The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-22

In the foregoing list, the work of Mr..
Stevens is an epoch making one IN
bicycle literature. The volume by Mr..
Goldthwaites, the secretary of the Wis
consin Historical society, and the edi-
tor of the noble edition of 1.-THE Jesuit
Relations" now in course of publica-
ton in Cleveland. is delightful chron-
icle "Awheel in Modern Iberia" Will
interest many who are reading other
books on Spain nowadays; but 1t Will
scarcely move them, at the present
juncture, to make a trip into that hos
tile territory. Meanwhile, considera-
bic number of books celebrating the
wheel in poetry and fiction have APP
peared-not the least of them Zola's
recent Paris"
The World Awheel. collection Of verse
and prose stories: Edited iEtas by % yo IN
Paris. BY Emile Zo.a. translated by Ernest
A. Vizetelley. (The Macmillan Co 81
The Wheels of Chance BY II; q. WeHs'
The Quest of the Golden Girl. Including
Song By Richard LIE Gallienne. Qane.)
$3.50.
works-and there could be no better
guide to conclusions-there is a renewal
of interest in several of the older au-
thors-notably in Byron, Thackeray,
Dickens and Jane Austen. The first
volume of the Byron edition, with the
Earl of Lovelace, the poets grandson,
as sponsor, shows a handsome and
interesting work. Several volumes VIII
be devoted to poetry, and several 9TH
ers to the letters. The Earl of Love-
lace has supplied the editor of the
poems Ernest Hartley Coleridge, with
many unpublished manuscripts. val
liable notes have been added. showing
variations in the text, and elucidatlng
many statements.
One of the illustrations in the hrst
volume is new portrait OF Mary
Chaworth, Byron's early love, whose
rejection of him, as Byron told Med
win, probably changed the current of
his life. 1t was certainly due to his
disappointment that he sailed away
from England and gathered the in
spiration to write "Childe Harold's Pill
grimage" The story of this romance
in the poets life is told in the we'll
known poem called 1.-The Dream"
where Miss Chaworth is described as
"his life, the ocean to the river of his
thoughts" Miss Chaworth's portrait
has not been unknown to us hereto
fore. Many years ago one was printed
in Byron's works; but the later present
one is less pleasing. It has been made
from miniature supplied for the pur-
pose by a daughter Of Mary Chaworth,
who is still living in England, at more
than ninety years of age.
The new edition Of Thackeray is
edited by his daughter, Mrs. Richie,
who contributes an Introduction to
each of the several volumes, giving
biographical facts, No authorized life
of Thackeray has ever been written;
nor Is one likely ever to be written.
Mrs. Ritchie's introductions will do
with Anthony Trollopes sketch in the
English men of letters series, they
are practically all that the public may
hope to know of the life of Thackeray.
Mrs Richie, in the introduction TO
Vanity Fair" points out how slowly
success came to her father. For
years." she writes, he had to race
the great question of daily bread" =
Thackeray was no longer young man
when Vanity Fair" made fame certain
for him. Even Vanity Fair" made
hating start. Here is one interesting
story that Mrs. Richie tells:
Il still remember, going along kenslngton
gardens with my sister and our nursemaid
carrying parcel of yellow numbers. when
she the novelist's grandmother3 had given
us to take to some friend who lived across
where near the gates of the gardens we
met my father, who asked us what we were
CARRYING Then somehow he seemed vexed
and troubled, told not to go on, and to
take the parcel home. Then he changed his
mind. saying that If his grandmother wished
it, the books had best be conveyed; but we
guessed as chidren 60 shas aerou was
amiss. The sale of Vanity Fair was so
small that 1t was question at that time
whether its publication should not be disco con-
timed altogether. have always been told
ttat i: was Mrs. Perkins Pail which played
the part of pilot or steam tug to that great
line-of-battle ship, Vanity FAIR, ana Wnicn when
brought it safely off the shoals. In later
DAYS I have heard my father speak OF those
I times, and say that besides Mrs. Perkins
| Bau.' review in the Edinburgh ReW1ew by
! Mr. A Hayward, greatly nelped the sale vi
| Vanity Fair.
The new edition of Dickens has An
| Crew Lang for editor 1t will COM
prise. when completed, thirty-tWo VOL
unres. and twen.y-siX are already pub
Tshed. The Illustrations are the old
ones-those which Dickens himself ap-
nroved for editions printed in his life
| tine Although an English manufac-
ture this edition is offered in this coun-
t1y for the remarkably low price OF
81 "a ner volume. In the present state
OF new interest in Dickens L cannot
doubt that many Americans aireaay
have added this edition to their shelves
of the Jane Austen edition no copies
| are vet to hand in this country. But
we have been well supplied with this
| authors delightful books through
Rcston house-an edition adequate tt
! the merits and charm of the stories
! convenient to read and attractive tc
look upon.
The war has brought Capt. Mahar
into a prominence shared probably by
no other writer on war topics. Hi:
| books about ''The Influence of Sea
Power are talked of everywhere
/ Newspapers are quoting passage
from them, not the least interesting Of
which is the account of Rodney's grea
victory in West Indian waters over
the French and Spanish in 1888, By
which England acquired jamaica Fol
the June number OF the Century capt
Mahan has written an account of thu
defeat of the Armada, in which h;
shows how it was that smaller an6
fewer ships commanded by Drake ant
! F7robisher, were able to overwhelm tint
so-called invdncible force of Philip II.
In that defeat certainly was seen az
event which changed the current %
human history. Henceforth the domi
nant civilization of the world was TX
longer to be Latin, but Anglo-SaXon
England now saw that she could 7ac
quire strength beyond her own Dor
ders. 1t was not until after this sue
cess that she undertook to plant col
onies across the Atlantic. John Smitl
and Raleigh, the Pilgrim Fathers. eant
the Winthrop migration were direo
consequences of this new rise of Eng
land to power and dominion. From III
overthrow of the Armada in very con
siderable degree dates the history o
the United States as an English-speak
ing community, as a nation founded il
Anglo-SaX institutions and laws
Much else remaining in the destiny O
our land was to be fixed beyond dan
ger. The most memorable conflict O
all, that centuryrlong conflict wit
France which closed with the victor