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useful compendium of English civil law, and
seems unable to make up her mind whether a
is copiously annotated. A fourth volume may literal and expanded version of the Gospels or
Their discretionary powers were almost abso-
lute. A counterpoise to their autocracy con-
be expected in the late spring.
an exposition is the better suited to her purpose.
Oldfield (L. C. F. ), The Law of Copyright, includ-
She hovers the hazardous borderland
sisted in the appointment of special commis-
ing the Copyright Act, 1911, the Unrepealed
between the didactic and the narrative, and
sioners for certain spheres of administration.
Sections of the Fine Arts Copyright Act, 1862,
fails to weld her material into a unity of cause
There is a close examination into the function
of Border law. On the whole, these vexed
the Musical (Summary Proceedings) Copyright
and effect. Miss Mason brings intelligence and
Act, 1902, the Musical Copyright Act, 1906,
perception to her theme. Though she is not
districts appear to have been governed without
and the United States of America Copyright
free from garrulous irrelevancies, genuine
organization. The centralization resulting from
Act, 1909, and the Berlin and Berne Conven-
religious feeling pervades the whole, and gives
the union of the two kingdoms under James I.
tions, and Tables of the Laws, Treaties, and
it substance. But the verse is liable to sprawl,
produced a more desirable régime. The author
has brought together some valuable and
Conventions in Foreign countries.
and is an incomplete medium to the thought.
significant data.
Fine Art and Archæology.
Poetry Review, No. 1, January, 6d.
A new monthly, periodical devoted to the
Jose (Arthur W. ), History of Australasia from the
Adams (Henry), Theory and Practice in Designing,
Earliest Times to the Present Day, with a
study and appreciation of modern poetry of
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Chapter on Australian Literature. Fourth
all countries, in which is incorporated The
The difficulties of so technical a subject have Poetical Gazette.
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A full history of Australasia from the earliest
author has done great service in elucidating Scheffauer (Herman), The Masque of the Elements, times. The book is thorough and straight-
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forward, and deserves its popularity. One
The book is profusely illustrated with diagrams In this portentous drama of the “ Threnody of the most illuminating chapters is that on
and the like, and bristles with information. and Birth-Song of the Elements," the cosmic Australian literature.
India, Annual Progress, Report of the Super- agencies and the supernatural paraphernalia
intendent, Muhammadan and British Monu- are on so vast a scale that they elude a limited
Old and New Bombay: an Historical and De-
ments, Northern Circle, for the Year ending and human understanding. The language of
scriptive Account of Bombay and its Environs.
31st March, 1911, 4/
the poem is an appropriate megaphone for its A popular survey; in paper covers and
cyclonic staves. Its audacities are infinite, rather awkward form of the historical vicissi-
Poetry and Drama.
and it plunges recklessly amid leviathan tudes Bombay has undergone from the earliest
Hail, Brigit: an Old-Irish Poem on the Hill of superlatives. The author piles up his tre- times to the present day. Considerations of space
Alenn, edited and translated by Kuno Meyer. mendous tomb of sound ” regardless of those have forbidden any but a casual examination
A fine Gaelic panegyric on the triumph of
critical values which mortals deem vital to into its position in mediæval times and under
Christianity. It is full of pictures, and has a poetic achievement.
Portuguese rule, but the story of its absorption
swift, rhythmic movement. The apostrophic
into the Empire is satisfactorily delineated,
atmosphere of the poem makes translation Shakespeare: Henry IV. , Part I. , edited by
though with some flourishes. The illustrations
difficult, but, even so, the prose rendering by
Frank Wadleigh Chandler. Henry VI. , Part I. , and reproductions are clear and copious.
the side of the Gaelic might have been a little
edited by Louise Pound.
freer. An erudite introduction sketches the
Two further instalments of the Tudor
scope and nature of the poem, with philological
Shakespeare. Forty volumes are to be issued,
Geography and Travel.
and metrical information.
the remainder being in preparation. The edi-
Heynes (Amy Elizabeth), Stray Rhymes, 1/6 tions are creditably done, and are admirably Ramakrishna (T. ), Life, in an Indian Village,
Miss Heynes placidly accepts the normal
adapted for use in schools. The notes and
New Edition, with 'an Introduction by
stock-in-trade of the lyricist, and treads the
introductions are brief, but sufficient, though
Sir W. E. Grant-Duff, 2/6 net.
path of old themes and melodies with com-
the latter are unnecessarily cut up into sub- A keen instinct for visualizing certain
mendable rectitude. Her studious refusal to
headings.
aspects of Indian life, and the simplicity and
peg out a claim of her own keeps her achieve-
humanity with which the story is told, make
ment anæmic and threadbare. Her languorous
Sonnets, by “ Lucilla," Second Series, 2/6
a reissue of this delightful book welcome. It
ditties lack power and self-confidence.
To describe“ Lucilla's " sonnets as pedestrian reflects the most diversified life, and includes
Iliad Pocket Book, arranged by S. E. Winbolt, with and cumbersome is not to deny them all artistic descriptions of old myths and legends. It
an introduction by T. Herbert Warren, 2/ net. merit. Though without vertebræ, they are was reviewed in The Athenæum on October
The object of this booklet is to present
richly and choicely phrased, and abound in 25th, 1890.
series of cameos of life in the Homeric age, opulent imagery. But the prevalent impres-
as Homer reflects them. The principle of sion remains that they make good prose, and
Education.
selection has been modelled on that of the bad poetry; that poetry is the alien element,
· Virgil Pocket Book and the 'Horace and that the cutting into metrical forms is Teachers of Mathematics Association for the
Pocket Book. ' So far as setting, arrangement, purely arbitrary. “Lucilla's " best qualities South-Eastern Part of England : Journal,
and critical discrimination are concerned, the are a cortain quietism and ease of expression. No. 1, December, 1/6
on
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Pain (Barry), Stories in Grey, 6/
History and Biography.
For notice see p. 9.
Classical Quarterly, January, 3/ net.
Smith (Ellen Ada), The Last Stronghold, 6/
Hauser (Ph. ), Les Grecs et les Sémites dans
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l'Histoire de l'Humanité, 12fr.
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This unusually comprehensive book begins
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before palæolithic man, and carries it up to
been very successful, in spite of influential
M. Bergson. The author appears to be an
General Literature.
membership and support. It is a clear
adherent of the Darwinian view of evolution.
and readable manual, doomed, we fear, to a
Army Review, January, 1/
There is no bibliography, no index, nor any
limited circulation.
Dickensian (The):
a Magazine for Dickens references to original authorities. Indeed, the
Lovers, and Monthly Record of the Dickens book can make little claim to scholarship. , It
School-Books.
Fellowship, Vol. VII. , 1911, 4/ net.
seems to have been written principally with a
Black's Literary Readers, written and edited by
As far as biographical memoranda, gossip,
view to the justification of the Semite, and
John Finnemore : Book VI.
and reminiscence are concerned, this magazine,
since the influence of the Arab and the Jew
now published in book-form for 1911, has upon European civilization has hardly, except
With illustrations in colour by Col. R. C.
Goff, Trevor Haddon, H. S. Landor, and others.
a practical utility. But its appeal is not likely
from scholars, had sufficient recognition, it may
to extend beyond its special circle, and as litera-
thus far serve a useful purpose.
ture its quality is negligible.
Jahncke (Dr. Rudolf), Guilelmus Neubrigensis.
Science.
English Review, January, 1/
First number of the Jenaer Historische
Clark (A. Graham), Text - Book on Motor - Car
The editor in' We Come Down to a Shilling
Arbeiten. William of Newburgh, an English
Engineering : Vol. I. Construction, 8/6 net.
explains that the reduction in price means no
Augustinian monk of the twelfth century, has
Primarily for students, but its material is pandering to commercialism, or running after
received somewhat less than due attention.
names and titles.
such that it will be found useful for those
The present number is
His “Historia Rerum Inglicarum' is of com-
engaged in motor-car construction, theoretic
full of interest. Mr. W. H. Davies is the best paratively little use to the historian in search
or practical. There are numerous illustrations
of the poets. Mr. Frederic Harrison deals with of facts, but, on the other hand, it is remarkable
and diagrams to throw light on the subject
ancient prose, and more
with English versions
for its display of critical faculty, and its anti-
matter.
than original texts. He might have men- cipation of our modern classification of facts,
Henderson (Rev. Alex. C. ), A Popular Introduce
tioned the Oxford translation of Apuleius,
and discrimination of value in evidence. Dr.
tion to Astronomy, 2/6 net.
as he mentions the Fowlers' Lucian, and
Jabncke's study falls into two main divisions :
A second edition of this excellent exegesis
in other ways he is hardly abreast of the
(1) a discussion of William's methods as an
of elementary astronomy is heartily welcome.
present opportunities for study, though his historian, his treatment of his sources, his
Some good engravings which have been added survey full of interest. Mr. George arrangement, and style ; (2) an account of his
will aid much in explaining the contents.
Moore and Mr. Walter Sickert have clever and opinions in regard to the Church, to politics,
The book is so suggestive that it would serve
characteristic articles, and Mr. Henry Newbolt and to philosophy and religion.
as an admirable guide to more abstruse research.
begins' A New Study of English Poetry. There
Sociology.
Results of Meteorological Observations made at are two papers concerned with the drama,
Bakounine (Michel), Euvres, Tome V. , 3fr. 50.
the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in the Six
including an uncompromising view of Mr.
Vol. 43 of the Bibliothèque Sociologique.
Years 1900-5, under the Direction of Arthur A.
Brookfield's appointment. There is also
A selection from the lectures, published letters,
Rambaut, Vol. XLIX. , 10/6 net.
portrait of William de Morgan by Mr. J. Kerr
Lawson.
The tabulated results of years of arduous
We congratulate the Review on its
and newspaper articles of Bakunin.
Omurderoy (Ernest), Euvres : Tomes II. et III. ,
labour in observation and calculation.
independence, and expect to see it introducing
Jours d'Exil, Deuxième et Troisième Parties
Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the
new writers to the cultivated public-writers
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Shakespearean Extracts, compiled by Mariamne
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Fiction.
Fiction.
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Bodkin (M. M'Donnell), Young Beck, a Chip of rather than an individual perspective, would tures, Traduction d'Albert Savine, 3fr. 50.
the Old Block, 6/
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things, an ingenious system of cheating at for invigorating the man-machine when to all is full of agility and nervous force. The
bridge. His friend, ho ver, who narrates intents and purposes he (or rather it) is ex- translator has evidently fulfilled his work with
the story, out-Watsons Watson in his lack of hausted, sound brutal.
the satisfaction of personal enjoyment, and
intelligence. Orthographical slips
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prisingly numerous.
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A selection of ten stories. Brugglesmith'
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order of publication has been abandoned, in
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prosiness. The
" elan vital" of the original
FOREIGN.
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is somewhat worn down.
christ's familiarity with the world of the
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White (Edward), Terres de Silence, traduit avec
extreme dastardly and the ultra-altruistic is
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England's Taste in Literature,' by Mr. well translates the 'Lanercost Chronicle';
Raymond Blathwayt, in The Fortnightly ; and Mr. Moir Bryce edits a Grey Friar
and Sir H. W. Lucy's continuation of his petition from St. Andrews in 1466, to
1 Sixty Years in the Wilderness ' in The which Dr. Maitland Thomson appends
5
Cornhill.
an epilogue.
The articles suggest the question whether The death occurred at Edinburgh on
the taste of the ordinary public has Monday of the Rev. Dr. James Oswald
improved, and whether writers who, like Dykes, Principal-Emeritus of Westminster
t
Sala, were trained by Dickens to reach a College, Cambridge. Ordained a minister
certain standard of style and study did in 1859, Dr. Dykes won great repute as a
not surpass the present exponents of preacher during the nineteen years he
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what is, or passes for, literary journalism | filled the pulpit of Regent Square Pres-
to-day.
byterian Church, London. He made many
THE New Year honours include several contributions to theological literature, in-
t
names of interest to the world of learning cluding On the Written Word’ (1868),
and letters. Among the Knights are
Beatitudes of the Kingdom' (1872),
Mr. Valentine Chirol, The Times man of
Sketches of the Primitive Church ’ (1874),
foreign affairs ; Mr. Rider Haggard, story-
Abraham the Friend of God' (1877),
teller and agricultural expert; Prof. Henry
Laws of the Ten Words' (1884), and
Jones, a scholar of distinction whose
Studies in the Epistle to the Romans'
* Browning as a Philosophical and Reli- (1888). His last published work was the
gious Teacher' has just appeared in Cunningham Lectures on 'The Christian
Doctrines of Creation and Providence. '
popular form; Mr. T. H. Hepburn, a
keen worker for education in Devon-
At the Annual Meeting of the New
shire; Mr. S. R. Keightley, a versatile Spalding Club, held in Aberdeen on
writer ; and two heads of Universities, December 29th, it was reported that Dr.
Principal H. A. Miers of London and Robert M. Wilson had consented to edit
President B. C. A. Windle of Cork, the volume dealing with Agriculture in
both of whom have done much for the North-Eastern Scotland, a project which
illumination of science by their writings.
had fallen through owing to the death of
y
Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, who adds
Dr. William Alexander, who had under-
taken the editorship. During the past
K. C. B. to his other honours, has written
admirably on the colonies. Mr. E. K.
year there had been issued to members
Chambers, who becomes C. B. ,
The Records of Inverness,' Vol. I. , edited
is not
only a hard worker at the Education by Mr. W. Mackay and Mr. H. C. Boyd.
· Office, but also an authority on Shake-Two other volumes are at present in the
s 5. speare and the Elizabethan stage. We press : The House of Gordon,' Vol. III. ;
and 'The Gordons under Arms, compiled
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notice further honours under Science and
Art.
by Mrs. Skelton.
A COLLECTION of the letters written by
Their forthcoming publications include
Dickens to W. H. Wills of Household The Records of the Society of Advo-
dWords and All the Year Round has been cates in Aberdeen,' by Mr. J. A. Hen-
& made and edited by Mr. R. C. Lehmann derson; ‘Folk Music and Song of the
t under the title Charles Dickens
North-East of Scotland,' by Mr. Gavin
al Editor. ' The book will be published, with Greig and the Rev. J. B. Duncan ; 'Selec-
y portraits of Dickens, Wills, Thackeray, tions from the Records of the County
al and Wilkie Collins, by Messrs. Smith & of Banff,' by Mr. James Grant ; The
a Elder before the date of the Dickens Records of Inverness,' Vol. II. ; Biblio-
dCentenary.
graphy of the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff,
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and Kincardine,' by Mr. Kellas Johnstone;
d
The same firm will have ready on the Records of the Scots College,' Vol. II. ,
d
25th inst. a work on 'The Gambia,' by the Rev. W. Forbes Leith, S. J. ; The
by Mr. Henry Fenwick Reeve, with Rise of Natural Science in the North of
32 pages of half-tone illustrations and Scotland, by Prof. Traill; and “The
Mr. Reeve writes with the object Register of Baptisms in St. Andrew's
y of calling attention to the strategical Catholic Church, Braemar' (1703-57).
al value of a great harbour and waterway on
le the North-West African Coast, where such The death was announced on December
e advantages are scarce, and to the value of 29th at Holytown, near Glasgow, of
in the deposits of iron ore in the cliffs over-
Mr. Alexander Riach, for twenty-three
2: hanging the navigable channels. He deals years editor of The Edinburgh Évening
of with the history, geography, geology, Dispatch. Mr. Alexander Riach was a
ethnology, and natural history of the native of Elgin, and became an operator
h
settlement.
in the old Telegraph Company before the
service was taken over by the Govern-
1; OLD SCOTS SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES ment. For a time in Aberdeen, he moved
are appreciated in Mr. Alexander Gray's to Edinburgh, and was selected to take
d
hundred-guinea prize essay in the January charge of the Edinburgh end of The
d
issue of The Scottish Historical Review. Scotsman special wire to London. In
d
Prof. Alois Brandl contributes a note on 1870 he accepted a sub-editorial position
the “Ruthwell Cross Poem,' favouring an on The Scotsman ; between 1883 and 1886
le early date on historical grounds of cross- he held a similar position on The Daily
. d I worship. Mr. A. W. Johnston writes on | Telegraph, but returned to Edinburgh to
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Dispatch, which under him was raised to Tennyson Dickens died suddenly at tenderly and sincerely he loved the
the Hotel Astor, New York. He had peasants, how deeply he respected them.
been giving readings in the United States But notwithstanding his idealism Zlato-
An early and lifelong friend of Mr.