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deeply influenced" He has In this fact alone
sufficient justification for his work \ survey
OF Italian letters like that Of Symonds nllinS
two stout volumes. Is not often consulted. We
imagine by readers outside Of n narrow circle
Of special students. Some such concise sketch
as Dr. Garnctt has prepared has been really
needed. II may be said. too that tho book
answers the need fairly well. The author IS
creditably. II not altogether authortatiVcly IN
structed in his theme. his taste is usually
Trustworthy and within his brief limits h. has
contrivcd to set forth much II what the seeker
after information Is likely to want. But alas
for his limitations, We refer not only to those
matters Of knowledge and judgment in which
DR.. Garnott is deficient. but to the excessively
small number Of his pages. II be- had had the
Wit he might have secured a better result hy
telling US less about Dante or Petrarch. for
example important as they are and more about
some Of his other authors compression # this
sort might even have given him room for men
he has entirely negloctcd-Dut since the wit
was lacking only deplorc the necessity
for making brief manual quite as brief as
this u.s. Italian literature especially can i'll
afford to be scampcd in Interpretation. partly
for the reason indicated In the words quoted
above, partly because it is incXhaustibly fas-
cinating: once the student has entered it's gates
he is lurcd far beyond the first goal he had
contemplated
Stepping across the obscure years between
the Roman and the period Of the Italian
petty States. he Iauses the naive lyrics Of
the early poets and then passes to the siren
uous. cpcal note Of Dante, emerging soon from
the Medieval atmosphere OF the latter TO the
SUMMER airs Of Pctrarch and BOccaccio. The
first Of these affected 10 despise his great pred
ccessOr for using the vulgar tongue the sec
ond rcvcrcnccd and cmulatcd this very condo
scension; but both broadened the aims Of the
men Of letters OF their time and both increased
the scope Of personality. Petrarch replaced
phantasmal Beatrice with Laura whom
must believe 10 have BEEN OF flesh and blood, In
spite Of the commentators lie perfected the
lyric. Boccaccio imported humOr and energy
into his literature and laid the foundations OF
the modern novel. The fifteenth century In
heritod their enthusiasm and their energy
While neither Of the two was equaed BY his
followers. we have TO reckon with some i'm
portant figures as the years pass There Is an
artist and man Of letters like Albert: there Is
bOokish Pope like Enea Svo Piccolomni
Plus H. and there Is n Meccnas like Lorenzo
III Mcdic Clever poets like Politian arise and
pastoral romancers like Sannazaro, with his
Arcadia" The humor OF Pulci breaks forth In
his inorganic Maggiore." and after the mellow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22

richness Of Eoiardo's "Oranio Innamorat'
comes Ariosto with his more elegant, more art'-
fetal. and. at the same time, more mastery
"Or,ando Furioso." Along with TINS mo"eS
company cones the cynical statesman and MS
toran. Machiavelli; the somewhat less cynica'
but somewhat more scholastic annalist, Guicciar
dlri The sixteenth century witnesses the rise
Of as miscellaneous a group Of celebrities all
very strongly individuallzed. but all linked TO-
rether by the spirit Of the Renaissance. Inc
fastidlous prclatc Bembo jostles the swash-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22
A PORTRAIT.
TT r. NESElT.

TT T. NESElT
Like the sway Of the silver birch III the Diee%e
OF dawn
Is her dainty way; ,-
Like the gray OF atwiight sky or stafi't Jaw"
Are her eyes OF gray:
Ike the clouds in their moving WHITE
Is her breasts soft stir;
And white rs the moon and bright
Is the soul Of her.
like Tho r,urmur Of woods in spring ere the
leaves are green,
Like the voice of a bird "
That sings by stream that sings through INC
night unseen,
So her voice Is heard.
And the secret her eyes Withhold
IN my soul abides.
For white as the moon and cold
Is the heart she hides.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22

bucklng Cellini. the former supporting artists
and authors the latter lahoring AS a sculptor
and bcqucathing 10 posterity invaluable me
mors Nasari pants pictures and indtes Cos
SIP abou, his comrades. Michael Angelo Is sculp-
tor architect painter. and. not least Of all, a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22

A 1,,sTORY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE. ~
Richard Garrett. E. T.. LII ID. octave. p'' ~
43i. u. Appleton i CO.
DR.. Garnet po!ntedly observes on thc hrs'
nage of his book that the literature OF l'ai'
requires to he constantly considered IN cohhec'
ton with other li;eratures both those iroi
which it is itself derived and those which IL mas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22

1t is amusing TO witness the disaercemonts OF
the London critics about that address Of Mr.
AsQuith's on "CritciSm," to which reference has
lately been made in this place. "The Spectators
glows with pleasure. "'rhe Saturday" blandly
expresses SURPRISE at Mr.. ASquith's willingness
to come out before the public and expose 'the
barrcDncSs Of his mind and the commonncss Of
his STYLE A third journal tries to look both
ways at once damning the lecturer with faint
praise, and everywhere there are demands FOR
the names Of the critics whom Mr. Asquith
fondly considers the legitimate successors Of
Matthew Arnold One qucsioncr protests that
no living critic even remotely justilcS The men
ton Of himself in the same breath with Arnold
and of course there are others who can supply
Successors" with caSc passing gayly along the
line from Leslie Stephen and Andrew Lang TO
Richard lie Gallrnnc and Mr.. Xangwill. Much
wind is wnnowod. And the spectacle is drol
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22

We had thousht that the warlike prcoccupa-
tons Of the hour were probably at the bottom
of the caution Of the publishers, who seem
finally to have agreed 10 poSpo their chief
ventures 10 the fall but Sir Walter Bcsant
hints that the war need not be held responsible
AT one time believe in the autumn Of 1892, "
hc says there were hardly any books pub
lishcd at al This was, after many
years. time Of profound peace The Inference
is pan and The London Academy seems in
clnod TO fortify Sir Walter Bcsants statement
noting that if the war should seriously affect
English books 1T will be through the publishers
rather than through the boOkish public, which
constantly reads books. no matter how many
exciting newspapers are at hand"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22

Mr. CUTLER Couch. in "The Pail Mall Maya
zine" to which every month he contributes
chapter of literary speculation and talk, de-
serves praise for his courage. He gives scholar
ship a blow where latter-day scholarship needs
it, saying: "Its devotees are apt to wrap them
selves in professional and esotcric vanity, and
hattcr themselves and each other that for them
only did the great poets write. Too often when
Mr. Soand-so is said to have made this or shat
author his own the phrase implies that Mr..
Soandso has done his best to make him nobody
elsc's." The purpose Of poetry, for example, Is
to be poctical, not pathological. philosophical.
scientific, or anything else that the sapient CON
mcntator thinks it ought TO be 1t is pleasant TO
De able to record simultaneously with this pro-
test of Mr. CUTLER COUGHS the appearance OF a
book like Mr.. Wyndham's edition Of Shake
spcarc's poems. which is reviewed on the oppo-
site page This editor should be after our Cor
nishUans own heart. He seeks the poetry IN
Shakespcare's poems and he finds it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-22

DIR. RICHARD GARNETTS NEW MANUAL"
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Gbe Neru'l1o1k Gribm11e.
ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT-
SUNDAY, NAY 90, 1898.

Inlolchre, that .courge O! authorship has al
WAYS seemed m IicraGtab!c quality. and more
a matter Of what we vaguely call temperament
than ANYTHING else But Maurice de Fleury
knows better and describes a method whereby
the LATEST writer may hope to be cured FIRST
the patient must regulate the employment or
every twcnty-four hours, in order to gain in
teleciual peace" and discipline. Then he must
lay out dietary scheme and see that he obtains
regular and ample sleep. Finally, he must take
some tonic or other, choosing the one that ac-
compliShcs It's work gradually, without sudden
Jerks" In little while, we gather from Dr.
Fleury, the lazy author is doing something
every day if he is not actually clamorng for
work OF course from one point of view the
whole scheme seems preposter0uS. If one is IN
dolcnt one is above all things opposed to such
q regimen as Or. Fcury suggests. IL one Is
capable of taking such pains one is probably not
very indolcnt. But here comes in the doctors
valuable help. You submit yourself to his man
agemcnt as meekly as though you were suffer
Ing from n broken leg he keeps his eye on you
constantly; you may be only "indolent," but you
are treated as a sick man and not abandoned
until you are recovered. Perhaps DR. Fleury Is
not so visionary as ut first Sight he seems TO be.
He gives a plausible account Of his plan. and
declares that he has made some cures.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.

The committee having in charge the
grand convention send out this message
All is ready, come.'' The quiet hour
service which was to have been held at
High street church will be he, / at 6. 80 a.
m. in the vestry of the First Free Baptist
church..
One of the prime factors in the growth
of Christian Endeayor movement has
been its general secretary, Mr. John Willis
Raer, who has brought to the cause all
the foresight, ability and enthusiasm of a
successful man of the world. He was
called to the secretary ship OF the society
from his business life in Minneapolis in
80 and was first presented to the public
at the St. Louis convention in June of
the same year. He Immediately won the
hearts of all the endeayorers and has ever
since welded an untold power in the ex-
tension of the Christian Endeavor cause.
Since his call to this work Mr.. Baer's
face and commanding figure have become
familiar to endeavorers in all parts of the
land. He is remarkably magnetic
speaker and is one of the attr active feat
ures at the annual convention. Mr.,
Baer's health Is none of the best, and he
is therefore obliged to limit his platform
work, hence Portland endea vorers should
be grateful for. his presence at this con.
vention. Let every Christian Endeavorer
,ome to the convention prepared to give
him an enthusiastic welcome to the home
city of Christian Endeavor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16

Dispatches from Madrid say that the
Queen regents attitude has completely
changed. A week ago she was an earnest
advocate of peace and was ready to go
even to the point of retiring from Cuba
to secure it. Now she is the strongest
supporter of the policy of not yielding
anything and of refusing any more con-
cess1ons to the United States She has
been forced practically to this attitude by
the war party which threatened to over.
turn the dynasty unless she yielded to
their demands which were that she should
fight rather than make any further con
SESSIONS to the United States.
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THE PRESS.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16.
STATE OF MAINE.
EFAST DAY PROCLAMATION.

In Difference to the practice of the early set
tiers of New England, and following prece
dent that has obtained ever since Maine was
admitted into the Union of States, and also
with the advice and consent Of the Executive
Council do appoint THURSDAY. the esth
day of April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. as a
day of
FASTING AND PRAYER.
It is fitting that this time-honored custom
should still be respected. and L earnestly re-
quest all the people of our State to properly OBJ
serve the day in their homes and churches, and
to refrain from all unnecessary labor. remem-
bering. reyerently, the source from which SO
many favors have come to us.
GIVEN at the Executive Chamber. in Au-
guSta, this twenty-fourth day of March, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and ninety-elght, and Of the indie
pendence of the United States of America
the one hundred and twenty-second.
LLEWELLYN POWERS.
BY the Governor.
BYRON BOYD, Secretary OF State
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16
The Massachusetts, legislature Yesterday

The Massachusetts legislature yesterday
appropriated $500, 600 for an emergency
fund to be used in case war breaks out
with Spain. Maine will need an emer-
gency fund also, and special session of
the legislature will be necessary if war
comes. We have long and exposed sea-
coast and it will be wise to supplement
the protection which the national govern
ment will afford, by some measure of our
own. The naval brigades now forming
will need legislative sanction to make
them effective.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16

Neither is it all fire and sword and re-
form, by any means; for there are de-
lightful sketches of literary Paris and liz
erary London twenty years ago, and one
feels that Colonel Higginson has known
nearly every man and woman everywhere
who was worth knowing and hearing
about.
He also describes very amusingly his
experiences on the lecture platform in
the old "Lyceum" days and tells OF dis
cnssions which he hears by persons who
do not recognize him in the train in his
travelling garb. And of two good ladies,
especially who objected to some disre-
spectful remarks of his on the American
pie, which reminds me of q similar ex-
perience of the clever and brilliant Uni
tartan clergyman Mr.. Charles g. Ames.
He had been supplying pulpit at Oak
land, California. for one Sunday. and in
crossing the ferry to San Francisco, two
men sat directly behind him who were
talking about his morning sermon. One
of them said he liked it," thought it
very interesting" To which the other
replied, "Yes, it was pretty good in some
respects, but I never want to bear the
word molasses from the pulpit''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16

TT is one of the mysteries why the Senate
is SO insistent on the recognition of the
insurgent government in Cuba. All the
testimony goes to show that it merely
exists upon paper, that it exercises no
authority anywhere; there is no evidence
that it commands the support of the
majority of the Cubans or ever can; very
little IS known about the character and
capacity of the men who compose it, vet
large part of the Senate insist as a sine
qua non of intervention in Cuba that it
shall receive official recognition from the
United States. 1t is the Cuban people,
the whole Of them, that we ought to act
for if we intervene, and not for small
section of them. When they have mani
tested their wishes. in regard to the insur-
gent government, when they have recog-
nized it by consenting to submit to its
authority will be time enough for us to
accord it recognition. Suppose that after
we had compelled Spain to relinquish it's
sovereignty over the island the people
should repudiate the insurgent govern
ment, would it not be incumbent upon
us if we had recognized it in advance to
assist it to compel obedience?
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There is DO better authority on the
Cuban situation than Consul General
Lee. He has been in Cuba about two
years and he has had every facility for a
study of the question. He says now, as he
said year ago, that there is not the least
probability of the Spaniards subduing
the insurgents or OF the latter driving out
the Spaniards-which is tantamount to
declaring that the present sanguinary
strife will continue indefinitely unless
some nation interyenes to stop it. 1t is
worth something to know that or inter-
vention will have the justification of
being the only remedy for the disease.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16
CITY OF PORTLAND.
Notice of Hearing.

Notice is hereby given that the special COM
mittee appointed TO consider the petition of the
Boston 4 Maine Railroad to lay and maintain
track across Commercial street in said city of
Portland, such track to be a part of u conrect-
ing track extending from point near the cen
ter OF Tying street in its track north9rly Of
Commercial street to point westerly OF israck-
street. will give hearing to all parties inter
esled on Monday, April Is, 1898. at o'clock
D. NJ. at the aldermen's room, City Building
H. RANDALL Chairman
Portland, April IL, 1S9 s. apr13dtd
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SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

Having consolidated with the Portland
Safe Deposit Company. the Portland
Trust Company now offers it's patrons
and the public unequaled facilities for
storage of bonds, stocks, valuable papers
and silver ware.
The security offered is the best in
Maine, and the location is the most CEN
trail and convenient in Portland.
The utmost privacy is afforded by sep
arate entrances from the street, while
the arrangement of offices of the CONSOLE
dated company is such that all financial
business can be transacted under the
same roof.
nlar31 DIFF
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16
PILGRIM FATHERS SOCIAL

Last evening the members of Portland
Colony, Pilgrim Fathers held very en-
joyable sociable at the. close of their meet
ing, at Orient hall, Farrinton block.
There was good attendance and the ev-
ening passed away very pleasantly with
music and games. During the evening,
Mrs. L. P. French, Mrs. j. II. Maxfeld
and Mrs. Susie j. Sawyer served fruit
punch, cake and fruit.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16

Eff this country, said Senator Hoar in
his address in the Senate on Thursday,
lis to do great act of international
justice, let US do it calmly and deliberate
ly." This is excellent advice, but it is to
be feared that it is thrown away upon the
ForakerF and Masons, who seem to be in
control :. the Senate, and who appear to
want war above all things.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16

In all probability President Mckinley IS
demand, if he makes it, that Spain with
draw from the island of Cuba will be met
by fat refusal. Indeed, the temper of
the Spanish people is such now, that it
would not be safe for Sagasta to make
any other reply. And under the attacks
of our orators in the Senate that temper
is rising higher every day. When the
Senate committee on foreign affairs
drew it's Indictment against Spain it
probably destroyed the last hope of
diplomacy if it was not gone already.
While it may have been an able document
it was an exceedingly unwise one, unless
a peaceful settlement of the Cuban ques-
ton was to be regarded as undesirable.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16

1t quite goes to my heart when 1 heal
persons say they are tired of Charles Egg.
bert Craddock, and that she no longer in.
terests them. To me there is a ever-en d
ing rest and pleasure In her mountains
"a friend says "she has more scenery tc
the mile than any other writer''), and
her mountaineers; and I find The jug
glers (Houghton, Miff1in & Co. distinct.
" charming. I have only one regret
and that is the lack of the humorous ele.
ment which seems to have been dying
out of her later stories, and which was a
captivating quality in her earlier works.
If one tires of Miss Murfree's books, one
would weary OF the lights and shadows OF
the Tennessee Mountains, and of the
lights and shadows in the lives of the
men. women and children who inhabit
them, and that hardly seems possible.
The Juggler is highly dramatic, and,
one must admit, tragic. But one is will
ling even to have ones feelings har.
rowed for the pure enjoyment one gets in
the literary skill of the book, the keen,
acute and picturesque drawing, and the
overpowering n,agnifcence and beauty
of the mountains and valleys, which is
borne in upon ones very heart and soul
and in their vivid portrayal.
These books are bought of Loring.
Short and Harmon.
M. l.. r. WELLS
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16

The reports that represent the continent
tai powers as unfriendly to us in the pres.
emit controversy with Spain accord with
the probabilities. Several of them have
possessions in this hemisphere. and they
might easily conceive the idea that our
policy in regard to Spain's possessions
made their sovereignty over their own
less secure. Europe has never liked our
Monroe doctrine, even when kept within
moderate bounds, and has been jealous
for number Of years past of our growing
power ana pretentions. In the pending
controversy Spain has shrewdly put her.
self to considerable extent under the
guidance of the Powers, and her conces-
sion of an arInistice was avowedly made
in difference to their request. Our iguor-
ing of that has not tended to ameliorate
the feelings of the Powers toward us, and
If we go to war under existing circum-
stances we shall not get IN UGH sympathy
from them. 1t is not very probable, how.
ever, that they will go further than to ex-
ercise their moral influence in behalf OF
Spain; and only two of them would be
likely to do that.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-04-16

1t is obvious enough that Spain is try
ing to save herself by getting the Powers
to bring pressure to bear upon us not to
invade Cuba, and she has probably been
successful in making some impression up