The writer is repe-
has furnished the basis of a treatise on
Pbilosopby.
has furnished the basis of a treatise on
Pbilosopby.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
It was a common Greek stage, Mr.
Munro maintains, that the Indo- and its author.
The notes, too, are capably
saying that you must see a man's end before European family of speech separated from done, though on the first page we meet
you called him happy; we have read the last the Semitic, “when pronominal forms were with Yahweh in & Bible reference,
of The Teacher's Encyclopædia,' and may themselves verbal nouns, and their order, which strikes us as a foolish piece of pedantry,
with confidence call it excellent.
with regard to the verbal noun required to and find the explanation that • Merry
make what we call a verb, was still fluid. "
England' is not much more than Alma
Philology.
Has our essayist proved his case? It is, Mater," which is hardly helpful without a
perhaps, not fair to pronounce a decisive knowledge of Latin. Vicinage" and a
Juvenal, Fourteen Satires of, translated into judgment before the appearance of the few more of George Eliot's learned para-
English by Alexander Leeper, New and other essays promised in continuation of phrases might have been explained.
Revised Edition, 5! Macmillan the theme. But one may, so far as the pre-
This rendering well deserves its place in the sent argument justifies an opinion, say that Goldsmith, THE DESERTED VILLAGE, edited,
with Introduction and Notes, by G. G.
familiar dark blue
series, being both spirited there is here, amidst much that is instructive,
Whiskard, 6d.
and idiomatic. First published in 1882 suggestive, and of some likelihood, much that
as the joint work of its author and Prof. is fanciful and that rests on mere assump-
Oxford, Clarendon Press
H. A. Strong, it was revised ten years later tions.
The editor, in his Introduction and notes,
We will refer to only two points.
by Dr. Leeper, and now again has been so It does not strike us that Mr. Munro has puts before the young reader all that needs
largely rewritten by him as to be virtually produced a sufficient amount of evidence explanation.
a new book. Comparing the present issue against the view that the vowel u was used Hood (G. F. ), PROBLEMS IN PRACTICAL
with that of 1882, which he has long used, as a sign of the passive in the original struc- CHEMISTRY FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS,
the reviewer finds an elaboration of style ture of Semitic languages. As an instance
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and phrase which generally brings out the of fancifulness in the argument, his treatment
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meaning better. Juno virguncula," once of the verb müth (to die) may be mentioned. require in the student a thorough knowledge
“a little wench,” is now “a bashful maid. ” “ The imperfect," he says, ' has the old of the elementary groundwork of chemistry,
But occasionally longer versions add nothing active form [yāmûth] because it expressed
as many of the exercises are of an advanced
to the rendering; Juvenal's points are
the struggle. The perfect [mêth) was used nature and of considerable difficulty. The
sharply made, and do not need any emphasiz. when all
was over, and therefore had the old author's directions are, however, fully and
ing. Why, for instance, in xiii. 172 add passive form. ”
lucidly given, and should be effective for
yet” after the though 22 clause? It is We think, however, that Mr. Munro has students preparing for higher examinations.
neither in the Latin nor needed in the done well to reopen the whole question.
English.
Studies like these are sure to promote the Jenks (Paul R. ), A MANUAL OF LATIN WORD
There are a few notes as to the text interests of true linguistic and ethnological FORMATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS,
adopted, “where there might seem to be science, though the final result may not be 1/6
Harrap
room for doubt. ” More, we think, should quite what the zealous pioneer expected. Examples of derivatives are arranged in
have been done in this way, especially
lists to illustrate word-formation, as seen
Scbool-Books.
since Prof. Housman's drastic examination
in Cæsar, Cicero, and Virgil, the com-
of the claims of MS. Pithoeanus in 1905. Althaus (L. H. ), THE SOUNDS OF THE MOTHER piler's aim being to supply a three years'
The “mulio consul " of viii. 148, unknown TONGUE, A MANUAL OF SPEECH-TRAIN-
course for students of Latin.
in 1882, is now duly rendered, and deserved
FOR PREPARATORY AND LOWER Laurie (André), MÉMOIRES D'UN COLLÉGIEN,
to be recorded at the side of the text.
FORMS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AND Authorized Edition, edited, with Exer-
Encouraged by the success of Mr. J. D. FOR VTH, VITH, OR VIITH STANDARDS
cises, Notes, and Vocabulary, by O. B.
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This interesting story of school life in
to this issue. On the other hand, the IN PHONETIC SCRIPT FROM THE ABOVE, France should prove a welcome textbook
critical notes, mainly as to corrupt passages,
6d.
Hodder & Stoughton for English students, as the French is of
which occupied some pages in the edition of Speech-training in the vernacular is un-
the easy type required of candidates for
1882, have disappeared, and we get instead doubtedly necessary for children in ele- the Junior Local examinations. Exercises,
others on four passages in which Prof. T. G. mentary schools entoring secondary schools, notes and vocabulary are given in the
Tucker plays a leading part.
and these publications, admirable in method appendix.
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unseens
seem
BEING THE
COTT
AS
Macaulay, EssAY ON JOHN BUNYAN, 3d. Childo-Pemberton (Harriet L. ), THE SILENT Warwick (Anno), THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, 6/
paper, 4d. cloth.
VALLEY, AN EPISODE, 6/ Constable
Mills & Boon
Oxford, Clarendon Press The pages of this novel are abundantly There are here really two unknown
A slim booklet in the Oxford Plain Texts sprinkled with pieces of original poetry, women in the case. One, a pseudo-antiquo
which may well attract the adult as well as supposed to be sung or recited by those bust, becomes the centre of a neatly
the learner.
taking part in the action—a revival of an complicated intrigue; the other, to us less
Silya Latina, LATIN READING-BOOK,
antique fashion which we are not altogether interesting, is a femme incomprise valiantly
chosen and arranged by J. D. Duff, 2/
prepared to welcome. In other respects, making the most of a little unhappiness to
Cambridge University Press too, the atmosphere suffers from an excess the admiration of all beholders. The story
This book, the work of an accomplished of culture ; and the characters, like the presents & curious and lively picture of
teacher, contains a hundred and forty- story, which has a vague connexion with artistic circles in New York, and emphasizes
five extracts in the same number of pages,
the theory of reincarnation, lack definition. the pernicious influence of journalism as
followed by a few notes on each extract.
But the writing has a delicate and fantastic a factor in American social life.
Each passage is preceded by a short sum-
charm, especially in descriptive passages ;
and the refrain of at least one lyric recurs
General.
mary; and to aid the pupil in the verse
" the long vowels are marked. persistently to memory.
Annual Register : A REVIEW OF PUBLIC
No doubt the book will serve as an excellent Gerard (Dorothea), EXOTIC MARTHA, 6/
EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD FOR
introduction to Virgil and Cicero.
Stanley Paul
THE YEAR 1911, New Series, 18/
Swift, THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, extracted
“Exotic Martha " has all the hardiness of
Longmans
from Selections from Swift, edited by make a lively story. She arrives in Batavia
a healthy outdoor plant, and her adventures This time-honoured publication continues
Sir Henry Craik, 2/
to maintain its excellence as a work of
Oxford, Clarendon Press as a prospective bride, only to find the
reference. As usual, the chapters on domestic
A capable edition, with a Life of Swift. bridegroom-elect already married. Her sub- affairs
are chiefly Parliamentary ; but
We think the little book might have been sequent proceedings are unusual, but enter- social events, such as the railway strike
repaged. The text begins at p. 196, and the taining.
and even the stoppage of the Wells-Johnson
notes include references for explanations to Hewlett (Maurice), OPEN COUNTRY; and boxing match, are deftly woven into the
pages which do not exist here. If this
narrative. The international crisis of the
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summer naturally figures in several chapters,
surely worth revision in such points.
These two novels are the best known of
but its bearings on the history of England,
Tappan (E. M. ), THE STORY OF THE ROMAN
Mr. Hewlett's work, and are crowded, often to
Germany, France, and Morocco are kept
PEOPLE, 1/6
Harrap excess, with the peculiar output of his distinct. Mr. H. Whates has digested the
An account of the Roman people from mind. They are hardly, in our opinion, affairs of the African continent with his
The
earliest times to the fall of the Empire, so good as his shorter, more restrained and usual workmanlike thoroughness.
related in readable style, with an absence of harmonious stories. They are further addi- scientific and literary retrospects
that uninteresting detail which characterizes tions to Messrs. Macmillan's handsome adequate; and Miss Eveline Godley writes
some school histories of Rome. Copious edition of his works.
brightly on the drama, though she dovotes
illustrations and the use of large type add Lincoln (Jeanie Gould), THE LUCK OF translation of The Witch. The obituary
rather too much space to Mr. Masefield's
to the attractiveness of the volume.
RATHCOOLE :
ROMANTIC is more concise than was formerly the case,
Wallontin (Dr. Ignaz G. ), AN INTRODUCTION ADVENTURES OF MISTRESS FAITH Wol- and so the editor has been able to include
TO SCIENTIFIC GERMAN, being the First
(SOMETIME KNOWN “ MISS
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Clowes
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University students in science, who are The well-worn theme of a lost
Hereford : THE FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
required to know sufficient German to enable in the shape of a trinket, with a curse and
OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE PUBLIC
them to translate into English extracts from a prophecy attached, appears here once more
LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND ART GALLERY
German works, will find in this book excel in print. The characters are of many nation-
TO THE TOWN COUNCIL, 1911-12.
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hundred years or so ago, and the resulting Loa (Homor), THE DAY OF THE Saxon, 7/6
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Moore (George), SPRING DAYS, 6/
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Werner Laurie to make our flesh creep. He foresees the
Mr. George Moore declares prefatorially approaching dissolution of the British Em-
Murray & Evenden
that he has done his utmost to consign this pire, and gives his reasons with unreserved
The principal figure in this story is a
vicious and unprepossessing old man.
The
study to a merited (sic) oblivion. For all candour. His argument is developed in a
book has no literary merit or psychological that, we are glad to recognize its tenacity dull and pedantic style, like an exercise in
interest, and its only appeal must be to
in clinging to existence. The book did formal logic, but it amounts to this. The
lovers of sensation.
not receive the recognition it deserved on Saxon race is sunk in “a fat somnolence of
Bosanquet (Edmund), THE WOMAN BETWEEN, it is a remarkable and unerring piece of Empire as
its appearance twenty-four years ago, for satisfaction," and has failed to organize the
a military unit-to maintain
6/
Long work, with just a tinge of deliberate ultra- armies powerful enough to invade and defeat
We can scarcely suppose that Mr. Bosan- realistic selection. The picture of Frank any rival Power. On the other hand, the
quet intends this work as a serious essay Escott and the Brookeses is etched in with dreadful Dreibund” of Russia, Japan,
in fiction. It opens in fairly promising a ruthless precision and a fine malice which and Germany is a natural coalition," each
fashion, but about half way through lapses alone make the book remarkable. The treat- of whose meinbers is thwarted in its expan-
into melodrama, culminating in something ment is sometimes reminiscent of Flaubert. sion by the British Empire, and each of
not far removed from nightmare. The simple We reviewed it in The Athenceum of Sept. 8, whom is well organized, and not hampered
country squire involved in ruinous specula- | 1888, p. 317.
by democracy--for which Mr. Loa, as an
tions; the villainous financier who takes
advantage of the situation to press his un-
Rhodos (Kathlyn), THE Wax IMAGE, AND
American, appears to have an unexpected
welcome suit on the squire's daughter; the
OTHER STORIES, 6/
contempt. A supreme navy is insufficient
defence for the Empire, except apparently
more deserving, though less eligible lover
These crude sketches are inconspicuous hearted pessimist.
Holden & Hardingham in regard to Australia. Mr. Lea is a whole-
who rescues the financier's deserted mistress
“When England per-
from suicide, and thus acquires the clue to in merit, except for an occasional touch of
mitted the amalgamation of the Germanic
dramatic craftsmanship.
his rival's past-these are indeed familiar
The numerous
race, it prepared the plans of its own sarco-
figures, yet presented with a certain measure
murders, suicides, and excursions into the
phagus. He thinks that England can offer
of distinction. But
what can we say to the regions of the occult are monotonously
no serious resistance to a Russian attack on
abduction and illegal imprisonment of the
uniform.
India, and that we no longer count as a
villain on the first day of his honeymoon, Rowlands (Effie Adelaide), HASTER TRE- power in the Pacific. Mr. Lea has a pathetic
or to the change of matrimonial partners
Hurst & Blackett belief in the maxim that history always
(equally illegal, as it seems to us) which An undistinguished réchauffé of the repeats itself. Because other empires have
brings everything to a happy conclusion ? Cinderella theme, an attempt at poisoning crumbled away, therefore, he contends, the
The crowning touch of unreality is added by and the unwelcome attentions of a black- British Empire must fall. But he disregards
& comic Irishman.
guard being added by way of seasoning. all facts which do not squaro with his dog-
“luck
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FUSIS.
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LONIENS
UND
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matic propositions. The book is interesting Jastrow (Morris), jun. , DIE RELIGION BABY- editor's part to remove such difficulties.
as a violent counterblast to the peace move-
ASSYRIENS, Part 18, Surely letters seen by Thorkelin and accepted
ment, but is too extravagant to be taken lm. 50.
Giessen, Töpelmann; by later editors should be received into the
seriously.
London, Williams & Norgate text. Why do M. Pierquin and the printer
Letters to the Centre : DESCRIBING SOME
Prof. Morris Jastrow's 'Religion of Baby- between them mark vowel-length by apos-
acute
ASPECTS OF SALVATION ARMY WORK lonia and Assyria' is already well known trophe, macron, circumflex, and
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
to the English-speaking world. This is the accents ?
accents? In this particular, in the printing
101, Queen Victoria Street, E. C. eighteenth instalment of the German trans- of þ and ), and the separation and com-
Rousseau (J. J. ), LES CONFESSIONS, 2 vols. , which deals with
lation of that work, being a part of chap. xxi. , bination of words and prefixes, mere hap-
omens derived from hazard seems to have ruled.
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of French masterpieces issued as a com- is to be complete by the date of the abound : eofer is a boar, not a lance ;
panion series to Everyman. Selected works Leyden Congress.
syththan heofones gim gläd ofer grundas
from Gérard de Nerval, Stendhal, Alfred de
should not be rendered “ après que la perle
Musset, Corneille, and Saint-Simon are to
Bibliography.
des nuits eût glissé dans les profondeurs du
follow shortly in the same series, which will Journal Général de l'Imprimerie et de la firmament”; hafela is not a helmet, as the
not be completed until next February.
Librairie : TABLE ALPHABÉTIQUE DE translation declares, but the head,
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ANNÉE 1911.
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These parables are negligible both in
Paris, 117, Boulevard Saint-Germain out of 6358 half-lines ? Schipper's work
matter and treatment.
The writer is repe-
has furnished the basis of a treatise on
Pbilosopby.
versification, the best thing in the book.
titive in style, and indulges too much in the Baumann (Julius), NEUES ZU SOKRATES, The author ignores the articles of Luick
affectation of placing nominatives after
verbs.
ARISTOTELES, EURIPIDES, 3m. 50 (Anglia, 11 and 12). In the accidence
Leipsic, Veit Anglian should have been distinguished
Pampblets.
The first two articles are designed as
from West - Saxon forms. Despite its
Eloction (The) of an Irish House of Commons models to show how ancient texts, read blunders, M. Pierquin's work is important
and Sonate, containing an Electoral Map with students, may be handled from a and praiseworthy, We hope to see it in a
and Schedule of Constituencies, 6d. philosophical point of view in accordance rigorously revised edition, the first of many
Dublin, Sealy, Bryers & Walker with modern systems of logic. The first is a coming French scholar's labours on our
Largely owing
to Lord Courtney's vigorous which merely a commentary is supplied,
Book I. of Xenophon's Memorabilia,' to earliest literature.
campaign, the Proportional Representation the reader being supposed to have the text
Fiction.
Society of Ireland has now an influential beside him. The second is Book II. of Cassot, (Cécile), COMÉDIES, GAIES
membership. This pamphlet, in which the
D'AMOUR.
Paris, Daragon
familiar device of the single transferable vote Aristotle's 'Physics,' translated and com-
is advocated, is issued in the hope of pro- is an interesting and stimulating essay on
mented paragraph by paragraph. The third
In spite of their title, there is nothing that
is in any way diverting in these comedies.
moting the chances of a Proportional Repre Euripides's philosophy of life and its relation Not only are they lacking in point and
.
It is clearly demonstrated that a scheme for
to later. Greek thought-or we might better dramatic situation, but also both dialogue
and plot are inconsequential, crude, and
proportional representation could easily be say feeling, for it is rather his general emo-
adapted to the Government's plan for the in question. In the author's view the key: Pylkkanen (Hilma), Saïmi TERVOLA, Zfr. 50,
tional attitude than definite thought that is dull.
arrangement of constituencies.
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,
National Women's Social and Political seem to be resignation-especially to the This is a novel which reaches a high
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FOREIGN.
and ironic side of him is here little in evi- devoted to the cause of liberty in Finland,
Tbeology.
dence. The article is illustrated with an finds herself allied to a commonplace hus-
Gormann (Dr. Friedrich), LUKE SHEPHERD, fragments, then from the plays.
unusual fullness of quotation--first from the band incapable of sharing her idealism, and
possessed, further, of atavistic tendencies.
EIN SATIRENDICHTER DER ENGLISCHEN
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tation for the Doctorate of the University SAXONS EN ANGLETERRE ; II. LE POÈME pathy is soon established, leading to a frank
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study of a writer who was among the more Notes, Index, &c. , 15fr. Paris, Picard love. A divorce is obtained, and the last
popular of the English satirists of the time Hitherto, French scholars have generally prophetic words of the husband are that
of the Reformation. Of the floods of satirical avoided Old English, and it is there- the wife who has forsaken him will find the
writing which were then poured over the fore with keen interest that have memory of their former love and their child
world-chiefly from the presses of Ger- examined M. Pierquin's 846-page study of irresistibly destructive to future happiness.
many comparatively little has been pre- the ‘Beowulf,' the first published in France The author is to be congratulated on the
served to us; and for the most part the since, in 1877, Botkine gave an elegant but vividness of characterization, and the skill
value of that little is historical, or merely insufficient paraphrase of the poem. We with which the atmosphere is created.
curious, rather than artistic. Luke Shep- acknowledge the author's labour on plan
General.
herd's productions can hardly be accounted and detail; unfortunately, mistakes abound,
an exception. Dr. Germann gives a pre- many being misprints, but others not to Coulevain (Pierre de), ÈVE VICTORIEUSE ;
liminary sketch of Shepherd's predecessors be excused thus.
Hugo (Victor), DIEU; LA FIN DE SATAN,
and contemporaries-Barlow, Bale, Crowley, Part I. shows wide reading and interest and LE ROI S'AMUSE; LUCRÈCE BORGIA ;
Turner (whose botanical work is his more in the subject; a chapter on the March, and Mérimée (Prosper), CHRONIQUE
genial title to fame), and several less pro- for instance, is both sound and brilliant. DU RÈGNE DE CHARLES IX. , Ifr. 25 net
minent satirists; and then discusses Shep- But late Norse mythology is not identical
each.
Paris, Nelson
herd's life and works in general and in detail. with that of the Anglo-Saxons; and M. These four volumes continue Messrs.
Of the latter he prints as an appendix three Pierquin errs frequently-c. g. , in treating Nelson's enterprise of rendering the master-
hitherto unpublished specimens : The Vp the nicor, which in Old English literature pieces of French literature cheap and acces-
cheringe of the Messe, Phylogamus,' and is no water-spirit or fay, but a savage sea- sible to English readers. Dieu' and
'Pathose, or an inward passion of tho pope monster. From the list of English towns 'La Fin de Satan' are two of Hugo's more
for the losse of hys daughter the Masse. Kingston, the place of coronation, is omitted. ambitious poems, and their reputation has
The last does not appear in the list of What Saxon lord's property was surrounded greatly declined since the early nineteenth
Shepherd's works given by Bale in his by walls ?
century. 'Lucrèce Borgia,' a play which
*Index Britanniæ Scriptorum, and the Now for the text. It was a retrogression to heaps unnatural crimes upon the hapless
author devotes some pages to justifying the print it in half-lines—at least it should have daughter of Alexander VI. , is in all pro-
attribution. An interesting section is that been numbered in whole verses ; and the bability & false estimate. The other two
on the influence on the English of German Ms. has been followed in many of its scribal volumes are invaluable to the student of
satire of the period.
blunders and contractions where it was an
French literature.
we
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709
as
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22
Society in 1880 until 1894, and he continued granting of the licentia before 1214, and
constant in attendance at its meetings until therefore it is idle to speculate as to how
PROF. VERRALL,
a few months before his death. Though it might have been conferred. All we know
a recluse in his habits so far as general is that the ordinary machinery of the
THOUGH Prof. Verrall had for some time
society was concerned, he was always studium generale came into being in 1214.
been crippled and enfeebled, the news of delighted to meet and extend his hospitality
his death will come as a severe shock to a
to philosophical students, and many memor.
In any case, even if your reviewer should
host of pupils and friends inside and outside
able gatherings took place in his rooms in
hold Dr. Rashdall's opinion, I cannot see
Cambridge. His appointment to the new
Conduit Street. His philosophy never gained any justification for his labelling my opinion
Cambridge chair of English last year was a
inaccuracy. "
the popularity and recognition he ardently
He might have said
surprise to many, but welcome to those longed for, but it received grateful acknow- how he could have done even this in face of
my view was not generally held, though
who knew his capabilities.
ledgment from his philosophical contem.
Denifle I do not see.
Taking the Classical Tripos in a year so poraries, notably from the late Prof. William argued at length, but I hope I have said
The case might be
exceptional that three Chancellor's Medals James.
sufficient to show that the word
were awarded, he became a Fellow of Trinity
in 1874,
and joined the staff of the College and his reading covered the whole range of
Mr. Hodgson was a great classical scholar, accuracy ” cannot be fairly used here.
three years later. As a tutor he was full of
E. O'NEILL.
kindness and attention for all his pupils. The close of his British Academy paper is
philosophical literature, ancient and modern.
As a lecturer and teacher of classical com-
a profound analysis of Plato's argument in substitution of
*** I regret sincerely my unintentional
position he provided to a high degree the Parmenides," with which he held his readable,” and add on the main question at
very
for especially
stimulus and delight, merits which were,
own theory to be identical. Yet very little issue a few words in reply. The author,
and are, by no means characteristic of some
of his work was taken up with direct criticism after remarking on the activity of Oxford
well-known scholars. His original and ex-
of past or contemporary theory. His own schools since the days of Henry II. ,
ploring mind excluded dullness.
A guess
writes,
by the half-instructed became in his hands method by which he could survey the whole of no special knowledge,
philosophy was not a system, but rather a
in a book designed, I presume, for readers
a fascinating and persuasive probability: field of human experience, the emotions
“ In 1214 the
His edition of the Medea' strayed far which form the basis of religion no less than model of Paris. "
university came into being, formed on the
enough from the text to win him the de-
This statement seems
the sensations which give rise to science.
scription of " spendide emendax," and his Whatever may be the ultimate verdict on
to me misleading. Mrs. O'Neill admits that
Studies in Horaco' were similarly original
, his philosophy was the complete theory of everything that constituted & University
of
Æschylus, though worthy of his innovating its psychological analysis will always give Ordnance to the burgesses of Oxford does not
knowledge and reality, the thoroughness of twelfth century, and, since the Legatine
mind, revealed a tendency to strain the sense
it value for the student.
rather than leave MS. authority. His most
create a Chancellor, or give him the power
fruitful work was perhaps the series of
of conferring a “ licentia docendi," and is
volumes begun with 'Euripides the Ration-
not a charter, it cannot be said to have
alist,' which prepared the way for a new
called the University into being. The
understanding and revival of the Attic
ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE
letter is printed in full in Munimenta
master of scepticism. Besides his papers
Academica,' I. i. Moreover, no Chancellor
in learned periodicals, he contributed from
AGES. '
seems to have been appointed up to as
time to time a number of light articles to
late as 1221; wherefore, if his existence
various academic periodicals. He added
I FEEL that I must protest against the is the crucial test of a University, it did not
to the Life of Jebb a charming apprecia- offensive tone of your reviewer's refer.
come into being till after that date.
tion, in which he characteristically compared
ence to me and my ‘England in the Middle
YOUR REVIEWER.
him to Addison; and published not long Ages’ in The Athenæum of June 8th. I
since in The Quarterly Review a study of
did not say that Dr. Rashdall's work is
Scott's famous short story in 'Redgauntlet. '
very readable, and the misquotation
He selected Dryden as the subject for his
seems to have been deliberately made to
English lectures. An omnivorous reader make me appear to patronize that eminent
THE HITA LIBRAR Y.
and a man of fine taste, he had none of the scholar. If it was not deliberate, then I can
hardness or conceit which is often associated only say it was as slipshod as his method
TAE sale of the second portion of the Auth
with brilliancy. He was in the best sense a
of dealing with this tangled question.
Library was continued on Monday, the 10th inst. ,
man of the world as well as a man of letters, He cannot be allowed to escape from the and the four succeeding days. The following
books realized £100 and upwards :
a scholar who was also a wit and a radiating charge of unfairness by the glib use of an
influence.
obscure phrase. Dr. Rashdall assigns a Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune, 1596, 1151.
definite date for the “ birth of Oxford as a
Cosmographiæ Introductio, 1507, the first issue,
1951. John Cripps, A True Account of the Dying
Studium Generale-. . . . 1167 or the beginning Words of Ockanickon, an Indian King, 1882, 1651.
of 1168," and the phrase ex consuetudine Daniel, Delia, with the Complaynt of Rosamond,
SHADWORTH HOLLWAY
La Grant Danse Macabre, Paris,
HODGSON,
was an invention of the fourteenth-century 1592, 1051.
jurists. It thus leads us no nearer to the 1501, 2701. ; the same, Troyes, 1528, 2201. Dante,
Divina Commedia, Foligno, 1472, 4751. ; the
solution of the question “ Did the University same, Mantua, 1472, 1301. ; the same, Jesi, 1472,
WE regret to record the death on the
come to birth in 1167 or 1214 ? ” Your 6807. "; the same, Florence, 1481, with the nine
13th of the present month, at the age of 79,
reviewer skilfully evades the question when teen illustrations by Baccio Baldini, after Botti-
of Mr. Shadworth H. Hodgson, well known
he says that the Legatine Ordnance of celli, 1,8001. ; the same, Brescia, 1487, 1301.
to students of philosophy. He was edu.
cated at Rugby and Corpus Christi College,
1214 is not a constitution of a studium Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie, 1811, 1521.
De Bry, Major and Minor Voyages in Latin and
generale, but a regulation of details of the German, in 52 parts, 1590-1831, 8251. Decker,
Oxford, of which he was an Honorary
Fellow. A heavy sorrow in early life, the
daily life of one already existing. ” It is The Gul's Horne-Booke, 1809,1751. De Vries, Korte
Historiael
not in dispute that students were con.
death of his wife in 1858 three years after
verscheydenen Voyagiens,
their marriage, led to his exclusive devotion
gregated at Oxford under masters, but no
1655, 1011. Dialogus Creaturarum Moralizatus,
to philosophy. His first philosophical work
community of teachers and students itself printed by Gerard Leeu, 1480, 1051. Doctrinal
suffices to constitute a studium generale, two leaves, 3101. John Dowland, Lachrimæ,
of Sapience, printed by Caxton, 1489, wanting
Time and Space, a Metaphysical
which is essentially connected with the 1605, 1051. Sir F. Drake, Expeditio Francisci
Essay,' in 1865. It was followed by The
Theory of Practice,' 1870; The Philosophy
existence of a chancellor whose duty it is to Draki in Indias Occidentales, 1588, 4701. ;
confer the licentia. Now the first mention
A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis
of Reflection,' 1878 ; and his greatest work,
of such a chancellor at Oxford is in the
Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1589, 7001. ; Sir
"The Metaphysic of Experience,' in four
Francis Drake Revived, 1826, 1021. Michael
Ordnance of 1214, and from the wording Drayton, The Tragicall Legend of Robert, Duke
volumes, in 1898. As lately as January of
it is clear that he had not then been of Normandy, 1506, 1351. Daniel Drouin, Le
last year he read a paper before the British appointed ( huic officio deputaverit ”).
Miroir des Rebelles, 1592, bound in old French
Academy, of which he was a Fellow, on
• Some Cardinal Points in Knowledge. In structed from nothing. The material had to
Clearly a studium generale could not be con.
black morocco with the monograms of Louis XIII.
and Anne of Austria, 1201. Drummond of
this he restated his main doctrines in rela.
Hawthornden, Poems, 1616, 1701. ; Forth Feast-
be there first, and all that the facts warranting, 1817, 1001. Remy Dupuys, La tryumphante
tion to recent developments of philosophy.
us in stating as to the condition of things et solemnelle Entree. . . . de Monsieur Charles,
It was in the Aristotelian Society that he before 1214 is that the students and masters Prince des Hespaignes. . . . en sa ville de Bruges,
was best known, and it is there that he were there.
When or whence they came
1515, 5001. A collection of seventeen Dutch
black-letter broadsides, connected with the West.
leaves the mark of his direct personal no one can positively say. What sort of Indies and South America, 1024-52, 2301.
influence. He was the first President, and organization they had, if any, there is no
held that office from the foundation of the evidence.
saying that you must see a man's end before European family of speech separated from done, though on the first page we meet
you called him happy; we have read the last the Semitic, “when pronominal forms were with Yahweh in & Bible reference,
of The Teacher's Encyclopædia,' and may themselves verbal nouns, and their order, which strikes us as a foolish piece of pedantry,
with confidence call it excellent.
with regard to the verbal noun required to and find the explanation that • Merry
make what we call a verb, was still fluid. "
England' is not much more than Alma
Philology.
Has our essayist proved his case? It is, Mater," which is hardly helpful without a
perhaps, not fair to pronounce a decisive knowledge of Latin. Vicinage" and a
Juvenal, Fourteen Satires of, translated into judgment before the appearance of the few more of George Eliot's learned para-
English by Alexander Leeper, New and other essays promised in continuation of phrases might have been explained.
Revised Edition, 5! Macmillan the theme. But one may, so far as the pre-
This rendering well deserves its place in the sent argument justifies an opinion, say that Goldsmith, THE DESERTED VILLAGE, edited,
with Introduction and Notes, by G. G.
familiar dark blue
series, being both spirited there is here, amidst much that is instructive,
Whiskard, 6d.
and idiomatic. First published in 1882 suggestive, and of some likelihood, much that
as the joint work of its author and Prof. is fanciful and that rests on mere assump-
Oxford, Clarendon Press
H. A. Strong, it was revised ten years later tions.
The editor, in his Introduction and notes,
We will refer to only two points.
by Dr. Leeper, and now again has been so It does not strike us that Mr. Munro has puts before the young reader all that needs
largely rewritten by him as to be virtually produced a sufficient amount of evidence explanation.
a new book. Comparing the present issue against the view that the vowel u was used Hood (G. F. ), PROBLEMS IN PRACTICAL
with that of 1882, which he has long used, as a sign of the passive in the original struc- CHEMISTRY FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS,
the reviewer finds an elaboration of style ture of Semitic languages. As an instance
5/ net.
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and phrase which generally brings out the of fancifulness in the argument, his treatment
The problems collected in this volume
meaning better. Juno virguncula," once of the verb müth (to die) may be mentioned. require in the student a thorough knowledge
“a little wench,” is now “a bashful maid. ” “ The imperfect," he says, ' has the old of the elementary groundwork of chemistry,
But occasionally longer versions add nothing active form [yāmûth] because it expressed
as many of the exercises are of an advanced
to the rendering; Juvenal's points are
the struggle. The perfect [mêth) was used nature and of considerable difficulty. The
sharply made, and do not need any emphasiz. when all
was over, and therefore had the old author's directions are, however, fully and
ing. Why, for instance, in xiii. 172 add passive form. ”
lucidly given, and should be effective for
yet” after the though 22 clause? It is We think, however, that Mr. Munro has students preparing for higher examinations.
neither in the Latin nor needed in the done well to reopen the whole question.
English.
Studies like these are sure to promote the Jenks (Paul R. ), A MANUAL OF LATIN WORD
There are a few notes as to the text interests of true linguistic and ethnological FORMATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS,
adopted, “where there might seem to be science, though the final result may not be 1/6
Harrap
room for doubt. ” More, we think, should quite what the zealous pioneer expected. Examples of derivatives are arranged in
have been done in this way, especially
lists to illustrate word-formation, as seen
Scbool-Books.
since Prof. Housman's drastic examination
in Cæsar, Cicero, and Virgil, the com-
of the claims of MS. Pithoeanus in 1905. Althaus (L. H. ), THE SOUNDS OF THE MOTHER piler's aim being to supply a three years'
The “mulio consul " of viii. 148, unknown TONGUE, A MANUAL OF SPEECH-TRAIN-
course for students of Latin.
in 1882, is now duly rendered, and deserved
FOR PREPARATORY AND LOWER Laurie (André), MÉMOIRES D'UN COLLÉGIEN,
to be recorded at the side of the text.
FORMS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AND Authorized Edition, edited, with Exer-
Encouraged by the success of Mr. J. D. FOR VTH, VITH, OR VIITH STANDARDS
cises, Notes, and Vocabulary, by O. B.
Duff in dealing with Satire VI. , Dr. Leeper IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, 2/ net; and Super, 1/6
Harrap
has now added a vigorous translation of it SOUND-DRILL AND READING EXERCISES
This interesting story of school life in
to this issue. On the other hand, the IN PHONETIC SCRIPT FROM THE ABOVE, France should prove a welcome textbook
critical notes, mainly as to corrupt passages,
6d.
Hodder & Stoughton for English students, as the French is of
which occupied some pages in the edition of Speech-training in the vernacular is un-
the easy type required of candidates for
1882, have disappeared, and we get instead doubtedly necessary for children in ele- the Junior Local examinations. Exercises,
others on four passages in which Prof. T. G. mentary schools entoring secondary schools, notes and vocabulary are given in the
Tucker plays a leading part.
and these publications, admirable in method appendix.
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seem
BEING THE
COTT
AS
Macaulay, EssAY ON JOHN BUNYAN, 3d. Childo-Pemberton (Harriet L. ), THE SILENT Warwick (Anno), THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, 6/
paper, 4d. cloth.
VALLEY, AN EPISODE, 6/ Constable
Mills & Boon
Oxford, Clarendon Press The pages of this novel are abundantly There are here really two unknown
A slim booklet in the Oxford Plain Texts sprinkled with pieces of original poetry, women in the case. One, a pseudo-antiquo
which may well attract the adult as well as supposed to be sung or recited by those bust, becomes the centre of a neatly
the learner.
taking part in the action—a revival of an complicated intrigue; the other, to us less
Silya Latina, LATIN READING-BOOK,
antique fashion which we are not altogether interesting, is a femme incomprise valiantly
chosen and arranged by J. D. Duff, 2/
prepared to welcome. In other respects, making the most of a little unhappiness to
Cambridge University Press too, the atmosphere suffers from an excess the admiration of all beholders. The story
This book, the work of an accomplished of culture ; and the characters, like the presents & curious and lively picture of
teacher, contains a hundred and forty- story, which has a vague connexion with artistic circles in New York, and emphasizes
five extracts in the same number of pages,
the theory of reincarnation, lack definition. the pernicious influence of journalism as
followed by a few notes on each extract.
But the writing has a delicate and fantastic a factor in American social life.
Each passage is preceded by a short sum-
charm, especially in descriptive passages ;
and the refrain of at least one lyric recurs
General.
mary; and to aid the pupil in the verse
" the long vowels are marked. persistently to memory.
Annual Register : A REVIEW OF PUBLIC
No doubt the book will serve as an excellent Gerard (Dorothea), EXOTIC MARTHA, 6/
EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD FOR
introduction to Virgil and Cicero.
Stanley Paul
THE YEAR 1911, New Series, 18/
Swift, THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, extracted
“Exotic Martha " has all the hardiness of
Longmans
from Selections from Swift, edited by make a lively story. She arrives in Batavia
a healthy outdoor plant, and her adventures This time-honoured publication continues
Sir Henry Craik, 2/
to maintain its excellence as a work of
Oxford, Clarendon Press as a prospective bride, only to find the
reference. As usual, the chapters on domestic
A capable edition, with a Life of Swift. bridegroom-elect already married. Her sub- affairs
are chiefly Parliamentary ; but
We think the little book might have been sequent proceedings are unusual, but enter- social events, such as the railway strike
repaged. The text begins at p. 196, and the taining.
and even the stoppage of the Wells-Johnson
notes include references for explanations to Hewlett (Maurice), OPEN COUNTRY; and boxing match, are deftly woven into the
pages which do not exist here. If this
narrative. The international crisis of the
REST HARROW, 2/ net each.
section was worth separate printing, it was
Macmillan
summer naturally figures in several chapters,
surely worth revision in such points.
These two novels are the best known of
but its bearings on the history of England,
Tappan (E. M. ), THE STORY OF THE ROMAN
Mr. Hewlett's work, and are crowded, often to
Germany, France, and Morocco are kept
PEOPLE, 1/6
Harrap excess, with the peculiar output of his distinct. Mr. H. Whates has digested the
An account of the Roman people from mind. They are hardly, in our opinion, affairs of the African continent with his
The
earliest times to the fall of the Empire, so good as his shorter, more restrained and usual workmanlike thoroughness.
related in readable style, with an absence of harmonious stories. They are further addi- scientific and literary retrospects
that uninteresting detail which characterizes tions to Messrs. Macmillan's handsome adequate; and Miss Eveline Godley writes
some school histories of Rome. Copious edition of his works.
brightly on the drama, though she dovotes
illustrations and the use of large type add Lincoln (Jeanie Gould), THE LUCK OF translation of The Witch. The obituary
rather too much space to Mr. Masefield's
to the attractiveness of the volume.
RATHCOOLE :
ROMANTIC is more concise than was formerly the case,
Wallontin (Dr. Ignaz G. ), AN INTRODUCTION ADVENTURES OF MISTRESS FAITH Wol- and so the editor has been able to include
TO SCIENTIFIC GERMAN, being the First
(SOMETIME KNOWN “ MISS
& comprehensive list of persons of more or
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lehre,' edited, with Notes and Vocabu. NEW YORK AT AN EARLY PERIOD OF
Clowes
lary, by P. M. Palmer, 3/6
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THE REPUBLIC, 6/ Gay & Hancock Army Annual (The), 1912, 3/6 net.
University students in science, who are The well-worn theme of a lost
Hereford : THE FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
required to know sufficient German to enable in the shape of a trinket, with a curse and
OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE PUBLIC
them to translate into English extracts from a prophecy attached, appears here once more
LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND ART GALLERY
German works, will find in this book excel in print. The characters are of many nation-
TO THE TOWN COUNCIL, 1911-12.
lent materials for practice, with useful notes alities, they all speak in some distinctive
Hereford, Herefordshire Press Co.
and vocabulary to help them with the more tongue, they meet together in New York a India Omco List for 1912, 10/6 Harrison
difficult phrases.
hundred years or so ago, and the resulting Loa (Homor), THE DAY OF THE Saxon, 7/6
medley is passably amusing.
net.
Harper
Fiction.
Moore (George), SPRING DAYS, 6/
Mr. Homer Loa, like the Fat Boy, wants
Borovski (Antoine le), CAIRN LODGE, 2/ net.
Werner Laurie to make our flesh creep. He foresees the
Mr. George Moore declares prefatorially approaching dissolution of the British Em-
Murray & Evenden
that he has done his utmost to consign this pire, and gives his reasons with unreserved
The principal figure in this story is a
vicious and unprepossessing old man.
The
study to a merited (sic) oblivion. For all candour. His argument is developed in a
book has no literary merit or psychological that, we are glad to recognize its tenacity dull and pedantic style, like an exercise in
interest, and its only appeal must be to
in clinging to existence. The book did formal logic, but it amounts to this. The
lovers of sensation.
not receive the recognition it deserved on Saxon race is sunk in “a fat somnolence of
Bosanquet (Edmund), THE WOMAN BETWEEN, it is a remarkable and unerring piece of Empire as
its appearance twenty-four years ago, for satisfaction," and has failed to organize the
a military unit-to maintain
6/
Long work, with just a tinge of deliberate ultra- armies powerful enough to invade and defeat
We can scarcely suppose that Mr. Bosan- realistic selection. The picture of Frank any rival Power. On the other hand, the
quet intends this work as a serious essay Escott and the Brookeses is etched in with dreadful Dreibund” of Russia, Japan,
in fiction. It opens in fairly promising a ruthless precision and a fine malice which and Germany is a natural coalition," each
fashion, but about half way through lapses alone make the book remarkable. The treat- of whose meinbers is thwarted in its expan-
into melodrama, culminating in something ment is sometimes reminiscent of Flaubert. sion by the British Empire, and each of
not far removed from nightmare. The simple We reviewed it in The Athenceum of Sept. 8, whom is well organized, and not hampered
country squire involved in ruinous specula- | 1888, p. 317.
by democracy--for which Mr. Loa, as an
tions; the villainous financier who takes
advantage of the situation to press his un-
Rhodos (Kathlyn), THE Wax IMAGE, AND
American, appears to have an unexpected
welcome suit on the squire's daughter; the
OTHER STORIES, 6/
contempt. A supreme navy is insufficient
defence for the Empire, except apparently
more deserving, though less eligible lover
These crude sketches are inconspicuous hearted pessimist.
Holden & Hardingham in regard to Australia. Mr. Lea is a whole-
who rescues the financier's deserted mistress
“When England per-
from suicide, and thus acquires the clue to in merit, except for an occasional touch of
mitted the amalgamation of the Germanic
dramatic craftsmanship.
his rival's past-these are indeed familiar
The numerous
race, it prepared the plans of its own sarco-
figures, yet presented with a certain measure
murders, suicides, and excursions into the
phagus. He thinks that England can offer
of distinction. But
what can we say to the regions of the occult are monotonously
no serious resistance to a Russian attack on
abduction and illegal imprisonment of the
uniform.
India, and that we no longer count as a
villain on the first day of his honeymoon, Rowlands (Effie Adelaide), HASTER TRE- power in the Pacific. Mr. Lea has a pathetic
or to the change of matrimonial partners
Hurst & Blackett belief in the maxim that history always
(equally illegal, as it seems to us) which An undistinguished réchauffé of the repeats itself. Because other empires have
brings everything to a happy conclusion ? Cinderella theme, an attempt at poisoning crumbled away, therefore, he contends, the
The crowning touch of unreality is added by and the unwelcome attentions of a black- British Empire must fall. But he disregards
& comic Irishman.
guard being added by way of seasoning. all facts which do not squaro with his dog-
“luck
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matic propositions. The book is interesting Jastrow (Morris), jun. , DIE RELIGION BABY- editor's part to remove such difficulties.
as a violent counterblast to the peace move-
ASSYRIENS, Part 18, Surely letters seen by Thorkelin and accepted
ment, but is too extravagant to be taken lm. 50.
Giessen, Töpelmann; by later editors should be received into the
seriously.
London, Williams & Norgate text. Why do M. Pierquin and the printer
Letters to the Centre : DESCRIBING SOME
Prof. Morris Jastrow's 'Religion of Baby- between them mark vowel-length by apos-
acute
ASPECTS OF SALVATION ARMY WORK lonia and Assyria' is already well known trophe, macron, circumflex, and
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
to the English-speaking world. This is the accents ?
accents? In this particular, in the printing
101, Queen Victoria Street, E. C. eighteenth instalment of the German trans- of þ and ), and the separation and com-
Rousseau (J. J. ), LES CONFESSIONS, 2 vols. , which deals with
lation of that work, being a part of chap. xxi. , bination of words and prefixes, mere hap-
omens derived from hazard seems to have ruled.
1/ net each
Dent animals and monsters. The whole work The literal, yet spirited translation will
Two more volumes in Messrs. Dent's series will run to about twenty instalments, and help the student, though again errors
of French masterpieces issued as a com- is to be complete by the date of the abound : eofer is a boar, not a lance ;
panion series to Everyman. Selected works Leyden Congress.
syththan heofones gim gläd ofer grundas
from Gérard de Nerval, Stendhal, Alfred de
should not be rendered “ après que la perle
Musset, Corneille, and Saint-Simon are to
Bibliography.
des nuits eût glissé dans les profondeurs du
follow shortly in the same series, which will Journal Général de l'Imprimerie et de la firmament”; hafela is not a helmet, as the
not be completed until next February.
Librairie : TABLE ALPHABÉTIQUE DE translation declares, but the head,
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ANNÉE 1911.
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These parables are negligible both in
Paris, 117, Boulevard Saint-Germain out of 6358 half-lines ? Schipper's work
matter and treatment.
The writer is repe-
has furnished the basis of a treatise on
Pbilosopby.
versification, the best thing in the book.
titive in style, and indulges too much in the Baumann (Julius), NEUES ZU SOKRATES, The author ignores the articles of Luick
affectation of placing nominatives after
verbs.
ARISTOTELES, EURIPIDES, 3m. 50 (Anglia, 11 and 12). In the accidence
Leipsic, Veit Anglian should have been distinguished
Pampblets.
The first two articles are designed as
from West - Saxon forms. Despite its
Eloction (The) of an Irish House of Commons models to show how ancient texts, read blunders, M. Pierquin's work is important
and Sonate, containing an Electoral Map with students, may be handled from a and praiseworthy, We hope to see it in a
and Schedule of Constituencies, 6d. philosophical point of view in accordance rigorously revised edition, the first of many
Dublin, Sealy, Bryers & Walker with modern systems of logic. The first is a coming French scholar's labours on our
Largely owing
to Lord Courtney's vigorous which merely a commentary is supplied,
Book I. of Xenophon's Memorabilia,' to earliest literature.
campaign, the Proportional Representation the reader being supposed to have the text
Fiction.
Society of Ireland has now an influential beside him. The second is Book II. of Cassot, (Cécile), COMÉDIES, GAIES
membership. This pamphlet, in which the
D'AMOUR.
Paris, Daragon
familiar device of the single transferable vote Aristotle's 'Physics,' translated and com-
is advocated, is issued in the hope of pro- is an interesting and stimulating essay on
mented paragraph by paragraph. The third
In spite of their title, there is nothing that
is in any way diverting in these comedies.
moting the chances of a Proportional Repre Euripides's philosophy of life and its relation Not only are they lacking in point and
.
It is clearly demonstrated that a scheme for
to later. Greek thought-or we might better dramatic situation, but also both dialogue
and plot are inconsequential, crude, and
proportional representation could easily be say feeling, for it is rather his general emo-
adapted to the Government's plan for the in question. In the author's view the key: Pylkkanen (Hilma), Saïmi TERVOLA, Zfr. 50,
tional attitude than definite thought that is dull.
arrangement of constituencies.
note Euripides's philosophy would
,
National Women's Social and Political seem to be resignation-especially to the This is a novel which reaches a high
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and is written throughout
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FOREIGN.
and ironic side of him is here little in evi- devoted to the cause of liberty in Finland,
Tbeology.
dence. The article is illustrated with an finds herself allied to a commonplace hus-
Gormann (Dr. Friedrich), LUKE SHEPHERD, fragments, then from the plays.
unusual fullness of quotation--first from the band incapable of sharing her idealism, and
possessed, further, of atavistic tendencies.
EIN SATIRENDICHTER DER ENGLISCHEN
An estrangement gradually takes place, and
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This monograph was the writer's disser- DE BEOWULF: I. INTRODUCTION, LES ardent patriot, returns from abroad. Sym-
tation for the Doctorate of the University SAXONS EN ANGLETERRE ; II. LE POÈME pathy is soon established, leading to a frank
of Erlangen. It is a careful and thorough DE BEOWULF, Texte et Traduction, and open confession to the husband of their
study of a writer who was among the more Notes, Index, &c. , 15fr. Paris, Picard love. A divorce is obtained, and the last
popular of the English satirists of the time Hitherto, French scholars have generally prophetic words of the husband are that
of the Reformation. Of the floods of satirical avoided Old English, and it is there- the wife who has forsaken him will find the
writing which were then poured over the fore with keen interest that have memory of their former love and their child
world-chiefly from the presses of Ger- examined M. Pierquin's 846-page study of irresistibly destructive to future happiness.
many comparatively little has been pre- the ‘Beowulf,' the first published in France The author is to be congratulated on the
served to us; and for the most part the since, in 1877, Botkine gave an elegant but vividness of characterization, and the skill
value of that little is historical, or merely insufficient paraphrase of the poem. We with which the atmosphere is created.
curious, rather than artistic. Luke Shep- acknowledge the author's labour on plan
General.
herd's productions can hardly be accounted and detail; unfortunately, mistakes abound,
an exception. Dr. Germann gives a pre- many being misprints, but others not to Coulevain (Pierre de), ÈVE VICTORIEUSE ;
liminary sketch of Shepherd's predecessors be excused thus.
Hugo (Victor), DIEU; LA FIN DE SATAN,
and contemporaries-Barlow, Bale, Crowley, Part I. shows wide reading and interest and LE ROI S'AMUSE; LUCRÈCE BORGIA ;
Turner (whose botanical work is his more in the subject; a chapter on the March, and Mérimée (Prosper), CHRONIQUE
genial title to fame), and several less pro- for instance, is both sound and brilliant. DU RÈGNE DE CHARLES IX. , Ifr. 25 net
minent satirists; and then discusses Shep- But late Norse mythology is not identical
each.
Paris, Nelson
herd's life and works in general and in detail. with that of the Anglo-Saxons; and M. These four volumes continue Messrs.
Of the latter he prints as an appendix three Pierquin errs frequently-c. g. , in treating Nelson's enterprise of rendering the master-
hitherto unpublished specimens : The Vp the nicor, which in Old English literature pieces of French literature cheap and acces-
cheringe of the Messe, Phylogamus,' and is no water-spirit or fay, but a savage sea- sible to English readers. Dieu' and
'Pathose, or an inward passion of tho pope monster. From the list of English towns 'La Fin de Satan' are two of Hugo's more
for the losse of hys daughter the Masse. Kingston, the place of coronation, is omitted. ambitious poems, and their reputation has
The last does not appear in the list of What Saxon lord's property was surrounded greatly declined since the early nineteenth
Shepherd's works given by Bale in his by walls ?
century. 'Lucrèce Borgia,' a play which
*Index Britanniæ Scriptorum, and the Now for the text. It was a retrogression to heaps unnatural crimes upon the hapless
author devotes some pages to justifying the print it in half-lines—at least it should have daughter of Alexander VI. , is in all pro-
attribution. An interesting section is that been numbered in whole verses ; and the bability & false estimate. The other two
on the influence on the English of German Ms. has been followed in many of its scribal volumes are invaluable to the student of
satire of the period.
blunders and contractions where it was an
French literature.
we
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No. 4417, JUNE 22, 1912
THE ATHENÆUM
709
as
" in
22
Society in 1880 until 1894, and he continued granting of the licentia before 1214, and
constant in attendance at its meetings until therefore it is idle to speculate as to how
PROF. VERRALL,
a few months before his death. Though it might have been conferred. All we know
a recluse in his habits so far as general is that the ordinary machinery of the
THOUGH Prof. Verrall had for some time
society was concerned, he was always studium generale came into being in 1214.
been crippled and enfeebled, the news of delighted to meet and extend his hospitality
his death will come as a severe shock to a
to philosophical students, and many memor.
In any case, even if your reviewer should
host of pupils and friends inside and outside
able gatherings took place in his rooms in
hold Dr. Rashdall's opinion, I cannot see
Cambridge. His appointment to the new
Conduit Street. His philosophy never gained any justification for his labelling my opinion
Cambridge chair of English last year was a
inaccuracy. "
the popularity and recognition he ardently
He might have said
surprise to many, but welcome to those longed for, but it received grateful acknow- how he could have done even this in face of
my view was not generally held, though
who knew his capabilities.
ledgment from his philosophical contem.
Denifle I do not see.
Taking the Classical Tripos in a year so poraries, notably from the late Prof. William argued at length, but I hope I have said
The case might be
exceptional that three Chancellor's Medals James.
sufficient to show that the word
were awarded, he became a Fellow of Trinity
in 1874,
and joined the staff of the College and his reading covered the whole range of
Mr. Hodgson was a great classical scholar, accuracy ” cannot be fairly used here.
three years later. As a tutor he was full of
E. O'NEILL.
kindness and attention for all his pupils. The close of his British Academy paper is
philosophical literature, ancient and modern.
As a lecturer and teacher of classical com-
a profound analysis of Plato's argument in substitution of
*** I regret sincerely my unintentional
position he provided to a high degree the Parmenides," with which he held his readable,” and add on the main question at
very
for especially
stimulus and delight, merits which were,
own theory to be identical. Yet very little issue a few words in reply. The author,
and are, by no means characteristic of some
of his work was taken up with direct criticism after remarking on the activity of Oxford
well-known scholars. His original and ex-
of past or contemporary theory. His own schools since the days of Henry II. ,
ploring mind excluded dullness.
A guess
writes,
by the half-instructed became in his hands method by which he could survey the whole of no special knowledge,
philosophy was not a system, but rather a
in a book designed, I presume, for readers
a fascinating and persuasive probability: field of human experience, the emotions
“ In 1214 the
His edition of the Medea' strayed far which form the basis of religion no less than model of Paris. "
university came into being, formed on the
enough from the text to win him the de-
This statement seems
the sensations which give rise to science.
scription of " spendide emendax," and his Whatever may be the ultimate verdict on
to me misleading. Mrs. O'Neill admits that
Studies in Horaco' were similarly original
, his philosophy was the complete theory of everything that constituted & University
of
Æschylus, though worthy of his innovating its psychological analysis will always give Ordnance to the burgesses of Oxford does not
knowledge and reality, the thoroughness of twelfth century, and, since the Legatine
mind, revealed a tendency to strain the sense
it value for the student.
rather than leave MS. authority. His most
create a Chancellor, or give him the power
fruitful work was perhaps the series of
of conferring a “ licentia docendi," and is
volumes begun with 'Euripides the Ration-
not a charter, it cannot be said to have
alist,' which prepared the way for a new
called the University into being. The
understanding and revival of the Attic
ENGLAND IN THE MIDDLE
letter is printed in full in Munimenta
master of scepticism. Besides his papers
Academica,' I. i. Moreover, no Chancellor
in learned periodicals, he contributed from
AGES. '
seems to have been appointed up to as
time to time a number of light articles to
late as 1221; wherefore, if his existence
various academic periodicals. He added
I FEEL that I must protest against the is the crucial test of a University, it did not
to the Life of Jebb a charming apprecia- offensive tone of your reviewer's refer.
come into being till after that date.
tion, in which he characteristically compared
ence to me and my ‘England in the Middle
YOUR REVIEWER.
him to Addison; and published not long Ages’ in The Athenæum of June 8th. I
since in The Quarterly Review a study of
did not say that Dr. Rashdall's work is
Scott's famous short story in 'Redgauntlet. '
very readable, and the misquotation
He selected Dryden as the subject for his
seems to have been deliberately made to
English lectures. An omnivorous reader make me appear to patronize that eminent
THE HITA LIBRAR Y.
and a man of fine taste, he had none of the scholar. If it was not deliberate, then I can
hardness or conceit which is often associated only say it was as slipshod as his method
TAE sale of the second portion of the Auth
with brilliancy. He was in the best sense a
of dealing with this tangled question.
Library was continued on Monday, the 10th inst. ,
man of the world as well as a man of letters, He cannot be allowed to escape from the and the four succeeding days. The following
books realized £100 and upwards :
a scholar who was also a wit and a radiating charge of unfairness by the glib use of an
influence.
obscure phrase. Dr. Rashdall assigns a Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune, 1596, 1151.
definite date for the “ birth of Oxford as a
Cosmographiæ Introductio, 1507, the first issue,
1951. John Cripps, A True Account of the Dying
Studium Generale-. . . . 1167 or the beginning Words of Ockanickon, an Indian King, 1882, 1651.
of 1168," and the phrase ex consuetudine Daniel, Delia, with the Complaynt of Rosamond,
SHADWORTH HOLLWAY
La Grant Danse Macabre, Paris,
HODGSON,
was an invention of the fourteenth-century 1592, 1051.
jurists. It thus leads us no nearer to the 1501, 2701. ; the same, Troyes, 1528, 2201. Dante,
Divina Commedia, Foligno, 1472, 4751. ; the
solution of the question “ Did the University same, Mantua, 1472, 1301. ; the same, Jesi, 1472,
WE regret to record the death on the
come to birth in 1167 or 1214 ? ” Your 6807. "; the same, Florence, 1481, with the nine
13th of the present month, at the age of 79,
reviewer skilfully evades the question when teen illustrations by Baccio Baldini, after Botti-
of Mr. Shadworth H. Hodgson, well known
he says that the Legatine Ordnance of celli, 1,8001. ; the same, Brescia, 1487, 1301.
to students of philosophy. He was edu.
cated at Rugby and Corpus Christi College,
1214 is not a constitution of a studium Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie, 1811, 1521.
De Bry, Major and Minor Voyages in Latin and
generale, but a regulation of details of the German, in 52 parts, 1590-1831, 8251. Decker,
Oxford, of which he was an Honorary
Fellow. A heavy sorrow in early life, the
daily life of one already existing. ” It is The Gul's Horne-Booke, 1809,1751. De Vries, Korte
Historiael
not in dispute that students were con.
death of his wife in 1858 three years after
verscheydenen Voyagiens,
their marriage, led to his exclusive devotion
gregated at Oxford under masters, but no
1655, 1011. Dialogus Creaturarum Moralizatus,
to philosophy. His first philosophical work
community of teachers and students itself printed by Gerard Leeu, 1480, 1051. Doctrinal
suffices to constitute a studium generale, two leaves, 3101. John Dowland, Lachrimæ,
of Sapience, printed by Caxton, 1489, wanting
Time and Space, a Metaphysical
which is essentially connected with the 1605, 1051. Sir F. Drake, Expeditio Francisci
Essay,' in 1865. It was followed by The
Theory of Practice,' 1870; The Philosophy
existence of a chancellor whose duty it is to Draki in Indias Occidentales, 1588, 4701. ;
confer the licentia. Now the first mention
A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis
of Reflection,' 1878 ; and his greatest work,
of such a chancellor at Oxford is in the
Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1589, 7001. ; Sir
"The Metaphysic of Experience,' in four
Francis Drake Revived, 1826, 1021. Michael
Ordnance of 1214, and from the wording Drayton, The Tragicall Legend of Robert, Duke
volumes, in 1898. As lately as January of
it is clear that he had not then been of Normandy, 1506, 1351. Daniel Drouin, Le
last year he read a paper before the British appointed ( huic officio deputaverit ”).
Miroir des Rebelles, 1592, bound in old French
Academy, of which he was a Fellow, on
• Some Cardinal Points in Knowledge. In structed from nothing. The material had to
Clearly a studium generale could not be con.
black morocco with the monograms of Louis XIII.
and Anne of Austria, 1201. Drummond of
this he restated his main doctrines in rela.
Hawthornden, Poems, 1616, 1701. ; Forth Feast-
be there first, and all that the facts warranting, 1817, 1001. Remy Dupuys, La tryumphante
tion to recent developments of philosophy.
us in stating as to the condition of things et solemnelle Entree. . . . de Monsieur Charles,
It was in the Aristotelian Society that he before 1214 is that the students and masters Prince des Hespaignes. . . . en sa ville de Bruges,
was best known, and it is there that he were there.
When or whence they came
1515, 5001. A collection of seventeen Dutch
black-letter broadsides, connected with the West.
leaves the mark of his direct personal no one can positively say. What sort of Indies and South America, 1024-52, 2301.
influence. He was the first President, and organization they had, if any, there is no
held that office from the foundation of the evidence.
