MARSHALL’s ‘Second in Command' T F E
has two great recommendations apart from its
“An admirable Christening Present.
has two great recommendations apart from its
“An admirable Christening Present.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
” Indeed, it was in concludes and attentive readers must agree
by the old conditions and privations obedience to canons of art formulated first with him—that it is an error to suppose
recurring. Both men ultimately abandon by French savants, and adopted generally Hamlet drawn as the irresolute man of
her, and she is left, after a futile threat by eighteenth-century "intellectuals,” that thought, contrasted with Fortinbras, the
ho tried to correct the English poet's sup- man of action. Indeed, the idea of a
of suicide, ordering her maid to paint her posed lapses of taste, and so botched Ham division between thought and action is one
face and deck her out for further excur- let,'* Romeo and Juliet,'' The Tempest,' and not at all likely to have presented itself to the
sions along “ the easiest way. ”
A Midsummer Night's Dream in a way mind of an Elizabethan. When, however, Mr.
The acting at the Globe is as strenuously that is remembered now only to be laughed Calvert begins to dwell insistently upon the
earnest as the play. Mr. Guy Standing's at.
reality of Hamlet's madness, we are obliged
Brockton combines effectively brutality
About his first trip to Paris Garrick to remember that madness is a state subject
and cynicism, and has a fine masterful always preserved a discreet silence, due, to great differences of definition, and that
Dr. Hedgcock seems to think, to the visitor's everything turns upon the interpretation of
way with him. Mr. Godfrey Tearle's
attempting to draw away dancers from the the term. The rough-and-ready classifica-
Madison has the right air of good-natured Opera, and so in all innocence being guilty tion of the law courts reckons no man insane
egotism, and a vocabulary that is enter- of a political crime. However that may be, who can distinguish between right and wrong.
taining and picturesque. Miss Nelson this visit brought about his association with By this criterion, Hamlet was assuredly sane.
Hall offers a very full - blooded portrait a distinguished, if flighty ballet-master, whose Mr. Calvert himself acknowledge the conduct
of a courtesan past her prime; and Mr.
att Fétes Chinoises produced anti-French riots of the prince in the last scene to be rational,
0. B. Clarence's showman, and Miss
at Drury Lane, and whose art owed much and has to explain this condition as an
Violet Rand's negress attendant-though example. Noverre, the person in question, shock. That Hamlet, in
as to its later developments to Garrick’s instance of mental recovery after a second
a position of
both persons are unnecessary to the plot was the creator of the ballet pantomime, in singular horror, fell into a state of extreme
afford diversion at their every appearance. which dancers tell a story by means of nervous tension is plain, and that only a
Miss Sarah Brooke plays the heroine's gestures and movements, as distinct from narrow line divides such a state from
scenes with the requisite vehemence of the
divertissement, and Dr. Hedgcock madness may be conceded. But, surely,
is little in Hamlet's behaviour
declamation, but she conveys the idea — insists that it was from watching Garrick there
which
that the Frenchman learnt the possibilities that goes beyond that of a highly strung
may
be the author's—that Laura's
of dumb show, and therefore of “choreo- nature in a condition of strong emotional
emotions are largely on the surface.
graphic ” drama.
disturbance; and some of Mr. Calvert's con-
Garrick would seem, during his Paris stay, firmatory circumstances are not very good
to have cultivated mainly the society of the evidence. When, for example, Hamlet fails
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
philosophers and Encyclopædists, and among to kill the King, are we really to see in this
them, of course, was Diderot. Dr. Hedg- omission the hesitancy of impaired will ?
In David Garrick and his French Friends cock argues that the change which came
Is it not rather the truth that Hamlet,
(Stanley Paul), a work written
over the author of 'Le Paradoxe sur le incapable of killing in cold blood, is clever
thesis for its author's Paris University Comédien,' as marked in the difference of enough to appease himself with specious
degree, and now translated from the French point of view to be seen in his early writings reasons ? __Nor is it just to assume that
and enlarged by certain attractive digres. on the art of acting and in this far-famed because, Hamlet is not shown discussing
sions, Dr. Frank A. Hedgcock contributes document, may well be put down to the Ophelia's death with Horatio, he must
a welcome because really scholarly addition impact of Garrick’s personality, and that have forgotten all about it. Even, however,
to the biography of England's greatest
actor. the final pronouncements may echo chats if Mr. Calvert carries his theory too far, he
His aim has been to tap Garrick's French he had with Diderot on stagecraft.
does a service to lovers of 'Hamlet' by
correspondence, hardly used hitherto; to Of the French correspondents of Garrick, setting them to consider afresh the amazing
describe his friendships with such players perhaps the most interesting were Madame depth and richness of its central character.
as Le Kain and Préville, such authors or Riccoboni and Monnet. The former, an
journalists as Favart, Suard, and De la ex-actress and novelist in the Rousseau Three Comedies. By Ludvig Holberg.
Place and such whole-hearted admirers manner, maintained in her letters a sort of Translated by Lieut. -Col. H. W. L. Hime.
of his as the Abbé Morellet, Madame Ricco- platonic ardour for the busy actor-manager, | (Longmans. Holberg wrote several valu-
boni, and Jean Monnet; and to give (for and wrote an extraordinarily spasmodic able and laborious works in addition to the
the first time) adequate details of the and exuberant, not to say hysterical, style. thirty-three comedies,” says his translator.
"English Roscius's two visits to Paris. Three only of Garrick's replies have been Several other laborious works
He has also estimated briefly, but interest- preserved, and these, which the biographer inclined to say. A close intrigue, com-
ingly from a French point of view, the various quotes, exhibit the recipient of such enthu pounded of crabbed fathers, melting heroines
aspects of Garrick's activity, throwing here siasm striving gallantly to respond to the and equally melting heroes, subtle maids and
and there fresh light on the subject of his lady's effusiveness, but finding the task valets, villains balked by disguises which
appreciation. Urging, as others have, that increasingly difficult as they grew older. are resolved in the last act by a simple
not a little of the actor's sprightliness and Monnet's friendship was of more practical recognition, and frustrated by marriages
vivacity sprang from his Gallic blood, he seeks value. A retired manager with time on arranged and legally performed with a speed
to disprove the noble birth of Garrick's his hands, he seems to have been ready to which leaves imagination toiling breath.
French ancestors. Dwelling on the versa- do
any sort of errand for Garrick, and acted lessly behind-what is there comic in it
tility and wonderful mimetic power the as his general factotum in Paris. Not only'all ? We admire the ingenious artifice, but
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are told, took Booth's one-act verse play, Unseen Kings,' FROM
Plautus and Molière for his models. We sigh which
a
Plautus. We look in vain for
the quick
the direction of Count Markievicz.
and light perception of folly," the incisive
speech, and the delicate play of fancy,
A NEW version of 'Edipus Rex,' by Mr.
JUST PUBLISHED.
Types take the place of characters, and Theatre, Dublin, at the end of this month. Commercial, and Political
W. B. Yeats, will be produced at the Abbey SIAM: a Handbook of Practical,
blows of repartee; but the types which
Mr. Yeats's adaptation
Plautus knew, or borrowed from his Greek
written in prose Information.
originals,
bear very ill their transplantation unabbreviated. Mr. Gordon Craig's scenery
of the most direct kind, and is practically By A. W. GRAHAM, M. R. A. S. (Adviser to His Siamese
,
Majesty's Minister of Lands and Agriculture) Witha
to eighteenth-century Denmark, and the
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thwackings sound hollow across the centuries.
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“Profusely illustrated, and likely to prove the most
high spirits, the proper seasoning of farce. be given at the Abbey Theatre.
ipany years to come. It has been compiled from official
But in all three the vis comica is sadly wanting,
sources, and is thoroughly up to date in information. "
THE REV. J. O. HANNAY, better known
Observer.
and few readers will accept the translator's
as George Birmingham," amused a Dublin BURMA; a Handbook of Practical,
view of Holberg as one of the great masters audience last week with his views on 'The Commercial, and Political
of comedy. "
Origin and Development of the Stage Irish. Information. (Uniform with 'Siam. ')
man. ' Mr. Hannay_regarded Sir Lucius By Sir GEORGE SCOTT, K. C. I. E. ("Shway Yoe").
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existence in the society of the day. · Now,
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berlain following that of the Senior Censor Bernard Shaw has
the sharp sword of
been long out of print.
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has two great recommendations apart from its
“An admirable Christening Present. ”—Rochdale Observer.
SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.
well-told story. In the first place, it com-
THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WE ST.
(Puccini's 'La Fanciulla del West'). By Dr. E.
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(Half-Column)
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Pearl Type beyond
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SHOULD BE TAKEN TO MEASURE FROM
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man disappointed in love and his career,
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how fits in curiously with the personality
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and methods of this very successful, but
(iii. ) Things, and Glossary.
sensitive actor. The revival at the Play-
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.
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to find“ important new material. ” Why found none ambitious of the honour of
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1912.
then, as he has not much to say about martyrdom. ” His letters make it clear
the condition of Scotland under the that he was not a man who took pleasure
CONTENTS.
Restoration, has he undertaken a fresh in cruelty and bloodshed ; he reduced
215 biography ? Apparently because none
none Galloway
Galloway“ without blood. ” But, after
INDUSTRIAL UNREST (The Labour Unrest ; The English of his predecessors
Agricultural Labourer ; Chauge in the Village
has presented a Renwick's declaration of war, he shot
Wages and Hours in the Railway Service in 1907 ; complete and living portrait of their such persons as came within the law,
A Living Wage)
NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES (The Fugitives; John subject,” and “military justice” has not including the famous John Brown. What
Stuart; The Victories of Olivia ; Manalive)
SCOTTISH BOOKS - HISTORY AND 'GENEALOGY (The
been done to Dundee. Mr. Barrington has most injured Dundee's character is
Awakening of Scotland ; Hume Brown's History of therefore dwells on the masterly qualities his remark to Brown's new-made widow.
Scotland ; Lang's Short History of Scotland; of Dundee as he moved about in Scot- Mr. Barrington says that Macaulay's
Rait's Scotland; The Scotsman in Canada; The
Scots Peerage); MEMOIRS AND REMINISCENCES land, with a small troop of horse and “dramatic version" (certainly an ignorant
“
(Mrs. Story's Early Reminiscences ; Three Genera.
tions ; The Gentle Art); EDINBURGH (Edinburgh scanty supplies, raiding where he could, version) is “ founded on eighteenth-century
Revisited ; Romantic Edinburgh ; Deeside) 218-220 inspiriting the clans, evading and eluding tradition. ” It is a mixture of Wodrow,
THIS WEEK's Books (Letters and Recollections of
Mazzini; My Idealed John Bullesses; The Women's Mackay, and finally routing him at who is erroneous, and of what Mrs. Brown
Suffrage vovement ; Oxford Books; Standard
Books)
Killiecrankie. The tale is like a page told Patrick Walker. What objection
THE LATE DR. SOPHIA Jex-BLAKE
from the campaigns of Montrose, or like can be urged to her evidence, except that
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
THE FRENCH LITERARY WORLD; Cornisa Mss. "; the admirable Southern movement of Claverhouse was not the man to speak
List Of New Books ::
Lord George Gordon shortly before Cul- of “taking God into his own hand ? ”
LITERARY GOSSIP
227 loden. Certainly Dundee had all the In those days, and much later, women
SCIENCE-ANTHROPOLOGY; A COLLEGE TEXT BOOK
qualities of a leader-personal daring, insisted on attending the executions of
OF PHYSICS; SOCIAL LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD;
THE BRITISH BIRD BOOK ; SOCIETIES; MEETINGS alertness, power of enforcing discipline their husbands and lovers ; Mrs. Brown
Next WEEK ; Gossip
Fine ARTS-FIVE YEARS' EXPLORATIONS AT THEBES; even among the jealous chiefs and cians, was not singular in this respect. The
THE HOARE PICTURES; OUR LIBRARY TABLE and care for the well-being of his soldiers. unhappy fact is that Claverhouse, as a
(Rembrandt's Etchings; The Laws of Japanese
Painting ; Textile Design; The Abbot's House at But, like Montrose and Prince Charles, soldier, had only the choice of obeying his
Westminster; Explorations in the Island
Dundee had not to meet leaders of great orders or sending in his papers and aban-
Mochlos); Gossip
MUSIC-FRANZ LISZT; MEMORIES OF 'Liszt; six
merit, or armies consisting, like his own, doning his career. His ambition, and
LECTURES ON THE RECORDER; Gossip; PER.
of born fighting men, nimble and hardy, even his principles of loyalty, forbade
DRAMA-Two PLAYS BY TCHEKHOF; AN ACTOR'S
and accustomed to their native mountains. him to take the second course. Thus,
NOTEBOOKS; THE
RELIGION ;
Mackay, though a professional of much though wholly apart in character from
, a
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
experience and a gallant man, let himself the rulers of Scotland in 1679-88-
into a position, at Runrarie, rather worse though a better statesman than they,
than that of Cope at Preston Pans; and in comparison with them almost a
LITERATURE
like Cope, he had no guns worth reckoning, saint-he shares in their condemnation,
and with muskets clogged with bayonets and is remembered for evil. His place-
stuck into the barrels, the best troops historically-is assigned to him by Scott
could scarcely have stopped the fury of a in ‘Redgauntlet,' in which Scott for
Highland charge. Dundee did “alſ that once wrote with the care due to his genius.
Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee.
man can do”: with his means, did more That immortal description of the shade of
By Michael Barrington. (Martin Secker. ) than any man but himself could have Claverhouse, beautiful as when he lived,
done. Had he survived to take part in sitting among the revelries of the perse-
THERE are probably more biographies of Marlborough's campaigns, he would no cutor, but remote and scornful, gives the
Dundee than of Montrose, though Mont- doubt have greatly distinguished himself ; last word on Dundee.
rose occupies, by his action and passion, but perhaps no fair historian has ever It is not easy to appraise Mr. Barring-
a far larger space in history than the denied the merit of the defeated at ton's book. His object is to present
younger glory of the Grahams,” and was Drumclog, where he seems to have a complete and living portrait of his
å man of greater genius and more sym- rashly attempted too hard a task with an hero. ” R. L. Stevenson might here
pathetic character. Mark Napier's work insufficient force. He sent to Glasgow have succeeded in a brief monograph,
on Montrose is also much superior to his for supports, which proves that
he but Mr. Barrington's work is too long
* Life of Dundee, in which he lets his thought his troop of dragoons and handful by far for such a portrait. He says,
hatred of the Presbyterians and their of horse inadequate in the circumstances, with truth, that in Dundee's corre-
historians carry him away. Probably a fact not mentioned by Mr. Barrington. spondence “ we observe a knowledge of
a
Dundee has found so many biographers Probably he was surprised when the men's foibles, an insight into character, a
because he is one of the best-abused men
Covenanters took the offensive, and, being penetrative and ironic humour, which are
in history; assailed not only by Wodrow badly beaten, he confessed the fact with in striking contrast to Montrose's noble
and all the other chroniclers of the
perfect candour. Except for the pursuit blindness. ' But Montrose was not blind
sufferings,” but also by Macaulay and after Bothwell Bridge, Dundee saw in to the character of the Hamiltons. Mont-
almost all modern popular historians. Scotland nothing more that could be called
never on the make,” and
Mr. Hume Brown, indeed, treats Dundee
Dundee was, though the fact was con-
with impartial calm ; the late
Dundee took no public part in affairs trolled by his haughty pride.
Maclaren" made him the hero of a novel ; till the end of 1678 and the beginning of We are not examining Mr. Barrington's
but recently a temerarious scribe brought 1679, when the country, through mis- work in search of knots in the reed of
Dundee into the scandal of the drowning government of all kinds, and want of a accuracy; but Montrose did not fight
of Margaret Wilson, and offered as his regular military force, was in a very at Tippermuir with “300 Highlanders”
portrait a miniature of an ugly, bullet-dangerous condition. He then held the against over 7,000 Covenanters (p. 256).
headed soldier of the period. We may posts of a captain of horse and of sheriff. Mr. Hay Fleming's criticism of the story
guess that Dundee has so many biographers depute of a wide disturbed district. His that at Bothwell Bridge was displayed
because he has so many assailants ; while
desire was to spare the multitude and a banner with “ No Quarter to the active
his foes perhaps find it wiser not to study punish the ringleaders. ”. But as he enemies of the Covenant (see a picture
him from the point of view of the bio- * rifled the houses and imprisoned the of it in Napier, vol. i. p. 288) ought to
grapher.
servants of those who remained stubborn, have been cited, though the point is of
Mr. Barrington, in his massive ‘Grahame so that when their wives and children little importance (p. 64). As for the
of Claverhouse '---beautifully printed, and were reduced to starvation they were appearance of the death-wraith of Dundee
equipped with excellent reproductions of thankful. . . . to renounce their principles," to
portraits, a good Index, and an opulent we cannot marvel that the name of earliest authority who mentions it is
bibliography-admits that he has failed Claverhouse is still detested, though " he ! Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
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an
It is curious that our author, who venience and ill-feeling, the attitude of
INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
can quote such a master of English as the railway companies must inevitably
Ruskin to good purpose, should himself have been altered . In all such disputes
VERILY signs of the times are rapidly militate against his own effectiveness by the weight of public opinion is an im.
multiplying when The Athenæum has to
a bad style. His book will be difficult portant factor; and for any candid
deal in one week with six productions except to an audience already sympathetic. reader the facts of underpayment and
of which unrest is the inherent cha-
A competent printer's reader might have overwork are written clearly in the
racteristic. The five we have here grouped helped him by a proper attention to
helped him by a proper attention to tables and the paragraphs of this Report.
deal with more than a half of our
our punctuation.
Indeed, the simple statements are more
population, and the sixth, which we allude
*The English Agricultural Labourer,' eloquent than any declamation :-
to elsewhere, touches again more than
quite apart from what may be usefully
half of the nation, though in this last culled from its fifty odd pages, will weekly rates of wages of over one-fourth
" For the United Kingdom as a whole the
case it is a sexual rather than
serve to introduce the serious student to of the adult workmen fell below 208. ,
industrial division.
and
the classics of the subject. Mr. Chesterton, those of nearly two-thirds below 258. , while
As for Mr. Henderson's book, it has in his Introduction, in which he endeavours rather less than a fifth were rated at 30s. or
rarely been our good fortune to read to overthrow any insular complacency more. ”
anything which so thoroughly sweeps that may remain tous, deserves our
It should be added that in some cases a
away the capitalistic prejudice which has gratitude for discarding for the nonce the bonus is given, and that this bonus
gathered round labour discontent-pre- buffoonery, which has recently spoilt (highest where wages are highest) averages
judice which, in the present reviewer's many of his public utterances on social
opinion, has fostered evil feelings, and the questions.
as much as 7d.
by the old conditions and privations obedience to canons of art formulated first with him—that it is an error to suppose
recurring. Both men ultimately abandon by French savants, and adopted generally Hamlet drawn as the irresolute man of
her, and she is left, after a futile threat by eighteenth-century "intellectuals,” that thought, contrasted with Fortinbras, the
ho tried to correct the English poet's sup- man of action. Indeed, the idea of a
of suicide, ordering her maid to paint her posed lapses of taste, and so botched Ham division between thought and action is one
face and deck her out for further excur- let,'* Romeo and Juliet,'' The Tempest,' and not at all likely to have presented itself to the
sions along “ the easiest way. ”
A Midsummer Night's Dream in a way mind of an Elizabethan. When, however, Mr.
The acting at the Globe is as strenuously that is remembered now only to be laughed Calvert begins to dwell insistently upon the
earnest as the play. Mr. Guy Standing's at.
reality of Hamlet's madness, we are obliged
Brockton combines effectively brutality
About his first trip to Paris Garrick to remember that madness is a state subject
and cynicism, and has a fine masterful always preserved a discreet silence, due, to great differences of definition, and that
Dr. Hedgcock seems to think, to the visitor's everything turns upon the interpretation of
way with him. Mr. Godfrey Tearle's
attempting to draw away dancers from the the term. The rough-and-ready classifica-
Madison has the right air of good-natured Opera, and so in all innocence being guilty tion of the law courts reckons no man insane
egotism, and a vocabulary that is enter- of a political crime. However that may be, who can distinguish between right and wrong.
taining and picturesque. Miss Nelson this visit brought about his association with By this criterion, Hamlet was assuredly sane.
Hall offers a very full - blooded portrait a distinguished, if flighty ballet-master, whose Mr. Calvert himself acknowledge the conduct
of a courtesan past her prime; and Mr.
att Fétes Chinoises produced anti-French riots of the prince in the last scene to be rational,
0. B. Clarence's showman, and Miss
at Drury Lane, and whose art owed much and has to explain this condition as an
Violet Rand's negress attendant-though example. Noverre, the person in question, shock. That Hamlet, in
as to its later developments to Garrick’s instance of mental recovery after a second
a position of
both persons are unnecessary to the plot was the creator of the ballet pantomime, in singular horror, fell into a state of extreme
afford diversion at their every appearance. which dancers tell a story by means of nervous tension is plain, and that only a
Miss Sarah Brooke plays the heroine's gestures and movements, as distinct from narrow line divides such a state from
scenes with the requisite vehemence of the
divertissement, and Dr. Hedgcock madness may be conceded. But, surely,
is little in Hamlet's behaviour
declamation, but she conveys the idea — insists that it was from watching Garrick there
which
that the Frenchman learnt the possibilities that goes beyond that of a highly strung
may
be the author's—that Laura's
of dumb show, and therefore of “choreo- nature in a condition of strong emotional
emotions are largely on the surface.
graphic ” drama.
disturbance; and some of Mr. Calvert's con-
Garrick would seem, during his Paris stay, firmatory circumstances are not very good
to have cultivated mainly the society of the evidence. When, for example, Hamlet fails
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
philosophers and Encyclopædists, and among to kill the King, are we really to see in this
them, of course, was Diderot. Dr. Hedg- omission the hesitancy of impaired will ?
In David Garrick and his French Friends cock argues that the change which came
Is it not rather the truth that Hamlet,
(Stanley Paul), a work written
over the author of 'Le Paradoxe sur le incapable of killing in cold blood, is clever
thesis for its author's Paris University Comédien,' as marked in the difference of enough to appease himself with specious
degree, and now translated from the French point of view to be seen in his early writings reasons ? __Nor is it just to assume that
and enlarged by certain attractive digres. on the art of acting and in this far-famed because, Hamlet is not shown discussing
sions, Dr. Frank A. Hedgcock contributes document, may well be put down to the Ophelia's death with Horatio, he must
a welcome because really scholarly addition impact of Garrick’s personality, and that have forgotten all about it. Even, however,
to the biography of England's greatest
actor. the final pronouncements may echo chats if Mr. Calvert carries his theory too far, he
His aim has been to tap Garrick's French he had with Diderot on stagecraft.
does a service to lovers of 'Hamlet' by
correspondence, hardly used hitherto; to Of the French correspondents of Garrick, setting them to consider afresh the amazing
describe his friendships with such players perhaps the most interesting were Madame depth and richness of its central character.
as Le Kain and Préville, such authors or Riccoboni and Monnet. The former, an
journalists as Favart, Suard, and De la ex-actress and novelist in the Rousseau Three Comedies. By Ludvig Holberg.
Place and such whole-hearted admirers manner, maintained in her letters a sort of Translated by Lieut. -Col. H. W. L. Hime.
of his as the Abbé Morellet, Madame Ricco- platonic ardour for the busy actor-manager, | (Longmans. Holberg wrote several valu-
boni, and Jean Monnet; and to give (for and wrote an extraordinarily spasmodic able and laborious works in addition to the
the first time) adequate details of the and exuberant, not to say hysterical, style. thirty-three comedies,” says his translator.
"English Roscius's two visits to Paris. Three only of Garrick's replies have been Several other laborious works
He has also estimated briefly, but interest- preserved, and these, which the biographer inclined to say. A close intrigue, com-
ingly from a French point of view, the various quotes, exhibit the recipient of such enthu pounded of crabbed fathers, melting heroines
aspects of Garrick's activity, throwing here siasm striving gallantly to respond to the and equally melting heroes, subtle maids and
and there fresh light on the subject of his lady's effusiveness, but finding the task valets, villains balked by disguises which
appreciation. Urging, as others have, that increasingly difficult as they grew older. are resolved in the last act by a simple
not a little of the actor's sprightliness and Monnet's friendship was of more practical recognition, and frustrated by marriages
vivacity sprang from his Gallic blood, he seeks value. A retired manager with time on arranged and legally performed with a speed
to disprove the noble birth of Garrick's his hands, he seems to have been ready to which leaves imagination toiling breath.
French ancestors. Dwelling on the versa- do
any sort of errand for Garrick, and acted lessly behind-what is there comic in it
tility and wonderful mimetic power the as his general factotum in Paris. Not only'all ? We admire the ingenious artifice, but
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a
Plautus. We look in vain for
the quick
the direction of Count Markievicz.
and light perception of folly," the incisive
speech, and the delicate play of fancy,
A NEW version of 'Edipus Rex,' by Mr.
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W. B. Yeats, will be produced at the Abbey SIAM: a Handbook of Practical,
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Mr. Yeats's adaptation
Plautus knew, or borrowed from his Greek
written in prose Information.
originals,
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of the most direct kind, and is practically By A. W. GRAHAM, M. R. A. S. (Adviser to His Siamese
,
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ipany years to come. It has been compiled from official
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sources, and is thoroughly up to date in information. "
THE REV. J. O. HANNAY, better known
Observer.
and few readers will accept the translator's
as George Birmingham," amused a Dublin BURMA; a Handbook of Practical,
view of Holberg as one of the great masters audience last week with his views on 'The Commercial, and Political
of comedy. "
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berlain following that of the Senior Censor Bernard Shaw has
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to find“ important new material. ” Why found none ambitious of the honour of
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1912.
then, as he has not much to say about martyrdom. ” His letters make it clear
the condition of Scotland under the that he was not a man who took pleasure
CONTENTS.
Restoration, has he undertaken a fresh in cruelty and bloodshed ; he reduced
215 biography ? Apparently because none
none Galloway
Galloway“ without blood. ” But, after
INDUSTRIAL UNREST (The Labour Unrest ; The English of his predecessors
Agricultural Labourer ; Chauge in the Village
has presented a Renwick's declaration of war, he shot
Wages and Hours in the Railway Service in 1907 ; complete and living portrait of their such persons as came within the law,
A Living Wage)
NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES (The Fugitives; John subject,” and “military justice” has not including the famous John Brown. What
Stuart; The Victories of Olivia ; Manalive)
SCOTTISH BOOKS - HISTORY AND 'GENEALOGY (The
been done to Dundee. Mr. Barrington has most injured Dundee's character is
Awakening of Scotland ; Hume Brown's History of therefore dwells on the masterly qualities his remark to Brown's new-made widow.
Scotland ; Lang's Short History of Scotland; of Dundee as he moved about in Scot- Mr. Barrington says that Macaulay's
Rait's Scotland; The Scotsman in Canada; The
Scots Peerage); MEMOIRS AND REMINISCENCES land, with a small troop of horse and “dramatic version" (certainly an ignorant
“
(Mrs. Story's Early Reminiscences ; Three Genera.
tions ; The Gentle Art); EDINBURGH (Edinburgh scanty supplies, raiding where he could, version) is “ founded on eighteenth-century
Revisited ; Romantic Edinburgh ; Deeside) 218-220 inspiriting the clans, evading and eluding tradition. ” It is a mixture of Wodrow,
THIS WEEK's Books (Letters and Recollections of
Mazzini; My Idealed John Bullesses; The Women's Mackay, and finally routing him at who is erroneous, and of what Mrs. Brown
Suffrage vovement ; Oxford Books; Standard
Books)
Killiecrankie. The tale is like a page told Patrick Walker. What objection
THE LATE DR. SOPHIA Jex-BLAKE
from the campaigns of Montrose, or like can be urged to her evidence, except that
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
THE FRENCH LITERARY WORLD; Cornisa Mss. "; the admirable Southern movement of Claverhouse was not the man to speak
List Of New Books ::
Lord George Gordon shortly before Cul- of “taking God into his own hand ? ”
LITERARY GOSSIP
227 loden. Certainly Dundee had all the In those days, and much later, women
SCIENCE-ANTHROPOLOGY; A COLLEGE TEXT BOOK
qualities of a leader-personal daring, insisted on attending the executions of
OF PHYSICS; SOCIAL LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD;
THE BRITISH BIRD BOOK ; SOCIETIES; MEETINGS alertness, power of enforcing discipline their husbands and lovers ; Mrs. Brown
Next WEEK ; Gossip
Fine ARTS-FIVE YEARS' EXPLORATIONS AT THEBES; even among the jealous chiefs and cians, was not singular in this respect. The
THE HOARE PICTURES; OUR LIBRARY TABLE and care for the well-being of his soldiers. unhappy fact is that Claverhouse, as a
(Rembrandt's Etchings; The Laws of Japanese
Painting ; Textile Design; The Abbot's House at But, like Montrose and Prince Charles, soldier, had only the choice of obeying his
Westminster; Explorations in the Island
Dundee had not to meet leaders of great orders or sending in his papers and aban-
Mochlos); Gossip
MUSIC-FRANZ LISZT; MEMORIES OF 'Liszt; six
merit, or armies consisting, like his own, doning his career. His ambition, and
LECTURES ON THE RECORDER; Gossip; PER.
of born fighting men, nimble and hardy, even his principles of loyalty, forbade
DRAMA-Two PLAYS BY TCHEKHOF; AN ACTOR'S
and accustomed to their native mountains. him to take the second course. Thus,
NOTEBOOKS; THE
RELIGION ;
Mackay, though a professional of much though wholly apart in character from
, a
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
experience and a gallant man, let himself the rulers of Scotland in 1679-88-
into a position, at Runrarie, rather worse though a better statesman than they,
than that of Cope at Preston Pans; and in comparison with them almost a
LITERATURE
like Cope, he had no guns worth reckoning, saint-he shares in their condemnation,
and with muskets clogged with bayonets and is remembered for evil. His place-
stuck into the barrels, the best troops historically-is assigned to him by Scott
could scarcely have stopped the fury of a in ‘Redgauntlet,' in which Scott for
Highland charge. Dundee did “alſ that once wrote with the care due to his genius.
Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee.
man can do”: with his means, did more That immortal description of the shade of
By Michael Barrington. (Martin Secker. ) than any man but himself could have Claverhouse, beautiful as when he lived,
done. Had he survived to take part in sitting among the revelries of the perse-
THERE are probably more biographies of Marlborough's campaigns, he would no cutor, but remote and scornful, gives the
Dundee than of Montrose, though Mont- doubt have greatly distinguished himself ; last word on Dundee.
rose occupies, by his action and passion, but perhaps no fair historian has ever It is not easy to appraise Mr. Barring-
a far larger space in history than the denied the merit of the defeated at ton's book. His object is to present
younger glory of the Grahams,” and was Drumclog, where he seems to have a complete and living portrait of his
å man of greater genius and more sym- rashly attempted too hard a task with an hero. ” R. L. Stevenson might here
pathetic character. Mark Napier's work insufficient force. He sent to Glasgow have succeeded in a brief monograph,
on Montrose is also much superior to his for supports, which proves that
he but Mr. Barrington's work is too long
* Life of Dundee, in which he lets his thought his troop of dragoons and handful by far for such a portrait. He says,
hatred of the Presbyterians and their of horse inadequate in the circumstances, with truth, that in Dundee's corre-
historians carry him away. Probably a fact not mentioned by Mr. Barrington. spondence “ we observe a knowledge of
a
Dundee has found so many biographers Probably he was surprised when the men's foibles, an insight into character, a
because he is one of the best-abused men
Covenanters took the offensive, and, being penetrative and ironic humour, which are
in history; assailed not only by Wodrow badly beaten, he confessed the fact with in striking contrast to Montrose's noble
and all the other chroniclers of the
perfect candour. Except for the pursuit blindness. ' But Montrose was not blind
sufferings,” but also by Macaulay and after Bothwell Bridge, Dundee saw in to the character of the Hamiltons. Mont-
almost all modern popular historians. Scotland nothing more that could be called
never on the make,” and
Mr. Hume Brown, indeed, treats Dundee
Dundee was, though the fact was con-
with impartial calm ; the late
Dundee took no public part in affairs trolled by his haughty pride.
Maclaren" made him the hero of a novel ; till the end of 1678 and the beginning of We are not examining Mr. Barrington's
but recently a temerarious scribe brought 1679, when the country, through mis- work in search of knots in the reed of
Dundee into the scandal of the drowning government of all kinds, and want of a accuracy; but Montrose did not fight
of Margaret Wilson, and offered as his regular military force, was in a very at Tippermuir with “300 Highlanders”
portrait a miniature of an ugly, bullet-dangerous condition. He then held the against over 7,000 Covenanters (p. 256).
headed soldier of the period. We may posts of a captain of horse and of sheriff. Mr. Hay Fleming's criticism of the story
guess that Dundee has so many biographers depute of a wide disturbed district. His that at Bothwell Bridge was displayed
because he has so many assailants ; while
desire was to spare the multitude and a banner with “ No Quarter to the active
his foes perhaps find it wiser not to study punish the ringleaders. ”. But as he enemies of the Covenant (see a picture
him from the point of view of the bio- * rifled the houses and imprisoned the of it in Napier, vol. i. p. 288) ought to
grapher.
servants of those who remained stubborn, have been cited, though the point is of
Mr. Barrington, in his massive ‘Grahame so that when their wives and children little importance (p. 64). As for the
of Claverhouse '---beautifully printed, and were reduced to starvation they were appearance of the death-wraith of Dundee
equipped with excellent reproductions of thankful. . . . to renounce their principles," to
portraits, a good Index, and an opulent we cannot marvel that the name of earliest authority who mentions it is
bibliography-admits that he has failed Claverhouse is still detested, though " he ! Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.
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It is curious that our author, who venience and ill-feeling, the attitude of
INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
can quote such a master of English as the railway companies must inevitably
Ruskin to good purpose, should himself have been altered . In all such disputes
VERILY signs of the times are rapidly militate against his own effectiveness by the weight of public opinion is an im.
multiplying when The Athenæum has to
a bad style. His book will be difficult portant factor; and for any candid
deal in one week with six productions except to an audience already sympathetic. reader the facts of underpayment and
of which unrest is the inherent cha-
A competent printer's reader might have overwork are written clearly in the
racteristic. The five we have here grouped helped him by a proper attention to
helped him by a proper attention to tables and the paragraphs of this Report.
deal with more than a half of our
our punctuation.
Indeed, the simple statements are more
population, and the sixth, which we allude
*The English Agricultural Labourer,' eloquent than any declamation :-
to elsewhere, touches again more than
quite apart from what may be usefully
half of the nation, though in this last culled from its fifty odd pages, will weekly rates of wages of over one-fourth
" For the United Kingdom as a whole the
case it is a sexual rather than
serve to introduce the serious student to of the adult workmen fell below 208. ,
industrial division.
and
the classics of the subject. Mr. Chesterton, those of nearly two-thirds below 258. , while
As for Mr. Henderson's book, it has in his Introduction, in which he endeavours rather less than a fifth were rated at 30s. or
rarely been our good fortune to read to overthrow any insular complacency more. ”
anything which so thoroughly sweeps that may remain tous, deserves our
It should be added that in some cases a
away the capitalistic prejudice which has gratitude for discarding for the nonce the bonus is given, and that this bonus
gathered round labour discontent-pre- buffoonery, which has recently spoilt (highest where wages are highest) averages
judice which, in the present reviewer's many of his public utterances on social
opinion, has fostered evil feelings, and the questions.
as much as 7d.
