No More Learning

I have myself described the
tion
ing to the production of Consuelo,' 'La
of Rome at the beginning of the six-
Comtesse de Rudolstadt,' 'Le Meunier
teenth century in chaps. i. and ii. of the
d'Angibault,' 'La Mare au Diable,' and the Smolensk. By Baron de Baye. (Paris, 'Golden Days of the Renaissance' (1906). I
l '
whole series of rustic romances, reveals the Perrin & Cie. )-Any fresh light on the drama | do not think I am wide of the mark if I reckon
veritable key to the understanding of George of 100 years ago which was enacted in and the names of previous writers quoted by the
Sand's best period.
around the ancient city of Smolensk is as author in the foot-notes as about a thousand.
What stands out clear and in high relief welcome to students of European history as The second difficulty is the comprehensive-
in the book is the superhuman serenity it must be of supreme interest to the grand-
which George Sand maintained in the midst children of those who took part in it. The under Julius II. and Leo x. exploded, as it
ness of the subject. The “spirit of the age
of her difficult and melancholy circum. author's concern has been to describe the
were, in so many directions, and led to such
stances. In spite of all she remained history of the town from the ninth century amazing results in public and private life
, art
mistress of herself and her talent. To no
onwards, the battle fought there before and literature, religion and politics, morals
one more than to M. Karénine is due the Napoleon could
march on to Moscow, and the and finance, that even the 460 pages of the
credit of elucidating her confused and elusive pillage which took place during the terrible text and the 72 full-page illustrations would
life.
flight. He sketches the events as they seem inadequate to exhaust the subject.
succeed one another in the terse, plain
manner of the military dispatch, but the
The author deserves credit for the way
Correspondance générale de Chateaubriand.
Edited
by Louis Thomas. Vol. I. (Champion, many of them hitherto unpublished—throw In the first place, he has drawn a considerable
vivid contemporary letters which followin which he has overcome both difficulties.
Paris. )-These letters have been expected to
throw new light on Chateaubriand. How August and November, 1812, and give a
a blaze of light on the pitiless scenes of percentage of his information from unpub-
August and November, 1812, and gives archives, the correspondence of diplomatic
Iished documents in the State and Vatican
far they will do so is yet to be seen. The
volume before us goes only to the year 1817, graphic recital of suffering and mismanage-
ment.
agents at the Court of Julius II. and Leo X. ,
when Chateaubriand was forty-nine.
or rare contemporary pamphlets. Secondly,
The figure which emerges is of a converted
while limiting the text to an exposition of
pagan, whose piety is the fruit of strangely
La Chanson populaire de l'Ile de Corse. the main facts, and so making it intelligible
mixed sources. His defence of religion in By Austin de Croze. (Paris, Champion. ) and acceptable to all classes of readers,
· Le Génie du Christianisme paid him Happy, are those nations which preserve he adds in the foot-notes as complete a szt
well, but his practical use of it does not their folk songs, and all praise to those of references as any student of the Roman
seem extensive. He is blasé at an early who
them from the oblivion in Renaissance could desire,
age, and requires to be stirred out of his which a materialistic age buries its past.
The very existence of Corsican folk-lore has the former concorning The Pope's Court;
There are five chapters, and an appendix,
depression by flattering friends.
Women, too, stimulate him. He throws
been questioned, but to doubts of this kind Artists and Literary Men, The City and
a veil of innocence over tastes epicurean this little volume is a substantial and un-
the People, The Civic Administration, and
perhaps rather than amorous, and draws answerable challenge. It represents,
Feasts and Amusements. The Appendix
raw material from those who are willing to believe, the first attempt to collect, the refers to the Pillage of Rome in 1527 by the
supply emotional experience. With Madame
numerous voceri and vendetta of
Connétable de Bourbon, in consequence of
de Staël he seems at his best, most natural
Corsican tradition - the former, poignant which the Renaissance described in the five
and least affected; with her he can throw
in expression of a
of a grief that knows
chapters ended as suddenly as it had
off what he calls a normal sterility in the
no resignation, and the latter, with its blossomed. Those few days of destruction
expression of sentiments.
fierce chants of revenge, primitive and and massacre annihilated the civilizing work
His sincerity is an evasive quality. Thus tragical in character.
of a quarter of a century, and plunged the
on one occasion he avers that nothing but Many Corsican popular romances offer city again into a semi-barbaric state.
the hope of being of service to religion would striking comparisons with the folk-songs of The seventy-two full-page illustrations
have induced him to accept a post at Rome. Northern Europe, and there is a startingly include portraits, views, and panoramas of
Once there, he writes of “ le scandale des close analogy between our fifteenth-century the city, tombs, architectural details, medals,
mæurs”; his life is a hell; he can scarcely air "The Babes in the Wood' and the song furniture, jewels, bronzes, church vessels, &c. ,
be persuaded to stay out his year. Yet, of the bandit Nicolar. The book is well all carefully chosen from public and private
shortly after, his constant theme is a desire written, and is a timely production, for collections, or original sketches by Dutch
to return to end his days among the ruins Corsican nationality is becoming rapidly and Italian artists. The titles of these
of a bygone civilization. Truly, Job and merged in that of France. The collection is illustrations, however, are rather inaccurate,
Jeremiah are his familiar spirits ; grief his made the more useful by an exhaustive and certain names are misspelt; for instance,
element; tears his garment !
bibliography.
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(Massimo), and the monastery of Santo of Thucydides, who is hardly a model for is odd that he should object to Boswell's
Scolastico (Santa Scolastica), Illustration Greek prose, though a storehouse of usages placing an index at the beginning instead
xxiii? is said to represent the Garden of which attract the scholastic expert. Mr. of the end. It seems odd, too, that so
Cardinal Cesi in the said Piazza Giudea, Edwards quotes good authorities for his careless a writer should take it upon him
whereas its interesting remains are still to verdicts, but has surely had enough ex- to abuse other people unscientific.
be seen near the Porta Cavalleggieri, at the perience as a reader and teacher to speak Finally, we note that Mr. Fitzgerald in.
foot of the Monte di Santo Spirito. Lafreri's for himself.
dulges in the parallels which he scorns in
representation of Pasquino, published in
others. In 'Pickwick' and 'Boswellhe
1550 (pl. xxxv), is attributed to the seven- THE title of Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's book, detects curious similarities, and most
teenth century. Dosio's view of the Arco Boswell's Autobiography (Chatto & Windus), curious is the fact that Johnson and Mr.
di Portogallo, engraved about 1569 (pl. prepares us for his view that Boswell's Pickwick were both kissed by young ladies.
xxxvii), is attributed to Cavalieri and the chief aim in his 'Life' of Johnson was to
It is, indeed, prodigious.
period 1550 - 90. The rare and fine plate make a sort of apologia for his own life and
of the Benediction given by Pius iv. actions. His purpose was, we are told,
An Introduction to the Study of Prices. By
from the Loggia of St. Peter's, pub at all hazards to claim the first place in Walter T. Layton. (Macmillan & Co. )-It
lished by Lafreri, when Michelangelo's that chronicle. This ingenious paradox the is rarely that a book which is badly wanted
drum of the cupola (conspicuous in the author recently maintained in The Quarterly is as good as Mr. Laylon's. His competence
engraving) had already reached its full Review, and now, enlarges it in a loosely is in no need of testimony, and marks of
height, is attributed to 1540, the sixth year written book, full of repetitions, devoting care and thought abound throughout, e. g. ,
before the death of Giuliano da Sangallo, eight chapters to motor forces
in the valuable note on p. 54 dealing with
and the seventh before Michelangelo's impelled Boswell to advertise himself and his wheat prices from 1820 to 1875.
appointment as his successor in the director claims to notice. The book will interest
The plan adopted is excellent. The
ship of the works.
and entertain those--and they are probably text lays down plain broad tracks of thought
The text, on the other hand, is remark. many--who know little of Boswell's extra, along which even the beginner in economics
ably free even from slips of the pen.
Such ordinary life, and have not noted, or detected
can travel easily and profitably. These are
we may consider, however, the name of by means of other contemporary evidence, followed by neat and copious appendixes
Ferdinand the Fifth” given to the King the traces of his spite and prejudice. But containing the statistical materials on which
of Naples, Ferrante the First, who visited
much that the author says has been long the judgments are based.
An excellent
Rome in the jubilee year of 1475; and the
known to experts, and his special pleading-chart of average wholesale prices and the
statement that the present “Via Alessan.
we cannot call it anything else-frequently world's gold production follows.
drina,” which joins Trajan's Forum with fails to convince us. Boswell was not a
The book is an exposition of the theory of
those of Augustus and Nerva, derives its
gentleman in his behaviour,, but he was a prices, checked and supplemented by careful
from Pope Alexander VI. (1492–
great artist, with the artist's talent alike inquiries into the way in which they have
1503), since it was laid out only in 1567-70,
for veracious reconstruction and positive varied since 1820. How such changes affect
in consequence of the drainage and sanitaembroidery. Above all, he was, we take it, different classes of the community is carefully
tion of the Pantano, undertaken by Pius V.
a hero-worshipper with that intense_gusto considered. Similar care is devoted to the
and his nephew Cardinal Bonelli.
in life which distinguished Samuel Pepys, question whether periods of rising prices are
Apart from these trifling imperfections, the and we do not believe for a moment that best for trade, wherecn the conclusion is
detection of which needs a microscopic eye,
he intended to make Johnson play second that
Rodocanachi's book will be welcomed by all
fiddle. He was full of himself, like other
“nineteenth-century history shows that national
students of the “ Golden Days of the Renais-
vivid persons who have a special sense of
productivity depends much
sance”-and their number is legion-because, their own significance, and he had many advance of science and discovery, and on the
with the help of its amazing bibliography | scores to pay off, as is pointed out.
training, education, and organization of labour,
concerning known and unknown sources of
But the meaning of his phrases seems
than on the rise or fall of prices. "
information, it will give them a chance of sometimes overdone here, and in the attri. The relation in time between changes in the
learning a great deal more than the book bution of motives, always a dubious business, supply of gold and in the level of prices is
itself can tell.
R. LANCIANI,
this chronicle does not satisfy us. Boswell's considered, and the connexion between
case is not so strange as it is made out. them cautiously, but soundly demonstrated.
Many people find an annoying amount of The book should be read by all who are
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
Forster in the Life of Dickens,' and De interested in one of the burning questions
Quincey has left us in his views of his asso. of the day,
An English-Greek Lexicon, by G. M. ciations with the “ Lakers ” a masterpiece
Edwards (Cambridge University Press), is of apparently friendly innuendo.
the work of a sound scholar, and, as its Mr. Fitzgerald needs to go deeper than
PROF. HOPE W. HOGG.
320 pages supply a good grounding in he does if he means to convince. Take
vocabulary, separa ing verse and prose, it the case of Dr. Watson's Chemical Essays The death of Prof. Hope W. Hogg, to
is likely to be adopted for the use of young (pp. 126–7). He does not mention that which reference was made in the last issue
students. Mr. Edwards does not advocate they were introduced by Boswell because of The Atheneum, removes one of the best-
the constant use of the 'English-Greek’ in Johnson was reading them, nor would one known Orientalists in this country. Prof.
composition at school or at the University," gather from his subsequent comments that Hogg held the Chair of Semitic Languages
and in this view he will have
the support of these very · Essays' received a high eulogium and Literatures in the University of Man-
the majority of teache's. But some help from Sir Humphry Davy, that Watson chester, and, in addition to his tutorial
is needed, and a trustworthy selection of “ threw his science Aside for ever when duties, found time to undertake much
words with occasional references to the he was made Professor of Divinity, that he valuable work for the furtherance of Oriental
authors who use them, and some of the wrote very, forcibly”, on equalizing the studies.
paraphrase of the Gradus, should be appre- revenues of bishoprics without giving his own Born in Egypt in 1863, he acquired a
ciated. Additions and corrections will be case as an example, and that he was, in fact, sound knowledge of classical and modern
welcomed, and could be easily, supplied. a prominent figure in eighteenth-century Arabic, and with the help of his wife pre-
Our own experience tends to the belief that thought. Our quotations are from Leslie pared in 1896 a translation of the Arabic
the language of Euripides, simpler than Stephen, who was certainly not prejudiced version of Tatian's 'Diatessaron, with
that of his great riva's of tragedy, is unduly in the Bishop's favour.
introduction and notes. He also undertook
ignored. Thus ovdèv úylis is a convenient Writing concerning the Shakespeare the cataloguing of the Arabic MSS. in the
and idioma ic equivalent for unsound Jubilee at Stratford of 1769, Mr. Fitz- Rylands Library; and his wide acquaint-
which is mentioned in the Introduction. gerald says that Boswell's lament concerning ance with the literature shows itself in an
This feature of the book is more fitted Johnson's absence “ had no foundation. " admirable series of articles on 'Mesopo-
for advanced Grecians than for beginners. He wholly omits the fact, stated by Boswell, tamia, &c. , in the eleventh edition of 'The
It is, in fact, a sketch of great interest, that
that “ Johnson's connection both with Encyclopædia Britannica. '
depending on fine scholarship, and affording Shakspeare and Garrick founded a double As an Assyriologist, too, Prof. Hogg did
an admirable insight into the wonderful claim to his presence. ” He does not tell much useful work, especially in contributing
grace and variety of Greek, while it provides the reader, indeed, that the whole affair valuable summaries of Assyriological and
some of the details which will enable the was Garrick's special show.
other Oriental publications to The Inter-
examinee to solve his difficulties. The As usual, we find our author deprecating preter, and elsewhere. From 1895 to 1903
style of tragedy and Thucydides, of Xeno- the methods of Birkbeck Hill, and his
the methods of Birkbeck Hill, and his he was a member of the editorial staff of
phon, a bad authority for Attic,” and the "superfotation" of parallel passages. For the 'Encyclopædia Biblica,' into the pre-
now 'Hellenica' ascribed to Theopompus our own part, we cherish the illusion that a paration of which he threw himself with his
is briefly sketched. It would have been book requires an index. As Mr. Fitzgerald usual enthusiasm. Of his labours the
well, we think, to emphasize the crabbedness provides nothing of tặe kind himself, it | editors say in the Preface: "To his zeal
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Prof. Hogg, it may suffice to say that he
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•GRAHAME OF CLAVERHOUSE. ' myriad forms of religion with little in
law is stated in clear language, and is discussed,
5, John Street, Adelphi, W. C. , Feb. 24, 1912.
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does he seem to us to give sufficient prominence
earlier legal decisions. The book has the great
IN The Athenæum of to-day's date your to the distinction between clerk and layman, or
merit of dealing with a dry and complicated
reviewer—when criticizing my biography the doctrine of the State as a pis-aller, if a pis-
theme in a very readable way, and will prove
of Claverhouse-points out that the battle
aller of divine institution, which runs through a
useful to lawyer and layman alike.
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“ 300 High-
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A cheap edition of a lecture by a Wesleyan trations. One of the Little Books on Art.
I can only conclude that The Athenæum
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in the light of two ideas : (1) That the mystery- illustrations of the head, which is now partly
Llandaff House, Cambridge, Feb. 20. 1912. god and the Olympian express respectively, decayed.
MR. ANDREW LANG, in his letter to you last the one durée, life, and the other the action of Lee (Vernon) and Anstruther-Thomson (C. ),
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Mr. Lang asks, does he come to be described
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become
real value towards the solution of the
necessarily sketchy, the survey is of consider- broader, and at the same time more facile.
mystery
ARTHUR S, BARNES, able interest. At the end a list is added of While retaining his preference for classical
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