Queries Illustrated: A Monthly Review of Literary, Art, Scientific and General Educational Questions of the Day (April, 1888)
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VOL. IV. NUMBER 4. . ~ QUERIES. QUATRAINS. THE LAND OF MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN. O wonder land! whose pathway in the years Gone by lookt soft to tread, leading to bowers Of blissful ease, and amaranthine flowers.— I turn to gaze; but cannot see for tears! INTERPRETATION, Nature’s fair rind, the Poet doth ignite With his soul’s flame; subjectively he sees Form, force, and law, and deep analogies— And all her beauty blazes in his light. -Lonpon, Eng. W. WILSEY MARTIN. AMERICAN LITERATURE. I can hardly think I promised to write you a letter on American Literature. It is getting a very big subject, with which I have only a very superficial acquaintance. How- ever, aS you say so,-I must try to redeem my promise to the extent of four sides of a sheet of note paper. I suppose you speak of current literature, or, at any rate, of that of the last twenty years. ‘Taking this for granted, I think, good as much of it is, that it is marked by the characteristic of impa- tience. ‘Take the most popular authors— except Lowell and Holmes, who are really of an older generation—and you will scarcely find one who ever attempts’ sustained work. I can not fancy any of these authors sitting down seriously to think out and write such a book, for instance, as ‘‘ John Inglesant,’’ and, if he did, I doubt if the public would read it. In short vivid sketches of life and manners they are almost unrivalled, - Bret Harte, Howells, James and others being as good in their respective lines as we can hope for in such a restless "age. The first-named APRIL, 1888. and most original of these tried a longer flight, but quite (as I think) without success, whereas his ‘‘Heathen Chinee,” ‘‘ Poker Flat’’ and other short tales are gems. Mark Twain, too, is a failure in his longer flights, such as the ‘‘Innocents Abroad’’; but his ‘‘Jumping Frog,” and the cat which the miners left behind and is blown up by the charge after they have run off—I forget the name-of it at this moment—are inimitable. Our cousins, in short, are impatient in all amusements, like the Greeks after the time of Alexander. The leisure of life is gone, and their literature, as well as their. sports, shows signs of this. In the same way their national game—base ball—is a short excit- ing spasm compared with cricket, for which they have no patience. It is like one of Bret Harte’s Western tales compared to ‘*Vanity Fair’ (for instance), or to the book named above, ‘‘ John Inglesant,’’ which you can cut and come again at, and, possibly, sleep over. But they are. leavening our. popular literature, too, which is fast becom- ing sadly sensational, fragmentary, and spas- modic; and I should not at all wonder if the next great work of imagination in English does not [should?] come from their side, for as the disease (if disease it be) first showed itself on that side, it may very likely first wear itself out there. You ask me about Walt Whitman, but I really am not-competent to give an opinion upon his works. I tried them, but could not get on—could really form no idea what he was driving at, and his cataract of big words only confused me. Moreover, to parts of it I felt a very decided dislike, as bad in morality as in taste. For the man’s character and career I have a sincere respect,
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102 but then I am rather an old fogy in my literary tastes as well as in years. But turning to the American literature of my time, we get into quite another atmos- phere. Happily, several of the authors of that generation are still living, and showing every now and then that they have not lost their cunning. Whittier is wearing his well- earned laurels in a green old age. So is Oliver Wendell Holmes, whose last, ‘‘ Our Hundred Days in Europe,’’ I have not yet seen, but am told it is a worthy successor to the ‘‘Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.” Emerson, too, has left us so lately that I suppose I should refer to him, whom, I think, most Americans would put unques- tionably at the head of their thinkers and writers of the new era, which began with the war of 1860. I delight in his works, and am constantly dipping into them in spare half-hours, and never get up from them without the conviction that I am the better for it, and have learnt something. But to quote from that most wise and witty poem, the ‘‘ Fable for Critics,”’ ‘« All admire, and yet scarcely six converts he’s got To I don’t (or they either) exactly know what.” This brings me to the writer who stands, to my mind, a head and shoulders above all his contemporaries in America, and is the peer of our greatest English authors, Mr. Lowell, one of whose earliest efforts was the ‘¢ Fable for Critics,’’ from which I have just been quoting. If you want subtle and kindly estimates of the American literary men of the last generation, there you will find them in rare perfection, mixed with digressions full of uproarious fun and good sense. It stands almost as much alone in its own way as the ‘‘ Biglow Papers’’ do in. theirs, though of course they «strike far deeper keys. I have heard Englishmen, and Americans too, say that they are ephemeral, and will scarcely be read by our children. So much the worse for our child- ren, but I don’t believe it for a moment. If they are not read as long as the English language lasts, the future English-speaking race will be a mongrel race quite unworthy QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. of their fathers. And, turning to his other poems, the ‘‘ Lay of Sir Launfal”’ is one of the noblest idyls ever written, and_ all through his volumes you will find poems of the rarest merit, and of a range which has scarcely ever been surpassed. ~ Let any reader who doubts try half a dozen of the shorter poems—for instance, ‘‘ The Beggar,” ‘‘The Heritage,” ‘‘A Parable” (the one beginning, ‘‘Said Christ our Lord, I will go and see how the men my brethren believe in Me’”’), ‘‘ Hunger and Cold,” ‘‘ The Ghost Seer,” ‘‘Above and Below,” and ‘‘ Two Scenes from the Life of Blondel,” and if they don’t make him a Lowell student for life—well, I have nothing more to say to him. And his prose is equally good, but I have come to the end of.my paper.—THOMAS HUGHES. AMERICAN READERS AND FOR- EIGN AUTHORS, The fact is that the assumption on which the whole scheme is based, viz., that Ameri- can readers will not accept a. monopoly copyright on foreign books, is untenable, and is, in the opinion of many, squarely contradicted by the facts. For three-quar- ters of a century Americans have bought books at fair prices under monopoly copy- right without finding fault, and, moreover, when the demand arose, have enjoyed the advantage of lower-priced editions. How- ever it may be slurred or ignored, the truth is that the American people have had a great deal less to do with this denial of justice to English authors than the publishers and the politicians; and when some member of Congress, in pursuit of a little cheap politi- cal capital, sets up the plea that his con- stituents are not willing to pay fair prices for the foreign author’s property in this country, he may very reasonably be asked to back up his statement with some unmis- takable expressions of feeling from the peo- ple themselves. That American readers have accepted and upheld a monopoly copy- right at home may, until we have, something
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QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. definite to the contrary, fairly be taken as an indication that, when made acquainted with the true bearings of the case, they will be equally fair toward the interests of the foreign author. As a matter of fact, they have already giveh abundant evidence of this kindly feeling in the purchase of sub- stantial editions of English and other for- eign reprinted buoks of a solid character, amounting in the aggregate to hundreds of thousands of volumes, paying prices therefor which have enabled the few high-minded | publishers who voluntarily entered into the arrangement to hand to the foreign author exactly the same return that he would have received if a citizen of this country. The publishers following this practice have been able to make and sell these books at Ameri- can prices, and have also found their profit, when the demand would justify the ven- ture, in the sale of cheap editions. Of course, in doing this they exposed them- selves to serious risks, and but for the old- time courtesy of the trade, by which they were to a considerable extent protected, it would have been impossible; and the fact that with the recent enormous development of piracy, which respects nobody’s rights of property, they have suffered material losses, is but a confirmation of the point that the open competition proposed in the present _ plan would have exactly the same effect that piracy is having now. GEORGE LEWES AND GEORGE ELIOT. Conceive a little, narrow-shouldered man of between forty and fifty, with long, straight hair, a magnificent forehead, dark yet brill- iant eyes, and a manner full ofgalertness and intellectual grace. ‘This was George Lewes, whom Douglas Jerrold had once stigmatized as ‘‘the ugliest man in London,” averring at the same time that he had caused the chimpanzee in the Zoological Gardens to die ‘‘out of jealousy, because there existed close by a creature more hideous than itself.” But George Lewes, though not an Adonis, % ‘so earning it already. ee was certainly not ugly. The great defects of his face were the’ coarse, almost sensual mouth, with its protruding teeth partly cov- ered by a bristly moustache, and the small retreating chin; but when the face lighted up, and’ the eyes sparkled, and the mouth began its eloquent discourse, every imper- fection was forgotten. Conceive, next, the tenth muse, or sibyl, lounging in an arm-chair and shading her face idly with a hand-screen; a powerful- looking, middle-aged woman, with a notice- able nose and chin, a low forehead, a fresh complexion, and full and very mobile mouth. Dress, on this occasion, a plainly cut, tight- fitting dress of blue cashmere, fastened at the throat with a cameo brooch. This was ‘*Mawrian Evans,’’ as Carlyle called her, the George Eliot of the novels. She real- ized in face and form the description I after- - wards gave to her in the ‘‘Session of the Poets ” :— George Eliot gazed on the company boldly With the limbs of a sylph and the head of John ~ Locke! I had been particularly struck by her resemblance to Locke’s well-known portrait engraved as a frontispiece to the ‘‘ Essay.”’ At that time her figure was graceful to elegance. When I last saw her, shortly before her husband’s death, she stooped painfully as she walked, and wore an old- fashioned crinoline.— ROBERT BUCHANAN, A Look Round Literature. Matthew Arnold in speaking of Tolstoi’s scheme of equality in labor, says: ‘‘I do not know how it is in Russia, but in an English village the determination of ‘our circle’ to earn their bread by the work of their hands, would produce only dismay, not — fraternal joy, amongst that majority, who are | There are plenty of us to compete as things now stand. The gardeners, carpenters, and smiths would say: ‘Pray stick to your articles, your property, and your nonsense; in manual labor you will interfere with us, and take the bread out of our mouths.’ ”’
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104 QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN WOMEN. MRS. FRANK LESLIE. In writing of distinguished American women, it is quite impossible to forget Frank Leslie, the woman publisher. Not to know of Lf, 44 tthe Ae, : 4, 6 Sih Piel PER IE CG ft Ay 8 wali, es ~~ oe . WS > Ms, ‘) Ny ANN AY AS SS S\ NN \ “yey ALP 4 S S : AN SSO cerning her, though everything pertaining to her unique and romantic history is always of interest. Because she is, excepting perhaps one, the best advertised woman in the United States, every one wants to know more of her. Visits to her great establishment on rn SS SNS Ny FRANCES L. MACE. her success in business and the mark she has made in society argues one’s self sadly unin- formed as to the prominent persons in New York and outside the pale of popular knowl- edge in serial publications. So well is Mrs. Leslie known to the public, by means of her various publications and the personal enco- miums of enthusiastic correspondents to jour- nals in all parts of the country, and even abroad, that little remains that is new con- Park Place, by newspaper people, note-book and pencil in hand, increase and crowd upon one another. Column after column has been written, is doubtless at the present moment being written, of her beauty and fascinating presence, of her great gray eyes, brown hair and sweet mouth filled with’ pearly teeth, of her gentle voice and sweet smile, and French airiness and cfic, which are drawn in striking contrast to her business
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QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. acumen, and far, clear-sightedness, her talent for finances, her judgment of difficult questions, and her enterprise in taking instant advantage of any event that occurs. They tell the details of the immense business, of the heavy presses which run day and night six days of the week, of the printing, engraving and binding departments, of her artists, the chief of whom receives the hand- some salary of one. hundred and sixty dollars a week, and the four hundred em- ployees who keep the complex machinery of the publishing house running. They tell, in counter pro- gression towards re- ceding events, of Mrs. Leslie’s accession to | this great business at ; her husband’s death, | ¥ of her former petted . & existence as his wife, which so illy fitted her for the cares that she has assumed and bears with such won- derful success, of her villa at Saratoga, where she reigned a veritable queen of hearts for many seasons, of her previous acquain- tance with Frank Leslie as a fair contributor, one whose work was well received and always pleasing, whether in travels, novels or purely sentimental verse, and back of all that to her first marriage, when a mere child of fifteen, and her education by her father in all branches of knowledge and accom- plishments that could fit her for a brilliant career. Her maiden name was Miriam Florence Folline, and her ancestry was of Huguenot origin. So, we get back to a starting point, and wish for something new about this woman, whose business success in the face of almost unsurmountable diff- MRS. FRANK LESLIE. E05 ‘culties, and whose social charm, which wins to her all with whom she comes in contact, have become proverbial whenever the possi- bilities of women are discussed. That this gossip and much, much more is all true can be verified by an acquaintance with her; for Mrs. Frank Leslie is particularly accessible and very fond of and helpful to her own sex, particularly to those who are striving to win their way by their own exertions to an honest livelihood. To many of her con- tributors of the four thousand manuscripts which are sent to her each year she returns letters of kind advice; encouragement where literary talent is evinced, of sisterly counsel to turn to other work where it is plain that writing is not their best field. She has faith in human nature, espe- cially woman nature, and says that in her strange career, in some of the direst straits of her life, women have been her best friends and practical assistants. She loves her ideal of what women may be, and by her affectionate regard brings many of them nearly up to that standard of sweetness and light, strength of character and nobility of purpose. She deprecates the tendency of most women to turn to writing as a means of subsistence. |: It is not strange that the many-sided character of the publisher of some ten maga- zines and periodica!s, the business manager of an immense printing house, and the editor-in-chief of a corps of many assistant and sub-editors, the strong-minded woman who has redeemed her husband’s bankrupt
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106 business from an enormous debt, and is making a fortune which already runs up into the many hundred thousands, the lady who is not afraid of lawyers and lawsuits, and has checks and drafts, and contracts, and proposals (business, I mean now), and plans, and pay-rolls at her fingers’ ends, just as other women have tatting and embroidery, has awakened an universal interest in the reading public. Sheis an unusual personality. She lives a dual existence, which is rounded out with powers, accomplishments, and pleasures which, are seldom possible to the same person. Mrs. Leslie holds her immense business in perfect control. She goes to her office each morning at ten, and remains until four. In that time she attends to a vast correspondence, does her editorial - work, personally passing upon every manu-. script that goes into any of her publications, and gives business directions for the next twenty-four hours. Her perfect system and decisive action enable her to get through an amount of work which might appall people under a less high pressure of life. When she shuts her desk the publisher is also left behind, and an hour later she may be seen riding in her elegant turnout, attending receptions and discharging the amenities expected of a society woman, whence she returns to the Windsor Hotel, where she resides, to dinner, and later is seen receiving her friends in her luxurious apartments, at other receptions, or at the opera, splendid in laces and diamonds which are the earnings of her own strong, alert brain. Wonderfully free from the ills that make women semi-invalids, Mrs. Leslie has the elasticity and buoyancy which come with perfect health. Bath and dumb-bells are each morning employed with religious regu- larity, and before and after business hours she finds time to do friendly offices and good deeds which would creditably fill one of the vacant lives of mere society women and add a.halo. Can there be any time to _ spare in this busy, overflowing life ? In closing this sketch, let me give an instance of the graceful charities which are QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. the effect of the impulse of kindness which lives in her heart. Mrs. Leslie has an impecunious friend, a woman, who lives ina far state. As has been mentioned, the fair publisher is by nature a poet, and whenever déeply moved or wrought upon by the _pathos, trials or pleasures of the broad life which spreads before her, she instinctively finds her thoughts flowing in rhythmic meas- ure and her sentiments running into verse. As she is not disposed to print her own | poems without the unbiased sanction of one of her assistant editors, a delicate self- repression which other prominent heads of magazines might do well to imitate, she sends the poems to her needy friend, who is — instructed to copy them and send them back, under a wom de plume, to one of the Frank Leslie publications for editorial judgment. They are always accepted, the unknown poet having gained an enviable reputation with her editors, and Frank Leslie gravely makes out a generous check and sends to — her friend, who thus receives quite dispro- portionate remuneration for the copying. Is it not a clever and feminine way of find- ing expression for her hidden thoughts and at the same time pecuniarily benefiting her friend ?—FLORINE THAYER McCray. | MISS BRADDON AT HOME. A London correspondent writes: ‘‘The queen of the English literary world, in respect of fortune, is Miss Braddon, whose pen has yielded her magnificent sums and still continues to earn for her a splendid income. I have attended her garden par- ties at Litchfield House, Richmond, this season, at which pleasant assemblages, the creme de la creme of literary and artistic life, is gathered every Sunday. I fear I must confess my impression that much of Miss Braddon’s fortune is due to the clever man- agement of her husband, Mr. Maxwell, whose devotion to her interests is a thing beautiful to see. He isa tall, genial Scotch- man, who finds no topic of conversation
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. romances. QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. more absorbing than those of the work and the rewards of his gifted wife. ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ was and is Miss Braddon’s ‘banner’ novel. Its first run brought her no less than $60,000, and though published twenty years ago, it still keeps selling. W*th this money she purchased Litchfield House, a fine old mansion standing in large grounds at Richmond, London’s loveliest suburb. Nothing but a detailed description would convey any idea of the charm of this old house, ‘full of history and mystery,’ as Miss Braddon says. Wide staircases, large and small drawing-rooms, quaint nooks and. crannies, cause it to fall within the domain of the numberless manses which Miss Brad- don has described in her many interesting It is furnished with just the sort of articles one would expect to see there— quaint and beautiful chairs and sofas of the ancient models, exquisite china, many paint- ings of value, including two very interesting ones; the first a portrait of this now celebrated authoress, then a girl of exceeding loveli- ness, resting her head upon the shoulder of her mother; the second another portrait of herself, a quiet and handsome lady of twenty-five or thirty, which was taken at the time she made her great success with ‘ Lady Audley.’ No photographs of Miss Braddon are to be bought; Mr. Maxwell says he desires ‘to save her any annoyance from her fame’; and there is no doubt that much-photographed people are greatly stared at in public. Miss Braddon is tall and broad-shouldered, but not stout; her con- stant horseback exercise keeping down any excess of tissue; she has pleasant features, light brown eyes, hair without much trace of gray, and dresses handsomely, sometimes wearing beautiful diamonds. Litchfield House is not Miss Braddon’s only residence. During part of the year she dwells in a charming villa in the New Forest, a romantic wood, which, though called ‘ New,’ is as old at least as Shakespeare’s day, mention being made of its sweet dales and groves in the works of the master. Miss Braddon’s novels are published by John and Robert 107 Maxwell, sons of Mr. Maxwell. It is this firm which had the good fortune to bring out the works of H. Rider Haggard, whose ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ may, perchance, prove a second ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ as regards financial value.” AN ANECDOTE OF WHITTIER. _ The poet Whittier once narrated to the Rev. Robert Collyer this episode in his early life. This is something like what he said in his old quaint style: ‘‘When I was on the farm in New Hampshire, and quite young, an old friend who was visiting the meetings came to stay one night. After supper he said to me, ‘ John, lad, I’ve some- thing for thee,’ and then brought out of his saddlebags two little volumes, which turned out to be Burns’ poems. ‘I think thee’ll like the book,’ he added. I had never read any poetry before except Friends’ poetry, and thee’ll know what that be. I began to read Burns and was lost in wonder. It seemed as if the sky had lifted and the world widened, and I saw mankind outside the narrow bounds of the Friends. I read on till mother came down and told me to get to bed. Next day, when the gray light was dawning I crept down and got the volumes, and read as long as I could. ‘The old Friend came and said, ‘ Thee seems to like it; I’m going further, and I’ll leave it till I come back.’ That was the first revelation to me of what poetry may be and do. A good many folk find fault with Burns. They say that his poetry is impure. Does thee believe me when I tell thee that I have not detected the least impurity in it? His genius is so great and noble that if there be. | blots they are so little that I don’t see them. ’’ 3 My young disciple, don’t hunt for new things, but study to improve upon the old ones; every flat stone, and most of the bowlders, have been turned over already by the novelty-hunters.
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108 GEN. LEW WALLACE. To be the author of the book which has of all American books the widest sale is something of a distinction. It is that honor which Gen. Lew Wallace is in a fair way to win. For ‘‘Ben-Hur”’.is already next to ‘*Uncle Tom’s Cabin”’ in its sales, and bids QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. trated them, a prose version of the story of Ginevra, written by his wife, having pictures from his hand. ; It is through a varied personal experience that he has reached this range of personal power. He is not yet sixty, having been born in Fountain County, Indiana, about 1828. His father was Governor of Indiana, Reduced from Harper’s Weekly, Copyright, 1886, by Harper & Brothers. GENERAL LEW WALLACE. fair to surpass it. Mrs. Stowe’s book dealt with a nation’s wrong, and its mission ended with the passing of slavery. ‘‘ Ben-Hur, a Tale of the Christ,’’ has a scope as wide as righteousness, as the world, as all time. Yet it is not only as an author that Gen. Wallace has won distinction; he has earned repute as a lawyer, success as a politician, fame as a commander, and credit as a diplo- matist, and, besides writing books, has illus- and he was bred to his father’s calling of the law. The Mexican war appealed to his military ardor, and he went to Mexico as second lieutenant in the First Indiana Vol- unteers. Here he became interested ‘in Mexican history; his studies were to bear fruit in ‘‘ The Fair God,” his first novel. He returned to law and to politics, and was elected to the State Senate from the district which included Crawfordsville, his home.
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QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. His military spirit would not down, even in the piping times of peace; he drilled a company of Zouaves, and the opening of the war found him Adjutant-General of the. State. Naturally, his Zouaves became the nucleus of a regiment, and after volunteer- ing for Mr. Seward’s famous ninety days as an independent organization, and taking part in the battle of Romney, they enlisted for the war as the Eleventh Indiana Volun- teers, with Col. Wallace at their head. ‘Their good service at the West gained him a Brigadier-Generalship, and he was the first Federal General to enter Fort Donelson, where, on the morning of its surrender, he breakfasted with his old friend, Gen. Buck- ner. Promoted to be Major-General, and complimented for his bravery on the field of Shiloh, he came out of the war with every honor. Huis final service was as a member of the Commission to try the assassins of Lincoln and Seward. He returned to his home and took up literary work, and in 1874 ‘The Fair God” was published. In 1878 President Hayes appointed him to be Gov- ernor of New Mexico, and while in that distant territory he wrote ‘‘ Ben-Hur,” which appeared in 1880.. He was appointed by the next administration Minister to Turkey, and lived in Constantinople for three years and more, winning such confidence from the Porte that he afterwards became its confi- dential adviser. Here he accumulated the material for the Turkish novel on which he is now engaged, and which, at his home in Crawfordsville, Indiana, takes that part of his time in which he is not lecturing here and there about the country, for as a lecturer he has proved most popular. ‘The variety of his accomplishments and his intellectual activity,’ said Eugene Law- rence, writing of him in Harper's Weekly, ‘‘have made him as great a favorite in society as his bravery and dbonhomte made him among his military comrades. His manners are the manners of an accomplished soldier rather than of a man of letters, though there is in his bearing a certain unsoldierly but not ungallant modesty. In 109g his writings there is a constant tendency to military pomp, and his best descriptions are of processions and of deeds of daring. His carriage is yet erect, and his manner is that of a man constantly active, but without nervousness. His straight hair is thinner than it was twenty years ago, and has lost something of its glossy blackness. His eyes are small and piercing, and the somewhat delicate appearance of his earlier years, when his cheeks were not so full as they are now, has changed to a more robust look. He has continued to develop both physically and mentally past the time of life when most men reach their maturity. He retains the uncommon faculty of turning to new sub- jects and new kinds of subjects, and mas- tering them with youthful zeal. During his residence of three years at Constantinople he became interested not only in his official duties, but in such political, literary, and archeological questions as his acquaintance and studies there brought to his attention.” Of his methods of work another writer gives this interesting description: ‘‘He shapes his plots, conceives his characters, and com- pletes his works, all but the mere writing, entirely on his feet while walking across the floor of his study, or rambling through the garden attached to his Indiana home. His residence is a wooded estate, where the author.can roam at his leisure and be as quiet as if he were a thousand miles in the wilderness, instead of in the centre of com- mercial activity.” | ‘‘The Fair God,” published in 1874, by James R. Osgood & Co., raised the question whether it were not ‘‘the great American novel’’ for which every one had been wait- ing. This story of ‘‘the last of the Tzins,’’ a tale of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, was presented as the work of De Alva, a learned Tezcucan writer of the six- teenth century, identified with an Iztlitzo- chitl, concerning whom a long extract from Prescott was given. ‘‘The MSS. were found among a heap of old despatches from the Viceroy Mendoza to the Emperor.’’ But this disguise, like that of Hawthorne in
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Ito ‘‘The Scarlet Letter,” was thrown off by the author before he had fairly donned it, in his own preface to his first edition. According to the story told by Mr. Law- rence, ‘‘the readers of the second romance, ‘Ben-Hur,’ owe the pleasure and profit: they have got from it to a suggestion uncon- sciously made by Colonel ‘Bob’ Ingersoll. The two met on the train, and they sat down for a long talk. ‘¢*What shall we talk about?’ asked the distinguished unbeliever. ‘€“Oh, I don’t care,’ replied General Wallace. — €¢Tet’s discuss religion, then,’ said Ingersoll; and he recited his arguments and exercised his wit against Christianity until, to use General Wallace’s own words, ‘ some- how I felt ashamed of myself.’ In a gen- eral way General Wallace had accepted the Christian religion, but he had not investi- gated its history nor grounded himself in its faith, He now set seriously to work at religious study. He became devoutly con- vinced of its truth, and determined to em- body his conviction and his reasons for it in a romance. ”’ | Certain it is that, whether or not the work came from the suggestion of an unbeliever, it has commended itself to all classes of believers, Catholic, Protestant, and Jew. It is read equally by all. At the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic College of Indiana, where the good old monkish custom of reading in the refectory at dining hours still obtains, ‘‘ Ben-Hur” in its year led the line in popularity, and the students listened most eagerly to the deputed reader in his pulpit. Although the book was published only as far back as 1880, it is already in its 162d thousand, its sales having doubled year by year. We give herewith, by the courtesy of Harper & Brothers, a portrait of General Wallace, reduced from one that appeared in Harper's Weekly. We never have seen an ‘idea too big for a sentence, but we have read thousands of sentences too big for an idea. QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. READINGS FROM NEW BOOKS. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.* SCOTT. | His poetry is the poetry of action. In imaginative power he ranks below no other poet, except Homer and Shakespeare. He delighted in war, in its movement, its pageantry, and its events; and, though lame, he was quartermaster of a volunteer corps of cavalry.—p. 340. BYRON. His style is remarkable for its strength and elasticity, for its immensely powerful sweep, tireless energy, and brilliant illustra- tions. —p. 344. | DE QUINCEY. Some of his. sentences are almost as long and as sustained as those of Jeremy Taylor; . while, in many passages of reasoning that glows and brightens with strong passion and emotion, he is not inferior to Burke. He possessed an enormous vocabulary—in wealth of words and phrases he surpasses both Macaulay and Carlyle; and he makes a very | large— perhaps even an excessive —use of Latin words. He is also very fond of using metaphors, personifications, and other figures of speech. It may be said without exagger- ation that, next to Carlyle’s, De Quincey’s. style is the most stimulating and inspiriting that a young reader can find among modern writers.— p. 349. CARLYLE. Carlyle was an author by profession, a teacher of and prophet to his countrymen by his mission, and a student of history by the deep interest he took in the life of man. He was always more or less severe in his judg- ments— he has been called the ‘‘ Censor of the Age,’’— because of the high ideal which he set up for his own conduct and the con- duct of others. He shows in his historic * “The English we EE Its Grammar, History and Literature.’’ By Prof. J. M. D. Meiklejohn, of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 12mo, cloth, pp. 388.
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‘QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. writings a splendor of imagery and a power of dramatic grouping second only to Shakes- peare’s. In command of words he is second to.no modern English writer. His style has been highly praised and also energetically blamed. It is rugged, gnarled, disjointed, full of irregular force—shot across by sud- den lurid lights of imagination —full of the most striking and indeed astonishing epithets and inspired by a certain grim Titanic force. His sentences are often clumsily built. He himself said of them: ‘‘ Perhaps not more than nine-tenths stand straight on their legs; the remainder are in quite angular attitudes; a few even sprawl out helplessly on all sides, quite broken-backed and _ dismembered.”’ There is no modern writer who possesses so large a profusion of figurative language.— P. 35°: MACAULAY. One of the most remarkable qualities in his style is the copiousness of expression, and the remarkable power of putting the same statement in a large number of different ways. This enormous command of expres- sion corresponded with the extraordinary power of his memory. At the age of eight he could repeat the whole of Scott’s poem of ‘*Marmion.’”’ He was fond, at this early age, of big words and learned English; and once, when he was asked by a lady if his toothache was better, he replied, ‘‘ Madam, the agony is abated!’’ He knew the whole of Homer and of Milton by heart; and it was said with perfect truth that, if Milton’s poetical works could have been lost, Macau- lay would have restored every line with com- plete exactness. Sydney Smith said of him: ‘‘' There are no limits to his knowledge, on small subjects as on great; he is like a book in breeches.”’ His style has been called ‘‘abrupt, pointed, and oratorical.’’ He is fond of the arts of surprise —of antithesis — and of epigram.—pp. 351, 352. LONGFELLO W. He is always careful and painstaking with his rhythm and with the cadence of his verse. III It may be said with truth that Longfellow has taught more people to love poetry than any other English writer, however great.— P. 355; TENNYSON. Tennyson has been to the last two gener- ations of Englishmen the national teacher of poetry. He has tried many new measures; he has ventured on many new rhythms; and he has succeeded in them all. He is at home equally in the slowest, most tranquil, and most meditative of rhythms, and in the rapidest and most impulsive.—p. 356. MRS. BROWNING. Mrs. Browning will probably be longest remembered by her incomparable sonnets and by her lyrics, which are full of pathos and passion. Perhaps her two finest poems in this kind are the ‘‘ Cry of the Children”’ and ‘‘Cowper’s Grave.” All her poems show an enormous power of eloquent, pene- trating, and picturesque language; and many of them are melodious with a rich and won- derful music.—p. 358. | BROWNING. Browning’s language is almost always very hard to understand; but the meaning, when we have got at it, is well worth all the trouble that may have been taken to reach it. His poems are more full of thought and more rich in experience than those of any other English writer except Shakespeare. The thoughts and emotions which throng his mind at the same moment so crowd upon and jostle each other, become so inextricably intermingled, that it is very often extremely difficult for us to make out any meaning at all. Then many of his thoughts are so subtle and so profound that they cannot easily be drawn up from the depths in which they lie. No man can write with greater directness, greater lyric vigor, fire, and impulse, than Browning when he chooses—write more clearly and forcibly about such subjects as love and war; but it is very seldom that he does choose.
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QUERIES, APRIL, The infinite complexity of human life and its manifold experiences have seized and imprisoned his imagination; and it is not often that he speaks in a clear, free voice. — Pp. 358, 359. MATTHEW ARNOLD. The chief qualities of his verse are clear- ness, simplicity, strong directness, noble and musical rhythm, and a certain sabe calm.—p. 359. WILLIAM MORRIS. Clearness, strength, music, picturesque- ness, and easy flow, are the chief character- istics of Morris’ style. * * * His pic- torial power—the power of bringing a person or a scene fully and adequately be- fore one’s eyes by the aid of words alone— is as gréat as that of Chancer,...%° * * Morris’ stores of language are as rich as Spenser’s; and he has much the same copi- ous and musical flow of poetic words and phrases.— pp. 360, 361. DICKENS. His style is easy, flowing, vigorous, pic- turesque, and humorous; his power of lan- guage is very great; and, when he is writing under the influence of strong passion, it rises into a pure and noble eloquence. ‘The scenery —the external circumstances of his characters, are steeped in the same colors as the characters themselves; everything he touches seems to be filled with life and to speak—to look happy or sorrowful,—to reflect the feelings of the persons. His comic and humorous powers are very great; but his tragic power is also enormous — his T888. 113 power of depicting the fiercest passions that tear the human breast,—-avarice, hate, fear, revenge, remorse. The great American statesman, Daniel Webster, said that Dick- ens had done more to better the condition of the English poor than all the statesmen Great Britain had ever sent into the English Parliament.— p. 363. RUSKIN, A glowing eloquence, a splendid and full- flowing music, wealth of phrase, aptness of epithet, opulence of ideas—all these quali- ties characterize the prose style of Mr. Rus- kin. His similes are daring, but always true. * * * His power of painting in words is incomparably greater thin that of any other English author; he almost infuses color into his words and phrases, so full are they of pictorial power.— pp. 363, 364. GEORGE ELIOT. Her style is everywhere pure and strong, _of the best and most vigorous English, not only broad in its power, but often intense in its description of character and situation, and always singularly adequate to the thought. Probably no novelist knew the English character—especially in the Mid- lands—so well as she, or could analyze it with so much subtlety and truth. She is entirely mistress of the country dialects. In humor, pathos, knowledge of character, power of putting a portrait firmly upon the canvas, no writer surpasses her, and few come near her. Her power is sometimes almost Shakespearian. Like Shakespeare, she gives us a large number of wise sayings, expressed in the pithiest language.—p. 365.
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114 : SANS SOUCI. A SHEAF OF ORIGINAL POEMS, A REFLECTION. A gulf there ever seems to be Between the face that looks at me And the real self that none can see. Brown eyes look back to eyes as brown, . And smile meets smile or frown meets frown, And waving lines two white brows crown. But those eyes laugh—this heart is sad, This voice is mute—that voice is glad, That face looks calm—these thoughts run mad. The shadow in the glass I see, Follows for ever close to me, And télls me what I seem to be. And yet I hold it’s better far To happy seem, though sad you are, Lest others’ lives you chance to mar. DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR. The year is dead while still it drew The breath of youth, nor ever knew The touch of chilly age. The year is dead, yes, life was brief, Yet not too short to taste of grief Or sound the depths of woe. The year is dead, and side by side With many that have lived and died We lay it in the tomb. The new year lives—and soon will tread Upon the foot-prints of the dead, And teach us to forget. NEW YEAR'S EVE, The old year turns his face away The face all marked with smiles and tears, And will not wait another day Or stay to calm our faithless fears. An old friend gone—a new one here! We almost fear the new to try, And half forget the friend so near In looking back to say, ‘‘ good-bye.”’ And thus are changes ever wrought, The birth pangs oft are pangs of death; Our happiest hours with pain are fraught, And life itself is but a breath. Jersey City, N. J. CARRIE STOW WAIT. QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. LOVE’S FALTERING. With bright prow parting the waters wan, Love sailed from shore in the morning gray, ‘His white sails taut with the damps of dawn, His white decks spattered with spurting spray, His banners blowing above the mist, And flushed with a faint fore-feeling glow Of the rosy warmth in the reddening east, From the sun of his yearning so far below. And ever the wake span out astern Its thread that whitened and frayed away, And ever the banners did brightlier burn, And the mists waxed thinner and rosier aye; And Love leaped laughing to see how fast The far shore sank, and laughed to behold The red light glinting above the mast, And the low clouds blazing purple and gold. And ever crisping and curling spring Twin sheaves of white athwart the prow, That, lifting ever and shattering, fling Their foam-fruit over the decks of snow. The sky is throbbing with white and red, " And gilded is every green wave’s crest, But Love looks back and sees with dread The low shore sunk in the kindling west. The shore hath sunk in the kindling west, But still the sunlight is not yet, And, strangely chilling on cheek and breast, The breezes come from the land that is set; And, strangely blinding, out of the dawn A thousand blazing splendors leap, And Love, with pallid lips withdrawn, Sails fearfully down that blossoming deep. O happy Love, thou art all alone, Thou art sailing alone on a wide, white sea, And the sunlight’s warmth is about thee thrown, And the sunlight’s beauty is over thee. BURLINGTON, Vt. HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN. AFTERNOON, My thought winds in and out as if it knew no care; My path leads out and in as if it had no end; The birds fly in and out, a message as to bear; Alone I walk the path as if I had nofriend. The pines join hands above as happy faces meet; The grasses nod below as talking, friend to friend; The path leads in and out, I follow with swift feet— I know a joyous greeting awaits me at the end. WORCESTER, Mass. LAURA HOPE FISHER.
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QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. 115 QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A CENTONE. 1. I only knew she came and went, 2 Like troutlets in a pool; 3. She was a phantom of delight, 4 And I was like a fool. 5. One kiss, dear maid, I said, and sighed, 6. Out of those lips unshorn, 7. She shook her ringlets round her head 8 And laughed in merry scorn. g. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, 10. You heard them, O my heart; 11. Tis twelve at night by the castle clock, 12. Beloved, we must part. | 13. ‘‘Come back, come back!” she cried in grief, I4. My eyes are dim with tears— 15. How shall I live through all the days? 16, All through a hundred years? 17. Twas in the prime of summer time, 18. She blessed me with her hand; 19. We strayed together, deeply blest, 20. Into the dreaming land. 21. The laughing bridal roses blow, 2%; To dress her dark-brown hair; 23. My heart is breaking with my woe, 24. Most beautiful! most rare! 25. I clasped it on her sweet, cold hand, 26. The precious golden link! 27. I calmed her fears, and she was calm, 28. ** Drink, pretty creature, drink!”’ 29. And so I won my Genevieve, 30. And walked in Paradise; 31. ‘The fairest thing that ever grew 32. Atween me and the skies! 1. Powell; 2. Hood ; 3. Wordsworth; 4. Eastman; 5. Cole ridge ; 6. Longfellow ; 7. Stoddard; 8. Tennyson; 9g. Tenny- son; to. Alice Cary; 11. Coleridge; 12. Alice Cary; 13. Camp- bell; 14. Bayard Taylor; 15. Osgood; 16. T. S. Perry; 17. Hood; 18. Hoyt; 19. Edwards; 20. Cornwall; 21. Pat- more; 22. Bayard Taylor; 23. Tennyson; 24. Read; 25. Browning; 26. Smith; 27. Coleridge; 28. Wordsworth ; 29. Coleridge; 30. Hervey; 31. Wordsworth; 32. Osgood. A POEM WITHOUT AWN E. John Knox was a man of wondrous might, And his words ran high and shrill, For bold and stout was his spirit bright, And strong was his stalwart will. Kings sought in vain his mind to chain, And that giant brain to control, But naught on plain or stormy main Could daunt that mighty soul. John would sit and sigh till morning cold Its shining lamps put out, For thoughts untold on his mind laid hold, And brought but pain and doubt. But light at last on his soul was cast, . Away sank pain and sorrow, _ His soul is gay, in a fair to-day, And looks for a bright to-morrow. FIGURES. Astronomy is 1 derful, And interesting, 2; The ear3 volves around the sun Which makes a year 4 you. The moon is dead and calm, By law of phys 6 great; It’s 7 where the stars alive Do nightly scintil 8. If watchful Providence be g With good in Io tions fraught, Did not keep up its grand design, We soon would come to o. Astronomy is 1 derful, But it’s 2 80 4 I man 2 grasp, and that is why Td better say no more. A RHYME FOR MUSICIANS. Haendel, Bendel, Mendelssohn, Brendel, Wendel, Jadasshon, Muller, Hiller, Heller, Franz, Blothow, Flotow, Burtow, Gantz. Meyer, Geyer, Meyerbeer, Heyer, Weyer, Beyer, Beer, Lichner, Lachner, Schachner, Dietz, Hill, Will, Bruell, Grill, Drill, Reiss, Reitz. Hansen, Jansen, Jensen, Kiehl, Siade, Gade, Laade, Stiehl, Naumann, Riemann, Diener, Wurst, Niemann, Kiemann, Diener Wurst. © Kochler, Dochler, Rubenstein, Himmel, Hummel, Rosenkyn, Lauer, Bauer, Kleincke, — Homberg, Plomberg, Reinecke. E. LEMKE.
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116 QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. MULTUM IN PARVO. James Parton writes of reformers, and says this of Henry George: ‘‘In his elo- quent book on ‘Progress and Poverty’ he appears to me to have escaped a great and invaluable truth, applicable to all property and to. all countries, which is that every right of man is a limited right, not abso- lute, and that a man must hold what- ever he possesses in subordination to the welfare of the community of which he is a part. But this precious truth is not new. Every system of law and morals recognizes it. With his gifted pen and benevolent mind he may yet throw valuable light upon it, and suggest safe and just ways in which the rights of individuals may be still further subordinated to the interests of the public. Take Henry George, how- ever, for all in all, and we may call him one of the most estimable and reasonable of the reformers of our day. If he is now shut up in a narrow theory, there was a time when he studied the works of other economists. He may do so again.” John Palgrave Simpson affords one more instance of literary success, gained through reverse of fortune. After receiving his de- grees at Corpus Christi College he travelled many years on the continent, until misfor- tune turned him to authorship as a means of livelihood, and taught him to utilize his experience and knowledge of the world. He contributed to various English magazines, and wrote a number of novels. After writ- ing ‘‘ Lily of Paris’ and ‘‘ Pictures of Revo- lutionary Paris,” in 1848, he returned to England in 1850 and began to write for the stage. His best drama is probably ‘‘ World and Stage.” ‘‘Second Love” has been translated into several languages, and has proved the most popular of his plays in the United States. In his dramatic work he was a faithful follower of Scribe, and did not hesitate to copy largely from the great playwright. His most important work, a life of Karl Maria Von Weber, compiled from material gathered by Weber’s son, was published in 1865, and received much praise from competent critics. In his latter years he was a regular attendant at ‘‘ first nights,”’ and in his military-looking cloak and a jet- black wig, which contrasted strangely with his aged face, presented a picture that rarely failed to attract the attention of strangers. John Hatton, the composer, competed for an appointment near Liverpool when he was only fourteen, and obtained it. Hatton, -who was a humorist from his childhood, told his mother on his way to church that he would play as a voluntary, ‘‘ All around my hat I vears a green villow”’ (the popular Cockney song of the day), and, notwith- standing the remonstrances of his mother, he actually did play the identical notes of the song, but so wrapped up in harmony and played so slowly that no one could recognize the melody or its source or con- nection, except one of the church wardens, who, having the character of being a clever musical amateur, pronounced the boy to be a genius, the harmony fine and the melody divine. We could multiply stories of this character, but one man writes to a news- paper from Manchester declaring that a gentleman has lately died who was appointed organist of Saffron Walden Church at the age of eight years in 1820, and held the post for sixty-four years. In personal appearance Mr. Gladstone is an active, lithe, muscular man, rather tall, and of well-proportioned frame. His face ‘and figure have that clear-cut contour which generally indicates several generations of intellectual activity and personal leadership. Mr. Gladstone is the descendant of a long line of Scottish lairdmen of small wealth and limited possessions; but accustomed to stand first in their community, to think and to lead. The face is scholarly, cultivated, its outlines boldly defined by that meagerness of muscle which distinguishes the intellectual athlete. There is not an ounce of super- fluous flesh on it. The thin lips and well- cut mouth and chin betoken firmness, deter-
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QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. mination, and endurance. His many sum- mers have sat lightly on Mr. Gladstone; but the years have brought their blessing of rest, and his face in general wears the repose of strength and experience—strongly lined with the record of struggle and thought. A new fact, however, or an aggressive opinion, wakes the whole man with the fire of youth, and the eye flashes with eager light, and the body bends quickly forward, as if to grasp a fresh acquisition. Like all strong Eng- lishmen, Mr. Gladstone is a man of large physical power and endurance, fond of out- door air and work, and the ring of his axe at Hawarden, so familiar to England, has echoed even across the Atlantic. The distinguished French dramatic author, M. Eugene Marin Labiche, was born at Paris May 5, 1815; he studied at the Bourbon College and made his debut as a writer of novelettes in the newspapers in 1835. Three years later he wrote a novel, ‘‘ La Clef des Champs,’’ and a play for the Palais Royal. Although this was not especially successful, he devoted himself thenceforth to-the writing of comedies, becoming in this sphere one of the prolific writers of the period. Although his plays were very popular, the critics ignored them, and it was not until 1878, when his collected plays appeared with a preface by Emilie Augier, that Sarcey and the other critics began to appreciate him at his true value, and the result was his election to the Academy. Among his works are found the best-known farces which have gone the rounds of European theatres for the last twenty years and are constantly reproduced with unabated success. Archibald Forbes, the famous war corre- spondent, declares that he was saved by the ‘*cat,’’ which it is now proposed to abolish from the British army. ‘Twenty years ago he enlisted in a cavalry regiment. Young, full of spirits, and not destitute of money, he was scandalously often in trouble. At length an escapade got him placed for a month in the ‘Sheffield provost. He was not cured, how- ever. Again, brought before his commanding officer, he was asked if he knew he was a ‘second-class man. ‘ 117 No, he knew nothing about it. ‘‘Well,’’ said he, ‘‘ you are, and, as such, liable to be flogged; and the next time you come before me I'll flog you.” Mr. Forbes never again came before him, and is now so full of love for the ‘‘cat”’ that he pleads for its retention. The /2/ot reports. that its editor John Boyle O'Reilly had an almost similar experience. ‘At eighteen years of age he enlisted in a hussar regiment, and, in the strength and wildness of youth, began a reckless course. One day a friendly old sergeant said to him, as he was marched to the guard-room: ‘‘ You'll destroy yourself, youngster, if you don’t stop. The next time the colonel’s in bad humor he’ll court-martial you, and you'll be flogged.”’ The word clung to O’Reilly’s mind and appalled him into steadiness. But, unlike his English brother in literature, he regards the ‘‘cat”’ with horror, and considers its use more degrading and demoralizing on soldiers who witness it than would be the death of the defaulter. HISTORICAL. HYDROSTATICS, Hydrostatics were probably first studied at Alexandria about 300 B. C. COUNTERPOINT. Counterpoint was brought to perfection by the famous composer, Palestrina, about 1555: * : WOOLEN CLOTH. The making of woolen cloth was begun in England in 1331; but its manufacture was not known in France in 1646. How to dye and dress it was not known in England until 1667. POST-OFFICES. Post-offices were first established in Paris in 1462; in England, 1581; in Germany, 1641; in Turkey, 1740. BANKS. . The first bank ever established was located at Venice, about 1150, and was known as ‘‘The Chamber of Loans.”’ -:
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118 QUERIES, APRIL, 1588. REVIEWS. | dross to gold whenever it is possible. The title of the poems aptly indicates their POETRY. quality. They are tree-top music, and no | The taste displayed by Mrs. M. B. M. Toland, and her publishers the J. B. Lippin- cott Company in the make-up of our talented author’s various poetical productions is worthy of remark. Modesty combined with elegance is everywhere apparent in the liter- ary, artistic and mechanical parts of all of this lady’s publications. When the ‘‘A‘gle and the Elf,’’ made its appearance a little over a year ago, we at once pronounced it one of the best things of its kind ever produced. ‘‘Eudora, a Tale of Love,” although not as striking a production as ‘¢ A gle,’’ has many qualities that surpass that inimitable work. Its cover design is one of the best ever produced in this country, and the decorations in the text by L. S. Ipsen are - fully up to that artist’s best, and the drawings by H. Siddons Mowbray and W. H. Gibson are excellent, of which the engraving by Mr. Gibson, ‘‘Incrusted trees that kingly orders wore,” is a fair specimen. ‘The tail-piece on page 113 of Queries is by Mr. Ipsen. Mrs. Toland is a talented California writer who has won for herself a formost place among the authors of the Pacific slope. She has much wealth, and has the good fortune to know how to use her position and influence for the advancement of art and literature. In a double sense she does not write for her- self alone. literary world, and the profits from their sales are devoted to the practical aid of literature and art. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 8vo, cloth, pp. 110, $2. ‘‘Under Pine and Palm,” by Frances L. Mace, is a volume of pleasing verse, fluent, facile, free, moving at the sweet dictates of a lively fancy, and nowhere undertaking the serious freightage of doctrine or philosophy. The poems are largely descriptive of natural scenes and objects, and the portraiture is always executed with charming grace. ‘The treatment of personal and occasional themes shows quick sympathies, noble aspirations and an angelic optimism that transmutes Her works are dedicated to the lover of poetry standing ‘‘ under the pine and the palm,” and listening to the melodies of the wind in the branches, would care to make a critical dissection of them or to enquire whether they are likely to be as enduring as a monument of brass. Boston: Ticknor & Co., 12mo, cloth, pp. 222, $1.50. ‘The por- trait of Mrs. Mace presented to our readers. this month is by the permission of George Stinson & Co., Portland, Me., publishers of Daughters of America. ‘“The Poems of Sir Walter Scott,” that wonderful and unequaled treasury of roman- tic and heroic legends, ballads, epics, and songs of love and war and religion, are, in- the magnificent volume revised, corrected, and edited, with notes and commentaries, by William J. Rolfe, editor of the ‘‘ Students’ Series of Classic Poems,”’ ‘‘ Students’ Shakes- peare,’’ etc., presented to the public for the first time with purity of text and richness of illustration. There has never before been an edition free from manifold errors of text, many of which have greatly deformed the poems. The earnest critical labors of William J. Rolfe have been given to the congenial task of freeing Scott’s poems from the incrus- tations of error that have grown up about them, and substituting the words just as they were written by the great Wizard of the North. ‘There has never before been pub- » lished such an accurate and complete edition. Mr. Rolfe has also added to the volume a rich body of commentaries and notes, includ- ing an abridgment of Scott’s own voluminous notes. These notes cover seventy octavo pages, in double column. , There is also a long glossary of Scottish words; and a serviceable index, of fifteen columns. ‘The illustrations are 350 in number, including those originally made for the great holiday editions of ‘‘ Marmion,” ‘‘ The Lady of the Lake,’ ‘‘ The Lay of the Last Minstrel,”’ at a cost of upwards of $25,000; together with many new pictures, made for the hitherto unillustrated poems. American artists were
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QUERIES, APKIL, 1888. sent to Scotland to reproduce the attractive ‘scenes of the highlands and lochs, with all the delicacy and strength of modern wood- engraving. Our portrait of Scott published as a frontispiece this month, serves the same purpose in this volume. Next month we will publish an ideal portrait of Lady Heron from the same work. Boston: Ticknor & Co., cloth, $1o. No work of recent times presents so many selections tending to show the variety and scope of English poetry during the last half century, as ‘‘ Fifty Years of English Song,” being selections from the poets of the reign of Victoria, edited and arranged by Henry F. Randolph. The editor, in preparing this anthology of cotemporary poetry, has shown a wise discrimination and sound judgment. His. arrangement and classification of the poets are admirably suited to the needs of students in literature in the schools and academies of America. In the first volume he gives choice selections from the earlier poets, such as Southey, Wordsworth, Landor, Leigh Hunt, Elliott, Hood, Croly, and others, including the ‘‘Blackwood Coterie”’ ; the earlier Scotch poets, such as Croly, Simmons, Sterling, Moir, Aytoun, Joanna Baillie, and David Gray; and from the Irish poets, Thomas Osborne Davis, ‘Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Lady Dufferin, Sir Charles Garon Duffy, Lady Wilde, and James C. Mongan. ‘The second volume is devoted to selections from the poets of the first half of the reign of Victoria, and the novelist poets, including Lord Tennyson, Robert Brown- ing, Mrs. E. B. Browning, Jean Ingelow, Aubrey Thomas DeVere, Lord Houghton, Phillip James Bailey, Emily Bronte, Lord Lytton, William M. ‘Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Dinah Maria Muloch Craik, George Macdonald, George Meredith, and others. The third volume contains rare selections from the poets of the second half of Victoria’s reign, and from the writers of ‘‘ Vers de Societe,’ such as Mathew Arnold, Robert Buchanan, Edwin Arnold, Algernon C. Swin- burne, Edmund W. Goss, Earl of Lytton, Andrew Lang, Christina G. Rossetti, Emily ‘119 Pfeiffer, and many others. The fourth and concluding volume of this valuable work is devoted to selections from the ‘‘ Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood’; the ballad and song writers, and religious poets, including . Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Lord Macaulay, Caroline E. Norton, Gerald Massey, Adelaide Anne Proctor, Richard Chenevix Trench, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, and others. Prefixed to each volume of selections are very excellent biographical sketches of authors from whom selections have ‘been made for this work, and valuable bibliographical notes, and appended to each volume are placed explanatory notes on passages in poems which need comment for the use of students. There is also an index of authors, and the pseudonyms and literary sobriquets of the poets quoted, and finally at the end of each volume an index of first lines. We have purposely given this detailed outline of this valuable work so that teachers and students might know something of its char- | acter and arrangement. Covering, as it does, a period of literary history so recent as the fifty years just past, it becomes an interesting and profitable study. It enables us to com- pare the poetry of our generation with that of earlier times. Excepting the ‘‘ Elizabethan ” period we think this century’s poets rank favorably in quantity and quality with any other age. ‘The publisher has furnished the student with these valuable books in good typography, and in excellent, substantial library binding. They should be found in the libraries of every high school, academy, and college in the land. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., four volumes, with box, 12mo, cloth, $5. ‘* Songs of the Mexican Seas,”’ is a volume of poems by Joaquin Miller. In a note at the end of the volume the poet says rather sadly, ‘‘May I not ask in return, now at the last when the shadows begin to grow long, something of that consideration which, thus far, has been accorded almost entirely by strangers?’ ‘The volume contains two poems, ‘*The Sea of Fire,’’ and ‘‘ The Rhyme of the Great River.” Joaquin Miller unques-
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120 tionably possesses, and in no slight degree, the poetic sense and faculty. There is often a remarkably fine lyric movement and music in his verse, and his power of picturesque _narrative is admirable. That which he lacks is a sufficient body of thought and elevation of motive. “In the ‘‘ Rhyme of the Great River’’— much the better of the two poems —there are many noble stanzas; some that will be likely to live a good while. O God! ’tis pitiful to see This miser so forlorn and old; O God! how poor a man may be . With nothing in this world but gold. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 16mo, cloth, $1. Pastoral poetry has always found appreci- ation, when it has been composed with sincerity and truth, and when it has pictured homely scenes with simple unaffectedness. In ‘‘Meadow Melodies” Mr. Charles F. Gerry displays the loving touch of one who has knowledge of country life and affection for nature. He has not looked into the secrets of the woods and fields with the metaphysician’s care, but has pictured coun- try ways and byways as they appear under the open sky. Birds, flowers, children, friends, are subjects to him for a wholesome, hearty thankfulness for all life. Through his poems, the country seems sweet and tender, never hard nor forbidding. One of the best selections is ‘‘A Day on the Sudbury River ~ Meadows.” A poem that has already wona reputation through publication in a magazine is ‘‘ The Pantry School.” Showing the poet’s ability to adapt himself to especial occasions is ‘‘ The Tryst of College Days.’’ The easy rhythm and melodious rhymes illustrate care and understanding of poetical measures. The work is illustrated, and in its blue and gold cover makes an attractive gift book. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 8vo, cloth, $1.75. LITERATURE. “A Photographic Fac-Simile of the 1622 Folio Edition of Shakespeare,’’ has just been published. It is an exact reproduction to the minutest detail of the original, only the pages are photographed to a crown 8vo size. Donnelly’s . Shakespeare cipher is _ based ‘scholars. QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. wholly on this world-famous folio edition. The edition has long been a perplexity to It is full of the most peculiar punctuation, bracketing, odd spelling and paging. The cipher depends on these, and invariably on the number of lines on a page. Any other than a fac simile edition would not enable one to trace for himself the cor- rectness of Donnelly’s astonishing claim that Bacon has concealed by a complex cipher in the lines of Shakespeare an extended secret history. It is a book that should be now in the hands of every student of literature and especially of Shakespeare. There is no work in the whole range of English literature at all approaching near to this famous First Folio Edition of Shakespeare in interest and critical value. When it is mentioned that this is the sole authority for the texts of such master-pieces as ‘‘The Tempest,’ ‘‘ Mac- beth,” ‘‘Twelfth Night,’ ‘‘Measure for Measure,” ‘‘Coriolanus,’’ ‘‘ Julius Ceesar,”’ ‘*Timon of Athens,” ‘‘Anthony and Cleo- patra,’”’ ‘‘Cymbeline,” ‘‘As You Like It’”’ and ‘‘ The Winter’s Tale,’’ were the rest of the book waste paper, enough will have been said to confirm its unrivaled importance. This edition is the authorized American from the English fac simile plates. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 8vo, cloth, pp. 926, $2.00. HISTORY. A new, revised and improved edition of Fredet’s ‘‘ Ancient: History, from the disper- sion of the sons of Noe to the battle of Actium, and the change of the Roman Republic into an Empire,” has just been published. , In presenting this new edition to the public, the publishers feel it incumbent upon themselves to state that they have spared neither pains nor expense in making such improvements as were considered best calcu- lated to enhance its value. Modern research has necessitated a most careful revision of the history of Assyria, Babylonia, Egypt and the earlier portions of Roman and Greek history. At the same time the preservation of Fredet’s plan to present ancient history, not ethnologically, but as far as possible as ¢
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QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. a succession of cotemporaneous events, has been deemed essential, as this feature consti- tutes probably the keynote to the well- deserved popularity of the work, inasmuch as it is most apt to fasten upon the juvenile — mind a proper concatenation of facts. The teachers, no doubt, will as much welcome the headings of paragraphs in bold black type as the scholars, and the publishers hope to have thereby added to the intrinsic merit of Mr. Fredet’s compendium. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 12mo, cloth, pp. 543, $1.50. GEOGRAPHY. 7 One of the most important aids in the study of Geography and History which we have had the pleasure of noticing for years is _ the ‘‘Manual of Geography,” by Prof..Fred- - erick Maglott, now in its third edition. It is a comprehensive exposition of the whole subject of geography, adapted to any series of text-books, and is intended for the use of pupils as well as teachers. As asupplement- ary text-book it will prove very useful, as it will excite an interest in the subject that can seldom be obtained in the ordinary way. Ada, Ohio: L. J. Kemp, 8vo, cloth, pp. 449, $1.50. To the great publishing centres of the East the educational systems of the western states and territories have always turned for their text-books and school supplies, but there lies before us as we write a copy of a new ‘* Advanced School Geography,” published in response to a popular demand made upon the author of ‘‘ Niles’ Elementary Geogra- phy,” which would brook no denial, and an outgrowth of the eminent satisfaction which the latter work has given to the teachers and school officers who have used it. The maps and charts are of unusual clearness and well defined, in marked contrast with many other similar publications, while the illustrations are the finest we have seen in any text-book, and very effective in illustrating the text and imparting additional knowledge. It is well written, pleasing and interesting in style, and meaty, not a superfluous word seemingly being used, and shows a wonderful degree of painstaking in using just the right word to 21 express any particular meaning. The author has endeavored to develop self-reliance on the part of the pupil, throwing him upon his own resources, yet giving him all needed help to stimulate and lead him to a better under- standing of the subjects. We think the mechanical execution of the Beok will be a revelation to those who have used only eastern books. We learn that there is a demand for the book in the public schools of Illinois, Iowa and Dakota, and other western states may go further and fare worse. St. Paul: D. D# Merril, 4to, cloth, pp. 138, Introduc- tion price, 80 cents. MISCELLANEOUS. 3 A practical and desirable ‘‘Manual of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,” by Charles F. Heebner, instructor in phar- macy in the New York College of Pharmacy, has just been published by the author at 5 Gold St. New York. The price of the regular edition is $2.00, delivered free by mail; or interleaved for $2.25. NEWS AND NOTES. A new and cheaper edition of ‘‘ Child Life in Japan,’ by the late Mrs. M. C. Chaplin Ayrton, will be published at once by Griffith, Farran & Co., London. It was originally issued ten years ago, and in its then expens-., ive form met with considerable success, the edition being entirely sold out in a very short time. The literary world was startled early last month by the announcement of the death of the well known teacher and lecturer, A. Bronson Alcott, and his even better known daughter, Lousia M. Alcott, the father on the 4th inst., and the daughter on the 6th. -Miss Alcott had been in declining health for some time, and it is supposed her care of her father in his long illness so fatally weak- ened her that she was not able to rally from the shock of his loss. Mr. Alcott was 88 years old, and wasone of the inner circle of
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122 New England /teratiz, He was one of the founders of the Concord School of Philoso- phy, and the original ‘‘ Conversations” which he inaugurated were quite unique. important work was that of an educator, and it was while engaged in teaching at German- _ town, Philade#phia, in 1833, that his daughter Louisa was born. “Miss Alcott’s books for young people, ‘‘ Little Women,” ‘‘ An Old- Fashioned Girl,” etc., have had a popularity possibly not surpassed by any American books except Mrs. Stowe’s. G. P. Putnam’s Sons announce for early publication ‘‘ Bibliotheca Jeffersoniana,”’ a list of works written by or referring to Thomas Jefferson. Compiled with annota- tions by Hamilton B. Tompkins. Limited letter-press edition, uniform with the sets of Hamilton and Franklin. ‘‘ Proverbs and Phrases of all Ages,’’ classified subjectively and sub-classified alphabetically. . Compiled by Robert Christy. And in. poetry, ‘‘Andia- torocté; or, The Eve of Lady Day at Lake George and other Poems, Hymns and Med- itations,”” by Rev. Clarence A. Walworth. ‘*Poems of the Plains,” by Thomas B. Peacock. Since the days of ‘‘A Fool’s Errand,” ‘* Bricks Without Straw,”’ and that whole series of extraordinary novels laid amid scenes of slavery, war and reconstruction, Judge Tourgee has not attempted much fiction, confining himself to journalistic work and lecturing. But he has sent out several clever things with such touches of his characteristic power as show that. the ‘‘wonted fires” are only covered, not out. Fords, Howard & Hulbert will shortly publish a story from his pen entitled ‘‘ Black Ice,’’ which is said to contain some notable character-studies, with incidents of flood and field that make the. pulse beat quick. Cassell & Company have ready a life of the late Emperor of Germany, by Archibald Forbes, the famous war correspondent. The early chapters have been in type several weeks, but the book has been held back in anticipation of the sad event that has plunged all Germany in sorrow. The Emperor His most QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. William’s life covers ninety years, and he has played an important part in the world’s history, having helped to defeat the First Napoleon when a lad of seventeen, and having driven the Third Napoleon from: France in his old age. Mr. Forbes’ graphic pen has never had a better opportunity than in the writing of this book, and it is doubtful if the German Emperor will ever have a more brilliantly written biography. The majority of Americans, if asked who wrote the ‘‘Star Spangled Banner,” would reply Francis Scott Key, meaning that the melody was his composition. As a matter of fact the melody was an old convivial song familiar in England and America before Key was born. Key wrote the stirring words under circumstances that might have made a man of meaner talents a poet. The spirit of patriotism inspired the verses and gave them a wide acceptance before they had been adapted to melody. F. O. Jones, in his ‘*Hand-book of American Music and Musi- cians,’’ says that the words of the ‘‘Star Spangled Banner”’ ‘‘ were adapted to English music by F. Durang and first sung by him in a house near the Holiday Street Theatre, Baltimore. ‘The song was first printed by B. Ides of the same city.”’ Mr. Kennan’s Siberian papers illustrated by G. A. Frost, who accompanied Mr. Kennan on his trip through Asiatic Russia, will begin in the May Century. ‘Their appear- ance has been deferred on account of the author’s desire to group in preliminary papers —the last of which will be in the April Century —an account of the conditions and events in Russia directly related to the exile system. This systen.is now to be minutely described and elaborately pictured; and by way of preface to the first illustrated paper Mr. Kennan will, in a brief statement, answer the question as to how he came to enter upon his arduous and somewhat perilous investiga- tions, and why he and his companion were accorded such extraordinary facilities by the Russian Government itself. In the April Century Mr. Kennan will write of ‘‘ The Russian Penal Code.”’
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QUESTION DEPARTMENT. Answers to Questions in this number will appear in the June issue. MYTHOLOGICAL FACETIA., (Exclusively Classical,— Roman and Grecian.) WM. EMMETTE COLEMAN, 1. A succession of things. 2. An article of apparel, and a more useful article. 3. A male honey-manufacturer. 4. A school-book. 5. . A blustering fellow. 6. Disfigures. 7. A-cooking utensil. 8. Is extensively used in medicine. g. A South American bird. 10. Small pieces of wood. 11. A magnificent dwelling. 12. A kind of green. 13. Alluring. ‘14. What is the most common title in Spain? 15. Descriptive of giants. 16. A long breath, and a kind of wharf. 17. Sycophancy. 18. A labyrinth. 1g. Strikes. 20. Support-our side. 21. ) Has it been fulfilled ?
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124 25. ‘* There rose another hoary man and said In faltering accents, to that weeping train: ‘Why mourn ye that our aged friend is dead? / Ye are not sad to see the gathered grain, Nor when their mellow fruit the orchards cast, Nor whe ripenéd mast. (a) Who was ‘‘ our aged friend”? the other ‘‘ hoary man” ? the yellow woods let fall the >»? (b) Who was SCULPTURE, ELLEN R. MARTIN. 26. What/ was the reclining figure in the ex- treme angle to the right of Athena? 27. What are the Elgin Marbles? 28. What is the subject of the Metopes? 29. How many are preserved and where are they? 30. In what did Phidias excel ? 8 here is the Venus di Milo now? 32. o we know the sculptor of the Venus di Milo? a4. hy was one of Polycletus’ chief works called the Canon? 34. hat is Polycletus’ chief work ? 35. Who united the time of Phidias with the younger school ? 36. When was the Colossus at Rhodes de- stroyed ? 37. What Colossus is in this country ? 38. In what was Praxiteles successful above all others? 39. What was Praxiteles’ most celebrated work ? 40. What work of this epoch has become famous in a work of romance? 41. To what style does the Cnidian Venus be- long? 42. Why is the Venus di Medici so called? 43. Where is this statue now? ° 44. Who was the artist? 45. In how many pieces was the Venus di Medici when found ? 46. With what is it often confounded ? - 47. What Venus has much the same attitude : ? 48. Mention some other Venuses. 49. Where now is the group of the Laocoon? 50. Who were the sculptors of this group? HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY. FREDERICK MAGLOTT. 26. What place is known as the garden of America? ‘ QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. 27. Name the three largest canals of the Middle Atlantic States. 28. For what historic event is Trenton, N. J., noted ? 29. Give height of Washington monument. 30. What city is the first rice market in the United States ? 31. What city of the Southern States is known as the Gate City ? | 32. What and where are the ‘‘ Twelve Apos- tles”’ ? 33. What does the word Michigan mean? 34. Name the first railroad built in Ohio. 35. Who laid out Cleveland, Ohio, and when ? 36. Who were Ohio’s first territorial and state governors ? : 37. When and by whom was the first settlement made in Ohio? 38. When was the capital removed to Columbus ? 39, Which is the largest of the Colorado parks ? Its area? 40. When and by whom was Salt Lake City laid out? 41. When and by whom was Columbia River. discovered ? 42. When and by het was Behring Strait discovered ? 43. . When was Sitka founded ? 44. When and by whom was Iceland settled ? 45. What important islands do the French own in British America ? ’ 46. Why was the Telegraphic Plateau so called ? 47. Who first settled Canada? When and where ? 48. When was the present capital of Guatemala built ? 49. Narhe the capital of Mexico at the time of its discovery. 50. Name the oldest town on the Western Con- tinent. : LITERARY SOBRIQUETS. Cc. W. 51. The Dean. 52. George the Grinder. 53. <A Literary Machiavel. 54. The Literary Bull-dog. 55. Pope in Worsted Stockings. 56. The Scorpion. 57. A Second Johnson. 58. The Sublime Child. 59. Nestor of English Authors. 60. The Poet of the Chase. 61. Poet of the Common Place. 62. The Scott of the Sea. MOULTON.
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QUERIES, Tryteus of the British Navy. The Buddha of the West. 65. The Liberator of the World. 66. The Great Gander of Glasgow. Demon of Darkness. The Sabbath Bard. Upright Telltruth, Esq. Deep-Mouthed Boeotian. 71. The Warbler of Poetic Prose, 72. The Hemans of America. 73. My Epic Renegade. 74. The Father of English Numbers. 75. The School-Master of the Republic. LITERATURE OF FRANCE. CHARLES W. BAIN. 51. When and where was Pierre Corneille born ?/{ 52. From what classical play was Matamore, if ¢ the Comic Illusion, an adaptation? 53. To whom was he indebted ‘for the plot of the Cid ?- fo 4 Cee eo A hia" 774650 { 54. Name his teat eek ae 7 55. What was the greatest satire of Theodore Agrippa d’Aubigne ? 56. Give a brief outline of Blaise Pascal. 57. Give a brief sketch of Theophile de Vian. 58. What great satirist followed in the first half. of the seventeenth century? Name his ey te ee 59. Who was the Maecenas of France? 15/../' 60. What was his greatest work ? 61. .Give the dates of the birth and death of Rene Descartes. 62. Give a brief sketch of his life. 63. What is the reeeiras Age of se Literature? 7/46 fH 4- / 7/445" firn att] 64. Name the three “greatest dramatists of France. | 65. Give a brief sketch of the life of Moliere. 66.. Name his best production. 67. Upon what classic play is ‘‘l’Avare” based ? 68. Give dates of the birth ay, Peo of Jean de La Fontaine. Vb ~/ @s | 69. What is considered Scarron’s best play pet bs 70. Give a brief account of Balzac’s style. “~~ 71. Upon what work does La Rochefoucaulds fame chiefly rest? //, perp Ane -72. Name the historians of the een nae Hof France. (pra cd at kiAy ~ om Ma 73. Who was the Great Critic of the Ageé of Louis Quatoize? /4_ oS FS 74. Criticise his style. 75. Give the dates = Ph ad death of Jean Racine. 2 p & fern, "FAMILIAR SCIENCE. | DAVID W. DENNIS, A. M. 76. ‘Can you show that a candle will not burn in air which has been breathed? How? APRIL, 1888. A V8 7. ar 92. 125 77- Why will it not? 78. (a) What will burn in carbonic acid gas? (b) Why will it burn? 79. Why will not wood burn in carbonic acid gas? 80. Is carbonic acid gas poisonous? 81. What causes bread to rise when ‘‘ baking powder” is used ? 82. What causes bread to rise when yeast is used ? 83. What is ‘‘soda water” ? 84. Why is carbon well fitted for fuel? Give at © least three reasons, 85. What is the principle upon which fires are put out by the ‘‘ Babcock Fire Extinguisher ”’ ? $686. Why are trundle-beds barbarous ? ; An expert swimmer fell in a beer vat ; was he drowned ? 88. A traveler went to sleep near the top of a lime-kiln. Why did he not waken? Give two reasons. why 89. Is carbonic acid gas a useful ingredient of air? Why? go. Why should plants grow in the aquarium ? gi. Is it wise that the air from our northern cities is carried by the trade winds to the selvas of the Amazon? Why? How is nitrogen prepared ? 93. How does its presence in the air serve us every day? 94. What is the effect if a burning splinter is thrust into (a) oxygen? (b) nitrogen? (c) carbonic acid gas? (d) hydrogen? 95. Why does a stopper wet with hydrochloric acid smoke when brought near one wet with harts- horn? 96. What is the best gas for filling balloons ? Why? 97. Why will not a balloon once filled with a gas remain perpetually in the air? 98. Could you pour hydrogen from one vessel ahdither How ? fd aie 9%. Could you pour carbonic acid gas from one vessel to another? How? 100. Why do hydrogen and marsh gas make |,little light when they burn? to. LAST WORDS OF NOTED PERSONAGES. (Alleged.) WM. EMMETTE COLEMAN. 76. I leave my soul to its Maker, my body to my mother and sister, and my curse to Bristol. If Mr. Ca 77. (Referring to an apricot that he had eaten.) How the devil can that hurt me?
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126 a APRIL, 1888. 78. The righteous wait expectant till I receive my recompense. 79. Take me, for I come to Thee! 80. Now it is come (2). 81. It is all over; write, ‘‘ Eddie is no more.” 82. Oh my country! How I leave my country! 83. What blood! what murders! Ah, what evil counsel have I followed! Oh, my God, par- don me! . | 84. The water is good, thank you. 85. Iam notafraid to die. I am ready. endeavored to do my duty. 86. This is as it should be. 87. Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it! I can bear it! 88. I only feel a difficulty of existing. 89. Sister! Sister! Sister! go. Thanks be to God for all things. gt. This is dying. 92. Iam prepared to die for Christ and for His Church. 93. (In reply to the remark, ‘‘ You have your feet on the Rock.”) I do not venture to speak so positively, but I hope I have. 94. Iam free at last; send for Eliza. 95. I leave this mortal scene hoping, not fear- ing, trusting implicitly in the infinite mercy and love of God. 96. Welcome joy! 97. Idon’t think I shall get over this. 98. What should I wish to live for? 99. Children, as soon as I am released, sing a psalm of praise to God. 100. Albe, mon cher pays, et mon _ premier amour. (Quotation from Corneille’s tragedy of ‘* Horace.’’) I have ANSWERS. - Answers to Questions that appeared in the February number. LITERARY SOBRIQUETS. Cc. W. MOULTON. Richard Owen. Walter Mapes. Alexander Scott. Sir Walter Scott. Andrew Marvell. Samuel Foote. William Henry Milburn. James Holman. John Aberthny. Some ae ee PR aa 10. Alexander de Hales. 11. Henry Mackenzie. 12. Joseph Dennie. 13. Matthew Gregory Lewis. 14. Anna Louise Karsch. 15. Alexander Pope. 16. Francis Hare. 17. Lord Byron, by Shelley, in ‘‘ Adonis.”’ 18. Kalidasa. . 19. John Taylor. 20. Johann Sturm. 21. William Smith. 22. John Oldham. 23. Joachim du Bellay. 24. Joao de Barros. 25. Raymond Lully. LITERATURE OF FRANCE, CHARLES W. BAIN. 1. The literature of a country should be the history of its people. To fully comprehend and enjoy the literature of a people, we must know their character, surroundings, and geographical position, in order that our own thoughts and sym- pathies may be in complete unison with those of the writers. at ieee | 2. (1) Race, (2) politics, (3) philosophy, (4) re- ligion, (5) geographical situation. 3. The Celts were the oldest known inhabitants of Western Europe. These, in pre-historic times, were certainly driven back, in France at least, into the extreme west, and may now be seen among the . European family, characteristics of race, manners | and physiognomy remaining as evidence. Their descendants inhabit the northwestern promontory of Britany. Little of their language is now in existence east of this line, being absorbed by the Basque language, which has no resemblance to any other existing tongue. The Celts were driven back by the Iberians, who are supposed by Humboldt and others of eminence to be identical with the modern Basques. These, at their earliest authentic history, occupied the southern part of Spain and France, frum the line above mentioned as far east as the Arno. The Aquitanians are probably a branch of this race, although, according to Strabo, they differed in language and appearance from the rest of Gaul. These, in turn, were pressed upon and driven back by the Frankish and Gothic inva- sions. In the time of Julius Caesar the Celts occu- pied in Europe what we now call France. They were divided into two branches, the Cimbric branch, or Cymric, in the northwest, and the Gaelic branch, or Gaels, in the gentre. Among
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QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. 127 other civilizations, those of Greece and Rome may be mentioned, of which Marseilles and Narbonne were the most flourishing. The typical Gaul is of medium height, fair complexion, ruddy cheeks, blue eyes, and the hair long and of a light color. The form spare, head round, eyes large, nose and chin and forehead rounded off, and the beard was ‘short or wholly absent. He was full of fire and spirit, eager for battle, and impatient under calami- ties. Their institutions were similar to those of all nations in infancy, such as slavery, polytheism, and a contempt for women and children. They adhered to the Druidic religion. The Druids were the governing class, having charge of the legisla- tion, administration, education and divination, and general tutelage of the state. They were the seers, poets, oracles, and interpreters of mysterious things. There was no sanctity attached to married life. Cripples and sickly children were not allowed to live. In fact, the liberty, faith and love of modern civilization were but hollow names to the ancients. Refinement and cultivation came from the south, with the Pelasgians and Etruscans, to the Mediter- ‘ranean shores, while moral civilization had its origin in the north, and to this union is due the fertility of modern thought. 4. (1) The Onadd, the wielder of the sacrificial knife and performer of the menial. duties of the Druidic ritual; (2) the Druid proper, deriving his name from the Celtic deru, oak, was the divining priest, oracle, and interpreter, presiding at religious rites, cutting the sacred mistletoe, and supposed to be in direct communion with the deity; (3) the Bard, who was the poet, teacher and historian, and who sang the sacred mysteries of religion. 5. Guinklan. 6. Marie de France. Subjects of her ‘‘ Tableaux from /ats Bretons.” 7. Subject: ‘‘Stand of the Biscayans against the Romans.” 8. Theocritus. g. Eumenius, a Greek by parentage but a Gaul by birth. . 10. Lactantius. 11. Ausonius. 12. Sidonius Appolinaris, St. Gregory, Bishop -of Tours, and Fortunatus. 13. Einhard (or Eginhard). 14. Alcuin. 15. John Scotus, Smaragdus, Benedict of Ani- ane, Peter of Pisa, Paul, the Lombard, and Paulinus of Aquileia, and Eginhard. 16. Langue d'oc was the language of the South -of France. Langue d’oil was that of the North. 17. The Troubadours were writers in the langue a’oc. — 18. They sang favorite songs of dead or absent Troubadours, accompanying the words on a musical instrument. 19. Nostradamus. . 20. These are the most dignified of the songs of the Troubadours. 21. The Sirvente gradually became changed from subjects of love to those of war, the satires of manners and of political abuses.. The TZensons were discussions between knights and lady poets upon delicate love questions. The Awbade may be classed among the most graceful in form and spirit of Provencal songs. ; 22. Raimbaud, Count of Orange. 23. These were the makers of all poems to de- light all classes and rouse their spirits, even for war. 24. The ‘‘ Chanson de Roland.” 25. The Roman des Loherains. FAMILIAR SCIENCE. DAVID W. DENNIS, A. M. 26: It enforces crosses between blossoms. 27. The taller and more rapidly-growing weeds of the field have driven plantain to the yard. The seeds cling to animals and men and are trans- planted. 28. The blossom cannot fertilize itself and the ordinary honey bee cannot reach the honey of red clover, and there are not many bumble bees at the season of first crop. 29. The more cats, the fewer ground mice; the fewer mice, the more bumble bees; the more bumble bees, the more clover seed. 30. Two or three joints sevolve and so hunt the support. 31. Squirrels leave the seeds there. . 32. Leaves of the elm are in ¢wo opposite rows ; of the hedge plant in eight scattered rows. 33. Resisting the wind in the field toughens the grain. 34. The fotaio is the plant’s means of reproduc- tion where the summer is too short to mature tops and seeds, 35. Each separate piece grows and becomes a new plant. 36. Holland. 37. Repent stems enable the sands to resist the wash, and so the dykes stand. 38. The palm. 39. (a) John G. Whittier. (b) The palm tree. 40. To enable the plant to resist the storm. 41. (a) Strength of root and trunk. (b) Shelter and elasticity of stem.
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128 42. . William Wordsworth. . 43. The ‘‘Oak and the Broom.” 44. William Cullen Bryant. 45. J. G. Holland. 46. They grow from a bulb stored up the year | before. 47- William Cullen Bryant. 48. To resist the wind and get the protection of the snow from the cold. The stem is a convenient not an essential part of the plant. » 49. Protoplasm. 50. The contents produce the walls. LAST WORDS OF NOTED PERSONAGES. (Alleged.) WM. EMMETTE COLEMAN, 26. John C. Calhoun. 27. Marie Antoinette. 28. Emanuel Swedenborg. 29. Horace Greeley. 30. Algernon Sidney. 31. Count Cavour. 32. Thomas Gainesborough. 33. Junius Brutus Booth, the Elder. 34. Thomas Jefferson. 35. J.C. Frederick Schiller. 36. Muhammad: ; 37. John Brown, of Osawatomie. 38. Cardinal Beaufort. 39. William Henry Harrison. 40. George Sand. 41. Francis Pizarro. 42. Hannah More. 43. Jean Paul Richter. 44. M. F. Arouet de Voltaire. 45. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. 46. John A. Logan. 47. George the Fourth, of England. 48. James Buchanan. 49. Lord Chesterfield. 50. Lord Byron. AMERICAN MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. F. O. JONES. 51. About the middle of the last century. 52. Stoughton Musical Society, Stoughton, 53. William Billings, an early American com- 54. Nov. 7, 1786, 55. Elijah Dunbar. 56. Bay State Psalm Book. QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. 57. At Cambridge, Mass., in 1640, being the second book attempted by the colonists. 58. Several Puritan clergymen. 59. More than seventy. 60. in 1738. 61. American Harmony, Newburyport, Mass., in 1769; Collection of the Best Psalm Tunes, Boston, in 1764; Grounds and Rules of Music, Roxbury, Mass., in 1721; Plain and Easy Instruction, New- bury, Mass., in 1712. 62. William Billings. 63. Born at Boston, Oct. 7, 1746; died there, Sept. 26, 1800. He was self-taught in music, and compiled no less than six collections of pieces. 64. Because he was the first one to evince any real musical talent. 65. Oliver Holden. Born at Charlestown, Mass., in 1765; died at.the same place in 1831(?). Samuel Holyoke. Born at Boxford, Mass., in 1771; died at Concord, N. H., in 1816. Jeremiah Ingalls. Born at Andover, Mass., in 1764; died in 1828. Andrew Law. Born at Cheshire, Conn., in 1748; died there in 1821. John Stickney. Born at Stough- ton, Mass.} in 1742; died in 1826. 66. Of psalm-tunes and easy anthems. 67. Arnheim, 1785; China, 1785; Coronation, 1792; Northfield, 1805. 68. . Three. 69. Hail Columbia, Star Spangled Banner and Yankee Doodle. 70. Yankee Doodle. 71. %In1775. 72. A Dr. Shackburg. The music is of unknown origin, but was probably arranged by Dr. Shack- burg. 7 73. No; there is no natural sentiment expressed by either words or music. 74. In 1708. 75. Judge Joseph Hopkinson wrote the words for a friend of his, and the music is an arrangement of the ‘‘ President’s March,” then a popular piece. HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. T. S. PRICE. 51. Four years. 52. Forty. 53. Four years. 54. Eighty. 55. Two years. 56. 1879. : 57. _Biennially, with special sessions at the call of the governor. 58. Sec. 3, Art. I, which says, ‘‘ The State of California is an inseparable part of the Atherican At London, Eng., in 1737, and in Scotland
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QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. 129 Union, and the Constitution of the United States 94. Partridge. is the supreme law of the land.” — 95. Bobolink. 59. The same as that under the National Con- g6. Camel. stitution. 97. Turkey. 60. No. 98. Vampire. 61. Yes; the same as the President. 99. Puffer. 62. No. too. Ant. — 63. The act of seeking to influence the vote ofa ENGLISH LITERATURE. member of the Legislature, by bribe, promise of oe al future reward, etc.; it constitutes the crime of Bees : felony : 76. ‘‘ Richelieu,” and ‘‘ Lady of Lyons.” 64. He shall be a citizen of the United States, 77. Benjamin Disraeli, have resided in the state five years, and be twenty- 78. Professor of Modern History. five years old. 79. Charlotte Bronte. 65. One Chief Justice and six Associate Justices. 80. George Eliot. 66. Twelve years. 81. Dec. 22, 1880; in London. | 67. Convict labor shall not be let by contract. 82. Romola, Mill-on-the-Floss, Middlemarch, 68. Railroad Commissioners. 69. No Chinese shall be employed on any state, county, municipal, or other public work, except in punishment of crime. : 3 70. No corporation shall employ, directly or indirectly in any capacity, any Chinese or Mon- golian. | 71. Any citizen who shall fight 4 duel with deadly weapons, or act as second, or who shall knowingly assist any one so offending, shall not be allowed to hold any office of profit, or to enjoy the right of suffrage. 72. A plurality vote, only, specified in the Constitution. 73. Eight hours. 74. All educational offices. 75. No. unless otherwise FACETIOUS ZOOLOGY. CLARA J. MCKEAN, 76. Bear. a7, °° Fiea; 78. Robin. 79. Thrush. 80. Parr. $1. Eel. 82. Barnacle. 83. Boar. 84. Puffin. 85. Top-knot. 86. Rabbit. 87. Coot. : 88. Ass. 89. Bleak. 90. Butterfly. gI. Cat. _ g2. Clam. 93. Rat. Adam Bede, Felix Holt, Daniel Deronda. 83. Swinburne. 84. ‘‘ Faerie Queen,” ‘‘ Paradise Regained,” and ‘‘ Pilgrim’s Progress.” 85. ‘* Middlemarch.” 86. ‘* Romola.”’ 87. Mr. Cross. 88. John Morley. 89. An English author born in 1820. go. ‘‘ Principles of Psychology,” ‘‘ The Data of Ethics,” ‘‘ Education.” gi. She was not. 92. Huxley, Tyndall, and Herbert Spencer. 93. ‘*Casa Guidi Windows.” 94. Obscurity. 95. Hugh Miller. 96. Alfred Tennyson. 97. ‘‘Cor cordium” (Heart of hearts), 98. Epic, dramatic and lyric. 99. Dryden and Pope. 100. Thompson, Gray and Collins. OPEN CONGRESS | | AUTHOR WANTED. No. 189.— Kindly furnish me, through QuERIEs, the author of the following lines: — ‘* Let each and all remember We broke the sacred bread, and drank the ritual cup together, And pledged from mouth to mouth Full loyalty to Christ, and to his weakest friend. Ah, let us wait, and waiting keep our word, And wait in hope, however long, ; Till he lift up the cup on high, : The cup of human tears transformed,to heavenly wine.” J. L., Toronto, Ont.
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130 NOTRE DAME. No. 190.— Was the Notre Dame of Paris ever destroyed ? P..A. W., Warsaw, Ind. The celebrated cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, was founded in 1163. It narrowly escaped destuc- *tion by the Communists, May, 1871, and has since been beautifully restored. . Co W. M. MYTHOLOGY. No. 191.— What books would you advise me to consult in the study of mythology at home? D. A., Portland, Me. ‘« Smith’s Classical Dictionary” or ‘‘ Lempriere’s Mythology” gives Greek and Roman mythology ; ‘*Norse Mythology” gives that of Scandinavia, and Baring-Gould’s ‘‘ Legends of Prophets and Patriarchs” that of the Israelites. Edwin Arnold’s poems give some of the mythology of the Hindus ; and there isa book on Indian folk lore which gives that of the red men. C. W. M. R. D. BLACKMORE, No. 192.— Please give short life of the novelist, Blackmore, and oblige, H. D., Reading, Pa. Richard Doddridge Blackmore, the novelist is the son of the Rev. John Blackmore, and great-great grandson of Dr. Doddridge. He was born at Longworth, Berks, 1825, and graduated at Oxford in 1847. He was called to the bar in 1852, and afterward practiced as a conveyancer. His first novel was ‘i Clara Vaughn,” published in 1864. His most famous book is ‘‘ Lorna Doone,” published in 1869, and the first appreciated by the Americans. C. W. M. GREAT. CHURCHES, No. 193.— Please name the largest European churches, with their capacity? D. C. Albany, N. Y. St. Peter’s Rome, will accommodate 54,000 per- sons; Duoma, Milan, 37,000; St. Paul’s in Rome, 25,000; St Sophia, Constantinople, 23,000; Notre Dame de Paris, 21,000; the Dome of Florence, 20,000; the Cathedral of Pisa, 13,000; St. Mare, in Venice, 7,000. TWELVE MEN MORRIS. No. 194.—Can you describe the game of ‘‘ Twelve Men Morris”? By doing so you will oblige a reader of QUERIES. H. A. J., Buffalo, N. Y. The game you refer to as ‘‘ Twelve Men Morris”’ is probably, if you have not misunderstood its title, and really refer to a pastime by that name, a modification of the old English game of ‘‘ Nine Men’s Morris” mentioned by Shakespeare, and supposed to be identical with that of ‘‘ Nine-holes,” referred to by Robert Herrick in his ‘‘ Hesperides.” The game ig described by James in the ‘‘ Variornen Shakespeare” as follows: ‘‘In that part of War- QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. wickshire where Shakespeare was educated, and the neighboring parts of Northamptonshire, the shep- herds and other boys dig up the turf with their knives to represent a perfect chessboard. It consists of a square, sometimes only a foot in diameter, sometimes three or four yards. Within this is another square, every side of which is parallel to the external square; and these squares are joined by lines drawn from each corner of both squares and the middle of each line. One party or player has wooden pegs, the other stones, which they move in such a manner as to take up each others’ men, as they are called, and the area of the inner square is _ called the pound, in which the men taken up are im- pounded. These figures are by the country people called nine men’s morris or merrils, and are so called because each party has nine men. . This game was also transferred to a board, and continues a fireside recreation of the agricultural laborer.” We cannot give the name of any standard anthority on the game, although some reader may be able to further enlighten you. It is said also to be known by the name of ‘‘ Mill,” or ‘‘Shepherd’s Mill,” and as such to be referred to in Brand’s ‘‘ Popular Antiquities?’ Vol., II. pp. 429-32, published in 1849. C, W. M. RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Lowell, James Rtssell. Heartsease and Rue. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 16mo, cloth, pp. 218, $1.25. : Palmer, Mary T. The Doctor of Deane. Bos- ton: D. Lothrop Co, 12mo, cloth, pp. 293, $1.25. Adams, Herbert B. . Seminary Libraries and University Extension. Baltimore: N. Murray, agent, Johns Hopkins University. 8vo, paper, PP. 32, 25c. White, Andrew D. European Schools of History and Politics. Baltimore: N. Murray, agent, Johns Hopkins University. 8vo, paper, pp. 89, 25c. Adams, Herbert B. Notes on the Literature of Charities. Baltimore: N. Murray, agent, Johns Hopkins University. 8vo, paper, pp. 48, 25c. Cormenius, John Amos. Ovdis Pictus. Syra- cuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bardeen. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, pp. 200, $3.00. | Willey, Samuel H., D. D. A History of the College of California. San Francisco: Samuel Carson & Co. 8vo, cloth, pp. 432. Hackett, Fred H., and Ernest A. Girvin. Pure English; a Treatise on Words and Phrases, or Practical Lessons in the Use of Language. San Francisco: Samuel Carson & Co. 16mo, cloth, pp. 205, $I.
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QUERIES, APRIL, 1888. 131 Kennedy, James G., and Fred H.. Hackett. Common School English; a Graded Series of Lan- guage Lessons, for the Use of Teachers of Primary Schools. ‘San Francisco: Samuel Carson & Co. 16mo, cloth, pp. ror. Hutson, Prof. Charles Woodward. Out of a Besieged City; a Tale of the Revolution. New York: John B. Alden, 1887. 12mo, cloth, pp. 67, 30c. Deiler, J. Hanno. Volapiik (Universal Lan- guage); a Short Grammar with Aids to Memory. New Orleans: J. Hanno Deiler. 8vo, paper, pp. 15; 25¢. Bridges, Fidelia and Dora Reed Goodale. A Birthday Book of Birds. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Bro. Folio, paper, unique, $1.50. Cross, Amy, editor. Good Thoughts and, True from Robert Browning. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Bro. Folio, paper, unique, $1. « Easter Booklets: Life’s Lilies; An Easter An- them; Message of the Sparrow; Easter Echoes; 25c. Easter Messages; What of the Night? 50c. Birthday Booklet: The Dial of Flowers, 25c. New York: The Harlem, 210g Third Avenue. THE QUERY BOX. FaceTious ZOOLOGY.— 210. One hundred ques- tions. Perfect score 1,000. First prize won by Helen Gates Henry, score 1,000. Second, third and fourth prizes divided between D. A. Wheeler, Mary Kurtz, De Witt C. Jones, Manly C. Brown, and P. J. Gerald, score g90. Competitors, 108. ENGLISH LITERATURE.— 211. One hundred ques- tions. Perfect score, 1,000. First prize won by Eva Boyse, score 985. Second prize won by Dele- van Murray, score 970. Third prize won by A. C. Day, score 960. Fourth prize won by Alexander Alexander, score 950. Competitors, 103. PRT EE 5S. No. 214.—FAMILIAR SCIENCE. One hundred ques- tions. Prize $10. First $5, second $2.50, third $1.50, fourth QUERIES one year. Answers to fourth set of questions due May 15. | No. 215.—Last Worps OF NOTED PERSONAGES. One hundred questions. Prize $10. First $5, second $2.50, third $1.50, fourth QUERIES one year. Answers to fourth set of questions due May 15. No. 216.—LITERARY SOBRIQUETS. One hundred questions. Prize $10. First $5, second $2.50, third $1.50, fourth QUERIES one year. Answers to third set of questions due May 15. No. 217. LITERATURE OF FRANCE. One hundred questions. Prize $10. First $5, second $2,50, third $1.50, fourth QUERIES one year. Answers to third set of questions due May I5. No. 218.—ScuLPTURE. One hundred questions. Prize $10. First $5, second $2.50, third $1.50, fourth QUERIES one year. Answers to second set of questions due May 15. No. 219.—HIsTORICAL GEOGRAPHY. One hundred questions. Prize $10. First $5, second $2.50, third $1.50, fourth QUERIES one year. Answers to second set of questions due May I5. No. 220.— MYTHOLOGICAL FACETI4. One hun- dred questions. Prize $10. First $5, second $2.50, third $1.50, fourth QUERIES one year. Answers to first set of questions due May I5. No. 221.— WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. One hun- dred questions. Prize $10. First $5, second $2.50, third $1.50, fourth QUERIES one year. Answers to first set.of questions due May 15. RULES FOR COMPETITORS. 1. The object of the prize questions is to stimu- late students to embrace a more extended and com- prehensive view of the subject treated, and furnish the instructor and his class an entertaining depart- ment. 2. Every reader of QUERIES is entitled to com- pete. Letters should bear post-mark not later than the date specified. 3. Answers should be arranged and numbered, written legibly in ink on one side of note paper only, headed with the subject, and signed by the full address of the competitor. Answers should be as concise as possible. Where practicable, authori- ties should be given. 4. <A-score of ten will be allowed for each cor- rect answer; answers in part will be accredited. All answers will be placed on file and a correct account kept. The competitor who answers the greatest number of questions will be awarded first prize, etc. 5. The editor reserves the right to receive an- swers that differ from those published, if in his judgment they are acceptable. 6. Prizes will be declared when stated, and are payable in new and standard books selected from the list of Recent Publications as published. Prize winners ordering books by mail should return the amount of postage on receipt of books. 7. Clubs and Reading Circles are allowed to compete as one individual, but no more than one member of the same club can compete for the same prize. : 8. All answers, and inquiries concerning them, should be addressed, with postage fully prepaid, to the Editor of Qurrtrs, Buffalo, N. Y. ~
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132 QUERIES. A Monturiy Review oF LITERARY, ART, SCIENTIFIC AND GENERAL EDUCATIONAL QUESTIONS OF THE Day. CONDUCTED BY C. W. MOULTON. SUBSCRIPTION :—In the United States and Canada, One Dollar a year. Clubs of seven copies at Six Dollars. Foreign, Six Shillings. Single copies, ten cents. - To Contrisutors :—Contributions are solicited for QUERIES on all subjects of general interest. The friends of higher education who are willing to promote the interests of this mode of instruction are invited to furnish a series of one hun- dred questions and answers for early publication. Contributors ‘will please use due caution in compilation, as it isa part of the plan of publication that all questions should be known only to the contributor and the Editor before appearing in the magazine. To SusscriBers :— Persons ordering a change in the direc- tions of the magazine must give both the old and the new ad- dress in full. All subscribers who do not receive their magazine promptly will’please notify us at once. The receipt of the magazine will be a sufficient acknowledgement fora single subscription. When no time is specified, it will be un- derstood that the subscriber wishes to commence with the current number. Remit by Postal Note, Money Order, or Draft on New York. Ail communications should be ad- dressed to MOULTON, WENBORNE & CO., 37 and 39 Court Street, BUFFALO, N. Y. PRIZE SELECTIONS. In March, 1887, Messrs. D. Lothrop Company of Boston, Mass., published a volume of poetical quotations, entitled ‘‘ Prize Selections.” In con- nection with this volume the publishers offered prizes to the amount of three hundred dollars to the successful competitors who would name the author of the greatest number of the quotations. The book was a success, having had a large sale. Nearly two thousand persons, geographically dis- tributed throughout the United States and Canada, entered the competition. ‘‘ Prize Selections” was compiled by C. W. Moulton, editor of QuERIEs. In response to numerous and urgent requests from many of our readers and others, Mr. Moulton has consented to give a history of the contest and its results, together with a list of the authors of the quotations in this magazine. Upon the publication of ‘‘ Prize Selections,” the book was not without opposition from the Press, but the general sentiment seemed to be that ‘‘aside from the interest of the search for authors, the plan’ will be a benefit in educating readers to a love of poetry and in making them acquainted with the works and lives of the best English and American writers of verse from the earliest times down to the writers of to-day.” That the criticism was a just one, and that the result has been most beneficial, OUERIES, APRIL, 1888. two thousand competitors will attest. Early last. summer a Vermont paper contained the following characteristic anecdote: ‘‘An enterprising news- paper man was the first purchaser of the book in St. Johnsbury, and the contagion rapidly spread, until dozens of the book had been sold; and the purchasers are now in the thick of the fight, each with his eagle eye firmly fixed on the first prize.” The manager of a library in New Hampshire wrote the editor: ‘‘I wonder if you have any idea of the interest these quotations have awakened? I spent a day in the Boston Public the other day, and met there four others, all equally insane on the topic. My own library here has been thor- oughly ransacked and the most wildly improbable books been pressed into the service. This, how- ever, is a small library, and after a little everybody gees down to Boston to visit some friend and use the Boston Public. I hope you will at once publish a list of the authors, for everybody wants to know who wrote what they couldn’t find. The search is at once amusing and disheartening, thoroughly en- grossing and yet exasperating. And where several are hunting in the same town the amount of crow- ing over individual finds is something appalling.” Owing to the delay in the mail service caused by the late great storm, we are unable to announce the prize winners in this number of QuERiEs, but we will do so next month, giving the full name and address of the successful competitors, together with the number of correct answers accredited to each, and other interesting items. The publication of a list of the authors of each quotation will also be com- menced in the May issue of QUERIES. As it will not be practicable to publish a complete list in one num- ber of the magazine, the list will be continued monthly until completed. To competitors we would say that all papers that bear post or express mark not later than March 15th, will be accepted. - Burra.o, March 22, 1888. CONSUMPTION CURED. An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed ~ in his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure for Ner- vous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actu- ated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send free of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe, in German, French or English, with full directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W. A. Novick, 149 Powers Block, Rochester, N. Y. CATARRH CURED. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsome disease, Waterth, and vainly trying every known remedy, at last found a prescription which completely cured and saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sending a self addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 212 East oth St., New York will receive the receipt free of charge.
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ALL ABOUT CALIFORNIA AND. THE——— PACIFIC COAST OVERLAND MONTHLY. The Pacific Coast, especially California, is now attracting the attention of thousands of homeseek- ers and capitalists. The resources, literature and ‘history of this vast section are fully set forth in the pages of THE OVERLAND Monruty. | Its stories of Western adventure, mountaineering, Indian stud- ies, and Pioneer sketches have become famous, and have been one of the strongest features of the magazine. Its literary reviews, editorials and poems rank with the best of corresponding Eastern work. $4.00 per Year. Single Copies, 35 Cents. Send 25 cents for a sample copy. Address, THE OVERLAND MONTHLY, 420 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Eastern Advertising Agent, J. Walter Thompson, 39 Park Row, New York. “A, FoR BRIDES. A novel and unique form of acknowledgment of gifts is now issued and obtainable at reasonable rates. It is described as follows: ‘* A charming little booklet. * * * The felicitous expres- sion of such thoughts as true brides should cherish.’’—Godey's Lady's Book. ‘‘ Neat and tasteful, with appreciative senti- ment.” — The Presbyterian Observer. ‘* One of the daintiest and most unique little love-mementoes on the market.’’— 7%e Monthly Gleaner. ; Specimen sent on receipt of 4oc. for quantity by MOULTON, WENBORNE & CO., Buffalo, N. Y. Solid Nickel Watch Prices quoted a 5 =| 3 = ~ J = = = = = = = This Splendid Watch isa Good Timer, Well Made, andif taken care of will last for years, It has enameled dial,second hand, half-plate movement. thick fiat crystal, dust proof This Watch is heavy and solid, willwear better than asolid 18 K Gold Watch, Willneverturn color and may be depended upon. It is only by contra‘ting for an immense number that we are able to offer this watch so cheap and we do not care to makea profit onthe Watch alone. We wish-to introduce our Mammoth 16 Page Family Paper, the IL- LUSTRATED COMPANTO. into new sections and willsendit fora full gee mee this splendid Watch described furonly $2.50 and 2@cts. extra for Regis- tering, Postace, Packing. etc. Remember, please, that this is a Guaranteed Genuine Full Size New Watch, itis nota Worthless Old Verge Watch nora Sun Dial. The picture willgive you an idea of the style of the Watch butit does not do it justice, This is not a lon: - winded Waterbury Watch either. When you order cut this outand send itsothatwe may kuow youare entitled tothe offers and know the paper the advertisement ap- peared in, Thisisthe bargain of all bargains in Watches fortbis yearsosendatonce, Muakenodelay. Remember ‘you getthis Fine Watch as described above, by Regis- tered mailand aSplendid Hllustrated Paper, one rear foronly 82,7Q0 and vhain for $O cts. extra, or Two atches, Two Chains, by Registered mail, andthe Paper one year for each Subscriber all complete for only $5.00. Send money by Registered Letter, or P.O. Order. E.F.NASON,Publisher,!IIl Nassau St., N.Y
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BLOOM OF YOUTH Every oe to be considered handsome. The mostimportant adjunct to perfect beauty is a clear, smooth, soft and beautiful skin. Ladies afflicted with Tan, Freckles, Rough or Discolored Skin and other Blemishes, should lose no time in applying this old established and delightful Toilet preparation. It will immediately obliterate all such imperfections and is perfectly harmless. It has been chemically analysed by the Board of Health of New York City, and pronounced entirely free from any material injurious to the health or skin. WHITE LILAC SOAP The new and exquisite Toilet Soap which for perfect Purity and Perman- ency of Delicate fragrance is unequalled for either Toilet or Nursery use. No materials unless carefully selected and absolutely pure ever enter into its manu- facture, hence this Soap is perfectly reliable for use in the Nursery and un- rivalled for general Toilet use. Larrp’s WuitTE Litac Tortet Soap is refreshing and soothing to the skin, leav- ing it beautifully clear soft and smooth. Price, 20c. per Cake. Box 8 Cakes 50c. Sent by Mail upon Receipt of Price. Price, 75 Cents Per Bottle. Sold by Druggists and Fancy Goods ai Sold by Druggists and Fancy Goods Y heskerk Tracy nhexks, Depot $9 Barclay St., N. Y¥. "lets pdbntal ston 10,000STEMWINDINGWATCHESFREE — Weill Stem Win Stem AY } \ | ArwZE ‘Watches fhoe te thane whois seat us mes pecaring mae ont \ ft Weide scribers to THE HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL, NS) Ww ll also to e@ wi d fi Ww E su bers one of our Geneva eo yy Stem HGUSI and Ste a) THE HOUSEHOLD ts ublished tem theres as shown * geen - URNAL! known literary its ten d with J0 ) th eons an out question the Y most popular home paper 'P n the United States, Elegantly printed on Hine paper, is nicelyillustrated. Its contributors are among the at money Can procure, Every year it has been j our custom to give away some elegant premium, worth in | he subscript on an WE W SUBSCRIBERS AT ONCE, if mon his year we pie this FY Bill, for one year’s subscription to oO and we will forward it by mail with @ N AND CHARM, ABSOLUT if W7 | ch thorequlsreuhscription } | WILL MOT BE SOLD SE premium is intended solely to n PARATE. seat greaé sole secure new subscribers, we remium will not sell it at any price. We give it away, and tho ; only way you can secure it is tosend $1.00 for one year’s su retarn mail a 9d wo Ope Baten cent: We have poun so long before the pat and post-paid as & um, erences: We have pal poy 1 bana ersame that we are pt, Lewd s. all newspaper publishers, and no dorbt to most of their readers, Any Bank, Mete ehant, Publisher or Express Agent in New York can tell you of our absolute reliability; Address. Ne = > er NS, ESS ——Y) (a> ——— SS a | BS = — THE HOUSEHOLD JOURNAL, 241 BROADWAY, NEW YORK- CARNRICK’S SOLUBLE FOOD Perfectly nourishes the child from birth, without the addition of cow's milk, and digests as easily as human milk. Send for ‘Our Baby’s First and Second Years,” by Marion Harland. REED & CARNRICK, New York. Handbook of American Music and Musicians, Containing Biographies of American Musicians and Histories of the Principal Musical Events, Institu tions and Societies. By F. O. Jones. New edition, 8vo, cloth, pp. 182, $1.00. At Bookstores, or sent post-paid by the Publishers, MOULTON, WENBORNE & CO., Buffalo, N. Y.
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> AF acd = Sfse - aety? * tae - OUERIES, APRIL, 1888. lili ll | | i i mW Wilh i ——- = — — Mil LAND Is the Basis of all WEALTH. THE LAND OF FLOWERS, OF ORANCE CROVES, OF PERPETUAL SUMMER: PEROUS, DELICHTFUL! (|| | "LL {| MW L | aa WW Il | FREE HOMESTEADS For YOURSELF, your WIFE and your CHILDREN. HEALTHY, PROS=- NATURE’S SANITARIUM! THE GRANDEST COLONIZATION ENTERPRISE EVER OFFERED TO A HOME-LOVING PEOPLE. THE PEOPLE’S HOMESTEAD CO, } trsch fr Sie %or the best locations in that favored State, ARRANTY DEED, FREE OF INCUMBRANCE. READ OUR PROPOSITION. This Company own and control 20,000 acres of land in Marion County, Florida, 187_ feet above the sea level, and consisting of high, dry, rolling, fer- tile pine land. ‘To enhance the value of all this land by large and diversified wthid peda the Company propose to give away 2 portion of this property in cottage sites, and five, ten, twenty and forty acre tracts, suit- able for orange grove and vegetable culture, and to those who accept this offer and send their name and address we will send a numbered WARRANTY DEED OPTION BOND, which entitles the holder to one of the following tracts as specified : 40 ACRE TRACTS, 20 ACRE TRACTS, 10 ACRE TRACTS, 5& ACRE TRACTS, COTTAGE SITES AND BUSINESS LOTS, The above tracts, cottage sites and business lots con- sist of about one-half our lands, By giving away one- half and reserving the balance, we expect the price to quadruple within a year, as many will undoubt- edly settle and improve, although this 1s optional the land being given free, with no conditions as to settle- ment or improvements. This land will be allotted as applications are received IN A FAIR AND EQUITABLE MANNER, an with no preferences. NO CHARGE FOR THE LAND. After you have received your bond, if you will fillit out with full name complying withits provisions and return to us, we will then execute and forward to youa WAR. RANTY DEED which makes you absolute owner for- ever. Nocharge whatever is made forthe Warranty Deed Option Bond, but we requireal lto send 25 venta, Postal Note or Cash, or 80 cents in Stamps, when ap- plication is sent for the deed bond. This amount is a pro- rata charge to help pay for this advertisement, postage, and also a handsomely illustrated book on Florida, its climate, soil, orange culture, &c.. and is in no sense a charge for the deed bond or the landit calls for. After receiving the option bond you are not obligated to have ENDORSEMENT. Ocala, President Merchants National County Commissioner; F.E.H ger S.S.,0.&C.R.R.; BAKER 1 Fia., Dec. 10, 1887.--We, the undersigned, Marion County, Florida, is high, dry, rolling pine quality, and will compare favorably with the average pine lands of Florida, Bank, Ocala; FR. BULLOCK, County Clerk; J ARRIS, Editor Ocala Banner; T. W. HARRIS, & ADAMS ABSTRACT COMPANY; JAMES L. TITLE PERFECT. the deed executed if the lo-ation or land does notsuit you and the 25 cts. expense will be returned in such case, But itis hoped you will accept this proposition in the spirit in which it is presented, that of securing property for your- self or children, which must increase in value from. year to year by reason of rapid settlement and improvements. LEROY, MARION COUNTY, FLORIDA. All our Jands are located in and aroun OY, MARION CO., FLORIDA, ten miles from Ocala, fe county seat, a thriving town of 8,500 inhabitants. tis all high, dry, rolling pine land, free from wet spots, and one of the healthiest locations in Florida — The SILVER SPRINGS, OCALA & GULF RAILROAD, runs through it. Mr. A. P. Mann, Jr., General Manager of this railroad, in speaking of this land, Says: ‘*T should think $5,000 no extraordin- ary price for our one-half interest of only 160 acres so favorably situated, fora town with a handsome and ornamental depot already established, and such fine pros- pects of local importance. It is.all high dry, rolling and fertile pine land, an there is no more healthy location in Flor- ida. The surrounding country, as well as this land, is especially adapted to ORANGE and VEGETABLE culture, as well as to upland ricé, long staple cotton, corn, and choice varieties of tobacco.’? A> CLIMATE AND HEALTH, * he climate o is section is unsurpasse y any in the world, not even excepting Italy. Cool, balmy, delightful breezes are constantly blowing between the Gulf and the Atlantic. The thermometer rarely goes above 90 in Summer or below 40 in the Winter. o sunstrokes ever occur in Summer, and nights are delightfully cool. This immediate neighborhood is well adapted for a Summer as well as W inter resort. a and bids fair to enhance In value. . R. MOREHEAD, County Surveyor; H. W. LONG, Editor Free Press; A. P. MANN, dr., Cen’!] Manas WHITE, Ex-County Surveyor. | FREE. LAND AND LOCATION UNEXCELLED. This Company is pre- 5 ared to loan money or improvements upon property secured from the Company, giving five years to pay for same. Plans of houses will be furnish- ed tree upon application to those wishing to build, but it is entirely optional with owners of landwhether they build ornot. The Company willalso contract to set out and take care of orange grove tracts for five years. TAXES PAID, tyes tie proper Pantha FACTS. counties in Florida; contains excellent soil and raises more than half the orauge ‘and lemon erop of the State. LEROY is the centre of one of the healthiest and most fer- tile sections. No swamps, no malaria, and so far south as to be below what is termed the ‘frost line.”’ The celebrated Withlacooche River, close by, is filled with choice varieties of fish, while deer and other game fill the forests for miles around. Blue Spring, within fifteen minutes of Leroy, is one of the won- ders of the State. To those blseh ined to their LOCAL CLUBS, :°: cus": 8 town we will send five warranty deed option bonds for $1.00; ten for $2.00; fifteen for $3.00; twenty-five for $5.00; fort fifty for $10.00. No more than fifty will any one club, WRITE TO-DAY. for $8.00 ; e sent to This offer will soon be withdrawn. Send in a club and have our friends interested with you. If free propert gs all taken when your order is received, money will be returned. The more owners the more values are increased. This is what makes real estate in our large cities so valuable, and itis our only reason for making this unparalleled offer. Send money by Postal Note, Money Order or Registered Letter. Address, THE PEOPLE'S HOMESTEAD CO. P.O. Box 2196, 45 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. hereby certify that the land In and around Leroy land, well located on the S.S.,0.& C.R.R., of fair JNO. F. DUNN, WW) | ill IH i Mi {I I Mitt _ i il LPS. = 4 TEACHERS’ f1. Send two stamps for specimen. MOULTON, WENBORNE & CO., Buffalo, N.Y. - PRIZE QUESTIONS. ‘ents each, 28 numbers now issued. ny re Ss So cer 2s Ss Es S m@. oe ea Weekly,
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