The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-24

an invaluable record of the great events
1T was arranged to celebrate.
Books and Authors;
Comment and Gossip.
President Hadley, of Yale, will have
in the September Century suggestive
little article. called THE Twofold Cause
of Betting" in which he draws an in
":dious parallel between betting and
dueling. The whole tendency up yon-
der seems to be to spediously crush all
the sentiment and chivalry out of men
SO that they may become best fitted for
delving in research or in trade. This
is one of the curses of the university
influence as imported from Germany.
The Puritan instinct Us an extremist
tendency, and before it the remotest
shadow Of grace and gallantry will have
to go to the dogs as being unworthy OF
genie de ra2on. The persistent, propa-
gondist Puritan Is too densely literate
to see that the flower of life is a social
blossom.
Not that betting and duelling are to be
encouraged. Although the principle and
spirit Of the wager is at the bottom of
ali enterprise and the principle and
spirit OF hte duel Is the basis of all man
hood. Courage and faith are back of
both of them The bloodless academi-
clans will make a goggle-eyed, disem-
bodied race out of us yet If they are not
opposed in their near-sighted schemes
for destroying every healthy. human
impulse.
The London Spectator devotes a col
umn and half to Nancy Huston Banks
Eo1<3 HN31a Of a
Last Century. The English reviewer
welcomes this new writer as the author
Of q new Crawford" with the one
difference that unlike Mrs. Gaskell the
setting Of outside things in which she
puts human figures is much more vivid
in colors than one finds it in Gran
ford"
The late Mr.. John Fske left two vol
umes of essays ready for publication.
They will be published in the early au-
tumn by The Macmillan Company I'M
der ,the title Essays: lFistlri and
Literary. They comprise the only pos
thomous work completed and make ready
for the press by Mr.. Fiske himself be-
fore his death The contents of the
volumes will be Thomas Hutchinson,
last Royal Governor Of Massachusetts,;
Charles Lee The Soldier of Fortune;
Alexander Eaniltom; Thomas JefferA
son, The Conservative Reformer; James
Madison, The Constructive Statesman;
Andrew Jackson. Frontiersman and Sol
der; Andrew jackson. and American
Democracy Sixty Years Ago; "Tippe-
canoe and Tyler Too Daniel Webster:
Old and New Ways of Treating History:
The Boston Tea Party; Evolution ana
the Present Age; John MILTON; John
Tvndall: Koschei the Deathless; The
Story Of New England Town; RENT
niscences Of Huxley.
Apropos Of the centenary of the death
of the elder Dumas. Katharine Prescott
Wormeley has translated Dumas THE
Speronare." In 1894 the great French
novelist, set forth upon a series OF
journeys which furnished material for
some delightful sketches and stories
The pages of the guide-books of the
present day are filled with the lore. his
torical and legendary, which Dumas
travellers; but the great writer's tales
and anecdotes are as fresh and enter
tanning as ever, and from this feast
Miss Wormeley, the translator of Bal
zac, has gathered a series of volumes
the first of which will be published by
Little, Brown & Co. In the fall. It de-
scribes a Mediterranean trip. taking the
has been an indefatigable translator OF
French. In addition to her forty VOL
umes of Balzac (the standard edition
in this country. Miss Wormeley has
translated six volumes of Moliere, the
Versailles HistoricaL Memoirs twenty
volumes), and some of Daudet's works.
1t is strange indeed that a nation
whose literature is so rich in great
- hot
should in its colloquial humor stoor 10
such banal trivialities as the ollowing
which appeared in a recent number of
London Punch: cat Drury Lane, this
week sees the hundredth performance
of Ben Hur which is to continue its
course as long as the horses in the chnr-
lot race have any go left IN them
Such success as this of Ben is some
thing un-Hurd Of in recent years a CID
Drury.'
There Is in the Office Of the Secretary
Of State of South Carolina relic of
the civil war which was never used
for the important purpose for which 1t
was designed. It is the Great Seal OF
the Confederacy. According to Har-
per's Encyclopedias of Tinted Sta+ts
History the seal was made in England,
being completed in July. 1854, al.d cost
the Confederate states the sum Of SIX;
hundred dollars. The seal lid ncs. reach
Richmond until April 1865. ana sense
ouently was never used. The Grc1t Seal
of the United States was also designed
mainly from suggestions by an Englis h
man, Sir John Prestwich. an eminent
sntiquary The motto. .'E P!uripus4
Unum,,-.'..Many in one"-was .:oub.irss
suggested to Sir John by the ttle-pase
Of the London Gentleman's Mag.l.;ae
upon which 1t appeared.
The elaborate and costly color-work In.
modern magazines has its decided Draw;