The minister in point is Evan Angus, an
Notices of the Celts in the Writings of the A series of fairy stories agreeable enough,.
Notices of the Celts in the Writings of the A series of fairy stories agreeable enough,.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Lewis May.
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The Vision of the Cross of Christ,' which
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One of the publications of the Academy of
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Pacific Coast History:
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Hovey (Carl), The Life Story of J. Pierpont
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Morgan.
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If it is of any interest to the public to know Sergeant (Philip W. ), My Lady Castlemaine :
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it be proper
at Omar's tomb" to join
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Darwin and much instructive matter about
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and “
fishing, now publishes a large volume on Southern
School-Books.
California, which he depicts as the paradise of
Fiction
sportsmen. He deprecates the conception of Pring (! . N. ), Laboratory Exercises in Physical Adams (Evelyn), Tales of Seven Islands, 61
sport as a desperate killing, a plethoric bag Chemistry, 4/ net.
A volume of short stories, reprinted from
or creel," and interweaves almost as much For notice see p. 71.
Good Words and various Australian magazines.
naturalism and botany into the fabric of his
The author uses her knowledge of life in Aus-
narrative as there is sport. His story is told
Science.
tralia and the islands of the Pacific with con-
with a wealth of picturesque detail, and is
happily embroidered
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with many engaging
Armytage (H. ), Darwin and the Bible, 6/ net.
touches. He writes of the country with deep
The author, before making this belated
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successful.
feeling, and supplies many spirited pictures of
attack upon Darwin, read the Origin of Species?
Californian life and scenery.
Towards the
dipped into the ‘Descent of Man. ' Balfour (Ethel), In Time's Storerooms, 6/
close of the book he drifts, almost unconsciously,
The result is not calculated to inflict severe This story suffers from the very defects
back to his old love-angling.
damage upon the Linnean Society. Nor which appear as virtues to a large section of
does the section devoted to the praise of the the novel-reading public-over-emphasis and
Education.
Bible, intermingled as it is with trivialities, exaggeration. The girl who on her twentieth
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Thoughts on Education, chosen from the Writings consider their opinions upon either religious or discovery then that her beloved guardian is
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Butler (H. J. ), Motor Bodies and Chassis : a Text-
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social phenomena which influenced the forma-
motor-car, with which Mr. Butler deals. It is
author's talent better employed.
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natural that the mechanism of a car should
Barclay (Marguerite and Armiger), The Activities
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The author surveys and defines the varieties
cases possibilities. The first chapter is appro-
forces. His work is therefore prone to incon.
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clusiveness and generalization.
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Eugenes-joins a caravan accompanying an
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Demos. On the journey the author avails
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Hutchinson (Woods), We and Our Children.
party system, but there is no indication that the
Portsmouth lads, is, like other matters, put
A series of essays on the care of the coming independent politician is less obnoxious to him,
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generation, especially go far as its home por hint as to how the development of altruism
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life is concerned. The elementary teaching in the individual which he urges is to be either
Butler on “Oxford,' and Clara Dorothea Rack-
in such chapters as that on 'The Sweet Tooth fostered or directed.
ham on 'Cambridge,' are more interesting than
or 'Our Ivory Keepers of the Gate? reiterates
the other writers.
truths which every wise mother endeavours to
Cook (W. Victor), Anton of the Alps, 6/
put into practice. The author is an optimist
The intricacies and vicissitudes of this tale
Philology.
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Whetham (W. C. D. and C. D. ), An Introduction to read them. The author has much to learn;
of scholarship.
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though his plot is in a conventional way in-
The authors, in their endeavour to open up genious, his style is singularly stilted.
Benton (P. Askell), Kanuri Readings, including the immense field of inquiry in a science still
Facsimiles of MSS. , Transliteration, Interlinear in its infancy, lay greater stress on the methods
For the Defence : a Brief for Lady Carol, 6/
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Racial Qualities,' three on the Methods of
hitherto attempted, he is anxious to publish
Kanuri,' published by the Church Missionary Research, and five on the Construction of
it anonymously. ' We regret that we cannot
Society. It consists of a number of native
Society,' with an appendix and bibliography.
commend this departure from his successful
legends and fables, with literal translations and
The phenomenon of a restricted birth-rate,
style. Frankly, the book is gloomy, and the
vocabulary, and a list of Kanuri prefixes and which has profoundly modified biological
chief figures bore us ; when one wants to get
suffixes. The fables are naive and fanciful.
sociology, gives supreme importance to the
married, the other doesn't, and thus they
The Kanuri are the dominant tribe of Bornu, subject.
fluctuate throughout the book. The central
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incident recalls a recently successful play.
Protectorate of Nigeria.
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by Ishbel, 1) net.
The minister in point is Evan Angus, an
Notices of the Celts in the Writings of the A series of fairy stories agreeable enough,. intellectual Apollo, who writes books on such
Greek and Latin Authors from the Tenth
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Century B. C. to the Fifth Century A. D. , of the longer tales comprises a number of which, we are told, are anxiously awaited by
arranged Chronologically, with Translations,
vignettes loosely strung together, and when both press and publishers! The number of
Commentary, Indices, and a Glossary of the
they are numerous too kaleidoscopic to be
Celtic Names and Words occurring in these
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lore into a mosaic.
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Fraser (Mrs. Hugh) and Stahlmann (J. I. ), The nent part. A medley of fighting, deeds of the Original Edition of 1629, with Introduction
Satanist, 6/
valour, witchcraft, and love ensue, which and Notes, 6/ net.
An unpleasant tale, which we are unable to should please readers who care more for the Dr. Gray has accomplished an effective
commend, concerning a sect of devil-worshippers tale than the method of its telling.
work in resuscitating Carliell, whose biography
at the beginning of the twentieth century. Spencer (Denton), Old Thane's Mummy, 1/
has never been written before, while his plays
Henry (0. ), Cabbages and Kings, 3/6 net.
The story of an antiquary's daughter who are buried under-in our opinion—a deserved
The work of this finished and subtle author
masquerades
Egyptian mummy
oblivion. 'The Deserving Favourite,' the least
has never received the meed that is its due.
brought to life. She disappears, is found, and
wearisome of those plays, is founded on a
He is one of the few writers of short stories
reunited to her distracted lover; while the
Spanish romantic novel, and Carliell owed much
who have claims on posterity. His power of professor incidentally is burnt in his own home,
of his tepid inspiration to foreign sources. He
conjuring up men and women and stamping The same process is to be observed in Mr.
translated one of Corneille's plays. Like most
them with vital significance in a curiously Spencer's novel as in 'The Mysteries of Udolpho. '
of the dramatists of the seventeenth century
haphazard and semi-abstracted way gives Our imagination is stimulated to eerie pitch who wrote heroic plays, Carliell embroiders his
his individual charm and creative force unity. by the implication of supernatural agencies at
plots round the eternal theme of love and
His confident and at the same time plastic style
is effective for his purpose.
work, only to be promptly disillusioned by the
honour. His volubility and edifying magnilo-
banality of a hoax. The style is a nice blend
quence are inexhaustible. He never deviates
Herbertson (Agnes Grozier), The Ship that came of the Johnsonian and the interjectional.
from the conventional regulations which this
Home in the Dark, 6/
dramatic genre imposed upon him.
A woman living in strained relations with her
Stevens (E. S. ), The Lure.
husband, who is blind, falls in love and runs
This describes two episodes, altogether Le Braz (Anatole), The Night of Fires, and other
Handy Newspaper List, 1912, 6d.
away with another man. The situation is
different in character, in the career of Huntly
interesting, but we decline to believe in the
Goss, adventurer. In the first we find him
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success of the impersonation practised on the
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The story, however, is well told,
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book he reappears connected with a fraudulent
peasants and customs.
and the interest sustained throughout.
A good deal of the
Holdsworth (Annie E. ), Dame Verona of the
crocodile-farming business, the situation of
matter is commonplace, and for this we do not
Angels.
which enables the author to give some convin-
conceive the blame rests entirely with the
translator.
This book is a study of temperament to
cing descriptions of Sudanese scenery. Ap.
which pre-natal influence is supposed to supply
parently, the two years' interval between the Morgan (Charlotte E. ), The Rise of the Novel of
the key. A more uncomfortable coterie of episodes had changed him, for he is no longer Manners: a Study of English Prose Fiction
troubled consciences than those which surround
the epigrammatic flâneur, but & scoundrel
between 1600 and 1740, 6/6 net.
the subject of the study it would be difficult to
who will stick at nothing. It says much for The bibliography, containing a list of some
find. They include a dour Calvinist, the lady
the author's writing that we do not regret this five hundred prose narratives printed between
who has been willing to marry him for love
scoundrel's escape from justice.
1600 and 1740, with chronological accessories,
of his illegitimate baby girl, the baby's aunt- Tynan (Katharine), Princess Katharine, 6/
and the index, occupies well-nigh one-half of
a baffled, revengeful woman who draws Verona
For notice see p. 63.
this monograph. It deals with the prose out-
towards the Romanism so hateful to her father Vahey (H. L. ), Camilla Forgetting Herself, 6/
put between the beginning of the seventeenth
--and an extraordinary youth who shares her As the author remarks on the first page,
century and the middle of the eighteenth,
passion for sacrifice.
Camilla never did forget herself, so we can only
adopting a somewhat arbitrary form of classi-
Kelston (Beatrice), A Three-Cornered Duel, 6/ suppose that Mr. Vahey thought it was an at-
fication. Though freshness, colour, and in-
The author's clever and delicate handling tractive title and as good as any other. This
sight are not prominent in this volume, which
of an ingenious plot commends her book. Her book cannot be said to be an improvement on
forms one of the Columbia University Studies
characters are full of the joy of life, and well his previous work. The story is concerned with
in English, its scrupulous and conscientious
portrayed. One only regrets that so small a two perpetual honeymooners who are
workmanship, and its presentation of all the
part is allotted to the deaf housekeeper, Mrs. absurdly happy, and, it may be added, rather
facts that bear upon the subject, deserve bigb
Allgood, whose humble calling and retiring silly. There are two stage uncles introduced
praise.
disposition place her in the background.
to give some semblance of a plot.
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Mann (Mary E. ), Men and Dreams.
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The talent of Mrs. Mary E. Mann does not sensational. She is no propagandist ; nor is Issued by the Viking Club.
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two in this volume could her_authorship be purely for the sake of dialogue. The characters
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divined. That one is ‘His First Day at the Sea,' exist merely to talk-to bandy sprightly witti- tattoo in 'The Red Flood'; a “ Believer in the
a wonderful vignette of a school treat burdened cisms and toss sentimental badinage at one Book " writes an alarmist article on the in-
by the addition of an undesired and undesirable another. The plot is huddled away, and serves sidious and destructive advance of Modernism
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This number is well diversified, and each
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article is equipped with sober and careful argu-
modes of Indian thought and feeling. It is
devoid of pretentiousness, and its subtlety is
ment. The editor takes advantage of Mr.
attractive article is that of the Rev. R. L. Gales,
cloaked by a transparent simplicity of style.
Balfour's retirement for a pleasant eulogy, and
who talks with sly urbanity and wit on · Three
The author's characterization is bold and
strings together some reminiscences of Tennyson
Jingle Makers '--Mr. Belloc, Mr. Chesterton,
direct, and his penetration into the Indian
at Freshwater. Mr. R. H. Benson refuses to
and Mr. Kipling.
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translations of early Irish religious poetry: about over this little world of ours. . . .
Hindu lore and superstition, but never crudely
This
spectacular. The author has childlike
A somewhat Ultramontane article, entitled quotation from the Foreword gives a fair idea
pleasure in spontaneous and unsophisticated
Anti-Clerical Policy in Portugal,' attempts to of the author's method. His constant and
emotion.
depreciate the administration of the new Portu- unusually awkward flippancy makes it difficult
Prague (Joseph), A Woman of Impulse, 6/
guese Republic.
to realize the animals he talks about. It also
In everyday life a woman of impulse
Gornall (H. K. ), The Ten Talents :
occasionally betrays him, e. g. , in his account
an Uncon-
of a bull in India, into bad taste. We have
ventional Commentary.
may be a somewhat trying person; in the realms
of fiction she lives in a charmed atmosphere.
According to Mr. Gornall's jaunty disquisi-
discovered nothing new in the book.
But Rose Cater, the half-educated daughter of tion, the titled, landed, or moneyed gentry are
Quinton (R. F. ), The Modern Prison Curriculum,
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futility, gets into the clutches of a literary Gornall has every excuse for dazzling us with
we had more lives of obscure persons. If all
agent with a mephistophelian smirk,” who his suave and genial platitudes. He displays
were to be as good reading as this naive diary
runs a fiction factory. Then ensue a chain of some anxiety as to, and temptation towards, a
of a New England girl in the middle of the last
coincidences which put a great strain on our
materialistic conception of life. ”. Such a
century, we should echo his wish. The author
imagination. Some of the characters are well failing is incredible after the ministry of his
writes with singular grace and distinction of her
drawn, but the book on the whole is a some-
moralizations. If we are not all the fortunate
peaceful childhood in a world far different from
what dreary psychological study of types we possessors of Mr. Gornall's ten beatitudes, life
The America of to-day. Her picture of the
hope never to meet.
is at least simplified for us, its aspirations state of feeling in the Northern States during
Smart (Arthur D. ), The Chief of St. Donats, 2/ net.
analyzed and clarified. The dignity of Mr.
the Civil War is vivid ; and her school, her
“Wales,” says the author in his Introduction,
Gornall's style, his sense of life's values, and the
chapel, and, most charming of all, her old
" has always been a land remarkable for fresh
affability of his remarks leave us in very good Puritan grandmother, who knew more Scriptural
outbursts of life, a land of revival as regards
humour.
texts than any one else she ever met, are
religion, learning, and patriotism. ” So in Wales Gray (Charles H. ), Lodowick Carliell : his Life, pleasantly described with a minimum of that
he lays the plot of his thirteenth-century romance, a Discussion of his Plays, and 'The Deserving self-consciousness which dogs the footsteps of
in which the last native princes play a promi- Favourite,' a Tragi-Comedy, reprinted from diarists.
a
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Sumner (William Graham), War, and other history of Japan. The Hotokusha, one Findlater, and 'The Charm of Louise,' by
Essays, edited, with Introduction, by Albert of his most important organizations, is a
Mr. John Barnett. As a pendant to Sir
Galloway Keller, 10/ net.
Issued by Yale University.
co-operative credit society started some James Yoxall's article last month on
Women's Industrial Council, Seventeenth Annual twenty years before similar institutions 'The 21st of January, 1793,' the editor
,
Almanacs.
were formed in Germany. Messrs. Long- prints a letter describing an interview with
Artists' Almanac, 1912, 6d.
mans are issuing an account of his work Cléry, Louis XVI. 's valet, at Hamburg in
FOREIGN
under the title of 'A Peasant Sage of 1799. In 'Farewell to the Land' Mr.
Poetry and Drama.
Japan,' translated from the Hotokuki by Stephen Gwynn unites the poetic eye with
Grande Inondation de l'Arno en MCCCXXXIII. : Tadasu Yoshimoto, with an Introduction the practical hand. 'O-Tsune-Chan’ is
traduits en Français par les soins de MM. S. by Dr. J. Estlin Carpenter.
complete index.
M. Espitalier obtains much of his documentary Scottish Historical Review, January, 2/6 net.
evidence from such sources as the Archivio
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The article on The Old Schools and Universi-
British Record Office. Particular attention is
ties' of Scotland throws up in bold relief their
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development and historical continuity. Mr.
which explain much of his conduct in 1814.
A. W. Johnston contributes some suggestive
An appendix, index, and genealogical table
matter on the twelfth-century mythological lays
give substance to the investigation.
of the man of Orkney in collaboration with Ice-
Expedition on the Sacramento and San Joaquin
landers. Dr. Brandl's subversive article on
Rivers in 1817: Diary of Fray Narciso Duran,
The Vision of the Cross of Christ,' which
edited by C. E. Chapman.
attempts to shift the authorship from Cynewulf
One of the publications of the Academy of
to an anonymous Northumbrian of the eighth
Pacific Coast History:
century, is built upon somewhat slender
Hovey (Carl), The Life Story of J. Pierpont
foundations. There are a large number of
Morgan.
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If it is of any interest to the public to know Sergeant (Philip W. ), My Lady Castlemaine :
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hardly worth the permanency of print. Though
it be proper
at Omar's tomb" to join
in quaffing
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Mr. Holder, who has written a biography of
Darwin and much instructive matter about
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and “
fishing, now publishes a large volume on Southern
School-Books.
California, which he depicts as the paradise of
Fiction
sportsmen. He deprecates the conception of Pring (! . N. ), Laboratory Exercises in Physical Adams (Evelyn), Tales of Seven Islands, 61
sport as a desperate killing, a plethoric bag Chemistry, 4/ net.
A volume of short stories, reprinted from
or creel," and interweaves almost as much For notice see p. 71.
Good Words and various Australian magazines.
naturalism and botany into the fabric of his
The author uses her knowledge of life in Aus-
narrative as there is sport. His story is told
Science.
tralia and the islands of the Pacific with con-
with a wealth of picturesque detail, and is
happily embroidered
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with many engaging
Armytage (H. ), Darwin and the Bible, 6/ net.
touches. He writes of the country with deep
The author, before making this belated
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successful.
feeling, and supplies many spirited pictures of
attack upon Darwin, read the Origin of Species?
Californian life and scenery.
Towards the
dipped into the ‘Descent of Man. ' Balfour (Ethel), In Time's Storerooms, 6/
close of the book he drifts, almost unconsciously,
The result is not calculated to inflict severe This story suffers from the very defects
back to his old love-angling.
damage upon the Linnean Society. Nor which appear as virtues to a large section of
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Education.
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Thoughts on Education, chosen from the Writings consider their opinions upon either religious or discovery then that her beloved guardian is
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For review see p. 62.
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wish of her dead mother that she should offer
Butler (H. J. ), Motor Bodies and Chassis : a Text-
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social phenomena which influenced the forma-
motor-car, with which Mr. Butler deals. It is
author's talent better employed.
tion of Western civilization into an analysis
natural that the mechanism of a car should
Barclay (Marguerite and Armiger), The Activities
of the development of evolution and its relation
receive closer study than its less important of Lavie Jutt, 6/
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values. The scope of his subject is too large
styles of bodies has certainly been inadequate. fine disregard for probabilities and in most
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The author surveys and defines the varieties
cases possibilities. The first chapter is appro-
forces. His work is therefore prone to incon.
of bodies hitherto invented, and devotes chap- priately named 'Lavie Starts In,' and the
clusiveness and generalization.
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known political views, and may be confidently 'Continuous-Current Machine Design,' to which short Preface by Dr. A. S. Rappoport.
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Hutchinson (Woods), We and Our Children.
party system, but there is no indication that the
Portsmouth lads, is, like other matters, put
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generation, especially go far as its home por hint as to how the development of altruism
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life is concerned. The elementary teaching in the individual which he urges is to be either
Butler on “Oxford,' and Clara Dorothea Rack-
in such chapters as that on 'The Sweet Tooth fostered or directed.
ham on 'Cambridge,' are more interesting than
or 'Our Ivory Keepers of the Gate? reiterates
the other writers.
truths which every wise mother endeavours to
Cook (W. Victor), Anton of the Alps, 6/
put into practice. The author is an optimist
The intricacies and vicissitudes of this tale
Philology.
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Whetham (W. C. D. and C. D. ), An Introduction to read them. The author has much to learn;
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Benton (P. Askell), Kanuri Readings, including the immense field of inquiry in a science still
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For the Defence : a Brief for Lady Carol, 6/
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Racial Qualities,' three on the Methods of
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Kanuri,' published by the Church Missionary Research, and five on the Construction of
it anonymously. ' We regret that we cannot
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commend this departure from his successful
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The phenomenon of a restricted birth-rate,
style. Frankly, the book is gloomy, and the
vocabulary, and a list of Kanuri prefixes and which has profoundly modified biological
chief figures bore us ; when one wants to get
suffixes. The fables are naive and fanciful.
sociology, gives supreme importance to the
married, the other doesn't, and thus they
The Kanuri are the dominant tribe of Bornu, subject.
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incident recalls a recently successful play.
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lore into a mosaic.
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Fraser (Mrs. Hugh) and Stahlmann (J. I. ), The nent part. A medley of fighting, deeds of the Original Edition of 1629, with Introduction
Satanist, 6/
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An unpleasant tale, which we are unable to should please readers who care more for the Dr. Gray has accomplished an effective
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work in resuscitating Carliell, whose biography
at the beginning of the twentieth century. Spencer (Denton), Old Thane's Mummy, 1/
has never been written before, while his plays
Henry (0. ), Cabbages and Kings, 3/6 net.
The story of an antiquary's daughter who are buried under-in our opinion—a deserved
The work of this finished and subtle author
masquerades
Egyptian mummy
oblivion. 'The Deserving Favourite,' the least
has never received the meed that is its due.
brought to life. She disappears, is found, and
wearisome of those plays, is founded on a
He is one of the few writers of short stories
reunited to her distracted lover; while the
Spanish romantic novel, and Carliell owed much
who have claims on posterity. His power of professor incidentally is burnt in his own home,
of his tepid inspiration to foreign sources. He
conjuring up men and women and stamping The same process is to be observed in Mr.
translated one of Corneille's plays. Like most
them with vital significance in a curiously Spencer's novel as in 'The Mysteries of Udolpho. '
of the dramatists of the seventeenth century
haphazard and semi-abstracted way gives Our imagination is stimulated to eerie pitch who wrote heroic plays, Carliell embroiders his
his individual charm and creative force unity. by the implication of supernatural agencies at
plots round the eternal theme of love and
His confident and at the same time plastic style
is effective for his purpose.
work, only to be promptly disillusioned by the
honour. His volubility and edifying magnilo-
banality of a hoax. The style is a nice blend
quence are inexhaustible. He never deviates
Herbertson (Agnes Grozier), The Ship that came of the Johnsonian and the interjectional.
from the conventional regulations which this
Home in the Dark, 6/
dramatic genre imposed upon him.
A woman living in strained relations with her
Stevens (E. S. ), The Lure.
husband, who is blind, falls in love and runs
This describes two episodes, altogether Le Braz (Anatole), The Night of Fires, and other
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away with another man. The situation is
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success of the impersonation practised on the
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peasants and customs.
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A good deal of the
Holdsworth (Annie E. ), Dame Verona of the
crocodile-farming business, the situation of
matter is commonplace, and for this we do not
Angels.
which enables the author to give some convin-
conceive the blame rests entirely with the
translator.
This book is a study of temperament to
cing descriptions of Sudanese scenery. Ap.
which pre-natal influence is supposed to supply
parently, the two years' interval between the Morgan (Charlotte E. ), The Rise of the Novel of
the key. A more uncomfortable coterie of episodes had changed him, for he is no longer Manners: a Study of English Prose Fiction
troubled consciences than those which surround
the epigrammatic flâneur, but & scoundrel
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the subject of the study it would be difficult to
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find. They include a dour Calvinist, the lady
the author's writing that we do not regret this five hundred prose narratives printed between
who has been willing to marry him for love
scoundrel's escape from justice.
1600 and 1740, with chronological accessories,
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and the index, occupies well-nigh one-half of
a baffled, revengeful woman who draws Verona
For notice see p. 63.
this monograph. It deals with the prose out-
towards the Romanism so hateful to her father Vahey (H. L. ), Camilla Forgetting Herself, 6/
put between the beginning of the seventeenth
--and an extraordinary youth who shares her As the author remarks on the first page,
century and the middle of the eighteenth,
passion for sacrifice.
Camilla never did forget herself, so we can only
adopting a somewhat arbitrary form of classi-
Kelston (Beatrice), A Three-Cornered Duel, 6/ suppose that Mr. Vahey thought it was an at-
fication. Though freshness, colour, and in-
The author's clever and delicate handling tractive title and as good as any other. This
sight are not prominent in this volume, which
of an ingenious plot commends her book. Her book cannot be said to be an improvement on
forms one of the Columbia University Studies
characters are full of the joy of life, and well his previous work. The story is concerned with
in English, its scrupulous and conscientious
portrayed. One only regrets that so small a two perpetual honeymooners who are
workmanship, and its presentation of all the
part is allotted to the deaf housekeeper, Mrs. absurdly happy, and, it may be added, rather
facts that bear upon the subject, deserve bigb
Allgood, whose humble calling and retiring silly. There are two stage uncles introduced
praise.
disposition place her in the background.
to give some semblance of a plot.
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ment. The editor takes advantage of Mr.
attractive article is that of the Rev. R. L. Gales,
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Balfour's retirement for a pleasant eulogy, and
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The author's characterization is bold and
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Jingle Makers '--Mr. Belloc, Mr. Chesterton,
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translations of early Irish religious poetry: about over this little world of ours. . . .
Hindu lore and superstition, but never crudely
This
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A somewhat Ultramontane article, entitled quotation from the Foreword gives a fair idea
pleasure in spontaneous and unsophisticated
Anti-Clerical Policy in Portugal,' attempts to of the author's method. His constant and
emotion.
depreciate the administration of the new Portu- unusually awkward flippancy makes it difficult
Prague (Joseph), A Woman of Impulse, 6/
guese Republic.
to realize the animals he talks about. It also
In everyday life a woman of impulse
Gornall (H. K. ), The Ten Talents :
occasionally betrays him, e. g. , in his account
an Uncon-
of a bull in India, into bad taste. We have
ventional Commentary.
may be a somewhat trying person; in the realms
of fiction she lives in a charmed atmosphere.
According to Mr. Gornall's jaunty disquisi-
discovered nothing new in the book.
But Rose Cater, the half-educated daughter of tion, the titled, landed, or moneyed gentry are
Quinton (R. F. ), The Modern Prison Curriculum,
a struggling author, with her accesses of religious the principal and legitimate inheritors of the 5/ net.
zeal, her immature views on marriage, her kingdom of the ten talents or the ten essential Richards (Caroline Cowles),
Village Life in America
crude unconventionality, is commonplace perquisites of life-good disposition, education, 1852–72, including the Period of the American
enough, and fails to interest or amuse us. Her social prestige, wealth, and the like. As these Civil War, as told in the Diary of a Schoolgirl,
father, a man predestined to failure, who fore- gifts seem to be properly, apportioned and 4/6 net.
sees his doom and revolts from it with pathetic bestowed with exquisite discrimination, Mr. Matthew Arnold once expressed a wish that
futility, gets into the clutches of a literary Gornall has every excuse for dazzling us with
we had more lives of obscure persons. If all
agent with a mephistophelian smirk,” who his suave and genial platitudes. He displays
were to be as good reading as this naive diary
runs a fiction factory. Then ensue a chain of some anxiety as to, and temptation towards, a
of a New England girl in the middle of the last
coincidences which put a great strain on our
materialistic conception of life. ”. Such a
century, we should echo his wish. The author
imagination. Some of the characters are well failing is incredible after the ministry of his
writes with singular grace and distinction of her
drawn, but the book on the whole is a some-
moralizations. If we are not all the fortunate
peaceful childhood in a world far different from
what dreary psychological study of types we possessors of Mr. Gornall's ten beatitudes, life
The America of to-day. Her picture of the
hope never to meet.
is at least simplified for us, its aspirations state of feeling in the Northern States during
Smart (Arthur D. ), The Chief of St. Donats, 2/ net.
analyzed and clarified. The dignity of Mr.
the Civil War is vivid ; and her school, her
“Wales,” says the author in his Introduction,
Gornall's style, his sense of life's values, and the
chapel, and, most charming of all, her old
" has always been a land remarkable for fresh
affability of his remarks leave us in very good Puritan grandmother, who knew more Scriptural
outbursts of life, a land of revival as regards
humour.
texts than any one else she ever met, are
religion, learning, and patriotism. ” So in Wales Gray (Charles H. ), Lodowick Carliell : his Life, pleasantly described with a minimum of that
he lays the plot of his thirteenth-century romance, a Discussion of his Plays, and 'The Deserving self-consciousness which dogs the footsteps of
in which the last native princes play a promi- Favourite,' a Tragi-Comedy, reprinted from diarists.
a
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No. 4395, Jan. 20, 1911
THE ATHENÆUM
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Sumner (William Graham), War, and other history of Japan. The Hotokusha, one Findlater, and 'The Charm of Louise,' by
Essays, edited, with Introduction, by Albert of his most important organizations, is a
Mr. John Barnett. As a pendant to Sir
Galloway Keller, 10/ net.
Issued by Yale University.
co-operative credit society started some James Yoxall's article last month on
Women's Industrial Council, Seventeenth Annual twenty years before similar institutions 'The 21st of January, 1793,' the editor
,
Almanacs.
were formed in Germany. Messrs. Long- prints a letter describing an interview with
Artists' Almanac, 1912, 6d.
mans are issuing an account of his work Cléry, Louis XVI. 's valet, at Hamburg in
FOREIGN
under the title of 'A Peasant Sage of 1799. In 'Farewell to the Land' Mr.
Poetry and Drama.
Japan,' translated from the Hotokuki by Stephen Gwynn unites the poetic eye with
Grande Inondation de l'Arno en MCCCXXXIII. : Tadasu Yoshimoto, with an Introduction the practical hand. 'O-Tsune-Chan’ is
traduits en Français par les soins de MM. S. by Dr. J. Estlin Carpenter.
