No More Learning

scrupulous artist, and which are, perhaps,
book owes not a little to Miss Dorothy
not so rare as they were--a sense of passion
Ripley's photographs.
and wistfulness that are all her own, a feeling
THE pseudonymous “Celt” who has for the ever-present beauty of earth and
garnered a posy of reflections concerning the elusive atmosphere, whether of London
the nature of women under the title of
Woman, the Good and the Bad: the Dicta dream trance which transfigures the world,
streets or country fields, combined with that
of Famous People of all Times (Gay & Han-
and conveys a gleam of intimate things
OUR LIBRARY TABLE,
cock), displays a catholic indulgence in
almost too subtle for expression to the printed
favour of both the moralist and the humorist.
Women's Work in Local Government (Eng- Indeed, as soon as the critic realizes the page. Humour freed her from that sim-
land, and Wales). By J. E. Brownlow. slender proportions of this volume and the plesse posing as simplicity which is the bane
(Nutt. ). —Mrs. Brownlow's little book sets ominous fact that virtually every writer
many a lyricist.
forth clearly and succinctly the nature of of distinction, even the anchorite who re- Her themes--the beauty of a summer
the various bodies by which the local gards the earth as the exclusive inheritance night, the miracle of recurrent spring, the
government of this country is carried on,
of the male sex, has turned the search- voices of the birds-above all, she was the
the work allotted to each of them, the light of his mind upon the problem of laureate of the blackbird—are such as have
persons who may elect them, and those who woman, he will readily acknowledge how engageď dozens of pens, and left us cold.
may serve upon them. On almost every creditably the anthologist's task has been the little flashes and mystic hints of life,
page she shows how necessary is the special performed. True, the homilist and the so significant for many groping souls to-day,
knowledge possessed by women, and how satirist of every age obviously possess are for the few who are ever young :-
inadequately the field is at present the field. Throughout the era of civilized
covered. It is impossible to read without | man, there has been a preponderance of
The heart of youth and the House of Dream,
They are here once more while the spring stars gleam,
in summer.


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No. 4393, Jan. 6, 1912
THE ATHENÆUM
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sense
re-
was
66
After The Bird Bride,' which has lyrical
II.
charm of too fantastic a sort, Vespertilia,
Little Grango: Woodbridge THE 'ODES OF SOLOMON. '
and other Poems,' 'A Summer Night, and
May 13 (1874)
other Verses,' and 'After Sunset showed
DEAR SIR.
Westroad Corner, Cambridge, Dec. 22, 1911.
I must thank you for your polite &
full maturity. They have
of
SINCE Dr. Rendel Harris first published
speedy answer to my Letter. I am glad that
atmosphere seldom equalled, and at their my little Picture does really represent a Spot has been written about them, and a good
the 'Odes of Solomon' in 1909 a great deal
best a concinnity of phrase such as comes which so many memorable men have haunted.
seldom without a severe classical training and really felt uncomfortable as the Catastrophe should be dependent for their text upon :
many regrets have been uttered that we
Mrs. Watson's care for form is, as we once
drew on-Letter by Letter-The early Murray
said, her least feminine attribute. That is
single very late copy. I write now to point
Letters had great Character & Humour ;
as nothing compared with the sincerity of minding one also of the more convivial Living
out that the greater part of these 'Odes’
the poet's vision, the feeling for colour and in those days. Some of the Correspondence as
are extant in a tenth-century Syriac MS.
mystery, but without it the labour is often of Playfair, Mackenzie, &c. I was not so in- in the British Museum (B. M. Add. 14538)!
in vain, the appeal evanescent.
terested in as doubtless many of your Northern I examined the MS. to-day, and hope to
There have been poets who achieved in the whole work is-Sir Walter's grudge against Journal of Theological Studies, but the mere
Readers would be. The only disagreeable speck publish a collation of at least part in The
success with little knowledge. Mrs. Watson Jeffrey for the Review on Marmion. I thought fact of the existence of this Ms. , so long
& widely accomplished woman, busy he was too brave, generous, and utterly careless
of what he wrote, to resent such a Review-
with journalism, an omnivorous reader
overlooked seems to me of special interest.
which also (as I remember) is not altogether
whose memory supplied the highest of unjust. Perhaps Scott thought himself attacked
I append Wright's description (C. B. M. ,'
1008a), merely translating where he tran-
standards. She wrote at one time on art as Tory rather than as Poet. I cannot bear to
scribed the Syriac :-
in The Academy, and gave evidence of her fine acknowledge a speck on his Chivalrous Character
taste in & volume on The Art of the House
-the noble, dear, Fellow !
“ 4. A collection of Hymns, very imperfect.
Fol. 149a. Those that remain are numbered
in The Connoisseur Series. "
I always knew that Lockhart had a vein of
In 'The Malice in him : but I scarce thought it would from 12 to 45, and from 57 to 58. The eigh-
Heart of a Garden,' a garland of verse and have extended to a misrepresentation of the Dead. teenth begins thus : My heart was lifted up
prose, she was happily at home. She in- However, one has no Worship of him to keep
in the love of the Most High and was enlarged :
spired in a great novelist one of his finest sacred as one has of Sir Walter. One wonders that I might praise him by my name. My
heroines. She took a keen interest in that two men so different should have become members were strengthened that they might not
so closely united : indeed we Southrons heard fall from his strength. . . . and the nineteenth
music, in many forms of art and literature, that Sir W. never liked him. Be that as it may, thus :: A cup of milk was offered to me: and I
and was an admirable letter-writer, abound- Lockhart was a terrible Hypocrite indeed if he drank it in the sweetness of the delight of the
ing in sympathy and humour.
did not love Scott; whose Biography must be Lord. The Son is the cup and He who was
All who knew her-of whatever rank or
one of the most interesting Books in our Lan- | milked is the Father: Yand that the Holy Spirit
Her
guage.
occupation-feel a deep sense of loss.
milked Him. . . . "
Permit me to say sincerely that your Book
intimates mourn the generous and loyal appears to me excellent in its unaffected sim-
When Orientals cannot find things that
heart, the gay humour, the easy freedom plicity of style, and Candour to all Parties. are under their eyes, they say “the Shaitan
from cant and pedantry, the quickest to
One is rejoiced to get hold of a Book nowadays was sitting upon it”; it seems evident
see, the first to encourage.
V. R.
that is naturally and easily written, without all that the Shaitan has been sitting hitherto
that Epigrammatic & Graphic slang which has
been the fashion since Dickens' days perhaps.
on this page of Wright's well-known Cata-
I love Dickens too : but if I had to write books,
logue.
F. C. BURKITT.
should return to dip myself in Sir Walter.
You are very hospitable in offering to let me
THREE NEW LETTERS FROM call on you if I ever go to Edinburgh. Ah!
EDWARD FITZGERALD.
let me get there !
Your's much obliged
THE BOOK SALES OF 1911.
THE following letters were written to my
E. FITZ GERALD.
father, Thomas Constable, who died in 1881.
III.
PART I.
They were found among his papers only
Little Grange : Woodbridge.
three months ago. They are printed with
Nov. 17
THE great event of the year, the sale of
FitzGerald's characteristic capitals and other- DEAR SIR-
the first portion (A-B) of the Huth Library,
I told you in the Summer that I thought well known to students and collectors
wise exactly as he wrote them :-
of going to Edinburgh ;
I.
in July—by Sea from London: & back again thirty years ago, was so recently described
whither I went through the catalogue published more than
Little Grange : Woodbridge: Suffolk.
after only three clear Days. It was stupid of
May 5/74
me' not to stay longer : but it has left me with in The Athenæum (Nov. 25th) that there is
SIR
a Desire to go again : which I scarce ever felt no need to refer to it again in a summary
I am being extremely interested in your before after such Expeditions. I went, however,
of the year's activities further than to say
Memoir of your Father | Archibald Constable
almost entirely to see Sir Walter's Home &
Whereabout: 'and I saw it all the very day makes it certain that this sale will, when
that the total amount realized (50,8211. )
and his Literary Correspondents,' 3 vols. , 1873];
of course the more so as I approach the final
before the House was closed to Visitors :
Crisis, which I so well remember.
account of some Honeymoon-an ill-omened completed, rank as the most important, from
I dare say you have been troubled with many
place for a Honeymoon, I thought. But it was a financial point of view, which has ever
letters from Strangers on the Subject of your Story.
all & more than I expected: House, Grounds, taken place in this country. Times have
Excuse my doing so—about a little matter too,
which (after all) may be irrelevant. You must burgh, 'like a piece of solemn Musick. Then I changed since the great Fonthill Library
not trouble yourself to answer if it be so.
was prevailed on to go for a Day to Lochs Katrine
was sold in sections for 89,2001. ; and even the
I have possessed for 20 years and more a little
& Lomond: which I felt sure I shd not care for comparatively recent sale of the Ashburn-
Picture by Stothard, professing to [be] a View
so much as under a Mist of Poetry & Romance-ham Library for 62,7001. affords but partial
of your Father's house near Edinburgh. I
nor did I. One day I drove about Edinburgh: evidence of what it would have brought had
cannot recall the name : but, beside that it is a
but went to see none of the Sights : which I say
it been reserved until to-day, when competi-
delicate picture by one of the most delicate & again was stupid : but, if one lives, may be
amiable of Painters, I have taken pleasure in
remedied. I thought the City beautiful ; Shops tion is so much keener and money of ap-
believing it to represent the house where your
so good & People so intelligent & civil. I was parently less account than it has ever been.
Father and Sir Walter may have often met. The
sorry not to have brought away with me a large For the Heber Library in 1834–7, 57,5001. was
enclosed sketch-a Scratch-will perhaps be Photograph of the Castle from Princes Str. at a
obtained; and the Sunderland Sale with
sufficient to remind you of any such place as it
Shop down some steps nearly opposite Scott's
purports to represent: and I should be obliged
Monument. But I hesitated at having another
its 56,0001. makes up the quartet against
to you if you could authenticate it to me. But,
Parcel to take care of. Could you tell me the which the Huth Library will, when it has
as I said before, not if it be any trouble to you.
name of the Bookseller ?
passed into history, be arrayed. All these
I have never been in Scotland, though I have
You were polite enough to ask me to visit sales were very rich in books of the kind
been these 20 years determining to see Edin-
you in case I went to Edinburgh: do not think
for which there is at present the greatest
burgh, and Abbotsford-Perhaps this Summer!
that I forgot or undervalued your kindness :
--I fancy, however, that this Picture represents
but I could not think of availing myself of such
inquiry, and which during the last few years
Scotch Landscape, at any rate : indeed the
an offer after so slight an Introduction, & of have become more and more elusive as the
Architecture of the House alone (very dimly my own making. Believe me that I am thankful : demand for them has become more wide-
indicated in this Sketch) is, I suppose, enough to
& that I beg to remain your's truly
spread and persistent. It may be said that
EDWARD FITZ GERALD.
assure me of that. I please myself with fancying
the great public libraries of the world have
that the man on Horseback may be a kind of By the by I will tell you that I wrote that little
Dumbiedikes -
Memoir of my old friend B. Barton which you
swallowed them up-all but a comparatively
Perhaps Stothard was, at some time, your
gave a word of Praise to in your Book. I won.
small number, and that a few more years will
Father's Guest ?
dered how B. B. or I had got to Edinburgh ; see the end even of these, so far as any chance
The Picture is, I am sorry to say, much cracked, and, on looking back to the Memoir after some
of private possession is concerned.
where the transparent Glazing was laid on 25 years, thought it a nice little thing,
T'he rich collector who would form a
perhaps before the under-colour was dry.
The picture mentioned in the first letter library on the principle of procuring the
Once more, excuse my troubling you, Sir ;
and believe, at least, that † am your's, very much was, I can hardly doubt, one of Craigcrook, very best that tradition has sanctified and
interested in your Book, EDWARD FITZGERALD.
where my grandfather lived about 1812. the needs of the hour have made imperative
Thomas Constable Esq :-
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE, must set about it quickly, or he will be too


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THE ATHENÆUM
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on the
at
on
was
late.
He knows it, and that in itself amply | (about 2,0001. ) ; some books and manuscripts portant of the year, many of the books as
accounts for the feverish haste to be “in at from the library of the Earl of Kinnoull recorded in the pages of Book - Prices
the death,” as other than bookish sportsmen (2,7601. ); and the collection of Dr. Augustus Current fetching large prices. Some of
have it, for there is a regrettable feeling Jessopp (1,7481. ). All these were private them were typical seventeenth - century
abroad among collectors of every school and libraries having one or more days given up American pamphlets of such extreme
of objects of every character that what is not to them, but they constitute only a small rarity that they are scarcely obtainable.
their own, and never can be, is dead indeed minority.
Sir George Peckham's True Report, one
to them.
Isolated books of exceptional interest are,
of the most important of the books, had
It seems that we are now in a transition consequently, in greater evidence, and they not been sold in this country for many
period, and that many books which have leave large gaps before and behind them: years, but one fetched 51. 188. in 1842.
passed out of reach are gradually having books like "The Waltz, an Apostrophic Gilbert White's manuscript. Flora Selborni-
their places taken by others of a similar Hymn, by Horace Hornem, Esq. ” fi. e. , ensis,' which realised 512. , is separate from
kind, but later in date. This is particularly Lord Byron), 1813, 4to, which sold at
the Garden Calendar which he kept regu-
noticeable in the case of Americana, eigh- Sotheby's in January for 641. (cf. leaf larly from 1751 onwards, and is to be
teenth-century books of that class having repaired); Ben Jonson's Works, '2 vols. , printed, it is understood, by the Selborne
acquired a much more important position folio, 1616-40, 311. (old calf
, not subject to Society.
than was the case a few years ago. They return); and ' Engravings from the Choicest The library of the Right Hon. James
seem to have become scarcer, and certainly Works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, published Round " and other properties,", to which
afford many examples of that “ levelling- by Graves & Co. in 1835–46, folio, 691. reference has been made, included a copy of
up" process which is seen to be going (hf. mor. ). All these were in a miscel- Sir William Alexander's 'Mapp and Descrip-
on in other departments of literature. laneous sale of January 16th, and there was tion of New England,' 1630, small 4to, which
The passing of the nineteenth century ap- nothing else of much importance. It was
sold for 1501. (unbound); and an imperfect
peared to make all books older by a hundred not, indeed, until the latter days of the same copy of Gower's Confessio Amantis,' printed
years-an illusion, no doubt, but the world month that any real activity became by Caxton in 1483, folio, which also realized
is full of such fantasies.
noticeable, viz. , at the sale of the library of the same amount. The most noticeable
On a survey of the Book Sales of 1911 the late Rev. J. H. Dent and other properties book in the collection, however, contained
it is plain that the ordinary bookman has at Messrs. Hodgson's. That the catalogue the Two Royall (or Queenes) Masques
still innumerable chances if he will be contained some very desirable books may and the ' Description of the Masque,' usually
content to grasp those within his reach, for be perceived on consulting The Athenæum known as 'The Hue and Cry after Cupid,'
really good books are now continually being of Feb. 4th (p. 129), where its contents are “ invented by Ben Jonson, and printed
sold for sums at which they could not have given. Among the Americana was Hamor's in 1609, as well as a number of pieces by
been got a dozen years ago. Very expensive Present Estate of Virginia'; and Gray's the same author, Milton, Davies, and others.
volumes, whether in print or manuscript, annotated copy of Stow's 'Survey can be This fetched 1351.
, chiefly on the strength of
have no doubt increased in value immensely classed with the three volumes sold later the Masques and Description'; while a
during that period, but then their number is of 'The Ingoldsby Legends,' 1840–47, with presentation copy of the first edition of 'La
relatively small.
The majority of books have inscriptions by Barham, one in verse :- Henriade,' 1728, 4to, with “To Mr. Round
fallen in value materially, and their number
from his humble servant Voltaire
is legion; and between the two classes we
3 To Mrs. Hughes, who made me do 'em-
Quod placeo (si placeo) Tuum
flyleaf, brought 751. (original boards).
have that important section of which I have
Thos. Ingoldsby. The late Mr. Joseph Dixon's library, sold
spoken, which is gradually making its way
Messrs. Christie's
March 22nd,
Capt. Douglas's extensive collection of
upward, but is, as yet, well within reach.
There is plenty of room here, one would printed books, pamphlets, and other works was essentially of an English character
illustrated by George Cruikshank, pre-
throughout; and so that of Mr.
think, for energy, and not much for regret
Hilton Price, disposed of at Messrs.
when the matter is looked at aright ; and viously, referred to, was the finest ever
almost every sale which has taken place, brought together, being superior to that Sotheby's a few days later. At the former
Kelmscott Chaucer,' in the
from the first on January 13th to the latest formed by Mr. H. W. Bruton of Gloucester sale, the
of a few days ago, contributes something to or even to that of the late Mr. Edwin Tru- original half canvas, fetched 641. , having
prove the truth of this position. This sale
man, sold at Sotheby's in 1897 and 1906 for recovered materially from its fall of three or
of January 13th was held by Messrs. Sotheby,
2,5191. and 3,0911. respectively. Books
four years ago. We next come to the first
and it comprised a lengthy series of books from the Truman Collection, and perhaps portion of the library of the late Mr. Charles
relating to Canada and the United States, also from the Bruton, were acquired by Butler, sold on April 5th and five subse-
quent days. This and the second portion,
for the most part printed in the nineteenth Capt. Douglas. Thus The Humourist,
century—too late, of course, to be of all- | 4 vols. , 1879–20, in the original pictorial sold on May 29th and three following days,
were not out of the ordinary, strange as it
round importance. Their degree of scarcity red boards, may be the same copy that
is reflected in the price-219 lots in the figured in all three collections, and if so, the may seem in face of the large sum (nearly
sums realized for the work were as follows :
11,0001. ) realized for the whole collection.
catalogue went for 1201. A single work of
the kind printed in the seventeenth century
601. (Bruton), 1071. (Truman), 1271. (Douglas), They were catalogued in 2,109 lots, and the
might have sold for more than this total,
these amounts giving a very fair idea of the prices were so evenly distributed throughout
that very few of the books fetched more
and a score or so of eighteenth-century books trend of prices throughout.
of a similar character for as much. I
The books forming part of the Townshend much less. This was a scholar's library,
than 101. , while the vast majority went for
speak generally, of course, taking the mass
Heirlooms, sold on February 22nd, were not
rather than individual examples, and merely of any great interest ; and Mr. H. Penfolds formed with the one definite object of
adduce this particular instance as cogent library, sold with other books on March 2nd, altogether in its favour from a commercial
evidence of the importance of age in all was not productive of much. Topographical point of view. Still, some of the books
matters of bookish concern where rarity works constituted the main feature of the excited considerable competition, as, for
is made the prime factor. On the other latter collection (see Athen. , March 11th, instance, The Chronicle of St. Albans,
hand, many old books are common enough, p. 278).
1483, small folio, 1031. (imperfect as usual :
simply because there is no special demand On March 8th a copy of Lyndewoode's this was the Ashburnham copy, which sold
for them, and so it falls out that a burning Constitutiones Provinciales,' printed by in 1897 for 1801. ), and the same, printed by
desire for possession, combined with age, Pynson, without date, small 8vo, fetched Julian Notary in 1515, which fetched 491
.
constitutes the foundation of every library 521. , it having the arms of Henry VIII. on (mor. g. e. ). Other books of exceptional in-
which in these days would be accounted the sides, and a note apparently in his auto- terest included “The Nuremberg Chronicle,
great.
graph ; and a miscellaneous sale held by 1493, folio, 391 (hf. leather, rough edges);
It is significant of the fact that there are Messrs. Puttick & Simpson on March 15th
a fourteenth-century MS. of Guillaume de
so few great libraries remaining that the and following day dealt with a number of Guileville's "Le Pelerinaige de la Vie Hu-
most important sales which actually take works on military costume, now in great maine,' with 82 miniatures in the text, 5301. ;
place are more often than not of a miscel- request. One of them, Hamilton Smith's Smith's - History of Virginia,' with the four
laneous character, that is to say, the books Costume of the Army of the British original maps (remargined) and both por-
are brought together from a variety of Empire,'. 1815, 4to, containing 59 coloured traits inlaid, 401. 108. (mor. ); Boccaccio's
sources. The year has certainly witnossed plates, fetched 351. (unbound, one plate De Mulieribus Claris,' first ed. , 1473, folio,
the sale of the library of the late Mr. Charles torn); and 90 coloured platos of costumes 511. (modern mor. ); Horace Walpole's
Butler of Connaught Place (10,7591. ); Capt. of the Austrian Army, no title or description, copy of The World" by Adam Fitz-Adam,
Douglas's collection of works illustrated by 231.
with numerous MS. notes in his handwriting,
Cruikshank (4,0861. ); the late Sir Theodore The Athenæum of March 25th (p. 332) 281. ; and a variety of Bibles, Testaments,
Martin's library (2,7731. ); a selection from gave an account of the miscellaneous salé Missals, Breviaria, and other service books,
the library of the Right Hon. James Round, held by Messrs. Sotheby on March 15th and most of which sold for comparatively small
formed chiefly during the eighteenth century two following days—one of the most im- amounts.
J. HERBERT SLATER,


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ATHENÆUM
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66
« be-
thing is well done. But one is inclined to doubt
the wisdom of the enterprise itself. Homer,
Music.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
far less than Virgil and Horace, is amenable
to excisions from the context. The exigencies Smith (Herman), The Making of Sound in the
ENGLISH.
of the story and the sense of epical continuity Organ and in the Orchestra : an Analysis of the
are too powerful. The “Iliad” is not the kind
Work of the Air in the Speaking Organ Pipe of
of poem one searches for self-sufficing entities
Theology.
the Various Constant Types, and an Exposition
of observation upon life.
of the Theory of the Air Stream-Reed, based
Arnold-Forster (Frances), The Law of Liberty :
an Outline of Bible-study based upon the
Irving (H. B. ), Some Thoughts on Hamlet.
upon the Discovery of the Tone of the Air,
by Means of Displacement-Rods, 6/
A notable contribution to the study of Hamlet.
Epistle to Philemon and other New Testament
Writings, 3d.
Mr. Irving's view corresponds with that early Long and careful study has gone to the
Catholic Directory, 1912, 1/6 net.
nineteenth-century attitude which Prof. Brad- making of this examination, reinforced by
ley is inclined to regard as obsolete. Mr. much practical experience in the workshops.
Clergy Directory and Parish Guide, 1912, 4/6 net.
A useful book of reference which reaches a
Irving reinforces the Coleridgian dicta as to The book contains 30 illustrations.
high level of accuracy.
the integral weakness and uncertainty of
Hamlet's character. Investigation of late
Corona Mystica : Little Flowers of the Sanctuary,
Bibliography.
by "A Franciscan,” 2/6 net.
years has arrived
at rather more complex
With a preface by the Rev. Charles Hart.
conclusions. It is well to keep in our minds
Writings on American History, compiled by
Field (Rev. T. ), Did It Happen ? an Open Letter
the suggestion that there are certain streaks
Grace G. Griffin.
to the Rev. J. M. Thompson, 6d. net.
in Hamlet's mental psychology which defy An efficient bibliography of books and
New edition.
logical analysis : of this,
no doubt, the
articles on United States and Canadian history
dramatist himself was well aware.
Hibbert Journal, January, 2/6 net.
published during 1909, with some memoranda
Includes many items of interest, among them Kelly (Marshall), Ambition Plays of Shakespeare,
on other portions of America. It will be
an article on Balfour and Bergson,' by Sir
valuable for reference, and the classifications
01
Oliver Lodge, written with power and insight;
are scrupulously systematized.
• The
It is a pity that Mr. Kelly is at once abrupt
Corruption ” of the Citizenship of the
and prolix in inverse ratio to the exigencies of
Working Man,' by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald ; his material. We confess to suspicion of a
History and Biography.
* Popular Philosophy, by Prof. w. P. Ker;
Carlylese style, which, intent on flaunting its
and Civilization in Danger,' by M. René L.
Gérard.
arabesques, crowds out the pronoun and the
Black (William George), The Civil and Eccle-
Humphreys (Rev. A. E. ), Christ's Daily Orders
preposition. Nor have we, an intimacy with
siastical Parish in Scotland : its Origin and
such words as “ shriekery,
riggish,
from Each Day's New Testament Evening
Development.
chatter," and
dubious,
pravity. ” It is
Lesson, 6d.
An historical treatise on the evolution of the
moreover, whether so many as fourteen of parochial parish ” and its absorption into local
With foreword by the Lord Bishop of Durham.
Nisbet's Church Directory and Almanack, 1912,
Shakespeare's plays can be summarily classified government. The lecturer declares that the
as dealing with the dominant idea of ambition, rural parish originated with a civil rather than
2/ net.
Smith (J. M. P. ), Ward (W. H. ), and Bewer (J. A. ),
unless the term be allowed an extreme flexi- a religious community, and supports his con-
bility. The author concludes his volume with tention with some suggestive data. The argu-
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on an epilogue, embodying an attack on the demo- ment is lucidly and compactly formulated.
Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Oba- cratic idea, and recommending “ the volition of
diah, and Joel, 12/6
heroes"
Part of the International Critical Commentary.
as the only “ valid sovereignty of
Coulomb (Charles A. ), The Administration of the
earth !
English Borders during the Reign of Elizabeth.
Law.
Mason (Charlotte M. ), The Saviour of the World :
A concise inquiry into the administrative
Digest of English Civil Law: Book III. Law.
Vol. V. The Great Controversy, 2/6 net.
conditions prevailing in the Marches and the
of Property, by Edward Jenks.
The fifth volume of Miss Mason's poetic
“ Debatable Lands," with their relation to the
Crown. The control exercised by the royal
The present volume deals with the law of
interpretation of the Gospels. Her expression
and county officers was so lax and inefficient that
property, and is concerned with the definition is somewhat slack and meandering, on account
an abnormal machinery of government was
and contents of estates in land. It is a most
of the uncertainty of her poetic aims. She
instituted under the jurisdiction of Wardens.
useful compendium of English civil law, and
seems unable to make up her mind whether a
is copiously annotated. A fourth volume may literal and expanded version of the Gospels or
Their discretionary powers were almost abso-
lute. A counterpoise to their autocracy con-
be expected in the late spring.
an exposition is the better suited to her purpose.
Oldfield (L. C. F. ), The Law of Copyright, includ-
She hovers the hazardous borderland
sisted in the appointment of special commis-
ing the Copyright Act, 1911, the Unrepealed
between the didactic and the narrative, and
sioners for certain spheres of administration.
Sections of the Fine Arts Copyright Act, 1862,
fails to weld her material into a unity of cause
There is a close examination into the function
of Border law. On the whole, these vexed
the Musical (Summary Proceedings) Copyright
and effect. Miss Mason brings intelligence and
Act, 1902, the Musical Copyright Act, 1906,
perception to her theme. Though she is not
districts appear to have been governed without
and the United States of America Copyright
free from garrulous irrelevancies, genuine
organization. The centralization resulting from
Act, 1909, and the Berlin and Berne Conven-
religious feeling pervades the whole, and gives
the union of the two kingdoms under James I.
tions, and Tables of the Laws, Treaties, and
it substance. But the verse is liable to sprawl,
produced a more desirable régime. The author
has brought together some valuable and
Conventions in Foreign countries.
and is an incomplete medium to the thought.
significant data.
Fine Art and Archæology.
Poetry Review, No. 1, January, 6d.