December 1, 1882. THE LITERARY WORLD. found with the selection of the quotaANNUAL MAGAZINE VOLUMES. AMERICAN HUMOURISTS.* tions is that there are not more of them. THIS volume of Good Words (Isbister and We do not profess to have been very Co.), edited by Dr. Donald Macleod, seems to MR. HAWEIS, as a writer, is vexatious to the soul of the critic who demands accuracy attentive students of Mr. Haweis' works, us to be quite equal to any of its predecessors of statement, exact weighing of judgment, but we know his previous books, and have of recent years, and we do not know that difficulty of the reviewer with a substantial carefulness and acuteness in analysis, and read several of them through. We con-higher praise can reasonably be asked for. The fess, however, that this volume falls be- and enticing volume like this before him is freedom from the impertinence of a slip-ow what we should have expected from that he is embarrassed by the quantity of shod style. And yet, as often happens, him. The style is particularly jerky, the material presented to him for his judgment. while the fastidious and select few are dis- sentences and paragraphs having an irri- How to read enough of the book within any write adequately about is within any tolerably posed to frown, there is a disposition on tating resemblance to a succession of tolerably moderate amount of time, and how to the part of the general public to smile, or telegrams. The attempts to say smart moderate amount of space, are problems which at least to accept what is given them with things are also irritating, and there is but often sorely trouble a critic with a consatisfy ourselves we must a certain readiness and complacency. So little in the best of them which has the science. Alas! in this, as in so many other with something short of the ideal, both we judge, at any rate, from the fact that genuine flavour of wit or humour. Take, enterprises, Mr. Haweis writes so much. He would for example, such a remark as the fol- in the matter of reading and writing: scarcely continue to send forth book after lowing about Washington Irving:book, from year to year, unless he had found a considerable circle of readers. Publishing books is a costly process, and although very young authors, especially poets, often begin by sending forth their productions at their own risk,most of them find that the amusement is too expensive to be kept up, and not a few burn their Mr. fingers in trying the experiment. Haweis has of course got a long way past the early stage of an author's experience, and when he sends out a new book he knows what he is about, and knows that he can reckon upon his public. Two reasons appear to us to account for Mr. Haweis' popularity, so far as he is popular. First, he is happy in his choice of subjects; and, secondly, he knows how to make what he has to say interesting. Whatever the critics say, the public will pardon a good deal-indeed, they will pardon almost anything-if only these two conditions be fulfilled. This is, of course, no excuse for an author's carelessness or for his faults; it does not entitle him to exemption from critical chastisement; but it is, at any rate, a tribute to merits which are real and valuable in their way, and are not to be despised, even by critics. In the present volume, which consists of six lectures on "American Humourists," viz, Washington Irving, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte, Mr. Haweis' characteristic faculty does not wholly fail him. He has cerainly chosen a good subject, and one which, so far as we know, has not yet Deen comprehensively and adequately dealt with; and he has contrived to put ogether rather more than two hundred pages of, for the most part, very readable Datler. Not that Mr. Haweis himself has very much to say on the subject, of special 1ote or value, but his instinct has stood im in good stead, and he has made his pages interesting by filling a considerable number of them with quotations from the authors whom he has selected as repreHe has, entative American humourists. n fact, let the humourists speak for and the only fault to be hemselves, Am rican Humour sts. By the Rev. H. R. Haweis, I.A. London: Chatto and Windus. 1833. 62, To begin with, let us make a clean breast "Like other men of talent, Irving took, of it by confessing that we have only dipped to the law, but the law did not take to into the stories. The three principal ones are him. "He took also to the daughter of his law-coach, who took to him, but died at the age of eighteen." the book. Surely this is very poor fooling; and 66 to "I have shown that people who are not ashamed of Wrong are often afraid of Ridicule, and I have kept steadily before you, what I myself most firmly hold, that, wisely used and well, Wit is a most effective Disciplinarian, and one of the greatest sweeteners and purifiers of Life.' by writers whose names and whose characteris- 66 There are by the Rev. Science, Travel, Philanthropy, Social Life, taining papers. The illustrations are kept up are the respective subjects of useful and enterto a high standard of excellence, and altogether we cannot too cordially commend the magazine which this volume represents to readers who have not yet the good fortune to be familiar with it. To find The Sunday Magazine (Isbister and Co.), edited by the Rev. Benjamin Waugh, forms a handsome and delightful volume, which deserves a welcome in every home. The illus trations first demand a word of special notice and commendation. They are certainly unsurpassed, we might, perhaps, say unrivalled, by those of any of our English magazines not exclusively devoted to art. anything in general periodical literature ception, delicacy of execution, and grace equal to them, for felicitousness of con and finish, we must look to the other side of the Atlantic, to Harper's, or the Century, and pay double the money or more. not here enter into detailed notice of the numerous graceful pictures to be found in these pages, but we may mention as a special attraction, the half-a-dozen portraits of "Our principal Contributors," given in the volume before us. We need Although we are unable to speak in very warm terms of this volume, we can quite understand and believe that the lectures of which it consists "appeared to receive the hearty approval of crowded houses' both in the East and West of This only affords another London." illustration of the fact, which has been often noticed, that a good deal which will pass muster with an audience, is not equally successful when it challenges the The names are: He-ba Stretton, attention of a critical reader. Many disL. T. Meade, and Sarah Doudney, and George courses may be effectively, and even useMacdonald, A. R. H. Boyd, D.D., and J. G.' fully said, which it is hardly worth while Wood, MA. The portraits all look as if they must be life-like, although that of Dr. Macto print. We are reminded of what Mr. Haweis himself remarks about "Bret donald represents the original rather as he Harte":"When a man decides to re-appeared ten or fifteen years ago than as he appears to-day. The leading serial story of print what the public will, perhaps, the year is by George Macdonald, and is enirreverently call his pot-boilers, it is often titled found that a good many of them are neither better nor worse than a good many essays written by several other people who possess no particular spark of genius." It deals in Weighed and Wanting.' a grave, reflective, and earnest way with some serious problems of character and conduct and their development. As the title suggests, the element of moral weakness and failure is prominent, and there is a good deal that is painful, some things, indeed, which are re. 66 pulsive, in the events and circumstances de- must note we The Boy's Own Annual is a large, handsomelooking volume, consisting of the year's numbers of the Boy's Own Paper, published by the Religious Tract Society. Fiction occupies a very large space in proportion to other contents in this publication, some half-a-dozen stories being carried on from month to month simultaneously. This, we think, is to be regretted. The stories present considerable variety in subject and method of treatment, and, we may add, considerable difference so far as merit is concerned. Looking through the copious index, and then turning over the pages, we find that room is found for a fair amount of attention to be paid to the subject of athletics, and other youthful pursuits and pastimes. The magazine may rot be ideally perfect-probably even the editor does not find that it realises all his conceptions of what it might be-but so far as we are able to judge, its general tone is healthy, and the interest and entertainment which it affords are of a wholesome kind. We should Boy's Own Annual, a good many of them, in- Jose and Benjamin. By Professor F. Delitzsch, Ph.D. (Hodder in its treatment of the leper are given with of Moses imposed on the law of self-denying A Popular Handbook of Christian Evi dences. By John Kennedy, M.A., D.D. (London: Sunday-school Union.) This, the second part of Dr. Kennedy's work on the evidences, deepens our sense of its value and usefulness. With that clearness, force, and succinctness which characterise all the author's apologetic writings, he presents his arguments in a manner which cannot fail to carry conviction to the minds of his "Christ and Christianity' readers. Taking as his theme, he grapples with it in seven chapters. Commencing with "The Histori: Beginnings of Christianity," he passes on to consider "The Founder of Christianity; what He was According to Himself and His First Followers." A chapter on the internal evidence of the reality of the Gospel portraiture of Christ prepares the way for the Christ as foretold by Old Testament prophecy. Then follow chapters on "The Christ of the Gospels Certified by His Miracles,' ," and by His Resur rection from the dead. The last chapter on the "Corroborative Evidences" deals with the moral teaching of Christ, the character formed by the imitation of Christ, the early Christianity. We commend both the parts successes of Christianity, and the effects of of this work to all who, either in classes or individually, are beginning the study of the evidences. An Essay on the Philosophy of Self-Cor sciousness. By P. F. Fitzgerald. (London: Printed for the Author by Trubner and Co., Ludgatehill. 1882). The Preface to Mr. Fitzgerald's essay is certainly one to stimulate interest and curiosity. Most writers consider that a single discovery is enough to justify the production of a book; here we are promised three. The author claims to have struck a new vein in exploring man's" intellectual, moral, and affe tional" nature; to have proved the actual and positive existence of metaphysical conceptions, the " essential correlative reciprocity of our emotions," and to have found a conclusire answer to Mr. Mallock's question, "Is life worth living?" by identifying happiness & the "realisation of our ideals." The book, ve are also told, is to serve as "a vade-mecum for rational thinking, and for the conduct of life." Psychology. By B. F. Cocker, D.D., LL.D., Professor in like to see something better in the way of The Girl's Own Annual is the yearly volume formed by the monthly parts of the Girl's Own Paper, published like the corresponding volume for boys, just noticed, by the Religious Tract Society. The illustrations are of a somewhat higher order than those of the of attempt to sketch the development of phi sophic thought on this and other points controversy. So far as we can see, the volume though it shows wide reading on the part af the author, combined with some critica power, will not be of much service to student or teacher. Hand Work and Head Work: Their Relation to One Another, and the Reform of Education on the Principles of Froebel. By the Baroness Bertha von M. Bülow. Translated by Alice M. Christie. (London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) This is a valuable work which deserves the advantage of larger type and more open pages than have been accorded to it in the volume before us. Froebel's educational system was founded upon the idea that the training and schooling of boys and girls ought to bear direct and well-considered reference to their future places and duties in the world, or indeed in the universe, as men and women. The exposition of his principles here given is clear and full, and at the same time compact. There is much thoughtful wisdom in these pages, deserving earnest study and attention. If the children of the working classes were taught as Froebel would have them taught, our various agricultural and manufacturing interests would soon be greatly benefited, and human happiness would be largely promoted. Maori Religion and Mythology. The Al Reader: A Selection of Popular Pieces Suitable for By Sarah Doudney. (London: Hatchards.) By Edward Shortland, M.A., M.R.C.P., " ligicus Rites of the Maori;" The Maori Chief of Olden Time;" "Claiming and Naming Land;" and, "The Maori Land Tenure." In an appendix, he gives a short vocabulary of the Maori words made use of in the volume. Students of comparative religion and ethnology will give a hearty welcome to Mr. Shortland's little volume. home for business. LITERARY TABLE TALK. The attempt made to put a stop to the Evening News by asking for a winding-up order does not seem to have succeeded. Mr. Joseph Bee, for many years a Parliamentary reporter, has just died at the age of 79. The deceased gentleman had lived in retirement for some years past. to - We understand that Sir Erskine May proposes add to his work on Parliamentary Procedure a chapter summarising the new rules now being passed through the House of Commons, and illus The Remote Antiquity of Man not Proven. Mr. Gladstone, in recognition of the literary merits of the late Mr. Forsyth, who was for thirty years editor of the Aberdeen Journal, has been pleased to make a grant to Mrs. Forsyth of 50 from the Royal Bounty Fund. A table that belonged to Fielding, the novelist, has been presented to the Somersetshire Archæological Society by Mr. R. D. Kingslake, J.P., on behalf of Mr. Merthyr Guest, its late owner. Fielding was a native of Somerset. Mr. T. N. Evans, a worthy teetotaller, has Readings on Public Signs." It is an attempt " An American contemporary says:-" By the resignation of his professorship at the Harvard there are upward of forty-five. During the coming year Dr. Holmes promises to keep himself busy with his pen." Mr. Dutton Cook is about to publish, under the title of "Nights at the Play," a select number of the theatrical reviews he has contributed to the Press in the course of the last fifteen years. A complete chronicle of the dramatic occurrences of that period will, we believe, not be attempted, though the work will afford a sufficient general view of the modern condition of the English theatre, and will form a valuable contribution to any future history of our stage. The reviews will range from the first appearance in Lon. don of Mrs. Scott Siddons in 1867, to the production of Mr. Sims's first melodrama in 1881. A movement has been started to promote the purchase of some original drawings by John Leech from Miss Leech, for the Manchester Royal Institu tion. Among others who have expressed themselves strongly in favour of the idea are the Duke of Devon. shire, Lord Derby, who have each subscribed £20; the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, 10; Sir F. Leighton, R.A., Mr. J. F. Millais, R.A., Mr. Frith, R.A., Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., Mr. Henry Irving, Mr. E. J. Boehm, and Mr. J. Tenniel. At a meeting held on the subject in Manchester on Saturday, the chairman, Mr. Oliver Heywood, remarked that, from the gratifying manner in which the suggestion to secure some of the great artist's works for Manches. ter had been received he looked forward confidently to the success of the movement. More than two millions of readers visited the Manchester Free Libraries during the twelve months just ended. To nearly half of these books were issued, the remainder presumptively having used the libraries merely to read the periodicals on the tables. Altogether, considerably more than a million of volumes were handed over the counters, of which more than 210,000 were used in the reference library. The attendance on Sundays averages about 4,000. Four of the branch libraries are now, it appears, pro. vided with special reading-rooms for boys, who have used in the course of the year 190,493 volumes. Mr. Baker, Mayor of Manchester, states that the "boys' rooms continue to grow in favour, and are well filled during the whole time they are open with quiet and interested juveniles. The Daily News' correspondent, writing from Paris, says "The morning and evening papers are full of Victor Hugo's drama, which was not over until half-past one in the morning. It was nearly two when the poet was cheered by the students and working classes who had assembled in front of the theatre, and waited in the cold for many hours in the hopes of seeing him drive away. The enthusiasm was very great. The poet's carriage could only go at a walking pace until it got out of the crowd. A way was respectfully opened, and the mingling of deference and enthusiasm was very remarkable. Although the carriage window was down, no attempt was made to shake him by the hand. Between the acts the poet, to escape from the stifling heat of the crowded theatre, went twice into the square before the Français, leaning on M. Vacquerie's arm, Wherever he appeared, a lane was made at once, and hats were taken off. He looked grave, and, thought, some. what fatigued. Every care was taken by his friends to economise his strength. For the greater part of the evening he sat in a ground-floor box; his arms folded on his breast, and his back against the partition facing the scene. In this position he was only visible to those exactly opposite. They happened to be the Princess Mathilde, Prince Napoleon, who remained in the background, M. and Madame Emile Ollivier, and M. Emile Augier. One of those who had witnessed the first representation of the drama, and was last night present at its revival, was a senator, M. Schoelcher, who had been the By Mrs. Emma Raymond Pitman. (London: Blackie and Son.) A story which will be eagerly read by boys, and which can hardly fail to promote the growth of a manly type of Christian character. The adventures of "Alf" Godfrey at sea, and of his father, and mother, and sister, the heroine, in Australia, are full of interest, whilst for Florence's lover, Mark Lisburn, nothing but admiration can be felt. There is a little want of artistic skill in construction, but the variety of incident affords flicted a loss upon his alma mater. For thirty-five ample compensation. It is a book which might years he has served as professor of anatomy, and at be put with advantage into the hands of boys the time of his appointment, in 1847, he was one of poet's companion in exile. M. Brisson, who, with in the senior classes of Sunday-schools. Medical School, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has the six professors attached to the school. To-day his wife, occupied a box on the first tier behind the balcony, where I happened to be seated, called my attention to an Price attention to an old lady on the second tier, and SUITABLE FOR PRESENTATION. [LONGMAN'S MAGAZINE, No. II said, 'There is surely a revenant of 1832.' She was dressed in the mode of that year, with a gigantic beaver bonnet, and turned out to have been a fashionable beauty in that year. M. Grévy went away before the play was over. The Grand Duke Vladimar took his place." PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK. Akers (E.), Rock me to Sleep, Mother, small 4to (S. Low & Co.) Alcock (D.), The Roman Student, &c., imp. 16m (Unwin) Arnold (F.), Turning Foints in Life, cr Evo 1 v.l. (Bentley) A Thousand Years Hence, cr 810 (S. Low & Co.) rbara's Warning, or 8vo (F. V. White) Book-lover's Enchiridion, 32 mo (Simpkin) .. Bruce (C.), World in Pictures (The), cr 8vo (Cassell and Co.) 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