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(Paris, Perrin & Cie.
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Leopold wrote out a number of pieces wrote for Haydn, who had been ordered
which he presented to “his very
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MESSRS. CHRISTIE sold last Saturday the Wolfgang Amadée," on his sixth birthday, owing to illness was unable to do so, give
a Man," in dark dress and fur cap, his right i. e. , in 1762. . And there are various state- proof ; and our authors describe numbers.
hand raised to his face, 3251. G. Morland, ments in this work which show that the 1 of works of Mozart written at Salzburg,
* A Mill,' at the edge of a wood, with carts, father was constantly looking at, and even which show unmistakably the models on
figures, and horses, 2361.
correcting, the boy's compositions. For which they were shaped.
THE Florentine Accademia delle Belle instance, when they were both in London It was at Salzburg that the composer
Arti has elected Count Plunkett an Honorary in 1764, Leopold wrote about three made acquaintance with some of Joseph
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dedication of the six quartets to him in SIGNOR BUSONI's pianoforte recital on
Miss Tita Brand, as the Nurse, who opens
1784 shows how much he was indebted March 14th at Queen's Hall will be his the play, was so admirable as to suggest
to him.
only one this year in London. His interest- the highest hopes of the cast. She and
ing programme will include the two sets of the Attendant who looks after the two chil.
Messrs. Wyzewa and Saint-Foix spent Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage. '
dren of Medea are characteristic studies of
ten years over these two volumes, which
only deal with the art-work of Mozart up for alto and chorus, entitled “We are the
SIR EDWARD ELGAR is writing a work
the rather stupid, faithful, and matter-of-
fact menial. The Nurse says that Medea
to 1777, i. e. , to the twenty-first year of Music-Makers,' for the Birmingham Festival
served Jason in word and deed, and goes on:
his life. Their attempt to “ reconstruct next October, which will be given under the
ήπερ μεγίστη γίγνεται σωτηρία,
the interior development of the genius direction of Sir Henry J. Wood. Fresh works όταν γυνή πρός άνδρα μη διχοστατη.
of Mozart” will appeal mainly to serious- are also promised by Dr. Walford Davies This appears in Prof. Murray's version as :-
minded musicians. There is a mine of and Mr. Granville Bantock, and there will
Surely this doth bind,
information as to the state of music in be a new symphony by Sibelius.
Through all ill days, the hurts of bumankind,
Germany, France, Italy, and England M. MASSENET is a prolific writer of operas.
When man and woman in one music move.
during the second half of the eighteenth His latest, entitled “Roma,' will shortly be A version elegant in poetic taste, indeed,
century; and the valuable remarks on produced at Monte Carlo, and he has like all Prof. Murray’s, but wholly out of
the evolution of the form of the sonata, already gone there to superintend the final
character. Nurses are crudely practical
rehearsals.
symphony, &c. , make these volumes a work
and homely, from Greek drama to Shake-
of reference rather than one for general Ar the British Museum (King's Library) speare's and George Meredith's types of the
reading
on view a selection of Handel's
class.
manuscripts, lent by King George from the
Medea is busy on the scene or behind it
Buckingham Palace Library : 'Messiah,
throughout, and the part lays a great
Saul,' Israel in Egypt,' Judas Macca strain on any player. Miss Adeline Bourne
bæus, Coronation anthem Zadok the
did not lack intensity in voice and action,
Musical Gossip.
Priest,' and 'Samson. '
and was moving in her farewell to the
children, but she seemed to forget that she
SIR FRANCIS J. CAMPBELL, now in his
MR. YORK BOWEN's new Symphony in F 80th year, who was one of the founders of the passion to rags in the style of a modern
was a princess, if a barbarian, and tore her
minor, No. 2, was produced on the 1st inst. Norwood Royal NormalCollege and Academy neurotic heroine. Her fury and disorder
under Mr. Landon Ronald's direction, at the of Music for the Blind, and to whom much were perhaps emphasized beyond their
third concert, of the New Symphony Orches of its present prosperity is due, has resigned real value by contrast with the calm,
tra at Queen's Hall.
The more elastic form his principalship.
beautiful, and entirely adequate voice and
of the symphonic poem tempts many rising
pose of the leader of the chorus, Miss Evelyn
composers, so that Mr. Bowen deserves
Walsh Hall. She and her Corinthian women
praise for adhering to the older and severer
throughout moved but little, forming a
form. There is much to praise in his work :
small band on each side of the stage. The
excellent thematic material, especially in
the first and second movements;
performers on the left we could hardly see,
clever
and venture to suggest that a critic should
workmanship and orchestration, also rhyth-
have a better view of the stage than an
mic life, though, the latter not being kept
outermost seat in the stalls offers. There
Strolling Players' Orchestral Concert, 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
under due restraint, the working up to a
was no music, but certain passages were
climax is at times spoilt. The influence of
delivered by the chorus all together in
Tschaikowsky throughout the work is
style which more practice would have made
marked. The slow movement is to us the
imposing. To hear one voice struggling to
most successful of the four sections.
Ursula Nettleship's Vocal Recital, 3. 15, Æolian Hall.
catch up another, like those of children
THE ROSÉ QUARTET appeared at the
insufficiently acquainted with the Book of
Broadwood Concert in the Æolian Hall on Queen's Hall Orchestra, 3. Queen's Hall.
Common Prayer, was disconcerting. The
the same day, and their programme was
chorus is not the ideal spectator, as our
devoted to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
grandfathers supposed ; generally it repre-
sents a rather timorous Mrs. Grundy, who
They are, in our opinion, the best inter-
supplies provisional sympathy, and requires
preters of the chamber music of the classical
masters.
to be forced into action when it is too late.
DRA MA
It is no perruque playing, but
instinct with life and emotion. On the
The minor figures of Creon and Ægeus
following Saturday afternoon the first of
were excellently rendered by Mr. Alfred
two extra concerts took place. The pro- THE MEDEA' AT THE KINGSWAY. Mr. Philip Merivale seemed too young and
Brydone and Mr. James Hearn. As Jason,
gramme included Svendsen's Octet in A,
fresh. Both he and Medea have gone
Op. 3, a pleasant work, the rendering of THE audience at the performance on
which was delightful. The talented ladies Monday last of the
through much before the play begins.
Medea' in Prof. Mediocre at first, he warmed up at the end,
of the Lucas Quartet (the Misses Miran, Murray's English version was largely femi- and made the best of the wrangling with
Janet, Patience, and Maud Lucas), who nine, and, after listening to the feminist Medea, which strikes one as so needless and
assisted, were, of course, on their mettle.
arguments of Euripides, must have received inappropriate a finish to the tense drama,
or revived a strong impression of the living with all its fatal deeds accomplished. Tense
MR. LEONARD BORWICK
gave
his first
recital this season
quality of his thought. The · Medea' got and passionate enough, we should have
at Queen's Hall on
Tuesday afternoon. His fine performance scholar who examines it carefully cannot fail need no artificial heightening, but we were
a third prize only at its first hearing, and the thought, is the emotion at this period to
of a transcription of Bach's Organ Prelude
to see discrepancies and inconsistencies in treated to a display of blue and red light
and Fugue in G minor was admirable, not
only as regards technique, which with this whole. It is immature work, too full of ably be regarded as a tribute to the pyro-
its fabric which spoil its effect as an ordered mingled with darkness, which can presum-
pianist is always a strong point, but also in ideas which confuse the issue. The intro- technic art of Prof. Reinhardt. The Nurse,
beauty of tone. There was power and poetry duction of Ægeus looks as if its main purpose and the Messenger who reported the results
in his rendering of Beethoven's Sonata in
c minor, Op. 111, though some parts of the while the triumphant escape of Medea after by Mr. Franklin Dyall, showed that mono-
were merely to drag in something Attic, of the poisoned garb sent by Medea, played
Allegro were rather hurried. The playing of
a Brahms Rhapsody was one of his best suggests a heavy retribution in another being so, surely, the violent and directly
a murder twice classic for its barbarity logues can be made of high interest,. This
achievements during the afternoon.
play, or
a transference of our sympathies dramatic part of the action can speak for
to the over-
MR, MARK HAMBOURG gave his annual from the wronged woman
itself.
recital at Queen's Hall on Wednesday punished husband, who might at least be The difficulties in the understanding of the
afternoon, His rendering of Chopin's allowed to bury his own children. As a
play to which we have referred are briefly
Sonata in B minor was that of a virtuoso.
matter of fact, there is more to be said for considered in the Introduction to Prof.
There were good moments, but, especially
Jason than he does say, and though the Murray's English version, and always with
in the Finale, the music served principally average Athenian may be supposed to have insight and lucidity. Should not this book,
to show the strength and swiftness of his
known this, the audience of to-day does not. already in its eighth thousand, have been
fingers. In clever pieces by Cyril Scott, The scenery, a pair of doors between a on sale ?
This is a matter of organization
Ravel, and Debussy, Mr. Hambourg was at wall, with a few steps down to the stage which will doubtless receive attention on
his best,
level, was simple and effective.
another occasion,
Sux. Concert, 3. Royal Albert Hall.
Sunday Coocert Mociety, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
Sunday League Concert, 7. Queen's Hall.
Turs. , WED. , FH. , BAT. London Opera House. (Matinée also on
Saturday. )
Mox. London Symphony Orchestra, 8, Queen's Hall.
TUES. Lennart von Zweygberg's 'Cello Recital, 8, Bechstein Hall.
Motto Quartet, 8 30, Æolian Hall,
Wep. London Choral Society, 8, Queen's Hall.
Classical Concert Society, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
THURS. 12 o'Clock Chamber Concert, Eolian Hall.
Hergei Tarnowsky's Pianoforte Kecital, 3. Bechstein Hall.
Mario Lorenzi's Harp Recital, 3. 15, Broad wood's.
Antonio de Grassi's Violin Recital, 8. 15. Æolian Hall.
Beatrice Harrison's 'Cello Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
FRI.
Mostyn Rell's Song Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Frederick Keel's Vocal Recital, 8. 15, Æolian Hall.
SAT. London Ballad Concert, 3. Albert Hall.
Eva Rosa's Vncal Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Margaret Holloway's Violin Recital, 3. 15, Eolian Hall.
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OUR LIBRARY TABLE
YET another society has been formed to
brother's hearth disarms our irritation with promote the study of modern drama on the
The Drone, and Other Plays. By Ruther- the old fellow's incompetence. Mr. Whit-
lines of the repertory schemes at Manchester
ford Mayne. (Dublin, Maunsel. ) — This ford Kane, rightly cast in the present and Glasgow. Sir A. W. Pinero is the
volume contains four plays :
two very
instance, makes a very successful appeal | President, and the first piece to be per.
brief and tragic; two comparatively long for sympathy on his behalf, and, indeed, formed is 'The Silver Box' of Mr. Gals-
and less poignant. All four have been acted
this actor's performance, and that of the worthy.
so recently as last Tuesday, for author of the play in the more conven-
FIRESCREENS are common stage properties
which see our Gossip column below_two tional part of the farmer, are the outstanding
of them in London; and all four have features of the representation, though two in the everlasting comedy à quatre. They
are usually sent for by the wife when she
vitality, character, and a peculiar flavour farm-hands, impersonated by Mr. Stanley
of their own, difficult to analyze. The Gresley and Miss Nellie Wheeler, squabble wishes to prevent her husband being singed
Drone ' holds the attention as many a better-
More often than not
with amusing naturalness. No 'less droll by another woman.
are the boorish she draws the fire to herself by engaging the
constructed play fails to do, and keeps the than their altercations
reader following with eager sympathy the speeches of a Scotsman, capitally portrayed attentions of a spark or two; sometimes, as
strategy of the worthless old man who by Mr. Alec Thompson, who is as egregiously in Mr. Sutro's now play The Firescreen,
gives the play its title. No audience could egotistical as he is tactless in his facetious. produced at the Garrick last Wednesday,
see it on the stage without laughing-yet ness, and it should be added that, while she tries to save the situation by applying
the old adage-set a thief to catch a thief.
in the whole first act nothing happens. sentiment of a dry sort plays a large share
Dramatic skill and experience tell effectively
We have merely watched the sayings and in the action, there is a full measure of such
doings of a household of living people. farcical relief. The play is to be given in the scenes between the two women, and
in the ethically debatable third act. Mr.
That, as matter of fact, is all that again at two matinées next week, and pro-
happens in many a first act of Molière, too. spective visitors to the Royalty may be Sutro fails to give reality to a supposed
* The Turn of the Road' is more organic : delightful and not difficult
to an attentive
standard of honour among libertines, dis-
assured that they will find the dialect
cussion regarding which seems to have
a real conflict is fought out; it ought by
ear.
been dragged in for theatrical effect, and
all rules to be the better play ; but it has
to such length is the obvious insisted on,
not the same fullness of fluctuating vitality THOSE playgoers who recall ‘Pygmalion that throughout the noble Martha (Miss
as 'The Drone’; and it is in abundance of and Galateaand “Niobe, not to mention Violet Vanbrugh) is clad in white, while
human character that the strength of Mr. The Brass Bottle,' must be conscious, Angela (Miss Cutler) riots in an orgy of
Rutherford Mayne evidently lies. It is as they watch at Wyndham's the develop- colour. The babe-like “scientist with
even possible that his work might suffer ment of Mr. Alan Campbell's so-called the innocence of stage convention is played
from an attempt to render it more compact ; | fantasy The Dust of Egypt,' that all its by Mr. Fisher White, Mr. Bourchier acting
but it would be interesting to see him make situations have already been used by his the gay Lothario obedient to the delicate
the attempt.
predecessors, and they cannot but compare to request of the Martha to whom he is
repre-
the disadvantage of his farce the sprightlier sented as indebted, with his usual distinction.
Le Théâtre d'Ibsen. By W. Bertéval.
treatment of the humours of anachronism
(Paris, Perrin & Cie. )- Into a little volume of supplied in ‘ Niobe. '
No notice can be taken of anonymous communications.
some 300 pages M. Bertóval has managed to
We cannot undertake to reply to inquiries concerning the
His revivified mummy, which assumes the appearance of reviews of books.
compress the essence of twenty-two dramas.
We do not undertake to give the value of books, china,
He writes not for those who know, but for shape of an Egyptian princess, and is trans-
pictures, &c.
those who want to know their Ibsen. In ported to an English country house, proceeds
to act on the lines of every other heroine
TO CORRESPONDENTS. --S. A. -H. C. O'N. -E. L-
dealing with such a complex subject in so
F. C. 0. -Received.
small a space many points which would of two different civilizations are mainly
of her type. The more obvious contrasts A B. C. -A. S. G. -Not suitable for us.
normally be covered by the comprehensive relied on for the fun, but so young a play-
title have to be ignored. Of these the
Τ Η Ε Α Τ Η Ε Ν Ε Ο Μ.
subject of technique is one. The reader's
wright can hardly be blamed for not having
SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.
attention is not drawn to questions of form improved on the
methods of more experienced
a
or languagedramatic style or variety of
(Hall-Column) ::
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metre; no room is found for biographical | Campbell's effort merits indulgence.
Reduced in length, and taken at a quicker
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matter or history of stage production. The
book suggests rather the ideal analytical pace, this farce (which employs Mr. Gerald Auctions and Public Institutions, Five Lines 48. and 8d. per line
Pearl Type beyond.
programme which might conceivably be du Maurier in a rather thankless part, and
IN THE MEASUREMENT OF ADVERTISEMENTS, CARE
commanded by some future British Minister Miss Enid Bell, a princess of statuesque
of Fine Arts for the yet-to-be-realized State poses and dragging diction, more ambitiously)
theatre than a treatise on Ibsen's dramas. may well shape into an acceptable enter- The Athenaeum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E. C
The dominant idea of each drama from tainment.
*Catilina' to 'When We Dead Awaken’ is
We have received a lengthy communica-
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traced, and comparison made one with
PRICE THREEPENCE,
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Bertéval, to consider the plays not from plays she is presenting at the Gaiety Theatre,
a ‘Confession of
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outside as critic or spectator, but in the Manchester, including
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date, pryable in advance to
conjecture to symbolic origins. If, “ While we seek to represent to a certain extent
on rare occasions, our author is so tempted, the Feminist Movement and conduct the theatre The Atheneum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E. C.
he recalls himself and his readers with
more or less as a Woman's Theatre (owned and
“ Cherchons donc à refaire le drame avec
managed by women), it will be our aims to avoid
didacticism and only to permit such deliberate
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.
Ibsen. ” We know of no English book
instruction' on the stage as is consonant with
which forms so lucid an introduction to the entertainment'; only to admit the play of
works of the Norwegian dramatist, con- ideas on condition that it is a play-a story told,
sidered not as isolated dramas, but in their
as it were, 'in the round. '
CHAPMAN & HALL
relation one to another.
“We open on February 12th, with a varied
programme comprising some twelve or more plays
EDUCATIONAL
by modern authors. Among them are The
EXHIBITIONS
Perfect Widow,' a new and brilliant comedy, by HARPER & BROS.
Gilbert Cannan ; ' Old Jan,' a Volendam study, by LECTURES . .
Dramatic Gossip.
Gertrude Robins (four of whose plays have LONGMANS & Co.
already been presented at the Gaiety); The Dear MACMILLAN & Co.
MAGAZINES, &c.
'THE DRONE' was discussed in these
Little Wife,' a Japanese sketch, by C. Dunn ;
columns when it first appeared in book
'The Cry,' 'a Siberian thrill, by Nita Faydon ;
NOTBS AND QUERIES
Alias Mrs. Fairfax,' a Suffragette sketch, by
form (Athenaeum, No. 4294), and we allude
George H. Jessop; The Notorious Mrs. Ebb- PAUL, TREXCH & Co.
to it again this week in noticing its republica- smith, The Walls of Jericho, Arms and the
tion with three other plays, so that there
Man'; 'The Fountain,' by George Calderon ; PROVIDENT INSTITUTIONS
is scarcely need to say more of it than that
and The Likeness of the Night,' by Mrs. W. K.
SEELEY & Co.
Clifford. '
its quaint hero preserves his charm upon
SHIPPING . .
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the stage. His helplessness when he is THE VAUDEVILLE THEATRE is to open SITUATIONS WANTED
called upon to explain his model and face with a comedy entitled 'Kipps,' derived SMITH, ELDER & Co.
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experiment in religion which has stood tude of scattered writings and reported
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1912. its intellectual trials not less prosperously addresses, published or in MS. , which
than the trials of persecution, and as a he wishes to be brought together and
CONTENTS.
moral asset of civilization which has done printed in a Book. ” Not all in one book,
a great, distinctive, and persistent work it is obvious from the tale of them. . For,
QUAKERISM OLD AND NEW . .
for humanity, and is still unwasted. though those were the days of volumes in
THE EXCESSES OF CIVILIZATION (The Life Story of J.
Pierpont Morgan; The Underlying Principles of
Among the related documents now for folio, it would have had to be a massive
Modern Legislation; The Anarchists, their Faith
and their Record)
the first time printed along with George volume indeed to contain between two
NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES (Views and Vagabonds ;
Fox's Journal, none is more interesting boards such a resurrection rally of printed
The Outward Appearance; The
Tower; The Indian Lily). .
than the series of testamentary papers and unprinted remains (including letters
TAIS WEEK'S BOOKS (Margaret of France ; After.
given at the end of the second volume. broadcast about the world, and adversaria
thoughts; A Year with the Gaekwar of Baroda ; Written about 1685, they show the great on margins and ily-leaves) as his directions
The Betts of Wortham; The Modern Woman's
indicate.
religious enthusiast and man of many
All the notes of the “ passages”
Rights Movement; The Principle of Individuality
and Value ; Monetary Economics ; Oscar Wilde) 189—191
travels arranging the final disposition of of Friends (=their adventures, vicissitudes)
his estate and belongings with a vigilant which he had collected were to be used;
196 attention to all that he possessed, and a
much more, therefore,
SCIENCE-DIESEL ENGINES ; LORD LISTER; SOCIETIES;
knowledge of where everything was to be “the great Jornall of my Life, Sufferings,
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK ; GOSSIP
198—199 | found, which would not have discredited Travills and Imprisonments they may be put
PEIAN DECORATIONS ; THE MODERN SOCIETY OF
the most matter-of-fact and stay-at-home together that Lye in papers and ye Little
PORTRAIT PAINTERS, AND OTHER EXHIBITIONS ;
minder of his own private business. These Jornall Books they may be printed together
MR. LESSER LESSER'S OLD MASTERS; ROWLAND- glimpses confirm the impression which in a Book,”
the Journal' ever and again conveys, the instruction being further amplified
MUSIC-GOSSIP; PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK
DRAMA-THE EASIEST WAY; GARRICK AND
that George Fox, for all his unworldly elsewhere.
FRENCH FRIENDS; AN ACTOR'S HAMLET ; THREE fervour and his occasional propagandist
COMEDIES; GOSSIP
202—204 extravagances,
Here is a case where to misread the
yet wonderfully
*JULIUS CESAR' AT OXFORD
human, sane and sensible au fond, and motive is to miss the knowledge offered to
might have been very good company in this care to perpetuate his own memory
our intelligence. It would be easy to see
at an inn fireside of an evening, after he and utterances, not, indeed, ordinary
had “cleared himself fully” in regard to egotism, but an instance of that rather
the neighbouring steeple-house. Perhaps
LITERATURE
next to the housewife, indeed, there is no sorry self-preoccupation which will some-
one so practical and housewifely as the wayfarer who first set out, and prospered
times overtake in later life the spiritual
genuine traveller, and there is something in his mission to men, because he had no
of the woman—that is, of the
has to manage in the traveller's
attention thought of self at all. It would be easy,
QUAKERISM OLD AND NEW.
to little contrivances and his just respect but it would be inept. Rather we should
for material things. In the case of George expression of that commemorative in-
see here a conspicuous and important
PUBLISHED within a month or two of each
other, the two books before us make a
Fox the traveller's feeling also towards
notable addition to the resources available small personal belongings, towards the stinct (to use the latter term a little laxly)
for literary and historical students who trivial items of his equipment
which have which ought to be counted one of the
distinguishing characteristics of the early
may wish to look somewhat closely into accompanied him through long journeys Quakers. It is also, we think, to be counted
the story of Quakerism or the personal
and religious characteristics of its founder the direction that Thomas Lower shall one of their worthiest, since it results
have
The contribution of the one work towards my Spanish leather hood," and equally from their high practical intelli-
moral view of life, and
this result lies in the fact that, thanks S. Mead - my
Magnifying Glass and the their faith in the reality of a new spiritual
to the restoration of all (and it was
era. The last sentiment, especially, is
much and various) that had hitherto been
Reminiscent of another famous will, clearly predominant in George Fox's
omitted from his Journal,' the personality and quaintly worded withal, is this from a
care for the publishing and distribution of
of George Fox is now more fully presented codicil regarding “ Petty's," a dwelling his own works, and for the formation of
than ever before, so that the reader will house and land near Swarthmore, in which Friendly archives and libraries. In love to
find more to wonder at, something perhaps his widow was to have a life interest :-
man and gratitude to God, and in glad
to forgive, and not less to love. That of
the other consists in telling the story & my great Chair & my sea Case with yo
“And my Ebeney Bed with yo Curtins childlike wonder at what he has seen
come to pass as well as been privi-
of Quakerism's heroic age-fully as to Glass Bottles in itt I doe Give to stand in leged to suffer, he wishes future genera-
narrative, wisely as to commentary and the house at pettyes which I have Given for tions to share in the triumph by knowing
interpretation - in a way which shows a Meeting place & ye Chair will serve for how, and through what animating trials,
that present-day Quakerism, at its best, ffriends to sitt on & ye Bed to Lye upon, the victory was won. If he wishes that
holds nothing by the tenure either of and ye Sea Case will hold some Liquour or
“all the passages of ffriends and their
enthusiasm or of mental inertia, still less Drink if any should be faint. ”
Travills which they have stiched up at
by the surrender of the scientific conscience Surely convincing token of that Swarthmoore may be Gathered up to make
to conclusions foregone. These works unity with the creation ” which he once a History of,” it is because the resulting
seem, indeed, fitted not only to render sought to place beyond dispute by putting history will be a brave thing"; and
account of their subject, but also to react to his lips the tobacco-pipe of a jesting again (in a paper dated 1688), because
upon it, by bringing it, so far as the wider youth, who had proffered it, thinking it is a fine thing to know yº Beginning of
public is concerned, to the starting-point thereby to shock a holy man:-
of a new career of influence and estimation.
ye Spreading of ye Gospel after Soe Long
They can hardly fail to secure for it
“And I lookt upon him to bee a forwarde Night of Apostacy since ye Apostles Dayes,
bolde lad : and tobacco I did not take : butt that now Christ Reigns as hee did in the
renewed and enhanced attention as an
I saw hee had a flashy empty notion hearts of his people. Glory to ye Lord ffor-
of religion : soe I took his pipe & putt it ever, Amen. "
The Journal of George Fox. Edited from to my mouth and gave it to him again to
the MSS. by Norman Penney, with an stoppe him lost his rude tongue shoulde say
This note of high ecstasy, as of one who
Introduction by. T. Edmund Harvey. ! I had not unity with ye creation. "
is fighting a great and heavenly fight with
2 vols. (Cambridge University Press. )
holy glee, and who doubts not that the
The Beginnings of Quakerism. By William
But as illustrations of character, the sun and stars are at gaze for the memor-
C. Braithwaite. With an Introduction by most important of these testamentary able transactions now going on upon the
Rufus M. Jones. (Macmillan & Co. ) papers are those concerning his multi- earth-it is, upon the whole, the note of
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the 'Journal,' and is amazingly sustained. Ellwood, and does not allow sufficient To Mr. Braithwaite's book we can also
It lends confirmation to the view of the weight and insistence to the operations give very hearty praise. Though it
present editor that the narrative part of of the committee of censors to whom the is later in issuing from the press,
the work was entirely dictated. For if work was submitted for revision. To this
it is really the antecedent volume to
the manuscript often shows signs of the committee, called the Second Day Morn. The Quakers in the American Colonies,
writer's hand having been hurried, still ing Meeting, had to be submitted all by Dr. Rufus M. Jones (and others), to
oftener we seem to catch the very tones works of a religious nature or bearing which which we gave extended notice on August
of the rapt narrator as he recapitulates, Friends proposed to publish. A censor 19th, 1911. On that occasion we ex-
in a great gusto of recollection, the story ship, as one of the earliest institutions of pressed the opinion that if the series was
of a victorious struggle from which he Quakerism may sound paradoxical. Yet continued in the spirit of the first instal-
is even
now returned, happy,
"well
on a closer scrutiny it will be found to ment, it would " constitute a history of
breathed,” and aglow with life. It is all bear but little against their intellectual Quakerism in which the disinterested
in the mood of that full-hearted climax consistency, while it affords one token historical motive and point of view are
of Burke : “We did fight that day, more of their religious sanity and their for the first time predominant. ” That
and conquer ! ” It would be difficult, practical good sense.
expectation is abundantly confirmed by
it is true, to imagine any event in which And it must be owned that these the new volume, which in some respects
he was concerned that did not appear to qualities are exhibited plentifully through- reaches an even higher excellence than its
George Fox a victory for truth, and a out the two handsome volumes in which predecessor. It has one great advantage
discomfiture, if not a routing, of the we are now permitted to see how the in unity of authorship, and another in
forces of evil; so upholding was that first editors - Ellwood and the revising comparative unity of scene and action,
same holy glee in which he ever went, committee — dealt with the important, In documentation and detail, also, it
were it even into the ditch headlong from but highly singular literary bequest shows a great advance in thoroughness,
the hands of “rude people. ” Thence he which they had to deliver to the foot-note references to first-hand autho-
would emerge without anger, to tell them, world. Besides normalizing the spelling rities (published or in MS. collections)
reasonably enough, they should be and sometimes refining the expression, being given for almost every statement
ashamed to do soe. ” And if after that they decided that a great many little in the text. In knowledge of the annals,
they slunk away, or at least did not throw things were best left unsaid, or at least archives, and literature of Quakerism
him in again, why, certes, the power of unprinted. In almost every case — all Mr. Braithwaite can have few equals,
the Lord was over all ! ”
except about half a score out of several and any who might be so described have,
Something must be said of the "original hundreds—they decided wisely or reason- as his Preface indicates, gladly placed
MS. ” from which this edition is printed, ably, having regard to their time and the themselves at his service. When we say
though a brief account can hardly indicate purpose of the bequest. George Fox is that 500 out of some 580 well-filled pages
how original and full of interest it is. In now, of course, a privileged character ; of text are concerned with the history of
reality a collection of different MSS. which the more fully he reveals himself the the Quaker movement in this country alone
now lie, bound in two volumes, at the better we are pleased.
Leopold wrote out a number of pieces wrote for Haydn, who had been ordered
which he presented to “his very
dear
son, to compose them for the Archbishop, but
MESSRS. CHRISTIE sold last Saturday the Wolfgang Amadée," on his sixth birthday, owing to illness was unable to do so, give
a Man," in dark dress and fur cap, his right i. e. , in 1762. . And there are various state- proof ; and our authors describe numbers.
hand raised to his face, 3251. G. Morland, ments in this work which show that the 1 of works of Mozart written at Salzburg,
* A Mill,' at the edge of a wood, with carts, father was constantly looking at, and even which show unmistakably the models on
figures, and horses, 2361.
correcting, the boy's compositions. For which they were shaped.
THE Florentine Accademia delle Belle instance, when they were both in London It was at Salzburg that the composer
Arti has elected Count Plunkett an Honorary in 1764, Leopold wrote about three made acquaintance with some of Joseph
Academician,
consecutive fifths which appeared in a Haydn's symphonies in 1771, and Mozart's.
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PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
dedication of the six quartets to him in SIGNOR BUSONI's pianoforte recital on
Miss Tita Brand, as the Nurse, who opens
1784 shows how much he was indebted March 14th at Queen's Hall will be his the play, was so admirable as to suggest
to him.
only one this year in London. His interest- the highest hopes of the cast. She and
ing programme will include the two sets of the Attendant who looks after the two chil.
Messrs. Wyzewa and Saint-Foix spent Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage. '
dren of Medea are characteristic studies of
ten years over these two volumes, which
only deal with the art-work of Mozart up for alto and chorus, entitled “We are the
SIR EDWARD ELGAR is writing a work
the rather stupid, faithful, and matter-of-
fact menial. The Nurse says that Medea
to 1777, i. e. , to the twenty-first year of Music-Makers,' for the Birmingham Festival
served Jason in word and deed, and goes on:
his life. Their attempt to “ reconstruct next October, which will be given under the
ήπερ μεγίστη γίγνεται σωτηρία,
the interior development of the genius direction of Sir Henry J. Wood. Fresh works όταν γυνή πρός άνδρα μη διχοστατη.
of Mozart” will appeal mainly to serious- are also promised by Dr. Walford Davies This appears in Prof. Murray's version as :-
minded musicians. There is a mine of and Mr. Granville Bantock, and there will
Surely this doth bind,
information as to the state of music in be a new symphony by Sibelius.
Through all ill days, the hurts of bumankind,
Germany, France, Italy, and England M. MASSENET is a prolific writer of operas.
When man and woman in one music move.
during the second half of the eighteenth His latest, entitled “Roma,' will shortly be A version elegant in poetic taste, indeed,
century; and the valuable remarks on produced at Monte Carlo, and he has like all Prof. Murray’s, but wholly out of
the evolution of the form of the sonata, already gone there to superintend the final
character. Nurses are crudely practical
rehearsals.
symphony, &c. , make these volumes a work
and homely, from Greek drama to Shake-
of reference rather than one for general Ar the British Museum (King's Library) speare's and George Meredith's types of the
reading
on view a selection of Handel's
class.
manuscripts, lent by King George from the
Medea is busy on the scene or behind it
Buckingham Palace Library : 'Messiah,
throughout, and the part lays a great
Saul,' Israel in Egypt,' Judas Macca strain on any player. Miss Adeline Bourne
bæus, Coronation anthem Zadok the
did not lack intensity in voice and action,
Musical Gossip.
Priest,' and 'Samson. '
and was moving in her farewell to the
children, but she seemed to forget that she
SIR FRANCIS J. CAMPBELL, now in his
MR. YORK BOWEN's new Symphony in F 80th year, who was one of the founders of the passion to rags in the style of a modern
was a princess, if a barbarian, and tore her
minor, No. 2, was produced on the 1st inst. Norwood Royal NormalCollege and Academy neurotic heroine. Her fury and disorder
under Mr. Landon Ronald's direction, at the of Music for the Blind, and to whom much were perhaps emphasized beyond their
third concert, of the New Symphony Orches of its present prosperity is due, has resigned real value by contrast with the calm,
tra at Queen's Hall.
The more elastic form his principalship.
beautiful, and entirely adequate voice and
of the symphonic poem tempts many rising
pose of the leader of the chorus, Miss Evelyn
composers, so that Mr. Bowen deserves
Walsh Hall. She and her Corinthian women
praise for adhering to the older and severer
throughout moved but little, forming a
form. There is much to praise in his work :
small band on each side of the stage. The
excellent thematic material, especially in
the first and second movements;
performers on the left we could hardly see,
clever
and venture to suggest that a critic should
workmanship and orchestration, also rhyth-
have a better view of the stage than an
mic life, though, the latter not being kept
outermost seat in the stalls offers. There
Strolling Players' Orchestral Concert, 8. 30, Queen's Hall.
under due restraint, the working up to a
was no music, but certain passages were
climax is at times spoilt. The influence of
delivered by the chorus all together in
Tschaikowsky throughout the work is
style which more practice would have made
marked. The slow movement is to us the
imposing. To hear one voice struggling to
most successful of the four sections.
Ursula Nettleship's Vocal Recital, 3. 15, Æolian Hall.
catch up another, like those of children
THE ROSÉ QUARTET appeared at the
insufficiently acquainted with the Book of
Broadwood Concert in the Æolian Hall on Queen's Hall Orchestra, 3. Queen's Hall.
Common Prayer, was disconcerting. The
the same day, and their programme was
chorus is not the ideal spectator, as our
devoted to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
grandfathers supposed ; generally it repre-
sents a rather timorous Mrs. Grundy, who
They are, in our opinion, the best inter-
supplies provisional sympathy, and requires
preters of the chamber music of the classical
masters.
to be forced into action when it is too late.
DRA MA
It is no perruque playing, but
instinct with life and emotion. On the
The minor figures of Creon and Ægeus
following Saturday afternoon the first of
were excellently rendered by Mr. Alfred
two extra concerts took place. The pro- THE MEDEA' AT THE KINGSWAY. Mr. Philip Merivale seemed too young and
Brydone and Mr. James Hearn. As Jason,
gramme included Svendsen's Octet in A,
fresh. Both he and Medea have gone
Op. 3, a pleasant work, the rendering of THE audience at the performance on
which was delightful. The talented ladies Monday last of the
through much before the play begins.
Medea' in Prof. Mediocre at first, he warmed up at the end,
of the Lucas Quartet (the Misses Miran, Murray's English version was largely femi- and made the best of the wrangling with
Janet, Patience, and Maud Lucas), who nine, and, after listening to the feminist Medea, which strikes one as so needless and
assisted, were, of course, on their mettle.
arguments of Euripides, must have received inappropriate a finish to the tense drama,
or revived a strong impression of the living with all its fatal deeds accomplished. Tense
MR. LEONARD BORWICK
gave
his first
recital this season
quality of his thought. The · Medea' got and passionate enough, we should have
at Queen's Hall on
Tuesday afternoon. His fine performance scholar who examines it carefully cannot fail need no artificial heightening, but we were
a third prize only at its first hearing, and the thought, is the emotion at this period to
of a transcription of Bach's Organ Prelude
to see discrepancies and inconsistencies in treated to a display of blue and red light
and Fugue in G minor was admirable, not
only as regards technique, which with this whole. It is immature work, too full of ably be regarded as a tribute to the pyro-
its fabric which spoil its effect as an ordered mingled with darkness, which can presum-
pianist is always a strong point, but also in ideas which confuse the issue. The intro- technic art of Prof. Reinhardt. The Nurse,
beauty of tone. There was power and poetry duction of Ægeus looks as if its main purpose and the Messenger who reported the results
in his rendering of Beethoven's Sonata in
c minor, Op. 111, though some parts of the while the triumphant escape of Medea after by Mr. Franklin Dyall, showed that mono-
were merely to drag in something Attic, of the poisoned garb sent by Medea, played
Allegro were rather hurried. The playing of
a Brahms Rhapsody was one of his best suggests a heavy retribution in another being so, surely, the violent and directly
a murder twice classic for its barbarity logues can be made of high interest,. This
achievements during the afternoon.
play, or
a transference of our sympathies dramatic part of the action can speak for
to the over-
MR, MARK HAMBOURG gave his annual from the wronged woman
itself.
recital at Queen's Hall on Wednesday punished husband, who might at least be The difficulties in the understanding of the
afternoon, His rendering of Chopin's allowed to bury his own children. As a
play to which we have referred are briefly
Sonata in B minor was that of a virtuoso.
matter of fact, there is more to be said for considered in the Introduction to Prof.
There were good moments, but, especially
Jason than he does say, and though the Murray's English version, and always with
in the Finale, the music served principally average Athenian may be supposed to have insight and lucidity. Should not this book,
to show the strength and swiftness of his
known this, the audience of to-day does not. already in its eighth thousand, have been
fingers. In clever pieces by Cyril Scott, The scenery, a pair of doors between a on sale ?
This is a matter of organization
Ravel, and Debussy, Mr. Hambourg was at wall, with a few steps down to the stage which will doubtless receive attention on
his best,
level, was simple and effective.
another occasion,
Sux. Concert, 3. Royal Albert Hall.
Sunday Coocert Mociety, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
Sunday League Concert, 7. Queen's Hall.
Turs. , WED. , FH. , BAT. London Opera House. (Matinée also on
Saturday. )
Mox. London Symphony Orchestra, 8, Queen's Hall.
TUES. Lennart von Zweygberg's 'Cello Recital, 8, Bechstein Hall.
Motto Quartet, 8 30, Æolian Hall,
Wep. London Choral Society, 8, Queen's Hall.
Classical Concert Society, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
THURS. 12 o'Clock Chamber Concert, Eolian Hall.
Hergei Tarnowsky's Pianoforte Kecital, 3. Bechstein Hall.
Mario Lorenzi's Harp Recital, 3. 15, Broad wood's.
Antonio de Grassi's Violin Recital, 8. 15. Æolian Hall.
Beatrice Harrison's 'Cello Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
FRI.
Mostyn Rell's Song Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Frederick Keel's Vocal Recital, 8. 15, Æolian Hall.
SAT. London Ballad Concert, 3. Albert Hall.
Eva Rosa's Vncal Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Margaret Holloway's Violin Recital, 3. 15, Eolian Hall.
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OUR LIBRARY TABLE
YET another society has been formed to
brother's hearth disarms our irritation with promote the study of modern drama on the
The Drone, and Other Plays. By Ruther- the old fellow's incompetence. Mr. Whit-
lines of the repertory schemes at Manchester
ford Mayne. (Dublin, Maunsel. ) — This ford Kane, rightly cast in the present and Glasgow. Sir A. W. Pinero is the
volume contains four plays :
two very
instance, makes a very successful appeal | President, and the first piece to be per.
brief and tragic; two comparatively long for sympathy on his behalf, and, indeed, formed is 'The Silver Box' of Mr. Gals-
and less poignant. All four have been acted
this actor's performance, and that of the worthy.
so recently as last Tuesday, for author of the play in the more conven-
FIRESCREENS are common stage properties
which see our Gossip column below_two tional part of the farmer, are the outstanding
of them in London; and all four have features of the representation, though two in the everlasting comedy à quatre. They
are usually sent for by the wife when she
vitality, character, and a peculiar flavour farm-hands, impersonated by Mr. Stanley
of their own, difficult to analyze. The Gresley and Miss Nellie Wheeler, squabble wishes to prevent her husband being singed
Drone ' holds the attention as many a better-
More often than not
with amusing naturalness. No 'less droll by another woman.
are the boorish she draws the fire to herself by engaging the
constructed play fails to do, and keeps the than their altercations
reader following with eager sympathy the speeches of a Scotsman, capitally portrayed attentions of a spark or two; sometimes, as
strategy of the worthless old man who by Mr. Alec Thompson, who is as egregiously in Mr. Sutro's now play The Firescreen,
gives the play its title. No audience could egotistical as he is tactless in his facetious. produced at the Garrick last Wednesday,
see it on the stage without laughing-yet ness, and it should be added that, while she tries to save the situation by applying
the old adage-set a thief to catch a thief.
in the whole first act nothing happens. sentiment of a dry sort plays a large share
Dramatic skill and experience tell effectively
We have merely watched the sayings and in the action, there is a full measure of such
doings of a household of living people. farcical relief. The play is to be given in the scenes between the two women, and
in the ethically debatable third act. Mr.
That, as matter of fact, is all that again at two matinées next week, and pro-
happens in many a first act of Molière, too. spective visitors to the Royalty may be Sutro fails to give reality to a supposed
* The Turn of the Road' is more organic : delightful and not difficult
to an attentive
standard of honour among libertines, dis-
assured that they will find the dialect
cussion regarding which seems to have
a real conflict is fought out; it ought by
ear.
been dragged in for theatrical effect, and
all rules to be the better play ; but it has
to such length is the obvious insisted on,
not the same fullness of fluctuating vitality THOSE playgoers who recall ‘Pygmalion that throughout the noble Martha (Miss
as 'The Drone’; and it is in abundance of and Galateaand “Niobe, not to mention Violet Vanbrugh) is clad in white, while
human character that the strength of Mr. The Brass Bottle,' must be conscious, Angela (Miss Cutler) riots in an orgy of
Rutherford Mayne evidently lies. It is as they watch at Wyndham's the develop- colour. The babe-like “scientist with
even possible that his work might suffer ment of Mr. Alan Campbell's so-called the innocence of stage convention is played
from an attempt to render it more compact ; | fantasy The Dust of Egypt,' that all its by Mr. Fisher White, Mr. Bourchier acting
but it would be interesting to see him make situations have already been used by his the gay Lothario obedient to the delicate
the attempt.
predecessors, and they cannot but compare to request of the Martha to whom he is
repre-
the disadvantage of his farce the sprightlier sented as indebted, with his usual distinction.
Le Théâtre d'Ibsen. By W. Bertéval.
treatment of the humours of anachronism
(Paris, Perrin & Cie. )- Into a little volume of supplied in ‘ Niobe. '
No notice can be taken of anonymous communications.
some 300 pages M. Bertóval has managed to
We cannot undertake to reply to inquiries concerning the
His revivified mummy, which assumes the appearance of reviews of books.
compress the essence of twenty-two dramas.
We do not undertake to give the value of books, china,
He writes not for those who know, but for shape of an Egyptian princess, and is trans-
pictures, &c.
those who want to know their Ibsen. In ported to an English country house, proceeds
to act on the lines of every other heroine
TO CORRESPONDENTS. --S. A. -H. C. O'N. -E. L-
dealing with such a complex subject in so
F. C. 0. -Received.
small a space many points which would of two different civilizations are mainly
of her type. The more obvious contrasts A B. C. -A. S. G. -Not suitable for us.
normally be covered by the comprehensive relied on for the fun, but so young a play-
title have to be ignored. Of these the
Τ Η Ε Α Τ Η Ε Ν Ε Ο Μ.
subject of technique is one. The reader's
wright can hardly be blamed for not having
SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.
attention is not drawn to questions of form improved on the
methods of more experienced
a
or languagedramatic style or variety of
(Hall-Column) ::
A Columä . .
metre; no room is found for biographical | Campbell's effort merits indulgence.
Reduced in length, and taken at a quicker
:: :: ::
matter or history of stage production. The
book suggests rather the ideal analytical pace, this farce (which employs Mr. Gerald Auctions and Public Institutions, Five Lines 48. and 8d. per line
Pearl Type beyond.
programme which might conceivably be du Maurier in a rather thankless part, and
IN THE MEASUREMENT OF ADVERTISEMENTS, CARE
commanded by some future British Minister Miss Enid Bell, a princess of statuesque
of Fine Arts for the yet-to-be-realized State poses and dragging diction, more ambitiously)
theatre than a treatise on Ibsen's dramas. may well shape into an acceptable enter- The Athenaeum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E. C
The dominant idea of each drama from tainment.
*Catilina' to 'When We Dead Awaken’ is
We have received a lengthy communica-
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traced, and comparison made one with
PRICE THREEPENCE,
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Is published every PRIDAY in time for the Afternoon Mails. Terms
Bertéval, to consider the plays not from plays she is presenting at the Gaiety Theatre,
a ‘Confession of
Three Months, 38. 10d. ; for Six Months, 78. 8d. ; for Twelve Months,
outside as critic or spectator, but in the Manchester, including
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date, pryable in advance to
conjecture to symbolic origins. If, “ While we seek to represent to a certain extent
on rare occasions, our author is so tempted, the Feminist Movement and conduct the theatre The Atheneum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E. C.
he recalls himself and his readers with
more or less as a Woman's Theatre (owned and
“ Cherchons donc à refaire le drame avec
managed by women), it will be our aims to avoid
didacticism and only to permit such deliberate
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.
Ibsen. ” We know of no English book
instruction' on the stage as is consonant with
which forms so lucid an introduction to the entertainment'; only to admit the play of
works of the Norwegian dramatist, con- ideas on condition that it is a play-a story told,
sidered not as isolated dramas, but in their
as it were, 'in the round. '
CHAPMAN & HALL
relation one to another.
“We open on February 12th, with a varied
programme comprising some twelve or more plays
EDUCATIONAL
by modern authors. Among them are The
EXHIBITIONS
Perfect Widow,' a new and brilliant comedy, by HARPER & BROS.
Gilbert Cannan ; ' Old Jan,' a Volendam study, by LECTURES . .
Dramatic Gossip.
Gertrude Robins (four of whose plays have LONGMANS & Co.
already been presented at the Gaiety); The Dear MACMILLAN & Co.
MAGAZINES, &c.
'THE DRONE' was discussed in these
Little Wife,' a Japanese sketch, by C. Dunn ;
columns when it first appeared in book
'The Cry,' 'a Siberian thrill, by Nita Faydon ;
NOTBS AND QUERIES
Alias Mrs. Fairfax,' a Suffragette sketch, by
form (Athenaeum, No. 4294), and we allude
George H. Jessop; The Notorious Mrs. Ebb- PAUL, TREXCH & Co.
to it again this week in noticing its republica- smith, The Walls of Jericho, Arms and the
tion with three other plays, so that there
Man'; 'The Fountain,' by George Calderon ; PROVIDENT INSTITUTIONS
is scarcely need to say more of it than that
and The Likeness of the Night,' by Mrs. W. K.
SEELEY & Co.
Clifford. '
its quaint hero preserves his charm upon
SHIPPING . .
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experiment in religion which has stood tude of scattered writings and reported
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1912. its intellectual trials not less prosperously addresses, published or in MS. , which
than the trials of persecution, and as a he wishes to be brought together and
CONTENTS.
moral asset of civilization which has done printed in a Book. ” Not all in one book,
a great, distinctive, and persistent work it is obvious from the tale of them. . For,
QUAKERISM OLD AND NEW . .
for humanity, and is still unwasted. though those were the days of volumes in
THE EXCESSES OF CIVILIZATION (The Life Story of J.
Pierpont Morgan; The Underlying Principles of
Among the related documents now for folio, it would have had to be a massive
Modern Legislation; The Anarchists, their Faith
and their Record)
the first time printed along with George volume indeed to contain between two
NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES (Views and Vagabonds ;
Fox's Journal, none is more interesting boards such a resurrection rally of printed
The Outward Appearance; The
Tower; The Indian Lily). .
than the series of testamentary papers and unprinted remains (including letters
TAIS WEEK'S BOOKS (Margaret of France ; After.
given at the end of the second volume. broadcast about the world, and adversaria
thoughts; A Year with the Gaekwar of Baroda ; Written about 1685, they show the great on margins and ily-leaves) as his directions
The Betts of Wortham; The Modern Woman's
indicate.
religious enthusiast and man of many
All the notes of the “ passages”
Rights Movement; The Principle of Individuality
and Value ; Monetary Economics ; Oscar Wilde) 189—191
travels arranging the final disposition of of Friends (=their adventures, vicissitudes)
his estate and belongings with a vigilant which he had collected were to be used;
196 attention to all that he possessed, and a
much more, therefore,
SCIENCE-DIESEL ENGINES ; LORD LISTER; SOCIETIES;
knowledge of where everything was to be “the great Jornall of my Life, Sufferings,
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK ; GOSSIP
198—199 | found, which would not have discredited Travills and Imprisonments they may be put
PEIAN DECORATIONS ; THE MODERN SOCIETY OF
the most matter-of-fact and stay-at-home together that Lye in papers and ye Little
PORTRAIT PAINTERS, AND OTHER EXHIBITIONS ;
minder of his own private business. These Jornall Books they may be printed together
MR. LESSER LESSER'S OLD MASTERS; ROWLAND- glimpses confirm the impression which in a Book,”
the Journal' ever and again conveys, the instruction being further amplified
MUSIC-GOSSIP; PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK
DRAMA-THE EASIEST WAY; GARRICK AND
that George Fox, for all his unworldly elsewhere.
FRENCH FRIENDS; AN ACTOR'S HAMLET ; THREE fervour and his occasional propagandist
COMEDIES; GOSSIP
202—204 extravagances,
Here is a case where to misread the
yet wonderfully
*JULIUS CESAR' AT OXFORD
human, sane and sensible au fond, and motive is to miss the knowledge offered to
might have been very good company in this care to perpetuate his own memory
our intelligence. It would be easy to see
at an inn fireside of an evening, after he and utterances, not, indeed, ordinary
had “cleared himself fully” in regard to egotism, but an instance of that rather
the neighbouring steeple-house. Perhaps
LITERATURE
next to the housewife, indeed, there is no sorry self-preoccupation which will some-
one so practical and housewifely as the wayfarer who first set out, and prospered
times overtake in later life the spiritual
genuine traveller, and there is something in his mission to men, because he had no
of the woman—that is, of the
has to manage in the traveller's
attention thought of self at all. It would be easy,
QUAKERISM OLD AND NEW.
to little contrivances and his just respect but it would be inept. Rather we should
for material things. In the case of George expression of that commemorative in-
see here a conspicuous and important
PUBLISHED within a month or two of each
other, the two books before us make a
Fox the traveller's feeling also towards
notable addition to the resources available small personal belongings, towards the stinct (to use the latter term a little laxly)
for literary and historical students who trivial items of his equipment
which have which ought to be counted one of the
distinguishing characteristics of the early
may wish to look somewhat closely into accompanied him through long journeys Quakers. It is also, we think, to be counted
the story of Quakerism or the personal
and religious characteristics of its founder the direction that Thomas Lower shall one of their worthiest, since it results
have
The contribution of the one work towards my Spanish leather hood," and equally from their high practical intelli-
moral view of life, and
this result lies in the fact that, thanks S. Mead - my
Magnifying Glass and the their faith in the reality of a new spiritual
to the restoration of all (and it was
era. The last sentiment, especially, is
much and various) that had hitherto been
Reminiscent of another famous will, clearly predominant in George Fox's
omitted from his Journal,' the personality and quaintly worded withal, is this from a
care for the publishing and distribution of
of George Fox is now more fully presented codicil regarding “ Petty's," a dwelling his own works, and for the formation of
than ever before, so that the reader will house and land near Swarthmore, in which Friendly archives and libraries. In love to
find more to wonder at, something perhaps his widow was to have a life interest :-
man and gratitude to God, and in glad
to forgive, and not less to love. That of
the other consists in telling the story & my great Chair & my sea Case with yo
“And my Ebeney Bed with yo Curtins childlike wonder at what he has seen
come to pass as well as been privi-
of Quakerism's heroic age-fully as to Glass Bottles in itt I doe Give to stand in leged to suffer, he wishes future genera-
narrative, wisely as to commentary and the house at pettyes which I have Given for tions to share in the triumph by knowing
interpretation - in a way which shows a Meeting place & ye Chair will serve for how, and through what animating trials,
that present-day Quakerism, at its best, ffriends to sitt on & ye Bed to Lye upon, the victory was won. If he wishes that
holds nothing by the tenure either of and ye Sea Case will hold some Liquour or
“all the passages of ffriends and their
enthusiasm or of mental inertia, still less Drink if any should be faint. ”
Travills which they have stiched up at
by the surrender of the scientific conscience Surely convincing token of that Swarthmoore may be Gathered up to make
to conclusions foregone. These works unity with the creation ” which he once a History of,” it is because the resulting
seem, indeed, fitted not only to render sought to place beyond dispute by putting history will be a brave thing"; and
account of their subject, but also to react to his lips the tobacco-pipe of a jesting again (in a paper dated 1688), because
upon it, by bringing it, so far as the wider youth, who had proffered it, thinking it is a fine thing to know yº Beginning of
public is concerned, to the starting-point thereby to shock a holy man:-
of a new career of influence and estimation.
ye Spreading of ye Gospel after Soe Long
They can hardly fail to secure for it
“And I lookt upon him to bee a forwarde Night of Apostacy since ye Apostles Dayes,
bolde lad : and tobacco I did not take : butt that now Christ Reigns as hee did in the
renewed and enhanced attention as an
I saw hee had a flashy empty notion hearts of his people. Glory to ye Lord ffor-
of religion : soe I took his pipe & putt it ever, Amen. "
The Journal of George Fox. Edited from to my mouth and gave it to him again to
the MSS. by Norman Penney, with an stoppe him lost his rude tongue shoulde say
This note of high ecstasy, as of one who
Introduction by. T. Edmund Harvey. ! I had not unity with ye creation. "
is fighting a great and heavenly fight with
2 vols. (Cambridge University Press. )
holy glee, and who doubts not that the
The Beginnings of Quakerism. By William
But as illustrations of character, the sun and stars are at gaze for the memor-
C. Braithwaite. With an Introduction by most important of these testamentary able transactions now going on upon the
Rufus M. Jones. (Macmillan & Co. ) papers are those concerning his multi- earth-it is, upon the whole, the note of
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the 'Journal,' and is amazingly sustained. Ellwood, and does not allow sufficient To Mr. Braithwaite's book we can also
It lends confirmation to the view of the weight and insistence to the operations give very hearty praise. Though it
present editor that the narrative part of of the committee of censors to whom the is later in issuing from the press,
the work was entirely dictated. For if work was submitted for revision. To this
it is really the antecedent volume to
the manuscript often shows signs of the committee, called the Second Day Morn. The Quakers in the American Colonies,
writer's hand having been hurried, still ing Meeting, had to be submitted all by Dr. Rufus M. Jones (and others), to
oftener we seem to catch the very tones works of a religious nature or bearing which which we gave extended notice on August
of the rapt narrator as he recapitulates, Friends proposed to publish. A censor 19th, 1911. On that occasion we ex-
in a great gusto of recollection, the story ship, as one of the earliest institutions of pressed the opinion that if the series was
of a victorious struggle from which he Quakerism may sound paradoxical. Yet continued in the spirit of the first instal-
is even
now returned, happy,
"well
on a closer scrutiny it will be found to ment, it would " constitute a history of
breathed,” and aglow with life. It is all bear but little against their intellectual Quakerism in which the disinterested
in the mood of that full-hearted climax consistency, while it affords one token historical motive and point of view are
of Burke : “We did fight that day, more of their religious sanity and their for the first time predominant. ” That
and conquer ! ” It would be difficult, practical good sense.
expectation is abundantly confirmed by
it is true, to imagine any event in which And it must be owned that these the new volume, which in some respects
he was concerned that did not appear to qualities are exhibited plentifully through- reaches an even higher excellence than its
George Fox a victory for truth, and a out the two handsome volumes in which predecessor. It has one great advantage
discomfiture, if not a routing, of the we are now permitted to see how the in unity of authorship, and another in
forces of evil; so upholding was that first editors - Ellwood and the revising comparative unity of scene and action,
same holy glee in which he ever went, committee — dealt with the important, In documentation and detail, also, it
were it even into the ditch headlong from but highly singular literary bequest shows a great advance in thoroughness,
the hands of “rude people. ” Thence he which they had to deliver to the foot-note references to first-hand autho-
would emerge without anger, to tell them, world. Besides normalizing the spelling rities (published or in MS. collections)
reasonably enough, they should be and sometimes refining the expression, being given for almost every statement
ashamed to do soe. ” And if after that they decided that a great many little in the text. In knowledge of the annals,
they slunk away, or at least did not throw things were best left unsaid, or at least archives, and literature of Quakerism
him in again, why, certes, the power of unprinted. In almost every case — all Mr. Braithwaite can have few equals,
the Lord was over all ! ”
except about half a score out of several and any who might be so described have,
Something must be said of the "original hundreds—they decided wisely or reason- as his Preface indicates, gladly placed
MS. ” from which this edition is printed, ably, having regard to their time and the themselves at his service. When we say
though a brief account can hardly indicate purpose of the bequest. George Fox is that 500 out of some 580 well-filled pages
how original and full of interest it is. In now, of course, a privileged character ; of text are concerned with the history of
reality a collection of different MSS. which the more fully he reveals himself the the Quaker movement in this country alone
now lie, bound in two volumes, at the better we are pleased.
