No More Learning

away with another man. The situation is
different in character, in the career of Huntly
interesting, but we decline to believe in the
Goss, adventurer. In the first we find him
Breton Studies, put into English by Frances
M. Gostling, 5/ net.
success of the impersonation practised on the
managing a journal" by the aristocracy, for
blind man.
Introduces the reader to types of Breton
The story, however, is well told,
the aristocracy. ” In the second part of the
book he reappears connected with a fraudulent
peasants and customs.
and the interest sustained throughout.
A good deal of the
Holdsworth (Annie E. ), Dame Verona of the
crocodile-farming business, the situation of
matter is commonplace, and for this we do not
Angels.
which enables the author to give some convin-
conceive the blame rests entirely with the
translator.
This book is a study of temperament to
cing descriptions of Sudanese scenery. Ap.
which pre-natal influence is supposed to supply
parently, the two years' interval between the Morgan (Charlotte E. ), The Rise of the Novel of
the key. A more uncomfortable coterie of episodes had changed him, for he is no longer Manners: a Study of English Prose Fiction
troubled consciences than those which surround
the epigrammatic flâneur, but & scoundrel
between 1600 and 1740, 6/6 net.
the subject of the study it would be difficult to
who will stick at nothing. It says much for The bibliography, containing a list of some
find. They include a dour Calvinist, the lady
the author's writing that we do not regret this five hundred prose narratives printed between
who has been willing to marry him for love
scoundrel's escape from justice.
1600 and 1740, with chronological accessories,
of his illegitimate baby girl, the baby's aunt- Tynan (Katharine), Princess Katharine, 6/
and the index, occupies well-nigh one-half of
a baffled, revengeful woman who draws Verona
For notice see p. 63.
this monograph. It deals with the prose out-
towards the Romanism so hateful to her father Vahey (H. L. ), Camilla Forgetting Herself, 6/
put between the beginning of the seventeenth
--and an extraordinary youth who shares her As the author remarks on the first page,
century and the middle of the eighteenth,
passion for sacrifice.
Camilla never did forget herself, so we can only
adopting a somewhat arbitrary form of classi-
Kelston (Beatrice), A Three-Cornered Duel, 6/ suppose that Mr. Vahey thought it was an at-
fication. Though freshness, colour, and in-
The author's clever and delicate handling tractive title and as good as any other. This
sight are not prominent in this volume, which
of an ingenious plot commends her book. Her book cannot be said to be an improvement on
forms one of the Columbia University Studies
characters are full of the joy of life, and well his previous work. The story is concerned with
in English, its scrupulous and conscientious
portrayed. One only regrets that so small a two perpetual honeymooners who are
workmanship, and its presentation of all the
part is allotted to the deaf housekeeper, Mrs. absurdly happy, and, it may be added, rather
facts that bear upon the subject, deserve bigb
Allgood, whose humble calling and retiring silly. There are two stage uncles introduced
praise.
disposition place her in the background.
to give some semblance of a plot.
New Monthly (The), No. 1, December, 1911, Coro-
Mackenzie (Compton), Carnival, 6/
Yorke (Curtis), Dangerous Dorothy: 61
nation Durbar Number, 6 annas.
For notice see p. 62.
“ Curtis Yorke neither multiplies incident, Old-Lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caith-
Mann (Mary E. ), Men and Dreams.
nor unravels motives, nor panders to the ness, and Sutherland, January, 2/6
The talent of Mrs. Mary E. Mann does not sensational. She is no propagandist ; nor is Issued by the Viking Club.
show to its fullest advantage in short stories, she careful about her structure. Her novels-
Oxford and Cambridge Review, January, 2/6 net.
and only perhaps from one of the twenty: the latest one in particular-seem written With the New Year the Review shows aggres-
two in this volume could her_authorship be purely for the sake of dialogue. The characters
sive energy. Sir William Bull sounds the
divined. That one is ‘His First Day at the Sea,' exist merely to talk-to bandy sprightly witti- tattoo in 'The Red Flood'; a “ Believer in the
a wonderful vignette of a school treat burdened cisms and toss sentimental badinage at one Book " writes an alarmist article on the in-
by the addition of an undesired and undesirable another. The plot is huddled away, and serves sidious and destructive advance of Modernism
parent. Four or five of the rest are pervaded the subsidiary purpose of churning out episodes in the Church of England ; Mr. H. S. Shelton
by humorous and sometimes bitter irony, to further the conversations.
takes up an uncompromising position on The
and make distinctly good reading ; but only
Dissipation of Energy,' the theory of which
the story of the school treat has the unique
in doctrinaire form is, he declares, non-existent ;
and pungent flavour which the discerning seek,
General Literature.
and Mr. J. Hudson writes a sardonic poem on
and the dull detest, in the work of Mrs. Mann.
Pillai (T. Ramakrishna), The Dive for Death.
Dublin Review, edited by Wilfrid Ward, No. 300, woman's rights. " Amid this controversial
In spite of its title, this is an entrancing
January, 5/6 net.
turmoil, it is pleasant to light upon gentle dis-
romance, revealing, as it does, the intimate
This number is well diversified, and each
cursive matter here and there on mediæval
byways and scenes of Indian life. The most
article is equipped with sober and careful argu-
modes of Indian thought and feeling. It is
devoid of pretentiousness, and its subtlety is
ment. The editor takes advantage of Mr.
attractive article is that of the Rev. R. L. Gales,
cloaked by a transparent simplicity of style.
Balfour's retirement for a pleasant eulogy, and
who talks with sly urbanity and wit on · Three
The author's characterization is bold and
strings together some reminiscences of Tennyson
Jingle Makers '--Mr. Belloc, Mr. Chesterton,
direct, and his penetration into the Indian
at Freshwater. Mr. R. H. Benson refuses to
and Mr. Kipling.
mind is such that he can evoke an instant
commit himself either to a rationalist or Popham (R. Brooks), Finger-posts to Animal Life,
response from the Western reader by the
psychical conclusion in Phantasms of the 5/ net.
most sparing of effects. This novel is bountiful
Dead,' though he constructs a tentative theory “ The writer has had his nomadic days, and
of incident, crowded with pictorial detail of
of his own. The best things are a number of has had his chats. Hopping and skipping
translations of early Irish religious poetry: about over this little world of ours. . . .
Hindu lore and superstition, but never crudely
This
spectacular. The author has childlike
A somewhat Ultramontane article, entitled quotation from the Foreword gives a fair idea
pleasure in spontaneous and unsophisticated
Anti-Clerical Policy in Portugal,' attempts to of the author's method. His constant and
emotion.
depreciate the administration of the new Portu- unusually awkward flippancy makes it difficult
Prague (Joseph), A Woman of Impulse, 6/
guese Republic.
to realize the animals he talks about. It also
In everyday life a woman of impulse
Gornall (H. K. ), The Ten Talents :
occasionally betrays him, e. g. , in his account
an Uncon-
of a bull in India, into bad taste. We have
ventional Commentary.
may be a somewhat trying person; in the realms
of fiction she lives in a charmed atmosphere.
According to Mr. Gornall's jaunty disquisi-
discovered nothing new in the book.
But Rose Cater, the half-educated daughter of tion, the titled, landed, or moneyed gentry are
Quinton (R. F. ), The Modern Prison Curriculum,
a struggling author, with her accesses of religious the principal and legitimate inheritors of the 5/ net.
zeal, her immature views on marriage, her kingdom of the ten talents or the ten essential Richards (Caroline Cowles),
Village Life in America
crude unconventionality, is commonplace perquisites of life-good disposition, education, 1852–72, including the Period of the American
enough, and fails to interest or amuse us. Her social prestige, wealth, and the like. As these Civil War, as told in the Diary of a Schoolgirl,
father, a man predestined to failure, who fore- gifts seem to be properly, apportioned and 4/6 net.
sees his doom and revolts from it with pathetic bestowed with exquisite discrimination, Mr. Matthew Arnold once expressed a wish that
futility, gets into the clutches of a literary Gornall has every excuse for dazzling us with
we had more lives of obscure persons. If all
agent with a mephistophelian smirk,” who his suave and genial platitudes. He displays
were to be as good reading as this naive diary
runs a fiction factory. Then ensue a chain of some anxiety as to, and temptation towards, a
of a New England girl in the middle of the last
coincidences which put a great strain on our
materialistic conception of life. ”. Such a
century, we should echo his wish. The author
imagination. Some of the characters are well failing is incredible after the ministry of his
writes with singular grace and distinction of her
drawn, but the book on the whole is a some-
moralizations. If we are not all the fortunate
peaceful childhood in a world far different from
what dreary psychological study of types we possessors of Mr. Gornall's ten beatitudes, life
The America of to-day. Her picture of the
hope never to meet.
is at least simplified for us, its aspirations state of feeling in the Northern States during
Smart (Arthur D. ), The Chief of St. Donats, 2/ net.
analyzed and clarified. The dignity of Mr.
the Civil War is vivid ; and her school, her
“Wales,” says the author in his Introduction,
Gornall's style, his sense of life's values, and the
chapel, and, most charming of all, her old
" has always been a land remarkable for fresh
affability of his remarks leave us in very good Puritan grandmother, who knew more Scriptural
outbursts of life, a land of revival as regards
humour.
texts than any one else she ever met, are
religion, learning, and patriotism. ” So in Wales Gray (Charles H. ), Lodowick Carliell : his Life, pleasantly described with a minimum of that
he lays the plot of his thirteenth-century romance, a Discussion of his Plays, and 'The Deserving self-consciousness which dogs the footsteps of
in which the last native princes play a promi- Favourite,' a Tragi-Comedy, reprinted from diarists.
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Sumner (William Graham), War, and other history of Japan. The Hotokusha, one Findlater, and 'The Charm of Louise,' by
Essays, edited, with Introduction, by Albert of his most important organizations, is a
Mr. John Barnett. As a pendant to Sir
Galloway Keller, 10/ net.
Issued by Yale University.
co-operative credit society started some James Yoxall's article last month on
Women's Industrial Council, Seventeenth Annual twenty years before similar institutions 'The 21st of January, 1793,' the editor
,
Almanacs.
were formed in Germany. Messrs. Long- prints a letter describing an interview with
Artists' Almanac, 1912, 6d.
mans are issuing an account of his work Cléry, Louis XVI. 's valet, at Hamburg in
FOREIGN
under the title of 'A Peasant Sage of 1799. In 'Farewell to the Land' Mr.
Poetry and Drama.
Japan,' translated from the Hotokuki by Stephen Gwynn unites the poetic eye with
Grande Inondation de l'Arno en MCCCXXXIII. : Tadasu Yoshimoto, with an Introduction the practical hand. 'O-Tsune-Chan’ is
traduits en Français par les soins de MM. S. by Dr. J. Estlin Carpenter.
a glimpse of Japanese home-life by Mr.
Morpurgo et J. Luchaire, lfr. 50.
Ken Hoshino.
It is an apt and grim form of commemorating FURTHER evidence of the desire of the
the disastrous Seine floods in the winter of
1910 to exhume Pucci's description in Japanese to profit by Western examples Blackwood's Magazine for February will
metrical form of the rising of the Arno which in the improvement of their economic publish a translation in verse of a letter
devastated Florence in 1333. The Italian text conditions is shown by the fact that their from Cicero to Atticus (on the politics
story is simply and honestly expressed, though Government is now circulating among and politicians of to-day), which “A
without much imaginative force. The move- the local authorities of that country a Student " professes to have recently dis-
ment of the poem is slow, and fettered to the translation into Japanese of Mr. Edwin A. covered.
regardless of artistic relevance or proportion. Pratt's book on The Organization of
Pucci's attitude is strongly pietistic, and he has Agriculture published by Mr. Murray.
THE February number of The Positivist
Florentine life, and refreshing naivete. The with the Central Association of Japanese
abounds in magical and unexpected touches of This course has been taken by arrangement Review will contain the ' Annual Address,
on the public events of the past year,
translation is faithfully literal, though a trifte Agriculturists, to which body the rights of delivered before the Positivist Society
are appended at the end of the volume. The translation into Japanese had already by the President, Mr. S. H. Swinny,
introduction, while bestowing excessive eulogy been granted.
on January 1st. It will also contain a
upon Pucci, is otherwise satisfactory.
paper on 'The Teaching of Nietzsche,' by
History and Biography.
FRENCH writers are doubtless full of Mr. Gordon Jones, and a short piece by
Bonnier (Charles), Le Pays de Pevele.
This book forms a sequel to the writer's appreciation of the action of M. Maeter- the late J. H.
Bridges on ‘Progress :
earlier study of the history of Templeuve, linck in creating a Maeterlinck Prize of Physical, Social, Moral.
a village of Pevele. The first division of the 16,000 francs-mostly derived from the
of the castles and feudal estates of the district. Nobel award, which he does not desire MESSRS. WILLIAMS & NORGATE will
The second is a detailed discussion of the to appropriate to himself. It is to be issue the fourth set of ten volumes of
next
are several original letters, and more of these given every two years to the author of "The Home University Library
belonging to modern times are included in the the most remarkable book published in Wednesday. They include two notable
Appendix. The book is beautifully illustrated the French language.
contributions to the historical section of
with etchings by M. Jean Bonnier.
the Library : 'Rome,' by Dr. W. Warde
Bost (Charles), Les Prédicants Protestants des
MR. W. R. Lawson is publishing with Fowler, and The History of England:
Cévennes et du Bas-Languedoc, 2 vols. , 20fr.
This is a scholarly and comprehensive treatise Messrs. Blackwood ‘Modern Wars and
a Study in Political Evolution,' by Prof.
on one of the most sombre epochs in French War Taxes,' a manual of military finance. A. F. Pollard.
history, for the period taken is that between
1684 and 1700, and a very welcome addition Another work from the same pen, and
Mr. A. G. Bradley writes on ‘Canada,'
mental
, but inaccurate work of Douen is here published by the same firm, will be and Sir Thomas W. Holderness on Peoples
Canada and the Empire,' in which Mr. and Problems of India. '
erudition, insight, and independence of judg; Lawson advocates the immediate and Russell discusses The Problems of Philo-
Mr. Bertrand
ment, while his style is clear and forcible, and
the illustrations are pleasing.
effective federation of the Empire,
Longnon (Henri), Pierre Ronsard.
declaring that what has been quietly the principles, methods, and recent progress
sophy’; and Mr. R. R. Marett describes
M. Longnon is an historian rather than a
critic, and his work, treating the parentage and
and wisely done in Australia and South
To the section of
of Anthropology. '
youth of Ronsard alone, is an expansion of a
Africa should not be impossible at West- Literature and Art are to be added volumes
thesis presented at the Ecole des Chartes. It minster.
is a close, careful, and reasoned study of the
on ‘Landmarks in French Literature,' by
chief sources for this period, often illuminating, IN Mr. W. S. Crockett's new work, Mr. G. L. Strachey, and on 'Architecture
though sometimes the author's care for detail
verges the meticulous. M. Longnon
'The Scott Originals,' some space is by Prof. W. R. Lethaby, the latter illus
happily avoids the more controversial side of devoted to 'The Pirate' and its leading trated. The School : an Introduction to
Ronsard's life.
His synthesis is always dis character, Capt. Cleveland. By a curious the Study of Education,' is by Prof. J. J.
tion to the admirable studies on the literature coincidence, Mr. Martin Secker announces Findlay and Prof. H. N. Dickson, supplies
of the French Renaissance published under the a book by Mr. Allan Fea on ‘The Real a popular exposition of the science of
direction of MM. de Nolhac and Dorez.
Capt. Cleveland. ' James Gow was the Climate and Weather. '
prototype of Scott's “pirate,". and the
novelist obtained his facts mainly from
LADY FRANCES BALFOUR is writing
an old Stromness woman during a tour the life of the late Dr. James MacGregor
in the Orkneys. Gow terrorized the of St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh.
northern islands for many years, but he Mrs. MacGregor will be glad to have
IN Heredity and Society 'Mr. William was finally brought to account by stra- correspondence likely to be of interest
sent to
Cecil Dampier Whetham and his wife tagem, and was executed in June, 1725. for her husband's memoir
expand and develope some of the ideas His career engaged the attention of both 3, Eton Terrace, Edinburgh.
that were but briefly indicated in their Defoe and Scott. Defoe's account of the
ATTENTION has been directed recently
previous work, The Family and the pirate was published in 1725, and only to his Highness the Gaekwar of Baroda,
Nation. ' The problems of racial advance one copy is known to exist that in the to his Highness the Gaekwar of Baroda,
one of India's most powerful independent
or decay, produced by an alteration in British Museum Library.
the inborn qualities of nations, as they
princes. Mr. St. Clair Weeden is about
In The Cornhill Magazine for February to publish his reminiscences, through
have appeared in various stages of history, Sir Henry Lucy continues Sixty Years Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. , under the title
are studied in order to throw light on in the Wilderness,' and describes his of A Year with the Gaekwar. '
modern conditions and tendencies. The personal relations with the late Sir Charles
book is to be published by Messrs. Dilke. Canon Rawnsley contributes' Me- We are sorry to notice the death on
Longmans & Co.
mories of the Tennysons at Somersby,' Wednesday week last of Mr. Herbert
SONTOKU NINOMIYA died in 1856, after and Miss E. March Phillipps a sketch of Edwin Clarke. His Songs in Exile, and
working seventy years for social reform Lanöe Falconer. ' Short stories are other Poems' (1879), and “Storm Drift:
during one of the darkest periods in the · Mysie had a Little Lamb,' by Miss Jane Poems and Sonnets' (1882), are
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mostly out of print, but were recognized had no direct connexion with Truth.
The eighth volume of “ The Ethnolo-
in their day as showing notable taste and reputation as a vivid writer was made by gical Series" has just appeared, published
feeling.
his Letters of a Besieged Resident 'from by the Moscow Lazarev Institute of the
Paris in 1870. He started Truth in 1877, Eastern Languages. It contains “The
The death was announced at the end
of last week of Major-General Sir Frederick when the kind of journalism it embodies Armenian Dialectology: a Sketch and
Maurice, an accomplished soldier, and an
was already familiar from the writing of Classification of Armenian Dialects,' by
authoritative writer on military matters.
Edmund Yates and Grenville Murray. Mr. R. Acharian. The author describes in
He was the eldest son of F. D. Maurice, less attack kept up on frauds of all kinds. into three principal groups. The work is
What was special in Truth was the relent- it 102 Armenian dialects, and divides them
one of the chief supports of The Atheneum The paper has been involved in extensive much larger and better written than the
at its beginning, and wrote his father's life and expensive litigation, but in only a previous volume of the same author,
in 1884. Born in 1841, he first saw active few cases has it been worsted, and the Classification des Dialectes Armeniens,'
service in 1873 under Lord Wolseley, services it does to society, briefly noted which was published in Paris and highly
whose right-hand man he speedily became
in various African campaigns. In 1872 in the Truth Cautionary List’ of swind- praised by specialists.
he published his Wellington Prize essay
.
THE fourth annual Charles Lamb dinner
on field mancuvres, and in 1874 a
SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE will open next at Cambridge will take place on Saturday,
Popular History of the Ashanti Cam- Saturday afternoon the Horniman Museum February loth. Dr. Francis Darwin will
paign. Further books from his pen were Lecture Hall and Reading-Room, which be in the chair, and Mr. Edmund Gosse
Hostilities without Declaration of War’; has been presented by Mr. Emslie J. will be the guest of the evening.
'The Official History of the 1882 Cam- Horniman.
paign’; War,' reprinted with revisions
THE BACON SOCIETY is holding a dinner
from “The Encyclopædia Britannica' and A TOLSTOY MUSEUM has been opened in at the Criterion Restaurant next Monday
generally regarded as a classic ; National Moscow. The collection will be housed to celebrate the 351st anniversary of the
Defences,' and 'The Official History of later in a building to be specially built birth of Francis Bacon.
the Boer War. '
for this purpose on ground—now in the
THE writer Emil Jonas, whose death
THE Twenty-eighth Annual Report of possession of the municipality – which
at the age of 87 is announced, was best
formerly belonged to Tolstoy.
the Scottish Text Society has just been
known by his numerous translations from
issued. A well-deserved tribute is paid to
RUSSIAN literary circles at the present Danish and Swedish. A German by
the late Dr. Æneas Mackay, a member moment are eagerly awaiting the publica- birth, he entered the Danish government
of the original Council who did good work tion of Leonid Andreiev's new novel, service, and became the editor of a German
for the Society. For its new series the "Sashka Jigulev,' which will appear paper in Copenhagen. He was the author
Council has now in hand the Abbrege- during the course of the next few weeks. of a number of novels, books of travel,
ment of Roland Furious,' by James Here Andreiev has abandoned mysticism and plays.
Stewart of Baldinnes, prepared from the and symbolism, and returned with renewed
MS. in the Advocates' Library by Mr. force to the realism which characterized
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION give notice
Thomas Crockett. It is hoped also to his earliest work.
that the Library of the Victoria and
issue during 1912 the edition of 'John of
Albert Museum will be reopened on
Ireland, for some time in preparation, In 'Sashka Jigulev' the author deals Monday next.
and the ‘Bibliography of Middle Scots with the stormy times of the revolution.
THE 'Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shake-
Poetry,' compiled by Úr. William Geddie. Sashka is the son of an old general—long
The edition of the Makculloch and Gray since dead; with his mother and sister speare-Gesellschaft' for 1912 will contain
MSS. , undertaken by Mr. George Steven- he lives in a small provincial town in their
an article giving a full account of the
Blackfriars documents which were dis-
son, and the third volume of Prof. Gregory family house, surrounded by a large wild
.
Smith's 'Henryson' are in an advanced and neglected garden. Andreiev describes covered by Prof. A. Feuillerat.
state. The report notes that 161 new impressively the mysterious influence
members were added to the Society during of this garden, and the roads passing 4, Southampton 'Row, Mr. Ch. Roessler
THIS EVENING, at the Polyglot Club,
by it and “stretching into infinity,
will deliver à lecture in French on 'The
on the sensitive child Sashka. To him
A PATHETIC interest belongs to a paper Russia, vast and limitless, seems to begin
Home Days of Jeanne d'Arc. '
by Mr. John S. Gibb, read at last week's outside the walls of his room, where the
meeting of the Edinburgh Bibliographical
FROM Catania, where he held a professor
Society, the writer of it having died two
garden begins.
ship, comes the news of Mario Rapisardi's
days after. The paper
entitled
death. He was born in 1844. Victor Hugo
The first part of the novel is a realistic and Garibaldi praised his work, but it is
·
Notes on “Helenore" by Alexander description of the dull provincial life, difficult to take his epics—' Palingenesi,'
Ross, Schoolmaster, Lochlee : 1699-1784. ' which is suddenly disturbed by the storm Lucifero,' and Giobbe' - altogether
It included an account of an original MS. of the revolutionary movement. Courts-
copy of Helenore'in Mr. Gibb's posses- martial and “punitive” expeditions are facility. They are violently anti-religious
seriously, in spite of their vigour and
sion, which is understood to be the only heard of from all sides, and produce a
MS. of the pastoral in existence. Inscrip- deep impression on the minds of the young remember Rapisardi for his fierce contro-
in tone. All but loyal Sicilians will probably
tions, dated 1767, show that it belonged to generation. Sashka Jigulev, notwithstand-
Jonathan Forbes, laird of Brux, in Abering the traditions of his family, joins the his attack upon the author of the 'Odi
versy with Carducci, which originated in
deenshire. Forbes was out” in the '45, revolutionists. But he is torn between his Barbare' in Lucifero, rather than for
and, having to go into hiding, probably love for his mother and his “duty," as he his own work. But he was undoubtedly
took refuge at Lochlee, and there received conceives it, which calls him to a struggle
the MS. from the poet.
an important literary figure in his day.
where there is no room for personal
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the
affections. Andreiev shows strikingly THE following Government Publica-
members and friends of the Booksellers'
the process which leads the young man tions concerning education have some
Provident Institution will take place on to become a fanatical terrorist. The interest for our readers : University of
Thursday, March 14th, when, it is hoped, merciless process, evolving further, gradu- Wales, Medical Graduates (post free, id. );
Mrs. Humphry Ward will give an address ally leads him to “the philosophy of Education Statistics : Part 2, Financial,
expropriation and economical terrorism, 1909–10–11 (post free, ls. 10d. ); Scotch
MR. HENRY LABOUCHERE, who died in and puts him at the head of a desperate List of School Boards (post free, 8d. ); and
the Villa Christina at Florence on Tuesday gang of brigands. The inevitable gallows Report on the Distribution of Grants for
night at the age of 80, had retired of late await him at the end of his adventurous Agricultural Education and Research,
years from politics and journalism, and life.
1910–11 (post free, 4d. ).
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much detail. A word of praise is due to the The President delivered an address on 'Some
He said that
general excellence of production, for the Meteorological Observations. '
SCIENCE
clearness both of type and diagrams leaves
meteorology had at the present time reached an
important and critical phase in its history. This
nothing to be desired.
was due, in the main, to the operation of three
principal factors : (1) By the effluxion of time a
mass of observational material has been accumu-
OUR LIBRARY TABLE.
lated which urgently requires examination and
TOTEMISM.
discussion, with the object of ascertaining the
precise meaning and value of the records and of
A Geography of the World, by B. C. Wallis
IN a paper on 'Method in Totemic Studies,' improving routine methods for the future. (2) The
(Macmillan), is in part an admirable illus- printed as a present to visitors at the Quin- rapid increase of knowledge of the conditions
tration of modern methods of geographical centenary of St. Andrews University, I criti-
obtaining in the upper atmosphere has modified
teaching. A few years ago a textbook of cized a paper on a similar subject by Mr.
and is modifying current views as to atmospheric
phenomena generally, and new interpretations
geography was virtually no more than a A. A. Goldenweiser of Columbia University,
must be placed upon the distributions observed
mass of topographical facts, disconnected U. S. A. Mr. Goldenweiser points out to me at the surface of the earth. (3) The importance
and remembered with difficulty. The new that a communication from him was strangely of applied meteorology in relation to agriculture
system, as exemplified by this book, deals misprinted, while I made an error or two of and other activities of everyday life is becoming
first and foremost with principles by dis- my own. I therefore wish to warn any one
more generally recognized. 'It follows that there
is in many directions urgent need for the extended
cussing and interpreting physical and cli- who may light on my tract of these blunders. prosecution of research work. Increase of popular
matic conditions, and their effects upon It is not on sale.
A. LANG.