New-York tribune., 1903-03-02
uTERARY NOTES.

n Was pointed out to us the other day that
our friend Afr. Dooley alresdy acquiring
a smyxhpE" and would soon be In need Of hGy-
ing his personality scleared. We have not been
ahla TO Investigate the matter thoroughly
enough to warrant definite opinion as yet.
but are pondering solennly. The position or
she aIarTntst in this case was that topical
song in which the philosopher OF Archey Road
was the beginning and end utterly transformed
him Where before ne mad been the genial
adviser of Hennessy all subjects temporal
and spiritual, he was nov curious msdcap
Ariel a ubiquitous creature turning up. to ones
methodicaI surprise, IN other mems places from
that Of the leader OF the Rough Riders at san
Juan Hill to that OF Jonah IN the whale To
the name OF DooIey there were now two claim"
snts a cause OF mental confusion to the read
ing theatre-goer. We are disposed to think that
this individual VIII have to worry along as best
he may. But the incident does suggest q singu-
lar lack in the writer OF the topical song OF
perception OF the marked character OF his sub
ject. and at the same time. unless the song has
been made familiar by the air, singular knowl-
edge Of what would tickle the fancy Of the au-
dience Is the writer Of comic opera or the au-
dience, then. to blame for the low estate Of its
ideas? AS he has been personally involved it
might be well for Mr.. Dooley himself to play
the oracle here.
Professor Mark Harvey LddeH in his Cen
eraI Preface 20 '"The Elizabethan Shakspere,"
which he is publishing through Doubleday, Page
& Co, writes:
For full half century it has been known that
the DEVELOPMENT Of a living language, such as
our English, consists not merely in an abandon
ment OF a certain part Of its vocabulary, but in
successive alterations Of its entire structure.
Its sounds the stresses Of its syllables, its in
hectionsI modes its syntacticaI habits of colo
eating words, its prosodie forms, the dehcate
shadings OF meaning and connotations Wnlcn
are conveyed by its words and idioms-an these
undergo a continuous process Of transformation,
sometimes rapid, sometimes slow, the net result
Of which is that the fdom Of one period fails to
exnress for a succeeding generation its original
content and meaning. The stimulus or
new scientIfc methods has set the work of Eng
lish scholars Of America, England and Germany
at recasting and rearrangtng the whole SUBJECT
of English in the light Of the facts of its his
has resulted gives interest to text de-
pravfty" and invests the apparent quaintness
and abnormalities OF the "old spelling with a
new meaning Words and idioms which were
thought to be corrupt in Shakspere's text turn
out to be normal forms Of expression In normal
forms Of representation For instance; IN ,re we
have sccrch'd the snake, not kilPd it, IMac-
BETH" III, 2, 3D. the "scorchd OF Shaksperes
eme1dation" of TheobaId's TO the ''scotched'' Of
all modern editions, is normal Middle English
vvcrj-forrn still in use in Elizabethan literature.
And notwithstanding that the looks
like such obvious depraytty OF an original
L scorch'd meaning scored or hacKeG was
Hc .ghton. Miffin & Co. are issuing a limited
edition of a reprint OF Evelyn's translation Of
Naude's Instructions Concerning Erecting
Library" The text is sn exact reprint OF the
edition Of 1861, with the correction Of obvious
printers errors, and is accompanied by in
PRODUCTION by John c. Dana. The Brimmer
type is used. set within rules, with headings,
initials and tailpieces in red. Gabriel Naude
IN de
President mortier in the Parlement Of Paris,
the Cardinal de Bagni, Cardinal Barberini Car
dinaI Richeieu, Cardinal Mazarin and Queen
Christina Of Sweden. While in the employ Of
Mazsrin he founded the fourth public library
in Europe being preceded by the Ambrosian at
Milan, the BodIeian at Oxford, and the Ange-
ndue at Rome. He wrote the "Avis pour Dresser
uu Babiiotheque' when appointed to the service
OF Henri de Nesmes in 1927. being then twenty
Sven years of age. The original Paris edition
Q627) is rare 1t reissued in 1914. trans
lated into Latin by J. A Schmidt in 1903, and
into English by John Evelyn.
Emil Reich. author OF "GrRco- Roman Institu-
tjons" and History OF Civilizations" has Just
published, through the Macmillan Company, an
interesting set of maps in New Students
Atlas Of English History" The maps are mainly
in outline, with only such towns, rivers bays
and mountains entered useful for the
historical episode which 1t is intended to illus
trate- The progress Of campaigns is shown by
tracings in colored inks. AS the designer ad-
Hits the maps sometimes, at first appearance
have rather a complicated look But he recon-
Inends the student to study them with care
following the routes by the historical sunma-
ries accompanying them, and tracing them out
until well fixed in mind. After this he is rec
oEnmended to commit the map to memory. Six
or eight hours' study of such map as that of
the Civil War will give the student grasp Of
the events Of the campaigns which would be
proportionately much more difficult to obtain in
any other way.
rate examination of the growth of our govern
ment in "a History of American Political Theo-
ries" by c. Edward Merriam, associate in polit-
icaI science in the University of Chicago Be-
ginning with the governmental theories Of the
early colonsts. with special regard to the sig
nihcance Of the Puritans, the author analyses
successive tendencies in political theory from
that day to this. The doctrines of 1776 and
the expression OF them in state constitutions
are followed by the reaction voiced in The
FederaIist." The Democracy under Jefferson
and under jackson is studied and the position
Of the slavery controversy, together with the
disagreement CT the two opposing schools of
Interpretation to the nature of the union.
Augustus c. Buell. is preparing biography Of
Sir William Johnson, Superintendent Of Indian
Affairs I'm the Mohawk Valley before the Revo-
luton. for AppIetons' Historic Lives" series
His correspondence has been published by the
State He commanded the provincial forces in
tie attack against Crown Point and in 1850