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Mr. Benson's book on York has more the One of the Christian Social Union Hand-
treatise more discriminating, suggestive, character of a guide-book than Mr. Gwynn's. books.
and informative when he is able to forgo He gives a good deal of attention to the craft Pepler (Douglas), THE CARE COMMITTEE,
his Imperial bias. His chapter on Victorian guilds, but says nothing to show wherein
Britain is largely irrelevant, and is saturated they differ from those of other cities. We
THE CHILD, AND THE PARENT, 2/6 net.
with the vague idealism of the Imperialists, regret we have not the space to repeat the
Constable
At times he displays considerable political pleasing medieval story of Brother Jucundus, sisting of notes contributed by two voluntary
The Appendix to this little work, con-
Otherwise, his book is readable.
whose weakness for strong drink all but
There is a
placed him amongst the saints.
workers on Children's Care Committees, is
Fletcher (J. S. ), MEMORIES OF A SPECTATOR,
admirable ; but the value of the book
7/6 net.
EVELEIGH NASH strange contrast between this and Mr.
Seebohm Rowntree's book on York as it
itself is largely reduced by its tendency to
The author does not appear to have been confronts the social reformer. It is difficult regard the interests of the parent rather
one of those spectators who most
than those of the child. Now the purpose
to believe that they deal with the same
of the game, and his book is largely a chro-
for which Care Committees exist is that no
city.
niclo of small beer calling for no comment.
child attending school shall, owing to
The most interesting part of it describes his about Chester and its environs which is
Mr. Charles Edwardes has written a book privation, disease, or neglect, grow up to be
early life in Yorkshire.
å burden to itself and the community. It
worth reading for its own sake, although it is might rationally be argued that success
Funston (Frederick), MEMORIES OF Two distinctly the most guide-bookish of the in this purpose would be cheaply bought,
WARS : CUBAN AND PHILIPPINE EXPERI- four. Mr. Ernest Haslehust has success-
even at the cost of demoralizing entirely
ENCES, 12/6 net.
Constable fully illustrated the works on York and
every
slack
parent now in existence.
Chester.
An account of the Philippine war, which
In reality, there is reason to believe that
describes in detail the marches, sieges, and Blakeborough (J. Fairfax), LITE IN A YORK-
such parents are most likely to improve
operations of the American army, in which
when their burdens are a little lifted. But
SHIRE VILLAGE (with Special Reference
the writer was an officer. The narrative is
to the Evolution, Customs, Folk-lore,
when the question arises, as it sometimes
made more piquant by the adventurous
must, whether the parent's moral discipline
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campaigns. The atmosphere of constant Stockton-on-Tees, Yorkshire Publishing Press favour of the child. Many Charity Organiza-
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fighting grows, however, tedious and depress-
This chronicle of village life in a county tion Committees, however, would set the
ing, and a certain callousness and indiffer-
where the sense of community is perhaps reform of the parent first, and Mr. Pepler
somewhat disagreeable. The style is sharp is full of interesting side-lights upon the thinks it useless to prosecute neglectful
somewhat
disagreeable. The style is sharp stronger than in any other part of England seems disposed to agree with them. He
and well adapted to the story.
conditions and continuity of its existence. It parents, because the child is no better off
London County Council Survey of London : is well illustrated and vivified by Mr. Blake- afterwards. He does not suggest that the
Vol. III. št. Giles-in-the-Fields : Part I. borough's keen interest in the varied field of community ought to save the child—at
Lincoln's Inn Fields.
folk-lore.
any cost to the parents—from continued
London County Council
neglect; or that it is the citizen of the
A magnificent London square, planned
Brown (Sir Hanbury), THE LAND OF GOSHEN
AND THE EXODUS.
Stanford
future who ought always to be considered in
by Inigo Jones, our greatest English archi-
preference to the citizen of to-day-especi-
tect, some of whose beautiful buildings still
The author has effected some modifications ally when the latter is already mature and
exist, is fully dealt with in this handsome in this new edition, owing to further research unprofitable.
volume. The historical notes are fully and and access to certain sources of infor-
Wilson (Sir Roland K. ), Levy (J. H. ), and
carefully compiled, and the illustrations mation which have slightly shifted the basis
Others, INDIVIDUALISM AND THE LAND
number nearly one hundred. In the latter of his deductions. The book is of distinct
we are shown exteriors and interiors of a value to Egyptologists. It contains two
QUESTION : A DISCUSSION, 1/ net.
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doorways, staircases, and fireplaces of ex-
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quisite design. It is truly a good work to
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record these beautiful objects before they
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Steinheil (Marguerite), MY MEMOIRS, 10/6 and reflective vignettes of West-Country life, heel of Individualism--the vulnerable point
net.
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Madame Steinheil here represents herself and sprightliness. Their literary quality is fatal to our cause ? —i. e. , the cause of
as the victim of malevolence, an oppressed | particularly noticeable.
Individualism as the basis of national
see
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438
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No. 4408, APRIL 20, 1912
politics. Much good philosophical discus- an austere and somewhat cautious disposition, | Love Letters of an Actor, 5/ net.
sion is mingled with explanations of com- the hero is great in adventure, and acquits
Chapman & Hall
peting methods which are suggested as himself creditably in numerous difficult situs- In one of his prattles the anonymous
offering practical solutions.
tions. A subsidiary love-interest contributes author grows emphatic as to his lack of
to the intricacies of the story, which though inspiration. We wonder then what con-
Pbilology.
somewhat deficient in construction, provides strained him to publish this box of sugared
Classical Quarterly (The), April, 3/ net.
plenty of sensational incidents.
bonbons. Their insipidity, effeminacy, and
John Murray Castle (Agnes and Egerton), LOVE GILDS
lack of reticence are almost unimaginable ;
This companion of The Classical Review
their sustained sentimentality a thing of
THE SCENE, AND WOMEN GUIDE THE
wonder.
appears four times a year, and contains the
Plot, 6/
Smith & Elder
more technical matter for advanced scholars. Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Castle may be Magnay (Sir William, Bart. ), ROGUES IN
Mr. T. Rice Holmes writes on The Birthday pardoned for believing that the public can ARCADY, 6/
Ward & Lock
of Augustus and the Julian Calendar'; and
never have too much of that “Incomparable
Mr. E. Harrison on Chalkidike'; and Mr.
Bellairs ” who was the pivot of their first
The gentleman thief of fiction seems to
A. B. Keith in 'Some Uses of the Future in Georgian novel, and gave her name to the possess a never-failing fascination, if one
Greek,' with Sanskrit parallels, makes, we second. In 'Love gilds the Scene' she may judge by the number of books written
think, a good case for idioms and passages and her Irish husband hold the centre of the
on the subject. He is usually a genial
which have been emended to suit gram- stage, and it cannot be said that either has person with irreproachable manners and a
matical prejudices. The 'Summaries of lost any of the old characteristics.
It penchant for scientific research and high
Periodicals are valuable as affording a
must regretfully be admitted, however, society, and the rogues here in question are
clue to many scattered articles, especially that the authors have lost something of their unexceptionable members of their class. A
in German and French.
old spontaneity. The Bath Comedy country house party, rival detectives, and a
seemed to flow from a natural impulse ;
sea of diamonds and precious stones form
Scbool-Books.
'Love gilds the Scene' betrays, in its ten
a fitting background ; and a strong love-
Burke's Speech on Conciliation with Ame: separable episodes, an eye to the monthly interest and impossible conversations com-
rica, edited, with Introduction and magazine. Still, even in its fetters it has plete the tale.
Notes, by F. G. Selby, 1/6 Macmillan grace, charm, and the tone of the eighteenth Marriott (Charles), THE DEWPOND, 6/
The introductory chapter contains a brief century. It has a certain originality, too,
Hurst & Blackett
account of the life and works of Burke, since nearly all its prominent characters
This novel of over three hundred pages,
followed by an impartial statement of the are married from the outset, and only one
shorn of its specious literary atmosphere,
events that led to the War of Independence. of the episodes is a conventional love-story.
would have made an excellent short story.
The fifty pages of notes should enable any Dunster (Roland), THE Kiss OF CHANCE, 6/ The author has endowed all the characters
intelligent student to follow the argument
of the speech.
Eveleigh Nash with interesting temperaments, but has
The extraordinary incidents and scenes failed to give to any one of them sufficient
Dicks (A. J. ), CAMBRIDGE GEOGRAPHICAL in this book are described with a vitality individuality to fix them in the reader's mind.
TEXT-BOOKS : INTERMEDIATE, 3/ that leaves one breathless. In spite of a Modern questions are alluded to with
Cambridge University Press certain commonness of expression and outlook understanding, but all attempt at facing
In this textbook information is up to there is a good deal of clever writing, and the responsibilities they imply is avoided.
date, superfluous details are omitted, this makes it all the more regrettable that
cause and effect are duly explained, and the author should have chosen so melo- Nomad," THE WOMAN DECIDES, 6/
the whole is presented in a bright and read- dramatic a setting for his story. The
Ouseley
able style. The numerous illustrations are characterization is good.
We gather that the author thinks the
an attractive feature, and useful exercises Hewlett (Maurice), FOND ADVENTURES, 21 that of the early eighties, but we hardly
present style of story-telling inferior to
are added at the end of the text.
net.
Macmillan feel that the present work, if intended for
Du Toit (Alex. L. ), PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Three of these stories have appeared
FOR SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS, 4/6 net. before. The remaining one,
an example of earlier methods, affords a
Cambridge University Press Chase,' is in Mr. Hewlett's usual vividly of this intricate romance is laid in Europe
The Love happy illustration of her theory: The scene
This volume covers the amount of physical descriptive style. He finds a congenial and Australia. The author's laborious style
geography required from pupils in second subject in the wooing of a beauteous maiden and weak sentimentality produce an effect
ary schools, but its outstanding feature is by a cardinal, a warrior, and a poet. The of unreality on us, and we find the manifold
the selection of types and examples from
scene is laid in Italy.
the region of South Africa. Illustrations,
complexities of the plot somewhat confusing,
diagrams, and general arrangement are
Hewlett (Maurice), THE STOOPING LADY, while the dialogue is too much given to
" gush. "
excellent.
2/ net.
One of the lesser-known, and intrinsically
Foakes-Jackson (F. J. ), A BIBLICAL HISTORY not one of the
best
, of Mr. Hewlett's novels. O'Byrne (Dermot), The SISTERS,
AND GREEN
FOR JUNIOR FORMS (OLD TESTAMENT).
It is issued in Messrs. Macmillan's new cheap
MAGIC.
Orpheus Press
Cambridge, Heffer
This is a workmanlike volume, compact
series-an edition in every way commendable. The wistful morbidezza, too gentle to be
Byronic, too ostentatious to be anything else ;
and admirably proportioned. The historical | Hume (Fergus), A SON OF PERDITION, 6/
the heavy imagination, aloof from reality; and
events and their significance are narrated
Rider
with keen historical perception.
the grey, brooding atmosphere of the first
The The occult plays a large part in this some-
narrative is bright, but might have been less what sensational story. The hero and story-all went to convince us that this was
but another of those Celtic fantasias which
encumbered with names, the bugbear of heroine, however, come through their adven-
are the delight and solace of the sentimental
Old Testament history. The third edition tures unscathed, and set up house for the Englishman. Happily the story, it
of the author's 'Biblical History of the benefit of humanity in general. The author's proceeded, shook off its trance, and swung
Hebrews' has supplied the foundations of style lacks literary merit.
the present work. There is a sensible Hutten (Baroness von), SHARROW, 6/
into a healthy, determined stride. It is a
passionate and savage tale of a Western girl,
Introduction.
Hutchinson who loves with raw intensity the husband
Fiction.
The author has given us a study of the of her sister. On his death by drowning her
survival of the mediæval spirit in a man for devotion is centred upon his widow, who,
Bett (Henry), THE WATCH NIGHT, 6/ whom modernity has robbed life of all that distracted by grief, gives birth-through the
Stanley Paul made it sacred except the perpetuation of his influence of sorcery—to a child with a
An historical romance of the period line. To many the fact that the latter-day webbed hand. Neither survives, and the girl,
1744–6. Related in the first person, the baron holds all flesh as common clay existing under the obsession that she is blameworthy,
story deals with the fortunes of a young merely for his amusement until such time loses her reason. Here is a surfeit of
student of medicine, who, influenced by as he has to consider carrying on his house horrors; but, in spite of the handicaps we
a revulsion of feeling consequent upon a will prevent their proper understanding of have mentioned, the story is treated with
drunken brawl, becomes a convert to that pride of family which is, after all, an abundant skill and swiftness of emotional
Methodism. He accompanies Wesley to important embodiment of the social spirit. realization. The madhouse, the midwife,
Newcastle in the capacity of a lay preacher, There is a danger to-day of affections becom- and the contagion of natural environment
and there becomes involved in an imbroglio ing so attenuated as to grow negligible. The with character are vividly pictured. Mr.
with Jacobite rebels, and is in consequence lesser characters in the book are so well O'Byrne might produce remarkable work if
kidnapped and transported to Holland, subordinated to the scheme that they may he could avoid the tinsel, the vaporousness
where, partly owing to a mistaken identity, not be appreciated, but the discerning reader and lack of coherence, incidental to a certain
his life is often in danger. Notwithstanding should value the author's artistry.
type of Irish writer.
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Dent Barratin
HER
WHO
us
use.
6
an
The second story-Green Magic '-is far outset. Mr. Wright-Henderson's style is This volume is produced in a way which
inferior to the first. Its theme is not unlike more attractive than his material. His complies with all the conditions that would
that of Ibsen's ' Lady from the Sea,' with a quiet tone and gentle humour are seen to have been laid down by the man whose
lame ending in a voluptuous suicide in the advantage in the descriptions of county. lifelike portrait forms its frontispiece.
Atlantic. The story is introduced and town society, of which Annabel-a pug— Matheson (Annie), LEAVES OF PROSE, 6/ net.
carried on by, palpable tricks, and lacks is a member.
proper foundations.
Stephen Swift
General.
Raymond (Walter), TRYPHENA IN LOVE, AND
Miss Matheson shows literary urbanity,
allusiveness, and knowledge, but we fear
Young SAM AND SABINA, 3/6
(Madame), DAUGHTERS OF that her style will give an unfair impression
New edition, illustrated by C. E. Brock.
QUIVER : Maxims, selected and trans- of attitudinizing. She has a genuine fervour
lated by an Irish Priest, 6d.
which is often simulated by others. Miss
Warden (Gertrude), THE WOMAN
TEMPTED, 6/
Dublin, Gill | May Sinclair's ‘A Servant of the Earth
Ward & Lock
For the non-critical reader this novel may many of which are pointed, sage, and
With all respect to these aphorisms, and a study of George Meredith vary the
volume.
serve to while away an idle hour. The story urbane, they have not reminded us of La Modern Business Practice, Vol. II. , edited by
provides some excitement of & mildly Rochefoucauld, nor have they made
F. W. Rafferty. Gresham Publishing Co.
sensational order, and has its gentle surprises. think of Chateaubriand, to whom the
The temptress proves to be a lady of un-
The second part of this encyclopædic
author has been likened, we gather, by work contains a great mass of relevant
certain age and a fascinating, if uncon- M. Emile Faguet.
ventional disposition, and her extraordinary Davies (Mary), My Psychic RECOLLECTIONS,
information, well arranged and provided
influence over the opposite sex leads
with a good table of contents, but it is
gener
ally to their ultimate undoing. A Scotch 2/6 net.
Eveleigh Nash questionable whether a good deal of it is
inventor with a genius for creating mechanical
This book is a collection of stories, chosen
not too general to be of much practical
Most of the volume deals with
dolls, and a mad artist, contribute to the apparently at random from the author's
action of the plot.
experiences in the exercise of her psycho- British trade, and we note an adequate and
There
metric and clairvoyant powers.
Her object impartial account of fiscal policy.
Westrup (Margaret), ELIZABETH IN RETREAT, is “to promote the spiritualizing of all
are several maps and illustrations.
6/
Lane religious teaching by showing that we on Old-Lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland,
' Elizabeth in Retreat’ has character, this side may be in communion with those Caithness, and Sutherland, April, 2/6
individuality, depth, and the immense who have gone
before. " Lord Rossmore
Viking Club, King's College, London
merit of culmination. The unhappily mar. contributes an Introduction.
ried woman who is its central figure has a real
Red Letter Library (The): THE BOOK OF
personality, slowly unfolded and developed Dublin Review (The), April, 5/6 net.
SNOBS, by W. M. Thackeray, with an
by environment and human influences.
Burns & Oates Introduction by G. K. Chesterton ;
Indeed, all the adults are well drawn ; but
The April number of The Dublin Review
POEMS, by William Blake, selected with
the little boys are not quite so lifelike as
has a certain variety in its contents, though
Introduction by Alice Meynell,
their author seems to believe : they are chil- they are somewhat heavily handled. The 2/6 net each.
Blackie
dren seen from the angle of tho adoring senior.
editor writes on the sensitiveness of Newman, Two new volumes of a series attractive in
Elizabeth, the leading figure in a previous Mrs. Helen Grierson suggestively on Laf- form and admirably printed. The selection
volume, is but an accessory in this. To set
cadio Hearn, Sir Bertram Windle on ‘Darwin from Blake is not, we think, so good as that
her name to it is to throw the whole careful and the Theory of Natural Selection, and made by Mr. W. B. Yeats for the Muses'
composition a little out of focus, and to
Mr. Gilson on The Destiny of China,' and Library, but none of Blake's best work is
arouse in the reader a slight feeling-sub- these are the most interesting and informa- omitted. Mrs. Meynell's Introduction is
conscious and really unfair-of having been,
tive of the articles. Francis Thompson's written with her usual distinction of style,
as our
forefathers might have said, "fobbed poem · Holy Ground' is wordy, and rather but is more informative than illuminating
off” with a second thought.
mechanical for him.
Mr. Chesterton, taking a well-earned rest
Ellis (Thomas E. ), SPEECHES AD-
from the game of paradox, forbears to call
Williams (Lloyd), IN SECRET PLACES, 6/
Hurst & Blackett
Wrexham, Hughes & Son his author a mystic or a South Sea Islander,
and has some interesting things to say of
The villain is endowed with yellow teeth, will not soon
The author was a Welshman whose name
and conveys his thoughts (intelligibly to the political life covered the period between published 'The Book of Snobs. '
(
be forgotten. His active Thackeray and Punch in the days when it
author) in snarls, while the characters give 1886 and 1897, and in that short time he skipton (H. P. K. ), OUR REPROACH IN INDIA,
rise to copious adjectives and adverbs.
Nevertheless, the book kept us from a
did much for Wales, and has left many 1/ net.
Mowbray
friends. The addresses are largely non- The author reproaches his countrymen
siesta, and, when we put it down during political, but they all concern matters which with the fact that the Anglican Church has
the evening in order to reassert our strong. ) interest or were intended to benefit Wales. neglected the Eurasian population, while
mindedness, paid us out by robbing us of They are in no sense out of date, and the the Roman Church has not. The sentence,
a night's rest until it was finished.
few pages on Welsh Disestablishment are of like the scorpion, carries the sting in its tail.
Woods (Titchfield), A SUPERMAN IN BEING, 61 special interest at the moment. The address At least half the book deals with the machina-
Stephen Swift on «The Memory of the Kymric Dead' tions of the Catholics, shepherding the
The allurement of this book lies in the brings T. E. Ellis himself vividly before the neglected for some ulterior end, but the rest
continual expectation that some
minds of those who know him. At a later of it, which deals with the Eurasians, is
attribute will be revealed which shall balance date he speaks, with all his old earnestness, quite interesting.
and atone for the fiendish probings and
on ‘Domestic and Decorative Art in Wales,'
scoffing sarcasms which the superman-
and pleads for “a Welsh School of Archi- Trovelyan (G. O. ), INTERLUDES IN VERSE
AND PROSE, 2/6 net
tecture. " In & collection of addresses de-
Duckworth
a famous historian and a blind man-
delights to inflict on his fellows. This, how-
We welcome in the Readers' Library a re-
livered at distant dates some littlo repetition
issue of Sir George Trevelyan's twice-classic
ever, one expects in vain. The author is inevitable, but Ellis was never ashamed to
leads up, by way of much-overmuch-
studies of the Cambridge of Shilleto and
hammer away at an old subject, and he
There is much
intellectual scintillation, to conclusion hammered with such success that the revival Anglo-Indian memories.
which leaves us impressed by his cleverness,
of a Welsh national life is due more to him delightful verse in the volume which may
than to any other man.
but cheated of our hopes so far as Prof.
He loved books,
not be familiar to the present generation.
Snaggs is concerned. He remains a bizarre, and says of the Welsh regard and care for The edition, apart frum the umission of a
books :-
page or two at the end, is the same as that
malignant creature, of whose reality we
published by Messrs. Bell in 1905, and
can never quite be convinced, but whose “ Whatever may be our possessions or our want noticed by is at length on October 14th.
personality is not easily effaced from the of possessions. . . . . . this at any rate is true, that there
We then suggested the addition of notes,
memory. Besides the vigorous mental skir-
is in Wales a respect for and a love for bouks, and
mishes and bright raillery, there is a sug-
that our countrymen probably draw as much joy which are certainly needed to-day, and
and comfort from books as the common people of would be a pleasant form of social history.
gestion of tragedy which is finely imagined.
any country. Some people. . . . . , believe that any
Wright-Henderson (R. W. ), ANNABEL AND
paper, or any type, or any cover is good enough for
Victorian Year-Book, 1910-11, by A. M.
à book, they say that all we want in a book is the Laughton, Government Statist.
OTHERS, 6/
John Murray actual word. From my point of view, to treat a
Melbourne, Kemp
A legacy obtained by undue influence and a book in that way and to say that any paper, or type, This, the thirty-first issue of the Year.
trust misused have done such long service
or cover is good enough for it, is a form
of sacrilege. Book, 'is for 1910–11, and is edited by the
in fiction that, however handled, the theme
scurvy treatment of a man's greatest comfort and Government Statist, Mr. Laughton. The
is apt to cause a sigh of boredom at the best friend. "
volume is somewhat larger than that of the
AND
DRESSES.
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THE ATHENÆUM
or
re-
2
66
previous year, and it is as accurate as usual.
can bear the meaning of
take
Sociology.
Among fresh features of the book, we may
ceive the ball, and there is no evidence
mote a description of the new naval and Jacombe (Paul), L'APPROPRIATION DU SOL, that “ tenez ! ” was ever used by players:
;
5fr.
the taxation imposed by the recent State
Paris, Armand Colin Those who know Latin may admit that
and Federal Land Tax Acts; and tables
M. Lacombe writes on the long-debated "accipe” or “excipe " is a good translation
but Erasmus
of “Receive the service!
showing the degree of education possessed private ownership in land. He gives a com-
subject of the transition from collective to
does not say it is a translation of " tenez. ”
by prisoners, and the religions professed by prehensive exposition of the views of Maine,
them. A census of the Commonwealth
was taken on April 2nd, 1911, but at the Spencer, Fustel de Coulanges, and other logues, such as those of Erasmus, are not
date when the volume went to press the
writers, thus forming a “ dossier " of the likely to admit that it is a translation of any
only detailed figures available were those wisely limited to the treatment of the inter-
question. The field of research has been actual expression of tennis players.
It is merely a “translation ” of the idea
giving the population of the various States.
play of Germanic and Græco-Latin influences of “receiving,” just as his “mitto pilam in
Pampblets.
on the development of ownership in France. tectum,” also put in the server's mouth, is
Jackson (Congreve), FREE TRADE FETTERS, The book covers the whole period from the merely a translation of the idea of " serving. "
AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON, 2d. village community down to the abolition of
A. E. CRAWLEY.
Love & Malcomson feudal dominion in a frank and reasoned
A Tariff Reform pamphlet containing manner, and possesses a charm rare in works of Words" has a wide interest for readers
* I am glad to find that . The Romance
figures designed to prove that Germany is
of its kind.
surely and steadily supplanting us in the
to-day. The correspondents, however, seem
markets of the world. "
to diverge into other meanings which I
have purposely avoided. “Swankie” is
FOREIGN.
"THE ROMANCE OF WORDS. ' Scotch, and not, I conceive, similar in mean-
poetry.
April 9, 1912 ing to the slang “swank,” though the two
Legouis (Émile), DEFENSE DE LA POÉSIE WITH regard to the statement made by may be ultimately connected. Mr. Crawley
FRANÇAISE, 5/ net.
Constable the reviewer of Prof. Weekley's book in makes some deductions which my remarks
on " tennis” do not justify. I am aware
It will be gratifying to all students of The Athenæum for April 6th, that the word
French poetry to learn that M. Legouis nut” is applied to an elegant young man, of the whole evidence, but must decline to
has finally produced in book form his lec- and that this is a nut at present uncracked reopen a long-discussed controversy.
YOUR REVIEWER.
tures given in London and Oxford in 1911. by philologists," I beg to say that I have
The debt of modern English criticism to heard it used, not of an elegant man, but of
M. Legouis, already great, is considerably
one who “cracks ” many jokes.
heightened by this brilliant volume. Though
ALF. MACE.
it is primarily a defence of French poetry,
• THINGS THAT MATTER. '
Pinner, April 6, 1912.
and a disproof of Matthew Arnold's super-
ficial observations, the method chosen is
I PERCEIVE in this week's Athenæum It is ill arguing with a reviewer, but the
comparative. The interaction of French (p. 381) something about the antiquity and two paragraphs devoted by the editor of
and English models is admirably demon- character of “ Jingo. ” It is now close your "Library Table' to my · Things that
strated, and the book, by reason of its upon seventy years since I as a schoolboy Matter,' in your issue of March 16th, are
lucidity, its felicity of illustration, and its road and translated Homer in the class, so overcrowded with palpable misstatements
urbanity, is secure of the reception which its
and it seemed to me that “By Jingo! ' of fact that I must beg leave to enter a
scholarship merits.
would be an appropriate translation of protest.
"12 TÓTTOL. But I confess I felt rather
bistory.
doubtful whether the master would not
Your reviewer tells your readers that
Auf welchem Wege kamen die Goidelen censure it as vulgar.
G. " Mr. Money sees nothing. outrageous in drawing
vom Kontinent nach Irland ? by the
deductions from a comparison of the exports and
late H. Zimmern
128, Gloucester Road, Regent's Park, April 8, 1912.
wages of Germany and the United States, entirely
Berlin, Königl. Preuss. Akademie der
overlooking the economic differences between those
WITH reference to “nut," I have countries. '
Wissenschaften noticed that just as the printing fraternity As a matter of fact, the wages and exports
This monograph—written with unusual cherished and worked vigorously the word of the United States are not even mentioned
verve and humour—is intended to disprove “swank” long before it became general, so
Prof. Rhys's theory that the Goidelic Celts, they used the word “nut,” though perhaps
in my volume. *
who conquered Ireland, arrived thither by
not quite so freely. I knew it applied
Your reviewer says:
way of Britain, and, in Cornwall and the first to those whose actions and words were “Statistios inevitably accompany Mr. Money in
western tracts of Britain, left settlements remarkable or incomprehensible. By natural his search for truth, pot always with happy results.
of their people behind them, which subsisted transition it was then applied to those
whose The table on p. 72, for example (* Destinations of
grounds his argument
for the solidly Bry- were stylish. How it burst on the public from memory, for it frequently
diverges from the
thonic character of Britain on the lin- in its present force I do not know. I
guistic affinities between the inhabitants of suspect it was in “
for the United Kingdom. ”
Cornwall and Devon and the inhabitants of I note “ filbert
gag” on the “boards. "
as a variation in use now.
This criticism shows that your reviewer has
Brittany ; on the silence of the Romans
E. FILLINGHAM.
taken the trouble neither to understand the
as to any radical differences between the
table in my book nor the table in the Sta-
tribes they had subdued, and on details in
9, Eglinton Road, Donnybrook, April 6, 1912.
tistical Abstract. He says that my table
the testimony of Ptolomæus ; and he re- Your reviewer corrects Prof. Weekley as "frequently diverges " from the other. As
interprets those data from Nennius upon to the word “swank" being only a year a matter of fact, it diverges in every par.
which Prof. Rhys's account is founded. The or two old by quoting a 'Slang Dictionary' ticular, for it relates to different things.
presence of Goidels in Britain he explains of 1873, but surely it is very much older. It is amazing that it did not occur to your
by the later eastward movement of the Scott use it in 'The Monastery,' chap. xxiv. , reviewer that, as every figure in my table
Irish. In conclusion, he argues that the where Ju. 2 Avenel addresses Halbert differed from every figure in the Statistical
original intercourse between Gaul and Ire- Glendinning: “I am told, young swankie, Abstract table, something more than an
land was direct by sea, as it remained that you are roaming the world to seek error in my book was to be deduced from
during the first centuries of Irish Christianity. your fortune. " HENRY J. R. DIGGES. the difference. If he will look again, he
He tells the story of St. Columban, sent back
Claygate.
will find that, whereas my table refers to
to Ireland from his hermitage in the Jura
by an order of the Pope, to show that in all
In the notice of Prof. Weekley's 'Romance
net emigration-i. e. , the excess of outward
over inward passengers—the Statistical Ab-
probability Nantes was one of the ports of of Words ’ your reviewer says:
stract table refers to outward passengers
communication. In a note on a passage "• Tennis' is rightly derived from the French
translated from the 'Death of Dathi 'tenez ! ' but we cannot conceive why the transla-
Ziminern remarks :-
tion 'take it'-. e. , take the ball about to be served
Your readers are also told that
“If England would only employ a tenth part of Latin from the use of accipe,' quoted on the
-is not added. This is clear to those who know
"in une article the rise in prices is the consequence
the money which has been spent on Nineveh, authority of Erasmus. "
of trusts, in another of the squandering of natural
Babylon, and excavations in Egypt, on systematic
and scientific excavation on Tara Hill, Rathoroghan, May I remark that this conjectural deri- | As a matter of fact, the recent rise in prices
and the old Cemetery of the Kings' by the Boyne, vation, first proposed by Minsheu in 1617, is nowhere in my book attributed to trusts. t
of the British Isles and of Western Europe would has no just claim as yet to be considered I confess that I am gravelled to know
be brought to light. "
right"? It is not proved that “tenez ! ” | what your reviewer means by the remark
in gross.
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