British Government of New Zealand's proposal Stradivari,' would be more
praiseworthy
if it were
Snaith (J.
Snaith (J.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
The
editor has introduced it by a short biography
of the writer, in easy German. The text is
divided into fourteen sections, each followed
by some twenty questions on the subject matter,
framed out of the words used in the section, and
intended to be answered from the same vocabu-
lary. There follow grammatical exercises on
the same plan, in each of which only one or
two points are dealt with in very easy examples.
At the foot of each page of text explanations
-in German of the more difficult words are
given. Here it certainly occurred to us more
than once that to the beginner the explanation
must often seem hardly less of a puzzle than
difficulty
" itself.
the "
popular lines, and including Greek, Roman, Field (George), Four Months, 2/ net.
Hindoo, and Scandinavian myth, Christian Mr. Field's style is painfully laboured.
legend, and the folk-lore of primitive races. Many of his sentences are so long and involved
Apart from the introductory chapters the book as to need reading a second time before they
is arranged in alphabetical order.
become intelligible. The story concerns
Smithsonian Institution, Report of the Secretary
rural tragedy.
for the Year ending June 30, 1911.
Foreman (Stephen), The Fen Dogs, 6!
A review of the investigations and discoveries The beginning of this book, with its vivid
of the Institution proper during the year, with description of the hardships endured by Sir
supplementary paragraphs dealing with the John Moore's army in its retreat to Corunna,
several branches. The appendix presents promises well. But when the thread of the
direct reports of those actually engaged in story is taken up in the Fens, it becomes dull ;
and responsible for the work.
the characters lose life and individuality, and.
the situations are forced.
Fiction,
Frothingham (E. B. ), Her Roman Lover, 6/
A rather long-drawn-out tale of a young
Abernathy (Miles), The Ride of the Abernathy American girl's passion for an Italian. We
Boys, 3/6
found his petty jealousy and the paltry mis-
English boys will read with no small amount understandings which go to make up the story
of envy this story of boy-life in Mexico. To
irksome. The scene is laid in Rome.
older readers, however, the highly improbable Ince (Mabel), The Wisdom of Waiting, 61
nature of the narrative, coupled with the fact • The Wisdom of Waiting' was perilously
that the tastes of our transatlantic friends have
near wrecking the happiness of two people,
been more closely thought of, will, we think, but their affairs came right in the end, and,
reduce the interest in the volume.
as the interval provides a good deal of enter-
Bindloss (Harold), The Pioneer, 6/
tainment, it is justified in this case. The
A tale of adventure written in the author's conversation is natural, and the characters,
usual buoyant style. He is at his best in especially the minor ones, are well drawn.
describing outdoor life. There is plenty of Ladd (Anna Coleman), Hieronymus Rides, 6/
incident, and the good and evil receive their Episodes in the life of a knight and jester
conventional due.
at the Court of the Emperor Maximilian. The
Clarke (I. ), Prisoners' Years, 6/
style recalls that of a well-known romantic
By a curious coincidence the authors of this writer. The episodic nature of the story has
book and The Debtor,' which follows, have the effect of making it appear rather disjointed. .
chosen a similar theme. The present author Leeds (Mrs. Lewis), Château Bluebeard, 6!
portrays two conversions to the
Roman
A modern setting, based on the fairy tale.
Catholic faith with convincing simplicity. The The hero is a supposed descendant of the
man's is artistically the more effective, as that legendary Barbe Bleue, and the scene is his
of the girl is, perhaps, a little marred by its château in Britanny. The interest is well
inevitability. Some of the minor characters sustained, and the mystery is in the end satis-
are drawn with a quiet humour which makes factorily cleared up.
excellent reading.
Lockhart (Caroline), “ Me-Smith," 6/
Cody (H. A. ), The Fourth Watch, 6/
This breezy story of life on a Texas cattle
The scene is laid in a small Canadian town ranch is a realistic picture of human nature in
and in a lumber camp, while the story, which the rough. While many of the incidents may
has the conventional happy ending, describes appear rather far-fetched, it must be remem-
the trials and tribulations of an elderly bered that law and order are, even now, but
clergyman whose patience in adverse circum- imperfectly established in the district. Most
stances is remarkable. The author's style is of the characters, although life like, are some-
too sentimental.
what sketchily portrayed, and undue pro-
Coke (Desmond), The Cure : a Psychological
minence has been given to a certain insolent
Farce, 61
courage bordering on bravado.
The author shields himself with a warning Macmillan's Sevenpenny Series: A Kentucky
preliminary Notice. " Critics and school- Cardinal, by James Lane Allen (see Alhen. ,
masters are not to be baffled by such simple Dec, 26, 1896, p. 904); The Benefactress, by the
devices, but we do not think Mr. Coke has any Author of 'Elizabeth and her German Garden';
great cause for uneasiness. His book is amusing Don Orsino, by F. Marion Crawford (see Athen. . .
enough to while away an idle evening, and we Nov. 19, 1892, p. 699); Dorothy Vernon of
can recommend it to readers of the classes Haddon Hall, by Charles Major; and Miranda
mentioned in the Notice to which we have of the Balcony, by A. E. W. Mason (see Athen. ,
referred. The farce is enacted at a modern Oct. 7, 1899, p. 487).
English cure establishment, full of queer Marsh (Richard), Sam Briggs : His Book, 6/
inmates and accessories. The characters-in- The autobiography of a by no means typical
cluding a spoilt woman married to a typical Cockney. He is utterly lacking in the savoir-
better-class Englishman, an attractive young faire of the average specimen ; indeed, his
girl, a pedantic professor, and an athletic, but hopeless inanity reduces him to a mere puppet,.
somewhat ineffective young barrister-all help and the story itself to farce pure and simple.
the story rapidly along to a satisfactory ending. It is only fair to add, however, that even in his
Crespigny (Mrs. Philip Champion de), The Mark. most impossible adventures he compels an.
The author's circle includes on the one side
occasional smile.
the smart set, and on the other the Philistinism
Mulholland (Rosa), Agatha's Hard Saying.
of impoverished landed gentry. With
This novel makes the transmission of a
both she deals in the fashion of a clever woman craving for drink responsible for the gradual
of the world, tender to faults and foibles as to extinction of a wealthy family. The treatment
physical infirmities, and veiling behind apparent is unsatisfactory : beginning with a complicated
Hippancy an optimistic belief in the antiseptic set of courtships, the love-interest gradually
effects of expiation and self-sacrifice. The evaporates, its place being taken by descrip:
mark of the title, with its hint of mystic fatality, tions of the effects of drink upon the individual
could have been eliminated without the slightest and the community. The story, which towards
sense of dismemberment, but unfortunately
66
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Béchamp (A. ), The Blood and its Third Ana-
tomical Element, translated by Montague R.
Leverson, 6/ net.
The author's aim is to apply the Microzymian
theory of the living organization to the chemical
and anatomical constitution of the blood and
its other spontaneous changes, including the
anatomical and physiological causes of its
coagulation. M. Béchamp died nearly four
years ago, and his researches have done much
to solve vexed problems in biology, physio-
logy, and pathology. His work, therefore,
richly deserves the accurate translation which
his disciple has provided. Its technicalities
are such that it can hardly reach any but
a specialist audience. We are inclined to
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the end becomes thin and flat, fizzles out, leav-
Mrs. de Crespigny has succumbed to the pre- ing the fates of the principal surviving cha-
vailing tendency to dabble in the supernormal.
racters unsettled.
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those whose talent lies in the delicate handling O'Kane (W. M. ), The King's Luck: a Romance
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on the title-page.
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attainment is merely owing to the introduction interesting that the title is rather to be wel-
of the supernormal. The miraculous event comed than deplored. Mr. Fred Bennett's
which forms the key-note of the conversion illustrations have conspicuous merit through-
of three people to Roman Catholicism is not out.
necessarily unconvincing, but the tale is not Palmer (William), Under Home Rule, 7d. net.
on a big enough scale to contain it. We trust, Here imagination, casting all restraint aside,
however, that it will be widely read, if only for luxuriates in an orgy of pictorial prophecy.
the measure of sympathetic insight which, we We had no idea that such seductive vilainy
think, the author has inherited,
underlay the seeming guilelessness of the
Primers.
Gilchrist (J. D. F. ), South African Zoology: a
Text-Book for the Use of Students, Teachers,
and Others in South Africa.
Suggested by and based on course of
lectures delivered at the South African College,
and published in The Cape Agricultural Journal.
It is writton for the Intermediate standard.
The ultimate test of such books is the measure
of their compactness and the relevance and
manipulation of their detail. The author has
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Science Progress in the Twentieth Century,
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An article by Sir Oliver Lodge on The
Ether of Space and the Principle of Relativity'
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relation to aviation is probably the most
interesting of the other contributions.
Skinner (Charles M. ), Myths and Legends of
Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants, in all Ages
and in all Climes, 6/
The mass of legendary
lore concerning trees
and plants seems inexhaustible, and Mr.
Skinner has made a readable book, written on
an
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E
Nationalists, Home Rule means Roman ascen- present time, which was announced some time and it is the aim of this book to trace the
dancy and civil war, according to the paper since and then withdrawn. Its object is to vicissitudes of his fame rather than present a
cover.
examine the functions of the newly formed critical estimate of his beginnings. It deals
Pocock (Roger), Jesse of Cariboo, 6/
War Staff, and ascertain its efficacy in the with 'Pauline,' 'Paracelsus' (the first review
Mr. Pocock's latest novel is a breezy and
contingency of an outbreak of hostilities.
of which Browning accredited to The Athenæum),
stirring narrative of Canadian life.
'Strafford,' Sordello,' and 'Bells and Pome-
He writes, Carpenter (Dr. Estlin), A Peasant Sage of Japan.
granates. ' The author is, however, tempted
for the most part, in the language of the For notice see p. 124.
American people.
to stray over his own boundaries into personal
Celtic Review, January, 2/6 net.
appreciation, which is by no means unbridled,
St. Leger (Evelyn), The Shape of the World, 6/
In this number the Gaelic version of Statius's
but merely substantiates established verdicts.
This story, to which a quotation from the "Thebaid,' faced by an English version, is con- The Athenaeum, which reviewed ‘Pauline,' was
52nd Psalm, “Ecce homo qui non posuit tinued. În 'A Highland Goddess' Mr. Mac-
among the minority which gave it cordial
Deum adjutorem suum,” forms the key-note, kenzie discusses the theocratic concepts of the
mention.
carries the subject of hereditary imbecilities Cailleachan Mor,' and the Rev. Donald Maclean
into the realm of farce. The success of the begins a survey of the Literature of the Majid (Syed H. R. Abdul), England and the
book lies in the lightness of its handling, and Scottish Gael. ' There is a pleasant rendering
Moslem World : Articles, Addresses, and
American time-saving methods of description of some fanciful children's games written in Essays on Eastern Subjects.
are occasionally carried to excess.
This book, written in a spirit of strong
But the Gaelic.
author has a lively style and no small sense of
Eastern patriotism, deals with various aspects
Crockett (W. S. ), The Scott Originals : an Account
humour,
of the Moslem States, their political outlook,
of Notables and Worthies, the Originals of
their legal status and its relation to international
Silbertad (Una L. ), Success, 6!
Characters in the Waverley Novels.
law and the social perspective. An instructive
This is a good and interesting story, though Some interesting and informative material
chapter is written on the Ottoman constitution.
a little heavy; the mis-en-scène, by no means has been gleaned by Mr. Crockett, with assist-
The scope of the book is wide, and includes
ordinary, is largely made up of companies ance in some measure from Lockhart's famous
many crucial problems, notably Indian unrest,
and mechanical inventions. Michael Annerly is biography, and the efforts of later critics.
the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and the
an engineer. The theme of the story is a There are several illuminating drawings and
effect of the Anglo-Russian Convention upon
gepius-an artist in his calling-with a love photographs.
the partition of Persia. The book is not
for machinery, its workings and possibilities, Findlay (Sir John G. ), The Imperial Conference abreast of recent developments in the last case.
which is quite apart from their monetary or of 1011 from Within, 3/6 net.
fame-producing values. A too transient cha- The author is Attorney-General of New Manchester Quarterly, January, ed. net.
racter is a philanthropic bachelor with a house Zealand, and was one of its representatives at The first article of this number-on Lat-
full of solid furniture, and a collection of last year's Imperial Conference. He gives,
cadio Hearn '-follows hard on the heels of
maimed and sorry friends and animals living while describing his impressions of the Con- Hearn's biography just published by Mr.
in his care.
There are one or two other cha- ference, valuable insight into the political
Eveleigh Nash. It hardly succeeds in defining
racters pleasant to read about, but the writing ideals of the statesmen of New Zealand, vividly his contribution to English letters, but seeks
is not always clear, and in a novel sentences illustrating the recent phenomenon of Colonial rather to illuminate his queer, exotic person-
which need a second reading to be understood Nationalism. He criticizes the rejection by the ality. Mr. Smith's poetic soliloquy, Antonio
are wearisome.
British Government of New Zealand's proposal Stradivari,' would be more praiseworthy if it were
Snaith (J. C. ), The Principal Girl, 6/
for a Representative Imperial Council,“ but less pretentious. Mr. J. J. Richardson might
Mr. Snaith's style in this book is best de- his criticism is always thoughtful and never
have used the suggestive title of
• « The New
bitter.
Machiavelli " and "The Patrician
scribed, perhaps, as breezily Bohemian, but he
to more
writes with much humour, and not a little
Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum, Report effect. In ‘On Pathos' Mr. J. D. Andrew
culls
and Accounts to 31st December, 1910.
understanding. The hero is a peer's son who
and cita-
charming memories
tions from the field of literature.
marries one of Drury Lane's
But as a
Cinderellas. ' Graham (A. W. ), Siam : a Handbook of Practical,
whole this number is lacking in go and grip.
The result, contrary to convention, is mutual Commercial, and Political Information, 10/6 net.
satisfaction.
In Siam administrative and commercial Myrtle Reed Year-Book (The): Epigrams and
Btraus (Ralph), The Prison without a Wall, 6/.
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Sylvanus de Bohun has all the good things likely to be enhanced in the future. The book Myrtle Reed, with a Foreword by Jeannette L.
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scribes how contact with persons who had
and scientific features of the country, together Critical Appreciation of the Writings of Myrtle
that quality in excess gradually moulded the with its ethnology, language, religion, govern- Reed by Mary P. Powell, 6/
thoughtful and delicate child, and skilfully ment, education, and industries, It is amply An almanac in which the months are made to
illustrates the effect upon his development of
furnished with illustrations.
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travel, University life, and disastrous marriage. Honey (S. R. ), The Referendum among the English: Reed, whose philosophy, we are told in the
The book is noteworthy because the author a Manual of “
Submission to the People" in
Foreword, will be both beautiful and helpful. "
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The latter attribute we readily concede, if her
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Mr. Bryce's report on the use of the Referen-
edifying custom of moralizing be not yet worn
Vance (Louis J. ), Cynthia-of-the-Minute, 6
dum, laid before the House of Commons in
down into the conventional triteness which it
deserves.
An American story which lacks much of the
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married to another man.
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Initiative with Referendum, and ignored the Royal Statistical Society Journal, January, 2/6
Vauriard (G. de), Mated in Soul, 6/
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A sympathetic study of a sensitive and highly-
been frequent in America ever since the royal
articles in recent journals, lists, notices, and
strung woman, whose natural ebullience is
veto upon legislation came to an end. It would
current notes. A weighty contribution by Mr.
crushed by a deadening environment. A re- be well to know more fully who decides what
Edgar Crammond, entitled • The Economic
adjustment of the marriage relations, where
questions shall be referred in these cases,
Position of Scotland, and her Financial Rela-
misery and repugnance are the outcome of
since this is perhaps the greatest difficulty in
tions with England and Ireland," puts the
temperamental discord, is the esoteric purpose
English politics. But on this point Mr. Honey
complex problem of federal finance and the
of the book. Artistically, however, it is
ragged, inconsequent, and prone to staccato
is not illuminating. His book has an Intro-
necessities of readjustment fairly and judi-
ciously.
appeals. The woman is drawn with some
duction by J. St. Loe Strachey.
tenderness and insight, but otherwise the
Humphrey (A. W. ), A History of Labour Repre- Squire (J. C. ), Imaginary Speeches, 3/6 net.
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For notice see p. 124.
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Weaver (Anne), The Compromising of Jane, 6!
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The first article, ' The Prevalence of Paganism
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illuminate. His criticism, if it consists too
head masters as Mr. Lyttelton and Mr. Rendall,
real and interesting people, and not, as often
much in adjective and epithet, is, however,
and gives in the penultimate paragraph a
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generally sound, and the book should interest
sound basis for a reform in school education.
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Angell's theories thananindictment of militarism
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Literary Gossip.
there
are
some
the
care
Pamphlets.
by Mr. W. T. Oldrieve; The Old Tol-
Dodd (J. Theodore), Welsh Disestablishment :
booth of
of Edinburgh,' extracts from
Correspondence with the Bishop of London,
original records by Mr. J. A. Fairley;
Bishop Welldon, &c. ; with an Appeal to the
Episcopate of the English Church, 3d.
' An Old Edinburgh Monument, now in
Judge on Circuit (A), by a Judge's Marshal, 6d. THE decision in the case of Flanders v. Perthshire,' by Dr. Thomas Ross; and
Sketches briefly the legal procedure of a judge Forrester on Tuesday last, in which The
on circuit, and suggests that the anomalies of
• The Society of Friendly Contributors of
the system are such that its abolition is feasible Pall Mall Gazette was sued for libel, will,
Restalrig,' by the Rev. W. Burnett. The
in the near future. A number of judicial centres we hope, do something to check extrava- previously issued volumes have rapidly
in our large cities are advocated, a method
which has been found practicable in Italy.
gant claims for satisfaction by persons
gone up in price.
Literature and Nationality : an Address, with who contend that their names have been
Hints for a Course of Reading, 3d. net.
GOSPORT, Dickens's birthplace, has
We deprecate the excessive generalization used to their disadvantage in fiction.
of the writer upon national literature in The sketch in question dealt with an already raised 6001. towards endowing
England. The decline of Elizabethan imperial-
imaginary person called George Flanders,
an additional nurse for the sick poor of
ism witnessed a corresponding declension of
the permeation of its spirit into literature. and Mr. George Charles Flanders of Hitchin Portsmouth. We agree with the donors
Except at spasmodic periods and through regarded it as a personal attack on himself. that this would have met with the
two forces has been partial ever since. The The Lord Chief Justice pointed out that no monument should be erected to
warmest approval of him who desired
nineteenth-century literature of introspection that the plaintiff had to satisfy the jury his memory.
and of solitary musing tended to stunt its
further blossoming. But
that an ordinary and reasonable reader
reflective measurements in this treatise as to of The Pall Mall Gazette would think that A LECTURE, under the auspices of the
interaction between literature and
what was published was a libel on a real Shakespeare Reading Society, on The
nationality.
Sanders (T. W. ), Small Greenhouses, ld.
person. He added that it did not require Kenilworth Revels,' will be given by Mrs.
The latest addition to the cheap One and All much intelligence to arrive at the verdict Carmichael Stopes on Tuesday evening
Garden Books, edited by Edward Owen Green-
ing. Mr. Sanders advocates that “ just as the for the defendant which was the result. next at the University Hall, Gordon
natural style in outdoor gardening has super We congratulate our contemporary, which Square.
seded the formal fashions of our ancestors, so
should natural and truly artistic effects be
is showing new vigour, on making a firm
brought into the greenhouse. "
stand in the case. Only last summer a
THE executors of Mr. Henry Labouchere
Thomson (C. Linklater), The Teaching of English, writer in our columns suggested elaborate have entrusted the writing of his bio.
.
Two lectures delivered to the students in expedients to avoid such dangers. His graphy to his nephew, Mr. Algar Thorold,
the Training Department at London University. | humour seems already justified.
who has published several books.
The autbor writes a flexible and lively style,
without dwelling upon the obvious. We are An interesting discussion has arisen
Mr. Thorold would be much obliged if
glad to notice that she riddles the old pedagogic in the daily press,
as a sequel to the persons possessing letters of biographical
theory as to the paramount importance of deputation to the Home Office last Wednes- be kind enough to send them to Mr. T.
interest from Mr. Labouchere would
instruction in grammar.
Wise (Tucker), Winter Health Stations : Montreux: day week on the
subject of demoralizing Hart - Davies,
which has attained popularity of recent years that a private conscience is generally greatest care will be taken of such letters,
Eight pages on the merits of Montreux, literature. Mr. John Murray's assertion
of Truth Office,
Carteret Street, Westminster. The
as a winter resort.
denied to a
public servant in the
FOREIGN.
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Fine Art.
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Vaillat (Léandre), La Société du XVIII. Siècle lend" for love is to us more characteristic
for profit what he would be ashamed to
THE REV. W. J. COUPER of 26, Circus
et ses Peintres, 5fr.
M. Vaillat writes a useful and interesting of the age than satisfactory. The Drive, Glasgow, is writing a book on the
book, rather on painting and its accessories than promise of fresh legislation suggests little Miller family, two members of which,
, ,
only inasmuch as it finds its reflection in the practical help, since laws made in advance George Miller of Dunbar and James
works of some of the minor figures. M. Vaillat of the public conscience must be largely
M. Vaillat of the public conscience must be largely Miller of Haddington, were printers and
writes well, but it is to be regretted that he futile. For ourselves, our duty seems to
futile. For ourselves, our duty seems to publishers (see the bibliography in Notes
has not chosen wider field. We propose to
return to the work next week.
be to devote as much space as possible to and Queries, Tenth Series, vol. xii. ). Mr.
advocating good reading, and confining Couper is anxious to receive any letters
Poetry and Drama.
Bertéval (W. ), Le Théâtre d'Ibsen.
our denunciations of bad work within the written by members of the family ; hints
Danchin (F. C. ), Études critiques sur Christophe briefest limits.
as to the present ownership of the many
Marlowe : En marge de la seconde partie de
"Tamburlaine. '
It is proposed to arrange a Gilbert papers brought together by George Miller
A short study of the text of the second half White Exhibition, consisting of relics and in reference to the business, &c. , and used
of ,' reprinted
Revue germanique. Such a brief sketch cannot manuscripts of the writer of the famous by him while preparing his "Latter
claim comprehensive settlement of the questions Natural History of Selborne,' with col- Struggles ’; a note of any Miller publica
it considers, but
within its limits it is fresh and lections illustrating his work and times. tion,
however, small
, written, printed,
.
editor has introduced it by a short biography
of the writer, in easy German. The text is
divided into fourteen sections, each followed
by some twenty questions on the subject matter,
framed out of the words used in the section, and
intended to be answered from the same vocabu-
lary. There follow grammatical exercises on
the same plan, in each of which only one or
two points are dealt with in very easy examples.
At the foot of each page of text explanations
-in German of the more difficult words are
given. Here it certainly occurred to us more
than once that to the beginner the explanation
must often seem hardly less of a puzzle than
difficulty
" itself.
the "
popular lines, and including Greek, Roman, Field (George), Four Months, 2/ net.
Hindoo, and Scandinavian myth, Christian Mr. Field's style is painfully laboured.
legend, and the folk-lore of primitive races. Many of his sentences are so long and involved
Apart from the introductory chapters the book as to need reading a second time before they
is arranged in alphabetical order.
become intelligible. The story concerns
Smithsonian Institution, Report of the Secretary
rural tragedy.
for the Year ending June 30, 1911.
Foreman (Stephen), The Fen Dogs, 6!
A review of the investigations and discoveries The beginning of this book, with its vivid
of the Institution proper during the year, with description of the hardships endured by Sir
supplementary paragraphs dealing with the John Moore's army in its retreat to Corunna,
several branches. The appendix presents promises well. But when the thread of the
direct reports of those actually engaged in story is taken up in the Fens, it becomes dull ;
and responsible for the work.
the characters lose life and individuality, and.
the situations are forced.
Fiction,
Frothingham (E. B. ), Her Roman Lover, 6/
A rather long-drawn-out tale of a young
Abernathy (Miles), The Ride of the Abernathy American girl's passion for an Italian. We
Boys, 3/6
found his petty jealousy and the paltry mis-
English boys will read with no small amount understandings which go to make up the story
of envy this story of boy-life in Mexico. To
irksome. The scene is laid in Rome.
older readers, however, the highly improbable Ince (Mabel), The Wisdom of Waiting, 61
nature of the narrative, coupled with the fact • The Wisdom of Waiting' was perilously
that the tastes of our transatlantic friends have
near wrecking the happiness of two people,
been more closely thought of, will, we think, but their affairs came right in the end, and,
reduce the interest in the volume.
as the interval provides a good deal of enter-
Bindloss (Harold), The Pioneer, 6/
tainment, it is justified in this case. The
A tale of adventure written in the author's conversation is natural, and the characters,
usual buoyant style. He is at his best in especially the minor ones, are well drawn.
describing outdoor life. There is plenty of Ladd (Anna Coleman), Hieronymus Rides, 6/
incident, and the good and evil receive their Episodes in the life of a knight and jester
conventional due.
at the Court of the Emperor Maximilian. The
Clarke (I. ), Prisoners' Years, 6/
style recalls that of a well-known romantic
By a curious coincidence the authors of this writer. The episodic nature of the story has
book and The Debtor,' which follows, have the effect of making it appear rather disjointed. .
chosen a similar theme. The present author Leeds (Mrs. Lewis), Château Bluebeard, 6!
portrays two conversions to the
Roman
A modern setting, based on the fairy tale.
Catholic faith with convincing simplicity. The The hero is a supposed descendant of the
man's is artistically the more effective, as that legendary Barbe Bleue, and the scene is his
of the girl is, perhaps, a little marred by its château in Britanny. The interest is well
inevitability. Some of the minor characters sustained, and the mystery is in the end satis-
are drawn with a quiet humour which makes factorily cleared up.
excellent reading.
Lockhart (Caroline), “ Me-Smith," 6/
Cody (H. A. ), The Fourth Watch, 6/
This breezy story of life on a Texas cattle
The scene is laid in a small Canadian town ranch is a realistic picture of human nature in
and in a lumber camp, while the story, which the rough. While many of the incidents may
has the conventional happy ending, describes appear rather far-fetched, it must be remem-
the trials and tribulations of an elderly bered that law and order are, even now, but
clergyman whose patience in adverse circum- imperfectly established in the district. Most
stances is remarkable. The author's style is of the characters, although life like, are some-
too sentimental.
what sketchily portrayed, and undue pro-
Coke (Desmond), The Cure : a Psychological
minence has been given to a certain insolent
Farce, 61
courage bordering on bravado.
The author shields himself with a warning Macmillan's Sevenpenny Series: A Kentucky
preliminary Notice. " Critics and school- Cardinal, by James Lane Allen (see Alhen. ,
masters are not to be baffled by such simple Dec, 26, 1896, p. 904); The Benefactress, by the
devices, but we do not think Mr. Coke has any Author of 'Elizabeth and her German Garden';
great cause for uneasiness. His book is amusing Don Orsino, by F. Marion Crawford (see Athen. . .
enough to while away an idle evening, and we Nov. 19, 1892, p. 699); Dorothy Vernon of
can recommend it to readers of the classes Haddon Hall, by Charles Major; and Miranda
mentioned in the Notice to which we have of the Balcony, by A. E. W. Mason (see Athen. ,
referred. The farce is enacted at a modern Oct. 7, 1899, p. 487).
English cure establishment, full of queer Marsh (Richard), Sam Briggs : His Book, 6/
inmates and accessories. The characters-in- The autobiography of a by no means typical
cluding a spoilt woman married to a typical Cockney. He is utterly lacking in the savoir-
better-class Englishman, an attractive young faire of the average specimen ; indeed, his
girl, a pedantic professor, and an athletic, but hopeless inanity reduces him to a mere puppet,.
somewhat ineffective young barrister-all help and the story itself to farce pure and simple.
the story rapidly along to a satisfactory ending. It is only fair to add, however, that even in his
Crespigny (Mrs. Philip Champion de), The Mark. most impossible adventures he compels an.
The author's circle includes on the one side
occasional smile.
the smart set, and on the other the Philistinism
Mulholland (Rosa), Agatha's Hard Saying.
of impoverished landed gentry. With
This novel makes the transmission of a
both she deals in the fashion of a clever woman craving for drink responsible for the gradual
of the world, tender to faults and foibles as to extinction of a wealthy family. The treatment
physical infirmities, and veiling behind apparent is unsatisfactory : beginning with a complicated
Hippancy an optimistic belief in the antiseptic set of courtships, the love-interest gradually
effects of expiation and self-sacrifice. The evaporates, its place being taken by descrip:
mark of the title, with its hint of mystic fatality, tions of the effects of drink upon the individual
could have been eliminated without the slightest and the community. The story, which towards
sense of dismemberment, but unfortunately
66
Sciencr.
Béchamp (A. ), The Blood and its Third Ana-
tomical Element, translated by Montague R.
Leverson, 6/ net.
The author's aim is to apply the Microzymian
theory of the living organization to the chemical
and anatomical constitution of the blood and
its other spontaneous changes, including the
anatomical and physiological causes of its
coagulation. M. Béchamp died nearly four
years ago, and his researches have done much
to solve vexed problems in biology, physio-
logy, and pathology. His work, therefore,
richly deserves the accurate translation which
his disciple has provided. Its technicalities
are such that it can hardly reach any but
a specialist audience. We are inclined to
mistrust the tone of the translator's preface.
Fowler (J. S. ) and Marriott (w. ), Our Weather,
1/ net.
A simple and popular exposition of modern
meteorology. It was undertaken at the sug-
gestion of the Royal Meteorological Society,
who wore wise to recognize the indispensability
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rately. The book is in a small compass, but
is an admirable digest of the best authorities.
We are glad to see that a chapter has been
devoted to weather superstitions in popular
poetry. One of the Temple Cyclopædic
the end becomes thin and flat, fizzles out, leav-
Mrs. de Crespigny has succumbed to the pre- ing the fates of the principal surviving cha-
vailing tendency to dabble in the supernormal.
racters unsettled.
It may be fruitless to seek for new plots, but Neuman (B. Paul), Roddles, 6/
normal experience still offers a wide field for For notice see p. 119.
those whose talent lies in the delicate handling O'Kane (W. M. ), The King's Luck: a Romance
of commonplace themes.
of the Vale of Hope, 6/
Cullum (Ridgwell), The Hound from the North, A long and somewhat dreary tale of the
2/ net.
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This is a new cheap edition, a fact which, but heads, in which a lost talisman belonging to
for what we can only regard as a lamentable Charles I. is guarded by a heroine
“ dowered
oversight, would doubtless have been stated with her father's mystical eyes,” but with a
on the title-page.
mouth that was all her own.
Dickens (Mary Angela), The Debtor, 6/
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This novel, by a granddaughter of Dickens, The present instalment of Eliza's husband's
has conspicuous merit. Its failure of high doings becomes in the later pages so little
attainment is merely owing to the introduction interesting that the title is rather to be wel-
of the supernormal. The miraculous event comed than deplored. Mr. Fred Bennett's
which forms the key-note of the conversion illustrations have conspicuous merit through-
of three people to Roman Catholicism is not out.
necessarily unconvincing, but the tale is not Palmer (William), Under Home Rule, 7d. net.
on a big enough scale to contain it. We trust, Here imagination, casting all restraint aside,
however, that it will be widely read, if only for luxuriates in an orgy of pictorial prophecy.
the measure of sympathetic insight which, we We had no idea that such seductive vilainy
think, the author has inherited,
underlay the seeming guilelessness of the
Primers.
Gilchrist (J. D. F. ), South African Zoology: a
Text-Book for the Use of Students, Teachers,
and Others in South Africa.
Suggested by and based on course of
lectures delivered at the South African College,
and published in The Cape Agricultural Journal.
It is writton for the Intermediate standard.
The ultimate test of such books is the measure
of their compactness and the relevance and
manipulation of their detail. The author has
kept this desirable end steadily in view, with
the result that a mass of scientific knowledge
concerning South African fauna, subtly arranged
and simply expressed, is made readily accessible.
The illustrations are excellent and numerous,
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that could be desired.
Science Progress in the Twentieth Century,
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An article by Sir Oliver Lodge on The
Ether of Space and the Principle of Relativity'
is the most important feature of this review,
Dr. W. N. Shaw's work on air currents in
relation to aviation is probably the most
interesting of the other contributions.
Skinner (Charles M. ), Myths and Legends of
Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants, in all Ages
and in all Climes, 6/
The mass of legendary
lore concerning trees
and plants seems inexhaustible, and Mr.
Skinner has made a readable book, written on
an
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some
E
Nationalists, Home Rule means Roman ascen- present time, which was announced some time and it is the aim of this book to trace the
dancy and civil war, according to the paper since and then withdrawn. Its object is to vicissitudes of his fame rather than present a
cover.
examine the functions of the newly formed critical estimate of his beginnings. It deals
Pocock (Roger), Jesse of Cariboo, 6/
War Staff, and ascertain its efficacy in the with 'Pauline,' 'Paracelsus' (the first review
Mr. Pocock's latest novel is a breezy and
contingency of an outbreak of hostilities.
of which Browning accredited to The Athenæum),
stirring narrative of Canadian life.
'Strafford,' Sordello,' and 'Bells and Pome-
He writes, Carpenter (Dr. Estlin), A Peasant Sage of Japan.
granates. ' The author is, however, tempted
for the most part, in the language of the For notice see p. 124.
American people.
to stray over his own boundaries into personal
Celtic Review, January, 2/6 net.
appreciation, which is by no means unbridled,
St. Leger (Evelyn), The Shape of the World, 6/
In this number the Gaelic version of Statius's
but merely substantiates established verdicts.
This story, to which a quotation from the "Thebaid,' faced by an English version, is con- The Athenaeum, which reviewed ‘Pauline,' was
52nd Psalm, “Ecce homo qui non posuit tinued. În 'A Highland Goddess' Mr. Mac-
among the minority which gave it cordial
Deum adjutorem suum,” forms the key-note, kenzie discusses the theocratic concepts of the
mention.
carries the subject of hereditary imbecilities Cailleachan Mor,' and the Rev. Donald Maclean
into the realm of farce. The success of the begins a survey of the Literature of the Majid (Syed H. R. Abdul), England and the
book lies in the lightness of its handling, and Scottish Gael. ' There is a pleasant rendering
Moslem World : Articles, Addresses, and
American time-saving methods of description of some fanciful children's games written in Essays on Eastern Subjects.
are occasionally carried to excess.
This book, written in a spirit of strong
But the Gaelic.
author has a lively style and no small sense of
Eastern patriotism, deals with various aspects
Crockett (W. S. ), The Scott Originals : an Account
humour,
of the Moslem States, their political outlook,
of Notables and Worthies, the Originals of
their legal status and its relation to international
Silbertad (Una L. ), Success, 6!
Characters in the Waverley Novels.
law and the social perspective. An instructive
This is a good and interesting story, though Some interesting and informative material
chapter is written on the Ottoman constitution.
a little heavy; the mis-en-scène, by no means has been gleaned by Mr. Crockett, with assist-
The scope of the book is wide, and includes
ordinary, is largely made up of companies ance in some measure from Lockhart's famous
many crucial problems, notably Indian unrest,
and mechanical inventions. Michael Annerly is biography, and the efforts of later critics.
the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and the
an engineer. The theme of the story is a There are several illuminating drawings and
effect of the Anglo-Russian Convention upon
gepius-an artist in his calling-with a love photographs.
the partition of Persia. The book is not
for machinery, its workings and possibilities, Findlay (Sir John G. ), The Imperial Conference abreast of recent developments in the last case.
which is quite apart from their monetary or of 1011 from Within, 3/6 net.
fame-producing values. A too transient cha- The author is Attorney-General of New Manchester Quarterly, January, ed. net.
racter is a philanthropic bachelor with a house Zealand, and was one of its representatives at The first article of this number-on Lat-
full of solid furniture, and a collection of last year's Imperial Conference. He gives,
cadio Hearn '-follows hard on the heels of
maimed and sorry friends and animals living while describing his impressions of the Con- Hearn's biography just published by Mr.
in his care.
There are one or two other cha- ference, valuable insight into the political
Eveleigh Nash. It hardly succeeds in defining
racters pleasant to read about, but the writing ideals of the statesmen of New Zealand, vividly his contribution to English letters, but seeks
is not always clear, and in a novel sentences illustrating the recent phenomenon of Colonial rather to illuminate his queer, exotic person-
which need a second reading to be understood Nationalism. He criticizes the rejection by the ality. Mr. Smith's poetic soliloquy, Antonio
are wearisome.
British Government of New Zealand's proposal Stradivari,' would be more praiseworthy if it were
Snaith (J. C. ), The Principal Girl, 6/
for a Representative Imperial Council,“ but less pretentious. Mr. J. J. Richardson might
Mr. Snaith's style in this book is best de- his criticism is always thoughtful and never
have used the suggestive title of
• « The New
bitter.
Machiavelli " and "The Patrician
scribed, perhaps, as breezily Bohemian, but he
to more
writes with much humour, and not a little
Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum, Report effect. In ‘On Pathos' Mr. J. D. Andrew
culls
and Accounts to 31st December, 1910.
understanding. The hero is a peer's son who
and cita-
charming memories
tions from the field of literature.
marries one of Drury Lane's
But as a
Cinderellas. ' Graham (A. W. ), Siam : a Handbook of Practical,
whole this number is lacking in go and grip.
The result, contrary to convention, is mutual Commercial, and Political Information, 10/6 net.
satisfaction.
In Siam administrative and commercial Myrtle Reed Year-Book (The): Epigrams and
Btraus (Ralph), The Prison without a Wall, 6/.
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Sylvanus de Bohun has all the good things likely to be enhanced in the future. The book Myrtle Reed, with a Foreword by Jeannette L.
of life, but lacks joie de vivre. The story de makes an extensive survey of the area, climate, Gilder, and a Biographical Sketch and a
scribes how contact with persons who had
and scientific features of the country, together Critical Appreciation of the Writings of Myrtle
that quality in excess gradually moulded the with its ethnology, language, religion, govern- Reed by Mary P. Powell, 6/
thoughtful and delicate child, and skilfully ment, education, and industries, It is amply An almanac in which the months are made to
illustrates the effect upon his development of
furnished with illustrations.
serve as caskets for the aphorisms of Myrtle
travel, University life, and disastrous marriage. Honey (S. R. ), The Referendum among the English: Reed, whose philosophy, we are told in the
The book is noteworthy because the author a Manual of “
Submission to the People" in
Foreword, will be both beautiful and helpful. "
has the art of treating sad and serious subjects the American States, 2/6 net.
The latter attribute we readily concede, if her
without false sentiment.
Mr. Bryce's report on the use of the Referen-
edifying custom of moralizing be not yet worn
Vance (Louis J. ), Cynthia-of-the-Minute, 6
dum, laid before the House of Commons in
down into the conventional triteness which it
deserves.
An American story which lacks much of the
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hero's troublesome wife having been previously
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married to another man.
author objects that Mr. Bryce confounded
Initiative with Referendum, and ignored the Royal Statistical Society Journal, January, 2/6
Vauriard (G. de), Mated in Soul, 6/
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A sympathetic study of a sensitive and highly-
been frequent in America ever since the royal
articles in recent journals, lists, notices, and
strung woman, whose natural ebullience is
veto upon legislation came to an end. It would
current notes. A weighty contribution by Mr.
crushed by a deadening environment. A re- be well to know more fully who decides what
Edgar Crammond, entitled • The Economic
adjustment of the marriage relations, where
questions shall be referred in these cases,
Position of Scotland, and her Financial Rela-
misery and repugnance are the outcome of
since this is perhaps the greatest difficulty in
tions with England and Ireland," puts the
temperamental discord, is the esoteric purpose
English politics. But on this point Mr. Honey
complex problem of federal finance and the
of the book. Artistically, however, it is
ragged, inconsequent, and prone to staccato
is not illuminating. His book has an Intro-
necessities of readjustment fairly and judi-
ciously.
appeals. The woman is drawn with some
duction by J. St. Loe Strachey.
tenderness and insight, but otherwise the
Humphrey (A. W. ), A History of Labour Repre- Squire (J. C. ), Imaginary Speeches, 3/6 net.
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Though Mr. Squire is unlucky in his choice
For notice see p. 124.
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Weaver (Anne), The Compromising of Jane, 6!
of parodies. The political speeches are good,
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The first article, ' The Prevalence of Paganism
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illuminate. His criticism, if it consists too
head masters as Mr. Lyttelton and Mr. Rendall,
real and interesting people, and not, as often
much in adjective and epithet, is, however,
and gives in the penultimate paragraph a
happens in the “historical novel," mere figures
generally sound, and the book should interest
sound basis for a reform in school education.
painted in to enliven a drab background of
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* The Great Illusion' is less a eulogy of Mr.
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matter with a tolerance for imperfect form.
Angell's theories thananindictment of militarism
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Literary Gossip.
there
are
some
the
care
Pamphlets.
by Mr. W. T. Oldrieve; The Old Tol-
Dodd (J. Theodore), Welsh Disestablishment :
booth of
of Edinburgh,' extracts from
Correspondence with the Bishop of London,
original records by Mr. J. A. Fairley;
Bishop Welldon, &c. ; with an Appeal to the
Episcopate of the English Church, 3d.
' An Old Edinburgh Monument, now in
Judge on Circuit (A), by a Judge's Marshal, 6d. THE decision in the case of Flanders v. Perthshire,' by Dr. Thomas Ross; and
Sketches briefly the legal procedure of a judge Forrester on Tuesday last, in which The
on circuit, and suggests that the anomalies of
• The Society of Friendly Contributors of
the system are such that its abolition is feasible Pall Mall Gazette was sued for libel, will,
Restalrig,' by the Rev. W. Burnett. The
in the near future. A number of judicial centres we hope, do something to check extrava- previously issued volumes have rapidly
in our large cities are advocated, a method
which has been found practicable in Italy.
gant claims for satisfaction by persons
gone up in price.
Literature and Nationality : an Address, with who contend that their names have been
Hints for a Course of Reading, 3d. net.
GOSPORT, Dickens's birthplace, has
We deprecate the excessive generalization used to their disadvantage in fiction.
of the writer upon national literature in The sketch in question dealt with an already raised 6001. towards endowing
England. The decline of Elizabethan imperial-
imaginary person called George Flanders,
an additional nurse for the sick poor of
ism witnessed a corresponding declension of
the permeation of its spirit into literature. and Mr. George Charles Flanders of Hitchin Portsmouth. We agree with the donors
Except at spasmodic periods and through regarded it as a personal attack on himself. that this would have met with the
two forces has been partial ever since. The The Lord Chief Justice pointed out that no monument should be erected to
warmest approval of him who desired
nineteenth-century literature of introspection that the plaintiff had to satisfy the jury his memory.
and of solitary musing tended to stunt its
further blossoming. But
that an ordinary and reasonable reader
reflective measurements in this treatise as to of The Pall Mall Gazette would think that A LECTURE, under the auspices of the
interaction between literature and
what was published was a libel on a real Shakespeare Reading Society, on The
nationality.
Sanders (T. W. ), Small Greenhouses, ld.
person. He added that it did not require Kenilworth Revels,' will be given by Mrs.
The latest addition to the cheap One and All much intelligence to arrive at the verdict Carmichael Stopes on Tuesday evening
Garden Books, edited by Edward Owen Green-
ing. Mr. Sanders advocates that “ just as the for the defendant which was the result. next at the University Hall, Gordon
natural style in outdoor gardening has super We congratulate our contemporary, which Square.
seded the formal fashions of our ancestors, so
should natural and truly artistic effects be
is showing new vigour, on making a firm
brought into the greenhouse. "
stand in the case. Only last summer a
THE executors of Mr. Henry Labouchere
Thomson (C. Linklater), The Teaching of English, writer in our columns suggested elaborate have entrusted the writing of his bio.
.
Two lectures delivered to the students in expedients to avoid such dangers. His graphy to his nephew, Mr. Algar Thorold,
the Training Department at London University. | humour seems already justified.
who has published several books.
The autbor writes a flexible and lively style,
without dwelling upon the obvious. We are An interesting discussion has arisen
Mr. Thorold would be much obliged if
glad to notice that she riddles the old pedagogic in the daily press,
as a sequel to the persons possessing letters of biographical
theory as to the paramount importance of deputation to the Home Office last Wednes- be kind enough to send them to Mr. T.
interest from Mr. Labouchere would
instruction in grammar.
Wise (Tucker), Winter Health Stations : Montreux: day week on the
subject of demoralizing Hart - Davies,
which has attained popularity of recent years that a private conscience is generally greatest care will be taken of such letters,
Eight pages on the merits of Montreux, literature. Mr. John Murray's assertion
of Truth Office,
Carteret Street, Westminster. The
as a winter resort.
denied to a
public servant in the
FOREIGN.
matter of allowing him to refuse to sell and they will be returned in due course
Fine Art.
if desired.
Vaillat (Léandre), La Société du XVIII. Siècle lend" for love is to us more characteristic
for profit what he would be ashamed to
THE REV. W. J. COUPER of 26, Circus
et ses Peintres, 5fr.
M. Vaillat writes a useful and interesting of the age than satisfactory. The Drive, Glasgow, is writing a book on the
book, rather on painting and its accessories than promise of fresh legislation suggests little Miller family, two members of which,
, ,
only inasmuch as it finds its reflection in the practical help, since laws made in advance George Miller of Dunbar and James
works of some of the minor figures. M. Vaillat of the public conscience must be largely
M. Vaillat of the public conscience must be largely Miller of Haddington, were printers and
writes well, but it is to be regretted that he futile. For ourselves, our duty seems to
futile. For ourselves, our duty seems to publishers (see the bibliography in Notes
has not chosen wider field. We propose to
return to the work next week.
be to devote as much space as possible to and Queries, Tenth Series, vol. xii. ). Mr.
advocating good reading, and confining Couper is anxious to receive any letters
Poetry and Drama.
Bertéval (W. ), Le Théâtre d'Ibsen.
our denunciations of bad work within the written by members of the family ; hints
Danchin (F. C. ), Études critiques sur Christophe briefest limits.
as to the present ownership of the many
Marlowe : En marge de la seconde partie de
"Tamburlaine. '
It is proposed to arrange a Gilbert papers brought together by George Miller
A short study of the text of the second half White Exhibition, consisting of relics and in reference to the business, &c. , and used
of ,' reprinted
Revue germanique. Such a brief sketch cannot manuscripts of the writer of the famous by him while preparing his "Latter
claim comprehensive settlement of the questions Natural History of Selborne,' with col- Struggles ’; a note of any Miller publica
it considers, but
within its limits it is fresh and lections illustrating his work and times. tion,
however, small
, written, printed,
.
