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Sire, work mm SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS AND ART. 8CPPLEM NT TO THIfi NEW YORK TIMES. Copyright, 1001. THH NEW YOHK TIMES COMPANT. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1901.

SIXTEEN PAGES. contents; Up from Slavery. Page-Booker T. Washington's Autobiography as an Offset to Mr. Thomas's Arraignment of His Race 143 Haiti.

Travels in a Land Where Black Rules White. 140 O'ConnelL A Sketch of the Great Irishman in the Heroes of the Nations Series 160 Captured by Filipinos. Albert Sonnichsen's Narrative of a Ten Months Personal Experience. 130 The Talmud. Specimens of Wit and Wisdom from an Ancient Treasure House London Literary Letter.

By WILLIAM L. ALDEN Concerning "Culture" 152 Gaelic In Parliament 152 Books for Lazy People 132 Real Folks In Novels 152 An Up-town Home for the Historical Society. 152 The Foundation of a Book the 153 Chinese Literature i50 Color and the Mind 153 "140 The Cynic to be Married To-day 153 Phenomenal Sales of the Season 153 Judge Dykman and John Dean 155 Notes and News 150 Topics of the Week 145 Unpublished Letters of Thoreau 154 Books and Authors 154 Three New Beacon Biographies 150 Queries and Answers 158 Hints from the Mallbag 143 Books Received 151 The New York Times Saturday Review. $1 Per Tear. Topics of the Week.

We are shortly to bave more personal matter con corning the late Prof. Max-Muller. The autobiography which 1b now being published derived its inspiration, we have been told, from the broad and intense interest excited through the earlier autobiographical volumes, Auld Lang Syne and My Indian Friends and Acquaintances." The forthcoming work to which we refer will have an interest distinct from either of these, although possibly quite as personal. From her earliest acquaintance with her famous husband, Mrs. Max-Muller took notes," as It were, of his career.

And now we are to have these notes, with certain correspondence, published by Longmans, Oreen ft Co. In the meantime Mrs. Max-Muller would deem it a favor if persons possessing any of her husband's letters would kindly lend them to her. She lives at 7 Norham Oar-dens, Oxford, England. From the point of view of the personality ol the author, what should be one of the more important books of the nrlng in the department of memoirs is "A Sailor's by Admiral Robley D.

Evans, which D. Appleton ft Co. have in preparation. In this we are to have the recollections of forty years of United States naval life. Several pages, we are told, will be devoted to the author's personal recollections of the German Kaiser, whom Evans entertained on board his ship at the opening of the Kiel Canal.

And so it the Admiral can write on a long tack as well as he chats on a short one we are sure to have a book thatjwlll be of Intense interest to most Americans. We shall later present farther data concerning it Mr. Sidney Lee, who, succeeding Mr. Leslie Stephen, edited the concluding volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography," will write the Life of Queen Victoria," which will appear in one of the supplementary volumes. In this volume we snail also have biographies of the late Bishop of London Q.

W. prothero will write on Dr. Crelghton, who was himself for several years a leading contributor to the Die- Nonary Mr. Arthur Sedgwick on Frederic Myers, and the Master of Peterhouee on Richard Copley Christie. I The story of the life of Empress Elisabeth of Aus-' trla a depicted in the pages of "The Martyrdom of an Empress," published eighteen months, ago Harper ft Brothers, left the impression in most minds that It was written by a person entirely familiar with Court life in Vienna.

It was almost felt that the author her self waa a person who had had a very interesting career, which would prove to be most fascinating reading it over she consented to take the public into her confidence. The anonymous author has now a book in press at Harper ft It ia entitled The Tribulations of a Princess," and, although presented under the guise of fiction, is In reality an authentic autobiography. Mrs. Edith Wharton's new volume of short stories, which Charles Scribner's Sons have In hand, will be entitled Crucial Instances." We imagine, according to this author's The Greater Inclination and "The Touchstone," that the title rather connotes than denotes the nature of the tales included. Of course we may expect, too, the author's usual distinction of style, which is one of culture rather than of cultivation.

As to the themeB, each story depicts a certain period in an intense life, which may or may not justify the title under which they are all, grouped. Readers of this paper will recall the famous Cynic controversy of two years ago the most striking that has ever taken place In the columns of The New York Times Saturday Review, and the most largely parWcl pated In save one, "Autumn with the Poets." Elsewhere in to-day's issue we print the gratifying announcement from Cynic himself (and readers may be assured that the Cynic is an actual, living man, though unknown in this office, except as to his real name ut to ie mtfrried; in fact, this day is his wedding day. One of the letters printed two years ago suggested marriage to the as the most appropriate outcome of the controversy he had raised, and when Thb New York Times reprinted, the entire correspondence in a small volume entitled "Woman: Can She Reason? a final note was added, saying that It would be a proud day for The Saturday Review when it could record a fact that would so manifestly imply tne Cynic's complete conversion Many readers will no doubt Join The Saturday Review in extending to him cordial congratulations, with a wish for many happy anniversaries. A witty Frenchman onceeaid that writing for Le Journal des Debats was like posting a letter In a street grating. In turning over the pages of a volume by Paul Bourget, Croquls d'Outre-Manche," we were surprised to learn that the delightful articles contained therein had originally appeared as correspondence In the Debats at the time of the Queen's diamond jubilee.

Englishmen, as well as Frenchmen, should be grateful to some one for having rescued the Croquls from oblivion. Here is a touch which should be seised upon and proclaimed by those who are seeking to heal the breach between England and France M. Bourget is writing of the Queen as she rides by In state: Look on that aged visage, and you will recognise an expression which is not the awful Majesty of which Saint-Simon spoke in connection with the old age of Louis but a real majesty, notwithstanding, and one all the more mighty because it is simpler and freer from that charlatanism that the English hate so deeply." From an Anglo-Saxon this would have been a fine tribute. From a man of M. Bourget's generally Anglophobic convictions It Is sublime.

Just now there are certain manifestations in the British Parliament which as the session advances are likely to Increase rather than diminish in interest And much that has been written shows how little understood on this side are existing Parliamentary methods. Here is an announcement, therefore, will mean something to those who would follow an exciting session of the British Parliament Sir Courtenay P. Ilbet, the new counsel to the British Treasury, has written for the Oxford University Press a book entitled Legislative Methods and Forms." Possibly there are not even. many Englishmen whoarea wax fifteen years ago Sir Courtenay acted as Governor General of India during Lord Dufferln's absence in Burmah. His regular post was that of legal member of the Governor General's Council, which before him had been adorned by Sir James Fitxjamea Stephen and Macau-lay.

In the current number of The Contemporary Review Mr. Edmund Goase recommends a nice French novelist in the of IV Rend Basin. M. Basin owes his according io Mn Gqese, to the fact that other. French writers of fiction-realists, naturalists, romanticists have all.

been trying to excel each other by mere M. Basin almost alone, has with patience and sincerity attempted' to preserve and emphasise the best, that there Js in the traditions of French, literature. Mr. It is at least pleasant to. haye one' man; writing, in excellent French, refined, cheerful, and sentimental nor els of the most ultra-modest kind, books that every girl may read, that every guardian of youth may safely leave about in any room of, the house.

'M. Basin. Is to be congratulated, first, because' his view of French Ufa is none the less true, owing to the fact that his realism Is like Mr. Howella's rather than like M. Zola's, and that his romanticism reminds one of Hawthorne rather than of Pierre LotL UP FROM SLAVERY" Bookef T.

Washington's Aotobiofctapny as to Offset to Mr. Thomas's Arraignment of His Race. There could not be a greater contrast to the fierce arraignment of the American negro by Mr. W. IL Thomas, recently reviewed in these columns, than Is to be found in this simple and unaffected autobiography of Mr.

Booker. nor could there be obtained two more diverse impressions of the colored race than those given by their books. Both men are of negroid blood, both are superior to the most of their brethren in Intellect and training, and both have had unusually good opportunities for informing themselves as to the present condition of the negro race In America, so that the question wshlch is right in his estimate becomes complicated as well as Interesting. From Mr. Thomas's book we'galn the idea that the negro is deplorably bad, and that nothing but a hardly probable or possible miracle will put him on the road to progress.

Mr. Washington writes, of course, par ticularly of his own straggles and triumphs; but Ma escriptlon of his work in Tuskegee and even of his poor surroundings in boyhood gives as glimpses of quite a different phase of negro character, in which appear an earnest desire for knowledge and the willing- ness to sacrifice much to obtain it, both powerful aids 1. tv Umiui a mia if an tf a Mr WaaMefl' ton's autobiography is sure to awaken more sympathy and obtain more benefactions for his race than the sweeping condemnation of Mr. Thomas's criticism, though that point has nothing to do with the question IIUOIITVIIUIUVU UICU Ml 4HU1UW Maw that the work being done at Tuskegee under Mr. Wash- ington's direction is admirable in every respect In several Important points the two men agree.

They both admit for instance, that a mistake was made after the civil war in granting the negroes an unlim-ited exerclBe of the franchise, and they unite in thinking that it is in the knowledge and practice of agriculture and a country life that the negro's best hope lies. They also agree in denouncing the character of the majority of the colored clergymen and teachers, though Mr. Washington says that a marked change for the better has begun in these two classes, and never misses an opportunity to praise the white teachers who are working in the negro schools, while Mr. Thomas designated their methods as totally ineffectual, though well enough Mentioned. It is hardly fair, however, to compare two books it is almost certain that any serious discussion of the negro character and the negro problem by Mr.

Wash-; Ington would on a different point of view and be permeated by quite a dirrerent spirit rrom Mr. 1 nomas a recent work, principally owing, no doubt to the different temperaments of the two men. It is to be hoped i.i win A ting the other point of view. The story which Booker T. Washington tells of his rise from the depths of slavery to his present honorable and useful Doaition is Indeed a moving one.

and tnlla If wall A mnr mnnlr nnriffht ftABonablft. and unselfish spirit than looks out at the reader from fhBA nirM It wonld be difficult to find. Ha is oroud Ot tne record ne nas maae, ua weu uo 1117 few hare as good a one; but there Is not one hint in the book that he feels superior to the less fortunate members of his race, and his gratitude to air who hav Aided in his life and work la unbounded. Indeed. he says that he is proud of hla race, and has never A.

A- I- by his constant refusal to make capital for himself out of the public regard tor his attainments ana ine enure devotion of his time to the betterment of the Southern negroes. Ills head must be a firm one never to hare been turned the magic change that hare been so frequent in hts career, but he seems to be as simple- hearted and genuine in bis success as when a ragged, jiu. iuia. Kn nt iln ha hla lournev on foot IIIVV r. from his home in West Virginia to Hampton Institute.

i. k4 Jahmaa amirlnai srllnt 1 money in Richmond, he slept under a wooden sidewalk for many nights while he earned enough money during the day around the wharves to carry him on to Hampton, bu not many years afterward a great reception in htm In this HtT. And he diAllchtedlha large audience with hts speech. Such contrasting in? cidents are plentiful In his life. From the day when, a little slave, Booker carried hlb young mistress's books to the schoolhouse door, and so caught 'a glimpse Of the children studying within, he longed to go to school, and, though he was a good-, sized youth before that opportunity came, he learned by himself all that a Webster's Spelling Book could." Vim mnA nirAn mtitanit Ilia naVln tt nnm.

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