overcrowding Which takes place every day on the Underground Railway | in London, for instance. H: claims that pro- n America is useless, as the protestor is unpopular here. There are too many people interested, he finds, in keeping the people slaves to permit any one to express dissent but what is true of New York in this regard mey be ssid to apply with equal force to Lon- don. In any eventit isa fact which will not admit of dispute, that both the railway aod municipal car systems of this continent are infinitely superior to anything that can be found either in England or in Continental Eu- rope. Here at least one is mot expected to travel from Paris to Marseillesor to the Rivi- eradeprived of even !he commonest comforts thatare to be found in American local trains. Our social life, the author of “America and the Americans,” finds very unsatisfactory. Wealth is the only standard and the average American scems to dislike being alone. The Babit of dining out is & growing one and is probably due to ‘he servant question, which rules here to a greater extent tuan in England. A man with $4000 per annum in New York is badly off. He must keep up appearances and L Taoese servants do not possess the faithful characte of their compeers abroad: Th eful and extravagant, and a French 4 live upon the food that is thro by the middie-class American. Tuis brings us very naturally to the posi- tion of husband and wite in the American household. The Orientalidea of woman being the weaker vessel appears to be reversed In America, thinks our author, and one of the strangest political phenomena to him seems to be the ceascless agitution for women’s Tights in the United States. ghts!” he exclaims, “Yon Dicu! They have -ights, privilegss, sutocracy in this country. Pray whatmore can they want? In Earope the wife takes the position of her hus- band, but in the United Stafes the husband | Joerely fits into the social exingencies of his wife as best he can. **No,” he concludes, “had Is young wife and daughters I should not turn them out for the summer at Saratoga or Bar Harbor unless I were an American hus. band, in which case I should do as I were bid and pay the bil From the husband and the wife to the chil- | dren is but astep. Ourauthor'sopinion of the American child is expressed {n the heading to | his chapter dealing with the subject: *L’en- Jant terrible” He notes thateven in the mind | of the American child there exists the sa plutocratic ideas as in the parents. Like father like son, and you hear children in chorus everywhere placing money values upon | everything. Spoiled coildren in America are | the rule rather than the excepiion, and it is | only too apparent that the word “home” is mérely a figure of speech. Apropos of this it is but meet to say that there is much truth in the remark. The writerof this review was staying for a few days last summer at the Hotel Rafsel. Takings constitutional and & cigar one evening at that celebrated hostelry be overheard a child re- amark 1o her little playmate: *Oh, but we are much richer than you are. We live in a cor- ner house while you live in the middle of the " The writer thougnt that here wasa 800d opportunity to read & little homily to the child in question. He called her to him and asked: “Who toid you, my aear, that it was more fashionable to live 1m a corner house than in the middlsof the block?” “Why, I heard pape say so. responded the chiid. lell your papa,” said he, “to be sure and se- lect a nice corner plat in the cemeters. He will be mighty unfashionab.e ii he doesn’t.” There is one chapter in the work under review o which every thoughtful Ameri- can will say “Amen.” It 1s that headed *Class Distinctions,” and co tains some very pretty shols at the fashionabie preacher and the fashiopabie church. We arc told toet the writer hLas seer advertisements of Pews for sale: that preachers are retained | in the service of congregations just so long as their teach,ngs suit the idess of their flocks; thet tie popular preacher is judged by his “drawing power,” as if he were a mounte- bank. Our author grows bitter when he £peaks of American commercialism introduced into the house of God. He wonders whether We may not hear in time of a *‘corner in pews,’ sd makes some quiet but noue the less sting- | stics n away | coronet, the crest and the coat-of-arms come | want them at an1?” | exalted opinion, though he confesses that the | censure rather than for laughter in the re- | will not see exchanging surly looks for rifles | world which still hears the rs-echoing shrieks | | 15 1iving in an ivy-covered tower, where e its fa TRete Bacruit by Cariste LITERARY NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL SOURCES. ing comparisons between poor “Monsieur le Cure” at home and the fashionable preacher in this country. Readers of the newspapers will recall the humorous retort addressed by Mark Twain to Paul Bourgec, who was reported 1o have said that when the American had nothing else to @o he devoted himself to finaing out who his grandfather was: and the author o1 *America and the Americans” cannots resist making passing reference to what may te called the grandfatherlessness of tnis country. He has observed retired pork butchers and prosper- ous dry-goods merchanis using coats-of-arms uvon their carrisges and crests upon their note paper, and he comments: *‘Pray, Mrs. Sharp, Mrs. Green, Mrs. White, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Joues—pray, where did your right to the in? Do you even know what the various symbols, signs and figures mean? 1 have my doubts, ‘truly. And why—oh, why—do you Of the American newspsper the author of “Americe and the Americans” hes not a yery contrasts noted in other phases of American existence are present here. He has no soouer prepared to damn the new journalism when he is tempted into praise by & dignified edi- torial in the Tribune, or & clever half column in the Sun. His chief complaint scems to be based upon our disregard of proportion and lack of system, and he finds that trainea, traveled and capable mer: re DOt so numer- ous as in Frauce, England or Germany. He also traces back the pedigree of numerous vices 10 the sensational American newspaper. My own conclusion,” he says, s that uniess | onie happens upon such newspapers as the | Post, the Sun or the Tribune in New York, for example, he would be led to believe that the | vopulation consisted of thugs, firebugs and bankrupts, who for some unaccountab.e rea- son spent large sums upon advertising.” Hero again speaks the generalizer. Having compared the two, we may salely say the American press is meither betzer mor worse than the Frencn, though admittedly not up to the Englisn standard in some respects. But, gentle critic, have you nmever sesn ex hibited in the kiosks of your beloved boule- vards publicazions which it would be a penal offense to either sell or purchase in this country? And. hence, have you never neard of a little Englich proverb having refer- ence to people domiciled in glass houses ? 1f there is one feature of the book before us that is objectionable it is to be found in a cer- tain undercurrent of anti-Semitism permeat- ing the entire volume. There is really neither wit nor humor in a Statement to the effect that the Mosalc spoiling of the Egyptians continues with unabated vigor in New York at the present day, and we can_find matter jor mark that Delmonico's restaurant at the luncheon hour is a veritable synagogue. Jew- baiting at its best and clothed io its most at- tractive guise has always been & failure in this country, and If our critic is what he claims to be—s republican of republicans, with his birthplace in France—such expressions are, to say the least, inconsistent. 1t would be impossible within the limits ofan | article like the present (o even name the nu- | merous good things to be found in “America and the Americans.” From Yankee humor to | Yankee cooks every phase ana feature of our | life is touched upon in a bright, breezy and | entertaining mapner. The majority of our institutions are condemned, but, in the same breath, our anthor finds some means of con- doning our faults. We are told in one chap- ter that we ere too democratic,and in the next that we are not democratic enough, so that the contradictions of American life, as observed by our author, ere only equaled by those of hisnotes. We entertain hospitably, our climate is intoxicating, our peovle op- timistic, the material wealth enormous; bu we are far too lavish and profuse, and, unles we give heed in time, says this prophet, | “I can see holders of Americin securities | in Europe literally dumping them back upon the market here. I can see the social | jealousies that the Americans either cannot or and frowns for gunpowder; and then I can see these 70,000,000 people in such a turbulent | death struggle ns will awe the world, even the | and groans and laughter of our own revolu- tion. Thank God! you and I wiil not be there | to s2e. Please God! it may be a false vision and | Iamistaken prophet! 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Heleaves her with nis mind made up to make a fortune by some hook or erook. “She cannot understand my love without a gold setting, then so be i, she shail have it,” he sys. And hege's the fortune. A STORY OF HISTORY. THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN TH REIGN OF HENRY T11 By ltver 1t Rioh ardson. The Macmillan Company, ~ew York. Price $1 50. For saie by the Emporium Book Depariment. City. hPAGE T In this ragment of history the author has elected to make & specialty of the study of | that very important wrausition period when thé foundation of England’s consttutional liberty and her complete separation from alien control were. being slowly but surely laid. He divides his treatment of tne theme into three principal parts. First, the forces which made Enz.and & nation ia the reign of Henry 11I; second, the forces which roused England 1o armed resistance; third, the cul- minution of tie national movement. The book is & severe :mdictment of Henry TII and & eulogy of the work achieved for Ens- land by Simoa de Montford, Earl of Leicester. | ent Brown, M.A.; I The man who has practically made Ibsen known to English-speaking people is William Archer, the dramatic critic of the London World. He has translated nearly every one of the master’s plays, including the latest, “ John Gabriel Mr. Archer is a Scotsman, and though many people may disagree with him he is held in greater esteem than perhaps any of his colleagues, beca Borkman.” WILLIAM ARGHER. se he is always in earnest taken trom the current issue of the New lllustrated Magazine. and sincere. The above portrait is APRIL MAGAZINES. The Arena. Following are the contents of the April Arena: The Problem of Municipal Reform, Hon. H. 8. Pingree, Governor of Michigan and Mavor of Detroit, Mich.; The Doorway of Reiorms, Eltweed Pomeroy; Italian Immigrants in Bos- ton, Frederick A. Bushee; The Priesthood of Art, Stinson Jarvis; The Catnoiic Question in Canada (L—A Struggle for Freedom, F. Clem- The Index Expurga- torius in Quebec, George Stewart, D.C.L. Lincoln and the Matson Negrogs, Jesse W Weik; Abraham Lincoln (s poem), Frane Remington; The Nina Arcadia, Gertrude G. de Aguirre; Co-education in Secondary Schoois and Colleges, May Wright Sewall. éX-President of Natioual Council of Women, etc.; The Scripture-Errancy Coafi‘ct, Benjamin F. Burn- ham; The Past and the Future of the Ameri- can Negro, D, W. Culp, A.M., M.D.; Claims of Spirituslism Upon Christianity, Rev. T. E. Allen; Development of Naturalization Laws, Clifford S. Walton, of the Washington Bar; The Man In History, John Clark Ridpath; The Urgent Need of Our Pacific Coast States, Edward Berwick; The Editor’s Evening. Scribner’s. The number of Scribuer's Magazine appeer- ing at Easter-time is particularly bright and attractive both in contents and illustrations. The April issue this year contains two ful pnge comvositions by Gorguet, celled “A Roman Easter”; a portrait by Howard Cush- ing; the transformution scene in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by William Hole; Albert Her- ter's illustration for “Cor Peccatrix,” and Gibson's “London” as some of its artistic features. Of special importance is Cosmo Moukhouse’s article on William Quiller Orch- ardson, R. A., the Scolcn painter, who came to London in 1862 and won speedy recognitio: Mr. Monkhouse received the artists help in choosing the ten pictures that illustrate the article. Orchardson is a great colorist, and is best known, pernaps, as the painter of “Napo- leon on the Bellezophon.” Orcherdson hes, it is said, that rare gift ot “‘inward vision, which presents to his wind pictures so clear and strong, almost to their detalls, that he can transfer them to his canvas with little hesitation or trial.” Lippincott’s. The complete novel in the April issue of Charles King. It is inthis favorite autho:’s well-known manner, and recounts the experi- ences of a most superior aud unusual private. Elsie A. Robinson,in “Joe Riggler's Romance,” tells a curious story of a mining camp. Mary B. Goodwin explains the d:fficulties which certain charming sisters had in “Answering His Letters.” Some odd facts about “Animal Cannoneers and Sharpshooters” are given by Dr. James Weir Jr. Calvin Dill Wilson describes “Oyster-planting and Oyster- farming.”” Fred Chapman Mathews puts forth “A Plea for Our Game.” ‘“Goethe 1n Practical Politics” is defended by F. P. Steurns, who thinks that the poet Was & patriot, a liberai-conservative and a wise statesman. J. Harvey Pence aiscusses “Politics on the American Stage.” Emily P. Weaver gives “A Glimpse of Old Philadelphia,” from the book of Peter Kalm, a Swedish botanist, who visitea the eity about 1749. “The Gentle Art of the Transiator” is expounded by Caroline W. Latimer. _ Alice Morse Earle writes of “Matri- monial Divinations,’” and Beulah Carey Gron- lund of “Iwo Chinese Funerals.” The poetry of the number is by Nora C. Franklin, Carrie Biake Morgan, and Frederick Peterson. St. Nicholas. The April 8t. Nicholas covers a wide field in the interest of its girl and boy readers. The frontispiece is a picture of & puppy and a kit ten, “Coums,” from a paiuting by J. H. Dolph. Wolcott Le Clear Beard telis of *‘Moses,” u tame ougle, that was his pet when he was en- gaged in ongineering in the Arizona desert. “Seeing and Believing,” by Huarold Wilson, ALD., 15 an fllustraied account of some strange optical illusions. Harry Fenn, the artist, in “Stik and Cedars,” gives an account of & visit he once made to the famous mountains of Lebanon, in Tripoli. He describes tne silk culture, whicn forms the main industry of the inhabitants, and writes about the noble +“Cedars of Lebanon,” from which Solomon obtained much of the wood for his temple. Mr. Fenn draws many {llustrations for the pa- per. “The Lights That Goide in the Night” is the title of another of Licutenant John M. Eliicott’s articles telling of lighthouses and | Grant” relates & number of new snecdo'es beacon fires that are o useful to the mariner. | “The Jungfrau Tunnel” is described by F. W. | Weudt, and cont several beautiful illus- trations from photographs, as wellas diagrams | explaining this great railway and engineer- | ing enterprise. “The Horsesboe of Luck” isa | fuiry siory of the goud ol ¥ind by Rudolph F. Bunner. Noah Brooks' serial, ““The True Story of Marco Polo,” comes to an end in the number with an account of the fabled dia- mouds of Golconda and that monster bird, the roc, recalling memories of the “Aravian Nights.” “Master Skylark,” John Bennet:'s story of Shakespeare's time, 1s full of romantic | adventure, and the second installment of Frances Courtenay Baylor's serial, *“Miss Nina | Barrow,” carries forward the interest in the tale. There are many timely verses and | poems, including a little verse, “Nauny and Jack,” by the late H. C. Bunner. Asususl, the pictures form an important feature in the number. The Atlantic. The April number of the Atlantic Monthly contains more than the usual quaatity of purely literary matter which slways dis- tinguishes it, and it has several articles also of -timeliness and practical interest. The leading article is on *“Dominant Forces in | the West”” by Frederick J. Turner of Wis- consin, one of the most competent students of Western civilization. He points out the origins of the veople and their institu- tions and methods of thought, showing that the Middle West holds the balance between the East and the Far West. Mr. E.L. Godkin, this mouth, in his studies ot demogracy in its pructical aspects, shows the serious weakness of our poiitical system | caused by our irresponsible nominative meth- ods. The breakdown of the machinery for | making nominations has defeated everything like really representative government. The gravest aanger to our poliiical institutions is found in this failure. Professor George B. Adams of Yale sums up the *‘Anglo-Saxon Expansion” of the century and the world dominance of the race in"an eioquent and | comprebensive essay. There are three literary articles in the April Atlantic of original interest—Mark Twain as | an Interpreter of American Character,” by Charles Miner Thompson, who shows that the secret of tne humorist-philosopher’s great popularity and power lies really in the auto’ biographic quality of his book; he is himself | a typical American. There is an interesting comparison of Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln. Every zeader of Kipling has asked himself whether modern machinery admits of poetical (reatment. Mr. Arlo Bates takes up this inquiry in an article cailed “The Song o Steam,” and conciudes that machinery itself is not poetic, however impressive it may be. Fol- lowing Mr. Chapman’s recent article on Emerson, H. D, Sedgwick Jr, writes & valua- tion of Willlam Cuilen Bryant from the point of view of the present. Of distinct litersry value is this month's installment of Colonel Higginson's reminiscences on the “Birth ot New England Literature.” Maurice Thompson, poet and archer, whose feats 8 a hunter with the bow and arrow are remarkable, describes & successful experienco in the Cherokee Hili Following his article on Venus, Percival Lowell, the asironomer, describes his recent resolutionary discoveries about the planct Mercury. The Century. The April Century is & ‘‘Grant memorial number,” signalizing the dedication of Gev. eral Grant's tomb. General Horace Porter, who was president of the citizens' association | that raised the money for this magnificent memorial, &nd who will deliver the oration at the dedication, contributes an article deserip tive of the tomb and of its bullaing. A str ing drawing of thie tomb by Casta gnc is given as a frontispiece. There are also pictures of the interior (ihe only ones yet made) and of the figures for the facade designed by sculptor Raind. In “A Blue and Gray Friendship,” John R. Proctor tells of the es.eem and effec- tion in which General Buckner and General Grant held each other for years, and in con- | neetion with this article there :s printed for the first time a fac-simile reproduction of the | message Grant, while on his deathbed, wrote 10 General Buckner, There is aiso given a fac. simile of Grant's most famous words, *I pro- pose to fight 1t ont on this line 1f it 1akes all summer,” which were contained in a letter o General Halleck, and a copy of a hitherto un- publisied letter from General Shermen, ex- pressing his frank opinion of Granv's charac- ter. General Porter's “Campaigning With about his chief and tetls of President Lincoln’s | Journal is brimful of helpful and entertain- first visit to the front. The other articles give the usual variety to the num- ber. Dr. Mitchell's mnovel, *‘Hugh Wynne,” introduces the picturesque figure of ajor John Andre, and gives a glimpse of Washington in headquariers. “Thackeray in Weimar,” by Walter Volpius, describes the English humorist's friendly relations with Goethe's household and his interviews with | the great poet. It is accompanied by a number of characteristic drawings by Thackeray never before printed. Richard Watson Gilder writes of “The Miracle of the Greek Fire,” a remarka- ble ceremonial ‘in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem in Holy Week. This has timely interest from the attention now centering in the Greek church in the East. The beginning of a new serial by Mary Hart- | well Catherwood, “The Days of Jeanne D’Arc,” and the first of a series of illustrated papers by Colonel George E. Waring, on ‘*Mountain Bicyling in Europe,” are given in the number. Ladies’ Home Journal. The Easier number of The Ladies’ Home ing reading. “A Moravian Easter Dawn,” by Clifford Howard, tells the story of the simplest and most beautiful Easter service in America, as it s given in the quaint and | picturesque town of Bethlehem, Pa. Ex- President Harrison's timely article de- scribes “The Social Life of the Presi- dent,” from the day of his inaugura- tion, and gives interesting information as to receptions, dinners and other social eveuts of the White House. The popular series of Great Personal Evems” is represented by “When Lafayette Rode Into Philadeiphia,” by Jean Fraley Hallowell, granddaughter of one of the few surviving witnesses of the great Lafayeite demonstration which cre- ated such furore nearly three-quarters of a century ago. Ira B. Sankey has| written for this number a hymn, entitled “The Besuiful Hills” with words by John H. Yates. .The, thira illusiration of Charles Dana Gibson’s series of character sketchesof “The People of Dickens” is “Tom Pinch and | His Sister.” Lovers of fiction will enjoy Je- rome Jerome’s story, ““A Portrait of a | Lady,” end Herbert D. Ward' i *‘The Burglar Who Moved Paradise.”” A de.i- cate tribute 1o the power and privilege of sis- terhood 1n the family is given in Key. A. H. Bradford’s article on “The Woman Who Most Influenced Me.” There seems to be no field of woman's life, | duties and interest not noted by the Journal. There are practical views on vital questions by Mr. Bok; litersry talks by “Broch’; sug- gestions on flowers and gardening by Eben E. Rexford; hiuts on amateur pholography; a study of marrisge by Ruth Ashmore; the Iatest fashions; Mr. Moody’s Bible cless; Mrs. Bottome's talks with The King's Daugh ter's; a page of cainty luncheoms; Mrs. Rorer’s cocking lessons, and many other de- partments that comprehend the round of woman’s needs. Each number of the Journal is a viluabie book of helpful hints and prac- tical suggestions on the every-day problems of heme life. [The Curtis Publishiug Com- pany]. Harper’s. Harper's Magazine for April opens witha popular historical paper on “Washington and ihe French Craze of '93,” by Professor John Bach MeMaster, who describes tie enthusiasm for ostentatious republicanism aroused by the first successes of the French Republic, and especially by *Citizen” Genet, the French Embassador. The illustrations, in- cluding the irontispiece in color, are in Howard Pyie’s most forcible and virile man- ner. in *‘Paieontological Progress of the Cen- tury,” the third of aseries of profuse:y ilius- trated papers describing the history of modern science, Dr. Henry Smith Williams traces the development of our knowledge of fossils from the tme when they were supposed to be the relics of Noah's fiood until the final establishment by Darwin of the theory of evoiution. George du Maurier's romance of incarnation, ‘‘The Martian," con- tinues to present, under & thin disguise, much of the author’s own life and personality. The supernatural interest of the story reaches a chmax in the intervention of Barty Josselin’s love affair of Mariia, the invisible heroine of the story. The illustrations present Du Maurier at the height of his powers. From Home to Throne in Belgium,” by Clare de Graffenreid, describes the domestic and political institutions of one of the most primitive, individual, and at the same ume cosmopolitan of European nations. The article is ilustrated by George Wharton Edwarls. Tne third paper of the series on the Mexico of to-day, by Charles F. Lummis, entitled “The Awakeming of a Na- tion,” deais with Dicz, the soldier sud the statesmai, outlining a career which is the most adventuresome and romantic, and one of the most patriotic and heroic, of the nineteenth century. The iliustrations are drawn from photographs taken by the author expressly for tnis series. The sixth paper iu the series on “White Man's Africa,” in preparation of | which Poultney Bige 0w spent many months of travel, describes the opening of the Cape Colony Parliament, one 0f tue most charac- teristic and impressive incidents of British colonial empire, and discusses the political ard social questions which the Jameson raid has raisea between the Dutch and English, The article is realistically illus- trated by R. Caton Woodville. *Wild Things in Winter” is a sympathetic study of bird life by J. H. Kennedy. *Our Trade With Brazil ana the River Platte Republics.” by Richard Mitchell, U. S. N., describes commercial con- ditions in South America favorable to the investment of capital from the United Stat In the leading short story of the number, “The Wisdom of Fools,” Mar- garet Deland raises the question of personal responsibility in the existing social order. Other stories are: “A Realized Romance,” by Mary M. Mears, and “A Solo Orchestra,” a sketch of & New York street musician, by | Brander Mauhews. In the Editor's Study topics of general and current interest are discussed by Charles Dudley Warner. . The Philistine. Tne April Philistine is upon us with a motto on the cover to the effec: that fools are more numerous than ever before. We understand tne Philistine’s subseription list is growing. William Melntosh comes forward with a g0od- natured preachmenton “Evolution,” and Rob- ert Hubbard follows with an essay on the “Book ot Job.” The “Side Talks,” conaucted by the East Aurora School of Philosophy, take up a little over one-half of the Magaziue. They are very 1ull of pepper-sauce. Frank Leslie's. Some notable articies, with the usual wealth of {ilustrations, are given 1n the April number of Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly. The most interesting paper, perhaps, is that on “The Lile-saving Service,” in which Joanna R. Nicholls gives a graphic description of the gailant work of our surfmen. It contains eighteen pictures of various wrecks, life- saving apparatus, groups of surimen, P wrails, etc. The article on “The Canadian Girl and Her Brother,” by Cora Stuart Wheeler, which is also ricnly illustrated, will interest not only those in the neighboring country, but the young ladies of the United States. Mrs. Grace Hudson, the weil-known California painter, contributes a number of beautiful illustrations from her recent studies, and there is an article about her and ber work in “The California Indian on Canvas” by Ninetta Eames. “Rutgers College” is well described by George Howard Cowie in the important sertes of papers on “American Universities and Colleges,”” and it is illus- trated with portraits, views of the buildings ana groups of students. Mercia Abbott Keith gives an entertaining account of a trip on the Mississippi from Memphis to New Orleans; Howard Paul, the clever raconteur, tells of » dinner with Artemus Ward; an old Mexican city, Chihushua, is descrived by Edwardes Roberts; there are some good short stories, in- cludinga bicycle story; talk about plays,a | young people’s department, etc.—Frank Les- lie's Publishing House, New York. HERE AND THERE. Mrs. Olive Schreiner is making a visit to England. Mrs. James T. Fields will write the biog- raphy of Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is said that Sir Edwin Arnold has con- tributed nearly 10,000 leading articies to the London Daily Telegraph. A remarkable book will be the study of Eng- lish monasticism in the thirteenth century. This is the work undertaken by Dr. Gasquet. Burns' poems have been tramslated . into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Bo- hemian, Danish, Hungarian, Russian ana Swedish. F. Marion Crawford is to deliver 100 ley ture next seaton throughout the country, his subject being the development of [talian art. He may also give readings from his own novels. Beatrice Harraden has not been benefited in health by ber return to England. She is now at Bournemouth, and what energy she pos- sesses she has put into the revision of the proof sheets of her new book, *‘Hilda Straf- ford. The fifth edition of Mr. Justin McCarthy's “History of Our Own Times' wili thortly ap- pear. No more honest contemporaneous his- tory of England has been written; yet, strange 10 say, the merits of it have never been fully appreciated. Robert Barr, formerly of the Uniled States, has taken very well in England. With the exception of Bret Barte, and temporarily of some woman author from this side of the water, Mr. Barr is perhaps oneof the most popular of American writers in London, In a letter to David Christie Murray, Mr. Kip- ling draws a strong distinction between long and short works of fiction. Shortstories areall very weli, he says, but the novel is ghe higher form, aud no man under 40 can hope to write agood one. The judgment is one with which many readers will find themselves in instant egreement. Andrew Lang is catching it. one might say, because he found fault with Dickens’ cricket. If the immortal Pickwick had played goli, then Mr. Lang might have laid down the law. When an able man, as is undoubtedly Mr. Lang, gives opinions on all things from A to Z—ghosts and fly fishing included—he may get bowled out or run out occasiona.ly. Constant are the discussions over the pro- nunciation of the name of Samuel Pepys. In the Graphic of 1891 these verses are found : There are people, I'm told—some say there are heaps— ‘Who speak of the talkative Symuel as Peeps; And some so precise and pedantic thelr step is ‘Who call the delightful cld Plarist, Pepys: But thcse I think right, and { follow thelr st epa, Ever mention the garrulous cossip as Peps! The family name of Lork Chattenham being Pep-pss and bisyllabic, it 1s possible that the true pronunciation may be discoverable. Andrew Lang has been sneering at what he terms the “inexpensive pathos of Dickens.” Andrew Lang, living, may sneer; will Andrew Lang, twenty-seven years dead, be remem- bered as Charles Dickens is to-day? Will his writings be half s widely read? Wil his name be then known to half as many people as will still be reading the writings of Charles Dickens? Andrew Lang will be a myth long before the ‘‘inexpensive pathos” of Caarles Dickens has ceased {0 touch the hearts of the lovers of English literature. It can no longer be truthfully said that an American book stands a poor chance for even just notiee or criticism fn an Engiish literary paper. On the contrary—excepting perhaps the Saturday Review—the tone of criticism in comment upon American literature is fair and discriminating. In the London Athenwum there is this strongiy commendatory notice of Sarah Orne Jewet's *The Country of the Pointed Fits” (Houghton, Mifilin & Co.) “This is a very favorable specimen of a class of work in which American ladies excel. It is a coilection of studies, more or less consecutive, of life in an out-of-the- way fishing village—the experience of a long summer holiday. An English reader must fail 10 catch the exact flavorof the place described, somewhere on the coast of Maine; but & well drawn picinre of human beings is attractive ic any circumstances, and in Miss Jewett's pleasant pages one finds a bit of life consistent. original and vivid in presentment. It requires some effort to realize the amount of ariistic skill which goes to the composition of such a Diece of work—one that in its method, though Dot in its detaii, recalls Mrs. Gaskell. The lit- tle book 1s marked by good taste throughout; itisa: times gently pathetic, at others deli- cately humorous, and it is always free {rom exaggeration, lI'I[RARY4N0T£S‘. The Jewisn Publication Society of Ameriea announces as its forthcoming publication— In the Pale—Stories und Legends of the Rus- sian Jews,” by Rev. Henry Iiowizi. | Lamson, Wolffe & Co., Boston, have just ready “A History of Canada,” by Charles G, D. Roberts; also “Ex-Libris, Essavs of a Col | lector,” by Charles Dexter Allen, emoellished | With tweuty-one copper-plate prints. General Greely, the noted Arctic explorer, now chief signal officer of the United States army, has written an appreciative review of Nausen's “Farthest North” for the April num- ber in The Month. The article is illustrated. The April fssue of the Bockman is & splen- did rumber, ana we tak: occasion 10 call the attention of readers of these columns to its value as an iudex to matters literary, which character it ably susiains from month to mouth. The Harpers are £0ou to bring outin & new and beautiful eaition Miss Muloch’s novel,- “John Halifax, Gentleman,” which made one of the greatest literary succe ses of the time of its first publication, and bas since had many thousauds of readers. A small book, beautiiully bound in red morocco, is called “A Satchel Guide to Europe,” and is issued by Houghton, Mifiiin & Co. This is the twenty-sixth snnual edi- tios, and the present volume coutains revi sions bringing it up to date. William Clark Russell's new novel, to be published by R. F. Feuno & Co., under the tive, “The Romauce of & Midshipmau,” will be partly autobiographic. Tne story plays during the transition period when steam was taking the place of sails and iron the place of tiaber. Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster is to publish this month through the Harpers a new volume ot pocms, entliled “Easter Bells.”” The work is suid to treat of the common things of life in the sympathetic and_inspiring way that has made Mrs. Saugster one of the must popular of our women writers, Mrs. Caroline A. Creevey is soon to publish through the Harpers a volume entitled “Flowers ol Field, Hill and Swamp,” which is said 10 be written in so popular a siyle, and to be accompanicd by illusirations so velumin. ous und attractive, that it will appeal to the mere lover of wild flowers as well as 1o the amateur botauist. Begloning with the April number McClure's | Maguzine wiil hereafter be published on the ! first day of each month. April 1the April num- | i ber will bs on sale at all newsstands and de- livered to all subscribers, from the Atlantic to the Pacific; and thereafter exacily on the first day of each month a new number will be pub- lished. Heretofore, publication has been made en the 28th of each month, but it is believed that the change to the 1st will be to the general convenience. The New Amsterdam Book Company of New York widl issue during the present month “Death—and Arterward,” by Sir Edwin Ar- | mold; “The Diary of & Resurrec:iouist, 1811- 1812,” by James Blake Bailey; “'Premature Bur- 1ul, und How It May Be Preveuted,” by Wiliiam | Tebo and Colonel E. P. Volum, United States army; ““On tne Nile With s Camera,” by | Antaony Wilkin, profusely illustrated, and “The Devil Tree of El Dorado,” a novel by Frank Aubrey. Richard Hearding Davis is to write for an early number of Harper's Magazine an article describing “President McKinley's Inauguration.” Mr. Davis’ recently pub- lisned article on the ““Coronation of the Czar" was 50 admirable as & complete and vivid pic- ture of one of the greatest spectacies of mod- ern times that his forthcoming paper on what is perhaps the most interesting and characters | istic spectac.e of our own National life is suro to be eageriy anticipated and widely read. It is to be ilustrated by C. D. Gibson and T. de | Thuistrap. The hundred copies of the $30 edition | of the Queen Victoria book, and the 600 coptes of the $15 edition, which the Century Com- pany heve secured for the American market, are being rapidly subscribed for. The subscription price of the $15 edition will he raised in London after the 15th of March to an equivalent of §18. As both editions are printed from type and are strictly limited, they will be apt 10 Incresse iu value very rap- idly. All copies of the $50 edition were sub- seribed for in London at once, and not many are left in America. The Whitaker & Ray Company of this City have in press “A Story of tho Seal in the Far North,” by David Starr Jordan, presis dent of Leland Stanford Jr. University, an allegory touchingly told and elaborately illustrated with half-tone and pen designs; Heart Culture,” by Emma F. Page, a text- ook for inculeating kindmess to animals, adapted for use in private and public schools; nd Joaquin Miller's “Complete Poetical Works,”” with autobiographical sketch, with portraits of the author and views of his home. This is the only complete edition of Joaquin Miller's works. Dodd, Mead & Co. of Boston have just ready several volumes of mew fiction, including “The Dominant Note,” by Mrs. W. K. Clifford “Charity Chance,” Raymon “The Sign of the by Bertram | Mitford; “Chm Ti-| Ca | Rees; and of the Realm, by Anna L Glyno. They have also ready “Modern Methods in Church Work,” by George Whitefleld Mead, and “Literary Year- | book for 1897,” an exbaustive book of refer- ences for all writers of books, editad by Fred- erick G. Aflalo. Among the books to be ready shortly are “Hilda Streffard,” by Beatrice Har- raden, and “The Grea: K.and A. Train Rob- bery,” by Paul Leicester Ford. A book which in some sense suggests Mr. Bryce's “American Commonwealth” is about to be published in London by Messrs. Macmillan. Its title is “The Eng- lish Constitution,” and its author an American, Protessor Macy of Iowa Col- lege. Professor Macy hashad the counsel of Mr. Bryce and of other English authorities, including Sir Frederick Pollock and Pro- fessor Kirkpatrick. He mentions that his Dasis of information has been twofold— firstly, & study of the standard his torical writings, secondly two periods of resi- dence in England. He states with effect s fact sometimes forgotten, that up to the end of the last century the history of the English constitution is also the history of America. The Peter Paul Book Company of Buffalo an- nounce that they are at work on the collected poems of the Rev. Dominic Brennan. C, P., | now at Dunkirk, N. Y., which have appeared in many current publications under the pen names of “D. O'Keily Branden” and “Harlow Howe.” These names have be- come familiar to thousands, and the many ap- plications flowing in from all siaes for a col- lected edition of the poems bespeak alarge and rapid sale. The Jongest of the poems, “The Visious of Saint Paul.” appeared in book form a few years ago, and in a few weeks the entire edition was exhausted. The writer is & man of depth ot thought and possesses & rare delicacy of sentiment, while in the do- main of patriotism and religion his verses rise very high. One of the best poems in the Feb- ruary Philistine, “Imagination,” is from his pen. G. C. Putnam’s Sons, New York, publish a small volume of poems, entitled “Vigi- * by M. Elizabetn Crouse. It is a seiies of short lyries on serious subjects, and the writer is in a deeply reflective mood throughout. The verses are musical and cf a quality that entitle them to cereful read- ing. Here is a sample, called “At Anchor, evidently a paraphrase of Tennyson's *‘Crosse ing the Bar . Sunrise and God’s fresh . “The dew on all the - And fu tne harbor ships that Unfurl their salls and pass- nestling lay, Sunr se and God’s fresh day, Life’s craft the water's spurn: And may the vessel. never go astray, But home to God return. Sunset and G d's tired day Sy e And In the harbor ships that sped at Now furl their salls and resa i