The arguments,
presented
sanely
his essay on 'L'Originalité de Saint François,' America, dealing with the essential principles,
and reasonably, might be more truly designated and he has done more than any other living man æsthetic and historical, governing Japanese
a compendium of the Christian belief as re-
to emphasize that verdict.
his essay on 'L'Originalité de Saint François,' America, dealing with the essential principles,
and reasonably, might be more truly designated and he has done more than any other living man æsthetic and historical, governing Japanese
a compendium of the Christian belief as re-
to emphasize that verdict.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
As no work time may be apprehended as part of
A second of
of the movement, and should speak of and intensity from the rest.
Gaekwar and his family circle as a paramount
centre, is warm with the Eastern sun.
on exactly the same lines exists in English, minute, of a musioal phrase, or of an act of
Oriental hospitality is apt to disarm criti. But the first condition of utility is accu-
a translation would naturally be welcomed. forbearance," and its meaning varies accord-
cism or to afford no leisure for it.
ingly. In each case we pass beyond the
The
writer chronicles his enjoyment in an un-
racy on the part of writer and translator, given, not, as in the abstract universal,
and this, unfortunately, is
fettered epistolary style, aided by some
not always attempting to reproduce reality with omis-
attained. Dr. Eckhardt
fine photographs of Baroda and its ruler. have ascertained from the American Suf- the whole, in thought which aims at con-
could easily sions, but by an impulse from the given to
The book as a whole is, however, limited frage societies, which are in close touch with stituting a world.
to matters of ephemeral interest.
the English, the equivalent for certain This distinction between the recurrence
titles before committing himself to the of similars and the identity of a differen-
Miss KATHARINE DOUGHTY has performed statement that the two great feminist tiated system is the root of Mr. Bosanquet's
an act of piety to the dead and usefulness associations in this country are the “ English theory. In the light of it he disposes of
to the living by collecting the memorials of Federation of Women's Clubs
" and the
the contention that the uniformity of nature
the ancient family of The Betts of Wortham “ Woman's Suffrage League. ” The former is inconsistent with the individuality of man,
in Suffolk (Lane), who dwelt from 1480 to is a mistranslation of Bund englischer Frauen. and draws the conclusion for which Dr.
1905 in a house of which the oldest portion vereine, known to us as the “National Union Bradley's destructive criticism in the open:
went back in all probability to the earlier of Women Workers,” while the latter appears ing chapter of his 'Ethical Studies had
date. The will of a maternal grandmother to comprehend the activities of the National prepared the way. There is a strange
is some twenty years older still. None of Union of Suffrage Societies, the Social and passage in Taylor's ‘Elements of Meta.
the Betts family seems to have attained to 1 Political Union, Women's Freedom League, physics,' where the desire to save personality
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makes the author argue that there is no is best calculated to feed and stimulate determined zealot and a prophet of realism,
uniformity of the kind which science de- the minds of his pupils. Mr. Carlile does will not bear examination,
mands. The plea is valueless, and the need not begin wi h money, and does not end In the plays Wilde carried his delicate
of it springs from the identification of with an orderly exposition of the outlines | jesting to a consummate pitch. The eclectic
scientific uniformity with logical coherence, of economics to his credit. He begins with phantasmagoria of . Salomé,' • Vera,' and the
or relevancy, as Mr. Bosanquet prefers to long girdings at the “ marginalists "—that other tragedies is too transparent to need
call it. To remember this is to see what is, at every living economist of repute, and criticism, but «The Importance of Being
lies at the root of M. Bergson's philosophy, then, after dealing with money and wealth, Earnest’ is in the line of great comedy,
and of the tendency to emphasize the tails off into disjointed chapters on topics Over Wilde's previous output the swelling
solvent and analytic character of intellect, selected, as far as we can see, because his harmonies of 'De Profundis' and the
or the antithesis of imitation and invention, views on them do not tally with those of poignant heart-cry of the ‘Ballad of Reading
of repetition and creation. ” To dissociato other people.
Gaol' were like a funeral oration. His work
identity and diversity is to make them un. For example, he will not have the quantity here displays the mellowing, humanizing
meaning, but to conceive them rightly is theory of money. In a new country where result of tragic experience, qualities it never
to see that “invention and creation are everybody had as much bread as he could had before. Nevertheless, even De Pro-
present in every pulse of thought," and that want, would an increase of money cause a fundis,' that mellifluous chant of a spirit
pure repetition is an impossibility for rise in the price of such bread ? He replies that had fed upon the bitter herbs of dis.
intelligence. Virgil's_ critics blamed him (p. 153):
illusion and social ostracism, is tainted by
for plagiarizing from Homer; he replied that * Why should it? If no one wanted more the artificiality which was Wilde's disease.
it was easier to rob Hercules of his club of it, what can be more certain than that no one
than Homer of a single verse.
would give any of his freshly gained wealth in
The transition to value from individuality, exchange for any of it. ”
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK.
thus conceived, is clear. If individuality This is just the sort of answer that gets a
St. Andrews, Feb. 12, 1912.
is that coherence and freedom from contra- “dead plough” in the Pass Schools. Unfortu-
From a note in ' Literary Gossip ' (Athe-
diction which is of the nature of a whole, nately for most of us, the prices of goods do
may not value also lie in a similar completo not depend solely on what we are willing that”Mgr. Barnes has'a "new candidate for
ness ? Some may seek to sever value from to pay for them. Motor-cars might be as
the title of “Man of the Mask. ” The Man
thought by saying that we cannot argue
common as perambulators if this were so.
about value, as though we do not argue A stern, strong determination to criticize is no longer “a son of Charles II. ,” but
daily and change it in consequence, or that makes the fortune of a leader-writer, but his own as such in a number of most
reputable
it depends on immediate feeling, as though ruins an economist. Mill and Marshall are
books on the Restoration. The 'D. N. B. ,'
immediacy was not a form which any content not such weak reasoners as Mr. Carlile
I think, must “ look sharply to its eye
!
may take and which is peculiar to none.
would have us believe. If he were more
What of indifference ? others will say.
modest and less pugnacious, his gift of clear Mgr. Barnes's new candidate appears to be
Mr. Bosanquet replies with Oliver Wendell writing and his wide and fruitful reading happens, a French student is engaged on a
Holmes's remark that in principle every
.
work in which the Man is emphatically not
man loves every woman, but individuals
Oscar Wilde : a Critical Study, by Arthur a Jesuit. I must not anticipate the dis-
may excuse themselves by non-acquaintance, Ransome (Martin Secker), is pitched on a closure of the secret, which, in my opinion,
special cause of dislike, or a limited capacity less staccato note than Mr. Sherard's, but, promises well; but why was a cleric de-
for affection. The same is true of the indi for all its brilliant composition, does not scribed as—and employed in prison as a
vidual's love of perfection. On this theory, reveal,"we think, the esoteric significance of valet? A French valet in England, wo
value gets its objectivity from the fact that Oscar Wilde. The present book leaves the know,
wanted by the French
individuals are not a mere plurality such as impression of a wilful, but misunderstood and Secret Service just before the Man was
cannot be unified in their contribution to a pathetic personality, whose " soul was like captured—and described as a valet. He
common experience.
à star and dwelt apart. ' But the time was the valet of a Huguenot conspirator
The book ends with a parallel illustrating when Wilde needed a rampart against his who had been broken on the wheel. In
the relation of the Absolute to nature and vilifiers is past. What we need now is not Scottish Covenanting circles it was reported
our finite selves. It is equally relevant
an apologia, but an estimate of him. The that the Duke of York, concealed behind a
to the whole course of the argument: The popular conception of Wilde also needs curtain, overheard a conversation held by
Absolute is compared to Dante's mind as revision. He is envisaged as the spokesman the valet's master, and betrayed him to
uttered in the Divine Comedy. ' Here exter of the sophists of the last generation, or as
Louis XIV. So writes the Rev. Mr. Law
nal nature, Italy, is an emotion and a value, the prince of a queer, rarefied, and dandified in his Memorials. The valet may have
not less but more than spatial ; each self, world of costumiers in art, which has known this (if the story be true), though
Paolo or Francesca, is still its real self, but vanished as swiftly as a shower of meteorites. even that is hardly a reason for keeping
is also a factor of the poet's mind which is These fanciful theories err in taking Wilde him so hermetically sealed.
A. LANG,
expressed in all these selves together; and too seriously. Before his social cataclysm,
the whole poetic experience is single, yet and if we pass over the decorative plagiarism
includes a world of space and persons. of his poetic “ juvenilia,” he may be regarded
SALE.
The illustration is good, and our ideas
are the clearer for it. But this is true also ence, that he laughed at serious and re-
as primarily an artistic jester, with this differ- MESSRS. SOTHEBY held a sale of books and
manuscripts on the 5th, 6th, and 7th inst, which
of the book as a whole. To the critics of spectable people, instead of their laughing | lection of early eighteenth-century tracts, 68 vols. ,
included the following important lots : A col-
Absolutism, Mr. Bosanquet would say, at him. His band of exquisites were
Mark now, how a plain tale shall put number of foolish and idle young men, who 341. A complete collection of the laws of Vir:
221. Dresser, Birds of Europe, 8 vols. , 1871-81,
you down.
He has a full measure of gaped at his rodomontade and played the ginia, 1862, 221. 108. Mirabeau, a collection of
virtuoso with imitative relish. He would
Monetary Economics. By W. W. Carlile. Mr. Ransome says ; but we prefer him as a
rather have been a magician than a jester,” ford's, Birds of the British Islands, 8 vols. ,
,
another copy, 7 vols. , 451.
Recueil de petits Sujets et Culs de Lampe,
(Edward Arnold. )
Mr. Carlile is one of those jester. The serious portion of his work c. 1770, 251. Viane, Modelles artificiels de divers
writers who abound in economics more than before ‘De Profundis' is of small compass
Vaisseaux d'Argent, 441. Piccini, 152 coloured
in any other subject. He is about as satis- and not of permanent value. Wilde so
drawings of terminal masks, 2 vols. , 1727, 451.
fied with all his predecessors, living and dead, prided himself on his achievements, and Meissonier, Euvre, 1724, 911. Piranesi, Opere,
Cavilliés, Morceaux de Caprice, c. 1760, 541.
as Falstaff was with his recruits, though by was so intensely self-conscious, that perhaps 22 vols. , 1756-76, 1121. Le Pautre, Euvres
no means so good a judge of economists he himself lost the tracings of the line d'Architecture, 3 vols. , 1751, 271. Three original
as the fat knight was of soldiers. The very between the guffaw and serious self-realiza- pattern books of Messrs. Hunt & Roskell:
title of his book is meant to indicate that tion. The paramount effect that he gives Architectural
and Ornamentale. Posavines, 231: ;
ihe whole subject, as handled by poor is one of insubstantiality, which neither Engravings of Vases and Pottery, 161, Brang-
creatures in universities, is hopelessly awry; exotic tapestry work nor plausible ingenuity wyn, Etched Work, 1908, 231. Ruskin, The
They, remote from the counting-house and nor fantastic conjuring with ideas can hide. Gipsies, part of the original MS. written in 1837,
the bank parlour, put money in a compara- His thought, entertaining as it can be, is
191. 158. Bidpai, Fables, translated into Catalan,
tively subordinate position; whereas, in drowned by excrescences, superfluities, and
Saragossa, 1531, 291. 158. Holbein, Historiarum
Mr. Carlile's mind, business concepts
Shake-
Veteris Instrumenti Icones, 1538, 511.
effeminacies of all kinds. He opened to
speare's Works, 16 vols. , 1853–65, 651. Repro-
all important. In business “
money talks,"
the world a Pandora's box containing hardly duction of the Grimani Breviary, 12 cloth
as the worldly-wise say, and so in economics mischiefs, but little bediened dolls, strut- portfolios, 1904–10, 361. Reproduction of the
money must write.
ting their droll antics, but stuffed with saw.
Hortulus Animæ in the Imperial Library at
Every practical teacher of economics dust all the same. Mr. Ransome's theory Scotch MS. , 13th or 14th century, 561. Sacre
Vienna, 3 portfolios and 1 vol. , 1910, 181. Psalter,
knows well enough the difficulty he has in that his paradoxes are only, unfamiliar de Louis XV. , 1722, 201.
arranging his subjects in the order which 'truths,” which is to elevate him into a The total of the sale was 2,9051.
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secular. The former does not adequately
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A second of
of the movement, and should speak of and intensity from the rest.
Gaekwar and his family circle as a paramount
centre, is warm with the Eastern sun.
on exactly the same lines exists in English, minute, of a musioal phrase, or of an act of
Oriental hospitality is apt to disarm criti. But the first condition of utility is accu-
a translation would naturally be welcomed. forbearance," and its meaning varies accord-
cism or to afford no leisure for it.
ingly. In each case we pass beyond the
The
writer chronicles his enjoyment in an un-
racy on the part of writer and translator, given, not, as in the abstract universal,
and this, unfortunately, is
fettered epistolary style, aided by some
not always attempting to reproduce reality with omis-
attained. Dr. Eckhardt
fine photographs of Baroda and its ruler. have ascertained from the American Suf- the whole, in thought which aims at con-
could easily sions, but by an impulse from the given to
The book as a whole is, however, limited frage societies, which are in close touch with stituting a world.
to matters of ephemeral interest.
the English, the equivalent for certain This distinction between the recurrence
titles before committing himself to the of similars and the identity of a differen-
Miss KATHARINE DOUGHTY has performed statement that the two great feminist tiated system is the root of Mr. Bosanquet's
an act of piety to the dead and usefulness associations in this country are the “ English theory. In the light of it he disposes of
to the living by collecting the memorials of Federation of Women's Clubs
" and the
the contention that the uniformity of nature
the ancient family of The Betts of Wortham “ Woman's Suffrage League. ” The former is inconsistent with the individuality of man,
in Suffolk (Lane), who dwelt from 1480 to is a mistranslation of Bund englischer Frauen. and draws the conclusion for which Dr.
1905 in a house of which the oldest portion vereine, known to us as the “National Union Bradley's destructive criticism in the open:
went back in all probability to the earlier of Women Workers,” while the latter appears ing chapter of his 'Ethical Studies had
date. The will of a maternal grandmother to comprehend the activities of the National prepared the way. There is a strange
is some twenty years older still. None of Union of Suffrage Societies, the Social and passage in Taylor's ‘Elements of Meta.
the Betts family seems to have attained to 1 Political Union, Women's Freedom League, physics,' where the desire to save personality
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makes the author argue that there is no is best calculated to feed and stimulate determined zealot and a prophet of realism,
uniformity of the kind which science de- the minds of his pupils. Mr. Carlile does will not bear examination,
mands. The plea is valueless, and the need not begin wi h money, and does not end In the plays Wilde carried his delicate
of it springs from the identification of with an orderly exposition of the outlines | jesting to a consummate pitch. The eclectic
scientific uniformity with logical coherence, of economics to his credit. He begins with phantasmagoria of . Salomé,' • Vera,' and the
or relevancy, as Mr. Bosanquet prefers to long girdings at the “ marginalists "—that other tragedies is too transparent to need
call it. To remember this is to see what is, at every living economist of repute, and criticism, but «The Importance of Being
lies at the root of M. Bergson's philosophy, then, after dealing with money and wealth, Earnest’ is in the line of great comedy,
and of the tendency to emphasize the tails off into disjointed chapters on topics Over Wilde's previous output the swelling
solvent and analytic character of intellect, selected, as far as we can see, because his harmonies of 'De Profundis' and the
or the antithesis of imitation and invention, views on them do not tally with those of poignant heart-cry of the ‘Ballad of Reading
of repetition and creation. ” To dissociato other people.
Gaol' were like a funeral oration. His work
identity and diversity is to make them un. For example, he will not have the quantity here displays the mellowing, humanizing
meaning, but to conceive them rightly is theory of money. In a new country where result of tragic experience, qualities it never
to see that “invention and creation are everybody had as much bread as he could had before. Nevertheless, even De Pro-
present in every pulse of thought," and that want, would an increase of money cause a fundis,' that mellifluous chant of a spirit
pure repetition is an impossibility for rise in the price of such bread ? He replies that had fed upon the bitter herbs of dis.
intelligence. Virgil's_ critics blamed him (p. 153):
illusion and social ostracism, is tainted by
for plagiarizing from Homer; he replied that * Why should it? If no one wanted more the artificiality which was Wilde's disease.
it was easier to rob Hercules of his club of it, what can be more certain than that no one
than Homer of a single verse.
would give any of his freshly gained wealth in
The transition to value from individuality, exchange for any of it. ”
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK.
thus conceived, is clear. If individuality This is just the sort of answer that gets a
St. Andrews, Feb. 12, 1912.
is that coherence and freedom from contra- “dead plough” in the Pass Schools. Unfortu-
From a note in ' Literary Gossip ' (Athe-
diction which is of the nature of a whole, nately for most of us, the prices of goods do
may not value also lie in a similar completo not depend solely on what we are willing that”Mgr. Barnes has'a "new candidate for
ness ? Some may seek to sever value from to pay for them. Motor-cars might be as
the title of “Man of the Mask. ” The Man
thought by saying that we cannot argue
common as perambulators if this were so.
about value, as though we do not argue A stern, strong determination to criticize is no longer “a son of Charles II. ,” but
daily and change it in consequence, or that makes the fortune of a leader-writer, but his own as such in a number of most
reputable
it depends on immediate feeling, as though ruins an economist. Mill and Marshall are
books on the Restoration. The 'D. N. B. ,'
immediacy was not a form which any content not such weak reasoners as Mr. Carlile
I think, must “ look sharply to its eye
!
may take and which is peculiar to none.
would have us believe. If he were more
What of indifference ? others will say.
modest and less pugnacious, his gift of clear Mgr. Barnes's new candidate appears to be
Mr. Bosanquet replies with Oliver Wendell writing and his wide and fruitful reading happens, a French student is engaged on a
Holmes's remark that in principle every
.
work in which the Man is emphatically not
man loves every woman, but individuals
Oscar Wilde : a Critical Study, by Arthur a Jesuit. I must not anticipate the dis-
may excuse themselves by non-acquaintance, Ransome (Martin Secker), is pitched on a closure of the secret, which, in my opinion,
special cause of dislike, or a limited capacity less staccato note than Mr. Sherard's, but, promises well; but why was a cleric de-
for affection. The same is true of the indi for all its brilliant composition, does not scribed as—and employed in prison as a
vidual's love of perfection. On this theory, reveal,"we think, the esoteric significance of valet? A French valet in England, wo
value gets its objectivity from the fact that Oscar Wilde. The present book leaves the know,
wanted by the French
individuals are not a mere plurality such as impression of a wilful, but misunderstood and Secret Service just before the Man was
cannot be unified in their contribution to a pathetic personality, whose " soul was like captured—and described as a valet. He
common experience.
à star and dwelt apart. ' But the time was the valet of a Huguenot conspirator
The book ends with a parallel illustrating when Wilde needed a rampart against his who had been broken on the wheel. In
the relation of the Absolute to nature and vilifiers is past. What we need now is not Scottish Covenanting circles it was reported
our finite selves. It is equally relevant
an apologia, but an estimate of him. The that the Duke of York, concealed behind a
to the whole course of the argument: The popular conception of Wilde also needs curtain, overheard a conversation held by
Absolute is compared to Dante's mind as revision. He is envisaged as the spokesman the valet's master, and betrayed him to
uttered in the Divine Comedy. ' Here exter of the sophists of the last generation, or as
Louis XIV. So writes the Rev. Mr. Law
nal nature, Italy, is an emotion and a value, the prince of a queer, rarefied, and dandified in his Memorials. The valet may have
not less but more than spatial ; each self, world of costumiers in art, which has known this (if the story be true), though
Paolo or Francesca, is still its real self, but vanished as swiftly as a shower of meteorites. even that is hardly a reason for keeping
is also a factor of the poet's mind which is These fanciful theories err in taking Wilde him so hermetically sealed.
A. LANG,
expressed in all these selves together; and too seriously. Before his social cataclysm,
the whole poetic experience is single, yet and if we pass over the decorative plagiarism
includes a world of space and persons. of his poetic “ juvenilia,” he may be regarded
SALE.
The illustration is good, and our ideas
are the clearer for it. But this is true also ence, that he laughed at serious and re-
as primarily an artistic jester, with this differ- MESSRS. SOTHEBY held a sale of books and
manuscripts on the 5th, 6th, and 7th inst, which
of the book as a whole. To the critics of spectable people, instead of their laughing | lection of early eighteenth-century tracts, 68 vols. ,
included the following important lots : A col-
Absolutism, Mr. Bosanquet would say, at him. His band of exquisites were
Mark now, how a plain tale shall put number of foolish and idle young men, who 341. A complete collection of the laws of Vir:
221. Dresser, Birds of Europe, 8 vols. , 1871-81,
you down.
He has a full measure of gaped at his rodomontade and played the ginia, 1862, 221. 108. Mirabeau, a collection of
virtuoso with imitative relish. He would
Monetary Economics. By W. W. Carlile. Mr. Ransome says ; but we prefer him as a
rather have been a magician than a jester,” ford's, Birds of the British Islands, 8 vols. ,
,
another copy, 7 vols. , 451.
Recueil de petits Sujets et Culs de Lampe,
(Edward Arnold. )
Mr. Carlile is one of those jester. The serious portion of his work c. 1770, 251. Viane, Modelles artificiels de divers
writers who abound in economics more than before ‘De Profundis' is of small compass
Vaisseaux d'Argent, 441. Piccini, 152 coloured
in any other subject. He is about as satis- and not of permanent value. Wilde so
drawings of terminal masks, 2 vols. , 1727, 451.
fied with all his predecessors, living and dead, prided himself on his achievements, and Meissonier, Euvre, 1724, 911. Piranesi, Opere,
Cavilliés, Morceaux de Caprice, c. 1760, 541.
as Falstaff was with his recruits, though by was so intensely self-conscious, that perhaps 22 vols. , 1756-76, 1121. Le Pautre, Euvres
no means so good a judge of economists he himself lost the tracings of the line d'Architecture, 3 vols. , 1751, 271. Three original
as the fat knight was of soldiers. The very between the guffaw and serious self-realiza- pattern books of Messrs. Hunt & Roskell:
title of his book is meant to indicate that tion. The paramount effect that he gives Architectural
and Ornamentale. Posavines, 231: ;
ihe whole subject, as handled by poor is one of insubstantiality, which neither Engravings of Vases and Pottery, 161, Brang-
creatures in universities, is hopelessly awry; exotic tapestry work nor plausible ingenuity wyn, Etched Work, 1908, 231. Ruskin, The
They, remote from the counting-house and nor fantastic conjuring with ideas can hide. Gipsies, part of the original MS. written in 1837,
the bank parlour, put money in a compara- His thought, entertaining as it can be, is
191. 158. Bidpai, Fables, translated into Catalan,
tively subordinate position; whereas, in drowned by excrescences, superfluities, and
Saragossa, 1531, 291. 158. Holbein, Historiarum
Mr. Carlile's mind, business concepts
Shake-
Veteris Instrumenti Icones, 1538, 511.
effeminacies of all kinds. He opened to
speare's Works, 16 vols. , 1853–65, 651. Repro-
all important. In business “
money talks,"
the world a Pandora's box containing hardly duction of the Grimani Breviary, 12 cloth
as the worldly-wise say, and so in economics mischiefs, but little bediened dolls, strut- portfolios, 1904–10, 361. Reproduction of the
money must write.
ting their droll antics, but stuffed with saw.
Hortulus Animæ in the Imperial Library at
Every practical teacher of economics dust all the same. Mr. Ransome's theory Scotch MS. , 13th or 14th century, 561. Sacre
Vienna, 3 portfolios and 1 vol. , 1910, 181. Psalter,
knows well enough the difficulty he has in that his paradoxes are only, unfamiliar de Louis XV. , 1722, 201.
arranging his subjects in the order which 'truths,” which is to elevate him into a The total of the sale was 2,9051.
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Study
Martin Secker
Penitential Lyric : a Study and Collection of
Cohen (Chapman), Determinism or Free-Will,
For notice see p. 191.
Early Religious Verse, 6/6 net.
1/ net.
Walter Scott Publishing Co.
Rose (J. Holland), The Development of the
There is a curious old-world air about this
European Nations, 1870-1900, 776 net.
Columbia University Press; London, Frowde
The Middle English religious lyric is far less
book issued by the Secular Society. The author
Constable
amenable to anthological treatment than the
states his case well, but nowadays it is possible
New edition. For notice see Athen. , June 16,
secular. The former does not adequately
to admit the universal reign of law in nature,
1906, p.
