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bands earnest desire that she keep two.
and finally. that he was never a rich
man, and that he gave her the tender
est and most considerate care possible
in the circumstances.
The sympathetic danes who regarded
Mrs. Carlyle as martyr during her life
at CraigeRPuttock. because she was
keeping house and enjoying her hGs-
bands society. instead of conducting a
salon in London, ordering servants
about, and thinking Of her gowns, will
find themselves somewhat Disconnected
by this passage from one of her letters.
IF [ have an antipathy for any class
Of people, 1t is for fine ladies. I almost
match my husbands detestation Of par
fridge shooting gentlemen Woe 70 the
fine lady who should find herself set
down at CTaigenputtocHAfoT the first
time in her life. left alone with her own
thoughts, no fancy bazaar in the same
kingdom with her, no place Of amuse-
ment within a days journey; the very
church, her last imaginable resource,
seven miles off. 1 can fancy with what
horror she would look on the ridge Of
mountains that seemed to inclose be-
from all earthly bliss; with what despair
in her accents she would Inquire If
there was not even a charity sale with
in reach Alas, no, no outlet whatever
for ladies work not even a book for
a fine Iady's understanding. It Is plain
she would have nothing for it but TO
die as speedily as possible, and to re-
Iieve the world of the expense Of her
maintenance. For my part I am very
content I have everything here ny
heart desires, that I could have any
where else. except society, and even that
deprivation is not to be considered WHO'LL
ly an evil; If people we like and take
pleasure in do not come about US here
as in London, it is thankfully to be re
membered that here the wicked cease
from troubling. and the weary are at
rest If the knocker make no sound
for weeks together, 1t is so much the
better for my nerves. Ny husband is
as good company as reasonable mortal
could desire Every fair morning We
ride on horseback for an hour before
breakfast (my precious horse knew me
again and neighed loud and long when
he found himself in his own place. Then
we eat such a surprising breakfast Of
homemade bread. and eggs, etc, etc,
as might fncite anyone that had break
tasted so long in London to write n
pastoral Then Carlyle takes 10 his
writing. while I, like Eve, 'studious OF
household good, inspect my house, my
garden, my live stock. gather flowers
for my drawing room, and lapfuls of
eggs, and finally betake myself also to
writing, or reading. or making, or mend
Ing, or whatever work seems fttest- AZ
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friend Of the family. and as CarlyIe's
literary executor, seemed TO forbid the
inference that his editing was twisted
or his view unfair The present work is
intended as an offset to the Froude pub
locations. and will undoubtedly enable
admirers of the sage of CrsigenpUttock
to excIain, Y told you So" It IS proof
positive that JEANNE Welsh Carlyle was
far from being an unloved OF neglected
wife. and that she and her husband were
on as good terms together as two eX-
tremely high-strung, sensitive, and gift
ed people could hope to be. The jars of
such a couple must inevitably be more
distressing to them than those of duller
wits and more matter-of-fact natures
can be, for the quick feeling and imagi-
nation Of the sufferer magEifies the hurt.
It is only reasonable to suppose that
the grief which Carlyle felt after the
death of his wife, for his possible re-
missness in attention to her. was only
form Of The sorrow which must seize
upon the bereaved at the thought of
such unatoned ofenses. and that the
intensity with which he felt and ex-
pressed this ''remorse'-his own word
for twas only part of the price
whith he must pay for his extraordinary
depth of nature. This is the view taken
by the editor Of the present volume. and
in his introduction Sir James Crichton-
Browne has presented this and other
phases of the case with a force which
ought TO convince the world that Mr..
Froude was, to use no stronger term,
mistaken in his view of the Carlyle fam
lily.
1t is not amiss in this connection to
recall the fact that FToude as an his
torian is admittedly liable 10 strong
prejudice, and that in any history in
which his sympathies or .prejudices are
enlisted one must take his views cum
grano sails. This being the case. how
much less can his testimony be trusted
in the case of persons with whom he
was intimately acquainted. and of whom
he had his own decided opinions? Il a
man cannot clear his mind of prejudice
when dealing with facts as dry as dust.
he is likely to make first-class gossip
when his mind is concerned with the
people of everyday life If 1t be OBJ
jected that to vindicate Carlyle is to
condemn Froude, the reader has only
to consider which Of the two men is
from his work best worth vindication-
Carlyle. whose writing is permeated by
a strong spiritual devotion to truth, who
made countless enemies by his out
spoken aversion to shams Of all kinds,
or Froude. whose historical writings
show little il any such tendency. More
over, the documents are here, spread
out before US in two bulky volumes
| and the reader is at liberty 10 put
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BOOK RETIEIIS and NOTES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS


must have enjoyed life together. else
they would not have chafed one another
so heartily" There are people who can
not understand affection which does not
continually and openly show itself in
endeaTments. but. as the biographer
points out. this is foreign 10 the Scotch
nature. and JEANNE Welsh, as well as
her husband, was Scotch to the back
bone, Moreover, the affection which
makes use OF pet names is not always
the deepest. There was once a mother
was was covertly criticised by a visitor
because her children did not call each
other love" and dearest though they
seldom quarTeled among themselves,
while the visitors children constantly
did. In the midst OF the discussion on
child-cuIture noises we're heard from
the nursery, and the visitor started to
her feet; but the hostess quietly ohsery-
ed. Sit down, pray; it IS only dearest
who has knocked down my love!"
Not the least interesting passages IN
the book are selections from Mrs. Car
lyie's notebook. which she kept for the
purpose Of preserving addresses. phrases.
witty sayings, etc She quotes here a
saying of her little servant. Helen OF
KfrkcaIdy:"
Il would rather live single all my
life than be married to saft taty tan
glice, soft potato) as sac mony men
are. and women. too-nothing in the
WORT in them but what the spoon puts
in"
Again, what seems to be popular
proverb:
"As lazy as Ludlam's dog that leaned
his head against a wall to bark"
The bubbIing fun of Mrs Carlyle was
apt to have an edge of sarcasm in 1t, and
one can quite understand Csrlyle's ex-
pressed reluctance to having this col
lection of letters printed before, at
least, ten OF fifteen, preferably twenty.
years had elapsed Some Of the alIu-
sions to her acquaintance are pointed
enough to have given ofense 20 the sub
tects. Nevertheless. Mr.. FToude's work
was done within two years after the
death Of Carlyle Here, for example. IL
bit OF her raey anecdote in a letter
TO a friend:
Il am famed in the two first fingers
OF my right hand; burnt them very bad
with sealing-wax. of course a lady
asked me The of course was a piece
OF fine lady logic, which I met by .he
startling avowal: No; with the handle
Of a brass pan, in preserving eranber-
ries.' And now I shall be regarded by
that lady with a sort OF sacred horror
IS a woman who has handled & brass
pan For, being grandchild of a me-
ehanic, she shuddeTs of course at any
one who has the use Of his COR herr
hands. OF al least. uses them.
Altogether. this is one OF the most
entertaining biographies Of the year.
New York: John Lane The Bodley
Head.
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Emerson and Carlyle were neither inf
deIs nor pantheists, as former genera
ton had called them, but strong spirit
uaI Influences not to be overlooked or
beiirJlCd. The recognition of this had
OF course. been for many years a com
mo1plaCc among thoughtful and edu-
Gated people: but the public which
makes or breaks the fortune Of popu-
lar book was still undecided between the
old theology and the nineteenth century
philosophy The dogmatic theologian.
suspicious of the philosopher. welcomed
reports of his private imperfections with
eazerness. and it was triumphantly as
serted that after all nothing but es-
tabHshed forms OF religion could insure
q happy home. Ridiculous as this ar
Eument seems now that the twenty years
have passed, and Carlyle is maintaining
his place as leader of thought it was
seriously advanced then, and those who
believed il would have been equally
ready to credit any rumor, however IN
supported, that the domestic life OF
Emerson was open to criticism. The
theological element in literary criticism
has been weeded out, however, in the
last twenty years, so that one rarely
hears nowadays of the condemnation of
any book on the grounds of unoTtho-
doxy. This vindication of Carlyle.
therefore. stands a better chance of fair
Judgment now than it would if it had
been published, however cirCumstan-
TALLY. at the time. In fact, much of the
material OF it did appear at the time
in newspaper letters and other forms,
somewhat Intellectually
So much for the public end of the
matter. The letters themselves are far
from being merely a vindication of Car
IvIe. however. They are fascinating
from first to last, and full of the merry,
whimsical loving and quaint phrases
which we're Characteristic Of Mrs Car
lyle They give the sunny side Of her
life with a completeness which is de-
Hghtful.
One OF the chief grievances which
Froude had against Carlyle is that he
took his wife to Craigenputtock, de-
scribed as an abode of misery. It IS
also represented that Mrs. Carlyle was
made to overwork herself in household
duties by her hard hearted husband, who,
having been accustomed TO seeing his
mother and other relatives hard at
work, never dreamed OF using any
greater tenderness toward his lady-wife.
The truth as presented by the biogra-
pher of this work is that Mrs. Carlyle
was rot brought up in luxury, being the
daughter of a physician by no means
wealthy. that she was accustomed 20
household duties and enjoyed her little
contrivances and arrangements, that she
kept but one maid. contrary to her nus
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Cyrus Tozunsend Brady,s Tales of Western Bishop.

1.-The Bishop" by Cyrus Townsend
Brady, is a collection Of Western tales.
with a bishop for the central figure and
connecting link. Each chapter is
separate and complete story. some told
by the bishop, others coming to his
ears in the natural course Of a rough
and ready life in the Rocky Mountain
region. Some of the narratives are very
good. others less good. but they are
all worth reading, Perhaps they would
count for more if read separately than
they do in this collected form; for sew
eraI of them are almost too pat in plot
and circumstance to be true TO life.
and this fault becomes more obvious
BY repetition. THE Last Lynching in
Cimarron." and How the Bishop Came
to the Plains" are examples of this,
For all that, they are good stories. and
slight improbabiIities may be forgiven
when that is the case.
The bishop himself belongs to tire
church militant, of which too little has
been said in fiction hitherto; and Mr.
Brady's service in this regard should
count for much. There are among the
ciergymen OF this country men whose
adventurous and hardy courage, ready
resources and great beartedness. wouId
have won them eminence in any other
professions and nowhere are they oftener
found than among the frontier workers.
They are too often circumsCTibed and
hanpered in more civilized regions; 5ut
On the frontier the man who can do the
work is TOO valuable to be hindeTed. It
is a clergyman OF this type to whom
human nature and his religion are
equally dear, who has been chosen by
Mr.. Brady for the central figure OF he
best book he has written up TO this time
There is hunor as well as dramatic
interest in these stories. and How
Brother Pidgley Saved the Day is one
of the most amusing satiTes on sectaTiaG
rarrowness ever written. Those familiar
with frontier work know how often 1t
kappcns that the religious interest in a
struggling community is treated as 4
precious lffD1St-i 10 Ia tOtEAt lCi bE
many conterdiug sects. There is IN
old story Of a man who staked out his
claim for an incipient town somewhere
in South Dakota. and having driven his
stakes. went 20 the nearest town Eor
supplies When he returned. a Meth0-
dist was sitting on one stake, a Baptist
on another. and Presbyterian on q
third. while a Congregationaiist and an
Episcopaiian were disputing as 10 the
ownership of the fourth stake. This
anecdote Is ali but literally true, and
Mr.. Brady has laid the scene of his story
in town thus divided against itsclf,
It must be remembered. however, that
the democratic principle Of our Civiliza-
ton fayors each mans going to heaven
by his own road. and perhaps this sec
tartan animosity, inconv4nient as il is
from an economic point of view. may
serve some good purpose after all At
any rate. it serves as the theme Of a
most amusing slit IN this book
Best in dramatic quality, perhaps, IS
The Bishop and the Fool" which is
not too dramatic to be real In the
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ETHICS FROM BERNIE.
Carl Hilty's Delightful Essays on Hap

GaIl nuly OS11SuI1OA 1@SSoy , VA @A@E
.iGsvsL -rol54 piness.
Happiness: Essays on the Mean
ing Of Life is a tiny volume by Carl
HiIty. professor of constitutional law
in the University of Bern The book is
translated by Francis Greenwood Pea
body. Of Harvard. The essays have al
ready proved popular IN Switzerland
and Germany. They are the fruit Of
an exceptionally wide experience in
various walks Of life. and Of whole
some and sane mind, accustomed TO
look upon all things with eandor.
Perhaps its greatest charm. to the
casual reader. is the gIimpses which it
gives of the nature of the man who
wrote it. II would seem that these es-
says could only have been the outcome
of singuIarIy Iovable nature with
sturdy strength and breeziness withal,
and a hatred OF sin which does not
involve hatred Of the sinner. There is
Infinite variety in the ways Of stating
moral truth. and the fascination Of eth
zeal essays generally lies not in any
new assertions. but in an attractive
and convincing way Of stating old facts
This Prof. Hilty unquestionably has. a
specimen Of his style is 90 be found in
this paragraph:
If, then. one begins simply to live
as In moral world. his path to happi-
ness lies plainly before him. The
only peril from which he now has to
guard himself is the peril of regarding
TOO seriously the changetuI impressions
and events OF each day. His desire must
be to live resoIuteIy in one even mood,
and to look for his daily share of con-
scious happiness not in his emotions,
but in his activity
book as well worth translating as
this ought 10 have its share OF popu-
Iarity. New York The Macmillan Com
pang.J
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AN IOWA PIONEER.
One Who Heiped Make This a Country
of Homes

OAS w HO hS3peu MAKE his q Country
of Homes
John Williamson of Hardscrabbls" is
the somewhat unusual title Of modest
volume by NJ. \ McCoid. member OF
Congress from Iowa some fifteen or
twenty years ago It purports to be the
life history Of one Of the pioneers OF
an Iowa town Born in Scotland en-
dOwed with all the homeIy virtues OF
his nation, this mon Is presented as in
some sense a type of the settler who
made the Middle West what it fs-a
country of homes The story IS written
with little attempt at literary style. but
there is a convincing note in It for all
that
a speech made by John Williamson at
a district fair is Characteristic in its
style and thought. not only of the man
and of the book. but Of the whole region
in which the scene of the story is laid
He said:
There is a value personal, family,
Unbeatable value, IN farm held IN one
family from age TO age. entirely inde-
pendent Of its pecUniary value. which is
or will become fncaIculabIe. The value
Of association in memory, the inspiration
to do something that will remain after
you are dead and gone. is what I mean.
Buy then, to stay. build for pcs
terity. So arrange that the old home
stead may remain undivided in the
family Mark the passage OF your life
there by some enduring work
The tenaeity and home-Ioving sentI-
ment OF the Scotchman speaks in these
terse sentences. and these traits have in
large measure contributed 10 the build
ing up of the agricultural regions OF the
Middle West. The book is interesting
as study OF pioneer conditions and a.
a character sketch. Chicago. N A
Donohue & Coz
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ter dinner, and only then. I lie on the
sofa, and Ito my shame be it said some
times sleep, but oftenest dream waking
Does this sound like the overworked
little woman, slave to a human hyena.
pictured by the Imagination Of some Of
CarIyIe's critics? This healthy and sane
hurnor pervades the present collection
Of letters They are full Of quips and
turns of pleasantly, and more than this,
of an abiding love and trust IN the man
to whom the writer had given herself for
life. If there are here and there glimpses
OF iII-heaIth and dependency, it must
be remembered that Mrs. Carlyle's was
one OF those natures to which self-ex-
preston is a necessity, and that where
another woman would have endured IN
silence. or found relief IN scolding the
servant or her husband for triles, she
described her sensations in language pc
culiarIy apt and foTcibIe Indeed. as
the author of the introduction points
out, hyperbole was her favorite figure
of speech, and she is laughingly ex
travagant in almost every paragraph,
either in praise or blame. One must
translate this warmth of imagery into
commonplace terms TO understand 1t. It
may be imagined that a listener Of mat
ter of fact temperament, or one who
took life seriously. might have consid-
cred as literal fact many assertions
which this erratic little dame made in
sheer exUberance of fancy.
We have heard of Carlyles remissness
il small attentions TO his wife. but If
there is anything which is apparent in
these notes and epIstles, it is her IN
willingness to see him give himself
trouble for such things Read this now
Chelsea, July Z, 1849.
ITO T. Carlyle. Imperial Hotel, Dublin
Now, I tell you what, my dear, you
shall not write me such long letters
while you are touring. / don't say you
shall not write so often-T am not so
absurdly generous as that comes to; be
sides. with such a perfect writing ap-
paratus and such a talent, TO drive the
genii to despair, you may manage TO
send me plenty Of letters without much
trouble to yourself, provided you make
them brief; but I will not have you
hurrying and worrying TO get me told
of all your doings, while you have so
much to do. After all, the most import
ant for me is that you are well. and
thinking of me kindly; and, assured Of
that much, l can patiently await your
reasonably good leisure for all the
rest I am a horrid little egoist, as
you know; but even in that may lie a
certain advantage for the man who
knows how to use it..
Surely this is the very simmer and
sparkle Of an affection so secure and
free as to disdain proof. Somewhere in
the present work is quoted q shrewd
comment of Tennyson, who, with his po-
etic insight and independent mind. seems
to have seen the domestic life Of the
CarIyIes as it was. He said that they
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GEO. HEPWORTH'S SERMONS.

we Shall Live Again" is the title
Of a little volume containing the third
series Of sermons by the late Dr.
George H. Hepworth published in the
New York Sunday Herald" The pub
lie to which these sermons especially
appealed in their ephemeral form will
now have an opportunity TO secure
them in a more permanent shape. The
present volume has been arranged and
edited by Mrs Hepworth- (New York:
z 2 Dutton & Coz
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A Book by Dubois.

w E Burghardt Dubois. of Atlanta
University. has been known for some
years as one of the best and most
thoughtful writer's on the negro prob
lem He Is graduate Of Harvard, and
published some years ago a monograph
on the history Of slavery. He has now
collected a number Of papers under the
title The Souls Of Black Folk" and the
book is said to be uncommOnly interest
ing as d human document.
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Box Canon of the ella" Is an army
tale Of fair merit Love Divine.
All Love Excelling" is a capital bit Of
religious fiction, full of human nature,
and, unlike most religious fiction. it car
ries a moral which is worth attention.
THE Bishops Appeal to the Pope" IS
another good study OF human nature.
Like most of the other work in this
hook, 1t illustrates wildly the fact that
really efficient clergyman pays less
attention TO theology than to common
sense. and that is fact which deserves
10 be emphasized IN short, Mr. Brady's
bishop is one of the few notable clerical
characters in our literature New York:
Harper & Bros.)
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A NOVEL OF THE POLE.

"CIaris." by Leo St. Clair. is a tiny
book which is called a novel apparently
because the idea OF IT is a novel one.
for in length it is not above the short
story limit But the notion is cer-
tainly an original one The narratoP
AYERS himself a companion Of Audree
and the story consists Of the supposed
adventures of Andree and his cempsn-
ions during successful search for the
North Pole. Washington: The Neals
Publishing Company
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Books Received.

MARJORIE Justin Huntley re
Carthy New York: R H. Russell q
Co.
4 STORY WITHIN 4 STORY Dawa
Crave. Washington. The NeaIe Pub
fishing Company
RECIPROCITY. J. Laurence Laugh
lin and H Parker Willis. New York:
The Baker E Taylor Co.
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Mind Healing.

Thomson J. Hudson. whose book The
Law of Psychic Phenomena" is well
known among theosophists and students
10 be called The Law of Mental Medi-
cine" which is respectfully commended
TO the attention OF Mark Twain and Mrs.
Eddy.
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MI. AIDES FIew Book.

George AIDE demurely says Of his new
book. People You Know" that if his
readers viii bear in mind that only
the people who live around the corner
are discussed therein. there viii be no
ebaaca Tor painful misunderstandings.
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4 Canute Romance.

Ottilie LiUenErantz. whose romance
of the Vikings. The Thrau OF Left the
Lucky" attracted some attention last
spriug. has written a new historical ro-
nance. 10 be called The Ward CT king
Canute."
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LITERARY GOSSIP.
LADY Roses Daughter.

Lady Roses Daughter has been
translated into French, and will appear
In the Revue des Dcux AIondes-" One
critic dubs the heroine "a combination
of Becky Sharp and Eve"
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LET NE CRY HOPE.

Let me cry hope, though I myself
despair,
Soul, If for thee the deep abysscs
yawn,
Hold thou thy torch above the dark
ness there
That souls far of may hail it as the
dawn;
Since though the light may cheat
their craving eyes.
And ere 1t sinks, for them the sun
may rise;
Let me cry hope. though I myself
despair
Helena Langley.
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More Americana

a Journal Of voyages and Travels in
the Interior Of North America" by Da-
yid Williams Harmon, is among the re-
prints CT early Americana soon TO be
issued.
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A Book OF Cartoons

The cartoons of John T. McCutcheon.
artist and war correspondent, are to De
published in book form.