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England's Taste in Literature,' by Mr. well translates the 'Lanercost Chronicle';
Raymond Blathwayt, in The Fortnightly ; and Mr. Moir Bryce edits a Grey Friar
and Sir H. W. Lucy's continuation of his petition from St. Andrews in 1466, to
1 Sixty Years in the Wilderness ' in The which Dr. Maitland Thomson appends
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Cornhill.
an epilogue.
The articles suggest the question whether The death occurred at Edinburgh on
the taste of the ordinary public has Monday of the Rev. Dr. James Oswald
improved, and whether writers who, like Dykes, Principal-Emeritus of Westminster
t
Sala, were trained by Dickens to reach a College, Cambridge. Ordained a minister
certain standard of style and study did in 1859, Dr. Dykes won great repute as a
not surpass the present exponents of preacher during the nineteen years he
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what is, or passes for, literary journalism | filled the pulpit of Regent Square Pres-
to-day.
byterian Church, London. He made many
THE New Year honours include several contributions to theological literature, in-
t
names of interest to the world of learning cluding On the Written Word’ (1868),
and letters. Among the Knights are
Beatitudes of the Kingdom' (1872),
Mr. Valentine Chirol, The Times man of
Sketches of the Primitive Church ’ (1874),
foreign affairs ; Mr. Rider Haggard, story-
Abraham the Friend of God' (1877),
teller and agricultural expert; Prof. Henry
Laws of the Ten Words' (1884), and
Jones, a scholar of distinction whose
Studies in the Epistle to the Romans'
* Browning as a Philosophical and Reli- (1888). His last published work was the
gious Teacher' has just appeared in Cunningham Lectures on 'The Christian
Doctrines of Creation and Providence. '
popular form; Mr. T. H. Hepburn, a
keen worker for education in Devon-
At the Annual Meeting of the New
shire; Mr. S. R. Keightley, a versatile Spalding Club, held in Aberdeen on
writer ; and two heads of Universities, December 29th, it was reported that Dr.
Principal H. A. Miers of London and Robert M. Wilson had consented to edit
President B. C. A. Windle of Cork, the volume dealing with Agriculture in
both of whom have done much for the North-Eastern Scotland, a project which
illumination of science by their writings.
had fallen through owing to the death of
y
Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, who adds
Dr. William Alexander, who had under-
taken the editorship. During the past
K. C. B. to his other honours, has written
admirably on the colonies. Mr. E. K.
year there had been issued to members
Chambers, who becomes C. B. ,
The Records of Inverness,' Vol. I. , edited
is not
only a hard worker at the Education by Mr. W. Mackay and Mr. H. C. Boyd.
· Office, but also an authority on Shake-Two other volumes are at present in the
s 5. speare and the Elizabethan stage. We press : The House of Gordon,' Vol. III. ;
and 'The Gordons under Arms, compiled
n
notice further honours under Science and
Art.
by Mrs. Skelton.
A COLLECTION of the letters written by
Their forthcoming publications include
Dickens to W. H. Wills of Household The Records of the Society of Advo-
dWords and All the Year Round has been cates in Aberdeen,' by Mr. J. A. Hen-
& made and edited by Mr. R. C. Lehmann derson; ‘Folk Music and Song of the
t under the title Charles Dickens
North-East of Scotland,' by Mr. Gavin
al Editor. ' The book will be published, with Greig and the Rev. J. B. Duncan ; 'Selec-
y portraits of Dickens, Wills, Thackeray, tions from the Records of the County
al and Wilkie Collins, by Messrs. Smith & of Banff,' by Mr. James Grant ; The
a Elder before the date of the Dickens Records of Inverness,' Vol. II. ; Biblio-
dCentenary.
graphy of the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff,
h
and Kincardine,' by Mr. Kellas Johnstone;
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The same firm will have ready on the Records of the Scots College,' Vol. II. ,
d
25th inst. a work on 'The Gambia,' by the Rev. W. Forbes Leith, S. J. ; The
by Mr. Henry Fenwick Reeve, with Rise of Natural Science in the North of
32 pages of half-tone illustrations and Scotland, by Prof. Traill; and “The
Mr. Reeve writes with the object Register of Baptisms in St. Andrew's
y of calling attention to the strategical Catholic Church, Braemar' (1703-57).
al value of a great harbour and waterway on
le the North-West African Coast, where such The death was announced on December
e advantages are scarce, and to the value of 29th at Holytown, near Glasgow, of
in the deposits of iron ore in the cliffs over-
Mr. Alexander Riach, for twenty-three
2: hanging the navigable channels. He deals years editor of The Edinburgh Évening
of with the history, geography, geology, Dispatch. Mr. Alexander Riach was a
ethnology, and natural history of the native of Elgin, and became an operator
h
settlement.
in the old Telegraph Company before the
service was taken over by the Govern-
1; OLD SCOTS SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES ment. For a time in Aberdeen, he moved
are appreciated in Mr. Alexander Gray's to Edinburgh, and was selected to take
d
hundred-guinea prize essay in the January charge of the Edinburgh end of The
d
issue of The Scottish Historical Review. Scotsman special wire to London. In
d
Prof. Alois Brandl contributes a note on 1870 he accepted a sub-editorial position
the “Ruthwell Cross Poem,' favouring an on The Scotsman ; between 1883 and 1886
le early date on historical grounds of cross- he held a similar position on The Daily
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THE ATHENÆUM
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be first editor of The Edinburgh Evening LAST Tuesday evening Mr. Alfred The works of Zlatovratsky show how
Dispatch, which under him was raised to Tennyson Dickens died suddenly at tenderly and sincerely he loved the
the Hotel Astor, New York. He had peasants, how deeply he respected them.
been giving readings in the United States But notwithstanding his idealism Zlato-
An early and lifelong friend of Mr. J. M.
from his father's works. Last year he vratsky always remained a realist. His
Barrie, Mr. Riach printed some of the
visited London, and was new to audiences,
earliest contributions from his pen. It having emigrated early in life to Australia, Life in the Village,'
more important works are “Everyday
Golden Hearts,
was the perusal of some of these in the where he was joined by a younger brother, Peasant Jurymen,' and 'Foundations. '
, '
Dispatch which led Sir W. Robertson E. Bulwer Lytton Dickens. He was the
Nicoll to introduce Mr. Barrie to a wider eldest survivor of the brothers, and was
IT is but natural that the interest
public.
born in 1845 in the house in Devonshire evoked by Mrs. Allen Harker's delightful
MESSRS. PUTNAM have just published a
Terrace.
story, 'Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly,'
which we favourably reviewed in our issue
translation from the French of Colette THE January issue of The Book Monthly of October 17th, 1908, should have made
Yver's ‘Love versus Law,' a love-story in gives prominence to the question of the its readers desire to hear something more
which both hero and heroine are lawyers overcrowding of the autumn publishing of the benevolent tutor, whose reform
in the French Courts of Justice. The
As the subject was discussed by from an unfortunate weakness was
hero does not progress in his profession, us so far back as our issue of January 1st, delicately brought about. Among the
brilliant though he is; while, on the 1910, we make a quotation from our earliest novels to be published in the New
other hand, his wife is amazingly success- article, entitled "The Publishing Season Year by Mr. Murray will be “Mr.
ful. The story contains a picture of the and the Book-Trade':-
Wycherly's Wards. '
new woman of France. There are actually
thirty lady barristers practising at the ing of books into Seasons ? Would the
“Is anything really gained by this crowd-
The Times of Tuesday last had an
French Bar to-day, and M. Robert, the public interest wane if the autumn and important letter, carrying eight represen-
famous French criminal lawyer, drew a winter flood was reduced, and there was a tative names as signatures, suggesting
flattering picture of his lady colleagues chance all the year round-even during that the Crystal Palace should be used for
when he delivered a series of lectures what we are accustomed to call our summer
a National Folk-Museum. It was argued
-to choose from a larger array of new
(organized by the feminine Institute of
books ?
Law) to the Lyceum Ladies' Club in Paris.
We do not
believe that the public that at the present time-such is the
would notice the reduction in the autumn growing dearth of material-it will prob-
So far back as 1878 the First and and winter, and it would certainly profit by ably be found more difficult to form a
Second Diaries of the English College at
the more equable disposition throughout the folk-museum in England than in any
year. ”
other country; and, if the enterprise is
Douay were published under the auspices
of the Fathers of the London Oratory.
AMONG the lectures announced by the further postponed, it will be yet harder,
The Catholic Record Society has taken up University of London_are ‘Italian Lite- Such museums have been established in
this great work, and Vols. X. and XI. , rature from Dante to Petrarch' on Tues- the Scandinavian capitals, in Moscow,
comprising the Third, Fourth, and Fifth days, and 'Italian Literature from Foscolo Berlin, Paris, Budapest, and Sarajevo.
Diaries, together with the Rheims Report, to Leopardi' on Fridays, both beginning
The Museum at Stockholm furnishes
1579-80, which was supposed to be lost, next week, by Dr. Antonio Cippico; and
* The Phonetics of English' on Mondays,
the nearest parallel to what is here pro-
during last week.
)
were posted to the members of the Society beginning on January 15th, by Mr. D. ' posed, illustrating the folk - culture of
the Scandinavian peninsula—-specially the
have been edited by Dr. Edwin Burton, of
Jones.
daily life, occupations, and amusements
St. Edmund's College, Old Hall, and the Classical students can hear Prof. E. A. of the peasantry. Affiliated to the Stock-
Rev. Thos. L. Williams, of St. Edmund's Gardner on 'The Visible Surroundings of holm Museum is the Open-Air Museum at
House, Cambridge.
Greek Life' on Fridays, beginning on Skansen, where ancient cottages, farm-
The Seventh Diary will not be printed January, 19th; while on the 22nd Prof. buildings, churches, and mills have been
H. E. Butler begins a Monday course re-erected and appropriately furnished,
for some time, for it is hoped that the
Sixth, which is missing, may yet be found,
on Alexandrian Poetry and its Influence and where there is a dancing-floor for the
and so be able to appear in its proper
on the Poetry of Rome.
performance of national dances, as well
sequence.
MR. JOHN LANE will publish next
as a collection of living examples of
Friday' Napoleon and King Murat, 1808 Swedish mammals and birds.
“
MR. FRANCIS ESPINASSE, formerly well 1815 : a Biography compiled from Hither-
known as a journalist, and one of the
The letter goes on to show in some
to Unknown and Unpublished Docu- detail how the Crystal Palace and its
Brethren at the Charterhouse, died last ments,' by M. Albert Espitalier, trans- grounds might be made to fulfil a similar
Wednesday morning. Born at Edinburgh lated by Mr. J. Lewis May.
in 1823 and educated at the University
purpose, by the collection within the
there, he came to London in 1843 as
An interesting work is about to be building of characteristic English products
assistant at the British Museum. He published by Messrs. Kegan Paul from of all epochs, and objects illustrative of
became an intimate friend of the Carlyles, recently as November last,
of Arthur Lillie, who died so the different phases of English life ; and
and his literary career owed much to
He spent by the erection in the grounds of ancient
Carlyle's advice. Later, as secretary, 5 years of his life in India, and has written buildings from different parts of the
journalist
, or editor, he worked in Man: largely on Buddha and the influence of kingdom, and of different ages.
chester and Edinburgh. He published is entitled " Rama and Homer,' and seeks
Buddhism on Christianity. The new work
MESSRS. PIERRE ROGER & CIE. of Paris
' Lancashire Worthies (1874–7), and, in
the “ Great Writers Series, Voltaire
to trace similitudes between the Iliad have arranged to include in a series of
(1892) and Renan' (1895). He con-
and Odyssey and Ramayana, the epic of books of travel published by them Mr.
tributed extensively to the “ Dictionary
Hindustan.
Hamilton Fyfe's South Africa To-day. '
of National Biography. '
WE regret to announce the death of RECENT Government Publications of
the Russian writer N. N. Zlatovratsky interest to our readers include University
MR.
LEONARD HUXLEY has edited and on December 23rd. He belonged to the Education in London, Fourth Report
gathered into a single volume the educa- so-called school of folk - novelists. The (14d. ); Civil Service Examination Papers
tional passages from the writings of writers of this school are pure idealists : for Officers in the Army in Modern Foreign
Matthew Arnold, laying under contribu- they describe the life of the peasant and Languages, October, 1911 (1s. ld. ); Army
tion bis unpublished reports as Inspector labouring classes, and believe that through Qualifying Examination Papers, Septem-
of Schools as well as his published works. them the educated classes can reach a ber, 1911 (61d. ); Catalogue of MSS. in the
The volume will be published by Messrs. higher level of civilization if only they Museum of the Record Office (8d. ); and
Smith & Elder on the 18th inst.
will study their customs and philosophy. Army Review, January, 1912 (1s. Ad. ).
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THE ATHENÆUM
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Mox.
Royal Academy, 4. -'Landscape, Sir W. B. Richmond.
S
Aspasia,' Mr. W. L. Courtney.
Surveyors Institution, 8. -'The Tendency of Recent Modifica-
tions of the lands Clauses Act,' Mr. Frank W. Hunt,
Chalmers Mitchell. (Juvenile Lecture. )
Asiatic, 4. -'Carchemish. ' Mr. D. G. Hogarth.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. – Reinforced . Concrete
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Stresses in the steel and in the Concrete of Reinforced-
Columns of Concrete and Steel,' Mr. W. H. Burr.
Earl of Dudley.
Boys. (Juvenile Lecture. )
8. Hazzledine Warren.
Reflection,' Lord Rayleigh ; 'On the Variation of the Specific
H. L. Oallendar; The Mechanism of the Semipermeable
Pressure,' Prof. F. T. Trouton.
Mr. 0. Egerton Lowe.
Mr. O. A. Ablett.
and flash of sparks that followed on one Rousselet traced the history of the reflecting
of his own more powerful applications of microscope from 1872, when Isaac Newton first
suggested its construction to the Royal Society,
SCIENCE
his flint-axe. This view is, of course, down to 1827–8, when Cuthbert, at the suggestion
psychologically tenable, but rests on no
of Dr. Goring, produced the design exhibited. -
Mr. F. Shillington Scales gave a lecture on 'The
direct proof. Nor, again, can any great Photomicrography of the Electrical Reactions of
importance be assigned to his contention the Heart. " He described the principle and con-
struction of the Einthoven string galvanometer,
The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folk- that to thunderstones ideas are attached
with especial reference to the optical arrangements
lore : a Study in Comparative Archæo- characteristic of primitive religion such and the methods of photographing the movements
logy. By
By Chr. Blinkenberg. (Cam- as taboo; since an advanced culture, of the wire, resulting from the differences in
bridge University Press. )
such as that of the Romans, may remain micrographs of the movements of the hearts of
potential set up by the heart-beat. Photo-
impregnated with notions of this kind. various animals under the influence of drugs were
THERE can be no doubt about the great if, on the other hand, there were any
also shown. -The Rev. Hilderic Friend read a
value of Dr. Blinkenberg's monograph reason to suppose that the belief in ques-
paper on · British Tubificidæ. '
on the thunderweapon. The collection of tion originated in a single centre, and
material is in itself a piece of research thence spread by means of migrations or
for which the scientific world will be cultural contact, then there would indeed
grateful to him. He goes into great be good reason for postulating a very
London Institution, 5. - Learned Greek Women : Sappho and
detail with regard to the evidence from high antiquity for it. Dr. Blinkenberg
Denmark; and the need of exact regional evidently inclines to this hypothesis, but
Tues. Royal Institution, 3. -The Play of Young Animals,' Prof. P.
surveys in regard to the distribution of it is just here that he appears afraid of a
folk-customs is illustrated by the curious whole-hearted advocacy of monogenesis
Wharves and Warehouses at Lower Pootung, Shanghai, Mr.
8. H. Ellis; The Direct Experimental Determination of the
fact that in this comparatively small-such as has recently become fashion-
Concrete Columns, Mr. W. 0. Popplewell; Composite
country we find no fewer than three kinds able in cultural anthropology. As it is, Colonial Institute, 8. 30. – Some Impressions of Australia,' the
of thunderstone the prehistoric flint- he contents himself with some very Wed. Society of Arts, 5. -'Soap Bubbles,' Lecture II. , Prof. C. v.
weapon, the belemnite, and the echinite interesting proofs that early in the bronze Geological, 8. - On a Late Glacial Stage in the Valley of the
-each of which has as an object of super- age we find side by side the Mycenaan
River Len, subsequent to the Epoch of River-Drift Man,'Mr.
stition a particular district more or less cult of the double-axe of bronze and the
Thors. Royal, 4. 30. - On the Propagation of Waves through &
Stratified Medium with special reference to the Question of
to itself. Carrying the investigation Assyrian cult of the single-edged bronze Heat of Water, with Experiments by a New
Method. Prof.
further afield, the author has attempted, axe"; this points, he thinks, to a parallel Membrane and a New Method of determining Osmotic
by means of a wide search amongst evolution from some earlier form which London Institution, 6. - * Beethoven : the Man and his Music,
literary sources of information, to map out
can only have been a cult of the stone- Institution of Electrical Engineers, 8. - 'Some General
the distribution of this type of belief for
Principles involved in the Electric Driving of Rolling Mills,
axe.
On the whole, however, it is perhaps
the entire world. It is thereupon found to
wiser to aim at solidity rather than
be held almost universally in Europe brilliancy of handling in a subject so
(including ancient Greece and Rome) intricate and obscure. By building broad
and in Asia (including Indonesia). In rather than high, Dr. Blinkenberg has
Africa it is not rare, being well represented, built to last.
Science Gossip .
for instance, on the Guinea Coast. The
THE New Year Knights include Dr.
author, by the way, knows the bronze
E. B. Tylor, the honoured leader and master
imitations of stone-axes from Benin, but
SOCIETIES.
in anthropology ; Dr. W. F. Barrett, a
does not appear to know the actual stone-
physical and
BRITISH ACADEMY. —Dec. 15, 18, and 22. - distinguished exponent of
axe from the same place, which is to be Prof. R. A. Stewart Macalister,' late Director of psychical research ; Dr. J. H. Benson, Presi-
seen in the special showcase devoted to Excavations for the Palestine Exploration Fund,
dent of the Royal College of Physicians,
this class of cult-object in the Pitt-Rivers Archeology, his subject being The Philistines, writer on the medical side of workmen's
delivered the Schweich Lectures on Biblical Ireland; Dr. R. J. Collie, well known as a
Museum at Oxford. As for the examples their History and Civilization.
compensation; Dr. J. M. Davidson,
reported from America, he is probably
In the first lecture he dealt with recent re-
right in supposing the idea to have been searches and discoveries, and briefly traced the specialist in X-ray work; and Mr. A. B.
development of Cretan civilization as the source Kempe, a barrister who has devoted much
introduced by Europeans, since no native from which the Philistine nation had most pro- time to mathematics.
In the second lecture he
term for the thunderstone has ever yet bably sprung.
the problem of the Philistines MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. have arranged
come to hand.
with reference to the Old Testament and
to publish shortly a
volume of
Assyrian records, and the traditions of the people their "Science Monographs,” entitled 'Ro-
When we turn to the theoretical side
among the modern peasants of Palestine.
of the book, we have only to complain the last lecture the organization of the Philistines, searches in Terrestrial Magnetism,' by Dr.
that the author's scientific caution and
their country and cities, their language, religion, c. Chree; 'Spices,' by Mr. Henry N.
moderation are almost too great; SO
and art, were discussed from the point of view Ridley, Director of Botanic Gardens, Straits
of recent investigations.
Settlements; and 'Milk and the Public
that, whilst indicating a new interpreta-
The lectures will be issued in extenso as one
Health,' by Dr. William G. Savage, County
tion of the facts, he perhaps hardly pushes of the volumes of the series of Schweich Lectures.
Medical Officer of Health, Somerset.
it home. The usual explanation has been LINNEAN. -Dec. 21. -Dr. D. H. Scott, Presi-
the one so well set forth in Tylor's ' Early dent, in the chair. -Miss R. M. Cardew, the Rev. THE total rainfall at Greenwich in Decem-
History of Mankind,' to the effect that
H. Friend, and Miss E. M. Wakefield were ad- ber was 4:02 in. , which goes far to make up
mitted Fellows. —Sir J. M'Crone Douie, Mr. J. W.
people who had passed out of the stone- Haigh Johnson, and Miss B. Lindsay were elected
the deficiency that might have been caused
on the year's whole record by the four dry
age, and forgotten the original use of the Fellows. - The Rev. H. Friend read his paper
flint implements, perceived them to be which was discussed by Prof. A. Dendy and the produced only 5:04 in. of rain, as compared
entitled 'Some Annelids of the Thames Valley, months, June to September, which together
mysterious when they came upon them Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, the author briefly
with an average fall for the period of 8. 93 in.
by chance, and hit upon this theory of replying: Mr. W. C.
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England's Taste in Literature,' by Mr. well translates the 'Lanercost Chronicle';
Raymond Blathwayt, in The Fortnightly ; and Mr. Moir Bryce edits a Grey Friar
and Sir H. W. Lucy's continuation of his petition from St. Andrews in 1466, to
1 Sixty Years in the Wilderness ' in The which Dr. Maitland Thomson appends
5
Cornhill.
an epilogue.
The articles suggest the question whether The death occurred at Edinburgh on
the taste of the ordinary public has Monday of the Rev. Dr. James Oswald
improved, and whether writers who, like Dykes, Principal-Emeritus of Westminster
t
Sala, were trained by Dickens to reach a College, Cambridge. Ordained a minister
certain standard of style and study did in 1859, Dr. Dykes won great repute as a
not surpass the present exponents of preacher during the nineteen years he
3
what is, or passes for, literary journalism | filled the pulpit of Regent Square Pres-
to-day.
byterian Church, London. He made many
THE New Year honours include several contributions to theological literature, in-
t
names of interest to the world of learning cluding On the Written Word’ (1868),
and letters. Among the Knights are
Beatitudes of the Kingdom' (1872),
Mr. Valentine Chirol, The Times man of
Sketches of the Primitive Church ’ (1874),
foreign affairs ; Mr. Rider Haggard, story-
Abraham the Friend of God' (1877),
teller and agricultural expert; Prof. Henry
Laws of the Ten Words' (1884), and
Jones, a scholar of distinction whose
Studies in the Epistle to the Romans'
* Browning as a Philosophical and Reli- (1888). His last published work was the
gious Teacher' has just appeared in Cunningham Lectures on 'The Christian
Doctrines of Creation and Providence. '
popular form; Mr. T. H. Hepburn, a
keen worker for education in Devon-
At the Annual Meeting of the New
shire; Mr. S. R. Keightley, a versatile Spalding Club, held in Aberdeen on
writer ; and two heads of Universities, December 29th, it was reported that Dr.
Principal H. A. Miers of London and Robert M. Wilson had consented to edit
President B. C. A. Windle of Cork, the volume dealing with Agriculture in
both of whom have done much for the North-Eastern Scotland, a project which
illumination of science by their writings.
had fallen through owing to the death of
y
Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, who adds
Dr. William Alexander, who had under-
taken the editorship. During the past
K. C. B. to his other honours, has written
admirably on the colonies. Mr. E. K.
year there had been issued to members
Chambers, who becomes C. B. ,
The Records of Inverness,' Vol. I. , edited
is not
only a hard worker at the Education by Mr. W. Mackay and Mr. H. C. Boyd.
· Office, but also an authority on Shake-Two other volumes are at present in the
s 5. speare and the Elizabethan stage. We press : The House of Gordon,' Vol. III. ;
and 'The Gordons under Arms, compiled
n
notice further honours under Science and
Art.
by Mrs. Skelton.
A COLLECTION of the letters written by
Their forthcoming publications include
Dickens to W. H. Wills of Household The Records of the Society of Advo-
dWords and All the Year Round has been cates in Aberdeen,' by Mr. J. A. Hen-
& made and edited by Mr. R. C. Lehmann derson; ‘Folk Music and Song of the
t under the title Charles Dickens
North-East of Scotland,' by Mr. Gavin
al Editor. ' The book will be published, with Greig and the Rev. J. B. Duncan ; 'Selec-
y portraits of Dickens, Wills, Thackeray, tions from the Records of the County
al and Wilkie Collins, by Messrs. Smith & of Banff,' by Mr. James Grant ; The
a Elder before the date of the Dickens Records of Inverness,' Vol. II. ; Biblio-
dCentenary.
graphy of the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff,
h
and Kincardine,' by Mr. Kellas Johnstone;
d
The same firm will have ready on the Records of the Scots College,' Vol. II. ,
d
25th inst. a work on 'The Gambia,' by the Rev. W. Forbes Leith, S. J. ; The
by Mr. Henry Fenwick Reeve, with Rise of Natural Science in the North of
32 pages of half-tone illustrations and Scotland, by Prof. Traill; and “The
Mr. Reeve writes with the object Register of Baptisms in St. Andrew's
y of calling attention to the strategical Catholic Church, Braemar' (1703-57).
al value of a great harbour and waterway on
le the North-West African Coast, where such The death was announced on December
e advantages are scarce, and to the value of 29th at Holytown, near Glasgow, of
in the deposits of iron ore in the cliffs over-
Mr. Alexander Riach, for twenty-three
2: hanging the navigable channels. He deals years editor of The Edinburgh Évening
of with the history, geography, geology, Dispatch. Mr. Alexander Riach was a
ethnology, and natural history of the native of Elgin, and became an operator
h
settlement.
in the old Telegraph Company before the
service was taken over by the Govern-
1; OLD SCOTS SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES ment. For a time in Aberdeen, he moved
are appreciated in Mr. Alexander Gray's to Edinburgh, and was selected to take
d
hundred-guinea prize essay in the January charge of the Edinburgh end of The
d
issue of The Scottish Historical Review. Scotsman special wire to London. In
d
Prof. Alois Brandl contributes a note on 1870 he accepted a sub-editorial position
the “Ruthwell Cross Poem,' favouring an on The Scotsman ; between 1883 and 1886
le early date on historical grounds of cross- he held a similar position on The Daily
. d I worship. Mr. A. W. Johnston writes on | Telegraph, but returned to Edinburgh to
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THE ATHENÆUM
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be first editor of The Edinburgh Evening LAST Tuesday evening Mr. Alfred The works of Zlatovratsky show how
Dispatch, which under him was raised to Tennyson Dickens died suddenly at tenderly and sincerely he loved the
the Hotel Astor, New York. He had peasants, how deeply he respected them.
been giving readings in the United States But notwithstanding his idealism Zlato-
An early and lifelong friend of Mr. J. M.
from his father's works. Last year he vratsky always remained a realist. His
Barrie, Mr. Riach printed some of the
visited London, and was new to audiences,
earliest contributions from his pen. It having emigrated early in life to Australia, Life in the Village,'
more important works are “Everyday
Golden Hearts,
was the perusal of some of these in the where he was joined by a younger brother, Peasant Jurymen,' and 'Foundations. '
, '
Dispatch which led Sir W. Robertson E. Bulwer Lytton Dickens. He was the
Nicoll to introduce Mr. Barrie to a wider eldest survivor of the brothers, and was
IT is but natural that the interest
public.
born in 1845 in the house in Devonshire evoked by Mrs. Allen Harker's delightful
MESSRS. PUTNAM have just published a
Terrace.
story, 'Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly,'
which we favourably reviewed in our issue
translation from the French of Colette THE January issue of The Book Monthly of October 17th, 1908, should have made
Yver's ‘Love versus Law,' a love-story in gives prominence to the question of the its readers desire to hear something more
which both hero and heroine are lawyers overcrowding of the autumn publishing of the benevolent tutor, whose reform
in the French Courts of Justice. The
As the subject was discussed by from an unfortunate weakness was
hero does not progress in his profession, us so far back as our issue of January 1st, delicately brought about. Among the
brilliant though he is; while, on the 1910, we make a quotation from our earliest novels to be published in the New
other hand, his wife is amazingly success- article, entitled "The Publishing Season Year by Mr. Murray will be “Mr.
ful. The story contains a picture of the and the Book-Trade':-
Wycherly's Wards. '
new woman of France. There are actually
thirty lady barristers practising at the ing of books into Seasons ? Would the
“Is anything really gained by this crowd-
The Times of Tuesday last had an
French Bar to-day, and M. Robert, the public interest wane if the autumn and important letter, carrying eight represen-
famous French criminal lawyer, drew a winter flood was reduced, and there was a tative names as signatures, suggesting
flattering picture of his lady colleagues chance all the year round-even during that the Crystal Palace should be used for
when he delivered a series of lectures what we are accustomed to call our summer
a National Folk-Museum. It was argued
-to choose from a larger array of new
(organized by the feminine Institute of
books ?
Law) to the Lyceum Ladies' Club in Paris.
We do not
believe that the public that at the present time-such is the
would notice the reduction in the autumn growing dearth of material-it will prob-
So far back as 1878 the First and and winter, and it would certainly profit by ably be found more difficult to form a
Second Diaries of the English College at
the more equable disposition throughout the folk-museum in England than in any
year. ”
other country; and, if the enterprise is
Douay were published under the auspices
of the Fathers of the London Oratory.
AMONG the lectures announced by the further postponed, it will be yet harder,
The Catholic Record Society has taken up University of London_are ‘Italian Lite- Such museums have been established in
this great work, and Vols. X. and XI. , rature from Dante to Petrarch' on Tues- the Scandinavian capitals, in Moscow,
comprising the Third, Fourth, and Fifth days, and 'Italian Literature from Foscolo Berlin, Paris, Budapest, and Sarajevo.
Diaries, together with the Rheims Report, to Leopardi' on Fridays, both beginning
The Museum at Stockholm furnishes
1579-80, which was supposed to be lost, next week, by Dr. Antonio Cippico; and
* The Phonetics of English' on Mondays,
the nearest parallel to what is here pro-
during last week.
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were posted to the members of the Society beginning on January 15th, by Mr. D. ' posed, illustrating the folk - culture of
the Scandinavian peninsula—-specially the
have been edited by Dr. Edwin Burton, of
Jones.
daily life, occupations, and amusements
St. Edmund's College, Old Hall, and the Classical students can hear Prof. E. A. of the peasantry. Affiliated to the Stock-
Rev. Thos. L. Williams, of St. Edmund's Gardner on 'The Visible Surroundings of holm Museum is the Open-Air Museum at
House, Cambridge.
Greek Life' on Fridays, beginning on Skansen, where ancient cottages, farm-
The Seventh Diary will not be printed January, 19th; while on the 22nd Prof. buildings, churches, and mills have been
H. E. Butler begins a Monday course re-erected and appropriately furnished,
for some time, for it is hoped that the
Sixth, which is missing, may yet be found,
on Alexandrian Poetry and its Influence and where there is a dancing-floor for the
and so be able to appear in its proper
on the Poetry of Rome.
performance of national dances, as well
sequence.
MR. JOHN LANE will publish next
as a collection of living examples of
Friday' Napoleon and King Murat, 1808 Swedish mammals and birds.
“
MR. FRANCIS ESPINASSE, formerly well 1815 : a Biography compiled from Hither-
known as a journalist, and one of the
The letter goes on to show in some
to Unknown and Unpublished Docu- detail how the Crystal Palace and its
Brethren at the Charterhouse, died last ments,' by M. Albert Espitalier, trans- grounds might be made to fulfil a similar
Wednesday morning. Born at Edinburgh lated by Mr. J. Lewis May.
in 1823 and educated at the University
purpose, by the collection within the
there, he came to London in 1843 as
An interesting work is about to be building of characteristic English products
assistant at the British Museum. He published by Messrs. Kegan Paul from of all epochs, and objects illustrative of
became an intimate friend of the Carlyles, recently as November last,
of Arthur Lillie, who died so the different phases of English life ; and
and his literary career owed much to
He spent by the erection in the grounds of ancient
Carlyle's advice. Later, as secretary, 5 years of his life in India, and has written buildings from different parts of the
journalist
, or editor, he worked in Man: largely on Buddha and the influence of kingdom, and of different ages.
chester and Edinburgh. He published is entitled " Rama and Homer,' and seeks
Buddhism on Christianity. The new work
MESSRS. PIERRE ROGER & CIE. of Paris
' Lancashire Worthies (1874–7), and, in
the “ Great Writers Series, Voltaire
to trace similitudes between the Iliad have arranged to include in a series of
(1892) and Renan' (1895). He con-
and Odyssey and Ramayana, the epic of books of travel published by them Mr.
tributed extensively to the “ Dictionary
Hindustan.
Hamilton Fyfe's South Africa To-day. '
of National Biography. '
WE regret to announce the death of RECENT Government Publications of
the Russian writer N. N. Zlatovratsky interest to our readers include University
MR.
LEONARD HUXLEY has edited and on December 23rd. He belonged to the Education in London, Fourth Report
gathered into a single volume the educa- so-called school of folk - novelists. The (14d. ); Civil Service Examination Papers
tional passages from the writings of writers of this school are pure idealists : for Officers in the Army in Modern Foreign
Matthew Arnold, laying under contribu- they describe the life of the peasant and Languages, October, 1911 (1s. ld. ); Army
tion bis unpublished reports as Inspector labouring classes, and believe that through Qualifying Examination Papers, Septem-
of Schools as well as his published works. them the educated classes can reach a ber, 1911 (61d. ); Catalogue of MSS. in the
The volume will be published by Messrs. higher level of civilization if only they Museum of the Record Office (8d. ); and
Smith & Elder on the 18th inst.
will study their customs and philosophy. Army Review, January, 1912 (1s. Ad. ).
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THE ATHENÆUM
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
Mox.
Royal Academy, 4. -'Landscape, Sir W. B. Richmond.
S
Aspasia,' Mr. W. L. Courtney.
Surveyors Institution, 8. -'The Tendency of Recent Modifica-
tions of the lands Clauses Act,' Mr. Frank W. Hunt,
Chalmers Mitchell. (Juvenile Lecture. )
Asiatic, 4. -'Carchemish. ' Mr. D. G. Hogarth.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. – Reinforced . Concrete
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Stresses in the steel and in the Concrete of Reinforced-
Columns of Concrete and Steel,' Mr. W. H. Burr.
Earl of Dudley.
Boys. (Juvenile Lecture. )
8. Hazzledine Warren.
Reflection,' Lord Rayleigh ; 'On the Variation of the Specific
H. L. Oallendar; The Mechanism of the Semipermeable
Pressure,' Prof. F. T. Trouton.
Mr. 0. Egerton Lowe.
Mr. O. A. Ablett.
and flash of sparks that followed on one Rousselet traced the history of the reflecting
of his own more powerful applications of microscope from 1872, when Isaac Newton first
suggested its construction to the Royal Society,
SCIENCE
his flint-axe. This view is, of course, down to 1827–8, when Cuthbert, at the suggestion
psychologically tenable, but rests on no
of Dr. Goring, produced the design exhibited. -
Mr. F. Shillington Scales gave a lecture on 'The
direct proof. Nor, again, can any great Photomicrography of the Electrical Reactions of
importance be assigned to his contention the Heart. " He described the principle and con-
struction of the Einthoven string galvanometer,
The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folk- that to thunderstones ideas are attached
with especial reference to the optical arrangements
lore : a Study in Comparative Archæo- characteristic of primitive religion such and the methods of photographing the movements
logy. By
By Chr. Blinkenberg. (Cam- as taboo; since an advanced culture, of the wire, resulting from the differences in
bridge University Press. )
such as that of the Romans, may remain micrographs of the movements of the hearts of
potential set up by the heart-beat. Photo-
impregnated with notions of this kind. various animals under the influence of drugs were
THERE can be no doubt about the great if, on the other hand, there were any
also shown. -The Rev. Hilderic Friend read a
value of Dr. Blinkenberg's monograph reason to suppose that the belief in ques-
paper on · British Tubificidæ. '
on the thunderweapon. The collection of tion originated in a single centre, and
material is in itself a piece of research thence spread by means of migrations or
for which the scientific world will be cultural contact, then there would indeed
grateful to him. He goes into great be good reason for postulating a very
London Institution, 5. - Learned Greek Women : Sappho and
detail with regard to the evidence from high antiquity for it. Dr. Blinkenberg
Denmark; and the need of exact regional evidently inclines to this hypothesis, but
Tues. Royal Institution, 3. -The Play of Young Animals,' Prof. P.
surveys in regard to the distribution of it is just here that he appears afraid of a
folk-customs is illustrated by the curious whole-hearted advocacy of monogenesis
Wharves and Warehouses at Lower Pootung, Shanghai, Mr.
8. H. Ellis; The Direct Experimental Determination of the
fact that in this comparatively small-such as has recently become fashion-
Concrete Columns, Mr. W. 0. Popplewell; Composite
country we find no fewer than three kinds able in cultural anthropology. As it is, Colonial Institute, 8. 30. – Some Impressions of Australia,' the
of thunderstone the prehistoric flint- he contents himself with some very Wed. Society of Arts, 5. -'Soap Bubbles,' Lecture II. , Prof. C. v.
weapon, the belemnite, and the echinite interesting proofs that early in the bronze Geological, 8. - On a Late Glacial Stage in the Valley of the
-each of which has as an object of super- age we find side by side the Mycenaan
River Len, subsequent to the Epoch of River-Drift Man,'Mr.
stition a particular district more or less cult of the double-axe of bronze and the
Thors. Royal, 4. 30. - On the Propagation of Waves through &
Stratified Medium with special reference to the Question of
to itself. Carrying the investigation Assyrian cult of the single-edged bronze Heat of Water, with Experiments by a New
Method. Prof.
further afield, the author has attempted, axe"; this points, he thinks, to a parallel Membrane and a New Method of determining Osmotic
by means of a wide search amongst evolution from some earlier form which London Institution, 6. - * Beethoven : the Man and his Music,
literary sources of information, to map out
can only have been a cult of the stone- Institution of Electrical Engineers, 8. - 'Some General
the distribution of this type of belief for
Principles involved in the Electric Driving of Rolling Mills,
axe.
On the whole, however, it is perhaps
the entire world. It is thereupon found to
wiser to aim at solidity rather than
be held almost universally in Europe brilliancy of handling in a subject so
(including ancient Greece and Rome) intricate and obscure. By building broad
and in Asia (including Indonesia). In rather than high, Dr. Blinkenberg has
Africa it is not rare, being well represented, built to last.
Science Gossip .
for instance, on the Guinea Coast. The
THE New Year Knights include Dr.
author, by the way, knows the bronze
E. B. Tylor, the honoured leader and master
imitations of stone-axes from Benin, but
SOCIETIES.
in anthropology ; Dr. W. F. Barrett, a
does not appear to know the actual stone-
physical and
BRITISH ACADEMY. —Dec. 15, 18, and 22. - distinguished exponent of
axe from the same place, which is to be Prof. R. A. Stewart Macalister,' late Director of psychical research ; Dr. J. H. Benson, Presi-
seen in the special showcase devoted to Excavations for the Palestine Exploration Fund,
dent of the Royal College of Physicians,
this class of cult-object in the Pitt-Rivers Archeology, his subject being The Philistines, writer on the medical side of workmen's
delivered the Schweich Lectures on Biblical Ireland; Dr. R. J. Collie, well known as a
Museum at Oxford. As for the examples their History and Civilization.
compensation; Dr. J. M. Davidson,
reported from America, he is probably
In the first lecture he dealt with recent re-
right in supposing the idea to have been searches and discoveries, and briefly traced the specialist in X-ray work; and Mr. A. B.
development of Cretan civilization as the source Kempe, a barrister who has devoted much
introduced by Europeans, since no native from which the Philistine nation had most pro- time to mathematics.
In the second lecture he
term for the thunderstone has ever yet bably sprung.
the problem of the Philistines MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. have arranged
come to hand.
with reference to the Old Testament and
to publish shortly a
volume of
Assyrian records, and the traditions of the people their "Science Monographs,” entitled 'Ro-
When we turn to the theoretical side
among the modern peasants of Palestine.
of the book, we have only to complain the last lecture the organization of the Philistines, searches in Terrestrial Magnetism,' by Dr.
that the author's scientific caution and
their country and cities, their language, religion, c. Chree; 'Spices,' by Mr. Henry N.
moderation are almost too great; SO
and art, were discussed from the point of view Ridley, Director of Botanic Gardens, Straits
of recent investigations.
Settlements; and 'Milk and the Public
that, whilst indicating a new interpreta-
The lectures will be issued in extenso as one
Health,' by Dr. William G. Savage, County
tion of the facts, he perhaps hardly pushes of the volumes of the series of Schweich Lectures.
Medical Officer of Health, Somerset.
it home. The usual explanation has been LINNEAN. -Dec. 21. -Dr. D. H. Scott, Presi-
the one so well set forth in Tylor's ' Early dent, in the chair. -Miss R. M. Cardew, the Rev. THE total rainfall at Greenwich in Decem-
History of Mankind,' to the effect that
H. Friend, and Miss E. M. Wakefield were ad- ber was 4:02 in. , which goes far to make up
mitted Fellows. —Sir J. M'Crone Douie, Mr. J. W.
people who had passed out of the stone- Haigh Johnson, and Miss B. Lindsay were elected
the deficiency that might have been caused
on the year's whole record by the four dry
age, and forgotten the original use of the Fellows. - The Rev. H. Friend read his paper
flint implements, perceived them to be which was discussed by Prof. A. Dendy and the produced only 5:04 in. of rain, as compared
entitled 'Some Annelids of the Thames Valley, months, June to September, which together
mysterious when they came upon them Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, the author briefly
with an average fall for the period of 8. 93 in.
by chance, and hit upon this theory of replying: Mr. W. C.
