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Owen Nares, who pictures Archie as a intolerable alternative, the peoples of Europe
typical Oxford boy of to-day, and to Miss would heartily endorse. Mr. Shaw has con-
Margery Maude, whose girlish charm trived to say far more unconventional things
in the theatre than the joint-authors of
almost reconciles us to Effie's mixture
The Coronation, and some of them have
Dramatic Gossip.
of precocity and naïveté, and is extremely escaped the licenser's ban.
persuasive in her love-scenes. Miss Pollie
A MATINÉE performance, arranged by
Emery as a cook who is a good-natured
Mr. J. H. Leigh at the Court Theatre this
tyrant, and Mr. Leonard Calvert as the
THERE have been several glossaries of week, served to introduce a playwright of
vicarage gardener, score in low-comedy Shakespeare's language published of late,
uncommon promise, and a play which, though
passages ; and the refinement of Miss and one might think that the subject had what harsh in style, deserves to be described
a little ragged on its technical side and some.
Beryl Faber's subdued manner in the part been sufficiently explored.
as a powerful and conscientious piece of work,
of the clergyman's wife pleasantly con- Shakespeare Glossary, compiled by Mr.
showing marked intelligence and ability.
trasts with their broad humours. Mr. / C. T. Onions (Oxford, Clarendon Press), has, | The author of 'Rutherford and Son,' who
Charles Kenyon does his best by declama-
however, a special claim on our attention,
tion to render Mr. Pemberton an agreeable English Dictionary: Mr. Onions has been character and' maintaining its outlines
as it embodies the results of the New seems to be a woman, and signs herself
K. G. Sowerby, has the gift of expressing
representative of“ muscular Christianity, engaged on the editorial staff of that great
but not even his efforts can prevent the work for fifteen years, and he puts before consistently in stage action, and she knows
how to suggest atmosphere ”-in the
us in a concise and satisfactory form the
parson's reminiscences of his youth from
fruits of its admirable analysis of words.
present case that of a family crushed by the
being tedious.
tyranny of a North-Country factory-owner,
He has, further, paid attention to Midland who subordinates all his human relation-
and Warwickshire dialects, a folk-speech ships and his children's aspirations to the
which still, we hope, keeps its colour and interests of his firm. Inevitably a moment
inflexions. The latest comer in the Shake- arrives when the younger generation rebels
OUR LIBRARY TABLE, spearian field has, of course, the most ma- against his grim heartlessness, and it is the
terials to rely upon, and Mr. Onions has story of this series of revolts that the
Why did the stage Censor, a Court official, made judicious use of recent work by such author describes very simply, but con-
Their vincingly in her drama.
forbid any but a private performance of commentators as the late H. C. Hart.
Christopher St. John and Charles Thursby's The book is decidedly cheap, and should be well carried through by Mr. Edmund Breon,
aid is, we are glad to see, fully acknowledged.
A son's passage of arms with his father is
one-act play,
national Suffrage Shop)? There is no hint widely appreciated.
though more telling is the denunciation by
of disloyalty or anti-monarchical feeling We mention a few points which have Miss Edyth Olive of the old man's bullying
in its story or dialogue ; indeed, the imagi. struck us in our examination. We notice ways. Hardly less effective are the quieter
nary king of the piece, Henricus XVI. of with pleasure that important emendations, reproaches of the son's wife, played by
Omnisterre, objects to being a puppet ruler, as well as Folio and Quarto readings, are Miss Thyrza Norman, who imposes her own
and strains the constitution of his realm in recorded, and that some passages are frankly conditions on her father-in-law if she is to
order to restore the liberties and redress the admitted to be disputable or beyond cure. consent to keep up his home for him and
wrongs of his people. So democratic is “Rooky,” in ‘Macbeth'(III. ii. 51), may have permit him the society of his little grandchild.
this young prince that he refuses to take the Northern dialect sense of misty. " How stern and incisive Mr. Norman McKinnel
the coronation oath unless the ceremony Mr. Onions makes it only the adjective of proves as the old autocrat, how successfully he
takes place outside the cathedral so that “ rook. " The mention of
and conveys the idea of masterfulness and relent-
his humblest subjects may be spectators, “ rooky together can be defended. The less purpose, those who have watched this
unless his crown is broken up and sold to interest of the dialectal sense is that it has actor's career will readily understand. The
provide food for the starving and the un. been used in the form “ roky” by Tennyson play and its author should be heard of again.
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
CHARLES DICKENS
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OLD IRISH LIFE. .
152
NAVAL STRATEGY
153
BISHOP ERNEST WILBERFORCE
154
LOCAL HISTORY (The Oak Book of Southampton; The
of the Thames)
155-156
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Chateaubriand ; Life's Basis and Life's Ideal; The
157-158
SALE
158
OUR LIBRARY TABLE (In Dickens Street; Scott
158
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
159
LITERARY GOSSIP
164
SCIENCE AMERICAN PERMIAN VERTEBRATES ;
SOCIETIES; MEETINGS NEXT WEEK ; GOSSIP 166-168
FINE ARTS-HISTORICAL PORTRAITS; LA SOCIÉTÉ DU
DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE ET SES PEINTRES; ENGLISH
PROVINCIAL PRINTERS TO 1557; THE SOCIETY OF
TWELVE, AND OTHER EXHIBITIONS ; PERSEPOLIS;
GOSSIP
168-170
NEXT WEEK
170-171
DRAMA-MEDEA ; THE DRONE, AND OTHER PLAYS ;
LE THÉATRE D'IBSEN ; GOSSIP
171-172
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
172
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On
by a complaisant press as almost to be flattered myself that it was in repose.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1912. tedious.
the other hand, I think that my habit of easy
The theatrical side of Dickens added has always refreshed and strengthened me
self-abstraction and withdrawal into fancies,
to his effectiveness as a man who saw
but you
in short intervals wonderfully. I always
himself always before the public, but seem to myself to have rested far more than
served to reduce his modesty, though the I have worked, and I do really believe that I
same remained as the crowning grace have some exceptional faculty of accumu-
of his greatness. He knew his powers, lating young feelings in short pauses, which
and used them to good purpose. Essen-
obliterates a quantity of wear and tear. ”
Story of Coventry; Lincoln Royal Charters ; Cam.
bridge under Queen Anne; Wifela's Combe; The tially he was a reformer and a democrat~ So the work goes on; one day he is
Manor and Township of Allerton; London North
a reformer with a brilliant and inexhaust-
abominably used up,” but quickly
FRENCH BOOKS AND GERMAN TRANSLATIONS (Le ible sense of humour, and a democrat from
restored to his usual beaming manner. '
Réalisme du Romantisme ; Nouvelles Études sur
early days with the power and position when he is writing · Little Dorrit,' there
Lay of the Nibelung Men)
to make himself heard. · These fortunate comes another confession : That won-
circumstances one might almost call derful man the writer thereof is in that
Originals; The Rise of the Novel of Manners) them paradoxes-made him a mighty state of weary excitement which is a
influence for good, and the keenness he part of him at such periods. "
To a
showed as a priest of humanity is ex- letter he sent from Birmingham in the
hibited as clearly in his work as an editor glow of one of his wonderful readings in
as anywhere. The novels reveal him, of 1867 Wills adds in pencil :-
course, as a pungent critic of the work-
“ This letter, so illustrative of one of the
house system, the delays of Chancery law,
and many another scandal sanctified by will — I think ought decidedly to be published
strong sides of C. D. 's character-powerful
MUSIC-W. A. MOZART; Gossip; PERFORMANCES long usage ; but here the humour and in justice to Forster and myself, who dis-
sentiment make the purpose less clear, suaded him from America-which killed
and there are obvious yieldings to the him eventually. "
desires of a spoilt public. In Household
Words and All the Year Round the reformer Dickens fully recognized the kindness
stands firm ; he is not to be bullied by he did not really need to make money so
and judgment of Wills's remonstrance ;
;
anybody; and he is seen training with
LITERATURE
elaborate care and tireless zeal a host of fast, but he would go ; the theatrical
young men to take up his work, the
element in him was not to be gainsaid.
raising up of those that are down, and Cables from America tell his friend of
the general improvement of our social the prodigious success. Illness and another
CHARLES DICKENS.
condition.
prodigy follow : we find the ready writer
in 1868 at a loss for a Christmas idea,
The papers which were reprinted in the
CHARLES DICKENS was born on February
“ National Edition" of his works show offering “ 1001. reward at Gad's to any.
·
7th, 1812, and the customary Centenary how many dark corners he illuminated";body who could suggest a notion to satisfy
celebration is now upon us, having, indeed, but this was but a small part of his work
The letters, as a whole, are, as we have
been anticipated last year by theatrical in Household Words and its successor.
enterprise. His fame was never more secure
Mr. Rudolph Lehmann has done well in said, too much concerned with the technical
than at the present time ; edition after showing the public the correspondence business of a literary editor to be easy to
edition of his works pours from the press; preserved by his great - uncle, William read, but here and there we find the in-
a whole cyclopædia of fact and conjecture, Henry Wills, Dickens's right-hand man imitable flashes of fancy and humour.
illustration and comment, has gathered for so many years of editorship. The Wills is credited with an entirely imaginary
round his text; new illustrators seek to letters in themselves, while doing infinite play, "The Larboard Fin'; Forster is
The Lincolnian Mammoth” with his
vary the traditional rendering of Phiz ; and credit to both men, are not easy to read,
that last and dubious consecration of a being generally confined to matters of special turn of patronizing speech ; and
classic--to be distorted to make a British business—the rejection of this article, the the nuisance of one of the vast army of
school task-has just been achieved with improvement of that; but they are a
mendicants is turned to fun :-
Pickwick. Since the publication of wonderful tribute to the energy, the tact
'
"A foreign gentleman-with a beard
Forster's 'Life' we are able to see some
and infinite resource of Dickens. Wills
name unknown, but signing himself 'A
points of Dickens's character and talent
was at once a delightful and admirable Fellow Man,' and dating from nowhere
in clearer perspective, though critical assistant, and he could not have had a declined, twice yesterday, to leave this house
study of the master has not been abundant, much more exigent chief in the matter for any less consideration than the insignifi-
'I
and has, indeed, beon resented by those of punctuality and dispatch," of that cant one of twenty pounds. " I have had
a policeman waiting for him all day. "
who point to him as an undoubted genius, brightness so easy to him, and that per-
with the corollary that genius can do petual discovery of the apt which is the The struggle with those whose inten-
nothing wrong. The superior person may ideal of the journalist. But, as editor, tions were much better than their English
call him a Philistine of genius, and there Dickens would allow no writing down leads to some strong language ; but we
is enough truth in the description to to any part of his audience: “I always do not doubt that it was deserved. We
suggest a reason for his immense influence. hold that to be as great a mistake as only wish that the press of to-day showed
Later consideration has revealed the fact can be made. ” Who can wonder that anything like the same zeal for lucidity
that Dickens might have been, or was, amid all these incessant labours, with and the proper use of our mother tongue.
a great actor.
We need not regret the his big novels on his hands as well, he Mr. Lehmann has done his editing with
partial suppression of that side of him; found even his indefatigable spirit re- care, and is able to correct the dates pre-
We have so many of them nowadays, and duced to a state of nogoism” and viously ascribed to several letters. The
their achievements are so bolstered up
“used-up-ed-ness” ? He was restless, story is made coherent by introductions,
like little boy kept up late at night, but much of the detail remains unex-
Editor. By P. C.
as Mr. G. K. Chesterton has well said, plained, and was not worth going into.
Lehmann. (Smith, Elder & Co. )
and we have this revealing confession of Some of the matter, such as the brief
Characters from Dickens : a Portfolio of 20
his temperament :
biographies of well-known journalists,
Vandyck' Gravures from the Drawings by
seems to us to imply a low standard of
B. W. Matz. (Chapman & Hall. )
With an Introduction by faculties last, and (if I know myself) have a public knowledge. Évery one is familiar
The Dickensian, 1911. (Chapman & Hall. )
certain something in me that would still be by this time with the cause of the dissension
Thackerav. An
active in rusting and corroding me, if I' between Dickens and
me.
a
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the other hand, the average reader may
when Miss Callwell comes to describe
like to be reminded of a charming book,
Old Irish
her own memories of Ross, the seat of her
James Payn’s ‘Some Literary Recollec-
Life. By J. M. Callwell:
family, that she attains a very high level.
(Blackwood & Sons. )
tions,' and the story of the proceeds of a
Her experience is certainly ample, since
first article in Household Words being
she recollects the great storm of 1839 and
converted into a Berkshire pig, which In this most entertaining volume Miss the havoc it wrought in the West. She
was meant as a gift for a Devonshire Callwell, whom we had credited with omits, however, one curious effect, of
tutor, but ran away at Bristol. We notice belonging to the other sex, gives us a
which she may be glad to hear from us.
the discovery of Sala and Wilkie Collins, picture of what Galway was in the days from that day on, we used to be told,
and the immense zest with which details of its greatness and its decay ; she also fairies became extremely scarce. They
of the theatre were arranged. Alas! the gives us sketches of the peregrinations of was all blew away in the great storum,
Guild of Literature and Art failed, and two observers through Ireland in the
as we have often heard it expressed.
Bulwer Lytton's play Not so Bad as later eighteenth century. Their books are
She tells us, among many characteristic
well known to students of Irish social stories, one of a poor woman who refused
We Seem' was, as somebody said, not so
good as it ought to be.
history, but not to the general reader, who
to employ a doctor to visit her dying
Of Wills himself and his wife, great teresting. Lastly, she supplies from the penny she had to give her good man na
will therefore find them new, and very in- husband. She said she required every
in Scottish humour, the Preface offers store of her own memories delightful things I decent wake. We can quote a Northern
some pleasant glimpses. There were differ- about the life in Galway sixty years ago, parallel, where a man prayed his squire
ences, of course, between him and his
chief, in the most serious of which, con-
and the doings of her grandfather, Martin
to come and see his wife, who was danger-
cerning R. H. Horne, Wills seems to us
of Ross, and her cousin, Martin of Ballyna- ously ill. The squire refused on the
.
distinctly in the right; but the friendship Connaught more than Lord Clanricarde could nor dared prescribe for her. But
The latter was the king of Western ground that he was no doctor, and neither
which speedily grew up between them was
unclouded to the end, and we cannot doubt
was in Eastern Galway, and was the finest he urged the man to send for the local
specimen in his day of the virtues and
that the affection of Dickens was fully follies of the Irish gentry, all of whom had physician. The answer was, "No! if
deserved. There are portraits of Dickens, English blood in their veins, to which doctor”; and he added piously, after a
you won't come to see her, I 'll send for no
Wills, Wilkie Collins, and Thackeray, they owed most of their daring. There pause, “’If the Lord wants her, He must
distorted praise of the Charterhouse; and
is no question that the tribes of Galway
have her. ” The real motive was doubt-
there is a good Index.
were all English settlers, yet were there
less the same in both cases sordid
any people more typically Irish, in the economy, but the contrast in the ex-
The twenty Vandyck gravures which
popular sense ?
represent Mr. Lewin's ideas of 'Characters
cuse well illustrates the contrasts of race
from Dickens' are well reproduced, and a
The only part of the book which we will and creed, which we could develope at
notable addition to illustrations of the criticize is the chapter on the Penal
length, if there were space for such a
novels. Mr. Lewin swells the protest Laws,' in which the author, going beyond
digression.
against the excessively fantastic quality of her own experience, has, we think, been The later chapters of the book supply
Phiz, and, though his drawings are un- misled by the current views of national-
a great number of these good stories,
equal, most of them are decidedly good. istic authors. Even Lecky was carried
some very old, but many to us new, and
Pickwick remains as he was ; his figure is away by their dissimulation. ” No doubt told in such a way that the Irish reader
fixed for ever ; but we applaud the novel the text of the Penal Laws, mostly copied feels himself taking part in a bright con-
conceptions of Mr.