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If the relaxation from business cares; and was present low state of our civil service be but carried forward among scenes filled with the the repetition of evils paralleled in the hismemories of Camoens; and now, through the tory of British politics, and already remedied advice and assistance of interested friends, by our English cousins by radical measures it has been published most opportunely to of administrative reform, which have proved call the attention of English-speaking peo- the possibility for us of just such a reformaples to the approaching tercentenary of tion as Mr. George William Curtis and the 152 Camoens' death, which will occur in June civil service agitators are advocating, it 153 next. No other translator has used the would seem that our thinking and voting 153 Spenserian stanza; which Mr. Duff has masses need only to be made acquainted chosen both because it is a favorite measure with English experience to force their reprewith him and because it allows greater free-sentatives to the point of giving up their dom of versification. The following, from cherished patronage in order to bring it Canto VI, 89, gives an idea of the excel- about. Under our present system, the civil REVIEWS. EATON'S HISTORY OF ENGLISH CIVIL SERVICE RE 151 FORM 153 154 154 154 Muir's Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers 154 Janvier's Practical Ceramics Murphy's Sporting Adventures in the Far West Prof. Fisher's Discussions in History and Theology Denison's Rocky Mountain Health Resorts Nettleship's Vergil and Campbell's Sophocles : NOTES AND QUERIES. Edited by F. B. Perkins. ENGLISH NOTES ON NEW BOOKS: Huth's Life of Buckle 155 155 155 153 lence of his work: 158 159 159 160 156 156 156 157 157 157 158 Fierce Boreas, cease to think that I believe In the introductory sketch of the poet's 160 161 se 162 162 163 THE LUSIAD OF CAMOENS.* THE HE grand epic poem of Camoens has seldom been approached by a translator under such favorable circumstances as those which have attended Mr. Duff in the prosecution of his task. To an unusual familiarity with the language of the poet, due to a residence in Portugal, whose early recollections are of the vicissitudes of Wellington's campaigns in the Iberian peninsula, there is added in his case a hearty sympathy with the patriotic fervor inspired by this magnificent description of the golden age of Portugal, when Vasco de Gama led her fleets to the East Indies. service is a hierarchy of office-holders, in each State largely dependent upon the senator who, by "the courtesy of the Senate," controls the nominations, and uses this great organized body of "workers as a "machine" to forward the party interests and perpetuate his own power. Mr. Eaton finds the first hint of civil service reform in Magna Charta, which made the king promise that he would not "make any justices, constables, sheriffs, or bailiffs but such as know the law of the realm"; but this was quite too high political morality for the times, and for centuries offices were bought and sold in open mar ket. When King Richard II removed the sheriff of Lincolnshire, the place was put up for sale, and bid off by Archbishop The volume is adorned with fourteen por-Geoffrey, who outbid the Lord Chancellor traits, accompanied by short notices of their sources and subjects. A bibliography of the translations of the Lusiad is given, as well as chronological indexes, and explanatory notes of the proper names. Considered as a book, praise must be given to it; the large, clear type, wide margins, and excellent paper reflect great credit upon the national printing office at Lisbon. Mr. Duff's version, in a word, cannot fail to satisfy and reward any one desiring to study a great poem in an English dress; a poem which, with all its cumbersome mythological machinery and occasional breadth of treatment, contains great beauties, and would confer honor upon any country fortunate enough to claim it as its own. by fifteen hundred marks. Such prostitution of public trusts was not conducive either to good laws or the honest enforcement of such as existed; and, after the popular uprising led by Wat Tyler, Parlia ment enacted that "none shall obtain office by suit or for reward, but upon desert; and that gift or brokerage, favor or affection should have no influence over appointments." But these were the days of the power of the crown, when a Tudor queen could send a message to Parliament "to spend little time in motions and make no long speeches"; and a sovereign who viewed the offices as the perquisites of the royal prerogative, and the legitimate means of strengthening it, was not likely to heed. such advice. And so it happened that, Other translations of the Lusiad into English have not been wanting. One, by Richard Fanshaw, was made in 1655; another, by William J. Mickle, in 1776; Thomas M. EATON'S HISTORY OF ENGLISH CIVIL under the Tudors and Stuarts, official bribMusgrave followed with a third in 1826; ery and venality were as rife as ever. Harris rendered the episode of Ignez de SERVICE REFORM.* Castro in 1844, and Edward Quillinan, Can- OUR people differ from the Germans James II, who insisted that none should and even the English in this: that have a license for selling beer but such as tos 1-5, in 1853; Sir T. L. Mitchell's version they are quick to recognize the superiority supported his policy, of course did not bears date 1854, and J. J. Aubertin's 1878; of a rival, and ready to imitate the points hesitate to command officials, high and low, while Viscount Strangford and Felicia He- in which they are excelled; while they gen to the same purpose. A certain custommans are also to be included among the trans-erally improve upon the copy. This is often house officer notified his submission to the lators of Camoens. A very interesting com- remarked of our progress in the arts, and royal will by remarking: "I have fourteen parison of these translations, into which our the same may be said of our constitution, reasons for obeying His Majesty's comexamination of Mr. Duff's work has led us, which is, for the most part, the fruit of mand: a wife and thirteen young children." must be omitted here for lack of space. centuries of English constitutional reform, One's smile turns to a blush at the thought of how many of our public servants have *Civil Service in Great Britain. By Dorman B. Eaton, exactly the same grounds for their enthusiastic support of their candidate. The Com mons was not free from the general taint; and one of Charles the Second's ministers declared that, "to pocket the bribes, members flocked around him like so many jack-petitive examination, and superannuation ex parte side of that) of one division of daws for cheese." pensions, in the face of parliamentary op- American life; an important division, it is The reign of William of Qrange marks position. The grand result, the perfect true, namely: American politics as studied the first era of real administrative reform. working of an administration "machine" in Washington. The heroine of the tale The Act of Settlement itself gave us that in the best sense, made up of sixty thou- or satire-is Mrs. Lightfoot Lee, a young " elects grand palladium of judicial impartiality, the sand clerks, honest and independent, be- and pretty widow, who "for reasons tenure of judges until impeachment for cause certain of their tenure till removal for to spend the winter at Washington instead cause; and the king signed bills excluding cause; working for less wages, because sure of in New York, her native city. These Mrs. certain executive officers from the legislat- of a pension in old age, and exempt from reasons are delightfully indicated. ing body. The undue influence of the political assessments, - which are only an Lee has "exhausted Europe," and longs to crown over the members was not, however, indirect form of making the government exhaust America, but is perplexed to know finally curtailed till long after; for Burke pay the campaign expenses of administra- at which end of that large fabric to begin. is said to have complained that a certain tion party, — is enough to awaken the envy New York and its inhabitants bore her terrimeasure had failed "because the king's and the shame of every intelligent Ameri- bly. She has tried art, Herbert Spencer, turnspit was a member of Parliament." The can; especially when we remember that Associated Charities, and finds them equally Cabinet was a creation of William's, result- England is in this respect more democratic | futile: ing from the failure of his plan of having than ourselves, offering, as she does, to the opposing elements represented in the Privy humblest and least influential of her citizens Council. Resigning, as the members of the a place in her service if they will but prove Cabinet do, on a vote in the Commons indi-a capacity to fill it. All the objections now cating a lack of confidence, the actual power urged against civil service reform were made of administration came, in the end, into the and shown false in England long ago, and Aberdeen, Palmerston, and Derby, and sup- to do better yet. Democracy is not the hands of Parliament. Henceforth the tre- we refer to Mr. Eaton's book for further She had read voraciously and promiscuously one But all this does not make her life more endurable: She had never been able since she became a widow to accept the Brobdingnagian doctrine that he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of society than the whole race of politicians. She would not find fault with the philosopher had he required that the grass should be of an improved quality; "but," said she, "I cannot honestly pretend that I should be pleased to see two New York men where I now see one; the idea is too ridiculous; more than one and a half would be fatal to me." Neither is she better content with the be found in Boston: In the present state of divided opinion among our public men concerning the remodeling our civil service after the English plan, it may be interesting to know that among the friends of the movement, judging friends who hint that what she desires may from their public declarations and official acts, are Senators Hoar, Dawes, Christiancy, Burnside, Lamar, Gordon, Booth, and SherUnder the Georges, with Robert Walpole, man (now Secretary of the Treasury), and Lord Bute, and Lord North in the premier- Representatives Kelly, Shellabarger, and ship, the corruption was notorious; but a Cox, of Ohio; among the opponents are higher public opinion was forming outside Senators Blaine, Morrill, of Maine, Cameron, of official circles; and Swift, Atterbury, Conkling, and Representatives Peters and Bolingbroke, and Prior, of the Tories, Maynard, of Tennessee. The original adAddison, Steele, and Defoe, among the Whigs, lent their talents to political literature. Poor, debt-incumbered Goldsmith refused to take a pension in exchange for partisan services. The spirit of renovation at last expressed itself in political circles through Burke and the two Pitts; the whole vocate of the cause in Congress was Mr. DEMOCRACY.* body of subordinates in the executive de- THERE has been for years back a popu de-T lar expectation of and outcry after a "Now tell me honestly. I suppose you have there a brilliant society; numbers of poets, scholars, philosophers, statesmen, all up and down Beacon Street. Your evenings must be sparkling. Your press must scintillate. How is it that we New Yorkers never hear of it? We don't go much into your society, but when we do, it doesn't seem so much better than our own. You are just like the rest of us. You grow six inches high and then you stop. Why will not somebody grow to be a tree and cast a shadow?" In search of this shadow-casting somebody Mrs. Lee goes to Washington, where the society she encounters would certainly seem 'shady" enough to satisfy her most ambitious desires. An exciting political juncture is going on. The dominant party has just partment were disfranchised, and remained representative American novel; a novel elected, by hap-hazard as it were, a president so till the completion of reform in our which should embody all the width and known as "the Quarryman of the Wabash," own day; removals except for cause ceased the humor and the diverse coloring of or "old Granite"; a title travestied by his under the fourth George. The vast illegiti- our many-sided and unique civilization. foes into "Old granny." Upon the action of mate influence of members of Parliament We read the first half of Democracy this suddenly-chosen functionary no man in arising from their control over original ap- with a growing hope that at last the long the party or out can calculate, and the runpointments still remained, and a regular desire was accomplished and the novel ners of the machine are waiting in an agony official, known as the "Patronage Secretary achieved. With the second half of the of expectance for his advent. This sounds of the Treasury," was found necessary, to story the hope died, and gave place to real rather like broad farce, but, after all, is not stand between the executive department and regret that an author capable of doing so much more farcical than certain historical the representatives clamorous for places for much should have missed his opportunity conjunctures which our memory suggests. their friends and "workers." 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