No More Learning

to students of philosophy. He was edu.
cated at Rugby and Corpus Christi College,
1214 is not a constitution of a studium Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie, 1811, 1521.
De Bry, Major and Minor Voyages in Latin and
generale, but a regulation of details of the German, in 52 parts, 1590-1831, 8251. Decker,
Oxford, of which he was an Honorary
Fellow. A heavy sorrow in early life, the
daily life of one already existing. ” It is The Gul's Horne-Booke, 1809,1751. De Vries, Korte
Historiael
not in dispute that students were con.
death of his wife in 1858 three years after
verscheydenen Voyagiens,
their marriage, led to his exclusive devotion
gregated at Oxford under masters, but no
1655, 1011. Dialogus Creaturarum Moralizatus,
to philosophy. His first philosophical work
community of teachers and students itself printed by Gerard Leeu, 1480, 1051. Doctrinal
suffices to constitute a studium generale, two leaves, 3101. John Dowland, Lachrimæ,
of Sapience, printed by Caxton, 1489, wanting
Time and Space, a Metaphysical
which is essentially connected with the 1605, 1051. Sir F. Drake, Expeditio Francisci
Essay,' in 1865. It was followed by The
Theory of Practice,' 1870; The Philosophy
existence of a chancellor whose duty it is to Draki in Indias Occidentales, 1588, 4701. ;
confer the licentia. Now the first mention
A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis
of Reflection,' 1878 ; and his greatest work,
of such a chancellor at Oxford is in the
Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1589, 7001. ; Sir
"The Metaphysic of Experience,' in four
Francis Drake Revived, 1826, 1021. Michael
Ordnance of 1214, and from the wording Drayton, The Tragicall Legend of Robert, Duke
volumes, in 1898. As lately as January of
it is clear that he had not then been of Normandy, 1506, 1351. Daniel Drouin, Le
last year he read a paper before the British appointed ( huic officio deputaverit ”).
Miroir des Rebelles, 1592, bound in old French
Academy, of which he was a Fellow, on
• Some Cardinal Points in Knowledge. In structed from nothing. The material had to
Clearly a studium generale could not be con.
black morocco with the monograms of Louis XIII.
and Anne of Austria, 1201. Drummond of
this he restated his main doctrines in rela.
Hawthornden, Poems, 1616, 1701. ; Forth Feast-
be there first, and all that the facts warranting, 1817, 1001. Remy Dupuys, La tryumphante
tion to recent developments of philosophy.
us in stating as to the condition of things et solemnelle Entree. . . . de Monsieur Charles,
It was in the Aristotelian Society that he before 1214 is that the students and masters Prince des Hespaignes. . . . en sa ville de Bruges,
was best known, and it is there that he were there.
When or whence they came
1515, 5001. A collection of seventeen Dutch
black-letter broadsides, connected with the West.
leaves the mark of his direct personal no one can positively say. What sort of Indies and South America, 1024-52, 2301.
influence. He was the first President, and organization they had, if any, there is no
held that office from the foundation of the evidence. There is no evidence of the
The total of the second portion of the library
was 30,1691. 168. 6d.
van
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No. 4417, JUNE 22, 1912
Literary Gossip
the Bank of England, or to the Hon. years, and his personal influence was felt
Secretary, the Rev. N. M. Morgan-Brown, in sport as well as scholarship. On the
Choir House, St. Paul's, E. C.
Council of the Senate and in other ways be
Two new novels shortly to appear in
was a keen and tactful adviser of the
In this age of complaisant reviewers Paris are "L'Amour en Danger," by M. University. , His "Introduction to Greek
and easy praise authors are naturally René Maizeroy, and 'L'Incomparable Epigraphy,' in the second volume of
irritated when their books receive adverse Florimond,' by M. Maurice Maindron.
which Prof. E. A. Gardner collaborated,
criticism. Not infrequently they proceed
is a model of careful scholarship. His
MR. MURRAY will publish early in July latest work, the editing of the memorial
to accuse the reviewer of malice, and the
a work entitled The Love of Nature volume to John Caius, we noticed a short
editor who supports his views of mala
fides. Such conclusions are, in our experi- among the Romans,' written by Sir while since.
ence, seldom supported by any adequate Archibald Geikie, the President of the
M. ANATOLE LEROY-BEAULIEU, who
evidence, and they have their dangers. Royal Society. The nucleus of this work
That portion of the press which still
was an address delivered by him last died in Paris last Sunday, was a prolific
cherishes independence should be grateful tion. He makes a study of the feeling for questions. His study
of Russia, 'L'Empire
cherishes independence should be grateful year as President of the Classical Associa- writer, mainly on political and religious
nature amongst the Romans as shown des Tsars et les Russes' (1881-2), is
emphasizing this in a court of law this in their literature and art during the last thorough and authoritative. Les Catho-
week.
decade of the Republic and the first liques Libéraux, l'Église et le Libéral-
THE FRANCHISE AND REGISTRATION century of the Empire.
isme' (1885), was the first of a ten years'
BILL introduced last Monday proposes to
series of books devoted to the cause
do away with University representation.
MESSRS. STANLEY PAUL & Co. announce of religious toleration.
He also wrote
The House of Commons will thus lose an opportune work dealing with
the volumes on the Restoration of Historic
the services of scholars of distinction white slave traffic, entitled The White Monuments (1875) and on the Second
who can hardly find a place elsewhere. Slave Market. Both the authors are Empire (1879).
It is something to have in the House men prominent workers in social service. Mrs.
of this sort at a time when education is Archibald Mackirdy (Olive Christian Mal-
thrown about from minister to minister, very) is the author of The Soul Market';
politicians whose previous record and and Mr. Willis, who is responsible for the
NEXT MONTH'S MAGAZINES.
experience hardly indicate a vivid interest sixteen years a member of the Australian Opening chapters of a serial entitled Michael;
facts of the present volume, was for
The Cornhill Magazine for July contains the
in their subject.
Parliament, and was largely influential in by Mrs. Henry de la Pasture (Lady Clifford), as
We congratulate the daughters of two suppressing the trade in Australia.
well as the customary instalment of The Grip
of Life,' by Agnes and Egerton Castle. In
well-known writers, Miss Steuart and
Miss Yoxall, on their First Classes in the which is being taken in Dostoieffsky and
In consequence of the
general interest : Sixty Years in the Wilderness" Sir Henry Lucy
tells the origin of “the great schism brought
recent Classical Tripos at Cambridge.
about by the launching of Tariff Reform, in
his works at the present time in this addition to many personalia and anecdotes. Dr.
A MEMORIAL OBELISK of red sandstone country, the first edition of “A Great W. H. Fitchett writes of A Peninsular Veteran,
has been erected to the
poet Alexander Russian Realist,' by Mr. J. . A. T. Lloyd, of Torres Vedras, to which the editor appends
Anderson, “surfaceman," at his native which the same firm published a short
of
village, in front of Kirkconnel School- time ago, is being rapidly exhausted. I w. c. °D.
Whetham writes on Electricity,
house, Dumfriesshire. The bronze medal. The author, in revising the book for a
lion portrait of the poet, in the centre of second edition, intends to follow out the Thomson's electro-magnetic spectrum and its
the memorial, was executed by Mr. H. S. suggestions of his reviewers, whom he Office Boys" is an amusing record based on the
Gamley. The inscription is Alexander
wishes to thank for their appreciative Diary,' by Mr. Joseph C. Bridge. • A New
Ascent, by the Northern Face of the Weisshorp,'
Anderson, 'Surfaceman,' born 1845, died criticisms.
is a mountaineering article by Mr. G. Winthrop
1909. He sleeps among the hills he MESSRS. CONSTABLE will publish shortly Tapreii Dorling-an episode of the Russo-
Young. Short stories are The Hill,' by Lieut.
knew. '
the official record of the Duke of the Japanese War and The Silver Tea-Service,
MRS. CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES
Abruzzi's expedition to the Karakoram by Mr. Christopher Stone.
has been elected an Honorary Fellow of range in the Himalayas. The account Harper's Magazine will contain: The Variety
the Royal Society
of Literature, a welcome who accompanied the Duke through United States, Fourth Paper, by Arnold Bennett ;
the Royal Society of Literature, a welcome is written by Dr. Filippo de Filippi, of Valladolid," by W. D. Howells ; "The Copy
recognition of her indefatigable work on
all his adventures.
Shakespearian records.
The book will be The Secret Shelf, by Mrs. Henry Dudeney
illustrated with numerous plates from
The Dilemma of the Public School,' by Robert
W. Bruère ; the conclusion of The Street called
A MEETING of the English Goethe photographs by Signor Vittorio Sella, Straight Truth Silent, a poem by Anne
Society is to take place at the Medical whose mountaineering pictures are well by Arthur Sherborne Hardy, o Giorno Felice!
Hall, Chandos Street, next Tuesday, at 8. known.
a poern by Florence Earle Coates ; Mark Twain,'
After the reception Dr. A. W. Ward the expedition. A feature of the book Ninth Paper, by Albert Bigelow Paine ;
(President) will read a paper on
Goethe will be the panoramic views taken by Finch, The Black Pawn, by Norman Duncan
and the French Revolution. '
him.
• Within the Walls of Fez,' by Sydney Adamson ;
'City Nights,' by. James Oppenheim ;
ENGLISH readers of Zola will be glad Bubble," a poem by Mary Eleanor Roberts ;
It is proposed to commemorate the
life and work of the late Dean of St. Paul's, to hear that · A Zola Dictionary,' dealing The Secret of the Big Trees,' by, Ellsworth
Huntington; and The Conference,' by Alta
Dr. Gregory, by the foundation of a leaving with the various characters and scenes
Brunt Sembower.
scholarship at the Cathedral Choir School, of the
the Rougon - Macquart novels of
to be called "The Dean Gregory Memorial Zola, will shortly be issued by Messrs. The cahusac Mystery, byna and Hesketh
Journal will :
Scholarship
Routledge & Sons in their series
Prichard, chaps. xxix-xxxiv. ; The Roots of
The late Dean was intimately associated J. G. Patterson, the compiler, supplies Our Woods, by F. E. Green Tho'sacrifices of
of dictionaries to famous authors. Mr. Honour,' by Mrs. J. H. Needell ;
with all the transactions which led to the
a biographical and critical Introduction, the Book-Lover, by A. Stodart Walker ; The
building of the present Choir School in together with synopses of the plots and Wreck of the Lima The Solan Goose, by
Carter Lane and the establishment of the
a Bibliographical Note.
'Henry Hills, Printer to Cromwell';
Choir School on its present basis, and he
lian Cricket in Scotland'; 'Lake Fish'; The
always took a lively and practical interest The death of Dr. Ernest S. Roberts, Last Service'; The She-Wolf's Legacy, by
in the School and all that concerned the the Master of Caius College, on Sunday Robes," by E. L. Arnold;
F. J. St. Aubyn ; 'The Undying Note. '; Python
Excavating a Buried
later welfare of the choristers. Dona- last removes an admirable servant of the Forest, by D. W. 0. Fagan ;
tions may be sent direct to the Treasurer College and of Cambridge. Dr. Roberts Things, by Henry Leach; and State Insurance
of the fund, Mr. E. M. Harvey, at was indefatigable as a - tutor for many | Gough.
>
A
• The
Mothers of
Work in
3
Austra-
in Great Britain and Germany,' by George W.
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711
are
The belief in the hereditary transmission operations appear to be just as satis
of tubercle seems to have been firmly factory in children as in adults, if only
SCIENCE
upheld, and it was thought that even a they performed early enough.
tendency to malnutrition was inherited. Surgeons in this country have lately been
Malnutrition and malassimilation of food writing to the medical press on this
were also put down to an habitual dis- question of early operation in the case
regard of hygienic laws, and were said to of children. They are unanimous in
THE CHILD AND ITS AILMENTS. be the chief cause of tuberculosis. At advising operation within twenty-four
The last volume of The Diseases of the present day we certainly believe that hours after the diagnosis of appendicitis
Children’ has been written by Dr. Hans attack of the bacillus, but we do not in
malnutrition prepares the way for the has been made. It appears that children
Spitzy of Gratz (Austria). It forms a
are peculiarly susceptible to the poison
brief and concise survey of those condi. any way regard it as an inherited factor.
(streptococcus) lurking in the appendix,
tions in which surgical or orthopædic told to do in these tubercular conditions. is far greater in them than in the adult.
Let us see what the modern surgeon is and that the danger of leaving the case
interference may become necessary on
the part of the practitioner, though it He is warned that any injury to the No one can tell at the beginning of an
avoids an exhaustive description of various barrier formed by nature, although this attack how a particular case will end,
pathological types and changes, and minute may be composed of broken-down tissue, whether the inflammation will be mild or
presentation of surgical technique.
will ultimately be detrimental to the virulent; and, when we consider that the
recovery of his patient. With regard to operation in the early stages, before
The work is essentially practical, and glands, he is never to scrape them; he adhesions have formed, is one of the
is founded on extensive experience. There must open all abscesses by small incisions, easiest and most successful in the whole
are numerous illustrations both in colours and then apply heat, or, better still, cups realm of surgery, we feel confident that
and black-and-white, most of them being invented by Bier which cause local the modern view, at any rate in early life,
taken from actual cases occurring in the congestion, thus adding reinforcements should be adopted in the great majority
practice of Dr.
Spitzy; and altogether it to the defending army. The wholesale of cases, as this will mitigate the grave re-
forms one of the best
medical publications removal of glands is deprecated, because sponsibility which naturally rests both
we have seen for many years.
with fresh air, good food, and tuberculin on parents and their medical advisers,
The immense progress which has taken the glands will subside in the vast when they decide on the questionable
place during the last twenty years in the majority of cases; nature will by these course of laisser faire. Science can, un-
treatment of tubercular disease of glands, means be able to manufacture sufficient fortunately, at present, give us no advice
bones, and joints in children is scarcely antibodies" to neutralize the poison of in the prevention of this common scourge,
realized by the public. This salutary tubercle.
and research is urgently needed.
change is due to the increased knowledge With regard to joints, it is advised, in
that we possess of the method by which cases where suppuration has taken place,
"The Healthy Baby' has been written
nature protects the body from the inva- that the abscess should be aspirated, and with the object of instructing mothers in the
sion of the tubercle bacillus. The zone of that there should be no interference with
care of their children. The quantities of
inflammation which is formed around the bones that enter into the formation milk recommended in the case of artificial
the offending organism acts as a barrier of the joint. Rest, fresh air, good food, feeding appear to us to be excessive.
between the healthy
and unhealthy tissues
, and possibly tuberculin, will
, combined, Dr. Dennett should have impressed upon
and forms as it were a field of battle, in give far better results ultimately than mothers the importance of asking, a
which the wounded and dead tissue cells resection any major operation. medical practitioner to advise them with
are represented by an abscess. It is of It is worth while to mention
in this regard to the quantity of milk to be given,
the greatest importance to the patient connexion the splendid results in the instead of leaving this to chance or
that this barrier should remain intact, treatment of tuberculosis of the hip- unskilled advice. The powers of diges-
and that the defending army should, if joint obtained by Calot and Bowldy, tion vary enormously in individual cases,
possible, receive recruits in their struggle which show what can be done when the and for this reason it has been found
against the enemy.
patient is placed in favourable sur necessary to institute Infant Consulta-
It
was the practice of surgeons roundings. Bowldy has treated 900 tions and Schools for Mothers, where the
some twenty or thirty years ago, before cases without any major operation or opinion of a qualified practitioner can
this newer pathology was adequately removal of portions of bones, and these be obtained. We therefore cannot recom-
understood, to destroy this barrier in the satisfactory results were obtained with mend the book as a safe guide to mothers.
hope of eradicating all tubercular material only a 4 per cent mortality (Hospitals on this important question.
from the wound. The results were not at at the Seashore ').
all favourable in many cases, and we now It is no exaggeration to say that one of
know the reason: the barrier having the greatest advances in modern surgery is
been removed, the poison was free to exemplified in the treatment of tuberculous
disseminate itself all over the body. joints in children, and that this result dent, in the chair. The following papers were
ROYAL. -June 13. - Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi-
If we refer to Erichsen's work on surgery, has been obtained by curtailing the work read by Mr. C. T. R. Wilson, on an Expansion
edited by Marcus Beck in 1888, we find of the surgeon, and at the same time apply. Apparatus aforici making a visible, the miracles uit
that surgeons were advised to scrape a ing the modern doctrine of buttressing obtained by its Use, Mr. R. J. Strutt on A
tubercular gland if it was broken down nature to form protective substances. Chemically, Active Modification of Nitrogen,
and could not be removed en bloc. In The diminution of suffering due to this produced by then nelectrica Piechac
tubercular disease of joints, for instance, change in practice, combined with the the Arc Spectrum of Mercury, and on the
portions of bones were removed in all fact that the growing ends of the bones
Constitution of the Mercury Green Line =
cases associated with abscess formation. have not been interfered with, would have Satellites by an Echelon Grating, both communi-
5461 AU, and on the Magnetic Resolution of its
astonished the readers of Erichsen in cated by Sir J. Larmor, - Prof. W. H. Young,
The Diseases of Children: a Work for the 1888. In Dr. Spitzy's volume there is no
'On the Convergence of Certain Series involving
the Fourier Constants of a Function' and 'On
Practising Physician. Edited by Dr. M. mention of the hereditary factor in the Classes of Summable Functions and their Fourier
Pfaundler and Dr. A. Schlossmann. English causation of tubercle.
Series,'-Mr. H. G. Moseley on 'The Number of
Translation edited by Henry L. K. Shaw,
M. D. , and Linnaeus La Fétia, M. D. In
Under the heading The Surgical Treat Particles emitted in the Transformation of
Radium,' communicated by Prof. E. Rutherford,
5 vols. -Vol. V. (J. B. Lippincott Comment of Appendicitis' the author raises -Mr. S. D. Carothers on “Portland Experiments
pany. )
many important points. Dr. Spitzy says on the Flow of Oil, communicated by Prof. W.
The Healthy Baby: the Care and Feeding that the mode of treatment of this disease Solution of Laplace's Equation suitable for
of Infants in Sickness and in Health (in children) seems to be definitely settled. Problems relating to Two Spheres, communicated
By Roger H. Dennett, M. D. (New York, In his opinion early operation offers the by Prof. L. N. G. Filon, and Mr. A. 1. Hughes,
the Macmillan Company. )
On the Emission Velocities of Photo-Electrons,'
best chances of recovery. The results of communicated by Sir J. J. Thomson.
or
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66
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
WxD. British Numismatic, 8.
1
Chemical, 8. 30. -Cannizzaro Memorial Lecture, Sir W.
Tilden.
MATHEMATICAL. —June 13. -Dr. H. F. Baker,
waves emanate from the Tower each evening
President, in the chair. The following papers exactly at 11h. 45m. Os. , 1lh. 47m. Os. , and
FINE ARTS
were communicated : by Mr. H. Hilton, 'Some 11h. 49m. Os. , Greenwich mean time, to
Properties of Symmetric and Orthogonal Sub: supply navigating officers at sea, railway
stitutions '; Prof. F. R. Moulton, ‘Closed Orbits
of Ejection and Related Periodic Orbits'; Prof.
companies, or any to whom such knowledge
W. H. Young, (1)' On a Certain Series of Fourier,
is important, with the accurate time of the NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
(2) 'The Fourier Series of Bounded Functions"; prime meridian. But for some purposes a
Mr. G. N. Watson, Some Properties of the
(Notice in those columns does not preclude longer
more accurate comparison of clocks than
Extended Zeta-Function'; and Miss H. P. Hudson,
review. )
these signals can give is necessary, and to
Curves of Contact of any Order on Algebraic meet this want signals are sent consisting Clark (J. Cooper), THE STORY OF
EIGHT
. '
of a series of beats at equal intervals rather
DEER IN CODEX COLOMBINO, 21/ net.
GEOLOGICAL. -- June 5. -- Prof. w. W. Watts, longer than one second, the signal beats
Taylor & Francis
V. P. , in the chair. Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins losing one in 120 on mean time. The method
A book produced for the Eighteenth Con-
read a paper O. “The Further Evidence of Borings of comparison by coincidences in such a
gress of Americanists concerning & curious
field and of the Palæozoic Floor, and as to the series is well-known.
series of crude pictures in vivid colours on
Thickness of the Overlying Strata. ' Mr. C. J.
carefully prepared deerskin. This record,
Gilbert, Dr. J. W. Evans, and the Chairman
PROF. KÜSTNER, the Director of the now called the Codex Colombino, is pre-
contributed to the discussion, and the author of Observatory at Bonn, has reported to the served in the National Museum of Mexico,
the paper replied. -Mr. J. W. Stather read a Astronomical Institute at Kiel that he has is the only MS. of its class there, and is in-
paper
Shelly Clay dredged from the discovered the spectra of both uranium complete both at the beginning and the end.
Dogger Bank. ' Mr. C. Reid, Mr. A. S. Kennard,
Mr. S. H. Warren, and Mr. H. Whitehead took
and radium in the new star in Gemini. By the aid of comparison with five other
part in the discussion. The following specimens The uranium seems to be in the ordinary codices-one of them is the Zouche or
and map were exhibited as illustrations of the metallic form, but the radium in that of Nuttall Codex, another is Bodleian, No. 2858
papers : Specimens from borings in the South. the gas or emanation which Sir William -Mr. Clark makes out very ingeniously the
Eastern Coalfield and the Paleozoic Floor, of Ramsay calls Niton. If this discovery is meaning of the pictographs and hiero-
Southern England, by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins;
and specimens of moorlog " and shelly clay
confirmed by other observers, it should be glyphics which represent the early Mexican
dredged from the Dogger Bank, by Mr. J. W. of great importance, not only in cosmo-
form of writing. The group of codices was, he
Stather.
gonical speculations, but also in chemistry, as suggests, the work of Zapotecs, and “Eight
showing in some measure that the dis. Deer, also called “Ocelot's Claw," was a
integration of the highly radio-activa sub- Zapotec warrior, and was born probably in
stances plays its part in the formation of 1439. We see him conferring with his sister
MON. Geographical, 8. 30.
new stars.
Institute of British Architects, 8. 30.
and younger brother, the latter being dressed
PROF. WEGENER (of Marburg), at a recent
in a coat with a multicoloured fringe and
Geological, 8. -"On the Geology and Palæontology of the
Warwickshire Coal Field Mr. R. Da Weronon the Dis meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung at border which is still worn by the Indian
Hamstead Quarries, near Birmingham, Mr. W. 1. Hardaker.