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THE publishers of "The Nuttall Encyclopædia" believe that with the enormous spread of education amongst all classes there exists a large demand for a popular Encyclopædia of General Information, in a within the reach of all-in fact a work which can be constantly turned to for information in a concise form on matters of daily intercourse, but foreign in the main to the class of topical and necessarily ephemeral matter prepared for the public by the important annuals and almanacs; and the work herewith announced has been expressly compiled to meet this demand. THE DISTINCTIVE POINTS ARE: for a volume containing 700 pages, closely, but very 1. Its Cheapness.-The cloth style costs 3s. 6d. clearly printed, with upwards of 16,000 terse articles, an exceptional number of references of encyclopaedic character, and one which places the practical utility of the work on a scale far above its one-volume rivals, with vast treasure-houses of information, such as the "Encyclopædia Britannica." 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THE Bill just promoted by the Trustees of the British Museum has excited considerable surprise. It is a Bill to enable the Trustees "to deposit copies of local newspapers with local authorities, and to dispose of valueless printed matter." The first proposal arises out of the immense and continuous accumulation of newspapers at the Museum. It is desired to relieve the pressure on the Museum's space by placing under the custody of local bodies all newspapers published since 1837. But surely it is within the dates 1837-1900, &c., that research is most frequent. And the prospect of having to go to Eatanswill to consult the Eatanswill Gazette is not alluring to students. We should have thought the remedy was to pull down the old barns and build greater. In the other matter we sympathise with the Trustees. What they account rubbish is probably rubbish; it is their business to know, and Trustees should be trusted within wide limits. MRS. CRAIGIE's new comedy in three acts, "The Wisdom of the Wise," will follow Mr. Grundy's play at the St. James's Theatre, according to present arrangements. "A Repentance" is to be performed at the Empire Theatre, New York, this month. Miss Rahn, who made a great success as Ursyne in "Osbern and Ursyne" at the Empire Theatre, has been engaged as leading lady by Mr. Richard Mansfield. MR. STEPHEN CRANE, we regret to hear, is lying seriously ill at the mediaval house in Sussex, Brede Place, where he has been living for the past two years. "MR. C." is the title of an eight-page pamphlet, we have received, calling itself "An Appendix to Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 62." The use of the word appendix by anyone but Messrs. Smith Elder seems a trifle bold. We find that the pamphlet deals with the Woodfalls and Sir Philip Francis; it is for students of the "Junius" controversy. MR. GEORGE MOORE contributes to the North American Review a characteristic paper on "Some Characterists of English Fiction." His present whim is to distinguish the great from the small in literature, by asking himself if a story is symbolic; "if it be a symbol, that is to say, if it be the outward sign of a moral idea." Turning to women, Mr. Moore finds that it would be as vain to seek a symbolic novel among women as to seek a religion. He will not even allow it in George Eliot, "who tried to think like a man, and produced admirable counterfeits of his thoughts in wax-work. So far her novels may be said to be symbolical." Mr. Moore utters many other curious things a little wearily, for the world is very inattentive, and concludes with a prophecy: "I stop without having said all. England has produced the richest poetical literature in the world, and in Shakespeare, in Milton, in Shelley, in Wordsworth she will find her true immortality. Her Empire will pass away and be forgotten like the Babylonian and the Persian, for the heart only remembers ideas and dreams." Price Threepence. [Registered as a Newspaper.] OUR competition last week for the best suggestion of a subject for an historical novel may well have caused a momentary lifting of the brows to historical novelists. It is not pleasant to find the very subject suggested on which you have been working for months. Thus, apropos of "M. C. B.'s" suggestion for a historical novel on the subject of "The Romance of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, and Lucy, Lady Carlisle," Mr. Frank Matthew writes: "I have been at work upon a romance based on the fall of Strafford for some months. I don't want to seem guilty of prigging someone else's idea, and if you would mention this in your columns I would be grateful.' THE Daily Graphic has published and sold in London streets the Ladysmith Lyre. We hope our contemporary will do a similar service for the Friend, the paper edited by the war correspondents at Bloemfontein. A recent issue contained "A First Impression," by Dr. Conan Doyle, a little article which thrills because it narrates the thing worth seeing by the man who can see. indebted to the Daily Mail for the portions we quote. Dr. Doyle begins: "It was only General Smith-Dorien's Brigade, but if it could have passed, just as it it was, down Piccadilly, it would have driven London crazy." We are I watched them-ragged, bearded, fierce-eyed infantry -struggling along under a cloud of dust. Who could have conceived, who had seen the prim soldier in time of peace, that he could so quickly transform himself into this grim, virile barbarian? Bull-dog faces, hawk faces, hungry wolf faces, every sort of face except a weak one. Here and there a man smoking a pipe, here and there a man who smiled; but most have swarthy faces and lean a little forward with eyes steadfast and features impassive but resolute. Here is a clump of mounted infantry, a grizzled fellow like a fierce old eagle at the head of them. Some are maned like lions, some have young, keen faces, but all leave an impression of familiarity upon me; yet I have not seen Irregular British Cavalry before. Why should it be so familiar to me, this loose-limbed, headerect, swaggering type? Of course! I have seen it in an American cowboy over and over again. Strange that a few months on the veldt should have produced exactly the same man as springs from the western prairie ! But these men are warriors amid war. Their eyes are hard and quick. They have a gaunt, inteut look, like men who live always under a show of danger. In another column we give, by permission of the London manager of Mc Clure's Magazine, some extracts from a chapter in the forthcoming biography of Prof. Huxley by Mr. Leonard Huxley. These letters show how, from the first, width and proportion marked Huxley's life. He studied, but he lived. He could leave his medusæ and crayfish, and be, in matters of faith and conduct, a fisher of men. Loving to seek out the beginnings of life, he did not miss the love of Woman, in whom all beginning is statued and exalted. When he lifted his eyes from an almost protoplasmic cell, he could still see life steady and whole. That he should have designed so to live is not remarkable, for youth is generous; it is more noteworthy that he lived so to the end, thoroughly warming his hands at the fire of life, THE "Foreword" to the English translation of Gerhart Hauptmann's fairy play, "The Sunken Bell," is by an American writer, Charles Henry Metzler, who describes Hauptmann's appearance when he visited America some years ago. Α Instead of the aggressive, self-confident man I had fancied him, I saw a student-almost an ascetic. His boyish air and shrinking gravity were curiously at variance with the great will-power betokened by his set though tortured, lips and the experience in his pale and weary eyes. He had a smooth face; a high forehead, crowned with short and careless hair; a well-shaped, sensitive nose. If I had passed him in the street I might have set him down as a perfervid young curate, or a seminarist. painful, introspective, haunted earnestness was stamped upon his face-the face of a thinker, a dreamer, a genius. Hauptmann is now thirty-six. His first play, written under the spell of Tolstoy, was "Vor Sonnenaufgang,". produced eleven years ago at the Berlin Lessing Theatre. Each play that he produced raised a controversy noisy with admiration and derision. But in 66 Lonely Lives" his art became more delicate, in "The Weavers bracive and commanding. "Hannele and "Florian Geyer" followed. The last play was to have been part of a dramatic trilogy dealing with the Reformation, but its failure put an end to the plan. In "The Sunken Bell" we have a fairy tale into which we are invited to read almost what we will. Its symbolism will fit æsthetic, moral, social, and religious interpretations. Mr. Metzler gives his own ideas of what Hauptmann means, but the reader will be wise to ignore these until he has read the play in a receptive spirit. The translation is "free," and is in verse. more em MR. W. G. COLLINGWOOD has recast his Life and Work of John Ruskin (1893), and it is now issued in one volume, under the title The Life of John Ruskin. There have been added new biographical details and a number of letters hitherto unprinted, while the story of Ruskin's life has been brought to a close in a final chapter. In this chapter Mr. Collingwood relates that in his last days Ruskin would pore over, and drowse over, his pet books by the hour. One of these was A Fleet in Being, lent to him by a little boy. "He read and re-read it; then got a copy for himself, and might have learnt it by heart, so long he pored over it." CANON RAWNSLEY proposes to place on the brow of Friars Crag a memorial, in the form of an early British cross, to John Ruskin. The site has been selected because it was the place that made the first deep impression of the beauty of nature upon his mind. "The first thing," wrote Ruskin, "which I remember as an event in life was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friars Crag, on Derwentwater." Subscriptions should be sent to Canon Rawnsley, Crosthwaite Vicarage, Keswick. VISITORS to Nimes will soon be able to their respects pay to a statue of Alphonse Daudet which is about to be placed in the Square de la Couronne, with considerable pomp, though without any contributory recognition from the French Academy. The sculptor, M. Falguières, has evidently been a good deal inspired by M. Léon Daudet's fine book about his father, for he has represented the author in his latter years, with his fine head poised in meditation. It is, of course, as "l'homme du Midi," as the author of Tartarin de Tarascon and Numa Roumestan, and as the analyst and eulogist of southern character, that Daudet is to be acclaimed and enthroned at Nimes. Daudet had a keen sense of place and climate, and their influence on temperament and character. He used to say that every country had its "north" and "south," with their psychological differences; and he loved those authors who made much of their native air, and allowed it to invigorate and influence their work. He would talk like this to his son: When a young man, be he boastful or timid, comes to see me with his little volume in his hand, I say to him: "What is your country?"-"It is so and so, Monsieur." "Is it long since you left your home and the old people? "So long." Shall you go back?"-"I don't know." Why not at once, now that you have tasted Paris? Are they poor?""Oh, no, Monsieur, in easy circumstances." "Then fly to them, unhappy youth. I see you undecided, young, impressionable. I don't believe you really have in you that Balzacian energy that boils and ferments under its attic roof. Listen to my advice, you'll thank me for it later. Go back to the fold. Make yourself a solitude in a corner of the mansion or the farm. Explore your memory. The recollections of childhood are the bright and unpoisoned spring of all masterly creative power that you possess. There is another reason you must see; you have time. Make all about you-the farmers, the sportsmen, the girls, the old men, the vagabondstalk with you. Let all that focus again! And, if you have talent, you will write a personal book, with your mark on it, that will interest your own people first, and the public too, if you chance to get hold of a well constructed plot." Daudet's advice would surely fit the cases of a great many young writers who have come to London to write novels on stock subjects, leaving their liveliest inspirations behind them. But Léon Daudet recognised the hopelessness of such advice, and so do we. MR. ALFRED AUSTIN has taken the opportunity of the Queen's visit to Ireland to reprint some travel impressions on Ireland, which he contributed in two papers to Blackwood's Magazine a few years ago. To these Mr. Austin appends a poem written at Dugort, in the Island of Achill, in 1895. We quote the last stanza of the poet's counsel to Erin : Live your own life, but ever at our side! Have your own Heaven, but blend your prayer with Remain your own fair self, to bridegroom bride, And Garriff's glen, the land is one green smile! COMPARISONS between Dickens and Thackeray always seem peculiarly profitless, and we are sorry to see that Mr. W. J. Dawson insists on extolling Dickens at the expense of his great contemporary in the Young Man, a paper in which criticism has a kind of instructional weight with its readers. That Dickens "much excels" Thackeray as a creator of character is strange doctrine. If for creator Mr. Dawson had written "recorder" or "collector" we should not have complained; but Mr. Dawson actually goes on to ask: "Indeed, whom is there that Dickens does not excel?" Which has the merit of closing the discussion so far as we are concerned. We are glad that Mr. Dawson draws his readers' attention to Mark Rutherford with the just remark: "He has the secret of a certain sad fortitude of spirit, and knows how to impart it." |