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THE WORLD OF BOOKS
WALT WHITMAN.
AMERICA'S POET OF DEMOCRACY.
"Walt Whitman,"By John Bailey; Englishmen of Letters Series (MacMilan, 5/)/
This poet of Democracy is
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most original gentus America yet produced. Whitman, the farmer's son began his connection this with journalism at 18. At time it was said that if he had ague he would be too lazy to shake. Poets have two great needs, ex- perience and peace. There is often a struggle in them between the in- stinct of action and adventure which provides their material and the instinct of solitude and medita- tion which used it. In Whitman, though both were strong, the second was the stronger of the two The Leaves of Grass is the child of genius, shaped by poverty, ignorance and adventure above all by America and its Civil War, in which Whitman did yeoman service AS a hoppital worker. Emerson was most
enthusinatic over this work.
AT SEA.
GROWTH OF OUR MERCANTILE MARINE.
FLEET STREET.
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MR. J. H. RICHARDSON'S
MEMORIES.
The Islanders. Archibald Hurd: It is good to hear that Mr. J. Hall
Cassell.
Richardson, of "The Daily Tele- In Queen Elizabeth's time we down some of his memories in a graph," has been persuaded to set Islanders were in the main a self-book. This will be called "From eufficing company numbering less The City to Fleet Street," Messrs. than the population of London to Stanley Paul being the publishers. day, with no possensions outside Mr. Hall Richardson has long Europe for all Settlement schemes been known as a specialist in fin had failed. From this Hurd pro-ance, the organisation of newspaper ceeds to trace the development of charity. and the study
v of crime. our Mercantile Marine.
With fifty years of Fleet Street ex- give perience behind him he can us "close-ups" of its
greatest figures from Sala to Northcliffe, and the aspiring journalist will find much practical guidance in his The criminologist will be pages. treated to new light on many im portant cases investigated by the author; and the general reader (if such exists) who is not interested either in journalism or crime, will learn a good deal that he did not know before, about such men 28 Gladstone and Garibaldi.
Greater Britain starts from the first charter given to Virginia, 1606; advanced In the 17th century, but not till the 18th did it in its gigantic dimensions and with its vast policies stand clearly before the world. Now 30 millions of our people live on food brought by ships: 45 millions in a land about half the size of Sumatra and smaller than New Zealand. The Navigation Acts, according to the author, Injured us by removing competition and in 1836 things were so bud that a Government Committee was appointed to en- quire into the cause of the fre- quent wrecks. The causes proved to be ignorance of navigation, drunkenness, and indiscipline: In- adequate charts, no professional examinations for skippers or en- gineers and appalling conditions generally. The Consular Report to the Foreign Ofce in 1843 emphus ised intemperance, ignorance and brutality of British Masters. In alarm the last vestiges of the Navigation Acts were swept away. Nino administrative departments were centralised in the Marine de- partment of the Board of Trade. the Plimsoll Mark was introduced and the Mercantile Marine, ex- posed to energising foreign com- petition, forged ahead in ita triumphant caroer. In 1886 we possessed 2,320,677 tons of ship ping, in 1874 nearly six millions, During the War we lost over 2,000 ships. All war time shipping pro- fits ceased early in 1917, when the Government took over all shipping. The Conference system makes possible the present liner service, Only 9,7 per cent. of our vessels are between 20 and 26 years old, and only 8.5 has been afloat 25 or more years, but Holland's figures are still better.
Lincoln will always be remem- bered, as the Commander-in-Chief, and Whitman as the poet, of the war which killed slavery. The universality of love is the essence of his greatness. He believed in ordinary life and the average man and loved them as no poet had ever loved them before. The in- tensity of his faith and joy in the new world is a cleansing fire which burns out of him the trivialities] and uglinesses that are his beset- ting sins; and gives him more than he desired or knew of the rhythm and music which have always been the language of faith. Men thirst for power and poetry satisfies that thirst by being something in which perception, emotion, and imagina- tion find their powers of activity redoubled: in which the delights of the car. the memory, and the mind are joined together to make ap a new felicity not experienced elsewhere. Whitman never realised that poetry, like all art, demands excess, the intensifying of emotion. His Tammany Hall speechifying| experiences and his journalistic training had a fatal influence on him. He read the Bible and Scott all his life, but the cheap rhetoric of political meetings and the self- important trivialities of provin cial newspapers overlaid and taint- ed his language and style. He believed that all exact metrical form, it was unnecessary now that poetry was read silently from the printed page. He fancied that all elaborate metre had something feudal, European, outworn about it. Of the importance of musie, or form, in poetry he understood lit- tle, and nothing at all of associa- tion. Genius is much greater than knowledge, but i can seldom be A substitute for it. The meanness of his language, his disregard of grammar, his scraps of foreign tongues mar our enjoyment and repel altogether many readers. The verae librist has the sentence and accentually grammatically complete in itself as the new unit instead of the line. This was un- luckily no restraint.on Whitman's verbosity, his wildernesses of catalogues. What distinguishes verse rhythm from that of prose is Mesars. Stanley Paul recently that it repeats itself and creates isaued a revised edition of his "Life expectation, or, if not expectation. of Cesare Borgia" in a new format, at least echo. The liberty of spirit and they now announce a fifth and or the freedom of art which were uniform edition of the companion the essence of Whitman can never volume "Torquemada and the wholly die, however ignorant or
Spanish Inquisition." confused or extravagant many of his manifestations of both.
were
British Merchant Seamen re- celve more than twice the wage paid to German, French and Italian, 40 per cent. higher than Belgians or Norwegians, and more than 10 per cent. bigher than Swedes dr Dutch. Our ships are almost universally excluded from coastal trade abroad, although foreign ships can trade freely be tween our ports. The last chapter of this informative little book is on the new Transport era.
400 YEARS.
Biography of a Friar.
Mr. Rafael Sabatini is, perhaps, better known as novelist than his torian, bat the work he has done in the latter capacity has met with quite unusual success.
Friar Thomas de Torquemada, who influenced so profoundly the He gives us love and democracy history of his country, has had to and religion, an all-embracing universalism. a passionate Amer-walt over four hundred years for icanism, out-of-doorness. an ar- a biographer, This is a curious rogant egotism, a daring sexuali but, probably, a fortunate circum- ty, an assured and boundless falth stance, for Mr. Sabatini, that God is good, and man too, and the world and the universe: and that the last word of all will, be found to be happiness.
whose birth and education on the Con- tinent, have given him an unpre- judiced outlook on matters of reli- glón, was much better fitted to deal The Song of Myself is perhaps with the Grand Inquisitor than not a poem at all, but it is one of some early Protestant or Catholic the most astonishing expressions of chronicler might have been. vital energy ever got into a book, "Who touches this touches a man." Youth, large, lusty, loving- youth full of grace, force, fascination,
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
GIRL'S ADVENTURES,
Miss Nora K. Strange, who has already won her spurs with a series of "Kenya Novels," has Day full-blown and splendid- written an amusing story of a girl's day of the immense sun, action, adventures during an autumn în ambition, laughter," R
Italy. The title is "Cynthia Abroad" and the book, will come later in the year from Messrs. Stanley Paul.
The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
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AFTER TWO CENTURIES.
Another Roger de Coverley.
During the slump immediately book in chief demand in the Lon- following the Christmas sales, the
don stores, has been one that has
just been printed for the first time after lying in M.S, for more than two centuries. At the age of 85 diar- John Evelyn, whose fame as a fst
Pepys, gathered some of the fruits is second only to that of Samuel of his ripe experience for the bene fit of the young man who would shortly succeed to his estate at Wotton. These "Memoires for my Grand-son,' as he called them in the MS. completed just before his death in 1706, many possibly come to be valued as highly as the diary on which the author's reputation has hitherto rested. These pages ex- hale a distinct aroma of the temper and outlook of Sir Roger de Cover- ley. They set forth the whole duty, if not of man in general, at any rate of an English country gentle- there could be summed up in the man in particular at a period when English gentleman the most finish- ed manners and the best culture of the time. They naturally suggest a comparison with the letters of Lord Chesterfield to his son, from which-alike in tone, style, and
poles matter they are
apart." There is, indeed, in Evelyn more of the old Roman than of the worldly and evnical courtier of half a cen- tury later.
The
One of the attractions of this book is the minutely-detailed des- cription of the menage at Wotton. Evelyn takes us through his library with its standishes, desks, stamps, screw-presses, and the "cyphers, 'glew-pote, cizers," and other im plements with which he pursued his hobby of book-binding. Не shows us also his repository," with the mathematical Instruments, sphere, globe, perspectives, micro- scopes. "Saxton" compasses, quad- rants and rulers. He gives instruc- tlans as to how accounts are to be entered, how servants are to be paid, and how a check may be kept on grooms when in London. administration not only of the house itself but of the woods, gar- dens, and stables is fully discussed. In the event of fire, for instance, a drum was to be in readiness to Rum- mon help. Evelyn advises his grandson to indulge in held sports "rather casually," and "without the Slavery of Keeping Dogs, especial- ly Hounds, Hanks, Race-Horses, etc., which draw with them many Inconveniences, Idle company and Expence." He recommends chess and bowls as "noble and healthful" recreationa, the one for the mind and the other for the body, He bids his successor look carefully to every possible source of expend!- ture and waste, and to the religious well-being of the household as con- ducive to honest service. Alto- gether, this is a delightful volume, and many readers will feel grateful to its editor, Mr. Geoffrey Keynes, and to its publishers, The None-such Press, for bringing it out of its long seclusion.
Messrs. Stanley Paul announce the addition of "Whispering Trees" and "Cantacute Towers," both by Ceci Adair, to their series of popular reprints..
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THE "OVERLAND CHINA MAIL."
MURDER OF FOREIGN MISSIONARY & SON.
Meagre details have been cabled Home about the dastard- ly attack on a party of foreigners of the China Inland Mission at Yunnan and a Roman Catholic priest who was in the party.
Yunnan is a quarter from which this latest outrage is most unexpected.
A missionary was murdered with one of his children. his wife was stabbed, the other child is missing and a lady missionary has disappeared!
You will be performing a duty to yourself out here and to people at Home by telling them exactly what occurred, if only as an illustration of how anti-foreign agitation has reached the remotest corner of China.
This week's "Overland China Mail" contains an exclusive report of the incident. Send Horge a full report of the
outrage.
CASUALTIES ON BRITISH WARSHIPS.
Almost each day this week, there has been a despatch - about casualties on British warships on the Yangtse River,
While acting as convoys to peaceful 'merchantmen, British and other non-Chinese bluejackets have been 'sub- jected to persistent fire.
To strengthen the hands of those who favour protection for British traders out here, put them in possession of the facts. Send them a copy of the "Overland" which we guarantee they will appreciate.
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