New-York tribune., 1908-06-13


taken with the illustrations. OF which there VIII
be more than fifteen hundred.
Some trifes of literary interest appear In
Queen Victoria as I Knew Her. the book orisi-
nally printed for private circulation by BIZ Inc
odore Martin and lately reissued for a larger
audience The author tells this drol story OF
the Queen and Of her chaplains:
Charles Kingsley had preached before tho Court
and Prince consort. Kingsley himself sitting near
Pressed a 9fes her opnion 95 that
oaves ofhsr hand mas msntained with not less
that his greatest book was alton LOCK-: Lock-, uas r
sGs ta the sTaM writer
majesty turning to her guest excla5nea Ter po
Knge who ,ts in nefte5 s5estiens at shs
moment though he lived to smile over the incident
Sir Theodore gives quaint souvenir Of the
oueen's mood where the subject of "womens
rights, was concerned In 1870 she wrote to
him as follows:
who can speak write to join in checking & this III;
mao: fs attendant horrors on which her poor feeble
sex is bent, forgetting every sense OF w WomanS mai
good nhpping.
In the fourth volume Of Groves Dictionary
or Music and Musicians" which the Macmillans
have lust published, the letters Q, r and are
disposed of. Under the editorship of Mr.. Fuller
Maitland old articles have been revised. ex-
tended and brought down to date; new articles
nave been added, and the scope of the dictionary
extended by the inclusion of material not con-
tempIated in the original plan Mr.. H. E.
Krehbel. the American editor. has added a num-
ber of articles on American musicians
Tn nd ALT fo doctrines,
icy. aims and practical proposals of British So
calism Mr.. J. Ellis Barker grapples with a
task scarcely less prodigious and intricate than
that of describing the weather. AS we scan the
we'll filled pages of his volume, British Social
ISM (Charles Scribners Sons) the impression
grows that Mr. Barker has fallen a prey to the
chaotic swarm of wild, incoherent, revolution
ary and vague sociastic doctrines which 1t has
been his duty to set forth in a purely historical
manner The extravagances of British social
ism have got upon his nerves. His descrfp
tions are, as result, frequently vitiated by an
unnecessary display Of petulance and sarcasm,
which, however warranted by the facts. Is ex-
ceedingly annoying to the reader who comes to
Mr. Barker's pages for Information. This is pc
culiarIy exasperating because he has valuable
information to impart, and, on the whole. sub
jeots the manifold programmes of British So
cialism to searching criticism, sometimes over
zealously, but usually with much good sense
He takes up in turn each problem which Brit
ish socialists have faced and sets forth each
remedy proposed. A confusing host OF opinions
is arrayed. Space is found for all shades of
socialistic opinions about trade unions, cooper
alton land, landlords, capital, taxation. impe-
rialism, the foreign policy. Parliament. local
government, agriculture finance. education and
many other matters. As is inevitable when so
into
ker's expositions frequently become mere quota
tions from socialistic writer's plus aphoristic
pendages of criticism These appendages are
often keen but again they nothing more
than commonplace gibes. 1t is inconcefvable
that any student of British socialism could de-
clare that 1.-The majority of British SOCIALIST
leaders apparently desire to keep the workers
drunken" Mr. Barker is an ardent advocate
of temperance; can it be that he is unable to
think of the detested brood of socialists as
entertaining a single idea in common with him.
self? Instances like this might be multi
nlied Although containing many excellent pres
entations of socalstic falacies, every page Is
colored with bitter partisanship and intoler-
snce The reader with socalistic Ieanings will
throw the volume aside while the unbiased
will he loath to trust the truths 1t speaks IN
anger.
Readers of the letters of "Omar" FitzGerald
will remember the high regard in which he held
his Fast Anglian boatman, "Posh." The friend
ship is perhaps sufficiently illustrated in the
letters but Mr. James Blyth has been making
little book about it, which is presently to ap-
near with illustrations. under the title Of Ed
ward FitzGerald and 'Posh."
BOOKS OF THE WEEK.