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, whom' the au- most subjective d States: “In my ame lost in The artist ave express his ce of it. What ate ip form therein?'* imation of what jmpresging upon d heart of his readers may £ bent o @ e had from the following verses, ! uses by permission of Barry | ABT FOE' ARTS SAKE. r Art's sake: byt in that art, e true, the beautiful, the goc throbbing human heart, thit sky, thet feld, that wood. h the soul that lies Nature's wondrous breast; verens lover's eyes issful moment reSt. f. her shores, boundless, skies, £ of the volume, al- s completg in itself, almost > It r the to make the nd and appreciate mod- Speaking of thes r says en-| of genius apd swand All the fore part of ainly an inculcation of the subjective element in of his own best theught ts upon the can- g a tecanically ature's a pha their 1spired by shown xpressed in new of ve nvas with ge and noble € e, giving the »f power in reserve seven Dutch artists are: nnes Bosboom, Jesef Israels, Anton J. H. Weissenbruch and - the Maris brothers—James, Matthew liam.. The characteristics of all re well explained in a-series of chapters. Among these unique, queness of Matthew is® perhaps s and interesting. -He is one ists difficult to compre- akt it is said some find him t those who do see beauty in his re strong admirers. The paint- his earlier years have a , but later he triedl to put subjective into his work id make fhe canvas trans- to unsympathetic behold- It appeals to those only “who are their pression ef t 1 ot de- | aught a spark | trans- | questionin as e ng iful t lives and h he forms ef 1l in that.r e m e strange. pictures by Mat- caligd *“The Dreamer,” and t it is given by one of At first glance it looks n it seems as some- have been a_ pic now fading away into alm L Look at longer, ng asleep upon 1 it for a rhinute is to somewhat as if you dim figure sémi-darkness se form and voring to sep- os with which an being in.the reproduction on 2 masterpiece by the mod- sruch, It tistic powers after: a lifetime A Dutch critic, speaking of g, thus expressed his opinion tionof the work and of the quired to.attain S ution: bruch sixty years to nt that picture of the n the Coast of Zeeland.” In re- s picture, .and the other fine k of the Dutch artists in landscape, author says: older they find the tech- they sought at first ijguage ‘they ‘have to use, and important matter is to use ge they have learned, to render » big things in ture and-in art as-they appear in the ipathetic imagination of the artist.” h painter,’ James Maris, said: is to give lasting pleasure more than the eye.” To two bits of verse thad book of almost ardent on of the power. of modern landscape artists to actually realize ures the ideals held aloft by n thely word: SUBJECTIVITY IN ART n the Work, must needs-stand manifest , be his features, therein shown, thought in a god's words ex- presse His own, somewhat greater than his own. Watson. t throbs the painter i nted an Into thes the soul of the r is bidden —Anonymous. (Baker « Taylor Company, New York; +82. nét.) | HOLLAND DESCRIBED | - BY GREAT WRITERS 1 | it not for the Dutch, Holland | wonld not exist” Of no other land or { people could a similar expression be | used. Other nations, however diligent- | Iy industrious -and greatly .creative, build from the ground -up, but the Dutch build the Vvery ground on which they bulld. There are many other pe- uliar things said about this singular - | people ana their country that they have suved from the sea. A new book called “Holland: As Seen and Described by. Great Writers,” gives a very fascinat- ing account of these famous -Nether- | lanas. It-consists of thirty-seven pa- | pers by various able writers, collected and edited by Esther Singleton, who 18 @ wwell-known Success at that kind of book-making. MHer works are getting to be guite a long Hst now. To recall some of her past perform- ances is to feél that you are guaran- teed to get a good thing in each new volume sie sends out for the public's instruction and delight. Let these few from the list be remembered in order to tavorably recall her workmanehip: | “Great Pictures Described by Great | Write “Romantic Castles and Pal- ac. ove in Literature and Art," “Furrets, Towers and Temples,” “Great Portraits Described. by Great Writers, “Paris, “Russia,” -“Japan,” “Venic | and “Famous Women.” | This new volume Is specially design- cd as descriptive matter for the intend- { ing tourist,.or for the returned traveler | who wishes to refresh his memory or to keep by him a beautiful memento of a delightful visit. It is profusely il- ustrated with full-page presentations of cholce views characteristic of nd which is so often spoken of “quaint.” The general divisions of are: “The Country and the Rac istory,” * tptions of Va- rious Cities and Places,” “Manners and “Painting” and “Statistics.” i these uses the book will be | valuable for those many who have no time nor money for touring, but are ! curfous to know-about that almost odd- est of all lands, the native place of the Dutch. It i8 a strangely interesting glimpse we get from the text and the fllustrations of these pages. Odd, sur- prising and beautiful' is the mplti- canaled and sea-saturated country of the Dutch. Holland is said to be as wet as a raft awash. When men prepare to build a house and dig down three feet for a foundation the excavation is at the water level. Yet they fear not rheumatism nor miasm. Strictly speak- ing, the Dutchman has no “terra firma” Leneath his feet. The foundations of his substantial buildings musf be upon piles brought from Norway or other far-away places. ,Speaking of the peculiar things that can be sald of Holland recalls the one that the Dutchmen spent immense in- > there were such | sroRAM: Cogsy-of ZEELAAD. Fronr . | EANDSC AL i 2z —t o+ | PICTURES FROM TWO RECENT | THE FAMOUS PAINTERS O) PEOPLE, THEIR LIFD & BOOKS ABOUT HOLLAND, ONE TELLING OF F THE COUNTRY AND THE OTHER OF THE- D THEIR LAND. i dustry in saving théir land from the sea | as fast as they can. | peaty soil is fine fuel and much cheaper | than coal. Sometimes a big peat bed | accidentally takes fire, and then there | comes a lake where the land was. If| | ever there were a whole nation living | permanently in the predicament known | s being betwixt the devil and the deep blue sea that condition is the Dutch- man’s. Part of *his country is-subject to disastrous inundation every seven | years. Once in history a hundred thou- | sand Dutchmen were drowned at one fell swoop of the sea. The waters still roll where the villages were. | In most of the country the canals are | higher thdn the soil the people culti- vate and build their houses upon. The land is characteristically so unstable that the inhabitant has to stick pine trees in it to make it firm enough to hold his house up. Much of the very | ground is so inflammable that if it takes | fire that much of semi-solid Holland burns up and the Dutchman has that | much less to stand on. Talk of the| power of environment to mold char- acter—ought not the Dutchman's sur- roundings to ‘result in a nervy race? Possessing the most placid of all tem- peraments, the Dutch look calmly upon their dikes and say to the sea: “Thus far shalt thou come and no farther!” The Dutch is the nearest to nation- ally incarnate audacity that exists. Moreover the Dutch is the boldest and closest imitation of creative power that the world knows. Give us but a created country, sey the other ambitious peo- ples of the earth to beneficent heaven, and we will make the utmost of the opportunity; but the Netherlanders go that one better and say—Iit is enough, most bountiful heaven, if you merely make us Dutchmen, with industry in- defatigable and audacity perdurable, and we'll do the rest—create the very land under our feet and hold ‘it down despite the devil and the deep blue sea. Consider that stupendous fact and you | will realize how absurd it is to ever | talk about “beating the Dutch.” They are unique, and you cannot call them down from that unassailable position. Quite a number of the book’s illus- trations show the picturesque wind- mills, which are so characteristic of scenes in Holland. When in operation these are said to look very odd to one accustomed to the motion of American mills, for the Dutch ones seem to twiz- zle backward. Another peculiar view to foreigners is the sight of the sall- boats on the canals. These waterways are higher than the land and are hid by dikes and so the boats seem to be salling across the green grass of the pastures and in and out among the grazing cattle. It must be bewildering enough to make the beholder feel be- witched. Many of the- pletures show the handsome houses buflt up close to the edges of the broad canals, and sometimes there is a walk bhordered with beautiful trees and an arched stone bridge, and all this combination is reflected in the clear water so as to make a most eye-delighting suggestion of Holland's loveliness. Tower build- ing beautiful seems to be an art in which their architects excel. The picture reproduced on this page fs of the famous “House in_the Wood,” or “Huls Ten Bosch,” the meeting place of The Hague Peace Conference for the set- tlement of International disputes. It is sald to be a charming place, ‘“prettily situated, rather plain outside from an | architectural point of view, but beautiful- | Iy decorated by Dutch masters inside,” which, I suppose, ‘means the same thing as if the author had sald it was beauti- | fully decorated inside by great Dutch | masters. Here is a description of the en- vironment: “Beneath the beeches there is a carpet of familiar things, such as wild parsley and a tall short grass like | | oats, but the color is much more vivid {than with us; indeed, Holland out- | emeralds the Emerald Isle in the trans- lucent greenness which the damp soil | gives, not only to the actual vegetation, but to the stems of the trees.” It 4s not only In summer that the { canals give a picturesqueness to Holland, | for in the winter, on the canals 4nd on ! the rivers, the finest fetes take place. The snow is swept away and the ice left| smooth for skating. The people are su- | perlatively excellent at that uport—elna-' clally the ladies. “They begin to skate as children, and continue it as girls and married women, simultaneously reaching ! the crowning point of their beauty and their art, and their skates draw from the ice they skim over the spurks that set so many hearts on fire. * * * Some ladies and now they .are busy burning it up | Those who have seen them aver that no That's because the description can give an adequate idea of | for his dear sake, grew murderously jeal- attain a marvelous degree of perfection. the graceful bends and curves, the count- less soft and most becoming attitudes they display in their swallow or butter- fiy-like flight, or how completely their placid@ beauty is metamorphosed and en- ltvened by -the exercise ‘which the intri- cate maneuvers they perform involve.” Another selected quotation about the ladies will perhaps be the most pleasing consummation of a review of this appre- ciative book about the Dutch: “A widely spfead taste, ~eéspecially among the women, is that for flowers, for here home life is a poem, and all means are sought to idealize it. We have al- ready noticed that in Flanders moral habits were trained with the love of flow- ers; in the Netherlands it is an inclina- tlon which is becoming general, A rose expanding behind a clean and thoroughly transparent Dutch window resembles the perfumed soul of the house. These do- mestic gardens are sometimes perfect conservatories, so rich and varied does the flora appear.” (Dodd, Mead & C NOUEL DEALS WITH EUIL OF IDLENESS Morley Roberts’ new novel, “The Idlers,” is a strong study of the evil ef- fect of idleness upon the morals, It is a tale of English high life, and idleness is shown to have made some of the miem- bers of that class do some quite low thidgs. It is.strongly written, very in- teresting, severely arraigns the idle women of London as being responsible for the immoralities of men, makes the full force of the story strike one of these idle women for her sins against the sev- enth commandment, and lets off the men altogether {00 lightly- 1ior committing the same sin. The author scores the woman who is the idle sinner in the case with all the severity of a Puritan preacher; and the idle young man, who -is repre- sented as the victim of her wiles, has his offenses condoned with a lightness of pen touch that might almost satisfy the ideals of the Cavallers of the times of Charles the Second. Tacitly the book seems to teach the double standard. That statement needs the mitigation of ex- plaining that the individuals painted are a deeply calculatingly, false woman of 27 and a carelessly moraled but Kkind- hearted young man in the early twentles. The book may be classified as belonging to those innumerable which, deal with “the eternal triangle,” the man and his wife and the other man. The tragedy. of this triangle, however, was that there were two other men, But for that the sinfulness might have gone smoother—in this world at least. The game was quad- ranguiar, and one of the men, who was delighted to have the woman singly false New York. $1.60.) ous when he found out the lady had been doubly false for some other fellow's sake. Then the avenging killing comes, and Morley deseribes it well. It is dramat- fcally told, and the rempinder of the vol- ume is useful as a preparation of the reader for that dreadful outcome. It is much more satisfying to literary taste to have adultery end in murder than merely in diverce court proceedings, The reader will enjoy the fore part of the novel much more by thus knowing be- forehand that something more cleansing is coming after the scandal than the pusillanimously easy adjustment by court decree, which settlement is all the early chapters hint at. The principal characters are: Renee Buckingham, handsome, clever and un- scrupulous wife of a wealthy biscuit and jam manufacturer, who is planning to become a peer; her husband, who trusts her because he believes she is cold as ice, and, loving only herself, will never risk losing her fine house -and fifty thousand a year by being false to him; Jack Bex- ley, a handsome and athletic young Eng- lishman, who has been pampered by his wealthy parents and who has nothing to do but hunt game and visit women; Cap- tain Raynour, who is Renee’s lover, but who has gone away to India in perform- ance of a soldier’s difficult and hazardous duties; and Cecilla Clarendon, a fine, clever, aristocratic young woman, who is engaged o Jack Bexley. Some of the minor chigracters, but very necessary to the development of the story, are: Jack | Bexley's father, an indulgent parent and | wealthy country gentleman; Tom Claren- | don, father of Cecilia, who studies scien- tfic farming and adores his daughter, PousE IN THE HroaD, THE HACUE A SLLEAN D DESCRIEBED I3 GREAT FERTTLE Ifourtsen years, which is just double what | dulgent father condones that also, and ‘| part of the reason of the parent's easy -|in not declaring the engagement off be- ‘| fete will take the shape of an artistic yon an average, 300 per cent at the end 1iof the full course—by a few months’ or and Mrs, Billy Rayney, who /s unscrupu- lous, scheming and mercenary, To illustrate the tendency of the author.| to deal very-indulgently witi masculine immorality, we may consider-a tew items from the life of Jack Bexiey, the hand- some hero. of the tale. His nrst woman- scrape’is with his fathér's gamekeeper's daughter. - His father good-naturedly for- gives him, ‘without even a harsh ‘word, and- pays the gamekeeper to keep quiet | by allowifig him ten shillings a week for the English law’ fixes as the price to be paid for the privilege of having an llle- gitimate child. The way this incident Is described .reads .very much like making light of the offense-against morality. The gamekeeper and his daughter are ' too coarsely common to. arose ~much sym- pathy, but when we pass from- that plebe- ian coarseness to the patrician house where the gentleman father and son made it an easy matter .of ‘‘ten bob a week,"” and mum's‘the word, asa picture of Eifg-] lish Hfe it is apt to excite some passing dlsgust. i After that Jack goes to London, ‘and sing with the married Renee. Thé@ in- there ‘are only words of sympathy. A | indulgence 1is ‘that he had been a gay vouth himself when he was Jack's age. The ‘author's condoning of Jack by paint- ing, him with sucl an unpunished fate is | made much more emphatic later.on by | having the. fine woman of the book, Ce- cilia Clarendon, not only forgive Jack, but marry him. Her father, who adored her, had sworn his faith that she would not marry Bexford when she knew the facts, but she took him without demur. All the literary skill of the writer is exerted to plcturing this young woman as a very wise one, and her particular act | cause of-the two escapades of the hero as a signal proof of her wisdom. ‘It would be interesting literary statistics to get the number of readers who will feel dis- gust at_such a pardon and such a mar- riage and the number of those who ‘think, a$ the author betrays:between the lines that he does, that the young woman was wise. We all know that Cecilia’s act is so largely. true to, life that it is natural to set it down | 50 in a novel. It would also be in- teresting literary as well as sociological statistics if we could get figures to show if the much larger proportion of immoral- ity in men as compared with women is in some corresponding ratio to the. count of the number of men who insist on the ab- solute purity of the women they make their wives as compared with the number of women who are equally particular as to the men they marry. If we had such statistics we might find that the true explanation of the socio- logical problem of the double standard lles in the simple fact that there aré so many Cecilia Clarendons in the world; - that, in eternal justice, each sex has got what it persistently demanded- through the long centuries that have ‘made heredity tell its tale. The men have demanded abso- lute purity in their wives, and they got it. The women have not demanded it in men, and they haven't received it. ‘Be- hold all!” might say the soclal philos- opher. (L. C. Page & Co. NOTES OF BOOKS AND THE AUTHORS The attractions of Holland will in July, this year, be appreciably en- hanced by the fetes and festivities that are being arranged in Leyden and Am- sterdam—more particularly in the lat- ter town—to- celebrate the tricenten- ary of Rembrandt’s birth. Much un- certainty exists with regard to the ex- act date, but .most authorities are agreed in fixing it as on July 15, 1606. The Leyden fete will take place on Sat- urday, July 14, and that at Amsterdam on the two following days, July 15 and 16. As at present arranged the national Boston.’ $1.50.) soiree at the principal theater in the town. In the evening the Rijks Mu- geum, the home of Holland's greatest artistic treasures, will be illuminated by the means of projectors, and proba- bly other parts of the town, too. A commemoration medal will be. struck. The -date of the fete will also coincide with the opening of the new salon in which the celebrated picture, best known gs “The Night Watch,” already mentioned, will henceforth be placed. In the same annex of the Rijks Mu- seum, in a somewhat smaller room, will be lodged “The Syndics of the Drap- ers.’—Cook's American Travellers’ Ga- zette. . . Six thousand students have come for a -longer or shorter time under the in- fluence’ of the Institution during the twenty-five years of its existence. So far as I have been able to ascertain, says BooKer T. Washington in th April World's Work, not one of the graduates has been convicted of a crime and less than 10 per cent are failures in the occupations which they have adopted. There i8 an increasing de- mand all over the South for their ser- vices. One great reason why so many of the students who enter fail to finish their course is that their earning ca- pacity is increased to such an extent— years at study, that they yield to the temptation to go to work at the in- creased salary and do not return to complete their cm:rs: at the school. . The author of “The Long Day"—an- other edition of which is in press—is lecturing before drawing-room audi- ences, clubs and conventions on her personal knowledge of the conditions among working women in the large cities. Her revelations and practical suggestions have been important. fac- tors in the several schemes now active- - Trouble,” is leading thé quiet life. 1y, under way for tlie comfortable and economie. housing of women wage- earners in Neéw York City. .. . The Russians in Alaska are new to fietion. Warren Cheney has discovered them . in ~ his remarkable nevel, “The Challeng just published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. He.came upon them by accident, - An Eastern maga- zine had given him a cominission to write up the Alaska Fur Company and its successor, the Alaska Commercial Company, .on the lines in which the Hudson Bay Company has been ex- ploited on the other side. cess to the Bancroft Library and the old post records, and put In about two | years' intermittent work preparing for thé task. But at the end of that time he had become so_tremendously inter- ested in the human side of -thie ques- tion—there had developed sSuch wealth of new:and picturesque material for fiction—that he threw aside the his- torical commission and began work on a novel. Not only does “The Chal- lenge” deal with Russians, but, it has much of the Russian literary spiritand method.” Some critics have gone so far to call Mr. €heney “the American Turgenieff.”—The, Bobbs-Merrill Company Literary Notes. : . The week of its publication Bertha Runkle’s “The Truth About Tolna” was among the books reported by New York dealers as their six best selling books; and it continues on this list “Ia Old Bellaire,” Mary .Difllon's story of life and love in Carlisle, Pa., is also reported among the six books most in demand in libraries and book stores. .. A public spirited lady has just or- dered from the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company thirty copies of Heary Weed's standard work, “The Political Economy of Humanism,” which_are to be present- ed ‘to the ¢hirty-labor miembers recent- ly ‘returned to the new English Far- liament. . Quick, uthor of “Double He has betaken himself to Palmetto Beach, Ala., there to- write a new novel. His Herbert library will be of intérest to.every ome | who-has tried to figure out what books he would tdke with him were he ban- | ished to a desert isle. 1t consists of Roget's “Thesaurus,” Webster's Diction- ary, Omar's . “Rubaiyat,” _ Burton's “Kasidah,” six of Shakespeare's plays. Thamas' play “Arizona” and the New Testament. Mr. -Quick's new story in process of writing is said to he in a very different vein from the rollicking comedy of “Double Bobbs-Merrill Company Literary Notes. . . . From William Jennings Bryan's “In- dividualism vs. Soclalism,” in the April Century: “The words ‘individualism’ and ‘socialism’ define tendencies rather than concréte systems; for.-as extreme indl- vidualism 1s hot to be found under any form of government, so there is no example of socialism in full operation. All government’ being more or less so- clalistic, the contention, so far as this subject' is concerned, is between those who regard individualism’ as ideal, to be approached as nearly as circum- stances will permit, and those ‘who re- gard a socialistic state as ideal, to be established as far and as fast as public opinion will allow.” .. . 3 The Putnams will publish ghortly “In the Shadow of the Alamo™ and other Texas tales by Miss Clara Driscoll, the author of “The Girl of La Gloria,” which the same publishers brought out a few months since. Miss Driscoll, it need hardly be said, is the lady who wrote the book of the comic opera “Mexicana.” The tales in the present volume present aspects of Texas life and history from the early days of the Spanish conquest down to our own time. Inta them are woven legends and tradi- tions, which by their depth 6 humen sentiment and passion, have lived for hundreds of years in the memory of the people. The book is exquisitely printed and marginal illustrations scattered through it Tepresent old Texas scénes. .. g . The remarkable’ natrative of Lady de Lancey, detailing to her brother her ex- periences -at her husband’s deathbed just after the battle of Waterloo, is now to be published, for the first time in full, in the April Century. This document was shown privately to th Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickefs. Both were -greatly moved with its pathos. Sir Walter wrote to Captain Hall after reading it: “I never read anything which affected my own feelings more strongly, or which, I am sure, would have a deeper interest on He had ac- | Trouble.”—The"! those of the .public.” And Charies Diek- ens, in a long letter to Captain Hall, wrote: “To say that the reading of that most astonishing and tremendous account has constituted an epoch in my life—that I shall never forget the lightest word of it —that I cannot throw the impreasion asfde and never saw anything so real, so touching and so actually present before my eyes, is nothing." . It was Herbert Spencer who first ade vised George Eliot to write fiction. In a rceminiscent artiele April in Harper's for written by two ladies who for 's kept house for the philoso- pher, they record that Spencer told them this interesting fact, and added that George Eliot and her brother were the originals of Maggle and Tom Tul- Hver in “The Mill on the Floss.” The writers aver that Spencer ‘“seems to have been responsible for more than one important event in that aunthoress’ career, for it was he who Jet out the se- cret of her identity. Some one blessed with more desire for information than with tact had asked him point-blank if | it were.true that Marian Evaas and George Eliot were one and the same. and his simplieity being too great toal- low him to prevaricate, he Kept silence, a!:d 80 the secret was out.” * . . ‘What is a songsmith? This is a ques+ tion that has been frequently asked of Ottilie A. Liljencrantz’s new romance, “Randvar the Songsmith” (Harper’s). It can best be answered by the reply mada by Randvar to Brynhild, the beautiful Valkyrie malden: .“My foster-father, who had worked at a forge in his youth, said that all the skalds he had met wers like traders, who.do not more than pass on what other men have made; but that | 2 singer who melts scraps together and hammers them out in new shapes i8 & songsmith.” .. . The following excerpts from Laurence Hope’s “Last Poems” (John Lane Coi pany) have an added interest from the fact that they appear just after. the au- thor's tragic death. When “India’s Love Lyrics” and “Stars of the Desert” caught | the attention of the petry-reading public the identity of the writer remaihed hidden for some time behind hex pen name. Some mwnths ago, however, it was an- nounced that Laurence. Hope was the wife of General Malcolm Nicolson, of tirs British army in India and almost at the same time came the Information that siie had committed suicide, through grief ever the death of her husband. KHRISTNA AND HIS FLUTER Be still, my heart, and listen, For sweet and yet acute T hear the wistful musi® Of Khristna and his flute. Across the cool, blus evenings, begu He plays and plays and plays. Ab, none may Bear such musie Resistant- to ita_charms, The househoid work grows weary, Ang cald the husband's arms. I must arise and follow, To seek, in vain pursuit, The biueness and the The sweetness of that flute! In_linked and liquid sequence, The plaintive notes dissaive Divinely tender secrets That none but he can solve. O, 'Khristna, 1 am coming, I can no morp delay, “My hedrt has fown to join ‘thee,™ How ghall my footsteps stay? Beloved, such thoughts have peril; The wish is in my mind That I had fired the And left no jeaf behimd— Burnt all bamboos to ashes, And made their music mute— To_save thee front the magic Of Khcistna and his flate. % Literary Dfgest. UOLUMES RECEIVED - FROM PUBLISHERS JUDITH-By Grace Afexander. 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