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TIIE NEW-YOHH THIKS, SUNDAY, HAECH 8, rOTJC PAET3 TIIILTY-TTrO AOE NEW PUBLICATIONS THE TALK OF B1S1AIICC BISMAftcfc'fl TABLfc-TALK. enitea, with an Introduction and Not, by Charles Loe. M. A. With portrait.

ero. London H. Orevel C. Philadelphia B. UpH- From this book can be obtained a new.

Valuable, and highly Interesting view of the great German Chancellor. Most of the ma- terlal composing It was elected ami trans-lated from four bulky volume of Bia-marcklana recently published by Herr von Poscklnarer. ih r. ih Prin-' tnanr biographers who resorted to the often excellent plan of letting- Bismarck's character znd acttona find expression In Bismarck's own teraa anit na nt sentences, of employing the "llr.ary comrnt and analyals by which the writer a Vim usually aeeka to unfold tre personality of hit subject. He whom Mr.

lcwr, with something of exaggeration, calls the Jupiter of European statesmanship." the man who for thirty yeara iad doubtless no small port in the molding of Continental history. Is thus shown, now In familiar Intercourse with Ills' giving his opinions on persona and things with wit and originality, and now. In conference with sovereigns and diplomats, displaying that far-sighted wisdom which some times rose almost to prophecy, and that keenness and subtlety of mind which an frequent occasions rendered film the master of International gatherings. Not yet. of course, has the time eorao for an unreserved publication of Bismarck's Utterances, either by his Intimate friends or by thoHe distinguished guests who have long formed his audiences In the Saturday Soirees, or beer evenings," which the Chancellor Instituted In lNOfl, as a means of meeting without formality the member of the Reichstag, and which resolved themselves later Into what was called the Tobacco but even this single volume of table talk gives ample proof of tha charm and brilliancy which characterised the man of blood and Iron," and place him as a conversationist above many an acknowledged master of thai art.

The ready humor, the frank and genial comradeship, the kindliness of thought that Inspire a good share of these pages seem so Incompatible with the fierce and soldierly Bismarck with whom Innumerable pictures bave made every one familiar, that tha reader turns again and again to the portrait which fronts the title page In a vain endeavor to find In It some trace of these unexpectedly human qualities. The book, however, does not lack for anecdotes that Illustrate a sterner side of the famous German's character and confirm the editor's remark that a modertt Plutarch who would bring out all the striking points of this strong Individuality must compare Rls- marcs, not witn one, out wun a nunarea other heroes." Bet down In this collection are Bismarck's opinions on a vast number of subjects, uttered oh occasions dating from the time of Jits) student days up to the present, and with the quoted words the editor has interspersed only enough explanatory matter to render them coherent. And so skillfully has Mr. Lowe chosen his materia that th amatlng contrasts of the Chancellor's mind a ttiraim tntn rrtvld i-vllef. At the state dinners which he gave frequently all through his public life.

In the Tobacco Parliament." In fact whenever there were listeners, Bismarck was wont to talk, with hardly art Interruption, and always with an originality and impresslveness that made his comments, whether his' toplo was Important or trivial, full Of Interest and meaning. There were usually persons present who Jotted down the epigrams which marked the Prince's monologues, and these notes have either now found their way into print, or, discreetly preserved, will prove an Invaluable source, of Information" to the' biographers and historians of the future. The outspoken bluntness characteristic of Bismarck, even when restrained by diplomats caution, renders It an easy matter to trace In his table talk those qualities which rendered him a daring, unscrupulous, and successful statesman. By a strange chance this wise and subtle man was born on All Fools Day. and those who are fond of tracing coincidences might And one In the fact that he who was, destined to restore the shattered German Empire made his appearance In the world Just a Napoleon, who had aha ken it to pieces, played his last act at.

Waterloo. In announcing his birth, Bismarck's parents re quested their friends to dispense with con-- gratulationa." and he himself once remarked that It was a long time before his mother could be persuaded that. In hatching him. she had not produced a goose." It was only after KBnlggrats that people realised Bismarck's greatness and began carefully -to note down his and thus the record of the 'prentice period of his career Is not so full as It became In later years. Yet Mr.

Ixtve has found enough material to give Hi readers a fair Idea of the youthful Bismarck, who Infected all his fellow-students at Gottingen with a spirit of Idleness." and was far from dreaming of future greatness. Perhaps the first record of Bismarck's words Is the certificate of the Commissioners who gave him a 8tate examination when he aspired to the office Of Referendary to the administrative chief of the District of Alx-U-Chapelle. They commended the young lawyer of twenty-one for his classical and general knowledge, and hla familiarity with public law and administration, but especially for the clear Judgment and Independence of thought evinced by his answers to concrete problems In As a student at Gottingen. this same Independence of thought had led Bismarck to astonish the rector who rebuked him for pugnacity by making an Indignant speech In which be expressed detestation of Frenchmen. French principles, and revolutionary Germane, and prayed that the sword of Joshua might be given him to exterminate all these.

When the rector hinted that the young man's opinions were those of another age. Bismarck replied-: Good optnlous blossom again like trees after Winter." Mr. John Lothrop Motley. Bismarck's fellow-student at Oottlngen and Berlin, thus described Bismarck's appointment as Ambassador at Frankfort: In the summer of 1S5I, Bismarck told that the Minister. ManteulTel- asked one day abruptly If he would accept this post, to which, although the proposition waa as unexpected a one to him as If I should hear by the next mall that I had been chosen 5overoor of Massachusetts, he answered, after a moment's dellberatlonr Yes." without another word.

The Klne; the same day. sent for htm. and asked him If hi would accept the post, to which he made the Mm brief answer. Ja. His Majesty expressed a little surprise that he made no Inoutrles or conditions, when Bismarck, replied that anything which the (King felt strong enough to propose- to him he felt strong enough to accept.

In his Impulsive student days Bismarck came off victorious la more than sixty duels, but the affairs of honor which" arose In his publto Itfe were aU settled without a flow of blood. At Frankfort the antagonism be (ween Bismarck and Count Rechberg. the Austrian President of the Diet, reached such a pitch at one time that the latter exclaimed: "One of my friend rhall wait on ot in the morning." -Why all thl unnecessary delay?" Bismarck oily replied. In all probability you hare i i pair of pistols handy. Let us settle the natter Immediately.

While you are get-jlng the things ready shall write a report txut the whole transaction, which. In case am killed, I request you to forward to erlln," Both set about their work. When Bra- arck had finished he handed the sheet I Count Rechberg, requesting him to ex-nine It- Rechberg's passion had la the meantime given way to sober reflection. After perusing the re pert, he said: "What you ay Is quite correct; but Is really worth while to fight a duel for Such a reason That Is exactly my opinion." was Bismarck's aaivtf, and there 4he matter ended. Bismarck was a warm admirer of Queen Victoria, but In regard to the betrothal of the Crown Princess Royal of England to the heir of the Prussian crown he exclaimed: "No petticoat Government for us." He was always fond of descanting on the superiority of the iiiascultu over the feminine dement In nature the former represented by the German, the latter by the Sclavs and Celts and the following Incident will show hew averse waa the mighty Chancellor to be found Inferior to the fair sex In ct3 the smallest particular: Once at Frankfort he chanced to sit at a table d'hote opposite a couple of young ladles trom the Baltic provinces.

They be- fran conversing with considerable abandon ii the l-ett tongue, and Bismarck suspected tnat himself waa the object of criticism on the part of his fair but rather companions, who nevef Imagined that a barbarous dialect like theirs would be understood by sny one In a f-lviitsed city like Frankfort. The quizzing mood of the ladies having reached Its climax with the dessert. Bismarck whispered to his neighbor to hand him a key whenever he heard him utter some unintelligible words. lohd man to azlek." said Bismarck presently to his friend, who at once rplld by producing the srtlcle demanded, whereupon the unsuspecting fair ones from Courland looked at their vis-a-vis In horror, then at each Other In confusion, and blushing a deep crimson, vanished from the room. Bismarck loathed French diplomatists.

Of Napoleon's envoys he said: They are dancing dogs without collars. They never seem to have a master, but stand up on their hind legs and perform their antics without authority from any man alive. If they bark, you are sure to hear a voice frofti Paris crying to them to be quiet. If ihey fawn, you exp-ctto see them receive some sly kick, warning them that they ought to be up and barking. Bismarck's equanimity was so little disturbed by the attempts made upon his life at different times by fanatical Democrats and Socialists that his table talk cn these events is marked by unusual liveliness and good humor.

On the day when Ferdinand Cohen tried to shoot him near the Russian Embassy, In Berlin, the Chancellor first wrote an account of the affair to the King, and then, entering the drawing room, he greeted the guests ai-tcmbled for dinner as if nothing had happened. I have been shot at, my child." he at last whispered to his wife, tut never mind; there's no hsrm done. Tret's go to dinner." In the excitement of the conversation which followed this announcement the Countess avowed that if she were in heaven and saw the villain standing on the top of a ladJer leading down to hell she would have no hesitation in Kivl.ig him a push. Thereupon her husband tapped her gently on the shoulder, and whispered: "Hush, my dear; you would not be In heaven yc ur-self with such thoughts as those." Afterward some one explained Bismarck's wchr derful escape by saying that, like Cromwell. he bought his linen from the Ironmonger." The Count denied that he' had any weapon by him that day, although he was accustomed to carry a loaded revolver in his pocket, and to go aling the streets with his hand on the butt end.

adding: I should not have liked to take the long Journey to alone." The portion of this book rhlch covers that stormy period in Bismarck's life when the Franco-Prussian war was brewing Lives the reader a vivid Idea of 'he iron In the Chancellor's nature, and of the Indomitable persistence with which he Carried out his plans for German union. My greatest triumph," he once exclaimed. In one of the committee sittings of the Chamber, Is to have obtained from the of Prussia the declaration of war against Austria and the permission to convoke a German Parliament. Leave the rest to the future, and do not ask me why I could not achieve, this, my highsst aim. -without turning the Chamber and the press against me.

There are great Things which no discussion or votes can give i'o r-btaln them we must have bayonets." He repeatedly lamented that there was no hope of an agreement between" Crown and Chamber so long as there were so many professors among the parliamentarians, for these know-it-alls were his special detestation. On one occasion he said to Profl Vlrchow: "You perhaps Imagine that you understand the national policy better than I Co, but I know that I. understand better than you ir the Chamber what I call political policy." Before the German troops set cut for the war In which the rivalries of the two great powers, Germany and Austria, were to be decided by battle, Biamarck said: The struggle will be severe; Prussia may lose, but she will at least have fought bravely and honestly. If we are beaten, I shall not return. I shall fall in the first charge.

One can die but once; end, if beaten. It la better to die." From Kf nlg-grats. whither the King. Moltke. and Boon went two weeks later to witness he crowning victory of the war, Bismarck wrote to his wife to send him a revolver of large sire, a holster pistol; also a r.ovel to read, but only one at a time." Latr some one called on him at Briinn at 2 o'clock in the morning" and found him reading Paul Feval's Carmtvalet by the light of two candles.

When the campaign was over, and Bismarck was recuperating from Its fatigues at the Island of Rugm, In the Baltic, he was one day entertaining a dinner party by reminiscences tf his experiences during the war, when coffee and cigars were handed around: Ah.v yes." said Biamarck. as he proceeded to light an excellent Havana. "he value of a good cigar is" best understood when it is the last one you possess, and there is no chance of getting anoth-r. At I had only one elsar left In my pocket. This I carefully guarded during the whole battle as a -nl -r does Ms treasure.

I dtd not feel Justified, in i.sing it. painted with glowing colors In my mind the happy hour when I should enjoy It after victory. But I had mv chances. A poor dragoon lay helploss, with both arms crushed, moaning for something to refresh him; I felt in my pockets and found I had only gold, which would be of no use to him. But stay I had still my treasured cigar! I lighted hls for him and placed It between his teeth.

You should have seen the poor fellow's grateful smile! I never enjoyed a cigar so much as that one which I did not smoke." After the war was over came the difficult task of uniting the conquered provinces with the body politic of Prussia, and this work naturally devolved upon the Premier. To all from those provinces who came Imploring a change In his plans. Bismarck was inexorable. To on he" said: "Gentlemen. Prussia Is like good, warm woolen Jacket very unpleasant at first, but one that will give you a great deal of comfort and to another, complaining of taxation and military service: Dear me.

gentlemen; do you think that you can become Prussians for nothing?" Bismarck granted universal suffrage to th North Germans, but be absolutely refused to let the members of the Reichstag bo paid for their legislative work. He distrusted any move toward defaocracy. and he regarded this non-payment as an anchor of safety against the dangers of suffrage. Introduce payment." he said. and the Parliament would very soon be swamped with a flood of mere professors and un- radical dreamers men who made a pro-esaton of politics, and did not live In ordr to make laws, but made laws tn order to bve a most dangerous thing for any estate.

The non-payment of members would belp to shorten the duration the sessions, as men with limited means could not afford the luxury of going on Jaw-Jawing forever and listening to the music of their own eloquence." There were countless struggles' between Kins; William and hla Premier, for. apart from the army, there wer few subjects upon which they were quite at one; but Bismarck never forgot that the King bad twice Imperiled his crown tn following his Chancellor's advice, and his loyalty waa To a company at dinner who had "been discussing tha conflict between Crown and Cb amber, which ended with the victory at KoniggraU, Bismarck thus expressed himself I know all the sovereign of Europe. nd hare the very greatest esteem for many of them: but, gentlemen. I ask you to believe that 1 am not indulging In a mere hackneyed phrase of loyalty when I assure you that I respect none of them so much as I do his Majesty. King William, But even this King William of ours I should not like to see become an absolute monarch, since I look upon absolutism as the most unfortunate of all forms of government.

Von hsve no Idea to what extent the destinies of a despotically ruled land can sometimes be Influenced by a clever flunkey. Bismarck had a knack of conveying false impressions by telling the naked truth. One night at Versailles, near the close of the Franco-Prussian war, he had been wear-led by Mr. J. L.

Sullivan, who had been United States Minister at Lisbon, and who. as It seemed to Bismarck, was rather obnoxiously exerting himself in 'the cause of peace between the two belligerent countries. At parting. Bismarck gave the American his hand, saying that he was glad to have met him. But, Mr.

O'Bullivan." he added, a strange thing often happens to me. In the afternoon I make the acquaintance of a very pleasant gentleman, and next day I am reluctantly compelled to get him turned out of Versailles." Sure enough, upon reaching his hotel the unsuspecting O'Bullivan found awaiting him a Prussian officer, who at once gave him his marching orders. In spite of the good humor which Bismarck was nearly always able to maintain, even in the most provoking circumstances. It was often to be seen that he possessed a fiery temper. He thus described one of these occasions: One day I was over there," pointing to the windows of the Emperor's apartments opposite.

and I got into a violent rage. On leaving I shut the door violently, and the key remained In my hand. I went to Ihndorfs room and threw the key Into the basin, which broke Into a thousand pieces 'What is the he exclaimed: are you ill? I replied: I was 111. but now I am quite well Bismarck was the least complaisant of men when he considered himself slighted or Injured: yet If an Impertinence was daring enough It was likely to touch his sense of humor. For instance, when he was riding with the German troops to the review at Longchamps, a man In a blouse came up to him.

exclaiming: Tu est une fameuse canaille! I might have had him Imprisoned." said Bismarck; "but I was delighted with the man's courage." Bismarck had an excellent scheme for getting rid of bores, or visitors who out-Staid their, welcome. One day an Ambassador of Importance asked him how he managed this. bh, that Is very simple," was the reply. When my wife thinks any one Is staying too long she sends for me, and thus the interview ends." At that moment a servant entered, and. bowing low.

begged his master to favor the Princess with his presence for a few moments. All through his life. Bismarck has been a great eater, a deep drinker, and a heavy smoker. I always spoke much better In the Reichstag." he says, when I had a flask of Moselle and a pint of Champagne under my belt. I have often said that beer drinking makes me stupid, and when I think of my young days and of what I myself did In that respect I wonder that I am not wholly turned to phlegm.

I am not at all fond of liqueurs, and sweet rubbish of that sort, but at the parties of the late Empress Augusta there was nothing else. Fortunately, among her Majesty's lackeys there were one or two knowing fellows one tall chap in particular, who had been In the artillery I can see him still. Whenever he came to offer me anything I winked with my right eye thus and when he responded Jn the same manner with his left I knew on which side of his tray I should find a stiff glass of cognac waiting for me." There Is no end to the interesting passages that might be quoted from Mr. Lowe's book, but enough have been -cited te show what sort of a frame Is provided for the Geffttan statesman's portrait by his conversation. Comment on war and politics abounds in the volume, too, and will be a valuable addition to biographical history: but that phase of Bismarck's life Is so well known that most space has been given here to characteristics less familiar to the public.

For some time now the Chancellor has lived quietly at Friedrichsruh, accepting no Invitations to the tables of others, and never being seen at public functions. Although he has been forced to lay down his political power, he Is still, for all his countrymen, an autocrat of the breakfast table and of dinner tables as well. Bismarck was a great statesman. While he served a master, he could rule; ror years and years he forced the Germajis Into elvish obedience to their King and Emperor, but the moment when obedience was demanded from himself he revolted against the "divine right" he had so vehemently upheld. It is a sort of poetic Justice that William a survival from the Middle Ages, should have taught him the necessity of being submissive.

A KEW LIFR OF LI JOAN OP ARC. By Francis C. Lowell. 8vo. New-York: Houghton.

Mifflin Co. 12. Mr. Lowell's object was to separate the legendary Jeanne d'Arc from the real one as far as possible. He seems to have thoroughly examined every scrap of evidence relating to her cate.

and to have weighed the testimony of both sides and all parties with clear Impartiality. He does not write as an enthusiast. His account" of the doings of Jeanne from the beginning of her mission till her death Is unbiased, logical, and interesting. It opens up the whole field to the historical student, for the citations of authorities are remarkably rich and valuable, while for the Ordinary reader It is a complete work upon which he may safely rely. One who Is misled by the opening phrases of Mr.

Lowell preface to expect a modern and purely scientific view of the doings of mis mystic or nuuuie ages win ne aisap-pointed. Mr. Lowell writes as one who believes In the voices which controlled Jeanne. He could not logically, do other-wise. This phase of the subject he treats of wisely In the appendix.

No amount of discussion, he believes, would satisfactorily answer the question as to whether she waa Insane or Inspired. She had abnormal sensations, but, apart from these, she was healthy and well-developed, physically and mentally. Mediaeval philosophy did not deny the possibility of hallucination caused by disease without spiritual Intervention. This possibility was recognised In Joan's case. The choice between disease and spirit as the cause of a given sensation was made according as the person, apart from the abnormal sensation under consideration, appeared diseased or An abnormal sensation In an otherwise healthy person, was unhesitatingly set down to spiritual Intervention, and hence Joan's visions and voices were set to the account either of God or the deviL" The friends of Charles VH believed Jeanne to be controlled by angels.

His enemies honestly thought her a' witch. As Mr. Lowell points out. It hi not in human nature to believe that God is against us. On the other hand, belief In God Is essential to belief in the Inspiration of the Maid of Domremy.

"She certainly foretold the deliverance of Orleans and the coronation at Rhelmsr." When her enterprises failed even her adherents doubted the virtue of her Inspiration, but the fact that she was Inspired was never If, accordtng to a recently exploited theory, genius of any sort Is a species of Insanity. "Joan was almost certainly Insane. Inasmuch as by the terms of the suppoedtior insanity hs contrasted not with health and sense but with stupidity and" So-caJIed modem philosophy may admit the authenticity and fulfillment of all tfca Maid's, predic tions without admitting thai there Is such a thing as divinity or inspiration In the universe. Those, on the other hand, who believe that Divine Providence exists will probably be inclined, though they may not be compelled, to And its workings In the life of Joan of Arc. Doubtless their theory of her inspiration will differ more or less from that in vogue In the fifteenth century, but this difference will be the result of a different theory of Inspiration in general rather than a different theory of Joan's particular case." Preferring to call his heroine Joan of Arc, and -her great antagonist Philip, Duke of Burgundy, Mr.

Lowell has permitted himself to go 'to almost ludicrous extremes In translating French names and title. Thua we have James of Arc, John of Metx, Colet of Vlenne. and Christopher of Harcourt. Why the article "le" Is left -untranslated we cannot Imagine. And Chateauneuf might as well haVe been made Newcastle.

Joan of Arc Is a purely poetical name for the Maid of Domremy. Mr. Lowell Infers that her father derived his -family name from the town of Are en Barrioa. But the Inference Is far-fetched. Perhaps some ancestor of Jacques 11 red under an arch of a bridge.

There Is some reasonable authority for writing his name Dare without the aposthrophe. Jeanne Dare, or d'Arc, It seems, would have been the proper way to style this heroine In a new history of her epoch, and if Mr. Lowell had not tried to substitute clumsy. English equivalents for titles scarcely translatable his. book would have been free from an Irritating blemish.

Wo have no other fault to find with it, for. though he does split hairs occasionally, he ia ever Influenced by his desire to give to every bit of evidence bearing upon Jeanne's career Its exact value. Thus, speaking of her choice of sword from among the votive offerings of St. Catherine In the church at Fierbols. he says: "The biographers of Joan 'have generally asserted that she knew of the existence of the sword in the church by revelation of her voices.

At that time, without doubt, this was the belief of most people, but their belief proves little. The growth of legends concerning Joan was very rapid, and it was commonly reported not only that she had never seen the sword, but that she had never been inside the church, though she had spoken of hearing masses there. While in the church she probably or at least heard of, the old chest with Its rusty contents, and later received the Divine command to take this well-tried weapon of some pious pilgrim for "her own." Jeanne had no sort of generalship. Her single idea, hi ways, wss to seek out the enemy and rush upon him, regardless of all the arts of war, Yet whenever her advice was followed the troops of Charles were victorious. She rode her horse, from the first, like a skilled cavalryman, and was honestly proud of her cloth-of-gold cloak and gay coat.

Mr. Lowell devotes twenty-four chapters to picturing the condition of France at the beginning, of the fourteenth century and describing the origin and rise of Jeanne, the success of her mission, the battles In which she took part, her capture, imprisonment, trial, and execution. A twenty-fifth chapter Is given up to all needfunnforma-tion of the bogus Jeannes who appeared after her death, and an account of her formal second trial, twenty-four years after the auto-da-fe at Rouen, acquittal, and rehabilitation. The appendix contains, besides the chapter on Jeanne's Inspiration, from which we have quoted, some account of the character of Charles comparison of Jeanne's career with that of St. Catharine of Siena, and a note on the recent movement to secure the canonization of the Maid.

There are three serviceable maps and an excellent Index. IDE SldRT Or Jt Ami CORPS THE FIFTH ARMY CORPS. A Record of Operations During the Civil War In theJ Unltad States of America. 18fil-lS63. By William n.

Powell, lieutenant Colonel Eleventh Infantry, IV B. A. With Maps and Illustrations. Kew-Tork: O. V.

Putnam's Rons. 17.50. The work performed for the Second Corps by Gen. F. A.

Walker, in his admirable history. Is now emulated by Col. Powell, In the present volume, for the Fifth. CoL Cars well McClellan first undertook It. but Jled after doing little except to start it, and then CoL Powell was chosen by the Society of the Fifth Army Corps as its He has told a clear, straightforward story, in which his deep admiration for that noble organization Is everywhere apparent.

The germ of the Fifth Corps I to be found in Gen. Fits John Porter's division, organized after the first battle of Bull Run. Its commander Is described by CoL Powell as ambitious, but unselfish self-respecting and self-denying; thoroughly equipped and void of. ostentation; Imperturbable and unflinching; self-reliant, but never egotistic; prudent without trace of fear; re-scrved. yet sympathetic; quiet, but quick to see, decide, and act." Two.

of his brigade commanders, Morell and Martlndale, had graduated first and third at West. Point In K5, while Butterfleld. the third, "a strict disciplinarian and an, admirable drill officer," had been Colonel of the Twelfth New-York militia. Gen. Porter's attention had been attracted by "the admirable bearing of this regiment," and he had solicited and obtained CoL Butterfleld- appointment to be Brigadier General.

Col. Powell says that that never-ceasing Third Brigade call, 'Dan! Dan! Butterfleld! Butterfleld! has not even yet died entirely away." The story of the Fifth Corps is Interwoven with that of the of the Potomac throughout. Porter's division served first with the Third Corps Helntxelman's then the Fifth Corps organized under Porter, with Morell. Sykes. and McCall as division commanders.

The artillery Was under Henry J. Hunt. S. noble man and thorough soldier, the first artillerist of his day," as Col. Powell describes him.

It would be a long taek to set forth the many famous names in this corps. One Infantry brigade consisted entirely of regulars, as also did more than two brigades of artillery, comprising' eighteen batteries. On the Peninsula, perhaps Its most distinguished service was at Gaines's Mill, of which CoL Powell declares that' no battle In the war stands out so prominently," as the corps there held Its ground against an opposing' force twice as Strong without yielding an Inch, until McCleUan ordered It to withdraw, and thua It furnished a picture of self-reliance, discipline, and endurance on the part of1 the Union troops scarcely If ever equalled. At MechanicavlUe and Malvern Hill the corps further distinguished itself, and Col. Powell resents the view of some writers that its severe losses had somewhat shattered It toward the end of the campaign.

He also denies that Couch, of the Second Corps, practically took command of Porter's troops at Malvern HOL The tosses of McClellan' whole army tit the battles of the seven days before Richmond were about 15.0UO. and of these; to our author, the Fifth Corps lost 7.500; while of 9K In all killed and wounded, it lost about 4. TOO. In describing Pope's Manassas campaign, CoL Powell strongly supports the cause of Gen. Porter, who.

as Is well-known, was formally vindicated, twenty years after be had been cashiered oa the ground of not properly supporting Gen. Pope. While speaking of the Fifth Corps at the second battle of Bull Run, Col. Powell falls Into an error In saying- that Its aggregate loss of 2.131 wax "as many as Pope's entire army (consisting of S3TiO engaged) lost at the battle of Cedar Mountain." The latter battle was fought by Banks's corps alone, which had less than 8.000 men In the field, an-2 Its loss waa 2.333. The mistake at Cedar Mountain was) tn fighting without a larjer psrt of Pope's army to aid.

At South Mountain and Antietam. the Fifth Corps- was a grain hotly engaged. As to the latter, Cot. Powell. holds that the results achieved would have been greater had Mansfield been on Hooker's left with Sumner In support on the morning of the" 17thr had Gen.

Burnslde -carried the bridge at iny time between and 12 o'clock, and pushed his troops' forward, or had not Humphreys been detained a day at Frederick City by orders from Washington. Our author says It always struck him. though a youngster. In those days, as strange thaf so many commanders on both sides, as a rule, selected the latter part of the afternoon to commence their main attacks," nd also that It was so rare to find an army put Into position 6r Immediate pursuit of the enemy pending the battle, under orders which forecast success. After Antietam McClellan and Porter were relieved from command, and the latter was tried by court-martial.

5 Gen. then took temporary and Gen, Butter-field permanent command of the corps, the division commanders being Griffin, Sykes, and Humphreys. Ilurnside. who had succeeded McClellan, fought the bloody and disastrous battle of Fredericksburg. There Humphreys, whom CoL Powell praises for his educated topographical eye.

his perfect equilibrium Of mind, his Invincible courage," distinguished himself by splendid charges. The losses of the corps in lees than week were 2.173. Including 800 captured or missing. Hooker, having succeeded Burnslde, chose Butterfleld as his chief of staff, and then the Fifth Corps, after being temporarily commanded by Gen. Sykes, was placed under Gen.

Meade. The well-planned but feebly executed battle of Chancellot-sville followed, ending in a Union repulse. The total Union loss was over 17.000 men. but the Fifth Corps was not as much employed as on other fields, losing only 700. Meade was the next commander of the army and Sykes of the corps, with Barnes, Ay res.

and Crawford as division commanders. Gettysburg, the greatest battle ever fought ori this continent, followed. In describing It, CoL Powell holds that Gen. Sickles, Instead of urging Gen. Meade to come to Gettysburg with his army, as he ha repeatedly claimed, was the first and only one to suggest withdrawal from that field." He also says that Gen.

Sickles, in disregard of Gen. Meade's orders, advanced his Une, and that Meade, on visiting that part of the field, told him so. Gen. Sickles had Just rejoined: Very well. Sir.

I'll withdraw then when Longstreet's artillery Opened. Saying 4 1 wish to God you could. Sir. but 1 you see those people do not Intend to let Gen. Meade left him and rode out upon the line." CoL Powell also pays a tribute to the soldierly discernment and "characteristic promptness" of Warren In occupying Little Round Top, the key of the Federal position, and to the gallantry of 0Rorke, Weed, and Haxlett, who fell In seising and holding It He lauds the valor of Chamberlain and his gallant Twentieth Maine, and declares that Vincent's little brigade and Chamberlain's regiment, "fighting amidst the scrub oak and rocks In that vale between the Round Tops, on the 2d of July, 1803.

saved to the Union arms the historic field of Gettysburg." And again, in praising Zook, Cross, Graham, Humphreys, Rice, Ay res. Bigelow, and others, he reverts to the ail-important act of Warren, declaring that "with the Federal signal flags on Little Round Top displaced by the stars and bars, the standard of the Confederacy would have been established before the world." The loss of the army at Gettysburg Is given as 23,049 men, and that of the Fifth Corps as 2,187, Including 210 missing. The series of operations around Petersburg came later, and In one of these Gen. Chamberlain, who had been desperately wounded, was promoted on the field" the only case of the kind on record during the war." says CoL Powelk In commenting on the attack upon the Weldon Railroad our authof Warren was not an executive officer; he was Iq every sense of the word a commander and a strategist. When he had the opportunity.

Of testing his strategic ability he waS never found wanting. While there never was In his composition an element of Insubordination or lack desire to carry out all orders given him. Vet when detailed instructions were Imposed, they seemed to rob him of all his Individuality. Left alone he rose above the minor surroundings, grasped the situation with a giant hand, and never had a failure." Gettysburg, Bristoe. and the Weldon Road ire spoken of as proofs of this assertion.

But almost at the end of the campaign, at Five Forks. Warren was relieved from the command of his Corps by Gen. Sheridan, to whom he had reported. CoL Powell resents this action, regarding It as most unjust. He holds that Warren, so far from being slow, did all that could be done, and he says with much bitterness that with the flush of victory on his brow, with the end of the struggle so near, with the faint rays of the dawn of peace already gleaming in the sanguinary sky.

this noble warrior was brushed aside like a fly from a map. and sent Into what was an undeniable. If not apparently dishonorable, seclusion." He also quotes from Gen. F. A.

Walker's history of the Second Corps the statement that it is infinitely to be regretted that Sheridan afterward. when the passions of the moment had cooled," did not welcome an early occasion to repair the terrible injury which one hasty word, tn the heat of battle, had done to the position, the fame, and the hopes of 'the man who snatched Little Round Top from the hands' of the exulting Confederates." Gen. Griffin succeeded to the Command of the Fifth Corps, and under him it continued Its brilliant service In the few weeks of the war that remained. A TALE OF QCEE.Y ASXE'8 REIG. A LADY OP QUALITY.

Being a Most Curious. Hitherto Unknown, History, as Related by Mr. Isaac Blckcrstalf bat Not Presented to the World of Fashion Through the Pages of Tbe Tattler, and Now for the First Time Writ-den Down. Br Frances Hodgson Burnett. 12nto.

Kew-Tork: Charles crifciier's Sons. The professional reviewer of works of fiction In these days rarely haa Opportunities for the exercise of his' powers of Judgment and the display of his literary equipment so alluring and Invigorating as those enjoyed by his predecessors In the middle years of this century, when a new novel by Mr. Dickens or Mr. Thackeray, by Anthony Trollope or wllklo Collins gave him a good week's employment la the mere pernssJ, and opened up for bis appreciation 4 new little world, with a host of 'animated human beings between whom and the author of. their existence, on the one hand, and that ever mysterious and unclassified "reading publlo" on the other, he waa an accredited Interpreter.

The beet of our novel Hrta of to-day are sparing alike of their Imaginations and their physical energies. Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy, to be sure, tag the reviewer's abilities) ae well as hla temper not a little, but even "An Amazing Marriage" and "Jude the Obscure" are- miniatures compared with the big. crowded canvases of Scott and Bulwer and the other great novelists of a past age.

A Lady of Quality an excellent specimen of the modern novel- It la a book that will be talked about all the year; that' will surety be dramatised, with the result of disappointing alt' who have read It admiringly, and at the same time securing for it a host of new resulers; that will be discussed vaguely but persistently front every point of view, possible or impossible. In the discussion of literary art, particularly the moral and the rellgtoua. It will attacked with vehemence, it wOl be praised Intolerantly. A a picture of an Interesting historical epoch the age of Itngbrek and the Churchill, of Addison. Steele, and Pope It will be diligently examined for flaws, which will doubtless be found.

It will be weighed tn the balance against Esmond and The Spectator and the Interesting writings of Mr. Ad-dlngton Symonda. It will be read by everybody who reads fiction of the higher class and probably by many others. In short. It will be a book of the year." Yet Mrs.

Burnett's new, strange, and powerful tale containa but one thoroughly well-limned, fully developed character. To Clorinda Wildaira. afterward Countess of Dunstanwolde and Duchess of Osmonds one of the most piquant. Irresistible, and a-udacloua character studies In modern fictionplain, gentle Anne, her sister. Is but a foil, and no other subordinate personage In the story Is nearly so elaborately portrayed as Anne.

A few conventional strokes, a haphazard collection of oaths, and a concisely described, delirium suffice for their father. Sir Jeoffrey, while the rakes, wits, statesmen. beauS. and belles Of the period are little more than mere statements. The old Earl of Dunstanwolde.

Clortnda's first husband, Is a fine gentleman, truly, but we, never get near enough to him to know him. We must take the author's word for It that the Duke of Osmonde is lovable and loving, learned, courtly, high-minded, for her word is all there Is on those matters. We fear that In the, minds Of many practical readers he will stand merely for sentimentality. As for the typical rake. Sir John Oxon, we most take him for granted, or lose much Interest in the book.

His beauty, his manners, his gallantries, and his vices are all understandable. But he Is a figure rather than a character. Tet In the 865 pages 6f "A Lady of Quality Mrs. Burnett treats of a whole lifetime, from the hour of birth to death In green old age, of the development and transformation of ah odd. strong character, and all the states and moods through which It passes; of town and country life, of London polite society In the dawn of the eighteenth century, of the court and of the slums; of love and hate, piety and sin, revenge and expiation.

lust and debauchery, purity and charity And Clorinda Is Its one distinguished personage. Its sole luminary. The story Is Clorlnda's with all the rest of the world belittled to make her beauty enthrall, her wit please, her passion thrill, her tenderness delight, her coquetry charm, her wonderful strength amaze, her astuteness bewilder, her courage and endurance cause the more admiration by force of contrast. If a novel should bo a fair epitome of life, this, like so many other modern stories, fails short of what a novel should be. No one else Is a match for Clorinda.

The man who Is Supposed to be the splendid Duke of Osmonde Is nothing at all. Mrs. Burnett has failed to make him live before us. BUt Clorinda, for a time, will suffice. Neither Hardy nor Meredith has Imagined a more remarkable woman.

She Is never vulgarly probable, yet she Is always splendidly human. Whether ordinary men. reading of her. will fall In love with her Is doubtful. She is a creature quite too bright and good for human nature's dally food.

Women will certainly like her. But we shall not Injure her chances with a single reader by telling any part of her atory in advance. In A Lady of Quality Mrs. Burnett IS at war with all advocates of the theory of heredity. So, also, she snaps her fingers at "environment." Clorlnda's character is her own; It was born with her.

but she did not Inherit a trait of It, Her early faults were due to her lack of training. Her quick temper was largely matter of habit. She had no schooling. Her natural wit helped her to learn. She had comprehension as an Inborn gift.

Adversity she never knew, or any of the little sorrows that beset life. Homage was hers from her Infancy. She was a magnificent animal, with a soul proportionately noble and potent. The narrative so far as it concerns her queer youth Is Ingenious, spirited, and piquant, but those chapters relating to her maturity are of deeper interest, The author dares dispute a fine old murder will out," which. Indeed, is frequently disputed by the facts of common life.

And the religious element In the book, which is strong and significant. Is at variance with the popular Idea of expiation. Indeed, to be more explicit, Clorinda sinned deeply, lied about It. prospered In this life. and.

we must believe, if we follow the author's reasoning, waa not doomed to suffer any penalty In theother world. But she firmly believed In existence after death and In the Justice of God. But the most striking quality of Clorinda Is her superb selfishness, which is not presented as a vice, and which Is her dominating trait from first to. last. It governs her every action, the few evil, the many beneficent.

Her noble charities, in her later years, are all due to It to her belief In herself, ber self-love, her exaltation of herself over In other words, Clorinda, though never a pagan after her seventeenth year. Is never a typical Christian. What Is esteemed the very essence of Christianity she disregards altogether. In the manner of its telling, this story is a modern antique. Like Esmond." it Is told In the language of The Tatler, but.

Its literary likeness to Esmond ends there. The story triumphs in spite of Its style, not because of It. The phraseology often seems affected, and the author is always thinking more of the traits and moods of her heroine than of the fashions and manners of the time In which she lived. GOl'SOD'S 1EM0IRS. MEMOIRS OF AM ARTIST; An Autobiography.

By Charles Francois Oounod; rendered Into Engllah by Annette E. Crocker. Chicago and Kew-Tork: Rand. McNally Co. Gounod's memoirs are interesting reading, though they are neither complete In their extent nor exhaustive in their revelation of the artist's Inner life.

Indeed. In the case of the composer of Faust the Inevitable vanity of the musician was so naive that it led to a simple treatment of his story. Gounod writes as one who should say: the world knows: It Is not necessary for me to explain." The story of bis career, as told by himself, ends with the production of Faust." This Is a reat pity. One would like to have heard the good old man. who paternally kissed every singer of his Marguerite, tell the story of Romeo Juliette." It would have been Interesting, too, to learn something about the revival of hla religious sentimentality which led him to produce Mors et Vita." As If stands, however, the book offers as its most Interesting features the story of the composer's early exhibitions of musical power, his studies, hLs charming intercourse In Rome with M.

Ingres, the painter, and his vtalt to' Vienna. The enthusiastic admiration of the boy still glows through his account of his first visit to the opera, to hear Rossini's Otello sung by Mallbran, Rublnf, TamborinL and Labtache, Who would not glowf But the deeper note of admiration Is sounded when he comes to the account Of his first visit to the opera tn Vienna, where he heard Mozart's Magic Flute." That was a 41 revelation to him. A moat charming peseage In the book Is hla account of his visti to Lelpste and his Acquaintance with Mendelssohn. Gounod speaks with warm feeing of the kindness of the famous German. 'And.

Indeed, the generous Fella was quite princely. He actually assembled the Gowandhaus orchestra and gave a special performance of the Scotch symphony for Gounod. Then he had Bach's old organ at 8t. Thomas put In as Gowned sayst "there for more than two hours, he revealed to me wonders of whieh I had no previous conception." These wonders were the organ works of Bach, and Mendelssohn, always -a preacher of the gospel of musle according to St, Sebastian, sent the young homeward with 4 collection of tbeiold cantor's motets under bis arm. Not the least pleasing part of "this narrative is the reverence which Gounod expresses for -the composer ef On the whole, musle lovers will enjoy reading these memoirs and will wish that they had been made more exhaustive.

GLADSTONE'S EDITION OP tfUTLEltJ TitK Works or Joseph bitler, b. 0. fL, Sometime Lord Bishop Durham. fMrided Intd sections, wnh sectional an index to each volume. Edited by the R-'rht Hon.

tv. E. Gladstone In two vol tries. vo. KawTork: Macmillaa Co.

i 3 i In his preface to these volumes. Mr. GJad- -stone states that they are published Tor the purpose of giving the student of BlsHop Butler readier access to "the substance And meaning of his work than' he has heretofore enjoyed. And in relation to reasons why such access should be afforded." sjiys he reasons will Vbe sufficiently understood' from a collection of essays which will pubUahed shortly: his preface could a afford him opportunity therein to set forth the reasons. i -j The means which Mr.

Gladstone adopted to- bring the substance! and meaning lot Bishop Butler's text more clearly i before the student are as follows: The Analogy and other works have been broken', lut sections; every section has been intlrd with a heading. Intended; to assist the ryi and. so far as may be, the mind of hb reader, by an indication of its centers: indexes to each volume have been provld-t framed upon a separate perusal and folj-lowing of the text, a close as Mr. OKfd-' tone could tnako It, i To explain and illustrate the work, Gladstone has ventured: to add a limtu- i number of notes." which will be fonjvj very useful and Instructive by the siudejtt In the appendix to Volume IL' sever piece have been placed, ail of whlcfc Hre By Bishop Butler or are associated with his name. The text of the Analogy has twyi considered in connection With tho editions of 184.

(Bishop Fitzgerald's.) 1844. and of 1840, (Bishop Fitzgerald's.) 1844, ind provide tho students of Bishop Sutler wiq a means of comparison and reference, and therefore undertook tho work which has performed with such completeness. i To the sectional divisions Mr. Gladstone haa given headings to guide the eye of the searcher, and to supply In an easy au4 direct form the same description of help as Is usually aimed at by a formal enK ysis. In the Indexes the most salient and natural heads hav been given.

In order thst In default of exact recollection, the Searcher may readily find the section to whlehi he wishes to refer. i Believing that the Student of Butler should not be burdened with unnecessary; or distracting Mr. Gladstone hai' annotated the text but Sparingly, as, ja1 his belief, a mass of notes incumbers and obstructs tho road to the author's meaning, which may be accessible enough wUh the aid of close attention and free refejr-j ence. The student, he says, ought not to find extraneous matter too Inter posed between tho author's meaning and his mind. His annotation has been don upon the Idea that the safest basis of an-! notation Upon Butler Is to i consider, not what the text admits, but what it mors; or lees requires.

i FR0I UILGIT TO jcHITBlL. "i WITH KELLY TO CHITRAU By Lieut, w. Beynon. D. S.

O. First, Battalion, ThltSl Ooorkha Rifles. Stair Officer to Cot KeiiyVj Relief Force. Svo. Mew-Torkt SMwara Arnold.

"Would you like to go' up to GUgitt! It is with this question and answer that Lieut, Beynori begins his tale; of CoL Kelly's march from Gllgtt to Chit-! ral In the Spring of 1895- to relieve Mrs! oesiegea Chltral fort and fho forces under Surgeon Major Robertson that were shut tip within It. After reading Beynon' story are inclined to answer the Initial question as he did. but at the same Urns would choose a more pleasant season of tho year to cross the mountains than that In which Coj Kelly and his forces mad their march Lieut. Beynon has told a good story of the dangers and difficulties of the march across this section of India, even though ho has told It In more or less of raees-room style. He has made light of the' difficulties thai were overcome marching with heavy den through snow waist deep and fording RVAlllitl MAimdln a m.i.v iuki ia uu.

doubtedly due to his training as a soldie and his habit of considering nothing to have been really dangerous which has been unci cessfully accomplished a habit that Engi lish officers In India readily 'acquire. Although Col. Kelly and his troop welf knew the difficulties that they would en counter on their march to raise the sieged and the dangerous, almost Impassable, rout that they would hav to 'traverse, theyV started with that feeling of buoyancy which" -to a soldier Inured to hardship makes-' light of the most difficult undertaking. The command marched from GUglt March 22. and reached Chltral April 19 or 20, although there was some little fighting don: during the month that the march continued, there were few lives lost on either aide, The story of the march contains no record of exciting adventure or heroic deeds, but? simply an account or the daily life of Brit-; tah officers and Indian troops oil a frontiers expedition how they lived and what they at and drank, their Small Jok- and trials, their marches through snow andv rain, hot valleys or pleasant fields written a soldier would talk to his comrades af tf mesa, or seated about a fir In the opc-np when each one Is expected to do bis share the entertaining.

From this one sees Lieut, Beynon Is a pretty good enow." a n-1 from the manner In which be Uses the latet 1 and most Idiomatic slang from London, eveni when talking with native chiefs, one mut believe that his knowledge of the world wns'J not picked up while en route from t.i;, Chltral. His story, which I finely llh--t rated from photographs and sketches; id-, well worth reading. BOOKS RECEIVED. SOUTHERN QUAKERS AND SLAVERY A Study In Constitutional History. Hy Stephen B.

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