A manual of international law. "A Manual of Public International Mr. Law" (Macmillan), by Thomas Alfred Walker, Lecturer at Cambridge, England, is designed as an introductory text-book "for the use of students commencing to read Public International Law." Its simple plan is the presentation of the rules that have been established by the agreement of modern nations, in the form of propositions, tersely stated, eighty-six in number. For example, No. 41 is: "The final touchstone distinguishing belligerent from neutral, is willing subjection to belligerent or to neutral control." No. 60 is: "It is the duty of a neutral ruler to refuse the right of passage across his territory to belligerent troops." Each proposition is illustrated by commentary, at greater or less length, generally based on and illustrating one or more historical incidents, nearly all of which are of great interest. Walker's novel plan of teaching this frequently dry subject will no doubt be well received. His style is far from dry, and his book is agreeably readable. He adheres to the term "law" as applied to international usages, though agreeing that they "lack alike determinate lawgiver, determinate sanction, and determinate enforcing court," because each nation adopting those usages treats them as law, and furnishes them a sanction by voluntarily observing them. Very many of the precedents cited by Mr. Walker as authorities are drawn from the international complications in which the United States has participated; and references to American decisions and American commentaries are frequent-Story being styled "the great American judge." Indeed, the pages of this English commentator bear abundant testimony to the great part which our republic has played in modifying former international usages and aiding to establish the progressive modern rules; for we have taken the lead in many instances in the work of introducing them. Miscellaneous Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. writings of have done readers a great- a very Walter Bagehot. great service in republishing the miscellaneous writings of Walter Bagehot. Five volumes of their neat and inexpensive "Silver Library" are devoted to this purpose, and include all of Bagehot that the general reader wants, aside from the "English Constitution" and "Physics and Politics," both of which works are easily procurable. Three volumes of literary studies, one of biograph ical studies, and one of economic studies, make up the set. There is a portrait of the author, and a sympathetic memoir by his friend, Mr. R. H. Hutton. Bagehot was not always right, but he never failed to be interesting. In one of his essays, contrasting Shakespeare with Milton, he says: "The latter, who was still by temperament, and a schoolmaster by trade, selects a beautiful object, puts it straight out before him and his readers, and accumulates upon it all the learned imagery of a thousand years; Shakespeare glances at it, and says something of his own." So the average critic, writing of Shelley, or Béranger, or Scott, gives us, as a rule, the conventional judgments that have been accumulating for years; whereas Bagehot always "says something of his own." 1." And, even if we dissent from this something, it somehow sets us to thinking along new lines, and we are glad that Bagehot said it. Mr. Hutton, in editing this series of volumes, has made considerable use of the notes prepared by Mr. Forrest Morgan for the edition of Bagehot published a few years ago by the Travellers' Insurance Company, of Hartford. That edition contained, also, the longer works, which the present one does not; but, on the other hand, Mr. Hutton has added a number of papers that Mr. Morgan failed to include. Good usage and authority. Mr. Gilbert M. Tucker's modest volume on "Our Common Speech (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is a collection of six good but disconnected essays on matters of linguistic interest; and is not so much a handbook to be consulted at need as a book to be read and enjoyed. The book is more in the line of Trench and R. G. White than of Sievers and Sweet; but this does not prevent its being a scholarly, albeit popular, piece of work. Mr. Tucker's interest is in present usage and past meanings. Although he gives no indication of great breadth of reading, he is well equipped as far as familiarity with the dictionaries is concerned, and he realizes perfectly just what he can do best. His two papers on Dictionaries are very convenient: the first gathers a good deal about the old dictionaries which is new, doubtless, even to many students; while his remarks on later dictionaries are eminently sensible. Starting from this lexicographical standpoint, we have the first essay in the book on the necessity of using words exactly and correctly, and the last on Americanisms (chiefly on the subject of Briticisms), with a good bibliography. These four essays have something of an enduring interest, and will probably be a stimulant and a guide to just the readers they are intended for. More entertaining than important is the essay on "Degraded Words": those familiar with the principle in question will be interested in Mr. Tucker's collection of examples; those who have never thought of change of meanings in language will probably fail rightly to estimate its import. Lastly, the paper on the English of the Revised fragmentary, and, on the whole, ephemeral. The Version, although its points are well taken, is rather book is easily and pleasantly written, and will probably be enjoyed by the student and the more general reader. golf, tobacco, St. Valentine's day, and so forth, are just the things to interest and please many people. Bits of antiquarian lore, out-of-the-way quotations from good literature, reminiscence of old-time customs,- all this, and much else, makes very pleasant reading, and admirably serves the purpose for which the volume was intended. Mr. Hutton is a large reader, even of books which seem stupid to the world at large; and everyone knows his cleverness at getting something out of almost anything. In the present case he has pored over many rare volumes and gathered much recondite learning; he also deals genially with the "Badminton Library," as even with the "Century Dictionary." His bits of information, both quaint and commonplace, are displayed and arranged with a bland humor quite in keeping with the picture of himself that forms the frontispiece of this pretty little book. An unconventional letter-writer. "Charm and Courtesy in LetterWriting" (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is a pleasant and useful volume,-pleasant to those whose letters are by nature charming and courteous, and useful to those who hitherto have had little thought of either courtesy or charm when they had occasion to communicate with others by the medium of the public post. Of the latter class there are almost too many in the present era of printed letter-heads and postal cards, and if one could be certain they were amenable to kind treatment it would be wise to do one's best to help circulate Miss Callaway's book. Whether or not it succeeds in softening the manners of those who ⚫might be helped by it, the book is pleasant reading, especially for those who have no pressing need of it. It is easily written, with a slight conventionality of sentiment, and a semblance of method (as wine-jelly is sometimes moulded into the form of a vertebrate), but not enough to do any harm. The author has extracted many good letters from epistolary literature, and shows a pleasant appreciation of them, which, it is to be hoped, she will convey to many readers. Silhouettes of travel. An unusually bright and suggestive sheaf of silhouettes of foreign travel is Mr. W. D. McCrackan's pretty booklet, "Little Idyls of the Big World" (Joseph Knight Co.). Mr. McCrackan is the author of several serious historical books; and his "Idyls," with not a little of sparkle and lightness of touch, show a vein of thought and sentiment that lifts them considerably above the common run of travel pictures. A few of the titles are: "Pontifex Maximus," ""A Riot in Rome,' ""A Woman of Paris," "A Sunday in Vienna," "The Sultan's Prayer," "At the Manoeuvres," "Self-Government," etc., the last-named paper giving a graphic account of the meeting of the inhabitants of a Swiss canton to vote on the adoption of a new constitution. There are several illustrations, including a photographic plate of Bastien Le Page's beautiful portrait of Jeanne D'Arc. BRIEFER MENTION. Professor H. Graetz's "History of the Jews," issued by the Jewish Publication Society of America, has been brought down to the present time by publication of a fifth volume, which covers the period from the Chmielnicki persecution in Poland (1648) to the year 1870. The work is not, however, completed, for a supplementary volume is promised, to include a memoir of the author, a chronological analysis of Jewish history, an index to the entire work, and a series of maps. The Society also offers a prize of one thousand dollars for a story upon a Jewish subject suited to young readers. From twenty thousand to thirty thousand words is the stipulated length, and particulars of the competition may be had from Miss Henrietta Szold, 708 West Lombard street, Baltimore. In his account of "The Minute Man on the Frontier" (Crowell), the Rev. William G. Puddefoot recounts his experiences as a frontier missionary in the Western States. The author writes in a "breezy," off-hand way, and his book will doubtless prove entertaining to readers interested in the various phases of Western frontier life. It contains a number of interesting photographic plates; and there is a frontispiece portrait of Mr. Puddefoot, with his signature in fac simile. "The Warwick Library of English Literature" (imported by Scribner) is a new series of books, under the editorship of Professor C. H. Herford, each of which is to "deal with the development in English literature of some special literary form, which will be illustrated by a series of representative specimens, slightly annotated, and preceded by a critical analytical introduction.' The first volume of this series, with an introduction by Mr. Edmund K. Chambers, is devoted to "English Pastorals," from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and has just been published. Volumes to follow will deal with such subjects as "Literary CritEssays," and "English Masques." The several volicism," "Letter-Writers," "Tales in Verse," "English umes are in the hands of competent scholars, who may be trusted to carry out acceptably the excellent idea of which the series is an embodiment. A translation of Dr. Lassar-Cohn's "Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry," made by Dr. Alexander Smith (Macmillan), provides American students with an extremely useful "Compendium of the methods actually used in the laboratory in the prosecution of organic work." What variations from the original have been embodied in this version have received the sanction of the author, and may be considered improvements upon the German text. We have also received a treatise on "The Fatty Compounds" (Longmans), by Mr. R. Lloyd Whiteley; and a little book on "Practical Proofs of Chemical Laws" (Longmans), by Mr. Vaughan Cornish. The "Cid" of Corneille, edited by Professor F. M. Warren, is the latest addition to Heath's Modern Language Series. Messrs. Ginn & Co. publish, in their series of modern language texts, "Les Précieuses Ridicules" of Molière, edited by Mr. M. W. Davis; and a volume of sketches of travel, called "Places and People," edited by Dr. Jules Luquiens. The latter is an old book, with new numbers added, seven chapters in all, from such writers as Dumas, Scherer, "Loti," and Taine. "En Wagon" and "C'Etait Gertrude," two little parlor comedies by M. Verconsin, are edited by M. Baptiste Méras for Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. LITERARY NOTES. "The Critic" of New York celebrates its fifteenth birthday with its issue of January 18. We heartily congratulate our younger contemporary on its years and honors. Colonel Thomas W. Knox, the well-known traveller and writer of books for boys, died on the 6th of January at his rooms in the New York Lotus Club, at the age of sixty. Henrik Jæger, who wrote the best biography of Dr. Ibsen thus far published, and was afterwards engaged in the preparation of a history of Norwegian literature, died last month in Christiana, at the age of fifty-one. The friends of Mr. Edward J. McPhelim, one of the best literary and dramatic critics ever connected with journalism in Chicago, will be grieved to learn of the violent attack of insanity that befell him on the seventh of this month, while a visitor in New York. Messrs. Way & Williams have received from Mr. Morris's "Kelmscott Press" their artistic edition of Rossetti's "Hand and Soul." Only 541 copies were printed for both England and America; and a good portion of them were sold in advance of publication. Volume XLV. of the "Dictionary of National Biography" (Macmillan) extends from Pereira to Pockrich. It includes noteworthy studies of the two Pitts, but little else of marked interest. The P's do not seem to have included as many great Englishmen as the other letters of the alphabet. The many friends of the late Eugene Field will be glad to learn of the new and uniform edition of his complete works, announced by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. It will be in ten volumes, each with a photogravure frontispiece. Besides the regular edition, there will be a special numbered edition of a hundred sets, printed on Japan paper. It is stated that the " American Men of Letters " series is to be extended in the near future to include volumes upon Bayard Taylor and Hawthorne, the former by Mr. A. H. Smyth, the latter by Mr. G. E. Woodberry. Hawthorne, it will be remembered, is the one American included in the "English Men of Letters" series, edited by Mr. John Morley. The first annual meeting of the Central Modern Language Conference was held in the Lecture Hall of the University of Chicago, on the 30th of December and the two days following. As the aims of this Conference have already been set forth in THE DIAL, it will suffice to remind our readers that the increasing interest in modern languages in the West and Southwest seemed to make such a Conference desirable. The success of this first meeting proved the correctness of that belief. There were present teachers and professors from most of the Western States, representing the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Louisiana, the Northwestern University, Washington University, and many other institutions. A programme of twentythree numbers, including papers on literary and linguistic topics in German, English, and French was listened to by an audience of from sixty to one hundred and fifty persons, mostly specialists. Such discussion as the brief time permitted followed the papers; and further measures of importance with regard to the future of the organization were taken. Propositions for coöperation having been received from the American Modern Lan guage Association, the Conference determined to resolve itself into the "Central Division" of that Association. This division will maintain its own organization, and meet at least twice in three years, with the expectation that the National Association will meet the third year at some point in the Central District, when there will be a joint session. Publication will be controlled by a joint committee from the two societies, and one membership fee gives to members of the Central Division the right of membership in the Association. The latter organization has decided to meet at Cleveland next year. The officers of the Central Division for the ensuing year are: Prof. W. H. Carruth, University of Kansas, President; Prof. C. A. Smith, University of Louisiana, Prof. E. T. Owen, University of Wisconsin, and Prof. G. T. Hench, University of Michigan, VicePresidents; Prof. H. Schmidt-Wartenberg, University of Chicago, Secretary. Of the appointment of Mr. Alfred Austin as successor to the line of English poets laureate, perhaps the best that can be said is that there have been worse ones. It is the contrast between him and those whom he immediately follows, that makes the appointment so unacceptable to the public and inauspicious to him; for in the brilliancy of the two great names that have given the title its chief glory, it will be hard for Mr. Austin's light to show more than a doubtful glimmer. The new laureate is already sixty years of age. He took his degree at the University of London in 1853, and began life as a barrister, but soon turned to literary and journalistic work. For many years he has been one of the best-known "leader writers" in London, and for ten years edited "The National Review." He is a Roman Catholic in religion and a Conservative in politics. His first poem, "Randolph," was published when he was in his nineteenth year. He has been a prolific writer, his collected works in verse, published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co., filling six volumes. His latest volume, "In Veronica's Garden," has appeared since the new year; and from it, as a favorable example of his lyric power, and as particularly pertinent at the present time, we give an extract which re-echoes in no unworthy strain the old song of peace and good-will: "But not alone for those who still Within the Mother-Land abide, "But unto all of British blood · 66 Whether they cling to Egbert's Throne, Or, far beyond the Western flood, Have reared a Sceptre of their own, And, half-regretful, yearn to win Their way back home, and fondly claim The rightful share of kith and kin In Alfred's glory, Shakespeare's fame,— "We pile the logs, we troll the stave, We waft the tidings wide and far, Race of our race, by every sea! TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. January, 1896 (Second List). "Alabama," Story of the. C. H. Palmer. Dial (Jan. 16). Husbands. Marion Harland and others. North American. Prison Congress, The Fifth International. Popular Science. LIST OF NEW BOOKS. 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