England, Escott, 69; Green, 396, 436; Hume, 211; McCalman, 413; Old, 208; English Books, 126; Conferences, Renan, 242; Garner, Arber, 356; History, Chart of, Lawney, 144; History, Guide to, Cory, 200; Lessons in, Whit- ney and Knox, 216; Letters, Scoones, 305; Liberals, Davidson, 388; Litera- ture, Brooks, 266, Maertz, 418, Mor- ley, 53, Swinton, 216; Men of Letters, 51, 120, 154, 227, 265, 323, 345, 431; Plant Names, 436; Poets, Ward, 279; Society at Home, Maurier, 464. Gatty, A., Parables from Nature, Gautier, T., 293, 297; Capt. Fracasse, 153; 198 John Gilpin, Lady's opinion of, 259 Johnson, O., Garrison and his Times, Jones, C. H., Dickens, 159; Gladstone, Jones, E. H., Romances of Mid. Ages, 93 Kimball, H. M., Blessed Company, 354 King, E, 113 250 Ewing, J. M., We and the World, 440 Gleanings from a Literary Life, Bowen 159 McKeen, P., Hist. of Abbot Academy, 159 McLaughlin, M. L, Pottery Decoration, Poetry, Current (see names of authors). Poetry, for Children, Eliot, 27; Inevita ble, 393; by Telegraph, 212; of To-day, Poetry, Contributed and Selected: Bart- lett, S. P., God Careth, 229; Bates, C. F., To Emerson, 179; Bates, K. L., Shelley, 261; Cole, S. V., To Longfel low, 212; Cooke, R. T., Emerson, 178; Domett, A., or Dowling, B., Revelry in India, 160; Downs, A. S., To Emer- son, 57; Graves, A. P., Irish Songs, 309; Hayne, P. H., Emerson, 181; To Swinburne, 24; Lang, A., Ballade of Bookhunters, 228; Larcom, L., To Em- erson, 176; Lytton, E. B., Books, 124; Preston, M. J.. To Emerson, 174; To Hawthorne, 108; Rich, H., His Heirs, 181; Savary, J., Thoreau, 8; Shoemak er, W. L., To Bodenstedt, 40; To Em- erson, 180; Longfellow, 372; Shurtleff, W. S., To Emerson, 177; Spencer, C. E., Bryant's Wish, 212; Symonds, J. Lewes, G. H., Problems of Life Mind, 76, 78 Lewis, E. A., Lewis, C. T., Latin Dictionary, Lewis, D., Works, Lex Salica, Hessels and Kern, Libraries: Boston, 30 years ago, 109; Dr. Political Economy, Blanqui, 407; Perry, 234, 470 Politics, Handbook of, McPherson, Kenealy's, 251; Germantown, 266; Hal- lowell, 444; Mommsen's, 261; Nash- ville, 266; N. Y. Free, 140, 266; Provi- dence, 28; Ramirez. 275; St. Louis Pub. School, 314; Sunderland, 282; Sydney, 282; Topeka, 46, 146, 267, 421 Library Journal, Liddon, H. P., Sermons, Lieber, F., Hermeneutics, Life: Its True Genesis, Life a noise between two silences, 376, 418, 444 Minot, R. S., trans. Tartarin of Tarascon, 263 Miracle-Plays, Hase, 109, 229 Life, Wright, 231, 262 Life's Morning, Likeness of Christ, Heapy, 153, 203, 247 Limited Partnership, Lindsay, W. L., Mind in Lower Animals, 74, 76, 121. 173, 250, 349 Linton, W. J., Wood Engraving, 141, 144 Lippincott's Magazine, 392 (see Periodi- cals). Litchfield, F., Pottery and Porcelain, Literary Economics, 260; Frivolties, Dob- Literary World, Advertising pages, 24, 41; Compliment to, 326; Decennial, 414; Index, 8; New Offer, 93; Trial by fire, 202, 330 261, 276 Literature at Northfield, Little Buttercup's Picture Book, Little Pilgrim, Little Women, Alcott, 202, 218 Littlejohn, A. N., Conciones ad Clerum, Littré, M. P. E., 246, 263 395, 441 Lituanian Society, Live Boys of Black Hills, Livre, Le, 94, 232, 281, 312 Livy, Capes, LL.D., Llangollen, Ladies of, 246, 297, 444 Lloyd, E. S., Locke, J., Education, 215; Fowler, Locker, F., What the Blackbird said, Lodge, H. C., Popular Tales, Loftie, W. J., Ride in Egypt, Logic of Christian Evidences, Wright, Logie, Davis, Loiterings in Pleasant Paths, Harland, 215 London Society, 218, 251 Longfellow, H. W., Birthday, 75; Occupa- tion, 24; Ultima Thule, 319; Verses to, 233, 249 Cole, 212; Works, Complete, Lord Stirling's Stand, Babcock, Lost Truths of Christianity, 113, 129 Louisiana, Burnett, Louvre, Lady students at the, Love and Life, Yonge, 347, 397 Lover, S., Songs and Ballads, 444; Sym- ington, Love's rare universe, Lowell, J. R., on Emerson, 183; in Lon- don, 56; Poems, Loyal Romins, Lubke, W., Lucie Rodev, Greville, Luckock, H. M., Society, 69,249 Munster Judges, Luunia, I. de, Lusiad, Camoens, Duff, Lycidas, Milton, Lynch, L. L., Shadowed by Three, 229, 262 Lyrics and Sonnets, Aldrich, MABERLY, J., Print Collector, Macaulay's Works, Maccabans, Judas, Conder, MacCracken, H. M., trans. Leaders of Church, MacDonald, J. M., Life and Ep. of St. Peterkin Papers, Hale, John, 58 Phæacians of Homer, Merriam, Macdonald, G., Cheerful Words from, 276 Phelps, E. S., Brown. 143 Phelps, M. S., trans. Concepts of Thought, 369 125 Rodman the Keeper, Woolson, 223 293 Taylor, Father, Life of, Roe, E. P., Day of Fate, 394; Small Fruits, 207 Rollins, E. H., 27 Shelley, P. B., Poems from, Brooke, 296; Taylor, T., 325 ans, 397; Anatomy of Abuses, Stubbes, Story of an Honest Man, About, Strong Arm and Mother's Blessing, Kellogg,467 217 Sweden, Norway and Russia, Westminster, 94 387 Swisshelm. J. G., Half a Century, TAINE, H., AT HOME, Taylor, B., Essays and Notes, 367; and Humboldt, Warren, S., Experiences of a Barrister, Vose, J. E., Handbook of Grammar, 211; 20 59 Wagner, R. W., 201 Walford, L. B., 8; Troublesome Daugh- 95 ters, 294 24 Walpole, S., Hist. of England, Walker, Handbook of Drawing, 248 417 Walter, J. E., Space and Matter, 95 413 War, Remedies for, Amos, 342 Ward, A. W., Chaucer, 120 248 Ward, Baron, 157, 247 296 Ward, T. H., English Poets, 279 312 Warren's Swedenborg, 59 291 Washington, Portraits of, Baker, 77 Water-mill, Verses, 262,277, 298, 313 Watkins, M. G., Bird Life, 411 56 We Four, Rees, 23 12 We and the World, Ewing, 440 141 Weekes, H., Lectures on Art, 327 263 Weiss, J., Immortal Life, 442 Weisse, J. A., Obelisk and Freemasonry, 297 374 262 Wells, D.A., Natural Philosophy, 26 Wells, J. G., 97 Wenger, 356 248 Western, 15 Teacher's Dream, Venable, 440 Westropp, H. M., Pottery and Porcelain, 327 78 56 What the Black bird said, Locker, 442 Templeton, F., Wrecked but not Lost, 112 Tender Conscience, 246 Wheatley, II., Pepys and his Diary, 432 Where to go to become rich, 249 Whist Laws, 53 Tennyson, A., Ballads, 463; Dream of Fair 172 White Horse, 230 Ropes, C. J. H., trans. Conflict of Chris- tianity, 39 Short, J. T., North Americans of Antiq- Women, 439; Fields's defence of, 57; White, J. W., Mouth and Teeth, 27 Songs from, Cusins, 78 20 White Month, Peard, 171 Rotten boroughs, 26 Shorter English Prose Works, Morley, Teutonic Mythology, Grimm, 129 326 Round, W. M. F., Hal, 112 Siberia, That Wife of Mine. 26 White, R. G., Every-Day English, 442; 145 Words and their Uses, 442 Rousselet, L., Serpent Charmer, 295 Rowell, G. P., Newspaper Directory, 320 Sigurdson, J., White, W., Prot. Episcopal Church, 371 28 White Wings, Black, 346 Rowlandson the Caricaturist, Grego, 119 Silver Key to Golden Palace, Theory of Thought, Davis, 441 Roy and Viola, Forrester, 433 Silver Medal, Trowbridge, 467 Theosophist, Blavatsky, 28 169 Whitney, A. D. T., 156; Odd or Even? 199 Roy's Dory, 467 Similarities, Literary, Theuriet., A., Angèle's Fortune, 27 Whitney, W. D., Lessons in English, 216; 373 Sanskrit Grammar, 211 Ruskin, J., Editions of works, 357, 419; Thomas, E. C., trans. Materialism, 112 Sisters, Ebers, 246 Thompson, R., Respectable Family, 112 Russell, C. W., 130 Six Famous Women, Edwards, 297 Thomson, P. G., 173; Bibliog. of Ohio, 234, 470 Who Is Your Wife? Phillips, Whittier, J. G., 297; on Emerson, 182 394 Whom and Which, 79 Six Popular Tales, Lodge, 27 Thomson, W. M., Palestine, and Jerusa- Widow Bedott, 230 Russell, W. C., Sailor's Sweetheart, 367 Russia, Army Life in, Greene, 354; and 127 Six Stories from Arabian Nights, Eliot, lem, 172 27 Thoreau, H. D., quoted, 292; Sonnet on, Widow of Pine Cottage, 247, 298 8 Wikoff, H., 130; Reminiscences, 193 Wilberforce, S., Ashwell, Russian Nihilist Writers, 292; Question, 93 Skeat, W. W., Etymological Dictionary, Thornton, M. J., Di Cary, 11 122, 124, 127 107 Wilfred, 467 Sketches and Studies in S. Europe, Sym- Thoughts on Great Mysteries, Faber, 96 Williams, F. H., Princess Elizabeth, 210 SACRAMENTS OF NEW TESTAMENT, Arm- Three Friends' Fancies, 281 onds, 191 Williams, J., 277 Three Phases of Mod. Theology, Allen, 469 28 Wills, Eccentric, Sailor's Sweetheart, Russell, 367 Small, W., Arithemetic, Three-volume novels, 292 313 113 Wills, W. H., 313 Smith & Co., 472 Wilson, A. J., Reciprocity, 411 293 Smith College, Northampton, Through Winding Ways, Olney, 11 249 Sainte-Beuve's Correspondence, 356, 389 Smith, G., Cowper, 227 Thump's Client, Knight, Wilson, J. C., Summer and Diseases, 27 468 Winchell, A., Preadainites, 192 Sala, G. A., Paris Herself Again, 38 Smith, G., Duff, Tieck's Journey into the Blue Distance, 141 91 Tim Trumble's Little Mother, 419 Winchester, C., 261; From Madge to Mar- Salamanca, F. de, Handwriting, garet, 264 Salvage, 280 Smith, H. H., Brazil, Todd, A., Parliamentary Government in 23 Wines, E. C., Prisons, 44, 266 Sams, I., Life of, Doggett, Colonies, 12 199 Sanborn, K. A., Calendar, Toldy, S., 28 Winter, W., ed. G. Arnold's Poems, 462 Tomes, R., My College Days, 287 Wise, I. M., Hebrews' Second Common- 161 wealth, 241 Sanskrit Grammar, Whitney, 211; Writ- Smyth, E. C., trans. Christianity and Tomes's Hist. of Civil War, 97 Wister, A. L., trans. New Race, 245 ers, Translations from, Muir, 154 Heathenism, Within that awful volume lies, Sargent, J. T., Radical Club, Saunders, W., Through the Light Conti- Snepp, C. B., Tourgee, A. W., 93; Bricks without Straw, 109, 262 Woman's Work and Worth, Adams, 199 11 251 Women, Learned, 418 nent, 436 Socialism, Cook, Towle, G. M., Lectures, 314; Marco Polo, 41" Women's Husbands, 11 Savary, J., Unique, 8 395; Reviews by, 37, 57, 311, 465 Saviour's Converts, Scribner, 159 Solano V., Townsend, L. T., Art of Speech, 127 161 Wood, E. C., 28 Solar Light and Heat, Allen, Toy Books, 44 376 Scandinavian Literature, 195, 242 Solomon, G., Jesus of History and Tradi- Tramp Abroad, Clemens, 162, 261 Schaffy (see Bodenstedt). Tragedy of the Unexpected, Perry, Wood, J. G., Insects Abroad, Wood, H. C., Brain Work and Overwork, 95 80, 155 347 Woods, L., Park, 248 Songs for Little People, Travels, Literature of, 418 441 Wooing of Water Witch, 467 Scherer, E., Diderot, 239 Songs of the Spring-Tides, Trench, W. S., Realities of Irish Life, 209 239 Woolsey, S. C., Madame D' Arblay, 193; Schiefner, F. A. von, 45 Sonnet, 463 Trevelyan, L. R., Year in Peshawur, 112 Mrs. Delany, 9 Schliemann, H., Mycenæ, 440; Troy, 282 Sophocles, Campbell, 159; Edipus Ty- Trials of Raïssa, Greville, 468 Woolsey, T. D., Communism and Social- Scholar in Politics, 212 rannus, Dorsey, 395; trans. of, 247 Science of English Verse, Lanier, 227; of Trinity, Edwards, 320 Woolson, A. G., 109 Language, Sayce, Triumph of Time, 356, 375 Scientific News, Trollope, A., 80; Cousin Henry, 58; Duke's Woolson, C. F., Rodman the Keeper, 223 Scoones, W. B., Four Centuries of Eng. Southey, R., Dowden, 121; Thalaba, Children, 255; Novels a series, 266 355 Southworth, A. S., Life of Hancock, 304 Wordsworth, W., 46, 464; Club, 144, 399; Words, Misuse of, 140; and their Uses, 442 Scott, G. C., Trowbridge. J. T., Silver Medal, 467 45 New Edition, 398; Ruskin on, 346 Scott, W., Lines in Bible, 262 Spell-bound Fiddler, Janson, 171 Troy, Benjamin, 442; Schliemann, 282 Work, 244; God sends, 57 Scott-Siddons, Mrs., 156, 230 Scribner's Monthly, 144, 392 (see Periodi- Spelling Reform, 56, 79, 97; Reformer, True Manliness, Hughes, 345 421 Workman and Soldier, Cobb, 90 Turner's Liber Studioruin, 217, 234 212 World's Paradises, Benjamin, 22 Spofford, A. R., American Almanac, Twain, M., Tramp Abroad, 162, 261 77 Worst Boy in Town, Habberton, 354 Scudder, H. E., 415; Mr. Bodley Abroad, Sporting Adventures, Murphy, 155 Wrecked but not Lost, Templeton, 112 Sprague, H. B., ed. Paradise Lost, and Ly- Twin jailors of the daring heart, 109, 142 Wright, G. F., Logic of Christian Evi- 71 Sea-Air and Sea-Bathing, Packard, 160 Spurgeon, C. H., John Ploughman's Pict- Twins of Table Mountain, Harte, 11 dences, 107 441 Wright, R. W., Life: Its True Genesis, 45, 232 Seamy Side, Besant and Rice, Sears, B., Sebastian Strome, Hawthorne, 72 Stanley, A. P., Mem. of E. and C. Stan- 419 Year Book of Jurisprudence, Abbott, 313 Year in Peshawur, Trevelyan, 112 Second Thoughts, Broughton, 229 Star in East, 467 Uhlhorn, G., Christianity and Heathenism, 39 Year of Wreck, 389,445 Self-Consciousness, Ultima Thule, Longfellow, 319 Yellow Fever, Gamgee, 59 Self-Culture, Clarke, Yonge, C. M., Bye Words, 113; Love and Senior, N. W., Conversations, Life, 468; Magnum Bonum, 295 393 Under the Olive, Fields, 408 Young, J. R., Around the World with Sequels, 219 Stella, Sappho, 444 Sermons, Liddon, 143; Mozley, 143 Stephen, L., Pope, Under the Tricolor, Hooper, 112 Serpent Charmer, Rousselet, 12 Stephens, A. S., Underwood, F. H., ed. Exodus of Israel, 215 Young Lady's Friend, Farrar, 412 141 Undiscovered Country, Howells, 274 Young Mrs. Jardine, Mulock-Craik, 10 i Seyd, E., Decline of Prosperity, 89 Stevens, F. G., Landseer, 327 Unto the Third and Fourth Generation, Stevenson, J. J., House Architecture, 114 Campbell, 199 311 Upanishads, 231 373 Ups and Downs, Greenaway, 129, 142 225 Zola, E., Clorinda, 295; French critic on, 106; Magdalen Ferat, 305; Nana, 467 Vago, A. L., Modeling in Clay, 327 Zoology, Packard. 58 The Literary World. that those who do the most mischief are example, as his precepts are sound in the No. 1. "the original fabricators of error, to wit: way of direct teaching, it seems appropriate the men generally who write for the news- in a book on Errors in Language,' to point papers." Next to these he puts the "authors of the vapid, trashy, 'sensation novels' of the day." The fact, therefore, that the main portion of this book appeared in a New York newspaper probably accounts for the 3 rhetorical, grammatical, and linguistic shortcomings which disfigure it from beginning to end. 3 4 6879 10-11 11-12 13 8 8 8 8 9 12 13-14 The author quotes, to point his moral, certain strictures of Dean Alford, in the course of which the use of "individual" for the noun man is deprecated, but on the page which introduces this extract he uses the 66 out some of his blunders, that they may be avoided, instead of imitated, by his students." Without approving the teachings of either Trench or Gould, we feel that duty demands of us to commend the ingredients of the former's chalice to the lips of the author of Good English, a book that is better described by the second portion of its title, "Popular Errors in Language," than by the first. AN ENGLISH WOMAN IN COLORADO.* word, and repeats it in other places. He THE author of this volume is an Englishwoman of the traditionally plucky condemns the use of words of Latin origin, type, who, having completed a six months' and yet uses "commence" for begin, and visit to the Sandwich Islands, crossed to 12 "denominate" for name or call. He points the United States at San Francisco, and 13out instances in which the subjunctive mode plunged into the recesses of the Rocky 13 is neglected, and then writes his own sen- Mountains in search of such scenes and tences in the same faulty style. He gives adventures as the region might afford. 8 an entire chapter to the subject of misused Entirely alone, with no little experience of words, and then writes, "It may be well to life in the rough, fearless and resolute, an remark here.. on;""the student should accomplished horsewoman, possessed of a practise line by line on," and speaks of ready tact which enabled her to fit into the rendering" "the Church service. He writes most incongruous and difficult circumstances, of avoiding the "contraction" of a habit of carrying herself everywhere with unfailing formal utterance, forgetting that the word dignity, and withal the mistress of a strong 14 contraction means "the act of bringing into common sense, she was equipped as few 15 a narrow compass," and should not be used women are for the rude and exhausting, and in that connection instead of "contracting." sometimes perilous, situations in which she He pleads strongly for precision and against was constantly placed. There is not one the use of expletives, and yet uses "scholar" woman in a thousand capable of achieving for pupil, and crowds his pet expletives into such an adventure, or indeed who would be his phrases until they become tiresome. For likely to live to tell the story of it. Miss construction we present the following sen- Bird's letters home to her sister, which are tence (?) as an example: "Just as a man will the basis of the present volume, were first write his own name more illegibly and published in an English periodical, and therefore worse than he writes anything richly deserve reproduction in this more The entire diameter of the system else." We notice the following expressions: permanent form. (of elocution), a" depreciating vulgarism" (for a depreciative vulgarism); "made rather a happy hit" (for a rather happy hit). 15 MR. GOULD'S POOR ENGLISH.* R. GOULD'S Good English is a reprint of a book which some will remember as having been published a dozen years ago. Owing to the fact that a portion of the volume treated subjects that have lost present interest, it now appears with fourteen pages less than it formerly had. Though thirty-four pages have been omitted, the space has been partially filled with new 66 matter. The tone of the book is very dogmatic, and one would suppose that the author's statements were beyond question, and that his style was unimpeachable. The style is, on the other hand, far from perfect, and we find the writer constantly offending against the canons of criticism which he lays down. Mr. Gould writes with a stiffness which seems to come from an attempt at an unnat ural precision, cultivated by one the rudiments of whose education were not based upon thorough instruction. Dean Trench and Noah Webster are his bêtes noir, and he pursues the latter with the unrelenting spirit of a Spanish Inquisitor. He finds the English language deteriorating remarkably, he tells us, and says on one page that the responsibility for the deplorable condition of affairs rests "mainly" on our good writers; but on another he says * Good English; or Popular Errors in Language. By Edward S. Gould. Revised edition. A. C. Armstrong & Son. $1.25. The book makes no delay in San Francisco, but begins promptly with the ascent of the mountains on the way to Col orado, where the author was to seek and It must not be supposed that there are no make her first acquaintance with the wonmerits in this book. One chapter on clerical ders and beauties of the great American elocution, for example, though hardly perti- wilderness. At Truckee she bravely left the nent to the main topic, and though addressed train in order to pay a visit to Tahoe and only to the clergy of the Protestant Episco- Donner Lakes. It was near midnight as she pal Church, contains suggestions that we entered the rough hotel, with its crowded should like to see observed. It is in many and noisy bar-room. She made the best of respects the best short address of its kind such accommodations as could be provided we have ever read, and ought to be put into for her, and slept the sleep of the just, notwitha tract. But the astonishing coolness and standing the tumult around her. The next positiveness with which the author con- morning she donned her riding suit, called demns others for errors which he constantly for a horse, and set out unattended for Lake commits himself, makes it fitting that his own efforts should be treated with exact care. Tahoe. The horse proved unsuitable, was frightened by a bear which crossed the Mr. Gould undoubtedly points out a path, threw his rider, and ran away, leaving number of faults, but he has not won the Miss Bird to shift for herself as well as she position of a philologist or of a writer of could until the fractious steed was captured Trench "the first clause of Romans ii: 21," restored to her. elegant style. He commends to Dean by some friendly wagoners and finally and says: "Unfortunately the Dean's English is full of faults; and since his practice is likely to be as pernicious, in the way of Putnam's Sons. $1.75. At last she reached the A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. Illus. G. P. a a irregular wooden inn, by the side of the book not even its always graphic and And what a strange, startling, interesting, lonely lake, and here established herself for sometimes powerful and beautiful descrip- strong, weak, great, little, intense, shallow, the night. Returning to Truckee, on another tions of the grand natural scenery of the proud, unreserved, constant, fickle, wild, day she made a similar excursion to Donner Rocky Mountains — than the testimony it undisciplined, long-suffering character he Lake, and then resuming the cars rode on by bears to man's innate reverence for every draws! a wayward and wonderful nature of way of Ogden and Fort Laramie to Chey- woman who reveres herself. At no point an artist whose genius is not yet established, enne, and finally brought up in Estes Park, perhaps does this fact come out more forci- but, according to many persons, is gaining a romantic but remote and inaccessible spot, bly than in the semi-friendship which sprang steadily in reputation. where she settled down, with great zest, into up between Miss Bird and Jim Nugent, or Take him for all in all (says the author, in his the life of the ranchman's family who were : Desperado Jim," as he was more commonly preface], he was a man ; one so genuine, through its only settlers. A cabin was assigned her and suggestively called, a degraded villian and through, that it may be doubted whether he for her exclusive use, though an unsavory of the most positive sort, who yet paid to really was. And surely History can show us few could even form a conception of what a sham tenant of the empty space beneath the floor this honest Englishwoman the most chival figures in which utter veracity of character exgave her occasional uneasiness, not to say rous respect, and even, at last, softened by hibits itself in so explosive and drastic a shape. trouble. She paid eight dollars a week for her grace and purity, laid before her, as if (We must say, in passing, that the medical board, but was less of a boarder than a she were a sort of sister-confessor, a full term drastic is here very inappropriate and member of the family, sharing in the do- confession of the crimes that had stained inexpressive, besides being needlessly obmestic work of the household like a sensible his life, and hardened his heart, and made scure to the common reader, not to say pewoman, and even taking a hand with the his name a by-word and a terror in the dantic.) men when there was a hard day's work of mountains. One of the most striking and admirable herding cattle to be done. The excitement Miss Bird saw a very different phase of traits in Berlioz's character was his pride in and exhilaration of these occasions may be Rocky Mountain life and character from that music as a high and noble art, his unswervunderstood from a single glimpse like this: which usually appears in books of this de- ing devotion to it through many difficulties, After a 6.30 breakfast this morning, we started, scription, and the views which her pages and his uncompromising determination to the party being composed of my host, a hunter open are as entertaining as they are uncon- maintain its ideal and perfect form accordfrom the Snowy Range, two stockmen from the ventional. Plains, one of whom rode a violent “buck No human contrast could be ing to his idea of it; and he united to this a jumper,” and was said by his companions to be stronger than that between this spirited rare resolution and endurance adequate to the best rider in North Americay,” and myself . woman, glowing with health and healthy the task, a persuasion that he was born for We were all mounted on Mexican saddles, rode, as the custom is, with light snattle bridles, leather animalism, and the dyspeptics and consump- a mission which he would follow in spite of guards over our feet, and broad wooden stirrups, tives who make so marked a strain in the everything, and an entire, not to say saucy, and each carried his lunch in a pouch slung on Colorado populationthe lassooing horn of his saddle. Four big, at least in the com- independence of common opinions, seeming badly-trained dogs accompanied us. It was a munity of visitors. The lovers of the liter. to rise at times into a noble sort of poise ride of nearly thirty miles, and of many hours, ature of nature and adventure owe to the above all the wrangles and ambitions of the one of the most splendid I ever took. We never American publishers a debt of gratitude for world. He says of himself: got off our horses, except to tighten the girths, we ate our lunch with our bridles knotted over rescuing this very racy narrative for them our saddle-horns, started over the level at full out of the relative obscurity of an English A host of people must have looked upon me gallop, leapt over trunks of trees, dashed madly as a madman, since I looked upon them as chil. down hillsides, rugged with rocks or strewn with periodical. dren and simpletons. great stones, forded deep rapid streams, saw And again: lovely lakes and views of surpassing magnifi BERLIOZ.* cence, startled a herd of elk with uncouth beads The love of money has never allied itself in a and monstrous antlers, and in the chase, which was unsuccessful, rode to the very base of Long's A a Peak, over 14,000 feet high, where the bright easily laid down when once begun, at always, on the contrary, been ready to make all sorts of sacrifices to go in search of the beauti. waters of one of the affluents of the Platte least by those who think it a gain to meet ful, and insure myself against contact with those burst from the eternal snows through a canyon and know a fresh and uncommon character. paltry platitudes which are crowned by popularof indescribable majesty. The volume, of 427 pages, contains a bio-ity. This was in no sense an exceptional ex- graphical sketch by the translator; ten letters Speaking of certain popular notions about cursion. Miss Bird's days were filled with written by Berlioz from Germany to several his compositions which he pronounces unsuch, the most serious of which perhaps friends, during his musical journeys, under- true, he exclaims : was the ascent of Long's Peak, a feat of taken for the production of his compositions But what matters it? ... My scores are pubwhich she magnanimously makes light, as under his own direction; selections from lished now; the exactness of my assertions can being one which a member of the Alpine sundry works of Berlioz, including “ Even be easily verified. And even if they are never verified, it still Club would hold of no account, but which, ings in the Orchestra,” Musical Grotesques, even from the modest story she gives of it, A Travers Chants; two appendices, con Music was a passion with hin from a very was evidently no girl's play. taining the Funeral Discourse over Berlioz, early age, and his ardor had to triumph over One may well wonder how pleasantly a and a catalogue of his published works; parental displeasure and opposition. Both woman, a real woman, could get along in and an Index. The writer's work in the father and mother condemned and cast him such scenes as these, mingling with the Biographical Sketch” is exceedingly well off . But he was unshaken not only by this roughest characters on terms of everyday done; brief as it is, it gives a striking por- severity and the poverty that followed it, but familiarity, and being exposed to all the trait of the original; the author has seized by the more serious trials of the failure of haps and mishaps which such a life would the proper points with great skill, and draws his first compositions offered in competition seem to involve. But in the present instance a picture with a few sweeping strokes which at the Conservatoire. He lived in a little there was no difficulty whatever. That the are quite masterly. He has the aid room up five flights, eating “bread, raisins, woman maintained all the delicacy and reserve of her sex, and all the peculiar worth with his subject. very great one-of being thoroughly in love prunes, and dates," at eight sous a day, and devouring these “usually while sitting at the of her own personality, is evident on every foot of the great bronze Henri IV, on the page, while quite as evident is the respect Pont Neuf.” He obtaineri a place as chorus which was everywhere paid to her by the * Hector Berlioz. Selections from his letters, and zsthetic, singer in a theater, of which he says: men with whom she came in contact. In humorous, and satirical writings. Transiated, and preceded by a biographical sketch of the author, by William F. Ap- So here you see me, while waiting for the time fact nothing is more impressive in all this lihorp. New York: Henry Holt & Co. $2.00. when I can become an accursed dramatic com a |