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a mystery as unsolved and perhaps as un-
soiVeble as that of 1.-THE Man in the Iron
MASK envelopes the question of the guilt or
innocence Of Capt. ALFRED Dreyfus, of the
French army staff, convicted in 1894, by secret
trial. of having sold government army secrets
TO Germany, and sentenced to a living death
at the hideous Isle du Diable,
very general feeling that Dreyfus had
peen not only illegally but enormously con-
Vlcted, and that the acquittal of Mai Ester
hazy, who was later accused of the crime for
winch Dreyfus suffered was brought about by
equai injustice and illegality, found its voice
IN MI. lola. the great novelist who arraigned
Inc government in long, published letter.
and challenged the government to prosecute
him.
Inc government responded by trying nj
Aoa upon single technical point. avoiding
the main issue. sedulously keeping it out OF
court. and conducting the whole trial with
such suppression of evidence and brow-beat
ing Oh witnesses, such utter disregard of the
iishts OF the accused and every principle Of
justice or equity, as to make the French
courts and French justice scandal and
aughing-stock to the whole civilized world
IN the May Atlantic, John T. Morse .Jr
taxes up the question from the beginning re-
hearses clearly and accurately the details and
tne why's and wherefores of the Dreyfus and
Islerhazy cases. and the racial feuds and
Aa., Gus inFoiveo; d1ssects. and analyses wittily
anu fAeenly the abuses and shortcomings op
the lola trial. and concludes finally that oftor
all and In spite of all, "the affair remains an
uhsoiVed mystery. But its mystery is it's
charm. II we knew, as an absolute fact
either that Dreyfus is guilty or that he "a
innocent. we should forget his case within
twenty-four hours
NY, The dramatizatiens Of VANITY Fair" with
forward rlS tx ,x as BECKY sharp will be looked
!ectlon that was urged against her Tass , MO-
based upon the discrepancy between The
Mr. Ma a pdxom. scr somewhat bovine heroine of
animated intelligence which we know as a.
y, Mrs. Fiske. Objections in one case are uuais
tuay na IN the n other Physically ntllec
poles. "a Dol's' House 1.-THE Queen pgoS'e Of
Liars: and Mrs. Fiske's repertory in gen
era bespeak the public favor in this newer
But the histrionic interest is If awning
e exc by the literary problem which this
/ the newer school Of art in English. The art IT
81 q the novelist Isl near It's acme in Vanity
Ear "a Yet at; the time it was written. and
nothing the English dramatist could do we'll veil
except borrow from Francsl If he departed
rom this by ever so little, she did very badly
period. he-the British :dramatist co1Iectiyeju
would insist upon attempting to reaize
B HaoR IA and Dob the Crawleys and Amelia
Necessarily. all. such attempts so made
| were failures. To argue from this, as SO many
nave done, that the novel does not lend itself
q ot-cyn DC
| ever been, criticism Of the book. but of
| the capacities Of the British Observation-Disclosures
| Chap-Book. no
! Mr.. Henry James american Letter" in
the current number Of Literature begins with
| discussion of the. question of groups and
directions in American fiction. care there
| groups, directions. schools, as French criti
| csm. for instance, deals with such matters p,
he asks; and. on his way to reach an answer
to this question. he touches in this letter upon
work of Mr.. Winston Churchill, Mrs
Atherton and Mr.. Bret Harte. One paragraph
on the threshold Of this inquiry is eminentlv
| quotabie: The great difference-to speak
broadly-between the French reading public
| and the English is that literary success Is
1 for the one the success of the author and for
| the other the success of the book The book
| has often, for the English public. the air of a
| result OF some impersonal. some mechanical
| process, IN which, on the part of the produc-
| ing mind. a particular quality or identity. a
recognizable character and cast are not tn
volved. 1t is as If the production like the
/ babies whose advent Is summarily explained
| to children. had been found in the heart of a
cabbage. This explains why one of writer's
volumes may circulate largely and the next
not at ALL There is no vision of connection
! In France, en- the contrary, the book has a
human parentage, and this humanity remains
| a conspicuous part of the matter Is the par
! entage in the United States, taken In the
same degree into account, or does the cabbag e-
i origin, as 1 may for convenience call it, al-o
there predominant? We must travel a few
stages more for esidence on this point, and
in the meantime must stay our curiosity with
/ such aids as We happen to meet. Grouping
them is. yet awhile. not easy-grouping them,
! at least, in relation to each other.''
| Besides the article on the causes Of the
| failure of the Spanish Armada, by Capt
| Mahan the June,lCentury Will contain "Ten
| Months with the Cuban Insurgents" the ex-
periences of a major in the army under
Garcia, and an article' en- ''The Confederate
Torpedo Service" by the electrician Of the
torpedo division in the Confederate navy
who laid the mine which blew up the first
gumboat ever destroyed by this means.
The youngest person who has ever illus
trated a. magazine article is without doubt the
boy whose drawings are reproduced in the
June Harper's to illustrate the article en-
titled 1.-The Study of a Child" by Louise E.
Hogan The author who is interested in the
development of the new science of infant
psychology, busted herself with collecting
authentic records of spontaneous mind de-
yeIopment The child studied was allowed
to grow up as much as possible as his OWE
nature prompted. He learned to count and
to write as nature taught him, and almos
from infancy he drew things he saw witt
Gle is full of amusement and is, besides. ar
important addition to the science of bringing
up children.
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