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man hunt In the Bots do Boulogne and the exc.
cution Of an Anarchist at the Place do Ia
Rouquette will almost certainly prove attractive
TO others who will take but lukowarm inter
est in the chapters devoted to tho labor
problem and tho methods OF procedure in
the Chamber Of Deputies. Life" says Mr.
ViZotelly, is composed Of good and evil, and
| unfortunately it is tho evil that makes tho
most noise and attracts tho most attention.
Moreover, in NJ. Zola's case, it has always been
his purpose to expose tho. evils from which soci-
ETY. suffers in tho hope OF directing attention to
them and thereby fastening remedy, aud thus,
in the OF his works, ho could not do other
wise than drag the whole frightful mass Of hui
man villainy and degradation into the full light
| OF day"
In the present instance the good persons Of
| tho book not particularly interesting, whilo
| we have the opportunity of becoming acquainted
| with some creatures. malo and female, as vile
as any heretofore evolved by NJ. zola's methods.
| and, among other unedifying spectaclos we SOC
| q mother and hor daughter lighting for the pos
session of n lover who seems scarcely worthy Of
| the enthusiasm he arouses in them. The advon.
| lures and experiences OF the melancholy young
| priest, Pierre. who. 1t will be remembered,
failed TO find faith In the miraculous grotto at
| Lourdes or hope in the theocracy of the Vatican.
| are now brought to what, from NJ. Zola's point
| Of Wow, Is their logical conclusion. Pierre
throws aside his cassock and falls in love with a
| buxom young woman. He also buys bicycle.
| puts on flesh, and becomes somewhat less un-
happy. His brother who has discovered new
and extraordinarily powerful explosive and has
| anarchistic views, renounces his idea of blowing
up Paris and revolutionizing the world, and en-
| ploys his explosive as the motive power of q
| system of mechanical traction for bicycles and
| other vehicles.
! On the whole the book is neither light nor
| cheerful reading but, like most of NJ. Zola's
later works, 1t will undoubtedly have an enor-
| nous sale. Those who curious in such mat
tcrs may find food for speculation in considering
how much of this vast popularity is due. on the
one hand. to tho authors earnestness and good
| intention, and, on the other TO tho fact that he
| SO often finds it necessary to drag the whole
| mass of human villainy and degradation into the
| full light OF day." Tho translation is an excel
| lent one.
The thin volume of poems by Mr.. Stephen
| Phillips. issued from The Bodley Head has had
a good deal of advertising through the fact that
| q prize Of $500 was recently awarded to the
author by London weekly journal owned by q
wealthy manufacturer of pills and patent medi-
| cnes. In addition to this fortunate crcum-
| stance it has received the questionable compli-
] ment of some hysterical praise from one
| or two Of those self-admiring and selfadvertis-
| ing young gentlemen who have perhaps best
| justified their literary existence by providing
| Mr. Owen Seaman with an opportunity and
| theme for some of the best satirical verso that
has been written in recent years. These en-
| thusiasts, however.
| A precious few. the heirs of utter Godlhead
Who the yellow flower of Blarleless Bodlihead
| have shown themselves to be SO easily moved
| to rapture that their adulation does not count
f~r ,,.tth th1,, tf,,1 han
| young Bul.bul Brown (author OF these precious
little things. AN Ode to Spring Mattress"
| and The Quest of the Golden Gallpot y sings
| the praises of a new poet his words carry no
greater weight than do those of the other e lit
| crary chaps" who in their turn are ready and
| willing to say that Bu-bul himself is another
| and greater Keats. The thing has come to be
| looked on even in it's native England, pleas
| ant little round game. which amuses the players
| and does no harm to any one.
Mr.. Phillips however. has also aroused tho
more temperate interest OF somo of the men
| who count, and his first volume. which is more
| promise than achievement contains some
indications that his literary reputation may
survive even the enthusiastic assaults of the
little band OF bearers of the tin whistle and tho
| hollow drum. Christ in Hades," the longest
| OF the poems, contains some passages of consd-
cradle beauty, and is marked by "A dignity and
| restraint tnat are worthy OF tne tncme, ana IN
| "Marpcssa," which is founded on one of the le-
| gonds of the Iliad. the author makes his strong
est claim for a recognition more satisfying than
that of the scribes Of whom the satirst speaks
Mere mushroom men, pun balls that advertise
| And bravey think to brush the skies.
Marressa being sued both by the god Apollo
and a mortal lover. is by Zeus permitted to
| make her choice between them. This passage
aba of tba nj ia
| fair example of the best Of the writer's work:
THY voice is like to music he ard ere BIRTH
Some spirit lutte touched on q spirit sea;
Thy face remembered is from other worlds,
1t has been died for though know not when,
| 1t has been sung of. though know not where.
It has the strangeness OF the Turing West
And OF sad sea horizons; beside thee
| am aware OF other times and lands
OF birth far back, OF lives In many stars.
o Leauty lone and like candle clear
In this dark country Of the worldl Thou art
Ny woe my early light; my music dying"
OF the shorter pieces THE Wife" is a morbid
study that might have been suggested by q story
written by the ill-fated Hubert Crackanthorpe
and THE Question" !" was apparently inspired
| by Ibsen's Ghosts" while one two of tho
rest were scarcely worth reprinting.
"Opon Mnts and Free Banking" by William
| Brough, (G. p. Putnam's Sons) adds one more to
| tho many treatiscs on financial subjects which
have appeared of late years. written by men OF
| little knowledge but boundless self-conceit Mr..
Brough's lack of qualification for the work no
has undertaken may be estimated from his as
sertons on p. 1876. that in England financial
panics are OF periodical occurrence" and that
| the Bank OF England suspended gold payment
! In ls47, s57 and again in 1866, and 1t would
have suspended on the failure of the banking
house OF Barring Brothers IN 1870 had not other
| banks and bankers joined 1t in assuming
the liabilities of that house." The fact is
that n financial panic in England has not oc-
| Cured since 1857. and that the Bank of Eng
land has not once suspended gold payment since
| it resumed 1t in 1870. Mr.. Brough confounds
| tho suspension of the Bank act of 1874 with u
| suspension of specie payment. The suspension
of the Bank act does more than permit the
Bank OF England to Issue notes uncovered by