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"Literature is a very bad crutch, but a very good walking-stick."-CHARLES LAMB, in a letter to Bernard Barton.

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A DICTIONARY OF LITERATURE.* [In justice both to this work and to ourselves it should be said that this notice of it was prepared before any thought

DISCOURSE, THE

Little Dorrit. A novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1855.

"Little Ellie sits alone." First line of The of the arrangement announced elsewhere had been enter- Romance of the Swan's Nest, by ELIZABETH BARained; and that absolutely no change has been made in the RETT BROWNING. notice in consequence of that arrangement.]

ence.

Stella, in the poetry of Sir PHILIP SIDNEY, is the name under which he celebrates his love for the lady Penelope Devereux. The latter lady is celebrated by SPENSER in his Astrophel (q. v.). See PHILOCLEA.

Stella. The poetical name bestowed by Dean was, and whom he married privately in 1761. Swift upon Miss Esther Johnson, whose tutor he The word "Esther," from the Greek àσrǹp, means "a star;" in Latin "Stella."

Stella. The authoress of some charming verses called My Queen, which, allied to a charming melody by Blumenthal, have had and still have a wide-spread popularity. Stella's real name was Mrs. BOWEN-GRAVES.

Village, Our. A series of rural sketches, contributed by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (17861855) to The Lady's Magazine in 1819, and republished in 1824. A second volume followed in 1825, a third in 1828, a fourth in 1830, and a fifth in 1832. "Every one," says Chorley, now knows Our Village, and every one knows that the nooks and corners, the haunts and copses, so dethe immediate neighborhood of Reading, and lightfully described in its pages, will be found in more especially around Three-Mile-Cross, a cluster of cottages on the Basingstoke Road, in one of which the authoress resided for many years."

THIS
HIS dictionary is unique, and in plan
and execution one of the most valu-
able of recent additions to the class of
special cyclopedias and works of refer-
It fills, and fills well, a place which
no one volume has ever attempted to fill,
combining within itself the functions which
have hitherto been exercised by separate
works. Its contents comprise: (1) standard
names in literary biography, with lists of
principal works of authors mentioned, and
occasional brief critical opinions; (2) titles
of important works in various departments
of literature novels, poems, plays, essays,
etc., with dates and other particulars of
authorship, publication and character; (3)
pseudonyms, with explanations; (4) quota-
tions, familiar and otherwise; (5) names of
prominent characters in fiction; (6) first lines
of many poems, songs and ballads ; (7) names
of literary institutions, etc., etc. It is as if Al-
libone's Dictionary of Authors, Bartlett's Fa-
Of such a work as this perfection is not
miliar Quotations, Wheeler's Noted Names to be expected. We notice some errors and
of Fiction, and some cyclopedia of literature omissions, which are not to be wondered at,
had been mixed in one, the mass wrung out, with others which it is less easy to account
the pulp passed through compressing rollers, for. We find no mention of Domesday
and the result presented in one compact Book, none of the late George Cruikshank,
volume of 700 pages, square octavo. No none of Walter Besant, none of Dr. Stough
such single work, of course, can contain all ton, the Nonconformist historian, none of
that each of the others named contains; so F. W. Robinson the novelist, and none
that it does not supersede or crowd either of
them; it is rather a distillation of their in-
dividual essence into a new mixture. The

of the London Academy, or of our namesake
of the same city, the Literary World. A
dictionary which makes no account of lead-
ing publishers is seriously defective. Such

of Whittier's birth is given as 1808 instead of 1807. Such faults as these appear on cursory examination, but tried at other points, we are bound to say, the work is accurate, and its general faithfulness and sufficiency we find no reason to call in question. Its value is varied and conspicuous, and we distinctly and emphatically mark it as one of the few books of reference which are essential to every person who takes any interest in English literature.

KEATS'S LOVE-LETTERS.*

-no woman's for that matter-ought to be published

No man's love-letters

without the author's consent, except for very
weightily sufficient reasons.
Least of all
ought the love-letters of such a man as John
Keats, in whom the tender passion must
have taken a very morbid form and found
a most unnatural expression. Keats has now
been dead more than half a century; the
Fanny Brawne whom he loved has been
dead we know not how long also; and with
one or the other of them these letters should
have been buried. Doubtless the bones of
the saints have an interest for the faithful as
relics, but does that interest constitute ade-
them?
quate reason for disinterring and exhibiting

In the case of letters like these cremation would be even better than burial.

Miss Brawne was a young lady of good family, who lived with her widowed mother and a brother and sister in Wentworth Place, Hampstead, a few miles out of London. Here Keats met her in the summer of 1818. He fell desperately in love with her "madly" so, as these letters evince, and an engagement of marriage resulted. The marriage however never took place. Keats health, and in 1820 was driven to Italy in was trammeled by his circumstances and his search of a friendlier clime, where, after lingering a few months, he died. Of the letters this period thirty-seven are here printed. In which he wrote to Miss Brawne during date, they fall between the summer of 1819 and the time for his departure for Italy. In length, they range from half a dozen lines to several pages. They were written by turns from the Isle of Wight, from Winchester, from London, and from the house next to the Brawne's at Hampstead, where Keats was at

one time domiciled with his friend Charles Armitage Brown. Sparsedly printed as they are here, they fill about one hundred pages;

* Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne. With Intro

Dictionary of English Literature. By W. Davenport a book as Kenelm Digby's The Broadstone duction and Notes by Harry Baxton Forman. Scribner,

Adams. Cassell, Petter & Galpin.

of Honour ought to be entered under its

Armstrong & Co.

are now alive; by whom, it is understood, the 2. This should be one of the lighter wines.
letters were entrusted to Mr. Forman. Per- Claret and Rhine wines appear to receive
haps he takes warrant for the responsibility about equal recommendation on physiologi-
he has accepted in this bit of pleasantry in cal considerations, but the relative cheapness
letter xxxi: "I had nothing particular to say of claret is mentioned as a reason for pref-
to-day, but not intending that there shall be erence. Burgundy and champagne, not much
any interruption to our correspondence (which artificially sweetened, appear to stand next
at some future time I propose offering to in order; while the strong or fortified wines,
Murray) I write something." To us the act sherry, port, etc., should be reserved for old
looks very much like a speculation in some of age or unusual necessities.
the most sacred remains of the dead.

3. One kind of wine, only, should be the general rule.

the rest of the little volume being occupied with an extended historical, analytical and critical preface by the editor, with notes, and with an appendix devoted to the identification of Wentworth Place. For the special student of Keats's peculiar genius and singular character they have of course their value, furnishing new and rare material for delightful employment in the dissecting room of the college of spiritual anatomy. To the general reader they are only interesting as the profuse and extravagant outpourings of The book is printed with some unusual a lover's soul; that lover one of the remark- niceties of typography, and contains an etch- The book is entirely silent upon American able men of his generation. Except for a ing of Severn's drawing of Keats's head, wines, and its recommendations, even from certain fiery brilliancy and a very vehement taken as he lay upon his dying bed at Rome; the author's standpoint of assuming the pathos, their literary merit is little or nothing; also a full-length silhouette of Miss Brawne, general usefulness and genuineness of wines for they are often faulty in grammar, and by Edouard, of whose skillful work we have in market, must be modified in this country careless in expression, punctuation and spell- successful examples enough in our own pos- by the avowed and well-known fact that ing. But then Keats is not the only man of session to enable us readily to believe that most imported wines receive some addition parts who has spelled yachts yatchs. They it is an excellent likeness. It hardly sug- of spirits. An American edition of the contain many incoherent passages and inex-gests the "Beauty," however, over which book, giving counsels adapted to the characplicable allusions. The extravagance of Keats went so rapturous. ter and qualities of imported wines as they their ardor constantly runs into what would are actually found in our markets, and addbe silliness in anybody but a man in love. ing the corresponding information relative. An occasional rift discloses the poet at his to those of native growth, would doubtless SERIES of papers on the uses of find favor with that class of our people who task, or gives us a glimpse of the scenes wines, originally contributed by Dr. believe that the remedy for the gross and upon which he looked from his windows, and now and then an attempt at humor produces Anstie to the Practitioner, an English medi- destructive spirit-drinking, so common in the effect of a sickly smile; but these reliefs cal journal, are here republished in a small our land, lies in the introduction of light are exceptions to the morbid rule. The men- volume. Dr. Anstie disclaims at the outset wines and the encouragement of moderation tal and bodily ailments of the writer and the any discussion of the advisability of using in their use. To this theory Dr. Anstie's sense of his disappointments wring from alcoholic liquors; and assumes it to be "es- book gives effective aid. him sharp cries of pain, which too often tablished both by wide-spread custom and deepen into a wail of despair. At one time by the most recent physiological research an unreasonable jealousy makes him almost that alcohol has a legitimate place in the petulant; at another he is well nigh abject sustentation both of the healthy and of the in his prostration before his idol. "A thousand images "are rushing through his mind, which is "heap'd to the full," he tells his mistress, "stuff'd like a cricket ball." In such disordered strain he runs on, to use his own figure, "like the strokes of a ham

mer."

We cannot think that any good service has been done to the memory of Keats by giving these letters to the public. His fame,

A

USES OF WINES.*

diseased organism." Without giving facts
or arguments on this topic he enters at once
upon an explanation of the leading constitu-
ents of the best known and most common
wines; of the reasons for preferring, for all
ordinary constitutions, wines to spirits or
malt liquors, and for recommending the light-
er or natural wines rather than the stronger or
fortified ones; and of the considerations

MAY'S DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE.*
EMOCRACY is the inevitable lot of

DE

humanity, said Cavour; and from this assertion of the great Italian few thoughtful men would differ. The study of Democracy and of its development, of its varied qualities, and of its vast capacities for good and for evil, and above all of the methods by which it can be made a blessing and not a curse to mankind, is therefore of the greatest practical value and interest. The high reputation

which may render the various wines appro- of the author of the Constitutional History
priate to particular constitutions. These of England gives him peculiar claims upon
subjects occupy the first half of his book on public attention in dealing with so vital a
"the place of wines in ordinary diet;" subject. But it must be confessed that the
which is written in an untechnical, lucid book, coming as it does from such a source,
style, well adapted to be understood by the is in some respects a disappointing one.
general reader, and candid and out-spoken The defects lie in the general treatment of
in its recognition of the dangers of excess, and the subject. The work is not in the best
its suggestion of motives to moderation and sense a history of Democracy, but ought
of precautions against injury. The second rather to be entitled "Studies of Popular
part, the uses of wines in disease, is more Government." In other words the various
countries are treated in a detached and sep-
technical in its methods.
The leading thoughts on the use of wine arate fashion, and not as parts of a great
in diet may be indicated thus:
whole. Yet such a subject above all others
requires the most philosophic and scientific
handling, and demands as its very first requi-
site continuity in treatment.

if at one time obscured, is now established;
and these privacies of personal endearment
do not show the man to increased advantage.
Ten years after his death Miss Brawne
wrote: "The kindest act would be to let him
rest forever in the obscurity to which circum-
stances have condemned him." Later in her
life she darkly said of these same letters
that they ought to be carefully guarded, "as
they would some day be considered of value."
Long before this, however, she had been
married to a Mr. Lewis Lindo, so that her
attachment to Keats had become a thing
of the past; yet it is upon this remark,
1. For those under the age of twenty-five
apparently, that the editor, Mr. Forman, years, no wine as a beverage is the general
founded his belief that she, toward the rule; through adult life, from a half bottle
end of her life, expected that they would for sedentary men, to a bottle for men ro-
bust and active, is a proper daily allowance.
eventually be published. Mrs. Lindon [her
husband after his marriage changed his name
to Louis Lindon] left several children who

Democracy is the greatest social and po

* Democracy in Europe.
*The Uses of Wines in Health and Disease. By Fran- Erskine May, K. C. B., etc.
cis E. Anstie, M.D., F.R.C.P. Macmillan & Co.
dleton.

A History by Sir Thomas In two volumes. W. J. Wid