), RECORDS BY life, which several later
essayists
describe deed, the education provided might well be
SPADE AND TERRIER.
SPADE AND TERRIER.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
The headings 'Rites,' 'Rome' It would be
easy by quotation to
egotistical trumpeting of contemporary and its derivatives, Saint and Schism, illustrate the accuracy of observation and
society. A chapter on form closes the study. Schools, Science, and Seals all supply the well-tempered delicacy that mark the
We join issue with our author occa- important and elaborate matter. A number best of the shorter poems. In its way
sionally. He labours a point which needs of biographies are interspersed.
the 'Epitaph on a Great Composer is
no such emphasis as he indulges in when
equal to the best Jacobean work of the kind;
Lillicrap (A. G. ), THE DAY APPROACHING,
castigating the English theatre before the
and how close is Mr. Campbell's observation
a Twentieth-Century Revelation, Sequel of nature is shown in ' A Bird, "The Drome-
recent renaissance. It is not true to say to 'When Ye Think Not,' 6d.
dary,' and 'Nightfall on a Sandy Shore. '
that no piece succeeded which did not
Reading, A. G. Lillicrap Two short lyrics we reproduce in full. This
deal (cautiously) with seduction or adultery We can see no excuse for the publication of is 'Through Tears! :-
Charley's Aunt' and 'The Sign of this exclamatory and italicized “ toshery. "
the Cross suited the popular taste without Rauport (J. Godfrey), HELL AND ITS PRO-
As when the bitter waters rise
Into the warm surrendering eyes,
any such bait. He underrates both the
BLEMS, being the Third Revised and
And lights throw rays, and all appears
quality and the quantity of Mr. Shaw's
Twinkling across a mist of tears;
Enlarged Edition of Thoughts on
popularity in England, and for all his in- Hell,' 2/ net.
So when a sorrow floods the soul,
tuitive faculty does not show any sign of
St. Anselm's Publishing Co.
As through a film she sees the whole
World and her life before her swim
comprehending an important contributory The third edition, slightly modified, of a
Jagged and luminous and dim.
factor thereto-the appreciation of women. treatise designed to show that the concep-
Mr. Shaw's works are the quintessence of tion of Hell as a definite dogma in the Here is . Animula Vagula,' a fine expression
revolt against the abuses of the strong, Christian religion is irremovable.
The argu- of a mood :-
from which women have suffered and ment is not likely to appeal to modern
Night stirs but wakens not, her breathings climb
the aberrations of the weak—of which
thinkers. Reading books of this kind, we
are reminded of Heine's story of the woman
To one slow sigh ; the strokes of many twelves
they have taken advantage. He removes
From unseen spires mechanically chime,
of Alexandria who passed through the streets Mingling like echoes to frustrate themselves;
the swaddling bands of a false romanticism, with a torch and a bucket of water, declaring My soul, remember Time.
and shows himself a member of the elect that with the one she would set light to
The tones like smoke into the stillness curl;
few who know what every woman knows heaven and with the other quench the fires
The slippered bours their placid business ply,
And in thy hand there lies occasion's pearl ;
-in him they recognize one who neither of hell, so that mankind should no longer
do good for the sake of reward or from
But thou art playing with it absently
flatters nor despises, but understands.
And dreaming like a girl.
Probably no two persons would agree
fear of punishment.
as to the interpretation to be placed on
poetry.
If Mr. Campbell is strong enough to avoid
the plays. On the whole, M. Cestre's
petrifaction by formalism, he may do great
work. As it is, he has given us much that
analysis calls for no adverse criticism, Campbell (Archibald Young), Poems.
Cambridge, Heffer; is remarkable for its rounded finish and
except in the case of ‘You Never Can
Tell, where his attention is caught by
London, Simpkin & Marshall maturity of conception.
Restrained form, masterful terseness of
the sex-duel theme in the younger genera- expression, are not prominent even in the Clough, Poems, 3d. Oxford, Clarendon Press
tion, to the exclusion of its more important best verse of our time, and few indeed
treatment in the case of Mr. and Mrs.
The selection in this addition to the Oxford
are the contemporary poets who approach Plain Texts is at once generous and judicious,
Clandon. M. Cestre classes Sait-on sublimity.
Yet here is a first volume and contains the flower of Clough's genius,
jamais ? ' with 'L'Homme et le Sur which displays all these attributes in a
homme' as a play of love ; surely the high degree, Not all the forty poems in which, if a small one, has a peculiar scent
of its own.
former should have come under
We are glad to see . The Latest
the book show the same high level of
'La
Famille,' as the precursor of many burne and Synge, for example, are common-
attainment. The memorial verses on Swin- Decalogue, a magnificent piece of ironic
writing, included. Extracts from the
dramas dealing with the problem of place in thought and expression; and in book. It would have been wiser, we think,
“Bothie' occupy over one-third of the whole
the tyranny of home and the conflicting other pieces Mr. Campbell aims at fantastic
ideas of two generations.
to reserve it for another volume, and to give
In Tanner he effects which unsuccessful. But at
more voluminous excerpts from the 'Amours
sees the Superman brought down from his least half of the verses are so good that de Voyage.
eminence, reduced to the ranks, vanquished we would not have them altered. Neither
by the Man within, a conception which in his shorter nor in his longer poems does
Mr. Campbell touch the Dionysian vein ;
Seen by Fire.
arrives at the same end, but by a different throughout he writes with a conciseness and
Dublin, E. Ponsonby
route from that usually followed.
This volume contains much scattered
dignity that sometimes border on pedantry merit, though as a whole it is disappointing.
and coldness. Æschylus, Sophocles, and It has no virile sustained wind of imagina-
the English eighteenth century have con- tion blowing through it, but rather little
BOOK SALES.
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conjure up his emotional fect with fair
Audubon, Birds of America, 7 vols. , 1840-44,
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of mystical dirge. What is wrong with
George Carleton, 1743, 791. The total of the sale
Life itself pales on thy pulsating height,
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Messrs. Hodgson sold the library removed from
Life? ' is full of a charining melancholy, and
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Of brain or body with the thoughtless throng ; conveys exactly the mood which Coleridge
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which manor Mr. Wickham is lord. It is not attractive a form these features of the Oxford
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skin of his teeth. "
he conceives to be fundamental tenets of
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Report of the Upper Norwood Public Victorian date, and pertains to the Vale settlement in Paraguay might have swayed
Library (Croydon and Lambeth), 1911- of Belvoir, which is sufficiently remote the minds of many unsophisticated readers.
1912. Croydon, Croydon Times : | from Holcombe and Somersetshire. Mr. Even such readers could not help being struck
Tidd Pratt, a Poor Law Commissioner, by the comparison of the devastation brought
history and Biography. asked a big farmer what were his principles. about by the autocrat Lopez under a capi-
“ My principles, sir, are Church and Ale. talist system which had everything in its
Hamilton-Browne (Col. G. ), A Lost LEGION- “How so? " said Mr. Pratt. “Well, it's favour and the trials so heroically borne by
ARY IN SOUTH AFRICA, 12/6 net. Laurie like this. Me and my men live on the same the pioneers of New Australia-trials many
A vivid series of adventures with the
farm buildings, and they have their supper of which might reasonably be said to havo
irregular forces engaged principally in the with me on Sunday nights. If they've resulted from Lane's assuming to himself &
Zulu Campaign of "1879. The story is attended church once, they have a pint-if dictatorship, a position denounced by every
told with much humour and vivacity. twice, & quart of ale. Our principles, sir, Socialist theory that we know of.
Index of Wills proved in the Prerogative are Church and Ale. "
political Economy.
Court of Canterbury, and now preserved
in the Principal Probate Registry,
Geograpby and Travel.
Webb (M. de P. ), BRITAIN'S DILEMMA :
Somerset House : Vol. V. 1605-19, com-
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piled by E. Stokes.
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King
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AND ASSOCIATIONS, described by several
Authors, collected and arranged by of the flow of gold from India affects the
The author suggests that the deflection
Record Society.
R. T. Gunther, 7/6 net. John Murray
London Stories : BEING A COLLECTION OF
Mr. Gunther has collected in one volume
rise of the general level of prices; but it
THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES OF LON-
has yet to be shown that the assertion that
a series of
written
DONERS IN ALL Ages, edited by John last seventy years by Oxford men in the gold production determines price-level can
oLondon, Vol. II. , 6/
Jack periodicals, describing from one point of land, for example, the number of sovereigns
be applied outside certain limits. In Eng-
A popular mixture of all sorts. Like the
view or another the attractions of the
first volume, which we noticod on March 23rd, country round about the city. The beauty of
in circulation is not in direct proportion to
this one lacks revision and care in writing. Bagley Wood, the historical associations of period, and the quantity in circulation is
the amount of gold produced in any given
Thus on p. 205 we learn that “it is better Godstow Nunnery, Edgehill, or Chalgrove surely’a more potent factor in determining
to be accurate than picturesque," and on Field, the charm of the Cotswolds or the
p. 204, we find two famous lines given thus : Chilterns and the Windrush Valley, the Mr. Webb states his case trenchantly against
the level of prices than the absolute quantity.
Here, thou, great Anna ! Whom three nations obey, archæological interest of the Rollright Stones the finsacial methods of the India Ofice
, but
Dost sometimes counsel talk, and sometimes tea.
or Dorchester Camp-these and a hundred
We think it a pity that such casual work other features which constitute the rich and his suggestion, in so far as it is designed as a
should be put even before an undiscerning varied fascination of the Oxford country are prophylactic against industrial stagnation,
public.
is hardly convincing.
known to every scholar gipsy of our genera-
tion. But the country is paying the penalty
Napier (David), Engineer, 1790-1869 :
Education.
of its beauty and its fame. Perhaps even
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH,
Girls' School Year - Book (Public Schools),
NOTES, 10/ net.
some of these essayists themselves are re-
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This is a memoir, mainly by its subject's sponsible for the desecration they deplore in
own hand, of one of the pioneers of steam Poulton's
the haunts they lovingly describe. Mr. Story (The) of the People's College, Sheffield,
navigation who flourished from 1790 to
Geological Walk over Shotover 1842-78, compiled by G. C. Moore
1869. He claims to have made the first share Mr. Warde Fowler's Thoughts on
Hill? can do no_lasting harm, but to Smith, 2/6 net.
steamer that ran from Glasgow to Dublin, Boar's Hill is to stimulate the building
Sheffield, J. W. Northend
and thus crossed the open sea, as also the
The opening sentences of this small
, but
trade.
first steam carriage " for conveying pas-
important volume adequately describe the
gengers along the public roads. The book These things must be. The "new people ? lack of educational facilities for any except
is well printed and illustrated, the chief are spreading from Hinksey and Boar's Hill the well-to-do up to the period under
objection to it being that it is rather belated.
to Burford and the Chilterns. The red review. Mr. Moore Smith has presented a
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roofs of bungalows and villas begin to lucid account of an enterprising attempt
227, Strand
destroy the green-mufied " hills, oven to bring secondary education within the
to threaten Bagley Wood itself. The wild grasp of working men and women,
Wickham (Rev. J. D. C.
), RECORDS BY life, which several later essayists describe deed, the education provided might well be
SPADE AND TERRIER.
so well, tends to disappear as bricks and described as primary as well as secondary,
Bath, Gregory : London, Harrison mortar invade its solitudes. How swift for, although the People's College was open
The Rev. J. D. C. Wickham has chosen and sudden are the changes which the de- to 'adults only, many of those attending
a picturesque and homely title for the velopment of Oxford society brings upon the classes had had little or no previous
science of excavation. The remains of neo- Oxford country is well shown by Mr. education.
lithic man, and his followers of the Celtic, Macan's delightful record of the migrations To the Rev. R. S. Bayley, a Congrega:
Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon times, are of the Oxford golf links. Golfers were ever tional minister, the inception and practical
discussed. It is stated in the Introduction a nomad race; but never surely in the working of the scheme were due, and the
that terriers, which aro land registers, and history of the game have the members of author draws a vivid picture of the pare
usually glebo inventories -- are tithe - maps ! one club moved, by choice
or compulsion, sonality of the first Principal, and the
We have had an intimate acquaintance from course to course so rapidly: Now, if struggles of the College at the various critical
with every form of old parish document, we include the two that have been aban- periods of its existence.
especially in Somerset, and this is the doned at Headington and Hinksey, the
first time that we have heard such a word links within hail of Oxford, like the stars in (1842) there was general public apathy.
When the People's College was founded
some
460 pages purports to deal in the main with ' In an age of decay so rapid and development I the efforts of public authorities were feeble
For a considerable period after that date
:
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and sporadic. Yet this modest educational disillusionment. The unquestionable talent than the pulpit manner into which he some-
experiment was carried forward over and accomplishment of the author are not times lapses. Philip Du Cane, the keeper
period of thirty-six years, and during its steadied, as they might be, by adherence of the Bond Street emporium, is too obtuso
existence turned out many men who after to the realities of character and situation ; over his passion for a man of marked
wards distinguished themselves in various and this story, which begins in the manner commercial ability ; but otherwise his
spheres of usefulness.
of Gissing, concludes in that of the con- character is cleverly sketched.
The little volume includes various portraits ventional shocker. "
Kaye (Michael W. ), A Robin Hood OF
of those who were instrumental in carrying a Coppée (François), THE GUILTY MAN (LE
FRANCE, 6/
Stanley Paul
bold experiment to a successful conclusion. COUPABLE), translated by Ruth Helen Being out of favour with La Pompadour
Philology.
Davis, 6!
Greening and accused of murder, a young French
Like other authors of stories intended to courtier flees to the Forest of Fontainebleau,
Harrison (Honry), SURNAMES OF THE UNITED preach a moral, M. Coppée has driven home and establishes himself as leader of a band
.
Eaton Press
his point so hard as to tax the belief of of robbers. On the whole, the author's
his readers. The position of illegitimate style is readable enough, but he is prono
fiction.
children under the French law is admittedly to the melodramatic ; for instance, in one
Balzac (Honoré de), LOVE IN A Mask, 1/ net. cruel; and it is sadly probable that the place the hero's eyes "glinted like steel,”
Madame la Comtesso
Wo are informed that this novel, trans- conditions of their lives help to drive many and in another
lated for the first time into English, has of them into crime. But the succession of turned green with rage. '
been hitherto omitted from Balzac's pub- misfortunes accumulated upon the central Moberly (L. G. ), HIS LITTLE GIRL, 61
lished works. We can hardly wonder at figure of this tale is too unvarying and
Ward & Lock
it, for it by no means enhances his reputa-
The novel is carefully constructed
The title speaks for itself, and the author
tion. It is the story of a widow's caprice. Dis- -indeed, the lines of the scaffolding, are
is entirely unable to escape the sentimental
illusioned concerning matrimony
by her first unduly, perceptible - and there are no irre-
conventions. The little girl in question
venture she obtains by unorthodox means levancies, Ruth Helen Davis has made it is left in the care of the hero by a mother
the child she desires, and finally, touched by readable but American.
who dies in giving utterance to an uncom.
his sufferings, marries the man. It is as Co-Respondent (The), 6/ Murray & Evenden pleted sentence. The child has the inevitablo
flimsy and weak a tale as any in a popular
novel. The poverty of its composition is ful wife in the Divorce Court, with a sleep-
An unfaithful husband placing his faith- jewelled locket, and the handsome but
equalled by the stiffness and unreality of the walking major, mistaken for a ghost upon story. It is all related fluently-so fluently;
ful wife in the Divorce
Court, with a sleep sinister-looking gentleman with dark designs
on the said locket also finds a place in the
characters and their conversation.
Battersby (H. F. Prevost), THE LAST RESORT, these are the characters which predominate indeed, that one could wish the talent
exhibited had been better employed.
Lane in the little company of unnatural people
The author's sympathies are evidently who are made to discuss matters of sex Pain (Barry), STORIES WITHOUT TEARS, 6/
not with Liberal Governments. At a crisis in a dismal manner upon every possible and
Mills & Boon
Mark Sarroll, the honest soldier who, with many an impossible occasion.
Last January Mr. Pain filled his wallet
a handful of native troops, represents Croker (B. M. ), THE SERPENT's Tooth, 6!
with fresh
wares-many of them little
British influence over about seventy thou-
Hutchinson
tragedies in cameo. Unfortunately they did
sand square miles of African territory,
not agree with the other contents, of which
appeals to England for four thousand highly unpleasant and uninteresting
people ; pedlar, and the combination did not make
We are introduced by Mrs. Croker to some
Mr. Pain is & consummate and diverting
men within a month's time. The ar-
rogant Colonial Secretary,
“ himself con-
even the heroine is too vacillating to engage
& digestible whole. This time he has
stitutionally lacking in principle," only our sympathy. She marries a wealthy cad,
answers by summoning him home to talk and their daughter gives her cause to think returned to his accustomed genre, and dis-
of Lear's remark about ingratitude. Fin- Such a method as in his peculiar way he
ports himself with ease and flexibility.
the matter over ! Political wirepulling
ally, her husband-from whom she has long has perfected can do much with slight
attention ist held Tess by the unpleasant been divorced-dies, and she sails for India materials. He is the most amiable and irre-
Mrs. Heseltino
, whose drawing-room sent with the somewhat shadowy hero. The sponsible of raconteurs, but at his best an
least one Cabinet Minister loved to grace writing is occasionally careless.
accomplished craftsman. Finished trifling is
with his presence, than by the woman whom Frere (Edgar), REBELS, 6/
Drane perhaps too severe an expression for his
Sarroll eventually marries, and the girl
work which has undertones of a sage and
from the costume department of a big incompetent solicitors who decides to seek his ironic perception of human values and
. Besides, his work has a kind
racters are considerately conveyed to the fortune in the Colonies; his fiancée is a young
of spell. Mr. Pain is a Mephistopheles of
seat
of the trouble in Africa when the story self - supporting existence in London rather artistry shows here more gaps and seams
lady who chooses to lead an industrious and
literature, shorn of his terrors. His
necessitates the focussing of our attention
than be subject to the vagaries of a wealthy,
than in Eliza,' but he still wears his motley
leaves the besieged residency on hands but selfish and hypochondriacal mother, and
as a good fit, though perhaps it is becoming
and knees under the enemy's fire, in order Their vicissitudes provide the plot.
.
& trifle threadbare.
to bring the surgeon from the hospital to
amputate the arm of the man she wishes The author's quasi-humorous and realistic Parker (Sir Gilbert), DONOVAN PASHA AND
to marry-an idea which is bizarre enough.
style should have rendered superfluous the
SOME PEOPLE OF EGYPT, 7d, net.
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While much above the average in merit,
from her predilection for the New Forest, A story limpid and pleasant as the days Mr. Reynolds's short stories will not satisfy
described with much charm in these pages. of the immortal sea-bird's nesting are in those who are familiar with any of his longer
But she has other tastes of a more sophis: legend. Halcyone, elusive and adorable, a work. If we were asked for a reason for his
ticated order, “ expresses herself in clothes, maid of high degree, lives with her aunts comparative failure, we should assign it
becomes a student at a London college, and in elegant penury, sitting occasionally at the to the fact that his presentments are rather
shows a pretty turn for flirtation. Some feet of neighbour Chevron. Jason, a senior silhouettes than portraits. In his longer
of her adventures in this last field are disciple, bent on healing the people's ills by work we get his outlines from so many
audacious enough, yet she is throughout a means of a Tory party programme, is almost angles that we are at length familiarized
likeable young woman. Her more common- | captured by Medea, an American divorcée, with his types, and mistake familiarity for
place sister, and that sister's egoist hus- and has to suffer much for his error in intimacy. The best of the stories here
band, are in our opinion the best-drawn seeking aid from so evil a source before the have to do with fishing and fishermen,
characters. The scholarly caravanner carries loving dryad wins him.
subjects which he knows as well as any man
too strong a suggestion of a recent popular Granville (Charles), THE GIFT OF ST. AN.
novel.
Granville (Charles), THE GIFT OF Sr. And in England. He is so informative about
THONY, 6d, net.
Swift
them and their work that it is the more
Capes (Bernard), JESSIE BAZLEY, 6/
New edition.
provoking that we just fail to know the men
Constable
themselves.
Readers who once believed that in Mr. Holmes (Alec), THE EMPORIUM, 6/ Allen
Steward (B. D. ), TREASURE OF THULE, 6/
Bernard Capes they saw the making of a This mildly entertaining story is some-
Sidgwick & Jackson
distinguished and individual novelist have what disturbed by the introduction of a A radiant healthfulness both mental and
been somewhat disheartened by his later secret society and bombs. The author's physical, and a spirit of adventure which
writings, and 'Jessie Bazley will be a fresh conversational guise is more successful i might awaken enthusiasm oven in inveter-
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ately bad sailors, pervade this "romance of one of the foremost among novelists envisag-
Orkney:" The three principal characters, ing American society. This novel deals
NOTES FROM OXFORD.
who all, as master, pupil, and old boy re- with a domestic tragedy in the mountains
spectively, “hail from a well-known public of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Wharton brings
“The Chancellor. . . . expressed his dis-
school, are spending their summer holidays in out clearly and strikingly the fatalism appointment that the progress made in
sailing a tiny boat among the Orkney islands. engendered by solitude, poverty, and the carrying out the proposals of 1909 had not
Before long, the simple nautical record is rigours of climate. The picture is well been more rapid. " So runs the official
complicated by the appearance of a Scotch drawn, and the treatment of emotion re-
account of Lord Curzon's answer to the
lawyer and a Danish professor, each pos- strained and effective.
Memorialists who put before him “certain
sessing a daughter; and it develops into &
considerations which suggest that the time
pleasing tale of treasure-hunting diversified
by love-making.
has come for the University itself to press
PROF. W. W. GOODWIN. upon the Government the expediency of
Taj, ZORAH, A TALE OF ZENANA LIFE, 6/
In William Watson Goodwin, who died appointing a University Commission. ”
Methuen in his 81st year in his home in Cambridge,
Who are the Memorialists! The list,
* Zorah’ is loss a story than a set of Mass. , in the early part of last week, the which is public property, has been carefully
descriptions strung upon a thin thread of world of letters has lost a great scholar and scanned by the supporters of things-as-they-
narrative. Many pages are devoted to
an inspiring personality.
are, and certain hard words have been
an exposition of Mohammedan precepts ;
Born in Concord in 1831, Goodwin, after used about those who appear therein. If
many others to an elaborate account of graduating at Harvard, studied for a time not for the most part notoriously evil
the ceremonies at a rich wedding.
character - drawing or construction the
in the Universities of Göttingen, Berlin, and livers, nevertheless many of them
writer has no power at all; but she Bonn, and took the Ph. D. degree at Göt- connected with institutions such as Balliol
succeeds in rendering
or New College, are given over to research
tingen in 1855. In 1860 he was recalled to
an atmosphere Harvard as Eliot Professor of Greek Lite-
and similar forms of intellectual debauchery,
curiously different from that of English rature, a post which he held until 1896.
and have even been known to sign petitions
novels about Indian life. Her command Even 'after he became Emeritus Professor for Reform before. How much solider and
she has a tiresome trick of using a pair occasional lectures, but during the last year
of our language is remarkable, although he continued for some years to deliver sounder the strong, silent men who constituto
our Boards—the wooden walls of old Oxford,
of synonyms in place of a single word.
or two failing health obliged him to refrain
as we proudly call them !
Verne (Jules), MICHAEL STROGOFF, from active work.
Besides, the Memorialists have displayed
COURIER OF THE CZAR, 6d. net. Nelson Goodwin went out to Athens in 1882 as --that is to say, have aped-moderation
the first Annual Director of the newly and even pụnctilio, in a way that none but
General.
founded American School of Classical Studies, the most scheming of revolutionaries would
and contributed to the first volume of School have taken thought to do. Instead of
Burdett's Hospitals and Charities, 1912, Papers an able account, based on careful appealing to the nation by way of the half-
10/6 net.
Scientific Press
local observation, of the positions and move- penny press, or threatening a general strike,
The present issue completes the twenty- ments of the two hostile floets at the Battle they merely laid their views before the
third year of publication, and includes the of Salamis.
Chancellor. Such conduct is extremely
latest figures available, those of 1910. A
mean. As Radicals of the worst type they
He is probably best known in this
special chapter is devoted to the National country as the author of a careful work on
must in their heart of hearts be obstinately
Insurance Act, and another to the United | the ‘Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the
set against Lord Curzon and all his works.
States, Canada, Australasia, and India. Greek Verb, which has had a lasting influ. friends and backers of the scheme of Uni-
Yet they represented themselves as the
Upwards of 6,000 institutions are dealt with once on the study of Greek grammar. The versity Reform put forward in his famous
in the volume, which affords a compro- American edition became current in Eng; Memorandum. Thoy omitted to state
hensive view of the whole subject.
land in the early seventies, and a revised and though the fact must be known to them only
Robinson (Rosina), AIMS AND METHODS or
enlarged issue was published here by too well—that, in modern politics, an
Messrs. Macmillan in 1875. This work was
TEACHING, NEEDLEWORK, with a Preface followed in 1879 by a revised English edition arbitrator is appointed as a means of allay:
by Miss Susan Lawrence, 2/6 net. of his · Elementary Greek Grammar,' and of providing an impartial survey of the facts
Arnold
later by a 'School Greek Grammar. '
A shilling grant can no longer be earned three books still enjoy a considerable settlement. On the contrary, they treated the
All
and of attaining, thereby to a permanent
from the Board of Education in return for circulation. More recently he brought out Chancellor's suggestions as seriously meant;
one single garment and certain prescribed in America an elaborate edition of Demos-
samples, but the results of a discarded thenes de Corona' and of the oration against it, as follow-conspirator with themselves.
thus branding him, had he but perceived
system may be seen in the too-prevalent Meidias. In all these works the author
teaching of needlework as the art of stitch: showed not only a grasp of the minutiæ of him that he was for the moment surprised
So insidiously, in fact, did they approach
ing, and not of construction. Many highly Greek scholarship, but also insight into the into taking a serious view of himself, his
skilled in “ fancy” work are possessed with modes of Greek thought and understanding position, and his proposals
. In his haste
a mysterious fear of cutting out in inaterial.
of the Greek genius.
Anything, which tends to encourage the
he declared that "he claimed to be a Liberal,
construction of clothes as an intellectual
During the course of his long life Goodwin and even an advanced Reformer, in respect
exercise, as the systematic course sketched received the highest academic honours, of the University. " Thus do evil com.
here must do, relegating mere stitching to a including the LL. D. degrees of Cambridge munications corrupt good manners.
subordinate place, is valuable, not only as
and Edinburgh, and the Oxford D. C. L. In
Worst of all, the Memorialists, having
a means to a good end, but also as helping 1904 he became an honorary member of the
been told by Lord Curzon that he thought
incidentally to mitigate the evils of defective Hellenic Society.
it at the present juncture inopportune to
eyesight, which, statisticians tell us, is more Goodwin paid many visits to this country, press for a Royal Commission, have appa-
common among girls than boys.
and was held in affection and esteem by rently acquiesced in this policy: Having
many of our leading scholars, including said their say, they have decided to make
Royal Statistical Society Journal, JUNE, 2/6 such men as Sir Richard Jebb and Prof. no further move for the moment. There is
The Society Henry Jackson. Indeed, it was impossible something sinister in this show of self-
Smith (Thomas), EVERYBODY'S GUIDE TO
to know him without being attracted by his restraint. Honest Reformers would at least
THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1) net.
transparent simplicity of character and his have smashed the Chancellor's windows.
All
the regulations and forms recently personal charm. His massive head recalled Not to have done so argues a base intention
issued by the Insurance Cominissioners have
the type of the Olympian Zeus.
to inculpate him as a partisan and leader of
been incorporated in the second edition of New England descent and of his connexion
Goodwin was always proud of his pure window-smashers.
this useful handbook.
To return to the Chancellor's expression
with the town of Plymouth, where his ancestor of disappointment that so little has been
FOREIGN.
had landed from the Mayflower. Year after done, as the fruit of three years' internal
year lie spent his summers on an island in reform, we have the Faculty and Finance
fiction
Plymouth Bay, where he devoted himself Acts. Neither of these can be said to
Wharton (Edith), Sous LA NEIGE, 3fr. 50.
to his favourite pastime of yachting.
embody at all fully the principles originally
Paris, Plon-Nourrit Though it is some ten years since he formulated by Lord Curzon. The first
It was M. Paul Bourget who first recog- last came to England, Goodwin's death will measure leaves the Boards of separato
nized in Mrs. Wharton an author of promise, bo mourned here by many who valued his Faculties much as they were before, but,
and since the publication of Chez les friendship and appreciated his exceptional having abolished the old Delegacy of the
Heureux du Monde: she has taken rank as gifts.
T. Common Fund, which worked very well,
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easy by quotation to
egotistical trumpeting of contemporary and its derivatives, Saint and Schism, illustrate the accuracy of observation and
society. A chapter on form closes the study. Schools, Science, and Seals all supply the well-tempered delicacy that mark the
We join issue with our author occa- important and elaborate matter. A number best of the shorter poems. In its way
sionally. He labours a point which needs of biographies are interspersed.
the 'Epitaph on a Great Composer is
no such emphasis as he indulges in when
equal to the best Jacobean work of the kind;
Lillicrap (A. G. ), THE DAY APPROACHING,
castigating the English theatre before the
and how close is Mr. Campbell's observation
a Twentieth-Century Revelation, Sequel of nature is shown in ' A Bird, "The Drome-
recent renaissance. It is not true to say to 'When Ye Think Not,' 6d.
dary,' and 'Nightfall on a Sandy Shore. '
that no piece succeeded which did not
Reading, A. G. Lillicrap Two short lyrics we reproduce in full. This
deal (cautiously) with seduction or adultery We can see no excuse for the publication of is 'Through Tears! :-
Charley's Aunt' and 'The Sign of this exclamatory and italicized “ toshery. "
the Cross suited the popular taste without Rauport (J. Godfrey), HELL AND ITS PRO-
As when the bitter waters rise
Into the warm surrendering eyes,
any such bait. He underrates both the
BLEMS, being the Third Revised and
And lights throw rays, and all appears
quality and the quantity of Mr. Shaw's
Twinkling across a mist of tears;
Enlarged Edition of Thoughts on
popularity in England, and for all his in- Hell,' 2/ net.
So when a sorrow floods the soul,
tuitive faculty does not show any sign of
St. Anselm's Publishing Co.
As through a film she sees the whole
World and her life before her swim
comprehending an important contributory The third edition, slightly modified, of a
Jagged and luminous and dim.
factor thereto-the appreciation of women. treatise designed to show that the concep-
Mr. Shaw's works are the quintessence of tion of Hell as a definite dogma in the Here is . Animula Vagula,' a fine expression
revolt against the abuses of the strong, Christian religion is irremovable.
The argu- of a mood :-
from which women have suffered and ment is not likely to appeal to modern
Night stirs but wakens not, her breathings climb
the aberrations of the weak—of which
thinkers. Reading books of this kind, we
are reminded of Heine's story of the woman
To one slow sigh ; the strokes of many twelves
they have taken advantage. He removes
From unseen spires mechanically chime,
of Alexandria who passed through the streets Mingling like echoes to frustrate themselves;
the swaddling bands of a false romanticism, with a torch and a bucket of water, declaring My soul, remember Time.
and shows himself a member of the elect that with the one she would set light to
The tones like smoke into the stillness curl;
few who know what every woman knows heaven and with the other quench the fires
The slippered bours their placid business ply,
And in thy hand there lies occasion's pearl ;
-in him they recognize one who neither of hell, so that mankind should no longer
do good for the sake of reward or from
But thou art playing with it absently
flatters nor despises, but understands.
And dreaming like a girl.
Probably no two persons would agree
fear of punishment.
as to the interpretation to be placed on
poetry.
If Mr. Campbell is strong enough to avoid
the plays. On the whole, M. Cestre's
petrifaction by formalism, he may do great
work. As it is, he has given us much that
analysis calls for no adverse criticism, Campbell (Archibald Young), Poems.
Cambridge, Heffer; is remarkable for its rounded finish and
except in the case of ‘You Never Can
Tell, where his attention is caught by
London, Simpkin & Marshall maturity of conception.
Restrained form, masterful terseness of
the sex-duel theme in the younger genera- expression, are not prominent even in the Clough, Poems, 3d. Oxford, Clarendon Press
tion, to the exclusion of its more important best verse of our time, and few indeed
treatment in the case of Mr. and Mrs.
The selection in this addition to the Oxford
are the contemporary poets who approach Plain Texts is at once generous and judicious,
Clandon. M. Cestre classes Sait-on sublimity.
Yet here is a first volume and contains the flower of Clough's genius,
jamais ? ' with 'L'Homme et le Sur which displays all these attributes in a
homme' as a play of love ; surely the high degree, Not all the forty poems in which, if a small one, has a peculiar scent
of its own.
former should have come under
We are glad to see . The Latest
the book show the same high level of
'La
Famille,' as the precursor of many burne and Synge, for example, are common-
attainment. The memorial verses on Swin- Decalogue, a magnificent piece of ironic
writing, included. Extracts from the
dramas dealing with the problem of place in thought and expression; and in book. It would have been wiser, we think,
“Bothie' occupy over one-third of the whole
the tyranny of home and the conflicting other pieces Mr. Campbell aims at fantastic
ideas of two generations.
to reserve it for another volume, and to give
In Tanner he effects which unsuccessful. But at
more voluminous excerpts from the 'Amours
sees the Superman brought down from his least half of the verses are so good that de Voyage.
eminence, reduced to the ranks, vanquished we would not have them altered. Neither
by the Man within, a conception which in his shorter nor in his longer poems does
Mr. Campbell touch the Dionysian vein ;
Seen by Fire.
arrives at the same end, but by a different throughout he writes with a conciseness and
Dublin, E. Ponsonby
route from that usually followed.
This volume contains much scattered
dignity that sometimes border on pedantry merit, though as a whole it is disappointing.
and coldness. Æschylus, Sophocles, and It has no virile sustained wind of imagina-
the English eighteenth century have con- tion blowing through it, but rather little
BOOK SALES.
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AT a sale held recently by Messrs. Sotheby impressive Ode to Art, an eighteenth-
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were realized : Voyage century mannerism brings the reader up
dans l'Oberland bernoise, n. d. , 631.
The anonymous author shows some delicato
détachées et Maisons de 'la Suisse, n. d. , 381. abruptly. Yet the stanzas are full of
intuition of rhythm and melody, and can
Views of the Rhine and Frankfort, n. d. (1818), 711. movement:
conjure up his emotional fect with fair
Audubon, Birds of America, 7 vols. , 1840-44,
lacking one plate, 311. Defoe, Moll Flanders, 1721;
Visit not me with thine invidious might!
aptitude. He is most successful with a kind
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Arm not my spirit with thy naked spear!
of mystical dirge. What is wrong with
George Carleton, 1743, 791. The total of the sale
Life itself pales on thy pulsating height,
him is that his vision is too vague and un-
And like to me is dear
was 2,5091. 38. .
A much more sure delight
certain. The fabric never leaves the im-
At their rooms in Chancery Lane last week
Than purblind Inspiration, and more near.
pression of being irrefragable. What is
Messrs. Hodgson sold the library removed from
Life? ' is full of a charining melancholy, and
Willoughby Hall, Lincolnshire, and other proper-
Leave une to move in mercenary toil
ties, including Shelley's Cenci, first edition, present-
Of brain or body with the thoughtless throng ; conveys exactly the mood which Coleridge
ation copy from Leigh Hunt to Charles Lloyd, 1819,
The droning
anodyne of life's turmoil
caught in Verso, a breeze mid blossoms
Shall bear my thoughts along,
801. ; and Lamb's Elia, first edition, 1823, 271. 108.
And occupation foil
straying,” and Moore in “Oft in the stilly
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The far-off sleepless challenge of thy song.
night. "
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which manor Mr. Wickham is lord. It is not attractive a form these features of the Oxford
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he conceives to be fundamental tenets of
with Appendices, and Twelfth Annual There is a good story, but it is of Early Socialism, his narrative of Lane's Utopian
Report of the Upper Norwood Public Victorian date, and pertains to the Vale settlement in Paraguay might have swayed
Library (Croydon and Lambeth), 1911- of Belvoir, which is sufficiently remote the minds of many unsophisticated readers.
1912. Croydon, Croydon Times : | from Holcombe and Somersetshire. Mr. Even such readers could not help being struck
Tidd Pratt, a Poor Law Commissioner, by the comparison of the devastation brought
history and Biography. asked a big farmer what were his principles. about by the autocrat Lopez under a capi-
“ My principles, sir, are Church and Ale. talist system which had everything in its
Hamilton-Browne (Col. G. ), A Lost LEGION- “How so? " said Mr. Pratt. “Well, it's favour and the trials so heroically borne by
ARY IN SOUTH AFRICA, 12/6 net. Laurie like this. Me and my men live on the same the pioneers of New Australia-trials many
A vivid series of adventures with the
farm buildings, and they have their supper of which might reasonably be said to havo
irregular forces engaged principally in the with me on Sunday nights. If they've resulted from Lane's assuming to himself &
Zulu Campaign of "1879. The story is attended church once, they have a pint-if dictatorship, a position denounced by every
told with much humour and vivacity. twice, & quart of ale. Our principles, sir, Socialist theory that we know of.
Index of Wills proved in the Prerogative are Church and Ale. "
political Economy.
Court of Canterbury, and now preserved
in the Principal Probate Registry,
Geograpby and Travel.
Webb (M. de P. ), BRITAIN'S DILEMMA :
Somerset House : Vol. V. 1605-19, com-
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piled by E. Stokes.
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King
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AND ASSOCIATIONS, described by several
Authors, collected and arranged by of the flow of gold from India affects the
The author suggests that the deflection
Record Society.
R. T. Gunther, 7/6 net. John Murray
London Stories : BEING A COLLECTION OF
Mr. Gunther has collected in one volume
rise of the general level of prices; but it
THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES OF LON-
has yet to be shown that the assertion that
a series of
written
DONERS IN ALL Ages, edited by John last seventy years by Oxford men in the gold production determines price-level can
oLondon, Vol. II. , 6/
Jack periodicals, describing from one point of land, for example, the number of sovereigns
be applied outside certain limits. In Eng-
A popular mixture of all sorts. Like the
view or another the attractions of the
first volume, which we noticod on March 23rd, country round about the city. The beauty of
in circulation is not in direct proportion to
this one lacks revision and care in writing. Bagley Wood, the historical associations of period, and the quantity in circulation is
the amount of gold produced in any given
Thus on p. 205 we learn that “it is better Godstow Nunnery, Edgehill, or Chalgrove surely’a more potent factor in determining
to be accurate than picturesque," and on Field, the charm of the Cotswolds or the
p. 204, we find two famous lines given thus : Chilterns and the Windrush Valley, the Mr. Webb states his case trenchantly against
the level of prices than the absolute quantity.
Here, thou, great Anna ! Whom three nations obey, archæological interest of the Rollright Stones the finsacial methods of the India Ofice
, but
Dost sometimes counsel talk, and sometimes tea.
or Dorchester Camp-these and a hundred
We think it a pity that such casual work other features which constitute the rich and his suggestion, in so far as it is designed as a
should be put even before an undiscerning varied fascination of the Oxford country are prophylactic against industrial stagnation,
public.
is hardly convincing.
known to every scholar gipsy of our genera-
tion. But the country is paying the penalty
Napier (David), Engineer, 1790-1869 :
Education.
of its beauty and its fame. Perhaps even
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH,
Girls' School Year - Book (Public Schools),
NOTES, 10/ net.
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This is a memoir, mainly by its subject's sponsible for the desecration they deplore in
own hand, of one of the pioneers of steam Poulton's
the haunts they lovingly describe. Mr. Story (The) of the People's College, Sheffield,
navigation who flourished from 1790 to
Geological Walk over Shotover 1842-78, compiled by G. C. Moore
1869. He claims to have made the first share Mr. Warde Fowler's Thoughts on
Hill? can do no_lasting harm, but to Smith, 2/6 net.
steamer that ran from Glasgow to Dublin, Boar's Hill is to stimulate the building
Sheffield, J. W. Northend
and thus crossed the open sea, as also the
The opening sentences of this small
, but
trade.
first steam carriage " for conveying pas-
important volume adequately describe the
gengers along the public roads. The book These things must be. The "new people ? lack of educational facilities for any except
is well printed and illustrated, the chief are spreading from Hinksey and Boar's Hill the well-to-do up to the period under
objection to it being that it is rather belated.
to Burford and the Chilterns. The red review. Mr. Moore Smith has presented a
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roofs of bungalows and villas begin to lucid account of an enterprising attempt
227, Strand
destroy the green-mufied " hills, oven to bring secondary education within the
to threaten Bagley Wood itself. The wild grasp of working men and women,
Wickham (Rev. J. D. C.
), RECORDS BY life, which several later essayists describe deed, the education provided might well be
SPADE AND TERRIER.
so well, tends to disappear as bricks and described as primary as well as secondary,
Bath, Gregory : London, Harrison mortar invade its solitudes. How swift for, although the People's College was open
The Rev. J. D. C. Wickham has chosen and sudden are the changes which the de- to 'adults only, many of those attending
a picturesque and homely title for the velopment of Oxford society brings upon the classes had had little or no previous
science of excavation. The remains of neo- Oxford country is well shown by Mr. education.
lithic man, and his followers of the Celtic, Macan's delightful record of the migrations To the Rev. R. S. Bayley, a Congrega:
Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon times, are of the Oxford golf links. Golfers were ever tional minister, the inception and practical
discussed. It is stated in the Introduction a nomad race; but never surely in the working of the scheme were due, and the
that terriers, which aro land registers, and history of the game have the members of author draws a vivid picture of the pare
usually glebo inventories -- are tithe - maps ! one club moved, by choice
or compulsion, sonality of the first Principal, and the
We have had an intimate acquaintance from course to course so rapidly: Now, if struggles of the College at the various critical
with every form of old parish document, we include the two that have been aban- periods of its existence.
especially in Somerset, and this is the doned at Headington and Hinksey, the
first time that we have heard such a word links within hail of Oxford, like the stars in (1842) there was general public apathy.
When the People's College was founded
some
460 pages purports to deal in the main with ' In an age of decay so rapid and development I the efforts of public authorities were feeble
For a considerable period after that date
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and sporadic. Yet this modest educational disillusionment. The unquestionable talent than the pulpit manner into which he some-
experiment was carried forward over and accomplishment of the author are not times lapses. Philip Du Cane, the keeper
period of thirty-six years, and during its steadied, as they might be, by adherence of the Bond Street emporium, is too obtuso
existence turned out many men who after to the realities of character and situation ; over his passion for a man of marked
wards distinguished themselves in various and this story, which begins in the manner commercial ability ; but otherwise his
spheres of usefulness.
of Gissing, concludes in that of the con- character is cleverly sketched.
The little volume includes various portraits ventional shocker. "
Kaye (Michael W. ), A Robin Hood OF
of those who were instrumental in carrying a Coppée (François), THE GUILTY MAN (LE
FRANCE, 6/
Stanley Paul
bold experiment to a successful conclusion. COUPABLE), translated by Ruth Helen Being out of favour with La Pompadour
Philology.
Davis, 6!
Greening and accused of murder, a young French
Like other authors of stories intended to courtier flees to the Forest of Fontainebleau,
Harrison (Honry), SURNAMES OF THE UNITED preach a moral, M. Coppée has driven home and establishes himself as leader of a band
.
Eaton Press
his point so hard as to tax the belief of of robbers. On the whole, the author's
his readers. The position of illegitimate style is readable enough, but he is prono
fiction.
children under the French law is admittedly to the melodramatic ; for instance, in one
Balzac (Honoré de), LOVE IN A Mask, 1/ net. cruel; and it is sadly probable that the place the hero's eyes "glinted like steel,”
Madame la Comtesso
Wo are informed that this novel, trans- conditions of their lives help to drive many and in another
lated for the first time into English, has of them into crime. But the succession of turned green with rage. '
been hitherto omitted from Balzac's pub- misfortunes accumulated upon the central Moberly (L. G. ), HIS LITTLE GIRL, 61
lished works. We can hardly wonder at figure of this tale is too unvarying and
Ward & Lock
it, for it by no means enhances his reputa-
The novel is carefully constructed
The title speaks for itself, and the author
tion. It is the story of a widow's caprice. Dis- -indeed, the lines of the scaffolding, are
is entirely unable to escape the sentimental
illusioned concerning matrimony
by her first unduly, perceptible - and there are no irre-
conventions. The little girl in question
venture she obtains by unorthodox means levancies, Ruth Helen Davis has made it is left in the care of the hero by a mother
the child she desires, and finally, touched by readable but American.
who dies in giving utterance to an uncom.
his sufferings, marries the man. It is as Co-Respondent (The), 6/ Murray & Evenden pleted sentence. The child has the inevitablo
flimsy and weak a tale as any in a popular
novel. The poverty of its composition is ful wife in the Divorce Court, with a sleep-
An unfaithful husband placing his faith- jewelled locket, and the handsome but
equalled by the stiffness and unreality of the walking major, mistaken for a ghost upon story. It is all related fluently-so fluently;
ful wife in the Divorce
Court, with a sleep sinister-looking gentleman with dark designs
on the said locket also finds a place in the
characters and their conversation.
Battersby (H. F. Prevost), THE LAST RESORT, these are the characters which predominate indeed, that one could wish the talent
exhibited had been better employed.
Lane in the little company of unnatural people
The author's sympathies are evidently who are made to discuss matters of sex Pain (Barry), STORIES WITHOUT TEARS, 6/
not with Liberal Governments. At a crisis in a dismal manner upon every possible and
Mills & Boon
Mark Sarroll, the honest soldier who, with many an impossible occasion.
Last January Mr. Pain filled his wallet
a handful of native troops, represents Croker (B. M. ), THE SERPENT's Tooth, 6!
with fresh
wares-many of them little
British influence over about seventy thou-
Hutchinson
tragedies in cameo. Unfortunately they did
sand square miles of African territory,
not agree with the other contents, of which
appeals to England for four thousand highly unpleasant and uninteresting
people ; pedlar, and the combination did not make
We are introduced by Mrs. Croker to some
Mr. Pain is & consummate and diverting
men within a month's time. The ar-
rogant Colonial Secretary,
“ himself con-
even the heroine is too vacillating to engage
& digestible whole. This time he has
stitutionally lacking in principle," only our sympathy. She marries a wealthy cad,
answers by summoning him home to talk and their daughter gives her cause to think returned to his accustomed genre, and dis-
of Lear's remark about ingratitude. Fin- Such a method as in his peculiar way he
ports himself with ease and flexibility.
the matter over ! Political wirepulling
ally, her husband-from whom she has long has perfected can do much with slight
attention ist held Tess by the unpleasant been divorced-dies, and she sails for India materials. He is the most amiable and irre-
Mrs. Heseltino
, whose drawing-room sent with the somewhat shadowy hero. The sponsible of raconteurs, but at his best an
least one Cabinet Minister loved to grace writing is occasionally careless.
accomplished craftsman. Finished trifling is
with his presence, than by the woman whom Frere (Edgar), REBELS, 6/
Drane perhaps too severe an expression for his
Sarroll eventually marries, and the girl
work which has undertones of a sage and
from the costume department of a big incompetent solicitors who decides to seek his ironic perception of human values and
. Besides, his work has a kind
racters are considerately conveyed to the fortune in the Colonies; his fiancée is a young
of spell. Mr. Pain is a Mephistopheles of
seat
of the trouble in Africa when the story self - supporting existence in London rather artistry shows here more gaps and seams
lady who chooses to lead an industrious and
literature, shorn of his terrors. His
necessitates the focussing of our attention
than be subject to the vagaries of a wealthy,
than in Eliza,' but he still wears his motley
leaves the besieged residency on hands but selfish and hypochondriacal mother, and
as a good fit, though perhaps it is becoming
and knees under the enemy's fire, in order Their vicissitudes provide the plot.
.
& trifle threadbare.
to bring the surgeon from the hospital to
amputate the arm of the man she wishes The author's quasi-humorous and realistic Parker (Sir Gilbert), DONOVAN PASHA AND
to marry-an idea which is bizarre enough.
style should have rendered superfluous the
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described with much charm in these pages. of the immortal sea-bird's nesting are in those who are familiar with any of his longer
But she has other tastes of a more sophis: legend. Halcyone, elusive and adorable, a work. If we were asked for a reason for his
ticated order, “ expresses herself in clothes, maid of high degree, lives with her aunts comparative failure, we should assign it
becomes a student at a London college, and in elegant penury, sitting occasionally at the to the fact that his presentments are rather
shows a pretty turn for flirtation. Some feet of neighbour Chevron. Jason, a senior silhouettes than portraits. In his longer
of her adventures in this last field are disciple, bent on healing the people's ills by work we get his outlines from so many
audacious enough, yet she is throughout a means of a Tory party programme, is almost angles that we are at length familiarized
likeable young woman. Her more common- | captured by Medea, an American divorcée, with his types, and mistake familiarity for
place sister, and that sister's egoist hus- and has to suffer much for his error in intimacy. The best of the stories here
band, are in our opinion the best-drawn seeking aid from so evil a source before the have to do with fishing and fishermen,
characters. The scholarly caravanner carries loving dryad wins him.
subjects which he knows as well as any man
too strong a suggestion of a recent popular Granville (Charles), THE GIFT OF ST. AN.
novel.
Granville (Charles), THE GIFT OF Sr. And in England. He is so informative about
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them and their work that it is the more
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provoking that we just fail to know the men
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themselves.
Readers who once believed that in Mr. Holmes (Alec), THE EMPORIUM, 6/ Allen
Steward (B. D. ), TREASURE OF THULE, 6/
Bernard Capes they saw the making of a This mildly entertaining story is some-
Sidgwick & Jackson
distinguished and individual novelist have what disturbed by the introduction of a A radiant healthfulness both mental and
been somewhat disheartened by his later secret society and bombs. The author's physical, and a spirit of adventure which
writings, and 'Jessie Bazley will be a fresh conversational guise is more successful i might awaken enthusiasm oven in inveter-
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734
No. 4418, JUNE 29, 1912
THE ATHENÆUM
are
THE
ately bad sailors, pervade this "romance of one of the foremost among novelists envisag-
Orkney:" The three principal characters, ing American society. This novel deals
NOTES FROM OXFORD.
who all, as master, pupil, and old boy re- with a domestic tragedy in the mountains
spectively, “hail from a well-known public of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Wharton brings
“The Chancellor. . . . expressed his dis-
school, are spending their summer holidays in out clearly and strikingly the fatalism appointment that the progress made in
sailing a tiny boat among the Orkney islands. engendered by solitude, poverty, and the carrying out the proposals of 1909 had not
Before long, the simple nautical record is rigours of climate. The picture is well been more rapid. " So runs the official
complicated by the appearance of a Scotch drawn, and the treatment of emotion re-
account of Lord Curzon's answer to the
lawyer and a Danish professor, each pos- strained and effective.
Memorialists who put before him “certain
sessing a daughter; and it develops into &
considerations which suggest that the time
pleasing tale of treasure-hunting diversified
by love-making.
has come for the University itself to press
PROF. W. W. GOODWIN. upon the Government the expediency of
Taj, ZORAH, A TALE OF ZENANA LIFE, 6/
In William Watson Goodwin, who died appointing a University Commission. ”
Methuen in his 81st year in his home in Cambridge,
Who are the Memorialists! The list,
* Zorah’ is loss a story than a set of Mass. , in the early part of last week, the which is public property, has been carefully
descriptions strung upon a thin thread of world of letters has lost a great scholar and scanned by the supporters of things-as-they-
narrative. Many pages are devoted to
an inspiring personality.
are, and certain hard words have been
an exposition of Mohammedan precepts ;
Born in Concord in 1831, Goodwin, after used about those who appear therein. If
many others to an elaborate account of graduating at Harvard, studied for a time not for the most part notoriously evil
the ceremonies at a rich wedding.
character - drawing or construction the
in the Universities of Göttingen, Berlin, and livers, nevertheless many of them
writer has no power at all; but she Bonn, and took the Ph. D. degree at Göt- connected with institutions such as Balliol
succeeds in rendering
or New College, are given over to research
tingen in 1855. In 1860 he was recalled to
an atmosphere Harvard as Eliot Professor of Greek Lite-
and similar forms of intellectual debauchery,
curiously different from that of English rature, a post which he held until 1896.
and have even been known to sign petitions
novels about Indian life. Her command Even 'after he became Emeritus Professor for Reform before. How much solider and
she has a tiresome trick of using a pair occasional lectures, but during the last year
of our language is remarkable, although he continued for some years to deliver sounder the strong, silent men who constituto
our Boards—the wooden walls of old Oxford,
of synonyms in place of a single word.
or two failing health obliged him to refrain
as we proudly call them !
Verne (Jules), MICHAEL STROGOFF, from active work.
Besides, the Memorialists have displayed
COURIER OF THE CZAR, 6d. net. Nelson Goodwin went out to Athens in 1882 as --that is to say, have aped-moderation
the first Annual Director of the newly and even pụnctilio, in a way that none but
General.
founded American School of Classical Studies, the most scheming of revolutionaries would
and contributed to the first volume of School have taken thought to do. Instead of
Burdett's Hospitals and Charities, 1912, Papers an able account, based on careful appealing to the nation by way of the half-
10/6 net.
Scientific Press
local observation, of the positions and move- penny press, or threatening a general strike,
The present issue completes the twenty- ments of the two hostile floets at the Battle they merely laid their views before the
third year of publication, and includes the of Salamis.
Chancellor. Such conduct is extremely
latest figures available, those of 1910. A
mean. As Radicals of the worst type they
He is probably best known in this
special chapter is devoted to the National country as the author of a careful work on
must in their heart of hearts be obstinately
Insurance Act, and another to the United | the ‘Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the
set against Lord Curzon and all his works.
States, Canada, Australasia, and India. Greek Verb, which has had a lasting influ. friends and backers of the scheme of Uni-
Yet they represented themselves as the
Upwards of 6,000 institutions are dealt with once on the study of Greek grammar. The versity Reform put forward in his famous
in the volume, which affords a compro- American edition became current in Eng; Memorandum. Thoy omitted to state
hensive view of the whole subject.
land in the early seventies, and a revised and though the fact must be known to them only
Robinson (Rosina), AIMS AND METHODS or
enlarged issue was published here by too well—that, in modern politics, an
Messrs. Macmillan in 1875. This work was
TEACHING, NEEDLEWORK, with a Preface followed in 1879 by a revised English edition arbitrator is appointed as a means of allay:
by Miss Susan Lawrence, 2/6 net. of his · Elementary Greek Grammar,' and of providing an impartial survey of the facts
Arnold
later by a 'School Greek Grammar. '
A shilling grant can no longer be earned three books still enjoy a considerable settlement. On the contrary, they treated the
All
and of attaining, thereby to a permanent
from the Board of Education in return for circulation. More recently he brought out Chancellor's suggestions as seriously meant;
one single garment and certain prescribed in America an elaborate edition of Demos-
samples, but the results of a discarded thenes de Corona' and of the oration against it, as follow-conspirator with themselves.
thus branding him, had he but perceived
system may be seen in the too-prevalent Meidias. In all these works the author
teaching of needlework as the art of stitch: showed not only a grasp of the minutiæ of him that he was for the moment surprised
So insidiously, in fact, did they approach
ing, and not of construction. Many highly Greek scholarship, but also insight into the into taking a serious view of himself, his
skilled in “ fancy” work are possessed with modes of Greek thought and understanding position, and his proposals
. In his haste
a mysterious fear of cutting out in inaterial.
of the Greek genius.
Anything, which tends to encourage the
he declared that "he claimed to be a Liberal,
construction of clothes as an intellectual
During the course of his long life Goodwin and even an advanced Reformer, in respect
exercise, as the systematic course sketched received the highest academic honours, of the University. " Thus do evil com.
here must do, relegating mere stitching to a including the LL. D. degrees of Cambridge munications corrupt good manners.
subordinate place, is valuable, not only as
and Edinburgh, and the Oxford D. C. L. In
Worst of all, the Memorialists, having
a means to a good end, but also as helping 1904 he became an honorary member of the
been told by Lord Curzon that he thought
incidentally to mitigate the evils of defective Hellenic Society.
it at the present juncture inopportune to
eyesight, which, statisticians tell us, is more Goodwin paid many visits to this country, press for a Royal Commission, have appa-
common among girls than boys.
and was held in affection and esteem by rently acquiesced in this policy: Having
many of our leading scholars, including said their say, they have decided to make
Royal Statistical Society Journal, JUNE, 2/6 such men as Sir Richard Jebb and Prof. no further move for the moment. There is
The Society Henry Jackson. Indeed, it was impossible something sinister in this show of self-
Smith (Thomas), EVERYBODY'S GUIDE TO
to know him without being attracted by his restraint. Honest Reformers would at least
THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1) net.
transparent simplicity of character and his have smashed the Chancellor's windows.
All
the regulations and forms recently personal charm. His massive head recalled Not to have done so argues a base intention
issued by the Insurance Cominissioners have
the type of the Olympian Zeus.
to inculpate him as a partisan and leader of
been incorporated in the second edition of New England descent and of his connexion
Goodwin was always proud of his pure window-smashers.
this useful handbook.
To return to the Chancellor's expression
with the town of Plymouth, where his ancestor of disappointment that so little has been
FOREIGN.
had landed from the Mayflower. Year after done, as the fruit of three years' internal
year lie spent his summers on an island in reform, we have the Faculty and Finance
fiction
Plymouth Bay, where he devoted himself Acts. Neither of these can be said to
Wharton (Edith), Sous LA NEIGE, 3fr. 50.
to his favourite pastime of yachting.
embody at all fully the principles originally
Paris, Plon-Nourrit Though it is some ten years since he formulated by Lord Curzon. The first
It was M. Paul Bourget who first recog- last came to England, Goodwin's death will measure leaves the Boards of separato
nized in Mrs. Wharton an author of promise, bo mourned here by many who valued his Faculties much as they were before, but,
and since the publication of Chez les friendship and appreciated his exceptional having abolished the old Delegacy of the
Heureux du Monde: she has taken rank as gifts.
T. Common Fund, which worked very well,
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