No More Learning

Four years after the appearance of Mr. Royal Statistical Society, Journal, MAY, 2/6
FOREIGN.
Alfred H. Hyatt's anthology, “The Charm
The Society
of Edinburgh, comes Miss Rosaline Masson's
Ruskin's Works : Vols. XXXVIII. and
bistory and Biograpby.
comprehensive volume dealing with the
XXXIX. BIBLIOGRAPHY, CATALOGUE Loredan (Jean), UN
same theme. Between them the two books
GRAND PROCÈS DE
include practically all of note that has
OF DRAWINGS, ADDENDA, and GENERAL
SORCELLERIE
XVIIe SIÈCLE :
been said about
INDEX, Library Edition, edited by E. T.
own romantic
L'ABBÉ GAUFRIDY ET MADELEINE DE
town. " Miss Masson goes as far back as
Cook and Alexander Wedderburn.
DEMANDOLX (1600–70), 5fr.
Ptolemy, and her quotations represent
Allen
Paris, Perrin
some 174 different writers and speakers,
In the course of our notices of this edition M. Lorédan
written capital
with Mr. G. K. Chesterton and Mr. Alfred
we have referred to the wonderful editing. book on one of the causes célèbres of the
Noyes bringing up the rear. The book The two final volumes before us exhibit a
seventeenth century, perhaps the most
derives some value from the manner in
care and enthusiasm in detail such as have famous of all trials for witchcraft. No fewer
which it has been planned ; for its chrono-
never before been accorded, we believe, than twenty-one persons were burnt in one
logical method of arrangement brings clearly to any author in a single edition of his year in Sologne and Berry as a result of the
into view the successive phases through labours on Johnson are nothing to the Index nobility of Provence almost to internecine
strenuous
alarm set up by the affair which brought the
which Edinburgh has passed in the course
The former
of her history. Just as the Edinburgh that and Bibliography now issued.
war. European interest was aroused, and
was praised in the sixteenth century is is the work of many years, and of particular the history of Gaufridy, accused of rapt,
not that praised in the nineteenth, so,
value in the case of a writer so discursive as impiété, magie, et auttres abominables,”
as Miss Masson emphasizes, the nature of Ruskin,, giving in one general and easily was translated into English. The author
the praise changes with the centuries. It is accessible survey the references scattered
writes more than a mere narrative compiled
interesting to note how perception of scenic through a writing period of more than fifty from documents, for the book is rich in
beauty does not creep into the descriptions years.
The Index is, in fact, a concordance. curious incident, and side-lights on con-
until about the middle of the eighteenth
Every topic treated or mentioned by temporary society.
century. Pennant, whom Johnson called Ruskin, and every proper name which occurs
observant," notices the views also, a few
in his works, are included. " References
Pbilosopby.
years later. Until that period travellers to quotations, &c. , have been verified with Petronievics (Branislav), PRINCIPIEN DER
comment chiefly on the strength of the the help of various experts, and Ruskin's use
METAPHYSIK: Vol. I. Part II. DIE
Castle's position, and agree in their admira-
of language is exhibited under words which
REALEN KATEGORIEN UND DIE LETZTEN
tion of the one fair street," and the
he coined or to which he applied some
PRINCIPJEN, 16m. Heidelberg, Winter
height of the houses in Parliament Close.
distinctive or peculiar sense.
This is part of a new and original system
Miss Masson has spread her net wide-s0 The volume of Bibliography is on a similar of philosophy, to be completed by instal-
wide as to include a great deal of matter scale of elaboration, and the 'Addenda et ments. Dr. Branislav Petronievics describes
that has no direct bearing on Edinburgh. Corrigenda? complete a work which is a that part of it which offers a solution of the
What, for example, has the story of Jenny, splendid monument to a great man. This qualitative world-problem as an attempt to
Geddes and her stool to do with the “ praise volume includes several illustrations and combine the monism of Spinoza with the
of Edinburgh ! or James Melville's last | facsimiles of great interest.
pluralism of Leibnitz, without, however,
AU
“ mine
has
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acknowledging the existence of an imma- | facts have been collected and arranged with
terial first cause, whether self-conscious or peculiar German thoroughness, and inter-
THE ODYSSEY. '
unself-conscious. Metaphysics is for him preted with a discriminating goodwill. The
an exact science, leading up to what he calls most important are the two volumes by review of my hexameter version of the
WHILE thanking you for the friendly
“hypermetaphysics,” which deals with the Dr. Schultze. It is good for us to be re-
ultimate conceptual components of reality, minded by a witness from outside that we
'Odyssey,' may I point out what seems to
# region into which only Plato and Aristotle are paying now, in the yastness and perilous that in my rendering of 'Od. ,' i. 62 (viz. ,
me a small inaccuracy? Your reviewer says
—and, among, modern thinkers, now and character of our social problems, for the
again Hegel-have penetrated before him. extravagant preoccupation of our govern: have used a rhythm of the "ridiculus mus
“Then why so wroth at the man, Zeus ? ”), I
Kant he considers a reactionary whose ing classes with external affairs at the
influence upon later thinkers is matter for beginning of the last century, and that
and “procumbit humi bos
type without
their excuse.
surprise and regret. The fundamental dif- we need strain every nerve if we would
Surely, even if the excuse is
ference between himself and Kant lies in not have our strangely tardy realization of
not exactly that of Horace and Virgil, it is a
his recognition of the absolute reality of what is owing to our own people prove to good enough excuse that the rhythm is here
immediate experience, and rejection of the have arisen too late. Dr. Schultze's esti-
the rhythm of the original, viz. :-
ideas of “subjectivity” and illusion. mate of the work already done and the
τι νύ οι τόσον αδύσαο, Ζευ;
results achieved by it in the way, that is, Doubtless Homer had some good reason for
Sociology.
of education and general culture which form choosing here this uncommon rhythm.
Lamase (Paul de Pradel de), LE PILLAGE DES the scope of his inquiry—is, however, favour- I do not think it was the same reason that
BIENS NATIONAUX: UNE FAMILLE FRAN- able beyond what many of our domestic made him use it in the grand termination of
ÇAISE SOUS LA RÉVOLUTION, 5fr.
critics would agree to. In the second volume the very next line, viz. ,
Paris, Perrin he deals very fully and sympathetically with
This book would have been both interesting the work of the settlements in East London
νεφεληγερέτα Ζεύς
and useful were it not marred by partisan -a movement which is well known to have (where I have not attempted to preserve
spirit. Taking the case of his own family, aroused keen interest in Germany. There the rhythm); but I can well believe that,
M. Lamase gives details of the changes of follow chapters on our free libraries; on the however it may sound in English, this mono-
ownership at the end of the eighteenth English stage—which affords him (and we syllabic Zell at the end of the address of tho
century. Curiously enough, a collection of cannot be surprised at it) matter for amused indignant goddess had a fine effect when
documents relative to the economic history criticism; and on our religious organizations recited.
H. B. COTTERILL.
of France has been recently published and observance of Sunday. We found his
under the editorship of M. Jaurès. M. discussion of the ideals of culture lying
Jaurès and M. Lamase are agreed as to the behind these phenomena, and of the defects
slender title of many of the present holders, in some of our methods, fresh and illuminat- CUNNINGHAM'S EXTRACTS FROM
but draw very different conclusions. M. ing. He is struck by the fact that, even yet,
THE REVELS' BOOKS.
Lamase is a good example of the French we do not take the education of the people
I.
Tory, and brings in even the law of Moses with sufficient seriousness—nay, that, even
to prove his point.
yet, there are quarters in which the very
April 29th, 1912.
notion of universal education arouses dis-
The discussion as to the authenticity of
Pbilology.
trust and hostility ; and he warns us, quite the third suspected document is made more
Ehrlich (Hugo), UNTERSUCHUNGEN ÜBER justly, of the danger lurking in our super-
difficult by the paucity of details accessible.
DIE NATUR DER GRIECHISCHEN BETON- ficiality and frequent refusal to come to
The Declared Accounts of the Treasurer
UNG, 8m.
Berlin, Weidmann grips with a question. Even where his of the Chamber (Pipe Office) are lost for the
This exhaustive work on Greek pronuncia- criticisms-favourable or unfavourable-go period; the parallel accounts in the Audit
tion sets forth, not only the author's con- wide of the mark, they are always sug-
Office are lost for the year. The Privy
clusions, but also, item by item, virtually gestive. It may be added that his style is
Council Registers do not help us in Charles I. 's
all the material from which he has drawn rapid, easy, and pleasant to read.
reign as they did in that of Elizabeth; the
them. The author devotes one lengthy
Lord Chamberlain's books, taken alone,
chapter to disputing Hilberg's theory of the
Herr Berlepsch-Valendas's volume on the give but scanty information ; gossipy letters
such
rules of end-syllables in Greek verse, and Garden City movement is practically ex- as Whyte's and Chamberlain's are
adds as an appendix an essay on Greek haustive of the subject as it stands at the few and far between ; the histories dealing
prosody. The main part of the book deals present day, and is abundantly illustrated. with
the period are too much occupied with
with Homer.
It may well be useful to English as well as greater things to take notice of mere plays.
Fiction.
to German readers.
Before I present the few relevant facts
Stenger (Gilbert), L'IMPERTURBABLE SILENCE,
Dr. Hans W. Singor, in ‘Pre-Raphaelit-clear as to what Mr. Law says. In his
which I have gleaned, it is necessary to be
3fr. 50.
Paris, Perrin ism in England, had a subject which, volume Supposed Shakespeare Forgeries'
We are asked to sympathize keenly with despite the universality of art, presented to
the hero of this story, because its fabric is a foreigner difficulties of a more subtle he is sovere, as usual, on those who differ
from him, and on the “ remarkable careless-
founded on fact, and because the author nature. He has produced a very interesting
ness of Mr. Grant White, who, in relation
recounts his own sufferings and despair on
study_better, we think, in what concerns
to the list of 1604-5,
finding himself a social pariah on account the actual worth of the Pre-Raphaelite
“declared that only in the single instance of this
of his deafness. Apart from the insuffi- achievement than in the account of its
account book, out of thirteen similar ones, is the
ciency of these grounds, it is impossible rolation to public opinion in England. We
not to realize that the case is overstated. are not anxious to justify the Philistinism
name of a play, mask, or interlude given—a state-
ment absolutely opposed to the facts. ”
It is to be regretted that one who writes with of contemporary critics whereof Dr. Singer Mr. Law then, to prove his contention,
such power of expression has not turned to has drawn divers instances from our own
less dolorous subjects.
columns it is rather that he seems to us
says that the account book of 1611-12
not exactly to have apprehended the points
also gives names. It is, indeed, arguing
General.
at issue, and, in particular, not to have in a circle to attempt to prove by the
Bazin (René), DE TOUTE SON AME, Ifr. 25.
seen how much both the criticism and the authority of one suspected document the
Nelson practice of art were suffering from con- authenticity of another; a circle which is
tamination with literature.
again described by an appeal to the autho-
Kultur (Die) des modernen England : Vol. I. ,
rity of the third suspected document of
DIE GEISTIGE HEBUNG DER VOLKS-
1636. Mr. Grant White is so far in the
MASSEN IN ENGLAND, von Dr. Ernst Lavedan (Henri), BON AN, MAL AN, 3fr. 50.
Schultze, 4m. ; Vol. II. , VOLKSBILDUNG
right, as among all the Books of the Revels
Paris, Perrin
which have come down to us between
UND VOLKSWOHLFAHRT IN ENGLAND, M. Henri Lavedan's causeries are so well 1584-5 and 1660, there are no other lists
by the same, 4m. 50. ; Vol. III. , DIE known that it is hardly necessary to say of plays than the three which Cunningham
GARTENSTADTBEWEGUNG IN ENGLAND, more than that this volume is as delightf found. Of this last Mr. Law says 34) :-
IHRE ENTWICKELUNG
as its predecessors.
“There is yet another similar list of plays. . . .
ZIGER STAND, von Architekt Berlepsch-
prefixed to the account of Sir George Buc in the
Valendàs, 4m. 50. ; and Vol. IV. , DER
PRAE-RAPHAELITISMUS
Revels' Book of 1636–7, the genuineness of which
Renan (Ernest), SOUVENIRS D'ENFANCE ET
ENGLAND,
DE JEUNESSE, Ifr. 25.
Nelson
list even the most sceptical have never thought of
von Prof. Dr. Hans Wolfgang Singer,
disputing. ”
3m. 75.
Further instalments of Messrs. Nelson's He speaks also, on p. 24, of
Munich and Berlin, Oldenbourg excellent edition of the complete works of another of these Revels
’ Account - Books. . . . . .
Englishmon should find these books worth Victor Hugo and of selected masterpieces namely, that of Sir George Buo, Tylney's successor
reading and reflecting upon. In each the I from the French classics.
as Master of the Revels, for the year 1636-7. "
UND
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mano
person.
warrant. "
a
It is difficult to believe that Mr. Law | paid in instalments up to 5 June, 1638. University Library, Cambridge, March 26, 1912.
had studied this document before he wrote | Each of these two warrants has in the past In the 'Literary Gossip' of March 16th
these words. He does not seem, at any been stitched, not to each other, but to some you rightly question the evidence from
time, to have referred to the genuine other paper, in the different years and de- Strabo for the existence of the Persian
Accounts of the Masters of the Revels partments to which they belonged.
Ameshaspends, but I venture to suggest
in the Pipe Office and in the Audit Office, The third, and now interior, paper has never that the case is not put in the most con-
or to the Patent Books, for in the first been stitched to anything. I have not yet vincing way by holding that Omanos is
he would have found the order of the had an expert's opinion on the age of the paper. not Persian, and not identical with Vohu
Masters," nd in the second the dates of It purports to be list of the names of the Mano. St (xi. 8) mentions Omanos
their appointments. There is a good deal plays, for payment of which the above along with two other deities that are almost
of confusion from the overlapping of rever- warrant was issued. It was quite in order certainly Persian. One is Anaitis, who is
sionary interests, deputy appointments,
schedule prepared to generally identified with Anahita mentioned
assistantships, which can be cleared up present to the Lord Chamberlain to secure in the fifth Yasht, and in inscriptions of
by a careful study of these. Sir John the warrant. If genuine, it must have been Artaxerxes II. (early fourth century B. C. ).
Ashley had a reversionary interest in the written, not by the officers of the Revels, In the inscriptions Anahita occurs along
office, and succeeded on Sir George Buc's but by or for the players themselves. It with Ahuramazda and Mithra. Anadatos
resignation in 1621, and on Sir George was certainly not written by Swanston, is corrupt. Another reading is Anandatos
Buo's death in 1623 appointed Sir Henry whose handwriting is preserved in the or Anandates, and Ed. Meyer identifies this
Herbert as his deputy. Herbert brought out receipts, nor by any of the other officials in with Amerdad, another Ameshaspend. This
the accounts in the name of Sir John Ashley any way connected with the routine. It does not, of course, prove that these two
until that “ Master died in 1640; and might, however, have been copied by the were Ameshaspends in the days of Strabo.
Sir Henry Herbert's name appears as players' attorney or scrivener. If so, then we You also doubt whether the priests of
Master for the first time in 1660.
are at once struck by the difference in colour these deities could have known anything
So it is evident that the 1636 document of the ink from all the other used at the of the image-hating Zoroaster. This is
could not be a book of Sir George Buc. In period, and its strong resemblance to the quite likely, as they were not Persians, but
spite of Mr. Law's asseverations in his last
ink of the 1605 suspected document, dated Sacæ. Strabo, however, expressly says
letter, I can only repeat and amplify my
thirty-one years earlier. The handwriting that Anandatos and Omanos were Persian
also seems
statements concerning it. The document
one resembling that of the divinities.
E. J. THOMAS.
is not a “book even in the restricted
earlier list (which it had no reason to re-
meaning of the word as applied to the semble), somewhat improved by practice. * Dr. Hope Moulton does not answer
others, and it is not an account book
Mr. Law objects to my saying we have my point that the Omanos of Strabo by
no certainty as to the names and dates
at all; no accounts being rendered in it
no means necessarily refers to the Vohu-
either by the officers of the Revels or by of the other plays. I meant as from this of the Avesta, and that the equation
other
The performances of the two leaves the
whom
Anadatos
any
It consists of three particular
detached sheets of paper, which have never
might have spread over longer time, or have Strabo gives him for an assessor unaccounted
been crowded into shorter time.
at any time been attached to each other
for. Anadatos was certainly not Anahita,
in any way, and which at present are
Of course, it is evident the list is based for Strabo was well acquainted with this
only slipped inside of each other for con-
on Malone's extracts from Sir Henry Her- goddess, whose name he transcribes cor-
venience. A covering sheet has been placed
bert's private diary, also somewhat rectly (book xv, c. 3, § 15) as Anaïtis. Let
on them since 1868 for protection.
uncertain foundation.
us hope, however, Dr. Moulton will deal
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM. with this and other points in the printed
The first sheet contains no charges, ex.
(To be continued. )
record of his interesting lectures. If he
penses, or“ demands,” but is a simple warrant
can succeed in giving even an approximate
drawn up in the Lord Chamberlain's Office,
date for the beginning of the Zoroastrian
and directed To my very loving frendes THE ANTIQUITY OF THE AVESTA. religion as shown in the Avesta, he will
the Auditors of his Majesties Imprest or any
Didsbury College, Manchester, March 20, 1912. earn the gratitude of all students. There
of them whome it may concern. Mr. Law
does not seem to know the procedure. The note some time back upon my argument as
PERMIT me to make brief reference to your is more depending upon this than he may
chance to have noticed.
Clerks of the Revels drew up their bill, and
they got the Auditor of the Imprest to fact that your critic imagined that I
to the antiquity of the Avesta. The very
THE WRITER OF THE NOTE.
engross it. I give the entry from 1605, credited him with Darmesteter's thesis illus-
as the clearest in the genuine 'Account
Books of the Masters of the Revels," for trates the difficulty there is in dealing ade-
that year :
SOME IMPORTANT FORTHCOMING BOOKS.
quately with complex subjects in the course
of a lecture already crowded with other mat-
“To be payd unto the Auditor of the Imprest for ters for exposition. I must reserve for the JUNE
Theology.
his travell and paines of himself and his clarkes in printed page my discussion of the problem
11 Early Church History to A. D. 313, by Prof.
taking of the accompt, and for the engrossing of it
as a whole. But I may say now that the H. M. Gwatkin, Second Edition, 2 vols. , 17/ net.
Macmillan
Lord Tresoror and Chancellor of the Exchequer as supposed disappearance of the Amshaspand
Lavo.
in former times hath been allowed, 51. "
conception between the time of Zoroaster
13 A Short History of English Law, from
and that of Strabo can hardly trouble one the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1911,
This warrant would therefore have been who takes the ordinary view of the history by Edward Jenks, 10/6 net.
Methuen
brought before the Treasurer of the Chamber, of the Avesta. The Amshaspands do not
or officials of the Exchequer, and would be disappear at all
, for each successive stratum
History and Biography
detained by them as a receipt for payment of of the Avesta shows them. But there is G. R. Porter, New Edition, edited by F. W. First,
13 The Progress of the Nation, compiled by
the money. It was a warrant for payment admittedly no sign of the Avesta in the West 214 net.
Methuen
to the officers of the Revels for extra
until the fourth century. If it was, as seems
The Wardlaws in Scotland, by John C. Gibson,
attendance through September during three most probable, a product of Eastern Iran,
21/ net.
Edinburgh, W. Brown
years, 1632–5, and it has no relation to
The Monros of Auchinbowie and Cognate
any account of 1636, beyond the date of the Strabo, and the even stronger, though rather
this is perfectly natural. The evidence of Families, by John Alexander Inglis, 21/ net.
Edinburgh, W. Brown
warrant for payment, 25 May, 1636, nearly later evidence of the Indo-Scythian coins,
Geography and Travel.
a year before that of the following sheet.
prove, I believe, that the Amshaspands 11 Across Australia, by Baldwin Spencer and
The next document is also genuine. But, Vohumano and Khshathra had been for F. J. Gillen, 2 vols. , 21/ net.
Macmillan
again, it is in no sense an account," and generations known in the districts con-
Sociology.
has no relation whatever to the Masters of cerned, so that their names had become 11 Principles and Methods of Municipal
the Revels, who never paid the players ! stereotyped and their cult developed in Trading, by Douglas Knoop, 10) net.
It is a warrant, dated 12 March, 1636/7, directions
from Zoroaster's
Macmillan
from the Lord Chamberlain to Sir William modes of thought. But development of
Philology.
Vuedale, Treasurer of the Chamber (not to this kind is as early as the Gatha of
Descriptive Catalogue of the Gaelic Manuscripts
the Auditors of the Imprest, as Mr. Law seven chapters. ” May I add that the where in Scotland,
by Donald Mackinnon, 10/6
in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and else-
says), commanding him to pay to the King's writer of your note ignores the strongest net.
Edinburgh, W. Brown
Players the sum of 2407. ; and thees, point in the case of the overwhelming
Science.
together with their acquittance for the majority of Avestan scholars, the total
8 Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. IV.
receipt thereof, shall be your warrant. " impossibility of conceiving the diction, Part IV. , June, 5/ net.
This, therefore, should now be reposing forms, and metres of the Gathas forged in a
Cambridge University Press
among the receipts of the Treasurer of the dead language ? That point of course I hope
Fiction.
Chamber or the Exchequer, as it is duly to elaborate in my book.
10 The Panel : a Sheer Comedy, by Ford
acknowledged by Eillardt Swanston, being
JAMES HOPE MOULTON. Madox Hueffer.
Constable
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new
At the fourth annual meeting of the resumed, arrangements having been made
Literary Gossip.
Scottish Library Association, held at with Mr. Francis Griffiths for the issue of
St. Andrews last Saturday, Sir James the fourth, fifth, and sixth of the Acts
Donaldson said that a University educa- Books, extending down to 1765. The
Thomas HARDY kept last Sunday his tion would help librarians, and that Acts of the Chapter of Llandaff Cathedral
seventy-second birthday, and was pre- they were looking forward to something have also been transcribed, and will
sented by Mr. Henry Newbolt and Mr. of that kind. Dr. A. H. Millar, Dundee, later be issued, for the Records Com-
W. B. Yeats with the gold medal of the the President, gave an address on the mittee of the diocese, in two volumes.
Royal Society of Literature. In the utterance of Lord
remarks he offered in reply he emphasized described
Rosebery when he
the
A WORK on Philip II. of Spain, written
the need of encouraging makers of lite in Glasgow as a
Mitchell Library
rature early in life. He also referred to English journalists specially had erred, Spanish archives, has just appeared in
in Glasgow as a "cemetery of books by a young Danish historian, Mr. Bratli,
and based on several years' studies in the
the appalling and daily increase “in he thought, in taking this utterance too French, accompanied by an Introduc-
slipshod writing that would not have
seriously.
been tolerated for one moment a hundred
tion by Count Baguenault de Puchesse.
years ago,” and pointed to the news- THE reviewer of Mrs. O'Neill's book Spanish and English translations will
papers of to-day as largely responsible on England in the Middle Ages' sends be published later.
for it. American journals," fearfully and the following reply to a correspondent of A NEW VOLUME of the Colonial State
wonderfully worded,” have had a devas- last week :-
Papers, edited by Mr. Cecil Headlam,
tating influence on the press, and have "If Mrs. O'Neill, or your correspondent will be issued shortly. It covers eleven
also, we might add, reduced that zeal of last week, had taken her advice and read months of the year 1702, and contains,
for the truth which is instinct in the Dr. Rashdall's Universities of Europe in amongst a mass of other interesting docu-
writings of Mr. Hardy.
the Middle Ages' (“very readable,' she calls ments, those which describe the events
He further expressed the view that the studium generale by prescription, and that leading up to Admiral Benbow's action
shortest way to good prose is by the route the studium generale did not come into being with M. Ducass in the West Indies, the
in 1214; and that the Legatine Ordnance of cowardice of his captains, and the proceed-
of Milton and Swinburnee as a moden 12
1214 is not a constitution of a studium ings of the subsequent court-martial at
Those who are interested in the subject generale, but a regulation of details of the Jamaica.
may find another view in Hazlitt's essay daily life of one already existing. ”
In view of the great interest of these
On the Prose Style of Poets. ' He says DR. R. Y. TYRRELL writes from Trinity Calendars to historians both in and out-
of such prose : “Not that it is not some- College, Dublin :-
side England, it is to be hoped that the
times good, nay excellent; but it is never
“Your interesting article on Jane Austen Commissioners now sitting may see their
the better, and generally the worse, from recalls to my mind a confirmation which way to recommend a more liberal output
the habit of writing verse.
I have met of a theory more than once put than that at present achieved. The last
THE continued increase in the over- I know. The theory is that the phrase 1911.
forward by me, but not accepted, so far as volume of this series was issued in April,
production of books has been the subject once in a way’ is unmeaning, and should
of comment here, as well as at the recent be once and away,' which pronounced
UNDER the title of The Britannica
Convention of the American Booksellers' once an' away is nearly the same in
Year-Book' a new annual will be pub-
de-
Association in New York. Mr. S. A. sound, and has an intelligible meaning. lished in the autumn which is
Everett, of Doubleday, Page & Co. , in
This confirmation is a passage in ‘Pride and signed to provide_those possessing the
a paper on · Fewer Books and Better," Prejudice (chap. xxxii. ), which runs thus : latest edition of The Encyclopædia Bri-
It was not merely a few formal enquiries tannica' with
pointed out that during the last ten and an awkward pause and then away, but to date the information contained in
record bringing up
years the tendency in the United he actually thought it necessary to turn it. Mr. Hugh Chisholm is acting as
States had been towards a greater back and walk with her. '
editor, supported by a numerous staff
from 7,000 to 8,000, and of late gearso te A DRAFT CONSTITUTION and by-laws of contributors
over 10,000. A letter he quoted from an
have been drawn up of a proposed
American league of authors and dramatists, Macmillan & Co. will publish early
in the
UNDER the title “ Foundations’ Messrs.
Englishman conversant with trade con-
ditions emphasized the same condition the main purpose of which is to ensure the Macmillan & Co. will publish early in the
in Great Britain, where the bookseller writer full and prompt returns for his autumn a volume of theological essays
in winter has not even time to glance work. Kate Douglas Wiggin is a member by members of the University of Oxford,
at the books which are submitted to of the present committee of organization, edited by the Rev. B. H. Streeter, Fellow
him in one day, and the traveller who which hopes to be doing business in of Queen's College. It may be described
goes round with a big list has great diffi- September, although it is not yet decided as an attempt to state the essentials of
will be included.
Christianity in the terms of modern
culty in getting the bookseller to consider whether
any books but those of well-known authors. Amongst other names identified with the thought. The contributors, besides the
What of the reviewers? The newspapers
movement are those of John Burroughs, editor, are the Rev. William Temple,
look at books less from a literary point Ellen Glasgow, Cleveland Moffett, Robert Head Master of Repton; the Rev. N. s.
of view than as furnishing subjects for Grant, Winston Churchill, and Hamlin Talbot, Fellow of Balliol; the Rev. R.
Garland.
Brook, Fellow of Merton ; the Rev. R. G.
news items. Books are treated as offering
Parsons, Principal of Wells Theological
interesting paragraphs on their respective THE registers of the diocese of St. College; the Rev. A. E. J. Rawlinson,
subjects.
David's were several years ago transcribed Tutor of Keble College ; and Mr. W. H.
A BLAKE SOCIETY, the principal dorion, with a view to their being published
for the Honourable Society of Cymmro- Moberly, Fellow of Lincoln College.
object of which is to bring together the in the Society's Record Series. The task will publish this month “The Poems
We are glad to hear that Mr. John Lane
admirers of William Blake, the poet- of supplying a translation of the registers of Rosamund Marriott Watson.
painter, has been formed. The Secre- and seeing the whole work through the volume will contain an Introduction by
The
tary is Mr. Thomas Wright, of Olney: press has now been entrusted to Dr. E. A.
Meetings will be held in London, at Lewis of the University College of Wales, Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson, and a photo-
Chichester, and at Felpham.
and the long-delayed volume will therefore gravure portrait; the collected poems from
The Bird Bride,' 'A Summer Night,'
The summer meeting of the English be issued in the course of the next few
Vespertilia,' and ` After Sunset'; also
Association will be held at King's College,
months.
new poems, and some published anony-
Strand, on Friday, the 21st inst. Mr. THE publication of the Acts Books of mously, which were to have appeared
H. J. Newbolt will deliver a lecture on the Bishops of Llandaff, which has also under the title of 'The Lamp and the
Poetry and Politics' at 5. 30.
suffered an interruption, will shortly be Lute.