charged with adultery is not legally a party to the case therefore there can be only one respondent, the wife. But the moral and actual position is such that the word is highly convenient if not inevitable. Mr. Fitzgerald suggests no substitute. Did space permit we would consider a few words not dealt with by Mr. Fitzgerald-words which have been fashionable of late and therefore abused. For some reason the word insistent has been in great favor of recent years, but in nine cases out of ten it is used where recurrent or repeated would be the fit word. Strenuous is a late favorite, and is constantly doing unfair duty for diligent or energetic. Resurge is another pet word spoiled. All kinds of things "resurge" when they might just as well recur, or come back, or repeat themselves. The word should be used in connection with death, where death is distinctly indicated. It is too much forgotten that some words require other words as their companions. The Academy. "Hark at the dead jokes resurging!" wrote Thackeray the "Roundabout. Papers," but had he written "Hark at the old jokes resurging!" he would have been open to censure. The straining for effect is the underlying mischief in much English of the day which calls for rectification. It seems finer to write "adventure" than "venture" or "try," and so of a trivial matter you read: "I felt almost inclined to adventure the experiment," where the "ad," by the way, is not more redundant than the "almost." So, also, "perdurable," a word of which Stevenson was fond, is dragged in on inadequate occasions. This noble word should be kept for great things. Shakespeare, it is true, wrote "cables of perdurable toughness," but we should question this to-day. The better use is seen in Lowell's essay on Wordsworth: "Two things, perhaps, retain their freshness more perdurably than the rest-the return of Spring, and the more poignant utterances of the poets." BOOKS AND AUTHORS. According to "Literature" one wellknown English firm of publishers runs a good deal of its business on the following lines:-It secures a popular novelist; offers him so much for his next book, and then forms a little syndicate in the City to share the expense. A new book by a popular author is a considerably safer investment than many newly discovered gold mines. In his latest book, "Types of Naval Officers," Captain A. T. Mahan supplements his earlier volumes on sea power with a consideration of the development of naval warfare during the eighteenth century, as exemplified and illustrated in the careers of six great English admirals-Hawke, Rodney, Howe, Jervis, Saumarez and Pellew. The biographical purpose is subordinated to the central plan of the book, but not to such an extent as to diminish the element of personal interest. Lucid and forceful, enthusiastic yet judicial, Captain Mahan, in this as in his other books, writes in a manner to engage the delighted attention of non professional as well as professional readers. Little, Brown & Co. Thomas Hardy's "Poems of the Past and the Present" (Harper & Bros.) are not unaptly characterized by a phrase in the author's preface, "unadjusted impressions." There is no particular sequence, although some of them are grouped under some general term. They are of no particular time or mood, nor are they the utterance of any definite philosophy of life. Stern, sad, gloomy, many of them are; touched with a profound sense of the tragedies of life, and perhaps too little awake to the joyousness of other of its aspects; profoundly thoughtful and thought-compelling; and more than atoning by their intensity and sincerity for what they may lack in lyric quality. Altogether this is a book of verse which may not appeal to a wide audience, but in the memories of those who fully appreciate them there are lines here which will linger long after the jingling lyrics of gayer singers have died away. Close readers of Mr. Green's "Short History of the English People" became aware of a change in the plan of the work after the year 1660. The reason of this change is thus stated by Mr. Green himself in a letter published in the recent volume of his correspondence: The truth was that when I reached 1660 I had to face the fact that the book must have an end, and that I must end it in about 800 pp. Something had to be thrown overboard, and I deliberately chose "Literature," not because Dryden or Pope or Addison or Wordsworth were strange to me, for I knew them better than the earlier men, and have much that I want to say about them, but because it seemed to me that after 1660 literature ceased to stand in the forefront of national characteristics, and that Science, Industry, etc., played a much greater part. One misses in "The Real Latin Quarter" that peculiar humor which was so charming in "A White Umbrella in Mexico," and "A Day at La-Guerre's," but there is no denying that F. Berkeley Smith's work shows a family likeness to his father's. There is the same quick sense of artistic values and the same delight in realism, and both are seen to good advantage as the younger man writes, out of close personal observation, of the markets, shops, cafés, studios, cabarets and boulevards, students, models, artists, sculptors, raconteurs and chansonniers, of the Moulin Rouge, the Bal Bullier, the Bal des Quat'z' Arts, and scores of other characteristic features of a life as varied and picturesque as is to be found anywhere within civilization. The illustrations, from sketches or photographs of the writer's own, are as attractive as the text, and they are used most lavishly. Funk & Wagnalls Co. Henry James, in the November "Cornhill" contends fruitlessly with the problem of the relation between literary popularity and literary achievement. Writing primarily with reference to Rostand he says: The novel, and even the poem that sells, sells half a million of copies; the play that draws, draws vast populations, and for months together; and this, accordingly, is the puzzle, the worrythough we hope, as we try to deal with it, but the temporary one that, do what we will, we are unable altogether to dissociate the idea of acclamation from the idea of distinction. We are in the presence of huge demonstrations, and we ask ourselves if there be really afloat in the world anything like a proportionate amount of art and inspiration. The demonstrations are insistent, the reverberation such as victory or peace, announced to distracted nations, would alone seem to justify, and we are consequently somewhat oppressed-which is the form taken by our embarrassment. Around the "Pan." By Thomas Fleming. The Nutshell Publishing Co. Baby, The: His Care and Training. By Marianna Wheeler, Superintendent of the New York Babies' Hospital. 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We saw the peaks of eternal snow, The summits that foot of man ne'er clomb; But they're not so high as a hill we know At the lonely end of a moor at home. Cities we entered with lights aglow, On many a palace, many a dome; But they're not so grand as a port we know, When the ships come in from the sea at home. For the seas grow narrow, the hills fall low, And the world is small when its bounds you roam; But the wonderful world we used to know Is still out over the hills at home. Sydney Royse Lysaght. "I SHALL GO SOFTLY ALL MY YEARS." Isaiah xxxviii, 15. Since thou art dead "I shall go softly all my years," Knowing the gates of joy are closed for me; Not sowing earth, indeed, with fruitless tears, Remembering thee; For it would dim for thee the glory of the spheres To know that I and gray despair were wed; Yet, love, "I shall go softly all my years," Since thou art dead. A CRADLE SONG. Baby, hark! The winds are creeping O'er the woodlands hushed and sleeping, Bringing lullaby and rest To the bird within its nest; Baby, sleep. The day is done; The Sunday Magazine. DUMB. "A voice! A voice!" I cried. No music stills The craving heart that would an answer find, No song of birds, no murmur of the wind, No-not that awful harmony of mind, The silent stars above the silent hills.. Anodos. The Spectator. TO A TUDOR TUNE. When all the little hills are hid in snow, And all the small brown birds by frost are slain, And sad and slow the silly sheep do go, To these familiar, silent, misty lands,. One of the peculiarities of democratic development in the United States is the virtual surrender by the educated classes of their functions of criticism and leadership. To this, more than to anything else, is due the American susceptibility to what are called "crazes." People often wonder why it is that, for all their high average of intelligence, Americans are so apt to get swept away by movements that are opposed to all human experience or contradicted by the most ordinary facts of economics-such movements, for instance, as the "Greenback" agitation in 1875, and Bryanism in 1896. The reason seems to be that those to whom the work of political instruction naturally belongs, the men whose knowledge or position or special study of the subject would entitle them to be heard, prefer to play the part of silent and somewhat cynical onlookers. The preference, it is only fair to say, is one of necessity rather than choice. It has been largely forced upon them by the changes that have come over American politics since the War; more specifically by the great and growing power of the “machine" and the sway of the Boss. It is rather, however, with the fact and its results than with the causes of it that I am now concerned. And the fact is that the American masses get It no such sound and systemati tion in politics as is open, for to the people of England. rightly noted as a most hope that Members of Parliament s constantly appearing on pub forms without reference to ele ing tactics. These meetings saving clause of our democracy are held when the atmospher of campaign thunder and whe sequence the speaker, not ha worry about his seat, may co to an impartiality and though that are hardly permitted to candidate. Nothing worse is of him than to unfold the pa of the issues of the day, and e he need not press too closely, lishmen have a wholesome di political zealots. A quite chance, in fact, lies before who visits his constituents in sessions of treating public broadly and temperately nothing more distorting than human deference to the claim tisanship. On the whole, the is admirably seized. The spe M.P. delivers on these occasi as a rule, far more reasonable forming than his efforts du stress of an election or on the the House. It would, for ins a |