No More Learning

our readers that they will not fail to find,
Beauty and Ugliness. and Other Studies
Yet so far as the main theme of the as they will expect, many beautiful thoughts, in Psychological Æsthetics. By Vernon Lee
book goes, the true position of a parson somewhat vulgarized here and there by a
and C. Anstruther-Thomson. (John Lane. )
in regard to his flock, the love-story, tendency to attribute to celestial bodies
- The cause and manner of æsthetic pleasure
mannerisms such as
attractive as it is, proves a weakness, that can only be accounted for by supposing provide a field of endless and interesting
giggling-attributes
and displeasure in different individuals
coming in as a secondary theme which that the author had a certain public in his
somewhat confuses the first. A compari- mind when writing, and unintentionally anecdotal interest will absorb one spectator
inquiry. That
a picture of which the
son between this and stories of the life wrote down to them. From the portrayal of should be equally pleasing to another who
of a village priest in French fiction may the different spheres of activity assigned to
views it merely as
ultimate welfare some
a pattern is a fact
illustrate the advantage—from a literary spirits for their
point of view-of unity of motive.
which indicates the piquancy of the dis-
readers should gain a modicum of practical coveries which the interchange of artistic
The
book at least attacks in a fresh and original wisdom. Others, however, may be troubled; views enables us to make. Both authors of
, by fear that if the of
manner, and with all the impressiveness all things working together for good be so
this book are ästheticians of, we imagine,
of conviction, a real and pressing problem. applied to individuals, it may encourage the
uncommon and even unfortunate sensibility.
When Miss Anstruther-Thomson perceives a
atrophy of moral endeavour.
certain chair she becomes conscious of her
In Cotton Wool. By W. B. Maxwell.
Oxford Mountaineering Essays. Edited
lungs. “The bilateralness of the object seems
With
(Hutchinson & Co. )
to have put both lungs into play.
by Arnold H. M. Lunn. (Edward Arnold. )
HERE is no milk-and-water romance.
The title led us to expect a book upon the perception of the top of the chair comes
a sudden sense of the head being weighed
In a brief Foreword the author plainly Alps, but the essays, which deal principally downwards. " Similarly a particular tri-
indicates his aim—to exhibit the increase with Switzerland, also include a chapter on
of egoism as one of the greatest of modern in the book. The volume is packed with
Roof-Climbing at Oxford --not the best angle causes contraction of her thorax.
Vernon Lee, on the other hand, associates
.
evils ; and he has allowed no consider good things, and our only complaint of
tunes with pictures. As thus, the object
ations of false modesty to interfere with the lively Preface by the editor is that it is Raphael's School of Athens ' :-
of contemplation being the architecture of
the delivery of his message, though the too short. Incidentally, he tells us that Raphael's School of Athens ':-
delicacy of his treatment redeems his Oxford boasts of several Alpine Clubs, and “ The Exules [a phrase in a "Salve Regina' by
work from any suggestion of grossness. says that the minutes of one Club “record Pergolesi) enables me to see the arrangement of
He is not strong in imagination, but his that a member moved to inhibit
the secretary cupolas and arches, to tako in very well the depth
of the
of the Church Union from issuing a printed makes it all joygle. ”
The Ninth Symphony
treatment of the commonplaces of every-
day existence is often whimsical and The motion was lost, it being pointed out
prayer for "faith to remove mountains. '”
The philosophical catchword of the book
never uninteresting.
that there was real value in a publication is “empathy a word coined recently
The characters are allowed gradually which might facilitate the transfer of some
to express
the attribution of our modes
to develope and reveal themselves by superfluous mountains from the Alps to the to a non-ego. ” Though Miss Anstruther-
their own words and actions. Mr. Max- Michael Sadler interests us in his careful
monotonous surroundings of Oxford. Mr. Thomson is an example of the power of art
well brings keen observation and sympa-paper entitled . An Artist of the Mountains ’; | the body, Vernon Lee's
to affect the breathing and the carriage of
personal experi-
thetic insight to bear on his subject, and, in his essay on ‘The Behaviour of a ence confirms the belief in Empathy as a
and we have little fault to find with his Chamois,' Mr. Julian Huxley supplies some purely ‘mental’ phenomenon. It is by
psychology, though we may doubt if thoughtful remarks about the continuous empathy that such an object as a Doric
egoism of so robust a nature as that wastage of the hills. "The chief moral," column awakens warm emotion by its
exhibited by the chief character is bound he writes, " is. . . . that the mountains can erectness : it acquires by empathy the
to bring him to the madhouse. His lack give the climber more than climbing, and human charm of valiancy and steadfastness.
of decision and definite purpose, and a
will do so if he but keep his eyes open.
In Prof. Lipps was the first great exponent of
certain hypochondriacal anxiety about his Young pleases us with much happy comment, independent apprehension of the idea con-
* The Mountains in Greek Poetry Mr. N. E. Einfühlung or empathy, but the merit of an
health, are meant, perhaps, to suggest a but we have room for only one quotation : veyed in these terms would seem to belong
predisposition to insanity.
“To the guide, qua guide, a mountain is not a
to the English collaborators.
For the rest, the book has some tragic form of the Idea of Beauty, but a problem in Unfortunately, their book is very diffuse
and dramatic situations, and shows both indeterminate equation in terms of glacier, rock, in style from its burden of polysyllables,
higher mathematics, each possible route and inadequately illustrated. It suffers
singleness of purpose and simplicity of ice, and snow and the great guide is he who but as an æsthetic document (partly patho-
construction. Though somewhat lugu the daily variations of these and other unknown logical) --- rather than a treatise -- it has
can solve
brious, it is a powerful piece of work.
quantities. "
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fessoriate should still continue to grant the
degrees. They have in the past managed
• PEACE': A PROTEST.
I SCARCELY remember a more uneventful to create an impression that a degree in
torm than that which is just coming to an Divinity is very easy or very hard, according In your article on the 9th inst. entitled
end. But where invention is dull and life as they desire that it should or should not be
write :-
uneventful, it is profitable to turn to the conferred. There is a general feeling that “So long as there is an idle class who have a great
doings of that ingenious body the Council the degree of D. D. , at any rate, should be social and some political power, the risk of their
of the Senate, the members of which have a given on a man's published work rather than ocoupying their abundant leisure
in encouraging the
peculiar power of creating fresh interests for for a thesis written ad hoc.
spirit of suspicion and hostility against the foreigner
will still be great. "
the University. They have actually formu- At Cambridge we are continually enlarging
lated a plan to add to the picturesqueness our vocabulary. Government is encourag- In allowing this to appear in your paper
of Cambridge life. The hardest degree to ing study of solar physics and astro-physics, are you not departing from your professional
obtain, we have been informed, is that of and now an anonymous benefactor is found attitude of non-interference in politics?
Master of Surgery. For some reason, ing a Professorship in Genetics. I am told Could any one but a Socialist have written
hidden from the profane, surgeons, like by one who knows, that this includes such words? Is it right or fair to suggest
barristers, call themselves “Mr. ,” though eugenics, and some of his friends hope that that war is due to the action of the idle
they may possess the degree of Doctor. Dr. Inge may be induced to abandon the rich ? Further on the same article com-
But the Council hope to remedy this. delight of giving shocks to Londoners in ments on the inconsistency between the
If the modesty of the Master of Surgery order to devote himself to his favourite actions of Christians in connexion with war
may shun the title of Doctor, they want branch of natural science. All rumours and the teaching of Christ ; but the early
to make it impossible for him to avoid the that he intends to do this should be con- Christians, by their faithfulness to that
red gown on scarlet days. It is proposed, tradicted at present.
teaching, hastened the destruction of Roman
therefore, to give the scarlet to all Masters The lectures given by the Rev. W. Temple, civilization and paralyzed a large part of
of Surgery, if there are any, which seems Head Master of Repton, on four successive the Empire against the attacks of aggressive
doubtful. Of course, if a Master of Surgery Wednesdays were, I am told, crowded with Islam. "If the attitude of non-resistance
is not in residence, the privilege offered undergraduates. These courses of lectures had been maintained, it is probable that
him by the Council will not be of much use,
have been an unusual success. Indeed, any Christendom would be, to-day, much smaller
unless his wife or daughters insist on dragging scheme of religious instruction which is than it actually is ; but bitter experience
him unwillingly to a fancy ball.
unofficial seems to succeed in Cambridge. forced the Christians to prepare for war,
The Divinity Professors have addressed a Let it, however, once be sanctioned by and to admit that only by war could they
letter to the Vice-Chancellor, proposing that authority, and it is doomed.
preserve their liberty and life. We, with
degrees in their subject should be thrown The enterprise of Jesus College in theology our huge national debt, do not need Mr.
open to all sorts and conditions of men. has recently been recognized by the Norman Angell to prove to us the economic
At the present time, every candidate for a Athenæum. 'It is certainly a good thing that disaster of war, but we have to be prepared
Bachelor's or Doctor's Degree in Divinity the smaller colleges should show in this to defend ourselves against oppression.
has to submit a subject to the Regius Pro practical way that there are some vigorous Can you say that such aggression is impos-
fessor, and, if accepted, to write a thesis schools in them. There seems to be an idea sible ? and, if not, are you right or wise in
(an “ act,” whatever that may be, is possible abroad at present in Cambridge that a college giving greater currency to the too wide-
in the case of the B. D. degree). The thesis to be great must be large. I do not think spread opinion which seems to be shared by
is then read and reported upon by some of
this view has ever prevailed in Oxford, and such a large number of our fellow-country-
the Divinity Professors, and the degree is certainly it was not always the case in men : that the duty of military preparation
conferred, after the postulant has preached Cambridge. I am glad to observe that is one which they may, with a quiet con-
before the University, i. e. , the Vice-Chan. Jesus has further distinguished itself by science, leave to those who like it ?
cellor, the Regius Professor, an esquire electing Mr. Charles Whibley an Honorary
There are several other references in the
bedell, a proctor, and his bulldogs.
A Fellow, a distinction merited not only by
same number which appear to me to
candidate for the B. D. signs the XXXIX. much scholarly work in literature, but also by show the same political taint. In these
Articles, and a commencing D. D, takes an
a strong personal devotion to his old college. times many are glad to read a truly non-
oath to receive as gospel all the Church The completion of the Master's Lodge at political literary paper, and if you intend
believes”: quæ tenet teneo, quæ respuit, Christ's, which since Dr. Shipley's election to depart from the principles which have
respuo,' &c. It is proposed to dispense has been completely renovated, is shortly so far characterized The Athenæum, I think
with all these formalities and confer the expected, and his friends look forward to there will be others who will share the
degree simply on the thesis. Cambridge seeing him installed amid the splendours
has been of late years singularly com-
regret of
which his own taste and, I believe, liberality
AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
prehensive as regards its theology. Laymen have inaugurated. Many interesting dis.
and Nonconformists have regularly examined coveries were made during the restoration.
We are glad to have our Old Sub-
and enjoyed the privilege of sitting as Every one in Cambridge is pleased at the scriber's views, as they give us an oppor.
members of the Special Board.
There has wise selection of Sir J. J. Thomson for tunity of explaining our position in regard
been
no restriction imposed on either the Order of Merit. There is no one of to such debatable matters as he brings
teachers or examiners, and the election of whom we are more justly proud, and he is forward.
Prof. Burkitt to the Norrisian Chair was certainly regarded as the chief glory of the The Atheneum has been in the past, and
never questioned, though it is extremely University. It was felt that a knighthood will be in the future, open to all sorts of
doubtful whether this position is open to 8
was but å poor recognition of such services opinions. It preserves, as far as possible,
layman. There is sure to be a certain to science as his, and that his acceptance an independent standpoint, but, human
,
amount of opposition, led by so redoubtable of the honour was an additional proof of his nature being what it is, a position which
a champion as Archdeacon Cunningham. modesty.
might be viewed as one of political bias
The Dean of Caius opened the matter by The Marlowe Society gave an admirable from one side or another is inevitable. Those
drawing a most ingenious red herring across performance to somewhat too scanty audi- who are competent to review books con-
the trail. He suggested that divinity does ences in the A. D. C. rooms.
Their play cerning politics, sociology, economics, reli-
not mean criticism and literature, but a A New Way to Pay Old Debts,' and gion, or even history, have, in fact, made
definite subject, namely, that which bears everybody who saw it must have appre- such study of their subject as to reach
on the practical work of a priest in dealing ciated the excellence of the acting. The opinions which they naturally reflect.
with souls. A man may know who wrote orchestra played contemporary music which,
Some bias being then practically inevitable,
the Epistle to the Hebrews, yet not deserve I believe, had been unearthed by Mr. E. J.
a D. D. degree, inasmuch as he cannot Dent. The female parts and that of Sir those writers are usually chosen to review
explain what grace de congruo is, or dis- Giles Overreach were, to my mind at least, books who are likely to understand and be in
“On ne doit jamais
sympathy with them.
tinguish it from gratia de condigno. Accord especially well played.
ingly the Dean proposes to give to all and It appears to me that Cambridge is likely écrire que de ce qu'on aime," wrote Renan,
sundry a Degree in theology--D. T. were the to make a better show at the boat race than and his sentiment, often forgotten nowa-
letters considered most appropriate for
was anticipated. The president, Mr. Arbuth. days, is well worth reviving.
learned Nonconformists and to confine not, handed the crew over to Capt. Gibbon, True, The Athenaeum is primarily a
the B. D. and D. D. degrees to those who who has taken his own line from the first. literary paper ; but as such it is bound to
understand divinity in its true sense.
How He has had poor material, there being hardly take account of the whole of literature and
many of the present D. D. s do this ?
any heavy men, and his work has been most account of that part which is most
Personally, I hope that the proposals of hampered by illness among the crew. But vital, which expresses most strongly and
the Professors may find acceptance, but I he has turned out a creditable boat which spontaneously the actual thought and life
look for opposition on side issues, especially may, at any rate, hunt Oxford home, if it of the time. If we have paid increased
on the question whether the Divinity Pro. 'cannot be expected to win.
J. attention of late to social reform, this
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attention is justified by the increase of
Skrine (Francis Henry), Bahaism, the Religion of
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
Brotherhood, and its Place in the Evolution of
books and interest concerning, its various
(Notice in those columns does not preolude longer
Creeds, 1/8
Longmans
aspects. But it may be noted that, where
review. )
A lucid exposition of the mystical and pro-
the opinions expressed seem to approach
ENGLISH.
gressive religion which, originating in Persia,
special pleading or question. begging, they
Theology.
has swept over the East. The Messiab of this
are usually presented as belonging to the
creed was Baha 'Ullah of Teheran, born in the
Collyer (Robert), Thoughts for Daily Living,
reviewer rather than the paper. An absolute
early years of the nineteenth century, whose
selected and arranged by Imogen Clark, 2/6 net. son, Abdul Baha, is its present exponent.
standard of independence is, in fact, not
Lindsey Press
Some of the tenets of Sufism and Babism were
possible in such reviews as deal with The writer of these Thoughts,' of whom adopted by its founder and made into a far-
questions still hotly debated and unsettled.
some brief account might well have been given, reaching emotional idealism, based on the
is an optimist of the type of Emerson, with unity of mankind and natural phenomena, or
Coming to the particular review to which the difference that he is explicitly Christian, the creative impulse immanent in all things
though he has much the same range of topics.
our correspondent objects, we gladly inform
and equalitarian theories.
In some ways the
The book contains little that strikes one as
him that we can answer in the affirmative his
creed approximates to Pantheism, except that
new, yet its counsels have the freshness which
question whether any one but a Socialist
the conception of a personal God is more
comes from experience and original thought, pronounced. It has endured great persecutions,
could have written the review. As for the while here and there, in the midst of observa- and largely satisfies the emotional and intel-
mediæval Christians, the results of their tions more or less external in character, lectual needs of the East.
behaviour, as stated by our correspondent,
we come upon hints of something more profound. Vassall-Phillips (0. R. ), The Mustard-Tree: an
The selection has been on the whole well made,
seem hardly relevant to the followers of a
Argument on behalf of the Divinity of Christ,
but it includes a few rather trite utterances too with a Preface by R. H. Benson, and an Epilogue
teacher whose kingdom was not of this world. pompously introduced.
by Hilaire Belloc, 5/ net.
Duckworth
We cannot take upon ourselves to argue Cunningham (Archdeacon W. ), Emiciency in This book addresses itself to those whuse
anything from the probability, if they had
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acted otherwise, of an increased or diminished
by the Report of the Archbishops' Committee arise rather from a vague distrust than from
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objections in exact thought ; and it proceeds
Archdeacon Cunningham sets forth clearly on the principle of “facts first, and explana-
The questions further put before us imply
and succinctly both the present position of the tions afterwards,” arguing from the existence
Church of England with regard to finance and
positions which our article does not take up.
and history of the Church, of the Papacy and
the proposals for reform which are under con-
We nowhere state that national aggression
the sacraments, to the divinity of their Founder,
sideration. The author, recognizing, in common as affording the only sufficient explanation of
against the country does not exist, or that with the promoters of this reform, how much
the phenomena. The writer has, we think,
the duty of defence may be left to those we have to learn from the methods of the over- somewhat hampered himself by dealing with
who like it. What we do say is that there
seas Churches, deprecates our following them two opponents in the course of one and the
is another and immediately pressing battle
in the matter of constituting the diocese the
same argument. The difference between the
self-sufficing unit in financial matters; and position of the Rationalist who denies, and the
to be fought at home against the forces of we think he makes out his case for a Central Christian outside the Roman Communion who
disease, ignorance, and prejudice-a battle Board convincingly. The chapter on The affirms, the divinity of our Lord, is, for his pur-
in which The Athenæum has always taken a
Presbyterian Model,' and on the effect of pose, fundamental; and in the attempt to
vivid interest.
deriving powers of self-government from a draw both together into his net, it is the
secular source, is well worth careful attention. Rationalist—his primary object-against whom
In 'John Francis : a Literary Chronicle The author's main point is that, without he is least effective. "As an illustration of
of Half a century, written by his son, the
recourse to legislation, the Church has at this the Catholic faith-according to the modern
moment sufficient powers and sufficient re-
present senior proprietor, we read that the
method of apologetic, and supported by ample
sources to reorganize
her administration
father, before he joined the paper in his and effectively—at least, in many essential direc-
quotation from the past—it is admirable. The
usual historical points of controversy, as be-
its youth, had given much consideration tions, and by making more use of the laity. tween Rome and the rest of Christendom,
to the social reforms advocated by The
where it is a question of “serving tables. hardly come within the scope of the work.
Athenæum,” and was prepared to bear his
We are heartily in sympathy with his strictures Voluntas Dei, 5/ net.
Macmillan
part in the great struggle which all well-
on the waste and overlapping connected with A comprehensive essay in Christian philo-
the present position of our Cathedral clergy:
wishers of the poor and oppressed saw must The concluding chapters deal with the spiritual
sophy, treating of the relation of God's will
to the world, to creation, autonomous life and
take place before even partial success could aspect of Church organization; and in the
be obtained. ” Our courteous critic would,
appendix we have a small group of sermons
purpose, and man's religious and moral life.
perhaps, have been surprised had we com-
dealing with the relations between the Church
Fine Art and Archæology.
and what she stands for and secular ideals.
mented on the Housing of the Working Classes
Archer (William), Art and the Commonweal, 6d.
Davidson (Abp. Randall Thomas), The Character net.
Watts
Bill recently introduced by a Conservative, and Call of the Church of England: a Charge This small “pronunciamiento" of Mr.
yet we should have had numerous precedents
delivered at his Second Visitation of the Diocese Archer's is one of the tersest and most illu-
for doing so since articles on the subject
of Canterbury in February, 2/6 net. Macmillan minating he has done. He protests against
unconnected with the issue of books will be
A survey of the position of the Anglican the anti-social tendency of art, and urges that
Church throughout the world in the twentieth
found in our numbers in 1846_a year in
its inaccessibility to the generality of mankind
century, of the Archbishop's personal work and is symptomatic of some inherent flaw in its
which prison reform was also demanding the office he holds. A note of optiinism is charac- structure ; that art is, in fact, centrifugal and
much of our attention. An illustrated article teristic of the “ charge," fortified by comparison diffusive rather than centripetal. He points
with the Church's work and influence in other
on the conditions existing in coal mines
out that in the very few epochs in which art
ages. Determined effort to understand and
appeared in our issue of May 7th, 1842.
has been the possession of the popular æsthetic
appreciate the changing position, the new
Should a book on the subject appear to-
sensibility, its esoteric appeal has been the
interests, aspirations, and difficulties connected greatest. Lastly, he sketches various suggestions
day, we should consider ourselves to be with the awakening of the democracy and of for the diffusion of culture, beginning, not froin
keeping within our province in judging
women, is called for.
the top, but from below-not taking the Elgin
it by the light of personal knowledge Epistles of St. Paul : the Authorised Version, marbles into Whitechapel, but creating a
amended by the Adoption of such of the Altera-
gained underground. We might even again
sufficiently decent environment to help in their
tions made in the Revised Version as appreciation.
introduce illustrations which would allow of Necessary for correcting Material Mistrans- Babylonian Boundary-Stones and Memorial-
comparison of the work of hewers in the lations, or making clear the Meaning of the Tablets in the British Museum, edited by L. W.
“difficult places" then and now. Happily,
Inspired Writer, the Text prepared by Sir King, with an Atlas of Plates, 40/
Edward Clarke, 2/6 net.
it would not be our lot to-day, as it was in
Smith & Elder
British Museum
This version of St. Paul's Epistles-prepared
1842, to reproduce an illustration of a
Contains thirty-seven texts, translated with
by a layman and, in the first instance, for a annotation and editorial matter, twenty-five
woman on all fours dragging, by a chain practical purpose-should prove useful to of which have not been previously published.
fastened round her waist and passing be- many readers. It raises, indeed, no
The Babylonian system, which included as one
tween her legs, a truck filled with coal.
questions of interpretation or scholarship, of its social features the system of boundary.
yet it derives a real part of its value from the
The workers a class which, it should
stones for the protection of private property,
fact that it represents the experience and lasted from 1450 B. C. to 550 B. C. A number of
not be necessary to point out, has no
thought of an individual mind applied directly complete photographic reproductions of some
boundaries of caste or birth — have the
to the collective work of scholars and applied, of the monuments are supplied, and the work
in our opinion, with considerable felicity. We
right to be heard on all questions of vital
as a whole has been excellently done.
should have preferred to find the text arranged Dickens
The idlers, rich or poor, supply
importance.
(Guy), Catalogue of the Acropolis
in paragraphs rather than verses. The Epistle Museum : Vol. 1. Archaic Sculpture, 10/6 net.
the chief drawbacks to liberty and progress.
to the Hebrews is included.
Cambridge University Press
If poor, they are largely negligible in forming Ha-'am (Ahad), Selected Essays, translated A scholarly piece of work which should be
public opinion ; if rich, they have great influ-
from the Hebrew by Leon Simon.
invaluable to students. The Introduction
Jewish Publication Society of America
ence, and are, it seems to us, apt by their
contains some careful notes on such points as
A well-selected volume of essays, expressing material and technique, subjects and meaning,
very habits of life to become the chief the attitude of advanced Judaism towards the and costume. There are illustrations in the
exponents of prejudice and ignorance. Our spiritual and practical problems of current text of the various exhibits, critical descriptions,
reviewer points out the
risk of this as thought. Breathing an intense spirit of nation- and full references to authorities concerning
great: he does not say that it frequently
ality, they yet bear evidence of a wide culture them. This volume deals with the sculpture
happens.
and of the of the period preceding the invasion of Xerxes
Jewish difficulty which
sionist"
" and the Zionist solutions is presented
in 480 B. C. , at present contained in the first
seven rooms of the Museum. The second yolume
in an
attractive form. The translation has is to contain the rest of the sculpture, the terra-
been revised by the author.
cottas, and the architectural fragments.
are
new
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Eeligion of
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com.
Griffith (F. Ll. ), Karanog, the Meroitic Inscrip: Reid (John), Eila, and Other Poems.
Germany in the Nineteenth Century: Five Lec-
tions of Shablul and Karanòg : Vol. VI. of
Glasgow, Fraser & Asher tures by J. H. Rose, C. H. Herford, E. C. K.
the Eckley B. Coxe Junior Expedition to Nubia, Here is another versifier who treats the Gonner, and M. E. Sadler, with an Introductory
issued from the University of Pennsylvania, realm of imagination " as a “holiday resort. " Note by Viscount Haldane, 2/6 net.
Egyptian Department of the University
We think he would have been well advised to
Manchester University Press
Museum. Philadelphia, University Museum
disport himself in other pastures. His verse Based on a series of lectures delivered in the
The fruits of many years' research are incor-
is not only derivative and commonplace, but t’niversity of Manchester for the benefit
porated in this volume. The author's incentive
was to discover some connexion linking the Setting Sun (The), 1/6 net.
does not strike us as sincere.
primarily of the younger journalists of the
John Murray
district. The idea of promoting a better under-
Meroitic writings with Egyptian demoticon
standing of the history of the German people
the one hand, and Christian Nubian on the In his Argument the anonymous author
other. The collection of miscellaneous texts
declares that the Muse bids him to satirize during the last century is excellent, and the
and the exhumation of altars, stelæ, inscriptions,
his age and country, but that he ends by praising
lecturers are all experts on politics, intellectual
and the like at Naga, Meroe, Shablal, and
both. The verse of Hudibras' and
and literary history, economics, and education.
Karanog, brought a large amount of material,
ingenious double rhymes lead us to suppose
They should, however, have had more space
and time to deal with their themes : 124 pages
which is presented and classified here. Owing
that the intention is comic ; but as a whole
to the extreme difficulty of the language, the the poem is monotonous and flat, despite occa-
of text is a meagre allowance, indeed, for so wide
a survey, and Prof. Herford, who has two dis-
progress of decipherment has been slow. The sional flashes of verbal wit.
book is well furnished with palæographical Treasures of Lucretius, Selected Passages from
courses, really says very little on some leading
tables, catalogues, indexes, and plates of the the De Rerum Naturâ, translated into English
figures. We think some account of the science
inscriptions unearthed.
Verse by Henry S. Salt, 1/ net.
of Germany, with its admirable organization,
Watts
Woodward (A. M. ), Annual of the British School
would have been to the point. It is the field,
The Introduction shows a keen appreciation
at Athens : Index, Nos. 1. -XVI. , 10/ net.
perhaps, in which we have the most to learn
of the genius of Lucretius, and the selected from our neighbours.
Macmillan
passages in decasyllabic verse with an irregular Mahler (Margaret), A History of Chirk Castle and
This fine Index has been prepared to com- sequence of rhymed lines, as in 'Lycidas,' are
memorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the as effective as could be hoped. Sometimes the Chirkland, with a Chapter on Offa's Dyke,
foundation of the School, and is a worthy tribute rendering is dull and formal, but it is hardly 6/ net.
Bell
to the work of the many scholars who have ever diffuse, and, on the whole, it is superior
contributed to make it a success. The Index
In this interesting history of a border strong.
to the blank verse usually attempted. The hold accurate study of original records is
is divided into three sections: (1) of authors,
passages are chosen “ mainly for their poetical commended by an
(2) epigraphical, (3) general; and is so tho-
attractive style. The
beauty. "
illustrations are numerous and to the point.
rough as to make any detail readily accessible.
Walkerdinc (W. E. ), Hyacinths : a Poem.
Nasmyth (James), Engineer : an Autobiography,
Poetry and Drama.
Cambridge, Heffer
edited by Samuel Smiles. John Murray
Archer (William), Play-Making : a Manual of Mr. Walkerdine fingers a pastoral flute, and
The seventh reprint of a book which is a
Craftsmanship, 7/6 net. Chapman & Hall
touches the tender stops” in tranquil,
elegiac vein. Imagination be does not possess,
striking record of invention and effort.
A number of somewhat technical papers
In
Murray's Shilling Library.
inquiring into theories of stagecraft, construc-
but a florid and exuberant fancy that tickles
tion, dramatic themes, &c. They are what we
the more meditative and lazy faculties. Occa-
Stuart (James), Reminiscences, 10/6 net. Cassell
should expect from so capable a criticas
sionally he becomes tiresomely otiose and
A series of reminiscences written in the
Mr. Archer, but strike us as over-elaborated
cloying in his sweetness. In other places the
intervals of a busy life. They are in a free
and slow-gaited. The greater part of the
gentle motion of his verse is agreeable.
and somewhat conversational style, and de-
material is new.
Young (Blamire), The Children's Bread, a One- cidedly entertaining throughout. There are
Bennett (Arnold) and Knoblauch (Edward), Mile- Act Play: being a Tragedy or a Farce, accord. excellent stories both of Scotch humour and
stones, a Play in Three Acts, 2/ net.
ing to How You Look at it.
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Methuen
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The book version of the play we criticized in A play belauding the comparative monetary Terry (Charles Sanford), A Short History of
The Athenæum of the 9th inst.
superiority of the profession of haymaking over
Europe, from the Fall of the Eastern Empire
Easter Anthology (An), collected and edited by that of letters. As a drama, it seems to us
to the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire,
William Knight, 2/6 net. Sidgwick & Jackson
lacking in character or distinction.
3/6 net.
Routledge
This is a fairly comprehensive collection
This compendious history takes us from the
of English sacred verse for private reading,
Renaissance to the abdication of Francis of
in view of the exigencies and sparseness of the
Philosophy.
Austria and the dissolution of the Holy Roman
material. It is divided into four sections, the
periods ranging from the middle of the sixteenth
Cooke (Harold P. ), The Teaching of Philosophy to
Empire in 1806. Its area extends throughout
all the capital events and tendencies of European
century to the latter portion of the nineteenth.
Pass-Men, 6d.
Cambridge, Heffer
history within that compass, and, in view of the
Only the first section is rich in poetic achieve-
A sound and reasonable plea for the teaching inaterial available, the book is aptly condensed
ment, holding the mystical raptures of the of philosophy upon Socratic lines. The author and finely proportionate, though the enforced
metaphysical poets. The rest show poverty
urges that we should start with the current massing of events becomes tedious and drives
in quality. The compiler exhibits a welcome ideas with which every student is familiar, the reader into a false, because curtailed,
broadness of mind, including, as well as writers instead of beginning with the classics and perspective. The style is crisp and virile.
of different schools of religious thought, the proceeding “ad obscurum per obscurius,"
work of those who, though not Christians, have Complementary to this is his view that we
Toyne (S. M. ), History of the Haileybury College
felt the greatness and solemnity of the sacred need more conversation and less lecturing. It
Debating Society, 2/6 net. Oxford, Blackwell
The collection is not confined strictly may be objected that this lays a great burden
London, Simpkin & Marshall
to Easter, but also refers to events which pre- upon the teacher, but the demand is not un- The defect of small debating societies is the
ceded the Crucifixion and followed the Resurrec- justified. For pass-men such a method is timidity and unreality of their discussions.
tion. Literary merit being the standard, essential; indeed, we think it the best means In spite of the obvious sincerity of the proceed-
defective verses are occasionally omitted.
for any sound philosophical teaching.
de
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lo-
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season.
nd
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ings here recorded, the topics and their treat,
Hallard (James Henry), Oinar Kheyyam traduit Penny (A. J. ), Studies in Jacob Böhme, 6/ net.
ment never broaden out into essentials. Several
en vers français d'après la célèbre version
John M. Watkins
mediocre poems are included.
anglaise de FitzGerald, 2/6 net. Rivingtons
F Students of mysticism will welcome the re- Woodberry (George Edward), Swinburne, 5/6 net.