The herald., 1898-06-12

foes. and Of the bold and ingenious meeting
Of strange emergencies In the conduct ol
war.
The new Murray Byron" published b,
Charles Scrfbner's Sons, has started OF mos
successfully. The edition de luxe In Eng
land has been taken up more than twice
over. and in America large advance order,
are reported. Only the first volume has vel
appeared. but that contains eleven new
poems never before published; the sue
ceeding volumes will be equally important
1t Is said.
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co.'S new an.
nouncements include ''The Terror" ro
nance of the French revolution, by Felt,
Gras, author of "The Reds of the Midi,
translated by Mrs. Catharine A. Janvier
"The Art of Taxidermy" by John Row.
ley, chief of the department Of taxidermy
at the American museum of natural his
tory: "Outiines of the Earth's History
by Prof. N. s. Shaler; Familiar Life ir
Field and Forest" by #. Schuyler Ma.
thews; political Crime" by Louis Proal
with an introduction by Prof. F. H. Gid.
dings; "Kronstadt," romance. by Man
Pemberton, illustrated; Lucky Bargee.
Egyptian romance. by DR.. Georg Ebers
News from the Birds" by L. S. Keyser
ION the Farm" by F. w. Parker and Mel
lie L. Helm, and "Harold's Rambles,' by
]. w. Troeger, three new volumes in Ap-
pleton's Home Reading Series; 'Torn
Sails" a Welsh story, by Allen Raine
"Materfamilias," by Ada Cambridge. and
"a History of the United States Navy
from ITS to 1885," by Edgar Stanton Ma
clay, A. NJ, with technical revision by
Lieut.. Roy C. Smith, U. s. N, new edition.
revised and enlarged. with new chapters
and several new illustrations.
WAR WITH SPAIN AND AFTER.-A
summary of the points of a notable paper In
the June Atlantic Monthly.
Beginning with review Of the relations
of Spain and the Cuban question in the
United States and the sudden direction of
public attention thereto by the blowing up
of the Maine, the article proceeds to speci-
fy among the minor causes Fastening the
rush of events, newspapers conducted
by lost souls that make merchandise of
all things that inflame mems worst pas
sions, congress with no attractive polit-
ical program for the next election, and a
spirit of unrest among those classes not
yet wholly recovered from the riot in false
hopes that inspired the followers Of Mr..
Bryan in 1885, All these, however, would
not, 1t says, "have driven us to war had
we not been willing to be driven-if the
conviction had not become firm in the
minds of the people that Spanish rule was
a blot on civilization that had now begun
to bring reproach to u.s."
AS to foreign nations, Englands sympathy
with us and the sympathy with Spain of
certain decadent influences on the conti-
nent" are reckoned as equally significant,
and 1t Is prophesied that "the world will
better understand our character when 1t
clearly perceives that the purpose Of the
war is only to remove from our very doors
this cruel and inefficient piece Of mediae-
valism. i. the inspiring unanimity
of the people in following their leaders
proves to be as earnest and as strong as 1t
ever was under any form of government,
and this popular acquiescence in war puts
a new responsibility on those leaders and
may put our institutions and our people
to a new test. A change In our
national policy may change our very char
acetr.'
Attention is called to the truth that the
present generation of Americans, unlike all
its predecessors, has had no part in any
great adventure Of colonizing, developing
resources, or Of war, but has chiefly been,
busted with administrative tasks, corrective
rather than constructive; that its prizes
have been commonplace distinction to hon.
est men, and the vulgar spoil of office to
dishonest ones. Herein 1t will be seen that
The Atlantic differs from the latest critic
of the United States, Lord Morris son, Mr..
Martin Morris, who wrote in his "Transat-
lantic Traits" that the yankees are ma
ton of clerks; that they know Of no en-
trance into life but the bridesmaids, and
firmly believe that there Is no admission
to heaven except on business" and that
there is no better, brighter or more honest
body of men in the United States than the
regular politicians, the business men being
generally dull and always greedy" On the
1t says that in some communities
politics has fallen into the hands of petty
brigands, and in others into those of Sec
men, partly because it has offered
little constructive work to do" In litera-
ture, it says, we have we'll nigh lost the
art of constructive writing, and 1t men,
tions the three books of Utopian social pro-
grams, WnereDy men nave trleQ seriously
to shape our national conduct Progress
and Poverty" Looking Backward" and
"Coins Financial School," "It has been a
time of social reforms, of the emancipation
of women, of national organization Of chill
dren, of societies for the prevention of minor
vices and for the encouragement of minor
virtues; of the study Of genealogy, Of the
rise of morbid fiction, of journals for Ia
dies,' of literature for babies, of melodrama
on the stage, because we have had no melo-
drama il life. There are many indications
that life Of quiet may have become irk-
some, and is not yet natural to US. After all,
it is temperament that tells and not schemes
of national policy, whether laid down in
farewell addresses or In Utopian books. Are
we, by virtue of our surroundings and in
stitutions, become a different people from
our ancestors, or are we yet the same race
of Anglo-Saxons whose restless energy In
colonization, in conquest, in trade, in the
spread of civilization has carried their
speech into every part of the world and
planted their habits everywhere?
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