doesn't some patient drudge of a _privat dozent_ compile a
dictionary of the stable-names of the great? All show dogs and race
horses, as everyone knows, have stable-names. On the list of entries a
fast mare may appear as Czarina Ogla Fedorovna, but in the stable she is
not that at all, nor even Czarina or Olga, but maybe Lil or Jennie. And
a prize bulldog, Champion Zoroaster or Charlemagne XI. on the bench, may
be plain Jack or Ponto _en famille_. So with celebrities of the _genus
homo_. Huxley's official style and appellation was "The Right Hon.
Thomas Henry Huxley, P. C., M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., D. C. L., D. Sc., F.
R. S.," and his biographer tells us that he delighted in its rolling
grandeur--but to his wife he was always Hal. Shakespeare, to his fellows
of his Bankside, was Will, and perhaps Willie to Ann Hathaway. The
Kaiser is another Willie: the late Czar so addressed him in their famous
exchange of telegrams. The Czar himself was Nicky in those days, and no
doubt remains Nicky to his intimates today. Edgar Allan Poe was always
Eddie to his wife, and Mark Twain was always Youth to his. P. T.
Barnum's stable-name was Taylor, his middle name; Charles Lamb's was
Guy; Nietzsche's was Fritz; Whistler's was Jimmie; the late King
Edward's was Bertie; Grover Cleveland's was Steve; J. Pierpont Morgan's
was Jack; Dr. Wilson's is Tom.

Some given names are surrounded by a whole flotilla of stable-names.
Henry, for example, is softened variously into Harry, Hen, Hank, Hal,
Henny, Enery, On'ry and Heinie. Which did Ann Boleyn use when she cooed
into the suspicious ear of Henry VIII.? To which did Henrik Ibsen answer
at the domestic hearth? It is difficult to imagine his wife calling him
Henrik: the name is harsh, clumsy, razor-edged. But did she make it Hen
or Rik, or neither? What was Bismarck to the Fuerstin, and to the mother
he so vastly feared? Ottchen? Somehow it seems impossible. What was
Grant to his wife? Surely not Ulysses! And Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? And
Rutherford B. Hayes? Was Robert Browning ever Bob? Was John Wesley ever
Jack? Was Emmanuel Swendenborg ever Manny? Was Tadeusz Kosciusko ever
Teddy?

A fair field of inquiry invites. Let some laborious assistant professor
explore and chart it. There will be more of human nature in his report
than in all the novels ever written.

VIII

THE JEWS

The Jews, like the Americans, labor under a philosophical dualism, and
in both cases it is a theological h