in tales of this kind. If the manuscript does not solve the vexed problems of the lost continent, it at least provides an exciting story. Lyrics. By J. Houston Mifflin. Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia. 5×8 in., 70 pages. $1. Man-Stealers (The). By M. P. Shiel. The J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. 4×7 in. 339 pages. 50c.

Marpessa. By Stephen Phillips. Illustrated

by Philip Connard. 4×5% in. 46 pages. 50c. The Statue and the Bust. By Robert Browning. Illustrated by Philip Connard. John Lane, New York. 4X5 in. 47 pages. 50c.

These representative poems by Stephen Phillips and by Browning are issued in dainty miniature quartos, attractively printed on a broad page, with suggestive illustrations by Philip Connard.

Meaning of History. By Frederic Harrison.

The Macmillan Co., New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 482 pages. $1.75.

Mr. Frederic Harrison is always a brilliant writer, though we cannot regard him as a profound thinker. His Positivist philosophy appears very clearly in the following sentences from his essay on The Use of History: "What is this unseen power which seems to undo the best human efforts, as if it were some overbearing weight against which no man can long struggle? What is this ever-acting force which seems to revive the dead, to restore what we destroy, to renew forgotten watchwords, exploded fallacies, discredited doctrines, and condemned institutions; against which enthusiasm, intellect, truth, high purpose, and self-devotion seem to beat themselves in vain? It is the Past. It is the accumulated wills and works of all mankind around us and before us. It is civilization. It is that power which to understand is strength, which to repudiate is weakness." This is finely phrased, but is it true? It appears to us alike inconsistent with that scientific doctrine which is called evolution, and that Christian faith which is called redemption. We quote these sentences because they seem to us to illustrate both the strength and the weakness of Frederic Harrison's work. His strength lies in his knowledge of facts, his sense of perspective, his clearness and color in presentation; his weakness lies in a point of view which deprives history of its true significance-namely, that it is the record of a movement of events wrought out apparently by contradictory wills and unintelligent contributors, but really by a supreme will and intelligence, which is using them, however little they realize it, to achieve a final end which the most prophetic of men but dimly perceive. Moon Metal (The). By Garrett P. Serviss.

Harper & Bros., New York. 4×63⁄4 in. 164 pages. $1.

This volume by the well-known writer and lecturer ought to be very widely read just at this juncture, for his ingenious plot of drawing from the moon a metal unknown to the eartha metal which becomes our world's coinageproves to be a not altogether far-fetched argument for sound money.

On the Wings of Occasions. By Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 5x8 in. 310 pages. $1.50.

Four short stories unlike anything Mr. Harris

has done before, for the most part describing incidents and personages in the service of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Mr. Harris has ventured in this volume into the field of the detective story, and the plot to kidnap Lincoln proves that, if the author chose to push his gift along this line, he could achieve distinct success. This story will be read for other reasons also; it is full of humor, it shows a beautiful appreciation of Lincoln, and the light it sheds on the relations between the President and the Secretary of War is illuminating, if not definitely revealing. "Why the Confederacy failed," with its description of a fully organized group of detectives in the service of the Confederacy, but employed as waiters in the old New York Hotel, is an admirable piece of narrative work, and presents Mr. Harris in the guise of a successful claimant for the laurels which Dr. Conan Doyle has worn for a number of years.

Oregon Trail (The). By Francis Parkman. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 51⁄2 81⁄2 in. 41 pages. $2. Mr. Parkman's account of his journey to the Far West in the summer of 1847 is now brought out in an illustrated edition, handsomely printed, and enriched by seventy-five sketches or studies by Mr. Frederic Remington, who better than any other American artist was qualified to interpret the text to the eye. There are many full-page illustrations, and there is a new introductory preface. If Mr. Parkman's text, with its marvelous vividness and picturesqueness, needed any aid, it has received the most intelligent and valuable aid from one of the men who knows the American Indian most intimately and sympathetically.

Pageantry of Life (The). By Charles Whibley. Harper & Bros., New York. 5×73⁄4 in. 269 pages. $1.50. A pleasantly written, discursive series of essays about those Englishmen who have illustrated the art of social life from the standpoint of the dandy, from the time of Nash to that of the younger Disraeli. The introduction is an entertaining survey of the field. One of the courtiers of the time of Henry VIII., who falls a victim to the King's vengeance on the downfall of Anne Boleyn, is taken to illustrate the manners and habits of the sixteenth century; Nash, Brummel, Doray, Beckford, and Disraeli bring the story down to our own time. The book deals with the surface of things, but deals with them in an interesting fashion. Plain Miss Cray, The. By Florence Warden.

F. M. Buckles & Co., New York. 5x71⁄2 in. 327 pages. $1.25.

Irish tales are generally worth reading, and this one is no exception to the rule, even if the people do seem a trifle commonplace at times. While one fancies that certain pages of the novel were hastily written, the work as a whole is one of promise, and its readers will await the author's next romance with interest. Private Memoirs of Madame Roland (The). Edited by Edward Gilpin Johnson. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. 434X71⁄2 in. 381 pages. $1.50.

"Those Memoirs which all the world still reads," said Carlyle of the private memoirs

written by Madame Roland during her five months' imprisonment. Oddly enough, no English translation has been easily attainable. That published in London two years after Madame Roland's death by the guillotine serves as the basis of the present work, which deserves high praise. The publishers have given the book fit and tasteful form, and have illustrated it skillfully. He would be a hardhearted reader indeed who could peruse unconcernedly these touching records of a noble woman's patriotism and suffering.

Prisoner in Buff (A). By Everett T. Tomlinson. Illustrated. 5x8 in. 267 pages. $1.25. A Continental who was captured by the Tories in the early days of the Revolution, those days of which no American can read without a thrill. Randy's Summer. By Amy Brooks. Illus

trated. Lee & Shepard, Boston. 5x71⁄2 in. 237 pages. $1.

A story for girls; simple and pleasing in effect. It is so slight of texture and commonplace in its setting that one wonders how the author contrived to get into it so much of that illusory quality appealing so strongly to the child mind. The illustrations reveal both skill and grace, and tempt the query whether the story might not have been made for them rather than they for the story.

Rasselas. By Samuel Johnson, LL.D. With

an Introduction by the Rev. William West, B.A. (The "Gem" Classics.) James Pott & Co., New York, 4x64 in. 262 pages. $1.

The first volume in a new series to be called the Gem Classics; small books daintily printed from a large, clear type, with tasteful titlepages, portraits of authors in photogravure as frontispieces, and bound in Venetian morocco. Special attention is promised on the part of the editors to secure purity of text.

Reporter at Moody's (A). By Margaret Blake

Robinson. Illustrated. The Bible Institute Colportage Association, Chicago. 54×8 in. 140 pages. 50c. The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, is the subject of Miss Robinson's report, which is made with journalistic skill. Nurtured in the Roman Catholic Church, but won over by Mrs. Ballington Booth, under whose influence she came while reporting her for the daily press, Miss Robinson became a student in Mr. Moody's Institute. Her practiced pen has made a very interesting sketch of the students' life there, the work done within and without, the instructors and their methods, and various characteristic incidents.

Short History of American Literature (A). By Walter Bronson, A.M. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston. 4x7 in. 374 pages. 80c.

Professor Bronson has prepared in this volume a very excellent manual, which, although condensed as a text-book must be, has narrative interest and literary quality. The test of the ability of a historian or critic to deal in a large way with American literature is furnished by his treatment of Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, and Whitman. In dealing with these writers Professor Bronson shows insight, sanity, and grasp; he perhaps throws the details of Poe's personal life into bolder relief than is necessary, but that is the defect of almost every account of Poe. His view of Whitman is

eminently sound. The book is well written, and the quality of interest is not sacrificed by reason of condensation.

Short Story Writing. By Charles Raymond Barrett, Ph.B. The Baker & Taylor Co., New York. 5x7 in. 257 pages. $1.

This is both an interesting and a useful book. While it is concerned with the special application of rhetorical principles to a particular department of literary art, it carries a general application that all literary workers may profit by, as in its chapters on Titles, Style, and the Labor of Authorship. Perusal of it is likely also to promote among readers a desirable repugnance to the inferior stuff which wastes time that might be better employed. Mr. Barrett's purpose is in the interest of novices who would learn the art of telling a short story as it should be told. His precepts are pointed with numerous critiques upon specimens of poor work, and enriched by references to various books and articles on the subject which amplify and re-enforce his presentation of principles and rules.

Shadowings. By Lafcadio Hearn. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 5x71⁄2 in. 268 pages. $2. A pretty piece of book-making, printed and bound in harmony with its contents. Those contents consist of several characteristic tales from the Japanese, retold with Mr. Hearn's sensitive skill, a long discussion on the names of Japanese women, and several of those elusive, delicate bits of impressionism with which Mr. Hearn has made his readers in this country familiar. The book as a whole is stamped with the Japanese sensitiveness to beauty, and is very suggestive of familiarity with the esoteric and unusual.

Series of Meditations (A). By Erastus C. Gaffield. Edited by J. C. F. Grumbine. Published by the Order of the White Rose, Syracuse, N. Y. 42x7 in. 107 pages. This book sets forth the leading principles of Theosophy, as held by its representative exHowever one may doubt, positors among us. dissent, or criticise, it deserves to be borne in mind that every form of religion must be judged by its ethical influence on the conduct of life. The ethical tone of this treatise is strenuous and undeniably wholesome. But its speculations take the form of assertions that catch one up into the air, e.g.: “A spirit in whom an uncontrollable desire for reincarnation has been awakened has been known to hover for years about a mother who is sensitive to its expression "-vainly seeking to be born again into this world. The weakness of Theosophy is in its inability to furnish convincing proof of many things that it "knows." Speech Hesitation. By E. J. Ellery Thorpe. Edgar S. Werner Publishing and Supply Co., New York. 5x8 in. 75 pages. $1.

Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers. By John Burroughs. Illustrations in Colors after Audubon. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 5X7 in. 149 pages. $1.

The fifteen chapters which make up this small quarto record Mr. Burroughs's observations of the squirrel, the chipmunk, the rabbit, the fox, the raccoon, and the other members of the family group described by the title of the book. All the information conveyed was

gotten at first hand by a trained observer, who also has distinct literary faculty. Mr. Burroughs seems to have culled out those impressions which are on a level with the interest of younger readers. The volume is likely to serve two purposes-to awaken the interest of boys and girls in animals which are wild and yet within observation, and also to serve as a kind of introduction to Mr. Burroughs's writing for older readers; either purpose would justify the publication of the book.

Story of Delight (The). By Evelyn Raymond. A. I. Brady & Co., Boston. 5×71⁄2 in. 324 pages. $1.25.

The experiences of Delight Roloson are likely to prove a delight to a large number of girl readers. The less critically they read, of course, the more complete will be their delight while they follow this young Quakeress, left alone in the world, as she journeys to the city to seek relatives. The critical reader may question the reality of so perfect a community as that which composes the little village of Seabury, where Delight grew up, and some of the vicissitudes which befell Delight herself in the city may seem a trifle bizarre, yet the effect of the story as a whole is wholesomely optimistic.

Studies and Appreciations.

By Lewis E.

Gates. The Macmillan Co., New York. 4×7 in. 234 pages. $1.50.

A work of notable quality and distinction from the well-known assistant professor of English at Harvard. The book contains thirteen chapters on various aspects of modern literary development, upon which The Outlook will make more extended comment in a later issue.

Trolley Trips in and about Fascinating Washington. By Katharine M. Abbott. Illustrated. J. F. Jarvis, Washington, D.C. 6x4 in. 129 pages. Paper bound, 10c.

True Annals of Fairy-Land (The). Edited by William Canton. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. The Macmillan Co., New York. 5×7%1⁄2 in. 367 pages.

A book which is charming to the eye by reason of the inventiveness and imaginative quality which Mr. Charles Robinson has infused into his illustration, and delightful to the mind by reason of the rich variety of fairy stories which Mr. William Canton has collected and retold, drawn from many parts of the world. Mr. Canton has a genius for writing about children and for them, and genius has not deserted him in the preparation of these tales. One wishes that the reign of King Herla had lasted as long as the situation which evoked the "Arabian Nights."

Under the Great Bear. By Kirk Munroe. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 4x71⁄2 in. 313 pages. $1.25.

Mr. Kirk Munroe has probably never written a poor book for boys, and the latest addition to his rapidly increasing list, "Under the Great Bear," seems to us the best of any, perhaps because it is so interesting to old as well as to young boys. It seems strange that authors have not oftener chosen the Labrador coast as the setting for stories; but this particular author, in describing that coast and the Arctic Sea, draws upon no second-hand experiences.

He describes his own observations there when he tells us about the dangers from icebergs and pictures the wonderful Aurora Borealis. The book is extremely interesting also as putting in popular form the vexed question as to the Newfoundland shore, and particularly the illegal lobster trade there. The taste of the publishers in placing the author's name above that of the title of the book on the back of the cover adds dignity to the volume, but the book sorely lacks a map.

Ursula. By K. Douglas King. John Lane, New York. 5x74 in. 303 pages. $1.50. This, like the author's work in general, is romantic in conception, plot, and incident. Three children, two boys and a girl, all cousins to each other, are wards of an English noble. They are invited to make their home with another relative, the widow of a lately deceased Russian prince. In Russia, that land of mystery, they play out their subsequent parts in a series of melodramatic scenes. The incidents are of the sort which form the usual stock in trade of English writers dealing with Russian life, and which the Russians themselves are wont to declare are utterly lacking in verisimilitude. This story, however, is told in excellent literary form, is bright in dialogue and picturesque in situation.

Valois Romances (The). 3 vols. " Margue

rite de Valois," "La Dame de Monsoreau," "The Forty-five Guardsmen." By Alexander Dumas. Illustrated. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 52X84 in. Per set, $4.50.

The

This series contains Dumas's well-known description of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew and of the events which followed that most terrible of tragedies. The three stories have been newly translated for this edition. volumes are illustrated by Mr. Merrill; they are bound in dark red, stamped in gilt, somewhat heavy to the hand, but printed from a large type.

Venetian Republic (The). By W. Carew Hazlitt. The Macmillan Co., New York. 61⁄4×9 in. 2 vols. $12.

This extremely important work is reserved for

later notice.

Waifs: A Collection of Miscellany. Edited by Burdette Edgett. Published by the Author, Poughkeepsie. 5X7 in. 53 pages. 50c.

Wesley Year-Book (The). Selected and Compiled by Mary Yandell Kelly. Publishing House of the M. E. Church South, Nashville, Tenn. 42x6 in. 191 pages. $1.

When Thou Hast Shut Thy Door. By Rev. G. H. C. MacGregor, M.A. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. 3x74 in. 24 pages. 35c. Wilderness Ways. By William J. Long. (Second Series.) Illustrated. Ginn & Co., Boston. 512x7 in. 155 pages.

A hunter who can watch a herd of deer come toward him "with small wish to use a rifle, as there was meat enough in camp." is to be trusted by man as well as beast, and we wish that every boy who is interested in the wild folk of the woods-and what boy is not?—might make the acquaintance of Megaleep the Wanderer and Kagax the Bloodthirsty, and hear from one who has shared it of their life in the summer and the winter woods.

Will The Outlook please give as full a list as possible of books proper for reading this winter in view of a long vacation to be spent next spring and summer in Spain? We are a party of four, and wish to inform ourselves on the art and literature as well as on the topography and politics of the country to be visited. H. W. Č. Hale, "The Story of Spain" (Putnams, New York); "Seven Spanish Cities " (Roberts, Boston); Lane-Poole, "The Moors in Spain" (Putnams); Watts, "The Christian Recovery of Spain" (Putnams); “ Life of Cervantes," and if not in the original, read Watts's translation of "Don Quixote" (Scribners, New York); Fernald, “The Spaniard in History" (Funk & Wagnalls, New York); Hume, "Philip II." (Macmillan, New York); Prescott, "Ferdinand and Isabella," "Philip II.," "Charles V." (Lippincott, Philadelphia); Irving, "The Alhambra," "Life of Columbus," "Conquest of Granada" (Putnams); Hannay, " Emilio Castelar" (Warne, New York); Baedeker, "Spain and Portugal" (Scribners); Amicis, "La Spagna," or the translation entitled "Spain and the Spaniards" (Putnams); Finck, "Spain and Morocco " (Scribners); Hare, "Wanderings in Spain" (Scribners); Gautier, "Voyage en Espagne" or in translation, under the title "Scenes of Travel" (Macmillan); Davillers, "L'Espagne," or the translation (illustrated by Doré) entitled "Spain" (Sampson Lowe, Marston & Co., London); Jaccaci, “On the Trail of Don Quixote" (Scribners); Plummer, "Contemporary Spain" (Truslove & Comba, New York); Clarke, "Spanish Literature" (Macmillan); Galdós, “Zaragoza,” or, as translated, "Saragossa" (Little, Brown & Co., Boston); "Marianola,” or the translation, Marianola" (McClurg, Chicago); "Leon Roch" and "Charles IV.," or the translations (Gottsberger Peck, New York); Bazán, “Morriña," or the translation under the title "Homesickness" (Cassell, New York); Valdes, “La Fé," or the translation entitled "Faith" (Cassell); "Maximina," "La Hormana San Sulpicio," or the translations " Maximina" and "Sister Saint Sulpice" (Crowell, New York); Alarcón, "El Final de Norma," or the translation, "Brunhilde" (Lovell, New York); Stirling-Maxwell," Annals of the Artists of Spain" (Scribners).

All the evidence in favor of demon possession,

it seems, may be explained away as purely natural phenomena, except the testimony of our divine Lord in St. Mark v., 1, and following. By conversing with the unclean spirits or devils who have taken up their abode in the Gadarene, Christ gives direct and positive countenance to the Jewish belief in demon possession. We can understand how for various reasons our blessed Lord might tolerate erroneous views on such matters among the Jews as he did upon other questions, but when he gives positive countenance to the fact of obsession, he would be guilty of teaching a superstition, if demon possession is not true in some cases at least. Or does The Outlook see a better explanation of this passage from St. Mark's Gospel? READER.

If you ever have to deal with an insane person like the sufferer in this case, you will not wisely begin by contradicting or antagonizing him. A wise physician deals with a mind diseased by humoring it in a judicious way. If in so doing he does not speak the truth absolutely, he speaks it relatively to the necessities of the sufferer. The Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, Professor of Morals at Harvard, said: "The statement that is indispensable to the safety, repose, or reasonable conduct of the insane is virtually true to him, since it conveys impressions as nearly conformed to the truth as he is capable of receiving." Jesus in the case now in point spoke exactly as a wise Christian physician would speak to-day.

Kindly explain the following sentence from The Outlook of September 29: "We have to add that the facts of moral reclamation through hypnotism leave not a shred of reason for the belief that the possibilities of human redemption are closed at death." The sentence occurred at the end of a book notice of "Hypnotism in Mental and Moral Culture." M. G. H.

The book must, of course, be read to produce the same conviction that the writer in The Outlook derived from it. That conviction was derived from its record of cases in which the recovery of moral degenerates has been effected by judicious hypnotic treatment calling into effective action the better nature of the subject. This evinces that there is in apparently hopeless cases of moral wreck a self below or behind the perverted self, which is capable, if roused to action, here or hereafter, of initiating a renewed and better life.

Please give the leading idea in Lotze's philos ophy. I am trying to read his "Microcosmus," and find it hard to get his basic principle. Also give the underlying basis of Hegel's system.

J. To understand Lotze, observe that his system holds a mediating position between empiricism (as in Hume) and speculative idealism (as in Hegel). Lotze's method is empirical; his conceptions and results are idealistic. Hegel's basis is wholly outside of experience, in pure reason, according to the dictum,"The rational is the real." His system rests upon the statement that the necessities of thought determine the necessities of being.

A minister receives a salary of $1,100, but wishes to have a $1,200 salary reported. Accordingly, he asks the church board to make his salary $1,200 and he will annually return $100. What does The Outlook think of the morality of such a proposition? SUBSCRIBER.

An arrangement intended to make a fact pass for something other than it really is is a deliberate misrepresentation. We share the general opinion of its moral character. An instructor at Hampton Institute writes to us that the students in the Bible study course are anxious to have copies of The Outlook containing Dr. Abbott's articles on "The Hebrew Prophets " and "The Life and Literature of the Ancient Hebrews," for use in their work this year, and will be grateful to any readers of The Outlook who will send sets of these series. They should be addressed to The Bible Department, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., which can easily make use of a hundred copies of these series. We hope that the pupils of Hampton will receive a ready response to this request.

I have before me a little pamphlet of sixteen pages entitled "A Message from South Africa to the Christian People of Great Britain," by Mrs. Lewis. sister of the Prime Minister of Cape Colony. At the end of the pamphlet there is the following statement, which seems to have been added after the pamphlet was originally printed: "We understand that this letter, to which reference has been made in several papers, was first printed in England in "The Methodist Times." Can any of your readers give the date when this communication from Mrs. Lewis appeared in "The Methodist Times"? L. N. W.

Your correspondent will find "The Deliverance of Leyden,' written by Charles F. Richardson, in "Harper's Monthly " for March, 1884, page 623. M. H.

Can some reader of The Outlook give the historic incident from which Leigh Hunt drew the material for "Jaffar"? S. C.

Vol. 66

John Sherman

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Ex-Secretary Sherman had been in failing health for some time, and his death at Washington on Monday of this week was not unexpected. Born in Ohio in 1823, he had reached the ripe age of seventy-seven, and his long life had been one of strenuous endeavor. His father was at one time Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, and his family were descended from clergymen who came from England. John Sherman prepared for college, but, unwilling to be longer supported by his father, he joined a corps of engineers and surveyors, worked with them two years, entered the law office of his brother Charles, and, after proper preparation, was admitted to the bar in 1844. For ten years he practiced law at Mansfield, in his native State. At the end of that time he was sent to Congress, became prominent, and retained his prominence for more than four decades. was a member of the House of Represent atives until 1861; he then filled two terms as Senator, accepted the position of Secretary of the Treasury under President Hayes, returned to the Senate in 1881, and remained in that body until 1897, when he accepted the position of Secretary of State in President McKinley's Cabinet. This office he retained about two years, and retired owing to declining health. During all the bitter struggles which marked the early period of his appearance in public life he was an ardent Republican, a ready and effective speaker, and foremost in dealing with all public questions which came before Congress. He devoted himself especially to financial matters. As Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means he was the author of a number of important measures; largely through his influence, the United States notes of 1862 were made legal tender; and he helped form the National

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Bank Law. His name came before Republican National Conventions in connection with the Presidency more than once. He was one of the most prominent politicians of his time; a little more independence or courage would have made him one of its foremost statesmen. As it was, his services were many and valuable; and his name, in connection with that of his brother, General Sherman, will always be conspicuous in the records of one of the most stormy periods of the country's history.

William L. Wilson

Dr. William L. Wilson, President of Washington and Lee University, who died at his home in Lexington, Va.. last week, has long been a representative of all that is best in American public life. A Virginian by birth, prepared for college in his native State, graduating from Columbian University in Washington in 1860, the Civil War found him pursuing graduate studies in the University of Virginia. Casting in his fortunes with his State, he enlisted as a private in the Confederate army, served through the war, accepted a position as instructor in Latin and Greek in his Alma Mater at the close of the war, and resigned in 1871 in order to begin the practice of law at Charlestown, W. Va.; a few years later he became actively interested in politics. His integrity, his various abilities, and his winning personality immediately attracted attention, and a career as a public man seemed to be definitely marked out for him; but he was always by instinct and taste a scholar, and, after a short experience at the bar and in public life, he accepted the presidency of the West Virginia University, expecting henceforth to devote himself to educational work. In 1883, however, he was forced from his retirement by the