No More Learning

D'AUTREFOIS.
the Sonata for the work of a mere child.
versity of Edinburgh conferred upon him the
LAST WEEK we noticed the
degree of LL. D. in 1906. He published his
concert Herr Buhlig also deserves praise for his
des
Rhind Lectures on 'The Prehistoric Forts of given by the Société Concerts unconventional programme. It is true
Scotland,' also (with his brother) a life of Sir d'Autrefois, on the 17th inst. , at Bechstein that the pieces by Schönberg which were
Robert Christison, his father, whose forestry Hall, interesting both as regards the works heard for the first time are not likely
researches he continued and supplemented. selected and the performances. This excel- to catch the public ear,
even to
In the course of some recent excavations lent company of players appeared again satisfy one inured to many strange things
at Memphis some figurines were found which on the following evening at the sixth in modern music.
their discoverer claimed as portrait models Broadwood Concert at the Æolian Hall,
of the many foreigners who made their when they gave a fresh, pleasing Ballet
home in Egypt in the time of Herodotus, by from Chimène,' by Sacchini, an eigh-
whom they are called Helleno-memphites, teenth-century composer whose operas,
Cario-memphites, and the like. M. A. J.
Ausical Gussip.
Reinach, in a recent study, however, points once popular, are now forgotten;
out that the heads in question are probably Suite Symphonique,' by J. W. A.
'
MR. YORK BOWEN's Second Symphony
not of the Saitic, but of the Alexandrian Stamitz, whose great importance in the will be produced at the New Symphony
age, and that they satisfied the taste for development of the symphony has recently Orchestra’s concert at Queen’s Hall next
caricature which was a feature of the Court been shown by Dr. Riemann ; and a Suite Thursday evening.
of the Ptolemies.
by Johann Christian Bach.
Bach. Handel's THE LONDON TRIO (Madame Amina
M. Max van BERCHEM lately announced Sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord Goodwin, Mr. Simonetti, and Mr. White-
to the Académie des Inscriptions a Corpus was included in the programme, also house) will include Brahms's Quartet in
Inscriptionum Arabicarum,” which is to be short quaint pieces for hautbois d'amour
A major at their next concert on Monday
published in the first place in the Mémoires and double-bass by Boismortier.
evening, February 5th, and will play, by
of the Mission Archéologique Française at
request, Arensky's Trio in D minor.
Cairo. He is beginning with a quantity of
Mr. Whitehouse having completely re-
inscriptions collected by Prof. Sobernheim of
Berlin, who has just finished the work of the
THE SOLLY STRING QUARTET. covered, will resume his usual place in the
Trio, and will also play with Madame
German expedition to Baalbec, and hopes
before long to get through the whole of LAST SATURDAY EVENING two works by Goodwin Chopin's Introduction and Polon-
Northern Syria. His plans for the future M. Vincent d'Indy were performed at
aise for piano and 'cello.
cover Egypt, Asia Minor, Arabia itself, the concert given at Bechstein Hall by THREE extra Symphony Concerts, under
Persia, Central Asia, China, and India, where the Solly String Quartet (Madame Harriet the direction of Sir Henry J. Wood, are to be
there are certainly ample materials.
Solly and the Misses Bertha Tressler, given at Queen's Hall on March 16th and
The first will be
The recent disastrous fire in the Karoli Olive Bell, and Margaret Izard). The 23rd, and on April 27th.
pictures by Potter and Van Dyck, and a held in high esteem by all prominent 'Cello Concerto; while at the third, which
Palace at Budapest, which has destroyed composer, a musician of lofty ideals, is devoted to Wagner; Señor Casals will
appear at the second, and play the Dvorák
number of valuable antiquities, has drawn French musicians. He was founder, has a Beethoven programme, Niadame Teresa
attention to the fact that the convents and in conjunction with Bordes and Guilmant, Carreño will be heard in the E flat Concerto,
palaces of Hungary are full of art treasures
of which nothing is known. As proof of the of the Paris Schola Cantorum in 1896, and M. Renaud in an Adagio from
small interest taken in art, a correspondent and is now sole director of that im- metheus. '
of the Frankfurter Zeitung quotes from the portant institution. The merits of his art- A PERFORMANCE of Bach's B minor Mass
catalogue of a gallery the description of a work have been fully recognized, but what with the Birmingham Festival Choir, sup-
picture as “ By Rafael or Dürer. ”
is said of him in the notice in Grove's ported by the London Symphony Orchestra,
' Dictionary '-“that he does not in the will be given at Queen's Hall under the direc.
least care to please the public”-is true
tion of Dr. G. R. Sinclair, on Thursday
MUSIC
.
of both works under notice-Op. 45, evening, February 29th.
a string quartet, and Op. 7, a pianoforte Miss MARIE BREMA has accepted an
quartet. The music is so austere and engagement to sing Brangäne in Tristan
CHARPENTIER'S LOUISE. ' elaborate that, until it has become familiar, and Clytemnestra in ‘Elektra,'
in English,
now
it cannot be fairly judged. It is only fair with the Denhoff Company now on tour.
A SUCCESSFUL
first performance of to the composer to state that the per kenzie will deliver at the Royal Institution
On Saturday next Sir Alexander C. Mac-
Charpentier's ‘Louise' given at formances not above reproach,
the London Opera House on Wednesday though the ladies deserve praise for pro- Music of To-day,' with illustrations, by the
the first of a course of lectures on 'Russian
evening. This Musical Romance, as it ducing unfamiliar works so little calculated Hans Wessely Quartet.
is named, is a piece that improves on to appeal to the general public.
acquaintance. At first the story is so
On Wednesday last an important decision
dramatic that little heed is paid to
for musical composers was reached by the
the music ; but, as the former becomes
Court of Appeal. Mr. Lionel Monckton
HERR BUHLIG'S RECITAL.
familiar, many clever details in the latter
sought to restrain the Gramophone Company
attract 'attention. Mlle. Aline Vallandri Erich WOLFGANG KORNGOLD, the young sent a "record” of one of his compositions
ERICH
from publishing and selling without his con-
impersonated Louise. Her singing was prodigy and composer-his present age is in ‘Our Miss Gibbs. He failed in his appeal
excellent, and her acting impressive and about 14—has excited great interest in based on common law rights.
free from any exaggeration. M. Jean Germany. His first published work was
Auber, the Julien, is an able artist, yet a pianoforte trio, which, though in several
apparently did not feel quite at his ways promising, showed-naturally enough sox.
ease. Mlle. Marguerite d'Alvarez im- -signs of restlessness and immaturity.
personated the Mother, and M. Francis At his recital on Tuesday evening at
Combe the Father. They were both Steinway Hall, Herr Richard Buhlig Norges Fondoo Symphony Orchestra, 8. 20, Queen's Hall.
good, but the remembrance of Madame performed for the first time in London
Berat and M. Gilibert probably made this boy's second published work, a
it difficult to render them full justice. Pianoforte Sonata in E, which was com-
The piece was effectively mounted, espe- posed two years ago. The style of writing Tours. Therelve o'clock Chamber Concert, Bolian
cially the scene of the Couronnement for the instrument is thoroughly modern,
de la Muse. Signor Luigi Cherubini is but there is nothing of the vagueness of
an able conductor, though at times the form so frequently to be found in modern
orchestra was too loud,
6
6
was
were
a
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Concert, 3, Albert Hall.
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30. Queen's Hall.
Bunday League, 7. Queen's Hall.
TUES. , WED. , TRI. , and DAT. London Opera House. (Matinée also on
Saturday
TUES. Bevcik Quartat,
Bach Choir, 8, Queen's Hall.
WED. Classical Concert, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Miss Gwenbilda Birkett's 't'ello Recital, 8. 15, Steinway Hall.
Miss Christian Carpenter's Planotorte Recital, 8. 30, Eolian
music. The developments of the cha-
Hall
Royal Amateur Orcheutral Society. 8. 80, Queen's Hall
Sergei Tarnowsky's Pianoforte Recital, 2, Bechstein Ball.
Kogal Choral Society. 8. Alhert Hall.
New Nymphony Orcbestra, 818, Queen's Ball
Brond wool's Chamber Concert 8. 30, follan Hall
Ursula Newton' Pianoforte Recital,
8. 80, Bechstein Hall.
BAT. Raruis-Phillip Chamber Concert, 2, Bechstein Hall.
Queen's Hall Orchestra, 3, Queen's Ball.
London Ballad Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall
Extra Broad rood Concert, 3. 5, Polian Hall.


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Important
Announcement.
as
“ an
>
when in the end the lonely spinster takes
DRAMA
her life, we are less shocked by the abrupt
catastrophe than relieved that her other
inconsequences are swallowed up in this
last inconsequence of all,
TWO PLAYS.
'The Clodhopper,' which occupies the rest
The Probationer (Gowans & Gray) would
of the volume, is hardly more successful
seem to be one of the plays produced by
than "The Waters of Bitterness. The
the Glasgow Repertory Theatre, and main-
author describes it
incredible
tains the reputation of the series to which comedy”; it is certainly incredible, but not
it belongs. Mr. Anthony Rowley's piece is particularly comic.
a drama of Scottish manse-life. A delight-
THE TIMES BOOK CLUB
fully unworldly old minister is shown
disappointed in the son who, he had hoped,
would follow in his footsteps, but is saved
Dramatic Gossip.
CIRCULATING LIBRARY
from a knowledge of how low the Absalom
of his affection could sink through weakness
MUCH excitement has been aroused in
IS NOW OPEN TO
of character and love of luxuries. It is
Dublin at the announcement of the arrest
bad enough that John Logan should dis- of the Abbey Players in Philadelphia, in | THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
tress his father by proposing to enter the consequence of the production of The
clerical profession though he has lost faith
Playboy. ' Commenting on the incident,
in his Church's dogmas, and should play a
Mr. Yeats says :-
double game with two girls, both of whom
“The Irish-American is now in the state of mind
are too good for him. But he also takes
that Ireland was in twenty years ago, when Irish Deliveries throughout the
literature expressed only what great numbers of
advantage of the immunity allowed him by
men could be got to believe. It was often spirited,
the minister's friendship with a bookseller sometimes charming, but never profound or dis whole of London and Suburbs
to drop to the level of a common book-thief, tinguished. . . . . . The Irish Theatre has merely proved
and let an innocent man-his sweetheart's its vitality. Its history is similar to that of the
sub-
on every week day;
National Theatre of Scandinavia and the realistic
father-be suspected of his felonies. Mr.
theatre of modern Germany. "
Rowley's characters are pleasantly indi-
scribers are not tied down to
vidualized ; he realizes successfully his JULIUS CÆSAR' is the play which the
Scottish atmosphere, and he works out his 0. U. D. S. are producing this year at Oxford. any particular day on which
plot adroitly, though his final scene, in The first performance is on February 14th,
which John's scapegoat is detected making and the play will be continued for the five to make their exchanges.
a false confession to save the young man, and following nights, with matinées on the 17th
is proved a “noble liar” by his employer, and the 19th. It is promised that the pro-
must be pronounced to be at once a little duction will be decidedly original. The
hurried and indirect in its management. orchestra will consist of brass and drums
The dialogue generally is apt and colloquial, only, and the music will be Italian, selected
Country subscribers are not
but now and then it becomes stilted, as from work of the school of Monteverde.
when a young girl, sent out to bring home Mr. Philip Guedalla will play Mark Antony. required to return their books
something savoury for her father's and
lover's supper, returns and declares :
MR. MARTIN HARVEY is continuing the until a fresh supply arrives,
“Then sought I the great secret ; found it esculent
Edipus Rex'at Covent Garden for an extra
and succulent; brought it home with me; and
week. The last performance will take place and are thus never without
within an hour it shall be communicated to you
on the evening of Saturday, February 3rd.
both for your approval-by sight, by smell, and by
books. This valuable con-
taste! ”
THE Westminster Gazette of last Thursday
The child who is responsible for these says there is some chance of “The Playboy' cession, which in practice is
remarks is supposed to be, and is ordinarily, being given in a German version under
a simple, unaffected, charming girl,
Prof. Reinhardt's direction.
equivalent to giving them a
• BUNTY PULLS THE STRINGS' has started double service for one sub-
The Waters of Bitterness. By S. M. Fox. touring for the year, and has been this week
(Fisher Unwin. )—To write a tragedy, upon at Kingston.
theme more proper to
a novel is a
scription, coupled with the
dangerous experiment. Mr. Fox has tried it,
wide
unusually
and, we regret to say, has in our opinion failed. TO CORRESPONDENTS. -C. G. -F. R. -H. B. C. -E. A. S.
of
range
A woman approaching middle age, without --C. J. -H. F. - Received.
function in life, unmarried, and yet eager J. D. S. -J. C. H. -Many thanks.
books, makes The Times
to lavish affection where it can never be
No notice can be taken of anonymous communications,
returned, is a pitiful figure, but not a dra-
Book Club service cheaper,
We cannot undertake to reply to inquiries concerning the
matic one. The patient pen of a Gissing appearance of reviews of books.
or an Arnold Bennett can draw these women We do not undertake to give the value of books, china, more useful, and more con-
well enough, tracing with minute care their pictures, &c.
origin and growth, adding detail to detail
venient than any other.
until the negative and featureless is clothed
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To realize them in the bold outlines
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Waters of Bitterness Miss Marsden is a
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“ We do not forbid an artist,” said Swinburne
ON APPLICATION.
in speaking of Charles Reade,
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do require of the artist that he should make us MAGAZINES, &c.
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THE OXFORD DICTIONARY
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135-137
CLASSICAL
138-139
By the aid of these two books it has But the boundaries of copyright law
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912.
become possible to take stock of the new
have been extended in another way.
position created by the Act, and to mark Hitherto, although the law has recognized
CONTENTS.
PAGE fairly clearly in what respects it differs a proprietary right” in unpublished
THE CONTRIGHT ACT, 1911
from the old.
literary work, and has been prepared to
restrain infringements of it by injunction,
To speak of the Act as a codification
TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY-ENGLAND (The Sussex
Coast; Off the Beaten Track in Sussex; Selsey
of the law is scarcely accurate. In the copyright only existed from the date of
Bill; The “Flower of Gloster"; Memorials of first place, the ideal of embodying the publication. Henceforward, while the
Old Gloucestershire); NORTHERN REGIONS
former remedies are retained by section 31,
(Among the Eskimos of Labrador; Hunters and
whole law of copyright in one statute
Hunting in the Arctic ; Home Life in Norway); and the orders issued under it-an ideal copyright also exists from the date at
THE AMERICAN CONTINENT (Canada To-day and
which has been attained in the case of
which a work comes into being. This
To-morrow; The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mis.
sissippi; High Mountain Climbing in Peru and the United States Act of 1909–has un-
may give rise to much legal argument.
Bolivia); A PRICA (Nigeria, its People and its
When does a work become a work ? If
Problems; The Tailed Headhunters of Nigeria ; fortunately not been realized in this
Sport in the Eastern Sudan); THE SOUTH SEAS
(New Zealand, the Country and the People ; My
instance. The whole of the Musical a friend, to whom you have imparted in
a moment of confidence a brilliant and
Adventures among South Sea Cannibals) . . 120—124 Copyright Act of 1902, nearly the whole
OUR LIBRARY TABLE (Conrad's Reminiscences ; A
Peasant Sage of Japan ; Labour Representation ; of the Musical Copyright Act of 1906, highly original idea for the plot of a
Lafcadio Heam; Cabbages and Kings; Sagas of
novel which you mean some day to write,
and a mutilated fragment of the Fine
Olaf Tryggvason; The Library)
MISSING M88. OF FREDERICK THE GREAT ; 'HEL. Arts Copyright Act, 1862, survive to straightway embodies it in a book of his
LENISTIC ATHENS'; GRAMMAR OF
PERSIAN LANGUAGE'; BOOK SALE
mar the completeness of the Act of 1911 own, has he infringed your copyright?
LIST OF NEW BOOKS . .
The Act does not attempt to define the
and to ensnare the unwary. In the second
LITERARY Gossip
date of the making” of a work. More-
place, the word “codification ” suggests over, in the case of letters unpublished at
SCIENCE-HEREDITY AND SOCIETY; SOME PROBLEMS
OP GRODYNAMICS; SOCIETIES; MEETINGS NEXT a re-enactment of old law in a consolidated
WEEK; Gossip
the date of the author's death, as Messrs.
FINE ARTS- ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE ; form. But the new Act is far more than
CAIXNEYPIECES AND INGLE NOOKS; ARCHÆO-
Strahan and Oldham point out, there
LOGICAL NOTES; SALE; GOSSIP
that. In many important particulars it
MUSIC - FRANCK'S BÉATITUDES';
is new law.
appears to be a startling innovation in
SOCIETY'S CONCERT; POST-VICTORIAN MUSIC ; DE.
the law. For, unless there be a direct
VEJOPMENT OF OPERA; DICTIONRY OF MUSICAL
TERMS; GOSSIP; PERFORMANCES Next WEEK 137–138
To begin with, the boundaries of copy- bequest-see section 17 (2)—the copy-
DRAMA-THE PIGEON; THE BLINDNESS OF VIRTUE; right have been widely extended. Archi- right will apparently vest in the residuary
THE CORONATION; THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE
GLOSSARY ; GOSSIP
tecture is protected for the first time, legatee or, if there be none, in the executors
though we note that Messrs. Strahan and or administrators of the deceased writer.
Oldham still share the scepticism of the And, as the new statutory fifty years
from the date of
LITERATURE
Royal Commission of 1878 as to whether of copyright run
such inclusion is really practicable. Re- publication, and the law as to compulsory
ferring to the elaborate definition of licences applies only to published works,
“architectural work of art in section 35, it seems that these
persons could
suppress
THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1911.
they say that the new law “ means that the publication of private letters in the
HARD upon the heels of the new Copyright the. Court will have to become an art hands of others virtually for ever.
artistic'
Act come its editors and expositors. Of critic, and decide whether a new
One further striking illustration may
the two books before us, the first consists building infringes on the artistic merits be given of the truth that the
new
chiefly of a handy reprint of the text of of the ordinary architect was that the legal subtleties. The celebrated case of
The real grievance ' code” will prove a spring-board for fresh
the Act and such earlier legislation as
has survived its repealing Schedule, fol- plans he drew for one house became the Walter v. Lane decided that copyright
lowed by two valuable tables showing the property of the building owner, who could existed in the report of a political speech
extent to which the new law corresponds use them for 1,000 other houses. Whether in a newspaper. Is it still good law?
with its predecessors, and an excellent this grievance will be by any means Mr. Oldfield cites it as such without
index. To the whole is prefixed a thought- wholly remedied by the new law seems question. Messrs. Strahan and Oldham,
doubtful. ”
ful and highly suggestive Introduction,
Their verdict is that the on the other hand, whose work, though
from which it is abundantly plain that change" is of little importance, and will far less full, is more critical, argue most
as is usually the case with codifying law, probably prove unworkable. ” Mr. Oldfield, ingeniously that the new Act has probably
the new Act will be but a fresh starting-
on the other hand, is more hopeful. “As reversed it. Copyright, they point out,
point for legal labour and ingenuity. regards the new matter,” he says, is in future confined to work that is
Mr. Oldfield's book is more ambitious in the inclusion of architecture is perhaps the Åct of 1842. What precise restrictive
original," a word that was absent from
range, for not only does he supply a fully the most important. . . . Works of artistic force the Courts will give to this added
annotated edition of the present English craftsmanship, pieces for recitation, choreo force the Courts will give to this added
law, but also he adds a reprint of the graphic works (of which Mr. Oldfield is
word the future alone can disclose, but
law of the United States upon the subject, good enough to supply a definition which there seems to be good ground for arguing
and some valuable appendixes dealing the Act fails to give), cinematograph pro- that the copyright of a speech, even
with the laws in force in other countries, ductions, records, perforated rolls, and other though delivered extempore, will rest in
and the international treaties and con-
contrivances for mechanical performance future with the speaker, the mere utter-
ventions. In fact, he supplies as complete also come for the first time within the work” of it, although a newspaper report
ance of the words making "a literary
a handbook of the law as it now stands scope of copyright law. Boosey v. Wright does not, by special enactment, infringe
as could reasonably be expected so soon
after the passing of the new Act, and the decisions ; but, as Mr. Oldfield remarks,
thus passes into the limbo of dead the copyright. If the copyright does not
production of so full a work in so short a
belong to the speaker, what need for such
space of time is a very creditable achieve the
many
special enactment ? And if it does belong
exceptions affecting the special enactment?
ment.
different kinds of copyright
property in to the speaker, can a report of it be called
tended to safeguard public interests, as an“ original ” work and endowed with a
The Copyright Act, 1911. With Introduc- well as the doubtful system of compulsory copyright of its own ?
tion and Index by J. Andrew Strahan licences secured by the efforts of the manu.
and Norman H. ° Oldham. (Solicitors' facturers of mechanical instruments, in changes in the law, apart from its inter-
For the rest, probably the most material
Law Stationery Society. )
The Law of Copyright, induding the Copy. mittee that such a system should not be national aspects, are the altered period of
right 4d, 1911, the Unrepealed Sections adopted, have somewhat marted the sym- copyright and the abolition of registra-
tion. The former of these changes, by
of the Fine Arts Copyright Ad, 1862, the metry of the Act.
Musical (Summary Proceedings) Copy-
which copyright continues henceforth for
right Act, 1902, doc. By L. C. F. Oldfield. A perusal of the long and complicated fifty years after the date of death, remedies
(Butterworth & Co. )
19th section justifies his observation. a glaring injustice, and secures the added


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advantage that all an author's works, Other novelties are see-er,”
also adoptions of Latin unchanged, gene-
except those published posthumously, go from 1882 rarely used “to avoid the rally for technical terms like "sella"
out of copyright at the same moment. customary suggestions of seer'”; (anatomy,
(anatomy, “A saddle-shaped portion of
As for the abolition of registration, the seem, sb. (1440–1596) = semblance;
semblance ; the sphenoid ”) and
the sphenoid ") and “senarius" (=an
change has not escaped criticism. Mr. seicentist” (1905, Athenæum); “seld,” iambic verse of six feet). The German
Oldfield contents himself with referring sb. , obsolete variation of Old English semester ; French “ séjour ” ; Spanish
to the condemnation of registration pro-
“setl "=" settle," sb. , meaning seat, seguidilla, selva”; Hebrew“Selah
nounced by the Berlin Convention and throne,” and later "shop"; and Caxton's Turkish “ selictar”; and Japanese “ sen,
the late Copyright Committee, and ex. adopted French “semence"=seed, used show further what varied sources have
presses no opinion of his own. He adds, for “ sowing,” 1859. The trade term gone to the making of English.
rather unguardedly, The result is that sempiternum," “A quality of woollen
Trade fabrications supply" seltzogene,”
an author no longer has to obtain copy cloth made in the 17th c. ,” is endued with
- selvyt," and " semola. ' There are also
right. ” An author had not to obtain literary interest by Braithwait's amusing several terms taken from proper names :
copyright before, except by publishing simile, "She would have her Husband's in the forties of last century the Sefton
his work. Registration only added legal Life of any Stuff rather than Perpetuano family provided a name for a
veal
protection to a subsisting copyright. or Sempiternum. ”
custard,” in the eighties for a kind of one-
Messrs. Strahan and Oldham, on the other The article on the
verb horse landau ; a sort of bridle bit is
hand, hail the change as “ entirely to the
entirely to the “ seem,” which represents an Old Norse called a “ segundo ” bridle or bit, after a
good. ” But, as the columns of The verb derived from sæmr (=fitting, seemly), Spanish writer on bridle hits in the time
Athenæum have already shown, there is but has generally been confused with the of George IV. ; a French chemist, Seignette,
another side to the question, and the Old English séman, thirteenth-century gave an alternative designation to Rochelle
passing of Stationers' Hall, with its
seme (=settle, reconcile, ratify), is an salt; while Seidlitz and Seltzer (altered
authentic list of protected publications, excellent example of the great advance from German“ Selterser") are named
has left a gap which urgently requires achieved by this Dictionary in the treat- | after places. The origin of “ seersucker,”
filling.
ment of words, As to etymology we the East Indian name of U. S. imitations
in cotton of a cool Indian fabric worn by
American clerks and railway servants,
From the same grade of the root are
sóm reconciliation
A New English Dictionary. -See-Senatory. OE. som
(whence séman
“is for the first time correctly given ” as
(Vol. VIII. ) By Henry Bradley. (OxSEEM v. '); the ablaut-variant *sam- appears from the Persian “shir o shakkar, lit.
milk and sugar. '
in SAME a. , SAMEN adv. , together. ”
ford, Clarendon Press. )
The article on the
The early obsolete meanings,“ befit. 1330 put into the mouth of Roland, and
vulgar “s'elp,” in a work dated about
ABOUT a sixth of this single section of beseem,” are properly placed first in also quoted from Barham and Mr. Rudyard
72 pages is devoted to the three important spite of the quotations extending to the Kipling, is redeemed by the interesting
verbs see,” “ seek,” “ seem,” and their first quarter of the seventeenth century, Middle High German parallel selftir=80
combinations and derivatives ; while while current senses are found early in the helfe dir, as well as by antiquity and
* self” and its following—without count- thirteenth. The analysis of variety, in association with a hero of romance.
ing “selvage," "selvagee,” “ apparently meaning and construction is very close
from self+edge'”-and combinations and clear, distinguishing more than thirty
Misprints and mistakes of any kind are
with “semi-," take up more than a third, different developments. The
The obsolete so rare in this masterpiece of lexicography
though only selections of the innumerable transitive senses" To think, deem, ima- that pointing one out simply relieves the
combinations of “ self” and of formations gine. . . . To think fit,” range from Chaucer's monotony of unbroken approbation. Under
with “semi-” have been included.
It was a ffairye, as al the peple semed, * selictar The London Gazette No. 4236
There must be more than a thousand to “ 1627 HAKEWILL. . . . Possunt, quia is dated 1606, while just above No. 1985
words beginning with “self- ” in the posse videntur. They can, because they is dated 1684. Most of the alien names
selection, a large percentage being regis- seeme they can. ” At least as admirable mentioned above appear for the first time
tered in a dictionary for the first time. are the longer articles on the verbs in one of the dictionaries of the English
Most of the additions are valuable, and and seek," and the noun “ seed,” all language, which are prone to exclude the
many of special interest, as may be Old English ; and that on“ seize," from foreign element too rigidly except in
inferred from a few taken at random. Old French, apparently first used about the case of technical terms. Several of
Spenser, for instance, is quoted for “self-1290 as a law-term in the form“ seise
Dr. Bradley's fresh importations are
assurance,
as well as Scott and Mr. to put in legal possession of property, omitted in The Stanford Dictionary,'
Hardy; Dickens for “self-assertingly”; office, or dignity; compare seisin which was mainly concerned with foreign
Wood (1692) for “selfcide”=suicide, (from 1297).
words and phrases.
another equivalent, self-killing," being The history of “self-respect," made
Under “ semblant," adj. , Caxton's
quoted from “Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm. ), clear by several quotations, reveals a rare Charles the Great,' 1485, is left the
dated about 1721. The quotations show exception to the usual tendency of words earliest quotation by the futility of obey-
that Bishop Ken (about 1711) was much to change their meaning from better to ing the direction, " 1377 [see SEMBLABLE
“ (
addicted to the use of self- combina- worse-illustrated by the descent of a. , 1),” as neither the date nor sem-
tions.
seely
from blessed to "simple, blant” is to be found where indicated ;
The multitude of “ semi-” compounds silly. From 1613 to 1675“ self-respect” but we find under“ semblance,' 2b,
has been chosen with similar judgment, expressed “ a private, personal, or selfish “ 1377 LANGL. P. Pl. B. xviii. 285 And
the methodical arrangement of the hun- end,” self-love, self-conceit,” but after in semblaunce [v. r. semblaunt] of a
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dreds treated in one article being especially a penitent obscurity of more than a serpent sat on the apple-tree. This
noticeable for its fullness; yet an index century it emerges reformed.
coincidence suggests that a quotation
to the group would have been serviceable, The rest of the section-less than half- dated 1377 was removed inadvertently
and
the same may be said as to self-. " not occupied by the word-groups already | Huous after the reference
in question
had
“from semblable” article as super-
Among newly recorded semi-” com- mentioned, copiously illustrates the motley fluous after the reference in question had
pounds are
semi-bousy (1400). =half-assemblage, gathered from all quarters been inserted. Under Fuller's “semnable”
drunk; Bacon, 1628, is cited for“ semi-at divers times, which constitutes English (for “ semblable ") there might well have
concave”; nineteenth-century authors for vocabulary.