No More Learning

Mary Lamb, letter to Louisa Martin, March 28th, Figgis's books; but we say this, not to hint
poetry.
1809, 581. ; C. Lamb, letter to Miss Kelly, July 6th, that the book' is derivative far from it Campbell (Mrs. Victor), THE CHOICE, AND
1825, 301. Mary Lamb, letter to the same,
OTHER POEMS, 2/6 net.
March 27th, 1820, 151. 108. Byron, his special but to suggest to what school of thought it
Lynwood
marriage licence, December 23rd,' 1814, 631. belongs.
The value of Mrs. Campbell's verse is
Autograph MS. of ten stanzas from Don Juan,
largely depreciated by falling into the
July 10th, 1819, 1051. Shelley, letter to Byron,
December 21st, 1821, with a note from Byrºn to Chicago University: HISTORICAL AND LIN- alluring temptation of poetasters-allegoriz-
Moore on the back, 611. P. B. and Mary Shelley, GUISTIC STUDIES IN LITERATURE RE-
ing. She personifies the abstract stock-in-
letter to Jane Clairmont about Allegra, 1822, 961. LATED TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, issued trade_hope, despair, memory, passion,
Charlotte Brontë, MS. verses beginning
The
under the Direction of the Department sorrow, pity, friendship et hoc genus omne,
trunpet hath sounded, it's voice is gone forth,”
December 11th, 1831, 241. 108.
of Biblical and Patristic Greek. - First and declaims her exhortations to them after
the fashion of the scarlet 1} school. The
The total of the sale was 1,815l. 28, 6d.
Series, TEXTS ; Vol. II. GREEK TEXTS ;
Part II. THE TORONTO GOSPELS, by capital letter is sown profusely through
her
Edgar J. Goodspeed, 1/ net.
pages.
Illinois, University of Chicago; | Latin Love Poems, translated by J. M.
THE AUTH LIBRARY.
Cambridge, University Press Krause, 1/6 net.
Kegan Paul
The sale of the second portion of the Huth A careful collation of a Greek MS. of the Mr. J. A. Pott's. Greek Love Songs and Epi,
This pretty little volume is uniform with
Library, comprising the letters C and D, was
begun by Messrs. Sotheby on Wednesday, June four Gospels, written on parchment in a
5th. We append a list of the books which realized
grams,' and offers Latin on one page faced
minute cursive hand, which is assigned to by English on another-a severe test for
1001. and upwards during the first three days: the late eleventh or early twelfth century,
J. c. , Saint Marie Magdalen's Conversion, 1803, and is of special interest because it is not
any rendering. Mr. Krause keeps a good
1151. Jacques Cartier, A Shorte and Briefe
Narration of the Two Navigations and Dis-
mentioned in any of the published lists of average level, but does not equal the best
coveries to the North weast Partes called New Gospel
cursives. Now in the library of the inversions and feels the bondage of rhyme.
Fraunce, 1580, 2361. Cervantes, El Ingenioso University of Toronto, it was purchased by Still, it is pleasant to have this collection,
Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Madrid, its former owner from an English dealer which brings together good things from
1605; the first issue, with the privilege for Madrid more than twenty years ago. The text has Catullus, Horace, and Propertius as the main
alone; with the second part, 1616, 1,4601. ; the
sarne, first part only, second issue, Madrid, 1605,
marks for lessons, omits the “
1651. Cessolis, The Game and Play of the Chess, which is added in a later hand in the margin, part of its attraction.
printed by Caxton, c. 1481, 4001. Chastising of and is described as fundamentally Syrian in Matthews (James Newton), THE LUTE OF
God's Children, printed by Caxton or Wynken de character. There is a late and faulty sub- LIFE, edited by Walter Hurt, $1. 50
Worda, c. 1401, 3301. " Chaucer, Canterbury scription at the end, which “must have
Cincinnati, Horton
Tales, printed by Caxton, c. 1478, 9051. ; another
edition, printed by Richard Pynson, 1628, 2801.
been copied from an earlier manuscript,' There is an exhilarating introduction to
Christine de Pisan, Book of Fayttes of Arines and gives a dato A. D. 793—too early for any this bulky collection of the late Mr.
and of Chyvabrye, printed by Caxton, c. 1489, part of the text.
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throwing what he calls a verbal violet on printed here, “the most extensive slave-
the grave of his friend, declares that men holder of his time, and the kindest. " Here
like Mr. Matthews are
Geography and Travel.
the cream of crea- he reveals all his strength, as well as his
tion, suggests that “this book of James limitations, with a charming naiveté. The
Newton Matthews should be reared in a pile two writers mentioned in the title are the Sargent (A. J. ), THE SEA ROAD TO THE EAST,
GIBRALTAR TO WEI-HAI-WEI : Six Lec-
to overtop the pyramids," and anticipates most interesting of his correspondents.
that in future years the village of Mason, Dewey (Stoddard), FOUR FRENCH ADVEN-
tures prepared for the Visual Instruc-
Illinois, where the bard was born, may
tion Committee of the Colonial Office,
TURERS (from the Causes Célèbres), 2/
become “the Mecca of mankind. ” We see
1) net.
Philip
net.
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little prospect of it. The poems, although The histories of the four adventurers- The Reader in Foreign Trade in the Uni-
admirable in sentiment and revealing &
each the hero of a cause célèbre - are based versity of London is to be warmly congratu-
kindly personality, are entirely common-
place.
upon law reports, supplemented by reference lated upon the able manner in which he
to other authorities, though not, as Mr. continually suggests fresh fields of inquiry,
Monoy (Mrs. Elliot), SPRING Songs, 1/6 net. Dewey admits, by original research. As maintaining throughout a high level of inter-
Gay & Hancock human documents the narratives have an
est. Several of the slides prepared for
These verses lack individuality as much appreciable value, but they are marred by this course of lectures have been reproduced
in their rendering as their subjects. They frequent infelicities of style, especially as illustrations.
are prosaic, self-satisfied, and usually point in translation: the French title, for
less.
example, of a famous melodrama is rendered
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Tell me, Atlantic, ceaselessly rolling,
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London, Simpkin & Marshall of Blake, and edited his 'Songs of Innocence dicta which might be modified, e. g. , concern-
The writer of this collection of verses need and Experience,' with considerable supple- ing cycling dress and lamps. Baseball,
scarcely have told us that he “ does not mentary material of his own. Later, his rarely seen in England, occupies much space
& portentous list of rules. Golf-
imagine them to be poetry" As the work mysticism was entwined with Sweden- with
of upper schoolboys of Clifton College, they borgian theories, and he strove to elucidate croquet might have been mentioned, and
show a respectable standard. A superficial them to English people. The present work surely Badminton is now played with a
resemblance to the poems of Mr. Newbolt gives a pleasant, but exaggerated estimate of small racquet, a much less noisy implement
runs through them.
his powers, and is prone to superlatives. than the traditional battledore. The re-
Reprinted from The Homeopathic World. marks about volleying in lawn-tennis and
Verses and Re-Verses, by II. , 1) net.
Cambridge, Heffer Harris (F. R. ), THE LIFE OF EDWARD, FIRST racquets strike us as too cautious, especially
EARL OF SANDWICH (1625–72), 2 vols. , of the ball as a mystery not easily acquired.
as most young players regard such hitting
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Fiction.
RISE, 2) net.
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Relates the course of the loves of two One of Stanley Paul's Clear-Type Six-
Belloc (H. ), THE FOUR MEN: A FARRAGO, women for a clever, but characterless man.
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Troly-Curtin (Marthe), PHRYNETTE MARRIED,
In the person of Mr. Hilaire Belloc reside in spite of the predominance of abnormal
6/
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at least three different writers, and it is the psychology.
The psychological delicacy of the French
best of them, the Sussex-lover, the wanderer Hinkson (H. A. ), THE CONSIDINE LUCK, 6/
-which eludes analysis —- gently illumines
in country roads, the tarrier in country inns,
Swift
who has written The Four Men. '
the pages of this young wife's journal.
Ap-
The Considines were an Irish family of The engaging airiness of her conceits on men
parently artless, the book is really shaped the traditional aristocracy, except for the in general, and Englishmen as husbands in
and finished with the nicest skill. As usual unusual distinction of a perennial “luck,"?
particular; her artless philosophy, her
with Mr. Belloc, verse is scattered among shown in the present case by the oppor quaint reduction of everything to terms of
the prose and drawings among the text, and tune discovery of a missing will
, and a mar-
herself, and her delightful ingenuousness
the resulting farrago is decidedly agree- riage, combining love and convenience,
able. Perhaps the little black-and-white between the impoverished representative throughout, at once arrest the attention of
vignettes are the most characteristic work of of the name and a wealthy daughter of the loves her husband, but he tends to take her
all.
English bourgeoisie. There are few original rather for granted, and leaves her for three
incidents, and the traditions of middle- months to go tiger-shooting. We incline
Bloundelle-Burton (John), The Sea DEVILS, class suburban society and an Irish country to agree with the youthful diarist when she
6/
neighbourhood are contrasted with a humour
A romance of the Spanish Armada. The which frequently lapses into conventionality. I regret, as the waste of me.
naively reflects : It's not so much he that
hero falls into the hands of the Inquisition, Mr. Hinkson has written better novels than
but is eventually rescued and marries this, but his style has its usual brightness little importance compared with the impres-
The plot—if such it can be called—is of
Juana, “his sweet thing. " The following and fluency.
sentences are typical of the author's taste Lethbridge (Sybil Campbell), THE SHORELESS recorded with disarming naturalness. In the
sions of people, places, and things, which are
and knowledge of style : Ha ! now for 't.
SEA, 6/
Holden & Hardingham absence of her husband, Phrynette_is
Spanyards. God wot ! ” “Not-now. No.
The sea without a shore is, of course, Fate. tempted, but does not actually fall. Her
'Tis true. Yet — yet--when-we- -have-
When the last page of the book has been husband, however, who is denseeven for
loved
we cannot bear - to-
reached, Lady Byfleet, who has a particularly
And so on ad nauseam.
an Englishman—thinks the worst, but is
altruistic disposition, has been well-nigh, eventually persuaded by a common friend of
Costantini (Anna), YESTERDAY, 6/
if not completely, drowned beneath its both, who shows him the journal without its
Greening
For it is, presumably, Fate that owner's knowledge. By such means the
The rich American girl who marries an
prompts her bored husband's other wife reconciliation is effected. Any one fatigued
Italian, and afterwards repents, is becoming to confront them during their honeymoon; by the banalities of the conventional modern
a familiar type in modern fiction, and this and Fate that causes Evan Fane, for whom novel will find here a welcome originality,
novel is as conventional as its predecessors. she had left him and by whom she had since mingled with infectious gaiety and
been deserted, to be present at their meeting healthy outlook on life.
The writing is facile, and the author steers
safely to the inevitable reconciliation without With this warning in the way of an opening,
undue effort.
readers will be able to imagine the gist of Wells (H. G. ), THE HISTORY OF MR. POLLY,
the ensuing chapters. Lady Byfleet's hus- 7d. net.
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is shared by most of the male characters of the slightest, is one of the happiest of Mr.
The rich man is a materialist who exists the book. Mr. Evan Fane complicates Wells's novels. It is compounded of the
only for financial operations”; his wife
matters by becoming enamoured of Lady strangest elements-social inquiry, analysis
pines for a sympathy which in due time is Byfleet herself. As a finale, therefore, he of manners among the lower-middle class,
provided by an African explorer home on runs down her husband in his automobile extravaganza, psychology, and pure farce.
holiday. This last gentleman's fiancée, -all of which is very breathless and uncon- Withal, the treatment shows much deft
& young lady of blameless antecedents and, vincing. The other woman is not safely handling, and the book is filled with a kind
in our view, objectionable manners, with-ensconced in the convent for which she of debonair irrepressibility which makes
draws magnanimously from the contest,
so admirably fitted until she has | it delightful reading.
and takes refuge in a Protestant sisterhood.
added to her list of captures that of Lady
The financier obligingly dies, and all ends
Byfleet's father, who himself falls a victim
General.
with wedding bells. There is no pretence to the charm of her wonderful ruddy hair
here, it will be seen, to any originality in flecked with gold I It is more of a puzzle Bancks (Rev. Gerard W. ), MAN IN THE OLD
theme, and we can see nothing either in style
STONE AGE, 1/.
than a novel.
Unwin Bros.
or presentment to atone for this deficiency.
This brief painphlet, dealing with man
Lorimer (Norma), THE SECOND WOMAN, 6/ in the Palæolithic Age, is too summary to
Foster (R. F. ), CAB No. 44, 6/ Ward & Lock
Stanley Paul be of much utility. The work fails to give
The advent of Mrs. Barclay as a novelist
An American practical joker, two city
any idea of the scope or fascination of the
financiers, and other irresponsibles
seems to have popularized the older-than-
subject.
the-hero “ heroine ; one cannot, however,
concerned in a wager.
As is usual in such
circumstances and such books, forced com-
accuse the present author of lack of origi- Campagnac (E. S. T. ), LECTURES
plications follow. The story has
nality. Her heroine decides that, if another: TEACHING OF COMPOSITION. Constable
vitality.
woman gains her husband's love, she will Three motives urge us into composition :
willingly give him up. Needless to say, the tu impart information, to record events, and
Gilchrist (R. Murray), DAMOSEL CROFT, 6/
second woman comes, sees, and conquers. to give expression for its own sake. Thus,
Stanley Paul There are many complications, and we are in writing we aim at clearness, correctness,
left in doubt as to whether the wife's sacrifice beauty. If children are interested in things,
This is a book of lost opportunities. The has or has not been justified. The theme they will desire to find expression, clear,
hero is an unattractive gentleman who
kisses the
heroine-an heiress-in the dark, delightful word-pictures of Italy.
is skilfully handled, and there are some correct, and beautiful, in words. This is
the gist of these pleasant lectures. But the
under the impression that she is a maid in
basis is shaky. Mr. Campagnac wavers
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maduke Slack, is the better man of the
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Froebelian optimism helps the
is the sketch of a popular novelist, numerous qualities that matter, in fiction. It has no fourth form to write a neat essay.
excerpts of whose works make one wonder character drawing, literary beauty, or con:
how he ever came to be popular, even with a structive skill to commend it. As a polemical Grahame-White (Claude) and Harper (Harry),
public which lacks discrimination.
work its value must depend upon the ideas
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flying of 1910 over that of the previous year
proceeds from the sale of tickots for the
was due to experience and dexterity, since the
lecture will be devoted to the St. Chris.
machines wore substantially identical. To
Literary Gossip. topher's Working Boys' Club.
encourage aeroplane manufacture for mili-
tant purposes is the aim of the book.
THE first of two volumes of the Riccardi
There are many signs of carelessness and
PROF. WILLIAM JAMES's letters are Press · Virgil,' uniform with the 'Horace'
repetition, though the
ground is well covered.
There is, of course, little in the way of ac- being collected for biographical purposes, and Catullus,' will be published imme-
complishment to be recorded, for the isolated and those who have any of them can diately, to be followed very shortly by
instance of Tripoli is as yet the only practical render assistance that will be highly the second volume. The text is that of
test made under service conditions, where appreciated by addressing Mr. Henry Henry Nettleship, edited by Prof. J. P.
the value of the aeroplane for scouting, James, Jun. , 95, Irving Street, Cambridge, Postgate. The Riccardi Press has re-
which was already self-evident, was amply Mass. Casual or brief letters may have ceived the commission to print a special
demonstrated.
leaving
Much of the book is mere conjecture, and, the person preserving them; and news book”; this will be in one volume, and
an interest or importance not apparent to edition as the Eton College
Grahame-White's authority, so far as the of the whereabouts of any of James's will not be for sale.
manipulation of an aeroplane is concerned, letters will be gratefully received.
MESSRS. CONSTABLE & Co. announce
we do not feel constrained always to follow
him where its military possibilities are in
LADY HOOKER will be grateful if any for early publication Through the
question, and we think he allows his evident of her friends who possess letters written Heart of Africa,' an account of a journey
prejudice against “gas-bags" to carry him by her late husband will kindly lend them on bicycles and on foot from Northern
too far in his condemnation of dirigible to her for the purposes of a biography Rhodesia, past the Great Lakes to Egypt,
balloons, which can undoubtedly accomplish which Messrs. Smith & Elder will publish. undertaken in 1910, by Mr. Frank H.
some services unattainable by the heavier. They should be forwarded to her address Melland, and Mr. Edward H. Cholmeley,
The book is handsomely got up, but oddly - The Camp, Sunningdale—and will be fully illustrated from photographs.
illustrated
A view, for instance, of the carefully returned.
They are also publishing 'In South
Breguet biplane should certainly have had
the preference over the unnecessary portrait
We understand that a knighthood has | Central Africa,' some of the experiences
of one of the authors. We note the absence been conferred on Mr. George Thompson and journeys of a mining engineer during
of an index, without which a book of this sort, Hutchinson, head of the well-known firm a stay of six years in that country, by
bristling with names of men and machines, is of Hutchinson & Co. , and chairman of Mr. J. M. Moubray, illustrated with a map
almost useless for purposes of reference. the old-established house of Hurst & and photographs.
Japan Society, London, TRANSACTIONS AND Blackett. As this appears to be a special THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS is
PROCEEDINGS, Vol. IX. , 1910–11, 5/ recognition of his services as a publisher, about to publish a study by Dr. H. P.
Frowde we congratulate him on attaining an Cholmeley of John of Gaddesden, who
Jones (Harry), LIBERALISM AND THE HOUSE honour which is seldom associated with
was the first English Court physician, and
OF LORDS: THE STORY OF THE VETO | the world of books and letters.
BATTLE, 1832–1911.
of his chief work, known as the 'Rosa
Methuen
A detailed account of the Parliamentary M. MOREL-FATIO has communicated Anglica. ' The Rosa,' written in 1314,
struggle between the Lords and Commons to the Académie des Inscriptions a letter,
was first printed in 1492, and is mentioned
is a useful addition to modern political hitherto
unpublished, of Margaret of York; by Chaucer. John of Gaddesden was
1832 up to the passage of the Parliament sister of Edward IV. , recommending the graduate of Oxford in arts, medicine,
Act the various occasions of conflict between impostor Perkin Warbeck to the notice and theology; he died in 1361, and is
the two chambers and the gradual develop- of Queen Isabella of Castile. It was not supposed to have been born about 1280.
ment of impatient indignation on the part known before that Margaret was concerned
G. P. PUTNAM'S Sons have in prepara-
of the Liberal party at the continued in the plot to pass off Perkin Warbeck tion English editions of Ellen Key's
obstruction of their legislation. The author as one of the Princes murdered in the volumes The Woman Movement' and
is able to give an account of the culminating Tower by order of Richard III. ,
which
stages from the point of view of an eye- was favoured by several crowned heads, original Swedish. Later they will include,
' Rahel Varnhagen, translated from the
in the drama are sketched with considerable including the #mperor Maximilian and in the "Ellen Key " Series, the Critical
skill
. In depicting the more popular figures, King James of Scotland.
and Biographical Study of Ellen Key,' by
and estimating the importance of the parts
they played, he does not forget to pay a
А
The Decline of
Louise Nystrom-Hamilton, translated by
well-deserved tribute to one statesman with Rhetoric will be delivered at East Mrs. J. E. de Fries.
whom the advertisement of public renown London College by Mr. Hilaire_Belloc MESSRS. SHERRATT & HUGHES are pub-
counts for very little. Lord Morley's skilful (Head of the Department of English lishing this month
piloting of the Parliament Bill in the face Literature at the College) on Monday, Politician, 1750–1912,' by Gerald Berkeley
The Manchester
of a passionately hostile opposition of peers the 17th inst. , at 6. 30 P. M. Admission Hertz, an account of the political thought
was the central episode in the concluding
phase. He led the House," says Mr. will be free.
of Manchester since the development of
Jones, " with superb ability," and
the full height of a great responsibility. ".
THE lecture on How to use the British the cotton trade first made it an important
centre. It examines the rise and fall of
The author might well have extended his Museum Reading Room,' delivered on
horizon beyond the walls of Westminster, and several occasions during 1911-12 at the the Manchester School, and gives a pic-
devoted a chapter to the wider and more Museum by Mr. R. A. Peddie, has now
ture of the forces that have moulded
fundamental significance of the contest. been revised and enlarged for publication, local opinion in the past and govern it
But this aspect of the problem is perhaps and will be issued by Messrs. Grafton & | to-day.
too far-reaching to be included in a volume Co. , 69, Great Russell Street, W. C. ,
which does not pretend to be anything more before the end of the month in popular shortly a monograph
MESSRS. KEGAN PAUL & Co. are issuing
than a popular chronicle of ovents, written
monograph entitled 'Mrs.
for the use of Liberal politicians.
book form.
Humphry Ward : her Work and Influ.
Machon (Arthur), HIEROGLYPHICS, A NOTE
After
The lectures that Mr. Frank Harris ence,' by Mr. J. Stuart Walters.
UPON ECSTASY IN LITERATURE, 2/6 net. announced at Claridge's Hotel this month
a résumé of the political, social, and
Secker
A new edition of a remarkable book. Mr. illness and enforced absence abroad.
are unavoidably postponed, owing to his religious conditions in England during
the early part of the latter half of the
Machen is well versed in literature, and his
nineteenth century- Robert Elsmere'
criticism is stored with suggestivo, luminous
analogies and discoveries. One by no means
PROF. J.