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GOLDWIN SMITH, whose eminently respecta ble and dignified criti cisms always command — — attention, has drawn down upon himself the fire of wrath from tome of.pis readers who protest at his recent wholesale condem nation of the physically unfit, a sort of latter-day Darwinian philosophy. "According to his plan, the misshapen and malformed Socrates would have been eliminated,” says one, "and Nero, who started well, would have been allowed to live.” The defender of the incompetents, from a physical or Darwinian standpoint, is ready to quote enough examples in sup port of his position to fill several pages, but among the most important the follow ing should be puzzling to Mr. Smith: Bjrron was, according to his mother, "a club-footed brat." Had this "lame boy” been "eliminated" the world would never *’ a ' e had "Childe Harold,” “Manfred” and the exqufsite “Hebrew Melodies.” -De Quincey and Coleridge were nerve- rotten and turned to opii^ for tlmsoki- Leopardi, next to Dante, Italy's tion. greatest poet, and her most brilliant es sayist. was a bedridden invalid all his life. Herbert Spencer was a sickly child, totally "unfit,” physically. Pascal was a paralytic. Alexander Pope was a physical wreck from his birth. Poe was a neurotic and at times insane. Kant was sickly all his life. Mrs. Browning was an invalid for the best part of her life. Robert Louis Stevenson suffered all his life from pulmonary and other trou bles. These are but x few of the brilliant "physical incompetents - ’—so designated by society; Villon, the maker of France's most exquisite ballads, was a house breaker. thief and vagabond. Tolstoi was, according to his own confession, a .('blackleg and murderer.” Verlaine was a drunkard an.l vagabond. Shelley, "the cioud-begot,” abandoned Harriet West brook, who committed suicide. Goethe, Heine and Beethoven broke all the "moral laws;" as did George Sand and George Eliot. Here are a few physically perfect (“competent.” the disciples of Nietzsche would say) beings that fate has unloaded from time to time on an unsuspecting public: Napoleon, Torquemada. Cath erine, Queen Mary, Charles IX, duke of Alva, Benedict Arnold, Judge Jeffreys, Caligula, Claverhouse, Bondinus. Judas Iscariot. Robespierre, the Borglas, and others "too numerous to mention.” When we get high enough X-ray magnifiers we may, by examinging the brain lobes of a Robespierre at birth, pronounce a verdict on his future career and expunge him in the kitchen sink. And so with the congenial physical imperfects. When, with the aid of these magnifiers and a small dose of omniscience, we can tell whether a born weakling will blossom Into a Spencer or a mendicant, it will then be time for the cceation of a board for the disposing of incompetents. That the same discussion about books and authors is likely to be gone over year after year for generations is evidenced simply enough by comparisons. In a recent number of a periodical devoted to the interests of authors a contributor gives advice to the budding genius of authorship by urging the making of notes at the very moment of inspiration—to write the red-hot idea when it is sizzling In the brain, even though the pencil may not run as fast as the burning thought. Transfer verse, story or essay to paper as rapidly as possible, and then, after wards, when the whole thing is forgotten, think of revising it for its final form. If one wishes to get advice of this kind it would be difficult for him to go back far enough to get it at first hand, but even that will not be necessary, for al most two thousand years ago Horace wrote much along this line, and in a bet ter manner than any of the latter-day guides have been able to express them selves. In the same sense the profes sion of letters has been attacked and de fended for ages. It is now nearly a quar ter of a century' since Robert Louis Ste venson expressed the modern defense when he advised the young writer that there were just two reasons for tile choice of any way of life. "The first is inbred taste in the chooser; the second some high utility in the industry selected. Lit erature. like any other art. is singularly interesting to the artist, and in a degree peculiar to itself among the arts; it is useful to mankind. * I shall not say much about the wages. A writer can five by his writing; if not so luxuriously as by- other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day- will more alfect his happiness than the qual ity of his dinner at night.” In spite of. much tramping, however, over the same ground as the ancients, we ere not ready to confess that we have w not advanced somehow in the field of letters. ♦ Dr. Conan Doyle is meeting with some difficulty in connection with the publish ing of his defense of the English in their conduct of the Boer war. Publishers for his last work on the subject have been found for both England and the United States, but, although the author offers to bear all the expenses of publication in Germany, he can find no one with the courage to take the matter up. At the present time there is little love for the English within the domain of the kaiser, but it Is certainly to the credit of the American public that in spite of the fact that a majority are Boer sym pathizers, there, is a fair-minded - spirit manifested in this country. We are quite willing to hear both sides of a question and then decide as we choose. Mark Twain recently published serially a peculiar detective story which will be brought out in book form shortly. His friends and admirers are trying to decide whether to take the tale seriously or merely as a -humorist's play with some words and a strange idea. The story- started out well, but unfortunately ended UP with an imitation of Sherlock Holmes’ methods that was to be deplored, since the author had previously in the tale poked fun at the great detective. In one paragraph the combination of Impossibili ties was positively ludicrous—which was doubtless the effect the author desired to get. One character saw an aesophagus floating in the air, and the author told of trees blooming which never flower and so on. Mr. Clemens frequently says he is a much misunderstood man; the pub lic insists on taking his most serious statements with bursts of laughter and fail to smile at his best humor. It may be a lack of perception on the part of the reader or it may be a lack of some thing on the part of the writer. ♦ As a rule a man lives his life, and then. If he thinks the world will regard it as worth while, he wites his autobioga- phy. Such a course is the logical one, but here comes Booth Tarldngton, who has written into a novel, which he has called "The Gentleman of Indiana,” an autobiogapy, the stoy of a pat of his life which he has not yet gone through with. The book was first published about two years ago, and if the author had in mind the sort of career which his hero enjoyed, the public was given no intimation of the fact. Only the other day, however, Mr. Tarkington announced himself as a candidate for the state, legis lature. and as he had the suppqrt of the party leaders, his nomination followed. In the course of time Mr. Tarkington hopes to be able to apply to himself, or rather to have the speaker of the house of representatives in Washington apply to him, the term which made, the title of his first book, “The Gentleman From Indiana.”' , ♦ There has been much discussion in Lon don recently over a proposal to found a British academy In England. Fifty au thors and prominent men in other call ings have, petitioned the king for a char ter and the king has referred the matter to the lor,fis of the councH. According to the present plan the incorporators are carrying out the suggestion of Mathew Arnold in not attempting to cover the whole province of literature. The new atademy is described as the British Academy for the Promotion of Historical. Philosophical and Philological Studies. Poetry, fiction and the belles lettres are not included. It will be seen, therefore, that the English incorporators do not hope to establish an organization as com prehensive as that of the French. ♦ One of the New York daily papers re cently began a serial story in its columns under the title of “Stratagems and Spoils." The title, unfortunately, had al ready been copyrighted by William Allen White for his collection of political sto ries. Accordingly the newspaper changes its story's title to “Spoils and Intrigue.” Then some one discovered that the al leged author had merely copied one • of Charles Reade’s novels, "Foul Play,” and the serial was oroken off abruptly, it seems that there are a number of persons who make a practice of copying some old half-forgotten stories and sending them around to various publishers. Indeed, some of the plagiarisms are quite recent. One. of the minor magazines which is said to be edited by. the office bov -is a particular sufferer from these pirates. Only last month this periodical reprinted as a fiction story a special feature article which had appeared in a number of Sun- dav newspapers less than a year ago. In a case of this kind there is not likely to be much sympathy for the editor. ♦ It will be remembered that "The Eter nal City,” Hall Caine’s latest novel, was to have been published serially in Eng land bv one. of the magazines. A few in stallments of the story actually did ap pear. and then the matter was suddenly discontinued. Then followed a lawsuit between the author and the publisher, which promised to attract considerable attention and furnish a quotable case in future disputes of the kind. ^News comes now. however, that the mr.uer has been settled out of court, the publisher agree ing to pay for as much of the story as he used and to withdraw the imputations he made againsU$> - CORDING to the English woman's Year Book over two hundred' and fifty new novels and new editions of volumes were published by women writers last year. Some thirty .writers pub lished more than one book. The most prolific were Mrs. Amelia Barr, Lucas Cleeve, Miss Dorothea Ger ard, Miss Everet Green, Mrs. L. T. Meade, Miss * Adeline Sergeant. Mrs. Katherine Tynan Hinkson, Mias Florence Warden. Mrs. C. N. Williamson and John Strange Winter. The two most notable novels of the year by women were "The Serious Wooing,” by John Oliver Hobbes, and "The History of Sir Richard Cal- mady,” by Lucas Malet. ♦ From Evanston, Ills., comes an amusing production entitled "The Book Booster,” a sort of composite parody on The Book- Buyer, The Bookman and The Critic, and also on the light literature of the day. Here is one of its literary items profess ing to give the statistics of an alleged his torical romance entitled “Fagots of Em pire,” by "Miss Bertha Bosh:’’ The cloth used in binding the first edi tion would, if stretched end to end, reach from Chicago to Evanston. Placed side by side the pages would reach from Chi sago to Minneapolis. Smeared tninly. the ink used would cover four townships. Ten million cockroaches could subsist for six months on the binder's paste employed. Set up side by side, the individual letters in the text would reach from San Fran cisco to the Hawaiian islands. And the hot air employed in boosting the book would float 10,000 balloons. ♦ The date for the publication of Mrs. Edith Wharton’s new novel, "The Valley of Decision," has been definitely decided upon, and Charles Scribner’s' Sons will have the work ready from the press on the 21st of the month. In the length of her first sustained romance Mrs. Whar ton has gone to the extreme, for .this novel is in two volumes and numbers 680 pages. As the collection of Napoleonana grows larger and larger we are gradually get ting nearer the truth about Napoleon. This is partly due to the new find un prejudiced methods of historical re search, in which the value of the author is to be judged by his editorial skill and candor in arranging contemporaneous data which speak for themselves, and partly because of the development of the public mind, which has made this method acceptable. Still another jthase of Na poleon's character as a statesman and po litical economist is to be presented in a forthcoming hook by'Thomas E. Watson, aufnor of "The Story of France.” Napo leon's scheme to have continental Europe manufacture its own goods has a certain bearing on the present economic crisis in Russia, Germany and Austria. Mr. Wat son makes several deductions from his Napoleonic data, and one is that what ever nation Napoleon subdued he better ed, and wherever he had his hands abuses fell. Accepting this as true, it is Interesting to speculate on what would be the fate of modern Russia had Na poleon never been forced to retreat from Moscow. ♦ “The Mastery of the Pacific.” by A. R. Colquhoun. F. R. S.. will t>e published "about February 15 by the , Macmillan Company. This book contains an account of political and material development In the Far East, with an estimate of the present status of Russia, Germany, France, Great Britain and Japan. The author .takes into consideration the coU lapse of China and the, vast changes im minent in that country owing to the ap pearance there of America. His final chapters bear on the future of the Pacific and the relation of Great Britain, Amer ica. Japan and Holland, at present chiefly involved, and of Germany, deeply inter ested! This work is also fully illustrated, the photographs being reproduced in half tone. ♦ Apropos of the several trftislations that are being made of Booker T. Washing ton’s autobiography, “Up from Slavery,” it is interesting to note an extract of a letter received by the author from Ibra him Abdu Kahil, of the Syrian Protestant college, Beirut, Syria. "* • • As I feel, there is at present a revival of learning among the Arabic-speaking people, and for my countrymen’s benefit, I ask the privilege of translating your autobiogra phy into Arabic. ♦ Ernest Thompson-Seton’s popularity as a writer is attested by last season’s sale of his earlier book, “Wild Animals I Have Known,” now in its fourth year. This is said to have amounted to 14,222 copies, counting from September, and was due to Its worth, not having been adver tised. During the same period his new book, “Lives of the Hunted.” enjoyed a great popularity, having been printed Edited by Lucian L. Knight Amsterdam, 1649, both in male and female lines. Among the ffiany distinguished families descendent from the Roosevelts included in the book are the Provoost, Rutger. Barclay, Astor. Webb, White and Schermerhorn. The work can be obtained by subscriptions sent to the compiler. ♦ Reviews of Latest Books William Stearnes Davis is already well known, as. an author of brilliant accom plishments, having won the favor of the public through the me- “God Wills It” dium of his former vol- By times dealing with the ro- Wllllam mantle period of the ear- Stearnes 1st Christian era. In the Davis publication under review the author goes back to the time of the first crusade and the story which he tells under the title of "God Wills It” is full of stirring dramatic epi sodes. Unusual power is displayed In the handling of the scenery, and the in terest grows from chapter to chapter. One is impressed with the author’s con trol over his material. Though set in history and dealing with important his torical personages, beginning with Hilde brand. the pope who vowed the crusade and gave it its battle cry, "God wills it,” the story, not the history, is the thing. This is a triumph, for many historical novels bewilder with their surplusage of historical incident. Incidents dominate them and are relied upon altogether for the effects. This is not true of Mr. Da vis' novels. For over 175 pages, that is, until his seventeenth chapter, his story runs almost entirely apart from the cru sade movement. The prologue sounds the note, in a scene where Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII, puts the seed of the crusade into the hearts of his followers, in one last brilliant glow of his great spirit. Richard Longsword, the hero, was at that time a little boy. hidden in a window embrasure. For seventeen chapters the reader follows the boy. grown to youti. through valorous exploits in love and the tourney, until he is thoroughly Imbued with the spirit and coloring of the age. Living in Sicily, at a time when Italians. Moors, Egyptians. Greeks, in fact, ail races under the sun, flocked thither in peace, Richard repels Saracen brigands, saves the life of Mary Kurkuas, a young Byzantine princess, whom he afterwards marries, and of Musa, a knightly Spanish Arab, who. though infidel, becomes his lifelong friend. He fights valorously in the lists at Palermo for Mary’s favor, wins her, and at the same time makes violent enemies who almost destroy him in Syria. The romantic friendship, even to death, and through the trial of love for the same woman, of Richard Longsword and the Spaniard, Musa, plays a most attractive part'In the story. Rich ard had no thought of joining the cru saders when he left Sicily to go to France to marry his promised bride and to help his uncle in Auvergne destroy his ene mies. But In France, under terrible provocation, he comntns a double crime that fills him with the bitterness of de spair—a despair assuaged only by a vow to repent at” the tomb of the Redeemer in Jerusalem. Thus, naturally and con sistently, Richard Longsword. Norman knight of Sieiil’, came to France and to Clermont, whither ail France, great and small, was flocking. “The sense” of sin hung heavy on each man’s soul, and Richard was not the only despairing baron who crjed after this fashion. ‘Mis erable I am, who shall save me from t£/5ry oulof this death?’ Sin there wasy .lust, violence, but also a sparrf-—.—Hie (wt'Jiot of this world.” The voices of Urban II and Peter the Ilor.nlt fanned t'Jit spark into a consuming fire, which? swept/-o^r _-Europe to Idle, Holy Land and burn^clie infidel out of Jeru salem. Religious spirit, both Christian and Moslem, animates the story. There is praise to spare for Moslem valor, as well as for Christian, and the highest praise that can be given to man, that of undying fidelity 'to a friend, belongs to Musa, the Moslem. He fought, to be sure, to hold Jerusalem, but when Mary, Richard's bride, fell into the toils of the Egyptian emir, Iftlkhar Eddauleh, Rich ard's old enemy at Palermo, then com mandant of Jerusalem, Musa rescued her at the peril of his own life and kept her inviolate for Richard, his friend. (The Macmillan Company, New York.) The already overcrowded market of sword and dagger romances has been added to by "God Save the King,” from the pen of Ronald Mac- “God Save Thfi Donald, author of "The Kino” Sword of the King.” It By will serve to pass a few Ronald hours when one would be MacDonald entertained, not educ#tcd. The story opens during the period of commonwealth, and deals largely’ with the part played Bv a royalist family in the affairs of young Charles be fore and after his restoration to the throne of England. Tha romance is spun autobiographically again immediately after the holidays, h " Vn ' n '<1 S » v. - and being now, it is said, in its eightieth I Christopher Ashcroft son of ana ue. k a royalist father and an unnaturally cruel thousand. ♦ Quite in the van of books dealing with the coming" coronation ceremonies of Ed ward VII is an elaborately illustrated volume by Charles Eyre Pascoe. called "The Pageant and Ceremony of the Coro nation of Their Majesties, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in Westmin ster Abbev.” The author is said to have had unusual facilities for ^securing infor mation as to what will actually take place, while considerable knowledge has been expended to make the accounts and meanings of the coronation rites and ceremonies, from the historian s point of view, as complete and authoritative as .possible. The fact that Edward VII in tends to adhere to nearly all the ancient forms which were practiced sixty-fopr years ago, and that they may never be repeated, may not strike a responsive note in democratic sentiment, but fasci nation and curiosity are Sure to be wide ly aroused. -e- ^ "The Roosevelt Genealogy: 1619-1902,” is being compiled by Charles B. Whittelsey, of Hartford, Conn. This work contains dates of births, marriages, and deaths of the Roosevelt families, descendent from Claas Martenzen van Roosevelt, of New NATURAL BODY BRACE CURES All ME STS OF SSOMEN Internal Pains, Nervoasaess, Indigestion, melancholy, Lang Diseases. TRIAL FREE It brings healths comfort, attractlrecece. Wholly external. Worn with or without corsets. Simple, comfortable, adjustable to lit any “ '^valuable to the prospective mother. from 10,080 to 20,000 letters every year like the following: Rush villa, K. Y . Jane 2. MOl. 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The descriptions of the despicable preacher crew which Lady Lydia gathers about her are repulsive enough to make us hope them overdrawn. They and the terrible mother are com pensated for, however, by several admira ble characters, the gentle, book-loving j father and the one-legged soldier-tutor j teing well worth acquaintance. The climax of the story is reached when the hero and his uncle rescue Mary and the king from the nest of fanatics whither they have been enticed. Here in one room men are mowed down like grain, and blood floods the scene until we do not wonder that poor Mary takes time from loading the muskets to have a few little swoons behind her barricade of dead preachers. Esierything ends properly, however. aU the villains being disposed of, the rubj’ cross returning to its owner, and Chris s.r.d Mary settling their affairs quit#- in the usual way. The book is neither better nor worse than those of its class that have already iived their short day. (The Century Company, New York.) _ ♦ “The Alien” belongs to. the school of Bronte. Rochester and Jane Eyre, a lit tle toned down by time and convention. appear in the characters . “The of Jaspar and Esther '■ Alien” Mordaunt. Esther, who \ By like her prototype is pale [ F F Montressor gray on the outside but I blood red within, is de- | pendent on the whim of j a rich, crabbed aunt, and Jaspar, having, i like Rochester, lived in many climes and achieved a deal of wickedness, cpmes j home to play havoc in her monotonous [ life The interest of the story, however, j does not cenfer in these two, but in the : crabbed old aunt, whose prototype wj do not remember to have met in fiction. She j is very much alive, as are all the charac- j tern of the book, and quite capable, with her vagaries past and present, of helping one to while away an afternoon or an evening by the fire. tD. Appleton & Co., New York.) ♦ Voltime VI of "The World's Best Es- says,” edited by Associate Justice David J. Brewer, opens with two chapters from Henry Haliam's “Intro duction to the Literature “World’s Best of Europe in the Fif- Essays” teenth. Sixteenth and volume VI Seventeenth Centuries.” a work which, until Taine's “History of Eng lish Literature” appeared, held the first place among books of its class. This work, which is still regarded as the au thor s masterpiece, is in reality a series of essays, each with an individuality of its own, which in many cases is so well defined as to render it fully as capable of standing alone as any detached essay of De Quincey or Macaulay. -Professor Ed ward Robinson says of Hallam that “in science and theology, mathematics and poetry, metaphysics and law, he is a competent and always a fair, if not pro found, critic,” and adds that "the great qualities displayed in his work, conscien tiousness. accuracy and enormous read ing, have been universally acknowl edged." The two chapters selected for this volume have for their subjects “The First Books Printed i» England” and “Poets Who Made Shakespeare Possible.” Another essay well worthy of note is that of Frederic Harrison on "The Choice of Books." This essay first appeared in 1886, and aroused much animated discus sion on account of its» caustic criticism of the literary—or better, perhaps, unilter- ary—tastes of modern readers, who, he declares., act as if every book were as good as any other, and it were a mere question of order as to which should be taken up first. “A generation.” he af firms. “which will listen to ’Pinafore' three hundred nignts and read M. Zola's seventeenth romance can no more read Homer than it could read a cuneiform in scription.” Mr. Harrison thinks the habit of reading wisely one of the most diffi cult habits to form, and he strongTy deprecates the practice or reading for mere reading's sake as debilitating to the mind. Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Hazlitt, Hegel. Heine, Humboldt and Leigh Hunt are all drawn upon for characteristic ar ticles, and Thomas Henry Huxley is rep resented by his brilliant essay on "Retro spective Prophecy as a Function of Sci ence.” entitled “On the Method of Zadig." Four scenes from “Bracebridge Hall” and two from “The Sketch Book” com prise some of the best work of Irving. Time has not robbed Jefferson’s essay on “Truth and Toleration Against Error” of all its significance: and Douglass Jer- rold’s “Barbarism in Birc^ige Wglk” may still be recommended as profitable reading to the rulers of nations. These are hardly a fourth of the dis tinguished names that scintillate in the table of contents, bringing the sixth vol ume fully up to the high standard estab lished by its predecessors. The portraits comprise those of Henry Hallam. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Oliver W. Holmes, David Hume and Dr. Samuel Johnson. The illustrations include two historical incidents. “Napoleon at Til sit. 1807.” aVid . “Quatre Bras, 1815;” "Washington Irving's Home at Sunny- side,” "Homer Listening to the Sea” and "When Nature Wakes,” an intro duction to Charles Kingsley’s interest ing essay, “A ChaTm of Birds."—(Ferd P. Kaiser, St, Louis.) ♦ Of the making of books about Abraham Lincoln there is literally no end. Nor is this to be wondered at or deplored; “Th« Assas- there is always room stnatlon of for another good one. A President book out of the ordinary Lincoln” has Just been printed iiy by Osborn H. Oldroyd, col- Osbora H lector and curator of the. Oldroyd government relics of Lincoln at the house, 516 Tenth street, Washington, D. C. Its title is “The As sassination of Abraham Lincoln: Flight. Pursuit, Capture and Punishment of the Conspirators." The. narrative fills 300 pages, and there ere eighty-two illus trations from photographs and drawings. Mr. Oldroyd has gone exhaustively into the subject. 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