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families. Mr. P. M. Thornton's reminis- training ; on the other hand, it may be give him occasion to reply to our criticism
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lovers of sport at Cambridge in the sixties, who seek not knowledge, but a short cut to notes and interpretations, the most striking
though he gives also some social and literary a diploma.
is Prof. Cook Wilson's connexion of öyalja.
reminiscences of the eighties, and later
with eyalde bal as a thing to be proud of.
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matters.
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Geograpby and Travel. gradual decay of the apprenticeship system, resolve the confusion of tongues by a com-
and shows no less clearly that child labour plete synthesis of his own, offers an attractive
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Guerra (R. ), FRENCH WORD GROUPS BASED
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church architecture, the employment of the afford for their children a lengthy period of Thus we find in one group a collection of
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the old apprenticeship charities—now often
We have here a brief synopsis of British
brought Rutland and East Leicestershire be applied, nor would they ever have ap- salient facts of each period of English
into close union in their earlier history. peared unwanted if they had continued history, each set of questions being followed
Traveller's Tales, told in Letters from
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by a list of books dealing with the same
Belgium, Germany, England, Scotland, In the modern section of the book Mr. period. We look in vain for any guidance
France, and Spain, by “The Princess, ' R. D. Denman, M. P. , has collaborated with to the student in selecting the most suitable
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These tales, told by means of corre- of the many low-skilled workers to whom whose titles and authors are given.
spondence, are little else than common- the admirable existing trade schools can
place guide-book reflections dressed up in þe of no service. Their labour is demanded Smith (T. Alford), A GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE,
cheap witticism and apophthegm. The book by the present conditions of production
shows, indeed, a very varied range of and distribution, and it is becoming neces- One of Macmillan's Practical Modern
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any way agreeable.
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scheme none of the stereotyped objections partly credited to co-operative farming.
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book is agreeable enough, only the writing
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casually say. But there are more interesting Homer," seeks the evidence of analogy on published them, in most cases with their
things.
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Murray
A phase of contemporary life is described secondary, rank, deriving its interest from tions of style and treatment incidental to a
here, seemingly by one who knows some-
a dramatic presentation of historical fact, certain type of sensational fiction, the author
thing of its intimate history, which is a
gives a good picture of France under the has, as usual, contrived to introduce a
Terror. ”
mine of picturesque
The book is cunscientiously tantalizing element of mystification which
copy, as yet only translated by Mr. de Villiers who writes a suffices to arouse the curiosity of the casual
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early shows signs of incipient insanity, is a the peculiarly Gallic weapon of the conseil
John Long
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best of these tales can be compared only to
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original language of the author.
script, and as yet unpublished, have been the “Iliad. Indeed, as such, they excel
added to chap. x. This edition of the novels the 'Iliadł in richness and mystery and
Curwood (James Oliver), FLOWER OF THE is to be divided into three groups—those of heroisin. No doubt from us they are alien :
NORTH, 6/
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This story of the Long Silent Trail ” fantasies; and those of ingenuity, in which poet has steeped himself in them and made
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tangled threads of his plot, he would not the Froom Meadow accompany this first scription merely, but of literature in the
have had to unravel them so hurriedly in issue.
West. The writer who shall do for India
the last few pages. Some of the incidents
just what he did for Japan is yet to seek.
are related in just that breathless fashion Hodgson William Hope), THE NIGHT LAND, Meanwhile, we may be grateful to those who,
which is expected in a novel of this type.
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Mazov, translated from the Russian by curious romance of love and reincarnation. simple sequences of facts and groupings of
character. The inclusion of the last tale is
Constance Garnett.
Mr. Hodgson shows himself to be strong in
to be regretted.
This work has not, till now, been pub- imagination and mysticism. In this re-
lished in England. It is here offered un-
markable dream fantasy he pictures the
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structure of sentences which seems inevitable light on earth. The author's conception A Country Lawyer' lives by its sheer
in translation from the Russian is
of the last millions
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go"? ; of composition it is entirely innocent,
skilfully managed that it carries no little in a pyramid of stupendous dimensions is
charm.
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well handled, while his descriptions of the hair of a purist.
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horrors abounding therein produce a weird before reaching the last. The energetic,
The first four and last seven chapters of eccentricities of style and diction. The conventionally unromantic profession in-
this book, which deal with the Professor's book is written in the language of a bygone dicated by the title, becomes, in the exercise
supposed construction of a human being by period, and its undue length tends to of it, a crusader on behalf of the public
scientific means, might have constituted å
render it monotonous.
good, is a hero both uncommon and genuine,
mildly sensational short story had they
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appeared by themselves. But the addition
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Chapman & Hall believe, but the country town in which he
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reference to the Professor's chemically zenith. The majority of the chapters form graph, it is impossible to suppose that the
created man as “a modern Frankenstein ? complete and intelligible stories in them- ardent youth of America would consent to
repeate a common mistake.
selves.
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Smith & Elder reviews.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND VARIOUS READINGS.
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Mr. Sutcliffe's work shows cheerful optim- Cochran (A. H. ), THE CALL OF THE PRESENT,
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ficent influence exerted over a man by his This resonant epic deals with the custom- Richard Feverel' more than the other
friend's wife, and the gradual transforma- ary “patriotic ” topics : conscription, Im- novels-indeed, reach to the hundred and
tion of a somewhat careless and indolent perialism, the anarchic and sluggard con-
character into a man of action and altruistic dition of the country under a Liberal concerning the rest of the prose and poetry,
fifth
page ; but there are notes of interest
aims. The complacent moralizing and self-Government, the Insurance Act, and the especially some prefaces which have been
revelation of the hero become at times & like. Its quality is such that it would blunt dropped. Mr. Arundell Esdaile and Mr.
little irritating, and the style is rendered the enthusiasm of the keenest partisan with J. Warren Beach contribute a list of vari-
monotonous by the continual employment any literary sense.
of the first person.
ants in the text of the poems, and the
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The author seems to us to have no idea
or belief in its words among those who still words which, though adopted by Meredith
of the art of the short story. He pours out profess Romanism. Strikes and the Social in his definitive editions, may be corrup-
commonplace reflections and colloquialisms, Democratic Federation are of Jesuit origin. tions ; (2) of errata in the poems as given
and his episodes offer nothing special in any Germany, where we always supposed that in the Édition de Luxo show the difficulties
way to commend them.
a strong Protestant strain still existed, is which lie in the way of getting an absolutely
another Jesuit tool. But when the trustworthy text of an author keenly scru-
Trevena (John), WINTERING HAY, 6/
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that his style had been corrupted by too
massacre of the leading adhorents of Rome Rawnsley (W. F. ), INTRODUCTIONS TO THE
early an acquaintance with the works of among the upper classes, “ This," as the POETS, 2/6
Routledge
Michael Angelo, so it may be suspected that author says, is only what might be ex-
Though these essays on the English poets
Wintering Hay' might not have been so pected. "
have no originality or value as fresh literary
much of a nightmare if its author had never Dostoievski, from the Russian of Merejkowski criticism, they no doubt served their purpose
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this novel resembles an ordinary sane human We found this essay disappointing, pos- qualities of the great masters. The book
boing, and hardly a single action
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because the title is something of a mis- contains no rare or choice felicities of appro-
as rational, while the narrative and the
After a bare half-dozen pages of ciation, but is sound and usually just. We
voluminous descriptions are written in a somewhat shallow generalization, comparing do not like such colloquialisms as Rossetti
breathless falsetto. Yet behind those defects Dostoievski with Tolstoy, we come to what was immensely struck with her. " The volume
lurks something like talent, if only its is practically an analysis of the character forms part of the English Library.
possessor would allow it fair play.
of Raskoilnikov in ‘Crime and Punishment,' Royal Statistical Society, Journal, April, 2/6
together with some account of such other
The Society
Waterer (Gladys), THE THIRD CHANCE, 6/ characters in the book as stand closest to An interesting number, containing two
Allen him. No doubt hints as to the nature of long papers on the financial systems of
The name of no earlier novel appears upon Dostoievski's work as a whole may, be Germany and factors of mortality, with full
the title-page of 'The Third Chance, but plentifully extracted, but the essay will be complementary statistics. Among the mis-
it shows none of the usual immaturity of found interesting only in proportion as the cellanea there is a suggestive and informative
first books. The outlook on life is clear,
reader is already acquainted with the collection of facts upon the relation between
the character-drawing firm and true, the subject.
large families, poverty, irregularity of earn-
theatrical background excellently touched Holmes (Thomas), LONDON'S UNDERWORLD. ings, and crowding. There are reviews of
in, and the writing entirely unaffected and
Dent various statistical and economic books.
unassuming. In short, it gives every pro- We fear that the obvious faults in Mr. Sharp (William), STUDIES AND APPRECIA-
mise of tho author's rising to a high place Holmes's manner of presentment will be TIONS, selected and arranged by Mrs.
in the second rank of novelists. That she used as an excuse for not acquainting them- William Sharp, 5/ net. Heinemann
should rise into the first rank seems un- selves with his matter by the majority of William Sharp is not perhaps so familiar
likely, because her many merits do not pseudo-educated people, against whom the in the fields of literary criticism as he should
include that of literary distinction.
book is a stupendous indictment.
be, and these selections should go some
nomer.


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consumor
way to establishing a proper estimation of find finally dispelled the legends of Marbot
FORTHOOMING BOOKS.
him. Their feeling, urbanity, and insight with regard to the events of May 2nd and
are valuable in this age of cheap and frivolous 3rd, 1808, and those which surround the
MAY
Theology
judgments and literary sciolism. His appre- pretended witnesses of the eviction of the Studies in the English Reformation, by Henry
ciative mind occasionally runs into the Bourbons. The latter part of the volume,
Lowther Clarke, Archbishop of Melbourne, Moor-
house Lectures, 1912, 5/.
S. P. C. K.
forensic, but he has a basis of good sense. treating of the Kingdom of Naples, is of real
The Liturgy and Ritual of the Ante-Nicene
His essay on Sainte-Beuve is particularly historical value, for there has been hitherto Church, by the Rev. F. E. Warren, Second Edi-
delightful and exact. His knowledge of a lacuna in trustworthy information. tters tion, revised, 5/
S. P. C. K.