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FICTION
A Clever English Minor Novel
THEORY AND LIFE.

DRENDER's DAUGHTER; BY Meta
Syrett. 12mo, PIP. 397 The John Lane
Company
The opening pages Of this story might
lead the reader who draws conclusions
hastily to assume that it is still another
novel with purpose" Lest he be dis
couraged and miss the entertainment Of
a decidedly readable book. 1t is stated
right here that the theories are en-
ployed for the sake of the story. and not
the story form for the sake Of the the
cries. This relieves the readers mind
of a feeling of responsibility, which, or
course. the author has not felt On the
contrary, she herself is on the side OF
the skeptics An amateur socialist ana
dabber in many scientific speculations
adopts the infant daughter Of one OF his
tenants-the scene Is England-with the
purpose Of having her educated accord
ing to his own notions, and thus fitting
her to become his wife. He will bring
new energy and strength TO his ancient
line through sturdy peasant blood. But
the child, instead Of being formed by It's
new environment, masters it. She de-
velops brains and finds her own way 10
the knowledge denied her. Once mar
ried she dominates her husband, as WELL
through her hooking recognition of the
futility Of his dilettanteism. This is only
the beginning Of a cleverly complicated
plot peopled with a multitude Of charac-
ters, most Of them drawn with a tinge
of satire, in contrast to the serious
treatment given to the heroine and her
struggle toward a solution of her@pe-
culiar problem. An Unexpectedly able
book from young English minor novel;
list.
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MILD PARODY.

UNCLE POLPERRO. BY Alphonse Cour-
lander. 12mo. PIP. 800 Brentano's.
Mr.. Courlander's story is mere amuse-
ment. with no purpose Of serious liter
airy parody. Uncle Polperro is cheer
full retired candy manufacturer, who
BUYS an island in the Pacific from a
shady Continental adventurer, for the
sheer pleasure Of being its king. In the
exuberance Of his imagination, which
has survived through many years Of a
prosalc business career he Is cousin
many times removed 10 Tartarin Of
Tarascon; his plans for Bongoland. his
dreams Of grandeur. are borrowed from
the same source. The snip. the crew.
the conspiracy, all this is an echo Of
Treasure Island" still more Of the
many limitations OF that delightful mas
terpece To be quite up to date how
ever. Mr. Courlander has introduced no
less than three love affairs, one of them
between the woman who fills John Sill
ver's pace-she is the ships cOok-and
the rascally captain. The humOr con-
sists in bringing all the promising adj
venture 10 a whimsically prosaic ending.
even the treasure being not spared. A
bright. unassuming venture into field
where briliancy alone can bring sue
cpsc
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Literary ,Nese,S and Criticism

Royal Horticultural Society and host
Of similar societies all over Europe
found in him an active friend and
a voluminous correspondent. He never
meddled In politics, yet used his In
fluence with George III in the interest OF
science when France and England were
at war He had his detractors. of course.
even within the body Of the Royal So
ciety, who asserted that he neglected its
mathematical and physical sections.
Gilray caricatured him repeatedly. and
the satirical rhymesters made him the
object of their attacks. There was,
moreover, a touch Of the autocrat in his
management Of the affairs Of the So
ciety. Another of his claims to fame is
the part he undoubtedly took in the de-
velopment of the idea of colonizing
Australia after the loss Of the American
colonies New South Wales, indeed. has
acclaimed him as the father Of the con-
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illustrate the clairvoyance with which
they pursued their analysis. Criticism
has been busy with the Florentines for
n generation. but II Is delightful 10 see
how Grove and Cavalcaselle neverthe-
less laid the foundations for their work
book IL essentially up 10 date. Where
IL needs revision I'm details Mr. Douglas
and his assistant save brought To the
composition of the necessary footnoteS
really remarkable acquaintance with
the fruits Of modern research. Hunting
through countless books and periodicals
for the stray CLEANS OF light flowing
from this or that special investigation.
they have made the text doubly valua-
BILE In one respect we might wish tlGt
Mr. Douglas had been a little more DIS
Greet He loses no opportunity To pass
upon the judgments of Mr. Bcrenson,
and sometimes his comments on his fell
low critic are unduly severe. But. after
all, Mr.. Berenson has himself disclosed
the foibles OF the dogmatist, and we need
hardly shed a tear when colleague
raps him on the knuckles. Since so
called scientific art criticism became
oracuar the tartness OF rival pundits
has increased. The papal mode. so sub
timely exercised by DR.. Bodc. must, We
suppose. take some little time To wear
itself out
Then. too. as we have said. We can the
more readily forgive Mr.. Douglas be-
cause his annotations are so solidly SER
viccablc. We appreciate also the andi-
tions he has made To- the lists Of pictures
printed by Grove and Cavalcaselle. The
chapter on Botticelli, for example. is
thus most effectively enriched. In short,
this volume as 1t at present stands leaves
dent of Masolino and Masaccio, Angelica
and Ucccllo. Filippo Lippi, Baldovinetti,
the Polaiuoli. Vcrocchlo, Botticelli. CHR
landaio Gozzoli and the rest will, OF
course, carry his reading through many
an Indispensable monograph. But the
fact remains that Grove and Cavalcaselle.
with Mr.. Douglass aid, will in the first
place give him much. and secondly. set
him on the right track for his further
researches. We may add that this vol
ume, like its predecessors. is generously
and very iudiciously illustrated in photo
gravure and half-tone.
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Mr.. WELLS ON MARRIAGE.
Also on 1.-The Scurrilous Pharisee'
and "Mobbing.'

The race should breathe more com
fortably. Mr. H. 6. Wells, in a letter to
THE London Times" makes this en-
couraging statement: 1T is certainly
true that, whatever our institutions and
ideas. the normal state of the great mass
present-a state of monogamic marriage.
This is the specific human grouping, as
manifeStly a part of the human lot as
the possession of shoulder blades or the
absence of wings" 1t is prodigious kind
Of the author Of Ann Veronica" and
THE New Machiavelli." those sweet
books, thus to confirm the ways Of civil
ization. Still, marriage is not always
vexed because the dramatsts and writer's
who attempt to discuss the subject are
made the victims of much hostile mis-
representation" He continues as fol-
lows:
The scurrilous Pharisee raises his head
again In the world OF criticism. and it is
not. perhaps, superfuous to point out that
all discussion or marriage IN novel ana
play is not necessarily destructive and
anarchistic. There are signs OF an I'M
mnent "mObbing" of contemporary litera-
ture. which it is, still perhaps, not too
late to avert
In the first place. a large proportion OF
current writing upon these topics directs
itself against that pre-nuptial ignorance
which is so productive OF subsequent misery
Ia married life. large proportion not
only OF our young women. but. in perhaps
a coarser form. OF our young men. come
TO this cardinal step in life hlankly or.
what Is perhaps even worse, grossly unpre-
pared for its trials and difficulties Many.
no doubt, thanks 10 the ineptitudes Of
human charity, middle through TO a sort
Of famed happiness at last but all the
problems arising out of this evil secrecy
and indireCtncsS Of Initiation are not only
fair material for treatment i'm novel and
play. but need urgently to be dealt with
In novel and play. because il is only so
that they are likely 10 reach the minds of
The persons most concerned. Their discus
sion has nothing whatever TO do with any
an"rchistic depravty.
We sympathiZe with Mr.. Wells II
must be great bore "a be "mobbed. "
on the other hand. we are eHn more IT.
sympathy with those thousands Of read
ers who. in spite of their interest in the
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IN THE ANTARCTIC
DR.. Charcot's Narrative of
Exploration.

THE VOYAGE OF THE WHY NOT?
IN THE ANTARCTIC; The Journal
of The second French south Polar ,, EH-
fish version by Philip Walsh With
numerous illustrations from photo
graphs Svo, PIP. viii, 3lj. The George
DR.. Charcot's second expedition to the
Antarctic, ii is sufficiently we'll known.
was productive of important data in va
rious scientific fields, apart from his own
discovery of some 100 miles of new
coast land to the south of Adelaide ISL
and, beyond Loubet Land. This diary
of the voyage of the Pourquoi Pas
does not, however, deal with the results
obtained by the leaders, staff of scien-
lists in their respective speciaties-
photographic seismographic, meteoro-
logical, pathological botanical. zoologi
cal and the lke-nor Of his own bacteri-
! illogical researches, and describes his
geographical achievement only in gen
eral terms. The book is, in other words,
the popular, as distinct from the scien
tifc. report Of the expedition, published
separately for general reading, after the
established habit of modern explorers of
all countries and in all chimes.
That DR.. Charcot had no intention of
making a dash for the South Pole would
be sufficiently indicated by the fact that
his admirably complete equipment in
cluded neither slodgc dogs nor Siberian
ponies, which were found SO servceable
by the English explorers. still 10 pre-
vent all possibility of a msunderstand
ing. Or. Charcot disclaims i'm his intro
duction all purpose or desire 70 compete
with Lieutenant Shackleton, though in
the same breath he confcsses with en-
gagng candor that. If he had by chance
stumbled upon a road by which he could
have won the great prize he would GER
tainly have tried it. and spared no pains
TO reach II.
The equipment of this expedition is
certainly lesson I'm the art Of ventur-
ing into the dangers Of the Antarctic
with a minimum Of discomfort The
Pourquoi Pas-why translate the name
in the title Of the book?-was even
equipped with an electric installation
that worked constantly for two years
practically without a break-a luxury
hitherto unknown i'm polar exploration.
This comfort had. moreover, its scien-
tifc advantage. for lines We're run to
the observation huts. enabling the scien-
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tinent in a book devoted 10 his memory
published at sydney in 1909. Yet, when
the colonists endeavored TO introduce
their wool to the English manufacturers
It was Banks who asserted that the
Australian article could not possibly be
was a case OF purely autocratic OBJ
stinacy, which his biographer ascribes to
his failing powers"
Mr. Smith has drawn largely upon
Banks's correspondence. among the
many letters printed being an extremely
curious one from Emma, Lady Hamil-
ton, containing her description of a
miraculous Italian woman, in her 18TH
year, who. on rounding her century. had
changed her skin like a snake, regained
her eyesight and grown her third set Of
teeth. OF interest to Americans is the
following note from Arthur Lee, dated
New York, December ., 1877:
Sir l received few days ago a letter
signed George Gilpin. requesting me, in
the name of the council Of the Royal So
! ciety, to order payment Of f2S l2s sterling.
stated to be due for eleven years contri-
button. as member Of that body.
/ should not have failed disCharging an
nually my subscription, as a domestic
member, during those years. had / con
ceived myself competent to sustain that
character But | thought, and still think,
that the Declaration OF Independence, and
the Revolution consequent upon II, ex-
tingushed in me the character OF a Brit
fish subject, with all It's benefits and bur
thens. 1t appeared 10 me that. without
being a subject, / could not continue a do
nestle member of your illustrious Society.
For that reason. and not from wanting "A
full sense of the honor of that character.
| considered and consider myself as
no longer a fellow OF the Royal Society.
Sir Johns peppery answer is appended
to Lees letter, and may be found in the
book, which is interestingly illustrated
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tion the whole edifice, internally oisns
ured. cut up and honeycombed TO a.
ccmmodate several households, hau p
Gun to lean over in a dangerous way
S,eadving the structure from the lou,'
dations upward and straightenlhS te
front. it was discovered that the o,ie
inal stepped gable, built in l6oo' hau
been demolished to raise the present Vlo
With cornice and pediment. propaplS
hon the above mentioned changes VIZ
made. at Rembrandts fitting 10 tno
Rozengracht. so that he must nav
known the building, even if he dld iIo
more live in it, as it stands now-ap
proximately. for the design OF the NJ
entrance. which replaces the TWO SUI
doors pierced in 1860, though III nal
monv with the architecture idea nay
slightly deviate from the old plan, anu
the windows. too, needed looking ai.tl,
Altogether. however, the exterior OF tne
Rembrandt House presents very ciosenS
the appearance 1t had when the pr.He'
of painters dreamt there his nlasIin
cent dreams. and the interior enueay,
ors to interpret their realization 'iIo .,5n
pencil and graver into things OF ias''"s
beauty.
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LITERARY NOTES.

A discovery Of some interest has bee,
made in the Bodleian Library. Anon,
its manuscripts has lurked unrecognzss
an English Life Of Henry v" Tbl,
when examined, proved to be the lory.
lost English translation Of Tito Lvio,
vita Henrici Quinti," In which is in.
corporated by the translator historical
and didactic material which does ma,
appear in the original. To this trans.
lator, who was anonymous. both Stow.
and Holinshed refer, and his book q,
cited by Thomas Hearne in his edith,
OF the Vita Henrici Quinti." The wor,
is to be published by the Oxford Uni.
versity Press under the title Of srb,
First English Life OF Henry the Fifth
Written In 1913 by an Anonymous An.
thor Known Commonly as the Translate,
Of Livius."
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The new edition Of the best Of all his
tories Of Italian painting has come very
slowly from the press-it has taken
something like seven years 10 bring out
the fourth volume. which IS now before
MS. But in a predatory note Mr.. Muir
raw promises expedition. expressing the
hone that the remaining two volumes
may be published within 2 year no
doubt the delay has been unfortunate,
vet we do not find II easy 10 quarrel
with Mr.. Langtou Douglas. He has
proved himself q good editor Of Grove
and Cavalcaselle, and the present volume
was worth waiting for u constitutes a
peculiarly fascinating portion of this
classical work. for it traverses period
Of peculiar richness Fifteenth century
Florentine art embraces some Of the
most significant figures i'm the whole his
tory Of the school
Two painters If profound Interest
stand al the opening of this period,
Masolino and Masaccio. The authors
are exceptionally penetrating I'm their
treatment Of both. and though they have
needed some correction. which Mr..
Douglas has admirably supplied. their
chapters on the two masters beautifully
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HYGROMETRIC Boards.
From The London Globe.


Various natural bdrometers have heen
described In this column The leech for
instance. Is said TO be an infallible
weather guide The Journal dc Ia
Sante' has now discovered "barbes nv
grometriques." Some boards are said 10
possess qualities akin to the princinle
which worked the old lady and gentle
man IN The cottage or castle weather
Indicator in the days Of yore. I'm tina
weather one came out and the other 70
turned. OF course. this was due IN Tho
acton or the atmosphere on the catemt
Wnlch regulated the movement of the
nSures. In wet weather the string exN
banded and In dry weather it contracted
me same effect Is apparent i'm SOM
boards. They become hard and cnri,,
and dlficult To cut when the weatbay
is likely 10 become wet. This ia an I'm ;
convenience no doubt. but 1t has tbia
compensation: the possession of sucb %
beard always allows the owner 10 taon O.
whether he should. on going on, Nv
himself with an umbrella - III
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An Eighteenth Century Mae
CenaS of Science.

THE LIFE OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS,
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL So
CIETY. With Some Notices of His
Friends and Contemporaries. BY Ed
ward Smith, F. r. II. S. With photo
gravure frontispiece and 10 other Illus
trations. svo, PIP. xvi. S4s. The John
Lane Company.
Each age has its little great men whose
general fame dies with the last of their
surviving contemporaries. Thereafter
they become but names preserved in the
narrow ascending sprals Of their chosen
fields Of activity. buried In biographical
dictionaries and the pages Of encyclo-
p@dias. Such men are not among the
real leaders of their period, however
great their temporary immortality. but
they are useful prominent citizens"
serious, we'll meaning enthusiasts. usu-
ally favored by fortune, and thus en-
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both. and describes a game ne hau
penguin that suggests the possiD'
ties of that curious bird as a candidate
for circus honors. The expedition was
provided with full files of two frehci
papers for two years past. Inc news
they contained became news again !"
truth. for Or. Charcot, at least, dlsCoN
cred that he had completely forsott'n
most of II. Holidays were remefhpere"
with zest, these Frenchmen in the poldi
regions never forgetting the duty
civilized man owes to his stomach OF
the culinary art of their country Inc
menus of banquets printed by Or. Omar
cot are most appetizing in the reauihs'
IN short, on it's lighter as on its serious
side the book is most readable ana al
ways typical Of the national tempera-
ment of its author and his companions
OF his browning achievement IT.
Charcot says
Far off i'm the pack ice there appears
Alexander | Land at new angle; Dut
nearer at hand | find again what saw
in the morning and my CONVICTION - Eoi, ~
plete. Nevertheless. ! VIII spear y, ia tn,
no one before acquiring absolute ana ~
diSputabe certainty. huIIS 49, -,
lunch. | climb into the crow s-hese
again with my fieldglasses: All doupis d az,
gone. Those are not icebergs when III
their pointed SUBMITS TO the SKY u Is q
land a new land. a land which belongs 10
usi II is necessary to have lived through
these months of waiting and anxiety Oh
fear Of failure, OF desire TO DO sofhetmI,i,S.
Of eagnrncss To take back 20 ones country
something of importance. TO underStand an
that is conveyed by these two words-a
Mem Land!
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in eulog1zing Hogg's story. THE Con-
fessions of a Justified Sinner" as "one
OF the most remarkable stories OF Hs
kind ever written" maintained that
Hogg could not have written It unaided'
and suggested that It had been more
than edited by Lockhart. Mrs. Gardeh
searched her fathers papers and reco''
cred the complete manuscript OF 'n'
story In Hogg's handwriting Throughout"
A Rare voItaire.
A set Of the rare edition OF Voltaire'
complete works printed from lIeo "
1889, with Moreau's colored plates hS'
lust been sold in London for 5000.
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son and lords and ladies-even a duchs..
"a slice of the peerage as Dickens s,~
1t. pleasantly distorted by the spectacle.
of his robust English sentimentsity ;,
is all Of to-day, yet it is pure fancy !,
world Of make-believe, Of humor and !,
romance that scorns the prose OF ~.
yet pretends to be part of it. A tour.
force, but performed with the seemIn,
ease that alone can carry IT off. Mr.
Paterson makes a half promise OF /.
sequel to this tale. A hazardous unde,.
taking, one thinks.
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1NouIdN dtctSDn 'btnJdmln SWlffD,
12mo. PIP. 3I3 Boston: little. Brown
& Co.
1t is the London OF to-day. the London
of naval war scares The dance master,
be II explained, is an Austrian. not n
German, a distinction too delicate to be
convincing TO cockney cars. And there
is a cabyard. humble setting for a girl
pretty as Dolly Warden. and a dashing
hanson driver. ashamed OF the DAYS
when he drove humble four wheeler
There are also the two aunts of the girl
aforesaid. unpleasant relatives talking
the London dialect in all its hideousness,
termagants watching the maid, making
her life unhappy. and tyrannizing over
her easy going father. the owner of the
cab yard. on the other side. there are
u philanthropic baronet. his susceptible
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a Rara Vojtajre.
THE BEES.

From the Greek, by Andrew Lang.
Naiads and we pastures cold. So
When the bees return in sprinA
Tell them that Lysppus old .e
Perished In his hare-hunting'
Perished in a winter night
Now no more shall he delight
In the hives he used to tend.
But the valley and the height
Mourn a neighbour and friens
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preston Of life. The frontispiece con-
sists of a reproduction OF Titians famous
portrait of Caterina Cornaro. The book
is dedicated, by permission. to the Queen
Mother OF italy Margherita Of Savoy.
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Hoes's Daughter.

There died in Scotland the other dw
link with the past in the person a
Mary Garden, the last surviving child
OF James Hogg. the Ettrick Shepherd.
Mrs. Garden was the author Of biog.
raphy OF her father and devoted much 0.
her life 10 defence Of his literary abili.
ties. In one matter she made Professor
Salntsbury look rather small. That critic
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THE FLORENTINES
Grow and Cavalcaselle on FIJI
teenth Century Art.

, HISTORY OF PAINTING IN. ITALY
Tmbrla. Florence and Siena from the
Second to the sixteenth Century ny
J 4 Grove and G. 3. Cayalcas5elle;
Edited by Lanston Douglas. Assis'sH
bv G. De Nicola In six volumes IL
Iistrated. Vol ". Florentine Masters
Of the Fifteenth Century. Svo, PIP. TX
2S7. Charles Scribner's Sons
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marriage problem, are wearied and dis
gusted by merely messy" novels.
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"Queed."
A Portrait Of Cervantes.

Highly interesting news comes from
Madrid. II reports the discovery by Don
Narciso Sentenadi Of the only authentic
existing portrait OF Cervantes. II va,
painted BY Juan de Jauregui in Sevil.
about the year 1900. and there is proo.
that in that year the artist and Ms
friend Cervantes were both STAYING
there. The great author himself states
that the only portrait ever painted O,
him was by Jauregui. The newly dis.
covered work belonged 10 Don jose Al.
biol, a professor in the School OF Fine
Arts at Oviedo, and il has been &C.
quired from him by the Royal Academy
in Madrid.
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Tennyson and Astronomy.

Sir Norman Lockyer in a new book
has set down some recollections Of his
friend Tennyson's interest In astronomy.
Lockyer in 1864 was living in Hamp.
stead and had just erected his six.inch
Cooke equatorial in the garden He saws
Of the poet: II soon found that he was
an enthusiastic astronomer and that faw
points in the descriptive part II the SUB.
Ject had escaped him. He was therefore
often in the observatory. Some Of his
remarks still linger fresh in my memory.
One night when the moons terminator
swept across the broken ground round
Tycho he said What a splendid he'll
that would make Again. after showing
him the clusters in Hercules and Persew
he remarked musingly: I cannot think
much Of the county families after that .
A Coming Biography
There is to be a biography 81 The lat.
Sir Charles Dixie. presumably prepared