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A Fine Description.

But the description of the funeral cor
tsge of Victoria is, as has been said, the
finest work in the book. Here was a spec
tacle which appealed to the senses be
cause it appealed also. UNNECESSARILY, to
the Imagination. and that is the only
way in which subHmity is attainabIe.
Read and note the majestic stateliness
and simplicity Of diction.
If in her life she showed herself a
king. it was with klngly honors that she
was carried to her grave. Her funeral
was the funeral Of a soldier; # expressed
the devotion which was a link between
Queen Victoria and her navy and army.
Rumor says that every detail Of the pro-
cesgton was devised by the queen herself,
and for once We are content to believe
the voice OF rumor,
'oFhe lady whose seif-reiiance had
been conspicuous for so many years, did
not leave the future to the chance o.
circumstances. When she resolved upor
marriage she took the advice Of none
She did as she thought just, and witt
that brave consciousness Of death which
is the last word Of pathos, she planned
how best she should be carried to hei
grave.
Moreover, she knew that no cere
moniaI is too splendid to mark mon
arch's death. Pomp and pageantry are
the proud Accomplishments OF kings
She could not stink into the tomb like
the least Of her subjects. AS she diet
in courageous performance OF her duty
SO she was resolved that her obsequie
should be worthy their august, If mourn
full. occasion. And It was her pleasure
to sketch so noble a pageant as tn,
world had never seen. The procession
from Osborne to windsor-marche'
through a hundred miles Of grief siIentl2
expressed.
The journey across the sea was g
wonderful in its imaginative simplicit
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BOSTON AND THE STORY TELLERS

city. In the chapter on Old Bostoz
Hawthorne is. Of course. the chief ag-
uro. and most of the localities Of which
ne wrote are to be found even yet.
The reader also viii find numerous
references TO novels OF very recent date
Truth Dexter" The Puritans.'
The sentimentalists' and Others.
It is pleasant to find here a refer
ence to Mr.. Piers sketch. The Psda-
dogues.' an amusing bit Of satire in
the Cambridge Summer School. which is
not as well known as it ought TO be-.
But with the exception OF Mr.. Howells.
there is scarcely a novelist who has
not presented a view OF Boston more or
less distorted and unreal. dealing with
exceptional instead Of typical charao-
ters, and failing utterly to reprodues
the real beauty and charm Of the city.
4 book Of this sort should be abso-
Iutely complete and quite accurate in
order to be really useful. and it cannot :
be said that the present volume comes
up to that standard. though 1t is en-
tertsining and attractive. some of tbs
mistakes in it could easily have been
prevented
We find reference 20 Miss "Tarreut.''
of Henry James. novel. THE Boston
ians." all the way through the book,
when reference to the novel would hays
shown the name spelled ..Tarrant
OF the omissions. it may be said that
it is difficult to see Why the author
should have mentioned repeatedly Mrs.
whitney's story. Hitherto" in which
only small part Of the action takes
place in Boston and ignored The
other Girls" and Real Folks. whoss
entire scene Is laid in the city. in IocaH-
/ ties easily to be identified. Indeed. The
Other Girls" has more Of the real Bos-
ton flavor than any other OF the authors
works
.'Ascutney Street" too, IS uIanifestIy
a Boston book 20 say nothing OF sew
eraI others more or less concerned with
the life of the writer's native city. It
/ does not appear. moreover why Miss
/ AIcott should have been left out, il
Juvenile fiction was to be considered
admissible, since the scene of An Old
/ Fashioned GirI' is laid in Boston. and
| the New York experience Of 10 in lit
/ tie Women" as well as the whole ca
| reer of the heroine of Work Miss AZ
colt admits TO have been drawn from
+ her own Boston life.
| All the same. the book IS entertain
ing. and viii be a good supplement -
the guide5ook OF any tourist who
thinks CT visiting Boston and hunting
up the localities in question. II a re-
vfsed edition should ever be issued, sup
Elementary information can. and should
! be added. New York. Mcclure, Phil-
! lips & Coz
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count the greatest factor in drama
Illusion, due TO the imagination Of the
audience. It is to be doubted whether
Shakespeare's marvellous work would
ever have been done hao he lived IN an
atmosphere Of mechanical eontrivance in
stead of in an air FUN Of the imaginative
color and outreaching fancy Of the Eliza
bethan age. He had not to contrive ram
parts for "EIsinore, OF q forest for
Rosalind and Celia. be had but TO place
a sign on bare boards, and the audience
understood. and he was free to spend his
genius on what the people Of his brain
should say and do. It is entirely possible
that the barrenness and emptiness OF lat
rer-day drama is due to the everlasting
and obtrusfve presence Of the mechanism
of the stage.
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Copyright by Funk & Wagnalls Co.
A MANS NAME.

the packed horror Of the night
tt rose Up like star,
Ard sailed into the infinite.
Where the immOTtals are.
Down brakes!' One splendid hardheId
breath,
And 10. an unknown name
STROBE into sovereignty from death
Trailing a gath of dame!
jump remain. no needless word,
no vagueuess in his breast;
Along his blood the sgift test stirred
He answered TO the test.
GripDed his black peril like a vlsa
And. as he grappIed. saw
That life IS one with sacrifice
and duty one with law.
Home-but his feet grew granite fast;
Wffe-vet he did not reel.
Babes-ah, they tugged. but to the last
He stood true as steel.
Above his own hearts IovfHgness.
Above a1other's crime.
Above the immttigablG stress,
Above himself and time.
Smote loving comfort on the cheek,
Gave clubbing Fear the lie.
Taught ambIing Fluence how to speak
And brave men how to die
Who said the time of kings was gone?
Who said our Alps were low.
And not by Gods airs blown upon?
Behold IT is not so.
out from the palace and the hut.
-fTonted, lame of will,
Limp our marred Joves anG giants, but
sceptered for mastery stiH.
And clothed with puissance TO queU
Whatever mobs OF shame
Are leagued within us with such spell
AS David Simmons name.
Richard Realt.
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pathos, and oddity- signora, "the child
Of the opera house, is a mite Of
founding left one night on the steps Of
the stage entrance and adopted first by
the property man and then by the entire
company and all the attaches Of the
theater-
She grows up amid scenery. music and
properties. as other children grow up in
woodland OF pastoral SURROUNDINGS: to
her the mysterious region behind The
scenes is E playground, and great sing
eTs are piayfeIIows. One cannot help
feeling that if the story is not true If
might be. and that there is. in fact a
real signora somewhere in the world.
who viii one Of these days make her
debut as the most wonderful Carmen in
dramatic history.
The book must be read to be appre-
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1UI. CARLETON is. whatever
w else one may say Of him. an
institution in this country. James
vbitcomb Riley writes of the farm,
but not essentially for the farmer,
Carleton is. and has been. the singer
If the farm. for the farmer. and time was
when copies of his two books Of ballads
we're to be found on the center table Of
the country parIor as certainly as the
family photograph album and the edition
de luxe of the Bible. That time has, per
hans passed: but there are still enough
of those who read and enjoy him in the
davs Of their youth to welcome a new
hook of songs from his hand, and he
calls them Songs Of Two Centuries"
Crude. inartistic. unfinished. VIII
carleton's work may be. The subjects
NAV be commonplace. and the incidents
forced in their sentiment and humor.
particularly when it comes to the pa
tbos. but one thing saves them-their
human nature. At time when 'Godsy' s
T,sdy's Book" dictated the popular taste
In literature, when country life was
laughed at and deemed unworthy of the
attention of the real author. Carleton
grfnned the Imagination with his homeIy
ballads and convinced even the unwiH-
ing that human nature was worth atten-
ton all by itself In so far as this latest
book of verse still carries out this idea.
Cartoons verse in pure English is COM
monpIace.
il is good. for the rest, it is only $3.50,
one OF the best things In this coIlec-
ton is a comment on Dewey's return
10 Montpelier after the Spanish war
and this Is q scrap of it:
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that it eIudes comparison. Never be
fore was seen so marvellous a spectacle;
never can it be repeated
The scene was perfect in contrast
and appropriateness. on the one hand
the towers OF Osborne emerging from
the woods which slope to the water S
edge. On the other the harbor Of Ports
mouth, its hammers hushed, and the
busy movement Of the docIsyard for
gotten in silence. And between the sill
yer strait. gHuering in the sunlight Of
a premature spring. Then the lines OF
battleships. the avenues through which
the solemn cortege should pass. and
nothing else between sea and sky It
was no demonst-~-ton for the people;
it was a speet without spectators.
since those who ~-re privileged TO see
it we're themselves part Of the pro
CO ssion,
Before the minute-guns broke the
silence each man was a unit who knew
mis- neighbors. When once the boats set
OF from Osborne, the ships which lined
the march became, as it were, single
and impersonaI. You felt yourself part
of whole, you ceased to recognize your
friends OF to be conscious of their
presence.
You. with the, others, made up a ship
which itself performed one act Of HON
age. and your eyes were stretched, where
all eyes we're stretched, toward the Al
berta. Then the invisible guns doomed
and Numbered; then the invisible music
born of the air. echoed IN all ears The
Impression was mystery and plaiE
Inconsistencies Of time and space.
Suddenly appeared the torpedo boats
steaIthy harbingers Of grief, gliding like
serpents of iII-omen in the pathway o
death. The mournfuI, mysterious must,
was heard again, and the Alberta passe6
soIemnIy by. dark. fmmovable figure
as Of bronze. in her bows. and on board
the precious burden OF the dead Queen
So small a boat it seemed to carry s,
large q destiny. and It was this oontras
between the tiny Alberta and the larger
ships that followed that gave color Il
| the universal emotion.
and when the mighty HohenzolleTI
came last. you recognized that the sen
timent Of grandeur may not be measures
BY bulk. that only the greatest ones Q
he earth might pass away into the tom
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VERSES ROUGH AND READY

~, Seth Warmers h5nor5d ghost II haste 70
R-v. 'l Rsm Tne fl.a" Bakeru he among the first
And is gyoIab1e certain that before the spree
is done r7:.,-.,
Colonel Ethan AlIen'u be up from BuTlln ten n,
But George won't turkey iouA H' '''0-'
Than tn DAYS when he want nothin' 'eep5Ln
Of Doc Deweys son.
or course. one may say that the
meter in some of these lines needs
chiropodist. but there is chuckie IN
the last suggestion which redeems any
flaws Of finish,
IT Is interesting to reflect upon the
impression of American life which the
average foreigner would get on read
ing this book-and doubtless some OF
them viii. Who but Carleton would
have written that poem on The Funeral
Trafn?" It is not the ordinary kind of
funeral train. not in the least.
AS he explains in footnote, there
is d cemetery outside Chicago to which
it is necessary 20 run one train daily
for the benefit of funeral parties. the
deceased being placed in a special car,
conveniently arranged with inches for
that purpose" and the mourners occu-
pyinE the rest Of the coaches. The poet
considers this a most impressive spec
tacIe, and adds that he has often &C
companied the excursion" Then, il
appears, he went home and wrote a
poem about IL.
It is found saudwiched in between
a description of Farmer Stebbin's ex-
perience on the bicycle and the account
Of how the whole family went to the
circus in order to take little Johnnie
but were so much occupied in seeing
it themselves and in talking with
friends that little Johnnie was the only
member OF the party who saw nothing
interesting. And this also is Carleton
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MARSHALL IN PARTISAN BOHEMIA

r DWARD MARSHALL, war CORE
spondent, has become a novelist;
- at any rate. he has written
novel, ~Lfzette." a touching little story
Of the Quarter Latin. It viii be re-
membered that Mr.. Marshall was seri-
ousIy wounded at Ell Caney. and is in
consequence an invalid: that after his
wound had rendered him helpless he
SIN coRtrived TO send of his story" to
his paper. and that it was one of the
hest Of its kind. This remembrance
gives the reader at the outset a kindly
interest in his venture into fiction.
But If the book had appeared anony-
moasIy it would still have received at
-tenuoB-- The hero OF the romance is a
young American, the son OF a banker.
who. against the wishes of his father,
goes to Paris TO study art, and there
becomes acquainted with a little gri-
settle Of the Quartier-aud all this hap
pened in the 'TriIby'' days. when the
omeIets we're good and the wine wasn't
blue.
Lizette, however, IS not a replica Of
TriIby; she is all French. and very
much herself. and winsome witbaL The
only other character in the story who
counts for anything is kentucky a
walf of the Bohemian region, and he.
by q somewhat theatrical trick Of plot.
turns cut TO be the father Of Lizette.
The. reader suspects this all along. so
that there is 10 harm in explaining it.
Mr. HarshaIFs plots are not his strong
point His eharacter-drawing is. #
ever he writes another romance of the
Quarter, he VIII be wise TO attempt no
plot. but simply to let the story flow
along in easy, undisturBed gayety, bear
ing with it all quaint and humorous bits
o. driftwood. but not arriving al any
predesuned point He might have made
q perfect story OF sLizette" had he done
this. As 1t is, the picture Of the little
model is perfect. but The effect is iu-
jured by too much background
The only other defect of any conse-
euence IN the book is its auachronisms
We are told in the beginning that this is
the period Of Artemus Ward, which
means that it was before the war o
1907 Yet re find the characters usin,
American slang Of last years vintage
These things ought not so to be. CNcv
York. Lewis. Scribuer & Col
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Tennyson here, and its graceful opening
lines may well be quoted:
Low, like another'z, lies the IauroIed head:
The life that seemed perfect song is o'er-
Garry the last great bard u his last bed.
Land that he loved, thy uobcst voice is mute
Land that ne loved that loved him! ncvermore
Meadow Of thine smooth lawn or Wild sea-
shore,
Gardens # od1r0us bloom and tTamulous fruit.
Or woodlands old, like Druid couchcs spread.
The masters feet shall tread
Deaths little rift hath rent the flultIess lutte.
The singer OF uUdyIng songs is dead.
There are other occasional poems. but
Mr.. Watson is undeniably at his best
when dealing with large subjects.
Charming as are his tributes to Words
worth and SheIIey-in the :ettcr he
seems TO have caught the very echo Of the
song OF that skylark of English poesy-
he is finest in his apostrophest
in his philosophical poems. in his specu-
latiOns on birth and death and the his
tory Of man.
There are few writer's of whom such
a thing can be said; but the heights are
the native heath of this poet. One OF
the best Of this collection of poems is
IN The Greek manner, and deals with the
philosophy Of mans evolution Breadth
/ generosity of view, and that humility
which is dignity, are amoEg the charac-
teristics Of this poet; for the rest. he
/ is scholarly in every thought, and rhyme
and word are dictated by sensitive ar
/ tistic intuition.
! There are phrases scattered sIIthrougf
! these poems which one may recall with
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4 NEW small volume Of poetry by
Il William Watson has appeared
under the title Selected Poems.
and viii receive the attention Of genuine
book lovers in this country and in Eng
land. Mr.. Watson is chiefly 10 be re-
membered as the author of that majestic
coronation ode which dwarfed every other
production Of the time. and is scarcely
10 be eXcelIed by the occasional poems
of any other English bard. The present
volume shows the same originality of
thought, deHcacy of touch and unerring
choice Of words, and it IS worth the study
Of any reader who is fond Of frst-cIass
verse.
William Watson IS far from being a
mere phrase-maker. though the beauty
and singuIarity Of his diction command
attention, the thought is always greater
than the words. That is what makes his
poems fit subjects for study as wen as
for enjoyment
Examples of both style and thought are
not far to seek The second poem in the
book is an ode to autumn in which the
/ first line reads:
Thou burden q al songs earth has sung.
Is not this the very haunting spirit of
J the season And there is the third verse
q picture, a melody and q mood In one.
+ All zhostiy as remembered ntrth. the tale
OF summers bloom, the legend Of the spring
/ And thou, too, futterest an impatient wing
Thou presence yet more fugitive and fraIl,
Thou most EMBODIED thing.
/ Whose very being is thy going hence,
And passage and departure an thv theme,
/ Whose life doth still a splendid dying seem
/ and tnou 81 height of tlv uaznihueuee
A EEHent and dream.
/ Here is music which recalls. withou
/ resembling, the splendid Tyre Of Ten
nysou. Without the erotIcism Of Swim
/ burne or the militant clash and thunde
/ of Kipling, such poetry as this may fai
/ tc achieve immediate popularity, but
/ belongs uone the less 10 the rare thing
Of earth
There is, BY the way. tribute Il
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with so superb a humility The ship
steamed back to Southampton. the dark
ness Of London enguIfed you, but you
we're left with an fmDerishabla memory.
You had witnessed a beautiful act OF
homage. marrea by no thought Of vanity
or self
The kings who witnessed it With you
were indistinguishaBIs as the iron plates
Of the warships. only the dead queen
was visible to thought or sight. No
chatter disturbed the unseen harmony
OF aerial music, no touch Of color dis
turbed the concord Of black AID gray
and silver.
Victoria: tn. Queen.
she was a Queen rho. though she
lived in no spendid isolation. though she
appealed to the fancy Of the world by 10
freak OF luxury or extravaganza. kept
always sIoof from fnperunenee or vain
popularity. So when she died she was
mourued not only by her people, whose
grief was the slncerest. but by other
kings. upon whose Office she has con-
ferred an honorable dignity
And thus it was that the simple
grandeur Of her naval procession best
beatted the grand simplicity Of her life
and reign. she ruled the sea as no mon
arch has ever ruled there. and her prog
ress from Osborne to Portsmouth fm-
pressed her admirers with ~ mysterious
poetry and its vague echoes Of music
and artillery more deeply than the finest
array of scarlet and gold.
Her epitaph IS written IN the hearts
of her subjects. her title to greatness IS
fndisputabIe. and the last eloquent words
Of Elizabeth might we'll have been re-
peated with her last breath. To be
king. said Elizabeth. when for the last
time she opened parliament, and to
wear a crown is thing more glorious
to them that see 1t than It is pleasant to
them that bear it. For myself, was
never so much enticed with the glorious
name Of king or the royal authority CT q
queen as delighted that God had made
nc His instrument to maintain His truth
and glory and TO defend this kingdom
from dishonor, damage, tyranny and op-
preston. It was proud boast, which
Queen Victoria, in her devotion TO the
Divine viii. might have echoed without
pride or wiIlfulaess"
/ (New York: Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
/ Edinburgh and London. William Black
wood & Sons.t
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IN 2 UsINGS Without eAIthods" is
M the somewhat untnterestng
i = a title of a very interesting
book. published by an "AnnaIist," who
is said to be a leading writer on the
staf Of "BIaekwood's Magazine" Read
ers Of the book Will easily guess that
this. or something like it, is his status,
for the styIe-of these diseursive essays
is their greatest eharm-a perfection of
style found but rarely outside the great
English magazines and newspaper Of
fees. We have here, in brief. a series
of essays. articles or criticisms having
to do with the principal events of the
last two. or three years and expressing
opinions singuIarly apt in a manner pc
cuIiarIy attractive.
The frivolous reader may. on noting
the list of subjects taken up in these
chapters be. reminded Of those familiar
lines:
The time has como, the vaIrus said,
To talk Of many things.
OF shoes-sud ships-and sealing wax
And cabbages and kings
Almost as varied are the matters &c
which the attention of "Annalist" is
directed from time to time. The an
tagonism between France and England
the traditions OF the Theatre Francois
Pinero's play, Marie CoreIli, Pepys
Napoleon on st. Helena, Maeterlinc& OF
the Bee. Anarchy and the Assassination
Of Mckinley, the South African war and
the Ameer Of Afghanistan all come IL
for comment, and one of the finest pas
sages in the whole book is the descrip-
ton of the funeral of Queen Victoria
However, when a man can talk Of shoes
and ships and sealing wax in as enter
tanning a fashion as "Annalist'' ne ma!
as we'll do so. il only to show the public
that style is independent Of subject
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A CorelIi Caricature.

Many readers viii peruse with delight
the page OF two devoted TO Marie Co
rsl4f. though some OF it does seem q
little heavy for the subject. AS a lady
chiefly admired by damsels who chew
gum and refer 10 the object of their
alteration as ''3Iurree CoreIly,' perhaps
she should be beneath the attention OF
SO big a gun as the author OF Musings
Without Method undeniably is But
even q big gun may be allowed, perhaps,
to pepgzen an Insignificant object by way
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An opera House Romance.

s'signora, - 10y Gustav Kobbe. is likely
20 Be one OF The popular books among
lovers Of the theater, not because it is
snytbiHg .yery. serious, but because it is
q charming little story, full OF fun.
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Other Publications Of the Week Deserving of Special Men
ton Are Poems by William Watson Boston Literary
Rambles and the Recent Verse Of VIII Carlcton-G Gossip
From BooEdand Concerning the Re-creauons of Con
temporary Celebrities.