"You have not quite forgotten me, then, sweet lad of Lochinvar?" asked the Duchess of Wellwood softly in his ear. For so in the days of his sometime madness she had been wont to call him.

"No," answered Wat, sullenly enough, as he lifted her to the ground, not knowing what else to say.

"Then meet me at the head of the wood on my way home," whispered the lady, as she disengaged herself from his arms, and turned with a smiling face to Roger McGhie.

"And this is your sweet daughter," she murmured caressingly, to Kate, who stood by with drooping eyelids, but who, nevertheless, had lost no shade of the colloquy between Wat Gordon and her father's guest.

The Lady of Wellwood took the girl's hand, which lay cold and unresponsive in her plump white fingers. "A pretty maid-you will be a beauty one day, my dear," she added, with the condescension of one who knows she has as yet nothing to fear from younger rivals.

Roger McGhie conducted the lady gallantly through the garden walks towards the house. But she had not gone far when she professed herself overcome by the heat, and desired to be permitted to sit down on a rustic seat. She was faint, she said; yet, even as she said it, the keen eye of Kate McGhie noted that her color remained warm and high.

"A tass of water-nay, no wine," she called after the Laird of Balmahie; "I thank you for your courtesy."

"Come and sit by me, pretty one," said the Lady Wellwood, cooingly, to Kate.

The "pretty one" would infinitely rather have set herself down by the side of an adder sunning itself on a bank than shared the woodland seat with the bold horse-woman of Grenoch.

"Ah, sly one," she said, "I warrant you knew that your under-gardener there, that handsome lad, was not the landward man he seemed."

She shook her finger reproachfully at her companion as she spoke.

"I know that he is proscribed, and has a price set on his head," Kate said quietly, looking after Wat with great indifference as he went down the avenue of trees.

"And do you know why?" asked the duchess somewhat abruptly.

"No," answered Kate, wondering at her tone. "It was for wounding my late husband within the precincts of Holyrood," said Lady Wellwood.

But Kate McGhie's anger was now fully roused, and her answer ran trippingly off her tongue.

"And was it for that service you spoke so kindly to him just now, and bade him meet you at the head of the wood as you went home?"

The Duchess stared a little, but her well-bred calmness was not ruffled.

"Even so," she said, placidly, "and for the further reason that Waten Gordon was on his way to see me on the night when it was his ill fortune to meet with my husband instead."

"I do not believe it." cried the girl, lifting her head and looking Lady Wellwood straight in the eyes.

"Ask him, then!" answered the Duchess, with the calm assurance of forty answering the chit of half her age.

Crockett, with this issue, changes publishers, and to some advantage in the style and effectiveness of the work. There are interspersed thirteen spirited and helpful illustrations by T. D. Thulstrupp. (Harper and Brothers; $1.50.)

Another volume from the hands of Jeremiah Curtin, the indefatigable translator of Sienkiewicz,-Hania, a collection of short stories, has just appeared. It seems to show, along with Yanko and Lillian Morris, that the short story has not yet been reached in Poland. The condensation, the whole-in-little art and quality, that characterize the work of Daudet and Maupassant are wanting here. A part of the bulky volume is devoted to a reprint of pieces that Sienkiewicz wrote when sojourning, in 1878, in California. A specimen from those papers may not be without interest:

In Barania-Glova, in the chancery of the villagemayor, it was as calm as in time of sowing poppy-seed. The mayor, a peasant, no longer young, whose name was Frantsishek Burak, was sitting at the table, and scribbling something on paper with strained attention; the secretary of the commune, Pan Zolzik, young and full of hope, was standing at the window defending himself from flies.

There were as many flies in the chancery as in a cowhouse. All the walls were spotted with them, and had lost their original color. Spotted in like manner were the glass on the image hanging over the table, the paper, the seal, the crucifix, and the mayor's official books.

The flies lighted on the mayor, too, as on an ordinary councilman; but they were attracted particularly by Pan Zolzik's head, which was pomaded, and also perfumed with violet. Over his head a whole swarm was circling; they sat at the parting of his hair and formed black, living, movable spots. Pan Zolzik from time to time raised his hand warily, and then brought it down quickly on his head; the slap of his palm was heard. the swarm flew upward, buzzing, and Pan Zolzik, seizing his hair, picked out the corpses and threw them on the floor.

The hour was four in the afternoon. Silence reigned in the whole village for the people were at work in the fields; but outside the chancery window a cow was scratching herself against the wall, and at times she showed puffing nostrils through the window, with saliva hanging from her muzzle.

At moments she threw her heavy head against her back to drive away flies; at moments she grazed the wall with her horn; and then Pan Zolzik looked out through the window and cried,—

"Aa! hei! May the "

Then he looked at himself in the glass hanging there at the window, and arranged his hair.

This is strong, of course, but crude, and scarcely artistic. Sienkiewicz was but getting ready then for serious work. It is a pity that success brings out things that ought to be burned or buried. Admirers of the author will regret this volume. (Little. Brown and Co.; $2.)

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That clad her like an April daffodilly;

Thro' stately theaters, benched crescent-wise;
Nor those horn-handed breakers of the glebe.
Melissa shook her doubtful curls.

But in adjudging cases of this kind we must take care to distinguish utterances that do not represent Tennyson, but which were put in to characterize some mind or mood of his creating. Thus the lines (Princess, I. 100,101),

Then, ere the silver sickle of that month Became her golden shield. were pretty surely intended to give us the hint, as long curls and weird seizures earlier, of the Prince's effeminancy and sentimentalism (they are arbitrarily altered later) at the opening of the poem. Again the Princess's phrasing (IV. 1), in

There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun, is certainly not to be taken as anything else than a degree hint of Ida's mood, measuring the lateness, as well as the completeness, of the

occupation with which scientific learning has

possessed her mind.

As an example of Ironic or Burlesque Phras ing, Pope's Song by a Person of Quality may be instanced. We shall remember that this poem has from the first been conned soberly, by many readers, without discovery of its mocking purpose and quality. Two stanzas from it will be sufficient here.

Fluttering spread thy purple pinions,
Gentle Cupid, o'er my heart,

I a slave in thy diminions;

Nature must give way to art.

Mild Arcadians, ever blooming,
Nightly nodding o'er your flocks,
See my weary days consuming,
All beneath yon flowery rocks.

The last two lines, taken in conjunction, should have always betrayed the nonsense of the whole. The "unit" is here the whole poem: or, more correctly, the first two stanzas comprise one ganglion or burden of nonsense, and the rest of the stanzas another. To compare with this

an effort in which the unit is reduced to the single line, I shall quote the following supreme il lustration,-furnished me by Superintendent Skinner, of Nebraska City, from I know not what source:

The light resounds across the hills,
The crumbling dew-drops fall,
The rippling rock the moon-beam fills,
The star-light spreads its pall.

Now gleams the ruddy sound afar, The evening zephyrs glow,

While from the lake a crimson star Sparkles like summer snow.

The beams of circumambient night Have wrapped their shadows round, And deep-toned darkness fills the sight Of all the world profound.

Very evidently all such masterpieces of burlesque are inspired by the desire to satirize, by exaggeration, the evil of subordinating sense to sound. Much of the first work of versifiers calls for no less drastic remedy.

XVI.

Of the other low denominations of literary value, it will probably not be necessary to say more than was said in naming them in the last paper. For an outrageous example of "Marinism" the interested reader might refer to Dryden's Upon the death of Lord Hastings, usually set at the opening of his collected poems. "Conceits" sometimes border close upon Marinism, but are usually distinguished by their cold and glittering intellectual quality. Young's suggestion of stars as seal rings upon the fingers of the Almighty is properly a conceit, but because of the rank sensationalism of the thought, must be accounted Marinistic.

We may as well close this paper with some reference to alleged faults in Tennyson's poetic style, some of which may have troubled close students of his work. J. Churton Collins, in Illustrations of Tennyson, p. 177, charges the author of The Princess with presenting commonplace things in "a euphemism which borders on the ridiculous." Very evidently there are some things about interpretative writing that this critic has not found written in his authorities. He takes exception to

the knightly growth that fringed his lips for a moustache, and

azure pillars of the hearth

for ascending smoke, etc. Both these are simply examples of the "Kindling Hint" or visualization, as explained in Professor Ansley's article, on another page, On the Teaching of English. In other words, Tennyson's purpose is, in neither case, to "substitute subtle suggestiveness for simplicity and directness of expression" -which this critic guesses is Tennyson's highest purpose anywhere-but to make the reader see a definite picture. There can be little question that each of these lines achieves its end!

L. A. SHERMAN.