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Athenaeum - London - 1912a
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“A bad translation,”? quotes the trans-
A revised edition of what is nothing but
a collection of examination papers based inaccessible her work serves an extremely how a cornfield looks. 22
ence to enactments otherwise practically people husks and say Look here, that's
upon historical data, and concerned with useful end. It is written with much force, vinced that Carmen Sylva in the original is a
We are not con-
disestablishment and disendowment. and under stress of indignation against remarkable lyricist, but the rendering has
Church Quarterly Review, April, 3/
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certainly blighted what she has to offer.
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things.
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thing of its intimate history, which is a
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Terror. ”
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NORTH, 6/
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This story of the Long Silent Trail ” fantasies; and those of ingenuity, in which poet has steeped himself in them and made
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West. The writer who shall do for India
the last few pages. Some of the incidents
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are related in just that breathless fashion Hodgson William Hope), THE NIGHT LAND, Meanwhile, we may be grateful to those who,
which is expected in a novel of this type.
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Mazov, translated from the Russian by curious romance of love and reincarnation. simple sequences of facts and groupings of
character. The inclusion of the last tale is
Constance Garnett.
Mr. Hodgson shows himself to be strong in
to be regretted.
This work has not, till now, been pub- imagination and mysticism. In this re-
lished in England. It is here offered un-
markable dream fantasy he pictures the
altered and unabridged. The translation concluding epoch of the world's history, Shute (Henry A. ), A COUNTRY LAWYER, 6!
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structure of sentences which seems inevitable light on earth. The author's conception A Country Lawyer' lives by its sheer
in translation from the Russian is
of the last millions
of mankind as dwelling and its vocabulary would set on end the
go"? ; of composition it is entirely innocent,
skilfully managed that it carries no little in a pyramid of stupendous dimensions is
charm.
Yet no reader who gets
well handled, while his descriptions of the hair of a purist.
outer darkness of the eternal night and the beyond the second chapter is likely to pause
Fryers (Austin), THE UNCREATED MAN, 6/
Ouseley and fantastic impression, "heightened by combative young man who, choosing the
horrors abounding therein produce a weird before reaching the last. The energetic,
The first four and last seven chapters of eccentricities of style and diction. The conventionally unromantic profession in-
this book, which deal with the Professor's book is written in the language of a bygone dicated by the title, becomes, in the exercise
supposed construction of a human being by period, and its undue length tends to of it, a crusader on behalf of the public
scientific means, might have constituted å
render it monotonous.
good, is a hero both uncommon and genuine,
mildly sensational short story had they
and is, moreover, far more interesting in his
appeared by themselves. But the addition
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We are not con-
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when the Leicestershire portion was dis- maintenance and training of children that 1) net.
Rivers
afforested. The peculiar obligations,
well as privileges, of forest jurisdiction diverted to non-industrial uses-ought to and foreign history, and questions on the
the old apprenticeship charities—now often
We have here a brief synopsis of British
brought Rutland and East Leicestershire be applied, nor would they ever have ap- salient facts of each period of English
into close union in their earlier history. peared unwanted if they had continued history, each set of questions being followed
Traveller's Tales, told in Letters from
to provide sustenance as well as premiums.
by a list of books dealing with the same
Belgium, Germany, England, Scotland, In the modern section of the book Mr. period. We look in vain for any guidance
France, and Spain, by “The Princess, ' R. D. Denman, M. P. , has collaborated with to the student in selecting the most suitable
8/net.
Putnam's Miss Dunlop. They emphasize the case works to read among the large number
These tales, told by means of corre- of the many low-skilled workers to whom whose titles and authors are given.
spondence, are little else than common- the admirable existing trade schools can
place guide-book reflections dressed up in þe of no service. Their labour is demanded Smith (T. Alford), A GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE,
cheap witticism and apophthegm. The book by the present conditions of production
shows, indeed, a very varied range of and distribution, and it is becoming neces- One of Macmillan's Practical Modern
interests,” in the same manner as a swallow sary to provide training adapted to their Geographies. The author of an up-to-date
skimming the surface of a pond from a needs and dangers. Not specialized skill, textbook the geography of Europe
number of directions. But of actual “cri- but " adaptability and initiative ? are the must be prepared to attach relatively less
ticism of life, observation of customs and profitable stock-in-trade of such workers, importance to climate and geology, and
peoples or insight into the peculiarities of and the scheme that looks most helpful to history and human concerns.
locality and nationality, there is little. Nor is that of shortened hours combined with Danish butter, for instance, is not to be
is the self-consciousness of these letters in compulsory continuation classes. It is to be explained merely as the natural product of
any way agreeable.
hoped that in the carrying out of any such an agricultural country; the output must be
scheme none of the stereotyped objections partly credited to co-operative farming.
Turner (Ethel), PORTS AND HAPPY Havens, to any restriction of juvenile labour will It is in this way that Mr. Alford Smith has
3/6
Hodder & Stoughton be regarded, since, as our authors justly been so successful, dealing with the com-
A kind of subjective, historical blend of the observe, " the misuse of child labour is the plicated material of Europe. He is, more,
scrap-book and the guide-book, containing most extravagant of the means of supple- over, to be congratulated on having avoided
a number of European vignettes. The menting adult wages. "
the excessive use of statistics, which is, in
book is agreeable enough, only the writing
our opinion, a defect of other volumes of
of it seems unnecessary, for it tells us nothing
Philology.
this admirable series.
new, nor is there anything fresh in the style.
It is so easy to write a book of this sort , so Journal of Philology, Vol. XXXII. No. 63, Switzer (Sidney A. ), PRACTICAL GEOMETRY
difficult to write a “ Reisebilder. " The
4/6
Macmillan FOR SCHOOLS, 2/
Methuen
author puts down in black and white exactly
A number interesting throughout. Mr. The author has collected several hundred
the sort of thing the normal traveller
would Andrew Lang,
in Dictys Cretensis and problems in practical geometry, and has
casually say. But there are more interesting Homer," seeks the evidence of analogy on published them, in most cases with their
things.
what is known concerning the relation of solutions. He has displayed considerable
Education.
very early Mediæval epics, and much later skill in grouping the different classes of
ballads, to chronicle history.
Aspinwall (W. B. ), OUTLINES OF THE His- Platt contributes notes on Homer and on abound in useful points ; but it is doubtful
Mr. Arthur problems, and his methods of solution
TORY OF EDUCATION, 3/6 net.
the Agamemnon. The former are of whether any textbook alone can give the
New York, Macmillan Co. more value and interest, for the rewriting necessary precision to a student's geometrical
Dr. Aspinwall's handbook may be of of Æschylus does not attract us. Mr. drawing, or even be a safe guide to follow
very great value to students of education' E. G. Hardy writes on the Adlection of 'infmatters of method.
as
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AND
more
save
OF
fiction.
Gaulot (Paul), TAE RED SHIRTS, translated Le Queux (William), FATAL FINGERS, A
by J. A. J. de Villiers, 1/6 net. Greening MYSTERY, 6/
Cassell
Atherton (Gertrude), JULIA FRANCE AND
HER TIMES
Despite the many and obvious imperfec-
Gaulot's 'Red Shirts, though a novel of
Murray
A phase of contemporary life is described secondary, rank, deriving its interest from tions of style and treatment incidental to a
here, seemingly by one who knows some-
a dramatic presentation of historical fact, certain type of sensational fiction, the author
thing of its intimate history, which is a
gives a good picture of France under the has, as usual, contrived to introduce a
Terror. ”
mine of picturesque
The book is cunscientiously tantalizing element of mystification which
copy, as yet only translated by Mr. de Villiers who writes a suffices to arouse the curiosity of the casual
superficially worked. The soul of the Mili-
full and useful preface. Part of the Lotus reader.
tant Suffrage movement is too elusive a
Library.
subject for the daily journalism which
Milward (Virginia), AJAR,
OTHER
chronicles its external activities, but Mrs.
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Atherton understands the one better than George (W. L. ), THE CITY OF Light, 6/
she follows the other.
A volume of seven short stories, in which
Her book is care-
Constable
lessly written-much pruning would have im- A young Frenchman-over 25 years of age lurid and sensational text.
the wrapper strikes a fitting key-note to the
proved it; but Julia's story, starting with her --persists in his desire to marry against his
marriage as an ignorant girl to a peer who parents' wishes. They finally make use of Penley (R. ), THE TEMPTATION OF Nina, 6/
early shows signs of incipient insanity, is a the peculiarly Gallic weapon of the conseil
John Long
piece of hot, uncalculated, vivid work in judiciaire, by which a family caucus can
which the obvious weaknesses are easily get a judgment from the courts with.
Mr. Penley's style has, unfortunately, not
forgotten.
drawing from the incriminated person the improved since he wrote The Strength of
The cast
Evan Meredith,' and there is little distinc-
Bazin (Réné), THE PENITENT, translated by management of his fortune.
Harriet M. Capes, 6/
includes a member with
tion in this story of commonplace and
Eveleigh Nash
an enigmatic
unvirile back ? which undulates,
or less uninteresting, people. The
Here is an exquisite study of a tragedy another who tears the rest of a sentence Irishwoman who is the
presiding genius over
in a peasant household of Brittany. . . Quite from her reluctant throat," and yet another the fortunes of the characters is charming
with cheeks
redundant adjective, the little family picture Chameleon-like instinct assume the mauve
which by some
curious enough, but the ceaseless beating of the big
drum to call our attention to her charm is
is set in its grey autumnal landscape-the
hue of the night's composition"!
inarticulate faithful man, rooted deeply to
irritating, and alienates our sympathy long
before the end.
his native soil; the young wife, pretty, gay,
well-meaning, and pliable, glad of the chance Hardy (Thomas), TESS OF THE D'URBER- Pitt-Taylor (Nora), BORN HUUBLE, 6/
to go away as a nurse to Paris and so help VILLES, A PURE WOMAN, 7/6 net.
Ham-Smith
to
the threatened homestead. In
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A collection of idyllic love-stories in which
Paris, uprooted from all that supported her,
idle and flattered, she lets herself be led
The first volume of the new Wessex Edition, sentiment and pathos abound. Though
astray, and, when at last she writes home,
which is to be completed in twenty volumes. lacking in virility and somewhat cloying in
husband and children have gone away.
Its appearance is stately and dignified. The their sweetness, they are told in a simple,
Finally, chance puts a clue into the hands paper is light and agreeable to the touch, easy, style that makes the book pleasant
of mother and of daughter; the girl appeals is a generosity about the equipment of the
and the print large and well ordered. There reading.
for help, and the wanderer, returning to her
TALES
stricken husband, takes up the burden of book, which, never tawdry or spectacular, Ransom (Josephine), INDIAN
her old life, and finds peace of heart once
is instinct with taste and proportion. The
LOVE AND BEAUTY, 2/6 net.
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more. The translator has done her work sequence and division of the narrative
extraordinarily well; hardly once are we
are as in previous editions, except that some So far as the mere stuff of them goes, the
best of these tales can be compared only to
reminded that we are not reading the supplementary pages in the original manu-
original language of the author.
script, and as yet unpublished, have been the “Iliad. Indeed, as such, they excel
added to chap. x. This edition of the novels the 'Iliadł in richness and mystery and
Curwood (James Oliver), FLOWER OF THE is to be divided into three groups—those of heroisin. No doubt from us they are alien :
NORTH, 6/
Harper character and environment; romances and else one might wonder that no really great
This story of the Long Silent Trail ” fantasies; and those of ingenuity, in which poet has steeped himself in them and made
cannot be called convincing; and it mani- are included the earliest and least mature them his and ours. Yet Lafcadio Hearn has
fests a strange lack of balance. Perhaps, works. The verse will appear in three shown us how it is possible to transmute the
if the writer had spent less time at the volumes. A map of the Wessex topo- peculiar poetry of the East into something
beginning in gathering up the purposely graphy and a photogravure frontispiece of that shall have the value, not of a tran-
tangled threads of his plot, he would not the Froom Meadow accompany this first scription merely, but of literature in the
have had to unravel them so hurriedly in issue.
West. The writer who shall do for India
the last few pages. Some of the incidents
just what he did for Japan is yet to seek.
are related in just that breathless fashion Hodgson William Hope), THE NIGHT LAND, Meanwhile, we may be grateful to those who,
which is expected in a novel of this type.
6/
Eveleigh Nash as Mrs. Ransom has done in this book,
Dostoevsky (Fyodor), THE BROTHERS KARA- We find a certain originality in this give us sympathetically, if unskilfully, the
Mazov, translated from the Russian by curious romance of love and reincarnation. simple sequences of facts and groupings of
character. The inclusion of the last tale is
Constance Garnett.
Mr. Hodgson shows himself to be strong in
to be regretted.
This work has not, till now, been pub- imagination and mysticism. In this re-
lished in England. It is here offered un-
markable dream fantasy he pictures the
altered and unabridged. The translation concluding epoch of the world's history, Shute (Henry A. ), A COUNTRY LAWYER, 6!
Constable
runs easily, and that monotony in the when the sun will have long ceased to shed
structure of sentences which seems inevitable light on earth. The author's conception A Country Lawyer' lives by its sheer
in translation from the Russian is
of the last millions
of mankind as dwelling and its vocabulary would set on end the
go"? ; of composition it is entirely innocent,
skilfully managed that it carries no little in a pyramid of stupendous dimensions is
charm.
Yet no reader who gets
well handled, while his descriptions of the hair of a purist.
outer darkness of the eternal night and the beyond the second chapter is likely to pause
Fryers (Austin), THE UNCREATED MAN, 6/
Ouseley and fantastic impression, "heightened by combative young man who, choosing the
horrors abounding therein produce a weird before reaching the last. The energetic,
The first four and last seven chapters of eccentricities of style and diction. The conventionally unromantic profession in-
this book, which deal with the Professor's book is written in the language of a bygone dicated by the title, becomes, in the exercise
supposed construction of a human being by period, and its undue length tends to of it, a crusader on behalf of the public
scientific means, might have constituted å
render it monotonous.
good, is a hero both uncommon and genuine,
mildly sensational short story had they
and is, moreover, far more interesting in his
appeared by themselves. But the addition
office than in his rather commonplace love-
of the other twenty-eight chapters robs the Kidson (Ethel), HERRINGFLEET, 6/
affairs. In him it is quite possible to
dénouement of its interest. The volume is
Chapman & Hall believe, but the country town in which he
further marred by laxity in diction, un- Chronicles of the early sixties, a period practised taxes credulity. If New Hamp-
certainty with regard to detail, and a habit when the fishing industry of Herringfleet, shire did really present such a succession of
of employing unnecessary foreign words. A a small seaport in Yorkshire, was at its daily adventures worthy of the cinemato-
reference to the Professor's chemically zenith.
