THE DIAL &nm=iflfl0ntf)l2 Journal of SLiterarg Criticism, 29fecu00i0n, anti Enformatfon. THE DIAL (founded in 18SO) is published on the 1st and 16lh of each month. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, S2.00 a year in advance, postage prepaid in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; in other countries comprised in the Postal Union, 50 cents a year for extra postage must be added. Unless otherwise ordered, subscriptions will begin with the current number. REMITTANCES should be by check, or by express or postal order, payable to THE DIAL. SPECIAL RATES TO CLUBS and for subscriptions with other publications will be sent on application ; and SAMPLE COPY on receipt of 10 cents. ADVERTISING RATES furn ished on application. All communications should be addressed to THE DIAL, No. 24 Adams Street, Chicago. No. iso. DECEMBER 16, 1893. Vol. XV. CONTEXTS. JOHN TYNDALL 377 BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TAINE . 379 RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 380 THE PERSISTENCE OF THE ROMANCE. Rich- ard Burton 380 COMMUNICATIONS 382 The Library of the Chicago University. W, I. Fletcher. " Airs and Manners" in the Old Dominion. A. C. McC. What Shall We Do with John Bull ? Jonathan. A Disclaimer and an Explanation. F. H. WALTER SCOTT'S LETTERS. E.G.J. . . . .384 MR. SPENCER ON THE PRINCIPLES OF BE- NEFICENCE. Paul Shorey 387 AN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST AND HIS WORK. Arthur Howard Noll 389 WHITMANIANA. William Morton Payne .... 390 THE UNITY OF FAITH. John Eascom 392 HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS 395 De la Rocheterie's Life of Marie Antoinette. Bede's The Adventures of Verdant Green. Loftie's Inigo Jones and Wren. Estes & Lauriat's Ivanhoe. Across France in a Caravan. Mrs. Kavanagh's Wo- men in France during the Eighteenth Century. Frances Elliot's Old Court Life in France. Journal of Euge'nie de Gue'rin. Mrs. Gatty's Parables from Nature. Crowell's handy edition of The Abbe" Con- stantin. Frederika Bremer's The Home. Harlow's The World's Best Hymns. Kate Holmes's Pictures from Nature and Life. Estes & Lauriat's Lucille. Trumbull's The Legend of the White Canoe. Crowell's new edition of The Imitation of Christ. Helpful Words from Edward Everett Hale. Whit- taker's Christmas Carols. Appleton & Co.'s Picci- ola. Poems of Nature by Bryant. Dobson's Pro- verbs in Porcelaine. Redgrave's A Century of Paint- ers of the English School. Michel's Rembrandt. Thompson's In the Track of the Sun. Barber's Pot- tery and Porcelaine of the United States. Porter & Coates's Lorna Doone. Scribner's Some Artists at the Fair. Humorous Poems by Hood. Gypsying beyond the Sea. BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG 399 Stanley's My Dark Companions. Stables's West- ward with Columbus. Mrs. Seawell's Paul Jones. Mrs. Bolton's Famous Voyagers and Explorers. Kirk Munroe's The Coral Ship. Harry Castlemon's Rodney the Overseer. Horatio Alger's In a New World. Bangs's Half-Hours with Jimmieboy. Lowell's Jason's Quest. Miss Miller's My Saturday Bird-Class. Mary Howitt's Sketches of Natural His- tory. Miss Bamford's Talks by Queer Folks. CONTENTS Continued. Bridgman's Odd Business. The Sunny Days of Youth. Miss Plympton's Robin's Recruit. Mrs. Alden's Stephen Mitchell's Journey. Stoddard's The White Cave. Andersen's The Little Mermaid, Bain's translation. Barry's The Princess Margar- ethe. Crowell's new edition of Alice in Wonderland. Miss Mulock's Adventures of a Brownie. John- son's The Country School. Trowbridge's Woodie Thorpe's Pilgrimage. Robert Grant's Jack Hall and Jack in the Bush. Ballantyne's The Walrus Hunters. French's Oscar Peterson. Knox's John Boyd's Adventures. Leighton's The Wreck of the Golden Fleece. Billings's Marking the Boundary. Laurie's Schooldays in Italy. Jayne's Through Apache Land. Denison's The Romance of a School- boy. Sarah Morrison's Childhood Days. Miss Ray's Margaret Davis, Tutor. Comic Tragedies by "Jo and Meg." Miss Yechton's Ingleside. Miss Cool- idge's The Barberry Bush. Mrs. Alden's Worth Having. Otis's Jenny Wren's Boarding House. Miss Forbes's The Children's Year Book. Palmer's A Question of Honor. Miss Paull's Ruby's Ups and Downs. Miss Blanchard's Little One's Annual and Twenty Little Maidens. Margaret Sidney's The Child's Day Book. Chatterbox for 1893. Harper's Young People for 1893. Riis's Nibsy's Christmas. Under the Nursery Lamp. Mrs. Fair-star's Memoirs of a London Doll and The Doll and her Friends. Mrs. Champney's Witch Winnie in Paris. Miss Fin- ley's Elsie at Ion. NEW YORK TOPICS. Arthur Sledman 402 LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS 403 TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS 404 LIST OF NEW BOOKS . . 404 JOHN TYNDALL. Looking over the death-roll of the past year, we are more than once reminded of Lear's terrible fatalism : '* As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, They kill us for their sport." Freeman, hardly beyond his prime, found his death in a Spanish inn, the victim of a pox- infected mattress. Symonds, with many fruitful years seemingly before him, was taken off by a cold that passed into pneumonia, while return- ing from the last of his Italian journeys. To Tschaikowsky, on a visit to St. Petersburg, death came in a pestilential draught of water, and Cholera marked him for her own in the fulness of his powers. Last of all, and most ironical in its accent, comes word that John Tyndall is dead, but from no blow dealt by the legitimate assailants of mortality. An overdose of chloral, given by the fatal error of a loving wife, has cut short that career, prematurely, we must say, although the best of his work was doubtless accomplished.
