THE DIAL

A Semi-Montbly Fournal of

Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information

VOLUME XX.

JANUARY 1 TO JUNE 16, 1896.

CHICAGO:
THE DIAL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

1896

INDEX TO VOLUME XX.

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AFRICA, EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT OF

Charles H. Cooper
AGASSIZ, LOUIS

David Starr Jordan .
ALABAMA," STORY OF THE

Charles H. Palmer
ANDERSON, MARY, MEMORIES OF
ANDOVER, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION AT Joseph Henry Crooker
ANGLICAN AND CATHOLIC

Tuley Francis Huntington
ARNOLD AFTERMATH, THE
AUTHORS, DUTIES OF
BAHAMAS, FOLK SONGS AND STORIES OF

Frederick Starr
BIBLICAL CRITICISM, RECENT

George S. Goodspeed
BISMARCK, Two VIEWS OF

Charles H. Cooper
BLACKSTONE, A GREATER

John J. Halsey
Book TITLES, FELICITOUS, SELECTION OF

Mary R. Silsby
BOOKS ABOUT Books .

Anna B. McMahan
BOTANY, MORE BOOKS ON

John M. Coulter
CAVE-DWELLERS OF YUCATAN

Frederick Starr
CELL-LIFE, PROCESSES OF

David Starr Jordan .
CHRIST AS DOCTRINE AND PERSON

John Bascom
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY, A

Arthur Burnham Woodford
CORREGGIO, LIFE AND TIMES OF

John C. Van Dyke
CRETE, EARLY WRITING IN

F. B. Tarbell
CRITIC AS PICKER AND STEALER
DANTE IN SPENSERIAN VERSE

George M'Lean Harper
DIAL, THE, AND ITS SCORE OF VOLUMES
EDUCATION, PUBLIC, A CRISIS IN
EDUCATIONAL Books, SOME RECENT

Hiram M. Stanley
EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE, RECENT

B. A. Hinsdale
ELECTRICITY, HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF

W. M. Stine
EURIPIDES THE RATIONALIST

William C. Lawton
FAR EASTERN QUESTION

Henry E. Bourne .
FICTION, RECENT

William Morton Payne.
FIELD, EUGENE

Louis J. Block
HELLENISTIC EMPIRE IN EGYPT, THE

James Henry Breasted
HISTORICAL LITERATURE, SOME

James Westfall Thompson
HISTORY, AMERICAN, RECENT BOOKS ON

Francis W. Shepardson .
HOLMES, LIFE AND LETTERS OF
ISRAEL, RENAN'S HISTORY OF

Emil G. Hirsch
JEW, THE MODERN, JUSTICE TO
JURISPRUDENCE, AMERICAN, PIONEER OF

James Oscar Pierce .
“ KING ARTHUR,” THE NEW

Anna Benneson McMahan .
KOREAN GAMES

Frederick Starr
LATIN, TEACHING OF

B. L. D’Ooge.
LITERARY ANECDOTES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
LOCKER'S “ CONFIDENCES
MAID OF ORLEANS, THE

James Westfall Thompson
MIND, SCIENCE OF

Joseph Jastrow
MODERN STATESMAN AND AN OLD DIVINE

C. A. L. Richards
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT, LESSONS IN

Harry Pratt Judson .
NAVAL WARFARE, MODERN
NOVELIST, TRIUMPH OF THE
PARIS COMMUNE OF 1871

Paul Shorey
PLAYING WITH FIRE .
POETRY, RECENT BOOKS OF

William Morton Payne.
Post-DARWINIAN THEORIES

Edward Howard Griggs
PSYCHOLOGY GONE MAD

Joseph Jastrow
RECONSTRUCTION, LAW AND LOGIC OF

George W. Julian
RELIGIOUS LITERATURE, THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL John Bascom

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41 202 129 136 347 157 307 103 69 16

269 76, 173, 335

333 359 308 140 299 105

64 236 160 302 306 132 328 351

73 232 43 99 224 167

293 110, 205

239 107

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RENAN, ERNEST AND HENRIETTE, LETTERS OF
ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL
RUSSIAN LITERATURE, STAGNATION IN
SANITY, A PLEA FOR
SCHOLAR AND HIS FUNCTION IN SOCIETY .
SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN
SHAKESPEARE IN CHICAGO .
SHAKESPEARE IN LEXICOGRAPHY .
SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES, RECENT
SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHIC ASPECTS OF .
STANLEY, DEAN, LETTERS AND VERSES OF
TIE THAT BINDS, THE
TRAVEL, RECENT Books OF
TRIBAL SOCIETY AS ILLUSTRATED IN WALES
UNIVERSITIES, MEDIÆVAL
UNIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM, A
VIRGINIA'S ECONOMIC HISTORY
VOICE AND SPIRITUAL EDUCATION
WORLD's CONGRESS PUBLICATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF .
WRITING, TEACHING THE ART OF
YOUNG PERSON, THE

B. A. Hinsdale
W. E. Simonds
F. Horace Teall
C. R. Henderson
C. R. Henderson
W. H. Carruth

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Hiram M. Stanley
James Westfall Thompson
B. A. Hinsdale

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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SPRING BOOKS, 1896
BRIEFS ON New Books
BRIEFER MENTION
LITERARY Notes.
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS
List of New Books

179 . 19, 49, 81, 116, 142, 174, 211, 243, 280, 310, 339, 363

23, 52, 83, 120, 145, 178, 214, 246, 282, 314, 341, 367 . 25, 53, 84, 120, 146, 178, 215, 247, 283, 314, 341, 368

26, 54, 86, 121, 146, 184, 216, 248, 284, 342 : 27, 54, 86, 121, 147, 184, 216, 248, 284, 315, 342, 369

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MISCELLANEOUS.
America, Mr. Watson's Sonnet to

Hughes, Thomas, Death of .
American Copyright League, Renewal of Activity 283 Japanese Literature, Some Recent. E. W. Clement 131
American Literary Output for 1895 .

121 Journalistic Authorities on English. C. Harrison. 298
Antigone. Sonnet by Mary M. Adams .
99 King Arthur.” F. I. Carpenter

197 Austin, Alfred, appointed Poet-Laureate 53 Macmillan, Alexander, Death of

85 Ballade. A. T. Schuman

199 Macmillan Company, The, Incorporation of . 368 Bourke, Capt. John G., Death of

368 Midsummer of Italian Art." G. B. Rose 131 British Authors' Appeal .

7 “ Midsummer of Italian Art.” Frank P. Stearns 198 British Authors' Appeal, Morley Roberts on 85 Mother's Influence in Teaching Poetical Literature. Bunner, Henry Cuyler, Death of .

315
Mary J. Reid

162 Central Modern Language Conference

53 Murray's Mythology, Unauthorized Edition of. Chicago as a Literary Centre. Sir Walter Besant 315 F. W. K. .

40 Classic Slang. R. W. Conant .

63 Parenthetical “Sic" in Criticism. D. K. Dodge . 349 Coffin, Charles Carleton, Death of

179 Passive Voice with an Object. W. H. J. . 350 Cook Poetry Prize at Yale .

341 Problem of the “Young Person” in Literature. “Cosmopolis,” First Number of 85 H. M. Stanley

97 Crane, Stephen, and his Critics. _Sydney Brooks . 297 Putnams in Literature, The .

215 “Crisis in Public Education.” Duane Mowry 198 “ Red Badge of Hysteria.” A. C. McC.

227 Defoe's “ Journal of the Plague

as a School

“ “Red Badge of Bad English.” J. L. Onderdonk 263 Classic. A. C. Barrows.

229 “ Red Badge of Courage.” — A Correction. D. Department Organization at Stanford University.

Appleton & Co. .

263 Arley B. Show 199 Renan's Library

26 Emerson's Ideas of Teaching Literature. Edwin Say, Léon, Death of

262 Mims

98
Simon, Jules, Death of

368
English Language in Japan. Ernest W. Clement 327 Sonnet of Oblivion. Grace Duffield Goodwin . 160
Extension and Intension. W. C. Lawton
228 Stepniak,” Death of

26 From Avalon. Poem by Emily Huntington Miller 295 The Sonnet. Sonnet by A. T. Schuman

131 Furness, William H., Death of

121 To William Shakespeare, Dramatist. Sonnet by German Philology in Shakespeare Criticism.

F. W. Gunsaulus

63 Henry B. Hinckley 350 University Changes. J. H. Hamilton

162 “Godefroi and Yolande ”_Laurence Irving's New Word about Book-Making. Albert H. Tolman 264 Play. J. W. Thompson . .

196 Word from a Reviewer of Arnold's Letters. E.G.J. 299 Harper, Philip J. A., Death of .

215 Word in Reply to Mr. Stearns. G. B. Rose, .264

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AUTHORS AND TITLES OF BOOKS REVIEWED.

PAGE Acton, Lord. The Study of History

22 Campbell, D. H. Mosses and Ferns Adolphus, F. Memories of Paris

50 Carleton, William. The Irish Peasantry, new ediAiken, Catharine. Mind-Training

307 tion.

247, 283, 314, 368 Alden, H. M. A Study of Death 279 Carman, Bliss. Behind the Arras

116 Alger, W. R. Adventures of Hatin Taï 246 Carr, J. Comyns. King Arthur

. 176 Altemus's Belles Lettres Series 215 Cartland, Fernando G. Southern Heroes

142 Anderson, M. B. Poets of the Nineteenth Century 247 Carus, Paul. Goethe and Schiller's Xenions 214 Anderson, Mary. A Few Memories . 265 Carus, Paul. Karma

145 Anderson, R. B. First Norwegian Immigration . 21 Century Magazine, Vols. L. and LI.

24, 367 Arnold, Sir Edwin. The Tenth Muse 210 Century Science Series

24 Ashe, Robert P. Chronicles of Uganda . 136 Chambers, E. K. Donne's Poems

280 Ashley, 0. D. Railways and their Employees . 276 Chambers, R. W. A King and a Few Dukes 337 Austin, Alfred. England's Darling . 210 Chambers, R. W. The Red Republic

337 Ayres, Alfred. The Verbalist, new edition · 314 Chap-Book, Vol. IV. .

368 Babington, W. D. Fallacies of Race Theories 117 Cheney, E. P. Social Changes in England in the Bagehot, Walter, Miscellaneous writings of

16th Century

310 Balfour, Alice B. 1200 Miles in a Wagon 241 Cheney, J. V. That Dome in Air

212 Ball, Sir Robert. Great Astronomers 25 Chicago University Studies in Philology

281 Balzac, Dent-Macmillan edition of

Child, F. S. An Old New England Town . 23 24, 25, 84, 178, 215, 247, 368 Chirol, Valentine. Far Eastern Question

269 Bancroft, H. H. Book of the Fair

83 Chittenden, H. M. Yellowstone National Park . 242 Bangs, John K. A House-Boat on the Styx 145 Church, R. W. Pascal

279 Bangs, John K. The Bicyclers

313 Clemens, S. L. Recollections of Joan of Arc . 351 Baring-Gould, S. Curiosities of Olden Times . 367 Cocke, Zitella. A Doric Reed

115 Bastable, C. F. Public Finance, new edition 83 Comte's Positive Philosophy, “ Bohn” edition . 283 Belloc, Bessie. In a Walled Garden 144 Constant. Private Life of Napoleon

49 Benedetti, Count. Studies in Diplomacy

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Coolbrith, Ina. Songs from the Golden Gate . 112 Benjamin, Park. Intellectual Rise in Electricity 69 Coolidge, Susan. An Old Convent School . 20 Benson, A. C. Essays

282 Cooper, Estill, and Lemmon. School History of Berdoe, E. Browning Society Papers 108 the United States

119 Berenson, B. Lorenzo Lotto

21 Cooper, F. T. Word Formation in Sermo Plebeius 246 Berenson, B. Renaissance Florentine Painters . 281 Cooper's Works, “Mohawk" edition .

341 Besant, Sir Walter. Westminster

309
Coonley, Lydia A. Under the Pines

114 Beynon, W. G. L. With Kelly to Chitral . 242 Cornish, C. J. Wild England of To-day

119 Bicknell, A. C. Travel in Northern Queensland 138 Correy, A. M. Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities 367 Black, J. S. The Christian Consciousness

18 Corson, Hiram. Voice and Spiritual Education . 235 Blackmore, R. D. Fringilla . 207 Coulter, J. M. The Botanical Outlook .

120 Blackmore, R. D. Slain by the Doones 338 Coy, E. W. Latin Lessons

. 306 Blackwell, Alice S. Armenian Poems

248 Craddock, Charles Egbert. Mystery of Witch-Face Blind, Mathilde. Birds of Passage . 209 Mountain .

174 Blow, Susan E. Froebel's Mother Play

307 Crafts, W. F. Practical Christian Sociology . 276 Blunt, Wilfrid S. Esther 206 Craighead, J. G. Marcus Whitman.

141 Bois, H. P. du. French Folly in Maxims

84 Cram, R. A. Black Spirits and White . · 339 Bok, E. W. Successward 143 Crane, Stephen. Red Badge of Courage

80 Boothby, Guy. A Bid for Fortune

78 Crawford, F. Marion. Adam Johnstone's Son 336 Borrow, George. Bible in Spain, Putnam's edition 341 Crockett, S. R. A Galloway Herd .

78 Boutwell, G. Š. The Constitution of the U.S. 23 Crockett, S. R. Men of the Moss-Hags

78 Boyd, A. K. H. Last Years of St. Andrews 365 Culin, Stewart. Korean Games

302 Bradford, A. H. Heredity

279 Curzon, G. N. The Far East, new edition . . 270 Bradford, G., Jr. American Character

176 Dasent, Sir G. Tales from the Fjeld, new edition 120 Bradley, A. G. Wolfe . 145 Davidson, John. Fleet Street Eclogues

208 Brooks, Noah. The Mediterranean Trip 84 Davis, R. H. Cinderella

338 Brown, Alice, and Guiney, Louise I. R.L. Stevenson 177 Davis, R. H. Three Gringoes in Venezuela 242 Brown, John. The Pilgrim Fathers. 141 Defoe, Dent-Macmillan edition of

24, 26, 83 Bruce, P. A. Economic History of Virginia . 267 Denison, J. H. Christ's Idea of the Supernatural 18 Bullock, C. J. Finances of the United States 23 Dickens, Macmillan's Popular Edition of. 121,314, 341 Burns's Poems, “ Kilmarnock” edition 283 Dixon, W. M. A Tennyson Primer .

310 Burton, Richard. Dumb in June.

115 Dobson, Austin. Story of Rosina, new edition 25 Bury, J. B. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall

215 Dolbear, A. E. Matter, Ether, etc., new edition. 85 Caldwell, J. W. Constitutional History of Ten- Dole, N. H. The Hawthorne Tree.

112 144 Donaldson, H. H. Growth of the Brain

73 Callaway, Frances B. Charm in Letter-Writing. 52 : Dorking, Battle of, new edition

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