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be frightened, he first rushes madly to
the rear in a crazy panic, and afterward
plunges forward 'to the rescue ofihe
colors under exactly the same influences.
In neither case has reason or any intel
ligent motive any influence on his
action, lie is throughout an idiot or a
maniac, and betrays no trace of the rea
soning being. No thrill of pattiotic de
votion to cause or country ever moves
bis breast, and not even an emotion of
manly courage. On the field all is chaos
and confusion. "The young lieutenant,"
"the mounted officer," even "the gen
eral," all are utterly demented beings,
raving and talking alike in an unintel
ligible und hitherto unheard-of jargog,
rushing about in a very delirium of
madness. No intelligent orders are
given; no intelligent movements are
made. There is no evidence of drill,
none of discipline. There is a constant,
senselees, and profane babbling going
on, such as one could hear nowhere but
in a madhouse. Nowhere are seen the
quiet,manly, self-respecting, and patriot
ic men, influenced by the highest sense
of duty, who in reality fought our bat
tles. There may have been a moderate num
ber of men in our service who felt and
acted in baUIe like those in this book;
but of such deserters were made. They
did not stay when they could get away;
why should they? The army was no
healthy place for them, and they had no
reason to stay; there was no moral mo
tive. After they had deserted, however,
they remained "loud soldiers" energetic,
and blatant and they, are possibly now
enjoying good pensions. It must have
been some of these fellows who got the
ear of Mr. Crane and tolu him how they
felt and acted in battle. A. C. McC.
Chicago, April 11, 1896.
The adulation that Mr. Crane has re
ceived from the English would disgust
anything but Americans they can stand
more gush than William the Teuton.
Rudyard Kipling slams the door in the
face of the lion hunters who come to beg
his company and tells them to "go hang"
he is busy. Stephen Crane is too young
and flattered to refuse the dinner invi
tations that are ruining his digestion
and imagination .
"The Princess S"nia" by Julia Ma
gri'der is a story that does not justify,
as printers say. We are told the Prin
cess is a lovely, clever woman. She
leaves her husband whom she loves and
who loves her. She leaves him to study
painting and no questions asked. She
is silly and byster cal and the discarded
husband is patient, submissive and lov
ing, under most discouraging circum
stances. What the Princess needed was
a good beating instead of a legal separa
tionthe primitive instinct is not al
ways wrong bath of them would have
been happier after the beating. But
"Harold" is a woman's man; much more
apt to have hysterics or faint than to
beat his wife. If women ever get the
upper hand of men I shall be most sorry
for the women. They are just as clever
as men and so far as rights is concerned
they are going to have all that men
have but they can not run the ship.
They have not the inertia, the steady,
selfishness of men that after all keeps
the ship on its course. Hysterics are in
teresting in literature and posters and
on the stage but thnir absence from the
masculine character is the negative vir
tue that has made man supreme in Cen
tral Africa as well as in the rest of the
world.
The modern femiuine novelist does not
seem to be able to portray a man. What
patient, wabbly, saints Mrs. Burnett and
Miss Magruder make! What monsters
Mrs. Sarah .Grand frightens girls with.
George El'ot drew men as she saw them!
They appear to ub, as they did to her.
with the masculine mystery unrevealed
All her men are as dense to suggestion,
as jnen In real life are and excite the
eamfiyfeminine wonder. They are real
menbrawny, selfish, stupid, masterful,
comprehending nothing but logic. Miss
Magruder's "Harold' is a school-girl's
hero, impossible and essentially femi
nine. The nineteen illustrations by Gib
son are charming but even they will not
keep it alive. It was published in "The
Century" last year, why 1 ao not know.
"Ths Chronicles of Count Antonio" by
Anthony Hope. Eight tales of the ad
ventures of an outlawed noble. Out
lawed but chivalrous. Loyal to the true
prince of the country, generous to the
poor, the true friend of all ladies in dis
tress. The stories are prose ballads of
Robin Hood, the amusement of an hour
the hour after, they are as if they had
never been.
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The connection between the newspa
pers and society is more direct than
many will admit. It is much mo;e ap
parent in the east than in the west
Boston, for instance, contains at the
present time a very striking instance of
the social effects of newspaper apprecia
tion. A young lady lived in that self
conscious city. She was beautiful, chic,
wealthy, but her father had made bis
money by the prudent and prophetic
manipulation of dry goods. Boston so
ciety can not abear dry goods in the
wrong place and that place is the coun
ter. Well, the young lady had a long
head or her father, her mother or broth
ers had a long head, for the Boston
newspapers were worked without know
ing it. They began by mentioning her
correct, indifferent pose and gowns at
the opera as that was the only place
where she and society were together.
She got acquainted with a few of the
people who touch the outside rim of
the circle. They had her to dinner the
papers contained discreet references to
the grace, manner, beauty, and gowns
of the new belle. 3y these means she
advanced steadily from the rim to the
centre of the circle and was finally en
tertained by the people who write books
or whose grandfather wrote books. And
in Boston it is much better for you so
cially if your grandfather wrote your
books for you. A new author's books
smell of paste and the print shop. His
father may have eaten wich his knife.
He is more than likely to have impossi
ble, and eventually embarrassing rela
tives. At the present time the young
girl referred to, goes everywhere. Her
box at the opera an1 the hvrse show is
crowded by darlings whose fathers wrote
history and made botany. And still
there are people who think the mission
of the newspaper in not beneficent.
Speaking of Boston here is an extract
from Town Topics which shows that a
Boston pedagague has the judgment,
power and knowledge of a Nebraska uni
versify professor:
" 'A Rose by any other name would
smell as sweet ,' but Mr. T. B. Aldrich
doesn't believe it. That distinguished
poet has received a lesson of 'what's in a
name' through the mediumship of one
of the twin scions of his house. Young
Talbot had a subject given him by that
most unfeeling monster, Lis composition
teacher, with which he professed him
self utterly unable to cope. In vain Mr
Aldrich pointed out its possibilities;
Talbot could not and would not be con
vinced, and said he did not think even
his father could write on such an im
possible subject. At this the poet waxed
superior, eaid-the subject did not matter,
quoted, 'It's not so much the lover who
' rfoos as the lover's way of wooing,' and
offered to write the composition himself
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