No More Learning

his limbs. Then arrive
the rogue and tho The author has made a careful study of her Some Memories of the Row, 6d. net.
Partridge
carpet together, and what follows gives period: leper - houses, Courts of Love, and
Percival Algernon the opportunity to dis- ecclesiastical anathemas play an effective Tweedie (Mrs. Alec), EUGENICS.
cover of what stuff he is made. He falls part in the action. The love-interest is Permanent detention and segregation of
in love with the innocent daughter of a developed from the author's motif of the all who are classified as feeble-minded !
smart woman smuggler and thief ; they betrothed bride and her attendant knight, From all quarters comes this cry the first
and the rogue are kidnapped together by but the result is less disastrous than with article in the social reformer's creed. Every
the Arab guardian of the sacred carpet, and Tristram and Lancelot.
book, pamphlet, or article which furthers
all suffer many things in the desert. The
this end is an intrinsic good, but we could
final scene, in which the
thieves are caught Wason (Robert Alexander), HAPPY HAWKINS, wish that more enthusiasts would take the
at their work, which involves the meeting
6/
Grant Richards Fabian tracts as models of exact writing.
of mother and daughter, is excellent. There Like the cowboys of fiction generally, we should like to know how “ trade unions
are some dull pages, but on the whole the Happy Hawkins is endowed with a turn prevent ” prisoners being taught much that
writing is bright and easy to read, and the for dry humour, a rough exterior, and a is useful. The article is reprinted from The
plot is skilfully unfolded to its happy ending. heart of gold, dominated by an ennobling, 'Fortnightly Review for May.
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6
career in the army of Russia in 1787, subse- traces with considerable power, to which is
FOREIGN.
quently an officer in the armies of Artois added at times real eloquence, the heroic
and Conde, and finally in the service of the struggle of the Polish peasantry against
bistory and Biograpby.
Bourbons in Naples, the Count was, during his Russian Orthodoxy: The_story takes us
Bratli (Charles), PHILIPPE II. , Roi d'Es- short, but adventurous and brilliant career, across the country-side of Podlachia, where
PAGNE, ÉTUDE SUR SA VIE ET SON
a shrewd and attentive observer of men and each village is in a stato of mutinous sub-
CARACTÈRE, nouvelle Édition, avec une
ovents. The memoirs, sincere and piquant, ordination, and where many victims have
Préface du Comte Baguenault de
a real contribution to the study of suffered in the national cause, As a faithful
Puchesse.
Paris, Champion
the epoch, and are carefully annotated by picture of Polish life, and an historical
There has long been an opening for a
M. Jacques Rambaud.
document, this book has equal claims on the
book which should present the results of Mermeix (M. ), CHRONIQUE DE L'AN 1911, sympathy and attention of the reader.
modern research on Philip II. It was the
3fr. 50.
Paris, Grasset
Education.
fault of historians of the last generation
M. Mermeix has written an instructive Byroniana und Anderos aus dem Englischen
to see in Philip either an implacable despot history of 1911. The major part of the
Seminar in Erlangen. Erlangen, Mencke
or a fanatical monk. Both these illusions narrative deals with the Morocco crisis,
A tribute to German keenness concerning
M. Bratli, in his conscientious study, in which is set forth with an abundance Byron. Various readings in ‘Manfred' are
some way dispels. The book is not a history of clearly analyzed detail. The attitude elaborately discussed ; there are notes on
of the reign, and wisely confines itself to a throughout is independent and impartial. additions to “Don Juan' and some unpub-
broad treatment of the personality of Philip Especially illuminating is the author's treat- lished letters of Byron in the British
himself. Since the discovery in 1884 by ment of the historic conference of Kissingen. Museum and in a publisher's catalogue ;
Gachard of the private correspondence of The causes of the rupture between M. de and the whole concludes with the Catalogue
Philip much has been done to rehabili- Selves and M. Caillaux are given, and M.
of Byroniana in the library of the Seminar,
tate his character, both as & man and Mermeix claims to have had access
to which offers exceptional opportunities for
a sovereign. It interesting to read M. the papers of the two secret missions in study. Several of the items noted are not
Bratli's contention that Philip, neither May and July. A chapter on social life in the British Museum.
bigot nor fanatic, is an expression of the and a brief survey of the present population
fiction.
same tendency towards mysticism which of France, based on the new census, are
produced in his century personalities like added.
Bois (Albert du), WATERLOO (BELGES OU
Louis Ponce de Léon and Louis of Granada. Münz (Sigmund), VON BISMARCK BIS BÜLOW,
FRANÇAIS ? ), 3fr. 50. Paris, Lemerre
Certainly in one respect Philip showed him- 3m.
Berlin, Stilke
Waterloo is a novel with a purpose,
self intellectually superior to his age, for
and has
This is a series of sketches journalistic
a long historical Introduction
according to Bermudez de Castro he was in alike in style and in choice of matter, but in favour of the contention that the Walloon
no degree superstitious. The murder of Don pleasant enough to read and in many points element in Belgium forms in reality part of
Carlos is justified by M. Bratli on the ground instructive. The first group is concerned the French nation, and remains separated
that Philip feared lest a turn in the wheel of with Bismarck himself; the second with only owing to the attitude of European
fortune should place the degenerate on the some half-dozen of the men who stood Powers. M. du Bois is an outright Franco-
throne, and that national interests demanded nearest to him and worked with him; the phile, and the depth of feeling which is shown
Don Carlos's death. While much is done in third with the private life and character of
is a further indication of the intensity of
the book to show the irresolution and Prince von Bülow and his wife. To the the internecine religious and linguistic
pessimism of Philip, we venture to think English reader the most interesting pages loons in Belgium. The story is well told,
struggle to-day between Flemish and Wal-
that sufficient stress has not been laid on are those dealing with Bismarck's views
his pettifogging instincts which in themselves on social questions and his attitude towards and the interest in the action carefully sus-
proved a bar to effective sovereignty. Neither England. Herr Münz takes occasion, when tained, though it is scarcely possible to share
can we concur with M. Bratli in his
conclusion
on this latter topic, to emphasize the exist-
the somewhat sanguine attitude of the
that in giving Spain religious unity at all
author.
ence in Germany of friendly feeling towards
costs Philip strengthened the forces of the us, and to express a just indignation at the Daniel-Lesueur, AU TOURNANT DES JOURS
nation.
irresponsible utterances of third-rate journal. (GILLES DE CLAIRCEUR), 3fr. 50.
Chéradame (André), LA CRISE FRANÇAISE, ism, which would have us take the “* Anglo-
Paris, Plon-Nourrit
3fr. 50.
Paris, Plon-Nourrit phobe" views of a small section of the This is a mediocre novel. The theme,
Politics in France since the Dreyfus case population for the mind of the whole interesting at first sight, shows evident signs
have become complex and difficult to follow German people.
of haste in its development. Gilles de
for the average English reader unacquainted Ussel (Vicomte Jean d'), ÉTUDES SUR
Clairceur, & prolific writer of popular
with the inner history of Cabinets. With L'ANNÉE 1813: L'INTERVENTION DE
feuilletons, takes upon herself the task of
the downfall of M. Caillaux, inexplicable for L'AUTRICHE (Décembre, 1812 – Mai,
bringing up her niece, and showers upon her
a time to the mass of the French people, the 1813), 7fr. 50. Paris, Plon-Nourrit adopted child the frustrated tenderness of
climax has been attained. M. Chéradame The present work comes as a complement when her niece finally abandons her, leaving
an old maid. The castle in the air dissolves
gives a lucid and impartial statement of to the Vicomte d'Ussel's recent monograph her nothing in life but a vista of future
the causes which have led to the present
crisis, and the threatened breakdown of book has considerable historical interest, drudgery. The author writes with dangerous
Parlementarisme. His book is a valuable since for the first time an exhaustive survey facility, and relies too much on mere descrip-
summary of the important facts which have has been made of the archives of Paris and
tion for atmosphere.
created the present social, moral, and military Vienna, and, further, the obscure and vacil-
General.
disorganization in France to-day. Thanks lating diplomacy of Austria is placed in a Mercure de France, lf. 25 not.
to an admirable system of marginal insets, clear light. Care and precision are the
Paris, 26, Rue de Condé.
the reader is at a glance able to inform dominating note of the method, and thanks The current number of this encyclopædic
himself as to the details of the crisis, its to the author's severe and attentive analysis review opens with an article by M. Pierre-Paul
causes, effects, and the proposed solutions. we are able to form a reasoned opinion Plon on Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bi-
The relative strength of France and Germany on the consequences of the Imperial marriage centenary of whose birth is to be celebrated
in a future war is carefully considered, and and the illusions which Napoleon himself next month. It is surprising, in view of
there is added a study of our own resources entertained.
the countless works which the life of
and the possibilities of English intervention.
Rousseau
hear
has inspired, to
that
In his judgments on English politics M. Geograpby and Travel.
there have remained till
now in
the
Chéradame is not always sure.
Reymont_(Ladislas-Stanislas), L'APOSTOLAT Bibliothèque Nationale letters hitherto un-
Damas (Comte Roger de), MÉMOIRES : DU KNOUT EN POLOGNE : NOTES DE published which throw light on the strange
RUSSIE, VALMY ET ARMÉE DE CONDE, VOYAGE AU PAYS DE CHELM, traduites man whose writings prepared the way for
NAPLES (1787–1806), 7fr. 50.
du polonais avec l'autorisation de the French Revolution.
Paris, Plon-Nourrit l'auteur par Paul Cazin, 3fr. 50.
A poem by M. Catulle Mendès is fol-
The keen attention which is to-day devoted
Paris, Perrin lowed by a lengthy appreciation of Joseph
to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period Not long since the Revue de Paris charac- Conrad and other articles. The reviews
could hardly fail to overlook the memoirs of terized M. Reymont as the most typical include a mass of works in every depart-
a character so chivalrous and picturesque as of modern Polish authors. This translation ment of art, literature, and science, besides
the Count de Damas.
published for the first time, give & vivid of those interested in the question of Polish letters from England, Italy, &c.
picture of the closing years of the ancien nationality. It is a sincere and moving The Mercure may be recommended as
érgime and the society of the émigrés in echo of the modern political and religious an admirable antidote to insularity in the
Germany and Naples. Beginning his I drama of the Slavonic world. M. Reymont I realm of letters.
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Literary Gossip
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historical aspect of the Home Rule
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analytical exposition of the Home Rule
31 Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus, by
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30 Plays and Players in modern Italy, by appeared in a contemporary last week, reading of the Bill, and that delicered
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Smith & Elder number of country newspapers, to the on April 23rd last. The complete text
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Essays in Radical Empiricism, 4/6 pet.
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28 Herbert Kypaston, a Short Memoir, with asked by him to say that this statement SOME interesting letters have been
Selections from his Occasional Writing by the is entirely unauthorized, and that there appearing in The Cambridge Review con-
30 Recollections of a Great Lady, by Madame is no truth whatever in it.
cerning the last illness of Gunning, the
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:8 The Journal of a Sporting Nomad, by J. T: of the Special Board for Classics. Com-
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a biographical introduction.
31 Pygmies and Papuans: the Stone Age
positions in Greek and Latin verse are no
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laston, 15/ net.
Smith & Elder philology, metre, and prosody in these his South Pole expedition was published
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Harrap papers which they formerly proposed which will appear serially in Denmark
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numerous illustrations, some 400 in all,
and edited by J. E. Mansion, with Vocabulary,
to the two former subjects.
the picture of the scene at the South
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Das Nibelungenlied,
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with Introduction, Notes, Exercises, and Vocabu- considerable criticism, and will not in maps, &c. A few introductory remarks
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edited by J. E. Mansion, with Notes, 2/ Harrap the value of literary taste in comparison
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31 The Darkness, the Dawn, and the Day,
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Lane writes from Brookline, Mass. , to claim the work of the kind in South Africa at
General.
credit, or discredit, for a predecessor of Johannesburg and Kimberley, and later
28 A Tragedy in Stone, by Lord Redesdale, Stead's James Redpath, an American
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journalist, but an Englishman by birth of the Royal Automobile Club, and resided
NEXT MONTH'S MAGAZINES. In the autumn of 1867 he secured and for some years in Devonshire, where he
took a keen interest in science and
In the June Blackwood Mr. Arthur Page writes printed in The Boston Daily Advertiser an
Church Establishment. ' Under the title ' A interview with General Benjamin F. archæology. His wife is a daughter of
Norse Queen's Pleasure Yacht, Mr. Arthur G.
Butler.
William Pengelly, the founder of the
Jayne, son of the Bishop of Chester, describes
the priceless collection of ancient carved furniture
Devonshire Association, and edited a
and objets d'art recovered from the Viking ship
MR. MURRAY will shortly publish striking memoir of her father in 1897.
excavated a few years ago near Christiania.
There is a further instalment of 'In Quest of a
the Life of John Hungerford Pollen,
Cure,' and a paper giving an account of the
THE death of Mr. James William
who was closely associated with Newman,
revolt of the republican troops at Nanking and being one of the inner circle of the Trac- | Harrison, senior partner in the firm of
tains British Mercenaries in Venezuela"two tarians, and was amongst the last to Harrison & Sons, Printers in Ordinary to
short stories, · Sanderson's Venus," by Mr. St. John secede. He was also one of the foremost His Majesty, removes one of the oldest
Private Riley,' by "Ole Luk-Oie”; the Musings decorative artists of the time, and took representatives of the trade in London.
without Method"; and the continuation of Sir
was 82, and of the fourth
a leading part in the artistic revival of He
A. T. Quiller-Couch's story . Hocken and Hunken :
a Tale of Troy. '
the nineteenth century. The biography generation of a line of London printers
which has been prolonged in his sons
Harper's Magazine will contain London by has been written by his daughter.
and grandsons. The firm are known,
the Sea,' by Harrison Rhodes ; Transgression,'
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roviow. )
the same time practical experience in
SCIENCE
human affairs will often lead straight to NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
right conclusions which it takes history
and science the best part of an age to
(Notice in these columns does not preclude longor
justify by formal proofs ; and Sir Harry
Views and Reviews from the Outlook of an
Johnston has had as good a chance as Bingham (S. ), WORDS TO WIVES ON PREQ-
NANCY AND PARTURITION, 3/6 net.
Anthropologist. By Sir Harry Johnston. any man alive of comparing the African
Allen
with the European type of man as a candi-
(Williams & Norgate. )
date for the highest honours in the school
The author supplies a kind of professional
FROM this book one might almost gather of civilization. We read his dicta, there- scaffolding to help the growing structure of
that Sir Harry Johnston's definition of fore, on the subject of Anglo-German similar aids except in his useful elabora-
an anthropologist was any one who relations, actual and possible, with the tion of the whole subject of the use of anti-
writes about the human race racily. " greatest interest and profit, even though septics in midwifery. The accustomed gibe
It is excellent journalism from the first we feel that it adds nothing to his authority at the non-nursing mother is not omitted,
but silence reigns on the subject of the sour
page to the last-bright, suggestive, here that he should profess to speak as
grapes which the fathers have eaten and the
facile, and clever ; but it will hardly pass an anthropologist.
consequent effect upon their offspring.
as strict and serious science, as doubtless Again, on another topical question Sir
the author would be the first to allow. Harry Johnston would cast anthropo- Brauns (Dr. Reinhard), THE MINERAL KING-
Yet Anthropology assuredly has no quarrel logical side-lights of which the less said, DOM, translated by L. J. Spencer, Parts
with Sir Harry Johnston, even if he chooses from the standpoint of critical ethnology,
XXI. and XXII. , 2) net each.
to sport her uniform when off duty. He the better. This being premised, let us
Williams & Norgate
belongs to that too rare type, the ad- turn to enjoy the breeziness of a brace These two parts deal with rock-salt and
ministrator who thoroughly appreciates of essays made up of passages such as the certain associated minerals, boracite and
the importance of studying, his native following :
other species containing boron, and the
mineral nitrates and fluor-spar. All these are
charges scientifically—that is, disinter-
"Ancient intermixture along the eastern described in the same popular, but accurate
estedly and for their own sakes—as a
seaboard of Ireland has produced certain way that distinguished the earlier parts
first step towards their better government, types of face particularly characteristic of of the work. Economic mineralogy, which
and towards the greater glory of British the English Pale. One is a stout, rubicund, appeals to all, is never lost sight of, and hence
empire. That this type of adminis- blunt-featured person, with a thick, fleshy the parts now before us describe not only the
trator is all too rare is proved by the fact nose and long upper lip, together with a working and uses of salt, but also the indus-
that, as Sir Harry Johnston's opening great tendency in the male to bushy whiskers trial value of those remarkable deposits of
essay brilliantly establishes, the Royal
-in short (except for the nose, which is too Stassfurt, the so-called abraum-salts, which,
coarse and formless), a John Bull. Another though formerly regarded as worthless, are
Anthropological Institute has never en-
joyed a penny of State aid, and, for all very frequently seen visage in English- now of great value for their potash.
, ,
The coloured plates in this instalment are
that imperial officers or ministers or the and Kildare—is the ' weepy' type, so called as good as any of their predecessors, the
leading lights of the Civil Service appear from the watery blue eye, which always figures of the polychromatic species, fluorite,
to know about it, might almost be seems tinged with emotion, and is often naturally forming an exceptionally handsome
non-existent. Yet to encourage anthro- red-rimmed as though with tear-shodding. picture. . In seeking, however, to reproduce
the brilliant lustre on the cleavage-faces of
pology is an excellent way of interesting green eyes and light eyelashes goes a large mica the printer seems to have used a
the reading public—and that is nowadays Wellingtonian nose, with a prominent red silver-like powder, which gives the mica the
a very large public, almost as large as the bump marking the end of the nasal bone. false appearance of a metallic mineral.
electorate, though it may not exactly The lips are loose and slightly pendulous.
coincide with it-in the Empire as some- The firm chin becomes in old age somewhat Bury (Judson S. ), DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS
thing that in virtue of its human interest, pouchy. The hands have prominent blue SYSTEM, 10/
rather than its mere size or wealth, can
veins and long, bony, large-jointed fingers.
Manchester University Press
appeal to the imagination. The German The personal habit of the body tends to
Dr. Bury has in this book adopted, as far
Government, as
as Sir Harry Johnston fleshiness of the John Bull type), and in the
thinness (as contrasted with the coarse
as was practicable, a clinical classification of
points out, is more far-sighted. It spends mental outlook these excellent
nervous diseases. He has tested this method
weepy
freely on anthropological research and on persons incline to sentimentality, especially Royal Infirmary. The student in this way
in his capacity of teacher at the Manchester
ethnological museums in order to educate if they are women. Of such are the martyrs obtains a grasp of the principles of anato-
the German people in regard to the highly in many of Ireland's causes. "
mical diagnosis which are of vital importance
diversified life and culture of the regions Sir Harry Johnston ends his book with in the recognition of diseases of the nervous
open to their sway. So it will come about
that they will perceive a potential garden rare animals, and tries to bring it into line syphilis of the nervous system supplies the
an admirable essay on the preservation of system. The whole is clearly and interest-
The section dealing with
where we can see nothing but a potato- with what has gone before by remarking most recent information on this subject,
patch in the making.
that every anthropologist will be with him and will be read with interest by specialists
From these remarks it must not be in wishing to see a certain " law” given and general practitioners alike. The excel-
deduced that Sir Harry Johnston is one to the rarer species. Undoubtedly this lent diagrams form an important addition to
of those who would egg on Briton against appeal to the anthropologist will
not be the text.
German in a pitiless struggle for domina- in vain. It is better that the Tasmanian
tion over a world conceived as too small or Fuegian should be put on a par with Davenport (C. B. ), HEREDITY IN RELATION TO
EUGENICS.
Williams & Norgate
to contain them both. On the contrary, the Okapi than that he should be ruth-
he is all for persuading the leading repre- lessly hustled out of existence in the America. It goes further than the present
A book founded on data collected in
sentatives of the “Nordic race in Europe interest of that civilization of ours which knowledge of the science warrants.
to combine peacefully in the realization in all its aspects is so remarkably “high.
common ideal. Such sentiments | At the same time, we suspect this “ argu- | Grünbaum (Albert S. ), THE ESSENTIALS OF
do him credit. It can hardly be said, mentum ad misericordiam," because it MORBID HISTOLOGY,
Longmans
however, that the question of the relative cuts two ways at once. Some of us are This is an excellent little book which
capacities of the various so-called races perhaps not so robust as Sir Harry John- / follows the lines of Prof. Schäfer's ‘ Essentials
of Europe and of the rest of the globe is ston in our belief in the innate superiority of Histology. ' It is intended for students,
in our present state of knowledge deter- of the Caucasian (whoever he may exactly and they will find invaluable help in the
minable by scientific methods ; and Sir be), and in any case he himself would drawings of Miss A. Kelley. We have
Harry Johnston at all events makes no hardly class the savage as more of an rarely seen such good coloured illustra-
pretension to base his argument either animal than a being with most of the diseases of the blood treated so thoroughly
on received scientific opinion or on fresh rights, because most of the potentialities, in illustrations. It is a book which all
considerations adequately established. At of a true man.
students should possess.
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Guenther (Dr. Konrad), EINFÜHRUNG IN DIE
of Chalk to be a perfect example of
SOCIETIES.
TROPENWELT: ERLEBNISSE, BEOBACH-
scientific accuracy blended with absolute
TUNGEN UND BETRACHTUNGEN EINES
simplicity and clearness. Prof. Leighton ROYAL. —May 16. -Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi-
NATURFORSCHERS AUF CEYLON, 4m. 80. writes of Huxley very well. The biography dent, in the chair. —Mr. W. B. Hardy read a
is good, the relation to Darwin is well
paper on 'The General Theory of Colloidal Solu-
Leipsic, Engelmann.
tions. The physical properties of colloidal
These experiences of a naturalist in Ceylon defined,
and a just preference for Huxley': solutions prove them to be heterogeneous fluids.
make a book at once instructive and amusing:
If the colloid particles are regarded as a stage in
science over his philosophic and controversial
works does not prevent an appreciation of the appearance of a second fluid phase, the
Dr. Guenther describes the fauna, flora, and
goneral scenery of the island-adding a
their importance for contemporary thought.
variations of the energy of the particles with the
There is a short bibliography.
radius are of predominant importance. If we
chapter or two on the people and the history
could assume, for instance, that the tension of
in an easy, unpretentious way, which may People's_ Books : INORGANIC CHEMISTRY,
the interface varied with the radius as the tension
disguise from a careless reader both the by Prof. E. C. C. Baly, bd. net. Jack
of a free film of fluid was found to vary with the
thickness of the film by Renold and Rücker,
amount of information that he imparts and In the place of the conventional centri- globules of certain dimensions would alone bé
the thorough work which
went to acquiring fugal study of the commoner elements with stable. It was pointed
out, however, that at present
this. It is not that anything actually the object of discovering general laws, there is no adequate basis in experiment or theory
unknown before can be said to have been Prof. Baly begins with a statement of the selves a colloidal form of matter, as the property
discovered by him, but that an unusual atomic theory, and proceeds by outlining of Alms or minute spheres of matter in general.
vivacity and freshness of treatment, and a principles rather than by presenting groups
The same author also read papers on The
happy knack of sketching incidents and of facts. The author is to be congratulated Lension of Composite Fluid Surfaces and the
movements, carry the reader on till he comes upon his skilful and lucid exposition of the
Mechanical Stability of Films of Fluid' and ' On
the Formation of a Heat-reversible Gel. ' In the
to share the author's eager sense of a new important laws of chemistry.
course of his study of the cyclo-pentanes Dr.
world opening before him. There
Ruhemann has synthesized a substance which
passages depicting wild life which, in their Taplin A. Betts), HYPNOTISM, 1/
Simpkin & Marshall forms gels with apparently any solvent (alcohol,
vividness and sympathy, remind us of This small book on hypnotism may be of aldehyde, glacial acetic acid, &c. ). A remarkable
ether, carbon tetrachloride, carbon bisulphide,
Mr. Hudson's 'La Plata. English readers
use to those who believe in its efficacy. feature is that gelation occurs as readily in asso-
may feel gratified by Dr. Guenther's general Charcot, who was one of the greatest ciating as in non-associating solvents. The gels
approval of English doings in Ceylon, and authorities on nervous diseases, tried the have a peculiar structure owing to the fact that
by his friendliness, which they will certainly effect of hypnotic suggestion for many years gelation starts from nuclei and only gradually
come to reciprocate. We could have spared in Paris. He ultimately discontinued its
some of the minute details, so lavishly given, use, because he found that the results were
Messrs. H. E. Armstrong, E. F. Armstrong, and
E. Horton read papers on
Studies on Enzyme
concerning getting up and going to bed and
very uncertain, and that in some instances Action : XVI. The Enzymes of Emulsin (II. ):
changing clothes, and we found the illustra- it was possible to do more harm than good.
Prunase, the Correlate of Prunasin,' and ŠVII.
tions, though numerous, too small to be
Enzymes of the Emulsin Type (II. ): The Dis-
satisfactory.
tribution of ß-Enzymes in Plants. '
Messrs. H. E. Armstrong and J. Vargas Eyre
King (Willford I. ), THE ELEMENTS OF
JOHN GRAY.
read a paper, “Studies on Enzyme Action :
STATISTICAL METHOD, 6/6 net.
XVIII. Enzymes of the Emulsin Type (III. ):
Macmillan
Linase and Other Enzymes in Linaceæ.
THE too-early death of Mr. John Gray is Mr. Alexander Forbes read a paper on 'Reflex
This general statement of statistical a great loss to anthropology, and especially Rhythm induced by Concurrent Excitation and
method has a special interest, as America to the Royal Anthropological Institute, Inhibition. Sherrington has published myograph
has hitherto contributed little of importance which he joined in 1894, and of which he records, taken from the extensor muscle of the
to the literature of the subject. Although became the active, energetic, and successful oscillations when excitatory and inhibitory reflex
the work is generally clear, making no Treasurer in 1903. He had joined the influences are pitted against each other. Similar
attempt to probe the lower depths of the British Association in 1892, and made in and more striking oscillations have been recorded
science, yet it suffers from that character- the Mathematical Section a contribution to
under similar experimental conditions. They
istic American thoroughness which is so the theory of the perfect influence machine.
occur most markedly when excitatory and inhi-
often hardly distinguishable from over- In 1894 he read a paper on the distribution but they also occur when a single ipsilateral
bitory reflex stimuli are simultaneously employed,
elaboration. The “members of the edu- of the Picts in Britain, as indicated by place. stimulus is so adjusted that its excitatory and
cated public ” who desire to know something names, and in 1895 an account of the inhibitory contents are nearly balanced. These
of the processes employed by statisticians, ethnographical researches undertaken at
oscillations are compared with the more regular
the class of reader
for whom the work is his suggestion by the Buchan Field
Club in rhythmic activities described by Graham Brown,
intended—will find nothing of great interest | East Aberdeenshire, which is published at action of two diametrically opposed reflex influ.
in the mathematics involved in Prof: length in the Transactions of that Club. He ences may determine a rhythmic response. It is
Pearson's histograms, or in “historigrams made a further report on the same subject urged that a rhythmic response to a continuous
-apparently an American translation of in 1899. The results are more fully dis.
stimulus must depend on an instability of equi-
time-curves. What will probably attract played in a joint paper, by him and Mr.
librium between the opposed tendencies at the
such readers will not be mathematics, but Tocher in the Journal of the Anthro- discharge once started is carried past the point
average rate of discharge, a condition whereby a
facts, for example, that imports into the pological Institute,
104-24. They where equilibrium, it possible, would occur.
United States are valued by a method gave a later account to the Association
Mr. T. Graham Brown read a paper on The
unknown to any other country, or that the
tariff schedules and the classifications of the Secretary of a Committee to organize a
in 1901, and Mr. Gray was appointed Factors in Rhythmic Functions of the Nervous
System. In å previous communication it was
shown that the act of rhythmic progression is
U. S. A. Bureau of Statistics do not tally, pigmentation survey of the schoolchildren intrinsically conditioned centrally and not peri,
with distressing consequences to the amateur of Scotland.