Budge
supplies
narratives king, and all that we know of his deeds our author thinks, by civilization, he does
- not unnuixed, of course, with many is derived from it.
- not unnuixed, of course, with many is derived from it.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Some errant perversity has
good deal has recently been accomplished erudition and entertainment, the survey induced a remark which looks gratuitous
by instalments. Of the English chro- follows the system of description of and cruel, that McPherson, editor of
nicles, all inevitably reflecting or glancing contents, and illustration by extracts, Wyntoun, was the son of a tailor in
at Scots affairs, excellent accounts have with a thread of connecting account and Edinburgh an offence which might
been given not only in Rolls Series prefaces, a dash of criticism. Thus in rapid course have been forgiven ! Goodall, the
but also compendiously in the handbook are traced the distinctive qualities of the editor of Bower, and the object of a
satellites of that system. Scottish record Roman historians, the hagiographers of worse scandal than base descent, has
publications have practically eschewed Ninian, Columba, and Kentigern, the more happily escaped.
the more happily escaped. A misprint on
and are now eschewing chronicle, the need Anglo-Saxon annalists, and an array of
Libellus de Primo Adventu
and value of printing official treasury later writers from Ailred of Rievaux Saxorum,' has its amusing side. Reve-
compota and Council registers being more and Walter of Coventry to the Scottish dene (p. 172) is not Raughton in Cumber-
urgent. But the clubs are active, and Fordun, Barbour, and Wyntoun. All the land, but is in Sprouston, Roxburghshire,
private enterprise is brisk. Neither authors dealt with are in print: manu- where “ Reddenburn” saw many a March-
textual nor critical effort is wanting, and script is not an effective word in Sir Warden's gathering.
perhaps it is a good sign that the editorial Herbert's vocabulary. Telling passages Probably a wise reticence hindered this
impulse so nearly countervails the easier are chosen to illustrate such themes as pleasantly toned conspectus of early
tendency towards criticism. Collation Brunanburh, the battle of the Standard, chronicle from claiming to be a critical
of texts is the best fount of criticism, the blood-covenant of the Galloway Picts, specialist's contribution upon the Quellen
and of this there are eminent examples. and the endless controversy of the homage of the authors, their relative historic
Foremost among its exponents has been of the Kings of Scots.
achievement, and their capacities of
a young Carnegie scholar, Mr. Alan 0. Incidentally it cannot escape observa- literary expression. Many are the inter-
Anderson, who in his Scottish Annals
Scottish Annals tion to what a degree the field of the esting questions suggested. How far, for
from English Chronicles,' A. D. 500 to 1286, book has been covered by Mr. A. 0. instance, did these chronicles reflect
has edited in translation, with synoptical Anderson. No doubt the debt to him is national standards, opinions, and anti-
cross-references, a wonderfully full corpus gracefully enough owned, but it would pathies, which were to crystallize so
of Scots history from English sources. have saved reviewers and others trouble differently on the opposite sides of the
Sir Archibald Lawrie, in his ‘Annals of had references to his work accompanied Border? How far did the Scottish chro-
Malcolm and William,' has given the Latin some three-fifths of the foot-notes. The nicles in particular at first interpret, and
historical texts from 1153 to 1214. Prof. Preface expresses modest intention afterwards inspire, national feeling and
Sanford Terry's 'Scottish Historical Clubs, to indicate lines of truth among con- l national literature ?
p. 115,
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an
our war,' I mean it of the whole Cabinet. Speaker Reed, the late J. S. Morgan and
Anglo-American Memories : Second Series. We were all agreed at the beginning. We his son Mr. Pierpont Morgan, of Mr.
By George W. Smalley. (Duckworth are all agreed now. ” The Duke's moral Carnegie and his sale of the Homestead
& Co. )
courage is illustrated by a story of how works to the Steel Trust for a fabulous
he settled a social scandal, not named here, price, and of Mr. W. W. Astor are all full
MR. G. W. SMALLEY'S recollections and but not forgotten, by securing and burning of interesting gossip.
appreciations of various eminent men,
the compromising letters, with the dry As a relief from politics and society,
living or dead, on both sides of the Atlantic remark, “ I do not think it will be neces- Mr. Smalley devotes a few chapters to the
are distinctly entertaining. As London sary to carry this matter further. ” The arts, exemplified by Whistler, W. S.
correspondent of The New York Tribune, late Duchess of Devonshire has a chapter Gilbert, Irving, Madame Sarah Bernhardt,
and as Washington correspondent for to herself, with some piquant anecdotes. and Aimé Desclée, whose love-letters the
some years of The Times, he has had an ambassador once interceded vainly younger Dumas published. The apprecia-
exceptional opportunities of meeting poli; with her on behalf of a lady who had not tion of Irving is very good, but better still
ticians and others of note, and he has used had a card for her famous fancy-dress is the description of a meeting between
his opportunities with an eagerness cha- ball at the Jubilee of 1897 ; at the end him and the great Sarah, after she had
racteristic of his countrymen. He can the Duchess relented so far as to say, “ If been taken to see Irving in 'The Bells. '
tell a story neatly, and he can sum up she likes to come without a card, she may “Mais il m'énerve; dans le bon sens,
his impressions of a man with practised come. ” To the Duchess Mr. Smalley bien entendu,” said the actress, with her
ease in a few pages. He thinks that he attributes an ambition to see the Duke
He does
is an impartial observer -“ politics I Prime Minister ; the fact remains that things, some things, which no French actor
eyes fixed on the Mathias.
eschew,” he says in one place; but this he thrice-not twice-refused the offer
is a harmless delusion. His book would of the place, showing a wisdom that never misses à point. ”
can do. He makes no mistakes. He
She went on
not be half so amusing if it did not betray did him infinite credit. Mr. Smalley has to praise his stage-management as
on every page his strong prejudices
no very definite impression to give of intellectual triumph. ” Sarah's remarks
against Gladstone, for example, or against Sir William Harcourt, but his friendly on Irving, as recalled by Mr. Smalley, are
unorthodox Republicanism in America. sketch of the late Earl Spencer is just and precious indeed.
Mr. Smalley gives half his book to pleasing. He recalls the “Red Earl's"
English people of note, dividing his space good service in Ireland during the dark
between those who are still with us and days of the Phønix Park murders ; and
those who are gone. Mr. Chamberlain, he recalls, too, Lord Spencer's sale of Egyptian Literature. —Vol. I. Legends of
his chief hero, has the first place and a the Althorp Library, an heirloom of which
the Gods, the Egyptian Texts, edited,
sympathetic eulogy. The author is wrong he was proud, but in which he confessed
with Translations, by E. A. Wallis
in suggesting by a vague phrase on p. 9 himself unable to take any real interest.
Budge; and Vol. II. Annals of Nubian
that Mr. Chamberlain ever encountered Goschen's dogmatic style is amusingly
Kings, with a Sketch of the History of
Disraeli in debate, for he made his maiden described. There is an attractive sketch,
the Nubian Kingdom of Napata, by E. A.
speech in the House (August 4th, 1876) too, of Goldwin Smith, although Mr.
Wallis Budge. (Kegan Paul & Co. )
just a week before Disraeli left it on his Smalley is, we think, wrong in saying
way to the serener air of the House of that the historian shook the dust of THESE two volumes open a fresh group
Lords. The well-known episode of 1880, Oxford off his feet_mainly because he of works in the series of “Books on Egypt
when the late Sir Charles Dilke and was not elected a Fellow of Oriel. To and Chaldæa,” which was called into
Mr. Chamberlain forced Gladstone to the late Lord Pauncefote Mr. Smalley existence by Dr. Budge a number of years
admit one of them to the Cabinet, is said pays a glowing tribute, which is, perhaps, ago. The imposing list of thirty-one-
to be narrated as Sir Charles gave the most important chapter in the book, volumes so far published deals with the
it to Mr. Smalley at the time, but we as it shows how a genial personality in subjects of religion, magic, history, and
have good reason to believe there is un- our Embassy at Washington, backed by language, two of the instalments bearing
intentional misrepresentation. Mr. Balfour a strong Foreign Secretary in the late Lord the respective titles of ‘Babylonian
the statesman and party leader is severely Salisbury, contrived to change for the Religion and ' Assyrian Language,' and
handled, with a word of rebuke for his better our relations with America. all the others being concerned with the
former secretary, whose name is misspelt; In Mr. Smalley's little gallery of Egyptian side of the topics named. But,
but Mr. Balfour the metaphysician, “ the American portraits, that of Mr. Roosevelt as Dr. Budge rightly says, the time seems
child of Pascal ” and the popular squire, is the most elaborate. He seems to to have arrived“ when the publication of
is a favourite of the author's, along admire and distrust the ex-President a series of groups illustrating Egyptian
with Lord Rosebery and Lord Wolseley by turns. He recalls with a smile how Literature in general might well
be begun. "
Mr. Smalley forgets in his denunciation Mr. Roosevelt, in his early days, paid a
Hence the fresh and laudable direction
of Gladstone for delaying the Gordon call on the famous “boss," Mr. Platt, that is now given to the series ; and, in
Relief Expedition that it was sent in and carried discretion so far as to talk order to make the exact style of the
1884 — not 1885. His recollections of solely about early Macedonian history : undertaking clear at the outset, Dr.
Mr. W ton Churchill in boyhood are “Mr. Platt's face meanwhile was a mask. ” Budge states in the Preface to the first
amusing. Ho notes his passion for He seems to wish that Mr. Roosevelt volume that
work," and somewhat curiously remarks could be as discreet nowadays. Mr. “ these volumes are intended to serve a
that he is "by nature and temperament Smalley refers in some detail to Mr. double purpose, i. e. , to supply the beginner
a Dissenter," which is hardly, we think, Roosevelt's mediation between Russia in Egyptian with new material and a series
the right word. He comments harshly and Japan while the Peace Conference of reading books, and to provide the general
on Sir Edward Grey and Lord Haldane was sitting at Portsmouth, and discusses reader with translations of Egyptian works
as politicians, and has a slight paper on
the same subject more fully in a chapter in a handy form. "
the present Speaker and his three imme-
on Count Witte, to whose diplomatic skill With this well-defined purpose in his
diate predecessors.
he attributes the honourable terms gained mind, Dr. Budge has naturally not con-
The late Duke of Devonshire seems to by Russia. Possibly American public sidered it necessary to aim at producing
have made a profound impression upon opinion influenced the negotiators; but anything novel in these volumes, but has
Mr. Smalley, who notes his capacity for Mr. Smalley omits to consider that the confined himself to the republication of
work and play, his independent nature, Japanese Government may have been texts that are well known to specialists,
and his keen sense of justice. The Duke bluffing ” as well as the Russian Govern- and had already been translated into one
told Mr. Smalley—we have the remark ment, since Japan, as we now know, had or more European languages. His notes
twice over in the first few pages—that the imperative reasons for desiring to end the and introductions to the different parts .
South African War was no more Cham- war after Mukden. Mr. Smalley's remi- bear, much to the advantage of those for
berlain's war than it is mine. When I say ' niscences of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the late whom the volumes are mainly intended,,
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the same non-specialist character; and tion on certain points will still have to the Preface to Vol. II. we have, however,
the numerous plates which adorn the turn to Dr. Budge's work on 'The Egyp- noted the following part of a sentence :
volumes are evidently also calculated tian Sudan' or-in so far as the period The defeat of Cambyses_by Nastasen,
to serve a wide rather than a strictly has been dealt with elsewhere-to publica and his campaigns in the Eastern Sudan
scholastic purpose.
tions of a similar nature.
about B. C. 520. ” We know from the
The texts appear to us happily chosen.
In fixing one's attention successively history of the period that the campaigns
The plan adopted in the first volume, of on each part of this volume, one cannot
referred to were those of Nastasen, but
making each page of translation face the help
realizing that, apart from the value the wording itself would, to say the least
corresponding one of hieroglyphics, is the of the compositions as ancient literature, of it, leave one in doubt as to whether
best that could be devised; though the their contents are fascinating from the they might not have been those of Cam-
method followed in Vol. II. , of printing historical point of view. Piankhi, the byses. But a little slip of this kind is
the translation below the text, is service- famous conqueror of Egypt, who ascended merely the
result of the quickness of work
able enough. Besides the translations, the throne of Napata
about the
middle which belongs to a voluminous writer:
Dr. Budge gives in his introductory of the eighth century B. C. or a little
chapters, in an easy and genial manner, later, was evidently a ruler of great
summaries of the legends and histories. strength and resource, with a very con-
The reader will thus pleasantly pass siderable mixture of ruthlessness in his THEORY AND PRACTICE.
from part to part. From the Legend of character. As Dr. Budge puts it," he
Creation, with which Vol. I. opens, he struck swiftly, and he struck hard,” but It is not our wish to maintain that in
will proceed to the story of the destruction he at the same time honoured the gods the books under review the two parts of
of mankind (or, as we should rather say, of Egypt and respected its civilization. our heading are wholly divorced, yet, had
the destruction of some part of mankind). Also highly interesting, though in a dif- we it in our power to bestow a mutual
The chapter which tells the interesting ferent way, is the chapter on the history blessing on Mr. Temple and Mr. Holmes,
story of the snake bite of Ra and the of Tanuath-Amen, who was a nephew of it would take the form of wishing them
artfulness of Isis reminds one a little in Taharqa, the contemporary of Hezekiah, for a time to change places and experi-
a rather far-off way, it is true) of the story Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Ashur- ences without detriment to the services
of Merlin and Vivien, as told in Tenny. bani-pal. In reflecting upon this king's each is rendering to his fellows.
son’s ‘Idylls of the King,' with this great successful campaigns against the Egyptians
difference, however, that Vivien was both and his subsequent overthrow by the columns our appreciation of Mr. Temple’s
We have already expressed in our
artful and meretricious, whilst Isis was Assyrians, Dr. Budge says
artful only.
summary of the evolution of the idea of
Three chapters are assigned to different " The Nubians fought the Egyptians with God; it is now our duty to point out
parts of the story of Horus. The wonder- great success, and occupied their country, wherein we think he shows himself out
working power of the image of a god is just as the modern Sudani tribes, if not held of touch with, if not wholly unconversant
well illustrated by the Legend of Khengu to-day and make Cairo their capital. ”
in check by the British, would occupy it with, present-day thought concerning the
coming, in the fullness of time, of the
Nefer-Hetep and the Princess of Bekhten';
Kingdom of God on earth.
and the dependence of Egypt for its food- The chapter that follows gives an
supply on the regularity in the rise of the account of the election and coronation of We should like, for instance, to assure
Nile is brought out in the story of a Aspelta, whose reign is with good reason Mr. Temple that to labour the point
seven years' famine, supposed to have computed by Dr. Budge to have lain in concerning Christ's words to the woman
taken place in the reign of Tcheser, a the last quarter of the seventh century B. c. taken in adultery—“ Neither do I con-
king of the Third Dynasty. It was, in our The dedication of an endowment made to demn thee; go, and sin no more is
opinion, a happy thought to conclude the temple of Amen-Rā by Aspelta's unnecessary, at least for those for whom
Vol. I. with the history of Isis and Osiris queen, Matisen, takes up the next chapter, his lectures were intended or who will read
taken from Plutarch's treatise · De Iside and there follows a decree issued against his written word. Christ's words are no
et Osiride,' which affords the learned certain evildoers by the same Aspelta. longer needed to enforce a forgiveness
editor an opportunity of adding compara- The special value attaching to the stele which is now considered morally obliga-
tive notes from the standpoint of the of Heru-sa-atef, which forms the subject tory, if not yet fully understood as mere
fuller Egyptological knowledge of modern of chap. vi. , lies in the fact that it is commonsense. When later we come to
times.
the only monument of the reign of this the question of compromise, necessitated,
In Vol. II. Dr.
Budge supplies narratives king, and all that we know of his deeds our author thinks, by civilization, he does
- not unnuixed, of course, with many is derived from it. ”. Dr. Budge thinks it not venture to give even an interpretation
references to the gods of the principal probable that he flourished in the first of Christ's attitude, but fearlessly offers
events which took place in the Nubian half of the sixth century B. C. The Annals his own opinion, which is sufficiently
kingdom of Napata from about 750 B. C. of Nastasen, who came into collision with dissimilar to be convenient to present-day
to 500 B. C. , as recorded on the famous the Persian king Cambyses, conclude the ethics.
seven stela
which originally stood in a historical records of the stelæ ; but Dr.
In spite of the foregoing, we must
group in the great temple at Gebel Barkal, Budge adds an Appendix in the shape of confess we were unprepared to find our
some ten miles from the foot of the Fourth two short texts, one of which records a author so unconvinced of the inherent
Cataract, in the Egyptian Sudan,
,” but decree of the Egyptian king Usertsen III.
most of which are now preserved in the of the Twelfth Dynasty against the nobility of life as to tend to think that, if
no ideal after-life can be believed in, it
Egyptian Museum at Cairo. As, however, Blacks (or the Nubians), whilst the other will be " Let us dance and be merry,
the inscriptions on the stelæ“ leave many describes his conquests of the Blacks and for to-morrow we die. ” Finally, Mr.
gaps,” and “ tell us nothing about the their character.
Temple deals in an avowedly “sketchy
origin of the kingdom, or of the general The volumes before us are bright and and highly unsatisfactory manner" with
relations of Nubia to Egypt from the readable. In the Preface to Vol. I. various religious philosophies and ways
Fourth to the Twenty-Third Dynasty,” Dr. Budge testifies to the many diffi- of regarding life, ending with an allusion
Dr. Budge decided to supply the inform- culties which the Egyptian texts offer to the Marxian theory, which, in spite of
ation in his Introduction to the text to a translator, and he states himself its being the most“ seriously formidable,"
taken from the stele of Piankhi, with that the renderings given by him of he dismisses even more briefly and
which the volume opens.
We thus a number of passages “claim to be sketchily. "
get a pretty complete narrative of the nothing more than suggestions as to their
history of the Northern Sudan and its meanings. " The general style, on the The Kingdom of God. By William Temple.
relation to Egypt from early days down other hand, of the translations and intro-
(Macmillan & Co. )
to the beginning of the fifth century B. C. , ductions is as easy and flowing as the London's Underworld. By Thomas Holmes.
though readers desirous of fuller informa- information imparted is unstinted. In (Dent & Sons. )
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now
as
a
So much for theory. Let us
Mr. Holmes tells many a good story
consider a man who may perhaps be said against himself, certainly with no rancour,
on the whole to have had too little time but with an appreciation for those who
NEW NOVEL.
to theorize over the past and future of possess some virtue, though it be a
the Kingdom of God, being wholly taken negative one. Rather does he reserve his Love's Pilgrimage. By Upton Sinclair.
up with that part of His Kingdom which anger for those who are perpetuating
(Heinemann. )
is full of evil and failure in the year of evil conditions by making it possible MR. UPTON SINCLAIR'S new novel, al-
disgrace 1912.
for people to exist on doles of food though greatly superior to the average
given indiscriminately at stated hours,
Every life to have a chance” in enorm-
run of modern fiction, is far from being as
happens on the Embankment.
ous type on yellow bills met the astonished All the agencies which exist only to been. Surely also it was unwise to handi-
good as it ought to be and might have
gaze of many Londoners
only a few days alleviate-not to eradicate—are severely cap it by calling the hero “ Thyrsis” and
ago. We wonder if Mr. Holmes felt and justly condemned. Mr. Holmes has a the heroine “ Corydon. ”
as we did for his penny before it occurred right to speak, for he has done as much
to him that the news bills were as usual
The theme is the isolation, in a com-
as any single man to ensure that mere
misleading, although perhaps
only uninten- existence shall give place to life, if only mercial world, of a genius who refuses to
tionally-in so far as the chance spoken for a short period, as many can witness devote time and labour to any occupation
of in the head-line was meant to be con- who have enjoyed his and his wife's
other than that which his genius dictates
fined to those in ships. For the moment hospitality at“
hospitality at "Singholme. "
to him. But, not having early laid to
the heart leapt with the thought : Was
heart the advice given by Mrs. Siddons
there no need for the writing of Mr.
No higher reward for the entertainers at the end of her career to Macready at
Holmes's book to convince people that than the naive delight of their guests the beginning of his, he permits himself
thousands have no chance of life with
can be imagined, and we thank Mr. to marry, at twenty, a girl of eighteen ;
all its many glories ? Was the nation Holmes for so charmingly relieving the and the appalling struggle with poverty
suddenly awake to its responsibilities? sordidness which inevitably predominates becomes the struggle, not of the man
Had a statesman arisen ? Or perhaps
in his pages by his chapter concerning alone, but of the man, his wife, and their
group of millionaires, faced with hospitality. The old ladies make holiday child.
the last great disaster, had decided in a manner to excite the envy of weary
In his love-letters-the egotism of
to devote their capital' to real needs globe-trotters, and other searchers after which is pardonable only because of his
instead of picking up their fine dividends distraction.
youthful ignorance the genius proposes
out of the life - blood of the people. As he affirms, our first duty to the to mould the girl whom he loves into the
Was a real attempt to be made to community is to seek out and give wife who will help him best; and, with
ensure that the common folk should brains and grit a chance. One quotation all his imagination, he does not see the
receive according to their needs, not from his chapter on 'Prison Oft' we must danger and injustice of marrying a
according to their means ? Were the permit ourselves, as it represents what woman who is admittedly different from
ill-nourished to receive the best of food we would fain hope is the height of the person into whom she is to be changed.
and drink instead of the epicure? Were perversity to which the official mind can Life, of course, avenges itself, as in such
the ill-housed to be offered accommodation attain :-
cases it always does, upon both husband
by those who had empty mansions ?
and wife. That the experienced reader
“I am going, then, to reiterate a serious
but rebellion steals into the
But no, Mr. Holmes's work is still charge! It is this: no boy from eight years mind against the unrelenting vindictive-
accepts;
needed, and we must try to help him to of age up to sixteen, unless sound in mind
readers—for the great British public is
and body, can find entrance into any re-
ness with which Mr. Sinclair pursues his
neither blackguardly nor heartless, but how often he falls into the hands of the variably met, at every tentative lifting
formatory or industrial school! No matter puppet. Not Tess herself is more in-
only criminally ignorant.
police, or what charges may be brought of the head, by a blow. Even geniuses,
Unfortunately, many will be distracted homeless. ' Again, eno youthful prisoner in this commercial world, seldom fare
by the gesticulatory style of the book, under twenty-one years of age, no matter quite so badly as this young man does
here.
but, read simply as a very human how bad his record, is allowed the benefit of
document due to one who has kept a sane
Borstal training unless he, too, be sound in Two qualities in the book touch great-
outlook in spite of being in constant mind and body. This is not only an enor- à ruthless sincerity, and a full
touch with the nether world, it will
be mity, but it is also a great absurdity;
for realization of the
burdens and
found full of vivid interest.
it ultimately fills our prisons with weaklings, exhaustion that oppress the domesticated
and assures the nation a continuous prison
population. "
woman. Never has a truer picture been
Largely the book may be said to be
given of what existence on an inadequate
a collection of thumbnail portraits of Here we have no superman overcoming weekly income means to the wife and
people who relatively represent the good difficulties by sheer force of character, mother who
“keeps house" single-
and the bad on the one hand, those whose but a human being now indignant with handed. Clearly the eyes of the American
only idea in life seems to be to support the crass stupidity of people calling them- man are opening to a spectacle which has
themselves by their labour at whatever selves educated, but at other times passed unseen before the eyes of men for
cost to their health and happiness, and shamefaced himself. When he goes to generations. When, however, Mr. Sin-
those others whose only object in life preach in a prison chapel he feels with clair shows us the overburdened young
is to secure a comparatively easy living discomfort the gimlet-like eyes of those wife reaching out unconsciously and in-
at whatever expense to the community. who understand him intimately-who stinctively for some second man to bear
We agree with Mr. Holmes that it is know that but for something which her away from conditions into which she
not until we recognize that the former has been termed the “Grace of God” is sinking, his observation may be ques-
are only less detrimental to progress than the positions of preacher and listener tioned. The modern woman's theory of
the latter that we can seriously tackle might well have been reversed.
emancipation is increasingly economic ;
the problem of the over-employed, the
not by way of clinging to a fresh man,
unemployed, and the unemployable. We be the means of sending him many re-
We hope that Mr. Holmes's book may but by way of earning a livelihood for
must also face the half-hearted -as to cruits, healthy in mind and body, who will
herself.
cruits, healthy in mind and body, who will Look" is typical of her.
Mr. Barrie's Twelve - Pound
whom we again agree with Mr. Holmes
that they are more disastrous to the world
carry on and widen his work with his own
When all exceptions have been made,
than the absolutely wicked. Have we not sympathetic virility.
however, 'Love's Pilgrimage' remains a
an authoritative statement concerning the It is men of such experience and fine attempt, and Mr. Sinclair has raised
lukewarm ? _“I will spue thee out of my humanity who best deserve an attentive his already high literary position by
mouth. ”
audience.
making it.
ness :
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means
explained by corruptions of such a text St. Dominic's contribution towards solving
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. underlying them, and there are actual cita- them is, in proportion, altogether too slightly
[Notice in these columns does not preclude longer
tions in early patristic literature.
indicated. Moreover, the writing, though
roviow. )
The question arises, Was the Greek the often good, is in many places rough and
first, or was there an original Hebrew text ? careless, and numerous misprints still
Tbeology.
Mr. Box agrees with the most recent investi- further disfigure it.
gators in asserting that the phenomena
Coats (R. H. ), TYPES OF ENGLISH PIETY, 41 point to a Semitic original. He affirms that O'Leary (Rev. de Lacy), THE SACRAMENT OF
net.
Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark the syntax reflects characteristically Hebrew
HOLY BAPTISM, 2/
S. P. C. K.
This writer is possessed of a facile pen. features, and he contends that the Hebrew
The types under which he ranges English text and the Greek version embraced the Christian baptism, the witness of the Fathers
This is an excellent work. The history of
piety are the “ Sacerdotal,", the “Evan- Apocalypse proper, to which in the third to its manifold significance, and the customs
gelical," and the 'Mystical" ; each in
century the additional chapters were ap- connected with it are set forth with ample
turn, with a rather. complacent fluency pended. There is a further question : Is illustration and in a style unusually easy and
and
great multitude of words, he the present form of the Ezra-Apocalypse a pleasant.
describes, illustrates, and appraises, first
recounting its merits, then dilating on its compilation made from different sources, that on the relation
of baptism to confirma-
or is it a uniform composition which goes tion; and such an expression as
66 the fact
defects. His authorities seem to be mainly back to a single author ? Mr. Box thinks that the gift of the Holy Spirit is made more
certain already oft-discussed originals, to that it is a composite production, and that definitely in Confirmation"
gether with a number of recent
(the italics are
works of
popularization. " He has an odd way
the most important part, the Salathiel-ours) ought surely not to have been allowed
of
We think, too, that the history of
solemnly exposing what he considers to be is inclined to regard the whole as proceeding other than the Jewish and Christian might
adducing Scott as a witness: thus, as he is | Apocalypse, was written and put forth in to pass.
Prof. Sanday, on the other hand, the idea and practice of baptism in religions
the dangers of confession, he quotes a
from a single hand.
soliloquy of Anthony Foster's in “Kenil-
with advantage have been brought out more
worth. The " Evangelical
type fares
The highest praise is due to Mr. Box for fully. A few misprints and slips in construc-
his work.
best at his hands.
His exposition of the theology tion might be corrected in a later edition,
and eschatology of the book, and his state and, this being a cheap, popular book,
Cuthbertson (David), A TRAGEDY OF THE ment of its aim and importance for Jewish for the benefit of those who do not happen
REFORMATION, being the Authentic theology, are lucid dissertations. The trans- to know that κλινικός
“ sick,”
Narrative of the History and Burning lation and the commentary reveal the hand “ lying in bed,'*
122 “ clinic baptism” might be
of the ' Christianismi Restitutio,' 1553, of an accomplished scholar. Prof. Sanday, explained.
with a Succinct Account of the Theo- who testifies that the quality of Mr. Box's
logical Controversy between_Michael work may be seen on every page, heartily Robinson (Fr. Paschal), THE RULE OF ST.
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us, largely by the late Father Fortunatus
expression with the New Testament writ- he has succeeded admirably in indicating Signini. Published in its present form in
ings; and these parallels are carefully marked the majesty and significance of its historical 1845, the " Theodicy remains an important
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nished, while the most important of them
of the difference which intervening develop-
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must be traceable ultimately to the school text, of the authorities for the several state-
of Gamaliel.
ments made. Another good feature is the Steuart (P. H. J. ), BOOK OF RUTH, A LITERAL
TRANSLATION FROM THE HEBREW.
As the title of this volume indicates, the vigour with which the masses of material
Ezre-Apocalypse corresponds to chaps. iii. - brought together
Nutt
handled. Further
xiv. of 2 Esdras of our Apocrypha, which than this we can hardly praise the book. A reading-book for students of Hebrew
is the Fourth Book of Ezra of the St. Dominic is a shadowy figure thrust into which the author believes, both on linguistic
Vulgate. Several versions exist, and of the background by the author's preoccupa- and thematic grounds, to be specially suitable
these the most important is the Latin, which tion with the details of the Albigensian for the purpose. In the course of the four
contains chaps.
good deal has recently been accomplished erudition and entertainment, the survey induced a remark which looks gratuitous
by instalments. Of the English chro- follows the system of description of and cruel, that McPherson, editor of
nicles, all inevitably reflecting or glancing contents, and illustration by extracts, Wyntoun, was the son of a tailor in
at Scots affairs, excellent accounts have with a thread of connecting account and Edinburgh an offence which might
been given not only in Rolls Series prefaces, a dash of criticism. Thus in rapid course have been forgiven ! Goodall, the
but also compendiously in the handbook are traced the distinctive qualities of the editor of Bower, and the object of a
satellites of that system. Scottish record Roman historians, the hagiographers of worse scandal than base descent, has
publications have practically eschewed Ninian, Columba, and Kentigern, the more happily escaped.
the more happily escaped. A misprint on
and are now eschewing chronicle, the need Anglo-Saxon annalists, and an array of
Libellus de Primo Adventu
and value of printing official treasury later writers from Ailred of Rievaux Saxorum,' has its amusing side. Reve-
compota and Council registers being more and Walter of Coventry to the Scottish dene (p. 172) is not Raughton in Cumber-
urgent. But the clubs are active, and Fordun, Barbour, and Wyntoun. All the land, but is in Sprouston, Roxburghshire,
private enterprise is brisk. Neither authors dealt with are in print: manu- where “ Reddenburn” saw many a March-
textual nor critical effort is wanting, and script is not an effective word in Sir Warden's gathering.
perhaps it is a good sign that the editorial Herbert's vocabulary. Telling passages Probably a wise reticence hindered this
impulse so nearly countervails the easier are chosen to illustrate such themes as pleasantly toned conspectus of early
tendency towards criticism. Collation Brunanburh, the battle of the Standard, chronicle from claiming to be a critical
of texts is the best fount of criticism, the blood-covenant of the Galloway Picts, specialist's contribution upon the Quellen
and of this there are eminent examples. and the endless controversy of the homage of the authors, their relative historic
Foremost among its exponents has been of the Kings of Scots.
achievement, and their capacities of
a young Carnegie scholar, Mr. Alan 0. Incidentally it cannot escape observa- literary expression. Many are the inter-
Anderson, who in his Scottish Annals
Scottish Annals tion to what a degree the field of the esting questions suggested. How far, for
from English Chronicles,' A. D. 500 to 1286, book has been covered by Mr. A. 0. instance, did these chronicles reflect
has edited in translation, with synoptical Anderson. No doubt the debt to him is national standards, opinions, and anti-
cross-references, a wonderfully full corpus gracefully enough owned, but it would pathies, which were to crystallize so
of Scots history from English sources. have saved reviewers and others trouble differently on the opposite sides of the
Sir Archibald Lawrie, in his ‘Annals of had references to his work accompanied Border? How far did the Scottish chro-
Malcolm and William,' has given the Latin some three-fifths of the foot-notes. The nicles in particular at first interpret, and
historical texts from 1153 to 1214. Prof. Preface expresses modest intention afterwards inspire, national feeling and
Sanford Terry's 'Scottish Historical Clubs, to indicate lines of truth among con- l national literature ?
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an
our war,' I mean it of the whole Cabinet. Speaker Reed, the late J. S. Morgan and
Anglo-American Memories : Second Series. We were all agreed at the beginning. We his son Mr. Pierpont Morgan, of Mr.
By George W. Smalley. (Duckworth are all agreed now. ” The Duke's moral Carnegie and his sale of the Homestead
& Co. )
courage is illustrated by a story of how works to the Steel Trust for a fabulous
he settled a social scandal, not named here, price, and of Mr. W. W. Astor are all full
MR. G. W. SMALLEY'S recollections and but not forgotten, by securing and burning of interesting gossip.
appreciations of various eminent men,
the compromising letters, with the dry As a relief from politics and society,
living or dead, on both sides of the Atlantic remark, “ I do not think it will be neces- Mr. Smalley devotes a few chapters to the
are distinctly entertaining. As London sary to carry this matter further. ” The arts, exemplified by Whistler, W. S.
correspondent of The New York Tribune, late Duchess of Devonshire has a chapter Gilbert, Irving, Madame Sarah Bernhardt,
and as Washington correspondent for to herself, with some piquant anecdotes. and Aimé Desclée, whose love-letters the
some years of The Times, he has had an ambassador once interceded vainly younger Dumas published. The apprecia-
exceptional opportunities of meeting poli; with her on behalf of a lady who had not tion of Irving is very good, but better still
ticians and others of note, and he has used had a card for her famous fancy-dress is the description of a meeting between
his opportunities with an eagerness cha- ball at the Jubilee of 1897 ; at the end him and the great Sarah, after she had
racteristic of his countrymen. He can the Duchess relented so far as to say, “ If been taken to see Irving in 'The Bells. '
tell a story neatly, and he can sum up she likes to come without a card, she may “Mais il m'énerve; dans le bon sens,
his impressions of a man with practised come. ” To the Duchess Mr. Smalley bien entendu,” said the actress, with her
ease in a few pages. He thinks that he attributes an ambition to see the Duke
He does
is an impartial observer -“ politics I Prime Minister ; the fact remains that things, some things, which no French actor
eyes fixed on the Mathias.
eschew,” he says in one place; but this he thrice-not twice-refused the offer
is a harmless delusion. His book would of the place, showing a wisdom that never misses à point. ”
can do. He makes no mistakes. He
She went on
not be half so amusing if it did not betray did him infinite credit. Mr. Smalley has to praise his stage-management as
on every page his strong prejudices
no very definite impression to give of intellectual triumph. ” Sarah's remarks
against Gladstone, for example, or against Sir William Harcourt, but his friendly on Irving, as recalled by Mr. Smalley, are
unorthodox Republicanism in America. sketch of the late Earl Spencer is just and precious indeed.
Mr. Smalley gives half his book to pleasing. He recalls the “Red Earl's"
English people of note, dividing his space good service in Ireland during the dark
between those who are still with us and days of the Phønix Park murders ; and
those who are gone. Mr. Chamberlain, he recalls, too, Lord Spencer's sale of Egyptian Literature. —Vol. I. Legends of
his chief hero, has the first place and a the Althorp Library, an heirloom of which
the Gods, the Egyptian Texts, edited,
sympathetic eulogy. The author is wrong he was proud, but in which he confessed
with Translations, by E. A. Wallis
in suggesting by a vague phrase on p. 9 himself unable to take any real interest.
Budge; and Vol. II. Annals of Nubian
that Mr. Chamberlain ever encountered Goschen's dogmatic style is amusingly
Kings, with a Sketch of the History of
Disraeli in debate, for he made his maiden described. There is an attractive sketch,
the Nubian Kingdom of Napata, by E. A.
speech in the House (August 4th, 1876) too, of Goldwin Smith, although Mr.
Wallis Budge. (Kegan Paul & Co. )
just a week before Disraeli left it on his Smalley is, we think, wrong in saying
way to the serener air of the House of that the historian shook the dust of THESE two volumes open a fresh group
Lords. The well-known episode of 1880, Oxford off his feet_mainly because he of works in the series of “Books on Egypt
when the late Sir Charles Dilke and was not elected a Fellow of Oriel. To and Chaldæa,” which was called into
Mr. Chamberlain forced Gladstone to the late Lord Pauncefote Mr. Smalley existence by Dr. Budge a number of years
admit one of them to the Cabinet, is said pays a glowing tribute, which is, perhaps, ago. The imposing list of thirty-one-
to be narrated as Sir Charles gave the most important chapter in the book, volumes so far published deals with the
it to Mr. Smalley at the time, but we as it shows how a genial personality in subjects of religion, magic, history, and
have good reason to believe there is un- our Embassy at Washington, backed by language, two of the instalments bearing
intentional misrepresentation. Mr. Balfour a strong Foreign Secretary in the late Lord the respective titles of ‘Babylonian
the statesman and party leader is severely Salisbury, contrived to change for the Religion and ' Assyrian Language,' and
handled, with a word of rebuke for his better our relations with America. all the others being concerned with the
former secretary, whose name is misspelt; In Mr. Smalley's little gallery of Egyptian side of the topics named. But,
but Mr. Balfour the metaphysician, “ the American portraits, that of Mr. Roosevelt as Dr. Budge rightly says, the time seems
child of Pascal ” and the popular squire, is the most elaborate. He seems to to have arrived“ when the publication of
is a favourite of the author's, along admire and distrust the ex-President a series of groups illustrating Egyptian
with Lord Rosebery and Lord Wolseley by turns. He recalls with a smile how Literature in general might well
be begun. "
Mr. Smalley forgets in his denunciation Mr. Roosevelt, in his early days, paid a
Hence the fresh and laudable direction
of Gladstone for delaying the Gordon call on the famous “boss," Mr. Platt, that is now given to the series ; and, in
Relief Expedition that it was sent in and carried discretion so far as to talk order to make the exact style of the
1884 — not 1885. His recollections of solely about early Macedonian history : undertaking clear at the outset, Dr.
Mr. W ton Churchill in boyhood are “Mr. Platt's face meanwhile was a mask. ” Budge states in the Preface to the first
amusing. Ho notes his passion for He seems to wish that Mr. Roosevelt volume that
work," and somewhat curiously remarks could be as discreet nowadays. Mr. “ these volumes are intended to serve a
that he is "by nature and temperament Smalley refers in some detail to Mr. double purpose, i. e. , to supply the beginner
a Dissenter," which is hardly, we think, Roosevelt's mediation between Russia in Egyptian with new material and a series
the right word. He comments harshly and Japan while the Peace Conference of reading books, and to provide the general
on Sir Edward Grey and Lord Haldane was sitting at Portsmouth, and discusses reader with translations of Egyptian works
as politicians, and has a slight paper on
the same subject more fully in a chapter in a handy form. "
the present Speaker and his three imme-
on Count Witte, to whose diplomatic skill With this well-defined purpose in his
diate predecessors.
he attributes the honourable terms gained mind, Dr. Budge has naturally not con-
The late Duke of Devonshire seems to by Russia. Possibly American public sidered it necessary to aim at producing
have made a profound impression upon opinion influenced the negotiators; but anything novel in these volumes, but has
Mr. Smalley, who notes his capacity for Mr. Smalley omits to consider that the confined himself to the republication of
work and play, his independent nature, Japanese Government may have been texts that are well known to specialists,
and his keen sense of justice. The Duke bluffing ” as well as the Russian Govern- and had already been translated into one
told Mr. Smalley—we have the remark ment, since Japan, as we now know, had or more European languages. His notes
twice over in the first few pages—that the imperative reasons for desiring to end the and introductions to the different parts .
South African War was no more Cham- war after Mukden. Mr. Smalley's remi- bear, much to the advantage of those for
berlain's war than it is mine. When I say ' niscences of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the late whom the volumes are mainly intended,,
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the same non-specialist character; and tion on certain points will still have to the Preface to Vol. II. we have, however,
the numerous plates which adorn the turn to Dr. Budge's work on 'The Egyp- noted the following part of a sentence :
volumes are evidently also calculated tian Sudan' or-in so far as the period The defeat of Cambyses_by Nastasen,
to serve a wide rather than a strictly has been dealt with elsewhere-to publica and his campaigns in the Eastern Sudan
scholastic purpose.
tions of a similar nature.
about B. C. 520. ” We know from the
The texts appear to us happily chosen.
In fixing one's attention successively history of the period that the campaigns
The plan adopted in the first volume, of on each part of this volume, one cannot
referred to were those of Nastasen, but
making each page of translation face the help
realizing that, apart from the value the wording itself would, to say the least
corresponding one of hieroglyphics, is the of the compositions as ancient literature, of it, leave one in doubt as to whether
best that could be devised; though the their contents are fascinating from the they might not have been those of Cam-
method followed in Vol. II. , of printing historical point of view. Piankhi, the byses. But a little slip of this kind is
the translation below the text, is service- famous conqueror of Egypt, who ascended merely the
result of the quickness of work
able enough. Besides the translations, the throne of Napata
about the
middle which belongs to a voluminous writer:
Dr. Budge gives in his introductory of the eighth century B. C. or a little
chapters, in an easy and genial manner, later, was evidently a ruler of great
summaries of the legends and histories. strength and resource, with a very con-
The reader will thus pleasantly pass siderable mixture of ruthlessness in his THEORY AND PRACTICE.
from part to part. From the Legend of character. As Dr. Budge puts it," he
Creation, with which Vol. I. opens, he struck swiftly, and he struck hard,” but It is not our wish to maintain that in
will proceed to the story of the destruction he at the same time honoured the gods the books under review the two parts of
of mankind (or, as we should rather say, of Egypt and respected its civilization. our heading are wholly divorced, yet, had
the destruction of some part of mankind). Also highly interesting, though in a dif- we it in our power to bestow a mutual
The chapter which tells the interesting ferent way, is the chapter on the history blessing on Mr. Temple and Mr. Holmes,
story of the snake bite of Ra and the of Tanuath-Amen, who was a nephew of it would take the form of wishing them
artfulness of Isis reminds one a little in Taharqa, the contemporary of Hezekiah, for a time to change places and experi-
a rather far-off way, it is true) of the story Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Ashur- ences without detriment to the services
of Merlin and Vivien, as told in Tenny. bani-pal. In reflecting upon this king's each is rendering to his fellows.
son’s ‘Idylls of the King,' with this great successful campaigns against the Egyptians
difference, however, that Vivien was both and his subsequent overthrow by the columns our appreciation of Mr. Temple’s
We have already expressed in our
artful and meretricious, whilst Isis was Assyrians, Dr. Budge says
artful only.
summary of the evolution of the idea of
Three chapters are assigned to different " The Nubians fought the Egyptians with God; it is now our duty to point out
parts of the story of Horus. The wonder- great success, and occupied their country, wherein we think he shows himself out
working power of the image of a god is just as the modern Sudani tribes, if not held of touch with, if not wholly unconversant
well illustrated by the Legend of Khengu to-day and make Cairo their capital. ”
in check by the British, would occupy it with, present-day thought concerning the
coming, in the fullness of time, of the
Nefer-Hetep and the Princess of Bekhten';
Kingdom of God on earth.
and the dependence of Egypt for its food- The chapter that follows gives an
supply on the regularity in the rise of the account of the election and coronation of We should like, for instance, to assure
Nile is brought out in the story of a Aspelta, whose reign is with good reason Mr. Temple that to labour the point
seven years' famine, supposed to have computed by Dr. Budge to have lain in concerning Christ's words to the woman
taken place in the reign of Tcheser, a the last quarter of the seventh century B. c. taken in adultery—“ Neither do I con-
king of the Third Dynasty. It was, in our The dedication of an endowment made to demn thee; go, and sin no more is
opinion, a happy thought to conclude the temple of Amen-Rā by Aspelta's unnecessary, at least for those for whom
Vol. I. with the history of Isis and Osiris queen, Matisen, takes up the next chapter, his lectures were intended or who will read
taken from Plutarch's treatise · De Iside and there follows a decree issued against his written word. Christ's words are no
et Osiride,' which affords the learned certain evildoers by the same Aspelta. longer needed to enforce a forgiveness
editor an opportunity of adding compara- The special value attaching to the stele which is now considered morally obliga-
tive notes from the standpoint of the of Heru-sa-atef, which forms the subject tory, if not yet fully understood as mere
fuller Egyptological knowledge of modern of chap. vi. , lies in the fact that it is commonsense. When later we come to
times.
the only monument of the reign of this the question of compromise, necessitated,
In Vol. II. Dr.
Budge supplies narratives king, and all that we know of his deeds our author thinks, by civilization, he does
- not unnuixed, of course, with many is derived from it. ”. Dr. Budge thinks it not venture to give even an interpretation
references to the gods of the principal probable that he flourished in the first of Christ's attitude, but fearlessly offers
events which took place in the Nubian half of the sixth century B. C. The Annals his own opinion, which is sufficiently
kingdom of Napata from about 750 B. C. of Nastasen, who came into collision with dissimilar to be convenient to present-day
to 500 B. C. , as recorded on the famous the Persian king Cambyses, conclude the ethics.
seven stela
which originally stood in a historical records of the stelæ ; but Dr.
In spite of the foregoing, we must
group in the great temple at Gebel Barkal, Budge adds an Appendix in the shape of confess we were unprepared to find our
some ten miles from the foot of the Fourth two short texts, one of which records a author so unconvinced of the inherent
Cataract, in the Egyptian Sudan,
,” but decree of the Egyptian king Usertsen III.
most of which are now preserved in the of the Twelfth Dynasty against the nobility of life as to tend to think that, if
no ideal after-life can be believed in, it
Egyptian Museum at Cairo. As, however, Blacks (or the Nubians), whilst the other will be " Let us dance and be merry,
the inscriptions on the stelæ“ leave many describes his conquests of the Blacks and for to-morrow we die. ” Finally, Mr.
gaps,” and “ tell us nothing about the their character.
Temple deals in an avowedly “sketchy
origin of the kingdom, or of the general The volumes before us are bright and and highly unsatisfactory manner" with
relations of Nubia to Egypt from the readable. In the Preface to Vol. I. various religious philosophies and ways
Fourth to the Twenty-Third Dynasty,” Dr. Budge testifies to the many diffi- of regarding life, ending with an allusion
Dr. Budge decided to supply the inform- culties which the Egyptian texts offer to the Marxian theory, which, in spite of
ation in his Introduction to the text to a translator, and he states himself its being the most“ seriously formidable,"
taken from the stele of Piankhi, with that the renderings given by him of he dismisses even more briefly and
which the volume opens.
We thus a number of passages “claim to be sketchily. "
get a pretty complete narrative of the nothing more than suggestions as to their
history of the Northern Sudan and its meanings. " The general style, on the The Kingdom of God. By William Temple.
relation to Egypt from early days down other hand, of the translations and intro-
(Macmillan & Co. )
to the beginning of the fifth century B. C. , ductions is as easy and flowing as the London's Underworld. By Thomas Holmes.
though readers desirous of fuller informa- information imparted is unstinted. In (Dent & Sons. )
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now
as
a
So much for theory. Let us
Mr. Holmes tells many a good story
consider a man who may perhaps be said against himself, certainly with no rancour,
on the whole to have had too little time but with an appreciation for those who
NEW NOVEL.
to theorize over the past and future of possess some virtue, though it be a
the Kingdom of God, being wholly taken negative one. Rather does he reserve his Love's Pilgrimage. By Upton Sinclair.
up with that part of His Kingdom which anger for those who are perpetuating
(Heinemann. )
is full of evil and failure in the year of evil conditions by making it possible MR. UPTON SINCLAIR'S new novel, al-
disgrace 1912.
for people to exist on doles of food though greatly superior to the average
given indiscriminately at stated hours,
Every life to have a chance” in enorm-
run of modern fiction, is far from being as
happens on the Embankment.
ous type on yellow bills met the astonished All the agencies which exist only to been. Surely also it was unwise to handi-
good as it ought to be and might have
gaze of many Londoners
only a few days alleviate-not to eradicate—are severely cap it by calling the hero “ Thyrsis” and
ago. We wonder if Mr. Holmes felt and justly condemned. Mr. Holmes has a the heroine “ Corydon. ”
as we did for his penny before it occurred right to speak, for he has done as much
to him that the news bills were as usual
The theme is the isolation, in a com-
as any single man to ensure that mere
misleading, although perhaps
only uninten- existence shall give place to life, if only mercial world, of a genius who refuses to
tionally-in so far as the chance spoken for a short period, as many can witness devote time and labour to any occupation
of in the head-line was meant to be con- who have enjoyed his and his wife's
other than that which his genius dictates
fined to those in ships. For the moment hospitality at“
hospitality at "Singholme. "
to him. But, not having early laid to
the heart leapt with the thought : Was
heart the advice given by Mrs. Siddons
there no need for the writing of Mr.
No higher reward for the entertainers at the end of her career to Macready at
Holmes's book to convince people that than the naive delight of their guests the beginning of his, he permits himself
thousands have no chance of life with
can be imagined, and we thank Mr. to marry, at twenty, a girl of eighteen ;
all its many glories ? Was the nation Holmes for so charmingly relieving the and the appalling struggle with poverty
suddenly awake to its responsibilities? sordidness which inevitably predominates becomes the struggle, not of the man
Had a statesman arisen ? Or perhaps
in his pages by his chapter concerning alone, but of the man, his wife, and their
group of millionaires, faced with hospitality. The old ladies make holiday child.
the last great disaster, had decided in a manner to excite the envy of weary
In his love-letters-the egotism of
to devote their capital' to real needs globe-trotters, and other searchers after which is pardonable only because of his
instead of picking up their fine dividends distraction.
youthful ignorance the genius proposes
out of the life - blood of the people. As he affirms, our first duty to the to mould the girl whom he loves into the
Was a real attempt to be made to community is to seek out and give wife who will help him best; and, with
ensure that the common folk should brains and grit a chance. One quotation all his imagination, he does not see the
receive according to their needs, not from his chapter on 'Prison Oft' we must danger and injustice of marrying a
according to their means ? Were the permit ourselves, as it represents what woman who is admittedly different from
ill-nourished to receive the best of food we would fain hope is the height of the person into whom she is to be changed.
and drink instead of the epicure? Were perversity to which the official mind can Life, of course, avenges itself, as in such
the ill-housed to be offered accommodation attain :-
cases it always does, upon both husband
by those who had empty mansions ?
and wife. That the experienced reader
“I am going, then, to reiterate a serious
but rebellion steals into the
But no, Mr. Holmes's work is still charge! It is this: no boy from eight years mind against the unrelenting vindictive-
accepts;
needed, and we must try to help him to of age up to sixteen, unless sound in mind
readers—for the great British public is
and body, can find entrance into any re-
ness with which Mr. Sinclair pursues his
neither blackguardly nor heartless, but how often he falls into the hands of the variably met, at every tentative lifting
formatory or industrial school! No matter puppet. Not Tess herself is more in-
only criminally ignorant.
police, or what charges may be brought of the head, by a blow. Even geniuses,
Unfortunately, many will be distracted homeless. ' Again, eno youthful prisoner in this commercial world, seldom fare
by the gesticulatory style of the book, under twenty-one years of age, no matter quite so badly as this young man does
here.
but, read simply as a very human how bad his record, is allowed the benefit of
document due to one who has kept a sane
Borstal training unless he, too, be sound in Two qualities in the book touch great-
outlook in spite of being in constant mind and body. This is not only an enor- à ruthless sincerity, and a full
touch with the nether world, it will
be mity, but it is also a great absurdity;
for realization of the
burdens and
found full of vivid interest.
it ultimately fills our prisons with weaklings, exhaustion that oppress the domesticated
and assures the nation a continuous prison
population. "
woman. Never has a truer picture been
Largely the book may be said to be
given of what existence on an inadequate
a collection of thumbnail portraits of Here we have no superman overcoming weekly income means to the wife and
people who relatively represent the good difficulties by sheer force of character, mother who
“keeps house" single-
and the bad on the one hand, those whose but a human being now indignant with handed. Clearly the eyes of the American
only idea in life seems to be to support the crass stupidity of people calling them- man are opening to a spectacle which has
themselves by their labour at whatever selves educated, but at other times passed unseen before the eyes of men for
cost to their health and happiness, and shamefaced himself. When he goes to generations. When, however, Mr. Sin-
those others whose only object in life preach in a prison chapel he feels with clair shows us the overburdened young
is to secure a comparatively easy living discomfort the gimlet-like eyes of those wife reaching out unconsciously and in-
at whatever expense to the community. who understand him intimately-who stinctively for some second man to bear
We agree with Mr. Holmes that it is know that but for something which her away from conditions into which she
not until we recognize that the former has been termed the “Grace of God” is sinking, his observation may be ques-
are only less detrimental to progress than the positions of preacher and listener tioned. The modern woman's theory of
the latter that we can seriously tackle might well have been reversed.
emancipation is increasingly economic ;
the problem of the over-employed, the
not by way of clinging to a fresh man,
unemployed, and the unemployable. We be the means of sending him many re-
We hope that Mr. Holmes's book may but by way of earning a livelihood for
must also face the half-hearted -as to cruits, healthy in mind and body, who will
herself.
cruits, healthy in mind and body, who will Look" is typical of her.
Mr. Barrie's Twelve - Pound
whom we again agree with Mr. Holmes
that they are more disastrous to the world
carry on and widen his work with his own
When all exceptions have been made,
than the absolutely wicked. Have we not sympathetic virility.
however, 'Love's Pilgrimage' remains a
an authoritative statement concerning the It is men of such experience and fine attempt, and Mr. Sinclair has raised
lukewarm ? _“I will spue thee out of my humanity who best deserve an attentive his already high literary position by
mouth. ”
audience.
making it.
ness :
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559
means
explained by corruptions of such a text St. Dominic's contribution towards solving
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. underlying them, and there are actual cita- them is, in proportion, altogether too slightly
[Notice in these columns does not preclude longer
tions in early patristic literature.
indicated. Moreover, the writing, though
roviow. )
The question arises, Was the Greek the often good, is in many places rough and
first, or was there an original Hebrew text ? careless, and numerous misprints still
Tbeology.
Mr. Box agrees with the most recent investi- further disfigure it.
gators in asserting that the phenomena
Coats (R. H. ), TYPES OF ENGLISH PIETY, 41 point to a Semitic original. He affirms that O'Leary (Rev. de Lacy), THE SACRAMENT OF
net.
Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark the syntax reflects characteristically Hebrew
HOLY BAPTISM, 2/
S. P. C. K.
This writer is possessed of a facile pen. features, and he contends that the Hebrew
The types under which he ranges English text and the Greek version embraced the Christian baptism, the witness of the Fathers
This is an excellent work. The history of
piety are the “ Sacerdotal,", the “Evan- Apocalypse proper, to which in the third to its manifold significance, and the customs
gelical," and the 'Mystical" ; each in
century the additional chapters were ap- connected with it are set forth with ample
turn, with a rather. complacent fluency pended. There is a further question : Is illustration and in a style unusually easy and
and
great multitude of words, he the present form of the Ezra-Apocalypse a pleasant.
describes, illustrates, and appraises, first
recounting its merits, then dilating on its compilation made from different sources, that on the relation
of baptism to confirma-
or is it a uniform composition which goes tion; and such an expression as
66 the fact
defects. His authorities seem to be mainly back to a single author ? Mr. Box thinks that the gift of the Holy Spirit is made more
certain already oft-discussed originals, to that it is a composite production, and that definitely in Confirmation"
gether with a number of recent
(the italics are
works of
popularization. " He has an odd way
the most important part, the Salathiel-ours) ought surely not to have been allowed
of
We think, too, that the history of
solemnly exposing what he considers to be is inclined to regard the whole as proceeding other than the Jewish and Christian might
adducing Scott as a witness: thus, as he is | Apocalypse, was written and put forth in to pass.
Prof. Sanday, on the other hand, the idea and practice of baptism in religions
the dangers of confession, he quotes a
from a single hand.
soliloquy of Anthony Foster's in “Kenil-
with advantage have been brought out more
worth. The " Evangelical
type fares
The highest praise is due to Mr. Box for fully. A few misprints and slips in construc-
his work.
best at his hands.
His exposition of the theology tion might be corrected in a later edition,
and eschatology of the book, and his state and, this being a cheap, popular book,
Cuthbertson (David), A TRAGEDY OF THE ment of its aim and importance for Jewish for the benefit of those who do not happen
REFORMATION, being the Authentic theology, are lucid dissertations. The trans- to know that κλινικός
“ sick,”
Narrative of the History and Burning lation and the commentary reveal the hand “ lying in bed,'*
122 “ clinic baptism” might be
of the ' Christianismi Restitutio,' 1553, of an accomplished scholar. Prof. Sanday, explained.
with a Succinct Account of the Theo- who testifies that the quality of Mr. Box's
logical Controversy between_Michael work may be seen on every page, heartily Robinson (Fr. Paschal), THE RULE OF ST.
Servetus, its Author, and the Reformer commends it as a great enrichment of CLARE: ITS OBSERVANCE IN THE LIGHT
John Calvin, 5/ net.
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Philadelphia, Dolphin Press
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keen interest in his subject, and is none the for Catholic Priests and Students should be
less entertaining and informing because it welcome without as well as within the Roman
Order of St. Clare, but have not the leisure
ambles to and fro between the history of Communion. It gives, fully, clearly, and suc-
to read the larger volumes dealing with the
Servetus and the adventures of the book. cinctly, both the history of the Mass and an
subject. The writer gives us in a few pages
a graphic picture of St. Clare, the bride of
Ecra-Apocalypse (The): BEING CHAPTERS III. question of the origin of the Roman rite, poverty, the disciple and friend of St.
AS 4 EZRA (OR 2 ESDRAS), translated uncertainty is great and authorities differ, Francis, and the persistent upholder of her
from & Critically Revised Text, with have the best claim to be heard are set forth
the opinions of the nine or ten scholars who purpose against Popes and cardinals. Though
Father Robinson regards as apocryphal
Critical Introductions, Notes, and Ex-
some of the cherished legends of the saint,
planations, with a General Introduction the reader is at any rate enabled to grasp
in detail, each in a separate section, so that
he atones for their loss by his charming
to the Apocalypse, and an Appendix the present state of the problem. The portrayal of the brave Abbess of San
her
Box, together with a Prefatory, Note Three Centuries is especially attractive. fortitude seemed to go beyond prudence at
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A great part of the value of the book arises times, yet it was in reality the prudence of
The Ezra-Apocalypse, which is embodied from its candour and reasonableness. The
the Gospel. "
in 2 Esdras of the official Apocrypha, has imperfections and anomalies of the rite as
Rosmini - Serbati
not received, according to Mr. Box, the atten-
(Antonio), THEODICY :
at present used are frankly discussed, and
tion it deserves, though it is “ of supreme such details of practice as the retention of
ESSAYS ON DIVINE PROVIDENCE, trans-
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lated with some Omissions from the
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Judaism which immediately preceded the scholarly and practical spirit. The dog-
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We welcome this rendering into English
The book demands the attention of the side, as not coming within the writer's of a theological classic too little known in
student of the New Testament, since it
scope ; while keeping close to his facts, this country, It was done, a note informs
contains many parallels in thought and and severely refraining from florid passages,
us, largely by the late Father Fortunatus
expression with the New Testament writ- he has succeeded admirably in indicating Signini. Published in its present form in
ings; and these parallels are carefully marked the majesty and significance of its historical 1845, the " Theodicy remains an important
in the notes of the commentary here fur- development.
contribution to Christian thought, in spite
nished, while the most important of them
of the difference which intervening develop-
are specially indexed. Prof. Sanday, in O'Leary (Rev. de Lacy), THE LIFE AND ments of science and history have made
his Profatory Note, draws attention to the TIMES OF ST. DOMINIC, 2/6 S. P. C. K. between modern methods of attacking the
resemblance between the Jewish author and
A good feature in this work is the insertion problems of religion and those of Rosmini,
St. Paul, and says that the coincidences in parentheses, in the current
of the A good deal of his work is still untranslated.
must be traceable ultimately to the school text, of the authorities for the several state-
of Gamaliel.
ments made. Another good feature is the Steuart (P. H. J. ), BOOK OF RUTH, A LITERAL
TRANSLATION FROM THE HEBREW.
As the title of this volume indicates, the vigour with which the masses of material
Ezre-Apocalypse corresponds to chaps. iii. - brought together
Nutt
handled. Further
xiv. of 2 Esdras of our Apocrypha, which than this we can hardly praise the book. A reading-book for students of Hebrew
is the Fourth Book of Ezra of the St. Dominic is a shadowy figure thrust into which the author believes, both on linguistic
Vulgate. Several versions exist, and of the background by the author's preoccupa- and thematic grounds, to be specially suitable
these the most important is the Latin, which tion with the details of the Albigensian for the purpose. In the course of the four
contains chaps.
