APROPOS of the Bill for the Disestablish the same house · The Sad Shepherd,' a Heffer & Sons of Cambridge will be the
ment of the Church in Wales, Archdeacon companion volume to his 'Story of the
publishers.
ment of the Church in Wales, Archdeacon companion volume to his 'Story of the
publishers.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Jellinek (George), The Rights of Minorities,
poor company. He finds out that there are Richberg (Donald), The Shadow Men, $1. 25
translated by A. M. and T. Baty, 1/ net.
truths that lie deep-hidden, but play im-
Chicago, Forbes & Co.
P. S. King
palpably on the spirit, vaguely feared or The publishers tell us that this is a narrative
An English translation of Prof. Jellinek's
welcomed, bewildering ignorance with a mock- of things as they are. " If this is true, our
vigorous pamphlet, written fourteen years ago.
ing light while they await revelation," but his transatlantic cousins are in sorry state. The
Its compass is broad and comprehensive, and
exceptional insight is confined to this one dis- story deals with heads of companies and cor-
it includes such problems of deep import as the
covery: In the case of a girl of sixteen the porations who escape the punishment of their
safe-guarding of the free development of the
author's felicity in suggesting the pathos of
shady transactions by shifting the legal respon-
Minority - consciousness" in the conflict
ignorance might have had a chance, but sibility on to the shoulders of subordinates,
between authority and liberty which is rapidly
Esther's years and experience make the erring- of whom the hero is one. The account of
coming to a head. The Professor considers
child theory ridiculous.
American business methods will probably be
that it is the prime essential of social adjust-
Kenealy (Arabella), The Woman-Hanter, 8/
of more interest in the United States than here. ment to preserve the recognition of the free
sphere of the individual. We disagree with
Stanley Paul Rowlands (Effie A. ), In Love's Land, 6/
his abrupt generalization that collective social
The present-day fashion in heroes seems to
Ward & Lock force will necessarily subjugate the individual
favour the strong man, who in most cases The story of a poor but beautiful girl who to an entire conformity with its will.
is portrayed as a heartless and violent brute marries an elderly nobleman whom she holds London County Council: Indication of Houses
with little sense
manners. Migs
in high esteem, her widowhood, and subsequent of Historical Interest in London, Part XXXV. ,
Kenealy's hero is a strong man of a specially love for a man who has, she thinks, insulted her, id.
virulent type, but his taming is well carried and on whom she has vowed vengeance. The This part describes the residences of Thomas
out by a good and courageous heroine, characters are as uninteresting as the plot, and Stothard, off Oxford Street, and Samuel
and the story throughout is interesting and the book is padded out by dull conversations Phelps, in Canonbury Square, with short bio-
readable.
and tiresome repetition.
graphies and details of residence.
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No. 4399, FEB. 17, 1912
Literary Gossip.
Reeves (Mrs. Pember), Family Life on a Pound
a Week, 2d.
Fabian Society
Geography and Travel.
By an unfortunate transposition we
There is no saner feature in modern attempts Hallays (André), Provence, 5fr. Paris, Perrin stated recently that Gosport was Dickens's
at social reform than the desire to amass a A delightful book on this, the most mar- birthplace. À correspondent has kindly
foundation of first-hand facts before proceeding
to action ; and this little tract of some twenty more than a mere guide-book, for the author, written to us to point out that Dickens
pages is packed with concrete instances of an archæologist and littérateur of distinction, was born at 387, Commercial Road, Mile
how women keep house when the family income writes with considerable charm and fine feeling End, Portsmouth (recently renumbered,
is from 188. to 258. weekly. Mrs. Reeves on the history of the province. The book
proposes a remedy for the existing state of does not aim at completeness, but deals with we believe, as 393), and now converted
things against which most people will exclaim : some of the lesser-known towns. It is illus- | into a Dickens Museum.
“The State, which has wisely decreed that trated by a number of excellent photographs.
children shall not be self-supporting, has no
more valuable asset than these children, were
General Literature.
MR. WILMOT CORFIELD writes :-
they reared under conditions favourable to
child life, instead of in the darkness and
Paris-Partout : Indicateur Alphabétique, Janvier,
60c. Administration, 14, Rue Vignon, Paris
“ You omit to state in last week's number
dampness and semi-starvation which is all
that the decent, hard-working poor can now
A railway guide which is an exact replica, of The Athenaeum that a fourth edition of
afford.
in form, classification, and method, of our Dr. H. E. Busteed's 'Echoes from Old
It lies with those who differ from Mrs.
Reeves to read this valuable little tract care-
* A. B. C. '
Calcutta' appeared in 1908, although you
fully and then to find some better way out.
mention a second in 1888. It may interest
AU books received at the office up, to Wednesday your readers to learn this, as the last edition
Morning will be included in this List unless contains much additional matter and more
FOREIGN
previously noted. Publishers are requested to
state prices when sending books.
illustrations. ”
Fine Art and Archæology.
THE LATE MR. ALEXANDER TAYLOR
Dieulafoy (Marcel), Le Mausolée d'Halicarnasse et
le Trophée d'Auguste, 2fr. 30.
INNES, LL. D. , has left, with a view to
Paris, Klincksieck
publication, autobiographical material,
A learned architectural study, fortified by
some of which deals in matters political
mathematical formulæ and diagrams. It works
out theories of Oriental design, and supplies
and ecclesiastical with Gladstone and
examples of the survival of the tradition of
Principal Rainy. Dr. Alexander Whyte
monuments “à étapes," of rhythmical com-
binations founded on arithmetical calculation,
The popularity of Mr. Edward Marston, and Mr. D. O. Dykes are to co-operate in
and in geometry on the equilateral triangle in a veteran who reached his 88th year this dealing with his papers, books, and literary
modern Eastern architecture.
from the Mémoires of the Académie
des Inscrip-cards on his natal day. Mr. Marston prepare a third edition of his · Law of
It is an extract week, has survived that of the sending of remains. Mr. R. c. Henderson is to
Viollet (H. ), Un Palais Musulman du neuvième and the late Mr. Sampson Low were
Creeds. '
Siècle, 8fr. 50.
Paris, Klincksieck originally responsible for the establish-
The author identifies himself with the efforts ment and issue of the ‘English Cata-
MR. JAMES BAKER is now at work
of savants to revive appreciation of Moslem
art.
He presents an illuminating retrospect logue of Books, an offshoot from The upon a volume on Austria, which is to
of the acme of Islamic inspiration, and concludes Publishers' Circular. The “ London Cata- be illustrated in colour by Mr. Donald
that decorative art originated with Musulman
activity. Another extract from the Mémoires
logue,' which preceded the English Maxwell.
of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles- Catalogue,' gave a list of 42,340 works
Lettres.
for the twenty - five years 1831-55. THREE lectures on' Robert Louis Steven -
History and Biography.
The 'English Catalogue,' Vol. I. (1835–62), son and Some Others' will be given by
Delattre (Floris), Robert Herrick, 12fr.
added 5,300 titles which had been omitted Sir Sidney Colvin at Kent House, Knights-
Paris, Alcan from this, and gave the rest up to 1862. bridge, on the afternoons of March 1st,
We have nothing but praise for the discerning The Publishers' Circular itself was nine 8th, and 15th.
author. There is much hitherto unpublished years old when Mr. Marston began his
information in the book, which is commended connexion with it which lasted for fifty-
by its charm of style. Among many interest- eight years.
A MEETING will shortly be called to
ing chapters we note one of considerable insight,
form an Egyptian Association in London,
defining the quality of Herrick's imitation, and
with a rendezvous and information bureau,
vindicating his originality.
We are pleased to hear that Mr. John and, later, a permanent exhibition of art
Lecussan ! . de), Notre Droit Historique au Murray is making good progress, and hope and industry. It is intended to expand
.
Paris, Daragon
soon to see him resume the numerous and co-ordinate the various interests in
An ineffectual attempt to date back French activities on which he has left his mark.
claims in Morocco to the later Middle Ages.
Egypt and the Near East, and arrange
The author lacks a sense of perspective and
for their representation at the Imperial
grace of style.
MR. HERBERT WOOD, of the Dublin Exhibition in 1915. Those interested are
Pereire (Alfred), Autour de Saint-Simon: Docu- Record Office, gave a most interesting invited to communicate with Mr. H. Osman
ments Originaux, 3fr. 50. Paris, Champion lecture on Irish Records' before the Newland at The Trossachs, Grand Drive,
Disconnected articles throwing much light National Literary Society, Dublin, last Herne Bay.
Two anonymous letters addressed to him by week. Dealing with the enormous mass of
Comte, criticizing his doctrines, make interest documents, in the Bermingham Tower and MR. H. G. WELLS has written a striking
ing reading. An appeal made by Saint-Simon elsewhere, which await the coming of chapter for a collection of political essays
Entente Cordiale
the unpromising year of 1814 is the subject of the research student, Mr. Wood suggested which will shortly appear, and is likely
another study.
that a school of “ diplomatics” should be to create a stir. The dozen or so of con-
Ravasi (Sofia), Leopardi et Madame de Staël, attached to one of the Irish Universities to tributors include a well-known poet, a
2fr. 50.
Paris, Champion train students in the deciphering of ancient distinguished man of science, a leading
Leopardi is of little mark as a philosopher,
and the influence of Madame de Staël on the records, and in the critical study of doctor, an eminent painter and art-
formation of his shallow hedonism does not diplomatic ” sources of history. Amongst critic, and a peeress who has been promi-
interest us greatly. The book lacks proportion, the most interesting of the Irish records, nent in political circles.
and, though a somewhat careful and laborious
compilation, is not convincing.
from the historical point of view, is the
Revue des Études Napoléoniennes, Première long series of Pipe Rolls, about two
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will publish
Année, No. I. , 4fr.
Paris, Alcan hundred in number, which date from the
immediately, under the title “The Charac-
In spite of its specialized character, this thirteenth
year of King Henry III. ter and Call of the Church of England,
magazine is usually good reading. The stand-
ard of this number is well maintained. It
includes good bibliographical matter in
the charge recently delivered by the Arch-
MRS. Mary Gaunt, author of ' Alone bishop to the Diocese of Canterbury, the
Les
Études napoléoniennes depuis Napoléon,' and
in West Africa' (which we favourably
a lively article in the memoir style on Lę reviewed the week before last), will lecture
reviewed the
week before last), will lecture special importance of which
at the present
Comte de Montholon avant Sainte-Hélène. '
time is apparent.
Canova et la France impériale contains
before the British West African Associa-
measured, lucid writing and acute criticism; tion on the afternoon of March 7th. The same publishers have in the press
and'some correspondence between the Emperor
Alexander I. and his sister, the Grand-Duchess
Admission
may
be obtained through * The Kingdom of God,' a course of four
Catherine, is interesting.
members.
lectures delivered under the auspices of
for an
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197
· THE
OF
THE
a
6
the Cambridge Christian Evidence So-
DR. GEORGE A. GRIERSON has written
STORY
WOMEN'S
ciety by the Rev. William Temple, Head
Master of Repton. To these lectures a
'A Manual of the Kāshmīri Language,' SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT,' by Bertha Mason,
which the Oxford University Press is with an Introduction by the Bishop of
sermon, which the author thinks may serve publishing immediately. The work is Lincoln, is an extended and permanent
to indicate the more distinctively religious in two small volumes, and comprises form of a lecture given in many towns
value of the position taken, has been
a grammar on an entirely new system, a and cities in Great Britain and Ireland in
added.
phrase-book, and vocabularies, the author 1909-10. The material for the earlier
Miss ALEXANDRA WATSON's new novel, who increase in number yearly. Through- history and old records ; and, in the
having mainly in mind visitors to Kashmir, chapters has been gathered, first from
*. Denham’s, or a Web of Life,' to be pub-out he assumes some knowledge of Hin- second place, from the lips of many
lished by Messrs. Smith & Elder on dostani.
pioneers.
February 29th, is a story of young and
old, of work and play, and art and life MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will publish
THE ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL LABOURER,'
placed in the setting of a tutor's estab- shortly a novel by Mr. James Stephens which the Rev. A. H. Baverstock has
lishment in Switzerland.
entitled "The Charwoman's Daughter. ' written and Mr. Fifield will publish
The book is a study of working-class life shortly, with an Introduction by Mr.
MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN has written in Dublin.
G. K. Chesterton, takes up some of the
a preface to a little book, "The Path of
Next Friday the same publishers will problems of the small holding and
Empire,' which Mr. H. Page Croft, M. P. , issue Formal Logic: a Scientific and housing questions, and suggests
if issuing in Mr. Murray's ** Questions of Social Problem, by Dr. F. C. S. Schiller, number of remedies for the fatal rural
the Day” Series. The author, while an author of Humanism: Philosophical stagnation.
advocate of Preference, does not limit Essays,' Studies in Humanism,' &c.
his study to the economic and commercial
MR. G. H. POWELL'S · Burlesques and
aspects of the question. He also considers ' RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE'-a Parodies' comprise, among other things,
the needs of organized Imperial defence, romance of ranch life on the Utah border one of the most elaborate of modern
better methods of consultation between — by Zane Grey, will be published imme- classical burlesques, a quasi-review of
the Mother Country and the Colonies, and diately by Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
certain Pelopida Papers throwing a new
emigration.
Mr. Henry Van Dyke will issue through relations of Agamemnon.
light upon the siege of Troy and the
Messrs. W.
APROPOS of the Bill for the Disestablish the same house · The Sad Shepherd,' a Heffer & Sons of Cambridge will be the
ment of the Church in Wales, Archdeacon companion volume to his 'Story of the
publishers.
Cunningham in ' Efficiency in the Church Other Wise Man. ' It is a story of our
of England '—which will also be published Lord, and treats of love in much the
DR. A. M. FAIRBAIRN, scholar and
by Mr. Murray-seeks to show how, same way that his previous book dealt preacher, for
twenty-three years Principal
without any recourse to legislation, the with worship.
of Mansfield College, Oxford, died in
efficiency of the Church can be at once
Heart and Chart,' by M. S. Gerry, London on the 9th inst. He was born at
improved.
will also shortly be issued by Messrs. Inverkeithing, near Edinburgh, on Novem-
Harper. It is a romance of the hospital ber 4th, 1838, and was educated at the
MESSRS. METHUEN will shortly issue nurse, and shows life from the point of Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, and
a new biographical study of William the view of the medical profession.
at the Evangelical Union Theological
Silent, by Mr. Jack Collings Squire. He
Academy, Glasgow. For twelve years he
has endeavoured to combine liveliness
MR. T. N. Foulis has arranged for the
was E. U. minister at Bathgate ; and
and picturesqueness of narrative with publication, during next autumn, of two Principal first of Airedale College, Brad-
accurate scholarship, and has made use of illustrated books of the style of Dean ford (1877—86), and later of Mansfield
a certain amount of contemporary English Ramsay's Reminiscences : the one College, which owed so much to his
material on which William's previous dealing with the manners, customs, and initiation, inspiration, and personal efforts.
biographers have not drawn. It is curious general characteristics of Glasgow people, Dr. Fairbairn had read widely and deeply,
that there have been so few of them in the other with those of Edinburgh. The and showed a prodigious memory and
England.
Glasgow volume will be written by Mr. unwearied application. His studies in
MRS. F. E. PENNY's new novel, The Mr. Francis Watt, who published in 1902 and, modest as he was, his abilities could
D. Macleod Malloch; the Edinburgh by Germany made him a master of theology,
Malabar Magician,' will be published on
the 22nd inst. by Messrs. Chatto & Windus. Braxfield (Stevenson’s Weir of Hermiston) of teachers of widely different beliefs.
an interesting book dealing with Lord not fail to secure the respect and attention
The book deals with the adventures of and other terrors of the law. ”
He published 'Studies in the Philo-
a member of the Kurumba tribe, whose
sophy of Religion and History,' 'Studies
occult powers terrify the simple villagers A NEW edition of Mr. W. R. Williams's in the Life of Christ, The City of God,'
of the Indian hills.
• Parliamentary History of Wales,' from Religion in History and in Modern
the beginning of Parliamentary Life,'. Christ in Modern Theology,' 'Christ
MR. ARTHUR DILLON'S forthcoming representation in 1536, is in preparation in the centuries, Catholicism, Roman and
volume deals with early incidents in the for early issue to subscribers only. Besides Anglican, and The Philosophy of the
myth of Tantalus. The present revival corrections in and additions to the bio- Christian Religion. '
of interest in the Greek drama should graphical and political matter its notices
make the subject appeal to the public, of Welsh Members of Parliament will be A
has been cut
since a knowledge of this earlier history brought down to the present year.
short by the death, in his 43rd year, of
is assumed in the tragedies of classic times.
Dr. Joseph Ettlinger. He was one of
MR. EDWIN DAVIES of Brecon, who those who wrote for the sake of what
Miss GWENDOLEN PRYCE's latest book, has brought out reprints of all the old they had to say, and his short biographies
entitled ' A Long Shadow,' will be pub- quarto histories of the counties of South of Theodor Fontane and Benjamin Con-
lished by Messrs. Cassell on the 22nd inst. Wales, is also publishing a companion stant rank among the best that have
The story has Anglesey for its centre, and volume for the county of Glamorgan, been written. He had been appointed
presents a genre picture of Welsh people containing biographical lists of its Parlia feuilleton editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung,
and Wales. The long shadow referred to mentary representatives and high sheriffs, but illness prevented his taking up the
is that which according to the proverb and the mayors of its boroughs from the post. Among his works were
Hofman
"a little man may cast," and the cha- earliest time to the present. Engravings von Hofmangwaldau,''Madame Récamier,'
racters of the book are drawn into relation of a few of the more notable men will be and
translations from the
with each other by that shadow.
included.
PROMISING
career
French.
numerous
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are
seven
that compound fractures before Lister's day Development and Chromatin Thread-widths
were frequently fatal.
throughout the Animal Kingdom,' by Capt.
SCIENCE
C. F. U. Meek.
Another important discovery of his was
the use of catgut instead of silk to tie
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. —Feb. 8. —Dr. C. E.
arteries, the ligature being thus absorbed Read, President, in the chair. —Mr. Charles
Diesel Engines for Land and Marine Work. substances. By this means the healing of foot jousts and for the tourney was regulated with
without the inflammation caused by other ffoulkes read a paper on 'Jousting Cheques of the
Sixteenth Century. The scoring for horse and
By A. P. Chalkley. With Introductory wounds was marvellously accelerated.
Chapter by Dr. R. Diesel. (Constable.
great minuteness, especially in the fifteenth
Prime movers constructed on the principle
Lister became a baronet in 1883, and century, when John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester,
associated with Dr. Diesel's name
a baron in 1897, his other honours being too drew up a schedule of the value
of each particular
becoming so common nowadays that it was
numerous to mention. He was not spoilt
"attaint” or hit, and of the breaking of lances
or the unhorsing of a combatant. These scores
high time for a book containing
authorita. by success, but retained throughout his
were kept on parallelograms drawn on paper or
tive information regarding the subject.
long life the modesty which is the cha- parchment, with a line running horizontally
racteristic of great men in search of truth. through the centre. The different successes of
inventor of this particular form of internal science, Lord Kelvin. Rich in courtesy and These score sheets do not seem to have been in
The presence of an introduction by the He was as simple as that other pioneer in each jouster were scored on one of the three lines,
combustion engine is sufficient proof that kindness, he will be regretted by many
Mr. Chalkley's volume is trustworthy,
use in other countries—at least, we have no
friends,
knowledge of similar documents in Germany or
and the author may be congratulated on
France. Up to the present
English
the manner in which he has described
cheques are known, two of which are merely
the engine in its many varieties.
sample “ cheques,” showing how the score should
SOCIETIES.
Of special interest are Dr. Diesel's remarks
be marked. The Society of Antiquaries possesses
a cheque which has the unique interest of being
on the far-reaching results of his invention, Royal. —Fcb. 8. —Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi- | probably the private score kept by a herald or
whereby many substances hitherto discarded dent, followed by Sir Alfred Kempe, Vice- king, of arms, on the margin of an elaborately
as waste are proved to be of great value President and Treasurer, in the chair. The emblazoned heraldic scroll, at the Field of the
Cloth of Gold. Two cheques are preserved in
for fuel, thereby allaying the fears of those following papers were read :-
who fix a period
when our coal supply will Norman Lockyer. An account was given of the joust held in May, 1570, and the other to the
The Spectrum of Comet Brooks,' by Sir the Bodleian Library, one of which refers to a
be exhausted, He shows that it is most lines shown in a series of ten photographs of
jousts held in the first year of the reign of Henry
economical to convert the coal into coke, the spectrum of comet Brooks taken between VIII. in honour of the birth of a prince who died
using the resultant tar-oil for fuel in his September 6th and October 31st. Seven of the the same year. The Heralds' College possesses
a gorgeously illuminated roll which shows the
engines, and utilizing other valuable by Dening object, and three
when it was a morning procession to the lists and also the jousting.
products in various ways.
object. The instrument used was a two-inch
quartz-calcite prismatic camera.
articles or conditions and the signature of Henry
"A Chemically Active Modification of Nitrogen, VIII. , which was posted at the entrance to the
produced by the Electric Discharge,' by Mr.
Tilt yard, now the present Horse Guards' Parade,
R. J. Strutt.
is preserved in the British Museum, which also
LORD LISTER.
1. Active nitrogen emits its energy more quickly, provides another jousting cheque giving part of
the score of the jousts held on May 22nd, 1518,
The death of Lord Lister, full of years and and reverts sooner to ordinary nitrogen, if it is
in honour of the visit of Margaret Tudor, Queen of
honours, on Saturday last at Walmer, cooled. This is apparently a unique instance of a
chemical change accelerated by cooling.
Scots. None of these cheques agrees exactly
removes one of the greatest benefactors of 2. If the glowing gas is compressed to small with the sample scores given by the Earl of
the human race. The saving of life and volume it flashes out with great brilliance, and
Worcester, but his marking is so elaborate that
relief from pain due to his discoveries can exhausts itself in so doing. This proves that the it is evident that a simpler form was used, for
hardly be realized by a generation which
glow-transformation is polymolecular, i. e. , that all the actual score sheets agree one with the
regards them as truisms.
more than one molecule must take part in it. other, though the individual points of course differ
in each case.
3. Active nitrogen may revert to ordinary
Born in 1827, of Quaker stock, he was the nitrogen in two distinct ways. One of these is a
Mr. Penrose Williams read a paper on 'The
son of Joseph Jackson Lister, a merchant volume change, accompanied by glow ; the other
Excavation of the Holy Well of St. Constantine
who figures in the ‘ Dictionary of National glow. This is analogous to the behaviour of
a surface action of the walls of the vessel, without at St. Merryn, Cornwall. The ruins of Constan.
tine Church, in the parish of St. Merryn, stand on
Biography' as an expert in microscopy, oxy-hydrogen gas in its transformation to water,
a sandy hill to the south of a marsh several acres
and, after beginning his education at two which may be a surface or volume effect, according in extent. Local tradition is strong as to the
Quaker schools, studied medicine at Uni- to circumstances.
existence of a Holy Well, but its exact position
• The Atomic Weight of Radium,' by Mr. R.
had been lost.
versity College, London, and held a post as
The probable site was found
Whytlaw-Gray and Sir W. Ramsay. The mate- several years ago, and in August, 1911, Mr.
Assistant at University College Hospital.
rial for this research consisted of 330 mgrs. of a
Charles Mott and Mr. Penrose Williams explored
A visit to James Syme, the famous surgeon mixture of radium and barium bromides, con- the spot and discovered a nearly complete
building, which in the course of time had become
at Edinburgh, led to his prolonging his taining 206 mgrs, of radium bromide,
supplied by
the courtesy of the British Radium Corporation. buried by successive layers of river deposit and
stay and working under him. He married
The bromides were submitted to methodical blown sand, the original ground level and floor
Syme's daughter in 1856, and in the same
fractional crystallization, and yielded specimens
of the little chapel being 7 ft. lower than the
year was made Assistant Surgeon of the of which the change in weight on conversion from present marsh level. The building measures,
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1860 his bromide to chloride with gaseous hydrogen inside, about 71 ft. by 5 ft. The side walls are
gathered in as they rise, so as to meet at a height
learned papers won him the F. R. S. , and chloride, and from chloride to bromide with
he became Professor of Surgery at Glasgow the micro-balance. The atomic weight increased
gaseous hydrogen bromide, was determined with of about 7 ft. ; the long axis is exactly north and
south, and at the south end the wall is hollowed
University ; in 1869 he left this post for a progressively from 220•7, through a series of out into a low arch curving over the well, and
similar one at Edinburgh; and finally in 1877 approximations, to the final atomic weight above this arch is a square recess nearly 3 ft.
he took the chair of Clinical Surgery in 226°36, the last five determinations giving the wide and of the same depth. A stone seat runs
along either wall, and between them, down the
King's College, London, which he occupied figures 228-40, 226-25, 228-35, 226. 35, and 226-45.
till 1893.
The Emission of Electricity from Carbon at
middle of the floor, which is paved with slabs of
High Temperatures,' by Dr. J. A. Harker and stone, runs an open gully formed of a hollowed-
Syme was, as readers of 'Horæ Sub- Dr. G. W. O. Kaye. This paper discussed several out beam of oak, in a position to act as an overflow
secivæ' will remember, a surgeon of re-
new phenomena, including the generation of conduit for the well water. In the north-west
markable skill, but the mortality attending what appears to be a new method. Two insulated
electric currents of considerable magnitude by corner is a doorway with rounded corners of
dressed stone, and on either side a deeply cut
operations in his day was terrible. Surgical carbon electrodes are inserted into a carbon tube groove suitable to receive doorposts.
fever,” as it was called, killed one patient resistance furnace at high temperatures, and are
after another. Lister set himself to study connected externally through a suitable
current-
this phenomenon, and, applying Pasteur's
If one of the electrodes is suddenly
MATHEMATICAL. --Feb. 8. -Dr. H. F. Baker,
far-reaching discoveries in bacteriology,
displaced to a colder or hotter part of the furnace; President, in the chair. --Messrs. H. J. Priestley
a reversible transient current is produced in the
devised a series of germicides and the
and C. J. T. Sewell were elected Members.
circuit without the application of any external
The President alluded to the loss the world, and
treatment with carbolic acid now universally potential.
poor company. He finds out that there are Richberg (Donald), The Shadow Men, $1. 25
translated by A. M. and T. Baty, 1/ net.
truths that lie deep-hidden, but play im-
Chicago, Forbes & Co.
P. S. King
palpably on the spirit, vaguely feared or The publishers tell us that this is a narrative
An English translation of Prof. Jellinek's
welcomed, bewildering ignorance with a mock- of things as they are. " If this is true, our
vigorous pamphlet, written fourteen years ago.
ing light while they await revelation," but his transatlantic cousins are in sorry state. The
Its compass is broad and comprehensive, and
exceptional insight is confined to this one dis- story deals with heads of companies and cor-
it includes such problems of deep import as the
covery: In the case of a girl of sixteen the porations who escape the punishment of their
safe-guarding of the free development of the
author's felicity in suggesting the pathos of
shady transactions by shifting the legal respon-
Minority - consciousness" in the conflict
ignorance might have had a chance, but sibility on to the shoulders of subordinates,
between authority and liberty which is rapidly
Esther's years and experience make the erring- of whom the hero is one. The account of
coming to a head. The Professor considers
child theory ridiculous.
American business methods will probably be
that it is the prime essential of social adjust-
Kenealy (Arabella), The Woman-Hanter, 8/
of more interest in the United States than here. ment to preserve the recognition of the free
sphere of the individual. We disagree with
Stanley Paul Rowlands (Effie A. ), In Love's Land, 6/
his abrupt generalization that collective social
The present-day fashion in heroes seems to
Ward & Lock force will necessarily subjugate the individual
favour the strong man, who in most cases The story of a poor but beautiful girl who to an entire conformity with its will.
is portrayed as a heartless and violent brute marries an elderly nobleman whom she holds London County Council: Indication of Houses
with little sense
manners. Migs
in high esteem, her widowhood, and subsequent of Historical Interest in London, Part XXXV. ,
Kenealy's hero is a strong man of a specially love for a man who has, she thinks, insulted her, id.
virulent type, but his taming is well carried and on whom she has vowed vengeance. The This part describes the residences of Thomas
out by a good and courageous heroine, characters are as uninteresting as the plot, and Stothard, off Oxford Street, and Samuel
and the story throughout is interesting and the book is padded out by dull conversations Phelps, in Canonbury Square, with short bio-
readable.
and tiresome repetition.
graphies and details of residence.
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Literary Gossip.
Reeves (Mrs. Pember), Family Life on a Pound
a Week, 2d.
Fabian Society
Geography and Travel.
By an unfortunate transposition we
There is no saner feature in modern attempts Hallays (André), Provence, 5fr. Paris, Perrin stated recently that Gosport was Dickens's
at social reform than the desire to amass a A delightful book on this, the most mar- birthplace. À correspondent has kindly
foundation of first-hand facts before proceeding
to action ; and this little tract of some twenty more than a mere guide-book, for the author, written to us to point out that Dickens
pages is packed with concrete instances of an archæologist and littérateur of distinction, was born at 387, Commercial Road, Mile
how women keep house when the family income writes with considerable charm and fine feeling End, Portsmouth (recently renumbered,
is from 188. to 258. weekly. Mrs. Reeves on the history of the province. The book
proposes a remedy for the existing state of does not aim at completeness, but deals with we believe, as 393), and now converted
things against which most people will exclaim : some of the lesser-known towns. It is illus- | into a Dickens Museum.
“The State, which has wisely decreed that trated by a number of excellent photographs.
children shall not be self-supporting, has no
more valuable asset than these children, were
General Literature.
MR. WILMOT CORFIELD writes :-
they reared under conditions favourable to
child life, instead of in the darkness and
Paris-Partout : Indicateur Alphabétique, Janvier,
60c. Administration, 14, Rue Vignon, Paris
“ You omit to state in last week's number
dampness and semi-starvation which is all
that the decent, hard-working poor can now
A railway guide which is an exact replica, of The Athenaeum that a fourth edition of
afford.
in form, classification, and method, of our Dr. H. E. Busteed's 'Echoes from Old
It lies with those who differ from Mrs.
Reeves to read this valuable little tract care-
* A. B. C. '
Calcutta' appeared in 1908, although you
fully and then to find some better way out.
mention a second in 1888. It may interest
AU books received at the office up, to Wednesday your readers to learn this, as the last edition
Morning will be included in this List unless contains much additional matter and more
FOREIGN
previously noted. Publishers are requested to
state prices when sending books.
illustrations. ”
Fine Art and Archæology.
THE LATE MR. ALEXANDER TAYLOR
Dieulafoy (Marcel), Le Mausolée d'Halicarnasse et
le Trophée d'Auguste, 2fr. 30.
INNES, LL. D. , has left, with a view to
Paris, Klincksieck
publication, autobiographical material,
A learned architectural study, fortified by
some of which deals in matters political
mathematical formulæ and diagrams. It works
out theories of Oriental design, and supplies
and ecclesiastical with Gladstone and
examples of the survival of the tradition of
Principal Rainy. Dr. Alexander Whyte
monuments “à étapes," of rhythmical com-
binations founded on arithmetical calculation,
The popularity of Mr. Edward Marston, and Mr. D. O. Dykes are to co-operate in
and in geometry on the equilateral triangle in a veteran who reached his 88th year this dealing with his papers, books, and literary
modern Eastern architecture.
from the Mémoires of the Académie
des Inscrip-cards on his natal day. Mr. Marston prepare a third edition of his · Law of
It is an extract week, has survived that of the sending of remains. Mr. R. c. Henderson is to
Viollet (H. ), Un Palais Musulman du neuvième and the late Mr. Sampson Low were
Creeds. '
Siècle, 8fr. 50.
Paris, Klincksieck originally responsible for the establish-
The author identifies himself with the efforts ment and issue of the ‘English Cata-
MR. JAMES BAKER is now at work
of savants to revive appreciation of Moslem
art.
He presents an illuminating retrospect logue of Books, an offshoot from The upon a volume on Austria, which is to
of the acme of Islamic inspiration, and concludes Publishers' Circular. The “ London Cata- be illustrated in colour by Mr. Donald
that decorative art originated with Musulman
activity. Another extract from the Mémoires
logue,' which preceded the English Maxwell.
of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles- Catalogue,' gave a list of 42,340 works
Lettres.
for the twenty - five years 1831-55. THREE lectures on' Robert Louis Steven -
History and Biography.
The 'English Catalogue,' Vol. I. (1835–62), son and Some Others' will be given by
Delattre (Floris), Robert Herrick, 12fr.
added 5,300 titles which had been omitted Sir Sidney Colvin at Kent House, Knights-
Paris, Alcan from this, and gave the rest up to 1862. bridge, on the afternoons of March 1st,
We have nothing but praise for the discerning The Publishers' Circular itself was nine 8th, and 15th.
author. There is much hitherto unpublished years old when Mr. Marston began his
information in the book, which is commended connexion with it which lasted for fifty-
by its charm of style. Among many interest- eight years.
A MEETING will shortly be called to
ing chapters we note one of considerable insight,
form an Egyptian Association in London,
defining the quality of Herrick's imitation, and
with a rendezvous and information bureau,
vindicating his originality.
We are pleased to hear that Mr. John and, later, a permanent exhibition of art
Lecussan ! . de), Notre Droit Historique au Murray is making good progress, and hope and industry. It is intended to expand
.
Paris, Daragon
soon to see him resume the numerous and co-ordinate the various interests in
An ineffectual attempt to date back French activities on which he has left his mark.
claims in Morocco to the later Middle Ages.
Egypt and the Near East, and arrange
The author lacks a sense of perspective and
for their representation at the Imperial
grace of style.
MR. HERBERT WOOD, of the Dublin Exhibition in 1915. Those interested are
Pereire (Alfred), Autour de Saint-Simon: Docu- Record Office, gave a most interesting invited to communicate with Mr. H. Osman
ments Originaux, 3fr. 50. Paris, Champion lecture on Irish Records' before the Newland at The Trossachs, Grand Drive,
Disconnected articles throwing much light National Literary Society, Dublin, last Herne Bay.
Two anonymous letters addressed to him by week. Dealing with the enormous mass of
Comte, criticizing his doctrines, make interest documents, in the Bermingham Tower and MR. H. G. WELLS has written a striking
ing reading. An appeal made by Saint-Simon elsewhere, which await the coming of chapter for a collection of political essays
Entente Cordiale
the unpromising year of 1814 is the subject of the research student, Mr. Wood suggested which will shortly appear, and is likely
another study.
that a school of “ diplomatics” should be to create a stir. The dozen or so of con-
Ravasi (Sofia), Leopardi et Madame de Staël, attached to one of the Irish Universities to tributors include a well-known poet, a
2fr. 50.
Paris, Champion train students in the deciphering of ancient distinguished man of science, a leading
Leopardi is of little mark as a philosopher,
and the influence of Madame de Staël on the records, and in the critical study of doctor, an eminent painter and art-
formation of his shallow hedonism does not diplomatic ” sources of history. Amongst critic, and a peeress who has been promi-
interest us greatly. The book lacks proportion, the most interesting of the Irish records, nent in political circles.
and, though a somewhat careful and laborious
compilation, is not convincing.
from the historical point of view, is the
Revue des Études Napoléoniennes, Première long series of Pipe Rolls, about two
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will publish
Année, No. I. , 4fr.
Paris, Alcan hundred in number, which date from the
immediately, under the title “The Charac-
In spite of its specialized character, this thirteenth
year of King Henry III. ter and Call of the Church of England,
magazine is usually good reading. The stand-
ard of this number is well maintained. It
includes good bibliographical matter in
the charge recently delivered by the Arch-
MRS. Mary Gaunt, author of ' Alone bishop to the Diocese of Canterbury, the
Les
Études napoléoniennes depuis Napoléon,' and
in West Africa' (which we favourably
a lively article in the memoir style on Lę reviewed the week before last), will lecture
reviewed the
week before last), will lecture special importance of which
at the present
Comte de Montholon avant Sainte-Hélène. '
time is apparent.
Canova et la France impériale contains
before the British West African Associa-
measured, lucid writing and acute criticism; tion on the afternoon of March 7th. The same publishers have in the press
and'some correspondence between the Emperor
Alexander I. and his sister, the Grand-Duchess
Admission
may
be obtained through * The Kingdom of God,' a course of four
Catherine, is interesting.
members.
lectures delivered under the auspices of
for an
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197
· THE
OF
THE
a
6
the Cambridge Christian Evidence So-
DR. GEORGE A. GRIERSON has written
STORY
WOMEN'S
ciety by the Rev. William Temple, Head
Master of Repton. To these lectures a
'A Manual of the Kāshmīri Language,' SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT,' by Bertha Mason,
which the Oxford University Press is with an Introduction by the Bishop of
sermon, which the author thinks may serve publishing immediately. The work is Lincoln, is an extended and permanent
to indicate the more distinctively religious in two small volumes, and comprises form of a lecture given in many towns
value of the position taken, has been
a grammar on an entirely new system, a and cities in Great Britain and Ireland in
added.
phrase-book, and vocabularies, the author 1909-10. The material for the earlier
Miss ALEXANDRA WATSON's new novel, who increase in number yearly. Through- history and old records ; and, in the
having mainly in mind visitors to Kashmir, chapters has been gathered, first from
*. Denham’s, or a Web of Life,' to be pub-out he assumes some knowledge of Hin- second place, from the lips of many
lished by Messrs. Smith & Elder on dostani.
pioneers.
February 29th, is a story of young and
old, of work and play, and art and life MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will publish
THE ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL LABOURER,'
placed in the setting of a tutor's estab- shortly a novel by Mr. James Stephens which the Rev. A. H. Baverstock has
lishment in Switzerland.
entitled "The Charwoman's Daughter. ' written and Mr. Fifield will publish
The book is a study of working-class life shortly, with an Introduction by Mr.
MR. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN has written in Dublin.
G. K. Chesterton, takes up some of the
a preface to a little book, "The Path of
Next Friday the same publishers will problems of the small holding and
Empire,' which Mr. H. Page Croft, M. P. , issue Formal Logic: a Scientific and housing questions, and suggests
if issuing in Mr. Murray's ** Questions of Social Problem, by Dr. F. C. S. Schiller, number of remedies for the fatal rural
the Day” Series. The author, while an author of Humanism: Philosophical stagnation.
advocate of Preference, does not limit Essays,' Studies in Humanism,' &c.
his study to the economic and commercial
MR. G. H. POWELL'S · Burlesques and
aspects of the question. He also considers ' RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE'-a Parodies' comprise, among other things,
the needs of organized Imperial defence, romance of ranch life on the Utah border one of the most elaborate of modern
better methods of consultation between — by Zane Grey, will be published imme- classical burlesques, a quasi-review of
the Mother Country and the Colonies, and diately by Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
certain Pelopida Papers throwing a new
emigration.
Mr. Henry Van Dyke will issue through relations of Agamemnon.
light upon the siege of Troy and the
Messrs. W.
APROPOS of the Bill for the Disestablish the same house · The Sad Shepherd,' a Heffer & Sons of Cambridge will be the
ment of the Church in Wales, Archdeacon companion volume to his 'Story of the
publishers.
Cunningham in ' Efficiency in the Church Other Wise Man. ' It is a story of our
of England '—which will also be published Lord, and treats of love in much the
DR. A. M. FAIRBAIRN, scholar and
by Mr. Murray-seeks to show how, same way that his previous book dealt preacher, for
twenty-three years Principal
without any recourse to legislation, the with worship.
of Mansfield College, Oxford, died in
efficiency of the Church can be at once
Heart and Chart,' by M. S. Gerry, London on the 9th inst. He was born at
improved.
will also shortly be issued by Messrs. Inverkeithing, near Edinburgh, on Novem-
Harper. It is a romance of the hospital ber 4th, 1838, and was educated at the
MESSRS. METHUEN will shortly issue nurse, and shows life from the point of Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, and
a new biographical study of William the view of the medical profession.
at the Evangelical Union Theological
Silent, by Mr. Jack Collings Squire. He
Academy, Glasgow. For twelve years he
has endeavoured to combine liveliness
MR. T. N. Foulis has arranged for the
was E. U. minister at Bathgate ; and
and picturesqueness of narrative with publication, during next autumn, of two Principal first of Airedale College, Brad-
accurate scholarship, and has made use of illustrated books of the style of Dean ford (1877—86), and later of Mansfield
a certain amount of contemporary English Ramsay's Reminiscences : the one College, which owed so much to his
material on which William's previous dealing with the manners, customs, and initiation, inspiration, and personal efforts.
biographers have not drawn. It is curious general characteristics of Glasgow people, Dr. Fairbairn had read widely and deeply,
that there have been so few of them in the other with those of Edinburgh. The and showed a prodigious memory and
England.
Glasgow volume will be written by Mr. unwearied application. His studies in
MRS. F. E. PENNY's new novel, The Mr. Francis Watt, who published in 1902 and, modest as he was, his abilities could
D. Macleod Malloch; the Edinburgh by Germany made him a master of theology,
Malabar Magician,' will be published on
the 22nd inst. by Messrs. Chatto & Windus. Braxfield (Stevenson’s Weir of Hermiston) of teachers of widely different beliefs.
an interesting book dealing with Lord not fail to secure the respect and attention
The book deals with the adventures of and other terrors of the law. ”
He published 'Studies in the Philo-
a member of the Kurumba tribe, whose
sophy of Religion and History,' 'Studies
occult powers terrify the simple villagers A NEW edition of Mr. W. R. Williams's in the Life of Christ, The City of God,'
of the Indian hills.
• Parliamentary History of Wales,' from Religion in History and in Modern
the beginning of Parliamentary Life,'. Christ in Modern Theology,' 'Christ
MR. ARTHUR DILLON'S forthcoming representation in 1536, is in preparation in the centuries, Catholicism, Roman and
volume deals with early incidents in the for early issue to subscribers only. Besides Anglican, and The Philosophy of the
myth of Tantalus. The present revival corrections in and additions to the bio- Christian Religion. '
of interest in the Greek drama should graphical and political matter its notices
make the subject appeal to the public, of Welsh Members of Parliament will be A
has been cut
since a knowledge of this earlier history brought down to the present year.
short by the death, in his 43rd year, of
is assumed in the tragedies of classic times.
Dr. Joseph Ettlinger. He was one of
MR. EDWIN DAVIES of Brecon, who those who wrote for the sake of what
Miss GWENDOLEN PRYCE's latest book, has brought out reprints of all the old they had to say, and his short biographies
entitled ' A Long Shadow,' will be pub- quarto histories of the counties of South of Theodor Fontane and Benjamin Con-
lished by Messrs. Cassell on the 22nd inst. Wales, is also publishing a companion stant rank among the best that have
The story has Anglesey for its centre, and volume for the county of Glamorgan, been written. He had been appointed
presents a genre picture of Welsh people containing biographical lists of its Parlia feuilleton editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung,
and Wales. The long shadow referred to mentary representatives and high sheriffs, but illness prevented his taking up the
is that which according to the proverb and the mayors of its boroughs from the post. Among his works were
Hofman
"a little man may cast," and the cha- earliest time to the present. Engravings von Hofmangwaldau,''Madame Récamier,'
racters of the book are drawn into relation of a few of the more notable men will be and
translations from the
with each other by that shadow.
included.
PROMISING
career
French.
numerous
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are
seven
that compound fractures before Lister's day Development and Chromatin Thread-widths
were frequently fatal.
throughout the Animal Kingdom,' by Capt.
SCIENCE
C. F. U. Meek.
Another important discovery of his was
the use of catgut instead of silk to tie
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. —Feb. 8. —Dr. C. E.
arteries, the ligature being thus absorbed Read, President, in the chair. —Mr. Charles
Diesel Engines for Land and Marine Work. substances. By this means the healing of foot jousts and for the tourney was regulated with
without the inflammation caused by other ffoulkes read a paper on 'Jousting Cheques of the
Sixteenth Century. The scoring for horse and
By A. P. Chalkley. With Introductory wounds was marvellously accelerated.
Chapter by Dr. R. Diesel. (Constable.
great minuteness, especially in the fifteenth
Prime movers constructed on the principle
Lister became a baronet in 1883, and century, when John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester,
associated with Dr. Diesel's name
a baron in 1897, his other honours being too drew up a schedule of the value
of each particular
becoming so common nowadays that it was
numerous to mention. He was not spoilt
"attaint” or hit, and of the breaking of lances
or the unhorsing of a combatant. These scores
high time for a book containing
authorita. by success, but retained throughout his
were kept on parallelograms drawn on paper or
tive information regarding the subject.
long life the modesty which is the cha- parchment, with a line running horizontally
racteristic of great men in search of truth. through the centre. The different successes of
inventor of this particular form of internal science, Lord Kelvin. Rich in courtesy and These score sheets do not seem to have been in
The presence of an introduction by the He was as simple as that other pioneer in each jouster were scored on one of the three lines,
combustion engine is sufficient proof that kindness, he will be regretted by many
Mr. Chalkley's volume is trustworthy,
use in other countries—at least, we have no
friends,
knowledge of similar documents in Germany or
and the author may be congratulated on
France. Up to the present
English
the manner in which he has described
cheques are known, two of which are merely
the engine in its many varieties.
sample “ cheques,” showing how the score should
SOCIETIES.
Of special interest are Dr. Diesel's remarks
be marked. The Society of Antiquaries possesses
a cheque which has the unique interest of being
on the far-reaching results of his invention, Royal. —Fcb. 8. —Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi- | probably the private score kept by a herald or
whereby many substances hitherto discarded dent, followed by Sir Alfred Kempe, Vice- king, of arms, on the margin of an elaborately
as waste are proved to be of great value President and Treasurer, in the chair. The emblazoned heraldic scroll, at the Field of the
Cloth of Gold. Two cheques are preserved in
for fuel, thereby allaying the fears of those following papers were read :-
who fix a period
when our coal supply will Norman Lockyer. An account was given of the joust held in May, 1570, and the other to the
The Spectrum of Comet Brooks,' by Sir the Bodleian Library, one of which refers to a
be exhausted, He shows that it is most lines shown in a series of ten photographs of
jousts held in the first year of the reign of Henry
economical to convert the coal into coke, the spectrum of comet Brooks taken between VIII. in honour of the birth of a prince who died
using the resultant tar-oil for fuel in his September 6th and October 31st. Seven of the the same year. The Heralds' College possesses
a gorgeously illuminated roll which shows the
engines, and utilizing other valuable by Dening object, and three
when it was a morning procession to the lists and also the jousting.
products in various ways.
object. The instrument used was a two-inch
quartz-calcite prismatic camera.
articles or conditions and the signature of Henry
"A Chemically Active Modification of Nitrogen, VIII. , which was posted at the entrance to the
produced by the Electric Discharge,' by Mr.
Tilt yard, now the present Horse Guards' Parade,
R. J. Strutt.
is preserved in the British Museum, which also
LORD LISTER.
1. Active nitrogen emits its energy more quickly, provides another jousting cheque giving part of
the score of the jousts held on May 22nd, 1518,
The death of Lord Lister, full of years and and reverts sooner to ordinary nitrogen, if it is
in honour of the visit of Margaret Tudor, Queen of
honours, on Saturday last at Walmer, cooled. This is apparently a unique instance of a
chemical change accelerated by cooling.
Scots. None of these cheques agrees exactly
removes one of the greatest benefactors of 2. If the glowing gas is compressed to small with the sample scores given by the Earl of
the human race. The saving of life and volume it flashes out with great brilliance, and
Worcester, but his marking is so elaborate that
relief from pain due to his discoveries can exhausts itself in so doing. This proves that the it is evident that a simpler form was used, for
hardly be realized by a generation which
glow-transformation is polymolecular, i. e. , that all the actual score sheets agree one with the
regards them as truisms.
more than one molecule must take part in it. other, though the individual points of course differ
in each case.
3. Active nitrogen may revert to ordinary
Born in 1827, of Quaker stock, he was the nitrogen in two distinct ways. One of these is a
Mr. Penrose Williams read a paper on 'The
son of Joseph Jackson Lister, a merchant volume change, accompanied by glow ; the other
Excavation of the Holy Well of St. Constantine
who figures in the ‘ Dictionary of National glow. This is analogous to the behaviour of
a surface action of the walls of the vessel, without at St. Merryn, Cornwall. The ruins of Constan.
tine Church, in the parish of St. Merryn, stand on
Biography' as an expert in microscopy, oxy-hydrogen gas in its transformation to water,
a sandy hill to the south of a marsh several acres
and, after beginning his education at two which may be a surface or volume effect, according in extent. Local tradition is strong as to the
Quaker schools, studied medicine at Uni- to circumstances.
existence of a Holy Well, but its exact position
• The Atomic Weight of Radium,' by Mr. R.
had been lost.
versity College, London, and held a post as
The probable site was found
Whytlaw-Gray and Sir W. Ramsay. The mate- several years ago, and in August, 1911, Mr.
Assistant at University College Hospital.
rial for this research consisted of 330 mgrs. of a
Charles Mott and Mr. Penrose Williams explored
A visit to James Syme, the famous surgeon mixture of radium and barium bromides, con- the spot and discovered a nearly complete
building, which in the course of time had become
at Edinburgh, led to his prolonging his taining 206 mgrs, of radium bromide,
supplied by
the courtesy of the British Radium Corporation. buried by successive layers of river deposit and
stay and working under him. He married
The bromides were submitted to methodical blown sand, the original ground level and floor
Syme's daughter in 1856, and in the same
fractional crystallization, and yielded specimens
of the little chapel being 7 ft. lower than the
year was made Assistant Surgeon of the of which the change in weight on conversion from present marsh level. The building measures,
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1860 his bromide to chloride with gaseous hydrogen inside, about 71 ft. by 5 ft. The side walls are
gathered in as they rise, so as to meet at a height
learned papers won him the F. R. S. , and chloride, and from chloride to bromide with
he became Professor of Surgery at Glasgow the micro-balance. The atomic weight increased
gaseous hydrogen bromide, was determined with of about 7 ft. ; the long axis is exactly north and
south, and at the south end the wall is hollowed
University ; in 1869 he left this post for a progressively from 220•7, through a series of out into a low arch curving over the well, and
similar one at Edinburgh; and finally in 1877 approximations, to the final atomic weight above this arch is a square recess nearly 3 ft.
he took the chair of Clinical Surgery in 226°36, the last five determinations giving the wide and of the same depth. A stone seat runs
along either wall, and between them, down the
King's College, London, which he occupied figures 228-40, 226-25, 228-35, 226. 35, and 226-45.
till 1893.
The Emission of Electricity from Carbon at
middle of the floor, which is paved with slabs of
High Temperatures,' by Dr. J. A. Harker and stone, runs an open gully formed of a hollowed-
Syme was, as readers of 'Horæ Sub- Dr. G. W. O. Kaye. This paper discussed several out beam of oak, in a position to act as an overflow
secivæ' will remember, a surgeon of re-
new phenomena, including the generation of conduit for the well water. In the north-west
markable skill, but the mortality attending what appears to be a new method. Two insulated
electric currents of considerable magnitude by corner is a doorway with rounded corners of
dressed stone, and on either side a deeply cut
operations in his day was terrible. Surgical carbon electrodes are inserted into a carbon tube groove suitable to receive doorposts.
fever,” as it was called, killed one patient resistance furnace at high temperatures, and are
after another. Lister set himself to study connected externally through a suitable
current-
this phenomenon, and, applying Pasteur's
If one of the electrodes is suddenly
MATHEMATICAL. --Feb. 8. -Dr. H. F. Baker,
far-reaching discoveries in bacteriology,
displaced to a colder or hotter part of the furnace; President, in the chair. --Messrs. H. J. Priestley
a reversible transient current is produced in the
devised a series of germicides and the
and C. J. T. Sewell were elected Members.
circuit without the application of any external
The President alluded to the loss the world, and
treatment with carbolic acid now universally potential.
