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subject as a big one, and II he had treated 1t In
the right way. II he had brought a true sense
of proportion to the execution OF his task ne
might have written twelve instead or SIX vol
umes about the main literary currents OF h1s
period, and not have caused US to raise single
objection. But, a matter Of fact his book
strikes us as one of those historical works which
CIV aloud for compression for arrangement at
once orderly and illuminating.
Such arrangement may mean simply good
plan In the architectural sense. but something
more than this is needed The critical historian
of literature is successful only when he bathes
his subject In a steadily flowing stream of gen
eraI ideas; when he makes you feel, beyond his
facts, the force of controlling mind, which
marshaIs authors and schools IN their right
relations and fncessantly throws light upon
them so that the reader obtains new and
vivid grasp of the whole matter. Imagination
does the trick the warming imagination OF the
critic who lives again the lives of the men
and works he studies, so that he rehandles their
genius with a kind Of creative passion The
trouble with Mr.. Brandes is that he does not
seem to have any imaginative power whatever.
He does not see his subject steadily and see 1t
whole Rather does he go doggedly through its
recorded development carefully summarizing
the elements in each stratum of his of
material, but fafi1nS SO 10 ADJUST INC oihereHt
parts of his fabric, SO to fuse them into an or
ganic whole, as to simplify, and therefore TO
make more instructive. the final lesson So
wanting is this book In the point and luminosity
of a really helpful structural scheme, that we
doubt IL Mr.. Brandes could have obtained the
desired end even Ii he had confined his work to
a single volume, ruthlessly shorn of all surplus
age
What ha lacks In the broader aspects of criti-
cisrn he lacks In its detaila- We have said that
he is sound. but this is not to say that he Is
original and here confronted by perhaps
his greatest Limitation It Is creditable thing
to have written OF many classics without
having made many serious mistakes. but there
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is nothing IN such an achievement to make .
critic precisely famous 1t is not enough to
write intelligently of Chateaubriand and Rous-
seau. of Jean Paul and Novalis. of LamaTtine
and Hugo, of Wordsworth and Byron. Of Balzac
and Sainte-Beuve- At this late day, It is neces-
sary. if you going to write six volumes
about such well known writers, even one
volume, that you should have something new
and Individual to say. Mr. Brandes gives
enough as we indicated at the outset, to make
his commonplace interesting. He IS readable
throughout But he is readable as the author
OF good school history Of literature is readable
We know all about the influence Of the French
Revolution the literature Of the time;
terningled the Continent; we know how the
authors of France welcomed the return, with
the despotic empire which some of them de-
tested. of those ideas of discipline which are
part of the Iffeblood of the genius OF French
literature; and we know, finally. how the
mantle and naturalstic impulses succeeded
eighteenth century rules of practice among
authors on both sides of the Channel. II we are
to reread this old story, it must be to the
compartment of a fresh Interpretation, and that
is what fail to find in Mr.. Brandes We re-
spect his painstaking industry, his ardent feel
ing for the human side of his subject We can
not admire greatly prize a critic who merely
marks time, who neither in ideas nor in style
discloses an atom of distinction
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has brought sympathetic insight to much OF his
reading. Whether he is occupied with french'
a German or an English book, he leaves the I'M
preston of an intelligent and thorough student
Fairly apt in quotation. he makes, on the whole
a comfortable guide; you follow him In the be-
lief that he knows the ground, and thac he VIII
rarely if ever commit any of the "hoWlers
which might ordinarily be expected OF a Ior-
efgner In short he inspires confidence as q
Sound critic and that he is entertaining Is
onfy another fact in his favor But is 1t enough
for critic to be sound and entertaining, If he Is
tn be reckoned among the masters of his craft?
1t was not enough for Sainte-Beuve, IN FRANCE
or for Matthew Arnold, in England They'
and indeed all the critics who have attained
ernfnence are remembered not only for the
qualities we have named. but for certain others
which we sadly miss in Mr.. Brandes- To begin
with there is the sense of proportion, which not
only tells a man where to place a given subject,
but enlfghtens him constantly as to the con-
struction of his own work. Perhaps Sainte-
Beuve let his pen away with him when he
wrote on Port Royal, but, after all, that heroic
work of his justiies itself by its intrinsic merit,
and the question of the scale on which it is
built never troubles the discerning reader. Now,
Mr.. Brandes had every reason for regarding his
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my intention in the present work." says the au-
thor. -to trace the outlines of q psychology Oh
the first half of the nineteenth century by means
of the study of certain main groups and move
rnents In European literature The stormy year
1S4S. an historical turning point and hence a
break is the limit to which 1 purpose following
the process of development" Obviously III was
no small task that this Danish man OF letters
set himself In his first volume he treats of
'"The Eanigrant Literature" which Is to say on
the literature created. to some extent by exiles,
amid the upheaval of the revolutionary epoch
The next volume is devoted to "Ths Romantic
School In Germany" to the labors Of A W.
Schlegel. Tieck, Jean Paul, Novalls and the resi-
With the third volume. come to THE Reac-
ton in France" to the revival of the principle
Of authority and to the Impeachment of that
principle. "Naturalism In England" is the sub
1ect of the fourth volume which embraces the
activities of the Lake School and the career Of
Byron, and in the fifth volume study ''The
Romantic School In France" the works OF
Hugo, BaIzac, Sainte-Beuve and divers other
figures In what Mr. Brandes calls ''the greatest
literary school of the nineteenth century" The
concluding volume Is assigned to Young Ger
many"
One essential quality of the critic belongs
Questionaby to Mr.. Brandes-he Is interesting
He is no bloodless pedant- Literary history.
he says. SIS in Its profoundest significance,
psychology, the study, the history Of the SOUL"
and he never allows his readers to forget that
the poets and prose writer's whom he attempts
to interpret were human beings. Influenced by
human conditions, and altogether to be
sidered on human grounds This wholesome at
titude of his communicates ingratating VI
tality to his work Criticism profits by every
protest against coldly academic exclusively
technical application Of its principles. and MIR.
Brandes tacitIy makes such protest from be-
ginning to end We count it to him for a virtue.
and we value likewise his frequent bits Of per
sonalia as contributing Iegitimately to the ami
nation Of bis pagea He is widely read, and he
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The interest of this work, for American read
ers does not reside wholly in its subject; it has
the further and perhaps liveIier significance of
a book satisfying curiosity as the qualities of
George Brandes critic. His studies of
Shakespeare and Ibsen have not been suf1i-
cient to explain. this side of the Atlantic, his
European vogue. Something of a more general
literary character has been needed to make us
fully acquainted with his ideas and methods
Such an aid to appraisal Of his talent Is sup
piled in his Main Currents in Nineteenth Cen
tury Literature" The sixth and last volume
has not yet appeared over here but the five
volumes already in hand afford ample material
for the purpose.
The scheme sketched in the introduction suS-
gests courage and rich stores OF energy 1T Is
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EUSPTRIA.
" DORA WILCOX

CIasped fn the clinging arms of death she Lies
An robed In white as best BELTS a BRIDE
In solemn state amongst her draperies.-
The mirror by her side
The deadly crystals glitter in the glass;
The last late roses glimmer on her bed
The sunbeanS steal between the Stats, and pass
To greet her who is dead
She will not sin, suffer. any more,
She heedS comments from the curious
crowd,
She does not hear it buzzing at the door,
Peace wraps her in it's shroud.
And 1? 1 have no signs of vain regret
! For dear lost love, for fair hopes vanished,
No passionate tears her poor pale fingers wet
Even now,-when she is dead
THY, deeper, deeper than the deepest hell,
Stranger than life, sadder than friend forgot
My grief-who grieve not that 1 loved too WELL
But that loved her not
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GEORGE BRANDES.
HIS Qualities as q Critical Historian
of Literature.

MAIN CURRENTS IN NINETEENTH CEN
TURY LITERATURE By George Brandes-
In six volumes Vols I-V. Octave. pp. XIV.
1885, W. 329 vii. &C., viii. 366, vii. 39l. The Macn-
Ian Company
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THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Its Story Told in the LiUes of Its
Notable Members.

THE PERSONAL. HISTORY OF THD UPPER
HOUSE. By Kosmo Wilkinson With photo
gravure frontispece- syo PIP. 352- e p Dutton
& Co.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-13

Notice is hereby given. as provided bv law, to the freemen of the City Of New Haven, to meet at the time and at the places named for the purposes set forth in the foregoing order, and warrant, "
 A, FREDERICK HUME, - City Sheriff FREDERICK H. BRETHAUER, a12-5t Town Csisrls
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING CALL.

The Annual Town Meeting of the Town of New Haven, will be held ln Tuesday, April 18th, 1905, from o'clock in the forenoon until o'clock in the af-# wit:
 To elect Town Officers prescribed by law and fill all vacancies occurring by expiration of terms of office of such of ficers as were elected at the last Town Meeting.
 The legal voters of the Town of New Haven will vote by ballot in their re- spective Wards, where they are regis tered on the revised registry list last completed, except that in the Fifth and Tenth Wards, they will vote by. the U. S.. Standard Voting Machine for such officers as are required. : Polling places as follows: First Ward-161 Grown Street.
 Second Ward-City Supply House. Third Ward-2lS Congress Avenue.
 Fifth Ward-35 Olive Street
 Sixth Ward-176 Chestnut Street.
 Seventh Ward-206 Wallace Street.
 Eighth Ward-Cor. State and Eld Ninth ward-ss Foote Street. $ Tenth Ward-443 Elm Street. Eleventh Ward-29 Wolcott, cor Pop. lar Streets
 and Bright streets (oid ouinnipiae Thirteenth Ward Masonic Hall. Westville.
 Fourteenth Ward-Engine House, East Grand Avenue
 Fifteenth Ward Engine House, Forbes Avenue.
 JAMES N. STATES, CORNELIUS IT. GDNyVAE, #s1
 ,-' ANTON STALTB. x x HENRY HILLMAN, -s !
 NEHEMIAH CANDEE, Se1ectmen of the Town of New Haven. Pursuant to the foregoing call the ternoon, for the following purposes, to- hereby warned and notified to appear at their respective voting districts at the time and place above stated.
 New Haven, Conn, April II, 1905.
 FREDERICK H. BRETHAUFR a12-6t Town Clerk.
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appeared serially in the Saturday Evening Post and attracted wide atten- tiOn, promises to be the most popular of the creations of these clever collabo- rators, and many inquiries have been received by the publishers regarding H. The illustrations by Harrison Fisher and Clarence F. Underwood have been engraved with especial care and show these well-known artists at their best.
 Whether one owns automobiles or IS only privileged to be run down by them' he can but enjoy the rich humor and clever satire of Mir. s. E. Kiser's Charles the Chauffer," to be pub lished immediately by Frederick A. Stokes Company. MT. Riser, who is well known by his contributions to the periodicals, has chosen a unique hero for his little book, an ignorant man but intrepid. the pride of chauffers, and the pride of a fair widow, his employer. His hair-raising adventures, the mai vete with which he relates theTn' his ambitions, his love affairs, and his final downfall are amusingly told. The illus trations are well chosen, and the book is good fun with a possible serious mo- tive in its satire of the carelessness of the automobilist for the rights of his less fortunate fellow-creatures.
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NEW BOOKS AT THE YOUNG
 NEWS INSTTTJJTE.


 Washington, NJ. K. Italian Letters of a Diplomats Wife, by the author of Letters of D'p'omat's Wife, which ap- peared about q year ago, and which had a considerable circulation among literary people; Call, A. P. The Free dom of Life, an ethical work by. the au- thor of Power Through Repcse; Pain, Barry. Alize, an amusing novel by the author of The One Before; Surland, Harris. The Black Motor Car. book by new writer. Likely to be popular among readers of adventure stories, though it's literary quality is yet to be passed upon; Kennedy. S. R. The Lodestar, also by new writer. A Tov- el of life in a country-.ouse. The sag ing is somewhat threadb8re, but there are one or two good character stIdi 2s, and as piece of literature the book is far above the average; Richmond, c. 2. The Indifference of Juliet, Another new writer. Good judges pronounce the book worth reading; White An drew D. Autobiography. No one in- tercsted in modern political or edu2a' tional life, and the highest type of both, would think of neglecti1g this biogra- phy, one of the most important that has appeared for. years; Van Worst, Marie. Amanda of the Mill, 5y the au- thor of Philip Longstreth, which had a good run four years ago. The writer is much interested in the working-eirl question, having written one or two se- rious works on that subject; Dickson, Harris. The Ravenels, novel by the author of The Siege of the Lady Reso- lute, which was a work of considerable power; Sheldon, Charles N. The Heart of the World. There is no question as to the probable popularity of this new novel by the author of In His Steps; Prichard, H. H. Through the Heart of Patagonia large and rather expen- sive book, profusely Illustrated and in- teresting; Jones, G. B.. Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, another impor- tant biography. The subject is the well known English academician, the asso- ciate of Morris and of Rosetti Scudder, Horace E. The Childrens Book, a compilation of the best known chill dren's stories; Lucle, Jerome B. His tory of the New Haven Grays, not a new book, nor a new author, nor a new subject but interesting. all three, as is shown by the fact that our first copy has been worn out by constant use; Grant, Robert The Orcaid not SO fa- vorably commented upon as some of the authors older books; Martin, E. S, The Courtship of Careful Man, a bright story by an author who has heretofore been a writer of essays; Wells, H. G. Twelve stories and a dream; Wells is one of the best known writers of the impossible" story.
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TWO EXILED AMERICANS.
How Messrs, Gaynor and Greene Have
 Spent their Time

HOW MeSsrs Gaynor and Greene Have
 Spent their Time.
 Five hundred miles to the north-up in the country where the Union Jack takes the place of the Stars and Stripes and the coin of the realm bears the portrait of Edward VII--are two exiled Americans. For three years their thoughts have turned constantly toward the Republic to which they dared not return, and none save they can tell how bitter have been the re- grets for the acts which occasioned their exile.
 Were it not for the fact that the United States government is desirous of including John F. Gaynor and Ben jamin D. Greene in her prison census these two men would not be so anxious to remain in Canada. But liberty is sweet, and so it comes that they prefer a soreign cline to what was once to them the land of the free.
 The way of the transgressor is re- puted to be hard. Messrs. Gaynor and Greene has at least found it to be dramatic. First was an alleged suc- cessful plot to defraud the United States government in the carrying out of a contract in Savannah Harbor. Then followed arrest. Bail was fur nished and the conspirators fled to Canada and took up their residence at Quebec An extradition warrant was issued and a plan laid quietly to take the prisoners aboard a swift tug, so as to avoid opportunities for resistance. The tug started up the St. Lawrence River for Montreal-one hundred and sixty miles away-and was pursued by other tugs but escaped them. Halfway up she was signalled by officers of the Canadian government to bring the prisoners ashore, but she proceeded on her way, arriving at Montreal, the pris- oners were met by their counsul, who shortly secured their release They re- turned to Quebec, and, after remaining at liberty over two years were again arrested and brought to Montreal, where they are now in prison awaiting the results of extra adition proceedings.
 This is the outline of the drama of which they are the central figure. It is new between the acts, and the audience awaits the rising of the curtain. Mean time something may be told of the lives of tl.e two r1en while they roamed, de- pressed and anxious, about Quebec. Yet every situation has it's compensa- tons, and doubtless the fugitives were able often to discern 8 silver lining to the cloud
 Gaynor the sport - Greene the reader. They can be pictured in the quaint old city of Quebec, each pur- suing his business in his re- stricted life as best he may. Each took a furnished house on the
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the same load and lashed in common by a goad of their own making, should find their mutual bonds galling is not to be wondered at. They would find much to lay at each others door, and the irksomeness of their position would probably embitter them against each other. Some such situation arose be- tween them, the precise cause of which Is not known. Greene is believed to have made an uncomplimentary remark re- garding Gaynor's somewhat cheekered matrimonial career. At any rate, a cOldness which came near ending in open rupture grew up between them. Only their mutual interest held them together.
 Even more disturbing to their friends and to themselves. if it be true-is the report that their finances are run ming low. One estimate is that neither has more than $15O.0O0 left out of the considerable sum they possessed a few years ago: others creNt them with hay ing much less than the sum mentioned, saying that they are practically poor men. Added to this is a report that Gaynor is broken in health to such an extent that, even should extradition be escaped, he would have struggle to recover.
 Such is the situation of the two men who had hoped 8 few years ago to spend the remainder of their lives in comfort and happiness. Instead, they have had to ice thEir country, and are now face to face with the possibility of spending, 1t may be, the remainder of their lives in prison. F.
 It confirms the view that honesty is the best policy. At present they are confined in a Montreal jail, awaiting the outcome of the extradition proceed ings. Thsre, it nay be assumed, they have few anlusements. Their meals are sent them daily from the Place Viger Hotel, where their wives are staying, Mrs. Gaynor and Mrs. Greene have shown the utmost devotion to their husbands in their recent troubles. They visit them every day at the prison and are probably almost the one bright spot in tke lives of the TWO refugeas.-- New York Tribune. ,s
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Gyges. a charioteer in the Roman cir GUS. ". T. Benda has supplied strik- ing illustrations for Mir. Camps first book. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, are the publishers. Price $Loe' for sale by all leading booksellers.
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THE DANGER OF ExAGGERAT1oN.

John Jacob Astor and his son rigidly attended to business in the same office a littel one story building in Prince st., just east of Broadway. Their constant compainon there was Fftz- Greene Hal .leck-"Marco Bozzaris'' Halleck. Hal ,leck became clerk for Astor in 1882, and worked seventeen years. The en- ployment, he himself said, was mot profitable, but permanent" Astor warned him when he began not to talk to any one of his wealth. The two men became great friends. Halleck of it would be content" The great owner took him at his word and in his spent months with his patron at his country seat, and became one of the trustees of the Astor Library. The poet frequently rallied the old man on his wealth. Why, MT. Astor," he would say, If had $2O0 year and was sure will, much to the amusement of bo- hemian NewYork, he left Halleck an annuity of $200.-Barton J. Hendrick, in McClure's Magazine.
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CITY ELECTION.
To the sRsSlf! of the City Of New Haven

To the e sheTifi of the City of New Haven You are hereby required to warn the LreeInen or the City of New Haven to April, 1905, at six o'clock in the fore noon, until five o'clock in the afternoon 70 vote by ballot, except in the Fifth ana ana Tenth Wards, where by US. Stand IaI, aachlnes, as provided by Ws taWs TOT Mayor, Controller, Treasurer Sierk, Collector, City Sheriff and six ai- s.Ilh lsILtleh aI large, a Town Clerk, a Reg lsITar or Vital Statistics, Grand Jurors. hn9a hnu heeglstrars of Voters. who sham hoId tnelr respective offices for the term or two years, from and after inc first week day in June, 1905.
 ALSO the Ifeemen registered and en- said sstisd c;t,, t0 vote Tn each of the wards of to further vote at said time by ballot except Tn the Tenth Ward, where by IT ;: Standard Voting Machines. as nro- Elded by law for one. Alderman for each of said Wards, who shall hold nf- ice for the term of two years from and atIer the hrst week day of June. I9O5 :
 Tn accordance with the law the Board oI Poilee Commissioners of the City of Nem neta Havea taa & nave selected and desig- .iidteo .ie lhe following polling places in the respective voting districts, namely: First Ward-l61 Crown Street.
 Second Ward-City Supply House. Ihird Ward-216 Congress Avenue pOurtns Nafu-256 Water Street
 Fifth Ward-35 Olive Street.
 Sixth Ward-1I6 Chestnut Street. seventh Ward-206 Wallace Street. < Streets. %A@.
 Ninth Ward-63 Foote Street.
 Tenth Ward-443 Elm Street. Eleventh Ward-29 Woleott. cor Pom lar Streets '- 1Otf =.
 Twelfth Ward-Cor. Grand Avenue and Bright Streets (old Quinnipiac
 Thirteenth Ward - Masonic Hall, Westyille .- East Grand Avenue. Fifteenth Ward Engine House, GfTen under my hand in the City of New Haven, this 12th day of April, 1905. JOHN P. STUDLEY, Mayor t
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Walter $. Cramp the author of Psyche, a Romance of the Reign of Ti- fberius," was born in Philadelphia, graduated from the higher schools and studied ship building in the yards which his father and uncle had so suc- cessfully established. Some years ago, when the great shipyards passed into the ownership of a stock company, MT. Cramp found himself in condition to gratify his greatest desire-the study of ancient, mediaeval and modern Rome. During the last few years he has lived in Italy and the northern part of Af- rica, and has particularly devoted his time to the study of the interesting pe- riods of Rome during the reign of Au- gustus and Tiberius.
 In Psyche" the author has pictured the condition of Rome during the reign of the cruel, despotic emperor, TiIberius. It deals with the period when Tiberius went to live in the island of Capri and built his palace, and with the attempt of Seianus, commander of the Praeto- riarl guards, to make himself emperor of Rome. The characters of the corrupt Emperor Tiberius, Sejanus, his favor ite, and Agrippina, the widow of Ger nlanicus, are portrayed with great pow er and the author has described the Rome of the time with the utmost faithfulr1ess Psyche, the heroine, is a beautiful Greek dancer, bethrothed to