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Hall Qaine and His Story, “The Eternal Qity” By William J. D. Croke, LL. D. OME, April 3.—Great and ambitious books are mirrors of aeons. “The greatest poets,” writes John Mor- ley, “reflect beside all else the broad-bosomed haven of a perfect end positive feith, in which mankind has for some space found shelter, unsuspicious of the new and distant wayfarings which are in store “To this band of sacred bards few are called, while perhaps not more than four high names would fill the list of the chosen—Dante, the poet of Catholicism; testantism; Goethe, of that new which is as yet without any universally recognized la! The far-shining pre-em- inence of Shakespeare, apart from the in- comparable fersility and depth of his nat- urel gifts, arises secondarily from the larger extent to which he transcended the special forming influences, and refreshed his fancy and widened his range of svm- pathy by recourse to what was then the nearest possible approach to a historic or political method. * * * Whilein Dante the inspiring torce was spiritual and in Goetbe it was intellectual, we may say that both in Shakespeare and Milton it was political 2nd social. In other words, the drama of the one and the epic of the other were each of them connected with ideas of gov- ernment and the other external move- ments of men in soclety, and with the play of the sentiments which spring from them. We assuredly do not mean that in either of them, least of all in Shakes- peare, there is an absence of the spiritual element. This would be at once to thrust them down into a lower place, for the spiritual is the very essence of poetry. But with the spiritual there mixes in our Englishmen a most abundant leaven of recognition of the impressions and im- pulses of the outer forms of life, as well as of active sympathy with the every- day debate of the world. “They are neither of them inferior to the highest in the sense of the wide and un- alterable things of the spirit, yet with both of them, more than with other poets of the same rank, the man with se soul and circumstance they have to is the Politicon zoon, no high ab- tion of the race, but the creature h concrete relations and a full objec- tive life. “In Shakespeare the dramatic form helps tly to make this more prominent, gh the poet’s spirit shines forth thus ependently of the mold which imposes Of Milton we may say, too, that in of the supernatural machinery of his atest poem, it bears strongly impressed on it the political mark, and that in those »r pieces, where he is avowedly in the al sphere, he still rises to the full of his majestic harmony and no- ignity.” (Miscellanies, I, pp. 210- ot to delay the reader with apologies length of the quotation, I may out some of the strains of sugges- running through these passages read in connection with H: Caine’s “The Eternal City.” This T ly in the Uwnited States and s Magazine in Engiand, just least one Itallan critic has done in to the “Piccolo Mondo Moderno” Fogazzaro, which is running in La Nuova Antologia, but in doing so I wish to a1 te the author in the most posi- 4 in the most complete way from f the many responsibilities which ctly or indirectly spring up or be engrafted upon what is This writer has al- m or quoted v said to the American public that far as it concerns the primary sugges- tten on which I have begun to work, I find myself once more indebted the book of books for the foundation my theme. The story of ‘The Eternal City’ is, both on its human side and on he side of its intellectual intention, the story of Samson and his lifelong struggle w the lords of the Philistines.” This, to one who remembers the “Samson Ago- is merely a proof case among others creating an identity of interpreta- tion between the two English poets in the aspects just Gescribed and the modern writer, and setting the stamp of the same o} positivism of soctal and political nt upon the works of the latter and those of the former. And the marks of identity are deepened into characteris- they apply in the doubie case 1 themes cr classic themes, and al and political handling of these nistes subjec In truth, the novelist of the day sup- the poe:, just as the poet of old nted the prophet and the seer. great poet of to-day would be a 1 poet. The great novelist is a world The word of Hall Caine with re- gard to his present story sets the neces- proof upon this; in it he speaks of 4, and not of Italy and of Rome as the world's heart—not as the capital of le kingdom.” Inorder to justify ain the title of my story I would that it seems to me almost certain that in the great future, which is to wit- ness the breakdown of so many barriers g man from man and man from ind in the new methods of settling @nd international disputes, which ace of the brutal and bar- us conflicts of war, as well as the d fratricidal struggles of trade, the old mother city of the pagan and the ristian worlds will have her rightful Her geographical position, her re- nd historical Interest, her artistic above all, the mystery of eter- hich attaches to her, seem to me to point to Rome as the seat of the great court of appeal in the congress of human- ty which-(as surely as the sun will rise the future will see estab- the mirror of his age as ‘well as its high exponent to the very tittle of a difference. me illustrate this difference by com- paring the democratic movement which sceeded, say from 1800 to 1870, as “de- ribed by Mr. .Morley, with the demo- tic movement which I8 now in pro- gress. The former was largely ideal, the ter is not to be contented with formu- without bread. *Of what manner Is this spirit?” asks the first-named writer about the revolution of a generation ago. “Is it mot a masterful and impatient yearning after many good things, unsub- and uninformed efther by a just knowledge of the time, and the times which are needed to bring to men the of their hope, or by a fit apprecia- of orderly and tranquil activity for e public service, as the normal type of dual life? * * * (a) colossal which has haunted Europe these years and more, with its new- on, its Falf-controlled will, its cry for muititude of unknown under the single name of Free- one known and unadulterated biessing. If only truth, which ne of words is essentially divine and rosanct, had been the chief talisma. the revolution the movement would have been very different from that which we know. But to claim this or that in the name of truth would have been to borrow * * * language * * * covered thick with hateful associations. Freedom, after all, was the next best thing, for it is an indispensable condition of the best of all; but it could not lead men until the spint cof truth, which means science in the in- ¥ 1 Let tellectual order and justice Jn the social order, had Jjolned company with It.” (On Byron.) The new, robust and almost full-blooded @emocracy of this age has discarded truth and even freedom as insufficlent ideals without that of bread in abundance, and Mr. Hall Caine has uttered its word in a piquant story, which is embodied in “The Eternal City.” ““Yet you thought you had got the millenfum when you got the statute,’ sald a voice from the crowd. “‘So we did, sonny, but’we were liko the Dutchman’s dog: ‘Schneider,’ said the Dutchman, ‘you are free, ‘But where can I go? said Schnelder. ‘You are free,’ said the Dutchman. ‘But what can I €at? ‘You are free, I tell you' Next day Schnelder was found dead in a ditch. ‘He can’t blame me. I gave him his liberty, didn’t 1?7’ sald the Dutchman “ “You ought to be ashamed of yourself talking like that of your King and coun- try!” said another choking voice in the crowd. Mr. Hall Caine is evidently with people. This is how the condition of the poor in the Roman Campagna is described: “Housed in huts of straw, sleeping on mattresses of leaves, clothed In rags or nearly nude, fed on maize and chestnuts and acorns, worked eighteen hours a day and sweated by the tyranny. of the over- seers to whom landlords leave their lands while they idle their days in the salons <f Rome and Paris, men and women and children are treated worse than slaves and beaten more than dogs.” And “You take these statements light- ly—you that don't know what it is to e hungry, vou that have food enough to eat, and only want sleep to digest it. But 1 know these things by bitter knowledge— by experience. Don't talk to me, you who had your fathers and mothers to care for you and your comfortable homes to live in. I had none of these things. I was nursed in a workhouse and brought up in a hut in the Campagna. Because of the miserable la of your predecessors my mother drowned herself in the Tiber and I knew what it was to starve. And I am only one of many. At the very door of Rome, under a Christian Government, the poor are living lives of moral anaemia and physical atrophy more terrible by far than those which made the pagan poet say two thousand years ago, ‘Bancis vivit humanum genus (the human race exists for the benefit of the few).’” And Mr. Hall Caine is not less sinceréiy than evidently with the people, for when he describe® his hero, whose utterance I have just quoted, he seems almost to 1m- personate him, and the uiterances of the one in character are often informal ut- terances of the other. It is difficult to enumerate the bearings of this social and political evangel. Among the salient features of a story with such a motive is, of course, its atti- tude toward the great facts of the modern world. One of these great facts is the militarism of the present time. ie intended to be strongly opposed to the spirit of militarism. It regards warfare as a barbarous and brutal method of set- tling rational disputes, and strongly in- dicates a belief that the laws of nature are fast rendering it impracticable and impossible, this both on its economic and its scientific sides, not to speak of its moral and spiritual aspects. Another feature of the story deals with the of the earth. The teaching of Lhe S0 s that the land belongs to the whcle the human f: ¢ and that it is wrong and wicked of an ass to take possession of it to the ex on of the rest. Here again the laws of nature arc made the ground for belief that the land will return into the possession of humanity. Once more the attitude of the story to- ward capital may be charaeterized in an identical manner. The trend of the teach- nanifestly is that great trusts and tes are Injurious to the interests of the human family and that the laws of nature are once more operating to put an erd to them by submerging them Into the possession of the nation, and finally of the race. Lastly, and above all, it will be asked what is the relation of the story to re- ligion? Here the intention is to take Christianity as a basis of faith, and par- ticularly the teaching of the words of Christ as the foundation of belie: Lord's prayer being more especiajly as the basis of a political charter, idea of the author beiag that Chri the is law-giver for the nation as well as for the individual. The attitude toward the ch ches, or rather toward the churth, is perhaps more difficult to state, though it is clear and decis! The author shows the deep- est respect for the Catholic church as a divine institution. but it must be at once said that he is an unylelding opponent to the t emporal claims of the papas Tis attitude in this regard is very emphatical- ly stated in eral places—the view being that a Pope can be a temporal sovereign only on the of absolutism, and that any divided political authority would be contraty to the fundamental idea of the papac As th mporal absolutism comes into coliision with tne political doc- trines on which the story is founded, the autkor is at war with it., Of course, it n be said, as he would say, that he is an edversary of the body of the church rather than to its soul. In a word, the fundamental religious and political idea gt the root of the story ie the sovereignty of the people. This nds very strong expression again and gain, and it is even accompanied by the necessary deduction that if the people are the true sovereigns in every country of the world, there can be no rebellion ex- cept rebeilion -against the people; there- fore, that all ruling classes that are not the servants of the people are rebels to the people, whatever uniform they, wear. “It 15, says one of the speakers in the story. “‘because the votes of the peo- ple gre naot rightly apportioned- that re- actionary governments in Italy have been able to keep us out of the divinest part of our human patrimony,, the patrimony of our intelligence. Generation after gen- eration we have lived in the darkness ot ignorance that the rebels of the ruling classes might do their best to reduce us to the condition of Beasts of burden. I thank my good, kind, merciful God that they have not been ablé to do so alto- gether. Man is divine, man is God-like, and the Almighty has not allowed that even his worst oppressors should bring him down to the fevel of the brutes!"” From all this it might perhaps be con- cluded that his story will contain much theorizing, but such an inference couid be warranted only by a haste which would leave out of consideration’ the fact that Mr. Hall Caine is, in his story-telling, con- cerned with drama above and before all else. Incident presses nurrledly on in- cident in “The Eternal City,” as in “The Christian,” in “The Manxman' and all his books. The published portions alone suffice to make this simply inconceivable, The theories are indeed there, but they underlie plot, counter-plot and develop- ment: they do not emerge otherwise than by mere refiect, as in the story of the dog Bchneider, or by the brief and pertinent utterances of the speakers. It might also very naturally be imag- ined that Mr. Hall Caine’s new story is a story of Italian, of more strictly, of Roman life. This, however, is really not The story« so0. Although the scere is set in Roms, and the chief characters are Romans, the motive of the story is neither peculiarly Roman nor Italian. Its interest is wider than that being concerned 'with a motive of universal application.» It is a world- theme wrought out in Rome. It will naturally be asked, why, then, is Rome chosen as the central scene? The answer is, because Rome is to the author in some respects the capital of the world; this by reason of its mstorical and re- ligious interest, the mystery of eternal life that clings to it, the charm of its ar- tistic associations, and above all, the value of its geographical position in rela- tion to the great line of commercial ac- tivity in the world. Rome stands to the author as it stood to Mazzini, as the future Pantheon of Hu- manity, the court and the congress of man. In his dream of the future he sees Rome as the center to which all the na- tions will come for ine settlement of In- ternational disputes, as well, perhaps, as ) . THE SUNDAY OCALL. from the press In a few weeks. Over 200 of the most eminent Jewish and non- Jewish scholars are engaged on it, and nearly every country of the civilized world are represented on the editorial staff. The publishers state that the ac- tual cash outlay involved in the making of this encyclopdela will reach nearly $600,000. It is their intention to have the work entirely free from bias or color and to cover the subject in the most exhaustive manner. Judging from the advance sheets, showing the typographi- cal appearance, general plan of the work, and illustrations, these volumes should prove a veritable treasure-house of in- formation relating to the history and antiquities of the Jewish nation, the doc- trines, usages, and tenets of the Jewlish faith, and the great share which men and women of the Jewish blood have taken in advancing the civilization of the world. . The encyclopedia is to appear in twelve volumes, quarto, aggregating about 8000 pages, with about 2000 illustrations. Price per volume, cloth, $6. H In speaking of the proposed work Rev. Dr. Jacob Voorsanger, rabbi of the Con- gregation Emanu-Ei, San Francisco, Cal., professor of semitic languages and liter- ature in the University of California, Berkeley. Cal., says: “What the Talmuds have done for the people of the early cen- turies the Jewish, Encyclopedia will do for the twemée):*nmry. It will put in compact and e form all the knowl- edge by which Israel has become the world’s spiritual conqueror. It must, of needs, present all knowledge in a popular form. It js not designed, primarily, as a monument of scholars, but as a teacher of the people. It will seek to revive a love of knowledge, It will create a stim- Jfall Cane. and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a preci- pice, than miserly straggling to an end in sandy deltas? When the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods love die young, I cannot help believing they had this sort of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtakes the man, this is to dle youns. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an {llusion from his heart. In the hot fit of life, a-tiptos on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side. 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Latest polit- fcal events, recent discoveries, statistics and descriptions of Porto Rico, Hawali, the Philippine Islands, etc.,, are given with detalled accuracy. The notices of each of the forty-five States of the Union, Phoiograph of Life Jize Pust Racently Made of the Author. for the settlement of great industrial and commercial disputes. His attitude toward militarism and all the hydra of evils which the new demo2- racy combats is set forth. at iits best by a speech of Rossl in the House of Depu- tles: The proposal to increase the army,” he said, “In a time of tranquillity abroad ~but of discord at home, is the gravest'im- peachment that could be made to the gov- ernment of a country. Under.a right or- der of things Parliament would be the servant of that conscience, and rebellion would be impossible. But this government is the master of the country and is keep- ing the people down by violence and op- pression. Parliament is dead. For God's sake lct us bury it!’ “Loud shouts followed this outburst, and some of the Deoutics rose from their seats, and crowding around the speaker ir. the open space In f-ont. velled and screamed at him like r. pack of hounds. He stocd calm, playing with his watch- chain, while the Pres'dent rang his bell and called for silence. The interruptions died down at last, and the speaker went on: “‘If you ask me what is the reason of the discontent which rroduces the crimes of anarchism, I say, first the domination of a government which is absolute, and the want of liberty of speech and meeting. In other countries thc discontented are permitted to manifest their woes, and are not punished unless they commit deeds of violence; but in Italy alone, except Rus- sia, a man may be placed outside the law, torn from his i:ome, from his wife and children, from his bed, from the bed- side of his nearest and dearest, and sent to Domicilio Ceatto (compulsory domi- cile under police suvervision) to live or die In a sllence as deep as that of the grave." " I may conclude with one last quota- ‘tion, which is the most representative of all: *“‘What is democracy?' asks David Rossi, the hero of the stery. ‘Democr. is the breaking down of the barriers that divide man from man. It is the fulfill- ment of the law of equality, not mercly between body and body, but between sou! and soul. ‘Thy.kingdom come on eafth as it is in heaven.’ Democracy is an at- tempt at the practical realization of tiuat prayer. Democracy believes that the grand volce of God sveaks through the pedple. Democracy recognizes the broth- erhood of man. Democracy sees only one division among men,—gcod men and bad men, just men and unjust men, followers of God’s law and rebeis against it. - This is democracy and all iuie rest is a supec- stition and a lie." ™ In a word, the story is a document of, and a plea for, democracy. oS s A Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk & Wagnalls, the New York pub- lishers, announce the forthcoming of a cclogsal work—“The Jewish Encyclope- dia""—the first volume of which will come ulus for Jewish culture. It will tell the world what the Jew has achieved not be- cause of the pride of achievement but be- cause that knowledge will help the world to greater Intellectual effort. It wlll pre- serve the vast testimony of Jewish intel- lectual mastery in a form designed to open the testimony to the view of a large circle of readers. It is to be no esoteric script, no book of the dead, mo erypto- gram for private circulation. 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Seaweeds and mosses, shells and mollusks, are fully described, in many cases with illustrations. It is a book for nature-lovers to take on summer outings. Directions are given for collecting and preserving seaweeds, arranging a herb- arium, gtc. It will be bublished by the Century Company in May. “The Lion’s Brood” is a new novel by Duffield Osborne announced for early spring publication by Doubleday, Page & Co. “The Lion's Brood,” it will be re- membered, was the sons of the old Car~ thagenian leader, Hamilcar, who as chil- dren were sworn enemies of Rome. Han- nibal took his oath on the altar at 9, and became leader of the Carthagenlan armies at 28, afterward to be, perhaps, the great- est general of all times. The story is of love and romance in which the author takes advantage of the most dramatic incidents attending the famous Italian campaign of Hannibal. The distinguishing feature of the April Critic is the first installment of a seriaa of *‘Real Conversations”" between William. Archer and various notable writers of the day, Thomas Hardy being the initial sub- ject. Carried on entirely in dialogue, there is much that is pertinent and infor- mal to the present interview, which is given further reality through admirabls pen-portraits of both Mr. Archer and Mr. Hardy. Another new series which b gins in the current number of the Crit is the letters from “Arthur Pendenys” io “Belinda,” “Arthur Pendenys” being, of course, Arthur L. Humphreys, who is well known to all bookmen and collectors. The first letter, which is entitled “Bodks of To-Day and Books of To-Morrow,” is spiced with much sound sense and spright- ly humor. Ernest F. Henderson, Ph.D. (Berlin), author of a “History of Germany in the Middle Ages,” editor of “Select Historicai Documents” and “Side Lights on Eng- lish History,” has in train for publication by the Macmillan Comvany “A Short H's- tory of Germany.” It will be a thorough working over of an immense mass of iit- erature embodying the most recent results of German scholarshin. The author has devoted some eighteen years of his life almost exclusively to the subject and has had exceptional advantages in foreign uni- versities, libraries and printshops and in the companfonship ot foreign scholars. Tt is hoped that each individual chapter will prove not merely a convenient summary but also a distinct addition to the knowi- edge obtainable even trom fuller mono- graphs in English. It is hoped, too, that some of the author's own enthusiasm for the subject will be found reflected in the work. He considers that the history of Germany, as being the most central power, offers the best connectirg thread throush the general history of Europe, and fur- thermore that no history whatever is mors full of incident, abounds more in light and shade or shows a graader progress to- ward a finally attained goal. Owing to some misunderstanding about the system of arriving at the “Dbest sell- ing” books of a month, The Bookman for April explains its method of computation as follows: A book standing first on any list re- celves ten. A book standing second on any lst re- cefves eight. A book standing third on any lst re- celves seven. A book standing fourth on any list re- cefves six. A book standing fifth on any list re- celves five. A book standing sixth on any list re- celves four. According to the foregoing list the six books which have sold best in the order of demand during the month are: First, “Alice cf Old Vincenn son (Bowen-Merrill Company), points. Second, “Eben Holden,” Bacheller (Lo- throp & Co.), $150, 224 points. Third, “Richard Yea-and V" Hew- lett (Macmillan), §1 §0. 120 points. Fourth, “Eleanor,” Ward (Harper), $1 5, 9 points. F‘fi"lh. “An Englishwoman’s Love Let- ters” (Doubleday, Page & Co.), $150, " Thomp- $150, 297 points. Sixth, “L’Alglon,” Rostand (RusselD, $1 50, 58 points. Among Dodd, Mead & Company’'s an- nouncements of publications for the spring we note the following: “The first volume of George Saintsbury's “History of Criticism™; the third and fourth vol- umes of Augustus J. C. Hare's auto- blography; a tribute to Queen Victoria by Marle Corelli, entitled, “The Passing of the Great Queen”; an interesting vol- ume by Arthur Bartlett Maurice, editor of The Bookman, devoted to “New York in Fiction”; a volume of poems by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, “Love’s Argu- ment”; a new edition, in cheaper form, of the “Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir Willlam Temple”s Frederick Wed- more’s quarto on “Turner and Ruskin™; the “Journal of Hugh Gaine,” editsd by Paul Leicester Ford; a new volume by M. Maeterlinck, “The Life of the Bee”; Miss H. A. Guerber’s “Empresses of France”; “Masters of Music,” by Anna Alice Cha~ pin, and “Life and Sport on the Pacifia Slope,” by Horace Annesley Vachell. In the list of fiction there are some not- able volumes, as follows: ‘“Observations of Henry,” by Jerome K. Jerome; “Souls of Passage,” by Amella E. Barr; a re- vised edition of “Etidorhpa,” by John Url Lloyd, the author of “Stringtown on the “Pro Patria,” by Max Pemberton; “A Question of Silence,” by Amanda M. Douglass; “The Fanatics,” by Paul Lau- rence Dunbar; “Every Inch a King.” by Josephine Caroline Sawyer; “John Char- ity,” by Horace Annesley Vachell; “Ac- cording to Plato,” by Frankfort Moore; “The Crow’s Nest” by Mrs. Everard Cotes (Sara Jeanetts Duncan), and “The Way of Belinda,” by Frances Weston Carruth. —— Books Received. A CAROLINA CAVALIER—By George Cary Eggleston. Lothrop Publishing Com- pany, Boston. $150. JOHN VYTAL—By Willlam Farquhar . Payson. Harper & Brothers, New York. $1 20 EASTOVER COURTHOUSE—By Henry Burnham Bo%ne and Kenneth Brown. Harper & Brothers, New York. $1 50. A NEW WAY AROUND AN OLD WORLD—By the Rev. Francls E. Clark, D: D. Harper & Brothers, New York. §1 50. THE KING OF HONEY ISLAND—By Maurice Thompson. G. W. Dillingham Company, New York. ONE AMERICAN GIRL-By Virginia Webb. G. W. 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