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ALFRED BARTLETT 21 Cornhill in Bofton ! ii The CORNHILL Booklet THE READER An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of LITERATURE Illustrated news of writers and books London and Paris letters The Drama Illustrated articles وليليا الأمان ill Essays, poems, stories and special articles on subjects in all branches of literature Bibliography Reviews ENTERTAINING UNPREJUDICED AUTHORITATIVE Subscription: One year, $3; four months, $1; single copy, 25 cents THE READER, 10 WEST 234 STREET, NEW YORK The ADVERTISEMENTS "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever" The Symphony Calendar 1903 T HE success of "The Symphony Calendar" for 1902 has led to an edition for the coming year. Printed in red and black upon twelve sheets of Japan paper are twelve selections, ranking in literary merit with Chan- ning's well-known My Symphony. The days of the month, drawn in Roman numerals, are in harmony with the border designs by Herbert Gregson. A cover de- signed by the same artist. Edition limited. 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ULUM UNIV OF Supplement to THE CORNHILL BOOKLET, Autumn MCMII MICH The CORNHILL Booklet VOL III] AUTUMN MCмI WHEN THE DREAM COMES TRUE SHALL see far plainer than I do I Here and now, when what I dream is come: They that love me not, my slips shall rue. Those I love not, deeming dull and dumb, I shall wake to find right fellowsome, When my dream comes true, Lightest words that worked for me and you Barriers that clomb to mountain heights; Little deeds that into great wrongs grew, All for lack of flashing heaven-lights, Shall be smoothed and shapened all to rights, When my dream comes true. It may even be the love I woo Blindly now, my vision choked with tears, Then shall understand me, know how true [No I ; Was the heart struck voiceless through its fears Ah! a moment shall make sweet the years, When my dream comes true. Copyright 1902 by Alfred Bartlett RICHARD BURTON Page Missing in Original Volume Page Missing in Original Volume 4 A PLEA FOR FRONT YARDS A PLEA FOR FRONT YARDS I HAVE said more than once what I thought about the disappearance of front yards in our country villages, for as I drive along the familiar roads I find every summer fewer and fewer of the old-fashioned gardens. What has become of the lovely white roses, and blush roses, and the great red conserve roses with their golden hearts, and how few honey-suckles grow beside the door-ways and along the fences! Where have all the snowberry bushes gone and the tall blue larkspurs and white mallows? Where are even the persistent cinnamon roses with their thorny thicket? In many a front-door garden where these used to grow there is nothing left now but a much-browsed lilac-bush and a maple or two. Nobody can tell exactly how it all began, but somebody who liked town life better than country life must have come to his old home some summer and said, "It is the fashion, where I live now, to have stone copings about the house- lots. There are no cattle about the streets there, and we can leave our bits of ground open. My neighbor and have taken down the high fence that used to shut in the side windows of both our houses and it is a great deal pleasanter. You must pull down the old front fence here and make the place look like other people's. >> Perhaps the grandmother, who loved the front garden better than anybody, was away that day and was treated to the sight of a fancied improvement when she came home at night. To be sure, the old fence had been leaning, and some of the pickets were off or loose, but they only needed an hour's work or a new post to make them strong again. The gate and the front fence beside it were of a pretty criss- cross pattern of wood-work, and the gate-posts were topped by wooden balls: somehow they were the only decorative thing about the square old house, and gave the front door, SARAH ORNE Jewett 5 plain and square built as it was, a touch of elegance and re- serve. "It looks all wrong to me," said the grandmother, ruefully, when the young folks confronted her with their improvement. How can you keep the cows, and what's worse, the hens and chickens, out? And while the young folks said, "Why, everybody is taking away their front fences, and they're all out of fashion now!" the old lady went off to her own room with a grim, disapproving face. "You may tend to the garden, then; I'm done with it, she said with unusual spirit for her gentle nature. "" The wise old soul knew how it would be. Some of the delicate plants missed the shelter of the fence that winter ; the winds swept over and the snow drifted deep and the ice lingered late on the polyanthus and daffy roots. The first green shoots that made their appearance in border or climb- ing vine were nipped off by a tame calf which was allowed to run about the yard where she pleased. When the first weeks of June came and the garden was apt to look its best with the early summer flowers, there was somehow less of it than usual. Everybody had taken turns at driving away the calf, and the hens, and the cows, and even old Major, the horse, but, while nobody watched, every one of the innocent beasts had taken as many nibbles as they could get. Grandmother said nothing; she was very feeble and could not have taken much care of her posies at any rate; yet she looked very sad when she asked one of the children for a sprig of flowering currant and was told that the cow had eaten off the whole top of the bush. "'T was your grandpa's bush," she said. He always said nothing ever smelt so sweet. He would put a sprig of it in his button-hole when we was goin' to be married. 'Tis the first year I've ever known since that I couldn't pick me some of the little blossoms." But the flowering currant dwindled and died away that summer. 6 A PLEA FOR FRONT YARDS People who drove by thought that the farm-house looked straggling and neglected. What new flowers were planted did not grow so well, and the family concluded that it was an unrewarding trouble to have a garden at all, and they would let it go another year. A few tangles of thorny rose-stems battled with the tough grass, and some of the bushes grew irregularly after a year or two, but the charming old garden went to ruin for the lack of its protection from the outer world. Certain things belong together, and a pretty wooden fence finishes and frames our village and country road-side houses better than anything. It is no use to say that it is the fashion to go without, and so excuse ourselves for pulling down a fence which we are too lazy to mend or too stingy to replace. Let us keep our old-time country flowers blooming as long as we can, and in the same old places. I have known great short-sightedness in the villages where people come to spend the summers, simply because they looked so quaint and pretty, and unlike the new, un- interesting neighborhoods built up in later years. Instead of being quick to understand the reason for so many strangers coming, and then preserving carefully all the pleasant and alluring features of the town, what happens? Trees are cut down, road-side thickets are grubbed up and left to wither; the old buildings which have interesting associations are left to decay or are spoiled by ignorant re- modelling. Then people begin to say, "Oh yes, it used to be a charming place when we went there first, but now it is like any other. It has been spoiled year by year, and the money we have paid for going there has been used in doing away with the very things that pleased us most.” We who live in the beloved old New England towns here by the sea must remember very often that we are custodians of something that is every year more valuable MORNING Supplement to THE CORNHILL BOOKLET, Autumn MCMII SARAH ORNE JEWETT 7 A and interesting to the rest of this great growing country. The elder towns are mothers of the younger, and every year more descendants of the old townsfolk will come straying back to find what they may of the early houses, and the old trees, and churches, and burying-grounds. Let us try to preserve the character of these old homes and old neighborhoods as best we can, and not try to make them look like newer places not half nor quarter so beautiful as they. Let us keep the pleasant old houses stand- ing, and our grandmothers' front yards blooming, and teach the old associations and legends to all newcomers just as long as we can. SARAH ORNE JEWETT A STORMY NIGHT THE lightning shouldn't scare you And make you fret and cry, It's only God in Heaven Scratching matches on the sky. &a He wants to light the sun, and so He works and works away Till afterwhile He gets it lit- And then it's day. R. C. BOWMAN 8 A NIGHTMARE A NIGHTMARE HEN you're lying awake with a dismal headache, And repose is tabooed by anxiety, W I deem you may use any language you choose To indulge in without impropriety. For your brain is on fire, the bedclothes conspire Of your usual slumber to plunder you, First the counterpane goes and uncovers your toes, And the sheet slips demurely from under you. Then the blanketing tickles, you feel like mixed pickles So terribly sharp is the pricking, And you're hot and you're cross, and you tumble and toss, Till there's nothing 'twixt you and the ticking. Well, you get some repose in the form of a doze, Hot eyeballs and head ever aching, But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams, That you'd very much better be waking; For you dream you are crossing the channel and tossing About in a steamer from Harwich, Which is something between a large bathing-machine And a very small second-class carriage; And you're giving a treat, penny ice and cold meat To a party of friends and relations ; They're a ravenous horde, and they all came on board At Sloane Square and South Kensington Stations. And bound on this journey, you find your attorney Who started that morning from Devon, He's a bit undersized and you don't feel surprised When he tells you he's only eleven : Well you're driving like mad with this singular lad, (By-the-by the ship's now a "four-wheeler ") And you're playing round games and he calls you bad names, W. S. GILBert 9 "" ties pay the dealer ; When you tell him that But this you can't stand, so you throw up your hand And you find yourself cold as an icicle In your shirt and your socks, the black silk with gold clocks, Crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle. And he and the crew are on bicycle too Which they've somehow or other invested in, And he's telling the tars all the particulars. Of a company he's interested in. It's a scheme of devices, to get at low prices All goods from cough mixtures to cables, Which tickled the sailors, by treating retailers As though they were all vegetables : You get a good spadesman to plant a small tradesman,— First take off his boots with a boot-tree, And his legs will take root and his fingers will shoot And he'll blossom and bud like a fruit-tree: From the green-grocer tree you get grapes and green pea, Cauliflower, pineapples, and cranberries, While the pastry-cook plant cherry-brandy will grant Penny-puffs, and three-corners, and banberries: The shares are a penny and ever so many Are taken by Rothschild and Baring, And just as a few are allotted to you, You awake with a shudder despairing; You're a regular wreck, with a crick in your neck And no wonder you snore, for your head's on the floor And you've needles and pins from your soles to your shins And your flesh is acreep and your left leg's asleep, You've a fly on your tongue and some fluff in your lung, And a thirst that 's intense, and a general sense That you haven't been sleeping in clover ; 10 La THOUGHTS And the night has been long, ditto, ditto, my song, And thank goodness! they're both of them over. W. S. GILBert THOUGHTS For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it; for every truth there is an ear somewhere to heed it; for every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. But though my beauty meets no eye it still doth glow; though my truth meets no ear it still doth shine. But when my love meets no heart it can only break. Man's capacity for joy dies with others; his capacity for pain dies only with himself. The largest planet has its sun; the smallest hair casts. its shadow. To leave the shadow behind you need only turn toward the sun. Lay not up against your neighbor the sin of yesterday; he may have repented thereof to-day. The vessel that holds not water may still hold grain; it is not so much what a man cannot do as what he can do. Truth is like the cork: however often submerged it rises again. In youth I used to look for the hidden genius in every man; now I look for the hidden man in every genius. Charity is like the sunshine which makes even the mud to shine. 1 IVAN PANIN II Friendship, like the echo, returneth only what is given ; love, like the pump, returneth by the pail what it receiveth by the glass. Is he my friend who loves me? He may yet not under- stand me. Is he my friend who understands me? He may yet not love me. But who understands me because he loves me, who loves me because he understands me— he verily is my friend. IVAN PANIN A BOHEMIAN PORTRAIT * COUNT COUNT Pretzel von Würzburger, the Obscene (The beggar may have had another name, But no man to my knowledge ever knew it) Was a poet, and a skeptic and a critic, And in his own mad manner a musician : He had found an old piano in a bar-room, And it was his career three nights a week, From ten o'clock till twelve to make it rattle; And then, when I was just far down enough To sit and watch him with his long straight hair And pity him, and think he looked like Liszt, I might have glorified a musical Steam-engine, or a xylophone. The Count Played half of everything and improvised The rest he told me once that he was born With a genius in him that "prohibited Complete fidelity" and that his art "Confessed vagaries" therefore. But Kind reckoning of his vagaries then : I had the whole great pathos of the man To purify me, and all sorts of music But I made *By Courtesy of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. >> I 2 A BOHEMIAN PORTRAIT To give me spiritual nourishment f And cerebral athletics; for the Count Played indiscriminately with an ƒ And with incurable presto. cradle-songs And carnivals, spring-songs and funeral marches, The Marseillaise and Schubert's Serenade M ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ And always in a way to make me think Procrustes had the germ of music in him. And when this interesting reprobate Began to talk - then there were more vagaries : He made a reeking fetich of all filth, Apparently; but there was yet revealed " About him, through his words and on his flesh That ostracizing nimbus of a soul's Abject, apologetic purity- That phosphorescence of sincerity Which indicates the curse and the salvation Of a life wherein starved art may never perish. From Captain Craig; A Book of Poems" By EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON SO 1 30 SILHOUETTE of Mr. Herbert Gregson by John Jepson. 14 A NEW IMPRESSIONIST A NEW IMPRESSIONIST I T seems to be the mission, the boon, of the chap- book to conserve the lesser light in the firmament of letters and art. No one has hitherto explained exactly why this is so. There is a certain fitness about it ap- parently that simply begs the question of explanation. The chap-book is the lesser appeal in itself, dear alike to the gleaner, the visionary, the dilettante. So it hap- pens that the work of many a man of whom in a certain large sense the world is not worthy finds testimonial only in its pages. To the great artist alone is given the com- plete vision. The humble aspirant gets a partial inspiration, sometimes only a gleam. But these gleams are of the in- finite and therefore in themselves very precious things. A little portfolio of drawings from London signed by James Guthrie serves us in this connection to point the moral of these reflections. Mr. Guthrie's medium and method are alike circumscribed. His range of treatment and emotion are alike also narrow, but within that range and frankly accepting as the student does at once his limita- tions, he is a joy that cannot be spoken of too highly. He succeeds, as few recent draughtsmen who are purely impręs- sionistic do, in giving us the immediate feeling at first glance of the truth of the title he has affixed to each of his plates. He is a pure impressionist except in one or two frankly symbolistic sketches, and we get the idea, which is the farthest triumph of the metier, that he could have used al- most any other figures or accessories and given us the same result. Thus in the "Spring" the achievement is not de- pendent on the contours of the cherubs, or the conven- tional background, but on a certain sense of the truth of his vision that the artist has infused into them and which we accept joyfully and almost without reserve. His work is all located in the Land of Dream and while even to the : 1 Gril VOVOVA WILL20THE WISPO Supplement to THE CORNHILL BOOKLET, Autumn MCMII JOSEPH LEWIS FRENCH 15 cognoscenti his methods in some of the drawings may be a little curious, his genuine value is the ability to impress any honest observer with his truthfulness. In "The Song of the Nightingale," for instance, there is n't a single con- tinuous line of any kind. On a background of inky black- ness he has projected the outlines of a river, a forest, a few stars and a moon, by a dextrous manipulation of simple dots and dashes. This is a very bald way of describing a pic- ture that haunts one with its charming perspective, and its sense of balmy night, weird, mystic and musical. CC Every artist is a devotee of one of two methods, the con- ventional or the unconventional. Mr. Guthrie has chosen the latter, and he approves himself thoroughly in this par- ticular plate which depends wholly on how the thing is done and not on the way in which it is done. He has simply set aside all general rules for treating a night-scene, and given us the purest bit of impressionistic feeling imaginable. Morning" is even more successful in the same key. One cannot praise too highly the same feeling of truthfulness at- tained in like manner in " Morning Star.' Morning Star." Here we have as a foreground a little stretch of darkling water from which slopes a bank crowned with a tall hedge behind which the gray glimmers into white in the chill of the dawn while Venus alone keeps sentinel over the lone panorama. It is a thing which does not glorify, or exalt, or quicken the pulses as some "Dawns " do, but which charms into a rapturous tenderness of reflection with its cleverness and sincerity. If the spell is broken for an instant one finds a shiver striking in from the loneliness and the chill of it. Here again the details are so simple that one almost wonders why others had not been chosen. "Moonlight After Rain" is so rich in color and varied in tone that one can scarcely believe it is not reproduced here from an original in oils, but that is only another secret of Mr. Guthrie's mastery. It is an art beyond the skill of the Old Masters, 16 A NEW IMPRESSIONIST this creation of color impressions by the simple use of "guache," and it is really no question of any moment as to whether it is worth while. We are left only to admire the genius of the draughtsman in the end. " Autumn," a single aureoled languorous figure of an angel in a clinging. robe with a sickle in her hand standing on the brink of a perspective of stubble fields, with gathered sheaves and a spire in the distance, beyond which the moon is seen ris- ing, is ripe in tone and color with the suggestiveness of the season. And exactly the same tribute may be paid to the series of four plates of the Seasons excepting that "Winter" seems to be lacking in a certain mellowness which runs like an undertone through all of Mr. Guthrie's work here shown. Of the fairy scenes, “The Wood Elf,” "Mist and Elfin Music," and "When the Moon was Young, are unable to speak with the same general praise. Dreamer though he is by divine right and the infinite essence of being, Mr. Guthrie is somehow not entirely at home amid the fragile vistas of fairyland itself. His wood elf is anything but a sprite and seems to be some sort of an experiment in plas- tic effect. There is a congenial atmosphere in “When the Moon was Young," but the elves are sadly misdrawn, and the same is true in "Mist and Elfin Music." What- ever value this plate may have, depends in no special sense on the figure of the genus loci. we In The Avenue" there is some drawing of foliage that is quite delightful, the medium being pure stipple. "The Way of the Lovely Sky" is a bit of inspiration caught from the pre-Raphaelites and turned to very naive. account here. A young girl is represented leaning over a paling in a dreamy attitude at the close of day. Wholly different in treatment from any of the other drawings, it is almost equal in suggestiveness to the best of them. From the standpoint of pure invention "Will-O'-The- Wisp" is quite the most striking thing in the whole collec- "" ! JOSEPH LEWIS FRENCH 17 į tion. I don't know how many efforts have been made to realize this fabulous symbol of A "The light that never was on sea or land," but here is certainly an utterly effective creation. The weird light, shining through the forest, out of which grows the crouching figure, blended of sprite and human and beast, of tree trunk and branch, is the exact counterpart of the true ideal. Yet this detracts nothing from our wonderment in finding it so clearly expressed here. This is something to haunt one long by its unexpectedness, its vividity, its stark truthfulness to the imagination. JOSEPH LEWIS FRENCH NOTES I I NFORMATION is laid that my friend Stone is busy again on book-plate matters. It is rumored that the Triptych have in press a little volume entitled " Jay Chambers His Book-Plates by William Macey Stone." say "rumored" because one of the tenets of the Triptych, and one which I heartily commend to those given to mak- ing books and such stuff, is that no product of theirs shall be advertised or announced until it is actually ready for de- livery. In these days of keen competition publishers want to advertise their books as soon as a title is chosen. I remember some year or more ago that a publishing house in wicked Gotham announced a book for immediate publication not a line of which had been written and more- over has not yet been written! This book on Chambers' designs will be put up in rather unusual style and will contain twenty-seven illustrations. There will be a small edition on large paper with some of 18 NOTES the plates hand-colored. The Triptych will be glad to send notices, when the book is ready, to any who will send their names to Box 23, New York. Mr. Stone also has his fingers in another book-plate pie. Messrs. Tonnelé and Co., of 30 E. 21st St., N. Y., are newcomers in the book-publishing field, but they are mak- ing a volume of book-plate essays and pictures that Mr. Stone is editing. One of the prominent features will be several colored plates and lists of the book-plates designed by some twenty prominent artists. "Letters and Lettering," by Mr. Frank Chouteau Brown, a volume of 230 pages just issued by Bates and Guild Company of Boston, differs in some important essen- tials from previous books on the same subject. The alpha- bets, with few exceptions, are complete. The letters are combined in a handy page panel which yet allows each letter to be shown at a good size; and instead of the usual and useless alphabetical order, they are shown together in the relation of letter to letter that they would have in actual use. Much stress is laid on the importance of letter com- position, the inter-relation of individual letters, and their peculiarities, optical and otherwise. As the value of a book of this kind depends almost entirely upon its illustra- tions, the text is wisely restricted to the above considerations and such further matters as letter construction, treatment of stone, metal, and pen forms, explanation of examples, and ends with some valuable hints for the beginner. cal discussion is disregarded entirely and the illustrations, of which there are over two hundred, are devoted to dis- playing as many different styles of letters as possible. The great majority of the pages are given to full page plates il- lustrating radically different and distinctively typical letter forms, which are further shown as used by some modern designer. 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ADDRESS, OR CALL, BOOK-LOVER THE 30-32 EAST 21ST STREET M PRESS NEW YORK NOTES 21 Something like a half decade ago there arose in England a new draughtsman who at first blush appeared to be go- ing a little further in the direction of faddism than any one who had preceded him since the imperial one, Aubrey Beardsley. So that slice of the public which is always looking for a new talent became very eager and curious. Ere long it frankly accepted him and now it hails him with delight. When a man commits himself as absolutely to the ex- ploitation of an ideal as did Mr. Gordon Craig in his very first work, he is simply inviting an ordeal. Mr. Craig accepted the gage and he has triumphed. His work now thoroughly well known abroad and is a source of de- light to a limited number of connoisseurs in America, where he will become better known year by year, now that the permanency of his vogue and the certainty that he will survive along with the best draughtsmen of the period are assured. Mr. Craig is a decadent in the best sense of the word. He goes back to the pre-railroad era and gives us the very spirit of the homely time "When George the Fourth was King." He shrinks away from the modern as from something unholy and unclean. This is the true meaning of decadence, and it is something that in the pres- ent instance at least we are very thankful for. This son of Ellen Terry, who is barely thirty, accepts the æsthetic sphere as his normal birthright and he has passed from one artistic profession to another, from the stage to the studio, to the great advantage of that in which he at last finds his true vocation. Mr. Craig has been extremely fortunate from the start in being independent of publishers and the caprice of the general public. His own quarterly, The Page, issued since 1898, contains his best drawings. The numbers of this curious periodical will survive as one of the choicest productions of the artistic spirit of our time. In style, in format, in paper, in process and typography, < 22 NOTES they are absolutely unique. Not the least interesting of the general contents are Mr. Craig's sketches of Sir Henry Irving in several characters. As bits of portraiture alone these are destined to a long immortality. Miss Terry is likewise honored in several of the plates. Other very in- teresting reminiscences of these great players are various book-plates and a striking sketch, "Don Quixote," by Sir Henry engraved on wood by Mr. Craig. A little book-plate printed herewith will fortunately give as good an idea of Mr. Craig's technique as a larger drawing. The early century feeling alluded to pervades this little sketch, which is thoroughly representative of the artist's manner in general. An especially notable thing about it is the unobtrusiveness of the name which in most book-plates sticks out like a sign-board. 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As it grew older it was still that, but it also added to itself a certain amount of sentiment, which hung about it because of its affinity to the mysterious art of printing, and it also gained in artistic merit, and in origi- nality of design. The first printers' marks were very crude affairs. Fust and Schoeffer, of Mainz, first used the mark in their famous Psalter of 1457, the first book printed with a date. The coupled shield, bearing printer's rules hung from a branch, was their simple but effective device, and this : 26 I --. Some Old Time Printers' MARKS N ! G Joannes and Gregorius de Gregorius, Venice, 1480. ་ ་ by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 27 JUNI mettrai AI *** JAMAALIA Al Sh KARASTITIS KING7 C Jean Crespin, Geneva, 1567. "W 28 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS MOCIONAW PECCATA }}}}} ECCE AGN Yo SOCIETES DEI QVI PITOLA Th datatrim Georg Gruppenbach, Tübingen, 1576. by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 29 Jing T ומים! VIRTUTE DVCE COMITE FORTVNA Anthony Heirat, Cologne, 1617. பயபார் pend a pet-staden Jik MIMAMUSIN *U4 30 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS VAL KLAI LAI - POSITVS NO MVNDI. 1 5 2 5 YEA Jacobus Mazochius, Rome, 1510. EN LAPIS ISTE ERIT ` C www. fem SA M 131 TUVDIN YISOdΞIYOINING YAVIO SIIN3 α Λ' ΠΟΛΟ G Hans Steinmann, Leipzig, 1580. LAPIS TESTIMO NIJ. IOS E CAP.XXII E ERIT VOBIS IN TESTIMONIVM.QVOD A by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 31 NIET AL VOORWINT CIANUM. KTN 1980 SERE TRISH John Jacob Schipper, Amsterdam, 1671. 32 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS BIL Mibaz renville We VIAM DiDong Duo • Mulk IN VENIEN Jona Rose, Heidelberg, 1612. • П © U · Q · U · J · ] 0· FROITORUNEITAMEN by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 33 E X 8 IBERIT Q VI HAC AQ VA, NON * * * * JUUSTE MEN THEM., Andrea Arrivabene, Venice, 1543. Win SITIET IN AE TER NV M, Đả 34 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS general "make up" was often copied by later fifteenth- century printers. Printers' marks began gradually to be more elaborate. When title-pages came into use in the latter part of the fifteenth, and the early part of the sixteenth century, it seemed to occur to book-makers that a quaint or striking device made a really fine decoration for the title, and in a few years printers and publishers were competing keenly with each other for art and originality. To this end the best artists in Europe were sought out and set to making wood-cuts. Holbein, Dürer, and other famous men of the time undoubtedly designed printers' marks, but as very few of these were signed, it would only be guesswork to treat that phase of the subject. The association between books and the church lingered long after the quill and brush of the monk had given way to metal type and printing press. Crosses, rings, spheres, and other churchly symbols were long a stock in trade for designers of printers' marks. Joannes (or Zuan) and Gre- gorius de Gregorius, printers in Venice in 1480 and for thirty-five years following, used a Latin cross, with a shorter lateral beam above, with a Saint Andrew's cross super- imposed, and the initials Z and G on either side. An equally simple device was used by Jacobus Mazochius, a Roman printer of 1510, a cross with two additional lateral beams, the longest at the extreme bottom, and the initials and M at either side. Sometimes the ecclesiastical mark was much more elaborate, as, for example, that of Jean Crespin, of Geneva, in the middle of the sixteenth century. He used a brazen serpent on a cross, the end of which is converted into an anchor. Still more embellished and equally churchly was the device of Georg Gruppenbach, of Tübingen, a lamb bearing the banner of the church, treading upon the prostrate dragon. by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 35 FIGIAN FORE KVDÍNE VPER Troiano di Navo, Venice, 1544. TVE 36 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS LVTE Cousin Tonnea ... T TIA Jacques du Puys, S. Nivelle and M. Somnius, Paris, 1585. by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 37 BIVITING INEX H LTATIONE METENT Leonardus Parasolus, Rome, 1595. 38 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS Before going further, a word respecting the illustrations accompanying this little paper. The dates following the names of the various printers are the dates of the respective books, from which these marks have been copied. The writer does not know of any of the marks here given having been reproduced before, but as the literature of the subject at his hand is not large, he does not dare say in regard to any one, that this is positively its first appearance. He has, however, examined the works on printers' marks which are available to most American readers, and in none of these are to be found any of the marks given here. For a bibliography of the subject, brought down to 1893, the reader is referred to Roberts' Printers' Marks,' PP. 253-54. This is by far the best work written on the subject in English. >> Nicolas Jenson, a Frenchman, was another famous printer of Venice, who is known to this day for the beau- tiful type which he invented. In 1471 he formed a partnership with John of Cologne, who probably supplied the capital, and Jenson supplied the type. The plain but dignified red device given here is reproduced from a sumptuous edition of Thomas Aquinas of 1478. Mr. Roberts says, that so far as we know Jenson never used a mark. Whether he meant that Jenson alone is not known to have used a mark, or whether he had not seen the striking device here reproduced is not quite plain. The most amusing kind of printers' marks are those generally classed under the name of punning devices. Their name is legion. They are chips off the same block as the puns of the present day. Closely allied to these punning devices are those which embody the subjects of the street signs which were over the printing shops. Anthony Heirat, who was a book-seller early in the seventeenth century in Cologne, sub signo Gryphi, of course could not help using a griffin for his mark. Like- by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 39 Mmmh ALLUR .. gymer PRELVAAS ĚSIANVM NMA Josse Bade, Paris, 1531. 40 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS 1 NRY LAZA. SCHVR. Lazarus Schurer, Schlettstadt, 1520. by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 41 G FIDES VID JOK OHANNES 2 Johann Spies, Frankfort, 1587. PLES 42 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS F. Francesco Bindoni, Venice, 1524 B by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 43 wise did Sébastien Gryphe, of Lyons, but his mark is illustrated by Roberts and Brunet. The device of Hans Steinmann, of Leipzig, 1580, shows a stone in the fore- ground, on which is inscribed Lapis testimonii. Iosue. Cap. xxiiii., with four figures, probably Joshua himself and the elders of Israel, though we would hardly recognize them in the midst of German architecture, and arrayed in six- teenth-century habiliments. On a circular border is in- scribed the Latin injunction which we translate in our Bible, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness," etc. John Jacob Schipper, of Amsterdam, by good rights used a ship under full sail. Jona Rose, of Heidelberg, instead of using a rose for his device, as had been done by Denis Roce, and Germain Rose, put the emphasis on his Christian name, and shows us a very pious Jonah just landed, with his late conveyance about to back into the deep. Andrea Arrivabene, who printed in Venice, ad signum Putei, illustrated in his mark the story of Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well, puteal being the Latin term for the stone curb around the mouth of a well. Tro- iano di Navo (or Nano), also of Venice, al segno del Le- one, used a lion rampant with a beheaded dragon at his feet. Some of the early printers' marks give us breezy sketches of contemporary life, such as landscapes, archi- tecture, interiors, and sixteenth-century implements. The mark used in partnership by Jacques du Puys, Sébastien Nivelle and Michel Somnius, Parisian printers of 1585, was a full-rigged man-of-war, bearing amidships the coat of arms of the reigning king, Henry III., under whose protection they printed their books. Leonardus Parasolus, who published a beautiful edition of the Romane Pontificale at Rome in 1595, had a very pretty device of rural life. A hand from the clouds is 44 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS fiff SEM ER ་་་་ SA DEM G. G. de Ferrari, Venice, 1556. ! I by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 45 sowing grain on a plowed field, and a very workable look- ing plow stands in the foreground. Probably the most interesting mark of this class was that used by Josse Bade, who began printing in Paris in 1502. In 1507 he used for his mark the first picture of the printing press which is known to the world. In 1520 he changed his mark to fit the improved condition of the press. Rob- erts, in his Printers' Marks," illustrates the first press, and the second press is reproduced here. Lazarus Schurer, who was printing in 1520 in the little town of Schlettstadt, in Alsace, used a mark which is strikingly like an old-fashioned book-plate of the Jacobean type. Johann Spies, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, had a very pretty device, consisting of two hands clasped over crossed lances, and bearing the motto Beat servata fides. Symbolism and mythology came in for liberal treatment in this branch of illustration. Peace, war, plenty, time, Mercury and Hercules were all favorite themes. Francesco Bindoni, Venice, 1524, used a figure of Justice seated on a throne, bearing the traditional sword and scales, with two lions crouched at her feet. In the mark of Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, of Venice, a phoenix rises from the flames towards the sun, while under the fire is a winged sphere, bearing the initials of the printer. On a ribbon is the motto Semper eadem. Peter Bartol, of Pavia, had for his mark an infernal multi-headed monster, with dragon's claws and a formid- able caudal appendage. Andrea Cambier, of Heidelberg, 1612, used an elaborate device, showing a lion and an uni- corn in combat, with an extensive landscape in the back- ground. Saint George and the dragon, albeit such a popu- lar medieval tale, was very seldom used in a printer's mark. Samuel Emmel, Strassburg, 1564, had a Hercules for his mark, and Hieronimo Scoto, of Venice, used a palm 46 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS Peter Bartol, Pavia, 1612. by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 47 CENTRE 19:14. E 'B/11111 GAMINIA ilt NUMMIE 10 Andrea Cambier, Heidelberg, 1612. LEN 120 48 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS COPVS VITA ME OF Fo узни CHRISTS M * Pa Samuel Emmel, Strassburg, 1564. by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 49 branch, an olive branch, and a swarm of bees, all indica- tive of prosperity. Spanish printers were very slow in coming into line; in fact they have not yet caught up with the procession. Early typography in Spain was very crude, both the type and illustrations. Because of the rarity of Spanish print- ers' marks, we are especially glad to give one here, which we find no trace of elsewhere. The mark in hand is dis- tinctly religious in tone, showing the cross, the crown of thorns, the spear, the sponge containing vinegar, scourges hanging from the arms of the cross, a skull in the fore- ground, and a kneeling priest to the side. Underneath is the Latin "Per signum sanctæ crucis," etc., and at the extreme bottom is a monogram of the letters A. G. The book from which this mark is taken is Pedro Ciruelo's Cursus Quattuor Mathematicarum Artium Liberalium, printed in 1516, in Alcala, where the author was profes- sor in the university. The name of the printer is not given, but, according to Brunet, Cardinal Ximenes' early edition of the Greek New Testament, which was printed in Alcala, was done by Arnaldus Guillelmus de Brocarius. This was from 1514 to 1517. Now it does not seem likely that this little Spanish town had, at the same time, two printers whose initials were A. G., so we feel that we can pretty confidently attribute the mark to this printer. Christ on the cross was not a common representation. A very good, as well as early mark on this subject, how- ever, was used by the Paris bookseller, Claude Jaumar, or Jammar, as early as 1495, the date of the book from which this specimen is reproduced. In a fifteenth-century book you will generally find the mark at the end; when the book has a title-page it is more often found there, but as old habits are hard to break, the printer frequently placed his mark also at the end, just the same as before the days of title-pages. After the mid- 50 Some Old Time Printers' MARKS TENE BRIS FV LG IN Fisiot ܪ M... པ་་་་་ Hard H. Scoto, Venice, 1546. EST ر شود by GEORGE BURWELL UTLEY 51 pan Hook JAS Per fignifan&tæ crucis libe- ra nosa peccatis noftris deus nofter. decono Q0000 A. 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It is a tribute of no slight significance to Shakespeare's skill in the delineation of character that we instinctively regard the personages in his mimic world as real men and women, and are not satisfied to think of them only as they appear on the stage. We like to follow them after they have left the scene, and to speculate concerning their subsequent history. The commentators on Much Ado, for instance, are not willing to dismiss Benedick and Beatrice when the play closes without discussing the ques- tion whether they probably lived happily ever after." Some, like Mrs. Jameson and the poet Campbell, have their misgivings about the future of the pair, fearing that "poor Benedick" will not escape the " "predestinate scratched face" which he himself had predicted for the man who should woo and win that "infernal Até in good apparel,” as he called her; while others, like Verplanck, Charles Cowden-Clarke, Furnivall, and Gervinus, be- lieve that their married life will be of the brightest and sunniest.' Some have gone back of the beginning of the plays, like Mrs. Cowden-Clarke in her Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, and Lady Martin (Helena Faucit) in her paper on Ophelia in Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters. Others, like Mr. Adams, have made the experiment of continuing a play of Shakespeare in dramatic form. Ernest Renan, in France, and Mr. C. P. Cranch, in this country, have both done this in the case of The Tempest, mainly Copyright 1903 by Alfred Bartlett 58 The MERCHANT of Venice: Act VI with the view of following out the possible adventures of Caliban after Prospero had left him to his own devices. These and similar sequels to the plays are nowise meant as attempts to "improve" Shakespeare (like Nahum Tate's version of Lear, that held the stage for a hundred and sixty years) and sundry other perversions of the plays in the eighteenth century, which have damned their presumptuous authors to everlasting infamy. They are what Renan, in his preface, calls his Caliban, "an idealist's fancy sketch, a simple fantasy of the imagination." Mr. Adams's Sixth Act of The Merchant of Venice is an experiment of the same kind; not, as certain captious critics have regarded it, a foolhardy attempt to rival Shakespeare. It was originally written for an evening en- tertainment of the Old Cambridge Shakespeare Associa- tion." No one in that cultivated company misunderstood the author's aim, and all heartily enjoyed it. I believe that it will give no less pleasure to the larger audience to whom it is now presented in print. CAMBRIDGE, January 31, 1903 W. J. ROLFE SCENE I. Venice. A Street. [Enter SHYLOCK, tottering, followed by a rabble of shouting citizens FIRST CITIZEN. Shylock, how speeds thy business at the court? Where is the pound of flesh thou covetest? SECOND CITIZEN. How likest thou the judge from Padua? THIRD CITIZEN. Eh, Jew, an upright judge! thou hast my lord The duke to thank for thy poor life. Had I But been thy judge a halter had'st been thine, by OSCAR FAY ADAMS 59 And thou had'st swung in't, yet, beshrew my life, 'Twere pity that good Christian hemp were stretch'd To hang a misbegotten knave like thee. FOURTH CITIZEN. Shylock, thou infidel, thou should'st have had knave. The lash on thine old back ten score of times Ere they had suffer'd thee from out the court. FIFTH CITIZEN. A beating shall he have, e'en now, the [Beats SHYLOCK SHYLOCK. [Striking about him in blind rage Aye! kill me, dogs of Christians, an' ye will! Meseems the Jew hath no more leave to tread The stones on Christian streets; he may not breathe The air a Christian breathes, nor gaze uncheck'd Upon the Christian's sky; he hath no part Or lot in anything that is, unless A Christian please to nod the head. I hate Ye, brood of Satan that ye are! May all The plagues of Egypt fall upon ye, dogs Of Christians; all the pains FOURTH CITIZEN. Nay, gentle Jew, 'Tis said thou must become a Christian, straight; Old Shylock, turn perforce, a "Christian dog!" Now, greybeard infidel, how lik'st thou this? SHYLOCK. Eternal torments blister him that asks. [Exit SHYLOCK raving SECOND CITIZEN. A sweet-fac'd Christian will our Shy- lock make. I would that I might be his confessor, To lay such swingeing penance on the knave As scarce would leave him space to sup his broth Amid the pauses of his punishment. [Exeunt citizens, with shouts 60 The MERCHANT of Venice: Act VI SCENE II. Venice. A Room in SHYLOCK'S House. [Enter SHYLOCK and Tubal TUBAL. How now, Shylock! What bitter woe looks from thy face? What has chanced to thee in the Christian's court to make thee thus distraught? I SHYLOCK. O Tubal, Tubal, there dwells no more pity in the Christian breast than there dwells justice therein. stood for justice and mine own, before them all; before that smiling, smooth-faced judge from Padua, and with those false smiles of his, he turned against me the sharp edge of the law. He forbade the shedding of one drop of the merchant Antonio's blood naming therefor some ancient law, musty for centuries, and that still had gathered dust till it would serve to bait the Jew with—and so I lost my revenge upon Antonio. More than that, good Tubal, I lost everything I had to lose. TUBAL. Lost everything! Now, by our ancient proph- ets, this is woe indeed. SHYLOCK. Aye, good Tubal. The half my goods are now adjudged Antonio's; the other half, upon my death, goes to the knave, Lorenzo; that same he that lately stole my ducats and my daughter. TUBAL. And merry havoc will he and thy daughter Jes- sica make of thy treasure, Shylock. SHYLOCK. But there is greater woe to come, good Tubal. To save this poor remainder of a life have I this day sworn to turn a Christian. TUBAL. Thou, turn Christian! O monstrous deed! Our synagogue will be put to everlasting shame for this. Nay, good Shylock, it must not be. It must not be. SHYLOCK. Have I not said that I am sworn on pain of life? They would e'en have had my life almost in the open court had I not so sworn. But hear me, Tubal; I by OSCAR FAY ADAMS 61 will not die till that I have bethought me of some secret, sure revenge upon Antonio, or failing this, upon the taunt- ing, sneering fool they call Gratiano, whom I do loathe e'en as I loathe Antonio. Moreover I would gladly do some deadly hurt unto the accursed Paduan judge, an' it might be so. TUBAL. Then wilt thou still be Hebrew at the heart, good Shylock? SHYLOCK. How else while yet I bear remembrance of my wrongs? Have not many of our chosen people done this selfsame thing for ducats or for life? Kissed the cross before men's eyes, but spurned it behind their backs? As I shall do, erewhile. But, O good Tubal, the apples of Sodom were as sweet morsels in the mouth unto this that I must do. TUBAL. Hebrew at heart, albeit Christian of countenance. Ay, Shylock, it is well. It is well. [Exeunt SCENE III. Venice. Interior of Saint Mark's. [Organ music heard. Enter a company of noble Venetians with the Duke and his train, accompanied by BASSANIO, PORTia, Antonio, GRATIANO, NERISSA and others. Following these, at a little distance, appear LORENZO and JESSICA, the latter gorgeously attired. The company pauses before the font. SHYLOCK enters from the left, led forward by a priest. His gaber dine has been exchanged for the Christian habit, and in his hand is placed a crucifix DUKE. Old Shylock, art thou well content to do As thus we have ordain'd, which is, that thou Renounce thine ancient Jewish faith, repent Thy sins, and take the holy, solemn vows A Christian takes when on his brow the drops 62 The MERCHANT of Venice: Act VI Baptismal glister, and be nam'd anew After the Christian custom of our land? SHYLOCK. Most noble duke, I am content, and do Hereby renounce my nation and my faith, And, which is more, raze out of mind the name That I have borne these threescore heavy years, Since it is thy command. DUKE. Cristofero Shalt thou be called hereafter. Now, good priest, Thine office do with ceremonies meet, And make this greybeard Jew a Christian straight. [Solemn music beard, after which SHYLOCK is baptized by the priest, ANTONIO at the com- mand of the DUKE standing godfather to the Jew, who makes the required responses in a low voice. While he is still kneeling the company converse in an undertone GRATIANO. I much mislike this new made Christian's face Nor would I trust Cristofero for all His Christian name and meekly mutter'd vows. PORTIA. Nay, Gratiano, question not the heart Nor rudely draw aside the veil that speech Hangs ever 'fore the spirit. Who may say That e'en the best among us keeps a faith Loyal to every smallest clause, or does Not slip at whiles amid the thousand small Requirements of the law. And yet, we do Implore a gentle sentence on these sins Of ours, a pardon that shall make us whole. If, for ourselves, then trebly for the Jew New come, bewilder'd, to our Christian creed. ANTONIO. There will be space enough to doubt the Jew Turn'd Christian, Gratiano, when he shall Give cause for doubt. 'Twere scantest charity by OSCAR FAY ADAMS 63 Till then, to bear with him, as we do bear Ourselves unto our fellow Christians all. A bitter lesson hath he lately conn'd, And he were mad indeed that should neglect To profit by❜t. GRATIANO. Belike, belike 'tis thus, But yet I do not like Cristofero's looks; I'll not be argu'd out of that, i' faith, And say't again, I much mislike his favour. NERISSA. Peace, Gratiano, dost not note the duke Commands to silence, and would speak once more? Thou wilt be ever talking, as thy wont. DUKE. Cristofero, thou bear'st a Christian name From this day forth. Then look to't that thou dost In all things as a Christian, not as Jew. SHYLOCK. In all things as a Christian. Why that's Revenge! Revenge! DUKE. Yes. [Aside.] Yes. So must thou quit thy house In Jewry, dwell mid Christian folk, and go With Christian folk to church on holy days, And wear henceforth the cross thou did'st disdain. Dost hearken unto us, Christofero? SHYLOCK. I hear but to obey, dread duke; and thank Thee for thy clemency to me, once Jew, But now, within this very selfsame hour, A gasping new born Christian, all unschool'd In duties other Christians know full well, Yet earnest still, to act the Christian's part, With hope to better his ensample set. GRATIANO. [Aside to BASSANIO.] For all thy gentle Portia saith but now, I like not such smooth terms from out those lips. BASSANIO. [Aside.] Peace, Gratiano, let him say his say, He cannot now do aught to injure thee. 64 The MERCHANT of Venice: Act VI [Exeunt DUKE and train with ANTONIO and friends. LORENZO and JESSICA come forward JESSICA. How now, good father Cristofero; what a pair of Christians are we both. Only there's this difference betwixt us, good father. I am a Christian for love of a husband and you have turned a Christian for love of your ducats. SHYLOCK. Ungrateful daughter; Why did'st thou go forth from my house by night and rob thy grey-haired father of his treasure? JESSICA. Why? That's most easy of answer. Why, because I desired a Christian husband and there was no coming by my desire save by secret flight from your most gloomy chambers; and since neither my Christian husband nor your daughter Jessica could by any kind of contriving live upon air alone, we had, perforce, to take with us some of your ducats for the bettering our condition. Speak thou for me, Lorenzo. Was it not e'en so? LORENZO. Old man, I am sorry for that I was forced to take from you your daughter and your ducats against your good pleasure, but I must tell you that I loved her as myself (nay, much more, my Jessica) and by reason of this great love of mine, and because of your exceeding hatred towards all Christians did I take her from your house. And since, moreover, as the maid very truly says, there's no living i' the world without the means to live, because of this did we make shift to take with us from your house such means, as well advised you would not have your daughter lack for food and suitable apparel, and since we are now Christians all, what matters it? SHYLOCK. [Slowly.] Ay, what matters it? We are now Christians all, as thou sayest, and, I remember me, that I have heard it said it is a Christian's duty to forgive all who have wronged him. Therefore I forgive you, Jessica,- for robbing your old father; and you, Lorenzo, I forgive by OSCAR FAY Adams 65 You are each well mated. for stealing my daughter. But I would be alone a while. Go, good Jessica. Go, son Lorenzo. [Exeunt LORENZO and JESSICA SHYLOCK. [Alone.] A curse pursue the twain where'er they go. A Christian-Jewish curse, since that should be Weightier than either singly. Would that I Might see them dead before me, while I live, - Such love I bear my daughter, and my son. [Gazes about the church These be the images of Christian saints Whom I must bend the knee before when men Look on. And here the Virgin; here the Christ. Now must I kneel; a hundred eyes perchance, Peer at me through the gloom. A hundred eyes May see me kneel, yet shall they not perceive The scorner of the Christian hid within The humble figure of the man who kneels. Now, by the prophets, whom I reverence, And by these Christian saints whom I do scorn, I swear to nourish my revenge till those I deepest hate are dead, or sham'd before Their fellows. But how this may be, I know Not yet, for all the way were dark as night Before me, save that my revenge burns red. [Choir heard chanting in a distant chapel [Rising from his knees SHYLOCK. Good fellow Christians, it may hap the Jew Turn'd Christian, shall yet do a harm to ye. Behind Cristofero's mask is still the face Of Shylock; in his breast the heart unchang'd. [Choir heard chanting Judica me Deus SHYLOCK. Yea, my good fellow Christians, I do thank Ye for that word, and hug it to my heart. 66 ! INKLINGS Henceforth it shall be mine, when I do pray, Not to thy Christ, but unto Israel's God! "Give sentence with me, O my God; defend My cause against the hosts that wrought me ill." [Choir in the distance, responding Amen. Exit SHYLOCK OSCAR FAY ADAMS INKLINGS WOMAN's rights are what man has left. We can only be sure of the existence of true love when two people who have every reason in the world to despise each other, and whose happiness can only be attained by separation, insist on remaining together. Professionalism is always disagreeable; the professionally virtuous are intolerable, and conversely, the amateur roué is rather lovable. You can't tell a man a great truth; he must find it out himself. You have no insight into your feelings or emotions; you never are or feel exactly what you think you are or feel. Pleasure tends toward idealism; pain toward realism. Our pleasures are more than half imagination; pain can hardly be imagined at all. The optimist looks forward and sees perfection as man's future, omniscience as the goal of science, and Altruria as the end of love; the pessimist looks backward, finds the ape as man's progenitor, soulless curiosity as the basis of science, and physical satisfaction as the foundation of love. by WILLIAM M. BLATT 67 Misunderstanding has broken more hearts than being misunderstood. He who can feel guilty is partly innocent. One of the great errors of our social system is that so many men who are "worth a great deal" are permitted to remain worthless as citizens. No one can reach the sublime without first passing through the stage of seeming ridiculousness. All thought is reflection in the literal sense. Satire is a weapon that can be used only at close quarters. One can never use it to strike far above or far below. The moral eye, like the physical eye, can see only one complete side at a time, and the nearer the character the less broad is the view. A man may become ignorant by reading too much. A man's reputation depends not so much on what he does as on what he says. One who sets his standard of conduct too high is in danger of becoming a hypocrite. It often happens that we forget yet do not forgive. The man who does too much leaves himself under- done. Art is a substitute for love. The true artistic temperament lies between loving too many things and too few between vulgarity and cranki- ness. WILLIAM M. BLATT פסא LABOR 1 MATERI Met ALOIS KOLB in Teur dank [Fischer and Franke, Berlin] EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER 69 A SAILING SONG U P and away, the haven to-day! Hasten the flight; the port is in sight! Over the crest of the wind-driven foam The east-wind is racing, is racing us home. Then heave-and-ho! Let the wind blow! Heave-and-ho! Homeward we go! Never a fear the storm can send, With home and love and a kiss at the end. Swifter and fleet, the lovers to greet! Racing hull down for Gloucester Town. Out of the east like a bird to its nest, Fleeing for home in the wonderful west. Then haul-and-ho! Walk-away so! Haul-and-ho! Joy is in tow. Hearts that are true and loves that are strong Are harking the sound of our heave-away song. Ease her off now, steady her bow ! Furling her sails torn by the gales. Snug in the port and safe from the storm Hearths are glowing, welcome and warm. Let the chain go! Anchor her low! Heave-and-ho! Drop her down so ! Hearts that have wandered where trade winds roam Are nestling to-night by the hearths of home. EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER 70 The Right to OBLIVION The RIGHT to OBLIVION F AME is a relative term, and the renown of most men is soon dimmed in obscurity. Literary reputations, in a world full of books, increasingly become things of hearsay. Four-fifths of the circulation of our Carnegie libraries is soon-forgotten fiction, and four-fifths of their patrons, women and children, for the modern American man reads little but the daily paper, beginning with the stock quotations. Once an author who is considered by many to be fore- most in our "literature of a province," wrote a charming paper which was largely devoted to Dr. Johnson's ancient town of Lichfield. Not carrying my books with me, in a recent English tour, it occurred to me to go to the public library of the town and reread the essay, while on the soil. The librarian's assistant, and finally the librarian himself, courteously thumbed the written catalogue of the institu- tion, in search of the desired book, or any book by the author in question, of whose existence they learned for the first time; and their readily-bestowed favors culminated in the remark: None of that name, sir," in the kindest of tones. Under such circumstances it might seem a necessity to multiply books and articles about the famous dead, in the endeavor to give them a vogue somewhat broader and deeper. But if oblivion is sometimes cruelly swift, at other times we endeavor to thwart it by too anxious de- vices. One such device is the multiplication of swollen, hasty, and by no means indispensable biographies. This habit is worse in England than in America, but not un- known on this side of the Atlantic. Was it, after all, imperatively necessary that Dr. Pusey should have a life in four volumes, price eighteen dollars, or that W. E. Forster's career should be set forth in two octavos? It by CHARLES F. RICHARDSON 71 may be doubted whether there are ten men in English his- tory-certainly there are not ten ecclesiastics—who de- serve an eighteen-dollar biography. Even eight dollars for the life-story of Phillips Brooks prevented some who loved him from following his record, which would have gained by artistic condensation. If Leslie Stephen could tell all one needed to know of George Eliot in two hundred pages, or Holmes set forth Emerson's personal work and literary product in four hundred, why should so much type and paper be wasted on lesser lights? (c The author of the "Lichfield and Uttoxeter " essay, we learn from his wife, frequently and emphatically ex- pressed the hope that no one would attempt to write his biography." I raise no question of motives, and I greatly value at least one of the following accounts of him; but it is a mathematical fact, to be explained as anybody may choose, that there are now in existence, biographies or bi- ographical studies of him by his son, his daughter, his son- in-law, his publisher, his publisher's wife, his most intimate friend, a clergyman, a professor, and two other men of letters, besides a reissue of his "first diary," the genuine- ness of which was afterwards denied by its editor. A great English poet, says his son, by way of introducing 1,089 pages of his life, also, "disliked the notion of a long, formal biography," and wished " Merlin and the Gleam" to be taken as an autobiographical record. Quis custodiet custodes? Is it any wonder that the author of "Snow- Bound" is said to have foreseen the evil, and wrought a good deal of destruction of letters and ana before his death? In multiplied biographies, and in the all-comprehensive republication of juvenilia, unconsidered trifles, letters, etc., which trail along for years after an author's death and are the despair of collectors and of owners of complete editions, there is of course something that is valuable. Who would 72 The Right to OBLIVION + " sacrifice a single one of the innumerable drawings by Leo- nardo da Vinci? But even Leonardo clearly distinguished between drawings which were finalities and those which were merely temporary memoranda. A "Peep into Haw- thorne's Workshop" may be illuminating to the student of literary art, but am I therefore to reprint all his easily iden- tifiable contributions to the American Magazine of Knowl- edge, merely because they have never been reprinted, and lie within ten feet of my hand as I write? Was much light thrown on Emerson's methods by republishing two of his college compositions? Any writer may retain his lisp- ing numbers and newspaper scraps if he will; but are his successors justified in gathering all his letters, jokes, diaries, drawings, summaries of books read, unimportant reviews, forgotten stories, doubtful poems, and unfulfilled plans, the whole constituting his complete works"? A more inno- cent result was once obtained, in Lowell's case, by a New York dealer in first editions, who advertised for sale, price fifteen dollars, if my memory is correct, a book that never existed. The investigator of cumulative processes may prize the variorum "Leaves of Grass" or the careful paper on "The Building of the Idylls: a study in Tenny- " in Dr. Nicoll and Mr. Wise's learned “ Literary Anecdotes in the Nineteenth Century"; but he need not therefore add "There was a Little Girl who had a Little Curl" to his Longfellow collection. What the world needs is results, not details; the statue, not the clippings of the chisel; the deliberate judgment of the author or his chosen literary executor, not of a "literary resurrectionist.” Garrulous with pen as with tongue, most of us are sinners together in this matter, but once in awhile we should do common penance and go into a silent retreat. son, Did you ever notice nature's treatment of a public dump? Little by little wood decays, rust eats tin-cans, weeds cover corruption, and wild clematis bedecks that which was ab- by CHARLES F. RICHARDSON 73 horrent or useless. Such is her exercise of a decorous for- getfulness. Shall we set up, as the motto for our libraries, our publishers, and our literary magazines, the English sign "Rubbish may be shot here," or shall we quietly em- phasize the Right to Oblivion? CHARLES F. RICHARDSON The FINAL RIDE "FA 'AR have you journeyed" the Vision said, "In the dear, dead past, for a kiss from me A thousand miles by saddle and trail, And a thousand miles by sea." "Oft have you told me," the Vision said, "The wonder of islands and driving ships, But now the greatest wonder of all Was the wonder of my lips.” The eyes of the Vision were Her own eyes, The hands of the Vision were Her own hands. He remembered the years he had toiled for Her, And the risks of the Outer Lands. << “One more 'venture," the Vision prayed. My lips await you," the sweet lips cried, "So wake your man to saddle the roan, And mount for the final ride." He sniffed the chill of the early dawn, He saw the grey mist wet on the grass. He saw the light at the harbour mouth Where the coasting-schooners pass. 74 The Final Ride He saw the garden, with its still trees, And the heavy shrubs on the sheltered lawn. He saw the edge of the seaward cliff Fog-crowned in the early dawn. 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PARTIAL LIST I My Symphony Life's Mirror 2 6 A Task The Book Lover's Creed The Human Touch II 12 13 A Prayer 17 The School Teacher's Creed 19 Waiting 21 A House Blessing 22 Be Strong 23 The Foot-Path to Peace 25 Good Night 26 Be of Good Cheer 28 But Once 29 Duty 32 Contentment 33 The Value of a Friend 35 Friendship 36 The Simple Life 37 Envoy 40 Forward 41 The House Beautiful 42 Jubilate Deo 43 My Prayer 44 Resolve 45 Stronger Men 46 The World's Need W. H. Channing Madeline S. Bridges R. L. Stevenson E. O. Grover Richard Burton R. L. Stevenson E. O. Grover John Burroughs From the German Maltbie Davenport Babcock Henry van Dyke A non Ralph Waldo Emerson A miel Phillips Brooks David Swing Robert Louis Stevenson Ralph Waldo Emerson Charles Wagner George du Maurier Phillips Brooks From the German Psalm C John Greenleaf Whittier Charlotte Perkins Stetson Phillips Brooks Ella Wheeler Wilcox 47 "Old Wood to Burn" 48 Today 49 Old Book Rhyme Rubai xii A non Ralph Waldo Emerson Lord Avebury Omar Khayyam Henry van Dyke Edwin Osgood Grover 50 51 Life's Compass 52 Christmas Living ALFRED BARTLETT - 69, CORNHILL BOSTON - Christmas Living hristmas again, with its peace and good-will and wonder! How our friends multiply and increase in value as the Day of Days draws near. How the touch of human hands thrills us and the look in human eyes. To our surprise we are not ashamed to be good, to be kind, to be loving. For this little space out of the long, selfish year we are glad to be ourselves. We give freely of our love, we offer our labor with- out price, and we speak kindly words that are rarer far than rubies. Once more we take cour- age and let our hearts have their way, and life laughs and is glad. When Christmas comes the world suddenly grows better; sin,less lovely and heaven, nearer: and all because a Little Boy was born in Bethlehem. Perhaps — who knows? — we might carry with us throughout the year the soy of this Christmas Living. Edwin Osgood Grover Copyright 1903 by Alfred Bartlett The CORNHILL Booklet VOL III] [No 4 ROMANCE So Gretchen eyes the big round moon And sighs, and longs for Willie : She hopes he'll have the cows milked soon, And then - he! he! How silly! HAROLD HELMER Some GERMAN BOOK-PLATES I N coming to the book-plates of Germany, we arrive at the starting-point of the book-plate, for here was first introduced printing by Gutenberg, in the middle of the fifteenth century; and coincident with that date, in all probability, the book-plate had its birth. Of course, pre- vious to Gutenberg there had been numbers of books made, the letters all laboriously formed by hand by the monks of the numerous monasteries; and it is known that book-plates were used in these, they being also hand-work and hand- colored. But the book-plate as we know it (that is, me- chanically reproduced), first made its appearance, in all probability, at the time of the invention of printing or shortly after. Dürer and most of the other famous en- gravers and artists from that time to this have devoted considerable attention to its production. 78 Some GERMAN BOOK-PLATES HER ALIM WWW! VTV THI GEORG BARLOSIUS Biſtoria Libris aw " GEORG BARLOSIVS. M・D·CCcc i Libr Or-RimardSchröder by WINFRED POrter Truesdell 79 bmji L OTTO HUPP PRIMENTOWANY INE Cam Aus den Büchern des Profellor DFMax kirmis aus Frauttadt 80 Some GERMAN BOOK-PLATES I It is our intention to show herewith only the work of some of the modern artists, and in giving examples it should not be understood that the artists represented are the only good ones making plates to-day, but that they are perhaps the principal ones in their particular style. In Germany, as in England, many or most of the plates are heraldic; but we shall show here picture-plates rather than armorials, although some semi-heraldic plates are illus- trated in order to represent prominent artists who have made this class of plates only. One of the earliest of German artists to turn his atten- tion to the book-plate, and probably the most prolific designer of the same in the whole world, is Professor Ad. M. Hildebrandt. His plates range from 1870 on and number some 300 or more, and the remarkable ingenuity and patience of the man is shown in a perusal of his work, for they are practically all different, very few of the motives being duplicated. Professor Hildebrandt usually in his designs works some feature of the shield into a decorative border, or a decorative treatment of some sort, beautifying the plate beyond a mere showing of the owner's arms. The plate we illustrate is that of the German Ex Libris Society. Professor Emil Doepler, d. j., is perhaps next to Profes- sor Hildebrandt in point of length of time he has been designing, and indeed to these two men, more than any others, Germany owes the revival of the present widespread interest in the principles of heraldry and mediæval art. Professor Doepler's plates although nearly always including the owner's arms are yet very pretty and dainty in design, and many of them are beautiful picture-plates, reproduced by photogravure or engraved on copper. Among others. Professor Doepler has made two for the Emperor William and another for his Posen library. by WINFRED PORTER TRUESDELL 81 MAKANAN Getorids JOSEF SATTLER conventus Sanchi Leonard REĢIS 82 Some GERMAN BOOK-PLATES JOD EX LIBRIS 48 HERM PAULA BUSSE HIRZEL! 1899 R. C. HIRZEL by Winfred Porter Truesdell 83 Er-libris veran KE Bec bullitt To.M HILDEBRANDT 1892. 20% in Berlin AD. M. HILDEBRANDT 84 Some GERMAN BOOK-PLATES 1 The plate of Dr. Richard Schröder is the work of Georg Barlosius, considered one of the best artists in Ger- many to-day. A number of his best plates are reproduced by lithography, thus barring them from reproduction here. We present, however, a charming wood-cut of broad, even line and which is in thoroughly medieval German spirit. Another artist, drawing in pretty much the same style, and possibly more original, is Josef Sattler, and we give the plate designed for the St. Leonard Convent. This is by no means the best that Sattler has made in the line of book-plates, but it is a fair example in the old wood-cut style. His best plates are lithographed. Sattler has also made a plate for the Emperor, and both he and Barlosius have made many remarkable illustrations to a number of German folk-lore and other books. Hermann R. C. Hirzel draws in a style quite removed from all the foregoing, his preference being nature studies, such as landscapes and flower forms. The plate of Paula Busse is a very good example. He is a prolific designer, having done a hundred or more plates, many of them very excellent etchings. Otto Hupp, famed as the artist of the Munich Calendar and other pro-German works, is represented by quite a number of ex libris, and we illustrate a characteristic example for Prof. Dr. Max Kirmis, of Fraustadt. Lorenz M. Rheude has made some sixty or more charm- ing heraldic plates, and herewith is given the plate of the writer, which is an excellent example of his best work. Herr Rheude is the head of the art department of a prom- inent German publisher at Papiermuhle bei Roda, and has an enviable reputation as a mural painter. George Otto, of the firm of R. Otto, Hof-Graveurs, in Berlin, is another very noted designer. Otto has made some one hundred and fifty plates, largely heraldic, and by WINFRED PORTER TRUESDELl 85 Bibliothek Ser Alus #02/2 MIL! Ses Seutschere GEORGE OTTO Ofto 93 Graveur Vereins. 86 Some GERMAN BOOK-PLATES EX LIBRIS CARL G. F. LANGENSCHEIDT. с в полезрени FRANZ STASSEN 17 "Kupferkiung und Druck von 0 Ferng. Berka by WINFRED PORTER TRUESDell 87 MYSTERIO ENC izga patakar ******* (MELTA- Tiner Ama **** .... .: * * * 水水 ​LB ITE... muellim fhelp LOR. M. RHEUDE 19.02 RIS *.. CELE Ca WINFRED PORTERS TRVESDELLE & 88 Some GERMAN BOOK-PLATES including quite a few for the Imperial family. The plate shown here is for the German Society of Engravers, a very beautiful piece of work. Franz Stassen I would call the foremost contemporary book-plate designer of Germany, so far as beauty of design is concerned and the admirable symbolical significance of all his plates. The plate for Carl G. F. Langenscheidt, is one of the very best of his few designs, and represents man in the pursuit of fame, turning his face to fortune on the road. At the base of the design are to be seen the portraits of Schiller, Schopenhauer and Wagner. The original of this plate is a large etching, and indeed most of Stassen's plates are large designs. 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Alfred Bartlett, 69, Cornhill, Boston, Massachusetts The Great Theorem happy man or wo- Le A man is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will; and their en- trance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that—they practi- cally demonstrate the great theorem of the Livableness of Life. Robert Louis Stevenson. The CORNHILL Booklet VOL III] WINTER, MCMIV [NUM 5 FOREWORD T has always seemed to me that, in order to escape the charge of literary ghoulism or body-snatching, those who give to the world. excerpts from the correspondence of dead men should see to it that the letters are marked by characteristics negative as well as positive. Positively, they must throw light upon the literary meth- ods of the writer, upon his relation to, and views upon, art, life or morals; negatively, they must not raise the veil upon those domestic privacies with which the outside world has no concern. I think the letters which are hereinafter presented for the first time in their practical integrity, ful- fill all of these conditions. They exhibit Stevenson in what must seem, even to those who knew him somewhat intimately, an unusual mental attitude, and throw an in- teresting side-light upon his artistic processes. M Stevenson was undoubtedly what is familiarly termed a "good correspondent." Despite his wretched health, which at times made the mere physical exertion of writing a positive pain to him, despite his constant struggle to keep abreast of his literary work, he found time and energy to keep alive a varied and a, not infrequently, exigent corre- spondence. As a rule his correspondents were either old and valued friends or fellow-workers in the literary field. It is perhaps to these latter, to Edmund Gosse, to Sidney Colvin, to William Archer and others of like standing in the world of letters, that we owe the more widely inter- esting portion of the "Collected Letters." But the familiar By courtesy of MR. INGALLS KIMBALL, THE CHELTENHAM PRESS, New York 92 FOREWORD touches in his home correspondence and the racy humor in his screeds to old Edinburgh friends are of very positive value. The correspondence that follows falls into neither of these divisions. Yet it is no less attractive on that account, for it suggests a scarcely recognized side of Ste- venson's character. Mr. Trevor Haddon, to whom the letters are addressed, is now a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and a fashionable portrait painter. Twenty-three years ago, however, he was a young stu- dent, utterly unknown outside his own small circle and with all his worldly triumphs yet to come. He had not then obtained the Slade Scholarship, or any of the medals and other awards of merit dear to the student heart which were to become his later on. He was merely a "young fellow," as Stevenson calls him, just entering on life, full of boyish enthusiasm and boyish philosophy. Yet when young Haddon, attracted by one of Stevenson's essays, wrote to the author, he not only received a gracious and friendly reply, but he laid the foundation of a desultory correspondence extending over several years. In the first. of the letters to be preserved by Mr. Haddon, the tone has already become, if not exactly intimate, yet of a kindly, elder-brother-like nature which is altogether delightful. The letter lacks a date, as do most of the others, but it is addressed from 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, and was probably written soon after Stevenson's return from Amer- ica with his newly-married wife. A phrase at the very outset gives us a clue to the reason so far as the novelist was concerned for this interchange of letters. "It seems to me," "he says, "you are a pretty good young fellow, as young fellows go. So far so good, but to be merely a "good young fellow" would hardly have entitled the youthful art student to the laying aside of his manuscript by so hard working a writer as Stevenson in order that time might be found to indite these closely lined pages of >> by HORACE Townsend 93 advice artistic, worldly and philosophical. Something inore was needed, and we have it in the same sentence: “and if I add that you remind me of myself, you need not accuse me of retrospective vanity.' There it is in a nutshell! The genial egotist was reminded of himself," and nothing more was needed to set the pen in motion. "" C The second of the series is also addressed from Heriot Row, and is also undated. It is permeated with true Stevensonian didacticism, though how it was his corre- spondent's fault" that the writer appears so pulpit- eering" does not appear. There are some true Stevenson touches notwithstanding. Never be in a hurry anyhow," for instance; and also, " wishing that you may long be young," which sums up R. L. S.'s own practical philosophy in six words. The correspondence now brings us to the beginning of that sojourn in the south of France which Stevenson re- ferred to as the happiest time of his life. Just beginning to taste the sweetness of his draught of success, his spirits further stimulated by his pathetic hope of ultimate recovery, his light-hearted jesting, which, even in his darkest hours, was never far apart from him, pervades all of his letters at this time with a bubbling effervescence of cheery gaiety. One remembers his description of the Campagne Defli," from which he dates the third letter of the Had- don correspondence: "In a lovely valley between hills, part wooded, part white cliffs; a large, large olive-yard cultivated by a resident paysan, a well, a bereau, a good deal of rockery, a little pine shrubbery, a railway station in front, two lines of omnibus to Marseille. • << £48 per annum. "It is called Campagne Defli! query, Campagne De- *The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends. Se- lected and Edited with notes and introduction by Sidney Colvin. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899, p. 295. 94 FOREWORD 1 bug? The Campagne Demosquito goes on here nightly, and is very deadly.' When Mr. Haddon next hears from him in July of 1883 he has moved to the "cramped but habitable cottage built in the Swiss manner, with a pleasant strip of garden, and a view and a situation hardly to be bettered." He is in the plenitude of his creative powers; "Treasure Island" is to be published in the autumn of the same year, a year which is also to see the completion of "The Sil- verado Squatters, "" Prince Otto," and "A Child's Gar- den of Verses." Once more, he sounds that favorite note which, like some strain half-heard but never wholly mute, ran through his life as through his work, " Cling to your youth." And so we come to the last of the series. The exuber- ance of animal spirits is chastened. Hardly would one take the writing, large, almost scrawly, to be from the same hand which indited the characteristically neat and precise pages of the earlier years. A touch of something like bit- terness and disillusion creeps in at the close, but yet, partly blind and altogether suffering as he is, no hint of whining or complaining. "I wish I could read Treasure Island; I believe I should like it." Here for a flash is the old Stevenson, and in those final brave words, "You need not pity me. Pity sick children and the individual poor man," we lose our glimpse of those half dozen years which has shown us the man and the artist, not maybe through Mr. Balfour's sentimentally optimistic glasses, but happily un- obscured by the smoky lens of Mr. W. E. Henley. HORACE TOWNSEND. *Vide "The Letters, etc.," p. 291, SOME LETTERS 95 SOME LETTERS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The First Letter 17 Heriot Row Edinburgh, (Undated.) My dear Sir, I see nothing" cheekie" in anything you have done. Your letters have naturally given me much pleasure, for it seems to me you are a pretty good young fellow, as young fellows go; and if I add that you remind me of myself, you need not accuse me of retrospective vanity. You now know an address which will always find me; you might let me have your address in London; I do not promise anything-for I am always overworked in Lon- don-but I shall, if I can arrange it, try to see you. I am afraid I am not so rigid on chastity: you are probably right in your view; but this seems to me a di- lemma with two horns, the real curse of a man's life in our state of society and a woman's too, although, for many reasons, it appears somewhat differently with the enslaved sex. By your "fate" I believe I meant your marriage, or that love at least which may befall any one of us at the shortest notice and overthrow the most settled habits and opinions. I call that your fate, because then, if not be- fore, you can no longer hang back, but must stride out into life and act. Believe me Yours sincerely Robert Louis Stevenson. 96 A ! SOME LETTERS The Second Letter 17 Heriot Row Edinburgh, June. Dear Sir, If I have in any way disquieted you, I believe you are justified in bidding me stand and deliver a remedy, if there be one: which is the point. Ist, I am of your way of thinking: that a good deal of Whitman is as well taken once but 2d I quite believe that it is better to have everything brought before one in books. In that way, the problems reach us when we are cool, and not warped by the sophistries of an instant passion. Life itself presents its problems with a terrible directness, and at the very hour when we are least able to judge calmly. Hence this Pisgah sight of all things, off the top of a book, is only a rational preparation for the ugly grips that must follow. • But 3d, no man can settle another's life for him. It is the test of the nature and courage of each that he shall decide it for himself. Each in turn must meet and beard the Sphynx. Some things however I may say and you will treat them as things read in a book for you to accept or refuse as shall you see most fit. Go not out of your way to make difficulties. Hang back from life while you are young. Shoulder no re- sponsibilities. You do not know yet how far you can trust yourself—it will not be very far, or you are more fortunate than I am. If you can keep your sexual de- sires in order, be glad, be very glad. Some day, when you meet your fate, you will be free, and the better man. Don't make a boy and girl friendship that which it is Look at Burns: that is where amourettes con- not. duct an average good man; and a tepid more selfish amourette in the long run. do, see that you don't sacrifice a woman; ... marriage is only a Whatever you that's where all by ROBERT Louis Stevenson 97 imperfect loves conduct us. At the same time, if you can make it convenient to be chaste, for God's sake, avoid the primness of your virtue; hardness to a poor harlot is a sin lower than the ugliest unchastity. Never be in a hurry anyhow. There is my sermon. Certainly, you cannot too earnestly go in for the Greek; and about any art, think last of what pays, first of what pleases. It is in that spirit only that an art can be made. Progress in art is made by learning to enjoy that which seems a little dull at first, is found to contain the elements. of pleasure more largely though more quietly commingled. I return to my sermon for one more word: The natural desire to have a woman, gives you no right to any particu- lar woman: that comes with love only, and don't be too ready to believe in love: there are many shams: the true love will not allow you to reason about it. It is your fault if I appear so pulpiteering. Wishing you well in life and art, and that you may long be young, believe me Yours truly Robert Louis Stevenson. The Third Letter Campagne Defli St. Marcel Banlieue de Marseille. Dec. 29th, 1882. Dear Sir, I am glad you sent me your note, I had indeed lost your address, and was half thinking to try the Ringstown one; but far from being busy, I have been steadily ill. I was but three or four days in London, waiting till one of my friends was able to accompany me, and had neither time nor health to see anybody but some publisher people. 98 SOME LETTERS Since then I have been worse and better, better and worse, but never able to do any work and for a large part of the time forbidden to write and even to play Patience, that last of civilised amusement. In brief, I have been the sheer hulk >> to a degree almost outside of my ex- perience, and I desire all my friends to forgive me my sins of omission this while back. I only wish you were the only one to whom I owe a letter, or many letters. But you see, at least, you had done nothing to offend me; and I dare say you will let me have a note from time to time, until we shall have another chance to meet. Yours sincerely Robert Louis Stevenson. A. T. Haddon, Esq. An excellent good new year to you, and many of them. If you chance to see a paragraph in the papers describ- ing my illness, and the "delicacies suitable to my invalid condition" cooked in copper, and the other ridiculous and revolting yarns, pray regard it as a spectral illusion, and pass by. The Fourth Letter La Solitude Hyères-Les-Palmiers Var but just now writing from Clermont-Ferrand. July 5: 1883. Dear Mr. Haddon, Your note with its piece of excellent news duly reached I am delighted to hear of your success: selfishly so; for it is pleasant to see that one whom I suppose I may me. by Robert Louis Stevenson 99 call an admirer is no fool. I wish you more and more prosperity, and to be devoted to your art. An art is the very gist of life; it grows with you; you will never weary of an art at which you fervently and superstitiously labor. Superstitiously: I mean, think more of it than it deserves; be blind to its faults, as with a wife or a father; forget the world in a technical trifle. The world is very serious; art is the cure of that, and must be taken very lightly; but to take art lightly, you must first be stupidly owlishly in earnest over it. When I made Casimir say "Tiens" at the end, I made a blunder. I thought it was what Casimir would have said and I put it down. As your question shows, it should have been left out. It was a "patch" of realism, and an anti-climax. Beware of realism; it is the devil; it is one of the means of art, and now they make it the end! And such is the farce of the age in which a man lives, that we all, even those of us who most detest it, sin by realism. My health is better. I have no photograph just now; but when I get one you shall have a copy. It will not be like me; some- times I turn out a capital, fresh bank clerk; once I came out the image of Runjeet Singh; again the treacherous sun has fixed me in the character of a travelling evangelist. It's quite a lottery; but whatever the next venture proves to be, soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, you shall have a proof. Reciprocate. The truth is I have no appearance; a cer- tain air of disreputability is the one constant character that my face presents: the rest change like water. But still I am lean, and still disreputable. Cling to your youth. It is an artistic stock in trade. Don't give in that you are aging, and you won't age. I have exactly the same faults and qualities still; only a little duller, greedier and better tempered; a little less tolerant of pain and more tolerant of tedium. The last 1 3 100 SOME LETTERS # is a great thing for life but —query?—a bad endowment for art? Yours sincerely Robert Louis Stevenson. The Fifth Letter Private. April 23rd, 1884. Dear Mr. Haddon, I am pleased to see your hand again, and, waiting my wife's return, to guess at some of the contents. For vari- ous things have befallen me of late. First, as you see, I had to change my hand; lastly I have fallen into a kind of blindness, and cannot read. This more inclines me for something to do, to answer your letter before I have read it, a safe plan familiar to diplomatists. I gather from half shut eyes that you were a Skeltist; now seriously that is a good beginning; there is a deal of romance (cheap) in Skelt. Look at it well, and you will see much of Dickens. And even Skelt is better than con- scientious, gray back-gardens, and conscientious, dull still lives. The great lack of art just now is a spice of life and interest; and I prefer galvanism to acquiescence in the grave. All do not; 't is an affair of tastes; and mine are young. Those who like death have their innings today with art that is like mahogany and horse-hair furniture, solid, true, serious and as dead as Cæsar. I wish I could read Treasure Island; I believe I should like it. But work done, for the artist, is the Golden Goose killed; you sell its feathers and lament the eggs. To-morrow the fresh woods! I have been seriously ill, and do not pick up with that finality that I should like to see. I linger over and digest my convalescence like a favorite wine; and what with MU by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IOI ***Exter blindness, green spectacles and seclusion, cut but a poor figure in the world. I made out at the end that you were asking some ad- vice—but what, my failing eyes refuse to inform me. I must keep a sheet for the answer; and still Mrs. Steven- son delays, and still I have no resource against tedium but the waggling of this pen. You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life. Please to recognise that you are unworthy of all that befalls you- unworthy, too, I hear you wail, of this terrible sermon; but indeed we are not worthy of our futures; love takes us in a counterfeit, success comes to us at play, health stays with us while we abuse her; and even when we gird at our fellow man, we should remember that it is of their good will alone, that we still live and still have claims to honour. The sins of the most innocent, if they were exactly visited, would ruin them to the doer. And if you know any man who believes himself to be worthy of a wife's love, a friend's affection, a mistress's caress, even if venal, you may rest assured he is worthy of nothing but a kicking. I fear men who have no open faults; what do they conceal? We are not meant to be good in this world, but to try to be, and fail, and keep on trying: and when we get a cake to say, Thank God!" and when we get a buffet, to say, "Just so: well hit!" I have been getting some of the buffets of late; but have amply earned them. you need not pity me. Pity sick children and the individual poor man; not the mass. Don't pity anybody else, and never pity fools. The op- timistic Stevenson; but there is a sense in these wanderings. Now I have heard your letter, and my sermon was not mal-a-propos. For you seem to be complaining. Every- 102 SOME LETTERS body's home is depressing, I believe; it is their difficult business to make it less so. There is an unpleasant say- ing, which would have pricked me sharply at your age. Yours truly Robert Louis Stevenson. 7 !! The ADVERTISEMENTS xi The Cornhill Broadsides N response to the desire of my customers to have, in larger form, some of the mottoes of the Dodger series, I have prepared the following twelve subjects in a size eight inches wide by ten inches long. They are printed in red and black from hand-lettered designs, on 14-ply, white, linen-finish stock, with the edges beveled. Price, postpaid; each 25 cents, the set of twelve, $2.50 The Broadside Calendars From the same plates as the above, and on the same stock, printed in the same style and for sale at the same price, we have made these calendars for 1905. Size, 8 x 12½ inches. Titles of the Cornhill Broadsides and the Broadside Calendars My Symphony William Henry Channing A Task Robert Louis Stevenson A Morning Prayer Robert Louis Stevenson The School Teacher's Creed Edwin Osgood Grover A House Blessing Anon. The Foot-Path to Peace Henry van Dyke But Once Anon. Good Night Ellen M. H. 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It is also intended for persons who are Young enough to Understand and all others who do not easily get into a Pa- nic for some one to Blow out the Light. ¶The Editor of The Papyrus is a Free Agent — which means that he is not controlled by Officious Friends, Ad- vertising Patrons, or any other Influence subversive of the Chosen Policy of this Magazine. Briefly, that policy is ¶Fearless thinking and Honest writing. ¶Hatred of Sham and Fake under whatever forms they may appear. ¶The American ideal. ¶The true literary spirit. ¶And a sane Philosophy of Life helping us all to bear our burden. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ If you would like This Kind of a Magazine, subscribe Now the rate is One Dollar a Year, in advance. The Papyrus, Somerville, K. J. Notes for the Student of any Art EEP an intelligent eye upon all the others. It is only by doing so that you come to see what Art is: Art is the end common to them all, it is none of the points by which they differ. In this age, beware of realism. In your own art, bow your head over tech- nique. Think of technique when you rise and when you go to bed. Forget purposes in the meanwhile; get to love technical processes, to glory in technical successes; get to see the world entirely through technical spectacles, to see it entirely in terms of what you can do. Then when you have anything to say, the language will be apt and copious. See the good in other people's work; it will never be yours. See the bad in your own, and don't cry about it; it will be there always. Try to use your faults; at any rate use your knowledge of them, and don't run your head against stone walls. Art is not like theology; nothing is forced. You have not to represent the world. You have to represent only what you can represent with pleasure and effect, and the only way to find out what that is is by technical exercise. Robert Louis Stevenson. The Heintzemann Press, Boston Winter MCMV 15 Cents The Cornhill Booklet 屈 ​wi ALFRED BARTLETT Cornhill in Boſton ii The CORNHILL Booklet H ON DOING A LITTLE THING WELL H ALF the joy of living is achieving, not big things necessarily, though we all live in hope, but in do- ing something well. This is a simple saying and one not likely to be contradicted, yet how many of us do more than give assent to it? In spite of diligent search I have not been able to discover in twenty years' time more than a baker's dozen (13 for 12) of my friends who both practice and preach this every-day doctrine. But this little company leavens us all and keeps green our faith in the simple and better life. They are the true idealists of this department-store world. Imagine my surprise and pleasure a few years ago, in finding tucked away in an attic on Cornhill, an addition to my list of practitioners of our common creed. As if this were not enough, I found him in business, and better yet, Alfred actually buying and selling Bartlett Printer & at a snug profit to himself. Publiſher So far as I am concerned, Mr. Bartlett has answered the eternal question, "What shall we do with our idealists ?" WARAN By all means set them up in business. Give them an opportunity to show the rest of us that business is not battle, that one can get by 69 Cornhill giving as well as by stealing, that beauty still Bolton has a commercial value, and that the way to get rich is to make other people happier by doing some- thing as well as we know how. Judging from Mr. Bartlett's success it will not be nec- essary to subsidize our idealists to keep them from bank- ruptcy. The only capital which Mr. Bartlett possessed five years ago were a few ideals and small change to the The ADVERTISEMENTS iii THE BEATITUDES CALENDAR BY R⚫ANNING BELL LESSED ARE THE POOR |_ SPIRIT ; FOR THEIRS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN * ON EMOSIE BOSTON 69 CORNHILL ALFRED BARTLETT T HIS is, perhaps, the most important calendar of the sea- son. The five plates, each bearing one of the Beatitudes in word and picture, are now first published, from orig- inal designs done in England for Mr. Bartlett, and they repre- sent the highest development of the art of Mr. Bell, whose work stands absolutely in the front rank internationally as well as locally. The pictures, 8 x 10 inches in size, are printed on heavy, cream, antique paper, with ample margins. Price, boxed, postpaid, $2.00. "The work is worthy of a wide appreciation. The line is firm and the composition satisfying."— The International Studio, October, 1905. "The Beatitudes Calendar is another evidence of the high ideals fol- lowed by this Boston publisher." The Ave Maria. Alfred Bartlett,69,Cornhill, Boston iv The CORNHILL Booklet amount of $75.00. Experience has shown that the $75.00 was quite unnecessary. I found Mr. Bartlett in a $12 a month attic at 21 Cornhill, evidently doing busi- ness for the love of it. In any case he seemed D to get a great deal of pleas- ure out of it. Volume I, Number I, of THE CORN- HILL BOOKLET cost him $85.00, which reduced his capital to $10.00. It contained a reprint of Eugene Field's now famous Tri- bune Primer. He imagined that there might be a thousand people in the United States who would be willing to part with 10 cents to secure a copy of the first issue of THE CORNHILL EK Taka T POHLE 13 PIELAG. dead by BOOKLET. So he printed a thousand and sent them to the American News Company to be laid out on the news stands of the country. The next day he received this telegram: "ALFRED BARTLETT, Cornhill, Boston, Mass. The Cornhill Booklet has caught on. Selling like hot cakes. Send 1000 more at once. American News Company." i The ADVERTISEMENTS V I ACALENDAR OP PRAYERS BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1000 ALFRED BARTUSTY ✔ CORSIHULL BOSTON Ra WOWARS WOULD call the attention of Stevenson admirers to A CAL- ENDAR OF PRAYERS, by Robert Louis Stevenson. The twelve prayers, written at Vailima for the daily evening ser- vice in the Samoan household, include At Morning, For Self Forgetfulness, Patience, For Grace, For Renewal of Joy, Self Blame, For Favour, The Family, Separation, For Friends, Gratitude, and the prayer which he read on the last evening. They are printed on antique Sterling Japanese Parchment paper in three colors, the schemes of red and green and red and black appear- ing on alternate sheets. Decorative border, initial and cover designs by Herbert Gregson, H. B. Ames and Miss E. M. Whitten. "One of the most beautiful of the season."— The Dial. "A joy to look upon. "The Beacon." "From an artistic standpoint, and for its delicate sentiment, one of the most beautiful and appropriate offerings for the year's beginning."-The Church Review. "An exceedingly tasteful production." -Chicago Evening Post. Inspiring."-The Ave Maria. 'Especially successful."-The Congregationalist. C4 CC TWELVE LEAVES AND COVER. SIZE 7X 16 INCHES. EDITION LIMITED. PRICE, BOXED, POSTPAID, $1.50. Alfred Bartlett, 69, Cornhill, Boston vi The CORNHILL Booklet The thousand copies were sold in forty-eight hours; still he doubted, deliberated and finally printed another thousand. Pirate publishers sailing the commercial seas were quick to spy the treasure in Field's amusing Primer, and several of them immediately overhauled Mr. Bartlett and appropriated the Primer, introduction and all. Edition after edition of these were sold until more than 100,000 had been disposed of. Meanwhile Mr. Bartlett laughed at the robbers and went on discovering good things for "The Booklet.” The little maga- zine prospered, and although it is no longer a monthly, it four times a year makes a bright spot on the dull gray of the news stands. One cannot know Run fast, thou laggard letter, Like a mon Mathy hasnt 5. Alfed Barthell Publisher of the Comhill Booklet Perobance you'll find ham waiting still a 200 you at Twenty-one, commifl grown up to grass Indrad but dear old Boston, Mass the highest happiness without a complete set of the three volumes bound in English linen, adorned with Mr. Hap- good's delectable cover. From the first, Mr. Bartlett had a way of inserting in "The Booklet" inspirational bits of literature that had caught his fancy. As long as he was setting them up he set them up as well as he knew how. The result was a series of stimulating mottoes that his friends cut out for framing. This suggested The Cornhill Dodgers, a series of inspirational leaflets" for distribution among one's friends, or better still, for one's own library or den. People found that these great thoughts of great men were often better company than their own, and it did them good to have them standing 'round. For one, I would rather have cir- > The ADVERTISEMENTS vii The Cornhill Dodgers "THEY MAKE FOR VIRTUE 1 My Symphony 2 Life's Mirror 6 A Task • SERIES of Leaflets, presenting, on heavy, white, plain-beveled cards, selections of the most helpful and inspiring thoughts in Literature. They are printed in red and black, some from designs drawn and lettered in original styles by well known artists; and others from selected classical types, in a simple and harmonious style, it being Mr. Bartlett's aim to make each card worthy of the highest praise for its typographical excellence. Size of cards, 4½ x 64 inches; price, post- paid, 10 cents each, $1.00 a dozen (13 for 12). 75 subjects. You may order by numbers. A complete list for the asking. · 12 The Human Touch 13 A Morning Prayer 16 An Evening Prayer. 17 The School Teacher's Creed 21 A House Blessing 23 The Foot Path to Peace. 25 Good Night 33 The Value of a Friend 41 The House Beautiful 45 Stronger Men. 46 The World's Need 52 Christmas Living • 53 The Salutation of the Dawn 56 A Happy Thought . 58 To the Boys of America • · • • • 59 A New Year's Wish 61 The Schoolmaster's Prayer · 63 Desiderata (facsimile handwriting). 64 The Brave Man 66 Mizpah 68 Peace • "" W. H. Channing Madeline S. Bridges R. L. Stevenson Richard Burton R. L. Stevenson R. L. Stevenson E. O. Grover From the German Henry van Dyke Ellen M. H. Gates R. L. Stevenson • From the German Phillips Brooks Ella Wheeler Wilcox E. O. Grover From the Sanskrit R. L. Stevenson Theodore Roosevelt • E. O. Grover Ian Maclaren R. L. Stevenson Thomas Carlyle J. A. Baker From the Psalms "If it is not a Bartlett it is not a Dodger" Alfred Bartlett, 69,Cornhill, Boston viii The CORNHILL Booklet culated a half million of these "Cornhill Dodgers " than to have preached all of Sam Jones's sermons. Mr. Bartlett did better than this, he started an epidemic of motto cards that has sent millions of stimulating quotations traveling over the world. It is safe to say, however, that nowhere can there be found seventy-five more cheerful, inspiriting and companionable quotations than in the series of "Corn- hill Dodgers." Again Mr. Bartlett had done a little thing well and the world has rewarded him for it. " << It was only a step from the Dodgers" to The Sym- phony Calendar made up of twelve of the quotations under the leadership of Channing's Symphony.' Symphony." The two thousand people who bought the Symphony Calendar" the first year said they were tired of picture calendars of giddy girls and fussy bouquets of embossed flowers. They liked the idea of a literary calendar" printed on Japan vellum in red and black. It appealed to their intelligence and did them good. 66 “ The Symphony Calendar was followed by the "Steven- son Calendar of Prayers" containing twelve of Robert Louis Stevenson's reverent and beautiful prayers, printed within Gregson borders on tall sheets of Japan vellum. For three years people who never hear a prayer from one year's end to another and who much less dare utter one, have been led in prayer from month to month by Robert Louis Stevenson, the teller of tales and the teacher of men. The Inspiration Calendar" consists of twenty-six of "The Cornhill Dodgers" beautifully printed in red and black. It must have been a genuine pleasure to Mr. Bart- lett to discover so many people eager for the chaste and literary calendars which he has issued. The popularity or the gaudy picture calendars seemed to indicate that this was the sort of thing that people liked. Mr. Bartlett has taught them to like something better. " The ADVERTISEMENTS ix A·CALENDAR OF INSPIRATION gy 1906 T HIS CALENDAR bears on each of its 26 leave, (there being one for each two weeks through the year) a message of helpful truth by Emerson, Lowells Channing, David Swing, M. D. Babcock, Phillips Brooks, R. L. Stevenson, Henry van Dyke, Edwin Osgood Grover and others, printed with rubrical initials on cream- colored paper. Some are printed from designs drawn and lettered by T. B. Hapgood, H. B. Ames, Will Dwiggins, and Herbert Gregson; and others from selected classical types, with initials especially designed. "Mr. Bartlett has taken his publications in this field very seriously, giving them unusual dignity." -New York Tribune. 'The imprint of Alfred Bartlett stands for uniqueness and artistic merit.' The Beacon. (4 SIZES, 5x8 INCHES. BOXED. PRICE, 75C. BY MAIL, 8oc. Alfred Bartlett,69, Cornhill, Boston X The CORNHILL Booklet A MESSAGE FROM Mind TO THE MINDS OF THE MANY HIS is pre-eminently the day of good things for the many. It is in step with this particular line of progress that Mind, "the leading exponent of New Thought, has made a two-fifths reduction in its subscription price. It has been a $2.50 periodical. It is going to remain a $2.50 periodical, but hereafter the cost, per year, will be only $1.50. When it consisted of but eighty-four pages of reading matter it made a place and a name for itself at $2.00. Now it has ninety-six pages and in- tends to make a still better record at $1.50. There is work to be done in this world- this world of thought as well as this world material. Much good work can be done by individuals, as such; infinitely more can be done by individuals in unison. The forces that make for separateness accomplish their own destruction; the force that makes for unity-under whatever name -is everlasting. There is no limit to the achievements of many minds in unison. Join forces with us and watch the result. T ,, ALLIANCE PUBLISHING CO. Oscawana-on-Hudson, New York 1 SIMPLICITY S IMPLICITY IS LESS DEPENDENT UP- ON EXTERNAL THINGS THAN WE IMAGINE. IT CAN LIVE IN BROAD- CLOTH OR HOMESPUN; IT CAN EAT WHITE BREAD OR BLACK. IT IS NOT OUTWARD, BUT INWARD. A CERTAIN OPENNESS OF MIND TO LEARN THE DAILY LESSONS OF LIFE; A CERTAIN WILLING- NESS OF HEART TO GIVE AND TO RECEIVE THAT EXTRA SERVICE, THAT GIFT BE- YOND THE STRICT MEASURE OF DEBT WHICH MAKES FRIENDSHIP POSSIBLE; A CERTAIN CLEARNESS OF SPIRIT TO PER- CEIVE THE BEST IN THINGS AND PEOPLE, TO LOVE IT WITHOUT FEAR AND TO CLEAVE TO IT WITHOUT MISTRUST; A PEACEABLE SURENESS OF AFFECTION AND TASTE; A GENTLE STRAIGHTFORWARD- NESS OF ACTION; A KIND SINCERITY OF SPEECH, THESE ARE THE MARKS OF THE SIMPLE LIFE, WHICH IS WITHIN. I HAVE SEEN IT IN A HUT. I HAVE SEEN IT IN A PALACE. AND WHEREVER IT IS FOUND IT IS THE BEST PRIZE OF THE SCHOOL OF LIFE, THE BADGE OF A SCHOLAR WELL- BELOVED OF THE MASTER. HENRY VAN DYKE 1 The CORNHILL Booklet VOL III] WINTER, McмV [NUM 6 THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL by T. J. COBDEN-SANDERSON T HE IDEAL BOOK OR BOOK BEAU- tiful is a composite thing made up of many parts and may be made beautiful by the beauty of each of its parts its literary con- tent, its material or materials, its writing or printing, its illumination or illustration, its binding and decoration of each of its parts in subordination to the whole which collectively they constitute: or it may be made beautiful by the supreme beauty of one or more of its parts, all the other parts subordinating or even effacing themselves for the sake of this one or more, and each in turn being capable of playing this supreme part and each in its own peculiar and characteristic way. On the other hand each contributory craft may usurp the functions of the rest and of the whole and growing beautiful beyond all bounds ruin for its own the common cause. I propose in this brief essay, putting aside for the moment the material, paper or vellum, the binding & decoration, and the literary content of the Book Beautiful, to say a few words on the artistic treatment of the vehicle of expression- Calligraphy, Printing, & Illustration and on the Book Beautiful, as a whole. CALLIGRAPHY HANDWRITING and hand decoration of letter and page are at the root of the Book Beautiful, are at the root of Typography and of woodcut or engraved Decoration, 104 THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL and every printer, and indeed every one having to do with the making of books should ground himself in the practice or knowledge of the Art of Beautiful Writing or Callig- raphy, and let both hand and soul luxuriate and rejoice. for a while in the art of Illumination. Such practice would keep Type alive under the influence of an ever living and fluent prototype. It would supply a stock of exemplars & suggestions from which the Typographer might cautiously borrow, converting into his own rigid stock such of the new beautiful growths of Calligraphy as commended them- selves to him for the purpose. In the making of the Written Book, moreover, in which various modes of presentment are combined, symbolical and pictorial, the adjustment of letter to letter, of word to word, of picture to text and of text to picture, and of the whole to the subject matter and to the page, admits of great nicety and perfection. The type is fluid, and the letters and words, picture, text, and page are conceived of as one and are all executed by one hand, or by several hands all working together without intermediation on one identical page and with a view to one identical effect. In the Printed Book this adjustment is more difficult. The type is rigid and implacable. The labour is divided and dispersed the picture or illustration, for example, is too often done quite independently and at a distance, without thought of the printed page, and inserted, a stranger, amid an alien type. Yet in the making of the printed book, as in the making of the written book, this adjustment is essen- tial, and should be specially borne in mind, and Callig- raphy and immediate decoration by hand and the unity which should be inseparably associated therewith would serve as an admirable discipline to that end. : Perhaps the most interesting things to note historically in this connection are (1) that all Calligraphy in Italy, Spain, France, Germany & England would seem to be a by T. J. COBDEn-Sanderson 105 development, with many subdivisions, of Roman Callig- raphy, itself a development of Greek, and that the beau- tiful formation of the letters and their orderly placement in sequence upon the rectangular page are but modes of that general delight in the making of order and beauty which is the note of unity throughout all the arts; and (2) that in Calligraphy, as in all the arts, a beauty of decoration once started on its way, proceeds to throw off the condi- tions of its birth & where it was meant to be only a minis- ter to make itself master. The stages in this usurpation in the case of Calligraphy are singularly well marked and ap- parent. At the outset, Calligraphy was uniform writing only, a succession of SQUARE CAPITALS all of equal value. Then came the enlargement of the sphere of action, so to speak, of letters in prominent positions, of initial let- ters and their decorative treatment; then, in consequence of this very enlargement, a further enlargement or empha- sis which ended in ceasing to be adjective decoration and becoming a substantive beauty, as of a picture, framed by the adjacent illumination and writing, but superior to them as the flower to the leaf. Each of these stages has a beauty of its own, and each in its turn constitutes a Book in some sense a Beautiful Book. But in the passage from the im- age created in the mind by abstract symbolism to the image expressed on the page by verisimilitude, the book itself underwent a change and became in the process, not a ve- hicle for the conveyance of an image, but itself the image, to be appreciated not so much by the imagination, the inner eye, as directly by the outer eye, the sense of sight itself; just as on the stage the scenery created at first imaginatively by the spectators, in obedience to the influence of the actor, is now presented externally by the scene painter and costumier in simulated reality. I apprehend that when the illuminator, passing on from the decoration of significant or initial letters, took to the making of pictures in this fashion 106 THE BOOK BEautiful within the folds of them, he was pressing his art too far. He was in danger, as the event showed, of subordinating his Text to himself, of sacrificing the thing signified to the mode of its signification, for in the end the written com- munication became as it were nothing, or but the frame- work or apology to support a succession of beautiful pic- tures, beautiful indeed, but beautiful at the expense of the Text which they had set out to magnify. And we may in this connection safely moralise and say that when many arts combine, or propose to combine, to the making of one thing, as the process continues, and the several arts develop, each will attempt to assert itself to the destruction of the one thing needful, to the making of which they at first all combined in a common subordina- tion. Thus in our own case the illuminator destroyed by over relative development the purely written text; and the moral is that every artist, in contributing to the Book Beautiful, must keep himself well in hand and strictly sub- ordinate both his art and his ambition to the end in view. He must remember that in such a case his art is a means only and not itself an end. It is worthy of remark that the Church fought against the idolatry of its Scribes, and sought to curtail the too exuberant beauty of their illuminators, and a similar attempt was made to keep down the idolatry of the Binder. The Church has perhaps lost all pretension even to influence in this respect. But artists should not need the guidance of anything outside themselves as artists. They should, as artists, realise that the world of art is a commonweal, and that the most beautiful art is composite work, higher than the art of each, and that the art of each is contributory, only to be exercised in due subordination to the ideal which is the creation of all. by T. J. COBDEN-SANDERSON 107 TYPOGRAPHY THE PASSAGE from the Written Book to the Printed Book was sudden and complete. Nor is it wonderful that the earliest productions of the printing press are the most beautiful and that the history of its subsequent career is but the history of its decadence. The Printer carried on into Type the tradition of the Calligrapher and of the Callig- rapher at his best. As this tradition died out in the dis- tance, the craft of the Printer declined. It is the function of the Calligrapher to revive and restore the craft of the Print- er to its original purity of intention and accomplishment. The Printer must at the same time be a Calligrapher, or in touch with him, and there must be in association with the Printing Press a Scriptorium where beautiful writ- ing may be practised and the art of letter-designing kept alive. And there is this further evidence of the depend- ence of printing upon writing: the great revival in printing which is taking place under our own eyes, is the work of a Printer who before he was a Printer was a Calligrapher and an Illuminator, WILLIAM MORRIS. The whole duty of Typography, as of Calligraphy, is to communicate to the imagination, without loss by the way, the thought or image intended to be communicated by the Author. And the whole duty of beautiful typog- raphy is not to substitute for the beauty or interest of the thing thought and intended to be conveyed by the sym- bol, a beauty or interest of its own, but, on the one hand, to win access for that communication by the clearness and beauty of the vehicle, and on the other hand, to take ad- vantage of every pause or stage in that communication to interpose some characteristic & restful beauty in its own We thus have a reason for the clearness and beauty of the text as a whole, for the especial beauty of the first or introductory page and of the title, and for the especial art. 108 THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL beauty of the headings of chapters, capital or initial letters, and so on, and an opening for the illustrator as we shall see by and by. Further, in the case of Poetry, verse, in my opinion, appeals by its form to the eye, as well as to the ear, and should be placed on the page so that its structure may be taken in at a glance and distinctively appreciated, & any- thing which interferes with this swiftness of apprehension and appreciation, however beautiful in itself, is in relation to the book as a whole a typographical impertinence. ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATION, the other expressive constituent of the Book Beautiful, is a part of the whole subject matter, in process of symbolical communication, picked out, iso- lated, and presented pictorially. Besides its relation in the field of imagination to the rest of the subject matter, the thought of the book, it has a relation and a most impor- tant relation, in the field of the senses, to the vehicle of communication, the immediate typographical environment, amid which it appears. And here comes in the question, which has sometimes been confused with the question of relationship, the question of the mode in which the pic- torial illustration may be produced and transferred to the page, by woodcut, by steel or copper engraving, or by process. But this seems to me to be an entirely subordi- nate though important question. The main question is the aspect which the illustration shall be made to take in order to fit it into and amid a page of Typography. And I sub- mit that its aspect must be essentially formal and of the same texture, so to speak, as the letterpress. It should have a set frame or margin to itself, demarcating it dis- tinctly from the text, and the shape and character of the frame, if decorative, should have relation to the page as by T. J. COBDEN-Sanderson 109 well as to the illustrative content; and the illustrative con- tent itself should be formal and kept under so as literally to illustrate, and not to dim by over brilliancy the rest of the subject matter left to be communicated to the imagination by the letterpress alone. THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL AS A WHOLE FINALLY, if the Book Beautiful may be beautiful by vir- tue of its writing or printing or illustration, it may also be beautiful, be even more beautiful, by the union of all to the production of one composite whole, the consummate BOOK BEAUTIFUL. Here the idea to be communi- cated by the book comes first, as the thing of supreme importance. Then comes in attendance upon it, striving for the love of the idea to be itself beautiful, the written or printed page, the decorated or decorative letters, the pic- tures, set amid the text, and finally the binding, holding the whole in its strong grip and for very love again itself becoming beautiful because in company with the idea. This is the supreme Book Beautiful or Ideal Book, a dream, a symbol of the infinitely beautiful in which all things of beauty do ultimately merge. The Book Beautiful, then, should be conceived of as a whole, and the self-assertion of any Art beyond the limits imposed by the conditions of its service should be looked upon as an Act of Treason. The proper duty of each Art within such limits is to co-operate with all the other Arts, similarly employed, in the production of something which is distinctively Not-Itself. The wholeness, sym- metry, harmony, beauty without stress or strain, of the Book Beautiful, would then be one in principle with the wholeness, symmetry, harmony, and beauty without stress or strain, of that WHOLE OF LIFE WHICH IS CONSTITUTED OF OURSELVES AND THE IIO THE BOOK Beautiful ; WORLD, THAT COMPLEX & MARVELLOUS WHOLE WHICH, AMID THE STRIFE OF COMPETITIVE FORCES, SUPREMELY HOLDS ITS OWN, AND IN THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE WRITES, UPON THE ILLUMINED PAGES OF THE DAYS, THE VOLUMES OF THE CEN- TURIES, AND THROUGH THE INFINITUDES OF TIME & SPACE MOVES RHYTHMICALLY ONWARD TO THE FULL DEVELOPMENT OF IT'S ASTONISHING STORY, THE TRUE ARCHETYPE OF ALL LIFE AND OF ALL BOOKS BEAUTIFUL OR SUBLIME. ! The ADVERTISEMENTS xi My Symphony A Task The Cornhill Broadsides N response to the desire of my customers to have, in larger form, some of the mottoes of the Dodger series, I have prepared the following twelve subjects in a size eight inches wide by ten inches long. They are printed in red and black from hand-lettered designs, on 14-ply, cream linen-finish stock, with the edges beveled. I Price, postpaid; each 25 cents, the set of twelve, $2.50 The Foot-Path to Peace But Once Good Night The House Beautiful Stronger Men The World's Need The Salutation of the Dawn William H. Channing Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson A Morning Prayer The School Teacher's Creed Edwin Osgood Grover A House Blessing Anon Henry van Dyke Anon Ellen M. H. Gates From the German Phillips Brooks Ella W. Wilcox From the Sanscrit Book-plates Mr. Bartlett is prepared to take orders for book-plates. Designs will be made in any style, pictorial, decorative, or heraldic, print- ed from steel plates, woodcuts or zinc etch- ings to suit the customer. Prices from $15.00 to $200.00 Alfred Bartlett, 69, Cornhill, Boston xii The CORNHILL Booklet Perhaps the most beautiful, as well as the most preten- tious calendar undertaken by Mr. Bartlett, is the Beati- tudes Calendar," and of course no one but R. Anning Bell could do this and do it just right. So Mr. Bartlett went to England for the drawings, which are among Mr. Bell's most exquisite work. Surely anyone is blessed in- deed who has the companionship of this beautiful calendar. I would not give the impression that Mr. Bartlett is al- ways serious minded or infallibly artistic. I have caught him laughing several times and not always up his sleeve, and like all of us, he has made his faux pas and profited by them. In one of his literary explorations he came up- on some old English Almanacks which gave him several quiet smiles. In the kindness of his heart he at once com- piled A Remarkable Almanack," reproducing in quaint typography, grotesque woodcuts and archaic wording all the flavor of the seventeenth century. Another old world discovery of Mr. Bartlett's was " The Page," a unique magazine published at The Sign of the Rose," Hackbridge, Surrey, England, by Mr. Gordon Craig, the talented son of Miss Ellen Terry. I believe Mr. Bartlett was never able to locate The Sign of the Rose" on any map, but he did arrange to publish an American edition of this aristocratic magazine, which was limited to only 250 numbered copies. "The Page" with its medieval flavor of hand-colored woodcuts and its ingenu- ous text, all printed on varying shades of wrapping paper, and the whole expressing the personality of one man, re- mains unique in magazine publishing. The early issues of "The Page" fetch fabulous sums, so if you have them keep them and be thankful; if you have never seen them the old proverb in regard to the bliss of ignorance holds. true. Mr. Bartlett's joy in his work is shown in everything The ADVERTISEMENTS xiii Books THE WILL OF CHARLES LOUNSBURY. A composition of great beauty. Printed in red and black, bound in charcoal paper, with slide case. Small 16mo. Price, postpaid, 25 cents. THE VALLEY OF DREAMS By H. HAYDEN SANDS. Illustrated by Adolfo de Nesti. "Breathing mysticism and seeking to lift the reader from the material to the enjoyment of beauty." Printed on hand-made paper, and bound in quarter vellum, 8vo, postpaid, $1.00. APHORISMS By IVAN PANIN. Six hundred and ninety-six short paragraphs on the subjects of sorrow, religion, wisdom and folly, charity and love, conduct of life, family and society, etc. 16m0, 96 pp. Printed in old-style type on laid paper; bound in half cloth, paper label. Price, postpaid, fifty cents. "There are many bright, clever and wise sayings in the book, each paragraph rarely exceeding four lines, and being abundant of suggestion and good ad- vice."-Bangor Daily Commercial. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL By OSCAR WILDE. A popular edition of this wonderful poem. 32 pages, bound in cloth. Price per copy, 35 cents. FATHER DAMIEN By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 12mo., cloth. Price, 35 cents. THE GIPSY TRAIL By RUDYARD KIPLING. An exquisite love poem, not broadly known. Printed in red and black, with frontispiece woodcut by E. B. Bird. 32mo, boards. Price 25 cents, by mail 30 cents. I knew there would be some of you who were looking for a Christmas card that is different from others, so I asked Miss Brown and Miss Patterson to fix up some new designs. They went up in Vermont for the summer and worked on the cards there at a farmhouse. They are like the things which a craftsman takes pleasure in making. Four designs, 25 cents each, or the four, postpaid, $1.00 Alfred Bartlett,69,Cornhill, Boston xiv The CORNHILL Booklet THREE SUGGESTIONS T HE Craftsman's Guild has made for its own pleasure and for that of a few friends, three books which have been hand-lettered, and printed without the aid of type. Each book has been illuminated in gold-leaf and water-colours, which makes it unique. It offers them as sugges- tions for Christmas gifts. If one appreciates a book, or beauty in any form, he is quite likely to enjoy these volumes which remind one of the time when << a book was still a book, Where a wistful man might look; Finding something through the whole, Beating-like a human soul.' I- 1- Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard 150 copies, Japan vellum, half holland, 10 copies, Japan vellum, tooled levant (4 copies left), $15.00 50.00 2-Two Lyrics By the REVEREND JOHN B. TABB 375 copies, Arnold paper, half holland, 50 copies, Japan vellum, parchment cover (10 copies left), All copies autographed by Father Tabb 3-The Perfect Woman (Being the XXXI chapter of Proverbs) 310 copies, Arnold paper, half holland, 50 copies, Japan vellum, parchment cover (8 copies left), $5.00 15.00 All books are numbered and signed by the illuminator, and put up in slide cases. A fuller description of these and other books will be sent if you say so to THE CRAFTSMAN'S GUILD of Highland Park, Illinois "Vale qui legeris." $5.00 15.00 The ADVERTISEMENTS XV << he has done, from "The Cornhill Booklet " to the latest Dodger" calendar, and he has made us all his debtors by the artistic touch which he has given everything he has issued. It is no small matter to make a useful thing beauti- ful, yet if I am not mistaken, this is the highest aim of art. E. O. G. Alfred Bartlett A study by Richard F. Pohle xvi The CORNHILL Booklet O N any little festive occasion where remembrance tokens are appropriate, a Roycroft Book is always in good taste. The following volumes are printed on hand- made paper, bound in limp leather and silk lined. NATURE Ralph Waldo Emerson SELF-RELIANCE Ralph Waldo Emerson RIP VAN WINKLE Washington Irving 2.00 THE LAW OF LOVE William Marion Reedy 2.00 A CHRISTMAS CAROL Charles Dickens 2.00 2.00 $2.00 2.00 RUBAIYAT Omar Khayyam CHRISTMAS EVE Robert Browning READING GAOL Oscar Wilde FRIENDSHIP Henry D. Thoreau 2.00 2.00 WILL O' THE MILL Robert Louis Stevenson 2.00 POE'S POEMS Edgar Allen Poe SONG OF MYSELF Walt Whitman JOAQUIN MILLER Elbert Hubbard 2.00 2.00 2.00 THE HOLLY TREE INN Charles Dickens THE MAN OF SORROWS Elbert Hubbard 2.00 RESPECTABILITY Elbert Hubbard 2.00 Send for Catalog and Sample Copies of THE PHILISTINE and LITTLE Journeys The Roycrofters East Aurora, Erie County, New York 2.00 2.00 The ADVERTISEMENTS xvii Books and Bookplates THE WOODCUT CALENDAR. This is a series of thirteen prints, designed and carved on wood by MISS ELLA S. BRISON. These prints are made direct from the orignal wood blocks, and are printed in blue and black on a heavy imported brown paper, bound by real leather thongs. Each de- sign is an adaptation of the sign of the zodiac. This series is suitable for framing. Price, $1.00. ¶ THE TRIPTYCH TRIO. A set of three miniature books, each devoted to a serviceable subject. These books are printed in colors on an imitation hand-made paper, with rough edges, and are bound in boards covered with brown paper and Japan vellum. This set collected into a miniature case, comprises: The Book of Quotations, by HEDWIG V. BRIESEN; being a col- lection of quotations suitable to accompany gifts of various kinds. The Book of Toasts, by JOHN BRUCE; being a collection of toasts to fit various occasions. The Book of Correspondence, by KENDALL BANNING; being a collection of data for the desk, including calendars, postal rates, forms of salutation, the language of sealing-wax, post- age-stamp flirtation code and other interesting items. This set is peculiarly suitable for a gift owing both to its dainty form and to its practical value as a reference. Ready November 15. Price a set, $1.00. BOOKPLATES. A collection of ten bookplates, de- signed and engraved by TRIPTYCH, and printed in colors on Japan Vellum. Introductory note by KENDALL Banning. This is an unusually attractive collection of ex libris, bound in quaint form. Price, 50 cents. ¶WOMEN DESIGNERS OF BOOKPLATES, by WILBUR MACEY STONE. This book includes 36 bookplate designs by women. Bound in green board. Price, $1.50. JAY CHAMBERS, HIS BOOKPLATES, with 27 ex- amples of his ex libris designs and an essay concerning them, by WILBUR MACEY STONE. Price, $1.50. ¶ BOOKPLATES AND LABELS designed, engraved and printed at prices ranging from $20.00 (£4) upwards. Address THE TRIPTYCH, Publishers, NEW YORK xviii The CORNHILL Booklet The Rose-Jar A BOOK LOVER'S POTPOURRI A luxurious 128 page quarto quarterly magazine of book lore for book lovers and collectors. Sold only on yearly subscription. Edition limited to 2,500. First number Autumn, 1905. Subscription price, $5.00. A descriptive circular may be had. Address K The Rose-Jar 24-26 East 21st Street, NEW YORK The Heintzemann Press 185 Franklin Street Boston The ADVERTISEMENTS xix The Atlantic Monthly for 1906 will contain contributions from E. S. Martin W. C. Hazlitt T. R. Sullivan N. S. Shaler Julian Hawthorne John Corbin Elizabeth McCracken Sewell Ford Rose E. Young Maurice Maeterlinck H. D. Sedgwick Bradford Torrey Arthur Colton Caroline Duer S. McC. Crothers John Burroughs Margaret Sherwood October, November and December 1905 sent without charge to new subscribers for 1906 35 cents a copp $4.00 a pear HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. 4 Park Street, Boston XX The CORNHILL Booklet THE REGULAR THE PHILISTINE, a year LITTLE JOURNEYS, a year ONE ROYCROFT BOOK Extra Special! TWO DOLLARS FOR ALL IF SUBSCRIPTION IS SENT TO US SOON RATES $1.00 3.00 2.00 Total $6.00 9 10 II ittle Journeys for 1906 will be to Homes of Great Lovers I Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood 2 William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft Dante and Beatrice Subjects are as follows: 3 4 John Stuart Mill and Mrs. Taylor 5 Parnell and Kitty O'Shea Petrarch and Laura Date 7 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall 8 Balzac and Madame Hanska Fenelon and Madame Guyon Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Donniges Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet 12 Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne The Philistine, East Aurora, N. Y. Enclosed find Two Dollars, and I request you to send me The Philistine magazine for one year, and Little Journeys for 1906, also the gratis Two-Dollar Roycroft Book, all as per your special offer. The ADVERTISEMENTS xxi The Mosher Books MDCCCCV Send for the new cata- logue for 1905 revised and enlarged in format, printed in red and black, 64 pages. Free on request Thomas B. Mosher Portland, Maine xxii The CORNHILL Booklet 983 1838 3836ICIBISIBICILICIS The CORNHILL LETTER? LEAFLETS Friendly messages for all seasons Alfred Bartlett BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS **363636363636363636363 WAD 36363636363636363 A SET of a dozen cards, bearing friendly or bookish messages printed on various kinds and sizes of stock in differing types and colors. Selections from Shake- speare, Whittier, Longfellow, Kipling, Stevenson and others. These, like the Cornhill Dodgers, will be used by many as a substitute for Christmas cards, for book-marks, birthday greetings and things of that kind. The set in heavy envelope, postpaid, 50 cents. Alfred Bartlett,69, Cornhill, Boston UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN dar Replaced with Commercial Microform 1987 9 3 9015 00576 3274 319370 ARTES LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SVATAJ. VERITAS SELMOTIVE VERSE TUEBOR SCIENTIA · QUÆRIS-PENINSULAM-AMŒNAM CIRCUMSPICE JNIJI. OF THE