Preston,
ignorant archdeacon of the Church of Eng- managed to convey so much information to
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the modern world without boring it.
ignorant archdeacon of the Church of Eng- managed to convey so much information to
2/
the modern world without boring it.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
), POEMS 12 A PENNY.
knowledge that the
foot-notes
the younger English poets. He can turn
Liverpool, ' The Liverpool Courier. '
show the reader where to go for verification
from one metrical form to another with The author makes an anthology of his
of what has been told him. Still, the effect confidence and success, and shows rightness verse, which with sublime self-con-
of the critical portion of the work is, on the But there is something much more than
and certitude in his rhythm and diction. fidence and in large lettering he calls 'The
whole, that of something more hurried and
Fine Melody of my Feelings. We can only
slight than it need have been. The state prosodical excellence in his poetry. He is dimly surmise the quality of the rejected
ment of the evidence for the traditional view not a philosopher like Mr. Abercrombie. pieces.
seems to us much better and more forcibly He is not a reformer like Mr. Masefield. Nor,
done.
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Isaacs (Abram S. ), WHAT IS JUDAISM ? A if poetry had not been for him a technical of technical accomplishment or critical
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frequent repetition of similar phases occur-
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and all nature is haunted for him with
unpretentious treatment” of
Wrath sister thy claw
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the strange and the beautiful.
Integrant must skein
interest in it; but, unfortunately, Prof.
He has a fine faculty which readers
Wan white lilies, and four
Roses of pain.
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may find further elaboration of such fasci- of combining playfulness with grim fantasy, We soon tire of his verbal gymnastics.
nating essays as his . Talmud in History' or
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own
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Seranus, IN NORTHERN SKIES, AND OTHER manesque. He strives after no paradox, sympathy, introducing many quiet pictures
POEMS.
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women in the history of the world, under The numbered paragraphs of the Articles of a literary as well as a pedagogic
an economic pressure grinding down upon Introduction, with its emphasized headings, character are wisely included, and the
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market. " It would seem to show that the need not have exercised any judgment at all, of examining newspaper English, which has
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slow-growing civilization which ever demands satisfy the examiner by learning a dozen its merits or demerits as a vehicle for thought
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vidual.
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the admirable wealth of citations, 14,000 in
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obtaining in England that it is small wonder appendixes. Here is all the information number. These will enable writers and
if its anomalies give birth to a copious about Herodotus that the heart can wish. It is readers to verify or correct many vague
journalistic output. The author's is an
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Curle (Richard), SHADOWS OUT OF THE Dominating the fortunes of this story Notes : No. 11, HAND CARD-MAKING,
CROWD, 61
Swift there
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DUKANE, 61
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The incorrigible Dukane is a young man
the “worser part of his nature. The
in a farmyard, and exert an influence out of whose self-confidence and aplomb in all references to offspring, marriage, &c. , are
all seeming, proportion to their subsidiary circumstances are extraordinary. He is the to be taken as referring to intellectual
position. Close
your eyes on the ugly side, son of an American engineering magnate, creations. The Dæmon of Socrates is men-
and it isn't there, they say; but, when the and his disinclination for serious employment tioned in support of this theory, but here
first of their children leaves the nest so
is viewed with scant sympathy by his austere we have to believe in two separate individu-
aptly named Sans Souci, the changed atmo- parent, who decrees that he shall either work alities, a man and a woman, invented “ for
sphere to which her Adam takes her is
or starve. The story, which describes him the purpose of self-communing. "
crushing beyond all her powers of resistance, working as a navvy, of unknown identity gestion strikes us as distinctly odd and
and a breach is opened through which a
in one of his father's construction camps bizarre, and is not further commended by
crimson passion steals into her pale Paradise. is breezily told, and the interest is skilfully the idea that Bacon was inspired by Hil-
Its coming and her purgatory constitute the
maintained. There are several illustrations liard's portrait of himself to write the
sonnets,
story—both in style and matter one to enjoy. by Mr. Stanley Wood.
Macgrath (Harold), THE CARPET
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cover of what stuff he is made. He falls part in the action. The love-interest is Permanent detention and segregation of
in love with the innocent daughter of a developed from the author's motif of the all who are classified as feeble-minded !
smart woman smuggler and thief ; they betrothed bride and her attendant knight, From all quarters comes this cry the first
and the rogue are kidnapped together by but the result is less disastrous than with article in the social reformer's creed. Every
the Arab guardian of the sacred carpet, and Tristram and Lancelot.
book, pamphlet, or article which furthers
all suffer many things in the desert. The
this end is an intrinsic good, but we could
final scene, in which the
thieves are caught Wason (Robert Alexander), HAPPY HAWKINS, wish that more enthusiasts would take the
at their work, which involves the meeting
6/
Grant Richards Fabian tracts as models of exact writing.
of mother and daughter, is excellent. There Like the cowboys of fiction generally, we should like to know how “ trade unions
are some dull pages, but on the whole the Happy Hawkins is endowed with a turn prevent ” prisoners being taught much that
writing is bright and easy to read, and the for dry humour, a rough exterior, and a is useful. The article is reprinted from The
plot is skilfully unfolded to its happy ending. heart of gold, dominated by an ennobling, 'Fortnightly Review for May.
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career in the army of Russia in 1787, subse- traces with considerable power, to which is
FOREIGN.
quently an officer in the armies of Artois added at times real eloquence, the heroic
and Conde, and finally in the service of the struggle of the Polish peasantry against
bistory and Biograpby.
Bourbons in Naples, the Count was, during his Russian Orthodoxy: The_story takes us
Bratli (Charles), PHILIPPE II. , Roi d'Es- short, but adventurous and brilliant career, across the country-side of Podlachia, where
PAGNE, ÉTUDE SUR SA VIE ET SON
a shrewd and attentive observer of men and each village is in a stato of mutinous sub-
CARACTÈRE, nouvelle Édition, avec une
ovents. The memoirs, sincere and piquant, ordination, and where many victims have
Préface du Comte Baguenault de
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Puchesse.
Paris, Champion
the epoch, and are carefully annotated by picture of Polish life, and an historical
There has long been an opening for a
M. Jacques Rambaud.
document, this book has equal claims on the
book which should present the results of Mermeix (M. ), CHRONIQUE DE L'AN 1911, sympathy and attention of the reader.
modern research on Philip II. It was the
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M. Mermeix has written an instructive Byroniana und Anderos aus dem Englischen
to see in Philip either an implacable despot history of 1911.
knowledge that the
foot-notes
the younger English poets. He can turn
Liverpool, ' The Liverpool Courier. '
show the reader where to go for verification
from one metrical form to another with The author makes an anthology of his
of what has been told him. Still, the effect confidence and success, and shows rightness verse, which with sublime self-con-
of the critical portion of the work is, on the But there is something much more than
and certitude in his rhythm and diction. fidence and in large lettering he calls 'The
whole, that of something more hurried and
Fine Melody of my Feelings. We can only
slight than it need have been. The state prosodical excellence in his poetry. He is dimly surmise the quality of the rejected
ment of the evidence for the traditional view not a philosopher like Mr. Abercrombie. pieces.
seems to us much better and more forcibly He is not a reformer like Mr. Masefield. Nor,
done.
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of his “almost unique experience. "
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Isaacs (Abram S. ), WHAT IS JUDAISM ? A if poetry had not been for him a technical of technical accomplishment or critical
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Boudry, Switzerland, Baillod
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Mr. De la Mare is a romanticist. He them on to his pages without apparent con-
sideration as to how and where they fall,
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manner, but the disconnected origin of the away ;, magic and witchcraft and sorcery Consequently, he is more often than not
various chapters is apparent throughout, native play with the 'goblins of childhood; of his catholic receptivity of words :-
frequent repetition of similar phases occur-
ring. This
and all nature is haunted for him with
unpretentious treatment” of
Wrath sister thy claw
a great subject will doubtless serve to arouse
the strange and the beautiful.
Integrant must skein
interest in it; but, unfortunately, Prof.
He has a fine faculty which readers
Wan white lilies, and four
Roses of pain.
Isaacs supplies no hint as to where students of 'The Mulla-Mulgars will remember
may find further elaboration of such fasci- of combining playfulness with grim fantasy, We soon tire of his verbal gymnastics.
nating essays as his . Talmud in History' or
as we have it here in 'Never-to-be. ' In
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would have been a wholesome corrective to
in the West. The idea is to discover what
“A Witch, a Witch is sleeping
Under the churchyard wall;
his objurgations,
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Seranus, IN NORTHERN SKIES, AND OTHER manesque. He strives after no paradox, sympathy, introducing many quiet pictures
POEMS.
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An exiguous booklet of polished but doctrine of self-trust and the worth of the The judgment is full of discernment, and,
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of & meditative life. Emerson is his an- Miss Masson is much indebted to Mrs. Miss Addams's sane optimism we quote her
cestor, and Thoreau his spiritual father, Gaskell’s biography, but is not subservient reflection that in the midst of a freedom
with here and there a strain of the Whit- I to it. She writes agreeably and with strong such as has never been accorded to young
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women in the history of the world, under The numbered paragraphs of the Articles of a literary as well as a pedagogic
an economic pressure grinding down upon Introduction, with its emphasized headings, character are wisely included, and the
the working girl at the very age when she point the same way; and if any are a little present number includes a paper on 'Current
most wistfully desires to be taken care of, more lazy than others, they will find in $13 Opinion 'of considerable interest, another on
it is necessary to organize a widespread a neat summary of everything they want Bacon as Writer,' and a third on Some
commercial enterprise in order to procure a to know about the composition of Hero- Obstacles to Spelling Reform. ? We hope that
sufficient number of girls for the white slave dotus's history. The point is, that the student the Journal will take an early opportunity
market. " It would seem to show that the need not have exercised any judgment at all, of examining newspaper English, which has
virtue of women is holding its own in that yet he may produce on paper an answer to so vast an influence to-day, and explaining
slow-growing civilization which ever demands satisfy the examiner by learning a dozen its merits or demerits as a vehicle for thought
more self-control on the part of the indi- lines of the Introduction.
and expression.
vidual.
When we have said this, we have said
Bremner (C. S. ), DIVORCE AND MORALITY,
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grammar
which makes them of exceptional value is
- nothing
the admirable wealth of citations, 14,000 in
bears so little relation to the law of divorce omitted. Longer essays are given in the
obtaining in England that it is small wonder appendixes. Here is all the information number. These will enable writers and
if its anomalies give birth to a copious about Herodotus that the heart can wish. It is readers to verify or correct many vague
journalistic output. The author's is an
an extremely useful book to the student who beliefs and ideas. Mr. Thornton, a well-
historical study of matrimonial regulations has read his text and wants to fill in the known correspondent of Notes and Queries,
in different countries and at different periods. details accurately-wants to know, for deserves our warm thanks for a work of
Inexactitude and clumsiness of expression instance, that large families are commended much learning and industry, which cannot
disfigure it, but so long as ministers are to in the Zend Avesta, and many another fail to be of permanent value.
be found unaware that the divorce law of truth that he might otherwise miss.
He
1857 presses unequally on the sexes " --the will close the book with a new respect for
Scbool-Books.
present writer recently met a similarly
Herodotus, and thank him that he has
Contes de Voltaire, edited by H. W.
Preston,
ignorant archdeacon of the Church of Eng- managed to convey so much information to
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A collection apparently designed for the
already been made. Its appearance is an sary, a list of emendanda referring to
use of
crammers,
," and subdivided into
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Indeed, the compilation is, from some points suggestive papers on ‘Oral Composition in in spite of her, to shuffle themselves into a
of view, too careful : it obviously meets the Schools' and 'Shakespeare in School,' a position to drink to their married happiness,
purpose of those who are content to take subject also fruitfully discussed in the this, the slightest of sketches, comes to an
others' opinions rather than to form their section of " Teachers in Counsel. '
end—and we are sorry.
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Callwell (Col. C. E. ), SERVICE YARNS AND Onions (Oliver), WIDDERSHINS, 2/ net. though in this case hopeless passion. Its
va MEMORIES, 6/
Blackwood
Secker object is an equally familiar figure, the boy.
A collection of short stories and personal This powerful and remarkable collection like heroine who develops into the truest of
reminiscences dealing with the lighter side of short stories was first published not true women, and finds the reward of merit
of Army life in
war and poace.
The eighteen months ago, and this is the third in an allianco with the disguised heir to
author's style is discursive and diffuse, but edition. A supplement to them is ‘The an English earldom. Tho story, written
the book is of a diverting nature, although Cigarette Case. Their art and naturalism throughout in dialect, includes somo curious
frequent technical allusions may prove some-
are of an unusual quality. We reviewed adventures, but does not add much to our
what mystifying to the civilian.
Widdershins' favourably in The Atheneum knowledge of men and things “out West. "
appeared in Blackwood, The Cornhill, and Pemberton (Max), WAR AND THE WOMAN, 6/
Many of the stories have previously of March 11, 1911.
General.
other magazines.
Cassell Halifax County Borough, Bankfield Museum
Curle (Richard), SHADOWS OUT OF THE Dominating the fortunes of this story Notes : No. 11, HAND CARD-MAKING,
CROWD, 61
Swift there
two financial magnates. One by H. Ling Roth, ld. ; and No. 12,
These short stories, many of which have believes that war can only be killed by LOCAL PREHISTORIC IMPLEMENTS, Loan
already appeared as middles in the trade, and is striving for the federation of Exhibition, May 11-June 6, 1912, by
weekly press, maintain a respectable level Europe, with no commercial barriers between
Hugh P. Kendall and H. Ling Roth, Bd.
of achievement.
the several countries ; the other, the new
The Museum
Krupp," desires peace also, but considers A careful record of hand card - making,
Evans (George), THE CHILD OF HIS ADOPTION, it his business to prepare the nations for and another of local prehistoric implements,
Herbert & Daniel Neither of these missionaries attains the latter including a bibliography. There
Mr. Goorge Evans shows promise of becom- much. There descends upon England a are numerous diagrams.
ing a good novelist, but he should think winter of unparalleled severity. The ima-
more of construction and selection. Origin- gination of journalists places invading People's Books : HOME RULE, by L. G.
ality and invention he has, though the armies upon a frozen channel ; as a fact, Redmond-Howard, with a Preface by
invention flags a little towards the latter however, what the country has to fear is Robert Harcourt, bd. net.
Jack
part of the story; but he has not that the consequence of war without its actuality.
instinct of form that enables an author to The Steel King corners the wheat market, attempts here a wide survey in a restricted
The nephew of Mr. John Redmond
write without plan; and if he is over to and the shipping trade is paralyzed by a
attain distinction, he must attentively study strike.
The woman
space, and some of his chapters (notably the
12 had long before historical ones) are necessarily sketchy:
composition—not in the sense of the school invited him to become a Vice-President of The volume is so frankly a propagandist
curriculum, but in that of the architect or
the painter.
he saves
the country by bidding his wheat pamphlet that it seems rather out of place
in the series ; but as such it is forcible and
ships sail for Europe, she marries him, now lively. One of Mr. Redmond-Howard's
Fisher (B. M. ), THE PLAYER, 6/ Drane
sharing his belief that, if peace is to be won
Boys reading this book will fail to recog: for humanity, it will be by the brains and “I defy Sir Edward Carson himself,” says
remarks conjures up a pleasing picture.
nize many types portrayed in it because of money of its leaders.
he, " to raise a theological controversy
their doubtful existence. But this
very
fact
about an egg.
may result in interesting them in a school. Powers (Capt. T. J. ), THE GARDEN OF THE
story which to one of their elders appears Sun.
Gay & Hancock
Pampblets.
dismally to miss the child's point of view. A story of military life in the Philippines
which belongs to the “ kiss me yet again-
Hutchinson (John), THE SONNETS
Grier (Sydney C. ), THE ADVANCED-GUARD,
1) net.
Blackwood again, and yet again ” order of fiction, riots SHAKESPEARE ": A NEW VIEW, 6d.
in picturesque slang, and shows that weaken-
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ing of the moral fibre which climate and Reprinted from ‘Baconiana. The view
Maartens (Maarten), Eve, 6/ Constable. environment can and does sometimes effect. is certainly original. Mr. Hutchinson be-
Against a background of Dutch stolidity Shedd (George C. ), THE
lieves that the author of the Sonnets is
and virtue and the petty interests and occu-
(George C. ), THE INCORRIGIBLE addressing himself—the better part of me,
DUKANE, 61
Stanley Paul
pations of village life, the Melissants-Eve's
as Sonnet 39 puts it. The Dark Lady is
father and mother-stand out like exotics
The incorrigible Dukane is a young man
the “worser part of his nature. The
in a farmyard, and exert an influence out of whose self-confidence and aplomb in all references to offspring, marriage, &c. , are
all seeming, proportion to their subsidiary circumstances are extraordinary. He is the to be taken as referring to intellectual
position. Close
your eyes on the ugly side, son of an American engineering magnate, creations. The Dæmon of Socrates is men-
and it isn't there, they say; but, when the and his disinclination for serious employment tioned in support of this theory, but here
first of their children leaves the nest so
is viewed with scant sympathy by his austere we have to believe in two separate individu-
aptly named Sans Souci, the changed atmo- parent, who decrees that he shall either work alities, a man and a woman, invented “ for
sphere to which her Adam takes her is
or starve. The story, which describes him the purpose of self-communing. "
crushing beyond all her powers of resistance, working as a navvy, of unknown identity gestion strikes us as distinctly odd and
and a breach is opened through which a
in one of his father's construction camps bizarre, and is not further commended by
crimson passion steals into her pale Paradise. is breezily told, and the interest is skilfully the idea that Bacon was inspired by Hil-
Its coming and her purgatory constitute the
maintained. There are several illustrations liard's portrait of himself to write the
sonnets,
story—both in style and matter one to enjoy. by Mr. Stanley Wood.
Macgrath (Harold), THE CARPET
CARPET FROM Symons (Beryl), PRINCE AND PRIEST, 61 London County Council, INDICATION
BAGDAD, 6/
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Stanley Paul HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST IN
George Percival Algernon Jones, of the This is a picturesque and spirited story
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in love with the innocent daughter of a developed from the author's motif of the all who are classified as feeble-minded !
smart woman smuggler and thief ; they betrothed bride and her attendant knight, From all quarters comes this cry the first
and the rogue are kidnapped together by but the result is less disastrous than with article in the social reformer's creed. Every
the Arab guardian of the sacred carpet, and Tristram and Lancelot.
book, pamphlet, or article which furthers
all suffer many things in the desert. The
this end is an intrinsic good, but we could
final scene, in which the
thieves are caught Wason (Robert Alexander), HAPPY HAWKINS, wish that more enthusiasts would take the
at their work, which involves the meeting
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Grant Richards Fabian tracts as models of exact writing.
of mother and daughter, is excellent. There Like the cowboys of fiction generally, we should like to know how “ trade unions
are some dull pages, but on the whole the Happy Hawkins is endowed with a turn prevent ” prisoners being taught much that
writing is bright and easy to read, and the for dry humour, a rough exterior, and a is useful. The article is reprinted from The
plot is skilfully unfolded to its happy ending. heart of gold, dominated by an ennobling, 'Fortnightly Review for May.
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career in the army of Russia in 1787, subse- traces with considerable power, to which is
FOREIGN.
quently an officer in the armies of Artois added at times real eloquence, the heroic
and Conde, and finally in the service of the struggle of the Polish peasantry against
bistory and Biograpby.
Bourbons in Naples, the Count was, during his Russian Orthodoxy: The_story takes us
Bratli (Charles), PHILIPPE II. , Roi d'Es- short, but adventurous and brilliant career, across the country-side of Podlachia, where
PAGNE, ÉTUDE SUR SA VIE ET SON
a shrewd and attentive observer of men and each village is in a stato of mutinous sub-
CARACTÈRE, nouvelle Édition, avec une
ovents. The memoirs, sincere and piquant, ordination, and where many victims have
Préface du Comte Baguenault de
a real contribution to the study of suffered in the national cause, As a faithful
Puchesse.
Paris, Champion
the epoch, and are carefully annotated by picture of Polish life, and an historical
There has long been an opening for a
M. Jacques Rambaud.
document, this book has equal claims on the
book which should present the results of Mermeix (M. ), CHRONIQUE DE L'AN 1911, sympathy and attention of the reader.
modern research on Philip II. It was the
3fr. 50.
Paris, Grasset
Education.
fault of historians of the last generation
M. Mermeix has written an instructive Byroniana und Anderos aus dem Englischen
to see in Philip either an implacable despot history of 1911.
