The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-16


perilous experiences. He finds the seen
cry magnificent beyond description. the
Indians and their legends and customs pic
| turesque and the life OF traveller and e1-
plorer fascinating in spite OF its hardships.
The volume includes accounts Of the geol-
ogy Of the Grand Canyon. and Bibliogra-
ply OF the Grand Canyon Region. as we'll
as one hundred fine illustrations.
Colonial Government is the title and
subject of new book by Paul S. ReinSch.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
in the University OF Wisconsin. 1t will
be issued in the Citizens Library of
Economics, Politics, and Sociology"
which is under the general editOrship OF
Prof Richard T. Ely, and published by
The Macmillan Company. 1t is intended
to make the work not only the most COM
plete treatise extant on its subject. but
one which can also be used as text
book in those universities which are Civ
ing courses in it. pretty thorough piece
of work may be expected from Professor
Reinsch, whose World Politics" has met
with such a cordial reception from Stu
dents of modern political history.
TAR and McMurry's Biographies is
the title Of series Of Biographies in
tended for home study. The first of the
the second of North America, especially
the United States. For home use they
will prove exceedingly valuable, and they
will also be useful works of reference for
teachers. New York: The Macmillan
Company. slG0 per volume)
George Bernard Shaw. the audacious.
says in the preface of his Now book,
Three Plays for Puritans:"
On tbo et,ty 40 thiupl
for reasons. OFF the stage they don't; that IS
why your penny in-the-slot heroes. who only work
when you drop motive into them. are so OPP
pressivcly automatic and uninteresting
Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra must
needs be intolcrablc to the true Puritan as
it is vaguely distressing to the ordinary healthy
citizen because, after giving faithful picture
OF the soldie. Token down by debauchery, and
the typical wanton in whose arms such men
perish Shakespeare finally strains all his huge
command Of rhetoric and stage pathos to give
theatrical sublimity to the wretched end OF the
business and to persuade foolish spectators that
the world was well lost by the twain.
In Caesar have used another character with
which Shakespeare has been beforehand. But
Shakespeare, who knew human weakness so well,
never knew human strength of the Caesarian type,
His Caesar is admitted failure; his Lear is a
masterpiece. The tragedy of dsillusion and
doubt, of the agonized struggle for foothold
the quickstand made by acute observation
striving 10 verify ts vain attribution of morality
and responsibility TO Nature OF the faithless will
and the keen eyes that the faithess will is too
weak to blind; all this viii give you Hamlet
or a Macbeth and win you great applause from
literary gentlemen; but it will not give you
Julius Caesar. Caesar was - ~
nor in the epoch, now fast waning, which he in
augurated. . 1t VIII be Tia, re-
marks can bear other construction than an Of
fer Of my Caesar" to the public as an improve
ment on Shakespeares. And in fact, that is their
precise purpose. Bat here let me give friendly
warning to those scribcs who have often ex-
claimed against my criticisms of Shakespeare as
hlasphemies against hitherto unquestiOned Per-
fiction and Intaliibility. Too much sur
prise at them bctrays acquaintance with
Shakespeare criticism limited as not to in
clude even the prefaces Of DR.. Johnson and the
utterances Of Napoleon. l have merely repeated
in the dialect of my own time and in the light
of its philosophy what they said in the dialect
and light of theirs II does not follow,
however. that the right to critieise Shakespeare
involves the power OF writing better plays. And
in fact-do not be surprised at my modesty-l
do not profess to write better plays.
Little Brown & Co. have just published
THE Worlds DISCOVERIES" by William
Henry Johnson, author of 1.-THE Kings
Henchman.'' 1t includes only such voy
ages of discovery as were made with a
view TO finding sea route to the Indies;
and its purpose is to trace in outline the |
impulse which started early in the fif- |
teenth century, with the awakening OF
Europe. and which has reached its final |
achievement in our own time. 1t is be- /,
lieved TO be the only book, giving, as a |
whole. connected account Of the search |
for route to the Indies.
BY arrangement with Harper G. Broth |
ers the Macmillan Company has taken |
over the publication of James Ford |
Rhodes History of the United States from !
the Compromise OF 1850. The four vol |
umes which have already appeared bring |
this great work down to the year 1862. |
and thus embrace the causes and the ac-
tuai prosecution of the most mOmentOus
event of the nations political growth. |
new edition is ON the press and will be |
published before the Christmas holidays
are over.
second edition of Mr.. Hamilton w. |
Mabie's work on Shakespeare. Poet,
Dramatist, and Man" has just been is
sued by the Macmillan Company. This
well known and deservedly popular writer
has tried to make Shakespeare living |
person moving in his own surroundings.
working at his plays. and giving to the
world body OF poetry which has truly
made him the contemporary Of all men for
all time