above indicated, the
necessary
data for the and modes of thought.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
as the chief material for her interesting applied arts, and especially that jeweller's
Mabel, the greatest figure of the group, is volumes. The portraits are numerous and work wherein the Polish craftsmen showed
not adequately represented by the samples unusually good.
such excellence. On at least two of the
of her sayings that have been chosen. She
pictures in the Czartoryski Museum we
said some things more profound and pene- Lepszy (Leonard), CRACOW, THE ROYAL should like to hear our author reply to the
trating than any of these. It is much,
CAPITAL OF ANCIENT POLAND : authorities. Müntz, for instance, denied
however, for the ordinary English reader to
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES, translated the authenticity of the Cecilia Gallerani
be made acquainted with her at all, and he by R. Dyboski, 10/6 net. Fisher Unwin portrait ascribed to Leonardo ; and we should
will be well advised to seek the fresh pastures This handsome volume is an abridgment like to hear more of the Prince [sic] of
of Miss Hargrave's volume.
of a more ambitious work issued by the Urbino' by Raphael which every recognized
Cracow Society of Antiquaries in 1904, expert records as “ lost. "
Hart (R. J. ), CHRONOS : A HANDBOOK OF and, whereas that monograph, compiled by Melville (Lewis), AN INJURED QUEEN, CARO-
COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY, 6/ net. leading authorities with small fear of weary-
Bell & Sons ing a patriotic audience, may be described
LINE OF BRUNSWICK, 2 vols, 24
Hutchinson
On the title-page these “chronological as intended for consumption on the spot, the
notes on history, art, and literature from present volume is put forth as an attempt
Familiar though the facts are, it seems
8000 B. C. to 1700 A. D. " are described as to interest a wider circle, less tolerant of scarcely credible that an English monarch
“ for the use of travellers. " They are an detail
, and therefore to be treated with dis- should have been able, less than a century
enlargement of tables made by the author cretion. The Austrian Government itself ago, to behave as George IV. did to the
during many winters spent in Egypt, Greece, has subsidized the venture, which is well wife who was also his first cousin ; and to
and Italy, and certainly supply in concise calculated to fulfil its main purpose and read the series of original documents
form a remarkable amount of information. attract attention to a city none too well brought together by Mr. Melville intensifies
Besides the usual details, we get a view of known in the English-speaking world. For both amazement and indignation. But
India, Japan, and China, the last including Cracow, more than Warsaw, is the shadowy although her husband treated her with
Wang-Chi, known the “Five-Bottle capital of the extinct Polish kingdom.
injustice and insult, even from a time
Scholar," who is credited with “good prose Warsaw represents the modern and “elec- antecedent to their wedding-although his
and verse in his lucid intervals. " The tive" Poland ; Cracow was the capital of hatred grew more venomous and more un-
volume is specially strong on art, to which her Jagellonic dynasty, after whom, except scrupulous with every year of her life-it
a supplement is devoted, in addition to the the four Vasas, came monarchs chosen either was not by him, but by the father who forced
notes in the main text, and contains several by force or fraud and three parts powerless, him into the marriage, that the first wrong
other useful appendixes. It is likely to be with here and there a Bathory or a Sobieski was done to her. George III. must have
popular with the intelligent tourist, and to justify a system-theoretically ideal-known something of his niece's character
relies for the most part on sound authorities. practically, however, disruptive and im- and habits, and must have been aware that
The index needs enlargement. We have possible in a state whose greater magnates she would inevitably be distasteful to her
failed to find, for instance, Artemis, Leo- stood above the law. It was Sigismund III. , bridegroom. The Prince of Wales was
nardo, and the Pleiad.
the first of the four Vasas, who in 1619 fastidious man, without principle or deep
Lo Blond (Mrs. Aubrey), CHARLOTTE SOPHIE, ancient capital was abandoned ; yet here good manners, elegancies, and external
removed with his Court to Warsaw. The feelings, who set an exaggerated value upon
COUNTESS BENTINCK : HER LIFE AND
alone in all Poland was a city that had its refinements. The Princess Caroline lacked
TIMES, 1715–1800, 2 vols. , 24/ net.
steady centuries of growth and accumulation. tact and taste, her voice was loud, her
Hutchinson The shrines of saints, the proud memorials manners rough, and her tongue singularly
Charlotte Sophie, born Countess of Olden- of a line of kings, a tradition of art, of indiscreet; she dressed incongruously, and
burg, and sovereign in her own right of culture, of learning-all these were set was not even particular as to perfect cleanli-
various small domains in the immediate aside, and Cracow fell
, to rise once more as ness of person and attire. That she was
neighbourhood of Wilhelmshaven, married the capital of an Austrian province. To-day generous, good-natured, frank, and coura-
in 1733 William Bentinck, second a benevolent but alien government encourgeous weighed nothing against the fatal
of the first Earl of Portland, whom, in ages its pride and helps in the work of pro facts that she was undignified and a little
order to make him a fitting consort for her, servation. As Poles go, the Austrian Pole grotesque. That she ever misconducted
the Emperor created Count Bentinck. The is fortunate.
herself seems improbable ; that she con-
marriage did not prove happy, and in 1739 Pan Lepszy is an efficient guide to the tinually misbehaved herself is certain.
she, being then but 24 years old, returned to city's history and ancient monuments, and, Moreover, such conjugal affection as George
her mother, and never saw again either her ably assisted by the photographer, he makes was capable of feeling had long since been
husband or her two sons. Not until she us realize the architectural beauties of the bestowed upon another woman.
had become a widow, more than fifty years cathedral, the major churches, and public Mr. Melville has done well in bringing the
later, did she make the acquaintance of her buildings, the projectors of which were now unhappy story before the modern roader in
own desoondants.
inspired by the Gothic German masters, and a fluent and readable narrative,
as
a
son
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Sarson (Mary) and Phillips (Mabel Addison), for the grandfather, in 1857, at the age of visit. The book opens with ' A Tribute' to
THE HISTORY
PEOPLE 16 or 17, joined the Bengal Army. After a remarkable woman who wished the Diary
ISRAEL IN PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES.
some desultory service, he had the good to appear, Ida von Mohl, Baronin von
Longmans | fortune to be appointed to the Punjab as Schmidt-Zabiero, the niece of the leaders of
This book gives the impression of a run-
Assistant Commissioner. This means that a salon where the talk was always on
ning commentary, linking the Old Testament he left military for civil employment, in tall lines, but typically gracious, suave, and
de-
with book-narration and prophecy and those days more perhaps than now a decided distinguished. The illustrations
poetry. It also touches the history of step in advance; for, though drawing the cidedly attractive.
surrounding nations, the position of the better pay of the civilian, he was not de-
Hebrews amongst them, and the religious barred from future military service, in Book of the Knowledge of all the Kingdoms,
Lands, and Lordships that are in the
and other characteristics of contemporary which his rank advanced automatically
World, and the Arms and Devices of
civilizations. Quotations from the old under existing rules. He was sent to the
each Land and Lordship, or of the Kings
Testament text are printed in fuller type. frontier in 1861, when he appears to have
and Lords who possess Them, written
This summary from the Preface by the resigned civil work and joined the Punjab
Head Master of Rugby, who commends the Irregular Force. But he did not stay long
by a Spanish Franciscan in the Middle
of the Fourteenth century, published
book for upper forms, is a good description with them, or, indeed, in any regular employ,
for the First Time, with Notes, by
of the book.
ment. We find him in Bhutan in a political
capacity ;
Marcos Jiménez de la Espada in 1877,
then back in the Punjab ;
Simon (Leon), MOSES LEIB LILIENBLUM.
translated and edited by Sir Clements
employed by Lord Mayo in the negotiations
Markham.
Hakluyt Society
Cambridge University Press with Sher Ali, the Amír of Kabul ; accom-
An interesting character-sketch of a man panying the Shah of Persia during his visit
The date of the original MS. of this curious
of unusual ability and learning, who, begin- to England ; back to district work in the and hasty record of travel is. “about 1350
ning as a pious student and dreamer, was Punjab, where he devoted himself to irriga- and he cannot have seen all that he speaks
led by doubts and accusations of heresy, to tion; and, finally, superintending Native of, but is regarded by the learned Spanish
become a materialistic pessimist. A period States. All is well and pleasantly told by editor as a traveller, and not a mere compiler
of teaching and penury followed, which was the grandfather, and many of his sentiments,
succeeded by the most successful part of though now they may be scouted as out of the Canary Isles, the Madeiras, and the
of traditions. He was the first to inention
Lilienblum's life, his steady work for the date, are worth regard.
Zionist cause. The volume forms No. 3 of
Azores. In “Inglaterra ? he discovered
Taylor (William F. ), THE CHARTERHOUSE OF eleven great cities, the largest “ Londres,
the Cambridge Jewish Publications.
LONDON, MONASTERY, PALACE, AND and another Gunsa [Windsor), where are
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New edition in Murray's Shilling Library,
of the old convent. It is its continuity from arms, flags, or devices of the countries,
Sultán Jahan Begam (Her Highness Nawab), author on his title-page, which has gained it
the fourteenth century, as indicated by the admirably reproduced here in colours, are
AN ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE, translated by
a very interesting feature of the work.
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C. H. Payne, 15/ net. John Murray to be written about its history.
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earn a livelihood for himself and his family
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house which, in spite of modernized ideals, special efforts to its destruction.
and Mexico the primitive violence of savam
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Bhopal is a Mohammedan State of great -made it into a very handsome residence, makes exciting reading, and tends to
commercialized modernism. The result
importance, and has been ruled over by which the Earl of Suffolk sold to Thomas
three Begams in succession, of whom the Sutton in 1611. Sutton's Hospital, which encourage insular Phariseeism.
author rivals her grandmother, Sikandar Thomas Fuller styled " the masterpiece of Lindley (Percy), ON THE East Coast.
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OF
a
is interesting, but scarcely profound. The question from the feminine standpoint, ex- McCarthy (J. Huntly), A HEALTH UNTO His
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element is mainly represented, impress us millionaire is somewhat of a surprise even in
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tions every sentence without a predicate
is always delightful; not least so when
Goldring (Douglas), THE PERMANENT UNCLE; he calls a meeting of shareholders to in- might have been sternly excised.
Constable
This book is made up for the most part fit to have the control of money, since they
form them that evidently they are not Sabatini (Rafael), THE JUSTICE OF THE DUKE,
of incidents which have nothing whatever have invested it in a concern like his.
6/
Stanley Paul
to do with the story—so far, at least, as
Perhaps the second of these fictitious
there can be said to be a story. The people Kennedy-Noble, WHITE ASHES, 6/
stories concerning Cesare Borgia's ruthless
concerned are mostly runaways-a runaway
Macmillan yet subtle sense of justice is the happiest.
husband, a runaway niece, and (greatest of
The authors of this book have chosen for By a swiftly and deeply conceived scheme
all) a runaway uncle who is
permanent their theme the romance of that great bul- the little state of San Ciascano is reduced
only in the affections of his protégés. As wark of a modern commercial community- to impotence after long bafiling the Duke's
might be expected with such a cast, there insurance against fire. They describe with ingenuity ; one of his most trusted captains
is plenty of movement, and though none of enthusiasm the ramifications financial, is cured of the love-sickness which was
the episodes is convincing, they are described social, and legal—of which the good under- proving detrimental to his career ; and the
with a cynical humour that is amusing. writer must have knowledge; they visualize house of the latter's unworthy lady is
the hazards that lurk in the least suspected picturesquely humiliated. But all the narra-
Great was the Fall, by a Naval Officer, 6/
quarters; and they bring their story to a tives
treated with that confident
Long climax with a great American confagra- touch of the biographer which holds one's
The story suggests that it would be pos- tion, expressed in terms of structures, fuels, attention.
sible for Germany, taking advantage of an design, and wind-velocity. All this is well
opportuno moment when our naval forces done, and adds a definito educational value Saunders (Margaret Baillie), LADY Q, 6!
are dispersed in various parts of the United to the book which is not unpleasing; but
Hutchinson
Kingdom, and many of their important units the authors have yet
to learn how to handle We are told that the opening incident of
are in dockyard hands, to effect the landing what is termed a love-interest. Their this book is founded on fact, and actually
of an army of considerable strength near Hull
. heroine is characterless and colourless to occurred in a London borough in 1909.
That
We doubt, however, whether the manifold
the end, and her girl friend who “dispenses incident--the changing of clothes with an
evidences of preparation on the part of our the material concomitants” at afternoon intending suicide by a woman in the lowest
opponents here mentioned would escape tea-presumably with graceis as unsatis- poverty
has the germs of great possi-
the notice of the most obtuse of autho- factory a figure.
bilities,
feel disappointed and
rities.
aggrieved when it introduces nis on p. 18 to a
Lyall (David), THE HOUSE NOT MADE WITH
Gull (C, Ranger), THE GLAD EYE, A FARCICAL HANDS.
number of dull and ill-bred people, whose
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Constable Magruder (Julia), HER HUSBAND : _A MAN
The conception of a simple - minded OF MYSTERY, 6/ Grant Richards Southey (Rosamund), ROGER'S LUCK, 6/
and confiding wife brought abruptly to the The plot of this book is absurd, and the
Ham-Smith
knowledge that a hitherto idolized husband constant love-making, tedious. There are South Africa during the Boer War is the
is unfaithful, and her ultimate solution of a only three characters in the story: a young scene of this story of life in official circles.
problem which threatens to wreck her happi- American woman, wayward and uncon- It is well written and readable, but contains
ness, are skilfully worked out, and possess ventional, her Scotch husband, and his twin no deep interest, the people, with the excep-
considerable human interest.
brother. These two brothers are supposed tion of Sara, being dull and uninspiring.
The story takes the form of an autobio- to be absolutely alike in outward appearance, ! Sara, in fact, is the one bright patch in a
graphy, and deals at length with the marriage while their characters are absolutely unlike. drab setting
are
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Veer (Willem de), A BENEDIOT's ESCAPADE, characteristic of womanhood is open to Social Guide (The), 1912, 2/6 net. Black
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“Cows,' for instance, is Kentish dialect for
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No doubt those who feel a warm glow ideas.
references, and index is irritating, and the pervade their being at the thought that
Pampblets.
little book is not free from trivialities.
Mabel, the greatest figure of the group, is volumes. The portraits are numerous and work wherein the Polish craftsmen showed
not adequately represented by the samples unusually good.
such excellence. On at least two of the
of her sayings that have been chosen. She
pictures in the Czartoryski Museum we
said some things more profound and pene- Lepszy (Leonard), CRACOW, THE ROYAL should like to hear our author reply to the
trating than any of these. It is much,
CAPITAL OF ANCIENT POLAND : authorities. Müntz, for instance, denied
however, for the ordinary English reader to
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES, translated the authenticity of the Cecilia Gallerani
be made acquainted with her at all, and he by R. Dyboski, 10/6 net. Fisher Unwin portrait ascribed to Leonardo ; and we should
will be well advised to seek the fresh pastures This handsome volume is an abridgment like to hear more of the Prince [sic] of
of Miss Hargrave's volume.
of a more ambitious work issued by the Urbino' by Raphael which every recognized
Cracow Society of Antiquaries in 1904, expert records as “ lost. "
Hart (R. J. ), CHRONOS : A HANDBOOK OF and, whereas that monograph, compiled by Melville (Lewis), AN INJURED QUEEN, CARO-
COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY, 6/ net. leading authorities with small fear of weary-
Bell & Sons ing a patriotic audience, may be described
LINE OF BRUNSWICK, 2 vols, 24
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On the title-page these “chronological as intended for consumption on the spot, the
notes on history, art, and literature from present volume is put forth as an attempt
Familiar though the facts are, it seems
8000 B. C. to 1700 A. D. " are described as to interest a wider circle, less tolerant of scarcely credible that an English monarch
“ for the use of travellers. " They are an detail
, and therefore to be treated with dis- should have been able, less than a century
enlargement of tables made by the author cretion. The Austrian Government itself ago, to behave as George IV. did to the
during many winters spent in Egypt, Greece, has subsidized the venture, which is well wife who was also his first cousin ; and to
and Italy, and certainly supply in concise calculated to fulfil its main purpose and read the series of original documents
form a remarkable amount of information. attract attention to a city none too well brought together by Mr. Melville intensifies
Besides the usual details, we get a view of known in the English-speaking world. For both amazement and indignation. But
India, Japan, and China, the last including Cracow, more than Warsaw, is the shadowy although her husband treated her with
Wang-Chi, known the “Five-Bottle capital of the extinct Polish kingdom.
injustice and insult, even from a time
Scholar," who is credited with “good prose Warsaw represents the modern and “elec- antecedent to their wedding-although his
and verse in his lucid intervals. " The tive" Poland ; Cracow was the capital of hatred grew more venomous and more un-
volume is specially strong on art, to which her Jagellonic dynasty, after whom, except scrupulous with every year of her life-it
a supplement is devoted, in addition to the the four Vasas, came monarchs chosen either was not by him, but by the father who forced
notes in the main text, and contains several by force or fraud and three parts powerless, him into the marriage, that the first wrong
other useful appendixes. It is likely to be with here and there a Bathory or a Sobieski was done to her. George III. must have
popular with the intelligent tourist, and to justify a system-theoretically ideal-known something of his niece's character
relies for the most part on sound authorities. practically, however, disruptive and im- and habits, and must have been aware that
The index needs enlargement. We have possible in a state whose greater magnates she would inevitably be distasteful to her
failed to find, for instance, Artemis, Leo- stood above the law. It was Sigismund III. , bridegroom. The Prince of Wales was
nardo, and the Pleiad.
the first of the four Vasas, who in 1619 fastidious man, without principle or deep
Lo Blond (Mrs. Aubrey), CHARLOTTE SOPHIE, ancient capital was abandoned ; yet here good manners, elegancies, and external
removed with his Court to Warsaw. The feelings, who set an exaggerated value upon
COUNTESS BENTINCK : HER LIFE AND
alone in all Poland was a city that had its refinements. The Princess Caroline lacked
TIMES, 1715–1800, 2 vols. , 24/ net.
steady centuries of growth and accumulation. tact and taste, her voice was loud, her
Hutchinson The shrines of saints, the proud memorials manners rough, and her tongue singularly
Charlotte Sophie, born Countess of Olden- of a line of kings, a tradition of art, of indiscreet; she dressed incongruously, and
burg, and sovereign in her own right of culture, of learning-all these were set was not even particular as to perfect cleanli-
various small domains in the immediate aside, and Cracow fell
, to rise once more as ness of person and attire. That she was
neighbourhood of Wilhelmshaven, married the capital of an Austrian province. To-day generous, good-natured, frank, and coura-
in 1733 William Bentinck, second a benevolent but alien government encourgeous weighed nothing against the fatal
of the first Earl of Portland, whom, in ages its pride and helps in the work of pro facts that she was undignified and a little
order to make him a fitting consort for her, servation. As Poles go, the Austrian Pole grotesque. That she ever misconducted
the Emperor created Count Bentinck. The is fortunate.
herself seems improbable ; that she con-
marriage did not prove happy, and in 1739 Pan Lepszy is an efficient guide to the tinually misbehaved herself is certain.
she, being then but 24 years old, returned to city's history and ancient monuments, and, Moreover, such conjugal affection as George
her mother, and never saw again either her ably assisted by the photographer, he makes was capable of feeling had long since been
husband or her two sons. Not until she us realize the architectural beauties of the bestowed upon another woman.
had become a widow, more than fifty years cathedral, the major churches, and public Mr. Melville has done well in bringing the
later, did she make the acquaintance of her buildings, the projectors of which were now unhappy story before the modern roader in
own desoondants.
inspired by the Gothic German masters, and a fluent and readable narrative,
as
a
son
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Sarson (Mary) and Phillips (Mabel Addison), for the grandfather, in 1857, at the age of visit. The book opens with ' A Tribute' to
THE HISTORY
PEOPLE 16 or 17, joined the Bengal Army. After a remarkable woman who wished the Diary
ISRAEL IN PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES.
some desultory service, he had the good to appear, Ida von Mohl, Baronin von
Longmans | fortune to be appointed to the Punjab as Schmidt-Zabiero, the niece of the leaders of
This book gives the impression of a run-
Assistant Commissioner. This means that a salon where the talk was always on
ning commentary, linking the Old Testament he left military for civil employment, in tall lines, but typically gracious, suave, and
de-
with book-narration and prophecy and those days more perhaps than now a decided distinguished. The illustrations
poetry. It also touches the history of step in advance; for, though drawing the cidedly attractive.
surrounding nations, the position of the better pay of the civilian, he was not de-
Hebrews amongst them, and the religious barred from future military service, in Book of the Knowledge of all the Kingdoms,
Lands, and Lordships that are in the
and other characteristics of contemporary which his rank advanced automatically
World, and the Arms and Devices of
civilizations. Quotations from the old under existing rules. He was sent to the
each Land and Lordship, or of the Kings
Testament text are printed in fuller type. frontier in 1861, when he appears to have
and Lords who possess Them, written
This summary from the Preface by the resigned civil work and joined the Punjab
Head Master of Rugby, who commends the Irregular Force. But he did not stay long
by a Spanish Franciscan in the Middle
of the Fourteenth century, published
book for upper forms, is a good description with them, or, indeed, in any regular employ,
for the First Time, with Notes, by
of the book.
ment. We find him in Bhutan in a political
capacity ;
Marcos Jiménez de la Espada in 1877,
then back in the Punjab ;
Simon (Leon), MOSES LEIB LILIENBLUM.
translated and edited by Sir Clements
employed by Lord Mayo in the negotiations
Markham.
Hakluyt Society
Cambridge University Press with Sher Ali, the Amír of Kabul ; accom-
An interesting character-sketch of a man panying the Shah of Persia during his visit
The date of the original MS. of this curious
of unusual ability and learning, who, begin- to England ; back to district work in the and hasty record of travel is. “about 1350
ning as a pious student and dreamer, was Punjab, where he devoted himself to irriga- and he cannot have seen all that he speaks
led by doubts and accusations of heresy, to tion; and, finally, superintending Native of, but is regarded by the learned Spanish
become a materialistic pessimist. A period States. All is well and pleasantly told by editor as a traveller, and not a mere compiler
of teaching and penury followed, which was the grandfather, and many of his sentiments,
succeeded by the most successful part of though now they may be scouted as out of the Canary Isles, the Madeiras, and the
of traditions. He was the first to inention
Lilienblum's life, his steady work for the date, are worth regard.
Zionist cause. The volume forms No. 3 of
Azores. In “Inglaterra ? he discovered
Taylor (William F. ), THE CHARTERHOUSE OF eleven great cities, the largest “ Londres,
the Cambridge Jewish Publications.
LONDON, MONASTERY, PALACE, AND and another Gunsa [Windsor), where are
Stanley (Arthur P. ), HISTORICAL MEMORIALS THOMAS SUTTON'S FOUNDATION, 7/6 net. the general studies ; another Antona (South-
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EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE, BECKET'S astic London, is practically unique, although forda (Milford]. " In Gales" (Wales) there
SHRINE.
little more than Washhouse Court remains is a great city Dirgales, unidentified. The
New edition in Murray's Shilling Library,
of the old convent. It is its continuity from arms, flags, or devices of the countries,
Sultán Jahan Begam (Her Highness Nawab), author on his title-page, which has gained it
the fourteenth century, as indicated by the admirably reproduced here in colours, are
AN ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE, translated by
a very interesting feature of the work.
& popular interest and caused so much The notes are nearly all derived from the
C. H. Payne, 15/ net. John Murray to be written about its history.
Spanish editor, and there are two indexes
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Begam of Bhopal, and translated by his book to the religious house, glorified in
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earn a livelihood for himself and his family
forty years up to 1904. It furnishes an
interesting picture of Indian diplomacy, and at Witham in Somerset ; but, though late conventions that it is difficult to believe
after the first house was started in England presents a picture of social conditions so
remote from our settled and steady-going
the trials and difficulties which have to be in time, it became a most important insti- them really contemporaneous. In Texas
faced by an heir-apparent of a great ruling tution, and Thomas Cromwell devoted
house which, in spite of modernized ideals, special efforts to its destruction.
and Mexico the primitive violence of savam
has maintained strict Mohammedan ortho- The men who used it as a palace -
gery seems to be blended in even proportions
doxy and adhered to the pardah system. mostly Howards, naming it Howard House
with the economic corruption of an over-
Bhopal is a Mohammedan State of great -made it into a very handsome residence, makes exciting reading, and tends to
commercialized modernism. The result
importance, and has been ruled over by which the Earl of Suffolk sold to Thomas
three Begams in succession, of whom the Sutton in 1611. Sutton's Hospital, which encourage insular Phariseeism.
author rivals her grandmother, Sikandar Thomas Fuller styled " the masterpiece of Lindley (Percy), ON THE East Coast.
Begam, in political sagacity and adminis- Protestant English charity, took its place. Issued by the Great Eastern Railway
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most British readers, who will find in this
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Highness the present Begam to rank amongst
AND DALMATIA : A DIARY OF IMPRES-ing Herald, do not rise above the level of
the most enlightened of Oriental potentates
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Sports and pastimes.
Preface prepares us for a casual style, and
Tales of our Grandfather; or, India since the author spoils much of her obvious Groenwood (G. G. ), SPORT, a Paper read
1856, edited by F. and C. Grey, 6/ net. enthusiasm and intelligence, not only by before the Animals' Protection Congress
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9th,
These tales, we are told, were originally multitude of trivialities and commonplace 1909; Collinson (Joseph), THE HUNTED
letters from Col. L. J. H. Grey, C. $. I. , to reflections. Dalmatia is, perhaps, not well OTTER. Animals' Friend Society
his grandsons in America, and by them they known, but Greece is. Of the former we The Animals' Friend Society calls atten-
have been edited in the present form. get frequent quotations from a book by tion in these two tracts to the barbarous
The tales describe a long and varied service, | Ť. G. Jackson, R. A. , which suggested the spirit underlying all sports which consist in
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and including mothers of young and helpless Introduction, Notes, and Glossary, by each lesson.
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well-known literary man, who chooses to Faculty of Yale University. Much erudition is a volume which at once appeals to a
issue it anonymously, 'The Great Analysis
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and acute criticism, and less meticulous tific method. The copious pictures and
great movement of statistical research which editions. The tendency of the whole is to numerous exercises.
dawned, unnoted, at the beginning of the over-elaboration. There are a full glossary, Taylor (E. 0. ), AN INTRODUCTION TO GF. 0-
last century with the taking of the first index, and bibliography. Neither do the
Slowly the idea has been growing explanatory notes err on the side of incom-
METRY, 1/6 Oxford, Clarendon Press
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The author's explanations and examples
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are good, but we are bound to say that we
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This collection of extracts from the fifth
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evident, if we only think of it, that such an between mere linguistic study and the mental
equilibrium can and must be established and wsthetic discipline afforded by French text, and should prove a popular reader for
unless the history of the world is to be one literature has been, and still is, apparent. famous classical pictures, are attractive,
boys. The illustrations, reproductions of
long series of oscillations between nascent The extracts have been carefully selected, and while some thirty exercises will measure the
order and devouring chaos. Hitherto, as are illustrative of French ideals, aspirations, pupil's success in mastering the Latin idiom.
above indicated, the necessary data for the and modes of thought. It is, however, with One of Bell's Simplified Classics.
equation have been unattainable. . . . The surprise that we note the omission of Michelet
sooner we see our way (however roughly from the list of authors.
Wilson (A. E. ), OUTLINES OF GERMAN
outlined) to a rational world-order, the more
GRAMMAR, 1/6
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chance is there of preventing a catastrophic
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swing of the pendúlum. . That is the thesis Auld (S. J. M. ), AN INTRODUCTION TO QUAN- for two years, and which is found to cover
has been used with success at Winchester
of the present argument. "
TITATIVE ANALYSIS, 5/ Methuen
Hundreds of brains and among them
some of the finest now at work in this
Though styled an introduction to quanti- cate of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools
the ground necessary for the Higher Certifi-
country—are busied upon different portions
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of the main theme; but probably very few, students of chemistry. The author claims essential for a student beginning to read
complete course of practical exercises for piler is to present the irreducible minimum
if any, have deliberately faced the whole that a proper use of his textbook will
vast plan which the author of 'The Great enable one to understand the standard
German.
Analysis has done a public service by treatises on the various branches of the Juvenile Literature.
putting into words.
subject. The exercises are well adapted for
Chambers's Standard Authors: THE WILD
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Fiction.
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OF
life. ”
OF
a
is interesting, but scarcely profound. The question from the feminine standpoint, ex- McCarthy (J. Huntly), A HEALTH UNTO His
heroine, though unselfish and, on the whole, hibiting at times some philosophy and piquant MAJESTY, 6!
Hurst & Blackett
honourable, is something of a shrew. Her humour, with an occasional touch of genuine A very readable romance dealing with the
two brothers are fine specimens of the knave pathos. The characters are lifelike and exile and restoration of Charles II. The
and the fool respectively. Her lover, the effectively suggested, and the book provides author writes with practised ease and some
county magnate of the title, has a pleasing an amusing account of American rural and distinction, and has drawn & Charles whom
personality, but we are inclined to sym- political life.
we can readily sympathize with and even
pathize with the sceptics who doubted his Hume (Fergus), RED MONEY, 6/
admire. The ball of adventure is kept
professional efficiency. The old maid and
Ward & Lock rolling, and love, needless to say, plays no
the “flapper," by whom the humorous
A gipsy who is also a baronet and a unimportant part in the narrative.
element is mainly represented, impress us millionaire is somewhat of a surprise even in
rather as caricatures than studies from the fiction, but it is a position which gives Mellwraith (Jean N. ), A DIANA OF QUEBEC,
life.
an opportunity for an interesting “double 6/
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Doyle (A. Conan), THE ADVENTURES
There is a good deal of gipsy jargon The scene is laid in Quebec in the closing
SHERLOCK HOLMES.
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of his career. Many of the characters are
Fairless (Michael), THE GATHERING
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A wealthy American girl is wooed by a
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peer whose grievance with the world
book is in the same form as The Road
spend it, and when you do, you have not
Heinemann
Mender' by the same author.
got it any longer. It is not for his own sake,
Gibbs (Philip), HELEN OF LANCASTER Gate, but for what he represents, that she becomes English novelists is that they do not know
Certainly the great fault of the serious
6/
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* Helen of Lancaster Gate' is a clever pieces for lack of money, and she wants to The Cost of It' running to fully 160,000
the value of judicious omission. Here is
novel palpitating with modernity, and none
save this from ruin, and the man whose
words, and it is safe to say that it might
the less modern, alas! for going off in ancestors went to the Crusades from going have been better written in 60,000. Only
the last chapters into a fairy-talo. It has into trade. Fortunately for her peace of
a very great talent or a special gift can
the great merit of being
eminently readable, mind, endangered by this missionary zeal, enable so long a narrative
to hold the
and nearly all its characters are lifelike, he inherits a fortune before they marry; and reader's interest
. The stuff is here of a fine
the exception, unfortunately, being the the girl, realizing that the only reason for novel, but the
form in which it is presented
heroine herself
, who is considerably “ too her sacrifice has disappeared, is able to marry is really but a rough draft that cries out
bright and good for human nature's daily the big-hearted managing director of
for drastic pruning; among other emenda-
food. ”
worthless syndicate. The latter character
tions every sentence without a predicate
is always delightful; not least so when
Goldring (Douglas), THE PERMANENT UNCLE; he calls a meeting of shareholders to in- might have been sternly excised.
Constable
This book is made up for the most part fit to have the control of money, since they
form them that evidently they are not Sabatini (Rafael), THE JUSTICE OF THE DUKE,
of incidents which have nothing whatever have invested it in a concern like his.
6/
Stanley Paul
to do with the story—so far, at least, as
Perhaps the second of these fictitious
there can be said to be a story. The people Kennedy-Noble, WHITE ASHES, 6/
stories concerning Cesare Borgia's ruthless
concerned are mostly runaways-a runaway
Macmillan yet subtle sense of justice is the happiest.
husband, a runaway niece, and (greatest of
The authors of this book have chosen for By a swiftly and deeply conceived scheme
all) a runaway uncle who is
permanent their theme the romance of that great bul- the little state of San Ciascano is reduced
only in the affections of his protégés. As wark of a modern commercial community- to impotence after long bafiling the Duke's
might be expected with such a cast, there insurance against fire. They describe with ingenuity ; one of his most trusted captains
is plenty of movement, and though none of enthusiasm the ramifications financial, is cured of the love-sickness which was
the episodes is convincing, they are described social, and legal—of which the good under- proving detrimental to his career ; and the
with a cynical humour that is amusing. writer must have knowledge; they visualize house of the latter's unworthy lady is
the hazards that lurk in the least suspected picturesquely humiliated. But all the narra-
Great was the Fall, by a Naval Officer, 6/
quarters; and they bring their story to a tives
treated with that confident
Long climax with a great American confagra- touch of the biographer which holds one's
The story suggests that it would be pos- tion, expressed in terms of structures, fuels, attention.
sible for Germany, taking advantage of an design, and wind-velocity. All this is well
opportuno moment when our naval forces done, and adds a definito educational value Saunders (Margaret Baillie), LADY Q, 6!
are dispersed in various parts of the United to the book which is not unpleasing; but
Hutchinson
Kingdom, and many of their important units the authors have yet
to learn how to handle We are told that the opening incident of
are in dockyard hands, to effect the landing what is termed a love-interest. Their this book is founded on fact, and actually
of an army of considerable strength near Hull
. heroine is characterless and colourless to occurred in a London borough in 1909.
That
We doubt, however, whether the manifold
the end, and her girl friend who “dispenses incident--the changing of clothes with an
evidences of preparation on the part of our the material concomitants” at afternoon intending suicide by a woman in the lowest
opponents here mentioned would escape tea-presumably with graceis as unsatis- poverty
has the germs of great possi-
the notice of the most obtuse of autho- factory a figure.
bilities,
feel disappointed and
rities.
aggrieved when it introduces nis on p. 18 to a
Lyall (David), THE HOUSE NOT MADE WITH
Gull (C, Ranger), THE GLAD EYE, A FARCICAL HANDS.
number of dull and ill-bred people, whose
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Harris (Corra), EvE's SECOND HUSBAND, 6/
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For notice see Athen. , Dec. 18, 1909, p. 757.
Constable Magruder (Julia), HER HUSBAND : _A MAN
The conception of a simple - minded OF MYSTERY, 6/ Grant Richards Southey (Rosamund), ROGER'S LUCK, 6/
and confiding wife brought abruptly to the The plot of this book is absurd, and the
Ham-Smith
knowledge that a hitherto idolized husband constant love-making, tedious. There are South Africa during the Boer War is the
is unfaithful, and her ultimate solution of a only three characters in the story: a young scene of this story of life in official circles.
problem which threatens to wreck her happi- American woman, wayward and uncon- It is well written and readable, but contains
ness, are skilfully worked out, and possess ventional, her Scotch husband, and his twin no deep interest, the people, with the excep-
considerable human interest.
brother. These two brothers are supposed tion of Sara, being dull and uninspiring.
The story takes the form of an autobio- to be absolutely alike in outward appearance, ! Sara, in fact, is the one bright patch in a
graphy, and deals at length with the marriage while their characters are absolutely unlike. drab setting
are
SO
we
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Veer (Willem de), A BENEDIOT's ESCAPADE, characteristic of womanhood is open to Social Guide (The), 1912, 2/6 net. Black
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