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It has been the aim of the present editor to amend certain mistranslations and misprints, and to supply those passages which the translator omitted. In addition to Rousseau's own notes, many others have been furnished, drawn from the best sourcesMousset-Pathay, Petittain, Ducros and others. Upon receipt of card mentioning The Literary World, we will take pleasure in sending you our Illustrated Christmas Catalogue. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 715 and 717 Market Street, Philadelphia 429 429 427 427 427 427 427 428 SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW.* THE 434 434 435 435 435 434 tions in these 150 pages. In one rise the snow slopes of the Jungfrau, in another the 434 sharp and jagged peak of the Matterhorn, in another a row of Venetian loafers are seen fringing the parapet of the bridge, in 435 another the street cars of New York are blocked in the snow, in another we have 435 the foamy crest of the dancing waves at 435 sea, in others fine winter effects in country 435 and in town; there are seascapes and land scapes, night scenes on the boulevards, portraits of fair women, pretty vignettes 435 of children's faces, lovely pasture, woodland, and seashore views, fishermen on the brook-side with their rods and creels, winding rivers, boats under sail, and indeed 436 almost every variety of object. It is a pity 436 that such a poor engraving as that facing 435 435 436 436 436 436 436 436 436 436 Page 28 should be allowed a place amidst so much superior work, but the exceptions 436 to the general high grade are few and easily overlooked. HE object of this handsomely printed octavo by an expert photographer is to show what can be done with the camera in the world of nature, and to reproduce the IN camera's best effects by means of the "halftone" process upon the printed page. The 427 book is too beautifully and expensively made to serve the purpose of a mere tech427 nical manual, loaded as it is with information of a practical character for the use of the camera by amateurs and professionals. It is in itself a work of art, and must gratify every refined and cultivated eye with its details. There have been seen no wood-cuts of late which surpass the illustrations in 430 this volume for delicacy and brilliancy, and 430 whether we are following the line of the 431 photographer's enterprise, or that of the 431 printer's performance, we must give the 431 book the highest praise. 428 428 430 430 IRVING'S ASTORIA.* Tacoma Edition. 66 N our Holiday Number a year ago one of the handsome works of which we had to speak was a Surrey Edition" of Irving's Bracebridge Hall. As a companion to that the same publishers have brought out this year a "Tacoma Edition " of Irving's Astoria. We do not know what the citizens of the rival city of Seattle will say to this exploitation in literature of the name of their chief competitor for the honors of the Northwest; but perhaps a Seattle edition of something equally fine will follow next year. However this may be, a good edition of Astoria is a desideratum, and never more so than now, when so many minds and eyes and feet and hands are turned toward the still more remote Northwest, the immense Alaskan There are fourteen chapters and some-tracts, to which the field of Mr. Astor's 431 thing like one hundred illustrations. The undertakings was but the threshold; the 43 letter-press begins with the choice of the photographer's subject, and the considera432 tion of landscape both with and without 432 figures, takes up in succession the foreground and sky, and then portraits and sional visits to Canada that Mr. Irving be433 groups, has a chapter on hand cameras, came interested in the romance of commerimparts the secret of instantaneous photog-cial expeditions which were being conducted 433 raphy, gives special instruction with regard in the then unknown territory towards the solicitation that Mr. Irving undertook the Spenser's Faërie Queen, as only our very the accuracy of their drawing, their origi account of that enterprise, and Mr. Astor youngest readers need be told, is one of the nality, and their artistic effect; but they are placed in his hands all the journals, letters, great masterpieces of English literature. It done, so to speak, with a much heavier documents, and other materials which re- is almost a perfect mirror of the wonderful stroke than Mr. Crane's in the other edilated to the subject. Mr. Irving's nephew, sixteenth century in which it was composed. tion, and they deal so largely with black as Pierre M. Irving, assisted him in the work We have but a fragment of the work as it to impart almost a mourning air to some of and relieved him of much of the drudgery, was intended to be, and the first three books the pages upon which they appear. We but the composition is essentially his. The took the author about ten years to write. should think it very likely that Mr. Muckpublished narratives of such similar expe- Queen Elizabeth is the bright and shining ley's aim had been to repeat the effect of ditions as that of Lewis and Clarke were figure who is celebrated throughout the com- the old "block printing," and if so, he has consulted for cross lights, and the result is position that supreme personage whose achieved a success. His drawing is as true a story which is as true as history and as name was perpetually on the lips of con- and striking as Mr. Crane's, and that is to fascinating as fiction, and which has taken temporary poetry; the great queen whom say a great deal; but his effects of light and an honest place among the masterly writ- her people idolized and whom high opinion, ings of its author. in spite of many fierce and even virulent attacks, still regards as one of the greatest of English sovereigns. This is the work which has now been set forth under new attractions of paper, type, and binding, and with accompani- We shall not attempt here and now to ments of illustrations and other decora- enter into any detailed remarks upon the tions fitted to enhance the intrinsic value. poem itself, but must confine what we have The two volumes aggregate nearly eight to say to the outward features of the two hundred pages crown 8vo, and wide mar-rival forms in which it is presented. It is gins give the books an even larger appear- impossible to avoid comparisons. As we ance. Each page of text is inclosed with have said, in many respects the editions are a border printed in reddish-brown ink, and alike; but we think that most critical eyes these borders are of four different patterns, will confirm our judgment when we say that making use of the paddle, the pine cone, the Dent edition, handsome and interesting the salmon, the rifle, and the pistol for the as it is, does not quite equal the Allen edipurposes of emblematic decoration. The tion, and that when the latter is completed two volumes together are embellished with in its nineteen parts it will be accorded the about thirty full-page plates, produced by foremost place. At the same time, if the photogravure process, depicting scenes that Allen edition were not before us, we could appear in the narrative. The Columbia not fail to give unqualified praise to the River at various points, heads of grizzlies, Dent edition, which is in every way one of elks, and Indians, Mt. Hood, Long's Peak, fine workmanship, and with many artistic and the Three Tetons, views on the Yellow- details of the highest excellence and the stone and among the Rockies, Astoria in fairest beauty. 1811, and St. Louis as it looked at about the same time, are among the subjects of these interesting illustrations. There is an elaborate Table of Contents, but no index. The volumes are set off with a handsome binding of variegated maroon and gilt, and further incased for temporary protection in white wrappers. IT shade naturally lack the pleasing delicacy which Mr. Crane's work exhibits, and he lays on ink in lines and patches which are forceful rather than fine. All the same, this is a handsome and artistic setting of Spenser's immortal poem, and that two such editions of it should be laid before the reader in the same year is a testimonial to the vitality of Spenser's work, and to its lasting hold upon popular imagination and affection. In one or the other of these handsome editions it is sure to find many new readers, and old readers who have learned to love it will welcome one if not both of these embodiments of one of the chief objects of their literary affections. It must be said in praise of Mr. Muckley's volumes that, though large, they are not heavy to handle, and one can hold them with as much ease as he can hold many volumes of much smaller dimensions. RICHARD WAGNER.* [Richard Wagner, German composer, was born in 1813 and died in 1883. "The days of our years are threescore years and ten," as Mr. Chamberlain reminds us. At twelve years of age he was writing plays; at fifteen years of age, through the gateway of Beethoven's symphonies, he had entered the field of music as his profession; at twenty his first symphony was presented at a concert; at twenty-one he was a musical director; at twenty-three he in the French capital; at twenty-nine his "Rienzi” was brought out his first opera; at twenty-six he was planted produced at Dresden, and the decorations began to come; at thirty-two "Tannhauser" gave a new impulse to his fame; at thirty-six "Lohengrin" was ready; at forty-five the great series of operas, founded on the "Nibelungen lied," was under way; at fifty-two his "Tristran and Isolde" was produced under the direction of Von Bülow; at fifty-seven he married for his second wife Von Bülow's divorced wife, a daughter of Liszt; at sixty-three the vision The Allen edition, limited to 1,000 copies for England and America, is printed on an unbleached hand-made paper almost as heavy and rich as Whatman's drawing paper, with 28 copies on Japanese vellum, of which 25 are for sale. The page is nearly 9 x 12, the margins are fully 3 inches wide, the leaves, of course, are uncut, and the illustrations by Walter Crane, as we have previously reSPENSER'S FAERIE QUEEN. marked, are a study from beginning to end. T is something of a surprise, as Mr. They consist of ornamental vignettes and Wise's luxurious serial edition of the borders, with frequent full-page plates drawn Faërie Queen' approaches in the number with great artistic skill and power, full of before us its completion, to have laid down the spirit of Spenser's age. As might be beside it, in massive form and solid bulk, expected of Mr. Allen, who is Ruskin's the same work complete in two equally lux- printer, every particular of the work is of urious quartos, edited by another hand and the choicest and best; and the large type E manufactured by another publisher. In al- and brilliant ink impart to the pages, with have consulted the dictionary, and most every respect the two editions are sim-out turning to the illustrations, an air of re- have deliberately arrived at the judg ment that there is no more fitting word to ilar; and while that of Mr. Wise has slowly markable distinction. progressed along the path of a serial publi- The Dent edition has a somewhat smaller apply to this new life of Wagner than the cation, that of Mr. Hales leaps forth Mi-page, about 7 x 9, the margins are somewhat sometimes overworked epithet-superb; nerva-like with the suddenness of an apbut superb it is in form, in appearance, parition. typography, execution, and pictorial embellishments, and in literary workmanship; a thoroughly German performance in its thoroughness, its grasp of the subject, its as 1 Spenser's Faërie Queen. Edited by Thomas J. Wise With Illustrations by Walter Crane. London: George Allen, Ruskin House. Book VI, Part XVI. The Mac millan Co. $3.00. *The Faerie Queen. By Edmund Spenser. Pictured and Decorated by Louis Fairfax Muckley. With an Introduction by John W. Hales. London: J. M. Dent & Co. New York: The Macmillan Co. Two volumes. $15.00. narrower, though the typography is equally of his great Baireuth undertaking began to materialize. From that time to this Wagner may be said to be, on the whole, the foremost figure of the musical world of the century.] WE Richard Wagner. By Houston Stewart Chamberlain. similation of materials, its character and generation - for Wagner was a religious accuracy of detail, in richness of mechanspirit; and rendered into excellent English philosopher if not a theologian-and to ical excellence, and in varying appeals to form in a way to meet the needs of all his art doctrines, following which is an all intelligent and cultivated minds. students of the Wagner cult. It is more enumeration and summary of his writings. than a book for reading; it is a book for study. It covers the whole Wagner biography, history, philosophy, and technique; places the mind of the reader at the cen ter of the subject, with all its departments The author's treatment of his varied and SLOANE'S LIFE OF BONAPARTE.* Concluding Volume. ITH the issue of this fourth volume In the third chapter we pass from the introduction, from the man, to his art works, his great operas, the operas which have enforced the attention and challenged the criticism of the world. They are conWITH thoroughly outspread and carefully analyzed sidered in groups, those of the first epoch of Napoleon reaches its conclusion. The before him, and leaves no point untouched and those of the second under careful crit-reading of this volume will confirm the imthat is requisite to the complete mastery ical statements, and appended to these pression created by its predecessors. This of the subject. The author is evidently an chapters is a list of works including poems is not only the latest, but it is the foreEnglishman, or an American, with head- and musical dramas. The fourth chapter most, biography of the foremost figure of quarters at Vienna; a master of the Ger- is devoted, naturally, to Baireuth and its modern times. It is hardly probable that man language and writing therein; and it performances; the conception of the plan new materials of importance will be disis under his revision, to say the least, that and its carrying out, and its contribution to covered bearing upon Napoleon's character the original German text has been trans- the development of musical science and art. and career, and it would be unreasonable lated into English for this present edition. Mr. Chamberlain began five years ago intricate subject is marked by genuine expend upon a subject more to expect that any historical scholar could care and his Wagner work with a little treatise on scholarship, great penetration, sympathy thought than have been shown by the presthe Dramas of Wagner. In that he an- that amounts to adoration but is not in-ent author. There may be other biogranounced the intention of writing a large discriminating; a positive critical faculty, phers who will take different points of work on his Baireuth master. Just at the unquestionable judgment, and an instruc-view, but we are strengthened in the judg moment when he was ready to exchange tive purpose. No one will find these pages ment that for breadth and grasp, for thorstudy for performance, publishers proposed exactly easy reading, but one who sits down oughness of scholarship, for fairness of that he should write the text for an illus- to them with the intention of a studious pe- temper, for clearness of statement, and for trated life of Wagner. To this proposal, rusal, and can give the time which they literary charm, no less than for typographmodified, he assented, and entered upon require-there are 400 of them-will be ical magnificence, this work is the work the composition, not of a biography in the amply repaid for his endeavor. of the century upon this subject, and is narrower sense of the word, but of a picAt the risk of prolonging this notice we not likely to be paralleled. ture; not a chronological statement of must particularize a little with regard to The fourth volume begins with the misevents, but an exposition of the thought the extraordinary generosity with which eries and horrors of the retreat from Ruslife and the work-life of a great man. The the work is illustrated. An intelligent con- sia; it ends with the end of the Napoleonic work before us is the result. There is ception of what illustrations should be, and drama at St. Helena. Waterloo as a whole, nothing like the German way of going the most advanced and finished methods and in its parts, has three chapters, the about and accomplishing such a task as of effective illustration, are employed in episode of Elba two. The great middle this, and this book exemplifies the way, not this magnificent volume. Such portraits part of the volume, say from the sixth only in the exhaustive statement of the among the many as those of Wagner, chapter to the sixteenth, is devoted to facts and the handling of the subject, but Schopenhauer, and Beethoven are of the those movements on their grand scale in the manner in which the matter is ar- finest class. Such a picture as that of among the nations of Europe, against their ranged, the form of its presentation, the Wagner's mother, looking almost like a common foe, which were the beginning of elaborate provisions for the guidance and caricature, is amusing in its life-like real- the end. There are many passages which convenience of the reader, and the pro-ism. These plates and full-page illustra- we would like to quote from these sumpfusion and the richness of the pictorial tions are numerous, so numerous as to im-tuous pages, as indicative of the author's features, and the whole has been clothed part almost the air of a portrait gallery to thought and style and point of view, but by the publishers in the most sumptuous the volume; but they are accompanied by we must now be content with a single dress. a long list of smaller illustrations, vignettes, paragraph from the twenty-seventh and There are, after the general introduc- head-pieces, tail-pieces, insertions in the concluding chapter, on Napoleon's place tion, but four chapters, but each of these text, small portraits, views of buildings in history: chapters is a book, so to speak, by itself. associated with Wagner's life, imaginary The general introduction lays down the suggestions of scenes in his compositions, principles upon which the work is based facsimiles of manuscripts and musical comand the plan which it follows, enumerates positions, reproductions of Baireuth details, the sources from which its materials are and contributions of all sorts to the interderived, depicts the prominent figures in est of the work. the midst of whom stands Wagner, and In outward form the book is a large sketches in as a background the German quarto of more than 400 pages, plainly but drama. Chapter the first begins with Wag- beautifully bound, manufactured in Edinner's life, which is divided into epochs burgh, printed in large type on heavy calcorresponding to his childhood and youth, endered paper, with wide margins and gilt his first great successes and his first en- top, rough edges, marginal index-notes, counters with the critics, closing with a foot-notes, copious references, a full anavaluable chronological table. lytical table of contents, and a sufficient Was this the end, and did Napoleon have no place in history, as many historians have lately been contending? Far from it. From his couch of porphyry beneath the gilded dome on the banks of the Seine, "the" Emperor, though 64 dead and turned to clay," still exercises a powerful sway. The actual Napoleonic Empire had, as we have before remarked, a striking resemblance to those of Alexander and Charlemagne. Based, as were these, upon conquest, and continued for a little life by the idealism of a single person, it seemed like a brilliant bubble on the stream of time. But Alexander hellenworld for Christianity; Charlemagne plowed, ized the civilization of his day, and prepared the harrowed, and sowed the soil of barbaric Europe, making it receptive for the most superb of all secular ideals, that of nationality; Napoleon tore up the system of absolutism by the roots, propagated in the most distant lands of Europe the modern conception of individual The second chapter takes up in detail Wagner's writings and teachings, giving a Up to the point of writing, this is the section each to his politics and his philos- finest book of the season in size, in comophy, to his theories of decadence and re- pleteness, in solidity, in minuteness and Vol. IV. The Century Co. $8.00. *Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. By William M. Sloane. |