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THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK. Prof. Émile Durkheim to re-examine her material vival of the relic are related, and there are
in the light of two ideas : (1) That the mystery- illustrations of the head, which is now partly
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MR. ANDREW LANG, in his letter to you last the one durée, life, and the other the action of Lee (Vernon) and Anstruther-Thomson (C. ),
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Mr. Lang asks, does he come to be described
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always those of the gallery and the
He then proceeds to bring forward once round the Hymn. On the games Mr. F. M. studio, not of the laboratory," they are none
more the claims of his own candidate in Cornford contributes a chapter, while Prof. the less, but perhaps rather the more, suggestive
The Valet's Tragedy '-who no doubt was
Murray adds an excursus on the ritual forms on that account.
a valet, and so far answers to the description.
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1911.
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become
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mystery
ARTHUR S, BARNES, able interest. At the end a list is added of While retaining his preference for classical
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Religion. ' She has been led by the philosophy examined by experts. All the circumstances
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THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK. Prof. Émile Durkheim to re-examine her material vival of the relic are related, and there are
in the light of two ideas : (1) That the mystery- illustrations of the head, which is now partly
Llandaff House, Cambridge, Feb. 20. 1912. god and the Olympian express respectively, decayed.
MR. ANDREW LANG, in his letter to you last the one durée, life, and the other the action of Lee (Vernon) and Anstruther-Thomson (C. ),
week on this subject, objects to my identifica.
conscious intelligence which reflects on and Beauty and Ugliness, and Other Studies in
analyzes life ; and (2) that, among primitive Psychological Æsthetics, 12/6 net.
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peoples, religion reflects collective feeling and There appeared in The Contemporary Review
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collective thinking. This “ group-thinking
some years ago the essay around which this
My candidate is, as he truly says, an ecclesi- group-emotion towards life the author book has grown. Of its conclusions, some
astic, and probably a Jesuit. How then, analyzes in the 'Hymn of the Kouretes,' have been sustained, and others largely modi-
Mr. Lang asks, does he come to be described
recently discovered at Palaikastro. Other fied by the latest psychology and philosophy.
themes, such as magic, mana, initiation cere-
as “a valet” by the French Government !
Though Vernon Lee declares that her æsthetics
monies, carnivals, and Olympic games, cluster
always those of the gallery and the
He then proceeds to bring forward once round the Hymn. On the games Mr. F. M. studio, not of the laboratory," they are none
more the claims of his own candidate in Cornford contributes a chapter, while Prof. the less, but perhaps rather the more, suggestive
The Valet's Tragedy '-who no doubt was
Murray adds an excursus on the ritual forms on that account.
a valet, and so far answers to the description.
preserved in Greek tragedy. The book is well Simla : The Conference of Orientalists, including
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I should reply that from a hundred other of great interest to scholars.
1911.
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variable policy. Mr. Lang's objection is normal clerical recommendations and regula- for acquiring advanced knowledge both to
therefore no real objection at all, and recoils, tions. It is more of a guide to religious exhorta. Indians and Europeans. A scheme of admin.
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istration and regulation was drafted, and
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Law.
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Poetry and Drama.
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that I may have made a contribution of
and the advantages and defects that may resonance and dignity. His command over
be claimed for these methods. Though imagery, always noticeable, has
become
real value towards the solution of the
necessarily sketchy, the survey is of consider- broader, and at the same time more facile.
mystery
ARTHUR S, BARNES, able interest. At the end a list is added of While retaining his preference for classical
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appeared in The Atheneum, July 5, 1902, p. 28.
written “ in hours of leisure after days of severe
Philosophy.
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