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A glance at the table of contents of a venal press, "patriots," so called, who indicates how much space is devoted to sell France for gold or lust; fashionable these collateral matters. Chapter iv. is on priests who condone sin in high places "London: Buildings, Costumes, Manners;" and ignore wretchedness in low ones; and the one following is on the "Political women who sell themselves for a sensa and Religious Conditions" of the period, 99 tion, for a place in a certain set, to spite a and "England's Growing Greatness." Other rival; together create a picture so horrible headings of complete chapters are "Chrisas to make one shudder. topher Marlowe and His Life-work," "The Theaters: Their Situation and Arrangements," "The England of Elizabeth in 99 100 J. H. 100 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LIiterature. Edmund Gosse LITERATURE OF CUBA : Marching with Gomez. Grover Flint The Story of Evangeline Cisneros Carita. 105 106 In the end Pierre Froment casts aside his 101 Cassock and resumes the life of an ordinary citizen, having saved Paris, which is uncon- Shakespeare's Youth," "Elizabeth's Old 106 Scious of the debt, from a frightful catastrophe - when his brother, an inventor of explosives, in a brief interval of madness, is on the point of blowing up the great 102 basilica of the Sacred Heart, under whose 102 roof at that moment thousands of pilgrims 102 have congregated for a "Pilgrimage." 101 102 102 102 102 102 103 103 103 103 106 With all its undoubted strength and the 102 immense resource and knowledge which Zola has brought to the painting of this terrible ensemble, we should be disposed to All this collateral matter, skillfully inter103 rank it as inferior to either Lourdes or woven with the strictly Shakespearean, is 103 Rome. This is, perhaps, because of the well suited to give the author's countrymen, flatness of its termination. With his old for whom the work was originally prepared, faiths discarded like an outworn suit, an idea of Shakespeare's country, age, and we leave the Abbé Froment snugly estab-environment, as well as of his life and 107 lished with a wife, son, and bicycle-Ma- works; and it is equally well suited to a dame Abbé Froment in a suit of "Rationals" treatment of the subject for English and accompanying him on his cycling excursions! American readers which shall be at once There is something very vulgar and uninter-critical and popular. As such a treatment 107esting in their happiness. Even a Protestant it is to be emphatically commended, though 107 conscience recoils from a broken vow, and in many of its details, including some of im108 the hero of Rome, with his conflicts and portance, it is open to criticism. heartaches, appeals to Anglo-Saxon readers as the hero of Paris in his bourgeois con The translation of the novel is fairly good, though an occasional phrase would indicate 105 that the translator, E. A. Vizetelly, is more 109 familiar with other languages than with our own. "These were accentuated-with a III maestria-" is not English, and "a hussy's house" scarcely describes such an establishment as Silvaine d'Aulnay's. "Hussy" is a word which Mr. Vizetelly is fond of employing to indicate a fashionable courtesan. This has often been referred to as a reThe word, we believe, came originally from markable coincidence; but though both died "housewife," and, the dictionaries tell us, on the 23d of April, 1616, as dates were third section of Emile Zola's “Lourdes" trilogy has been withheld until the termination of his recent trial; it in the ment Story Death overtook Shakespeare in his native town on the same date on which Cervantes died in Madrid. now makes its appearance. The chief actor never conveyed more than a "slight re-reckoned in their respective countries, the is again the young Abbé Fro-proach' " in its altered form. For the use dates were actually ten days asunder; for devout faith in the miracle, came away|gether inapplicable. he who, going to Lourdes with a to which Mr. Vizetelly puts it, it is alto- the new Gregorian calendar had been adopted saddened and unconvinced; and, going to in Spain in the preceding century, while it was not introduced into England until 1752. Rome soul, returned disillusioned and in despair. 'Paris. By M. Zola. Translated by E. A. Vizetelly. Two vols. The Macmillan Co. $2.00. THE William Shakespeare. By George Brandes. 2 vols. ered his mistake after writing this, for on p. 56 of vol. i. he says that the two poets "died within a few days of each other;" and in a note on p. 410 of vol. ii. he says that "it is not altogether correct to say that Shakespeare died on the same day as Cervantes ;" and he adds an explanation of the difference in the calen dars then in use in Spain and England. As he revised the proofs of this translation, it is strange that he did not remove these inconsistencies of statement, or did not at least include in this latter note a cross-reference to the passages in the preceding volume. We find another error in regard to Old Style and New Style in the reference to the poet's birth (vol. i, p. 9): Tradition gives it as the 23d of April; more probably it was the 22d (in the new style the 4th of May). He should have said the 2d of May. He seems to have copied from Halliwell-Phillipps, who makes the same mistake, though elsewhere he refers to the 23d of April, O. S., as May 3d, N. S. Incidentally we may mention, for the benefit of many people in this country who make the same slip, that Halliwell-Phillipps is always called "Halliwell-Phillips." Dr. Furnivall is sometimes "Furnival;" and his "Trial Table" of the chronology of the plays is twice called a "Triar Table." We have, however, detected but few of these misprints or mis-writings. [To be concluded in our next issue.] DUTCH THE STORY OF THE PALATINES.* and Germans are quite distinct. Nevertheless, a majority of the colonial ancestors of people of German descent now living in the United States found their colonial habitat alongside the Dutchmen in New York and Pennsylvania, just as in Europe Germany bordered on the Netherlands. Since the story of the Pilgrim Fathers has been told a thousand times, it is but right that the story of the Palatines, who suffered equally with the Pilgrims, had two homes before coming to their third, and who were equally devout and religious, should be narrated at least once. Rev. Sanford H. Cobb, who, in the Reformed Church of America, has ministered in the two HighDutch churches of Schoharie and Saugerties, has clearly and briefly told the story in this neat volume. The three maps show the Palatinate of the Rhine from Spires to Cologne, and the two Palatinate districts in America, one in the valleys of the Mohawk and the Schoharie and the other in the Just now I am overwhelmed with grief. They have killed John Brown. The murder took place on the 2nd of December. The promised respite was an infamous device for lulling popular indignation. And it is a republic which does this The crimes of kings one can understand: but crimes committed by a people are intolerable a king's crime has nothing abnormal about it; to the thinker. Christian nations. The traveler in the Of interest to us in this country are the terdam direct. On the 31st of March, 1860 (the date is worth noting when we remember the blindness of men in the North at that time), he wrote: Slavery will disappear. What the Southern States have just killed is not John Brown, but slavery. On January 21, 1861, he writes in answer to one who wished to publish his drawing of John Brown on the gallows, with the inscription, "Pro Christo, sicut Christus:" When in December, 1859, I predicted to America, with deep sorrow, the rupture of the Union as a consequence of the murder of John Brown, I did not think the event would follow so quickly on my words. Mr. Cobb gives to the experiences of the makers and hundreds of others whose names to the heart. His letter to his eldest son, VICTOR HUGO'S LETTERS.* SECOND SERIES. THE second series of Victor Hugo's letters are not much more interesting than the first, although they are written during that exciting period of Hugo's history which began with the "coup d'état and ended with the fall of Napoleon III. Although the greater mass of these letters " Schuylkill and Swatara valleys in Pennsyl- are addressed to his family, yet a number vania. These Germans suffered, besides re- were written to the most illustrious of his ligious persecution, the horrors of alien contemporaries. When we read the sort of invasion, destruction of their homes and letters which he wrote to George Sand, property, and the loss of the lives of their Garibaldi, Ledru-Rollin, Mazzini, Lamarkinsmen. Beside their troubles those of tine, Dumas, Gautier, Michelet, de Banthe Pilgrim Fathers seem tame and pale.ville and others, we can only be conThe movement against them at home came vinced that Victor Hugo gave his best to from both domestic and foreign disturbances. the world in his books, and that in them we The details of the devastation read more like must seek the clearest revelations of his life those in the annals of barbarian rather than and character. The Story of the Palatines: An Episode in Colonial History. By Sanford H. Cobb. G. P. Putnam's Sons. *The Letters of Victor Hugo. Edited by Paul Meurice. Second Volume. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $3.00. is as touching as the parable of the prodigal son, and is in its feeling as human and almost as divine. As a whole this book is disappointing. We gain little from it, with the few exceptions above mentioned, but at least we lose nothing by it in our estimate of Victor Hugo as a man, and this is something to be grateful for. CHRISTIANITY THE WORLD- The author of this volume of lectures is a prominent Presbyterian divine, president of the Parliament of Religions at the Columbian Exposition. The volume owes its origin to the founding, in 1894, by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, of a lectureship in connection with the University of Chicago, devoted to the discussion of the "Relations of Christianity and the other Religions." It was stipulated that the lectures thus provided for should be given in Calcutta, and, if advisable, in other Indian cities, and accompanying the stipulation was a request that the lectureship should bear the name of John Henry Barrows, together with the • Christianity the World-Religion. Lectures Delivered in India and Japan. By John Henry Barrows, D.D. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50. |