357, will arise as to the
interpretation
of the measure,
lads in Morocco.
lads in Morocco.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
endeavour tion, while the use of the phonetic script is
are copious illustrations and a good route map. to. . . . find some superior right that will change urged upon the student from the beginning
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Rules are clearly stated, and the sentences in
Stopes (Marie C. ), On the True Nature of the
illustration well chosen. Appendix I.
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Designed to prove that the Cretaceous im-
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bularies complete a serviceable class-book.
position of bird-life in Great Britain. It
are wrongly attributed to this genus, and to
Morgan (R. B. ) and Kitchener (E. E. ), Readings contains articles by ornithological authorities, formulate å method of differentiation in this
in English History from Original Sources,
whose scientific analyses are frequently not scientific sphere. Dr. Stopes has already
Book IV. (1688–1837), 2/6
incompatible with literary charm. The plates made a secure reputation in fossil botany.
As a companion to the ordinary class-book and photographs are instructive.
A reprint from The Annals of Botany, October,
on history, this volume will prove useful, for the Bryce (Alexander), Modern Theories of Diet and 1911.
extracts have been selected with the express their Bearings upon Practical Dietetics, 7/6 net.
United States National Museum : 1869, Descrip-
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of the Museum, by S. A. Rohwer; 1874,
Neave (G. B. ) and Agnew (J. Watson), An Intro- criticizes all the theories of diet which have
duction to Practical Chemistry, 2/
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Description of a New Salamander from Iowa,
Though nothing new is to be found in the with the statement that, for the average man
by A. G. Ruthven; 1875, A Review of the
book before us, its form and expression are good. in good health, moderation in diet is more bene-
Sparidæ and Related Families of Perch-like
Diagrams are both numerous and clear, while
Fishes found in the Waters of Japan, by D. S.
ficial than the adoption of any particular system
the type used is large.
Jordan and W. F. Thompson; and 1879,
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The nominal matter of The Coward' is
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jottings, so instinct with human insight, that stories that dealt with the various adventures
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intended. The five hundred pages of text,
Of course they are skil-
Sciences in the New Edition of the Encyclo- fully made.
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Mr. Davis is an accomplished
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craftsman, but only in one of the five - The
From The St. Paul Medical Journal
scholars who had passed the elementary stage; One and All Gardening, 1912, 21.
Nature Fáker '—is there any spark of the old
excellence. These are the stories of commerce ;
but this supposition is contradicted by the
The seventeenth issue of this much-adver.
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they are not individual, not observed, not felt,
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human life. The author is a convinced advocate
with the humorous, making his characters so
absurd as to rob them of reality.
stands, will be appreciated more as an atlas
of the sour-milk theory. His book is sensible,
and album than as a text-book.
Dodge (Janet), Tony Unregenerate, 6/
Weekley (Ernest), Morceaux Choisis, XIXe. Siècle, Reinhardt (Charles), Science and the Soul, or
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Tony gives her love to a musician who
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to believe that the result was happiness. Miss
the study of the several works of one author tion. It is a curious amalgam of somewhat
Dodge adds nothing very new to the three-
extracts linked by biographical and analytical crude occultism and psychic discovery that
cornered problem, although her story is read-
commentary. Mr. Weekley's notes are not
may be of permanent benefit to the human race.
able enough.
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The style of the book does not enlist our sym- Drummond (Hamilton), The Three Envelopes.
matriculation standard should not need to be pathies.
Mr. Drummond's exciting novel has an
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opening that is almost Stevensonian, and that
by Dante nor to have "La Terreur" explained. Electricity, 1/
leads up to very strange adventures, better
Whiddington (Mrs. A. A. ), A Play-Book of History. A handy manual describing the application of imagined than the supernatural generally is in
An artless device for stamping landmarks electricity to domestic purposes, the various fiction. Not until he has laid the volume
of British history on the minds of very young systems,
and the most economic and effective. down has the reader time to remark a certain
Britons. Includes plain and coloured illustra- There are but few technicalities to worry the want of cohesion and a considerable fringe of
tions.
normal householder.
loose ends.
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George has written a brief Preface, cannot be
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crime and knows everything, while the detective incident by a particularly self-centred young introductory note by the authors : “ We have
knows nothing. Inanimate trivialities, like the
We fear that those who are able to attempted to describe, simply and broadly,
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Describes the adventures of two English
For notice see Athen. Sept. 25, 1909, p.
357, will arise as to the interpretation of the measure,
lads in Morocco. There is plenty of incident of
Villiers-Stuart (Gerald), The White Shrine, 6/ and we have attempted, in annotating the
the sort boys appreciate. A wonderful parrot
The author has selected a sordid theme, sections, to call attention to these problems,
plays an important part in the story. Some
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of the illustrations are only gaudy.
justifies his work. We do not find the boldness work the authors seem to have carried out with
Harris-Burland (J. B. ), Lord of Irongray.
of characterization, and delicacy and restraint great care and patience. We are sorry not to
When the wandering, thriftless heir to Iron- in treatment, needed for such a subject, while find any indication that the Act will ensure
gray resolves to settle down to the life of a good the theatrical atmosphere and a somewhat the keeping of separate accounts for the funds
and useful citizen, his troubles begin. His cynical style make an unpleasant effect on us. contributed by men and women respectively.
past life on the island of Mokara, which he Watson (Helen H. ), The Open Valley, 6/
It is of the highest importance that accounts
fondly imagines buried, confronts him at every
The plot of this story is interesting, and a shall be so kept as to show the amounts spent
turn; but at last the timely intervention little more thought expended on it would have upon each set of contributors.
of a shark, which swallows his half-caste elder made a first-rate novel. The head of a firm, International Theosophical Chronicle, Vol. VIII.
son, relieves him and saves the inheritance beginning life as a mill hand, has gained his No. 1.
for the son of his reformed days. The attitude position by hard work and perseverance,
Emanates from California, but suggests
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open to criticism, though he, like the other invention shown to him by a drunken ne'er-do- London typographer than an organ of followers
characters in the book, has no personality.
well comrade just before his death. The story of Madame Blavatsky. Snippets from the
Hookham (Paul), A Romance of the Impossible
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(from the French of Théophile Gautier), 2/6 net.
overtook him. We cannot regard the plan of Acropolis and the Sphinx, have little to do
A liberal paraphrase, largely of 'Mlle. de
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Maupin. ' The quality of the selections con-
unconvincing features the story is worth truths for which Theosophy stands.
vincingly illustrates the fancifulness of Gautier's
reading.
Jones (Chester Lloyd), ? Readings on Parties and
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and restless dissatisfaction. Mr. Hookham
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artificially fastidious, but its nicely shaded
story, is weak, and the characters have for us political interest and importance to American
graduations are peculiarly amenable to the do strong interest until the latter part of the readers, and of some interest to English readers
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Lamport (Richard Fifield), Veeni the Master,
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trations.
the author might well have spared himself
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This is a singularly incoherent narrative of
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the sayings and doings of some rather uninter-
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esting people in a remote Cornish village,
of natural forces at the same time by means modern fiction.
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MacDonald (George), At the Back of the North text the 1590 edition, which was the unfinished
of expression.
Wind, 1/
manuscript published in a quarto volume in
Lowndes (Mrs. Belloc), The Chink in the Armour,
In Blackie's School and Home Library. 1590. He intends to devote another volume
A reprint in portable form of George Mac- to the 1593 edition, which is the text of the
' But there is one chink in the chain armour
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of civilized communities. Society is conducted
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on the assumption that murder will not be
General Literature.
quarto, and there is a long list of the variant
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readings of the fourteen editions published
story the author takes us to a fashionable
between 1593 and 1674, set out with all the
Beard (Charles A. ) and Shultz (Birl E. ), Docu-
gambling place not far from Paris, where we ments on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum
care we expected of the distinguished editor.
find a pretty English widow, her friend, a
The print is good, but the book is somewhat
and Recall, 8/6 net.
Polish lady
jwith a passion for play, a French
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allowance of villains. A suggestion of the of the legislative system of initiative and Eccles (Caroline A. ), of the Emancipation of
supernatural serves to heighten the interest, referendum, than propagandist advocacy. It is Women, 3d. net.
and the story goes with a swing to a well- in the nature of a compilation of the machinery An able and modest thesis, predicting the
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Marchmont (Arthur W. ), The Ruby Heart of ing experiment in a large number of the as Whitman calls it, into equality with man as
Kishgar, 6/
States of the Union. It contains, in addition, a development of her representation in the
This tale hangs upon the fortunes of a much documentary material, official statistics, government of the State. It incidentally
wonderful jewel, stolen originally from a temple and many instructive adjudications revolving urges those who are devoted to the cause to
in Asia. The usual association of devotees round the municipal referendum. Without eschew militant methods and set their faces
is formed, bound to recover it on pain of death. dogmatizing, the authors contend that repre- against the cult of sex antagonism.
The exciting events of their search, together sentative government is being displaced by this Fedden (Marguerite), How to do the Weekly
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laid on both sides of the Channel in the time
us a useful book.
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Stone (Christopher), The Shoe of a Horse, 6/
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concerning the unplumbed possibilities of
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not for folk to read about in their
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literature it has hitherto possessed nothing,
cultural Organization Society, which has done
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despair of opposition and unproductiveness.
It deals with the unfolding of more favourable
conditions for co-operation; the weaving of a
Ar the Annual General Meeting of the
new social fabric through the instrumentality
International Association of Antiquarian
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Booksellers, on January 26th, a further
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FOREIGN.
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Music.
the work of charity which is so apt to the
Wyzewa (T. de) et Saint-Foix (G. de), W. -A. | occasion. These practical tributes to
Mozart, sa Vie musicale et son Euvre de the spirit of Dickens will add point to
The late John Bigelow, whose 'Retro-
l'Enfance à la pleine Maturité (1756–77):
spections of
Active Life' was
1. L'Enfant Prodige ; II. Le Jeune Maitre, the commemorations which took place in
in three volumes in 1910,
25fr.
Westminster Abbey and Rochester Cathe- published in
For notice see p. 171.
has left material for further volumes,
dral last Wednesday.
which will be prepared for press by his
Philosophy.
Brentano (Franz), Aristoteles Lehre vom Ursprung
The wide world of books and letters son, Major Bigelow.
des menschlichen Geistes.
was shocked by the news of the serious
This is a polemical work, in which the author illness of Mr. John Murray, which, coming
ESSAYS IN RADICAL EMPIRICISM,' by
maintains that Aristotle believed the soul to
be implanted severally in each individual man
as it did in the midst of his many activities, William James, which we expect from
argues that Aristotle taught the pre-existence kept distressing knowledge from his twelve of Prof. James's philosophical
by a direct act of God, as against Zeller, who suggests that a kindly forethought had Messrs. Longmans this month, will contain
of the voûs, and its handing on from generation
to generation. Part I. is a reprint, somewhat
numerous friends. Anxiety is somewhat essays, collected and edited by Prof.
enlarged, but not essentially altered, of a paper allayed by the tidings of a successful Ralph Barton Perry. The book is de-
contributed in 1882 to the Vienna Academy operation, but the distinguished patient signed to carry out a plan which Prof.
, the
by Zeller; and Part II. takes up point by danger.
theory under six headings. This was attacked is, we regret to hear, not yet out of James himself projected several years
before his death. With one exception
point Zeller's objections, and, not without
these essays were written within a period
some heat, provides each with its refutation. · ACROSS AUSTRALLA,' which Messrs. of two years, and constitute a consecutive
Geography and Travel.
Macmillan are publishing for Mr. Baldwin and orderly exposition of a doctrine which
Hugo (Victor), Le Rhin : Lettres à un ami, 2 vols. , Spencer and Mr. F. J.
are copious illustrations and a good route map. to. . . . find some superior right that will change urged upon the student from the beginning
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Rules are clearly stated, and the sentences in
Stopes (Marie C. ), On the True Nature of the
illustration well chosen. Appendix I.
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Designed to prove that the Cretaceous im-
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bularies complete a serviceable class-book.
position of bird-life in Great Britain. It
are wrongly attributed to this genus, and to
Morgan (R. B. ) and Kitchener (E. E. ), Readings contains articles by ornithological authorities, formulate å method of differentiation in this
in English History from Original Sources,
whose scientific analyses are frequently not scientific sphere. Dr. Stopes has already
Book IV. (1688–1837), 2/6
incompatible with literary charm. The plates made a secure reputation in fossil botany.
As a companion to the ordinary class-book and photographs are instructive.
A reprint from The Annals of Botany, October,
on history, this volume will prove useful, for the Bryce (Alexander), Modern Theories of Diet and 1911.
extracts have been selected with the express their Bearings upon Practical Dietetics, 7/6 net.
United States National Museum : 1869, Descrip-
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of the Museum, by S. A. Rohwer; 1874,
Neave (G. B. ) and Agnew (J. Watson), An Intro- criticizes all the theories of diet which have
duction to Practical Chemistry, 2/
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Description of a New Salamander from Iowa,
Though nothing new is to be found in the with the statement that, for the average man
by A. G. Ruthven; 1875, A Review of the
book before us, its form and expression are good. in good health, moderation in diet is more bene-
Sparidæ and Related Families of Perch-like
Diagrams are both numerous and clear, while
Fishes found in the Waters of Japan, by D. S.
ficial than the adoption of any particular system
the type used is large.
Jordan and W. F. Thompson; and 1879,
of diet.
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investigation.
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Benson (Robert Hugh), The Coward.
mining operations also added to its scope. The volumes on ‘Migration of Birds' and 'Earth-
The nominal matter of The Coward' is
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life of a young man with his own weakness ;
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hurst spent would be suffocating. But neither
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ancestors, giving up-to-date results of the
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Ainé,' or, as the translator somewhat crudely
minerals.
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Common Logarithms, 1/
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delineation is so divorced from mere scientific
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jottings, so instinct with human insight, that stories that dealt with the various adventures
pigmy mankind might be the insect world whose
Tarr (Ralph S. ) and McMurry (Frank M. ), World
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Geography, One-Volume Edition, 5/6 net.
of pure delight-and of more depth than care-
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It is not easy to understand for what class
clear.
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of pupils this substantial American work is
Knott (John), The Presentation of the Medical far inferior brand.
intended. The five hundred pages of text,
Of course they are skil-
Sciences in the New Edition of the Encyclo- fully made.
interspersed with commercial statistics, suggest
Mr. Davis is an accomplished
pædia Britannica, 1/
that the authors had in view the needs of
craftsman, but only in one of the five - The
From The St. Paul Medical Journal
scholars who had passed the elementary stage; One and All Gardening, 1912, 21.
Nature Fáker '—is there any spark of the old
excellence. These are the stories of commerce ;
but this supposition is contradicted by the
The seventeenth issue of this much-adver.
seven hundred illustrations—which range from
they are not individual, not observed, not felt,
tised Annual. Its appeal is obviously popular. and therefore to lovers of the better, earlier
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facetious. The author confuses the ridiculous
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of nutrition for the healthy prolongation of
paste from this elaborate work, which, as it
human life. The author is a convinced advocate
with the humorous, making his characters so
absurd as to rob them of reality.
stands, will be appreciated more as an atlas
of the sour-milk theory. His book is sensible,
and album than as a text-book.
Dodge (Janet), Tony Unregenerate, 6/
Weekley (Ernest), Morceaux Choisis, XIXe. Siècle, Reinhardt (Charles), Science and the Soul, or
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and cannot be convicted of faddism.
Tony gives her love to a musician who
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the patient lover in the background really
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to believe that the result was happiness. Miss
the study of the several works of one author tion. It is a curious amalgam of somewhat
Dodge adds nothing very new to the three-
extracts linked by biographical and analytical crude occultism and psychic discovery that
cornered problem, although her story is read-
commentary. Mr. Weekley's notes are not
may be of permanent benefit to the human race.
able enough.
altogether satisfactory. Students
of post-
The style of the book does not enlist our sym- Drummond (Hamilton), The Three Envelopes.
matriculation standard should not need to be pathies.
Mr. Drummond's exciting novel has an
informed that Beatrice was a lady immortalized | Robson (Herbert), The A B C of Domestic
opening that is almost Stevensonian, and that
by Dante nor to have "La Terreur" explained. Electricity, 1/
leads up to very strange adventures, better
Whiddington (Mrs. A. A. ), A Play-Book of History. A handy manual describing the application of imagined than the supernatural generally is in
An artless device for stamping landmarks electricity to domestic purposes, the various fiction. Not until he has laid the volume
of British history on the minds of very young systems,
and the most economic and effective. down has the reader time to remark a certain
Britons. Includes plain and coloured illustra- There are but few technicalities to worry the want of cohesion and a considerable fringe of
tions.
normal householder.
loose ends.
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George has written a brief Preface, cannot be
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crime and knows everything, while the detective incident by a particularly self-centred young introductory note by the authors : “ We have
knows nothing. Inanimate trivialities, like the
We fear that those who are able to attempted to describe, simply and broadly,
bone in the German folk-song, are made to sing appreciate the self-revelation do not need such the machinery of the Act, and to bring together
the doom of the criminal, as they ever have done help, and those who do need it will not under- in a connected form matters which can be
and, we fear, ever will do.
stand the book.
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Gilman (Bradley), The Sultan's Rival.
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Describes the adventures of two English
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Villiers-Stuart (Gerald), The White Shrine, 6/ and we have attempted, in annotating the
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The author has selected a sordid theme, sections, to call attention to these problems,
plays an important part in the story. Some
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of the illustrations are only gaudy.
justifies his work. We do not find the boldness work the authors seem to have carried out with
Harris-Burland (J. B. ), Lord of Irongray.
of characterization, and delicacy and restraint great care and patience. We are sorry not to
When the wandering, thriftless heir to Iron- in treatment, needed for such a subject, while find any indication that the Act will ensure
gray resolves to settle down to the life of a good the theatrical atmosphere and a somewhat the keeping of separate accounts for the funds
and useful citizen, his troubles begin. His cynical style make an unpleasant effect on us. contributed by men and women respectively.
past life on the island of Mokara, which he Watson (Helen H. ), The Open Valley, 6/
It is of the highest importance that accounts
fondly imagines buried, confronts him at every
The plot of this story is interesting, and a shall be so kept as to show the amounts spent
turn; but at last the timely intervention little more thought expended on it would have upon each set of contributors.
of a shark, which swallows his half-caste elder made a first-rate novel. The head of a firm, International Theosophical Chronicle, Vol. VIII.
son, relieves him and saves the inheritance beginning life as a mill hand, has gained his No. 1.
for the son of his reformed days. The attitude position by hard work and perseverance,
Emanates from California, but suggests
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open to criticism, though he, like the other invention shown to him by a drunken ne'er-do- London typographer than an organ of followers
characters in the book, has no personality.
well comrade just before his death. The story of Madame Blavatsky. Snippets from the
Hookham (Paul), A Romance of the Impossible
shows how his prosperity failed and Nemesis daily press, and trite reproductions of the
(from the French of Théophile Gautier), 2/6 net.
overtook him. We cannot regard the plan of Acropolis and the Sphinx, have little to do
A liberal paraphrase, largely of 'Mlle. de
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Maupin. ' The quality of the selections con-
unconvincing features the story is worth truths for which Theosophy stands.
vincingly illustrates the fancifulness of Gautier's
reading.
Jones (Chester Lloyd), ? Readings on Parties and
idealism,, the profundity of his melancholy Wrench (Mrs. Stanley), Ruth of the Rowldrich, 6/ Elections in the United States, 7/ net.
and restless dissatisfaction. Mr. Hookham
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artificially fastidious, but its nicely shaded
story, is weak, and the characters have for us political interest and importance to American
graduations are peculiarly amenable to the do strong interest until the latter part of the readers, and of some interest to English readers
interpretation of such an artist of language
book is reached.
who desire to understand American affairs.
as Gautier. Its honeyed cadences, however,
Juvenile Books.
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and imaginative introduction,
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Lamport (Richard Fifield), Veeni the Master,
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Veeni is a diabolical personage who, in view
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trations.
the author might well have spared himself
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This is a singularly incoherent narrative of
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the sayings and doings of some rather uninter-
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esting people in a remote Cornish village,
of natural forces at the same time by means modern fiction.
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MacDonald (George), At the Back of the North text the 1590 edition, which was the unfinished
of expression.
Wind, 1/
manuscript published in a quarto volume in
Lowndes (Mrs. Belloc), The Chink in the Armour,
In Blackie's School and Home Library. 1590. He intends to devote another volume
A reprint in portable form of George Mac- to the 1593 edition, which is the text of the
' But there is one chink in the chain armour
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of civilized communities. Society is conducted
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on the assumption that murder will not be
General Literature.
quarto, and there is a long list of the variant
committed. ” With this promise of a thrilling Bates (E. Katharine), The Coping Stone, 3/6
readings of the fourteen editions published
story the author takes us to a fashionable
between 1593 and 1674, set out with all the
Beard (Charles A. ) and Shultz (Birl E. ), Docu-
gambling place not far from Paris, where we ments on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum
care we expected of the distinguished editor.
find a pretty English widow, her friend, a
The print is good, but the book is somewhat
and Recall, 8/6 net.
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allowance of villains. A suggestion of the of the legislative system of initiative and Eccles (Caroline A. ), of the Emancipation of
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Marchmont (Arthur W. ), The Ruby Heart of ing experiment in a large number of the as Whitman calls it, into equality with man as
Kishgar, 6/
States of the Union. It contains, in addition, a development of her representation in the
This tale hangs upon the fortunes of a much documentary material, official statistics, government of the State. It incidentally
wonderful jewel, stolen originally from a temple and many instructive adjudications revolving urges those who are devoted to the cause to
in Asia. The usual association of devotees round the municipal referendum. Without eschew militant methods and set their faces
is formed, bound to recover it on pain of death. dogmatizing, the authors contend that repre- against the cult of sex antagonism.
The exciting events of their search, together sentative government is being displaced by this Fedden (Marguerite), How to do the Weekly
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concerning the unplumbed possibilities of
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not for folk to read about in their
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Concert of Europe. All these strands he threads accompanies transference from opposition to
&c. Most of them are in the old block-
into the fabric of his contention without power. It weakens any argument to repeat, printed editions, which can now hardly
violence of language, and with a certain as does M. Fua in a foot-note, a conversation be obtained, even in Japan. The Uni-
stately indignation that compels respect.
without witnesses on the morrow of a banquet ;
Public Utility of Museums : Copy of Letters and the challenge of open
criticism and the appeal versity Library, as is well known, already
Leading Articles in The Times and Other to the people to watch the actions of their contains the magnificent Chinese collection
Papers.
representatives are much more to the point.
Russell (George W. ), Co-operation and Nation-
presented by the late Sir Thomas Wade,
ality : a Guide for Rural Reformers from Au books received at the Ofice up to Wednesday which has been notably augmented by
this to the Next Generation, 1/ net.
Morning will be included in this List unless Prof. H. A. Giles; but of Japanese
A most interesting pamphlet, epitomizing previously noted. Publishers are requested
the operation and influence of the Irish Agri-
to state prices when sending books.
literature it has hitherto possessed nothing,
cultural Organization Society, which has done
so that by this accession an important
much to redeem Irish agriculture from the
lacuna is at least partially filled.
despair of opposition and unproductiveness.
It deals with the unfolding of more favourable
conditions for co-operation; the weaving of a
Ar the Annual General Meeting of the
new social fabric through the instrumentality
International Association of Antiquarian
of co-organized effort; its reaction upon
politics ; the status of women on the land ; THE recent death of Mr. Alfred Tennyson increase in the membership for 1911 was
Booksellers, on January 26th, a further
the ideals of the New Rural Society, and the
like the writing shows force, compactness, Dickens has led to the postponement of increase in the membership for 1911 was
and lucidity
some of the more convivial Dickens cele- reported. Mr. B. H. Blackwell of Oxford
was elected
brations, but we are glad to notice that Mr. F. Karslake was re-elected Hon.
President for 1912, and
FOREIGN.
it has not been allowed to interfere with
Secretary.
Music.
the work of charity which is so apt to the
Wyzewa (T. de) et Saint-Foix (G. de), W. -A. | occasion. These practical tributes to
Mozart, sa Vie musicale et son Euvre de the spirit of Dickens will add point to
The late John Bigelow, whose 'Retro-
l'Enfance à la pleine Maturité (1756–77):
spections of
Active Life' was
1. L'Enfant Prodige ; II. Le Jeune Maitre, the commemorations which took place in
in three volumes in 1910,
25fr.
Westminster Abbey and Rochester Cathe- published in
For notice see p. 171.
has left material for further volumes,
dral last Wednesday.
which will be prepared for press by his
Philosophy.
Brentano (Franz), Aristoteles Lehre vom Ursprung
The wide world of books and letters son, Major Bigelow.
des menschlichen Geistes.
was shocked by the news of the serious
This is a polemical work, in which the author illness of Mr. John Murray, which, coming
ESSAYS IN RADICAL EMPIRICISM,' by
maintains that Aristotle believed the soul to
be implanted severally in each individual man
as it did in the midst of his many activities, William James, which we expect from
argues that Aristotle taught the pre-existence kept distressing knowledge from his twelve of Prof. James's philosophical
by a direct act of God, as against Zeller, who suggests that a kindly forethought had Messrs. Longmans this month, will contain
of the voûs, and its handing on from generation
to generation. Part I. is a reprint, somewhat
numerous friends. Anxiety is somewhat essays, collected and edited by Prof.
enlarged, but not essentially altered, of a paper allayed by the tidings of a successful Ralph Barton Perry. The book is de-
contributed in 1882 to the Vienna Academy operation, but the distinguished patient signed to carry out a plan which Prof.
, the
by Zeller; and Part II. takes up point by danger.
theory under six headings. This was attacked is, we regret to hear, not yet out of James himself projected several years
before his death. With one exception
point Zeller's objections, and, not without
these essays were written within a period
some heat, provides each with its refutation. · ACROSS AUSTRALLA,' which Messrs. of two years, and constitute a consecutive
Geography and Travel.
Macmillan are publishing for Mr. Baldwin and orderly exposition of a doctrine which
Hugo (Victor), Le Rhin : Lettres à un ami, 2 vols. , Spencer and Mr. F. J.
