This book relates an episode which, fortu-
HISTORY AND ITS LAW: BEING A SUM-
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HISTORY AND ITS LAW: BEING A SUM-
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Athenaeum - London - 1912a
By John Ernest Auden.
“The
occasions when a Minister cannot give a
Parnell-O'Shea scandal became public the Little Guides. ” (Methuen & Co. )
direct answer to an inopportune question Irish Nationalists expressed their con- Rambles in Somerset. By G. W. and J. H.
known Ministers, and even Prime Ministers, tinued support of the leader, in disregard of Wade. (Same publishers. )
who, unable to say either Yes or No, would his private character. In this the Irish
A Somerset Sketch-Book. By H. Hay Wilson.
resort to lies. To Mr. Gladstone there were bishops acquiesced. For he was a Pro- (Dent & Sons. )
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waxes
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tury,” says Mr. Blakeborough, who goes term is, we believe, rightly used. As a walk or drive in any particular direc-
on to remark that the villagers were given efforts are now being made to insist that tion. At times this substantial book
to baiting bulls in the early part of the all such mounds are early Norman, it may
a little dull, as in the long-
eighteenth century. It can scarcely be be as well to give Mr. Auden's slightly drawn accounts of the histories of Bath
doubted that they enjoyed this exciting qualifying note -
and Bristol, which are scarcely in accord
diversion long before the date he mentions. The use of 'Saxon as a convenient
with the title of the book. Nor has
From the · Lay of Havelok the Dane,' descriptive epithet is in no way intended to the
the penultimate chapter on Exmoor,
to quote no other authority, it is clear exclude the possibility that some of the entitled 'The Haunt of the Red Deer,'
that bull-baiting was a favourite amuse-
mounds early Norman. Stockaded caught much of the spirit and romance
ment of medieval England. At Carlton mounds were a simple form of defence of that district; in fact, it is too
the diversion probably did not die out Shropshire was debatable ground between prosaic to please the true lover of that
till it was made illegal, which was, we
believe, as late as 1839. Even now the day, the weight of probability inclines to the be frankly acknowledged that the authors
the Saxon and the Welsh, even after Offa's enchanting region. Nevertheless, it must
bull ring may be seen.
view that in this county such earthworks have given us several attractive chap-
Mr. Blakeborough has done well to were mostly erected in pre-Norman times, ters, foremost
among which
stand
collect the folk-lore and traditional cus- when they would be much needed by the those of “The Island Valley of Avilion,'
toms of the parish;
we wish that early West Saxon and Mercian settlers. ”
Across the Mendips,' and 'Quantox-
others would work as hard as he has done. The index might have been better, being land. ' It may be remarked that the
He has ascertained that Carlton has no insufficient for those who desire to know spelling Quantocks on the map is
maypole now, though one was standing where to look for references to such much to be preferred. The authors ought
forty years ago. În North Yorkshire, subjects as screenwork, low-side windows, also to have known better than to give
Sinnington and Slingsby still have their and ancient glass, or for earthworks and the name Hurlstone_Point to the fine
maypoles, and we trust they may con- Roman pavements. The · Leicestershire headland of Porlock Bay, the insertion of
tinue to retain them.
and Rutland' and other members of this the letterl being a mere modern vulgarism,
We are told that as late as ten years series have all these and other important falsifying place - name history. The
ago corn was threshed with the flail by subjects duly inserted in the index, and photographic plates are beautifully repro-
the Carltonians. Though there are pro- emphasized by being printed in italics. duced and particularly well chosen.
bably one or two of the implements Surely the present volume should have Miss Wilson's 'Somerset Sketch-Book
left in the village, they are seldom used, followed the same plan.
is a modest-looking volume of quite a
yet it is pleasant to learn that on hill-side
To ramble in Somerset is a vast under different calibre. It is a series of charm-
farms a mile or two away the old fashion taking, if there is the slightest idea of ing country sketches, chiefly gathered in
still persists.
doing it on any thorough scale. The area the Mendip country, and full to the brim of
Shropshire is the largest of England's of this shire, embracing a great tract of real “Zummerset” village life. Though
inland counties, and has within its bounds diversified country, extending from the there is but little definite topographical
every variety of natural charm. To the Avon to the Exe, is almost sufficient to information, no other county could, one
student of home scenery an extensive provide rambles for a score of years. Much thinks, have produced the different cha-
knowledge of Shropshire is essential. of the central fenland may be destitute of racters and scenes in these twenty and
Nevertheless, not a few cultured English- any particular attraction, but almost odd descriptive tales and pictures of
men, to whom the Lake district, Devon- everywhere else the land is scored with genuine peasant life. The effect of read-
shire and Cornwall, Shakespeare's country, hills and valleys. The fair surroundings ing them one and all, and then reread-
the Peak of Derbyshire, the Yorkshire of Bath, the rocky ravines of the Men ing them, on a somewhat jaded elderly
and Northumbrian coast-line, or the dips, the timber - clad slopes of the critic who knew and loved the sweetness of
quieter joys of Surrey downs and wood. Blackdowns on the southern border, the Somerset, especially the confines of Ex-
lands are quite familiar, have to plead charming combes of the Quantocks, moor, in the days of his youth, was to fill
guilty to a comparative ignorance of and still further west the rolling wastes of him with a burning desire to revisit
Shropshire. Those who know this county Exmoor or the wide vale of Porlock the slumberous old villages wherein
either well or partially can scarcely fail -all these ought to prove full of fascina- such incidents occurred. "The Plough-
to welcome Mr. Auden's little book. We tion for lovers of nature in either its more ing Match,' The Sheep-Shearing,' and
might, perhaps, have had with advantage mellow or its wilder moods. Even in the The Rat-Catcher' are full of delightful
more information about the attractions less winsome fenlands there are the and sympathetic touches ; pathos is aptly
of scenery and mountains, and it is gleaming apple orchards of Glastonbury, blended with humour, and the whole
strange that only trifling incidental refer- the prodigal corn lands of Taunton Dean, sweetened by fragments of the soft rich
ence is made to the old forests of Shrop- and the mysterious mist - laden marshes Zummerset dear to the ears that
shire. Fully half of the county was of Sedgemoor. Here, too, in this know it. When the rat-catcher's favourite
subject to forest jurisdiction under the plain district, prevented from relapsing cripple child lay a-dying, the mother had
Normans, and it has been shown in the into a morass by an elaborately planned a visit from his half-sister, who was both
“Victoria County History of Salop,' system of drainage, there are infinite dairywoman and henwife at the rectory.
vol. i. , that the story of the forestry is of attractions for the antiquary and the At the end of a page or two of eerie
much interest. But those who know this ecclesiologist in the discovered haunts suggestions as to the cause and possible
border shire the best will find little to of the early lake - dwellers, the ruins cure of the illness, she thus concludes :
complain of in the matter of omission. of Glastonbury, and the yet standing "If 'twer the ague, put a spider in the
Churches
dealt with
a fabrics of the great church of Wells and water, and drink 'en when he do curly up.
generous scale. Many of them in the its surroundings.
That be a good cure, but if it be they fits,
north are small, and have wooden belfries, With so much material, it is small thou should’st make 'en swally hairs from
but there are good cruciform examples, as wonder that Messrs. G. W. and J. H. the cross on a donkey's back. An' must be
a she’un, look, since he'm a boy, or else
at Ludlow, Shrewsbury (St. Mary's), and Wade in their “Rambles in Somerset'
Parson's donkey wu'd ha' done. But thou'd
Ellesmere, as well as other interesting adopted a different plan from that followed
best not tell Parson. An' Parson too, look,
fabrics of different periods such as Stan by the books on Sussex and Surrey with
he do pray beautiful, 'twould be good for
ton Lacy, Heath Chapel, Acton Burnell
, like titles issued by the same publishers. the child if he'd say a prayer over 'en. But
Chelmarsh, and Tong. The old castles, In those two cases the authors gave chap- I'll send thee the hairs from Cox's donkey
several of the half-timbered manor houses, ters descriptive of real walks and rides to Stoke, and mind thou don't let Doctor
and the ruins of monasteries like those of or of actual rambles. In the book now know or happen he 'll not give thee his own
Buildwas, Lilleshall, and Much Wenlock, before us a fairly successful attempt is
stuff, an' it be mortal good, for sure, but
thero cassn't be no harm to use what them
receive adequate and careful attention. made to cover a great deal of ground
as went before us did use, for there be some
The word " Saxon” is affixed to a short after an orderly method, but there is things as the gentry don't know on. So
list of mounds, and in all except one the no endeavour to reproduce the charm of mind thou don't tell Parson. ”
are
on
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Mr. Bowker is well equipped for his task. We can see little justification for the for the murders. At this moment there
His book is a survey of the past history publication of these five sonnets, inspired were other missionaries, belonging to the
&nd present position of copyright in many though they are by genuine feeling.
Baptist Missionary Society, residing at
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man.
some
Yen-an-fu and other places north of Sianfu, remarkably by their conduct after his death pensions is duly noted.
There are many
and in great danger. Advice to leave for in conveying his body from the centre of valuable tables in the preliminary part of
the coast without delay having been received Africa to the coast. It is printed in bold type, the book. The one which deals with tin
from official sources, they started for Sianfu, and has a good index. The map, however, is production is of special interest at a moment
where order had been restored. Mean- on a painfully small scale, and names are occa- when there is much talk of Nigerian tin,
while a band of brave men set out from Tai- sionally, spelt in different ways. g. , Lake and it should be noted that the total produc-
yuan-fu-graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, Moero in the text, Mweru on the map, and tion of Nigeria is wholly unimportant when
Harvard, and Continental universities, nine Meron in the index. The terms in which compared with the output of many other
in all—to effect their rescue. Starting on the Royal Geographical Society is referred British colonies. We had hoped to find a
December 3rd, they overtook the author to on p. 137 are to be regretted.
table of the oil production of the world, but
and his companions on their way south, and
it is missing, and the facts can only be
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days later the party-now numbering, with
Cambridge University Press that it were possible to enlarge the index,
Chinese, 150 persons, of whom twenty-six
This brief account of George III. 's un- for such things as oil and tin find no place
were Swedish and English missionaries,
popular minister is clear, just, and compre- there. We also wish that the index could
married and single, besides several children
hensible ; and its failure to give any living be brought up to date, so as to include the
-was able to proceed to Honan-fu, where a
impression of Lord Bute's character is - Additions and Corrections. In the ‘Ad-
special train, sent for their relief by Yuan
probably due mainly to the reserved and ditions, for instance, we are given the latest
Shih-kai (now President of the Republic),
uncommunicative disposition of that noble- Cabinet of New Zealand, but there is no
awaited their arrival. It is pleasant to be
As a statesman his faults were that allusion to it in the index.
able to record that on this part of their he was on the wrong side, that he came too
The new maps are as good as possible.
journey, when they had to cross the lines of late in life to politics, and that he was
The most useful, perhaps, is that which
the retreating insurgents and advancing personally inaccessible and unsociable
shows the rearrangernent of Indian provinces,
Imperialists, the latter courteously deferred shortcomings that have ruined the careers
an intended attack for twenty-four hours
but the map of Morocco and Tripoli will also
of stronger men than he. It was not by be much consulted.
that the foreigners might pursue their way from public life, but by the irrational still exists in the list of publications relating
any of these, however, that he was driven
One trifling misprint in last year's volume
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Cheiro's Memoirs : the Reminiscences of a against Scotchmen. The frontispiece fails to Greece, and in that list we would suggest
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jewels, are sometimes bright, sometimes the size of the two eyes may, perhaps,
looks; but the unpleasant discrepancy in and an excellent book on
tion (published in English and in French)
clouded. " They are also apt to be paste.
the
be due rather to Ramsay the painter or might be included. We again see
The records of the present volume are simply
omission
Purcell the engraver than to nature.
of Murray's Guides for
the parings of observations upon notable
countries where Baedeker is given, and note
people. We are not impressed by the con- Melville (Lewis), SOCIETY AT ROYAL TUN- that the edition of Baedeker's Eastern Alps!
versational powers of the celebrities. "
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in its text and illustrations by a certain and we have a good paragraph about the
These are the Moorhouse Lectures for
amount of padding. Portraits of Fanny forms of the Constitution ; but it is impos-
1912, delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral,
Burney and of Beau Nash that have already sible for Englishmen to understand the
Melbourne. In his Preface
explains that their character was conditioned of repose; the latter worthy's Rules to
the author often appeared might now enjoy a period extraordinary way in which the Young Turks
“ by the needs of the hearers, to many of
gerrymandered” the constituencies in the
whom Church History is a largely unexplored
be observed at Bath' have been reprinted recent elections. Englishmen have not yet
region. ” Accordingly, in a clear and pains-
several times already, while the verses that sufficiently realized that a packed committee
form the appendix might, with advantage, has taken the place of what was at first
taking way, and with conspicuous fairness,
he has set forth-as if telling them for the
never have been reprinted at all. But supposed to be a Constitutional Parliament.
first time-facts already familiar to most teenth-century correspondence, most
there are a good many extracts from eigh-
of
readers in this country. They are thrown
Geograpby and Travel.
into the form of half a dozen biographies,
which are fresh, and new illustra-
tions. The portrait of Mary Berry as an
and illustrated by copious notes and quota-
Canuck (Janey), OPEN TRAILS, 6/ Cassell
tions. Appendixes deal briefly, with the that of Queen Victoria at the age of about sketches, descriptive of Canadian life and
elderly woman in a cap is delightful, and
A series of incomplete and disjointed
ecclesiastical problems which, in modern twelve particularly interosting as a likeness, scenery, which will, we fear, prove of scant
times, have grown out of the Reformation.
though of no artistic merit. It is convenient interest to the serious reader. The author
In so far as the judicial balance inclines at
all, it is towards leniency in regard to bridge Wells thus brought together.
to have so much information about Tun- is obviously a keen and sympathetic observer
Henry VIII. and the Protestants; while
of nature, and possesses some facility of
the treatment of Laud betrays some want of Review of Historical Publications relating to expression ; but she overwhelms us with a
sympathy.
Canada : Vol. XVI. PUBLICATIONS OF multitude of haphazard anecdotes and im-
THE YEAR 1911.
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Lane
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Mr. Conway's volume is more interesting
for its portraits than for its text, and more
books were noticed, and the more important breathless and garrulous haste. The style
interesting in its earlier than its later half.
at greater length ?
is colloquial, and often unduly sententious
and egotistical. The text is plentifully
While Franklin, Jefferson, and Rumford Shaen (William), A BRIEF SKETCH, edited by illustrated with some little pen-and-ink
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Mr. Clinch is already well and favourably
to proclaim so insistently the superiority of bered for his championship of the cause of known as a writer on particular phases of
the republican to the monarchical system of
He was connected with Bedford London topography. It is, however, a com.
government.
College from its foundation; and Girton, paratively easy matter to write at length
Horne (C. Silvester), DAVID LIVINGSTONE, 11 him in their early days.
Newnham, and Somerville owed much to upon a given district, such as Bloomsbury or
Marylebone ; but it requires a rare combina-
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This biography of the great missionary and Statesman's Year-Book, 1912, 10/6 net. acumen, and common sense to produce a
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year. It describes sympathetically his con- year is to become monotonous. It is as Mr. Clinch possesses.
We have tested the
tinuous struggle against the horrors of the up-to-date and as accurate as ever. Recent book severely in various directions, and
slave trade, his appreciation of the good legislation in Great Britain and other can pronounce it with confidence to be free
qualities of the natives, and the intense countries with reference to insurance of from almost any kind of blunder. Though
devotion he inspired in them, as shown so workpeople and with regard to old-age adopting the useful method, characteristic
some
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&
as
one,
SO
are
are
of the Little Guide Series, of arranging the length of Harvard, not merely in accepting teaching of the subject down to the present
descriptive matter in alphabetical order, the local social survey as the subject of a day, avowing himself at the same time a
book opens with several carefully written doctorate thesis, but also in actually pro- new physicist and democrat. He
introductory sections, wherein Mr. Clinch moting the inquiry by the provision of a then discusses the method of the science, its
is seen at his best. They deal respectively fellowship. Díckens, after his American pedigree and biography, and indulges by
with London in Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and visit of 1842, paid a special tribute to the the way in some loose and exaggerated
Medieval days, and also supply interesting, factory girls of Lowell in • American Notes,' rhetoric against Greek thought. There are
condensed information as to literary associa- while about the same date Miss Martineau patent faults, but the work as a whole is
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Parnell-O'Shea scandal became public the Little Guides. ” (Methuen & Co. )
direct answer to an inopportune question Irish Nationalists expressed their con- Rambles in Somerset. By G. W. and J. H.
known Ministers, and even Prime Ministers, tinued support of the leader, in disregard of Wade. (Same publishers. )
who, unable to say either Yes or No, would his private character. In this the Irish
A Somerset Sketch-Book. By H. Hay Wilson.
resort to lies. To Mr. Gladstone there were bishops acquiesced. For he was a Pro- (Dent & Sons. )
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waxes
are
6
tury,” says Mr. Blakeborough, who goes term is, we believe, rightly used. As a walk or drive in any particular direc-
on to remark that the villagers were given efforts are now being made to insist that tion. At times this substantial book
to baiting bulls in the early part of the all such mounds are early Norman, it may
a little dull, as in the long-
eighteenth century. It can scarcely be be as well to give Mr. Auden's slightly drawn accounts of the histories of Bath
doubted that they enjoyed this exciting qualifying note -
and Bristol, which are scarcely in accord
diversion long before the date he mentions. The use of 'Saxon as a convenient
with the title of the book. Nor has
From the · Lay of Havelok the Dane,' descriptive epithet is in no way intended to the
the penultimate chapter on Exmoor,
to quote no other authority, it is clear exclude the possibility that some of the entitled 'The Haunt of the Red Deer,'
that bull-baiting was a favourite amuse-
mounds early Norman. Stockaded caught much of the spirit and romance
ment of medieval England. At Carlton mounds were a simple form of defence of that district; in fact, it is too
the diversion probably did not die out Shropshire was debatable ground between prosaic to please the true lover of that
till it was made illegal, which was, we
believe, as late as 1839. Even now the day, the weight of probability inclines to the be frankly acknowledged that the authors
the Saxon and the Welsh, even after Offa's enchanting region. Nevertheless, it must
bull ring may be seen.
view that in this county such earthworks have given us several attractive chap-
Mr. Blakeborough has done well to were mostly erected in pre-Norman times, ters, foremost
among which
stand
collect the folk-lore and traditional cus- when they would be much needed by the those of “The Island Valley of Avilion,'
toms of the parish;
we wish that early West Saxon and Mercian settlers. ”
Across the Mendips,' and 'Quantox-
others would work as hard as he has done. The index might have been better, being land. ' It may be remarked that the
He has ascertained that Carlton has no insufficient for those who desire to know spelling Quantocks on the map is
maypole now, though one was standing where to look for references to such much to be preferred. The authors ought
forty years ago. În North Yorkshire, subjects as screenwork, low-side windows, also to have known better than to give
Sinnington and Slingsby still have their and ancient glass, or for earthworks and the name Hurlstone_Point to the fine
maypoles, and we trust they may con- Roman pavements. The · Leicestershire headland of Porlock Bay, the insertion of
tinue to retain them.
and Rutland' and other members of this the letterl being a mere modern vulgarism,
We are told that as late as ten years series have all these and other important falsifying place - name history. The
ago corn was threshed with the flail by subjects duly inserted in the index, and photographic plates are beautifully repro-
the Carltonians. Though there are pro- emphasized by being printed in italics. duced and particularly well chosen.
bably one or two of the implements Surely the present volume should have Miss Wilson's 'Somerset Sketch-Book
left in the village, they are seldom used, followed the same plan.
is a modest-looking volume of quite a
yet it is pleasant to learn that on hill-side
To ramble in Somerset is a vast under different calibre. It is a series of charm-
farms a mile or two away the old fashion taking, if there is the slightest idea of ing country sketches, chiefly gathered in
still persists.
doing it on any thorough scale. The area the Mendip country, and full to the brim of
Shropshire is the largest of England's of this shire, embracing a great tract of real “Zummerset” village life. Though
inland counties, and has within its bounds diversified country, extending from the there is but little definite topographical
every variety of natural charm. To the Avon to the Exe, is almost sufficient to information, no other county could, one
student of home scenery an extensive provide rambles for a score of years. Much thinks, have produced the different cha-
knowledge of Shropshire is essential. of the central fenland may be destitute of racters and scenes in these twenty and
Nevertheless, not a few cultured English- any particular attraction, but almost odd descriptive tales and pictures of
men, to whom the Lake district, Devon- everywhere else the land is scored with genuine peasant life. The effect of read-
shire and Cornwall, Shakespeare's country, hills and valleys. The fair surroundings ing them one and all, and then reread-
the Peak of Derbyshire, the Yorkshire of Bath, the rocky ravines of the Men ing them, on a somewhat jaded elderly
and Northumbrian coast-line, or the dips, the timber - clad slopes of the critic who knew and loved the sweetness of
quieter joys of Surrey downs and wood. Blackdowns on the southern border, the Somerset, especially the confines of Ex-
lands are quite familiar, have to plead charming combes of the Quantocks, moor, in the days of his youth, was to fill
guilty to a comparative ignorance of and still further west the rolling wastes of him with a burning desire to revisit
Shropshire. Those who know this county Exmoor or the wide vale of Porlock the slumberous old villages wherein
either well or partially can scarcely fail -all these ought to prove full of fascina- such incidents occurred. "The Plough-
to welcome Mr. Auden's little book. We tion for lovers of nature in either its more ing Match,' The Sheep-Shearing,' and
might, perhaps, have had with advantage mellow or its wilder moods. Even in the The Rat-Catcher' are full of delightful
more information about the attractions less winsome fenlands there are the and sympathetic touches ; pathos is aptly
of scenery and mountains, and it is gleaming apple orchards of Glastonbury, blended with humour, and the whole
strange that only trifling incidental refer- the prodigal corn lands of Taunton Dean, sweetened by fragments of the soft rich
ence is made to the old forests of Shrop- and the mysterious mist - laden marshes Zummerset dear to the ears that
shire. Fully half of the county was of Sedgemoor. Here, too, in this know it. When the rat-catcher's favourite
subject to forest jurisdiction under the plain district, prevented from relapsing cripple child lay a-dying, the mother had
Normans, and it has been shown in the into a morass by an elaborately planned a visit from his half-sister, who was both
“Victoria County History of Salop,' system of drainage, there are infinite dairywoman and henwife at the rectory.
vol. i. , that the story of the forestry is of attractions for the antiquary and the At the end of a page or two of eerie
much interest. But those who know this ecclesiologist in the discovered haunts suggestions as to the cause and possible
border shire the best will find little to of the early lake - dwellers, the ruins cure of the illness, she thus concludes :
complain of in the matter of omission. of Glastonbury, and the yet standing "If 'twer the ague, put a spider in the
Churches
dealt with
a fabrics of the great church of Wells and water, and drink 'en when he do curly up.
generous scale. Many of them in the its surroundings.
That be a good cure, but if it be they fits,
north are small, and have wooden belfries, With so much material, it is small thou should’st make 'en swally hairs from
but there are good cruciform examples, as wonder that Messrs. G. W. and J. H. the cross on a donkey's back. An' must be
a she’un, look, since he'm a boy, or else
at Ludlow, Shrewsbury (St. Mary's), and Wade in their “Rambles in Somerset'
Parson's donkey wu'd ha' done. But thou'd
Ellesmere, as well as other interesting adopted a different plan from that followed
best not tell Parson. An' Parson too, look,
fabrics of different periods such as Stan by the books on Sussex and Surrey with
he do pray beautiful, 'twould be good for
ton Lacy, Heath Chapel, Acton Burnell
, like titles issued by the same publishers. the child if he'd say a prayer over 'en. But
Chelmarsh, and Tong. The old castles, In those two cases the authors gave chap- I'll send thee the hairs from Cox's donkey
several of the half-timbered manor houses, ters descriptive of real walks and rides to Stoke, and mind thou don't let Doctor
and the ruins of monasteries like those of or of actual rambles. In the book now know or happen he 'll not give thee his own
Buildwas, Lilleshall, and Much Wenlock, before us a fairly successful attempt is
stuff, an' it be mortal good, for sure, but
thero cassn't be no harm to use what them
receive adequate and careful attention. made to cover a great deal of ground
as went before us did use, for there be some
The word " Saxon” is affixed to a short after an orderly method, but there is things as the gentry don't know on. So
list of mounds, and in all except one the no endeavour to reproduce the charm of mind thou don't tell Parson. ”
are
on
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Lilley (James Philip), FOUR APOSTLES : THE
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Having taken part in the development of printed from Country Life, The New Age, missionary, six children, and their tutor were
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Mr. Bowker is well equipped for his task. We can see little justification for the for the murders. At this moment there
His book is a survey of the past history publication of these five sonnets, inspired were other missionaries, belonging to the
&nd present position of copyright in many though they are by genuine feeling.
Baptist Missionary Society, residing at
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man.
some
Yen-an-fu and other places north of Sianfu, remarkably by their conduct after his death pensions is duly noted.
There are many
and in great danger. Advice to leave for in conveying his body from the centre of valuable tables in the preliminary part of
the coast without delay having been received Africa to the coast. It is printed in bold type, the book. The one which deals with tin
from official sources, they started for Sianfu, and has a good index. The map, however, is production is of special interest at a moment
where order had been restored. Mean- on a painfully small scale, and names are occa- when there is much talk of Nigerian tin,
while a band of brave men set out from Tai- sionally, spelt in different ways. g. , Lake and it should be noted that the total produc-
yuan-fu-graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, Moero in the text, Mweru on the map, and tion of Nigeria is wholly unimportant when
Harvard, and Continental universities, nine Meron in the index. The terms in which compared with the output of many other
in all—to effect their rescue. Starting on the Royal Geographical Society is referred British colonies. We had hoped to find a
December 3rd, they overtook the author to on p. 137 are to be regretted.
table of the oil production of the world, but
and his companions on their way south, and
it is missing, and the facts can only be
in spite of all obstacles brought them in Lovat-Praser (J. A. ), JOHN STUART, EARL OF ascertained by search under the heading of
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days later the party-now numbering, with
Cambridge University Press that it were possible to enlarge the index,
Chinese, 150 persons, of whom twenty-six
This brief account of George III. 's un- for such things as oil and tin find no place
were Swedish and English missionaries,
popular minister is clear, just, and compre- there. We also wish that the index could
married and single, besides several children
hensible ; and its failure to give any living be brought up to date, so as to include the
-was able to proceed to Honan-fu, where a
impression of Lord Bute's character is - Additions and Corrections. In the ‘Ad-
special train, sent for their relief by Yuan
probably due mainly to the reserved and ditions, for instance, we are given the latest
Shih-kai (now President of the Republic),
uncommunicative disposition of that noble- Cabinet of New Zealand, but there is no
awaited their arrival. It is pleasant to be
As a statesman his faults were that allusion to it in the index.
able to record that on this part of their he was on the wrong side, that he came too
The new maps are as good as possible.
journey, when they had to cross the lines of late in life to politics, and that he was
The most useful, perhaps, is that which
the retreating insurgents and advancing personally inaccessible and unsociable
shows the rearrangernent of Indian provinces,
Imperialists, the latter courteously deferred shortcomings that have ruined the careers
an intended attack for twenty-four hours
but the map of Morocco and Tripoli will also
of stronger men than he. It was not by be much consulted.
that the foreigners might pursue their way from public life, but by the irrational still exists in the list of publications relating
any of these, however, that he was driven
One trifling misprint in last year's volume
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looks; but the unpleasant discrepancy in and an excellent book on
tion (published in English and in French)
clouded. " They are also apt to be paste.
the
be due rather to Ramsay the painter or might be included. We again see
The records of the present volume are simply
omission
Purcell the engraver than to nature.
of Murray's Guides for
the parings of observations upon notable
countries where Baedeker is given, and note
people. We are not impressed by the con- Melville (Lewis), SOCIETY AT ROYAL TUN- that the edition of Baedeker's Eastern Alps!
versational powers of the celebrities. "
BRIDGE WELLS IN THE EIGHTEENTH is not the latest published.
CENTURY, AND AFTER, 10/6 net. Nash Under Turkey we are told that the first
Clarke (Abp. Henry Lowther), STUDIES IN
Mr. Melville's book is disfigured both Turkish Parliament was dissolved this year,
THE ENGLISH REFORMATION, 5/ S. P. C. K.
in its text and illustrations by a certain and we have a good paragraph about the
These are the Moorhouse Lectures for
amount of padding. Portraits of Fanny forms of the Constitution ; but it is impos-
1912, delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral,
Burney and of Beau Nash that have already sible for Englishmen to understand the
Melbourne. In his Preface
explains that their character was conditioned of repose; the latter worthy's Rules to
the author often appeared might now enjoy a period extraordinary way in which the Young Turks
“ by the needs of the hearers, to many of
gerrymandered” the constituencies in the
whom Church History is a largely unexplored
be observed at Bath' have been reprinted recent elections. Englishmen have not yet
region. ” Accordingly, in a clear and pains-
several times already, while the verses that sufficiently realized that a packed committee
form the appendix might, with advantage, has taken the place of what was at first
taking way, and with conspicuous fairness,
he has set forth-as if telling them for the
never have been reprinted at all. But supposed to be a Constitutional Parliament.
first time-facts already familiar to most teenth-century correspondence, most
there are a good many extracts from eigh-
of
readers in this country. They are thrown
Geograpby and Travel.
into the form of half a dozen biographies,
which are fresh, and new illustra-
tions. The portrait of Mary Berry as an
and illustrated by copious notes and quota-
Canuck (Janey), OPEN TRAILS, 6/ Cassell
tions. Appendixes deal briefly, with the that of Queen Victoria at the age of about sketches, descriptive of Canadian life and
elderly woman in a cap is delightful, and
A series of incomplete and disjointed
ecclesiastical problems which, in modern twelve particularly interosting as a likeness, scenery, which will, we fear, prove of scant
times, have grown out of the Reformation.
though of no artistic merit. It is convenient interest to the serious reader. The author
In so far as the judicial balance inclines at
all, it is towards leniency in regard to bridge Wells thus brought together.
to have so much information about Tun- is obviously a keen and sympathetic observer
Henry VIII. and the Protestants; while
of nature, and possesses some facility of
the treatment of Laud betrays some want of Review of Historical Publications relating to expression ; but she overwhelms us with a
sympathy.
Canada : Vol. XVI. PUBLICATIONS OF multitude of haphazard anecdotes and im-
THE YEAR 1911.
pressions, presented with little regard to
Conway (John Joseph), FOOTPRINTS
Toronto University Press construction, and with a lack of definite
FAMOUS AMERICANS IN PARIS, 12/6 net.
A useful book of reference; but would it purpose. Further, over-anxiety to maintain
Lane
not be of more historical value if fewer the interest leads her to write in a sort of
Mr. Conway's volume is more interesting
for its portraits than for its text, and more
books were noticed, and the more important breathless and garrulous haste. The style
interesting in its earlier than its later half.
at greater length ?
is colloquial, and often unduly sententious
and egotistical. The text is plentifully
While Franklin, Jefferson, and Rumford Shaen (William), A BRIEF SKETCH, edited by illustrated with some little pen-and-ink
were persons of character and of some his daughter, M. J. Shaen, 3/ net.
sketches, and there is a frontispiece in colour.
genuine importance, the useful, respectable,
Longmans
dull American Parisians of the nineteenth A simple record of a life spent in arduous clinch (George), LONDON, 2/6 net. Methuen
century furnish but poor reading. It seems and honourable service. Shaen's activities
also a little unnecessary at this time of day were very wide, but he will be best remem-
Mr. Clinch is already well and favourably
to proclaim so insistently the superiority of bered for his championship of the cause of known as a writer on particular phases of
the republican to the monarchical system of
He was connected with Bedford London topography. It is, however, a com.
government.
College from its foundation; and Girton, paratively easy matter to write at length
Horne (C. Silvester), DAVID LIVINGSTONE, 11 him in their early days.
Newnham, and Somerville owed much to upon a given district, such as Bloomsbury or
Marylebone ; but it requires a rare combina-
net.
Macmillan
tion of wide general knowledge, critical
This biography of the great missionary and Statesman's Year-Book, 1912, 10/6 net. acumen, and common sense to produce a
explorer has been written in anticipation of
Macmillan good book of less than 250 small pages on
the centenary of his birth, which occurs next To praise this most useful book year by so vast a text as London. These qualities
year. It describes sympathetically his con- year is to become monotonous. It is as Mr. Clinch possesses.
We have tested the
tinuous struggle against the horrors of the up-to-date and as accurate as ever. Recent book severely in various directions, and
slave trade, his appreciation of the good legislation in Great Britain and other can pronounce it with confidence to be free
qualities of the natives, and the intense countries with reference to insurance of from almost any kind of blunder. Though
devotion he inspired in them, as shown so workpeople and with regard to old-age adopting the useful method, characteristic
some
OF
women.
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THE ATHENÆUM
No. 4411, May 11, 1912
&
as
one,
SO
are
are
of the Little Guide Series, of arranging the length of Harvard, not merely in accepting teaching of the subject down to the present
descriptive matter in alphabetical order, the local social survey as the subject of a day, avowing himself at the same time a
book opens with several carefully written doctorate thesis, but also in actually pro- new physicist and democrat. He
introductory sections, wherein Mr. Clinch moting the inquiry by the provision of a then discusses the method of the science, its
is seen at his best. They deal respectively fellowship. Díckens, after his American pedigree and biography, and indulges by
with London in Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and visit of 1842, paid a special tribute to the the way in some loose and exaggerated
Medieval days, and also supply interesting, factory girls of Lowell in • American Notes,' rhetoric against Greek thought. There are
condensed information as to literary associa- while about the same date Miss Martineau patent faults, but the work as a whole is
tions, trades, and street signs. The brief favourably reviewed in the columns of The readable and stimulating.
descriptions of places are subdivided under Athenæum the Factory Offering, an organ
special headings, such * Bridges,' conducted by these girls. To-day the city
Pbilology.
• Churches,' ' Parks,' Streets,' and Old is entirely different. Of its hundred thou-
Theatres,' so that some care is required in sand inhabitants a fifth alone are native- Burkitt (F. C. ), THE SYRIAC FORMS OF NEW
consulting these pages, and an index is born of native parents, and about a half TESTAMENT PROPER NAMES, 2/ net.
a necessity. Here is a good
aliens from non - English - speaking
Frowde
far as it goes, but it will be well in another countries. The city therefore presents pro-
An erudite and exhaustive treatise em-
odition to improve it by the insertion of such blems of special difficulty to the social bodying the latest research upon the subject.
entries as Picture Galleries, Libraries, and a investigator. Complete budgets were ob- It should be instructive to those engaged
few other subjects, of which there are no tained from 228 families, all of whom in elucidating this intricate problem of lan-
summaries in the general text. By the by, belonged to the “respectable, sober, in- guage.
we fail to see any reference to the really dustrious, and thrifty wage-earners of
noble library of the Guildhall, with its fine Lowell, who constitute nearly one-fourth Edmonds (J. M. ), SAPPHO IN THE ADDED
collection of MS. records of the City parishes; of the population. " These show an average
LIGHT OF THE NEW FRAGMENTS, 1/ net.
nor is the notable Williams Library in Gower yield from food of 5,510 calories per man per
Cambridge, Deighton & Bell; London, Bell
Street named. There several good day (including waste), and are satisfactorily A pamphlet containing a paper read at
appendixes.
above the standard requirement for a man Newnham College in February last, which
with moderate muscular work of 3,500, as gives a pleasant picture of Sappho and
Cobb (Rev. G. H. ), THE PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO
calculated by Prof. Atwater, and the figure translations of the Fragments ascribed
LOURDES AND THE CHIEF PLACES EN
of 4,181 obtained by Mr. B. S. Rowntree to her, old and new. Mr. Edmonds is bound,
ROUTE, 1/ net.
Sands from the study of 20 servant-keeping class like other scholars, to enter the region of
Contains a good deal of practical informa- families of York in 1899. Fruitful results are conjecture, but his possibilities are plausible
tion in a convenient form, with a Preface obtained by grouping according to races. enough to make us interested in the text
by the Archbishop of Westminster.
The Irish inhabitants, for example, have a and translation of the Minor Lyric Poets
Fascination (The)' of Switzerland, written the remainder of the population. There are
drunkenness-rate of about four times that of which he promises. He gives references
here in each case to the original text of the
and photographed by L. Edna Walter.
certain obvious gaps in the author's survey. pieces translated, but he would have added
The subject of Switzerland is so hackneyed to families who have not the virtues enu-
Black He devotes little attention, for example, to the interest of students by printing them
all at the end, or at any rate such as have
that it argues some temerity to write about merated above, nor has he studied the been recently discovered.
it. This little book, except for some seasonal fluctuations of employment or
instructive matter upon glaciers, adds little inquired fully into the status of the woman
Manilius (M. ), ASTRONOMICON, LIBER SECUN-
to the countless records, personal, historical, worker. The book is illustrated with nume-
DUS, edited by A. E. Housman, 4/6 net.
descriptive, and geographical, which we rous excellent photographs and maps.
Grant Richards
already possess.
The Preface is an exposition in English of
Macleod (Olive), CHIEFS AND CITIES
the astrological contents of the book, with
Education.
CENTRAL AFRICA : ACROSS LAKE CHAD
parallels. The notes are in Latin, as in
Prof. Housman's edition of Book I. , which
WAY OF BRITISH, FRENCH, AND Education by Life : A DISCUSSION OF THE
GERMAN TERRITORIES, 16/ net.
appeared in 1903, and included some of
PROBLEM OF THE SCHOOL EDUCATION OF
Blackwood YOUNGER CHILDREN, by Various Writers, explanation and conjecture the editor is
the conjectures here adopted. Alike in
“A simple, unexaggerated narrative of edited by Henrietta Brown Smith, brilliant, and his comments are, as usual,
travel through little-known regions " is the 3/6 net.
Philip incisive. He supports all his views by a
author's own description of this work. There Embodies useful suggestions as to the
are many such, of course, and, if any part of art of reading and methods of inculcating of the best conjectures is the reading in
wide knowledge of MSS. and language. One
Africa continues to be little-known, it will not the love of it. The choice of literature and 1. 7092,
be for lack of a multitude of commentators.
et sæpe in peins deerrat natura
its results upon the childish mind are
But these journeys to and from Lake Chad important and neglected educational studies, the MSS.
maremque,”
. " for the
in pecudes errat” of
are good reading, without too much adven-well worth the examination the author has
ture of a highly coloured kind, and we get devoted to them.
Scbool-Books.
the right sort of information upon native
life and customs. Incidentally Miss Mac- Hock_ (W. H. ), MENTAL DISCIPLINE AND Hall (H. S. ), A SCHOOL ALGEBRA, Parte II.
leod pays a high tribute to British adminis- EDUCATIONAL VALUES, 3/6 net.
and III. , 2/6
Macmillan
tration. There are numerous illustrations,
Lane Part II. takes the student through
a map, and a classified list of plants collected This book, which is apparently a second Progressions, Indices, Surds, Logarithms,
by the author and her companions. The edition-although the title-page gives no Ratio and Proportion, Variation, and the
book is unnecessarily cumbrous.
indication of the fact—belongs to that Theory of Quadratics, with numerous mis-
wearisome class of publications which present cellaneous examples. Part III.
