With Introduction by Sir Edo with the
enormous
mass of comment and Chambers’s general point of view differs
ward Carson, and Preface by A.
ward Carson, and Preface by A.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Pollard's Introduction restricts
presses, and Mr. Robert Steele introduces number also contained a fine tribute to
itself to such a summary account of it with a critical survey of their aims Tennyson's poetry by Arthur Hallam.
the work done in this volume that one and execution. He is a sound and learned
Next year the magazine died, and was
might readily under-estimate the great judge of printing, and as the work is killed by that very article, according to
amount of new information he and his produced in the well-known style of the
that patronizing and now ludicrous wielder
colleagues have added to our knowledge Riccardi Press, and is, with the exception of the critical bludgeon, Christopher North.
of German fifteenth-century printing.
of one or two regrettable misprints, itself a
Mr. Barwick has noticed in his glance
Mr. de Ricci's monograph on the first model of good printing, while it contains through the magazines that copyists
printed books of Mayence is an example examples of all the most important occasionally substitute their own name
of another kind of modern bibliography modern types, we feel sure that the for that of the author. The oddest
at its best, which attempts, something extremely limited edition will soon be example of some such mistake was the
like his Census of Caxtons of a few exhausted, and recommend those inter-
addition in 1908 of a sonnet by Mrs.
It includes a number of ested to obtain copies at once.
Browning to Dickens's works, on the
books not printed in Mayence - for
example, the Eltvil books—and its special graphy mainly in its scientific aspects,
but
So far we have been considering biblio- strength of the Contributors' Book to
Household Words. In his notice of The
value lies in the history of each copy it is not merely a dry science for book Cornhill Mr. Barwick mentions Godfrey
known and the references to the literature
Sykes as the designer of the cover. He
collectors and enthusiasts.
dealing with it.
is commemorated in the current number
Without in any way disparaging the
The latest volume of the Bibliographical of that periodical, but nothing is said of
labours of earlier bibliographers such as Society's Transactions contains, besides the claim made by Mr. W. Y. Fletcher
Hain and Panzer, we repeat that the the usual technical matter dear to the and reported here, that he brought to
modern science took its rise in England specialist, much of interest to a wider Thackeray's notice the illustrations of
under the impulse of Bradshaw, and our
circle. We referred recently to Mr. H. B. ploughing, sowing, reaping, and threshing,
country still holds pride of place, though Wheatley's work on Dryden in “The which had their origin not in the open air
names like those of Burger, Pellechet, Cambridge History of English Literature of nature, but in The Hours of Anne of
Haebler, and many others rank with our
Here his paper on Dryden's Publishers' Brittany. Jingle's talk has been credited
best. The Bibliographical Society has, occupies the first place, and is well worth to a fellow-clerk of Dickens ; here it is
by its publications, made a history of study. The poet had plenty of enemies suggested that the novelist' derived it
printing in Great Britain possible, while -his change of view in politics and his from a magazine called The Cigar, which
whole periods of typographical history satire alone would have been enough he may have read as a schoolboy. Such
in more important centres of the art
to make them--and Mr. Wheatley thinks spasmodic utterance could, however, be
abroad are totally unknown. Part of our it well to correct some misconceptions discovered in many a living original, and
superiority is due to the public spirit of a
or exaggerations founded on spite. He duly exaggerated for humorous purposes.
long succession of wealthy book-collectors regards it as improbable that Dryden
Mr. Barwick does not attempt to deal
who have freely laid
open their libraries lived with the bookseller Herringham with the latter years of the century, and
to students. A typical example of these
as a drudge, though he may have visited such typical magazines as The Idler,
was Mr. Alfred H. Huth, whose munificent him as a friend; and he repudiates the
bequest to the nation of fifty of his finest suggestion that Dryden's marriage with strong wave of literary interest. We
books, chosen at will, has just been com- the daughter of an earl was a mésalliance have other magazines now, the typical
memorated by a descriptive catalogue for her. The poet, like Tennyson and specimens being all of the same order :
drawn up with every refinement of modern Herrick, came of a good county family, popular, sensational, and negligent of the
skill by such authorities as Mr. Pollard, and was a person of some mark before
best literary work. Mr. W. Ď. Howells
Mr. Herbert, Mr. Campbell Dodgson, and he became celebrated as a writer.
was able, apparently, to discover a few
Mr. Esdaile, under the superintendence of * The Schotts of Strassburg and their years ago fifty magazines in the United
Dr Kenyon. We have already spoken Press,' by Mr. S. H. Scott, and Mr. States which could be described as of the
of the money value of incunabula in Robert Steele's well-illustrated Notes on literary or æsthetic kind. New York
general. What is to be thought of the English Books Printed Abroad, 1525-48, boasted some forty-five of them devoted
value of half a hundred volumes picked should help materially in clearing up the to belles-lettres," and seems to be as much
by experts from one of the most famous confusions of the period concerning the above London in its appreciation of decent
libraries of England ? The largest and early printers. Mr. Steele's discovery literature in this form as it is below it in
finest copy known of the first book that the ‘Dialogue of the Father and the lits indifference to murder.
years back.
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years older
Mr. Barwick has only touched his sub- present age much time is likely to be spent tions, and essays by various writers upon
ject lightly, but it deserves a thorough on them. All that is worth reprinting has different aspects of the relations between
historian. For the magazine is the" book” been made available for modern study, the school and society, together with
of the casual reader, and a better index and it would have been an advantage annotations and expositions. It is not
of public taste than the newspaper or the from the reader's point of view to have a possible, in the space of a review, to give
books which deluded authors sometimes record of such editions, e. g. , that of any adequate notion of the wealth of
write to please themselves, or to satisfy Golding's 'Ovid' brought out under Dr. matter packed into its twelve chapters,
a feeling for art which the public regards Rouse's supervision a few years since. all of which will repay careful reading. It
as a stupid and wilful indifference to
is interesting to find experiments in self-
commercial success.
government by boys at school which
At the end of the volume is a reprint
recall Arnold's methods at Rugby turning
of some brief notes by the late J. F. Payne AMERICA AND EDUCATION.
out very successfully; some American
on ‘English Herbals, which shows once
investigator might do well to examine
more the blushless appropriation of foreign AMERICA is as busy as England in review- these results side by side with those
learning by English writers. Lyte's ing and recasting educational theories concerning college alumni reported by
* Herball 'came from the Flemish through and methods. Among the interesting the Carnegie Foundation. On the whole,
the French, and Gerarde's was founded on investigations recorded in the Report of the experiments and changes described
another man's translation from the Latin a meeting of the Society of College Teachers have clearly tended to give, in an
of Dodoens. Gerarde added, indeed, some of Education held at St. Louis in the end advantageous way, new life and new scope
matter of his own, but he suppressed of February, one into the relation of to school teaching. It should be remem-
the name of Dodoens, and spoke of the mental development to physical growth bered, however, that there may be a
translation as only known to him by and physical defects, and one into methods danger in too much widening of school
hearsay! In speaking of the title of of reading, are especially valuable. From teaching, and that the great business of
Parkinson's book with its well-known Latin carefully kept records concerning 200 school life is, after all, to put into every
pun (Park-in-sun), Dr. Payne forgot to children it appears that tall children are child's hands the tools of learning :
put the first part of it in the genitive, practically" from one to four or even five language, spoken, read, and written, and
Paradisi in Sole. ”
than their shorter coevals, the laws of number. Without the pos-
The List of English Editions and and therefore “ should be treated physio- session of these tools, no civic virtues,
logically as older children than their age no knowledge of natural history or folk-
Translations of Greek and Latin Classics in years would indicate. ” As to reading lore, no athletic prowess, no expertness
printed before -641,' by Henrietta R.
Palmer, with an Introduction by Mr.
we find the following interesting con- even in all the processes of a skilled trade,
clusion :-
Scholderer, is a good example of the ex-
will save an adult living in the civilized
world from being like a person defective
cellent monographs issued by the Biblio- " The incipient articulation, which most
graphical Society. It is, we gather, of readers carry on as a part of their silent in sight or hearing.
American origin, but has been improved reading habits, and which has been developed
In his book about ‘Farm Boys and
by friends in London, Oxford, and Cam- by the methods of exclusive emphasis on
Girls' --which, incidentally, is also about
oral reading in the schools, keeps most
bridge.
persons far below the silent-reading speed | farm men and women-Prof. McKeever
Mr. Scholderer gives a good general which it is possible for them to attain by says many sensible, useful, and suggestive
survey of the subject in his Introduction, improved methods. ”
things. Especially good is the chapter
pointing out some gaps in the List which The Carnegie Foundation's Report in- in which fathers are urged to share a
now appear surprising. The Greek dra- cludes an analysis of the widely differing knowledge of their business affairs and
matists are very sparsely represented, and standards of qualification by which men an actual interest in them with their sons.
there is actually no edition or translation are admitted to the legal profession :-
About boys Prof. McKeever is right
of Æschylus. The inculcation of morality “The miscarriage of justice, the law's throughout, because he thinks of them as
rather than scholarship was the evident delays, the cost of litigation, public disragard individual human beings. About girls
aim of many of the workers. Sir Thomas of law, and disrespect for the judiciary, all he is less satisfactory because he
Hawkins includes only moral odes of proceed in no small degree from this multi- thinks of them not as individuals, but
Horace in his rendering, except 'Donec plication of ill-trained lawyers. ”
creatures complementary to other
gratus eram tibi,' as being commended Distinctly discouraging is that part of individuals—a view which derogates from
by Scaliger, an ode which Raleigh actually the Report which discusses The Influence the dignity of wifehood and motherhood.
made into a dialogue between God and of Organized Alumni on American Col- He realizes to the full the crushing con-
the Soul ! “ Improving” authors like leges. ' Evidently the organized alumni ditions in which
Plutarch and Seneca are strong favourites, are more concerned with their college's country wives die, worn out early in life,
and Aristotle is commended as a safe success in athletic events (even some-
and so undue a proportion of the survivors
guard against scheming schismatics and times by dishonourable means) than with become insane ; yet he deprecates the
religious sophisters. Many of our admired its intellectual progress-a fact which entry of women into outside occupations
classics, such as Plato, were less known indicates that some American colleges in which they have a prospect of living to
in the latter half of the sixteenth century are suffering in an exaggerated form from
a sane old age and of enjoying that
than a book of moral maxims like the the same disease as English institutions.
financial independence which is becoming
' Zodiacus Vitæ' of Marcellus Palin-
as dear to them as to men. What he
Prof. Irving King's" Source Book," as he fails to see is that marriage is not possible
genius, done into English by Barnabe calls it, is a collection of reports, observa- for all and that only when women are
Googe. This relentlessly instructive work
provided the phrase "Rome was not The School Review Monographs
- No. II. generally able to live comfortably and
built in a day”; instructions to be good, Papers presented for Discussion at a Meeting creditably outside marriage will society
at any rate, if you cannot be clever; of the Society of College Teachers of Educa be compelled so to modify its conditions
warnings that most people shut the fold
tion. (University of Chicago Press; Lon as to make them acceptable to many
when the flock is lost; and a host of similar
don, Cambridge University Press. ) independent minded and
capable
commonplaces.
Sixth Annual Report of the Carnegie Founda-
Moreover, only when such
Homer and Ovid fare better than Virgil,
tion for the Advancement of Teaching, 1911. women find married life in rural districts
(New York, 576, Fifth Avenue. )
who appeared in some ridiculous disguises. Social Aspects of Education :
acceptable will any satisfactory form of
The best work in verse throughout is,
a Book of social intercourse be likely to take root
Sources and Original Discussions with there.
as might be expected, paraphrase rather Annotated Bibliographies. By Irving King.
than translation. A good many bare (New York, the Macmillan Company. )
mentions of books now unknown provide Farm Boys and Girls. By William A.
duzzles to be solved, but we doubt if in the McKeever. (Same publishers. )
as
women.
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a
Mr.
Scots invade England, and were defeated Although Widsith' has little poetic
HOME RULE.
outside London by the Romans ”; and merit, its value as a document is very
THE flood of Home Rule literature is his first chapter opens cheerfully with great. In the interpretation and criticism
upon us, and the quality of it varies. The "The Irish Question began with the of the statements of Roman writers
Unionist Irish Essays Committee, which Christian era. ” He tells us much of the respecting Germanic ethnography, and
has prepared “The Case against Home Earl of Essex, Tyrconnel, and Wolfe
Earl of Essex, Tyrconnel, and Wolfe of heroic legend as recorded in Beowulf'
Rule,' has certainly done its work very Tone; but the little he has to
Tone; but the little he has to say about and in German and Scandinavian poetry
thoroughly. Not only is the list of con- the Home Rule question to-day is squeezed and saga, its evidence is indispensable,
tributors imposing, but the method into a few pages, and even in these he while at the same time its obscure allu-
also of dealing with the subject is divagates from his particular branch of sions can only be understood by compari-
comprehensive. The paper - covered the subject. The most interesting novelty son with these fuller sources of information.
volume is avowedly a partisan affair ; but is one not of idea, but of expression.
in spite of these limitations its tone as a
On p. 87 he refers to Gladstone's The poem, apart from obvious interpola-
whole is quiet and judicious, and the policy as "a type of policy that never, tions, can hardly be later than the begin-
essays are marked by much industrious in history, failed to have any but one ning of the eighth century, and some of its
compilation and reasoned argument, and ending. "
traditions go back to times far earlier
a comparative lack of wild statement It is refreshing to turn to the volume than the settlement of the Angles in
Britain.
and heat. Mr. Bonar Law's contribu- by Mr. S. G. Hobson, an avowed Home
It may be described as
tion is a short Preface, in which he in- Ruler. He succeeds in putting the case somewhat inartistic attempt to provide a
dicates that to his mind the Ulster objec- with a freshness which is remarkable narrative framework for certain mnemonic
tion is the greatest obstacle to Home at this stage of the controversy, and his lists of names of peoples and of their
Rule-a statement which has special desire to face the truth leads him occa-
rulers most famous in heroic song, which
interest in view of recent rumours. Mr. sionally to say things that will be probably formed part of the regular
Balfour's contribution is also brief, and unpalatable to many Nationalists. Though education of a minstrel. The fiction is of
Sir Edward Carson's is little more than an not blind to the sentimental issue, he the simpleşt: a minstrel of ancient days,
introductory résumê of succeeding chapters, is chiefly interested in the economic named Widsid, “ the Far-travelled” (the
which range in subject from The question, and his chapters on finance, name actually existed, but is obviously
Religious Difficulty' to 'Private Bill the waste of Irish administration, chosen on account of its meaning), is sup- .
Legislation. ' Especially interesting are an agriculture, and the changes needed posed to recount his travels. As about
admirable article on · Éducation by Mr. for the development of Irish resources, every fourth word is a proper name, there
Godfrey Locker - Lampson; Mr. L. S. are most stimulating, vivid, and sugges- is not much room for story, but now and
Amery's article on the 'Colonial Analogy'; tive.
Hobson holds the view,
of
and Mr. George Wyndham's little treatise shared by many Irishmen to-day, that by an epithet expressing his traditional
on ‘The Completion of Land Purchase,' in the passage of Home Rule will mean
character, or by an allusion to some
which the author of the 1903 Act re- an immediate diminution of clerical in incident in his career. Tradition has no
iterates with Mr. Law's authority the fluence over local and national politics. sense of chronology, and the kings before
Unionist pledge that, should the party He also argues that the new régime will whom Widsith sang, and who bestowed
return to office, the land policy of 1903
see a fresh cleavage of parties in Ireland,
on him rich gifts, belong historically to
will be resumed. By contrast with the a cleavage not religious, but economic three different centuries. The strings of
restraint observed elsewhere, there is a He has a lively and personal style, and proper names are introduced abruptly,
deplorable feverishness about Earl Percy's his work may be commended to all who with little attempt to weave them into
essay on The Military Disadvantages of desire to consider a thoughtful presenta- the texture of the story. The author was
Home Rule. A good deal of his tion of the Home Rule case as it bears a skilled versifier, but the traces of higher
matter is only faintly, if at all, rele- on the great realities that underlie all poetic qualities that may be found in his
vant to the subject allotted to him, and politics.
work are probably due to echoes of the
he has seized the opportunity to spread Mr. de F. Pennefather's pamphlet is older songs from which he derived his
the view that war with Germany cannot concise and well - arranged.
He takes wide knowledge of heroic tradition. Wid.
long, be avoided, to urge compulsory 25 “ Delusions” entertained by Home sith 'has for us moderns an interest like
service, and to inform us that Home Rulers, and subjoins the “ Facts which, that of a fragmentary catalogue of a lost
Rule will mean civil war,
accompanied in his opinion, should shatter them. Now library; we see from it how abundant
by atrocities which will be remembered and then he is somewhat vague, as when and various were the treasures of Old
for centuries. ” This is, to our thinking, he observes that “ To Hell with England” English epic poetry, of which, by the
almost solitary
prophecy of an unnecessarily specific is one of the mottoes of the Irish Nation- merest accident,
kind.
alists.
example survives in ‘ Beowulf. '
Sir Thomas Fraser's volume on The
Mr. Chambers's edition of · Widsith'-
Military Danger ’ is scarcely, more illu- Widsith : a Study in Old English Heroic for this is what the volume really is,
minating than Lord Percy's chapter. Legend. By R. W. Chambers. (Cam- the prolegomena and the text makes this
The author, in fact, occupies by far the
greater portion of his space with an his-
bridge University Press. )
description seem inappropriate-is a re-
torical survey which goes back to the THE Old English poem Widsith' con- markably thorough and serviceable piece
earliest times. The first words in his sists of only 143 lines, and the volume of work. There is no other single book,
Chronology are " 363. Picts and Irish which Mr. Chambers has devoted to its even in German, which contains so com-
illustration contains nearly double that plete a summary of what has been done
Against Home Rule : the Case for the Union. number of pages. He cannot, however, by scholars, from the days of Cony beare
By Arthur J. Balfour, J. Austen Chamber. be fairly charged with either irrelevance and Kemble to the present time, for the
lain, and others. Edited by S. Rosen- or diffuseness. Those who are acquainted elucidation of the poem. Although Mr.
baum.
With Introduction by Sir Edo with the enormous mass of comment and Chambers’s general point of view differs
ward Carson, and Preface by A. Bonar controversy to which this brief text has considerably from that indicated in this
Law. (Warne & Co. )
The Military Danger of Home Rule for Ire not have been made much shorter, if it most of his conclusions on questions of
given rise will admit that the book could article, we find ourselves able to accept
land. By Major-General Sir Thomas
Fraser. (John Murray. )
was to include not only a reasoned expo- detail. That these are seldom novel is
Irish Home Rule: the Last Phase.
sition of the author's own conclusions, but no ground for reproach; the reasoning
By
S. G. Hobson. (Stephen Swift & Co. )
also an adequate discussion of the con- by which they are supported is often new
The Fundamental Delusions of Home Rule. flicting theories of eminent scholars with and ingenious. The textual conjectures
By de F. Pennefather, (Love & Malcom: regard to the manifold problems which are justified, and the translation and
son. )
the poem presents.
bibliography are satisfactory.
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writers with gaiety, for instance, or artistic gesturing and dramatic device spoil her and archæological lore, and recalling many
activity, or love of poverty: Another fre- verse, and its ebullience is boundless. associations. The author's style is fluent,
quent defect is heaviness of style. Never-
but somewhat wordy.
theless, this is a book that ought to count. Bridges (Charles), VERSE VOLUNTARIES, 3/6
It is full of practical spiritual insight, and,
Simpkin & Marshall Crutchley (Commander W. Caius), MY LIFE
as a whole, never swerves from its centre ; We think that Mr. Bridges, who displays
AT SEA, 7/6
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while it contains isolated thoughts of great a certain versatility, owes no mean debt to The author is a master mariner of wide
wisdom and depth. The best parts struck Keats and Browning. Indeed, his opulence and varied experience, and his reminiscences
us as the chapter entitled ' A Year After' of phrase and the leisurely gait of his narra- of a long and successful career at sea are
and the excursus on 'Prayer,?
tive poems are not a little agreeable. His of exceptional interest, as they extend
AND
AFTER
SO
narrow
net.
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a
IN
rancour.
over a considerable portion of the period of and persecuted woman, diabolically mal-
transition from the small wooden sailing treated. Whether or no this can be sub-
Sociology.
vessel to the gigantic steam-propelled and stantiated, we can conceive no positive need
steel-constructed product of modern naval for resuscitating a macabre and sordid
Cross (Ira B. ), THE ESSENTIALS OF SOCIALISM.
New York, Macmillan Co.
engineering. Capt. Crutchley draws a scandal, best healed by a kindly oblivion.
realistic picture of the conditions of life in Moreover, the book obviously aims at re-
We are sorry that we cannot find in this
the mercantile marine in the early sixties, viving the sensation of which a greedy pross
small book anything but a welter of ill-
and there is much of special import to the made the most.
assimilated statements.
nautical reader. He has, too, enlivened his
Holmes (T. ), PsYCHOLOGY AND CRIME.
pages with a host of breezy and amusing Geograpby and Travel.
Dent
anocdotes, and the chapters dealing with his
Out of his twenty-five years of experi-
experiences on the South African service Beautiful Ireland : CONNAUGHT and Mun- ence, the Secretary of the Howard Associa-
are noteworthy. A short Preface is con-
STER, by Stephen Gwynn. - Beautiful tion has written a valuable little book.
tributed by Earl Brassey, and there are England: YORK, by George Benson ; Differing in many ways from the scientific
twelve good illustrations.
CHESTER, by Charles Edwardes. 2/ net school, he holds that psychology has far
Dawson (C. B. ), THE MIRROR OF OXFORD.
each.
Blackie less to do with crime than physical conditions,
Sands To Mr. Gwynn belongs an almost passionate that the criminal usually needs a better
There would have been little or no justi- love for the districts he describes a love body rather than a better mind, and that
fication for this book, had it been written which radiates through every page of his
criminal type,” in any definite sense of
from the normal point of view of the his- two new books, and is especially noticeable the term, does not exist. Common sense
torian of Oxford. On those lines it is in the stories and legends he repeats. The
seems to agree with him here, as with his
practically impossible to squeeze frosh tragedy of Finn and Grània, the history of plea for a inore intelligent treatment of the
matter out of the subject. But it is written Daniel O'Connell, the story of St. Brendan's feeble-minded and the epileptic. His obser-
avowedly for a Roman Catholic audience pilgrimage into the west-all these, as told vations on the attitude of the prisoner to the
and shifts the perspective, if it does not by Mr. Gwynn, are not merely good reading, prison also deserve attention.
radically alter or add to it. The illustrations but also breathe the very spirit of Ireland. Jephson (A. W. ), MUNICIPAL WORK FROM A
are good.
His two books will do what few guide-books CHRISTIAN STANDPOINT, 1/6 net.
English People Overseas : Vol. IV. BRITAIN country they depict.
can-awaken a strong desire to see the
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We find the author of this historical
Mr. Benson's book on York has more the One of the Christian Social Union Hand-
treatise more discriminating, suggestive, character of a guide-book than Mr. Gwynn's. books.
and informative when he is able to forgo He gives a good deal of attention to the craft Pepler (Douglas), THE CARE COMMITTEE,
his Imperial bias. His chapter on Victorian guilds, but says nothing to show wherein
Britain is largely irrelevant, and is saturated they differ from those of other cities. We
THE CHILD, AND THE PARENT, 2/6 net.
with the vague idealism of the Imperialists, regret we have not the space to repeat the
Constable
At times he displays considerable political pleasing medieval story of Brother Jucundus, sisting of notes contributed by two voluntary
The Appendix to this little work, con-
Otherwise, his book is readable.
whose weakness for strong drink all but
There is a
placed him amongst the saints.
workers on Children's Care Committees, is
Fletcher (J. S. ), MEMORIES OF A SPECTATOR,
admirable ; but the value of the book
7/6 net.
EVELEIGH NASH strange contrast between this and Mr.
Seebohm Rowntree's book on York as it
itself is largely reduced by its tendency to
The author does not appear to have been confronts the social reformer. It is difficult regard the interests of the parent rather
one of those spectators who most
than those of the child. Now the purpose
to believe that they deal with the same
of the game, and his book is largely a chro-
for which Care Committees exist is that no
city.
niclo of small beer calling for no comment.
presses, and Mr. Robert Steele introduces number also contained a fine tribute to
itself to such a summary account of it with a critical survey of their aims Tennyson's poetry by Arthur Hallam.
the work done in this volume that one and execution. He is a sound and learned
Next year the magazine died, and was
might readily under-estimate the great judge of printing, and as the work is killed by that very article, according to
amount of new information he and his produced in the well-known style of the
that patronizing and now ludicrous wielder
colleagues have added to our knowledge Riccardi Press, and is, with the exception of the critical bludgeon, Christopher North.
of German fifteenth-century printing.
of one or two regrettable misprints, itself a
Mr. Barwick has noticed in his glance
Mr. de Ricci's monograph on the first model of good printing, while it contains through the magazines that copyists
printed books of Mayence is an example examples of all the most important occasionally substitute their own name
of another kind of modern bibliography modern types, we feel sure that the for that of the author. The oddest
at its best, which attempts, something extremely limited edition will soon be example of some such mistake was the
like his Census of Caxtons of a few exhausted, and recommend those inter-
addition in 1908 of a sonnet by Mrs.
It includes a number of ested to obtain copies at once.
Browning to Dickens's works, on the
books not printed in Mayence - for
example, the Eltvil books—and its special graphy mainly in its scientific aspects,
but
So far we have been considering biblio- strength of the Contributors' Book to
Household Words. In his notice of The
value lies in the history of each copy it is not merely a dry science for book Cornhill Mr. Barwick mentions Godfrey
known and the references to the literature
Sykes as the designer of the cover. He
collectors and enthusiasts.
dealing with it.
is commemorated in the current number
Without in any way disparaging the
The latest volume of the Bibliographical of that periodical, but nothing is said of
labours of earlier bibliographers such as Society's Transactions contains, besides the claim made by Mr. W. Y. Fletcher
Hain and Panzer, we repeat that the the usual technical matter dear to the and reported here, that he brought to
modern science took its rise in England specialist, much of interest to a wider Thackeray's notice the illustrations of
under the impulse of Bradshaw, and our
circle. We referred recently to Mr. H. B. ploughing, sowing, reaping, and threshing,
country still holds pride of place, though Wheatley's work on Dryden in “The which had their origin not in the open air
names like those of Burger, Pellechet, Cambridge History of English Literature of nature, but in The Hours of Anne of
Haebler, and many others rank with our
Here his paper on Dryden's Publishers' Brittany. Jingle's talk has been credited
best. The Bibliographical Society has, occupies the first place, and is well worth to a fellow-clerk of Dickens ; here it is
by its publications, made a history of study. The poet had plenty of enemies suggested that the novelist' derived it
printing in Great Britain possible, while -his change of view in politics and his from a magazine called The Cigar, which
whole periods of typographical history satire alone would have been enough he may have read as a schoolboy. Such
in more important centres of the art
to make them--and Mr. Wheatley thinks spasmodic utterance could, however, be
abroad are totally unknown. Part of our it well to correct some misconceptions discovered in many a living original, and
superiority is due to the public spirit of a
or exaggerations founded on spite. He duly exaggerated for humorous purposes.
long succession of wealthy book-collectors regards it as improbable that Dryden
Mr. Barwick does not attempt to deal
who have freely laid
open their libraries lived with the bookseller Herringham with the latter years of the century, and
to students. A typical example of these
as a drudge, though he may have visited such typical magazines as The Idler,
was Mr. Alfred H. Huth, whose munificent him as a friend; and he repudiates the
bequest to the nation of fifty of his finest suggestion that Dryden's marriage with strong wave of literary interest. We
books, chosen at will, has just been com- the daughter of an earl was a mésalliance have other magazines now, the typical
memorated by a descriptive catalogue for her. The poet, like Tennyson and specimens being all of the same order :
drawn up with every refinement of modern Herrick, came of a good county family, popular, sensational, and negligent of the
skill by such authorities as Mr. Pollard, and was a person of some mark before
best literary work. Mr. W. Ď. Howells
Mr. Herbert, Mr. Campbell Dodgson, and he became celebrated as a writer.
was able, apparently, to discover a few
Mr. Esdaile, under the superintendence of * The Schotts of Strassburg and their years ago fifty magazines in the United
Dr Kenyon. We have already spoken Press,' by Mr. S. H. Scott, and Mr. States which could be described as of the
of the money value of incunabula in Robert Steele's well-illustrated Notes on literary or æsthetic kind. New York
general. What is to be thought of the English Books Printed Abroad, 1525-48, boasted some forty-five of them devoted
value of half a hundred volumes picked should help materially in clearing up the to belles-lettres," and seems to be as much
by experts from one of the most famous confusions of the period concerning the above London in its appreciation of decent
libraries of England ? The largest and early printers. Mr. Steele's discovery literature in this form as it is below it in
finest copy known of the first book that the ‘Dialogue of the Father and the lits indifference to murder.
years back.
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years older
Mr. Barwick has only touched his sub- present age much time is likely to be spent tions, and essays by various writers upon
ject lightly, but it deserves a thorough on them. All that is worth reprinting has different aspects of the relations between
historian. For the magazine is the" book” been made available for modern study, the school and society, together with
of the casual reader, and a better index and it would have been an advantage annotations and expositions. It is not
of public taste than the newspaper or the from the reader's point of view to have a possible, in the space of a review, to give
books which deluded authors sometimes record of such editions, e. g. , that of any adequate notion of the wealth of
write to please themselves, or to satisfy Golding's 'Ovid' brought out under Dr. matter packed into its twelve chapters,
a feeling for art which the public regards Rouse's supervision a few years since. all of which will repay careful reading. It
as a stupid and wilful indifference to
is interesting to find experiments in self-
commercial success.
government by boys at school which
At the end of the volume is a reprint
recall Arnold's methods at Rugby turning
of some brief notes by the late J. F. Payne AMERICA AND EDUCATION.
out very successfully; some American
on ‘English Herbals, which shows once
investigator might do well to examine
more the blushless appropriation of foreign AMERICA is as busy as England in review- these results side by side with those
learning by English writers. Lyte's ing and recasting educational theories concerning college alumni reported by
* Herball 'came from the Flemish through and methods. Among the interesting the Carnegie Foundation. On the whole,
the French, and Gerarde's was founded on investigations recorded in the Report of the experiments and changes described
another man's translation from the Latin a meeting of the Society of College Teachers have clearly tended to give, in an
of Dodoens. Gerarde added, indeed, some of Education held at St. Louis in the end advantageous way, new life and new scope
matter of his own, but he suppressed of February, one into the relation of to school teaching. It should be remem-
the name of Dodoens, and spoke of the mental development to physical growth bered, however, that there may be a
translation as only known to him by and physical defects, and one into methods danger in too much widening of school
hearsay! In speaking of the title of of reading, are especially valuable. From teaching, and that the great business of
Parkinson's book with its well-known Latin carefully kept records concerning 200 school life is, after all, to put into every
pun (Park-in-sun), Dr. Payne forgot to children it appears that tall children are child's hands the tools of learning :
put the first part of it in the genitive, practically" from one to four or even five language, spoken, read, and written, and
Paradisi in Sole. ”
than their shorter coevals, the laws of number. Without the pos-
The List of English Editions and and therefore “ should be treated physio- session of these tools, no civic virtues,
logically as older children than their age no knowledge of natural history or folk-
Translations of Greek and Latin Classics in years would indicate. ” As to reading lore, no athletic prowess, no expertness
printed before -641,' by Henrietta R.
Palmer, with an Introduction by Mr.
we find the following interesting con- even in all the processes of a skilled trade,
clusion :-
Scholderer, is a good example of the ex-
will save an adult living in the civilized
world from being like a person defective
cellent monographs issued by the Biblio- " The incipient articulation, which most
graphical Society. It is, we gather, of readers carry on as a part of their silent in sight or hearing.
American origin, but has been improved reading habits, and which has been developed
In his book about ‘Farm Boys and
by friends in London, Oxford, and Cam- by the methods of exclusive emphasis on
Girls' --which, incidentally, is also about
oral reading in the schools, keeps most
bridge.
persons far below the silent-reading speed | farm men and women-Prof. McKeever
Mr. Scholderer gives a good general which it is possible for them to attain by says many sensible, useful, and suggestive
survey of the subject in his Introduction, improved methods. ”
things. Especially good is the chapter
pointing out some gaps in the List which The Carnegie Foundation's Report in- in which fathers are urged to share a
now appear surprising. The Greek dra- cludes an analysis of the widely differing knowledge of their business affairs and
matists are very sparsely represented, and standards of qualification by which men an actual interest in them with their sons.
there is actually no edition or translation are admitted to the legal profession :-
About boys Prof. McKeever is right
of Æschylus. The inculcation of morality “The miscarriage of justice, the law's throughout, because he thinks of them as
rather than scholarship was the evident delays, the cost of litigation, public disragard individual human beings. About girls
aim of many of the workers. Sir Thomas of law, and disrespect for the judiciary, all he is less satisfactory because he
Hawkins includes only moral odes of proceed in no small degree from this multi- thinks of them not as individuals, but
Horace in his rendering, except 'Donec plication of ill-trained lawyers. ”
creatures complementary to other
gratus eram tibi,' as being commended Distinctly discouraging is that part of individuals—a view which derogates from
by Scaliger, an ode which Raleigh actually the Report which discusses The Influence the dignity of wifehood and motherhood.
made into a dialogue between God and of Organized Alumni on American Col- He realizes to the full the crushing con-
the Soul ! “ Improving” authors like leges. ' Evidently the organized alumni ditions in which
Plutarch and Seneca are strong favourites, are more concerned with their college's country wives die, worn out early in life,
and Aristotle is commended as a safe success in athletic events (even some-
and so undue a proportion of the survivors
guard against scheming schismatics and times by dishonourable means) than with become insane ; yet he deprecates the
religious sophisters. Many of our admired its intellectual progress-a fact which entry of women into outside occupations
classics, such as Plato, were less known indicates that some American colleges in which they have a prospect of living to
in the latter half of the sixteenth century are suffering in an exaggerated form from
a sane old age and of enjoying that
than a book of moral maxims like the the same disease as English institutions.
financial independence which is becoming
' Zodiacus Vitæ' of Marcellus Palin-
as dear to them as to men. What he
Prof. Irving King's" Source Book," as he fails to see is that marriage is not possible
genius, done into English by Barnabe calls it, is a collection of reports, observa- for all and that only when women are
Googe. This relentlessly instructive work
provided the phrase "Rome was not The School Review Monographs
- No. II. generally able to live comfortably and
built in a day”; instructions to be good, Papers presented for Discussion at a Meeting creditably outside marriage will society
at any rate, if you cannot be clever; of the Society of College Teachers of Educa be compelled so to modify its conditions
warnings that most people shut the fold
tion. (University of Chicago Press; Lon as to make them acceptable to many
when the flock is lost; and a host of similar
don, Cambridge University Press. ) independent minded and
capable
commonplaces.
Sixth Annual Report of the Carnegie Founda-
Moreover, only when such
Homer and Ovid fare better than Virgil,
tion for the Advancement of Teaching, 1911. women find married life in rural districts
(New York, 576, Fifth Avenue. )
who appeared in some ridiculous disguises. Social Aspects of Education :
acceptable will any satisfactory form of
The best work in verse throughout is,
a Book of social intercourse be likely to take root
Sources and Original Discussions with there.
as might be expected, paraphrase rather Annotated Bibliographies. By Irving King.
than translation. A good many bare (New York, the Macmillan Company. )
mentions of books now unknown provide Farm Boys and Girls. By William A.
duzzles to be solved, but we doubt if in the McKeever. (Same publishers. )
as
women.
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a
Mr.
Scots invade England, and were defeated Although Widsith' has little poetic
HOME RULE.
outside London by the Romans ”; and merit, its value as a document is very
THE flood of Home Rule literature is his first chapter opens cheerfully with great. In the interpretation and criticism
upon us, and the quality of it varies. The "The Irish Question began with the of the statements of Roman writers
Unionist Irish Essays Committee, which Christian era. ” He tells us much of the respecting Germanic ethnography, and
has prepared “The Case against Home Earl of Essex, Tyrconnel, and Wolfe
Earl of Essex, Tyrconnel, and Wolfe of heroic legend as recorded in Beowulf'
Rule,' has certainly done its work very Tone; but the little he has to
Tone; but the little he has to say about and in German and Scandinavian poetry
thoroughly. Not only is the list of con- the Home Rule question to-day is squeezed and saga, its evidence is indispensable,
tributors imposing, but the method into a few pages, and even in these he while at the same time its obscure allu-
also of dealing with the subject is divagates from his particular branch of sions can only be understood by compari-
comprehensive. The paper - covered the subject. The most interesting novelty son with these fuller sources of information.
volume is avowedly a partisan affair ; but is one not of idea, but of expression.
in spite of these limitations its tone as a
On p. 87 he refers to Gladstone's The poem, apart from obvious interpola-
whole is quiet and judicious, and the policy as "a type of policy that never, tions, can hardly be later than the begin-
essays are marked by much industrious in history, failed to have any but one ning of the eighth century, and some of its
compilation and reasoned argument, and ending. "
traditions go back to times far earlier
a comparative lack of wild statement It is refreshing to turn to the volume than the settlement of the Angles in
Britain.
and heat. Mr. Bonar Law's contribu- by Mr. S. G. Hobson, an avowed Home
It may be described as
tion is a short Preface, in which he in- Ruler. He succeeds in putting the case somewhat inartistic attempt to provide a
dicates that to his mind the Ulster objec- with a freshness which is remarkable narrative framework for certain mnemonic
tion is the greatest obstacle to Home at this stage of the controversy, and his lists of names of peoples and of their
Rule-a statement which has special desire to face the truth leads him occa-
rulers most famous in heroic song, which
interest in view of recent rumours. Mr. sionally to say things that will be probably formed part of the regular
Balfour's contribution is also brief, and unpalatable to many Nationalists. Though education of a minstrel. The fiction is of
Sir Edward Carson's is little more than an not blind to the sentimental issue, he the simpleşt: a minstrel of ancient days,
introductory résumê of succeeding chapters, is chiefly interested in the economic named Widsid, “ the Far-travelled” (the
which range in subject from The question, and his chapters on finance, name actually existed, but is obviously
Religious Difficulty' to 'Private Bill the waste of Irish administration, chosen on account of its meaning), is sup- .
Legislation. ' Especially interesting are an agriculture, and the changes needed posed to recount his travels. As about
admirable article on · Éducation by Mr. for the development of Irish resources, every fourth word is a proper name, there
Godfrey Locker - Lampson; Mr. L. S. are most stimulating, vivid, and sugges- is not much room for story, but now and
Amery's article on the 'Colonial Analogy'; tive.
Hobson holds the view,
of
and Mr. George Wyndham's little treatise shared by many Irishmen to-day, that by an epithet expressing his traditional
on ‘The Completion of Land Purchase,' in the passage of Home Rule will mean
character, or by an allusion to some
which the author of the 1903 Act re- an immediate diminution of clerical in incident in his career. Tradition has no
iterates with Mr. Law's authority the fluence over local and national politics. sense of chronology, and the kings before
Unionist pledge that, should the party He also argues that the new régime will whom Widsith sang, and who bestowed
return to office, the land policy of 1903
see a fresh cleavage of parties in Ireland,
on him rich gifts, belong historically to
will be resumed. By contrast with the a cleavage not religious, but economic three different centuries. The strings of
restraint observed elsewhere, there is a He has a lively and personal style, and proper names are introduced abruptly,
deplorable feverishness about Earl Percy's his work may be commended to all who with little attempt to weave them into
essay on The Military Disadvantages of desire to consider a thoughtful presenta- the texture of the story. The author was
Home Rule. A good deal of his tion of the Home Rule case as it bears a skilled versifier, but the traces of higher
matter is only faintly, if at all, rele- on the great realities that underlie all poetic qualities that may be found in his
vant to the subject allotted to him, and politics.
work are probably due to echoes of the
he has seized the opportunity to spread Mr. de F. Pennefather's pamphlet is older songs from which he derived his
the view that war with Germany cannot concise and well - arranged.
He takes wide knowledge of heroic tradition. Wid.
long, be avoided, to urge compulsory 25 “ Delusions” entertained by Home sith 'has for us moderns an interest like
service, and to inform us that Home Rulers, and subjoins the “ Facts which, that of a fragmentary catalogue of a lost
Rule will mean civil war,
accompanied in his opinion, should shatter them. Now library; we see from it how abundant
by atrocities which will be remembered and then he is somewhat vague, as when and various were the treasures of Old
for centuries. ” This is, to our thinking, he observes that “ To Hell with England” English epic poetry, of which, by the
almost solitary
prophecy of an unnecessarily specific is one of the mottoes of the Irish Nation- merest accident,
kind.
alists.
example survives in ‘ Beowulf. '
Sir Thomas Fraser's volume on The
Mr. Chambers's edition of · Widsith'-
Military Danger ’ is scarcely, more illu- Widsith : a Study in Old English Heroic for this is what the volume really is,
minating than Lord Percy's chapter. Legend. By R. W. Chambers. (Cam- the prolegomena and the text makes this
The author, in fact, occupies by far the
greater portion of his space with an his-
bridge University Press. )
description seem inappropriate-is a re-
torical survey which goes back to the THE Old English poem Widsith' con- markably thorough and serviceable piece
earliest times. The first words in his sists of only 143 lines, and the volume of work. There is no other single book,
Chronology are " 363. Picts and Irish which Mr. Chambers has devoted to its even in German, which contains so com-
illustration contains nearly double that plete a summary of what has been done
Against Home Rule : the Case for the Union. number of pages. He cannot, however, by scholars, from the days of Cony beare
By Arthur J. Balfour, J. Austen Chamber. be fairly charged with either irrelevance and Kemble to the present time, for the
lain, and others. Edited by S. Rosen- or diffuseness. Those who are acquainted elucidation of the poem. Although Mr.
baum.
With Introduction by Sir Edo with the enormous mass of comment and Chambers’s general point of view differs
ward Carson, and Preface by A. Bonar controversy to which this brief text has considerably from that indicated in this
Law. (Warne & Co. )
The Military Danger of Home Rule for Ire not have been made much shorter, if it most of his conclusions on questions of
given rise will admit that the book could article, we find ourselves able to accept
land. By Major-General Sir Thomas
Fraser. (John Murray. )
was to include not only a reasoned expo- detail. That these are seldom novel is
Irish Home Rule: the Last Phase.
sition of the author's own conclusions, but no ground for reproach; the reasoning
By
S. G. Hobson. (Stephen Swift & Co. )
also an adequate discussion of the con- by which they are supported is often new
The Fundamental Delusions of Home Rule. flicting theories of eminent scholars with and ingenious. The textual conjectures
By de F. Pennefather, (Love & Malcom: regard to the manifold problems which are justified, and the translation and
son. )
the poem presents.
bibliography are satisfactory.
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Church of to-day. The author runs lightly Adulteræ, the author in the latter being in Its method is a kind of vagrancy, and
over the face of social and religious conditions favour oft Lucan authorship. The essays reminds us of the parable of the wedding-
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and does not ignore facts, but is unable to
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Elkin Mathews
light of modern evolution and questioning, less convinced of the essential sufficiency Mr. Greene's verses are intelligent and
argued with greater ability by more trench- of the Catholic faith as he understands it. thoughtful; he is a good craftsman, and
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over a considerable portion of the period of and persecuted woman, diabolically mal-
transition from the small wooden sailing treated. Whether or no this can be sub-
Sociology.
vessel to the gigantic steam-propelled and stantiated, we can conceive no positive need
steel-constructed product of modern naval for resuscitating a macabre and sordid
Cross (Ira B. ), THE ESSENTIALS OF SOCIALISM.
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engineering. Capt. Crutchley draws a scandal, best healed by a kindly oblivion.
realistic picture of the conditions of life in Moreover, the book obviously aims at re-
We are sorry that we cannot find in this
the mercantile marine in the early sixties, viving the sensation of which a greedy pross
small book anything but a welter of ill-
and there is much of special import to the made the most.
assimilated statements.
nautical reader. He has, too, enlivened his
Holmes (T. ), PsYCHOLOGY AND CRIME.
pages with a host of breezy and amusing Geograpby and Travel.
Dent
anocdotes, and the chapters dealing with his
Out of his twenty-five years of experi-
experiences on the South African service Beautiful Ireland : CONNAUGHT and Mun- ence, the Secretary of the Howard Associa-
are noteworthy. A short Preface is con-
STER, by Stephen Gwynn. - Beautiful tion has written a valuable little book.
tributed by Earl Brassey, and there are England: YORK, by George Benson ; Differing in many ways from the scientific
twelve good illustrations.
CHESTER, by Charles Edwardes. 2/ net school, he holds that psychology has far
Dawson (C. B. ), THE MIRROR OF OXFORD.
each.
Blackie less to do with crime than physical conditions,
Sands To Mr. Gwynn belongs an almost passionate that the criminal usually needs a better
There would have been little or no justi- love for the districts he describes a love body rather than a better mind, and that
fication for this book, had it been written which radiates through every page of his
criminal type,” in any definite sense of
from the normal point of view of the his- two new books, and is especially noticeable the term, does not exist. Common sense
torian of Oxford. On those lines it is in the stories and legends he repeats. The
seems to agree with him here, as with his
practically impossible to squeeze frosh tragedy of Finn and Grània, the history of plea for a inore intelligent treatment of the
matter out of the subject. But it is written Daniel O'Connell, the story of St. Brendan's feeble-minded and the epileptic. His obser-
avowedly for a Roman Catholic audience pilgrimage into the west-all these, as told vations on the attitude of the prisoner to the
and shifts the perspective, if it does not by Mr. Gwynn, are not merely good reading, prison also deserve attention.
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and informative when he is able to forgo He gives a good deal of attention to the craft Pepler (Douglas), THE CARE COMMITTEE,
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Britain is largely irrelevant, and is saturated they differ from those of other cities. We
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with the vague idealism of the Imperialists, regret we have not the space to repeat the
Constable
At times he displays considerable political pleasing medieval story of Brother Jucundus, sisting of notes contributed by two voluntary
The Appendix to this little work, con-
Otherwise, his book is readable.
whose weakness for strong drink all but
There is a
placed him amongst the saints.
workers on Children's Care Committees, is
Fletcher (J. S. ), MEMORIES OF A SPECTATOR,
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itself is largely reduced by its tendency to
The author does not appear to have been confronts the social reformer. It is difficult regard the interests of the parent rather
one of those spectators who most
than those of the child. Now the purpose
to believe that they deal with the same
of the game, and his book is largely a chro-
for which Care Committees exist is that no
city.
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