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Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Polson, June 24,
and suggested, no doubt, by his own reading
Reid (Sir George), THE WORLD OF MATTER
1771, 201. R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a
of Shakespeare in a similar form in his young
AND THE WORLD OF MIND: AN ADDRESS
Donkey in the Cevennes, 1886, with an autograph days, were a real boon to many, though here,
TO THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL note to Messrs. R. & 'R. Clark, 171. Dickens, too, his rage for condensing could not be
SOCIETY, EDINBURGH, FEB. 22ND, AND
Life, by Forster, 3 vols. , extended to 6 by extra restrained.
illustrations, 1872-4, 1401. A collection of letters
GLASGOW, FEB. 23RD.
The Society and papers of the Duke of Wellington, 501. The
The Daily Paper, which he began a few
The speaker, assuming the dualism of total of the sale was 7231. 158.
years ago, quickly collapsed, and he lost
mind and matter, makes an earnest plea for
reputation by his dealings with the occult
the consideration of the former. Apparently
in Borderland 1893–7, which tended to
preferring the argument from design to the
the ludicrous. His vigour was, however,
theory of ovolution, he goes on to urge the
• THE ISCARIOT,'
undiminished, and ho made some noise by
importance of psychology in education, and
an account of his first sight of the inside
of education in practical life.
Kingston Crescent, Portsmouth, April 8, 1912 of a theatre. He visited the Tsar in 1898,
Vavasour (Sir William), COMMUNAL INTER- It is interesting to note that the idea of and had of lato been busy with various inter-
AN ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS Me. Eden Phillpotts's poem under this title national schemes, being a firm believer in
OF THE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION.
was embodied in an essay, 'Judas Iscariot, the Hague Conference.
The Author, 225, Goldhawk Road, W. by Thomas De Quincey, vol. vi. , Collected Mr. Stead was a copious and agreeable
A panegyric of Liberalism as embracing Works, Author's Edition, 1863 (Adam & talkur, much liked by his friends, and ever
* all communal sections," “universal in Charles Black).
J. G. BLACKWAN. ready at his busiest to help others.
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469
common
was
already printed off on small paper, but not used, and that many of the typographical,
BYRON'S 'HOURS OF IDLENESS': on large, the same instruction might quite ornaments are identical in the two books.
well have served one compositor to set up
AN OLD QUESTION APPROXIMATELY a cancel and another to rectify standing in the mythologies (as I am not) tell us any.
Can any reader of The Athenoum learned
SETTLED,
type ; and, in the unknown conditions of thing to the advantage or disadvantage of
the work at Ridge's, there is nothing to
46, Marlborough Hill, St. John's Wood, N. W.
substantiate the theory that the large-paper at such pains to stamp out ?
this Moriah whom the youthful poet was
The only
So far as length is concerned (Ars longa ! ) compositors had got so far ahead of the Moriah that comes back to my memory is
there is not much to choose between biblio- small at the end of the job as to win the race
not a goddess at all, but whether connected
graphy and its august relative art. As after all. Neither can it be safely assumed
with folly or not is a matter of opinion. It
long ago as the 5th of December, 1885, that the small-paper men kept the lead
was in the land of Moriah that Abraham
The Atheneum published some four or five and got their book finished first. It is
was commanded to offer his son up as a burnt
columns on the suppressed and destroyed likely enough; for the small-paper book is sacrifice and then stopped by an angel as
Byron quarto of 1806 and its variants, a rather non-chalant production, anything he raised the knife; and it was on Mount
including Hours of Idleness. That article but exemplary for type, ink, or presswork; Moriah in Jerusalem that Solomon began
led to å good deal of more or less silly whereas the large-paper book is well finished the forty years' task of building a temple on
speculation on supposed variants, &c. The and carefully printed from good fresh types the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite,
correspondence on the subject, in which the and with good ink; and circumspection in But what about this goddess of folly whose
editor gave me the last word, ended in the making the best use of press material abolition has preserved for us all the evi-
Athenceum of the 23rd of January, 1886; obviously takes time.
dence we have as to the priority of the two
but in the number of the previous week
There is a scrap of evidence as to priority varieties of the first edition of “Hours of
an eminent bookseller, the late Mr. Francis
Harvey, had called public attention to the
in vol. i. of Mr. Ê. H. Coleridge's edition of Idleness ’May we assume that the Greek
fact, already well-known to bibliographers, of the title-page of the small-paper issue, taken by the youth for a proper name, or
Byron's poetry. Facing p. xii is a facsimile
noun uwpla (silliness) was mis-
that the large-paper copies of Hours of
Idleness' were printed with different type lished impression," and describes as a small purposes of his poem to create a goddess
which Mr. Coleridge calls “the first pub- that he thought it allowable for the rash
and ornaments from those used for the
8vo.
ordinary copies. Why a small country
It is clearly from the ill - executed for the occasion and regarded the addition
press like that of s. & J. Ridge of Newark, book, being distinguishable at a glance of an h to the common noun as sufficient
where the two books were printed (con. tidiness of the imprint, in which the last who know better?
for the purpose, till set right by some ono
Or is there really such
currently, as far as we know), should have
two lines are much out of the centre. In the a goddess, unbeknown
chosen to employ two founts of type and top margin it is recorded in MS. that this
to
H. BUXTON FORMAN ?
two sets of compositors, instead of re-
arranging the small 8vo pages into largo natural to expect that the poet's mother
“Mrs. Byron's Copy”; and it is but
8vo forms, may well be left as a trivial would have one of the earliest copies.
unsolved mystery ; but up till now first-
edition collectors have vexed their souls
Thus the balance of considerations seems CUNNINGHAM'S EXTRACTS FROM
with the question-Which of the two books, to favour the precedence of the small-paper
THE REVELS: BOOKS.
the large or the small, is to be regarded as in point of time, though, for aught we know
“the real Simon Pure" ? Having fine to the contrary, both may have come
April 6, 1912.
copies of both books, I am, as a bibliographer boarded from the bindery at the same TAE continuation of Mr. Ernest Law's
should be, wholly disinterested in the solu. moment and been put on sale simultaneously. long letter in defence of Cunningham calls for
tion, if ever solution is admitted to have
come. So, I believe, is that mighty hunter poet that lends a shadow of significance to He complains of my using the phrase “at the
It is only the enormous eminence of the in The Athenceum of July 22nd-29th, 1911.
little reply beyond what I have already given
and accomplished bibliographer Mr. Thomas
J; Wise who has recently
obtained curious, details of the cancelled leaf and the cancel end,” in referen 29 to the Wier-drawers''
though I think not quite conclusive, ovi- have some slight literary interest on the expenses: He says it is the beginning of p. 4.
on .
It will be remembered that both books has on the recto the close of the 'Stanzas used the phrase
same ground. The leaf, pages 21 and 22, discussing the list of plays, and naturally
contain a list of Errata-meant to be the to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens,' and
at the end,” meaning
same list, although the one does not follow
at the end of the first part. Is this not
on the verso the opening of 'The First Kiss
the other in absolutely every detail. Both of Love. ' It was not the recto but the verso
rather a quibble than an argument ?
lists make a correction in " page 64 line 1” that the young poet wished to alter. The I had pointed out that there was a dis-
which really refers to line 2 of that page; poem had been printed off with the opening-crepancy between the dates of the plays
and both direct the substitution of lovelier
and the dates of the expenses of the work-
for “ lovlier ” in line 9 of page 86, whereas
Away, with your fictions of flimsy romance,
Those tissues of fancy Moriah has wove;
men preparing for them. The plays begin
the horror in that line to be done to death
on the 1st, the expenses on November 5th.
is no less fearsome a thing than “ lovvlier
and a foot-note to the name “Moriah
The period of the bill is from October 31st,
in both books. But, while the small-paper
had explained The Goddess of Folly. ”
1611, to October 31st, 1612. The Declared
list correctly amends an error on page 153, But the cancel drops the foot-note with the Accounts begin from October 31st. So do
the large-paper list purports to amend it on name and reads-
the Revels Accounts (though the “ Master
page 163, where, of course, it does not occur, Away, with your fictions of flimsy romance,
begins on the 30th by planning for the others),
the books being page for page and line for Those tissues of falsehood which Folly has wove; I am aware it is only the Wier-drawers’
line identical.
The rejected reading had appeared in the account which begins from November 5th,
Mr. Wise's now evidence is that of a copy privately printed 'Poems on Various Occa- but that work was necessary for the pro
of the small-paper issue in which the bindersions, "fancy” and all, and with the same
duction of plays. * I had also noted that the
has left both a cancelled leaf and the sub-foot-note, and had had a forerunner in a
number of plays given were different from
stituted leaf, or cancel. ” The leaf con- | manuscript at Newstead,
those given in unsuspected documents.
sists of pages 21 and 22. The cancelled
Mr. Law explains that the Queen also had
Moriah those air dreams and types has o'er wove.
leaf, the third in signature D, was duly
her Master of the Revels, who saw to the
mutilated by the printer for the binder's It would seem but natural that ‘Poems on expenses of her plays, &c. I confess I have
guidance; but the “
cancel,” printed as Various Occasions' furnished the copy for not heard of that official. It is true that
the fourth leaf in signature b, was left in 'Hours of Idleness' as far as the two collec. Samuel Daniell was appointed what we
that position (immediately after the Errata) tions consist of the same compositions.
should call a Censor of Plays for Kirkham
instead of being substituted for D3
and the Queen's Children of the Revels ;
With my own (formerly Mr. Becher's) but it was 1615
before he was granted a more
through the default of that binder, whose rescued sheets of the destroyed quarto of important office in relation to the youths
copies there is no cancelling of the leat in their original wrapper and their pristine authority of the “ Master of the Rovels. ” It
of the Queen's Chamber at Bristol, under the
D 3 being printed in accordance with the state of preservation, and alongside of them is true that expenses for royal performances
regenerate Õ 3 of the small-paper copies.
Mr. Wise's faultless copy of the ‘Poems
were frequently paid by the Lord Chamber-
It might be hastily assumed that in this on Various Occasions? (8vo, 1807), 1. take lain, and perhaps by the Queen's Chamber.
respect the largo-paper sheet was set up the opportunity of adding to the biblio- lain. But Mr. Law does not see my point,
from a corrected copy of the small-paper graphical particulars given in The Athe-
shoot; but even that much would not be noeum in 1886 the fact that for the wrapper * The Declared Accounts mention plays presented by
a safe assumption. If, when the correction of the quarto and the paper boards of the
Hemings, one on October 31st, and the other on Novem-
ber 1st. Thane Declared Accounts are above saspicion,
arrived from Byron, signature D 3 was octavo the same bronzy - greon paper was and are my authority for those facts.
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No. 4409, APRIL 27, 1912
The Declared Accounts of the King's between 1842 and 1859—the year when he up 200 years after the event-80 likely to be
Chamber (not the Queen's) record payments retired from the Audit Office and its archives detected, as fresh sources of history are
for 32 performances. This list gives 13. were removed to the Record Office he revealed ?
Allowing for the possibly intended limitation took possession of the record, and soon after
of plays as well as masks to those presented sold it to a bookseller in Fleet Street, who about this ; your correspondent is certain
We may think, however, what we choose
before the King, the list is not correct. gave it up in 1868 to the Record Office, that the information, as regards thirteen
Four of the plays included were not pre- where it has remained ever since, classed
sented before the King; some of the plays among Audit Office Papers, Various, the list is consequently a forgery. The
out of the fourteen plays, is false, and that
are entered to wrong companies, some to Revels. "
plays, he says, cannot have been acted at
a wrong date, which is of less importance. Now let me examine the ground on which Hampton Court.
For instance, the King's Players on Now it is so confidently pronounced by your the Lord Chamberlain's warrant (printed by
Why? Because, says he,
Year's Night should have read “ New correspondent to be forged. He does not Cunningham, p. xxiv) shows that the pay.
Year's Eve,” but they did not play then refer to any appearance of falsification in ment of these performances was at the rate
before the King at all, but before the Prince, the document itself, not to any modern look of 101. each, whereas according to him-
&c. The Sunday following it was not the about it, not to anything whatever suspicious ever after March 17th, 1630/31, at least,
Children of Whitefriars, but the King's about the ink, lettering, paper, or anything every performance at Hampton Court
Players, who performed. The next Sunday else. His sole ground—which I shall show earned 201. ; and the man who made the list
after that (January 12th) it was not the to be absolutely fallacious—is that he finds did not know that ! ” (His own italics. )
Queen's Players, but the Duke of York's
a discrepancy between the place where, Indeed, the man did not know that, for he
Players, who appeared, and not before the according to the list, certain performances knew a good deal more about it than your
King. On Monday, January 13th, the were given, and the place where, according correspondent.
King's Players did perform, but before the to him, they must have been given—for a
Prince, not before the King; and on Shrove
reason based, not on evidence, but on a mere
He kney, for example--as we ourselves
Monday the Duke of York's Players played inference of his own.
may also know from the old accounts-
before the Prince, not before the King. I
that the fee for plays at Hampton Court
have taken a great deal of trouble to check of the plays Wheyond the one named [i. e.
, The
“ There is no certainty (says he] that the names in the time of King James had always been
details, not for their own sake, but because Royal Slave ') or the dates are true. And I
“ twentie nobles a peece
-61. 138. 4d. -
of their possibly helping me and others to
decide the question of authenticity.
can prove that the places where the performances to which was usually added by way of his
are said to have taken place are false. "
Maties rewards fyve marks "-31. 68. 8d. -
With all my trouble, I have not done
making in all for each play 101. As for
enough. I found, as soon as my article was
First, as to the names and dates. To instances, he probably know that such were
printed last July, that, though I was quite authority possible the Office-Book of Sir Shakespeare and other members of the
test them there happens to be the very best the fees paid to Hemynges on behalf of
price for Hampton Court plays, I should Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels at the King's
Company when they gave six per-
have taken into account the Plague of excerpts were made by Malone 120 years summer
time. From this book, though now missing, formances in that palace, including ' A Mid.
1636, when the Players lived near Hampton ago, and were published by him in his Christmas holiday 1603-4; and he probably
Night's Dream,'
during the
Court to escape infection, with an allowance
from
the King, so that their unusual pay: prefixed to vol. i. pt. ii
. of his 1790 edition, Cunningham's book that such were the
• Historical Account of the English Stage,' knew also as we may know even from
ments there were the usual payments for and reprinted after his death in the third fees paid for presenting three playes before
other places. This weakens the strength of Variorum "-Boswell's Malone 'in 1821, his Matie and the King of Denmarke, twoo
my argument, but it does not overthrow it It is true that Herbert's list—at any rate, of them at Greenwich and one at Hampton
altogether, as to the genuineness of the
third of Cunningham's papers.
as transcribed by Malone_contains only Court,” in the summer of 1606_together 301,
some thirteen entries, that is, of plays
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM,
acted at Court from St. Stephen's Day, 1636,
“ The man who made the list” would,
to Shrove Tuesday, 1637; whereas the
moreover, have known, as we may also
know
We next print Mr. Law's final letter:
Audit Office list gives the names and dates
by careful research," that like fees
of twenty-two plays in all, presented within were paid for plays at Hampton Court
V.
the whole theatrical year from Easter throughout the reign of King Charles. He
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM,” in discussing Monday, 1636, to Shrove Ťuesday, 1637. But would have known, for instance, that
the record of 1836-7, reproves me for calling the last dozen or so entries of this impugned though the King's players received by war,
it“one of the Revels' accounts. " I maintain, list tally almost exactly with Herbert's for the rant of thọ Lord Chamberlain ("Papers,'
povertheless, that this is altogether an same period. * There is, therefore, the
class v. vol. xcii. p. 235), March 18th,
very
1630-31,
accurate phrase to apply to a packet of best reason for holding, contrary to the
Twenty pounds a piece for foure
three documents relating to payments for view of your correspondent, that at least playes Acted at Hampton Court,” the
plays acted at Court, under the superintend the names and dates of these plays, as given extra ton pounds a piece was in respect
ence of the Revels' Officers, and enclosed in in the Audit Office list, are certainly "true"; and consideration of the travaile and ex;
a sheet bearing an official note that they and a strong presumption that the names
penses of the whole company in dyet and
relate to“
plays and revels. " The authen- and dates of the others are equally to be lodging during the time of their attendance
there. '
ticity of no one of the three had ever been relied on.
questioned when I wrote; and I only referred I pass now to the question of their places later as we may know
now by the same
Also, he may have known a few years
to the packet incidentally as
records abstracted
by Cunningham from the by Malone and by Chalmers (Supplemental though the King's players received for six
one of the of performance. In Herbert's list, as given
process of
“ careful
research
that,
Audit Office.
to assert of this record that “no part of it to them seriatim; while in the impugned playes," while they had only " tenne pounds
Your correspondent, however, proceeds not their places of performance assigned plays acted at Hampton Court and Richmond
201. a peece for those
ever belonged to the Audit Office. " To this Audit Office list all the plays entered as
I unhesitatingly and emphatically answer, acted before the King and Queen on various
a peece for the other eighteone acted at
Whitehall
that every part of it—including the play dates from November 17th, 1636, to Janu.
(ibid. , vol. xcv. p. 318), the
list (assuming it, of course, to be genuine) - ary, 24th following-fourteen in all-are,
extra 101. a play was given them because
belonged to that office. The list, having each of them, play after play, specifically
“ they were not only at ye losse of their
been made out probably by one of the stated to have been acted at Hampton day at home, but at extraordinary charges
players (it seems to be in the handwriting of Court. Indeed, a small space is left, and a
by travayling, and carriage of their
Eillardt Swanston), and handed by him to line drawn above the first of these entries
goods. "
the Lord Chamberlain, would, according to and beneath the last, to distinguish them Further, it would have been clear to him
custom, have been forwarded by his Lord. from the rest, which are stated to have been then-as it can be made clear to us now
ship, with his warrant, to the Treasurer of acted at Whitehall, Blackfriars, and St. by carefully studying the Lord Chamberlain's
the Chambor as his voucher for the payment James's.
warrants—that, when such special expenses
of the money due to the players for the
Would a forger, we may ask incidentally,
and losses are not specifically noted in the
performances therein recorded. Passed on have gratuitously inserted such
particulars warrants as the reasons for granting the
by the Treasurer to his " very loueing friends of place, so liable to be erroneous, if made extra 101. , they were understood and implied
the Auditors of his Mats Imprest,” they must
both by the players and their paymasters ;
have remained in the Audit Office for
and that when there were no losses or no
* Herbert's list includes two plays by Beeston's Company,
upwards of two centuries at least-until
which would have no place in the Audit Office list, as that extra expenses, or when these were made
1842, when Cunningham printed the list, with relates only to those given by the King's Company It also up to the players in some other way, then
the two other documents, in the Introduction instead of the 17th to Rollo," but this may be an error of
the regulation fee of 101. only per play would
to his
* Extracts,' p. XXV.
Some time transcription.
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66
'to
The last case, in fact, was just that of the statement, and seeks to set him right by number must be consulted before the text
fourteen plays we have been discussing, and asseverating :-
can be established with any certainty.
I can prove conclusively, not only that these
“. But it could only be The Royal Slave'
The report gives the result of Dom
plays might have been, but that they must
which was acted at Hampton Court, because the
Donatien De Bruyne's researches in the
have been, actod at Hampton Court, and other 21 had only the usual allowance of 101. , libraries of Spain, where he has been suc-
that they could have been acted at no other and must have been acted in London. But cessful in discovering the manuscripts of
place for the following reasons. Through the writer of the list makes 14 of them acted at
Roda-now in the cathedral of Lerida
out the winter months 1636–7 the plagu
Hampton Court !
and of Urgel, which were supposed to be
was raging in London, the theatres were Clumsy forger! Ignorant man !
lost. Dom De Bruyne has also visited
closed by Order in Council, and the Court,
Yet Herbert, the Master of the Revels,
libraries in Austria and Germany, and it is
having retired early in the autumn to
Hampton Court, remained there in closely agrees with him and with the Lord Chamber satisfactory to learn that he found the
lain, and not with your correspondent.
treasures of which he was in search care.
For
being allowed within ten miles of the palace. ) (as printed, p. 239, vol. iii. , of the Variorum,
guarded seclusion, nobody from London in Malone's verbatim transcript of his list fully preserved and catalogued. The Com-
mission add a note of special thanks to Mr.
The King's players, however, were spe. 1821) we find the heading " At Hampton Pierpont Morgan for permission to collate
cially summoned by his Majesty to Court
, 1636," applying to all the plays from the famous Hamilton MS. 251–a work
assemble their companie and keepe them.
“ the first part of
Arviragus, Monday performed by Mr. Hoskier, and now available
selves togither neere
in a magnificent folio volume, containing
our Court for our afternoon, 26 Decem. ," to "Julius Cæsar
service”;
also a palæographical and critical introduc-
and were granted a special at St. James's, the 31 Jan. , 1636. ” But
tion.
allowance of 201. a week for their expenses, perhaps your correspondent will maintain
The report includes a list of the codices
commence from the first day of Novem- that Herbert was wrong, too.
ber last past, and to continue during our
that have been photographed or collated
He concludes with a remark about the
pleasure, to be taken unto them as of our ink. He had before assured us that “the (in English) upon the present state of the
with printed Bibles, a most interesting note
princely bountie”-and your correspondent constituents of the ink used in the Record Vercelli Gospels, and six illustrations.
did not know that”! This truly Office were the same from before the begin-
" princely bountie ” lasted until the end of ning of the seventeenth century down to
January. My authority is the original the date at which he [i. e. , Cunningham) used
'Letters'
FORTHCOMING BOOKS.
under the Privy Seal, dated it. ” He now declares : “ The fact that the
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Theology.
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as in the list 31 years before, casts a
The Revolutionary Function of the Modern
found in the Record Office-State Papers, lurid light on the whole confection. " It Church, by John Haynes Holmes, D. D. ,6net:
Dom. , Charles I. , vol. cccxxxvii. , No. 33. does indeed !
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School-Books.
As the players' stay at or near Hampton research can make it, the preliminary work
Contes de Molière, by Wm. 1. Daniels,
Court lasted three full months, their weekly of assembling and collating all the extant lary, and Exercises, 1/8
assisted by Mlle, Chapuzet, with Notes, Vocabu-
Harrap
allowance merely must have amounted in Latin versions, in order to determine which 1 Great Names and Nations, by H. B. Niver,
the aggregate to 2601. -twice as much as of them St. Jerome made the base of his in two vols. : Vol. I. , Ancient Times ; Vol. II. ,
they would have got by an additional 101. own, is going slowly forward. These two
Medieval and Modern Times, 11 each; Prize
for each of the plays presented there ; while years have been spent in the discovery and Edition, 1/8 net each.
Harrap
altogether, with the usual fees for the twenty- acquisition of such texts; and the report
APRIL
Science.
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Railways, by Simon Sterne, 61 set.
Putnam's
Royal Šlave,' they must have received from research has proved even heavier and more Railway Transportation, by Charles L. Raper,
the King's coffers in this one year alone no costly than had at first been anticipated.
6/ net.
Putnam's
less than 5001.
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stated in his warrant that the one and of volumes of manuseripts thus reproduced Wheeler, 3/6 net.
Harrap
Fiction.
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fact that the greater number of them had rities not adequately rendered are indicated The Land of the Blue Flower, by Frances
beon acted there. Nothing, in truth, could in the margins. A first attempt at making Hodgson Burnett, 1/ net.
Putnam's
be much plainer. How, then, does your
use of the material collected has been made
General Literature.
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correspondent try to get over the difficulty with thirty manuscripts of Exodus, and the Swanston Stevenson : Catriona, The Master
of Ballantrae, The Wrecker, Poems, and Plays,
Really by a most amazing and audacious editors have been able to consttuto certain
5 vols.
Chatto & Windus
procedure. He positively questions the definite groups of manuscripts; but the
The Statesman's Year-Book for 1912,
correctness of the Lord Chamberlain's attempt has made it clear that a greater | edited by J. Scott Keltie, 10/6 net. Macmillad
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a
are
accentuation, and so forth. Indeed, the The brief sketch of his life, edited by his
Literary Gossip.
difficulty will be rather for the new daughter, M. J. Shaen, which Messrs.
Academy to assign just and reasonable Longmans will shortly publish, will show
At the recent celebration of the seventy- limits to its reforming activities than to that the great aim of his life was to help
fifth anniversary of the foundation of the find uses for its learning and industry. the weak and oppressed wherever he had
University of Athens, noticed by us last ONE of the developments of the Uni-
the opportunity.
week, the following were included in the versity Extension work of the University
IN 'A Parson's Defence,' which Messrs.
list of those nominated to honorary of London has been the arrangement of Longman have in the press, Mr. S. C.
degrees in the Faculties of Law and a Training Course for Lecturers, which Carpenter takes for granted that the
Philosophy : LL. D. , Sir John Sandys will be repeated this term. The course parson must necessarily approach both
and Mr. William Miller (author of The will consist of four lectures on The Art religion and life from a standpoint which
Latins in the Levant); and Ph. D. , of Lecturing,' by Prof. John Adams; differs considerably from that of the lay-
Sir Donald MacAlister, Dr. Bywater, Dr. and four lectures and demonstrations on
man, and insists that Christian faith is
Kenyon, and Dr. Mahaffy.
* The Management of the Voice,' by Dr. not based on the Bible, or Theism, or
He discusses
In view of next year's centenary of H. H. Hulbert. There will, further, be conduct, but on Christ.
the birth of David Livingstone, the six meetings, at one or other of which the nature and consequences of belief
Edinburgh Royal Scottish Museum is to each student will have an opportunity of in our Lord's divinity, the immanence of
God, the Church, and the Bible, and
form a temporary exhibition of objects delivering a portion of a lecture on
ends with
connected with his life and work. These subject settled beforehand.
a suggestion that certain
include specimens of rocks, minerals,
parochial ” matters are more important
THE sisters of Lord Russell, Chief
and native gold sent to his friend the Justice of England, were all Sisters of
than is commonly supposed.
director, Dr. George Wilson, in 1858, Mercy. The eldest died comparatively The preface to the revised edition of
the labels being in Livingstone's hand- young, and the account of her is confined Mr. Lovat Fraser's book “India under
writing. A native loom, mill for grind to a chapter or two; but full and Curzon, and After,' which Mr. Heinemann
ing corn, maps and scientific instruments, intimate accounts are given of the two is publishing, deals at length with the
and other relics will also be shown.
other sisters in The Three Sisters of recent Imperial visit to India.
Mr. A. J. BALFOUR has accepted the Lord Russell of Killowen and their
MESSRS. STANLEY PAUL & Co.
appointment as next Gifford Lecturer Convent Life,' by the Rev. Matthew publishing immediately the second annual
for the session of 1913–14. The appoint- Russell, which Messrs. Longmans will volume of Canada of To - day. " In
ment is for two years.
shortly publish. The book is largely made
a series of special articles, illustrated
In the preliminary programme of the several chapters are devoted to the private by upwards of 300 pictures from photo-
summer Edinburgh Vacation Course for life and character of their brother, the portrays something of the extent and
and plans, the book
1912 it is announced that there will be Chief Justice, who figures frequently in variety of Canada's resources.
no courses in French and German, owing their correspondence.
to the poor response made by British
teachers and others. Mr. A. A. Jack is lish next Tuesday the new issue of his ninetieth year, of the Rev. Frederic
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will pub- of the past was broken by the death, in
A LINK with the Cambridge scholarship
to lecture in Part I.
and suggested, no doubt, by his own reading
Reid (Sir George), THE WORLD OF MATTER
1771, 201. R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a
of Shakespeare in a similar form in his young
AND THE WORLD OF MIND: AN ADDRESS
Donkey in the Cevennes, 1886, with an autograph days, were a real boon to many, though here,
TO THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL note to Messrs. R. & 'R. Clark, 171. Dickens, too, his rage for condensing could not be
SOCIETY, EDINBURGH, FEB. 22ND, AND
Life, by Forster, 3 vols. , extended to 6 by extra restrained.
illustrations, 1872-4, 1401. A collection of letters
GLASGOW, FEB. 23RD.
The Society and papers of the Duke of Wellington, 501. The
The Daily Paper, which he began a few
The speaker, assuming the dualism of total of the sale was 7231. 158.
years ago, quickly collapsed, and he lost
mind and matter, makes an earnest plea for
reputation by his dealings with the occult
the consideration of the former. Apparently
in Borderland 1893–7, which tended to
preferring the argument from design to the
the ludicrous. His vigour was, however,
theory of ovolution, he goes on to urge the
• THE ISCARIOT,'
undiminished, and ho made some noise by
importance of psychology in education, and
an account of his first sight of the inside
of education in practical life.
Kingston Crescent, Portsmouth, April 8, 1912 of a theatre. He visited the Tsar in 1898,
Vavasour (Sir William), COMMUNAL INTER- It is interesting to note that the idea of and had of lato been busy with various inter-
AN ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS Me. Eden Phillpotts's poem under this title national schemes, being a firm believer in
OF THE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION.
was embodied in an essay, 'Judas Iscariot, the Hague Conference.
The Author, 225, Goldhawk Road, W. by Thomas De Quincey, vol. vi. , Collected Mr. Stead was a copious and agreeable
A panegyric of Liberalism as embracing Works, Author's Edition, 1863 (Adam & talkur, much liked by his friends, and ever
* all communal sections," “universal in Charles Black).
J. G. BLACKWAN. ready at his busiest to help others.
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469
common
was
already printed off on small paper, but not used, and that many of the typographical,
BYRON'S 'HOURS OF IDLENESS': on large, the same instruction might quite ornaments are identical in the two books.
well have served one compositor to set up
AN OLD QUESTION APPROXIMATELY a cancel and another to rectify standing in the mythologies (as I am not) tell us any.
Can any reader of The Athenoum learned
SETTLED,
type ; and, in the unknown conditions of thing to the advantage or disadvantage of
the work at Ridge's, there is nothing to
46, Marlborough Hill, St. John's Wood, N. W.
substantiate the theory that the large-paper at such pains to stamp out ?
this Moriah whom the youthful poet was
The only
So far as length is concerned (Ars longa ! ) compositors had got so far ahead of the Moriah that comes back to my memory is
there is not much to choose between biblio- small at the end of the job as to win the race
not a goddess at all, but whether connected
graphy and its august relative art. As after all. Neither can it be safely assumed
with folly or not is a matter of opinion. It
long ago as the 5th of December, 1885, that the small-paper men kept the lead
was in the land of Moriah that Abraham
The Atheneum published some four or five and got their book finished first. It is
was commanded to offer his son up as a burnt
columns on the suppressed and destroyed likely enough; for the small-paper book is sacrifice and then stopped by an angel as
Byron quarto of 1806 and its variants, a rather non-chalant production, anything he raised the knife; and it was on Mount
including Hours of Idleness. That article but exemplary for type, ink, or presswork; Moriah in Jerusalem that Solomon began
led to å good deal of more or less silly whereas the large-paper book is well finished the forty years' task of building a temple on
speculation on supposed variants, &c. The and carefully printed from good fresh types the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite,
correspondence on the subject, in which the and with good ink; and circumspection in But what about this goddess of folly whose
editor gave me the last word, ended in the making the best use of press material abolition has preserved for us all the evi-
Athenceum of the 23rd of January, 1886; obviously takes time.
dence we have as to the priority of the two
but in the number of the previous week
There is a scrap of evidence as to priority varieties of the first edition of “Hours of
an eminent bookseller, the late Mr. Francis
Harvey, had called public attention to the
in vol. i. of Mr. Ê. H. Coleridge's edition of Idleness ’May we assume that the Greek
fact, already well-known to bibliographers, of the title-page of the small-paper issue, taken by the youth for a proper name, or
Byron's poetry. Facing p. xii is a facsimile
noun uwpla (silliness) was mis-
that the large-paper copies of Hours of
Idleness' were printed with different type lished impression," and describes as a small purposes of his poem to create a goddess
which Mr. Coleridge calls “the first pub- that he thought it allowable for the rash
and ornaments from those used for the
8vo.
ordinary copies. Why a small country
It is clearly from the ill - executed for the occasion and regarded the addition
press like that of s. & J. Ridge of Newark, book, being distinguishable at a glance of an h to the common noun as sufficient
where the two books were printed (con. tidiness of the imprint, in which the last who know better?
for the purpose, till set right by some ono
Or is there really such
currently, as far as we know), should have
two lines are much out of the centre. In the a goddess, unbeknown
chosen to employ two founts of type and top margin it is recorded in MS. that this
to
H. BUXTON FORMAN ?
two sets of compositors, instead of re-
arranging the small 8vo pages into largo natural to expect that the poet's mother
“Mrs. Byron's Copy”; and it is but
8vo forms, may well be left as a trivial would have one of the earliest copies.
unsolved mystery ; but up till now first-
edition collectors have vexed their souls
Thus the balance of considerations seems CUNNINGHAM'S EXTRACTS FROM
with the question-Which of the two books, to favour the precedence of the small-paper
THE REVELS: BOOKS.
the large or the small, is to be regarded as in point of time, though, for aught we know
“the real Simon Pure" ? Having fine to the contrary, both may have come
April 6, 1912.
copies of both books, I am, as a bibliographer boarded from the bindery at the same TAE continuation of Mr. Ernest Law's
should be, wholly disinterested in the solu. moment and been put on sale simultaneously. long letter in defence of Cunningham calls for
tion, if ever solution is admitted to have
come. So, I believe, is that mighty hunter poet that lends a shadow of significance to He complains of my using the phrase “at the
It is only the enormous eminence of the in The Athenceum of July 22nd-29th, 1911.
little reply beyond what I have already given
and accomplished bibliographer Mr. Thomas
J; Wise who has recently
obtained curious, details of the cancelled leaf and the cancel end,” in referen 29 to the Wier-drawers''
though I think not quite conclusive, ovi- have some slight literary interest on the expenses: He says it is the beginning of p. 4.
on .
It will be remembered that both books has on the recto the close of the 'Stanzas used the phrase
same ground. The leaf, pages 21 and 22, discussing the list of plays, and naturally
contain a list of Errata-meant to be the to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens,' and
at the end,” meaning
same list, although the one does not follow
at the end of the first part. Is this not
on the verso the opening of 'The First Kiss
the other in absolutely every detail. Both of Love. ' It was not the recto but the verso
rather a quibble than an argument ?
lists make a correction in " page 64 line 1” that the young poet wished to alter. The I had pointed out that there was a dis-
which really refers to line 2 of that page; poem had been printed off with the opening-crepancy between the dates of the plays
and both direct the substitution of lovelier
and the dates of the expenses of the work-
for “ lovlier ” in line 9 of page 86, whereas
Away, with your fictions of flimsy romance,
Those tissues of fancy Moriah has wove;
men preparing for them. The plays begin
the horror in that line to be done to death
on the 1st, the expenses on November 5th.
is no less fearsome a thing than “ lovvlier
and a foot-note to the name “Moriah
The period of the bill is from October 31st,
in both books. But, while the small-paper
had explained The Goddess of Folly. ”
1611, to October 31st, 1612. The Declared
list correctly amends an error on page 153, But the cancel drops the foot-note with the Accounts begin from October 31st. So do
the large-paper list purports to amend it on name and reads-
the Revels Accounts (though the “ Master
page 163, where, of course, it does not occur, Away, with your fictions of flimsy romance,
begins on the 30th by planning for the others),
the books being page for page and line for Those tissues of falsehood which Folly has wove; I am aware it is only the Wier-drawers’
line identical.
The rejected reading had appeared in the account which begins from November 5th,
Mr. Wise's now evidence is that of a copy privately printed 'Poems on Various Occa- but that work was necessary for the pro
of the small-paper issue in which the bindersions, "fancy” and all, and with the same
duction of plays. * I had also noted that the
has left both a cancelled leaf and the sub-foot-note, and had had a forerunner in a
number of plays given were different from
stituted leaf, or cancel. ” The leaf con- | manuscript at Newstead,
those given in unsuspected documents.
sists of pages 21 and 22. The cancelled
Mr. Law explains that the Queen also had
Moriah those air dreams and types has o'er wove.
leaf, the third in signature D, was duly
her Master of the Revels, who saw to the
mutilated by the printer for the binder's It would seem but natural that ‘Poems on expenses of her plays, &c. I confess I have
guidance; but the “
cancel,” printed as Various Occasions' furnished the copy for not heard of that official. It is true that
the fourth leaf in signature b, was left in 'Hours of Idleness' as far as the two collec. Samuel Daniell was appointed what we
that position (immediately after the Errata) tions consist of the same compositions.
should call a Censor of Plays for Kirkham
instead of being substituted for D3
and the Queen's Children of the Revels ;
With my own (formerly Mr. Becher's) but it was 1615
before he was granted a more
through the default of that binder, whose rescued sheets of the destroyed quarto of important office in relation to the youths
copies there is no cancelling of the leat in their original wrapper and their pristine authority of the “ Master of the Rovels. ” It
of the Queen's Chamber at Bristol, under the
D 3 being printed in accordance with the state of preservation, and alongside of them is true that expenses for royal performances
regenerate Õ 3 of the small-paper copies.
Mr. Wise's faultless copy of the ‘Poems
were frequently paid by the Lord Chamber-
It might be hastily assumed that in this on Various Occasions? (8vo, 1807), 1. take lain, and perhaps by the Queen's Chamber.
respect the largo-paper sheet was set up the opportunity of adding to the biblio- lain. But Mr. Law does not see my point,
from a corrected copy of the small-paper graphical particulars given in The Athe-
shoot; but even that much would not be noeum in 1886 the fact that for the wrapper * The Declared Accounts mention plays presented by
a safe assumption. If, when the correction of the quarto and the paper boards of the
Hemings, one on October 31st, and the other on Novem-
ber 1st. Thane Declared Accounts are above saspicion,
arrived from Byron, signature D 3 was octavo the same bronzy - greon paper was and are my authority for those facts.
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The Declared Accounts of the King's between 1842 and 1859—the year when he up 200 years after the event-80 likely to be
Chamber (not the Queen's) record payments retired from the Audit Office and its archives detected, as fresh sources of history are
for 32 performances. This list gives 13. were removed to the Record Office he revealed ?
Allowing for the possibly intended limitation took possession of the record, and soon after
of plays as well as masks to those presented sold it to a bookseller in Fleet Street, who about this ; your correspondent is certain
We may think, however, what we choose
before the King, the list is not correct. gave it up in 1868 to the Record Office, that the information, as regards thirteen
Four of the plays included were not pre- where it has remained ever since, classed
sented before the King; some of the plays among Audit Office Papers, Various, the list is consequently a forgery. The
out of the fourteen plays, is false, and that
are entered to wrong companies, some to Revels. "
plays, he says, cannot have been acted at
a wrong date, which is of less importance. Now let me examine the ground on which Hampton Court.
For instance, the King's Players on Now it is so confidently pronounced by your the Lord Chamberlain's warrant (printed by
Why? Because, says he,
Year's Night should have read “ New correspondent to be forged. He does not Cunningham, p. xxiv) shows that the pay.
Year's Eve,” but they did not play then refer to any appearance of falsification in ment of these performances was at the rate
before the King at all, but before the Prince, the document itself, not to any modern look of 101. each, whereas according to him-
&c. The Sunday following it was not the about it, not to anything whatever suspicious ever after March 17th, 1630/31, at least,
Children of Whitefriars, but the King's about the ink, lettering, paper, or anything every performance at Hampton Court
Players, who performed. The next Sunday else. His sole ground—which I shall show earned 201. ; and the man who made the list
after that (January 12th) it was not the to be absolutely fallacious—is that he finds did not know that ! ” (His own italics. )
Queen's Players, but the Duke of York's
a discrepancy between the place where, Indeed, the man did not know that, for he
Players, who appeared, and not before the according to the list, certain performances knew a good deal more about it than your
King. On Monday, January 13th, the were given, and the place where, according correspondent.
King's Players did perform, but before the to him, they must have been given—for a
Prince, not before the King; and on Shrove
reason based, not on evidence, but on a mere
He kney, for example--as we ourselves
Monday the Duke of York's Players played inference of his own.
may also know from the old accounts-
before the Prince, not before the King. I
that the fee for plays at Hampton Court
have taken a great deal of trouble to check of the plays Wheyond the one named [i. e.
, The
“ There is no certainty (says he] that the names in the time of King James had always been
details, not for their own sake, but because Royal Slave ') or the dates are true. And I
“ twentie nobles a peece
-61. 138. 4d. -
of their possibly helping me and others to
decide the question of authenticity.
can prove that the places where the performances to which was usually added by way of his
are said to have taken place are false. "
Maties rewards fyve marks "-31. 68. 8d. -
With all my trouble, I have not done
making in all for each play 101. As for
enough. I found, as soon as my article was
First, as to the names and dates. To instances, he probably know that such were
printed last July, that, though I was quite authority possible the Office-Book of Sir Shakespeare and other members of the
test them there happens to be the very best the fees paid to Hemynges on behalf of
price for Hampton Court plays, I should Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels at the King's
Company when they gave six per-
have taken into account the Plague of excerpts were made by Malone 120 years summer
time. From this book, though now missing, formances in that palace, including ' A Mid.
1636, when the Players lived near Hampton ago, and were published by him in his Christmas holiday 1603-4; and he probably
Night's Dream,'
during the
Court to escape infection, with an allowance
from
the King, so that their unusual pay: prefixed to vol. i. pt. ii
. of his 1790 edition, Cunningham's book that such were the
• Historical Account of the English Stage,' knew also as we may know even from
ments there were the usual payments for and reprinted after his death in the third fees paid for presenting three playes before
other places. This weakens the strength of Variorum "-Boswell's Malone 'in 1821, his Matie and the King of Denmarke, twoo
my argument, but it does not overthrow it It is true that Herbert's list—at any rate, of them at Greenwich and one at Hampton
altogether, as to the genuineness of the
third of Cunningham's papers.
as transcribed by Malone_contains only Court,” in the summer of 1606_together 301,
some thirteen entries, that is, of plays
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM,
acted at Court from St. Stephen's Day, 1636,
“ The man who made the list” would,
to Shrove Tuesday, 1637; whereas the
moreover, have known, as we may also
know
We next print Mr. Law's final letter:
Audit Office list gives the names and dates
by careful research," that like fees
of twenty-two plays in all, presented within were paid for plays at Hampton Court
V.
the whole theatrical year from Easter throughout the reign of King Charles. He
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM,” in discussing Monday, 1636, to Shrove Ťuesday, 1637. But would have known, for instance, that
the record of 1836-7, reproves me for calling the last dozen or so entries of this impugned though the King's players received by war,
it“one of the Revels' accounts. " I maintain, list tally almost exactly with Herbert's for the rant of thọ Lord Chamberlain ("Papers,'
povertheless, that this is altogether an same period. * There is, therefore, the
class v. vol. xcii. p. 235), March 18th,
very
1630-31,
accurate phrase to apply to a packet of best reason for holding, contrary to the
Twenty pounds a piece for foure
three documents relating to payments for view of your correspondent, that at least playes Acted at Hampton Court,” the
plays acted at Court, under the superintend the names and dates of these plays, as given extra ton pounds a piece was in respect
ence of the Revels' Officers, and enclosed in in the Audit Office list, are certainly "true"; and consideration of the travaile and ex;
a sheet bearing an official note that they and a strong presumption that the names
penses of the whole company in dyet and
relate to“
plays and revels. " The authen- and dates of the others are equally to be lodging during the time of their attendance
there. '
ticity of no one of the three had ever been relied on.
questioned when I wrote; and I only referred I pass now to the question of their places later as we may know
now by the same
Also, he may have known a few years
to the packet incidentally as
records abstracted
by Cunningham from the by Malone and by Chalmers (Supplemental though the King's players received for six
one of the of performance. In Herbert's list, as given
process of
“ careful
research
that,
Audit Office.
to assert of this record that “no part of it to them seriatim; while in the impugned playes," while they had only " tenne pounds
Your correspondent, however, proceeds not their places of performance assigned plays acted at Hampton Court and Richmond
201. a peece for those
ever belonged to the Audit Office. " To this Audit Office list all the plays entered as
I unhesitatingly and emphatically answer, acted before the King and Queen on various
a peece for the other eighteone acted at
Whitehall
that every part of it—including the play dates from November 17th, 1636, to Janu.
(ibid. , vol. xcv. p. 318), the
list (assuming it, of course, to be genuine) - ary, 24th following-fourteen in all-are,
extra 101. a play was given them because
belonged to that office. The list, having each of them, play after play, specifically
“ they were not only at ye losse of their
been made out probably by one of the stated to have been acted at Hampton day at home, but at extraordinary charges
players (it seems to be in the handwriting of Court. Indeed, a small space is left, and a
by travayling, and carriage of their
Eillardt Swanston), and handed by him to line drawn above the first of these entries
goods. "
the Lord Chamberlain, would, according to and beneath the last, to distinguish them Further, it would have been clear to him
custom, have been forwarded by his Lord. from the rest, which are stated to have been then-as it can be made clear to us now
ship, with his warrant, to the Treasurer of acted at Whitehall, Blackfriars, and St. by carefully studying the Lord Chamberlain's
the Chambor as his voucher for the payment James's.
warrants—that, when such special expenses
of the money due to the players for the
Would a forger, we may ask incidentally,
and losses are not specifically noted in the
performances therein recorded. Passed on have gratuitously inserted such
particulars warrants as the reasons for granting the
by the Treasurer to his " very loueing friends of place, so liable to be erroneous, if made extra 101. , they were understood and implied
the Auditors of his Mats Imprest,” they must
both by the players and their paymasters ;
have remained in the Audit Office for
and that when there were no losses or no
* Herbert's list includes two plays by Beeston's Company,
upwards of two centuries at least-until
which would have no place in the Audit Office list, as that extra expenses, or when these were made
1842, when Cunningham printed the list, with relates only to those given by the King's Company It also up to the players in some other way, then
the two other documents, in the Introduction instead of the 17th to Rollo," but this may be an error of
the regulation fee of 101. only per play would
to his
* Extracts,' p. XXV.
Some time transcription.
be authorized in the warrant,
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66
'to
The last case, in fact, was just that of the statement, and seeks to set him right by number must be consulted before the text
fourteen plays we have been discussing, and asseverating :-
can be established with any certainty.
I can prove conclusively, not only that these
“. But it could only be The Royal Slave'
The report gives the result of Dom
plays might have been, but that they must
which was acted at Hampton Court, because the
Donatien De Bruyne's researches in the
have been, actod at Hampton Court, and other 21 had only the usual allowance of 101. , libraries of Spain, where he has been suc-
that they could have been acted at no other and must have been acted in London. But cessful in discovering the manuscripts of
place for the following reasons. Through the writer of the list makes 14 of them acted at
Roda-now in the cathedral of Lerida
out the winter months 1636–7 the plagu
Hampton Court !
and of Urgel, which were supposed to be
was raging in London, the theatres were Clumsy forger! Ignorant man !
lost. Dom De Bruyne has also visited
closed by Order in Council, and the Court,
Yet Herbert, the Master of the Revels,
libraries in Austria and Germany, and it is
having retired early in the autumn to
Hampton Court, remained there in closely agrees with him and with the Lord Chamber satisfactory to learn that he found the
lain, and not with your correspondent.
treasures of which he was in search care.
For
being allowed within ten miles of the palace. ) (as printed, p. 239, vol. iii. , of the Variorum,
guarded seclusion, nobody from London in Malone's verbatim transcript of his list fully preserved and catalogued. The Com-
mission add a note of special thanks to Mr.
The King's players, however, were spe. 1821) we find the heading " At Hampton Pierpont Morgan for permission to collate
cially summoned by his Majesty to Court
, 1636," applying to all the plays from the famous Hamilton MS. 251–a work
assemble their companie and keepe them.
“ the first part of
Arviragus, Monday performed by Mr. Hoskier, and now available
selves togither neere
in a magnificent folio volume, containing
our Court for our afternoon, 26 Decem. ," to "Julius Cæsar
service”;
also a palæographical and critical introduc-
and were granted a special at St. James's, the 31 Jan. , 1636. ” But
tion.
allowance of 201. a week for their expenses, perhaps your correspondent will maintain
The report includes a list of the codices
commence from the first day of Novem- that Herbert was wrong, too.
ber last past, and to continue during our
that have been photographed or collated
He concludes with a remark about the
pleasure, to be taken unto them as of our ink. He had before assured us that “the (in English) upon the present state of the
with printed Bibles, a most interesting note
princely bountie”-and your correspondent constituents of the ink used in the Record Vercelli Gospels, and six illustrations.
did not know that”! This truly Office were the same from before the begin-
" princely bountie ” lasted until the end of ning of the seventeenth century down to
January. My authority is the original the date at which he [i. e. , Cunningham) used
'Letters'
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THE ATHENÆUM
No. 4409, APRIL 27, 1912
a
are
accentuation, and so forth. Indeed, the The brief sketch of his life, edited by his
Literary Gossip.
difficulty will be rather for the new daughter, M. J. Shaen, which Messrs.
Academy to assign just and reasonable Longmans will shortly publish, will show
At the recent celebration of the seventy- limits to its reforming activities than to that the great aim of his life was to help
fifth anniversary of the foundation of the find uses for its learning and industry. the weak and oppressed wherever he had
University of Athens, noticed by us last ONE of the developments of the Uni-
the opportunity.
week, the following were included in the versity Extension work of the University
IN 'A Parson's Defence,' which Messrs.
list of those nominated to honorary of London has been the arrangement of Longman have in the press, Mr. S. C.
degrees in the Faculties of Law and a Training Course for Lecturers, which Carpenter takes for granted that the
Philosophy : LL. D. , Sir John Sandys will be repeated this term. The course parson must necessarily approach both
and Mr. William Miller (author of The will consist of four lectures on The Art religion and life from a standpoint which
Latins in the Levant); and Ph. D. , of Lecturing,' by Prof. John Adams; differs considerably from that of the lay-
Sir Donald MacAlister, Dr. Bywater, Dr. and four lectures and demonstrations on
man, and insists that Christian faith is
Kenyon, and Dr. Mahaffy.
* The Management of the Voice,' by Dr. not based on the Bible, or Theism, or
He discusses
In view of next year's centenary of H. H. Hulbert. There will, further, be conduct, but on Christ.
the birth of David Livingstone, the six meetings, at one or other of which the nature and consequences of belief
Edinburgh Royal Scottish Museum is to each student will have an opportunity of in our Lord's divinity, the immanence of
God, the Church, and the Bible, and
form a temporary exhibition of objects delivering a portion of a lecture on
ends with
connected with his life and work. These subject settled beforehand.
a suggestion that certain
include specimens of rocks, minerals,
parochial ” matters are more important
THE sisters of Lord Russell, Chief
and native gold sent to his friend the Justice of England, were all Sisters of
than is commonly supposed.
director, Dr. George Wilson, in 1858, Mercy. The eldest died comparatively The preface to the revised edition of
the labels being in Livingstone's hand- young, and the account of her is confined Mr. Lovat Fraser's book “India under
writing. A native loom, mill for grind to a chapter or two; but full and Curzon, and After,' which Mr. Heinemann
ing corn, maps and scientific instruments, intimate accounts are given of the two is publishing, deals at length with the
and other relics will also be shown.
other sisters in The Three Sisters of recent Imperial visit to India.
Mr. A. J. BALFOUR has accepted the Lord Russell of Killowen and their
MESSRS. STANLEY PAUL & Co.
appointment as next Gifford Lecturer Convent Life,' by the Rev. Matthew publishing immediately the second annual
for the session of 1913–14. The appoint- Russell, which Messrs. Longmans will volume of Canada of To - day. " In
ment is for two years.
shortly publish. The book is largely made
a series of special articles, illustrated
In the preliminary programme of the several chapters are devoted to the private by upwards of 300 pictures from photo-
summer Edinburgh Vacation Course for life and character of their brother, the portrays something of the extent and
and plans, the book
1912 it is announced that there will be Chief Justice, who figures frequently in variety of Canada's resources.
no courses in French and German, owing their correspondence.
to the poor response made by British
teachers and others. Mr. A. A. Jack is lish next Tuesday the new issue of his ninetieth year, of the Rev. Frederic
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will pub- of the past was broken by the death, in
A LINK with the Cambridge scholarship
to lecture in Part I.
