We learn from a Munich
correspondent
Wagner's trilogy.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
' Mr.
C.
J.
carefully prepared deerskin. This record,
Gilbert, Dr. J. W. Evans, and the Chairman
PROF. KÜSTNER, the Director of the now called the Codex Colombino, is pre-
contributed to the discussion, and the author of Observatory at Bonn, has reported to the served in the National Museum of Mexico,
the paper replied. -Mr. J. W. Stather read a Astronomical Institute at Kiel that he has is the only MS. of its class there, and is in-
paper
Shelly Clay dredged from the discovered the spectra of both uranium complete both at the beginning and the end.
Dogger Bank. ' Mr. C. Reid, Mr. A. S. Kennard,
Mr. S. H. Warren, and Mr. H. Whitehead took
and radium in the new star in Gemini. By the aid of comparison with five other
part in the discussion. The following specimens The uranium seems to be in the ordinary codices-one of them is the Zouche or
and map were exhibited as illustrations of the metallic form, but the radium in that of Nuttall Codex, another is Bodleian, No. 2858
papers : Specimens from borings in the South. the gas or emanation which Sir William -Mr. Clark makes out very ingeniously the
Eastern Coalfield and the Paleozoic Floor, of Ramsay calls Niton. If this discovery is meaning of the pictographs and hiero-
Southern England, by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins;
and specimens of moorlog " and shelly clay
confirmed by other observers, it should be glyphics which represent the early Mexican
dredged from the Dogger Bank, by Mr. J. W. of great importance, not only in cosmo-
form of writing. The group of codices was, he
Stather.
gonical speculations, but also in chemistry, as suggests, the work of Zapotecs, and “Eight
showing in some measure that the dis. Deer, also called “Ocelot's Claw," was a
integration of the highly radio-activa sub- Zapotec warrior, and was born probably in
stances plays its part in the formation of 1439. We see him conferring with his sister
MON. Geographical, 8. 30.
new stars.
Institute of British Architects, 8. 30.
and younger brother, the latter being dressed
PROF. WEGENER (of Marburg), at a recent
in a coat with a multicoloured fringe and
Geological, 8. -"On the Geology and Palæontology of the
Warwickshire Coal Field Mr. R. Da Weronon the Dis meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung at border which is still worn by the Indian
Hamstead Quarries, near Birmingham, Mr. W. 1. Hardaker. Frankfort, gave a now theory of the forma- women of Mexico. Besides scenes of war,
tion of inequalities in the earth's surface, the pictures show a ball_game_of great
Trurs. Royal, 4. 30. - Electrical Vibrations on a Thin Anchor Ring,
which he declared to be partly due to the difficulty ; the piercing of Eight Deer's ear
Setiom Derivative Struttura di Morphological studies te sinking of certain parts from the weight of with a sharpened bone, one of various
(Isomorphous) of the "Rare Earth" Elements-a Means of ice piled upon them. This, in its turn, penances; the piercing of his nostril to
Elprente Rototom pleberrimstrong and it . Roda leads, according to him, to the gradual wear a nose ornament;. the exchanging of
his marriage; the
Magnetic Rotatory Dispersion in quartz of Light in the separation of the higher parts of continents, symbols of peace ;
Parpolo. Region of the Spectrum,' br. 1. M. Lowry; and other and he gave figures by which he sought to sacrifice of his brother above-mentioned by
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
show that the shores of Greenland, during priests; and finally his own death in a
the last eighty-four years, have receded similar way on his fifty-second birthday.
from Europe by a space of 940 metres. In Not all these details are given in the
the same way, he said, Cambridge, Massa- Codex Colombino, but they are worked
chusetts, has increased its distance from out from the others, which also supply some
Science Gossip .
Greenwich by 90 metres in the course of pictures in colours with the glyphs which
twenty-six years. The figures on which identify the characters. The illustrations
THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL will be “ At these calculations are based are, it has been thus make comparative criticism easy. We
on the afternoon of Wednesday, pointed out, already ten years old, and congratulate Mr.
Mr. Clark on
& work of
July 3rd, when his guests will have an more correct ones could now be obtained. fascinating interest, bringing, as it does,
opportunity of inspecting the telescopes
M. L. RAYBAUD has recently made some highly primitive society.
before us the manners and customs of a
and other instruments of the Royal
Observatory.
experiments as to the effect of ultra-violet
light upon insects which go to show that it Notes on the Parish Church, Lymington, and
SIR ALMROTH WRIGHT will give a lecture is fatal to certain species. Working with
the Daughter Church of All Saints, and
Other Matters Ecclesiastical, compiled
at the Royal Societies' Club next Wednes. a mercury-vapour lamp, he found that it
and then death
from Various sources by Charles Bostock
day evening on “Microbes and the Way produced first torpor,
and Edward Hapgood, 3/ net.
the Body Protects Itself against Them, within the space of a few hours, in snails,
with lantern-slide illustrations.
houseflies, and tadpoles, while spiders and
Lymington, King
the sacred scarabæus remained unaffected
The authors acknowledge that this record
A SERIES of meetings, lectures, and by it. Young grasshoppers succumbed to
is largely a compilation from research
exhibitions which make up the programme the radiation
within two days, while adults already accessible in various forms. The
of the Optical Convention, 1912, is being supported it for
a week without apparent not appear to be much discrimination in the
in the Imperial College of Science and explain the objection which many insects information imparted. The history has
Technology, South Kensington. This week appear to manifest to strong sunlight,
been assiduously collected.
the members of the Convention have met the
Official Crests of the British Army now in
Physical Society and the Photographic. On
THE EARLY NATURALISTS : THEIR LIVES
Daily Use, 1/ net. Gale & Polden
Monday next, after papers dealing specially AND WORK (1530–1789),' by Dr. L. C. Miall,
with colour and spectra, a visit will be made is announced for early publication by Messrs. Town Planning Review, APRIL, 2/6 net.
Liverpool University Press
to the National Physical Laboratory at Macmillan & Co. The Introduction to the
Teddington. Tuesday will be devoted to work deals with natural history down to Webb (Wilfred Mark), THE HERITAGE OF
optics as applied to astronomy, and some
the sixteenth century. The rest of the DRESS, Revised Edition.
members of the Convention will visit the book is divided into nine sections, which
' The Times ? Book Club
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at the treat respectively of : (1) The New Biology; This edition has been little amplified and
invitation of the Astronomer Royal. The (2) The Natural History of Distant Lands; modified from the original one. It is issued
programme will come to an end on Wednes- (3) Some Early English Naturalists; (4) in a more compact form, without undergoing
day.
Ray and some of his Fellow-Workers; the “potting" process. We criticized the
(5) The
Minute Anatomists; (6) Early book in The Athenæum of February 1st,
It is to be gathered from a contemporary Studies in Comparative Anatomy: (7) The 1908 (pp. 124–5). The author, who writes
that it has been found possible for certain School of Réaumur; (8) Linnæus and the interestingly of the evolution of dress,
possessors of wireless-telegraphy receiving Jussieus ; (9) Buffon. In selecting his might, as we pointed out, have recognized
apparatus in the neighbourhood of London authors Dr. Miall has aimed at giving fair that certain colourings and prominences in
to detect the time-signals sont out from the space to the pioneers who opened out new dress have a utilitarian rather than orna-
Eiffel Tower in Paris. By co-operation with fields of inquiry or introduced new methods, mental raison d'être. There are 12 plates
the Paris Observatory, signals by Hertzian ' rather than workers at details.
and 169 figures in the text.
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are rare.
which he was able to render to Prof. Lucian revolts against Math, chief priest of the
Fine Art Gossip.
Scherman's Ethnographical Expedition, 1911, Druids, at whose instigation he seized it.
undertaken on behalf of the Bavarian At the opening of the piece he slays King
Ethnographical Museum.
WE congratulate Dr. Charles Waldstein
Arawn, its possessor ; and, at the close,
and Dr. Charles H. Read, prominent ex-
M. SVONOROS has an article in The Archæo. Math. Nodens, a male Erda, foretells a
ponents of archæology, on their knighthoods. logical Journal of Athens, in which he spacious future for the race of Don, of
contends that the statue of Eubouleus found whom Gwydion is a son; while Dylan,
MESSRS. ERNEST BROWN & PHILLIPS have at Eleusis is not intended for that god, but the child who is seen at the end of the
been fortunate in discovering an interesting for Iacchus, or, in other words, the reborn
collection of hitherto unknown water-colour Dionysus. He further thinks that its type third act, is the son of Elan, Gwydion's
drawings by Thomas Girtin, and they will was fixed by the famous group of Demeter, sister.
bo included in their forthcoming exhibition Core, and Iacchus which Pausanias tells
us was, in his time, still to be seen at Athens of inspiration and science,"
Gwydion's rape of the magic “cauldron
of which
with special
reference to the art of Thomas in the temple of Demeter called the Tacchaum, Taliesin sang, constitutes the main feature
Girtin,” which opens on the 28th inst. at from which started the procession along
the Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square. the Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis for of the Prologue. Some portions of the
The drawings have not been exposed to the the celebration of the Mysteries. The poem are excellent, but, considered as a
daylight, and are in a fine state of pre- article is well illustrated by cuts showing whole, it is not well constructed for a
servation.
the likeness of the head of the so-called music-drama. The action is fettered to
Girtin was born in 1775, and died at the statue of Eubouleus to that of Iacchus as
the discussion. Neither the gods nor the
early age of 27, and authentic works by typified on several bas-reliefs, coins, and
tho like.
men, Gwydion and his brother Govannon,
him
His influence on many
and still less the two women, Elan and
painters of his time was considerable, M. ALFRED Loisy, in his just-published Goewn, stimulate the imagination. In
notably on Turner, his friend from boyhood. work · L'Évangile selon Marc,' again draws reading the poem one can understand the
SIR CHARLES HOLROYD presided at a
attention to the difference which he thinks
crowded meeting at Crosby Hall
, held he perceives between the historical Jesus reason of much that they say, but when
under the auspices of the Society of' Mural of the Gospels and the Christ of St. Paul. the words are sung (none too distinctly)
Decorators and Painters in Tempera. Prof. The distinguished Modernist points out the it is difficult to grasp their meaning.
Selwyn Image spoke of the new enthusiasm likeness between the saviour God of St. Paul
There is a lack of contrast: everybody
of art-lovers for mural painting, and Mr. and the deities of the pagan mysteries,
Walter Crane pleaded for larger freedom such as Osiris, Adonis, or Åttis, who died is unhappy, or angry, or cursing. Wagner
for the young artist. Owing to the great Reinach, in mentioning the book,
draws is not free from loquacity, but his contrasts
for the salvation of mankind. M. Salomon sometimes prolongs a mood, and Wotan
Hall, it will remain open a further week, attention to its indebtedness to Dr. R. are always striking. Through the atmo-
until next Saturday.
Reitzenstein's treatise on “Die Hellenist. sphere of Cimmerian gloom, no comparison
ischen Mysterienreligion,' published two with The Ring' is possible.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has purchased years ago, and says that M. Loisy's theory
for the permanent collection at the Luxem: would be more plausible if we supposed two Mr. Holbrooke had no easy task when he
bourg Museum a pastel entitled Effet centuries to elapse between the death of undertook to set the poem to music, and
d'Hiver : Matin,' by Mr. Wynford Dewhurst, Jesus and the appearance of the Pauline it would be interesting to know whether
a collection of whose works was recently doctrine.
exhibited the Galerie
he had anything to do with the shaping
Durand-Ruel,
Paris.
MR. G. A. WAINWRIGHT describes in of it. The Prelude, in which were heard
the current number of the Revue Archéo. themes afterwards connected with the
THE issue of the first annual volume of logique a 80-called prehistoric cemetery chief dramatis personæ, proved dramatic
the Walpole Society, which should have which he and Mr. Busho-Fox discovered in character, but after that dullness
been in the hands of subscribers last month, during the past winter at El Gerzeh, about
in, with the exception of a few
has been unavoidably delayed owing to forty miles south of Cairo. In a burial
difficulties experienced in the printing of the hitherto undisturbed he discovered a skeleton passages, such as I have pride. Fierce
colour collotypes. These difficulties have in the crouched or contracted position, with
as your own," when Elan replies to
now been overcome, and the volume will a necklace composed of gold; carnelian, agate, Gwydion's question “ What seek you ?
be issued in about a fortnight. The chief and iron beads; a copper harpoon; an ivory The vocal parts throughout lacked
feature of the volume is the complete tran- pot, and apparently one of black-topped red rhythmical life. In the dignified instru-
script of Nicholas Hilliard's hitherto un- pottery. This would seem to be conclusive mental sequel to the slaying of Math by
published manuscript on 'The Arte of as to the early presence of iron in Egypt: Gwydion it seemed as if the drama would
Limning,' now in the possession of the Uni- were it not for Dr. Naville's experiences at end with an imposing climax; but there
versity of Edinburgh.
Abydos, which showed, according to him,
with the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal concurrently with extended burials and principally engaged the composer's atten:
MR. BASIL CHAMPNEYS is to be presented that the prehistoric or predynastic mode
of
The orchestral music seemed to have
Institute of British Architects next Monday
at 8. 30 P. M.
into late historic times.
tion, and a study of the score would
A JOINT COMMITTEE of both Houses of
doubtless reveal much that was clever
Parliament met this week, under the presi-
which escaped notice at a first hearing.
dency of Lord Plymouth, to discuss the
MUSIC
The lack of genuine dramatic interest,
necessity of legislation for the preservation
however, made that music too prominent,
of ancient monuments. It was suggested
and, as much of it was head work, interest,
during the sitting that the Government Con-
solidation and Amendment Bill
THE CHILDREN OF DON. ' at moments excited, could not be main-
tained.
adequate to meet present needs. The This new opera, by Mr. Josef Holbrooke
protection of the State required more com-
and “T. E. Ellis,'
prehensive application. It was proposed
Madame Augusta Doria, Miss Gertrude
produced
the
at
that the Advisory Committee should compile
London Opera - House
Blomfield, and Madame Jomelli imper-
last
a list of the monuments that it was indis- Saturday evening, under the direction sonated Elan, Don, and Goewin respec-
pensable to safeguard. We are cordially of Herr Arthur Nikisch. It is the first of tively; and Mr. Alan Turner as Gwy.
in sympathy with this proposition. so three dramas to form a trilogy dealing dion, and Mr. Henry Weldon as Math,
scandalous a piece of Philistinism as the with the war of man against the gods of sang and acted with due energy. The
Roman camp would make a fine natural darkness, and in turning to Cymric could be desired, but allowances must be
hazard ”_should be impossible.
We learn from a Munich correspondent Wagner's trilogy. The magic cauldron, far from easy.
achievement somewhat on the scale of made for a first night, as the work is
capital has conferred its silver medal “Bene for instance, may be regarded as a material Herr Nikisch is a great conductor, yet'
merenti” upon Mr. G. E. R. Grant Brown, substitute in the scheme for the ring. his skill and influence notwithstanding,
1. C. S. , Deputy Commissioner of the Upper Gwydion, a kind of Siegfried, gains the orchestral playing was not free from
Chindwin District in Burma, for the services possession of the cauldron, but afterwards reproach. He appeared over-anxious.
at
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was
were
romance.
CC
ance
was
answer
summits of consciousness. In the plays
Musical Gossip.
of Strindberg, as in the philosophy of
At the Mengelberg-Schelling concert, at
DRAMA
Schopenhauer, we find this consciousness
Queen's Hall last Saturday afternoon, a
most intense and burning. However
remarkable performance given of
partial his view of life, however gloomy its
Strauss's 'Ein Heldenleben. ' Great con:
expression, an encounter with him is a good
ductors have their moments of special Plays by August Strindberg: The Dream experience because of his vitality. It
inspiration; also they are influenced by Play; The Link; The Dance of Death,
seems that from art, which is the world
certain composers whose works make a Parts I. and II. Translated, with an
special
of dreams, we should not ask that they
appeal to them. Steinberg is
Introduction, by Edwin Björkman. be good dreams, but that they be really
the interpreter par excellence of Brahms ;
Mengelberg of Strauss. On Saturday not
(Duckworth & Co. )
dreams. Moreover, it would be absurd
only were the nobility and emotional August STRINDBERG, dramatist, novelist, to imagine that Strindberg was just a
power of the symphony fully revealed, philosopher and egoist, realist and mystic, vivid misogynist. If you grant his original
but even portions which have aroused
controversy
died only the other day; and England assumption, that, with women developed
presented
with com-
pelling power. M. Schelling's performance proceeded to take as much notice of him
proceeded to take as much notice of him as they are, trouble is bound to come, an
of the pianoforte part of Beethoven's E in death as in life, which was precisely analysis of his plays will show that he is
flat Concerto though praiseworthy, was nothing. Perhaps from her own point of equally fair or unfair to both sexes. In
scarcely a strong reading.
view she was right, for in her attitude to-
the wonderful Dance of Death
THE appearance of M. Paderewski in wards Art she has the habit of looking at (1901) the character of the captain no
London to play Chopin's F minor Concerto the subject of the work rather than at doubt contains much condemnation of
at the final concert of the London Symphony the work itself as a living art-form, and Strindberg's own life. The man having
Orchestra last Monday at Queen's Hall was superficially Strindberg is not encourag- lived impossibly with his wife for years,
indeed welcome. The Larghetto breathes
the true spirit of
ing. There can rarely have been an artist the second part of the play presents him
Pachmann
plays it beautifully, but with far less
with such a passion for self-expression ; (or his soul) as. virtually a vampire,
spirituality than Paderewski. A perform- his work was his own tortured self; and sucking the vitality of his friend. As he
also
Forgive
given of Saint-Saëns's the intensity of his continuous revelations dies at the end, his words are,
Concerto in o minor, the one with organ reminds one of Van Gogh, who, at the them, for they know not what they do
which the composer dedicated to the Phil. end of his life, crossed the border of a magnificent impudence in which we see
harmonic Society. There is fine writing in insanity which at one time Strindberg and to some extent its apology. In The
,
it, but little which makes an emotional himself approached. He once said of his and to some extent its apology. In The
appeal. It was given under the energetic character that its predominant traits Dream Play the mother says to her
.
were doubt and sensitiveness to pressure,
husband, We have been tormenting
MASTER MAURICE REEVE, a talented youth and Edwin Björkman, in the biographical each other. Why? ”
The
is,
of fourteen, gave a pianoforte recital at Introduction to his admirable translation
That we may not know. " In The
Bechstein in Halle OB Wednesday afternoon of three of the most important plays, Dance of Death the friend says, “. Both
Sonata was of course immature, yet pro- speaks of “ the theme of eternal repetition, of you are to be pitied. But what can
mising. In the Twelve Études of Chopin, of forced return to past experiences, which be done? ”,
Op. 10, there was some remarkable playing recurs constantly in his works. ” Having
The Link' (which is in admirable form
from a technical point of view; and in been unhappy, or at least unsuccessful, in to show the impossibility of cutting the
time he will no doubt be able also to reveal marriage, this doubting and sensitive man knot by reason of the child), represents
the poetic qualities of the music.
was driven to relentless examination and little but itself. It is well, in thinking of
A NEW ballet was included in the pro- the formulating of works which earned Strindberg and his almost
countless works,
gramme at Covent Garden last Tuesday for him the title of " brutalist” and chief to end one's study with The Dream Play
who has raised
clowns, Indians, &c. , the scene was bright opponent of the Ibsen school of feminism. (1902). For this man,
and animated. The music is by Stravinsky, In this aspect 'The Father' (1887) is modern Swedish to its utmost potency of
a Russian composer of decidedly modern instructive. The struggle is between the beauty,” had been troubled not by woman
tendency; . This has been already shown in man and the woman over the soul of the only. In The Dream Play' hỏ is defi-
works of his given in the concert halls. He is child,
and such a struggle has been made nitely in affinity with Mr. Hardy and the
a master of orchestration.
possible by what is summed up in the Greek tragedians, who saw life mys-
Puccini's Manon Lescaut’ was performed emancipation of woman. " Let woman teriously vexed by Fate, and brooded over
on Wednesday. Madame Agostinelli, who remain a chattel, and you have what the the whole unanswerable question. Agnes,
made
first appearance, impersonated father calls the days of healthy physical daughter of Indra, comes to earth because,
though the middle register of her voice viduals is likely to come to grief.
Manon. She is a fair actress, and sings well, love; but a ship
governed by two indi- like her author, she has a passion to know.
She takes earthly form and endures the
sounded weak; but for this Signor Panizza
was in part to blame, for the orchestral
For instruction in the relations of the burden while she watches, as in panorama,
playing was frequently too
sexes most people will gladly turn from
the woes of all sections of mankind, in
Signor Martinelli sang with marked fervour. Strindberg—not necessarily to Ibsen, but
some of which are splendidly
to Meredith. The world may well ask imagined. At last, baffled, and all but
why it should be required to honour a
stoned by the "right-minded ” who once
before had crucified the “Liberator,
man who might be said to be more foolish
she
than it, because one-sided. Strindberg
that men will not understand her
in 'The Dream Play called the world "all secret. She departs.
The Poet. I understand. And the end?
Una and Ireno Truman and Violet "Runciman's Pianoforte
the right-minded,” speaking of them as
Daughter. You know it. Confliot between the
opponents of freedom and truth. Yet pain of enjoyment and the pleasure of suffering.
Freebieskoil and Gerald Lindley's Matinée Musicale, 3. 15 they may be more right-minded than
The Poet. A conflict it is then !
Strindberg because, without taking
Daughter. Conflict between opposites produces
thought, they act in accord with the
The Poet. But peace? Rest!
dictates of that wisdom which lives in Daughter. You must ask no moro.
Jelation in i Godtre; Gardner's Chamber Concert, 8, Queen's the heart of nature, of the promptings of She departs to present man's grievance
which they are unconscious. They are before the throne. The poem, with its
conventional. But in some men this wail of the winds like a Greek chorus,
wisdom or truth tries to force its way to with its mystery of malice, of suffering,
the surface and becomes conscious, and of life and being, is nevertheless a prayer
it is not surprising if it is partial and for good; and, in the final words of the
Sarah Fenninga and Alice Lees's Violin Resital, 8. 80, Steinway
one-sided. We rightly value these mis- dead poet himself, “The prayers of the
SAT, Handei Pestival, 'Messiah,' 2. 30, Crystal Palace.
taken men
because they represent 'pious penetrate the universe. ”
8
strenuous.
scenes
sees
11
energy.
PERPORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Sur.
Special Concert, Royal Albert Hall, 3. 30.
National Bunday League
Concert, 7, Queen's Hall.
Mon. -Bar. Royal Opora, Covent Garden.
Mos. -SAT. London Opera House, Kingsway.
Mon. Signor Robert. Bulleti's Vocal Recital, 8. 15, Æolian Hall.
Señor Joan Manen's Violin Recital, 315, Bechstein Hall.
Soloman's Orchestral Concert, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
TUES. Handel Festival, Israel in Egypt, 2. 30, Crystal Palace.
and Bong Recital, 3, Steinway Hall
Yvetto Guilbert's Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Missos Lott's Matinde Musicale, 3. 30, Ritz Hotel.
Reginald Somerville's Vocal Recital, 3. 30, Æolian Hall,
Lella Doubleday's Violin Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Joset Lhevinde's Orchestral Concert, 8. 15, Queen's Hall.
WED. Iouiso Dale's Morning Concert, 3, Bechstein
Hall.
Reginald D'Arcy's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Steinway Hall.
Arnold Trowell's 'Cello Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Taurs. Haudel Festival, Selection Day, 2. 30, Crystal Palace,
Grand Concert in aid of the Italian Hospital, 3, Queen's Hall
Lillian Macdonald's Voost Recital, 3. Bechstein Hall.
Katharine Jones's Vocal Recital, 330, Rolian Hall,
Isoline Harvey's Violin Recital, 8 30, Bechstein Hall
Hon. Norah Jobnston's Orchestral Concert, 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
FRI Yvetto Guilbert's Recital, 3. 16, Bechstein Hall.
Biloon Nicoll's Tocal Recital, 3. 30, Bolian Hall.
Myaz-Gmelder and Huberman's Recital, 8 15, Queen's Hall,
Max Darowski's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 30, Bechstein Hall.
Ball,
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net.
an
On the same evening Lady Gregory's | Doul, and might have leavened it with
FOUR IRISH PLAYS.
whimsical comedy The Rising of the advantage.
MR. ERVINE's humane and pointed trea-
Moon' was given, with Mr. Sinclair as the
On the same evening Lady Gregory's
tise-play“ Mixed Marriage,” played at the sergeant of police, and Mr. Kerrigan as
Spreading the News
the escaped prisoner. The piece was captivating éclat. It is pure farce, bril-
was acted with
Court Theatre, by the Irish players on the carried through with refreshing actuality, liant and forced in turn, and the whole
13th, is necessarily of a localized interest, Mr. Sinclair finding a congenial medium
since, with us in England, religious intoler for his rich vein of comic suggestion.
company flung themselves into it with
ance and vendetta are“ old, unhappy, far-
relish. Both Miss Sara Allgood and
off things. " To Belfast, especially some
On Monday evening The Well of tainment. The latter is
Mr. Sinclair gave the house rare enter-
years ago, it would have an intense and
of the
penetrating appeal. To those for whom the Saints, the second of Synge's plays drollest comic actors it has been our
bigotry is remote and merely legitimate produced by the company this season, pleasure to see.
grist for the historian, the subject is sub-
was acted, with Mr. Sinclair and Miss
ordinate to its treatment. They will
Sara Allgood as the blind old man and
concentrate their appreciation on the his blind wife. Remembering the misin-
gentle, effortless satire, the touches of terpretation of 'The Playboy, we watched
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
Trumanity, the shafts of wit, blunted by Well
of the Saints' is an early venture of
the acting with some trepidation. The
(Notico in these columns does not preclude longer
kindliness, and, above all, on the delicate
figure of Mrs. Rainey, the infinitely patient Synge's, and, except Riders to the
mother and wife, who epitomizes the in- Sea,' the most perfect of all, the nearest Browning (Robert), WORKS, with Intro-
ductions by F. G. Kenyon: Vol. II.
feriority of men to women in their realiza- approach to symbolism he made. In it
STRAFFORD, PIPPA PASSES, KING VICTOR
tion of the human and concrete issues of he demonstrated the world-old aphorism
KING CHARLES, THE RETURN
life. The story of Tom Rainey and the which the artist is never weary of
express-
THE DRUSES, A BLOT IN
disaster he brings on his house, through ing--the reality of illusion and the dis-
'SOUTCHEON, COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY, 10/6
Smith & Elder
the insuperable obstinacy of his religious illusion of reality. He joined issue with
bitternessis too familiar to need repeti- Blake in realizing the artistic criterion
The second volume in this fine edition
tion. The question
of its dramatic adapta- of the supremacy of the imagination. has as frontispiece a portrait of Browning
bility is different : as drama it is not well The story of the two old people whose at 46 by Leighton. Dr. Kenyon make
constructed. The didactic motive, directed sight is restored by one of the peripatetic interesting story of the fortunes, or rather
against didacticism, is too prominent, and anchorites of Ireland, and whose subse- misfortunes, of Browning's dramatic work.
the dramatis persone are pigeon-holed quent disgust at the drabness of the not all the enthusiasm of his friend Dickens
into their several recesses to enforce it. world and the visual evidence of their could induce him to be keen about A Blot
They do not live for themselves, but for
own ugliness is relieved by the merciful in the 'Scutcheon,' a really fine play, which
principles ; which is good morality, but not, dispensation of a second blindness, has, deserved success. Finally Browning had
as a rule, good drama. In Ibsen, for indeed, the pristine spirituality and direct it hastily printed to defeat an attempt by
instance, the characters are thinkers, ness of an old English or French para ble. Macready at rewriting it. The autograph
puzzled inevitably about life
because they The odorous mists of fancy, again roll Mr. Buxton Forman, who, as is noted, wrote
over Martin Doul and his wife, and they on it in our own columns on September 1st
are human beings.
carefully prepared deerskin. This record,
Gilbert, Dr. J. W. Evans, and the Chairman
PROF. KÜSTNER, the Director of the now called the Codex Colombino, is pre-
contributed to the discussion, and the author of Observatory at Bonn, has reported to the served in the National Museum of Mexico,
the paper replied. -Mr. J. W. Stather read a Astronomical Institute at Kiel that he has is the only MS. of its class there, and is in-
paper
Shelly Clay dredged from the discovered the spectra of both uranium complete both at the beginning and the end.
Dogger Bank. ' Mr. C. Reid, Mr. A. S. Kennard,
Mr. S. H. Warren, and Mr. H. Whitehead took
and radium in the new star in Gemini. By the aid of comparison with five other
part in the discussion. The following specimens The uranium seems to be in the ordinary codices-one of them is the Zouche or
and map were exhibited as illustrations of the metallic form, but the radium in that of Nuttall Codex, another is Bodleian, No. 2858
papers : Specimens from borings in the South. the gas or emanation which Sir William -Mr. Clark makes out very ingeniously the
Eastern Coalfield and the Paleozoic Floor, of Ramsay calls Niton. If this discovery is meaning of the pictographs and hiero-
Southern England, by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins;
and specimens of moorlog " and shelly clay
confirmed by other observers, it should be glyphics which represent the early Mexican
dredged from the Dogger Bank, by Mr. J. W. of great importance, not only in cosmo-
form of writing. The group of codices was, he
Stather.
gonical speculations, but also in chemistry, as suggests, the work of Zapotecs, and “Eight
showing in some measure that the dis. Deer, also called “Ocelot's Claw," was a
integration of the highly radio-activa sub- Zapotec warrior, and was born probably in
stances plays its part in the formation of 1439. We see him conferring with his sister
MON. Geographical, 8. 30.
new stars.
Institute of British Architects, 8. 30.
and younger brother, the latter being dressed
PROF. WEGENER (of Marburg), at a recent
in a coat with a multicoloured fringe and
Geological, 8. -"On the Geology and Palæontology of the
Warwickshire Coal Field Mr. R. Da Weronon the Dis meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung at border which is still worn by the Indian
Hamstead Quarries, near Birmingham, Mr. W. 1. Hardaker. Frankfort, gave a now theory of the forma- women of Mexico. Besides scenes of war,
tion of inequalities in the earth's surface, the pictures show a ball_game_of great
Trurs. Royal, 4. 30. - Electrical Vibrations on a Thin Anchor Ring,
which he declared to be partly due to the difficulty ; the piercing of Eight Deer's ear
Setiom Derivative Struttura di Morphological studies te sinking of certain parts from the weight of with a sharpened bone, one of various
(Isomorphous) of the "Rare Earth" Elements-a Means of ice piled upon them. This, in its turn, penances; the piercing of his nostril to
Elprente Rototom pleberrimstrong and it . Roda leads, according to him, to the gradual wear a nose ornament;. the exchanging of
his marriage; the
Magnetic Rotatory Dispersion in quartz of Light in the separation of the higher parts of continents, symbols of peace ;
Parpolo. Region of the Spectrum,' br. 1. M. Lowry; and other and he gave figures by which he sought to sacrifice of his brother above-mentioned by
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
show that the shores of Greenland, during priests; and finally his own death in a
the last eighty-four years, have receded similar way on his fifty-second birthday.
from Europe by a space of 940 metres. In Not all these details are given in the
the same way, he said, Cambridge, Massa- Codex Colombino, but they are worked
chusetts, has increased its distance from out from the others, which also supply some
Science Gossip .
Greenwich by 90 metres in the course of pictures in colours with the glyphs which
twenty-six years. The figures on which identify the characters. The illustrations
THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL will be “ At these calculations are based are, it has been thus make comparative criticism easy. We
on the afternoon of Wednesday, pointed out, already ten years old, and congratulate Mr.
Mr. Clark on
& work of
July 3rd, when his guests will have an more correct ones could now be obtained. fascinating interest, bringing, as it does,
opportunity of inspecting the telescopes
M. L. RAYBAUD has recently made some highly primitive society.
before us the manners and customs of a
and other instruments of the Royal
Observatory.
experiments as to the effect of ultra-violet
light upon insects which go to show that it Notes on the Parish Church, Lymington, and
SIR ALMROTH WRIGHT will give a lecture is fatal to certain species. Working with
the Daughter Church of All Saints, and
Other Matters Ecclesiastical, compiled
at the Royal Societies' Club next Wednes. a mercury-vapour lamp, he found that it
and then death
from Various sources by Charles Bostock
day evening on “Microbes and the Way produced first torpor,
and Edward Hapgood, 3/ net.
the Body Protects Itself against Them, within the space of a few hours, in snails,
with lantern-slide illustrations.
houseflies, and tadpoles, while spiders and
Lymington, King
the sacred scarabæus remained unaffected
The authors acknowledge that this record
A SERIES of meetings, lectures, and by it. Young grasshoppers succumbed to
is largely a compilation from research
exhibitions which make up the programme the radiation
within two days, while adults already accessible in various forms. The
of the Optical Convention, 1912, is being supported it for
a week without apparent not appear to be much discrimination in the
in the Imperial College of Science and explain the objection which many insects information imparted. The history has
Technology, South Kensington. This week appear to manifest to strong sunlight,
been assiduously collected.
the members of the Convention have met the
Official Crests of the British Army now in
Physical Society and the Photographic. On
THE EARLY NATURALISTS : THEIR LIVES
Daily Use, 1/ net. Gale & Polden
Monday next, after papers dealing specially AND WORK (1530–1789),' by Dr. L. C. Miall,
with colour and spectra, a visit will be made is announced for early publication by Messrs. Town Planning Review, APRIL, 2/6 net.
Liverpool University Press
to the National Physical Laboratory at Macmillan & Co. The Introduction to the
Teddington. Tuesday will be devoted to work deals with natural history down to Webb (Wilfred Mark), THE HERITAGE OF
optics as applied to astronomy, and some
the sixteenth century. The rest of the DRESS, Revised Edition.
members of the Convention will visit the book is divided into nine sections, which
' The Times ? Book Club
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at the treat respectively of : (1) The New Biology; This edition has been little amplified and
invitation of the Astronomer Royal. The (2) The Natural History of Distant Lands; modified from the original one. It is issued
programme will come to an end on Wednes- (3) Some Early English Naturalists; (4) in a more compact form, without undergoing
day.
Ray and some of his Fellow-Workers; the “potting" process. We criticized the
(5) The
Minute Anatomists; (6) Early book in The Athenæum of February 1st,
It is to be gathered from a contemporary Studies in Comparative Anatomy: (7) The 1908 (pp. 124–5). The author, who writes
that it has been found possible for certain School of Réaumur; (8) Linnæus and the interestingly of the evolution of dress,
possessors of wireless-telegraphy receiving Jussieus ; (9) Buffon. In selecting his might, as we pointed out, have recognized
apparatus in the neighbourhood of London authors Dr. Miall has aimed at giving fair that certain colourings and prominences in
to detect the time-signals sont out from the space to the pioneers who opened out new dress have a utilitarian rather than orna-
Eiffel Tower in Paris. By co-operation with fields of inquiry or introduced new methods, mental raison d'être. There are 12 plates
the Paris Observatory, signals by Hertzian ' rather than workers at details.
and 169 figures in the text.
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are rare.
which he was able to render to Prof. Lucian revolts against Math, chief priest of the
Fine Art Gossip.
Scherman's Ethnographical Expedition, 1911, Druids, at whose instigation he seized it.
undertaken on behalf of the Bavarian At the opening of the piece he slays King
Ethnographical Museum.
WE congratulate Dr. Charles Waldstein
Arawn, its possessor ; and, at the close,
and Dr. Charles H. Read, prominent ex-
M. SVONOROS has an article in The Archæo. Math. Nodens, a male Erda, foretells a
ponents of archæology, on their knighthoods. logical Journal of Athens, in which he spacious future for the race of Don, of
contends that the statue of Eubouleus found whom Gwydion is a son; while Dylan,
MESSRS. ERNEST BROWN & PHILLIPS have at Eleusis is not intended for that god, but the child who is seen at the end of the
been fortunate in discovering an interesting for Iacchus, or, in other words, the reborn
collection of hitherto unknown water-colour Dionysus. He further thinks that its type third act, is the son of Elan, Gwydion's
drawings by Thomas Girtin, and they will was fixed by the famous group of Demeter, sister.
bo included in their forthcoming exhibition Core, and Iacchus which Pausanias tells
us was, in his time, still to be seen at Athens of inspiration and science,"
Gwydion's rape of the magic “cauldron
of which
with special
reference to the art of Thomas in the temple of Demeter called the Tacchaum, Taliesin sang, constitutes the main feature
Girtin,” which opens on the 28th inst. at from which started the procession along
the Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square. the Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis for of the Prologue. Some portions of the
The drawings have not been exposed to the the celebration of the Mysteries. The poem are excellent, but, considered as a
daylight, and are in a fine state of pre- article is well illustrated by cuts showing whole, it is not well constructed for a
servation.
the likeness of the head of the so-called music-drama. The action is fettered to
Girtin was born in 1775, and died at the statue of Eubouleus to that of Iacchus as
the discussion. Neither the gods nor the
early age of 27, and authentic works by typified on several bas-reliefs, coins, and
tho like.
men, Gwydion and his brother Govannon,
him
His influence on many
and still less the two women, Elan and
painters of his time was considerable, M. ALFRED Loisy, in his just-published Goewn, stimulate the imagination. In
notably on Turner, his friend from boyhood. work · L'Évangile selon Marc,' again draws reading the poem one can understand the
SIR CHARLES HOLROYD presided at a
attention to the difference which he thinks
crowded meeting at Crosby Hall
, held he perceives between the historical Jesus reason of much that they say, but when
under the auspices of the Society of' Mural of the Gospels and the Christ of St. Paul. the words are sung (none too distinctly)
Decorators and Painters in Tempera. Prof. The distinguished Modernist points out the it is difficult to grasp their meaning.
Selwyn Image spoke of the new enthusiasm likeness between the saviour God of St. Paul
There is a lack of contrast: everybody
of art-lovers for mural painting, and Mr. and the deities of the pagan mysteries,
Walter Crane pleaded for larger freedom such as Osiris, Adonis, or Åttis, who died is unhappy, or angry, or cursing. Wagner
for the young artist. Owing to the great Reinach, in mentioning the book,
draws is not free from loquacity, but his contrasts
for the salvation of mankind. M. Salomon sometimes prolongs a mood, and Wotan
Hall, it will remain open a further week, attention to its indebtedness to Dr. R. are always striking. Through the atmo-
until next Saturday.
Reitzenstein's treatise on “Die Hellenist. sphere of Cimmerian gloom, no comparison
ischen Mysterienreligion,' published two with The Ring' is possible.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has purchased years ago, and says that M. Loisy's theory
for the permanent collection at the Luxem: would be more plausible if we supposed two Mr. Holbrooke had no easy task when he
bourg Museum a pastel entitled Effet centuries to elapse between the death of undertook to set the poem to music, and
d'Hiver : Matin,' by Mr. Wynford Dewhurst, Jesus and the appearance of the Pauline it would be interesting to know whether
a collection of whose works was recently doctrine.
exhibited the Galerie
he had anything to do with the shaping
Durand-Ruel,
Paris.
MR. G. A. WAINWRIGHT describes in of it. The Prelude, in which were heard
the current number of the Revue Archéo. themes afterwards connected with the
THE issue of the first annual volume of logique a 80-called prehistoric cemetery chief dramatis personæ, proved dramatic
the Walpole Society, which should have which he and Mr. Busho-Fox discovered in character, but after that dullness
been in the hands of subscribers last month, during the past winter at El Gerzeh, about
in, with the exception of a few
has been unavoidably delayed owing to forty miles south of Cairo. In a burial
difficulties experienced in the printing of the hitherto undisturbed he discovered a skeleton passages, such as I have pride. Fierce
colour collotypes. These difficulties have in the crouched or contracted position, with
as your own," when Elan replies to
now been overcome, and the volume will a necklace composed of gold; carnelian, agate, Gwydion's question “ What seek you ?
be issued in about a fortnight. The chief and iron beads; a copper harpoon; an ivory The vocal parts throughout lacked
feature of the volume is the complete tran- pot, and apparently one of black-topped red rhythmical life. In the dignified instru-
script of Nicholas Hilliard's hitherto un- pottery. This would seem to be conclusive mental sequel to the slaying of Math by
published manuscript on 'The Arte of as to the early presence of iron in Egypt: Gwydion it seemed as if the drama would
Limning,' now in the possession of the Uni- were it not for Dr. Naville's experiences at end with an imposing climax; but there
versity of Edinburgh.
Abydos, which showed, according to him,
with the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal concurrently with extended burials and principally engaged the composer's atten:
MR. BASIL CHAMPNEYS is to be presented that the prehistoric or predynastic mode
of
The orchestral music seemed to have
Institute of British Architects next Monday
at 8. 30 P. M.
into late historic times.
tion, and a study of the score would
A JOINT COMMITTEE of both Houses of
doubtless reveal much that was clever
Parliament met this week, under the presi-
which escaped notice at a first hearing.
dency of Lord Plymouth, to discuss the
MUSIC
The lack of genuine dramatic interest,
necessity of legislation for the preservation
however, made that music too prominent,
of ancient monuments. It was suggested
and, as much of it was head work, interest,
during the sitting that the Government Con-
solidation and Amendment Bill
THE CHILDREN OF DON. ' at moments excited, could not be main-
tained.
adequate to meet present needs. The This new opera, by Mr. Josef Holbrooke
protection of the State required more com-
and “T. E. Ellis,'
prehensive application. It was proposed
Madame Augusta Doria, Miss Gertrude
produced
the
at
that the Advisory Committee should compile
London Opera - House
Blomfield, and Madame Jomelli imper-
last
a list of the monuments that it was indis- Saturday evening, under the direction sonated Elan, Don, and Goewin respec-
pensable to safeguard. We are cordially of Herr Arthur Nikisch. It is the first of tively; and Mr. Alan Turner as Gwy.
in sympathy with this proposition. so three dramas to form a trilogy dealing dion, and Mr. Henry Weldon as Math,
scandalous a piece of Philistinism as the with the war of man against the gods of sang and acted with due energy. The
Roman camp would make a fine natural darkness, and in turning to Cymric could be desired, but allowances must be
hazard ”_should be impossible.
We learn from a Munich correspondent Wagner's trilogy. The magic cauldron, far from easy.
achievement somewhat on the scale of made for a first night, as the work is
capital has conferred its silver medal “Bene for instance, may be regarded as a material Herr Nikisch is a great conductor, yet'
merenti” upon Mr. G. E. R. Grant Brown, substitute in the scheme for the ring. his skill and influence notwithstanding,
1. C. S. , Deputy Commissioner of the Upper Gwydion, a kind of Siegfried, gains the orchestral playing was not free from
Chindwin District in Burma, for the services possession of the cauldron, but afterwards reproach. He appeared over-anxious.
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ance
was
answer
summits of consciousness. In the plays
Musical Gossip.
of Strindberg, as in the philosophy of
At the Mengelberg-Schelling concert, at
DRAMA
Schopenhauer, we find this consciousness
Queen's Hall last Saturday afternoon, a
most intense and burning. However
remarkable performance given of
partial his view of life, however gloomy its
Strauss's 'Ein Heldenleben. ' Great con:
expression, an encounter with him is a good
ductors have their moments of special Plays by August Strindberg: The Dream experience because of his vitality. It
inspiration; also they are influenced by Play; The Link; The Dance of Death,
seems that from art, which is the world
certain composers whose works make a Parts I. and II. Translated, with an
special
of dreams, we should not ask that they
appeal to them. Steinberg is
Introduction, by Edwin Björkman. be good dreams, but that they be really
the interpreter par excellence of Brahms ;
Mengelberg of Strauss. On Saturday not
(Duckworth & Co. )
dreams. Moreover, it would be absurd
only were the nobility and emotional August STRINDBERG, dramatist, novelist, to imagine that Strindberg was just a
power of the symphony fully revealed, philosopher and egoist, realist and mystic, vivid misogynist. If you grant his original
but even portions which have aroused
controversy
died only the other day; and England assumption, that, with women developed
presented
with com-
pelling power. M. Schelling's performance proceeded to take as much notice of him
proceeded to take as much notice of him as they are, trouble is bound to come, an
of the pianoforte part of Beethoven's E in death as in life, which was precisely analysis of his plays will show that he is
flat Concerto though praiseworthy, was nothing. Perhaps from her own point of equally fair or unfair to both sexes. In
scarcely a strong reading.
view she was right, for in her attitude to-
the wonderful Dance of Death
THE appearance of M. Paderewski in wards Art she has the habit of looking at (1901) the character of the captain no
London to play Chopin's F minor Concerto the subject of the work rather than at doubt contains much condemnation of
at the final concert of the London Symphony the work itself as a living art-form, and Strindberg's own life. The man having
Orchestra last Monday at Queen's Hall was superficially Strindberg is not encourag- lived impossibly with his wife for years,
indeed welcome. The Larghetto breathes
the true spirit of
ing. There can rarely have been an artist the second part of the play presents him
Pachmann
plays it beautifully, but with far less
with such a passion for self-expression ; (or his soul) as. virtually a vampire,
spirituality than Paderewski. A perform- his work was his own tortured self; and sucking the vitality of his friend. As he
also
Forgive
given of Saint-Saëns's the intensity of his continuous revelations dies at the end, his words are,
Concerto in o minor, the one with organ reminds one of Van Gogh, who, at the them, for they know not what they do
which the composer dedicated to the Phil. end of his life, crossed the border of a magnificent impudence in which we see
harmonic Society. There is fine writing in insanity which at one time Strindberg and to some extent its apology. In The
,
it, but little which makes an emotional himself approached. He once said of his and to some extent its apology. In The
appeal. It was given under the energetic character that its predominant traits Dream Play the mother says to her
.
were doubt and sensitiveness to pressure,
husband, We have been tormenting
MASTER MAURICE REEVE, a talented youth and Edwin Björkman, in the biographical each other. Why? ”
The
is,
of fourteen, gave a pianoforte recital at Introduction to his admirable translation
That we may not know. " In The
Bechstein in Halle OB Wednesday afternoon of three of the most important plays, Dance of Death the friend says, “. Both
Sonata was of course immature, yet pro- speaks of “ the theme of eternal repetition, of you are to be pitied. But what can
mising. In the Twelve Études of Chopin, of forced return to past experiences, which be done? ”,
Op. 10, there was some remarkable playing recurs constantly in his works. ” Having
The Link' (which is in admirable form
from a technical point of view; and in been unhappy, or at least unsuccessful, in to show the impossibility of cutting the
time he will no doubt be able also to reveal marriage, this doubting and sensitive man knot by reason of the child), represents
the poetic qualities of the music.
was driven to relentless examination and little but itself. It is well, in thinking of
A NEW ballet was included in the pro- the formulating of works which earned Strindberg and his almost
countless works,
gramme at Covent Garden last Tuesday for him the title of " brutalist” and chief to end one's study with The Dream Play
who has raised
clowns, Indians, &c. , the scene was bright opponent of the Ibsen school of feminism. (1902). For this man,
and animated. The music is by Stravinsky, In this aspect 'The Father' (1887) is modern Swedish to its utmost potency of
a Russian composer of decidedly modern instructive. The struggle is between the beauty,” had been troubled not by woman
tendency; . This has been already shown in man and the woman over the soul of the only. In The Dream Play' hỏ is defi-
works of his given in the concert halls. He is child,
and such a struggle has been made nitely in affinity with Mr. Hardy and the
a master of orchestration.
possible by what is summed up in the Greek tragedians, who saw life mys-
Puccini's Manon Lescaut’ was performed emancipation of woman. " Let woman teriously vexed by Fate, and brooded over
on Wednesday. Madame Agostinelli, who remain a chattel, and you have what the the whole unanswerable question. Agnes,
made
first appearance, impersonated father calls the days of healthy physical daughter of Indra, comes to earth because,
though the middle register of her voice viduals is likely to come to grief.
Manon. She is a fair actress, and sings well, love; but a ship
governed by two indi- like her author, she has a passion to know.
She takes earthly form and endures the
sounded weak; but for this Signor Panizza
was in part to blame, for the orchestral
For instruction in the relations of the burden while she watches, as in panorama,
playing was frequently too
sexes most people will gladly turn from
the woes of all sections of mankind, in
Signor Martinelli sang with marked fervour. Strindberg—not necessarily to Ibsen, but
some of which are splendidly
to Meredith. The world may well ask imagined. At last, baffled, and all but
why it should be required to honour a
stoned by the "right-minded ” who once
before had crucified the “Liberator,
man who might be said to be more foolish
she
than it, because one-sided. Strindberg
that men will not understand her
in 'The Dream Play called the world "all secret. She departs.
The Poet. I understand. And the end?
Una and Ireno Truman and Violet "Runciman's Pianoforte
the right-minded,” speaking of them as
Daughter. You know it. Confliot between the
opponents of freedom and truth. Yet pain of enjoyment and the pleasure of suffering.
Freebieskoil and Gerald Lindley's Matinée Musicale, 3. 15 they may be more right-minded than
The Poet. A conflict it is then !
Strindberg because, without taking
Daughter. Conflict between opposites produces
thought, they act in accord with the
The Poet. But peace? Rest!
dictates of that wisdom which lives in Daughter. You must ask no moro.
Jelation in i Godtre; Gardner's Chamber Concert, 8, Queen's the heart of nature, of the promptings of She departs to present man's grievance
which they are unconscious. They are before the throne. The poem, with its
conventional. But in some men this wail of the winds like a Greek chorus,
wisdom or truth tries to force its way to with its mystery of malice, of suffering,
the surface and becomes conscious, and of life and being, is nevertheless a prayer
it is not surprising if it is partial and for good; and, in the final words of the
Sarah Fenninga and Alice Lees's Violin Resital, 8. 80, Steinway
one-sided. We rightly value these mis- dead poet himself, “The prayers of the
SAT, Handei Pestival, 'Messiah,' 2. 30, Crystal Palace.
taken men
because they represent 'pious penetrate the universe. ”
8
strenuous.
scenes
sees
11
energy.
PERPORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Sur.
Special Concert, Royal Albert Hall, 3. 30.
National Bunday League
Concert, 7, Queen's Hall.
Mon. -Bar. Royal Opora, Covent Garden.
Mos. -SAT. London Opera House, Kingsway.
Mon. Signor Robert. Bulleti's Vocal Recital, 8. 15, Æolian Hall.
Señor Joan Manen's Violin Recital, 315, Bechstein Hall.
Soloman's Orchestral Concert, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
TUES. Handel Festival, Israel in Egypt, 2. 30, Crystal Palace.
and Bong Recital, 3, Steinway Hall
Yvetto Guilbert's Recital, 3. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Missos Lott's Matinde Musicale, 3. 30, Ritz Hotel.
Reginald Somerville's Vocal Recital, 3. 30, Æolian Hall,
Lella Doubleday's Violin Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Joset Lhevinde's Orchestral Concert, 8. 15, Queen's Hall.
WED. Iouiso Dale's Morning Concert, 3, Bechstein
Hall.
Reginald D'Arcy's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Steinway Hall.
Arnold Trowell's 'Cello Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Taurs. Haudel Festival, Selection Day, 2. 30, Crystal Palace,
Grand Concert in aid of the Italian Hospital, 3, Queen's Hall
Lillian Macdonald's Voost Recital, 3. Bechstein Hall.
Katharine Jones's Vocal Recital, 330, Rolian Hall,
Isoline Harvey's Violin Recital, 8 30, Bechstein Hall
Hon. Norah Jobnston's Orchestral Concert, 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
FRI Yvetto Guilbert's Recital, 3. 16, Bechstein Hall.
Biloon Nicoll's Tocal Recital, 3. 30, Bolian Hall.
Myaz-Gmelder and Huberman's Recital, 8 15, Queen's Hall,
Max Darowski's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 30, Bechstein Hall.
Ball,
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net.
an
On the same evening Lady Gregory's | Doul, and might have leavened it with
FOUR IRISH PLAYS.
whimsical comedy The Rising of the advantage.
MR. ERVINE's humane and pointed trea-
Moon' was given, with Mr. Sinclair as the
On the same evening Lady Gregory's
tise-play“ Mixed Marriage,” played at the sergeant of police, and Mr. Kerrigan as
Spreading the News
the escaped prisoner. The piece was captivating éclat. It is pure farce, bril-
was acted with
Court Theatre, by the Irish players on the carried through with refreshing actuality, liant and forced in turn, and the whole
13th, is necessarily of a localized interest, Mr. Sinclair finding a congenial medium
since, with us in England, religious intoler for his rich vein of comic suggestion.
company flung themselves into it with
ance and vendetta are“ old, unhappy, far-
relish. Both Miss Sara Allgood and
off things. " To Belfast, especially some
On Monday evening The Well of tainment. The latter is
Mr. Sinclair gave the house rare enter-
years ago, it would have an intense and
of the
penetrating appeal. To those for whom the Saints, the second of Synge's plays drollest comic actors it has been our
bigotry is remote and merely legitimate produced by the company this season, pleasure to see.
grist for the historian, the subject is sub-
was acted, with Mr. Sinclair and Miss
ordinate to its treatment. They will
Sara Allgood as the blind old man and
concentrate their appreciation on the his blind wife. Remembering the misin-
gentle, effortless satire, the touches of terpretation of 'The Playboy, we watched
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
Trumanity, the shafts of wit, blunted by Well
of the Saints' is an early venture of
the acting with some trepidation. The
(Notico in these columns does not preclude longer
kindliness, and, above all, on the delicate
figure of Mrs. Rainey, the infinitely patient Synge's, and, except Riders to the
mother and wife, who epitomizes the in- Sea,' the most perfect of all, the nearest Browning (Robert), WORKS, with Intro-
ductions by F. G. Kenyon: Vol. II.
feriority of men to women in their realiza- approach to symbolism he made. In it
STRAFFORD, PIPPA PASSES, KING VICTOR
tion of the human and concrete issues of he demonstrated the world-old aphorism
KING CHARLES, THE RETURN
life. The story of Tom Rainey and the which the artist is never weary of
express-
THE DRUSES, A BLOT IN
disaster he brings on his house, through ing--the reality of illusion and the dis-
'SOUTCHEON, COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY, 10/6
Smith & Elder
the insuperable obstinacy of his religious illusion of reality. He joined issue with
bitternessis too familiar to need repeti- Blake in realizing the artistic criterion
The second volume in this fine edition
tion. The question
of its dramatic adapta- of the supremacy of the imagination. has as frontispiece a portrait of Browning
bility is different : as drama it is not well The story of the two old people whose at 46 by Leighton. Dr. Kenyon make
constructed. The didactic motive, directed sight is restored by one of the peripatetic interesting story of the fortunes, or rather
against didacticism, is too prominent, and anchorites of Ireland, and whose subse- misfortunes, of Browning's dramatic work.
the dramatis persone are pigeon-holed quent disgust at the drabness of the not all the enthusiasm of his friend Dickens
into their several recesses to enforce it. world and the visual evidence of their could induce him to be keen about A Blot
They do not live for themselves, but for
own ugliness is relieved by the merciful in the 'Scutcheon,' a really fine play, which
principles ; which is good morality, but not, dispensation of a second blindness, has, deserved success. Finally Browning had
as a rule, good drama. In Ibsen, for indeed, the pristine spirituality and direct it hastily printed to defeat an attempt by
instance, the characters are thinkers, ness of an old English or French para ble. Macready at rewriting it. The autograph
puzzled inevitably about life
because they The odorous mists of fancy, again roll Mr. Buxton Forman, who, as is noted, wrote
over Martin Doul and his wife, and they on it in our own columns on September 1st
are human beings.
