A We
perceive
in Mr.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Money sees nothing outrageous
Saint-Romain under "Seinte Romayne. ' was one of those interesting women whose in drawing deductions from a comparison
leading passion is for justice and whose of the exports and wages of Germany
Cardif Records : being Materials for the strongest instinct is for personal independ. and the United States, entirely overlooking
those
History of the County Borough from the traditions, has existed probably in every countries. The extraordinary inequality of
The type, unrecognized by masculine the economic differences between
Earliest Times. -Vol. VI: . Supplementary period, although never in large numbers. the book is its greatest defect.
The diversity
Chapters and Index. (Published by Order Such women are, by the nature of the case, of the subject matter—which includes wages,
of the Corporation, Cardiff, and sold by persons of nobility and of character, a aeroplanes, hobble-skirts, and bottles -leaves
has been added to the series of Cardiff passionate concern for justice being incom: the impression of a quick succession of
Records, partly in order to supply, an of the meaner vices.
patible with selfishness as well as most conjuring tricks.
United, as it was
absolutely necessary index to the preceding in Mary Wollstonecraft, with warm affec-
five volumes, and partly (we suspect) in order tions and remarkable powers of mind,
The History of the Bengali Language and
it
to chronicle certain events of importance made her an outstanding figure :, to her
Literature. By Dinesh Chandra Sen. (Cal.
to Cardiff which have occurred since the issue
of the fifth volume in 1905. The selection of
own period, half-dangerous, half-ridiculous; interesting to compare this stout volume of
cutta, published by the University. "
It is
Cardiff as the place for the National Museum
to ours, one of the pioneers of her century,
the thinker who
of Wales; the grant of a charter, raising the vital ideas
first directed certain
over 1,000 pages with the late R. C. Dutt's
to the
town to the rank of a city; and a royal they still flow, the writer whose thoughts the beginnings up to 1895 as they were known
channels in which little handbook on the literature of Bengal.
The latter dealt with Bengali letters from
visit in 1907, when its new city hall was
opened, would naturally seem to the Records
and feelings remain true for us, while almost
“
to educated Bengalis who took an intelligent
Committee of the Corporation worthy of Poetical or finely imaginative she was not, interest in the literature of their country:
treatment by an official historiographer. and her "style Yacks distinction, but the Mr. Sen’s book only
takes us as far as 1850,
volume opens with a summary of the chief gifts of clear insight and plain 'statement and omits such modern writers as the
novelist Bankim Chandra Chatturji, the
notices of Cardiff in the Arthurian romances, plainly enough from the extracts in "Miss poet Navin Chandra Sen, and Mr. Dutt him-
Jebb's selection.
as
topography is so accurately described as to
Her life was like her character, and her The size of the book is due to the fact that
suggest that its writer must have been well character matched exactly the face of which it represents many years of laborious investi-
acquainted with the town and district. A
chapter on royal visits to Cardiff includes National Gallery, and the other in the 1898 by the same author's excellent vernacu:
Opie painted two portraits-one now in the gation and research. It was preceded in
several previously unpublished documents National Portrait Gallery :
from the Phillipps MSS. (thrice printed as dignified, and tender, most unmistakably Language and Literature '), which was pub-
calm, strong, lar work ‘Vanga Bhāsā o Sāhitya '(' Bengali
Library, relating to Charles I. 's visit in 1645, teristic was her abduction of an insane sister Sāhitya Parisat,” a society whose journal is
that of a genuine person. Eminently charac. lished under the auspices of the “Vangiya
and the manner in which the royalists of
the county, incensed by Col. Gerard's
from a husband whose conduct was. she probably better known in Berlin and Paris
exactions, insisted on having their grievances intervention was justified by the fact that the philological and historical articles on the
believed, aggravating the disease ; and her than in London, and contains excellent
redressed before they supplied more troops sister, being removed, recovered. That she Bengali language. As to the literature, Mr,
or money. But apart from the interest of regarded the ceremony as a comparatively Sen is a most painstaking, well-informed,
these documents, the chapter has been
written in a perfunctory manner.
unessential part of marriage is also charac. and, withal, delightful guide. Bengali lite-
It makes
teristic :
no reference to the fact that both William I.
to her, forms and conventions rature is essentially Hindu, charged with
in 1081, and Henry II. in 1163, must have feeling everything. To her, Imlay was as much
were always nothing, the inner realities of Sanskrit associations and allusiveness, and
no one but a convinced Hindu could do
passed through Cardiff
, as each of them is her husband as any rite could have made justice to its qualities. Mr. Sen has brought
known to have marched to West Wales him, and his desertion of her came near to to light many authors forgotten by their
along the coast road.
in the district, if not indeed in Cardiff itself, driving her mad. A smaller woman might own countrymen, and deals with these and
in 1405, when he relieved Coity Castle, and
have become embittered, but there was no better · known writers in a spirit of genial
probably also two years previously, when loved her child, and earned her living and criticisms very agreeable reading, even to
room for bitterness in her large heart. She and generous appreciation which makes his
and likewise Cromwell (whose visit in 1648 is settled happiness opened.
returning from Carmarthen to Gloucester ; recovered; and by and by a fresh hope of the European who may hitherto have been
Her married
recorded) must have passed through on his life with Godwin closed too quickly for a
unaware of the imagination and eloquence
hidden between the often dingy covers of
way to Ireland in 1649.
second disillusion.
books printed, in ever-growing numbers,
Imbedded among some notes
on the
Miss Jebb's little volume, with its excel in Bengal. Among the early Bengali poets,
illustrations in previous volumes-notes lent biographical introduction and its well. the most popular is Mukunda Ram, who
which should never have been separated chosen extracts from the letters as well lived in the sixteenth century. Some of his
from the illustrations—are some interesting as the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, poetry has had the honour of being trans-
references to the association of William gives in a brief compassº a good idea of lated into English verse by Prof. Cowell,
Herbert of St, Fagan's, near Cardiff, with her remarkable personality,
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and refined upon his themes. Cowell paid Of course, there is another aspect of the timid than himself continue to plod in orderly
Mukunda Ram the compliment of comparing question. Prof. Hobhouse has made terms fashion behind. The main theme running
him to Crabbe, on account of his homely with Darwinism, but he is the spiritual throughout the collection is the vexed
realism. Mr. Sen does full justice to the descendant of T. H. Green. On the other question of poverty, as initiated by St.
influence of English education on Bengali side are the Eugenists, who inherit the Francis, but all too soon either neglected or
methods of thought and expression; and his Spencerian tradition shorn of its crudities. formalized by his followers. On such a sub-
appreciation of Dr. Carey as an innovator Grasping the fact that natural selection is ject we are inclined to listen with greater
in Bengali style and the forerunner of some selection for some end unspecified, they put respect when the essays are signed by
of the most original of Bengali authors is rational selection in its place. To them pro- members of the same order, who, in spite of
both generous and just. It is delightful to gress is racial, not social, and environment glaring materialism, still have the grace to
find that those masterpieces of homely is negligible, compared with breeding. But
But maintain the more ancient and, to many
humour, 'Allāler Gharer Dulāl' and 'Hutum their conclusions go at present beyond their minds, the higher way. The descriptions
Pechār Naksa,' owe their origin to the premises. Analogies from racehorses are of St. Clare and of Angela of Foligno are of
inspiration of a kindly and sympathetic totally insufficient. We do not know if we can genuine value, displaying far more than a
Christian missionary.
produce by selective mating men of strong mere relation of facts, and instinct with a
We must not conclude without saying a
will and other desirable qualities. Our life profound knowledge of the lights and shades,
word as to Mr. Sen's more purely philological is not merely an affair of brawn and sinew, heights and depths, struggles and victories,
inquiries. Here he is practically a pioneer, and our values are not health-values, as which characterized the romance of mysti-
and has, in some respects, a more difficult in 'Erowhon,' where fever was a felony, and cism. One impression at least survives,
task. The relations of Bengali to Sanskrit influenza an indictable offence. In measures namely, the enormous influence of woman
closely resemble those of French to Latin. for preventing the transmission of hereditary over the life of man; and we owe no small
It shares with French the power (not so
taints we can go a little way with the debt of gratitude to those who, with great
freely used in other vernaculars) of borrowing Eugenists; for the rest, the present reviewer delicacy and refinement, have thus reminded
what French grammarians call noms agrees with Prof. Hobhouse in assuming no us of the possibility of friendship in Christ
d'origine savante as well as “noms "d'ori. wholesale connexion between eugenic means on its highest plane. We earnestly recom,
gine populaire. ” On the Sanskrit and and moral ends.
mend this little volume as a most useful
Prakrit origins of Bengali speech Mr. Sen
study, warning our readers, however, against
is a well-established authority. But Bengali MR. ORME CLARKE's book The National | the danger of luxuriating in theory on the
is largely used by people whose ancestors Insurance Act, 1911 (Butterworth & Co. ), subject of sacrifice, which can alone be
spoke, in the South a Dravidian speech, contains a full introductory summary giving understood by its genuine disciples in any
and in the North-East of Bengal some form a general outline of the Health and Un- circumstances, and in any age.
of the Bodo or Koch tongue, and Mr. Sen employment sections, followed by the Act STUDENTS, especially those who are read.
would, no doubt, be the first to admit that itself fully annotated.
ing for University_honours, will welcome
the influence of these on idiom still awaits Regarding the maternity benefit, the author the Constitutional History of England since
adequate investigation. The phonology of points out that the use of the word con- the Accession of George the Third, by Sir
Bengali, too, needs careful examination. The finement” in the section will lead to diffi- Thomas Erskine May, edited and continued
absence of wordstress makes itself seen culty, as this word is not found in medical to 1911 by Francis Holland, 3 vols. (Long.
clearly in loan-words taken from Hindi, and dictionaries, and is really a polite euphemism mans & Co. ). A new edition of this work
affects their orthography. There is still which has passed into current usage. has long been wanted, since, with all its
plenty of work to do, but Mr. Sen may justly The unemployment provisions of the Act faults, its Whiggishness, and complacent
congratulate himself on the fact that in have special interest at this present time of acceptance of current political formulas, it
middle age he has done more for the history labour unrest. Benefits are not to be paid makes an admirable textbook. It may come
of his national language and literature than to striking or locked-out workmen, but this badly out of a comparison with other works
any other writer of his own or, indeed, any provision does not apply to cases in which the on much the same subject, such, for example,
time,
lock-out is occasioned by the inability of the as Sir William Anson's 'Law and Custom
employer to carry on his business owing to of the Constitution’; but, though its
Social Evolution and Political Theory. By strikes in other businesses. The Board of thinking may be shallow, the thoughts are
L. T. Hobhouse. (Columbia University Trade may delegate the management of clearly conveyed. In editing the familiar
Press; London, Frowde. /Forty years ago the unemployment benefits to the various pages Mr. Holland has confined himself to
Darwinism, dominant everywhere, was the trade unions under certain conditions, and correcting some inaccuracies and adding
last word in political science. We are wiser the practical effect of this arrangement in a few foot-notes. Therein he has exercised
now, and we are going to leave last words to the direction of extending or limiting the a wise discretion, since even the substitution
the last man. The apostles of Evolution power of the trade unions will be a factor of adequate authorities for such antiquated
were happy in possessing a standard of of immense importance in future struggles writers as Adolphus, Roebuck, and Massey
universal application and a key to all the between capital and labour.
could hardly have been attempted without
problems of thought. But the aim of life The Introduction by the Solicitor-General interfering with the body of the book. In
cannot be extracted from a hypothesis which is disappointing. After remarking that “no the end å rewriting could not have been
co-ordinates life's facts, and, discovering one can express a well-founded opinion of the avoided, and such hybrid productions gen-
this, men turned in disappointment to the Act without devoting a quite inordinate erally fail to satisfy.
other extreme. The influence of Goethe had amount of time and trouble to studying it- Mr. Holland's continuation of Erskine
made Hegel familiar with the idea, and even not less time and trouble, let us say, than a May, embracing the years 1860–1911, is
the name of evolution ; Hegel rejected it in lady would spend in choosing a new dress a good deal more copious than the original
favour of Emanation, or the explanation of or a man in selecting a new motor-car" treatise. Two fairly slim volumes conduct
the lower in terms of the higher; and -Sir John Simon explains why in his the constitution through the trials of strength
T. H. Green followed him.
opinion both parts of the Act should come between George III. and the Whigs, the
No such choice confronts us In into force at the same time, and concludes outwitting of Grey and Grenville by George
Social Evolution and Political Theory' by remarking that amendments of the Act IV. , the Act of Reform, and the gradual
Prof. Hobhouse inquires how the State can are certain. With this remark we are entirely transformation of Whiggism into Liberalism;
realize the end which his social philosophy in accord.
but Mr. Holland's survey of the remaining
demands. Tracing the relation of social to
period occupies a large tome of over 380
biological evolution, he inquires what pro- Franciscan Essays. By Paul Sabatier pages. He is evidently an author who
gress is, and how far it is possible. To sum. and Others. (Aberdeen University Press. ) likes plenty of elbow-room, and here and
marize his answer to these questions would --No one can lay down this charming collec- there the historian gives place to the essayist.
be to say badly what he has said well. Let tion of essays on St. Francis and kindred Still, his chapters afford evidence of ample
it suffice that he takes a fuller development saints without being impelled to inquire knowledge; they cover the whole field of
of faculties to be at least a vital part of the concerning the relation of the ideals after self-government, and their conclusions are
State's end. This is in essence moral, and which they strove to the modern aspect of sagacious and moderate. Seldom has there
apparently unconnected with, if not opposed religion. The world never tires of memoirs been such an impartial historian: even in
to, the biological process. But the struggle which have the instinct of power at the dealing with such a fiercely controverted
for existence and the survival of the fittest, back of them, whether of Napoleon or of measure as the Parliament Bill, he takes
adequate perhaps in biology, are inadequate the son of Bernardoni:
the one accomplished care that the positions of both sides are
to explain social life. Mutual aid," for it by pomp, and the other by poverty. Each fairly set forth. In exposition, notably
instance, makes for the survival of a group essay furnishes an attraction of its own; when he is expounding the meaning of the
by eliminating the struggle for existence and it is worthy of note how M. Sabatier, Commonwealth of Australia Act, he is con-
within that group: On these lines Prof. with characteristic grace, defines the un spicuously successful. We only regret the
Hobhouse argues that progress is social and orthodoxy of his hero as that of a pioneer absence of a bibliography and the paucity
progress is possible,
on the road along which masses more
of references to authorities.
now.
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Freemasonry is either a social and bene-
Fine Art and Archæology.
FREEMASONRY.
volent society dating, as he tells us, from
1717, when the four London lodges formed Lynam (Charles), The Abbey of St. Mary, Crowden,
Staffs, 25/
Sprague
Your notice of the 'Histoire abrégée de what is now the United Grand Lodge of
at the Apple Tree Tavern, Covent Garden,
An excellent historic and architectural account
la Franc-Maçonnerie,' by R. F. Gould, shows England, or it is, as I believe, the lineal
of the important Cistercian house of Croxden.
The extensive ruins have recently been care-
a want of information on its subject and on descendant of the mysteries, inheriting fully repaired, and much of the plan of both
other things very rare in Athencum reviews.
therefrom its archaic formulæ, its wealth of
church and conventual buildings uncovered.
Gould's History of Freemasonry,' though spiritual significances veiled in allegory
It now almost vies in interest with some of the
a respectable compilation enough, was
celebrated Yorkshire abbeys of the same order.
and illustrated by symbols.
Mr. Lynam has made good use of his powers
not a world-stirring work; and the pro-
THE REVIEWER. both as an antiquary and an architect, and
minence that you have given to the French
the result is a thorough and trustworthy
version of its abridgment is a little hard to
monograph. The large ground plan, coloured
account for at this time of day. Few
according to four different periods, from late
learned members of the craft, for instance,
twelfth century to late fifteenth, is admirably
executed.
would
The book is profusely illustrated
agree that the rhetorical remarks
which your reviewer puts into the mouth of
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certainly did, and he might have added that Gray (G. B. ), A Critical and Exegetical Com-
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chapters in another. The Introduction to the
an argument for the admission of women to whole work appears here, and has the general
very original verses of a mystical and mediæval
tendency.
Freemasonry. But he does not seem to be
agreement of Dr. Peake, who will add his
aware that the experiment has already been
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style in order to make them as expressive as
Napoleon, and up to, at all events, a few
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stances he might have introduced for
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instance, the indecent order of the Mopses
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in vague apostrophe, catching none of the
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rituals, symbols, and allegories. If, per-
the material for a complete impression of an oversight. Artificial emphasis is also main-
Taoism in its earlier and purer forms. In style tained in the substance of the work. Rhetoric
chance, I should be so fortunate as to have
the version is lively and concise, and the utility and inflated commonplace are trumpeted forth
called his attention to their existence, I can of the notes is not diminished by their unusual with steady iteration and vehemence through
well forgive his Scorn
review. position in the midst of the text.
128 pages.
of my
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leading passion is for justice and whose of the exports and wages of Germany
Cardif Records : being Materials for the strongest instinct is for personal independ. and the United States, entirely overlooking
those
History of the County Borough from the traditions, has existed probably in every countries. The extraordinary inequality of
The type, unrecognized by masculine the economic differences between
Earliest Times. -Vol. VI: . Supplementary period, although never in large numbers. the book is its greatest defect.
The diversity
Chapters and Index. (Published by Order Such women are, by the nature of the case, of the subject matter—which includes wages,
of the Corporation, Cardiff, and sold by persons of nobility and of character, a aeroplanes, hobble-skirts, and bottles -leaves
has been added to the series of Cardiff passionate concern for justice being incom: the impression of a quick succession of
Records, partly in order to supply, an of the meaner vices.
patible with selfishness as well as most conjuring tricks.
United, as it was
absolutely necessary index to the preceding in Mary Wollstonecraft, with warm affec-
five volumes, and partly (we suspect) in order tions and remarkable powers of mind,
The History of the Bengali Language and
it
to chronicle certain events of importance made her an outstanding figure :, to her
Literature. By Dinesh Chandra Sen. (Cal.
to Cardiff which have occurred since the issue
of the fifth volume in 1905. The selection of
own period, half-dangerous, half-ridiculous; interesting to compare this stout volume of
cutta, published by the University. "
It is
Cardiff as the place for the National Museum
to ours, one of the pioneers of her century,
the thinker who
of Wales; the grant of a charter, raising the vital ideas
first directed certain
over 1,000 pages with the late R. C. Dutt's
to the
town to the rank of a city; and a royal they still flow, the writer whose thoughts the beginnings up to 1895 as they were known
channels in which little handbook on the literature of Bengal.
The latter dealt with Bengali letters from
visit in 1907, when its new city hall was
opened, would naturally seem to the Records
and feelings remain true for us, while almost
“
to educated Bengalis who took an intelligent
Committee of the Corporation worthy of Poetical or finely imaginative she was not, interest in the literature of their country:
treatment by an official historiographer. and her "style Yacks distinction, but the Mr. Sen’s book only
takes us as far as 1850,
volume opens with a summary of the chief gifts of clear insight and plain 'statement and omits such modern writers as the
novelist Bankim Chandra Chatturji, the
notices of Cardiff in the Arthurian romances, plainly enough from the extracts in "Miss poet Navin Chandra Sen, and Mr. Dutt him-
Jebb's selection.
as
topography is so accurately described as to
Her life was like her character, and her The size of the book is due to the fact that
suggest that its writer must have been well character matched exactly the face of which it represents many years of laborious investi-
acquainted with the town and district. A
chapter on royal visits to Cardiff includes National Gallery, and the other in the 1898 by the same author's excellent vernacu:
Opie painted two portraits-one now in the gation and research. It was preceded in
several previously unpublished documents National Portrait Gallery :
from the Phillipps MSS. (thrice printed as dignified, and tender, most unmistakably Language and Literature '), which was pub-
calm, strong, lar work ‘Vanga Bhāsā o Sāhitya '(' Bengali
Library, relating to Charles I. 's visit in 1645, teristic was her abduction of an insane sister Sāhitya Parisat,” a society whose journal is
that of a genuine person. Eminently charac. lished under the auspices of the “Vangiya
and the manner in which the royalists of
the county, incensed by Col. Gerard's
from a husband whose conduct was. she probably better known in Berlin and Paris
exactions, insisted on having their grievances intervention was justified by the fact that the philological and historical articles on the
believed, aggravating the disease ; and her than in London, and contains excellent
redressed before they supplied more troops sister, being removed, recovered. That she Bengali language. As to the literature, Mr,
or money. But apart from the interest of regarded the ceremony as a comparatively Sen is a most painstaking, well-informed,
these documents, the chapter has been
written in a perfunctory manner.
unessential part of marriage is also charac. and, withal, delightful guide. Bengali lite-
It makes
teristic :
no reference to the fact that both William I.
to her, forms and conventions rature is essentially Hindu, charged with
in 1081, and Henry II. in 1163, must have feeling everything. To her, Imlay was as much
were always nothing, the inner realities of Sanskrit associations and allusiveness, and
no one but a convinced Hindu could do
passed through Cardiff
, as each of them is her husband as any rite could have made justice to its qualities. Mr. Sen has brought
known to have marched to West Wales him, and his desertion of her came near to to light many authors forgotten by their
along the coast road.
in the district, if not indeed in Cardiff itself, driving her mad. A smaller woman might own countrymen, and deals with these and
in 1405, when he relieved Coity Castle, and
have become embittered, but there was no better · known writers in a spirit of genial
probably also two years previously, when loved her child, and earned her living and criticisms very agreeable reading, even to
room for bitterness in her large heart. She and generous appreciation which makes his
and likewise Cromwell (whose visit in 1648 is settled happiness opened.
returning from Carmarthen to Gloucester ; recovered; and by and by a fresh hope of the European who may hitherto have been
Her married
recorded) must have passed through on his life with Godwin closed too quickly for a
unaware of the imagination and eloquence
hidden between the often dingy covers of
way to Ireland in 1649.
second disillusion.
books printed, in ever-growing numbers,
Imbedded among some notes
on the
Miss Jebb's little volume, with its excel in Bengal. Among the early Bengali poets,
illustrations in previous volumes-notes lent biographical introduction and its well. the most popular is Mukunda Ram, who
which should never have been separated chosen extracts from the letters as well lived in the sixteenth century. Some of his
from the illustrations—are some interesting as the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, poetry has had the honour of being trans-
references to the association of William gives in a brief compassº a good idea of lated into English verse by Prof. Cowell,
Herbert of St, Fagan's, near Cardiff, with her remarkable personality,
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and refined upon his themes. Cowell paid Of course, there is another aspect of the timid than himself continue to plod in orderly
Mukunda Ram the compliment of comparing question. Prof. Hobhouse has made terms fashion behind. The main theme running
him to Crabbe, on account of his homely with Darwinism, but he is the spiritual throughout the collection is the vexed
realism. Mr. Sen does full justice to the descendant of T. H. Green. On the other question of poverty, as initiated by St.
influence of English education on Bengali side are the Eugenists, who inherit the Francis, but all too soon either neglected or
methods of thought and expression; and his Spencerian tradition shorn of its crudities. formalized by his followers. On such a sub-
appreciation of Dr. Carey as an innovator Grasping the fact that natural selection is ject we are inclined to listen with greater
in Bengali style and the forerunner of some selection for some end unspecified, they put respect when the essays are signed by
of the most original of Bengali authors is rational selection in its place. To them pro- members of the same order, who, in spite of
both generous and just. It is delightful to gress is racial, not social, and environment glaring materialism, still have the grace to
find that those masterpieces of homely is negligible, compared with breeding. But
But maintain the more ancient and, to many
humour, 'Allāler Gharer Dulāl' and 'Hutum their conclusions go at present beyond their minds, the higher way. The descriptions
Pechār Naksa,' owe their origin to the premises. Analogies from racehorses are of St. Clare and of Angela of Foligno are of
inspiration of a kindly and sympathetic totally insufficient. We do not know if we can genuine value, displaying far more than a
Christian missionary.
produce by selective mating men of strong mere relation of facts, and instinct with a
We must not conclude without saying a
will and other desirable qualities. Our life profound knowledge of the lights and shades,
word as to Mr. Sen's more purely philological is not merely an affair of brawn and sinew, heights and depths, struggles and victories,
inquiries. Here he is practically a pioneer, and our values are not health-values, as which characterized the romance of mysti-
and has, in some respects, a more difficult in 'Erowhon,' where fever was a felony, and cism. One impression at least survives,
task. The relations of Bengali to Sanskrit influenza an indictable offence. In measures namely, the enormous influence of woman
closely resemble those of French to Latin. for preventing the transmission of hereditary over the life of man; and we owe no small
It shares with French the power (not so
taints we can go a little way with the debt of gratitude to those who, with great
freely used in other vernaculars) of borrowing Eugenists; for the rest, the present reviewer delicacy and refinement, have thus reminded
what French grammarians call noms agrees with Prof. Hobhouse in assuming no us of the possibility of friendship in Christ
d'origine savante as well as “noms "d'ori. wholesale connexion between eugenic means on its highest plane. We earnestly recom,
gine populaire. ” On the Sanskrit and and moral ends.
mend this little volume as a most useful
Prakrit origins of Bengali speech Mr. Sen
study, warning our readers, however, against
is a well-established authority. But Bengali MR. ORME CLARKE's book The National | the danger of luxuriating in theory on the
is largely used by people whose ancestors Insurance Act, 1911 (Butterworth & Co. ), subject of sacrifice, which can alone be
spoke, in the South a Dravidian speech, contains a full introductory summary giving understood by its genuine disciples in any
and in the North-East of Bengal some form a general outline of the Health and Un- circumstances, and in any age.
of the Bodo or Koch tongue, and Mr. Sen employment sections, followed by the Act STUDENTS, especially those who are read.
would, no doubt, be the first to admit that itself fully annotated.
ing for University_honours, will welcome
the influence of these on idiom still awaits Regarding the maternity benefit, the author the Constitutional History of England since
adequate investigation. The phonology of points out that the use of the word con- the Accession of George the Third, by Sir
Bengali, too, needs careful examination. The finement” in the section will lead to diffi- Thomas Erskine May, edited and continued
absence of wordstress makes itself seen culty, as this word is not found in medical to 1911 by Francis Holland, 3 vols. (Long.
clearly in loan-words taken from Hindi, and dictionaries, and is really a polite euphemism mans & Co. ). A new edition of this work
affects their orthography. There is still which has passed into current usage. has long been wanted, since, with all its
plenty of work to do, but Mr. Sen may justly The unemployment provisions of the Act faults, its Whiggishness, and complacent
congratulate himself on the fact that in have special interest at this present time of acceptance of current political formulas, it
middle age he has done more for the history labour unrest. Benefits are not to be paid makes an admirable textbook. It may come
of his national language and literature than to striking or locked-out workmen, but this badly out of a comparison with other works
any other writer of his own or, indeed, any provision does not apply to cases in which the on much the same subject, such, for example,
time,
lock-out is occasioned by the inability of the as Sir William Anson's 'Law and Custom
employer to carry on his business owing to of the Constitution’; but, though its
Social Evolution and Political Theory. By strikes in other businesses. The Board of thinking may be shallow, the thoughts are
L. T. Hobhouse. (Columbia University Trade may delegate the management of clearly conveyed. In editing the familiar
Press; London, Frowde. /Forty years ago the unemployment benefits to the various pages Mr. Holland has confined himself to
Darwinism, dominant everywhere, was the trade unions under certain conditions, and correcting some inaccuracies and adding
last word in political science. We are wiser the practical effect of this arrangement in a few foot-notes. Therein he has exercised
now, and we are going to leave last words to the direction of extending or limiting the a wise discretion, since even the substitution
the last man. The apostles of Evolution power of the trade unions will be a factor of adequate authorities for such antiquated
were happy in possessing a standard of of immense importance in future struggles writers as Adolphus, Roebuck, and Massey
universal application and a key to all the between capital and labour.
could hardly have been attempted without
problems of thought. But the aim of life The Introduction by the Solicitor-General interfering with the body of the book. In
cannot be extracted from a hypothesis which is disappointing. After remarking that “no the end å rewriting could not have been
co-ordinates life's facts, and, discovering one can express a well-founded opinion of the avoided, and such hybrid productions gen-
this, men turned in disappointment to the Act without devoting a quite inordinate erally fail to satisfy.
other extreme. The influence of Goethe had amount of time and trouble to studying it- Mr. Holland's continuation of Erskine
made Hegel familiar with the idea, and even not less time and trouble, let us say, than a May, embracing the years 1860–1911, is
the name of evolution ; Hegel rejected it in lady would spend in choosing a new dress a good deal more copious than the original
favour of Emanation, or the explanation of or a man in selecting a new motor-car" treatise. Two fairly slim volumes conduct
the lower in terms of the higher; and -Sir John Simon explains why in his the constitution through the trials of strength
T. H. Green followed him.
opinion both parts of the Act should come between George III. and the Whigs, the
No such choice confronts us In into force at the same time, and concludes outwitting of Grey and Grenville by George
Social Evolution and Political Theory' by remarking that amendments of the Act IV. , the Act of Reform, and the gradual
Prof. Hobhouse inquires how the State can are certain. With this remark we are entirely transformation of Whiggism into Liberalism;
realize the end which his social philosophy in accord.
but Mr. Holland's survey of the remaining
demands. Tracing the relation of social to
period occupies a large tome of over 380
biological evolution, he inquires what pro- Franciscan Essays. By Paul Sabatier pages. He is evidently an author who
gress is, and how far it is possible. To sum. and Others. (Aberdeen University Press. ) likes plenty of elbow-room, and here and
marize his answer to these questions would --No one can lay down this charming collec- there the historian gives place to the essayist.
be to say badly what he has said well. Let tion of essays on St. Francis and kindred Still, his chapters afford evidence of ample
it suffice that he takes a fuller development saints without being impelled to inquire knowledge; they cover the whole field of
of faculties to be at least a vital part of the concerning the relation of the ideals after self-government, and their conclusions are
State's end. This is in essence moral, and which they strove to the modern aspect of sagacious and moderate. Seldom has there
apparently unconnected with, if not opposed religion. The world never tires of memoirs been such an impartial historian: even in
to, the biological process. But the struggle which have the instinct of power at the dealing with such a fiercely controverted
for existence and the survival of the fittest, back of them, whether of Napoleon or of measure as the Parliament Bill, he takes
adequate perhaps in biology, are inadequate the son of Bernardoni:
the one accomplished care that the positions of both sides are
to explain social life. Mutual aid," for it by pomp, and the other by poverty. Each fairly set forth. In exposition, notably
instance, makes for the survival of a group essay furnishes an attraction of its own; when he is expounding the meaning of the
by eliminating the struggle for existence and it is worthy of note how M. Sabatier, Commonwealth of Australia Act, he is con-
within that group: On these lines Prof. with characteristic grace, defines the un spicuously successful. We only regret the
Hobhouse argues that progress is social and orthodoxy of his hero as that of a pioneer absence of a bibliography and the paucity
progress is possible,
on the road along which masses more
of references to authorities.
now.
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Freemasonry is either a social and bene-
Fine Art and Archæology.
FREEMASONRY.
volent society dating, as he tells us, from
1717, when the four London lodges formed Lynam (Charles), The Abbey of St. Mary, Crowden,
Staffs, 25/
Sprague
Your notice of the 'Histoire abrégée de what is now the United Grand Lodge of
at the Apple Tree Tavern, Covent Garden,
An excellent historic and architectural account
la Franc-Maçonnerie,' by R. F. Gould, shows England, or it is, as I believe, the lineal
of the important Cistercian house of Croxden.
The extensive ruins have recently been care-
a want of information on its subject and on descendant of the mysteries, inheriting fully repaired, and much of the plan of both
other things very rare in Athencum reviews.
therefrom its archaic formulæ, its wealth of
church and conventual buildings uncovered.
Gould's History of Freemasonry,' though spiritual significances veiled in allegory
It now almost vies in interest with some of the
a respectable compilation enough, was
celebrated Yorkshire abbeys of the same order.
and illustrated by symbols.
Mr. Lynam has made good use of his powers
not a world-stirring work; and the pro-
THE REVIEWER. both as an antiquary and an architect, and
minence that you have given to the French
the result is a thorough and trustworthy
version of its abridgment is a little hard to
monograph. The large ground plan, coloured
account for at this time of day. Few
according to four different periods, from late
learned members of the craft, for instance,
twelfth century to late fifteenth, is admirably
executed.
would
The book is profusely illustrated
agree that the rhetorical remarks
which your reviewer puts into the mouth of
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mysteries preceded their downfall. "
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chapters in another. The Introduction to the
an argument for the admission of women to whole work appears here, and has the general
very original verses of a mystical and mediæval
tendency.
Freemasonry. But he does not seem to be
agreement of Dr. Peake, who will add his
aware that the experiment has already been
special comments on the later chapters in the
Cousins (James H. ), Etain the Beloved, and
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" lodges of adoption were revived under commentary, sometimes sacrificing form and
appears to have derived very little from Mr.
style in order to make them as expressive as
Napoleon, and up to, at all events, a few
Yeats ; perhaps his work would have been
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existing theory of the metrical side of the book through a number of varied and exciting
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stances he might have introduced for
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instance, the indecent order of the Mopses
embodies a mass of documents and corre- and an indifferent ballad is often better
in France, on which a lecture was recently
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features of the “Celtic twilight. " She indulges
The present volume completes the history of
when persecution drove their exponents early British Christianity; It also contains an
in vague apostrophe, catching none of the
out of Spain some five hundred years later, index to the whole work, and a full chrono-
transparent, keen beauty which marks the old
I can but express surprise and leave him logical' table. In the Library of Historic
Irish folk-songs and a few of the modern
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Theology.
poetic revivalists.
Mansel (Sir Courtenay), The Masque of King
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Charles VI. and Other Poems, 2/6 net. Ouseley
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who ignore the verities enshrined in the tions from Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, it supplies occasional lapse into normal lettering seems
rituals, symbols, and allegories. If, per-
the material for a complete impression of an oversight. Artificial emphasis is also main-
Taoism in its earlier and purer forms. In style tained in the substance of the work. Rhetoric
chance, I should be so fortunate as to have
the version is lively and concise, and the utility and inflated commonplace are trumpeted forth
called his attention to their existence, I can of the notes is not diminished by their unusual with steady iteration and vehemence through
well forgive his Scorn
review. position in the midst of the text.
128 pages.
of my
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