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PcEs^tsins brcsdth ot under- j starUitag. clarity of vision end well | peised Judgment., and «a&t«r of a forcible j jieJ pleafiins style, ho Is able to fiiecuss | trerl<J-o!d <;ueitionH In thoir bearing upon ! present. Cay Deeds with icnvincing vigor ! aa4 fraahncsK. Me ha a also sympathy j in marked 6«cree, and likewise coneldcr- i ftCor The eternal probleci of what tc j «?o with the negro in America Is too cft?n ! <!eba^ted with *o!e 'frgard for the comfort. ' interest and preferences of tb« white • race. No «uch narrow handling of *, familiar topic is thtit before us. Tl:s j suthM take* a broad view; he co-ordi- s-iiit'.s th« cosmic forces of race as they ; toake themselves felt upon the stage of i the world; he is not afraid to es*ay the ; loftier {lights of genera Hzation, and ho brines th« weight of pitiless logic to bear upon the object Of his argument until his point is driven home. And withal he ; <!oes not appear so much the advocate as j the idealist, the inepired dreamer, whose j vijrion is not too remote to be attained, j not too exalted to be brought within the realm cf concrete- fact. Bach a writer if not destined to be a leader cf the I masses is likely to be recognized as a leader of the l'afler.- He makes men ' ihink. He *ha.pea the issues r.nd so ! •jrercifes a subtle and controlling in- fiueac*. ITfco powers of the negro are not the j powers of the v.-hits man, and the state | e*n never make him aught but a negro, ! but It can accord him the economic pup- j port cf the profounder social forces of i security, opportunity and hope, While j the South lies much to correct. It is be- j Ileved that she will never co far modify \u25a0 Her feeling in reference to the validity of j social differentiations as to minimize tha j *i§niflcance of race. The feeling of race \u25a0 la not a mere prejudice, and to pi* c ] jace antipathies of social groups among childish phenomena betrays a lack of | familiarity ivith the complexities of race ' adjustment under thf conditions of a | democracy. A sane, righteous, whole- some 6o'.uti"n is not advanced by a spurious catholicity of race. The mdi- ', viduality of the white rac* In all its j finer and happier achievement is a thing j too sacred, too Indispensable to the ser- ; vie« ef the world to be delivered to the ' «irafTETtas pressure of an inferior group j or to those self-corrupting antipal ihat forever t*mpt it. The weaker races have al^o something individual, some- thing peculiar to themselves which must be conserved in the interest of all. The author has a very happy faculty j <\u25a0* ining his chapters, »nd nothing bet- ttr exemplifies his \u25a0'\u25a0<:} lion \u25a0; powers of ! «on<Sensatlon. ir. that entitled "The In- divlslbl*; Inheritance" he takes up the ihfme thai however much the n»"gro has ' Mifferc-d an-1 <ii<lured and «t be" lias jrajrivd rnovt;. His fate has become so inextricably involved v.ith that of a ( stronger croup that t'.ie conditions ccn- iroiUnp the life and fortunes of the one l must also surround and advance the \ lift arid fortunr-3 of the other. Sorn<? f <onditlons of i rogrcf a operate to the dis- advanta^e of the we3kt % r proup. but on the v, holo the negro and his offspring licve be«-:orne the .icint beneficiaries of «-ur civil, educational and political htri- tare. The euffrafc-u of the. blanks ha's bc«n sharply I lited by law. hut the very cd of limitation has involved a narrow- ing \u25a0:[ the basis of the whole electorate. ln«j!rcrimlnat«; immunities were pr« • claimed for white men. Ruthless d;-- criminations were pronounced against Hack nr»n. 'Within U'ee than ten years t!:«usands of the -.vorthior blacka under the amended constitutions have been ad- mitted to the bailor, and In Alabama Rlore in the ftrst I»rfcsi<J«int4al lection sfter the Unetment cf the seffrase ?uorc than hah! of the adult white men did not qualify an«J vote. In spite of all, that which the Southern majority de- • lare-1 should happen a«id which the s>"«rthern majority denounced as baring happened has not happened at all Many negroes have been admitted; many white n»*n Save h»<--i exclude. Thus even political advantages are being brought to the weaker grout*. though amorc all common benefits th» b«neflts nt prerogative will com? la? . There is no arbitrary or legislative way to make ihomt strong who are not strong, <"T to make these weak who arc not veak. Those with the capacity for -\u0084. \u2666Turner.', will govern. The negro enjoys religious and civil freedom, but these were won for hint, not by him. Ho haa ;.o pa*;, no tra.dition, no lilsfory vf great men to appeal to. Tier very law. he now Invokes luie come up out of the suffering .'•r:d patience of another social group. It ih the flowering of the consciousness o* another race; is in its genius and ex- pression th* ivl:ite mail's law— made out «f the texture of the white man's experi- ence and eliot throujjli and through v.lth the instinctive assumptions of a psychol- ogy to which the negro as a nesro Is liarjely alien. But iht law Is his. it id about his «T«dlo. ItIs his heritjis-.i. At swan point the negro receives, inherits. It -i? idl« ta talk ahoot the fine, oidtiifi*"-, iilitcrate nogru. He and tij» paternal- istic cviiditiors of iiis environment are l-roiis forever. V.*c must train tUa ncgrro- ; through f".;t> churches ftn.l s<.-hu<i3s, but I w^r« there nop« of these- th* z;ezn> v.ovid *haie tho- heritage of every Intellectual t s ud moral ajs*tt of the country. \V«.- can j ! -.* mure ir.ake a bUracial division of our j :za'.:oii t... of the nunshinQ on.i the j tsus'sr.r. I^a'uor cj:tl freedom are inulvie- i ihie. '&"**'-\u25a0 j (So L«,-*e i* the cirpreawion, fo closely j •vijyea f a th« web o? t!.e thought, and vithn! co ex-rtiKiano'ii.E tho diction, that i i: lz liiScdt to give a Uue'coucc-r/tlon of j '> \u25a0\u25a0* crltvr'a work without merpts too ! txi#; ;-.j Jor t^eee columns. He glv^s j lapfh »t!ja: t» t!.<; intcci-ity of t:.c I urSFv ra^c, sjjj j;oir.tn ovt tUat iho old j isoiniJc.;! of t!:e negrc/^ corititicut 5* a. : *-'.'-iv>S tfl x\.'.' j'AC'. "Vhaievtr !? t:.c future or Afiicj.itj fienidcan^t -i.ij im- ; porta:;ce v.ii;not re^co, tiiul ite increas- j •' S I;icl?ition «Ita<n iht \I -,-icj i-orwciout- i C'ft Ct t'rt ia>i<rji '.'orld is its tw.'.tzt'.t ' z% £r,y !-':Tin event ti:at *c c.~n n'-n- ; ": -Srjj \$ tt'i*, n'.or»rr,erft \u25a0 vf- \u25a0 «.:l^s*r ih'ttr- r E •»\u25a0»•. iiou tixt rlOc «.f •ivos. \u25a0 -Lord Can.oll has nsosntly elated in »h«- •lsbatrs upon th« Kastfrn situation thai ' a!l Asia, from the otoscurfty of Its c^titval ; ;)'.atra-iis to the extremities <>f India, la \u25a0ttrriiiir with * vague unrest (due In larsrc »; \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0•;-« «<> the result of th« Japanes*- \u25a0 Itus£ia:i V»ari. and that the lowest of Us 1 tribal groups has somehow learned tnst somewfiere far to the nortliwar'i there ha? I ?ea a gr^at conflict, in which a dark ranc- hes been victorious over a white race. In the life cf Africa's untutored reoessf » aetni '. hfcve found & stm^tair agitation: and jr«t, if . such espuess exists, I tshould be dis- posed in f:n<l for it a soaMWtsat broader »si? If th*» ncwr of the victory of Japan i ha« b>cn a (actor In these situations. th>r«s, :have been other factors also Under th" . proii'Jtnp of our divisions and redlvisionts of the -spheres of Influence." of punitive expedition* and monitory *j,ploratl©ne. tnc i e«!f-consciou?ne!s % of a continent, even In : '.:$. lowest depths, cannot forever sleep, nor i can th« relation? vt our International lire be «xternal merely. We cannot b« burial | with Africa »s a seogrr«phlc*l puzzls wttn- l out <srt-irine It as a commercial aesut; ail I from commercial to military relation? we j advance even more directly, for th« v«? EOn I that It Is not easy to tra<3* where it is not I possible to live- And Inasmuch as others ! will enter or will wish to enter the market jwe attend. th«j . too. 111 wish to protect ! their agents and their barter. Thus a na- i tional Interest becomes a phase of jnter- ! rational policy. A quf stlon of international policy becomes, however, under any repre- | sentative jrovernment, a question of poli- tics, for the party In power must seek popular support. Soon the issues brought into the foreground by the Kaffir serve i to d-nermJne the alternations of party ru- j prfmaey among: the English (just as the I issues presented by the American negro i have frequently put men Into office ana ! parti** Into power In the United Stated, i to that what t-egan as the intrusion or ! ErsUnd into the affairs of Africa ulti- i mately cm*rpe« as the intrusion of Africa. I into Hie affairs of England. Thus also i« I Morocco dfflning th* party history of France, and thus the negro Const, Is found . to be alive and assertive within the career erf Brussels and her King. A movement i which began, therefore, upon every hand I as rj mrro physical invasion has become, i and will become inerMfcingly. a whole ! congeries of social and political relations, , Tins theme is developed with skill, and | the author shov.-s how the negro in | America must be affected by the world i movement in his own continent. More- i over, tho race if feeling an Increasing «-r.«(» of solidarity. The educated negroes are keeping more closely than ever to themselves. The race Is holding its own. and the best Interests of bOtS ere Im- 1 proved by t-uch 3 tendency. No ques- ! tion of intermingling can be considered, | and so generally Is this accepted that It ! fa no longer discussed. Other phases of j the problem receive, a handling which Is j as astute us It is novel and sagacious. j Its difficulties will yield to no imme- j diate formula. Few of the great prob- , lerns of human development have ever j been Anally "6olved." The student can j only point the way, discern tendencies, . Indicate pitfalls and utter words of en- ! couragement and advice. Those lands. I cays the author, which are conscious • f I a great difficulty are not poor. It was \ through the negro in one experience that j the South once loft her mastery, her , mastery not over Mm alone, but over j those opportunities for a national lead- : ership and for an uninterrupted emi- j nence of service to which her capacities i entitled her. It may bo that through ; this same strange, waiting-, baffling fac- ] tor in her life her ascendancy in higher I forms may again return — in forma not ! threatening the estate and dignity of i labcr, the pride, of freedom, the in- stinct and custom of our age, but be- stowed by a labor which she has freed ! and by an ago and a democracy which In i her service to their profoundest task she : has supremely Justified. It is a striking contrast to turn from I such thoughts so loftilyexpressed and so . forcibly expounded to Mr. I'ickett's ad- j vocacy of a wholesale removal of the \u25a0 American negroes to Afrif-a.,. One hun- i dred million dollars a year should be . expended by the general government, and . states and individuals might be espect- : ed to contribute to tiie cause. Tl:o ten ' million negroes themselves will seise the opportunity to start lif<- anew in the Am- i tteeat from which they sprang. The J author ha- gathered much valuable ma- | terial to Illustrate his argument and bis j statistics arc well arranged. The.famil- j iar difficulties of the problem, the hard- ! ships of the negro and tha various Bolu- ; tiens erf set forth at lrngth. As a work I of reference on the subject at the present j lay th< volume has great value. PETRARCH. I A Modern Mind in the Four- teenth Century. I FRANCESCO PETRARCA, VOKT AND HUMANIST. By Maud F. Jerrold. ll- lutitrated. Octavo, pp. xi, ;.;... i; »> • i lUttOU i. Co. Strictly king, there was no press- j ing need for the publication of this book. ; Mr. Holly.ay - Calthrop's volume •>n Petrarch, printed some two years ago. j constitutr-8 an adequate narrative of the i poet's life for the general reader, and Is, ; into the bargain, an uncommonly enter- taining piece of work. But who shall ': blame Vat lover of letters who is urged ; by nothing more nor leas than a warm i sympathy for the great pioneer la Ital- : iii humanism to set forth Ills Btory anew? Miss Jcrrold is such an eathust- ; aft, ami. sime she has made a creditable iif not especial weighty book out of her ' studies, one may easily turn these pages '. in friendly m«od. Miss Jerrold speaks of her wish to pre- I s«?nt thf twofold aspect of I*otrarc4i as j po«t and humanist In |uch wise that the ;cmo should not obscure, the other. Her ! purpose is laudable, and readers who do J not possess Italian will be grateful for her generosity In English versions of man) passages and complete poems. i Nevertheless, even the rnobt disinter- : ested student of Petrarch's poetry, read- : Ingit simply and solely for its own sake, 1 Is perpetually turning to the man's per- *£onallty, perpetually realizing him in his . capacity as adventurer through the world ; of fourteenth century affairs, as well as ; through the domain of thought. Ills ap- i cal for us is that of a peculiarly mod- ; crn type, and this despite the fact that he waa so profoundly bookish In his • ta.stt-K. BookJehnsss, however, was not with him a trait excluding contact with the larger Interests of mankind. On the i contrary, this creature of reverie and in- I Batlable literary acquisitiveness was ab- • sorblngly Interested in the dally business ;of his fellow .'-ii. a practitioner of pol- itics as well as of poetry. Experience, of whatever kind, was dear to him. It is a. point explaining more than one episode In hi career ovi-r which the too zealous biographer Is disposed to grow more or KcS apologetic. Wjiy did he make friends with Azzo da eerregflo, \u25a0.. type of nudiosval violence.' Surely it was not ttc^uso he had lowered himself to the tyrant* moral >\u25a0.'!, but because In his Intercourse with Azzo he touched one n:«mj ise cf life, one ruoro develop- ment in t'-ift vivM mundaiid spectaclo which W3&, afvtr all. m dear to hin« m ty'ltude a:rion£st his boobs The author of this volume is ii! at eatc. a« to many of her precleffssorj h^v* been, w^n v i« i'mt to accompany fpftrarch t<» Milan and to deal with thi l With Some Light on a Bache- j lor's Sentiments. MARGARITAS hOUJ.. , Tha Ron ,„ \u0084 I Keici!;*ctionfi of a ,\r.ir. of F!,*fy Xv • Invrrsham Loveii. lliut.-. by-Scott ! v nitam». * Ith Wh!»tl«r Butterfly d«». ! lationf.. thno, pp. ;\u25a0;\u25a0! Th<! John l^ne ! Tha l>rtsur«Jy et;!<» of irnaglnatlv* nar. | rative owes Ug revival, no doubt, in largo \ A WOMAX'S SOIL. DIVERSIONS IN SICILY. By Henry Festing Jones. 12mo, pp. 361. Im- ported by Charles Scribner's Sont. SEEKERS IN" SICILY. Peing a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Perlpatetfca. I>one into the Vernacular by Klijsubeth Kieland and Anne Hoyt. Illustrate^. lCnio. pp. 288- John Lane Comoany. The Englishman who chats co agree- ably .concerning his diversions in" Sicily Is a traveller worth following. Ho is the most sympathetic of observers. He likes the Sicilians and has known how to win their confidence and affection. It could hardly be otherwise with so cheerful, courteous and large minded a visitor; even the coastguards fraternized with him and fed him on jokes ami cold boiled arttehokes. He describes briefly and with humor his excursions about tho country: he offers effective glimpses of Sicilian romance, and be provides somo particularly entertaining chapters on the marionette theatre?. He is at pains to remove popular impressions .which he considers erroneous: he is, for example, inclined to attribute the idea that Sicily is more dangerous than other countries "less to the frequency of crime there than to the operatic manner in which it is committed." As for Sicilian manners, he gives a most engaging account el them. lie says in Illustration: "A Frenchman, speaking of an Englishman to whom I had introduced him. said to me, 'He speaks French worse than you do! Any Italian wishing- to express a similar idea would have said, 'He speaks Italian. It is true, but not so well as you •do.'" Our author talks poetry and music, Dante and Shakespeare, with his landlord's son, who waits on him at din- ner, and with the master of a little wine chop, and many of his pleasantest en- counters are with humbler folk, those ardent and persistent natrons of the marionette theatre, tho Facchini. por- ters, coachmen, shoeblacks and the like At Catania he writes: ci^i sometimes happens when travelling In Sicily that one has to spend half an hour half a day, or it may be more, in company with one Of these men. He Is usually a. i fc ighttul person, dignified, kind, courteous, full of fun «n<l« n<l extremely friendly without being obtrusive. During conversation one IT/ £h" mi> ? ***hUa whether be can rea.l hul write; hi will probably reply that at t« , ?9k? 9k - h - m '-* rta<l an advertisement or r ' f : rl ",'!"T 1 n a , n t?^ 68 ? 1 lie will Probably repu that th« Mgln is bad or that he is 7he P lctt^", 1 * l "W— or thoXhoTsea! i he fact Js that reading on.l writing are ;" c wener mathematics are ti> many h<i \u25a0\u25a0• \u25a0\u25a0' h,» ,-„.„.,.,, b u4 ,JJ ;, !t ' u r,,;' v vie never been oi thti li*htoK* us* t, te: 1 *' 5 ' 1?1 ?^ 1' hehasiorg^tten an he ever learned of them, and dots not care to »y bo The Slctltan, ,„!„,.., v \u0084 matter how uneducated he may be lias on •Pp«t«for romance whU-h raust be^au" f^',o !;, a v s * w,w ,T lld glve hlm »ome trou- .,'" Jt ! "P hi * early accompllshmenta a do Ta4l h^\" r E . l(iln c P«lCi and Boi- aiao. ipso and Ariosto, ho nref^rs to follow the story of Carlo Magno . und his paladins and the war? against^ the Sarl^ Inl'r ev.^l.ivt^r-, B^** »« lleltian mal. e\ <^r Mj; t nt home to flc» anrlhin» except to rat and cKjep. an,) tw J thing? h- doe? vox of doors a, often ™ cvrnir.c:. month aft.r month looking on It Vhe^eSV^ ™ th * '^SIIPS What two enthusiastic feminine tour- ists from America saw and felt in the Sicilian springtime is joyously revealed in the second volume named above in- cidents of travel, charming, exasperating or laughable, humorously treated vign- mrs of character, bursts of delight ov»-r glorious scenery, n*at references to local history or mythology-*]! these con- tribute to the making of a truly readable book. The two travellers came upon un- expected enjoyment In the way of eorh- fort or picturesqueaess, and the experi- ence has been recorded In airy gossip- ing fashion. They observed the vagaries of fellow tourists with genial philosophy; they fell into poetic meditation amid the ruins of the mighty past. Nowhere were they bored, and—though there la danger of overdoing historical allusion— do they bore the reader. Sicily spells magic; the very soil beneath the* orange trees speaks of the dramas of a thou- sand years ago. "An American living in Taormina did a kindness to her native cook, for which In grateful return tho cook Insisted on presenting her a quan- tity of old coins, which her husband had turned up through the years in their little garden. Showing them to the curator of .i museum. 'Madame, 1 he said to the fortunate recipient of th,» gift) 'you Lave a complete epitome of nil Sicilian history in these coins.' " Tko Records of Happy - Sauntering*. DAYS IN SICILY. Certainly nothing In his Milanese period detracts from that charming and even lovable character which he atao* to the world in the ordinary circum- stances of his career. He i?, indeed, always and everywhere, the most win- ning figure in that Intellectual m e- ment which presaged the Reniissar.ee. It Is in her feeling for his gracious traits, for the positive sweetness In his nature, as for the noble drift in bis most characteristic ideas, that Miss Jer- rold proves herself a. truly sympathetic biographer. The reader who cares for the still air of delightful studies and for the company of an r enkindling type will turn to this book. el?;ht years thai he spent there; in ra- tions with a ro-srt even then In la«l repute. That his conduct in this matter stands In nerd of some «lf f«-u«o . is ••'\u25a0 vious In vlov of the fart that : -V-" Bp< - cacoio, who revered him, ivjh moved to pretest. saying: "He has become "•\u25a0 friend of that murderous and Inhuman one. whom h* >'« v ' ''•' to op \u25a0' now Polyphemus, now the Cyclops: and not dragged, not compelled, but of his own free will, he has gone under the yoke of him. whose audacity, pride and tyranny h$ used Indignantly to con- demn." Modem criticism., teeing i*- l.rarch in th« long porsnoettv« ot time can observe more amiably hip sojourn within the dubious clrclo of the Viscontl. It -.var the reptl»ps spirit In him that <3rovo him to Milan. His mind needed to work in the stuff of life. His motive in subjecting himself to the influences deprecated by his friend was at bottom probably akin to that which had earlier led him to scale Mont Ventoux. He roust always be making experiments. No doubt he mad* sacrifices at Milan. But he went £& far as Itis humanly pos- sible to go toward proving that one may occasionally touch pitch without being defiled. ' FRENCH TYPES. Its Relation to Everij-Day Life. THE CIIIUSTIAX MINISTRY ANT- TUB SOCIAL ORDER. Lectures delivered ; . the course In pastoral Functions at Yale DivinitySchool. Edited by Cbnrk"* a. Macfarland. &vo, pp. vii, 303. Henry Frowde. . - Eleven lectures in the course iv pas- toral functions at Yale Divinity School, delivered last year by various clergy- men and other social workers, have been brought together In this volume. Be- sides urging the responsibility of the, churches, toward wage earners and toward the more neglected groups in so- ciety, some of the lectures give detailed attention to methods of approach that have already proved effective. In tho chapters devoted to industrial organiza- tions Mr. John Mitchell and Mr. Henry Sterling expound the principles of tho trade unions. Dr. Maafarland's discus- sion of the part of the Church and tho ministry In the realization of democracy is almost Franciscan i;. Its emphasis. The Church of our generation has, be thinks, not always flared to eat with publicans and sinners, to Invite them to her own table, and he inquires': Shall she >.-\u25a0> on gathering from th« world for the sake of herself, pr shall 5-I,*) plvo herself for the sake of the world? f-iiull she invite to her table not only the worthy but the needy? ijet .is no longer shut mi the Kingdom of Heaven with the rusty key* of doctrine. Let us j-oi. nb- f(olut«>ly rid of our lit'gprins Hea of the. Christian Church as a collection of those who may (hank God that they arc not as other men art*. Tin essentials of a ministry to men are dealt \u25a0vvith in the lecture by the Rev. An- Kin Phelps Stokes, jr. in reviewing the history of mental healing Dr. George B. Cutter alludes to the Emmanuel move- ment, :;;:'l says that when the excite- ment has died down the Church will l»< ready t" delegate therapeutic activities to its members, the physicians. Tho concluding lecture is an Impressive ac- count by the Rev. Frederick Lynch of progress made in recent years toward the realisation of International good win. s.» far have we come that Mr. Lynch is reminded of iiu- unkempt mortal who for several Sundays in succession took a front seat In .Mr. Bourgeon's tabernacle. When t!.«- pastor found occasion to speak t-> the tramp, the poor fellow, d touched, grasped Mr. S\ ; liin , ; and said, with tears in his voice; "Mr. Bpurgeon, I can't never tell you wl at your preaching has done foi ;.. When 1 lln-i came into this church I hated both God and (he devil, and now," he add< <J, "] i..\ a them both." THE MIMSTRY. ! Talk of Things Present and to Come. . The first two volumes of Emerson's i "Journals" aro to be published next ; week. They cover the years IS2O-'2O. 1 Their author began these records as a j boy. and continued to set down his dally addition until the task was no longer j within bis powers. The' intimate epi- sodes of his life were confided to those . Journals as well as remarks on the men ; and women be knew. Ballads and non- sense verses also are to be found therein. • Interesting portraits are to accompany ; the text. . - The si itement that th«x Imperial Li- brary in Constantinople contains many classical treasures may well stir to . agerness the lovers of literary research. No one was permitted to explore its shelves during the reign lately ended — perhaps a move lib. ral policy for scholars may now be carried out. An American tdition or" "The Man Shakespeare," by Mr. Frank Harris, the novellsi and former editor of the London "Saturday Review," is coming from the press of Mitchell Kennerley, The work, \u25a0ue are told, has b»en slowly growing under its author's pen for ih<: lasi twelve years. A translation of Wilhelm Busch's cornfo production, "fedward's Dream." has hf^r. made by Dr. Paul Cams, and win be published soon by the Open v'ourt Com- pany, [n Its nonsense tho "r»ream" is a reminder of "Alice In Wonderland." Napoleon 111 and Some % Others. Paris, October S3 M. lUicnne Laray. in his latest work. "An Service d-?!> i.i-;. n ,i,., |\u0084.|,., \u25a0 published by the Librairi- >;!oud, has collected lorn? exceedingly pretty pict- ures. in the foregrounds of «*hl flffurs nun anl wem«n who hav^ played la«J- I Injparts in politic* or in fashicnublc so- | <"(ety. His portraits rangre ffoip i.. j Bruise to Juk-s Simon. Tho moot ttrlU- | ing chapter le that in which .m. Larny In his book on '"Three Tears in • Thibet," Mr. Kaivaguchl, a Japanese Buddhist ecltrtlar, describes the mysteri- j ous Dalai Lame, a sharp, commanding i voice evoked reverence, seeming if not real, from the visitor, but be questioned ! the great mans saintliness. "From my long acquaintance with the Dalai Lama," pays the Japanese traveller, "during which I heard and saw much of him and bad frequent interviews with him. 1 ' judge that he is richer in thoughts po- litical than religious." The biography by his widow of W. E. 11. Lecky was not prepared in accord- ance with any wish of his. He preferred, it la said, to live by his books alone, and he kept no journal. One odd habit be had— noted Ina little diary his where- abouts on every Monday morning. Longmans, Green & Co. have just brought out the memoir. "Th.' Chronicles of a Household" is the general title of a series of humorous sketches of character which Mrs. E. 11. Pennell i. contributing to "The Atlan- tic." The first of the collection appears in the November number. It in an ac- count at once amusing and touching, of !\u25a0 quaint, old nmld-of-all-work of the loyal British type. Incidentally the sketch contains some characteristic ; glimpses of Whistler, Henley and Phil May. The letters which Lafcadio Roan ad. dressed from Japan to his frtand, pro- fe^or Chamberlain, ..ri to be published early next >ear In "Th*? Atlantic." in t lie new edition of Wesley's Jour- nal go words hut Wealty'l have W n Inserted, th* •)\u2666•• of brackets .is . tingul the new material from thfl Old Passagts from the newly 0 ». ciphered diaries, will nil Interludes left by Wesley In the Journal, It appears BOOKS AXD AUTHORS. analysts the mentality of Napoleon 111 and dwells upon the cpiumiike intoxica- tion of the latter's dreams*. Hs lumi- nously analyzes the obstinate Utopian philosophy of the Emperor, who was con- stantly duped by chimerical diplomacy and misled by promises made solely to provoke renewed concessions to the lib- eralism that sapped the vitality of tiio Napoleonic legend. 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II \u25a0 was fully war.-, ten years be- fore his end, that be was doomed to be- come insane, and his mental and moral .struggles against fata were tragic and heroic. There are interesting pages de- voted to Nietzsche's relations with Rich- ard Wagner and to the pessimist philos- opher's original appreciations and caus- tic criticisms Of what had already been called "the music of the future." C. I. B. measure at least, to William De Mor- gan's success. Jfot that there is any- thing in common between his stories and "Margarita's Soul" beyond a certaia de- gree of adaptation of method. The man of fifty whose recollections are sot forth in this book is not only romantic; he is sentimental, with the wholesome, pleas- ing sentimentality uf the- old bachelor Who has not turned crusty, v. hose unful- filled love lias in the course of tho years become a cherished asset, the poetry and gentlo consolation of bis solitude, not ita cross. His sweet melancholy is a luxury; indeed, he revels in it. But tlw title of the book is somewhat of a mis- nomer. It is not the story of "Margarita's Sou!."' since the reader learns but little of Its development till the end, when a climax reveals to him a woman beauti- ful in mind as in body. She was found wandering ,on Broadway, twenty years ago, an untutored savage— a blank leaf awaiting the script of her discoverer. He marries her, a child in mind, know- ing nothing of the meaning of marriage, then engages a governess for her, who trains her/ as one trains an infant. The secret of her soul she guards; those watching her. certainly her biographer, receive but the faintest claws to it's in- dividuality, its growth, its emotional processes. Her mind is at best but placidly receptive to cultural impres- sion?; the reader who chooses would bo justified in opining that Margarita had no soul, only impulses, were it not for those closing chapters. Her brief career as an opera singer one may pass over; it is "in the air" just now. 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A profoundly tus£TiT.ve boob upon !Jic-clljern prooSetns comes to v* from the j
t-«n of fc wtiter already favorably known jas til*-author of a thoughtful work upon |
toe Eoqth. Mr. Slorpby is a philosopher, jend ? phi:ovoj;:>cr with a strong: practK ,<%i tide. PcEs^tsins brcsdth ot under- jstarUitag. clarity of vision end well |peised Judgment., and «a&t«r of a forcible jjieJ pleafiins style, ho Is able to fiiecuss |trerl<J-o!d <;ueitionH Inthoir bearing upon !present. Cay Deeds with icnvincing vigor !aa4 fraahncsK. Me ha a also sympathy jin marked 6«cree, and likewise coneldcr- i
ftCor The eternal probleci of what tc j«?o with the negro in America Is too cft?n !
<!eba^ted with *o!e 'frgard for the comfort.'
interest and preferences of tb« white •
race. No «uch narrow handling of *,
familiar topic is thtit before us. Tl:s jsuthM take* a broad view; he co-ordi-s-iiit'.s th« cosmic forces of race as they ;toake themselves felt upon the stage of ithe world; he is not afraid to es*ay the ;loftier {lights of genera Hzation, and hobrines th« weight of pitiless logic to bearupon the object Of his argument untilhis point is driven home. And withal he ;
<!oes not appear so much the advocate as jthe idealist, the inepired dreamer, whose jvijrion is not too remote to be attained, jnot too exalted to be brought within the
realm cf concrete- fact. Bach a writerif not destined to be a leader cf the Imasses is likely to be recognized as aleader of the l'afler.- He makes men
'ihink. He *ha.pea the issues r.nd so !•jrercifes a subtle and controlling in-fiueac*.
ITfcopowers of the negro are not the j
powers of the v.-hits man, and the state |e*n never make him aught but a negro, !but Itcan accord him the economic pup- jport cf the profounder social forces of isecurity, opportunity and hope, While jthe South lies much to correct. Itis be- jIleved that she will never co far modify \u25a0
Her feeling in reference to the validity of jsocial differentiations as to minimize tha j*i§niflcance of race. The feeling of race \u25a0
la not a mere prejudice, and to pi*c ]jace antipathies of social groups amongchildish phenomena betrays a lack of |familiarity ivith the complexities of race '
adjustment under thf conditions of a |democracy. A sane, righteous, whole-some 6o'.uti"n is not advanced by aspurious catholicity of race. The mdi- ',viduality of the white rac* In all its jfiner and happier achievement is a thing jtoo sacred, too Indispensable to the ser- ;vie« ef the world to be delivered to the'«irafTETtas pressure of an inferior group jor to those self-corrupting antipal
ihat forever t*mpt it. The weaker raceshave al^o something individual, some-thingpeculiar to themselves which must
be conserved in the interest of all.The author has a very happy faculty j
<\u25a0* ining his chapters, »nd nothing bet-ttr exemplifies his \u25a0'\u25a0<:} lion \u25a0; powers of !«on<Sensatlon. ir. that entitled "The In-divlslbl*; Inheritance" he takes up theihfme thai however much the n»"gro has
'Mifferc-d an-1 <ii<lured and «t be" liasjrajrivd rnovt;. His fate has become soinextricably involved v.ith that of a
( stronger croup that t'.ie conditions ccn-iroiUnp the lifeand fortunes of the one
l must also surround and advance the\ lift arid fortunr-3 of the other. Sorn<?f <onditlons ofirogrcf a operate to the dis-
advanta^e of the we3kt %r proup. but onthe v,holo the negro and his offspringlicve be«-:orne the .icint beneficiaries of«-ur civil, educational and political htri-tare. The euffrafc-u of the. blanks ha'sbc«n sharply I lited by law. hut the verycd of limitation has involved a narrow-ing \u25a0:[ the basis of the whole electorate.ln«j!rcrimlnat«; immunities were pr« •
claimed for white men. Ruthless d;--
criminations were pronounced againstHack nr»n. 'Within U'ee than ten yearst!:«usands of the -.vorthior blacka underthe amended constitutions have been ad-mitted to the bailor, and In AlabamaRlore in the ftrst I»rfcsi<J«int4al lectionsfter the Unetment cf the seffrase?uorc than hah! of the adult white mendid not qualify an«J vote. In spite ofall,that which the Southern majority de-• lare-1 should happen a«id which thes>"«rthern majority denounced as baringhappened has not happened at all Manynegroes have been admitted; manywhite n»*n Save h»<--i exclude.
Thus even political advantages arebeing brought to the weaker grout*.though amorc all common benefits th»b«neflts nt prerogative will com? la? .There is no arbitrary or legislative wayto make ihomt strong who are not strong,<"T to make these weak who arc not
veak. Those with the capacity for -\u0084.
\u2666Turner.', will govern. The negro enjoysreligious and civil freedom, but thesewere won for hint, not by him. Ho haa;.o pa*;, no tra.dition, no lilsfory vf great
men to appeal to. Tier very law. he nowInvokes luie come up out of the suffering.'•r:d patience of another social group. Itih the flowering of the consciousness o*another race; is in its genius and ex-pression th* ivl:ite mail's law— made out«f the texture of the white man's experi-
ence and eliot throujjli and through v.lththe instinctive assumptions of a psychol-ogy to which the negro as a nesro Is
liarjelyalien. But iht law Is his. it id
about his «T«dlo. ItIs his heritjis-.i. Atswan point the negro receives, inherits.It-i? idl« ta talk ahoot the fine, oidtiifi*"-,iilitcrate nogru. He and tij» paternal-istic cviiditiors of iiis environment arel-roiis forever. V.*c must train tUa ncgrro- ;
through f".;t> churches ftn.l s<.-hu<i3s, but Iw^r« there nop« of these- th* z;ezn> v.ovid*haie tho- heritage of every Intellectualtsud moral ajs*tt of the country. \V«.- can j!-.* mure ir.ake a bUracial division of our j
:za'.:oii t... of the nunshinQ on.i the jtsus'sr.r. I^a'uor cj:tl freedom are inulvie- iihie. '&"**'-\u25a0 j
(SoL«,-*e i* the cirpreawion, fo closely j
•vijyea fa th« web o? t!.e thought, andvithn! co ex-rtiKiano'ii.E tho diction, that ii: lz liiScdt to give a Uue'coucc-r/tlon of j'> \u25a0\u25a0* crltvr'a work without merpts too !txi#; ;-.j Jor t^eee columns. He glv^s jlapfh »t!ja: t» t!.<; intcci-ity of t:.c IurSFv ra^c, sjjjj;oir.tn ovt tUat iho old jisoiniJc.;! of t!:e negrc/^ corititicut 5* a. :
*-'.'-iv>S tfl x\.'.' j'AC'. "Vhaievtr !? t:.cfuture or Afiicj.itjfienidcan^t -i.ijim- ;porta:;ce v.ii;not re^co, tiiul ite increas- j•' S I;icl?ition «Ita<n iht \I-,-icj i-orwciout- iC'ft Ct t'rt ia>i<rji '.'orld is its tw.'.tzt'.t
'z% £r,y !-':Tin event ti:at *c c.~n n'-n- ;
": -Srjj \$ tt'i*, n'.or»rr,erft \u25a0 vf- \u25a0 «.:l^s*r ih'ttr- rE •»\u25a0»•. iiou tixt rlOc «.f •ivos. \u25a0
-Lord Can.oll has nsosntly elated in »h«-•lsbatrs upon th« Kastfrn situation thai'a!l Asia, from the otoscurfty of Its c^titval
; ;)'.atra-iis to the extremities <>f India, la\u25a0ttrriiiir with * vague unrest (due In larsrc»; \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0•;-« «<> the result of th« Japanes*-
\u25a0 Itus£ia:i V»ari. and that the lowest of Us1 tribal groups has somehow learned tnst
somewfiere far to the nortliwar'i there ha?I?ea a gr^at conflict, in which a dark ranc-hes been victorious over a white race. Inthe life cf Africa's untutored reoessf » aetni
'. hfcve found & stm^tair agitation: and jr«t, if. such espuess exists, Itshould be dis-posed in f:n<l for it a soaMWtsat broader
»si? Ifth*» ncwr of the victory of Japaniha« b>cn a (actor In these situations. th>r«s,:have been other factors also Under th". proii'Jtnp of our divisions and redlvisiontsof the -spheres of Influence." of punitiveexpedition* and monitory *j,ploratl©ne. tnc
i e«!f-consciou?ne!s %of a continent, even In:'.:$. lowest depths, cannot forever sleep, norican th« relation? vt our International lire
be «xternal merely. We cannot b« burial| with Africa »s a seogrr«phlc*l puzzls wttn-lout <srt-irine It as a commercial aesut; ailIfrom commercial to military relation? wej advance even more directly, for th« v«? EOn
Ithat It Is not easy to tra<3* where it is notIpossible to live- And Inasmuch as others!will enter or will wish to enter the marketjwe attend. th«j. too. 111 wish to protect! their agents and their barter. Thus a na-i tional Interest becomes a phase of jnter-!rational policy. A qufstlon of international
policy becomes, however, under any repre-| sentative jrovernment, a question of poli-
tics, for the party In power must seekpopular support. Soon the issues broughtinto the foreground by the Kaffir serve
i to d-nermJne the alternations of party ru-j prfmaey among: the English (just as theIissues presented by the American negroi have frequently put men Into office ana!parti** Into power In the United Stated,
i to that what t-egan as the intrusion or! ErsUnd into the affairs of Africa ulti-imately cm*rpe« as the intrusion of Africa.I into Hie affairs of England. Thus also i«I Morocco dfflning th* party history of
France, and thus the negro Const, Is found. to be alive and assertive within the careererf Brussels and her King. A movement
iwhich began, therefore, upon every handIas rj mrro physical invasion has become,
i and will become inerMfcingly. a whole!congeries of social and political relations, ,
Tins theme is developed with skill,and| the author shov.-s how the negro in| America must be affected by the worldimovement in his own continent. More-i over, tho race if feeling an Increasing
«-r.«(»ofsolidarity. The educated negroesare keeping more closely than ever tothemselves. The race Is holding its own.and the best Interests of bOtS ere Im-
1 proved by t-uch 3 tendency. No ques-! tion of intermingling can be considered,
| and so generally Is this accepted that It! fa no longer discussed. Other phases ofj the problem receive, a handling which Isj as astute us It is novel and sagacious.j Its difficulties will yield to no imme-j diate formula. Few of the great prob-, lerns of human development have ever
j been Anally "6olved." The student canj only point the way, discern tendencies,. Indicate pitfalls and utter words of en-!couragement and advice. Those lands.Icays the author, which are conscious • f
I a great difficulty are not poor. Itwas\ through the negro in one experience thatj the South once loft her mastery, her, mastery not over Mm alone, but overj those opportunities for a national lead-: ership and for an uninterrupted emi-j nence of service to which her capacitiesi entitled her. It may bo that through; this same strange, waiting-, baffling fac-] tor in her life her ascendancy in higherI forms may again return
—in forma not
! threatening the estate and dignity ofi labcr, the pride, of freedom, the in-
stinct and custom of our age, but be-stowed by a labor which she has freed
! and by an ago and a democracy which Iniher service to their profoundest task she:has supremely Justified.
It is a striking contrast to turn fromI such thoughts so loftilyexpressed and so. forcibly expounded to Mr. I'ickett's ad-j vocacy of a wholesale removal of the
\u25a0 American negroes to Afrif-a.,. One hun-i dred million dollars a year should be. expended by the general government, and. states and individuals might be espect-:ed to contribute to tiie cause. Tl:o ten'
million negroes themselves willseise theopportunity to start lif<- anew inthe Am-
i tteeat from which they sprang. TheJ author ha- gathered much valuable ma-| terial to Illustrate his argument and bisj statistics arc well arranged. The.famil-j iar difficulties of the problem, the hard-! ships of the negro and tha various Bolu-; tiens erf set forth at lrngth. As a workIof reference on the subject at the presentj lay th< volume has great value.
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I FRANCESCO PETRARCA, VOKT ANDHUMANIST. By Maud F. Jerrold. ll-lutitrated. Octavo, pp. xi, ;.;... i; »>• ilUttOU i.Co.
Strictly king, there was no press-j ing need for the publication of this book.;Mr. Holly.ay - Calthrop's volume •>n
Petrarch, printed some two years ago.j constitutr-8 an adequate narrative of thei poet's life for the general reader, and Is,;into the bargain, an uncommonly enter-
taining piece of work. But who shall': blame Vat lover of letters who is urged; by nothing more nor leas than a warmi sympathy for the great pioneer la Ital-: iii humanism to set forth Ills Btory
anew? Miss Jcrrold is such an eathust-;aft, ami. sime she has made a creditableiifnot especial weighty book out of her'
studies, one may easily turn these pages'. in friendly m«od.
Miss Jerrold speaks of her wish to pre-I s«?nt thf twofold aspect of I*otrarc4i asjpo«t and humanist In |uch wise that the;cmo should not obscure, the other. Her!purpose is laudable, and readers who doJ not possess Italian will be grateful for
her generosity In English versions ofman) passages and complete poems.
iNevertheless, even the rnobt disinter-: ested student of Petrarch's poetry, read-: Ingit simply and solely for its own sake,1 Is perpetually turning to the man's per-*£onallty, perpetually realizing him in his. capacity as adventurer through the world
; of fourteenth century affairs, as well as; through the domain of thought. Ills ap-ical for us is that of a peculiarly mod-; crn type, and this despite the fact that
he waa so profoundly bookish In his• ta.stt-K. BookJehnsss, however, was not
with him a trait excluding contact withthe larger Interests of mankind. On the
i contrary, this creature of reverie and in-IBatlable literary acquisitiveness was ab-• sorblngly Interested in the dally business;of his fellow .'-ii.a practitioner of pol-
itics as well as of poetry. Experience,of whatever kind, was dear to him. Itisa. point explaining more than one episodeIn hi career ovi-r which the too zealousbiographer Is disposed to grow more orKcS apologetic. Wjiy did he makefriends with Azzo da eerregflo, \u25a0.. typeof nudiosval violence.' Surely it was notttc^uso he had lowered himself to thetyrant* moral >\u25a0.'!, but because In hisIntercourse with Azzo he touched onen:«mj ise cf life, one ruoro develop-ment in t'-ift vivM mundaiid spectaclowhich W3&, afvtr all. m dear to hin« mty'ltude a:rion£st his boobs
The author of this volume is ii! at
eatc. a« to many of her precleffssorjh^v* been, w^n v i« i'mt to accompanyfpftrarch t<» Milan and to deal with thi
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With Some Light on a Bache- jlor's Sentiments.
MARGARITAS hOUJ.. , Tha Ron ,„\u0084 IKeici!;*ctionfi of a ,\r.ir. of F!,*fy Xv •
Invrrsham Loveii. lliut.-. by-Scott !v nitam». * Ith Wh!»tl«r Butterfly d«». !lationf.. thno, pp. ;\u25a0;\u25a0! Th<! John l^ne !
Tha l>rtsur«Jy et;!<» of irnaglnatlv* nar. |rative owes Ug revival, no doubt, in largo \
A WOMAX'S SOIL.
DIVERSIONS IN SICILY. By HenryFesting Jones. 12mo, pp. 361. Im-ported by Charles Scribner's Sont.
SEEKERS IN" SICILY. Peing a Quest forPersephone by Jane and Perlpatetfca.I>one into the Vernacular by KlijsubethKieland and Anne Hoyt. Illustrate^.lCnio. pp. 288- John Lane Comoany.
The Englishman who chats co agree-ably .concerning his diversions in"Sicily
Is a traveller worth following. Ho is themost sympathetic of observers. Helikesthe Sicilians and has known how to wintheir confidence and affection. Itcouldhardly be otherwise with so cheerful,
courteous and large minded a visitor;even the coastguards fraternized withhim and fed him on jokes ami coldboiled arttehokes. He describes briefly
and with humor his excursions about thocountry: he offers effective glimpses ofSicilian romance, and be provides somoparticularly entertaining chapters on themarionette theatre?. He is at pains toremove popular impressions .which heconsiders erroneous: he is, for example,inclined to attribute the idea that Sicilyis more dangerous than other countries"less to the frequency of crime therethan to the operatic manner in which itis committed." As for Sicilian manners,he gives a most engaging account elthem. lie says in Illustration: "AFrenchman, speaking of an Englishmanto whom Ihad introduced him. said tome, 'He speaks French worse than youdo! Any Italian wishing- to express asimilar idea would have said, 'He speaksItalian. Itis true, but not so well as you•do.'" Our author talks poetry andmusic, Dante and Shakespeare, with hislandlord's son, who waits on him at din-ner, and with the master of a little winechop, and many of his pleasantest en-counters are with humbler folk, thoseardent and persistent natrons of themarionette theatre, tho Facchini. por-ters, coachmen, shoeblacks and the likeAt Catania he writes:
ci^isometimes happens when travelling InSicily that one has to spend half an hourhalf a day, or itmay be more, incompanywith one Of these men. He Is usually a.ifc ighttul person, dignified, kind, courteous,full of fun«n<l«n<l extremely friendly withoutbeing obtrusive. During conversation one
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1?1?^ 1' hehasiorg^ttenan he ever learned of them, and dots notcare to »y bo The Slctltan, ,„!„,.., v\u0084matter how uneducated he may be lias on•Pp«t«for romance whU-h raust be^au"f^',o !;,av
s * w,w,Tlld glve hlm »ome trou-.,'" Jt!"P hi*early accompllshmentaa do Ta4l h^\" rE.l(ilnc P«lCi and Boi-aiao. ipso and Ariosto, ho nref^rs tofollow the story of Carlo Magno. und hispaladins and the war? against^ the Sarl^Inl'r ev.^l.ivt^r-, B^**»« lleltianmal. e\ <^r Mj;t nt home to flc» anrlhin»except to rat and cKjep. an,) tw Jthing? h- doe? vox of doors a, often
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cvrnir.c:. month aft.r month looking on ItVhe^eSV^™
th* '^SIIPSWhat two enthusiastic feminine tour-ists from America saw and felt in the
Sicilian springtime is joyously revealedin the second volume named above in-cidents of travel, charming, exasperatingor laughable, humorously treated vign-mrs of character, bursts of delightov»-r glorious scenery, n*at references tolocal history or mythology-*]! these con-tribute to the making of a truly readablebook. The two travellers came upon un-expected enjoyment In the way of eorh-fort or picturesqueaess, and the experi-ence has been recorded In airy gossip-ing fashion. They observed the vagariesof fellow tourists with genial philosophy;they fell into poetic meditation amid theruins of the mighty past. Nowhere werethey bored, and—though there la dangerof overdoing historical allusion—do they bore the reader. Sicily spellsmagic; the very soil beneath the* orangetrees speaks of the dramas of a thou-sand years ago. "An American livingin Taormina did a kindness to her nativecook, for which In grateful return thocook Insisted on presenting her a quan-tity of old coins, which her husband hadturned up through the years in theirlittle garden. Showing them to thecurator of .imuseum. 'Madame, 1 he saidto the fortunate recipient of th,» gift)'you Lave a complete epitome of nilSicilian history in these coins.'
"
Tko Records of Happy- Sauntering*.
DAYS IN SICILY.
Certainly nothing In his Milaneseperiod detracts from that charming andeven lovable character which he atao*to the world in the ordinary circum-stances of his career. He i?, indeed,always and everywhere, the most win-ning figure in that Intellectual m e-ment which presaged the Reniissar.ee.It Is in her feeling for his gracioustraits, for the positive sweetness In hisnature, as for the noble drift in bismost characteristic ideas, that Miss Jer-rold proves herself a. truly sympatheticbiographer. The reader who cares forthe still air of delightful studies and forthe company of an r enkindling type willturn to this book.
el?;ht years thai he spent there; in ra-tions with a ro-srt even then In la«lrepute. That his conduct in this matterstands In nerd of some «lff«-u«o. is ••'\u25a0
vious Invlov of the fart that :-V-" Bp< -cacoio, who revered him, ivjhmoved topretest. saying: "He has become "•\u25a0
friend of that murderous and Inhumanone. whom h* >'« v' ''•' to op \u25a0' nowPolyphemus, now the Cyclops: and notdragged, not compelled, but of his ownfree will, he has gone under the yoke
of him. whose audacity, pride andtyranny h$ used Indignantly to con-demn." Modem criticism., teeing i*-
l.rarch in th« long porsnoettv« ot timecan observe more amiably hip sojourn
within the dubious clrclo of the Viscontl.It -.var the reptl»ps spirit In him that<3rovo him to Milan. His mind neededto work in the stuff of life. His motivein subjecting himself to the influencesdeprecated by his friend was at bottomprobably akin to that which had earlierled him to scale Mont Ventoux. Heroust always be making experiments.
No doubt he mad* sacrifices at Milan.But he went £& far as Itis humanly pos-sible to go toward proving that one mayoccasionally touch pitch without being
defiled.'
FRENCH TYPES.
Its Relation to Everij-DayLife.
THE CIIIUSTIAXMINISTRY ANT- TUBSOCIAL ORDER. Lectures delivered;. the course In pastoral Functions at
Yale DivinitySchool. Edited by Cbnrk"*a. Macfarland. &vo, pp. vii, 303. Henry
Frowde. . -Eleven lectures in the course iv pas-
toral functions at Yale DivinitySchool,
delivered last year by various clergy-
men and other social workers, have beenbrought together In this volume. Be-sides urging the responsibility of the,
churches, toward wage earners andtoward the more neglected groups in so-ciety, some of the lectures give detailedattention to methods of approach that
have already proved effective. In thochapters devoted to industrial organiza-
tions Mr. John Mitchell and Mr. HenrySterling expound the principles of thotrade unions. Dr. Maafarland's discus-sion of the part of the Church and thoministry In the realization of democracy
is almost Franciscan i;. Its emphasis.
The Church of our generation has, bethinks, not always flared to eat withpublicans and sinners, to Invite them toher own table, and he inquires':
Shall she >.-\u25a0> on gathering from th«world for the sake of herself, pr shall 5-I,*)plvo herself for the sake of the world?f-iiull she invite to her table not only theworthy but the needy? ijet .is no longershut mi the Kingdom of Heaven with therusty key* of doctrine. Let us j-oi. nb-f(olut«>ly rid of our lit'gprins Hea of the.Christian Church as a collection of thosewho may (hank God that they arc not asother men art*.
Tin essentials of a ministry to men aredealt \u25a0vvith in the lecture by the Rev. An-Kin Phelps Stokes, jr. in reviewing thehistory of mental healing Dr. George B.Cutter alludes to the Emmanuel move-ment, :;;:'l says that when the excite-ment has died down the Church will l»<ready t" delegate therapeutic activitiesto its members, the physicians. Thoconcluding lecture is an Impressive ac-count by the Rev. Frederick Lynch ofprogress made in recent years towardthe realisation of International good win.s.» far have we come that Mr. Lynch isreminded of iiu- unkempt mortal who forseveral Sundays in succession took afront seat In .Mr. Bourgeon's tabernacle.When t!.«- pastor found occasion to speakt-> the tramp, the poor fellow, dtouched, grasped Mr. S\ ;liin,;and said, with tears in his voice; "Mr.Bpurgeon, Ican't never tell you wlatyour preaching has done foi ;. . When1 lln-i came into this church Ihatedboth God and (he devil, and now," headd< <J, "] i..\a them both."
THE MIMSTRY.
! Talk of Things Present andto Come.
. The first two volumes of Emerson'si"Journals" aro to be published next; week. They cover the years IS2O-'2O.1 Their author began these records as aj boy. and continued to set down his dally
addition until the task was no longer
j within bis powers. The' intimate epi-
sodes of his life were confided to those. Journals as well as remarks on the men;and women be knew. Ballads and non-sense verses also are to be found therein.
• Interesting portraits are to accompany; the text. .
-The si itement that th«x Imperial Li-
brary in Constantinople contains many
classical treasures may well stir to.agerness the lovers of literary research.No one was permitted to explore itsshelves during the reign lately ended
—perhaps a move lib. ral policy for scholarsmay now be carried out.
An American tdition or" "The ManShakespeare," by Mr. Frank Harris, thenovellsi and former editor of the London"Saturday Review," is coming from thepress of Mitchell Kennerley, The work,
\u25a0ue are told, has b»en slowly growing
under its author's pen for ih<: lasi twelveyears.
A translation of Wilhelm Busch's cornfoproduction, "fedward's Dream." has hf^r.made by Dr. Paul Cams, and win bepublished soon by the Open v'ourt Com-pany, [n Its nonsense tho "r»ream" is areminder of "Alice In Wonderland."
Napoleon 111 and Some% Others.
Paris, October S3M. lUicnne Laray. in his latest work.
"An Service d-?!> i.i-;. n ,i,., |\u0084.|,., \u25a0
published by the Librairi- >;!oud, hascollected lorn? exceedingly pretty pict-ures. in the foregrounds of «*hl flffursnun anl wem«n who hav^ played la«J- IInjparts in politic* or in fashicnublc so- |<"(ety. His portraits rangre ffoip i.. jBruise to Juk-s Simon. Tho moot ttrlU- |ing chapter le that in which .m. Larny
In his book on '"Three Tears in• Thibet," Mr. Kaivaguchl, a JapaneseBuddhist ecltrtlar, describes the mysteri-
j ous Dalai Lame, a sharp, commandingi voice evoked reverence, seeming if not
real, from the visitor, but be questioned! the great mans saintliness. "From my
long acquaintance with the Dalai Lama,"pays the Japanese traveller, "duringwhich Iheard and saw much of him andbad frequent interviews with him. 1'judge that he is richer in thoughts po-litical than religious."
The biography by his widow of W. E.11. Lecky was not prepared in accord-ance withany wish of his. He preferred,it la said, to live by his books alone, andhe kept no journal. One odd habit behad— noted Ina little diary his where-abouts on every Monday morning.Longmans, Green & Co. have justbrought out the memoir.
"Th.' Chronicles of a Household" is thegeneral title of a series of humoroussketches of character which Mrs. E. 11.Pennell i. contributing to "The Atlan-tic." The first of the collection appearsin the November number. It in an ac-count at once amusing and touching, of
!\u25a0 quaint, old nmld-of-all-work of theloyal British type. Incidentally thesketch contains some characteristic; glimpses of Whistler, Henley and PhilMay.
The letters which Lafcadio Roan ad.dressed from Japan to his frtand, pro-fe^or Chamberlain, ..ri to be publishedearly next >ear In "Th*? Atlantic."
in tlie new edition of Wesley's Jour-nal go words hut Wealty'l have WnInserted, th* •)\u2666•• of brackets .is .tingul the new material from thflOld Passagts from the newly 0».
ciphered diaries, will nil Interludes leftby Wesley In the Journal, It appears
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analysts the mentality of Napoleon 111and dwells upon the cpiumiike intoxica-tion of the latter's dreams*. Hs lumi-nously analyzes the obstinate Utopianphilosophy of the Emperor, who was con-stantly duped by chimerical diplomacy
and misled by promises made solely toprovoke renewed concessions to the lib-eralism that sapped the vitality of tiioNapoleonic legend. A delightful lov-iIdyl, rflatfiig to Albert de Montso-reau end Angaete de U Ferronays, andthe passionate sentiment of VictorCousin for the beautiful but capricious
Jlnic. de LongnerUle supply a pleasingromantic, vein, contrasting with the moreso;nbre positive outlines of the moroseEugene Pelletan and the austere JulesFerry.
Fanny Elssk-r Is portrayed in a newand pleasing light by M. Augusts Ehrard,
of the University of Lyons, In his bookbrought out by the Librairio Plon. Itis based on personal letters and tho
diaries of those who were closely con-nected with the captivating and spright-ly daiiseu?'\ Side lights on the careerof Taglioni's rival are set forth with aprofusion of curious details and ->tpiquant anecdotes. M. Daniel Halftvy
has made a remarkable biography ofFrederic Nietzsche, published by the Li-brair!-j Colmaßn^Levy. The death ofNietzsche was pathetic to the last de-gree. II\u25a0 was fully war.-, ten years be-fore his end, that be was doomed to be-come insane, and his mental and moral.struggles against fata were tragic andheroic. There are interesting pages de-voted to Nietzsche's relations with Rich-ard Wagner and to the pessimist philos-opher's original appreciations and caus-tic criticisms Of what had already beencalled "the music of the future."
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measure at least, to William De Mor-gan's success. Jfot that there is any-
thing in common between his stories and"Margarita's Soul" beyond a certaia de-
gree of adaptation of method. The man
of fifty whose recollections are sot forthin this book is not only romantic; he is
sentimental, with the wholesome, pleas-ing sentimentality uf the- old bachelorWho has not turned crusty, v.hose unful-filled love lias in the course of tho yearsbecome a cherished asset, the poetry andgentlo consolation of bis solitude, not
ita cross. His sweet melancholy is a
luxury; indeed, he revels in it. But tlwtitle of the book is somewhat of a mis-nomer.It is not the story of "Margarita's
Sou!."' since the reader learns but littleof Its development till the end, when aclimax reveals to him a woman beauti-ful in mind as in body. She was foundwandering ,on Broadway, twenty yearsago, an untutored savage— a blank leafawaiting the script of her discoverer.He marries her, a child in mind, know-ing nothing of the meaning of marriage,
then engages a governess for her, who
trains her/ as one trains an infant. The
secret of her soul she guards; thosewatching her. certainly her biographer,
receive but the faintest claws to it's in-dividuality, its growth, its emotionalprocesses. Her mind is at best butplacidly receptive to cultural impres-
sion?; the reader who chooses would bo
justified in opining that Margarita hadno soul, only impulses, were it not for
those closing chapters. Her brief careeras an opera singer one may pass over; itis "in the air" just now. The story willowe what measure or popular success itmay well attain to its treatment andsetting, not to its subject, which is far
from novel. But is not the old bachelor,
In the narrating of the story, really moro
interested in his own hopeless love thanin the soul of Its object? Perhaps so. AThackerayan touch of this kind is not
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what Whistler would say, were he aliveto-day, of the free use of his cherishedbutterfly made by the publishers in thedecofation of this book. •'•\u25a0
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